Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning TV writer, actor, and essayist. He wrote for TBS’s late night series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for seven seasons. 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. It was called a best show of the year by The New York Times, A.V. Club, The Ringer, and Variety. Consequence of Sound named Full Frontal one of the top television series of the decade.

He is a contributor to The New Yorker, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vulture, The Drift, and The New York Times. Pat is currently a columnist for Atlas Obscura. In 2023 his writing was a Longreads Editor’s Pick.

Pat was head video writer and a founding cast member of the online comedy studio CollegeHumor (rebranded as Dropout in 2023). CollegeHumor produced sketches and web series and released three books, an MTV show, a live show, and a feature film. He starred in Hardly Working and CollegeHumor Originals and hosted Hello, My Name Is, a fake improvised talk show. Other roles include Jake and Amir, Improv Everywhere, Going Down with Ella Yurman, Full Frontal, and Adam Ruins Everything.