David Michael Koechner is an American character actor film television and stage comedian and musician Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic under the teachings of Del Close before joining the Second City Northwest After oneyear stints of doing sketch comedy on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan OBrien he began taking small parts in films such as Man on the Moon and Wag the Dog While filming the country mockumentary Dill Scallion Koechner befriended Dave Gruber Allen forming The Naked Trucker TBones Show The act became a hit at Hollywood clubs such as Largo and the duo were invited to open for Tenacious D After a breakout role as Champ Kind in Anchorman The Legend of Ron Burgundy he began appearing frequently with larger supporting roles in many high profile comedic films including Talladega Nights Snakes on a Plane Waiting The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard Extract and Thank You for Smoking in addition to recurring guest appearances on Anchorman costar Steve Carells The Office as Todd Packer On 17 January 2007 Koechners Naked Trucker TBones Show premiered on Comedy Central giving him a starring role and full creative control Koechners first leading role as Coach Lambeau Fields in Fox Atomics sports comedy The Comebacks opened on 19 October 2007 Description above from the Wikipedia article David Koechner licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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