Jay Johnston

Jay Johnston

Born: October 22, 1968
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jay Johnston (born October 22, 1968) is an American actor and comedian best known for his work as a writer and cast member on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show and for playing the role of Officer Jay McPherson on The Sarah Silverman Program.

Movies for Jay Johnston...

Something About Her
Title: Something About Her
Character: George
Released: March 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A story of an improbable friendship between a Santa Barbara socialite, suffering from ALS and her caretaker from Senegal.
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Title: Momma Named Me Sheriff
Character: Stanley Goodman (voice)
Released: November 18, 2019
Type: TV
He still lives at home with his Momma, his best friend is a doll, and he's the Sheriff of Old Town.
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The Last Laugh
Title: The Last Laugh
Character: Self
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
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Title: Animals.
Character: Ad Man 4
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: TV
An animated comedy focusing on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth’s least-habitable environment: New York City. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own.
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Hell & Back
Title: Hell & Back
Character: Rick (voice)
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell.
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Trevor Moore: High In Church
Title: Trevor Moore: High In Church
Released: March 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Trevor Moore recorded his first solo one-hour special, High In Church, at The Gramercy Theatre in New York. Accompanied by a live band, dancing girls and music videos, Trevor performs an hour of brand-new sketches and songs spanning all musical genres.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Don Wachtell
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: Mr. Pickles
Character: Mr. Goodman (voice)
Released: September 21, 2014
Type: TV
The Goodman family lives with their lovable pet dog, Mr. Pickles, a deviant border collie with a secret satanic streak.
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Title: Rick and Morty
Character: Coldstone Creamery Employee (voice)
Released: December 2, 2013
Type: TV
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty's already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.
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Title: Anger Management
Character: Rodney
Released: June 28, 2012
Type: TV
Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league baseball player whose career was put on the shelf for good by his own struggle with anger issues.
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Demoted
Title: Demoted
Character: Kline
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss.
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Title: Bob's Burgers
Character: Jimmy Pesto (voice)
Released: January 9, 2011
Type: TV
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.
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Title: Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
Released: June 27, 2010
Type: TV
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is a stop-motion animated TV series by Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of Moral Orel.
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Title: Modern Family
Character: Carl
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: TV
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
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Title: Community
Character: Police Officer
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
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Title: Parks and Recreation
Character: Ranger
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: TV
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Captain Beach-House
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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Title: Human Giant
Character: Whale Trainer
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: TV
Human Giant is a sketch comedy show on MTV, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and directed primarily by Jason Woliner. The show ran for two seasons. In interviews, the group has mentioned that they were offered a third season by MTV but were unable to complete it due to Ansari's commitments to the hit NBC show Parks and Recreation. However, the group has stated that MTV has left the door open for the group to complete a third season at a later date or to produce a special for the network. In 2010, Ansari, Huebel and Scheer reunited to do a skit for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. In November 2008, The Hollywood Reporter noted the group is currently developing a feature film with Red Hour Productions, the production company run by Ben Stiller and producer Stuart Cornfeld.
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Title: The Sarah Silverman Program.
Character: Chocolate Paul / Officer Jay (voice)
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: TV
Sarah Silverman plays a character named Sarah Silverman, whose absurd daily life unfolds in scripted scenes and songs. With her sister and her gay neighbors by her side, Sarah always manages to fall into unique, unsettling and downright weird predicaments.
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Title: The Sarah Silverman Program.
Character: Officer Jay McPherson / Jehosephat Robbins (voice)
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: TV
Sarah Silverman plays a character named Sarah Silverman, whose absurd daily life unfolds in scripted scenes and songs. With her sister and her gay neighbors by her side, Sarah always manages to fall into unique, unsettling and downright weird predicaments.
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Title: The Sarah Silverman Program.
Character: Officer Jay McPherson
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: TV
Sarah Silverman plays a character named Sarah Silverman, whose absurd daily life unfolds in scripted scenes and songs. With her sister and her gay neighbors by her side, Sarah always manages to fall into unique, unsettling and downright weird predicaments.
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Title: Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Character: Gang Member
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.
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Title: American Misfits
Released: May 3, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Moral Orel
Released: December 12, 2005
Type: TV
Orel is an 11-year-old boy who loves church. His unbridled enthusiasm for piousness and his misinterpretation of religious morals often lead to disastrous results, including self-mutilation and crack addiction. No matter how much trouble he gets into, his reverence always keeps him cheery.
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Dirty Love
Title: Dirty Love
Character: Waiter
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The klutzy yet stunning Rebecca Sommers walks in on her hunky boyfriend in bed with another woman. They break up and Rebecca starts to fall apart, but, with the help of her close girlfriends, she begins to date again. Unfortunately, the men she meets all happen to be crazy. John, her dorky guy friend, tries to express his secret love for Rebecca, but she's too busy to notice as she tries to come to terms with her breakup.
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Nerd Hunter 3004
Title: Nerd Hunter 3004
Character: Computer Nerd
Released: December 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Derek Rillix is a Nerd Hunter, a special officer assigned to hunt down and delete anyone engaged in illegal "NERD" activities. Rillix knows that the underground nerd movement, led by MasterGeek, are planning a massive comic book convention. Rillix is bent on stopping this, but something is gnawing away deep inside him, a deep secret that even he cannot face.
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Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Title: Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Character: Eyewitness News Member
Released: December 28, 2004
Type: Movie
While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to make the truth known, whatever that may mean...
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Title: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Character: Eyewitness News Member
Released: June 28, 2004
Type: Movie
It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
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Title: Arrested Development
Character: Officer Taylor
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: TV
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
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Brainwarp
Title: Brainwarp
Character: Guy Suave
Released: July 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Brainwarp, the world's dumbest supervillain, attempts to make rent ($200) for his studio apartment hideout through a combination of foul language and violence. The action is fast and the visuals are like acid 'on acid.'
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Title: Cedric the Entertainer Presents
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
Cedric the Entertainer Presents was an American sketch comedy television series starring Cedric the Entertainer. The series premiered September 18, 2002 on Fox and after the first season, Fox renewed the show for a second season but right before the show aired its second season, Fox canceled the show. The show did get released on DVD. Reruns of the show currently air on TV One.
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The Master of Disguise
Title: The Master of Disguise
Character: Rex
Released: August 2, 2002
Type: Movie
After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey utilizes his supernatural ability to disguise himself in an attempt to stop him.
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Men in Black II
Title: Men in Black II
Character: Agent
Released: July 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
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Not Another Teen Movie
Title: Not Another Teen Movie
Character: Roadie
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
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Title: Next!
Released: January 17, 2001
Type: TV
Next! is an American sketch comedy series featuring former Saturday Night Live writer/actor Bob Odenkirk. The show features a number of notable alternative comedians as both cast members and writers including Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, Patton Oswalt, Jay Johnston, and Jerry Minor.
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Title: Next Caller
Released: January 17, 2001
Type: TV
Next Caller is an unaired American television comedy series that was scheduled to premiere mid-season on NBC as part of the 2012–13 television schedule. The network placed a series order in May 2012. Season one was set to feature seven half-hour episodes. On October 12, 2012, NBC announced the cancellation of the series after only four episodes had been filmed, citing creative differences with star Dane Cook, and that the filmed episodes would not be aired. It became the second series of the 2012–13 television season to be canceled, after Made in Jersey.
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Hollywood Palms
Title: Hollywood Palms
Character: Young Cop
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the residents who develop interesting relationships with one another.
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Title: DAG
Released: November 14, 2000
Type: TV
DAG is an American sitcom that aired from November 2000 to May 2001 on NBC. It was named after its star, David Alan Grier, who stars as United States Secret Service agent Jerome Daggett. Daggett's name, in turn, is a back-formation. The show also stars Delta Burke as the First Lady of the United States of America.
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The Independent
Title: The Independent
Character: Soldier
Released: November 10, 2000
Type: Movie
A notorious B-movie director tries for a comeback by seeking out the film rights to the life story of a serial killer who wants his biography film to be a musical.
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Desperate But Not Serious
Title: Desperate But Not Serious
Character: Mustachioed Cop
Released: October 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding reception with Jonathan, a handsome entomologist who also happens to be the man of her dreams. The only problem is that she's in San Francisco and the wedding is in L.A. Lily is therefore forced to enlist the aid of her friend Frances, an unrepentant party girl who has the L.A. nightclub scene wired. Their plans are completely derailed when they inadvertently lose the all important wedding invitation. This sets in motion an evening full of near misses with Jonathan, and thrusts Lily and Frances into a swarm of offbeat encounters with the underground Hollywood crowd. Off they go from club to club, from party to party and from boy to boy in an effort to find the wedding reception.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Jeremy
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Malcolm in the Middle
Character: Ed
Released: January 9, 2000
Type: TV
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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Bicentennial Man
Title: Bicentennial Man
Character: Charles
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
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Jack Frost
Title: Jack Frost
Character: TV Weatherman
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: Movie
A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
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Title: Tenacious D
Character: FBI Agent
Released: November 28, 1997
Type: TV
Follow the exploits of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, the two halves of Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed "greatest band on earth." Their music is heavy on power chords and lyrics about sex, Satan, and why they are the greatest band on Earth.
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Title: Just Shoot Me!
Character: Exterminator
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997, to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.
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Skins
Title: Skins
Character: Big John
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A successful, but unhappy man tries to be himself.
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Title: Mr. Show with Bob and David
Released: November 3, 1995
Type: TV
A sketch comedy series starring and hosted by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. The pair introduce most episodes as heightened versions of themselves before transitioning to a mixture of live sketches and pre-taped segments.