David Herman
David Herman is an American actor and comedian. He was an original cast member on MADtv from 1995 to 1997 and played Michael Bolton in Office Space.
He has done voice-over work in hundreds of episodes of Bob's Burgers, Brickleberry, Futurama, King of the Hill, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Disenchantment, and Father of the Pride.
Early life
Herman was born in New York City and raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 1985, then attended the acting program at SUNY Purchase.Career
''MADtv''
Herman was part of the cast of John Leguizamo's short-lived series House of Buggin' in 1995. When Fox canceled the series to replace it with a sketch comedy show, Herman signed on as one of nine original cast members of MADtv when the series began in 1995.Unlike most of the other featured players, Herman came to the show with an established acting career ; he had appeared in the films Born on the Fourth of July, Lost Angels, and Let It Be Me. Herman's MADtv characters included Mike Lawson, Generation X anchorman Marsh, and concerned father Joel Linder.
Herman lampooned celebrities and famous figures such as Don Adams, Tim Allen, Woody Allen, Nicolas Cage, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, David Duchovny, Larry Flynt, Tom Hanks, Larry King, Kenny Kingston, Regis Philbin, Charles Nelson Reilly, John Ritter, Joel Schumacher, Robert Shapiro, Pauly Shore, Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, and Alex Trebek.
Herman stayed with the show until six episodes into the third season. When speaking about the show in 2019, he said that he wanted to leave the show to do other projects, but Fox would not let him out of his contract, as they considered him too valuable, so he got himself fired by screaming all his lines during read-through. While continuing his voice work on King of the Hill, he came across the script for Office Space, which Hill creator Mike Judge had written with Herman in mind for the part of Michael Bolton.