Jon Glaser

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Glaser (born June 20, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and television writer based out of New York City. He is best known for his work as a writer and sketch performer for many years on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as for creating and starring in the Adult Swim series Delocated. He currently appears with the recurring role as Leslie Knope's rival, Councilman Jamm on the NBC series Parks and Recreation. Life and career Glaser was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 20, 1968, but was raised in Southfield, Michigan. Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He has appeared in the movies Pootie Tang, School for Scoundrels, and Be Kind Rewind, and he has guest-starred on comedy programs such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wonder Showzen, Bob's Burgers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He was also a lead voice actor in several animated comedy programs such as Stroker and Hoop, Freak Show, and Lucy the Daughter of The Devil. In 2012, he began a recurring role as Leslie Knope's rival, Councilman Jeremy Jamm in the fifth and sixth seasons of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Glaser is the creator and star of the live-action Adult Swim series Delocated, about "Jon", a man in the witness protection program with his own reality show. The show aired its final episode on March 7, 2013. Glaser's Delocated character, "Jon" was also featured as a DJ on an Adult Swim-themed radio station in the video game Saints Row: The Third.[1] In February 2012, Glaser appeared as the spokesman in a series of Subway commercials playing his Delocated character. Glaser was a member of the mainstage cast of The Second City during the mid-1990s, performing alongside future Saturday Night Live head writer Adam McKay and cast member Rachel Dratch, as well as future Mr. Show and 30 Rock cast member Scott Adsit. In Second City's award-winning revue Pinata Full of Bees, which was directed by Tom Gianas, Glaser sang about the importance of not betraying a friendship by pretending not to have legs in order to play in a wheelchair basketball league. He also provided musical accompaniment for the show's climax by drumming in a demonic pig mask, and appeared onstage throughout the show to pass judgement on audience members for laughing at jokes he considered socially irresponsible. Glaser's first published book My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top, was released on February 8, 2011.

Works

Friendship

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, but Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.

Release Date: 2025-05-09

Universal Basic Guys

Two brothers lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program, allowing them to use their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they're no longer needed.

Release Date: 2024-09-08

Character: (voice)

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 3

Dinner with the Parents

When the loving but dysfunctional Langer family gets together for dinner each week, things always go horribly, hilariously wrong.

Release Date: 2024-04-17

Character: Donnie

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 5

We Lost Our Human

There's been a glitch — all the humans are gone! Can you help pampered pet siblings Pud and Ham journey to the center of the universe to fix it?

Release Date: 2023-03-21

Character: Hermit Pud / Evil Future Pud (voice)

Vote Count: 8

The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!

Leroy, Reggie and Cheruce Paloni host a Halloween special full of spooky shorts from a group of up-and-coming animators.

Release Date: 2022-10-17

Character: Werewolf Jones (voice)

Vote Count: 30

Single Drunk Female

A public flame-out at a New York media company forces 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol. Back in Greater Boston, Samantha restarts her life, working at the local grocery store while surrounded by all of the triggers that made her drink in the first place.

Release Date: 2022-01-20

Character: Nathaniel

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 35

Don't Look Up

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

Release Date: 2021-12-08

Character: Meow Man

Vote Count: 8429

Ghosts

Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.

Release Date: 2021-10-07

Character: Jeremy

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 214

Teenage Euthanasia

A former runaway teen mom is accidentally resurrected in her family's funeral home.

Release Date: 2021-09-06

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 10

Dicktown

Welcome to Richardsville, NC (aka DICKTOWN to the locals), its famous boy detective, John Hunchman, and his hired muscle, David Purefoy. Except they're not boys any more and while they're still detectives, they still only solve crimes for teenagers.

Release Date: 2020-07-09

Character: Mark Tagliano

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

A Parks and Recreation Special

Pawnee's most dedicated civil servant, Leslie Knope, is determined to stay connected to her friends in a time of social distancing.

Release Date: 2020-04-30

Character: Councilman Jamm

Vote Count: 38

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia

Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.

Release Date: 2020-01-26

Vote Count: 4

Living with Yourself

Burned out on life, Miles undergoes a strange procedure at a strip mall spa -- and wakes to find he's been replaced by a better version of himself.

Release Date: 2019-10-18

Character: Henry

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 303

Hustlers

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

Release Date: 2019-09-12

Character: Mark

Vote Count: 2951

Wine Country

A group of friends head to the land of oaky Chardonnays and big, bold Cabernet Sauvignons for one member of the squad’s 50th birthday party.

Release Date: 2019-05-08

Character: TED Talk (voice)

Vote Count: 505

What We Do in the Shadows

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Release Date: 2019-03-27

Character: Demon

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 788

It Started As a Joke

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.

Release Date: 2019-03-10

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

It had all the makings of a huge television success: a white-hot comic at the helm, a coveted primetime slot, and a pantheon of future comedy legends in the cast and crew. So why did The Dana Carvey Show—with a writers room and cast including then unknowns Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, and more— crash and burn so spectacularly? TOO FUNNY TO FAIL tells the hilarious true story of a crew of genius misfits who set out to make comedy history… and succeeded in a way they never intended.

Release Date: 2017-10-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 61

Jon Glaser Loves Gear

Actor and comedian Jon Glaser sets out to make a docu-series about his greatest passion: gear. Ironically, it's this very obsession that continually threatens to derail the show, sending each episode spiraling off on deeply personal tangents.

Release Date: 2016-10-25

Character: Jon Glaser

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 1

Sisters

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Release Date: 2015-12-18

Character: Dan

Vote Count: 1382

Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter

Set in the pretend sleepy enclave of Garrity, Vermont, Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter is the story of a neon-clad man with a mysterious past and a highly specialized skill set - hunting werewolves.

Release Date: 2015-12-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Neon Joe

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 12

Trainwreck

Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.

Release Date: 2015-07-17

Character: Schultz

Vote Count: 2587

Mr. Robot

A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

Release Date: 2015-06-24

Character: Tobias

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4750

Search Party

Two oafs must rescue their stranded pal in Mexico.

Release Date: 2014-10-30

Character: Marty

Vote Count: 185

Growing Up and Other Lies

After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.

Release Date: 2014-04-26

Character: Donkey

Vote Count: 14

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

Release Date: 2014-02-17

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 320

The Greatest Event in Television History

Adam Scott is determined to make the greatest event in television history by remaking the opening sequences of TV shows.

Release Date: 2012-10-12

Character: Henry Rush

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 11

The Dictator

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Release Date: 2012-05-15

Character: Obnoxious Customer

Vote Count: 5928

Girls

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Release Date: 2012-04-15

Character: Laird Schlesinger

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 379

Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

Release Date: 2011-01-09

Character: Tape (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 949

Conan

A late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.

Release Date: 2010-11-08

Character: President Brody Sandals

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 228

Archer

Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.

Release Date: 2009-09-17

Character: Whitney (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1261

Parks and Recreation

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Release Date: 2009-04-09

Character: Councilman Jamm

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 1522

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show airing weeknights at 12:35 am Eastern/11:35 pm Central on NBC in the United States. The hour-long show premiered on March 2, 2009, and is hosted by actor, comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, an alumnus of Saturday Night Live. Hip hop/neo soul band The Roots serve as the show's house band, and Steve Higgins is the show's announcer. The third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman, the program originates from NBC Studio 6B in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. The show typically opens with a brief monologue from Fallon, followed by a comedy "desk piece," as well as prerecorded segments and audience competitions. The next segment is devoted to a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to media personalities and political figures. The show then closes with either a musical or comedy performance. The show frequently employs digital media into its comedy, which has become crucial to its success. Fallon has been appointed to become the next host of The Tonight Show, where he will succeed the current host Jay Leno at the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, with fellow SNL alum Seth Meyers slated to replace Fallon.

Release Date: 2009-03-02

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 93

Delocated

A man in the Witness Protection Program moves his family to New York City so they exploit the situation by starring in a reality tv show.

Release Date: 2009-02-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: "Jon"

Episode Count: 29

Vote Count: 16

The Toe Tactic

Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections - with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?

Release Date: 2009-01-29

Character: Tooot

Vote Count: 3

Mayne Street

An original web comedy series starring ESPN personality Kenny Mayne as a thinly-veiled version of himself, a dry, surreal sportscaster singularly determined to do anything besides what is asked of him by his employers. He has a fictional crew that works with him and these are their (mis)adventures.

Release Date: 2008-11-11

Character: Video Cowboy

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 1

The Rocker

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.

Release Date: 2008-08-20

Character: Billy

Vote Count: 588

Baby Mama

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

Release Date: 2008-04-25

Character: Vegan Waiter

Vote Count: 658

Be Kind Rewind

A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.

Release Date: 2008-01-20

Character: West Coast Video Employee NYC

Vote Count: 1362

A Bad Situationist

It is May 2001 in a pre-9/11 world. Arthur Lieberman, a ne'er-do-well tennis instructor from West Palm Beach, is the son of losing Vice-President candidate Joe Lieberman. Arthur is so crazy that six months later he is still upset over the fraudulent 2000 presidential election. in an attempt to keep from "making waves" his father strikes a corrupt deal to land him in a fancy co-op apartment in New York City. Arthur's desperation for relevance and burning desire to appear on the Charlie Rose Show lead him to start an "Intellectual Salon". There, Arthur pleads with misfits, sluts, and drunks to vote him president of their group. Soon, Arthur is unwittingly inculcated by two radical Jewish zealot Postal workers to commit a terrorist attack. Hilarity ensues!

Release Date: 2008-01-01

Character: Caterer

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

Release Date: 2007-04-13

Character: CIA Agent 2 (voice)

Vote Count: 122

Human Giant

Human Giant is a sketch comedy show on MTV, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and directed primarily by Jason Woliner. The show ran for two seasons. In interviews, the group has mentioned that they were offered a third season by MTV but were unable to complete it due to Ansari's commitments to the hit NBC show Parks and Recreation. However, the group has stated that MTV has left the door open for the group to complete a third season at a later date or to produce a special for the network. In 2010, Ansari, Huebel and Scheer reunited to do a skit for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. In November 2008, The Hollywood Reporter noted the group is currently developing a feature film with Red Hour Productions, the production company run by Ben Stiller and producer Stuart Cornfeld.

Release Date: 2007-04-05

Character: Devil

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 24

Assy McGee

Assy McGee is an animated sitcom featuring police detective Assy McGee, a parody of tough-guy cop shows and movies, who is literally a walking pair of buttocks. Along with his partner Don Sanchez, the trigger-happy McGee solves crimes in a fictionalized Exeter, New Hampshire. Larry Murphy voices all of the main characters. The series premiered on November 26, 2006, on Adult Swim and was canceled after season two ended on July 6, 2008.

Release Date: 2006-11-26

Vote Count: 12

30 Rock

Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.

Release Date: 2006-10-11

Character: Mike

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 697

Freak Show

Freak Show is an animated television series on Comedy Central created by H. Jon Benjamin and David Cross. The show chronicles a freak show, called the Freak Squad, which reluctantly moonlights as a group of second-rate superheroes employed by the US government. The first and only season, which consisted of seven episodes, premiered on October 4, 2006, and ended on November 16, 2006. Cross and Benjamin were executive producers in addition to voicing various characters. Radical Axis handled all aspects of production, from initial audio records and character design to final delivery of the master. The series was released on DVD on June 12, 2012.

Release Date: 2006-10-04

Character: Log Cabin Republican

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 4

School for Scoundrels

In the hope of winning the woman of his dreams, Amanda, lovelorn meter-reader Roger Wadell enrolls in a secret confidence-building class. The course's title takes on much more meaning when he discovers that his egomaniacal professor Dr. P also wants the same woman. They begin a fierce rivalry that quickly spirals out of control, their pranks and insults get uglier as they try to prove who is the ultimate guy's guy.

Release Date: 2006-09-29

Character: Ernie

Vote Count: 358

What's Not to Love?

The twisted, sexually offbeat memoir by author Jonathan Ames becomes this original adaptation about the sexual peccadilloes of the writer (playing himself) as he experiences masculinity first hand and lives to write about it. Based on Ames' inflammatory, exquisitely worded, and often tastelessly brilliant columns for the "New York Press."

Release Date: 2006-07-10

Character: Spencer

Comedians of Comedy

Patton Oswalt leads a group of comedians through a short tour of the small to mid-sized arenas on the east coast. The one season run has since been spun-off into a feature-length film and two live concert releases.

Release Date: 2005-11-11

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil

Lucy is the 21 year old daughter of Satan in this dark comedy.

Release Date: 2005-10-30

Character: DJ Jesus (voice)

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 20

Wonder Showzen

Wonder Showzen is an American sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR. The show is rated TV-MA. The show's format is that of educational PBS children's television shows such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, parodying the format with adult-oriented content. In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex, and culture with black comedy. Every episode begins with a disclaimer, accompanied by the sound of someone screaming "Don't eat my baby!", which reads: "Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children. The stark, ugly and profound truths Wonder Showzen exposes may be soul-crushing to the weak of spirit. If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian."

Release Date: 2005-03-11

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 44

Last Laugh '04

Comedy Central's Last Laugh '04 was a "year-in-review" type show where comedians talked about events in 2004. The show featured stand-up sets by Norm Macdonald, Kathy Griffin, D.L. Hughley, Gerg Giraldo, Bill Engval, and Colin Quinn. It also featured a comedic sketch by Andy Dick and guest appearances by Morgan Spurlock, David Cross, Michael Moore, and Zach Galifianakis as Jesus Christ. Modest Mouse and Snoop Dogg were musical guests for the show and performed "Float On" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," two of 2004's most popular songs.

Release Date: 2004-12-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Baby Pranks

A short film by H. Jon Benjamin and Bill Buckendorff.

Release Date: 2004-11-16

Stroker and Hoop

Stroker and Hoop is an American Flash animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series is a parody of buddy cop films and television series such as Starsky & Hutch, and features the voices of Jon Glaser as Stroker and Timothy "Speed" Levitch as Hoop. This might also be a parody of the two Burt Reynolds characters: "Stroker Ace" and "Hooper". Stroker and Hoop premiered on August 1, 2004, and ended on December 25, 2005, with 13 episodes. Adult Swim continues to air reruns of Stroker and Hoop on an infrequent basis.

Release Date: 2004-08-01

Character: Stroker (voice)

Episode Count: 14

Vote Count: 17

O'Grady

O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It was the first original animated series for Noggin's teen block, The N. The show stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H. Jon Benjamin, among other Soup2nuts Productions alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing clones of themselves every time they get angry. The random changes in the show's logo explains the plot.

Release Date: 2004-07-30

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.

Release Date: 2000-12-30

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 204

TV Funhouse

In this spin-off of the Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse cartoons, happy-go-lucky Doug hosts a children's show in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse, wherein he chooses a theme for the day (Caveman Day, Western Day, Spaceman Day, Mexicans Day, etc.) and encourages his puppet friends, the Anipals, to participate. Of course, the depraved felt animals are far more interested in other activities, including going to a cockfight, visiting a bordello, becoming lab tests, and even getting (literally) high on Christmas cheer!

Release Date: 2000-12-06

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 8

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Release Date: 2000-10-15

Character: Doorman

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 778

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date: 1999-09-20

Character: Jackson Wright

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3882

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

Release Date: 1993-09-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2724

Vote Count: 136