Michael Colton

Michael Colton (born 1975) is a screenwriter. With John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.

Colton attended Newton North High School, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson.

He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.

Colton has co-written the movies A Futile and Stupid Gesture, The Penguins of Madagascar and The Comebacks. They have also written for the television shows Allen Gregory, Sit Down, Shut Up, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders, and Leverage.

In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeney's.

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