Ryan Matthew Stout

Ryan Matthew Stout (born September 30, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian and television host. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, grew up in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from J.M. Hanks High School in 2000. He attended The College of Santa Fe as a Theater Arts major before enrolling at San Francisco State University as a Creative Writing major. Stout first performed stand-up on his seventeenth birthday at a high school talent show. In June 2001 he moved to San Francisco, where he performed over three hundred shows each year and was one of the last residents of the San Francisco Comedy Condo. He was awarded the Eagle Scout rank in 1997.

Stout is the winner of the 2005 Boston Comedy Festival and one of the few comedians to perform at both HBO's The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. He made his television debut on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham in 2007. That same year he filmed pilots for two MTV shows and went on to host A Shot at Love: The Hangover, MTV's Most Valuable Players, MTV's Spring Break 2008, and MTV's Ranked. He also made appearances on WGN's The Bob and Tom Show and E!'s Chelsea Lately.

His Comedy Central Presents half-hour stand-up special premiered on April 30, 2010, earning him the #10 spot in Comedy Central's yearly Stand-up Showdown in 2011. Later that year, Stout made his late-night stand-up debut on Conan. His debut album, Touché, was released on December 6, 2011, on Comedy Central Records. He also appeared on WTF with Marc Maron in 2012 and on Comedy Central's @midnight in 2016.