Victor Varnado

Victor Varnado is a stand-up comic and actor from the United States whose early work came with Minneapolis improv groups including ComedySportz and The Bad Mamma Jammas. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and his first screen role was as a copy clerk in Full Moon Rising, a Big River Productions film. A part in the Giraffe Films release Kids Adventures in Oz brought him to New York, and his breakthrough came with a part in Elton John's Recover Your Soul video. He went on to appear in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), Universal's End of Days (1999) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). Varnado won the Most Valuable Performer award at Montreal's 2001 Just For Laughs improv championship and took bronze in the Comedy Central Laugh Riots national stand-up competition in 2002. He and Jay Stern began the Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival in 2002, performs with Chicago City Limits, and leads Supreme Robot Pictures.