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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Lance Krall

Lance Krall (1970-     ) is an American comedian and actor most famous for his portrayal of "Kip", a flamboyant Cuban homosexual, on Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show, during the first season in 2003.  A film and theater major from Georgia State University, after graduating Krall co-founded The Whole World Theater in Atlanta where he performed and wrote scripts for many plays from 1993-2000.  Prior to The Joe Schmo Show, Krall landed roles in feature films such as Made Up (2002), Juwanna Mann (2002) and Party Animals (2003), in which he starred in as well as directed.

His massive popularity from The Joe Schmo Show led to Spike TV's decision to pick up eight episodes for the first season of The Lance Krall Show in 2005.  Krall was creator, writer, director, executive producer and editor of his self-titled comedy show.  After The Lance Krall Show came Free Radio which aired for two seasons in 2008-2009 originally on VH1, then later also aired on Comedy Central and Super Channel of Canada.  Similar to his previous show, Krall was creator, writer, executive producer and editor of Free Radio.  At present he is a writer on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a popular sitcom which airs on the FXX Channel.

Born into a military family, his father having been a US Naval aviator, for the first 13 years of his life, Lance was forced to relocate from place to place all around the country as well as abroad.  Finally, his father retired from the military and the family resettled in Georgia in 1983.  Krall's mother, Yung Krall, is originally from Vietnam and had been a spy for the CIA.  Since 2008, he has been married to his wife, Brittany, and together they have two children, Lyla and Ronin.

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