Biography
John Aboud is an American writer and producer. He graduated from Harvard University in 1995, where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon. With Michael Colton, he co-founded the online comedy magazine Modern Humorist in 2000, which operated until 2003 and published books including the best-selling My First Presidentiary.
Aboud and Colton have written together as Colton & Aboud. Their credits include the screenplay and story for the animated film Penguins of Madagascar (2014), the screenplay for A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), and episodes of Leverage (2008). Aboud created and wrote for the series Home Economics (2021–2023) and wrote for Close Enough (2020–2022). They have also contributed to The Fake News with Ted Nelms and appeared as panelists on VH1 programmes such as Best Week Ever.
