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Pat Cassels

Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, comedy writer, and essayist known for his work on the TBS series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where they wrote for seven seasons. Full Frontal was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys, the Critics’ Choice Award, the Writers Guild Award, the Television Critics Association Award, the GLAAD Media Award, and an MTV Movie & TV Award. It was called a “Best Show of the Year” by The New York Times, A.V. Club, The Ringer, and Variety.

Pat was a founding cast member and head writer of the comedy studio Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor), and worked on the CollegeHumor series Jake and Amir, Hardly Working, If Google Was A Guy, CollegeHumor Originals, and Troopers (starring Aubrey Plaza). He is the co-creator and former host of Hello, My Name Is, which was later rebooted as Very Important People.

A contributor to The New Yorker and a columnist for Atlas Obscura, their work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Oxford American and Los Angeles Review of Books, and was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for horror.

Pat most recently worked on the Amazon Prime series Good Sports starring Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson. The first season premiered in 2026. Other screen credits include Adam Ruins Everything, Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Britishes, and Bad Internet starring Jean Smart and Brit Lower.

In 2026, Pat wrote Fill the Bag, a live comedy special supporting the nonprofit New York Common Pantry, with an introduction by Stephen Colbert. The show premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.

Before writing full time Pat washed dishes in the Catskills and sold cheese for Hickory Farms. He also worked at the Renaissance Faire. Yes, he wore pantaloons.

He is the winner of two Writers Guild Awards and one Emmy.

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