Skyler Stone

Skyler Joseph Clipner, professionally known as Skyler Stone (born January 1, 1979)[1][2] is an American actor who starred in Con[3][4][5] which ran on Comedy Central for two months in the spring of 2005.

Skyler Stone
Born
Skyler Joseph Clipner

(1979-01-01) January 1, 1979
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationActor

Biography and career

Stone was born in St. Louis, Missouri.[6] He started his career in radio at WRKR in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

His first movie role was in The Rules of Attraction, playing a speed freak named Quinlivan in a scene that ended up cut from the film. He played Scarlett Johansson's character's husband in the flashback scenes for The Island,[1] and a cook in Waiting....[7] Stone was cast in Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration[8] as a trashy radio morning show host after Guest saw the "Cancun Coma" episode of Con. In July 2007, Stone was cast in the comedy House Broken,[9] as Danny DeVito's son.

Stone sold a pilot called Skyler's Revolution to Fox Broadcasting Company and Warner Bros. Television[10] in 2007, wherein he made prank calls to celebrities, but it was not picked up for a series. He appeared in the CSI: NY episode "Youngblood."[9] Stone was a contestant on Dog Eat Dog[1] and Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck twice (the second time in the Tournament of Losers). In 2010 he appeared in the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement.

Stone is a regular at the Laugh Factory, The Improv, and The Comedy Store, in Hollywood, California.[1][11] He made his first national stand-up appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on January 3, 2007. He resides in Sherman Oaks, California.[1]

In 2013, he provided the voice for Scowler, a Pachyrhinosaurus in BBC Earth's Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie.

gollark: Did you know? [C++] is, by definition, better than C,[1] but most people are too feeble-minded to learn it, and usually die of an aneurism when they begin to learn how to use templates.[citation needed] Given the complexity of the language, only the best programmers can actually use it, and because of the necessary skills, the programs are always smaller, faster, and better than programs written in other languages.
gollark: Surely you could just have your code scan the entire contents of memory via ctypes every minute or so?
gollark: https://i.redd.it/x9dttazcllp81.jpg
gollark: That is LyricLy.
gollark: https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs

References
  1. "The Skyler Stone Picture Pages".
  2. Some sources say 1980 or 1981, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2007 gave his age as 28.
  3. "Putting one over -- Artist proves his sales pitch works". The Record (Bergen County). 2005-04-06. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04.
  4. "Comedy Central adds two new series to its 2005 schedule -- scripted comedy 'Stella' and renegade reality show 'Con' with Skyler Stone" (Press release). Comedy Central. 2005-01-14.
  5. "Skyler Stone shows you how to 'Con'". The Pitt News. 2005-04-12.
  6. "Reaching for the sky". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2007-01-19. p. D3.
  7. "Justin Long, Anna Faris, Andy Milonakis 'Waiting ...' For A Sequel No Longer". MTV.com. 2007-06-05.
  8. "Mosaic Media Group signs Skyler Stone". Daily Variety. 2005-09-09. Archived from the original on 2012-10-19.
  9. "Skyler Stone (Players)". Daily Variety. 2007-10-25.
  10. "Fox says it wants a 'Revolution'". The Hollywood Reporter. 2007-02-28. Archived from the original on April 3, 2007.
  11. "Skyler Stone And People He Pretends Are His Friends". Los Angeles Daily News. 2008-04-24.


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