Kirk Fox

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Kirk Fox
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Occupations
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • comedian
Years active1993–present
Spouses
(m. 1999;div. 2000)
Jaren Boczan
(m. 2017)

Kirk Fox is an American actor, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian. He has portrayed Mr Marsh in How To Rock and Kenny Boy in Reservation Dogs . [1] [2] [3]

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Career

Television

Fox played Sewage Joe on Parks and Recreation and was a regular on Nickelodeon's How to Rock as Mr. March. Other credits include Community on NBC, Who Gets the Last Laugh? on TBS, Reservation Dogs on FX/Hulu, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Fox.

From 2013 to May 2014, Fox hosted CBS TV Distribution's syndicated [4] daytime talk show The Test . [5]

In 2023, Fox starred as juror Pat McCurdy in Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky's docu-comedy television series Jury Duty , which premiered on Amazon Freevee on April 7, 2023.

Web series

In 2009, Fox and Owen Benjamin starred in Heckle U. [6]

In 2012 and 2013, Fox starred as Melinda Hill's suitor in the first [7] and ninth [8] episodes of Romantic Encounters. [9]

Stand-up comedy

Fox started doing stand up comedy in 2002. [10] In 2005, Fox co-wrote and co-starred in the comedy Tennis Anyone? with Donal Logue. [11] [12] [13] On August 11, 2006, he made his television standup debut on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and in 2007 received the Jury Prize for best standup at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. [14] [15] [16] [17] In March 2008 he was featured in his own 1/2 hour special on Comedy Central : Comedy Central Presents: Kirk Fox . He appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in December 2008 [17] and May 2009.

Personal life

Fox was married to Alison Eastwood. They later divorced. Fox married Jaren Boczan in 2017. [18] They have a daughter born in 2018. [19]

Filmography

Film

Television

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