Brian Posehn

**Brian Edmund Posehn**[1] (born July 6, 1966) is an American actor, voice actor, musician, writer, and comedian, known for his roles as Jim Kuback on The WB's *Mission Hill* and Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's *The Sarah Silverman Program*. He also has a recurring role on *The Big Bang Theory* as geologist Bert Kibbler. Posehn began with guest appearances and mainly small roles in TV shows. He was on 28 episodes of *Mr. Show with Bob and David* (1995–1998), a sketch comedyseries on HBO. In a 1996 episode of *Friends*, he delivered the manuscript in which Joey Tribbiani's soap opera character "Dr. Drake Ramoray" is killed off. He appeared as two different characters in *NewsRadio*: a fan with questions for Jimmy James at a book reading (1997), and a member of Dave's a cappella group "Chock Full o' Notes" (1998). In the *Seinfeld* episode "The Burning" (1998), he played a patient, when Kramer "was given" gonorrhea. His character was instructed to "act out" to a group of medical students how a surgeon left a sponge in him post surgery. Posehn also wrote the *Space Ghost: Coast to Coast* episode "Cahill" (1998) with Ben Karlin. He appeared on 29 episodes of the NBC series *Just Shoot Me!* (1999–2003). He played the voice of Jim in *Mission Hill* on the WB (1999–2002), and Del Swanson in *3 South* on MTV (2002–2003). On an Adult Swim production, *Aqua Teen Hunger Force*, he voiced the Wisdom Cube in the 2003 episode "The Cubing".

Posehn performed the voice of Gibbons, a tiny man, on several episodes of the Cartoon Network's *Tom Goes to the Mayor* (2005–2006). He also appeared in the 2005 pilot for *The Showbiz Show with David Spade*, in a segment called "The Nerd Perspective", in which he gave a scathing criticism of MTV and its declining quality. He also played a mortician in several episodes of Comedy Central's *Reno 911!*. He was featured on the 2005 documentary series *The Comedians of Comedy* on Comedy Central and Showtime. He was in a 2007 episode of the improv series *Thank God You're Here* on NBC and was a celebrity judge on the revived 1970s game show *The Gong Show with Dave Attell* (2008), on Comedy Central. He co-stars on *The Sarah Silverman Program* with Steve Agee as a gay couple who is friends with Silverman,[7] and also wrote the season three finale "Wowschwitz". He played himself in the episode "Spagett" of *Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!*, appeared at the *Comedy Central Roast* of Bob Saget, played the role of a physically disabled man (Scooter Man) in the second season's premiere episode "Slip of the Tongue" of *Californication* (2008), on Showtime, and played Dethklok's second manager in the *Metalocalypse* episode "Dethsources", he also wrote the episode "Fatherklok". In 2007 he joined the first season of the MTV sketch comedy series *Human Giant*, as a writer and performer, and voices Glen Furlblam, the biggest fan of Dr. Two-Brains on the PBS Kids animated series *WordGirl*. In 2012 he co-wrote the fourth season of *Metalocalypse*. Since 2013, Posehn has appeared in the recurring role of Bert on *The Big Bang Theory*.

Movie appearances from Posehn include the 2003 comedy film sequel *Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd*, *Grind*, the 2005 Rob Zombie horror film *The Devil's Rejects*, *Sleeping Dogs Lie*, *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer*, and the 2007 animated feature *Surf's Up*, where he played Glen Maverick. Posehn appeared as himself in the 2007 documentary *Super High Me* starring 'marijuana comedian' Doug Benson, the 2008 documentary *Nerdcore Rising* about MC Frontalot and in a supporting role in *Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic*.

Posehn voices the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie's animated *The Haunted World of El Superbeasto*. He also voiced the character Hayashi in the English dub of *Pom Poko*.