Hello.

I’m a different Brian Thompson from the health insurance CEO who famously passed away in an act of vigilante justice. I write fiction (for the page) and comedy (for stage, screen, and audio). I also teach other people how to do the same things.

Not to brag, but my work has been featured in some great literary journals. I've written for television and am an alumnus of the UCB Theatre.

The New York Times said about my comedy podcast Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's?, "If there is a god of ludicrous ideas that later seem inspired, he must have smiled on Brian Thompson." John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats called it his "new favorite thing." And Jonathan Goldstein of Heavyweight fame said, "I love its driest of dry earnest sarcasm, its mockery of intrepid journalism, and the universe it creates with such economy."

David Wain of The State, Stella, and Wet Hot American Summer said this about one of my books: "Brian Thompson's How to Be an Investigative Journalist is one of the few books that's made me laugh out lout page after page."

At the Bennington College Writing Seminars, I've had the privilege of working closely with great fiction writers such as Peter Cameron, Claire Vaye Watkins, 'Pemi Aguda, and Edward Carey.

I like human beings and enjoy knowing them, teaching them, learning from them, and writing about them.