Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick
After several years of stand-up comedy, he had various film and TV roles in movies including The Hollywood Knights, Cobb, Good Morning, Vietnam, Batman, and Bull Durham. He wrote two episodes of the TV series Police Squad! in 1982, and did an audio commentary for its release on DVD in 2006.

In 1992 he appeared in The Bodyguard as host of the Oscars. In reality he won two Emmy Awards for co-writing the Academy Awards in 1990 & 1991 with Billy Crystal. From 1996-2002 he wrote and starred in the HBO series Arli$$ as the title character. In 2005, he was a player in the Game Show Network's Poker Royale series, a competition between pros and comedians. In 2006, he starred on HBO in a one-man-show called, Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl where he taught a history class to show how history is created and propagated in a similar fashion to pop culture.

He appeared in the second chapter entitled Assume the Position 201 With Mr. Wuhl, that debuted on HBO in July 2007
a simple "he's a comedian" would've sufficed, but now that i indeed know who he is, here's a cc.