Carl Tart

Carl Tart
Carl Tart
Born	January 5, 1989 (age 35); Mississippi, U.S.
Occupations	Actor; Comedian;

Carl Tart (born January 5, 1989)^[1] is an American actor, writer, and comedian. Tart is known for being a featured player on the 2016 Fox sketch show Party Over Here, a writer on Mad TV, and a regular guest on the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! He starred on the NBC sitcom Grand Crew.^[2] He was hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live at the start of the show's 50th season in 2024.^[3]

Life and career

Carl Tart was born in Mississippi^[4] and was raised in Los Angeles. He is a regular performer at the LA branch of the Upright Citizens Brigade^[5] and is an alumnus of Boom Chicago, where he performed in 2014.^[6] He has been part of the LA-based improv group The Big Team, initially known as White Women, since 2013.^[7]

Tart is a frequent guest on the Earwolf podcast Comedy Bang! Bang!^[8] and has also appeared on the podcasts Spontaneanation, Yo, Is This Racist?, Hollywood Handbook, and more.

Tart was hired as an Saturday Night Live writer in 2024.^[3]

Filmography

Film and television
Year	Title	Actor	Writer	Role	Notes
2015	The Soul Man	Yes	No	Marcus	Episode: "No Weddings and Ten Funerals"
2015–2019	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Yes	No	Gamer Watcher Watcher / Space Pence Crew	2 episodes
2015	Girl Meets World	Yes	No	Restaurant Manager	Episode: "Girl Meets Texas"
2015–2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Yes	No	Various	Recurring, 4 episodes
2016	Party Over Here	Yes	No	Featured Player	Series regular, 10 episodes
2016	Mad TV	No	Yes		Season 15 staff writer; 8 episodes
2016	Tween Fest	Yes	No	Prince Bosh	Episode: "Swag Strike"
2016	Transparent	Yes	No	Guard	Episode: "Elizah"
2016–2019	Bajillion Dollar Propertie$	Yes	No	Eugene "Rocket" Jackson	3 episodes
2016–2018	Lethal Weapon	Yes	No	Station Officer/Uni	3 episodes
2017	Throwing Shade	Yes	No	Sign Spinner	Episode #1.6
2017	Dice	Yes	No	Gordon	Episode: "Big Fan"
2017–2018	Ghosted	No	Yes		9 episodes
2018	Love	Yes	No		Episode: "Stunt Show"
2018	Brockmire	No	Yes		Episode: "Platoon Player"
2018	Rob Riggle's Ski Master Academy	Yes	No	Chauncy	8 episodes
2019	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Yes	Yes	Max Prescott	Episode: "The Crime Scene" (actor) 5 episodes (story editor)
2019	Arrested Development	Yes	No	Henry	Episode: "Chain Migration"
2019	Cake	Yes	No	Tree (voice)	Episode: "Headspace"
2020	The Good Place	Yes	No	Steve	Episode: "Mondays, Am I Right?"
2020	Superstore	Yes	No	Oscar	Episode: "Sandra's Wedding"
2020	Big City Greens	Yes	No	Dirtbag (voice)	Episode: "Garage Tales/Animal Farm"
2020	Robbie	Yes	No	Karl	Episode: "Robbie vs. Ava vs. Danielle"
2020	Sneakerheads	No	Yes		2 episodes
2020	Connecting	Yes	Yes	Wendell	Episode: "Day 90"
2020	Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun	Yes	No	Hat	Episode: "Party"
2021	Kenan	No	Yes		Episode: "Wednesday's Gal"
2021	Miracle Workers	Yes	No	Lionel	Episode: "Oregon Trail: Hunting Party"
2021–present	Star Trek: Lower Decks	Yes	No	Lieutenant Kayshon (voice), additional voices	13 episodes
2021–2022	Inside Job	Yes	No	Various voices	2 episodes
2021–2023	Grand Crew	Yes	No	Sherm Jones	Main cast
2022	Central Park	Yes	No	(voice)	3 episodes
2022	Three Busy Debras	Yes	No	Jasper	Episode: "Debra Gets a Boyfriend"
2022	Smosh	Yes	Yes	Rev. Pastor J. Priest	Episode: "Jackie Interviews Her Exes"
2022	Everything's Trash	Yes	No	Hotep Zombie	Episode: "Family Is Trash"
2022	Blockbuster	Yes	No	Jeff	Episode: "Pilot"
2023	History of the World, Part II	Yes	No	Lazarus	Episode: "VII"
2023	Digman!	Yes	No	First Mate O'Dooley (voice)	Episode: "The Mile High Club"
2023	Old Dads	Yes	No	Brian Dodson
2023–2024	Make Some Noise	Yes	No	Himself	2 episodes
2024	In the Know	Yes	No	Carl (voice)	Main cast
2024	Thousandaires	Yes	No	James Brown	Episode: "Come on Capes"
2024–present	Saturday Night Live	No	Yes
TBA	Golden Axe	Yes	No	Chronos "Evil" Lait	Main cast

References

^ Star Trek on Paramount+ [@StarTrekOnPPlus] (January 6, 2023). "Temba, his arms wide!" (Tweet). Retrieved January 7, 2023 – via Twitter.
^ Bolden, Janeé (January 25, 2022). "Aaron Taylor Jennings And Carl Tart Talk About How 'Grand Crew' Is Changing The Way Black Men Are Portrayed On TV". Bossip. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Fox, Jesse David (September 22, 2024). "SNL Adds 3 New Writers". Vulture. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
^ "A Touch from the Past: Pascagoula MS with Carl Tart". atouchfromthepast.com. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
^ "Carl Tart". Upright Citizens Brigade. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
^ "Carl Tart". Boom Chicago Alumni. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
^ "The Big Team". Upright Citizens Brigade. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
^ Hughes, William (April 30, 2019). "Scott Aukerman talks 10 years of Comedy Bang! Bang! and the potential for doing 10 more". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

External links

Carl Tart at IMDb

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[1] Star Trek on Paramount+ [@StarTrekOnPPlus] (January 6, 2023). "Temba, his arms wide!" (Tweet). Retrieved January 7, 2023 – via Twitter.

[2] Bolden, Janeé (January 25, 2022). "Aaron Taylor Jennings And Carl Tart Talk About How 'Grand Crew' Is Changing The Way Black Men Are Portrayed On TV". Bossip. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

[:0-3] Fox, Jesse David (September 22, 2024). "SNL Adds 3 New Writers". Vulture. Retrieved September 22, 2024.

[4] "A Touch from the Past: Pascagoula MS with Carl Tart". atouchfromthepast.com. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

[5] "Carl Tart". Upright Citizens Brigade. Retrieved 2024-12-22.

[6] "Carl Tart". Boom Chicago Alumni. Retrieved 2024-12-22.

[7] "The Big Team". Upright Citizens Brigade. Retrieved 2024-12-22.

[8] Hughes, William (April 30, 2019). "Scott Aukerman talks 10 years of Comedy Bang! Bang! and the potential for doing 10 more". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

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