Nick Wiger
{{short description|American comedy writer, actor, and podcaster}}
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| birth_name = Nicholas Frank Wiger
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| birth_place = Bellflower, California
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| occupation = Comedian, writer, podcaster
| years_active = 2007–present
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Nicholas Frank Wiger (born August 28, 1980) is an American comedian, improviser, podcast personality, and television writer. He is the co-host (with actor and comedian Mike Mitchell) of the popular weekly podcast Doughboys,{{Cite web|title=Headgum // Doughboys|url=https://headgum.com/doughboys|access-date=2020-10-08|website=headgum.com}} which reviews chain restaurants with guests and includes additional segments centered around snack food and related topics. He is also the co-host (with Heather Anne Campbell and Matt Apodaca) of Get Played (formerly How Did This Get Played?),{{Cite web|title=Get Played podcast on Earwolf|url=https://www.earwolf.com/show/get-played/|access-date=January 20, 2022|website=Earwolf|language=en-US}} a podcast about video games.
As a television writer, Wiger's extensive career spans a wide range of work including the FOX sketch show Party Over Here (where he was head writer), Sarah Silverman's I Love You, America, the Comedy Central game show @midnight, and Comedy Bang! Bang!{{Cite web|title=Nick Wiger|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4696339/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=IMDb}}
Early life
Wiger was raised in Lakewood, California and is an alumnus of Long Beach Polytechnic High School.{{Cite tweet |author=Doughboys|author-link=Doughboys (podcast) |user=doughboyspod |number=1031938200535629825 |title=Double Tuesday! Matt Apodaca joins the 'boys to discuss his and Wiger's shared hometown of Lakewood, CA. http://patreon.com/doughboys}}{{cite web |last1=Do |first1=Tiffany |title=The Doughboys Are So Much More Than Meets The Ear |url=https://www.foodrepublic.com/2017/10/10/doughboys-podcast-interview/ |website=Food Republic |access-date=March 4, 2022 |date=October 10, 2017}}
Career
Wiger began his career as a video game tester and designer for Activision.{{Cite web|title=Nick Wiger Video Game Credits and Biography|url=https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,136235/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=MobyGames}} He began studying, performing, and teaching as an improvisation and sketch comedian at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. He most notably was a member of the sketch and improv team A Kiss From Daddy, alongside comedians Paul Rust, Eva Anderson, Mookie Blaiklock, Neil Campbell, Michael Cassady, Dave Horwitz, Allan McLeod, and Harris Wittels.{{Cite web|title=UCB Theatre|url=https://franklin.ucbtheatre.com/show/1915|access-date=2020-10-08|website=UCB Theatre|language=en}} In 2020, Nick Wiger was a writer for the first season of the Disney+ show Earth to Ned.{{Citation|title=Earth to Ned (TV Series 2020–) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt11176048/fullcredits|access-date=2020-10-08}}
On May the 4th, 2020, Wiger appeared on The George Lucas Talk Shows charity fundraiser, raising money for the out of work employees of the UCB Theatre in New York which had shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|last=Colburn|first=Randall|date=April 29, 2020|title=Connor Ratliff and Griffin Newman bringing The George Lucas Talk Show online for epic Star Wars livestream|url=https://www.avclub.com/connor-ratliff-and-griffin-newman-bringing-the-george-l-1843163943|access-date=|website=AVClub}}
=''Doughboys''=
Wiger created the comedy podcast Doughboys with comedy writer Mike Mitchell in 2015. Doughboys was named "The One Food Podcast to Start With" by pop culture site Vulture.{{cite news|last=Legaspi|first=Althea|title=The One Podcast to Start With, Across 24 Topics|publisher=Vulture|date=2015-10-05|url=http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/one-podcast-to-start-with-across-24-topics.html|access-date=2016-07-05}} The co-hosts review chain restaurants with a weekly guest, including Nicole Byer, Haley Joel Osment, Sarah Silverman, among others. Wiger's fans call him the "Burger Boy" and refer to themselves as members of the "Burger Brigade".
As of early 2018, the podcast is no longer associated with Feral Audio and is now a member of the HeadGum network. Mitchell and Wiger use Patreon to bring exclusive paid Doughboys content to their subscribers beyond the weekly episodes. As of February 2020, the Doughboys Patreon is the 9th most popular podcast Patreon and the 27th most popular Patreon in general.{{Cite web|title=Doughboys: Patreon Earnings + Statistics + Graphs + Rank|url=https://graphtreon.com/creator/doughboys|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Graphtreon|language=en}}
=''Get Played''=
Since June 2019, Wiger is also the co-host (with Heather Anne Campbell and Matt Apodaca) of Get Played, a podcast about video games. Until December 2021, the podcast was called How Did This Get Played?{{cite web |title="Welcome to Get Played: Gaming Resolutions", episode #133 of Get Played |url=https://www.earwolf.com/episode/welcome-to-get-played-gaming-resolutions/ |publisher=Earwolf |access-date=January 20, 2022 |date=January 2, 2022}} In 2022, Wiger and his Get Played co-hosts spun off a podcast Get Anime'd following the same format of Get Played, but with a focus on anime television series and movies.{{Cite web |title=Get Anime'd: Welcome to Get Anime'd!, episode #158.5 of Get Played on Earwolf |url=https://www.earwolf.com/episode/get-animed-welcome-to-get-animed/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=www.earwolf.com |language=en-US}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|4696339}}
- {{Instagram|nickwiger}}
- {{Twitter|nickwiger}}
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Category:American comedy podcasters
Category:Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
Category:21st-century American comedians
Category:Comedians from California
Category:People from Lakewood, California
Category:Long Beach Polytechnic High School alumni