Trevor Moore was a comedian who was a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’ Know.”
- Died: August 7, 2021 (Who else died on August 7?)
- Details of death: Died from an accident at the age of 41.
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Comedy career
In his teens, Moore had a sketch comedy show, “The Trevor Moore Show,” on local public access cable; it was picked up by Pax-TV for a brief run. He went on to work as an intern at “Saturday Night Live” in college and later became a page at NBC. Moore co-founded “The Whitest Kids U’ Know” in 1999, with some fellow students at the School of Visual Arts. The troupe began gaining acclaim, winning Best Sketch Group at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in 2006. They were picked up for TV by Fuse, where “The Whitest Kids U’ Know” ran for a season in 2007 before moving to the Independent Film Channel for an additional four seasons. Moore played recurring characters including the chairman of the National Hunting Board and Mr. Welburn, a business executive. He also recorded several albums of comedic music. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore began broadcasting “Trevor Moore’s Quarantine Show” on YouTube, later broadcasting on Twitch along with other members of the troupe.
Notable quote
“I really like short-form comedy; I feel like sketch and music are very similar—I try to keep both of them around three minutes long. I like that on the albums that I’ve done, you can just jump from one topic to another topic, one genre of music to another genre, without having to build connective tissue or make one bleed into the other. That’s also what I like about sketch too; if you had something to say about a topic, you could say it and make your point, and then jump over to a completely different point you wanted to make.” —from a 2015 interview for Impose
Tributes to Trevor Moore
Full obituary: Deadline
