Peter Gwinn is an American comedy writer and improviser from Evanston, Illinois.
and Upright Citizens Brigade theaters and is the founder of the musical improv group Baby Wants Candy.
He has made several on-screen appearances, as Jimmy the director,[4] as a singer in a "Formula 401" sperm commercial[5] and as a barbecue attendee.
[6] He has also written and appeared on the 2013 TV series Alpha House, produced by Amazon Studios.
[7] Colbert announced in the final segment of his 2012-06-14 show that Gwinn was leaving the staff, giving no reason, but playing a clip package that ended with a stuffed effigy of Gwinn being thrown off the roof of the studio building, bouncing off a car into the street, and being run over by a minivan which backed up over the doll, twice, then drove away.