Blake Anderson

Blake Raymond Anderson (born March 2, 1984) is an American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, and fashion designer. Beginning in 2006, Anderson helped create and join the sketch-comedy troupe Mail Order Comedy, which produced online videos and sketches along with co-members Anders Holm, Adam DeVine, and Kyle Newacheck. In 2011, Anderson, along with Holm, DeVine, and Newacheck, began starring as fictional versions of themselves in the Comedy Central television series Workaholics, which Anderson co-created and which ran from 2011 until 2017, airing seven seasons.

Anderson was born in Sacramento County, California, and was raised in Concord, California, where he attended Clayton Valley High School. He later moved to Los Angeles to work with improvisational comedy troupes such as The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade. While working as a pizza delivery driver, he attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, where he met future comedy partner Adam DeVine.

Anderson has appeared in episodes of Community, Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, among others, and starred on the Hulu series Woke (2020-2022). He tours the country to perform his stand-up comedy. In 2017, he was nominated for two Behind the Voice Actors' People's Choice Voice Acting Awards for his work on Voltron: Legendary Defender, winning the nomination for Best Vocal Ensemble in a New Television Series. In 2013, he co-created the fashion line Teenage with his then-wife, Rachael Finley.