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Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, essayist, and co-writer of the television series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Full Frontal was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys, the Writers Guild Award, the Critics Choice 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 its shows Hardly Working, Jake and Amir, If Google Was a Guy, CollegeHumor Originals, and Troopers (starring Aubrey Plaza). They were the host of Hello, My Name Is, later rebooted as the Dropout series Very Important People.

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

Pat most recently worked on the Amazon Prime original series Good Sports. The first season premiered in 2025. In 2026, Good Sports was nominated for “Best Sports Show” by the Critics Choice Association. Other screen credits include Adam Ruins Everything, Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Britishes, and Bad Internet starring Jean Smart and Brit Lower.

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

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

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