Todd Barry

Acting

Todd Barry

Born 1964-03-26 · New York City, New York, USA

Todd Barry (born March 26, 1964) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his deadpan comedy. Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in English in 1986. Before starting in stand-up comedy, he was a drummer in the indie rock band The Chant from 1984 to 1985. In 1999, his Comedy Central Presents aired. He wrote, directed and starred in the short film Borrowing Saffron (2002), co-starring H. Jon Benjamin. He has made guest appearances on shows like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Home Movies, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Wonder Showzen, Tom Goes to the Mayor, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He also voices a recurring character on Squidbillies. In 2004, he was featured in the animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties. He made 16 appearances on Dr. Katz—in the first two, as himself; then as the recurring character of Todd, a video store clerk, in most of its final season episodes. He also played a character in the television pilot Saddle Rash along with Sarah Silverman, H. Jon Benjamin and Mitch Hedberg. In "The Third Conchord", the twelfth and final episode of the first season of Flight of the Conchords, Barry played Todd, a bongo-playing megalomaniac, who tries to introduce the song "Doggy Bounce" to the Conchords' repertoire, and a new band name: The Crazy Dogggz.

Acting credits

The Wrestler poster
7.5

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

The Wrestler

2008

Road Trip poster
6.3

After a student at the University of Ithaca films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend in Austin. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.

Road Trip

2000

Sam Morril: Full Capacity poster
NR

A documentary about the comedy clubs reopening in NYC and getting back to some sense of normalcy.

Sam Morril: Full Capacity

2021

Wanderlust poster
5.5

Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.

Wanderlust

2012

Pootie Tang poster
5.1

Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime.

Pootie Tang

2001

Vamps poster
5.3

The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.

Vamps

2012

The Climb poster
6.1

Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. A stormy but enduring relationship ensues between Kyle, with limitless patience, and Mike, who only lives his life by sowing discord in that of others, across many years of laughter, heartbreak, and rage.

The Climb

2020

Beer League poster
5.2

An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.

Beer League

2006

Pete Smalls Is Dead poster
4.6

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

Tomorrow Night poster
6.0

Charles is the owner of a photo-shop. He is not too friendly and spends his evenings alone, and one day he finally decides to get a social life. He meets elderly Florence, who is tormented by her gambling husband Lester and longs for the son Willie she hasn't seen or heard of for 20 years.

Tomorrow Night

1998

New York City Serenade poster
5.7

Two down on their luck childhood friends struggle to figure out their lives. Ray a drummer in a rock and roll band, and Owen an aspiring film maker spend most of their time working menial jobs and drinking. When Owen's fiancé Lynn breaks off their engagement he finds himself spiraling, and allows Ray to come along with him to a two bit film festival he has been invited to in Kansas. There Owen makes several attempts to patch up his relationship, while Ray scams them into a deluxe suite at the local Four Seasons hotel by posing as Wally Shawn's son (who happens to be receiving a lifetime achievement award) and generally causes a major ruckus. By the end, Owen decides to make some changes in their relationship and in his life.

New York City Serenade

2007

A Bad Situationist poster
1.0

It is May 2001 in a pre-9/11 world. Arthur Lieberman, a ne'er-do-well tennis instructor from West Palm Beach, is the son of losing Vice-President candidate Joe Lieberman. Arthur is so crazy that six months later he is still upset over the fraudulent 2000 presidential election. in an attempt to keep from "making waves" his father strikes a corrupt deal to land him in a fancy co-op apartment in New York City. Arthur's desperation for relevance and burning desire to appear on the Charlie Rose Show lead him to start an "Intellectual Salon". There, Arthur pleads with misfits, sluts, and drunks to vote him president of their group. Soon, Arthur is unwittingly inculcated by two radical Jewish zealot Postal workers to commit a terrorist attack. Hilarity ensues!

A Bad Situationist

2008

Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour poster
7.3

A Todd Barry show consists of two things: amazing jokes and amazing crowd work. In September 2013, he went on a tour without the amazing jokes and did entire shows of riffing and bantering with the audience. Filmed in seven west coast cities, “Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour” was directed by Lance Bangs and produced by Louis CK.

Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour

2014

Who's the Caboose? poster
4.8

A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to follow her as she makes the circuit of auditions in L.A. as she tries to get a TV pilot. Unfortunately, she has failed to tell her boyfriend of this move. He decides he will trail her out west. There, the boyfriend runs into an old friend who has already made a break on a TV pilot. Seizing the opportunity, the actress turns her attentions to the established actor. However, the actress goes nowhere in auditions, but her ex-boyfriend is suddenly noticed and becomes the next hot prospect.

Who's the Caboose?

1997

Saddle Rash poster
4.5

Armless gunslinger Slim (Sam Seder) comes to town seeking revenge against bank robber Tommy Morgan (H. Jon Benjamin). Assisted by the town's resident sidekick Gummy (H. Jon Benjamin), Slim makes his intentions known to Morgan's gang which leads to a showdown in the center of town.

Saddle Rash

2002

Puberty: The Movie poster
NR

Ernie Goldberg goes on an adventure days before his Bar Mitzvah.

Puberty: The Movie

2007

The Brooklyn Heist poster
4.4

Three teams of criminals share the same Brooklyn block, but each exists in a separate genre of film. The Amateurs are trapped in a 1970's anti-hero movie. The Sputniks live in black and white. The Moolies can't escape their rap video life.

The Brooklyn Heist

2009

The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase poster
5.5

Chevy Chase bitterly takes in his roast.

The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase

2002

Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 poster
5.0

From the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to today stand-up comedians, talk-show hosts, sketch performers, television animators and other entertainers have used often-controversial jokes to unite and heal in the face of tragedy.

Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11

2021

Caesar's Salad poster
4.0

The short called “Caesar’s Salad” that won at the Chicago Film Festival and the New Orleans Film and Video Festival. C.K.’s mother helped him to pay for “Caesar’s Salad,” the production of which required him to close down a street and use a cop car. In the Louis C.K. episode of Marc Maron’s podcast, Maron mentions that he was cut out of “Caesar’s Salad” but some of his guitar playing remains on the soundtrack.

Caesar's Salad

1990

Highjacker poster
5.5

A troubled man tries to highjack a ferry in order to go to Bolivia.

Highjacker

1998

Todd Barry: Domestic Shorthair poster
7.0

Todd Barry is back with a brand new stand up special from The Den Theater in Chicago.

Todd Barry: Domestic Shorthair

2023

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5.5

George gets a new upstairs neighbor who stops by to borrow saffron because he's cooking for a new love interest.

Borrowing Saffron

2002

Todd Barry: Spicy Honey poster
6.8

With bone-dry wit, stand-up comic Todd Barry dissects texting emergencies, Hitler's taste in wine, pricey soap, cheap pizza and much more.

Todd Barry: Spicy Honey

2017

Behind the camera