Vernon Chatman

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Pseudonym Towelie, Clarence Role Television producer Name Vernon Chatman		Years active 1996–present Birth name Vernon Chatman Music group PFFR

Born October 31, 1972 (age 51) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. ( 1972-10-31 ) Medium Stand-up, Television, Film, Music, Books Nationality American (Multiracial-American) Genres Satire, Political satire, Observational comedy, Black comedy, Cringe comedy, Alternative comedy, Surreal humor, Absurdist humor, Meta humour, Transgressive Education University of San Francisco Books Mindsploitation: Asinine Assignments for the Online Homework Cheating Industry Albums United We Doth, Rock Rocker Rocketh Movies and TV shows Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart - She Holler, The External World, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle Similar People John Lee, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Adrien Beard, Kyle McCulloch

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Vernon Chatman (born October 31, 1972) is an American television producer, writer, voice actor, stand-up comedian, musician and a member of PFFR, an art collective based in Brooklyn, New York City. He is known for creating Wonder Showzen, the animated series Xavier: Renegade Angel and voicing Towelie in South Park.

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Life and career

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Vernon Chatman was a student of the San Francisco State University, where he graduated in 1994. Chatman is mixed race, half African-American and half Euro-American.

In 1996 Chatman began his career as a stand-up comedian and eventually a comedy writer, producer, musician and television creator. Chatman previously wrote for television shows such as The Chris Rock Show (for which he won an Emmy), Late Night with Conan O'Brien, That's My Bush! and The Downer Channel. Before Wonder Showzen, he and PFFR collaborator John Lee created the Snoop Dogg comedy series Doggy Fizzle Televizzle for MTV.

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Along with long-time friend John Lee (also of PFFR), he is the co-creator of the MTV2 series Wonder Showzen as well as the Adult Swim shows Xavier: Renegade Angel and The Heart, She Holler. The two met as undergraduates at San Francisco State University. One of his most high-profile voice-acting roles is as the voice of Towelie, the marijuana-smoking talking towel on South Park, where he also serves as a staff writer. In 2012, he became a producer on the third season of the FX series Louie. In 2017, Adult Swim ordered The Shivering Truth, a "darkly surreal anthology comedy" from Chatman.

Discography

Rock, Rocker, Rocketh (2001, self-released)

Injustice Center (2003, Invasion Planete France)

United We Doth (2004, Birdman)

2000s

Final Flesh (2009)

2010s

The External World, Co-written alongside David O'Reilly (2010)

The Original Black Swan, Collaboration with Todd Barry (2011)

Emmy Awards

Chatman has been nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning four.

2013 – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) for "Raising the Bar"

2009 – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) for "Margaritaville"

2008 – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More) for "Imaginationland"

1999 – Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program for "The Chris Rock Show"

Nominations

2011 - Outstanding Animated Program for "Crack Baby Athletic Association

2010 - Outstanding Animated Program for "200/201"

2000 - Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for "The Chris Rock Show"

Writers Guild of America Awards

Chatman has won two WGA Awards.

2013 - Comedy Series - Series for "Louie"

2000 - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - Series for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"

References

Vernon Chatman Wikipedia

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