Tim Washer

Tim Washer is an American stand-up comedian, video producer and corporate humorist. He earned a BBA from Texas A&M University in 1989 and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, then pursued parallel careers in business and show business.

On the business side, after working at Accenture he rose to vice president of interactive research at NFO Interactive, led social media video production for IBM from 2004 to 2010, and has been a social media manager for Cisco Systems' Service Provider Marketing group since 2010. He argues that comedy creates a positive feeling toward a brand when used in business-to-business marketing content.

In comedy, he studied improv under Amy Poehler and comedy writing with Tom Purcell, served as executive producer of The Colbert Report, and has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Onion Sports Network and HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He wrote Saturday Night Live segments for Tina Fey and writes for James Corden, and has emceed corporate events featuring Pixar's John Lasseter, Tony Hale and Desmond Tutu, performing at corporate events for IBM, Cisco, Deloitte, Control Data Corporation and Google.

His other work includes a video series promoting David Meerman Scott's book World Wide Rave, TV commercials for T-Mobile with Catherine Zeta-Jones and a Super Bowl spot for Dunkin' Donuts, a 2013 Webby Honoree credit as producer of "Phone Company in a Box: Developing Commerce in Africa", and an Apple TV interview with Tony Hale about his role in Veep.