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name: "Michael Colton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-colton"
fi1m_id: "michael-colton"
imdb_id: "nm1685000"
tmdb_id: 66511
wikidata_id: "Q6829392"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 November 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T13:27:59.870551+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."
---

# Michael Colton

## Identity

Michael Colton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-colton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-colton
- **IMDb ID:** nm1685000
- **TMDB ID:** 66511
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6829392
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829392, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1685000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66511

Writer. Born 19 November 1975 in Lynn.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 November 1975, Lynn
- **Also known as:** Mike Colton , Colton & Aboud
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829392, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1685000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66511

## Biography

Michael Colton is an American screenwriter, often working with John Aboud as Colton & Aboud. He received screenplay and story credits on the 2014 animated film *Penguins of Madagascar*.

Colton graduated from Harvard University in 1997, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson. He previously worked as a journalist for the Washington Post Style section and co-founded the comedy website Modern Humorist with Aboud. Their other film credits include *The Comebacks* (2007) and *A Futile and Stupid Gesture* (2018). Television writing includes episodes of *Leverage* (2008) and *Close Enough* (2020), and Colton created *Home Economics* (2021).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (11)

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), Writer, Producer
- *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
- *Judging Amy* (1999), series, as AAG Craig James

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