RiffTrax Live! Christmas Shorts-stravaganza! Streaming to theaters nationwide on December 16th with an encore December 17th!

Michael J. Nelson is the former host and writer of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning Mystery Science Theater 3000. Since that time, he has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, penned a regular column for TV Guide, and authored best-selling books for both HarperCollins and Abrams.

Kevin Murphy has cultivated the act of talking back to the movies into an art form and a career. For ten years on the Peabody Award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, Kevin wrote, directed, and starred as the plucky red robot Tom Servo. Classic episodes of MST3K, as its legion of fans call it, continue to be one of Rhino Home Video's top-selling DVD series. Kevin created the ultimate movie-lover's marathon by . . .

Bill Corbett is a former writer for MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel, and previously on Comedy Central. He was also a performer on the show, providing the voice of the robot Crow (version 2.0) and embarrassing himself by playing various other strange characters -- including the all-powerful but clueless alien The Observer (a.k.a. "Brain Guy"). . .

DisembAudio is the world famous synthesized voice behind RiffTrax's Patented "Perfect Synch Technology." He has long been a player in the world of synthesized voices, and has worked in all areas of the industry . . .

Hailing from Seattle, Washington, and blessed with Irish and Nordic ancestral roots, Joel McHale is one of the whitest and fairest guys around. He is the lead of NBC's comedy "Community" with Chevy Chase, and is star/ writer/ producer of "The Soup" on E!....

"Weird Al" Yankovic, the undisputed king of pop culture parody, has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history. In a career spanning nearly three decades, he has amassed 28 Gold and Platinum albums, 7 Gold and Platinum-certified home videos and 3 Grammy Awards (with 9 nominations).

Born and raised in Shaker Heights, OH, Willard began his career by spending a year at Chicago's famed Second City.

Willard's improvisational performance as "Buck Laughlin" in the film "Best in Show" earned him the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor . . .

Neil Patrick Harris continues to demonstrate his creative versatility as Barney in the hit CBS comedy series HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. He just wrapped a reprised self portraying role in the feature film comedy HAROLD AND KUMAR 2.

Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PlayStation Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.

America's loudest lounge singer Richard Cheese performs swingin' Vegas versions of rock, rap, and Top40 hits, "swankifying" contemporary songs into traditional pop vocal standards.

An independent musician with the heart of a geek, Jonathan Coulton left his day-job as a computer programmer to stay home and write songs. Between 2005 and 2006 he wrote, recorded, and published a new song every week as a free podcast project called “Thing a Week.” This year-long experiment produced 52 consistently well-written and solidly produced songs, and he soon became an internet sensation. Jonathan will release his first live DVD titled, BEST. CONCERT. EVER., which will include an accompanying audio CD on June 30, 2009. Jonathan’s songs cover unusual topics not often heard in music and tend to make even the most jaded listeners excited about music again.
 

Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo grew up in the suburbs in the '70s and '80s, which explains a lot. Eventually, after a lot of boring stuff, the two met and helped found the Washington, DC-based a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook, becoming the group's main songwriting team. Da Vinci's Notebook retired after 12 years of touring nationwide, at which point Sabourin and DiCostanzo became the comedy/music duo Paul and Storm.

Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda are best known for their video series Chad Vader, a viral internet sensation that has received over 25 million internet downloads and counting (view it on YouTube). Chad Vader has won over a dozen film festival awards, including the "George Lucas Selects" award from the 2007 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge...

While not a man of a million voices, Jason Stephens is capable of approximately 30 distinct impersonations; Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, Sean Connery, Mr. T, Nicolas Cage and Gilbert Gottfried among those which actually sound like the individual in question. Aside from mimicry for fun and profit, Jason co-hosts a morning radio show at Q106.3 in Madison, WI, performs improvised comedy with The Monkey Business Institute, and works with Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda of Blame Society Productions.

Chad Vader is the younger brother of Darth Vader. He was horribly disfigured in a boyhood accident involving a bicycle, an embankment and a volcano. His life was saved by a hand-me-down life support suit from his older brother, but unfortunately the suit was not able to save Chad's social life . . .

James Lileks was born in Fargo North Dakota, the son of Norman Rockwell and Betty Crocker. He attended the University of Minnesota for seven years, attending class for five; at the Minnesota Daily he started writing a column that has continued in the Twin Cities market for thirty years.

Bridget (Jones) Nelson was a writer and performer on Mystery Science Theater 3000 playing such roles as Nuvenna: Woman Of The Future, Drunk Girl, Lisa Loeb and Mr. B Natural. . .

The riffing team from the That Guy with the Glasses web site is Doug Walker (The aforementioned "That Guy"), his older brother, Rob Walker (The Other Guy), and their friend and personal astrologer, Brian Heinz (The Last Angry Geek).  Together, and apart, they've been making fun of things since they were able to talk, and it's now of some small satisfaction to their parents that they get paid to do this.

Mary Jo Pehl is a former writer and villain on Mystery Science Theater 3000. In addition to playing the evil nemesis Pearl Forrester, she also played an array of bit parts, including a space mom, an overly-friendly neighbor, a trailer trash party girl, and Jan-In-The-Pan, a head without a body . . .

Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka runs a website. This website is on the internet. It is called "Something Awful" and you may access this website by typing "www.somethingawful.com" in whatever device you typically use to accomplish internet-related tasks.

Joshua Fruhlinger was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, leaving him with a love of chicken wings and a tendency to say "pop". He taught ancient Greek and Roman history to undergraduates before fleeing from academia in terror; worked for a failed San Francisco dot-com that did not supply him with stock options or an Aeron chair; lived in Berlin, where he mostly ate Indian and Ethiopian food; and finished in third place on his sole Jeopardy! appearance (the correct answer was "Golda Meir").

Janet Varney works as an actor, writer, and producer in Los Angeles. She has most recently appeared on such shows as Bones, Better Off Ted, How I Met Your Mother, and has been recurring as studio executive Amy Miller on HBO's Entourage. She completed a pilot for ABC in April of this year opposite Leah Remini, Matthew Lillard, and Jonathan Silverman, and is enjoying her fifth year as host of TBS's Dinner and a Movie.

Cole Stratton is currently "paying his dues" in Los Angeles, where he enjoys losing parts to minorly more successful actors such as Barry Levinson's nephew. A noted improviser, he's done crazy make-em ups with Greg Proops, Patton Oswalt, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Rick Overton, Matt Walsh and Jeff Garlin, to name a few.

Matthew J Elliott is a British writer and performer who lives in the town that spawned Georgie Fame, author of Lost Horizon James Hilton, Colin “Chariots of Fire” Welland (his actual middle names, believe it or not), and, apparently, the guy who invented the Spinning Jenny during the Industrial Revolution, but never thought to patent it.

Conor Lastowka has enjoyed making people laugh his entire life. His favorite story about himself of all time is the time in college that he faked a good friends death and lots of people believed it (not everyone laughed.) . . .

David has been working in the production field for over 20 years. He started working at age 14 as a freelance computer specialist and monkey trainer. Later he worked as a Jr. Professor at the Hereshire School for Monkey Behavior Modification. There he worked on various technical contraptions to help house break monkeys and teach them to clean bathrooms . . .

Josh Gemma graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Television. He has been making films since he was 13 years old, and is credited with . . .

Erik, known to forum-dwellers as torgosPizza, moved to San Diego in October 2006 to pursue his lifelong dream of working with a sentient kitchen appliance. Searching high and low within the current website he . . .

After crash landing on earth, Jason Martian got a job as a mild mannered reporter… unfortunately, mild manners were not his forte, so he became an artist instead. He has been a practitioner in the field for over 15 years . . .

The Guy who does DisembAudio's voice is a former RiffTrax employee who was fired in a scandal now known as "Jerky Gate." Before the firing, he was famous for his lack of punctuality, the ability to eat an entire . . .

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