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Michael Colton (born 1975) is an American screenwriter and former journalist. With writing partner John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.

Personal life

Colton attended Newton North High School in Massachusetts, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and The Harvard Crimson.

He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.

Career

Colton has co-written the films A Futile and Stupid Gesture, 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. In 2021, he co-created the ABC television series Home Economics.

In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post. 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.

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.

From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, best known for its online magazine.

Filmography

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Movies

References

1. ^ "About Us". coltonaboud.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
2. "Michael Colton". IMDb. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
3. ^ "His job is a joke". The Boston Globe. October 19, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
4. "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Carla Pereira, Michael Colton". The New York Times. May 30, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
5. Kit, Borys (March 16, 2016). "Will Forte to Star as 'National Lampoon' Co-Founder in Netflix Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
6. "Michael Colton '97". Harvardwood. February 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
7. "Welcome To AMPTP.com (not AMPTP.org)". Deadline. December 10, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
8. "amptp.net". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
9. "Inside Modern Humorist with Co-Founders Michael Colton and John Aboud". Splitsider. April 28, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.

External links

• Colton & Aboud homepage
• A Moveable Feast: With Absolutely No Cash, A Reporter Gets Fed For A Week
• Michael Colton in the New York Times Magazine (Jan. 21, 2007)
• Michael Colton at IMDb

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