Michael McDonald

Michael James McDonald born December 31 1964 is an American standup comedian actor screenwriter and director He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv He was also a writer director and producer of the ABC TV series Cougar Town His best known movie roles are as Little John in Halloween Kills Ronovan Scargle in The Happy time Murders Jonathan in Ghostbusters 2016 Bryce Crean in The Boss Patrick in Spy Julian in The Heat and small roles in each Austin Powers movie He graduated from USC with a degree in Business and became a loan officer at a bank in Los Angeles A friend took him to see a sketch comedyimprov show at LAs famous Groundling Theater and everything changed for him He quit his job as a banker enrolled in the Groundlings Improv Program and became a member of the troupe from 1992 to 1997 His first professional writing and acting jobs came from Concorde Pictures Roger Cormans infamous lowbudget movie studio Starting as an extra he landed small roles in many Bmovies of the early 1990s and he gradually earned bigger roles as well as eventually writing and directing some films He joined MADtv during the fourth season 1998 and remained in the cast until the end of the thirteenth and penultimate season having become the longesttenured cast member After 10 years on MADtv he left the cast but was a contributing writer and director for the shows final season He was the last member of the cast to be hired in the 1990s and the last cast member to have been born in the 1960s and is the only cast member to have a best of clip show special dedicated to him