Casper Kelly

Casper Kelly
Kelly in 2022
Notable work	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, 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 & 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 comedy film Adult Swim Yule Log , also known as The Fireplace, which premiered on Adult Swim on December 11. ^[4]

In 2023, he created Star Trek: Very Short Treks . A promotional series for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series

In 2024, he wrote and directed the horror comedy film Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out , which premiered on Adult Swim on December 6.

On 23 July 2025, Variety revealed that Kelly was among the filmmakers who directed a segment for V/H/S/Halloween , Shudder's 8th instalment in their horror anthology V/H/S franchise. The film was released in October 2025. ^[5]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	CatDog	n/a	Writer (2 episodes)
1999	Thanks a Latte	n/a	Writer
1999	The Scooby-Doo Project	n/a	Co-director, writer, and producer
2000	Cartoon Cartoon Fridays	n/a	Writer, and producer
2000–2004	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	n/a	Writer, and producer (2 episodes)
2001	What a Cartoon!	n/a	Writer: Major Flake: Soggy Sale
2001	Night of the Living Doo	n/a	Co-director, writer, and producer
2001	Big Game XXIX: Bugs vs. Daffy	n/a	Writer, and producer
2003–2010	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	n/a	Story elements
2004–2005	Stroker & Hoop	n/a	Co-creator, writer, and producer
2005	Sunday Pants	n/a	Writer
2008–2014	Squidbillies	n/a	Story elements
2010	Onion News Network	n/a	Writer
2011, 2013–2019	Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell	Self	Co-creator, director, writer, and producer
2014	Too Many Cooks	n/a	Director, writer, and producer
2017–2018	The Truth	n/a	Writer
2017	The Cry of Mann	Postmaster	n/a
2018	Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough	Gamer 1	Director, writer, and producer
2019	Archer	n/a	Producer
2020	Danny Ketchup	n/a	Director, writer, and producer
2023	Agent Elvis	n/a	Consulting producer
2023	Star Trek: Very Short Treks	n/a	Creator, writer, and producer

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Please Please Pick Up	n/a	Director, writer, and producer
2011	Pleasant People	Chris	n/a
2016	Frankenstein Created Bikers	Deputy Maddox	n/a
2018	Mandy	n/a	Writer: (Cheddar Goblin segment)
2022	Adult Swim Yule Log (also known as The Fireplace)	n/a	Director, writer, and producer
2024	Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out	n/a	Director, writer, and producer
2025	V/H/S/Halloween	n/a	Director and writer: ("Fun Size" segment)

References

1. Snetiker, Marc (November 7, 2014). "'Too Many Cooks' creator tries to explain his awesomely bizarre Adult Swim short". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 24, 2015.
2. Marnell, Blair (June 26, 2018). "Too Many Cooks Creator Returns With Mindbending Twitch Streamer Parody". Nerdist. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
3. Kelly, Casper (September 24, 2011). "Necessary Fiction – The Sensitive Person's Joke Book". Necessary Fiction. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
4. Valdez, Nick (December 12, 2022). "Adult Swim Fans Are Totally Shocked By the Yule Log". ComicBook. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
5. Earl, William (July 23, 2025). "Shudder Announces 'V/H/S/Halloween' With Directors Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza and More (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved October 4, 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Casper Kelly at IMDb