Baron Vaughn

Baron Vaughn (born December 18, 1980) is an American comedian and actor, known for his portrayal of Nwabudike "Bud" Bergstein on the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie and Tom Servo on the 2017 revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Previously, Vaughn appeared on the USA Network television series Fairly Legal, on which he played legal assistant Leonardo Prince.

Career A classically trained actor, Vaughn has appeared in Law & Order and has played supporting roles in a number of feature films, including Cloverfield and Black Dynamite. However, he is best known for his comedy work; credits include The Awkward Comedy Show with Hannibal Buress, and stand-up comedy featured on the talk shows Lopez Tonight, Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He has appeared on Comedy Central during Live at Gotham and Russell Simmons Presents "Live at the EL REY", has starred in various CollegeHumor videos, and has performed stand-up comedy at Collegehumor live.

Vaughn also has a philosophy podcast, Deep S##! with Baron Vaughn. In November 2014, he started another podcast with Leonard Maltin called Maltin on Movies on the Wolfpop network, sister network of Earwolf.

On November 23, 2015, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson announced that Vaughn would provide the voice of Tom Servo in the series' revival. a role previously played by Josh Weinstein and Kevin Murphy. The first revival season was released April 14, 2017.

He provided the voice of Moon in the Disney XD series Right Now Kapow.

As of 2013, Vaughn lives in Los Angeles, California.

On October 10, 2019, he was featured in a 30-minute YouTube documentary created by SoulPancake in collaboration with Funny or Die wherein a variety of comedians discuss mental health called Laughing Matters.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2006 My Brother Reason Comic 2007 Twisted Fortune Jack the Counter Guy 2008 Cloverfield Party Goer 2009 Black Dynamite Jimmy 2009 Cozy Bear Baron Short film 2009 Untitled Sketch Group Baron Vaughn Short film 2010 Ghostbusters Return Short film 2010 Anatomy of the Lonely 2011 Thugs, the Musical! Donald Evan Lesley Short film 2012 The Kitchen Andre 2013 The Assistant Baron Short film 2014 Jason Nash Is Married Arthur 2015 Life in Color Accomplished Comic 2019 Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Donatello Voice; Direct-to-video 2019 Scare Package Varron Bonn Segment "So Much To Do", also writer, director 2022 The Time Capsule Patrice

Television Year Title Role Notes 2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Amos Episode: "Siren Call" 2006 The Burg The Photographer Episode: "90's" 2007 The Gamekillers Open Mike Unknown episodes 2008 Teachers Justin Hughes TV movie 2008–09 Law & Order Asst. M.E. Anskel 2 episodes 2009 Rescue Me Hipster #1 Episode: "Zippo" 2009 Wake Up World Davis Miles TV movie 2009 Canned Trent TV movie 2010The Whitest Kids U' Know Jury Selector Episode #4.6 2011–12 Fairly Legal Leonardo Prince 23 episodes 2012 CollegeHumor Originals Metatron Episode: "God's Diary Is Embarrassing" 2013 Arrested Development Hors D'oeuvre Server Episode: "Double Crossers" 2013 Law of the Land Umprey Nixon Unknown episodes 2013 You're Whole Eddie Episode: "Attitude" 2014 Enlisted Wallace Episode: "Pilot" 2014 Key & Peele Man at Bar Episode: "Parole Officer Puppet" 2014 Dream Corp, LLC Instructional Patient TV short 2014–16 Comedy Bang! Bang! Zeke 9 episodes 2015–2022 Grace and Frankie Nwabudike "Bud" Bergstein Main cast 2015–16 TripTank Thomas / Person in Line (voice) 3 episodes 2016 Love Episode: "Party in the Hills" 2016 Girls Wolfie Episode: "Wedding Day" 2016 HelLA Douche Bag Episode: "Dating in LA Sucks" 2016 Hidden America with Jonah Ray Shane Episode: "Chicago: The Second Best City" 2016 The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail Himself 1 episode 2016–19 Those Who Can't Phil 4 episodes 2016–17 Right Now Kapow Moon (voice) 26 episodes 2016–18 BoJack Horseman Various voices 2 episodes 2017 Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special Ben TV special 2017–22 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Tom Servo (voice) 20 episodes 2017 Ya Killin' Me Nurse Unknown episodes 2017–21 Superstore Ken 6 episodes 2018 Take My Wife Man Asking for Directions Episode #2.8 2018–20 Corporate Baron 9 episodes 2019 The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle Himself (host) 8 episodes 2019–21 Tuca & Bertie Unknown Man (voice) 2 episodes 2019 Black-ish Doug 2 episodes 2020 Wild Life Hudson (voice) 6 episodes 2020 Dream Corp LLC Corporate Trainer Episode: "Clone Disposal" 2020 The Great Debate Host 8 episodes 2021 History of Swear Words Himself 2 episodes 2021 Earth to Ned Newscaster Episode: "Like Father Like Ned?" 2022 Star Trek: Lower Decks Captain Maier (voice) 2 episodes 2023 Accused Chad Episode: "Brenda's Story"

Video games Year Title Voice role 2006 Bully Tad Spencer 2007 Manhunt 2 Michael Grant 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV The Crowd of Liberty City / Commercial