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Christian
Finnegan is an
American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based
in
New
York City. Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the
original panelists on
VH1's
Best Week Ever and as Chad, the only
white roommate in the “Mad Real World” sketch on
Comedy Central's
Chappelle's Show. Additional television
appearances as himself or performing stand up have included
“Conan”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, "Would You
Rather...with Graham Norton", “Good Afternoon America” and multiple
times on
The Today Show and
Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
and on
History's I
Love the 1880s. He hosted
TV
Land's game show "Game Time". As an actor, Finnegan
portrayed the supporting role of "Carl" in the film Eden
Court, a ticket agent in "
Knight and Day" and several guest roles including a
talk show host on "
The
Good Wife". In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up
comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released
by
Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national
tour of college campuses from January to April 2007. “Au
Contraire!” was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third
special "The Fun Part" was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston
on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014.
SARAH POSNER @sarahposner is
a reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative
reporting has appeared in Rolling
Stone, VICE, The
Nation, Mother Jones, The New
Republic, HuffPost, and Talking
Points Memo. Her coverage and analysis of politics and
religion has appeared in The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The
American Prospect, Politico, and many other
outlets. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has a law
degree from the University of Virginia. Her story "How Trump Took
Hate Groups Mainstream," published before the 2016 election, won a
Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. We
talked about her new book now out in paperback
Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump
Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left
Behind