Trevor Moore

Trevor Paul Moore (April 4, 1980 – August 7, 2021) was an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and musician. He was a founding member of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK), alongside Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter. The troupe had a sketch comedy series which aired for five seasons on IFC from March 2007 until June 2011.

Early life Trevor Paul Moore was born on April 4, 1980, in Montclair, New Jersey. He grew up in rural Virginia, outside of Charlottesville. His parents are former Christian folk-rock singers Mickey and Becki Moore, who were successful in the 1980s, their single "Love Song for Number Two" having reached No. 2 on the U.S. Christian charts. Because he traveled a lot on tour with his family, he changed schools constantly, attending roughly five different schools. By the age of 14, he became the youngest published cartoonist in America after his comic Scraps was published by the Poindexter Press of Trevilians in 1994. At 16, Moore regularly published his comic strip Cuddy in the now-defunct newspaper The Charlottesville Observer.

Moore attended high school at the Covenant School in Charlottesville. He ultimately studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

2000s By 2002, in his last year of college, Moore was granted a personal internship at Saturday Night Live. Initially, Moore was only going to be there for one semester, but the show ended up asking him to stay for the entire year. This got him into the coveted NBC Page Program, which receives about 50,000 applications and only admits 50 people a year.

In 2008, Moore was a guest voice on an episode of the HBO show The Life and Times of Tim.

After the success of the Whitest Kids U' Know, Fox Searchlight approached Moore and Cregger with a script and offered them a movie project. After consideration, they accepted, rewrote the original script and adapted it to their comedy style, and after completing filming of the second season of The Whitest Kids U' Know, they directed and starred in Miss March. This was Moore's first feature film. It was released on March 13, 2009.

2010s The Whitest Kids U' Know at an event in 2010. From left to right: Moore, Timmy Williams, Darren Trumeter, Sam Brown, and Zach Cregger During their college years, Moore and Sam Brown had the idea for a movie about the American Civil War. Finally, while shooting the fifth season for The Whitest Kids U' Know, he and the troupe wrote and filmed his second feature film titled The Civil War on Drugs (2011), where they all played multiple roles. The movie was directed by Moore and Cregger. It had limited release in theaters and ultimately ran simultaneously with the fifth season of WKUK. It is a historical drama that the WKUK made to document the journey to legalize marijuana during the Civil War.

Moore played Josh Armstrong on Fox's comedy television series Breaking In.

Moore was periodically featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in recurring segments showcasing pre-taped, man-on-the-street style comedy bits, featuring pranks on and encounters with an unsuspecting public. Moore also collaborated on various occasions with Funny or Die and Comedy Central.

Since the foundation of the WKUK comedy troupe, Moore and the other members have constantly participated in on-stage presentations, either individually or as a group in different projects. He toured every year with the WKUK troupe, performing old and new sketches in live shows.

Moore released his debut album, Drunk Texts to Myself, on Comedy Central Records in March 2013. He directed and starred in complementary musical videos for the album, also produced by Comedy Central. The album has 12 tracks, including "Drunk Texts to Myself (featuring Reggie Watts)", "What About Mouthwash?", and "Founding Fathers Rap". Drunk Texts to Myself represented contradiction in society using a variety of musical forms, going from rap and metal to country and pop. This album contained live and new songs. Unique songs included "Kitty History", a parable about the US history, the Bush family and interest groups; "The Gays Got Married", a sardonic country song; and "The Ballad of Billy John", which explores the nature of malicious YouTube comments. He released his third album, The Story of Our Times, on Comedy Central on April 20, 2018. Unlike the previous album, there are no live renditions of previously released songs. The subject matter is varied, including the inanity of YouTube celebrities, reality television and Internet trolls.

Moore co-created the hidden-camera prank show Walk the Prank, which aired for three seasons on Disney XD from 2016 to 2018. Following the show's conclusion, he co-created the Disney Channel show Just Roll With It, which premiered in June 2019. In September 2019, he signed an overall development deal to write and produce programming for Disney television and video on demand services.

In August 2019, Moore and Brown created The Trevor Moore Show, airing on Comedy Central.

2020s During the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore hosted The Trevor Moore Quarantine Show on YouTube, which consisted of homemade sketches with him and his dog, Porkchop, followed by interviews with his fellow WKUK cast members to discuss various topics, often pertaining to the pandemic.

Moore and the other members of The Whitest Kids U' Know began streaming on Twitch during the pandemic in order to crowdfund their animated film, Mars, which was in post-production at the time of Moore's passing. The troupe began by releasing Buckerson & Meyers, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign recorded over Zoom and then uploaded regularly to their YouTube channel.

The Twitch channel eventually diverged into multiple broadcasts across the week, each hosted by different members of the group, which included Self Suck Saturday. Moore also created Newsboyz, another live stream series airing on Friday evenings, co-hosted by Cregger. The two would discuss current world events and share personal anecdotes. The final episode of Newsboyz was filmed a couple of hours prior to his death.

Personal life Moore married Aimee Carlson in October 2010. The couple first met in 2002 when they were both working at NBC's Page Program; they had one son together who was born in August 2017. The song "God Says", which appeared in Season 3 of The Whitest Kids U' Know, is loosely based on his own experiences of dealing with his compulsions as a child, and how his religious upbringing was intertwined with the intrusive thoughts. On his Twitch show, Newsboyz, he discussed how he was sent to a religious practitioner at age 12 to treat his OCD, which he said was ineffective due to many of his OCD tendencies being based in religious scrupulosity.

Death and legacy On August 7, 2021, at around 2:30 a.m., Moore died after accidentally falling from the upstairs balcony of his home in Franklin Hills, Los Angeles, resulting in blunt force head trauma. Subsequent toxicology reports identified alcohol as a contributing factor.

Approximately one month prior to the accident, Moore tweeted that, upon his death, he wanted to be referred to as "local sexpot" in his obituary, which was then honored by numerous news outlets such as Vulture in their memorial article.

Moore's final project with the Whitest Kids U' Know, Mars, premiered posthumously at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, 2024.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Credit(s) 2002MarathonUnnamed ManActor, sound recordist 2009 Miss March Tucker Cleigh Writer, director, actor, producer 2011 The Civil War on Drugs Trevor, various roles Actor, director, writer, producer 2024 Mars Various roles Actor, writer and producer 2007–2011 The Whitest Kids U' Know Various roles Actor, producer, director, writer, co-creator 2011–2013 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Various roles Comedy segments: Winnovations, Dare 2016–2018 Walk the Prank Creator Creator and producer 2019–2021 Just Roll with It Creator Creator, writer, producer, composer

On stage Whitest Kids U' Know Live (2006–2013) Whatev'r Show (2011–2012) The Show Where Trevor Moore Does a Talk Show Thing… (2012–2013) 2013 Drunk Texts to Myself (Audio CD) Comedy Central Rec. Vocalist, composer; feat. Reggie Watts 2015 High in Church (Audio CD) Comedy Central Rec. Vocalist, composer 2018 The Story of Our Times (Digital Download) Comedy Central Rec. Vocalist, composer