Early life

Lennon was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Kathleen and Timothy Lennon. He is a 1988 graduate of Oak Park and River Forest High School, and is of Irish descent. At age 16, Lennon met friend and future co-worker Kerri Kenney at Theatre Camp at Northwestern University. The two later attended NYU, where they joined a comedy troupe called The New Group.

Career

Acting and performing

The New Group later changed their name to The State. After performing their material at various theaters and clubs in New York City, they started work on the MTV show You Wrote It, You Watch It. This led to the self-titled series The State (1993-95), which was nominated for a Cable Ace Award for Best Comedy Series.

Following the collapse of The State after one special on CBS, Lennon, along with Kenney, Robert Ben Garant and Michael Ian Black went on to create and star in the Comedy Central program Viva Variety (1997-99). The show was based on a sketch that Lennon had written for the final season of The State, called "The Mr. and Former Mrs. Laupin Variety Programme". Viva Variety received a Cable Ace Award nomination for Best Comedy Series. After Viva Variety, Lennon, Kenney and Garant created and starred in Reno 911! (2003-09). Initially slated for Fox, the program later debuted on Comedy Central.

Lennon has appeared in dozens of TV shows, including The League, Childrens Hospital, Party Down, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Comedy Bang Bang, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, and appeared as Joey Tribbiani's blackjack dealing, "identical hand twin" on the Friends fifth-season finale ("The One In Vegas," Pts. I and II).

Lennon has appeared in dozens of films, including Bad Teacher, Memento, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and I Love You, Man, for which he and costar Paul Rudd were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss. He has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and at 31, has the second-most number of appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Lennon appeared as a doctor in the Christopher Nolan films Memento (2000) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

Lennon has done various voice work, including Kim Possible, Bob's Burgers, Archer and Planet Sheen, in which he played the character of Pinter. He plays Scribble in Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings and Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast. He supplied the voice of Eddie the Shipboard Computer in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and plays the voice of Fearless Leader in the 2014 DreamWorks short film version of Rocky and Bullwinkle and he is the voice of Munk on Dawn of the Croods

In 2008, Lennon started doing stand-up comedy, during which he will sometimes play guitar. He has appeared on The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, The Jeselnik Offensive, and The Benson Interruption. He was the guest on the first episode of The Nerdist Podcast, which was also recorded in his garage.

Lennon and Garant created and starred in a 2010 sitcom pilot for NBC called The Strip. In May that year it was announced that NBC had decided not to produce it as a series.

Lennon filled in as guest voice for the robot sidekick Geoff Peterson on the CBS show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in November and December 2011.

Since its premiere in October 2013, Lennon has appeared 15 times on the late-night internet-based improv panel game show, @midnight (which he also produces), winning a total of five times.

In 2014, Lennon was cast as Felix Unger in the reboot television series The Odd Couple opposite Matthew Perry, who plays Oscar Madison. He also will star in Paramount Animation's Monster Trucks.

At the 2016 People's Choice Awards ceremony, he participated in an on-stage sketch parodying the recent gaffe by Steve Harvey at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant.

Screenwriting

Lennon is a screenwriter and script doctor. Most of Lennon's screenplays are written in collaboration with partner Robert Ben Garant. Their films have earned over $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.

Among Garant and Lennon's credits are the Night at the Museum films.

Lennon is the author of four of IFC's "50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time".

In August 2010, John Landgraf, president of FX Network, announced that his network had ordered a pilot episode for a new Garant/Lennon science fiction television comedy called USS Alabama, set 1000 years in the future, aboard a United Nations peacekeeping spaceship, the U.S.S. Alabama.

Garant and Lennon released a book about writing for film called Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can Too! in 2011.

In 2012, Garant and Lennon wrote a film version of Baywatch. They wrote The Machine, which is set to star Vin Diesel. Garant and Lennon wrote, directed and starred in the 2013 film Hell Baby starring Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb. The film was produced by Darko Entertainment, and shot on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hell Baby premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Personal life

Lennon lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Jenny Robertson, and their son Oliver.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Drop Dead Gorgeous	Documentarian	Voice only
2000	Memento	Doctor
2000	Row Your Boat	Census taker
2001	Out Cold	Eric Montclare
2002	Boat Trip	The priest
2003	Le Divorce	Roger Walker
2003	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days	Thayer
2003	A Guy Thing	Pete Morse
2004	Taxi	N/A	Writer
2004	Heights	Marshall
2006	Conversations with Other Women	Videographer
2005	Herbie: Fully Loaded	Larry Murphy	Writer
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Eddie the Shipboard Computer	Voice only
2005	The Godfather of Green Bay	D.U.G.
2005	The Pacifier		Writer
2006	Night at the Museum		Writer
2006	Let's Go to Prison		Writer
2006	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas	Police officer
2006	Eden Court	Shroeder Duncan
2007	Balls of Fury	Karl Wolfschtagg	Writer, producer
2007	Reno 911!: Miami	Lieutenant Jim Dangle	Writer, executive producer
2008	Hancock	Mike
2009	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Orville Wright	Writer Uncredited cameo
2009	17 Again	Ned Gold
2009	I Love You, Man	Doug
2010	Hot Tub Time Machine	Customer	Uncredited
2011	Cedar Rapids	Roger Lemke
2011	How to Survive a Robot Uprising		Writer
2011	Bad Teacher	Carl Halabi
2011	What's Your Number?	Dr. Barrett 'Barry' Ingold
2011	A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas	Todd
2012	What to Expect When You're Expecting	Craig
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Doctor
2013	Hell Baby	Pat	Writer, producer, director (with Robert Ben Garant)
2013	Rapture-Palooza	Mr. Murphy
2013	We're the Millers	Rick Nathanson
2014	Mr. Peabody and Sherman	Italian Peasant #2	Voice only
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Chief of Staff
2015	Knight of Cups	Tom
2017	Monster Trucks		Filming
2017	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Michael O'Donoghue	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The State	Several characters	27 episodes
1997	Viva Variety	Host Meredith Laupin	16 episodes
1999	Friends	Randall	Season 5, Episode 23 and 24 "The One in Vegas"
1999-2000	Jesse	Ernie	2 episodes
2002	MDs	Chester E. Donge	8 episodes
2003-09	Reno 911!	Lieutenant Jim Dangle	Also creator
2006	Stacked	Gary	Episode: "You're Getting Sleepy"
2007	Wainy Days	Ice Cream Man	Episode: "Dorvid Days"
2009	The League	Bryce	Episode: "The Usual Bet"
2010	Archer	Charles	Voice only; 3 episodes
2010	Party Down	Nick DiCintio	Season 2, Episode 3 - "Nick DiCintio's Orgy Night"
2010-13	Planet Sheen	Pinter/Blurg	Voice only; 15 episodes
2011	Memphis Beat	Keith Grant	Season 2, Episode 2
2011	Childrens Hospital	Pat	Episode: "Home Is Where the Hospital Is"
2012	New Girl	Neil	Episode: "See Ya"
2012-15	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Various	4 episodes
2012	How I Met Your Mother	Klaus	8.01, 8.02
2012	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23	Trey	Guest role
2012-14	Bob's Burgers	Chuck	Voice only; 3 episodes
2013	Franklin & Bash	Harley	Season 3, Episode 9
2013-14	Newsreaders	Vincent Gates/Pritchard Batchman	3 episodes
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Santa	Episode: "Wreck the Halls"
2013	Sean Saves the World	Max	Recurring role
2013	@midnight	Contestant (.364 Win Average)/Executive producer	Executive producer
2014	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	Episode: "Things That Go Clue-Boom in the Night"
2014	The Goldbergs	Tauntaun Todd	Episode: "A Wrestler Named Goldberg"
2014	Hot in Cleveland	Agent Gilmore	Season 5, Episode 2: "Surprise!"
2014	The Birthday Boys	Lou Skywalker	Episode: "Cerf's Folly"
2015	The Hotwives of Las Vegas	Garrett Truesdale	Episode: "You Make Me Wanna Drought"
2015-present	The Odd Couple	Felix Unger	Main role
2015	Another Period	Marquis de Sainsbury	3 episodes
2015	Drunk History	Major Jesse Marcel	Episode: "New Mexico"
2016	Animals.	Kevin	Voice only; Episode: "Rats."
2016	Bajillion Dollar Propertie$	Serge	2 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]