[5] He attended Strathcona Composite High School in Edmonton and competed in both track-and-field and swimming, winning two individual provincial titles.

He got his start in performing sketch comedy in a troupe called The Audience, where he met longtime friend and collaborator Mark McKinney.

Memorable characters included the Flying Pig, Cabbage Head, talkative schoolchild Gavin, pop starlet Tammy, secretary Kathie, and grumpy middle-aged man Gordon.

The video shares much in common with many The Kids in the Hall sketches, including its office setting, camera angles, and some thematic elements.

In the CBS prime-time special (also featuring Dana Carvey, Al Franken, Jan Hooks, and others), he played a patron of a store that, among other things, sold counterfeit Kryptonite.

McCulloch's memoir -- Let's Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became a Hollywood Dad (ISBN 9781443426398) -- was published by HarperCollins in 2014.

He created and starred in the sitcom Young Drunk Punk, which debuted in 2015, and wrote and played a small part in the 2018 web series This Blows.