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

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

Career

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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 Star Trek: Very Short Treks. A promotional series for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series

Filmography

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Television

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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
Director, writer, and producer
2000 Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
n/a
Writer, and producer
2000–04 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
2003–10 Aqua Teen Hunger Force
n/a
Story elements
2004–05 Stroker and Hoop
n/a
Co-creator, writer, and producer
2005 Sunday Pants
n/a
Writer
2008–14 Squidbillies
n/a
Story elements
2010 Onion News Network
n/a
Writer
2011, 2013–19 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
Self
Co-creator, director, writer, and producer
2014 Too Many Cooks
n/a
Director, writer, and producer
2017–18 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
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Director, writer, and producer
2023 Agent Elvis
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Consulting producer
2023 Star Trek: Very Short Treks
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Creator, writer, and producer

Films

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Year Title Role Notes
2010 Please Please Pick Up
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Director, writer, and producer
2011 Pleasant People
Chris
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2016 Frankenstein Created Bikers
Deputy Maddox
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2018 Mandy
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Writer: (Cheddar Goblin segment)
2022 Adult Swim Yule Log (also known as The Fireplace)
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Director, writer, and producer

References

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  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.
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