Ryan Stout

Ryan Matthew Stout (born September 30, 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio), is an American stand-up comedian.

Early life

Ryan Stout grew up in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from J.M. Hanks High School in 2000. He attended The College of Santa Fe as a Theater Arts major (2000 - 2001), but left the school after his first year. He later enrolled at San Francisco State University as a Creative Writing major.

Stout first performed stand-up on his seventeenth birthday at a high school talent show. He continued to perform, although only a handful of times, at various poetry open-mics while attending The College of Santa Fe. In June 2001 he moved to San Francisco, California where the comedy scene allowed him more frequent stage time. He ingrained himself there for the next few years, performing over three hundred shows each year.

Career

Ryan Stout is the winner of the 2005 Boston Comedy Festival. He is also one of the few comedians to perform at both HBO's The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. He made his television debut on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham in 2007. That same year he filmed pilot episodes for two separate television shows for MTV, "I.Q." and a remake of the hit show "Singled Out," co-hosted by, Miss USA 2006, Tara Conner. By the end of the year MTV had him hosting the talk show . In early 2008, he hosted a special called MTV's Most Valuable Players and went on to host MTV's Spring Break 2008.

As of March 2006, he now lives in Los Angeles.

Quotes

"Don't you love that? Taking someone's stupid logic and twisting it? And saying, 'See? Problem.' I got into an argument with this Pro-Life person about abortion and she said, 'Well, Ryan, what if Jesus had been an abortion?' (pause) 'Well... then... he would have died for our sins... sooner?'"

Trivia

He was one of the last residents of the San Francisco Comedy Condo. Ryan Stout was awarded the Eagle Scout rank in 1997 and is a member of the National Eagle Scout Association.

Born the same day as the TV show "Cheers" first aired.

External links

* [http://www.ryanstout.net Ryan Stout] official site
* [http://www.myspace.com/ryanstout MySpace Page]
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* [http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/s/ryan_stout.jhtml Comedy Central profile]
* [http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/arts/003124.html Article from Golden Gate Xpress] March 17, 2005
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/11/DDG89C5FO61.DTL Article from San Francisco Chronicle] April 11, 2005
* [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002156987 Brief summary from the Hollywood Reporter] March 11, 2006