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Michael Colton
American screenwriter (born 1975) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Colton is an American screenwriter and former journalist.[1] With writing partner John Aboud, he created the television show Home Economics and wrote the films A Futile and Stupid Gesture and Penguins of Madagascar. He was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.[2]
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Personal life
Colton attended Newton North High School in Massachusetts, 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. He has also co-produced the television series Close Enough and Zoolander: Super Model and written for Childrens Hospital and Leverage.[1] In 2021, he co-created the ABC television series Home Economics.
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, best known for its online magazine.[3][9]
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Filmography
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