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Michael McDonald
Fullerton, California, USA
Michael James McDonald (born December 31, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv.…
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Michael James McDonald (born December 31, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv. He was also a writer, director, and producer of the ABC TV series Cougar Town. His best known movie roles are as Little John in Halloween Kills, Ronovan Scargle in The Happy time Murders, Jonathan in Ghostbusters (2016), Bryce Crean in The Boss, Patrick in Spy, Julian in The Heat, and small roles in each Austin Powers movie. He graduated from USC with a degree in Business and became a loan officer at a bank in Los Angeles. A friend took him to see a sketch comedy/improv show at L.A.'s famous Groundling Theater, and everything changed for him. He quit his job as a banker, enrolled in the Groundling's Improv Program, and became a member of the troupe from 1992 to 1997. His first professional writing and acting jobs came from Concorde Pictures, Roger Corman's infamous low-budget movie studio. Starting as an extra, he landed small roles in many B-movies of the early 1990s, and he gradually earned bigger roles as well as eventually writing and directing some films. He joined MADtv during the fourth season (1998) and remained in the cast until the end of the thirteenth and penultimate season, having become the longest-tenured cast member. After 10 years on MADtv, he left the cast, but was a contributing writer and director for the show's final season. He was the last member of the cast to be hired in the 1990s, and the last cast member to have been born in the 1960s, and is the only cast member to have a "best of" clip show special dedicated to him.
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2025
Portal to Hell
Movie David Pepperdine
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2024
It's Florida, Man.
TV show John Walsh
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2024
English Teacher
TV show Director
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2024
Mother of the Bride
Movie Clay
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2024
Good Times
TV show Elon Musk (voice)
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2023
Not Dead Yet
TV show Director
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2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Movie Michael's Bodyguard
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2022
God's Favorite Idiot
TV show Leviathan
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2022
How I Met Your Father
TV show Warren
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2021
The Sex Lives of College Girls
TV show George
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2021
Halloween Kills
Movie Little John
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2021
Home Economics
TV show Director
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2021
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
TV show Director
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2020
Outmatched
TV show Director
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2019
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
Movie Robo-Dad (voice)
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2019
What We Do in the Shadows
TV show Gustave Leroy
More credits
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2018
The Happytime Murders
Movie Ronovan Scargle
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2018
25 Words or Less
TV show Self
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2017
Powerless
TV show Director
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2016
Man with a Plan
TV show Director
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2016
Rhett & Link's Buddy System
TV show Enrique
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2016
American Housewife
TV show Director
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2016
The Good Place
TV show Director
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2016
Ghostbusters
Movie Jonathan the Theater Manager
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2016
The Loud House
TV show Howard McBride / Antonio (voice)
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2016
The Boss
Movie Bryce Crean
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2015
Spy
Movie Patrick
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2014
Benched
TV show Director
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2013
The Michael J. Fox Show
TV show Director
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2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
TV show Adam Jarver
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2013
The Heat
Movie Julian
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2013
Save Me
TV show Director
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2012
Men at Work
TV show Director
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2012
House of Lies
TV show Carl Criswell
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2011
2 Broke Girls
TV show Director
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2011
Web Therapy
TV show Ben Tomlund
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2010
Mike & Molly
TV show Director
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2010
Michael McDonald: Model. Citizen.
Movie Self
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2009
Cougar Town
TV show Wayne Gibbons
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2009
Community
TV show Insurance Man
