Michael Colton

Michael Colton is an American screenwriter and former journalist. With writing partner John Aboud, he created the television show Home Economics and wrote the films A Futile and Stupid Gesture and Penguins of Madagascar. He was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.

Personal life

Colton attended Newton North High School in Massachusetts, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and The Harvard Crimson.
He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.

Career

Colton has co-written the films A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Penguins of Madagascar and The Comebacks. He has also co-produced the television series Close Enough and Zoolander: Super Model and written for Childrens Hospital and Leverage. In 2021, he co-created the ABC television series Home Economics.
In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeney's.
During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007–2008, Colton and Aboud created the website AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.
From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, best known for its online magazine.