Michael Hitchcock

Michael Hitchcock is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and television producer.

Early life Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois.

Career Hitchcock is an alumnus of The Groundlings, a Los Angeles–based improvisational and sketch comedy theater troupe. Although he retired from the theatre's Main Stage Company in the mid-1990s, Hitchcock still comes back regularly to perform in The Groundlings' all-improv shows Cookin' with Gas and The Crazy Uncle Joe Show.

In 1999, Hitchcock became a writer for the FOX late-night comedy series MADtv, and became one of the series' producers in 2001. He also played the role of Simeon Dyson, an obnoxious, drug-abusing game show announcer on the recurring MADtv sketch, "The Lillian Verner Game Show."

Hitchcock currently recurs on Sterlin Harjo's series The Lowdown as Ray, an antique dealer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who helps Ethan Hawke's character Lee Raybon expose perceived local corruption. He also recurs on Nobody Wants This as Henry, a newly out of the closet father to the characters of Kristen Bell and Justine Lupe.

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Television