Casper Kelly Explained

Notable Works:Stroker & Hoop
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
Too Many Cooks
Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough
Adult Swim Yule Log (The Fireplace)

Chris "Casper" Kelly is an American writer, television director, and producer.

Career

Kelly is the co-creator of the Adult Swim live-action series Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, the Adult Swim animated series Stroker and Hoop, and the Adult Swim Infomercials episode Too Many Cooks, which he also directed. Too Many Cooks was released online and went viral, amassing over two million views within five days of its release.[1] He also co-directed and co-wrote another Infomercials episode in 2018 titled Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough which subverts livestreaming gaming culture.[2] He has written episodes of Squidbillies, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Nickelodeon's CatDog.

He is also a fiction writer. His book, More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer, a collection of short stories, was published in 2012. His short story, The Sensitive Person's Joke Book, was published in the web literary magazine Necessary Fiction.[3]

In 2022, he wrote and directed the horror film Adult Swim Yule Log also known as The Fireplace, which premiered on Adult Swim on December 11.[4]

In 2023, he created . A promotional series for the 50th anniversary of

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998CatDogWriter (2 episodes)
1999Thanks a LatteWriter
1999The Scooby-Doo ProjectDirector, writer, and producer
2000Cartoon Cartoon FridaysWriter, and producer
2000–04Harvey Birdman, Attorney at LawWriter, and producer (2 episodes)
2001What a Cartoon!Writer: Major Flake: Soggy Sale
2001Night of the Living DooCo-director, writer, and producer
2001Big Game XXIX: Bugs vs. DaffyWriter, and producer
2003–10Aqua Teen Hunger ForceStory elements
2004–05Stroker and HoopCo-creator, writer, and producer
2005Sunday PantsWriter
2008–14SquidbilliesStory elements
2010Onion News NetworkWriter
2011, 2013–19Your Pretty Face Is Going to HellCo-creator, director, writer, and producer
2014Too Many CooksDirector, writer, and producer
2017–18The TruthWriter
2017The Cry of Mann
2018FInal Deployment 4: Queen Battle WalkthroughDirector, writer, and producer
2019ArcherProducer
2020Danny KetchupDirector, writer, and producer
2023Agent ElvisConsulting producer
2023Creator, writer, and producer

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010Please Please Pick UpDirector, writer, and producer
2011Pleasant People
2016Frankenstein Created Bikers
2018MandyWriter: (Cheddar Goblin segment)
2022Adult Swim Yule Log (also known as The Fireplace)Director, writer, and producer

Notes and References

  1. Snetiker. Marc. 'Too Many Cooks' creator tries to explain his awesomely bizarre Adult Swim short. October 24, 2015. Entertainment Weekly. November 7, 2014.
  2. Web site: Marnell . Blair . Too Many Cooks Creator Returns With Mindbending Twitch Streamer Parody . Nerdist . June 26, 2018 . September 8, 2018.
  3. News: Kelly. Casper. Necessary Fiction – The Sensitive Person's Joke Book. October 24, 2015. Necessary Fiction. September 24, 2011.
  4. Web site: Valdez . Nick . Adult Swim Fans Are Totally Shocked By the Yule Log . ComicBook . December 12, 2022 . December 12, 2022.