5 Questions with TJ Del Reno

by Ryan Meehan

Comedian TJ Del Reno has been seen in many sketches on Collegehumor.com such as Friends with Benefits Wedding, Spank Bank and Electric Company Ad as well as the MTV College Humor TV show. He was featured in the 2007 NY Comedy Festival alongside HBO’s Robert Kelley and has hosted shows that included comedians such as Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, and Tommy Davidson. He performs at clubs and colleges all over the country with his diversity comedy tour Black, White, and Red All Over. He is a voice over artist as well who has done commercial work including Capri Sun’s tag line “Respect the Pouch”, Best Buy, Tidy Cats, Dannon Danimals and many radio spots including AT&T, McDonald’s, Wendy’s and more. TJ has voiced cartoon characters for Three Delivery, Yu-Gi-Oh 5D and video games such as BULLY, GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony and I AM ALIVE. As an improviser he was part of Scotchatory Tape, an improv troupe that toured the country and performed at The Del Close Marathon at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He is also UCB trained under Bobby Moynihan from SNL, a few members of the UCB house troupe “The Stepfathers” Zach Woods, Silvija Ozols and Ari Voukydis from VH1. In his spare time he is an avid gamer so look him up on XBOX Live under TeeJayPrime. You can also find him on Facebook or dust off that old Myspace and leave him a comment, and he’s our guest today in 5 questions.