Charles Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell (born Charles Duncan Trussell on April 20, 1974, in Asheville) is an American actor and stand-up comic, known for his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. He appeared on and co-created the 2020 Netflix series The Midnight Gospel, and starred alongside Joe Rogan in the SYFY series Joe Rogan Questions Everything. He is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor and musician who has written and appeared in sketches for two seasons of Fuel TV's Stupidface, Showtime's La La Land, Comedy Central's Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, and both seasons of HBO's Funny or Die Presents.

Trussell regularly tours the country as a stand-up comedian and has performed at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin. His television credits include MADtv and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and he hosted Thunderbrain, a comedy science pilot for Comedy Central. He has appeared on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, four episodes of the Funny or Die web series Drunk History, and Comedy Central's This is Not Happening, and he co-hosted The Lavender Hour podcast with Natasha Leggero through January 2012.

His own podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, is an ongoing project where Trussell invites eclectic guests for about an hour of open conversation per episode; as of September 2024 there have been over 600 episodes. Beyond his work as an actor and comedian, he is also a burgeoning spiritual teacher in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, frequently referencing spiritual leaders such as Ram Dass and Chogyam Trungpa. Select episodes of the show were adapted into the Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel, directed by Pendleton Ward, and he plays Hippocampus on the Fox animated series Krapopolis.