Michael Colton

Michael Colton (born 1975) is a screenwriter.[1] With John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.[2]

Personal life

Colton attended Newton North High School, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper.[3] He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson.[3]

He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.[4]

Career

Colton has co-written the films A Futile and Stupid Gesture,[5] Penguins of Madagascar and The Comebacks. They have also produced the television series Close Enough and Zoolander: Super Model and written for Childrens Hospital and Leverage.[1]

In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post.[6] He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeney's.[1]

During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007–2008, Colton and Aboud created the website AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.[7][8]

From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, NY best known for its online magazine.[3][9]


Filmography

Television
YearTitleRole
2003VH1 Big in 03Consultant
2004The Wrong CoastWriter
2004I Love the '90sHimself/Panelist
2005Last Laugh '05Consultant
2005CMT: 20 Merriest Christmas VideosHimself
2005I Love the '90s: Part DeuxHimself
2005I Love the '80s 3-DHimself
2005I Love the HolidaysHimself
2006I Love ToysHimself
2006I Love the 70s: Volume 2Himself
2008I Love the New MillenniumHimself
2008Best Week Ever with Paul F. TompkinsHimself
2009Sit Down, Shut UpExecutive Story Editor, Writer
2009Black to the FutureHimself
2009The Great DebateHimself
2009100 Most Shocking Music MomentsHimself
2010LeverageExecutive Story Editor, Writer
2010A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweet-A-Thon for HaitiHimself
2010UndateableHimself
2011Allen GregoryWriter, Co-Producer
2014I Love the 2000sHimself
2014NewsreadersWriter
2015Childrens HospitalWriter
2016Zoolander: Super ModelWriter, Producer
2017The Fake News With Ted NelmsWriter
2020Close EnoughExecutive Producer

Movies
YearTitleRole
2007The ComebacksWriter
2014Penguins of MadagascarWriter
2018A Futile and Stupid GestureWriter, Executive Producer

References
  1. "About Us". coltonaboud.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. "Michael Colton". Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. "His job is a joke". The Boston Globe. October 19, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  4. "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Carla Pereira, Michael Colton". The New York Times. May 30, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. Kit, Borys (March 16, 2016). "Will Forte to Star as 'National Lampoon' Co-Founder in Netflix Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  6. "Michael Colton '97". Harvardwood. February 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  7. "Welcome To AMPTP.com (not AMPTP.org)". Deadline. December 10, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  8. "amptp.net". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  9. "Inside Modern Humorist with Co-Founders Michael Colton and John Aboud". Splitsider. April 28, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.


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