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Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, essayist, and former staff writer for the late-night series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, called a “Best Show of the Year” by The New York Times, A.V. Club, The Ringer, and Variety. Full Frontal was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Award, the Writers Guild Award, the Television Critics Association Award, the GLAAD Media Award, an MTV Movie & TV Award, and 11 Primetime Emmys.

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). They are the co-creator and former host of Hello, My Name Is, which was later rebooted as Very Important People.

A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a columnist for Atlas Obscura, Pat’s stories appear in The New York Times, Slate, Oxford American and Los Angeles Review of Books, and have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for horror.

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.

Other screen credits include Adam Ruins Everything, Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Britishes, Bad Internet (starring Jean Smart and Brit Lower) and, most recently, the Amazon Prime original series Good Sports. The first season premiered in 2025.

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

Pat is the winner of two Writers Guild Awards and one Emmy for Outstanding Writing.

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