Kristy Silvernail 310.369.3699 [email protected] Pam Beer 310.369.5029 [email protected] John Lavet (photos only) 310.369.4382 [email protected] Nick Weidenfeld President, ADHD Studios & Friends Night Prior to teaming with Fox under his Friends Night production company banner, Weidenfeld served as the head of Program Development for Adult Swim. He helped grow the late-night block of programming on Cartoon Network – featuring breakout hits such as Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force – into the No. 1 cable entertainment channel among young men. Weidenfeld executive- produced a variety of animated and live-action shows, including the Peabody Award-winning The Boondocks, and the Emmy® Award- winning Childrens Hospital. Hend Baghdady Executive in Charge, ADHD Studios & Friends Night Hend Baghdady is the executive in charge at Fox ADHD Studios and Friends Night. She began her career in New York working on the first season ofCrank Yankers with Jackhole Industries. Since then, she has developed, produced and created production formats and templates for live-action and animated comedy series for MTV, Comedy Central and Adult Swim, including The Andy Milonakis Show. You can also find her eating cinnamon on YouTube. Ben Jones Creative Director, ADHD Studios & Friends Night Ben Jones is the creative director at Fox ADHD Studios and Friends Night. A founding member of the Pittsburg-based artist collective Paper Rad, Ben has worked with Deitch Projects, MOCA and Adult Swim. He is currently working on Stone Quackers, his animated series about the feathered denizens of Cheeseburger Island. The reggae dancehall grooves of acclaimed electronic music act Major Lazer are just one of the highlights in the Animation Domination animated show Major Lazer. It tells the story of a superhero named Major Lazer who, with the help of his two teenaged friends, Penny and BLKMRKT, fights against the villains that populate the futuristic dystopia that is Jamaica. A self-proclaimed “Guardian of the Groove,” Major Lazer vows to fight for the rights of the Jamaican people and to bring down the ruthless curmudgeon, President Whitewall. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as MAJOR LAZER J.K. Simmons as PRESIDENT WHITEWALL John Boyega as BLKMRKT Angela Trimbur as PENNY James Adomian as GENERAL RUBBISH Ashante “Taranchyla” Reid as PG TIPPS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nick Weidenfeld Hend Baghdady Kevin Kusatsu Ferry Gouw Diplo DIPLO Thomas Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is unquestionably one of the most dynamic forces in music today. He is as much as an international brand (tastemaker, spokesman, curator) as he is a musician/DJ/producer. Year after year, he’s proven himself to be an ubiquitous cultural figure, consistently bridging high and low, mainstream and underground, with remarkable tact and reverence. Currently, Pentz serves as co-creator and executive producer for the animated series Major Lazer, which was inspired by the symbol of his dancehall/reggae-inspired music project, also named Major Lazer. After multiple Grammy nominations, including Producer of the Year, and being crowned the #1 most streamed artist on Soundcloud in 2013, Diplo’s might continues to grow. His touring remains extensive, playing hard ticket venues all around the world 300 days of the year, headlining the 22-city Mad Decent Block Party tour across North America, as well as launching the inaugural Mad Decent Boat Party on the Caribbean seas. In 2005, Diplo founded label/culture lab Mad Decent to serve as a showcasing platform for the myriad of fascinating sounds he encounters while touring the world. He has also utilized the label to produce the annual and infamous Mad Decent block parties – a series of outdoor dance parties/concerts that now span 22 cities across North America. Operating on only two minutes of sleep a night and fueled by a diet consisting solely of birthday cake, awesome superhero Axe Cop and his loyal partner Flute Cop unleash their unique brand of vigilante justice on bad guys everywhere. Nick Offerman as AXE COP Ken Marino as FLUTE COP Rob Huebel as GREY DIAMOND Patton Oswalt as SOCKARANG EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nick Weidenfeld Hend Baghdady Nick Offerman Dave Jeser Matt Silverstein NICK OFFERMAN Nick Offerman is an actor, writer and woodworker, best known for the role of Ron Swanson on NBC’s hit comedy series Parks & Recreation, which recently wrapped its 7th and final season. For his work on the show, Offerman won a Television Critics Association Award for Achievement in Comedy in 2011, having earned his first nomination in 2010. He also received two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Offerman currently serves as co-writer and voices “Axe Cop” in Animation Domination’s animated short Axe Cop, which he discovered and introduced to Friends Night production company. Offerman can also most recently be seen in A Walk in the Woods and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, both of which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Next, Offerman will be seen in the second season of the FX series Fargo and will lend his voice to the upcoming Hotel Translyvania 2. He can currently be seen touring his comedy show “Full Bush.” His last tour, “American Ham,” was released on Netflix on December 12th, 2014. Earlier this year, Offerman and his bride, Megan Mullally debuted their “Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” comedy show, which they will be taking on tour this year. In 2013, Offerman released his New York Times bestselling book, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living. His second book, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers will be released May 26th, 2015. On the big screen, Offerman was last seen in Sony‘s blockbuster hit 22 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. He lent his voice to the animated film The Lego Movie and can also be seen in Warner Bros.’ We’re The Millers, with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. Upcoming, Offerman can be seen in Welcome to Happiness due out later this year. And in addition to Axe Cop, Offerman has voiced animated characters for The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Gravity Falls, and Out There. DAVE JESER AND MATT SILVERSTEIN Before joining FOX/Friends Night, Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser served as Co- Executive Producers on Seth MacFarlane’s The Cleveland Show and Mike Judge’s The Goode Family. Silverstein and Jeser got their start writing and producing for Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla on The Man Show and Crank Yankers. From there they went on to create the animated shows DJ & The Fro on MTV and Drawn Together on Comedy Central. Their live-action credits include Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Greg the Bunny and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Silverstein and Jeser are survived by two wives, Rebecca and Lisa, and at least six children: Milo, Poppy, Eli, Chloe, Kayla and Honey. Brooklyn-based comedians and identical twins Keith and Kenny Lucas get animated in Lucas Bros. Moving Co. After inheriting their uncle’s van, the brothers begin to run a moving company in their neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, populated by everyone from their best friend, Jerrod (Jerrod Carmichael) to Jake the Snake Roberts, and their mom (Hannibal Buress). The brothers work only to pay their rent and drink beer at Jerrod’s bar, but nothing is easy for the Lucas brothers. Even the simplest job of installing an air conditioner leads to an epic trek through a frozen tundra in the basement of their apartment building. Guest stars include Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from Broad City; Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson and Jillian Bell from Workaholics; Jimmy Tatro (22 Jump Street); Michael Che (Saturday Night Live); Eric Andre (The Eric Andre Show); and musical artists Action Bronson, Questlove, Danny Brown, YG and Tyler the Creator. The Lucas Brothers as KEEF & KENNY Jerrod Carmichael as JERROD Jake Roberts as JAKE THE SNAKE Hannibal Buress as MOM THE LUCAS BROTHERS Comedians, actors, and writers Keith and Kenny Lucas continue their rise as two of the freshest, most dynamic new faces on the comedy scene. Born in a ghetto in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in a ghetto in High Point, North Carolina, the identical twins now appear in movies and on TV, and perform standup comedy all over the country; even in ghettoes. Named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch of 2014,” their weekly sketch comedy show Friends of the People premiered on TruTV in October 2014. They were also recently seen in the blockbuster summer comedy 22 Jump Street alongside Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube. The Lucas Brothers are the creators of Lucas Bros. Moving Co., which originally premiered as part of FOX’s Animation Domination Hi-Def block in January 2014 and now airs as part of FXX’s late-night Animation Domination programming block. They voice the series main characters narrating hilarious, absurdist tales with, as The New York Times praised, “a disarming sweetness and a clever, stylized casualness.” They are currently writing the series’ second season and are also developing their own live-action series with the FOX network. The brothers also host the web series The Super Late Morning Show on ComedyCentral.com, which premiered in February 2013. The Lucas Brothers made their late night debut when they performed standup on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2012. They were also featured in Rolling Stone magazine’s “Hot List” and appeared on the cult hit TV show Arrested Development (Netflix), Adam Devine’sHouse Party (Comedy Central) and Funny As Hell (HBO). They were also standouts on the “New Faces” show at the prestigious Montreal “Just For Laughs” Comedy Festival.