Kelly Perine (born March 23, 1969) is an American television actor, writer, director, producer, and comedian. Perine attended Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, Illinois, where he studied stage acting. He spent his undergraduate years at Pomona College in Claremont, California majoring in film studies, where he graduated in 1991. After graduating, he studied at the University of California, Irvine where he received his master's degree in Drama seven years later.