Tompkins appeared on and wrote for The Daily Show in 1998, before Jon Stewart took over as anchor. In 1998, he created Driven to Drink, a one-man show that aired on HBO. He recorded two half-hour specials for the Comedy Central Presents TV series, one in 2003 and another in 2007.
Tompkins appeared as a featured player on Mr. Show with Bob and David, and served as a staff writer for the show's second and third seasons. He also appeared in several episodes of the short-lived Tenacious D TV series, and appeared in the 2006 Tenacious D film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. In the first season of Real Time with Bill Maher, Tompkins had his own segment.
He is currently the host of VH1's Best Week Ever and is a frequent guest on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He can often be heard as a regular guest of Tom Scharpling's The Best Show on WFMU radio show. He also periodically appears on Never Not Funny, Jimmy Pardo's weekly Podcast. He also appears on Lewis Black's series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil (2008) seen arguing how Oprah and Marijuana are the root of all evil. (bio from Wikipedia)
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- Paul regales us with the last time Conan O'Brien ignored the hell out of him
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This week on Comedy and Everything Else:
- Paul F. Tompkins and Tom Scharpling stop by to talk about pudding, ice cream trucks, and more! Part one of a two-part episode!
- We find out there's always only one headliner ...except today!
- Van Morrison is kinda cranky
- Jim and Paul walk down memory lane
- Who is the copycat?
- Paul tells our listeners that we're not impervious to mean comments on the internet
- Not every thought is meant to leave your head
- John Stossel gets his ears boxed
- Tom explains a lot about showbiz to Stef
- Our favorite ice cream
- Too much change too fast?
- Paul wants to know if Jimmy ever priced thermometers
- All this in just this first half of the show!
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