Joe Lo Truglio

Lo Truglio was born in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City, on December 2, 1970.^[2] He is of Italian and Irish descent.^[3] He grew up in Margate, Florida, and graduated from Coconut Creek High School.^[4][5] He met many of his future The State cast members at New York University, where he took part in the school's sketch comedy group.^[6][7]

Lo Truglio wrote and acted in various skits for The State,^[8] and animated segments for the show. After The State ended in 1995, he made a number of guest appearances throughout the late 1990s on shows such as Viva Variety, Upright Citizens Brigade, Law & Order and Third Watch.^[9]

In 2001, Lo Truglio appeared in fellow State alumnus David Wain's comedy film Wet Hot American Summer, where he played a camp counselor.^[10] He made cameo appearances on David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black's online Stella shorts series.^[11]

He appeared in the 2005 Comedy Central show Stella and had a cameo in Showalter's film The Baxter. He made cameos on Reno 911!, as well as in the 2007 movie, Reno 911!: Miami.^[12] He has provided his voice for several video games including The Warriors.^[13] In 2005, he provided the voice of Vincenzo 'Lucky' Cilli in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In 2006 he had a supporting role in Artie Lange's Beer League.^[14]

Lo Truglio has appeared in several television commercials, including Gateway Computer and Jack Link's Beef Jerky.

He portrayed "Francis the Driver" in the Judd Apatow hit comedy Superbad^[15] and had supporting roles in films such as Pineapple Express, Paul, Role Models, Wanderlust, and I Love You, Man.^[16] In July 2008, Lo Truglio starred with Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis in the web series The Line on Crackle.^[17] He has appeared on the comedy podcasts Comedy Bang! Bang!, Never Not Funny, and Superego.

Lo Truglio appeared on the Starz comedy Party Down^[13] and also had a recurring role on the short-lived 2010 Fox sitcom Sons of Tucson.^[18] In 2011, he co-starred in the short-lived NBC comedy series Free Agents starring Hank Azaria.^[19] Lo Truglio provided the voice of Freddy in the American Dad! episode "Stan's Best Friend." In 2013, Lo Truglio began co-starring opposite Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher on the Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.^[20]

Lo Truglio reprised his role as Neil in the eight-episode Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the prequel to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer. The series premiered on July 31, 2015.^[21]

In 2022, Joe Lo Truglio had his feature directorial debut with the horror film Outpost, in which his wife Beth Dover stars.

Lo Truglio married actress Beth Dover on April 19, 2014,^[22] following their engagement in 2013. They have co-starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "Fancy Brudgom" (2014), in the third season of Burning Love (2013), and in the TV series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017).^[23] They have a son, Eli, born in 2016.^[24]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Naked in the Cold Sun
2001	Wet Hot American Summer	Neil
2002	Stella shorts	Various
2003	The Station Agent	Danny
	Last Man Running	Chooch
2005	Hitch	Music Lover Guy
	Stricken	Joe #1	Short
	The Baxter	Bar Baxter #1
	The Pigs	Hal
2006	Beer League	Dave
2007	The Ten	Paul Mardino
	Reno 911!: Miami	Tattoo Shop Owner #2
	Puberty: The Movie	Herman Goldberg
	Superbad	Francis the Driver
2008	Pineapple Express	Mr. Edwards
	Role Models	Kuzzik
2009	Fanboys	Jail Guard
	I Love You, Man	Lonnie
2010	Gulliver's Travels	Butt-Crack Man
2011	Paul	O'Reilly
	High Road	Officer Fogerty
2012	Wanderlust	Wayne Davidson
	Queens of Country	Penny McEntire
	My Uncle Rafael	Father Jim
	Pitch Perfect	Clef #1
	Wreck-It Ralph	Markowski (voice)
2014	About Last Night	Ryan Keller
	Someone Marry Barry	Sammy
2015	Knight of Cups	Guest
	Pitch Perfect 2	Member of Tone Hangers
	The Breakup Girl	Steve
2017	Win It All	Ron
2018	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Brad Zotti
2019	Here Awhile	Gary
2021	Mark, Mary & Some Other People	Chris
2022	Outpost		Director
2024	Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation	Big Tech Scientist (voice)	[25]
	Hot Frosty	Deputy Sheriff Ed Schatz
2026	Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass		Completed

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992–1993	You Wrote It, You Watch It	Various	Also writer
1993–1995	The State	Various	27 episodes; also creator and writer
1999	Upright Citizens Brigade	Airduct Friar	Episode: "Infested with Friars"
2000	Law & Order	Policeman #2	Episode: "Turnstile Justice"
	TV Funhouse	Bellboy	Episode: "Hawaiian Day"
2002	Third Watch	The Wrong Bernie	Episode: "Firestarter"
2005	Stella	Ansel	Episode: "Office Party"
	Cheap Seats	Terry Borkin	Episode: "Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest"
2005–2009, 2020–2022	Reno 911!	Shopkeeper / Deputy Frank Rizzo	36 episodes
2008	Wainy Days	Various	3 episodes; also writer
	The Sarah Silverman Program	Kenneth	Episode: "Patriot Tact"
2008–2011	Childrens Hospital	Dr. Antonio Zarala / Shane	2 episodes
2009	Cupid	Jimmy	Episode: "Pilot"
	Party Down	Donnie	Episode: "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion"
2010	Sons of Tucson	Glenn	5 episodes
2010–2011	Glenn Martin, DDS	Various voices	5 episodes
	Backwash	Officer Bobby Bleeker	5 episodes
2011	Mad Love	Nick	Episode: "The Spy Who Loved Me"
2011–2012	Free Agents	Walter	8 episodes
2012	How I Met Your Mother	Mr. Honeywell	Episode: "The Stamp Tramp" and "Twelve Horny Women"
	Wedding Band	Bobby	Episode: "Time of My Life"
2012–2022	Robot Chicken	Ted Logan / Father / Beth's Husband / World War II Pilot (voice)	2 episodes
	American Dad!	Various voices	11 episodes
	Bob's Burgers	Various voices	8 episodes
2013	Burning Love	Alex	23 episodes
	Community	Mark	2 episodes
	Family Tree	Souvenir Vendor	Episode: "Indians"
	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Nate Mungus	Episode: "Comic Con-Air"
	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Stan Couples	Episode: "Sarah Silverman Wears a Black Dress with a White Collar"
2013–2016	Drunk History	Various	4 episodes
2013–2021	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Charles Boyle	Main role; 152 episodes, directed the episode "The Bimbo" in season 6
2015	Scheer-RL	Mark Wahlberg	Episode: "Eminem and Mark Wahlberg"
	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Neil	5 episodes
2016	New Girl	Charles Boyle	Episode: "Homecoming"
2017	Animals.	Gigglepuss / Father Anthony (voice)	2 episodes
	Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later	Neil	4 episodes
	Dice	Roger	Episode: "It's a Miserable Life"
	Easy	Mike	Episode: "Package Thief"
	Do You Want to See a Dead Body?	Himself	Episode: "A Body and a High School Reunion"
2020	The Comey Rule	Jeff Sessions	Miniseries
2022	StoryBots: Answer Time	Mr. Cow	Episode: "How Do Tornadoes Form?"[26]
2023	History of the World, Part II	Bishop 1	Episode: "VIII"
	Digman!	Cale Caesar (voice)	Episode: "Et Tu"
2024	Monsters at Work	Jack (voice)	3 episodes
	After Midnight	Himself	Episode 65
	Night Court	Detective Kratz	Episode: "Feliz NaviDead"[27]
2025	Ghosts	Ron	Episode: "The Bachelorette Party"

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Video games

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Year	Title	Role
2004	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Pedestrian
2005	The Warriors	Vermin / Birdie
2005	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories	Vincenzo Cilli
2019	Anthem	Neeson

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