Biography

Tom Johnson, who has already spent a full year using Zoom (remotely) to supervise the comedy writing staff on a daily, live show - yep - 365 days in a row, is an Emmy winning writer/producer/creative showrunner best known for The Jeselnik Offensive, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Talkshow with Spike Feresten, Stand-Up Nation with Greg Giraldo, Lopez Tonight, the Comedy Central Roasts of both David Hasselhoff and Roseanne, and run-on sentences. He is also a seasoned awards show writer, having run the writers rooms on The MTV Movie Awards, The MTV Video Music Awards, 6 Guys Choice Awards, The Scream Awards and The Video Game Awards. He has written and/or produced pilots for Marc Maron, Dan Savage, Nikki Glaser, Jim Norton, Anjelah Johnson and Joan Rivers. Tom has also had extensive experience in reality, sketch, prank, game, hidden camera and app-based live trivia shows. He was also a stand-up comic who was passed (approved) at the Comedy Cellar in '94 - - because that seems important now.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gern Blanston

He is a two time Emmy winning writer (2000-2001, 2002-2003) for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He also was awarded a Peabody (2001) for writing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is also a contributing writer/performer on Air America.

He was a founding member of "The Network" Sketch Comedy Group at Catch A Rising Star in St. Louis - a group that included actors Bill Chott and Brandon Johnson.

He was also a writer of the New York Times Best Seller "America: The Book" by the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. An excerpt from that book co-written by Jason Ross was published in The New Yorker.

He appeared in a regular segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as the hacker correspondent "Lord Viper Scorpion".