Theodore Carrington Jessup (born August 23, 1960) is an American television writer, producer, actor, and performer.
He is a writer for the Fox animated sitcom Family Guy, and has written the episodes "12 and a Half Angry Men," "Mom's the Word," "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin," "Brokeback Swanson," and "High School English."
Ted Jessup was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his father was serving with the Central Intelligence Agency as station chief.
Jessup was the executive producer and head of programming for Lorne Michaels's experimental, youth-targeted Burly Bear Network.
He played a talkative “john” opposite porn star Sasha Grey in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience.