Early life

Stamatopoulos was born into a Greek American family in Norridge, Illinois. He attended Ridgewood High School in Norridge, where he wrote for his school variety show and was astounded that he could get laughs with the material he had written. While attending Columbia College Chicago, he performed a duo act with comedian Andy Dick, in which Stamatopoulos played a ventriloquist and Dick played a dummy under the influence of sleeping pills.

Career

Stamatopoulos had written a spec script for a Simpsons episode out of love for the show, and Andy Dick convinced him to submit it to The Ben Stiller Show, which got him hired. He met and worked with Bob Odenkirk. After Stiller's show was canceled, he moved to New York City, where he wrote during the 1990s for The Dana Carvey Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (also with Odenkirk), Late Show with David Letterman, Mr. Show with Bob and David.

In 2000 Stamatopoulos and Robert Smigel pitched Comedy Central a spin-off of Smigel's TV Funhouse cartoons (which were appearing singly as animated shorts on Saturday Night Live episodes) as a half-hour sketch comedy show. The standalone TV Funhouse show premiered on 2000 but was canceled after one season. He later joined the writing staff on Mad TV.

Stamatopoulos worked as a creative consultant and contributing writer on the first season of Tom Goes to the Mayor, with Tim & Eric and Bob Odenkirk. He also provided the voice of Drinky Crow on The Drinky Crow Show, which aired for one season on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. His stop motion animated series Moral Orel premiered on Adult Swim on Christmas 2005 and aired for three seasons, airing its final episode in December 2008; a followup special aired in 2012. Following Moral Orel, Stamatopoulos created Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, a stop motion series, for Adult Swim. It ran for two seasons from 2010 to 2012.

Stamatopoulos was a writer and producer on the NBC sitcom Community. He also played the recurring role of Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne, a character whose nickname derived from his large star-shaped sideburns and his tendency to define himself by them.

A long-time fan of radio personality Steve Dahl, Stamatopoulos hosted a podcast, Sorry About Everything, from May 2012 until June 2013 on Dahl's Steve Dahl Network.

Personal life

Stamatopoulos is divorced and has one daughter.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Character
2016	Horace and Pete	Executive producer	Web series
2015	Anomalisa	Producer	Animated film
2015	W/ Bob & David	Writer Co-Executive Producer	Sketch Comedy	Chuck, Episode 3
2010-2012	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	Creator Writer Executive Producer	Animated series	Death The Mummy Mother Teresa Additional voices
2009-2015	Community	Recurring Role Writer Consultant	TV Sitcom	Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne
2006	Lucky Louie	Writer	TV Sitcom
2005-2008	Moral Orel	Creator Writer Director Executive Producer	Animated series	Various characters
2004-2005	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Writer Creative Consultant	Animated series
2002-2003	Mad TV	Writer	Sketch Comedy series
2002	The Master of Disguise	Co-producer	Live Action Comedy Movie
2000-2001	TV Funhouse	Writer Actor Executive Producer	Sketch Comedy series	Chickey Mr. Whiskers Various characters
1996-2006	Saturday Night Live	Writer (TV Funhouse) Voice Actor	Sketch Comedy series	Michael Jackson
1996-1998	Mr. Show with Bob and David	Writer Executive Producer	Sketch Comedy series	Various characters
1996-1997	Late Show with David Letterman	Writer	Late Night Talk Show
1996	The Dana Carvey Show	Writer	Sketch Comedy series
1993-1999	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Writer Sketch Actor	Late Night Talk Show	Tomari the Ostrich Kiss-Ass Turkey Abe Lincoln Various characters
1992-1993	The Ben Stiller Show	Writer	Sketch Comedy series

[ Source: Wikipedia ]