Ben Warheit

Ben Warheit, an American actor, comedian and writer, has been on the writing staff of Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014, work that has earned him five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series category. Born in Wilmington, he studied neuroscience at the University of Delaware and graduated in 2009, then moved to New York, where he wrote and performed in videos and stage shows, including productions at UCB Theatre. Cartoons he drew on post-it notes and posted to Tumblr in 2012 became the animated web series Waco Valley, and the pilot script he wrote from it reached Seth Meyers, who hired him to write and direct for The Awesomes before bringing him onto Late Night. There he performs as characters and created segments such as Ya Burnt and Back In My Day. He also appeared in A Rainy Day in New York (2019) and Joker.