---
name: "John Aboud"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-aboud"
fi1m_id: "john-aboud"
imdb_id: "nm1595526"
tmdb_id: 66510
wikidata_id: "Q6218070"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 March 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T13:27:56.161414+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Aboud

## Identity

John Aboud

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-aboud
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-aboud
- **IMDb ID:** nm1595526
- **TMDB ID:** 66510
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6218070
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aboud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6218070, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1595526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66510

Writer. Born 7 March 1973 in South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 March 1973, South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
- **Also known as:** Colton & Aboud
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aboud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6218070, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1595526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66510

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, coltonaboud.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014), Fi1m 58, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/penguins-of-madagascar.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Acapulco* (2021), series, Writer
- *Home Economics* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Close Enough* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *A Futile and Stupid Gesture* (2018), Art Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
- *Zoolander: Super Model* (2016), Producer, Writer
- *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/penguins-of-madagascar.md)
- *Allen Gregory* (2011), series, Writer
- *Leverage* (2008), series, Writer
- *The Comebacks* (2007), Author
- *I Love the '90s: Part Deux* (2005), series, Actor

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