Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins started out in stand-up comedy in 1986 at The Comedy Works where he was half of a duo with the late Rick Roman.

In 1994 he moved to LA and in what has been characterized as his first big entertainment industry job, Tompkins appeared as a featured player on Mr. Show with Bob and David and served as a staff writer for the show's second and third seasons. He also appeared in several episodes of the short-lived Tenacious D TV series and appeared in the 2006 Tenacious D film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.

Tompkins was a contributor on The Daily Show in 1998 doing a semi-weekly segment called Us People's Weekly Entertainment.  In 1998, he created Driven to Drink, a one-man show that aired on HBO. He recorded two half-hour specials for the Comedy Central Presents TV series.

On July 31, 2010 Tompkins launched The Pod F. Tompkast, a free monthly comedy podcast.

On October 28, 2010, Tompkins joined Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett in Nashville, Tennessee as a guest riffer for a Rifftrax Live event riffing on the 1959 horror movie, House on Haunted Hill.

In 2011, he featured as the voice of "Doug" in a Ford Focus ad campaign. Tompkins also partook in the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala in 2011.