BIO
Actor, comedian, and writer, Guy Branum recently starred in Universal’s rom-com Bros playing Billy Eichner’s hilarious best friend Henry, which he also co-produced. Bros is the first gay rom-com from a major theatrical studio featuring an all-LGBTQ+ principal cast. You can also catch him on the new critically acclaimed Apple TV series Platonic with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan.
Wanda Sykes on Talk Show The Game Show.
Guy created and hosted truTV’s Talk Show The Game Show, a talk show/game show mashup that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” He is a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the new Mel Brooks variety series History of the World, Part II, alongside Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, and Ike Barinholtz. Guy has been working for a very long time, so you’ve also probably seen him on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Chelsea Lately, Conan, @Midnight, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, Road to Roast and Debate Wars. He also played Natalie Portman’s sassy gay friend in the 2011 romantic comedy No Strings Attached. He’s a seasoned TV Writer having written for a number of shows including Hacks, The Other Two, The Mindy Project, Punk’d, Awkward, Fashion Police, Q-Force, Connecting, and Billy on the Street.
Guy on “The Drew Barrymore Show”
In 2018, Guy released his memoir My Life As A Goddess, a collection of essays described as “Wickedly smart, funny and witty” by Kirkus Reviews and which made NPR’s 2018 Good Reads List and Entertainment Weekly’s Must List. Guy has also written culture and political commentary for Slate.com, Pitchfork, The New York Times and Vulture, and his now retired pop culture roundtable podcast Pop Rocket was named one of the best new podcasts of 2015 by iTunes. Guy’s debut comedy album, Effable, was #1 on iTunes and Billboard charts, and The New York Times called it “a contender for the best comedy special of 2015.”
Guy and Billy Eichner in “Bros”.
