Derek Waters

Derek Waters is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and director who was born in Baltimore and raised in Lutherville, Maryland. He studied sketch and improv at Second City in Toronto in 1999 and has been performing sketch comedy in Los Angeles since 2000. With Simon Helberg he formed the duo Derek & Simon; they created the web series Derek & Simon: The Show with Bob Odenkirk and had an HBO pilot deal in 2005. In 2003 he appeared on the ABC sitcom Married to the Kellys. His TV work includes The League, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Santa Clarita Diet, and his films include For Your Consideration, Hall Pass (2011) and This Means War. He voiced Dipster in the 2012 series Weasel Town and is best known for co-creating and hosting Drunk History, which began as Funny or Die shorts, won a Sundance jury prize for short filmmaking and earned him eight Primetime Emmy nominations.