Rick Mitchell

Rick Mitchell is a writer and comedian living in Los Angeles, California. In 2002, he received his Bachelor of Arts in film and media studies from UC Davis. In 2005, Rick graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting. In 2008, Rick joined the show TMZ as a writer/producer. He sometimes gets recognized as the guy in the back who yelled out jokes, though not so much anymore because he left the show in 2015, and the public forgets about you as soon as you leave television. In 2016, Rick was hired as a writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In his six seasons there, he won five Daytime Emmys. Over the years, Rick has given eight wedding speeches, so clearly, if people keep asking him to speak on one of the most important days of their lives, he must be pretty okay at it.