John Hodgman

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John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American writer, comedian, and humorist.

In addition to his published writings, including The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is best known for his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign, as well as his work as a contributor to Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His writings have appeared in One Story (to which he contributed the debut story "Villanova"), The Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Wired and The New York Times, which has the humor section's editor.

He appears on This American Life and CBC Radio One's Wiretap.

The Areas of My Expertise, a satirical tongue-in-cheek book with virtually no factual information, was released in 2005.

More Information Than You Requirere, his second book, went on sale on October 21, 2008.

That Is All, his third book, went on sale on November 1, 2011.

True Stories from Painful Beaches, a collection of "real life wanderings" about Hodgman's life experiences (especially in Western Massachusetts and coastal Maine), was published on October 24, 2017.

Vacationland was a finalist for the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Medallion Status, his latest book, was published on October 17, 2019. At the 2009 Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., Hodgman was the headline speaker.

Early life

Hodgman was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Eileen (née Callahan), a nurse and educator, and John Francis Hodgman, President and CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation and a Tufts University professor. He attended Heath School and Brookline High School, where he edited Samizdat, a resistance publication movement launched under the Soviet Union. He hosted the weekly Radio Consuelo show on freeform station WMFO in Medford during his last year of high school.

Hodgman earned a degree in literature at Yale University in 1994, focusing on literary criticism. Hodgman served as a literary agent at Writers House in New York City, where he represented Darin Strauss, Deborah Digges, and actor Bruce Campbell, among other things. In his column "Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent," Hodgman's Internet Tendency, he reminisces about his service as an agent.

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Career

Hodgman's book, The Areas of My Expertise, was on display on The Daily Show on November 16, 2005, to promote his book. Host Jon Stewart called the book "very funny" and that the section on hobo names in particular was written with "a certain amount of genius," according to Host Jon Stewart. Hodgman has appeared on the show's web site several times for "resident expert" interview segments, and has been listed as a contributor on the show's web site.

In 2005, Hodgman appeared in They Might Be Giants' They Might Be Giants' They Might Be Giants' DVD/CD, narrating in between songs with dialog he co-wrote with the band. On April 2, 2014, the Deranged Millionaire character appeared on The Daily Show. During the band's live shows in 2005, he narrated a number of Venue Songs-themed setlists, and he has performed with the band since being in possession of The Deranged Millionaire. On the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on December 11, 2009, the Hodgman appeared with They Might Be Giants. The spoken-word portions of "Why Does the Sun Shine?" was performed by Hodgman.

Hodgman appeared on Attack of the Show, a show that aired on G4, in February 2006, to give the host some insight and market his book The Areas of My Expertise. Hodgman retells the tragic tale of the lobster (which he said was actually a tiny, furry, extinct species that had been killed and replaced by the animals we think of as lobsters today) and brought along Jonathan Coulton, a regular Hodgman collaborator and musical director of the Little Gray Book lectures. "Furry Old Lobster" was Coulton's first hit song. Hodgman appeared on Attack of the Show once more on October 18, 2008, to discuss his latest book, More Information Than You Require.

Hodgman appeared in the Apple Inc. Get a Mac a Mac commercial campaign, which ran from May 2006 to 2010. He plays the personification of a PC in the ads alongside his Mac counterpart, played by actor Justin Long. Hodgman, in fact, became a Mac user in 1984. On November 10, 2020, he made a surprise appearance at the 45:27 mark of Apple's virtual "One More Thing" event, where Apple introduced its first Macs based on its own Apple silicon chips on November 10, 2020.

In 2007, Hodgman appeared in the HBO television series Flight of the Conchords' "Bowie" episode. He was the manager of a musical greeting card business who was considering using one of the band's songs for a greeting card.

Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing, announced the official debut of the web series SPAMasterpiece Theater on October 1, 2008. "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all extracted from reams of legitimate, unsolicited emails received here by us and others like you, which we refer to as SPAM."

In Battlestar Galactica's episode "No Exit," Hodgman appeared as the civilian neurosurgeon, Dr. Gerard. He had earlier visited the site in 2005 to write about the exhibit for The New York Times Magazine.

Hodgman, the headline speaker at the 2009 Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., Hodgman referred to the event as a "Nerd Prom." Many of his parodies revolved around President Barack Obama's appointment as the first nerd president, and he was quizzed by the president on his knowledge of Frank Herbert's book Dune.

In the first two episodes of Bored to Death's first season, "The Case of the Stolen Sperm" and "Take a Dive," a literary critic who wrote a bad review that offended the main character. He appeared in the second and third seasons.

Hodgman appeared on The Venture Bros. as Dale Hale, an ex-boy detective in therapy following his father's death. Since being a member of the O.S.I. in Season 5, he has made several appearances as O.S.I. Snoopy, an intelligence serviceman, as well as other positions.

Also, Hodgman delivered color commentary on the winners of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2009. In August 2010, he reprised his role in the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Hodgman was invited to appear on the programme as a continuing support for QI, the BBC's intellectual comedy quiz. He was the first "fifth panelist" on the program in 2009 (the usual lineup of a host, Alan Davies as regular panelist, and three guests) — and won, in the tradition of a visitor winning their "rookie" appearance on the show.

Hodgman appeared in an episode of Delocated called "Reunion Show" in 2012, hosting a fictional show-within-a-show. He appeared as a psychiatrist in a "Curriculum Unavailable" episode of Community in 2012.

In its second season, Hodgman made a guest appearance on the sitcom series Husbands.

In Wired's first scripted web series Codefellas, Hodgman appeared as "Special Agent Henry Topple" in 2013.

In the episode "Anniversaries" of Parks and Recreation, which aired in February 2014, Hodgman appeared as public radio personality August Clementine.

In the FX comedy Married, which premiered in July 2014, Hodgman plays a supporting role. Hodgman appeared in three episodes of the Amazon Studios series Mozart in the Jungle in December 2014.

On the Cinemax series The Knick, Hodgman appeared in three episodes as a fictionalized version of psychiatrist and medical doctor Henry Cotton.

In four episodes of Amazon's Red Oaks' second season, Hodgman starred Travis, a local television station manager.

Hodgman was named one of Portland Magazine's "10 Most Influential Mainers" in November 2017.

As a "Netflix Original," Netflix, the American streaming media website, aired John Hodgman: Ragnarok on June 20, 2013. The special featured excerpts from Hodgman's most recent book, That Is All, as well as his December 21, 2012 exhibition at The Bell House in New York.

Judge John Hodgman, a weekly comedic court show host, began in 2010. Hodgman appears as a judge (with Jesse Thorn as bailiff) adjudicating real-life conflicts in a fictional courtroom setting. "Should the kitchen sink's built-in dispenser be filled with dish soap or hand soap?" the cases ask. "Can you stop family members from using your childhood nickname?"

The podcast debuted in January 2021, the 500th episode in the series. Maximum Fun's judge John Hodgman is distributed online by Maximum Fun.

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