Cast & Crew

Kim Evey (Kiko/Series Creator/Writer)

Kim began acting in high school and improvising in college.  She is an alumni of the ACME Comedy Theater in Los Angeles where she created Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.  Television appearances include “Journeyman,” “Shark” and “Boston Legal” (directed by Bad Smell himself, Mr. Adam Arkin).  In addition to GTCMS, Kim is also a producer on the award winning web series “The Guild” and the non-award winning web series “2 Hot Girls in the Shower.” 

Payman Benz (Unicow)

Payman is half of the award-winning writer/director duo that makes up Awkward Pictures.  Two of his comedic music videos “Fanny Pack” and “Creepy” are featured on AdamSandler.com and are the first videos not produced by Happy Madison to be featured on that website.  In addition to writing and producing their own material, Awkward Pictures has recently produced videos for comedians such as Nick Swardson, Owen Benjamin & Howard Kremer.

Sean Becker (Cownicorn)

Sean is the other half of Awkward Pictures. In July 2007, they won the 1st YouTube Sketchies Contest, where they faced off against over 5,000 other entrants.   One of their most recent shorts, “Tuesday”, won Best Narrative Short at Sundance as part of the 2006 Moving Pictures Magazine Short Film Contest and Best in Fest at the 2007 Wizard World Film Festival. Most recently, their short “The Long Walk Home” won Best Comedy at the RadioAlice Film Festival in San Francisco, California.  In short, Payman and Sean are winners.

Julie Wittner (Go-Go Girl)

Julie was born in Minnesota. She thinks it sounds neat to say she’s from there. In reality, she grew up in Southern California. Julie’s television appearances include “Pushing Daisies”, “Un-Hitched”, “George Lopez”, “Penn &Teller’s Bullsh*t” , “What About Brian”, “Gilmore Girls”,  the Professor and Mary Anne…wait…When not in front of the camera, Julie writes and performs sketch Comedy at the ACME Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles. Julie is also co-creator and writer for the comedic Q&A web series “2 Hot Girls in the Shower”. Now, go Go-Go! Do it! I’m not kidding.

Ryan Smith (Rick Pope aka Lick Poop)

Ryan hails from Orlando Florida where he was a member of the SAK Comedy Lab.  He and his writing partner, Brian Bradley (Chief Itchy Balls) perform long-form improv as 3Man Group, in which they take one suggestion from the audience and turn it into thirty minutes of comedy, playing all the characters in multiple, intersecting story lines.  Ryan and Brian are writers for MadTV.

Greg Benson (Director)

The first time Greg laid eyes on his lovely wife, she was onstage at ACME Comedy Theater, performing GTCMS.  In the years since, Greg founded Mediocre Films (“They’re better than they sound!”), writing, directing and editing over 40 comedy shorts. He also had his hip replaced, and traveled abroad.  In addition to GTCMS, Greg directs the comedy web series “The Guild,” created by Felicia Day, and his own YouTube hit, “Retarded Policeman.” 

Pogo Saito (Production Designer)

Pogo makes silly stuff for GTCMS and has been building interesting things for many folks over the years, especially for We Tell Stories, the critically acclaimed storytelling troupe where she has also been performing as a storyteller for over ten years. Pogo is also the host and producer of the long running Ten Tops at Sacred Fools Theater. In her spare time she makes short films with talking animals.

Jason Shomer (Producer/Writer/Bushbaby)

As a child Jason dreamed that he might one day find a job that would allow him to list those three credits next to each other.  Jason is a co-founder of the insanely popular improvisational comedy troupe MIssion IMPROVable which has performed at nearly every major improv comedy festival and theater in the nation, as well as performing over 200 college dates a year for the past three years.  Jason owns a puppy.