
Jay Johnston
Actor · b. 1968 · 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. On October 28, 2024, Johnston, who was arrested in 2023 for his participation in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, pled guilty to a felony offense of obstructing officers during a civil disorder in July. As a result, Johnston has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison.
Series24
TV7.9ComedyThe 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.
Modern Family
2009 · 3.5K votes
TV8.7AnimationComedyFollows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.
Rick and Morty
2013 · 11K votes
TV7.8AnimationComedyBob'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.
Bob's Burgers
2011 · 1.1K votes
TV8.7CrimeDramaSix 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".
Better Call Saul
2015 · 6.9K votes
TV8.1ComedyThe 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.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · 980 votes
TV8.5ComedyA gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Malcolm in the Middle
2000 · 5K votes
TV8.0ComedyIn 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.
Parks and Recreation
2009 · 1.9K votes
TV8.0ComedyFollow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
Community
2009 · 2.2K votes
TV7.9ComedyThe story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Arrested Development
2003 · 1.8K votes
TV7.3ComedyThis partially unscripted comedy brings viewers into the squad car as incompetent officers swing into action, answering 911 calls about everything from speeding violations and prostitution to staking out a drug den. Within each episode, viewers catch a "fly on the wall" glimpse of the cops' often politically incorrect opinions, ranging from their personal feelings to professional critiques of their colleagues.
Reno 911!
2003 · 202 votes
TV7.0ComedyA 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.
Childrens Hospital
2008 · 101 votes
TV6.3ComedyCharlie 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.
Anger Management
2012 · 296 votes
TV6.2ComedyEllen works in a Los Angeles bookstore called Buy the Book and hangs around with her friends discussing lovers, work and family.
Ellen
1994 · 59 votes
TV6.6ComedySee the inner workings of a high-style magazine owned by Jack Gallo, who has hired his quick-tempered but talented daughter, Maya, to write for the publication. Challenging her at every turn is Nina, a vain and superficial former model. Then there's photographer Elliot, a man who is very popular with his portrait subjects as well as other women. completing the core staff is her father's assistant, Dennis, a glorified secretary who is generally disrespectful to one and all.
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · 182 votes
TV7.2ComedyWelcome to Beacon Street Pizza, the perfect workplace and hangout for aimless wise-guy Berg, neurotic Pete and campus beauty Sharon. Pete and Berg are roommates and students at a local Boston university, while Sharon struggles with her work and relationships. Together, these three best friends try to navigate life and love in Boston!
Two Guys and a Girl
1998 · 163 votes
TV6.3ComedySarah 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.
The Sarah Silverman Program
2007 · 78 votes
TV6.8ComedyAction & AdventureNTSF:SD:SUV:: – meaning National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle:: – is a quarter-hour format American television comedy that parodies the police procedural and action film genres.
NTSF:SD:SUV::
2011 · 43 votes
TV7.4ComedyA 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.
Mr. Show with Bob and David
1995 · 97 votes
TV8.0AnimationComedyOrel 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.
Moral Orel
2005 · 109 votes
TV8.1ComedyAnimationThe Goodman family lives with their lovable pet dog, Mr. Pickles, a deviant border collie with a secret satanic streak.
Mr. Pickles
2014 · 874 votes
TV6.3AnimationComedyAn 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.
Animals.
2016 · 79 votes
TV7.3ComedyHuman 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.
Human Giant
2007 · 27 votes
TV7.2ComedyFollow 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.
Tenacious D
1997 · 42 votes
TV7.0ComedyDAG 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.
DAG
2000 · 3 votes
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Movie6.4ActionComedyKay 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.
Men in Black II
2002 · 10K votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceRichard 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.
Bicentennial Man
1999 · 4.1K votes
Movie5.8ComedyOn 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.
Not Another Teen Movie
2001 · 2.4K votes
Movie6.7ComedyIt'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.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004 · 4.8K votes
Movie6.8ComedyMusicIn 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.
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006 · 1.9K votes
Movie6.0ComedyFamilyA father who can't keep his promises dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has one final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
Jack Frost
1998 · 1.3K votes
Movie4.0ComedyFamilyAfter 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.
The Master of Disguise
2002 · 346 votes
Movie5.3FantasyComedyTwo best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell.
Hell and Back
2015 · 220 votes
Movie6.0ComedyWhile 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...
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
2004 · 205 votes
Movie4.3ComedyRomanceThe 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.
Dirty Love
2005 · 122 votes
Movie4.8ComedyWhat go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss.
Demoted
2011 · 54 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryFeature 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.
The Last Laugh
2016 · 21 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA 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.
The Independent
2000 · 20 votes
Movie5.5ComedyWhen an aspiring writer loses her dream date's wedding invitation, she and her wild best friend embark on an unpredictable night across the Los Angeles nightlife scene, dodging offbeat encounters and near-misses in a desperate bid to track down the reception.
Desperate But Not Serious
2000 · 7 votes
Movie7.2ComedyMusicTrevor 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.
Trevor Moore: High In Church
2015 · 13 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
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.'
Brainwarp
2003 · 2 votes
Movie5.5ComedySet 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.
Hollywood Palms
2000 · 4 votes
Movie3.2DramaA story of an improbable friendship between a Santa Barbara socialite, suffering from ALS and her caretaker from Senegal.
Something About Her
2021 · 6 votes
MovieRed Sandwich, the King of Sentimental Comedy, salutes our saddest holiday: Christmas! Get ready for very quaint jokes, tears, and plenty of pantomime and pathos (his bread and butter). A dark spoof of the old Red Skelton TV shows.
Movie9.0ComedyScience FictionA successful, but unhappy man tries to be himself.
Skins
1997 · 1 votes
- Movie5.8Science FictionComedy
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.
Nerd Hunter 3004
2004 · 4 votes