Michael Colton

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]

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 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]

In 2021, he co-created, co-wrote the television series Home Economics with John Aboud, it premiered on ABC on April 7, 2021.

• 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