About/Cast

Greg Burke (Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien) & Lou Perez (failed sex tape with Gina Gershon) are a sketch and improv comedy duo who think their unnecessarily long name is hilarious. Their character-driven sketch show, Surprise Party, ran for over a year at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, with a number of additional performances at the UCBT in Los Angeles. Greg and Lou also write for film and television and are members of the award-winning sketch comedy troupe The Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz (Winner, Best Sketch Group, Emerging Comics of New York Awards, 2005).

Gregory Burke has appeared in featured roles on NBC's Law and Order, Third Watch and FOX's New York Undercover and can be seen as various characters on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He also spent six years portraying Ben Reade on CBS' The Guiding light. In 2006 he co-starred in the film Checkout, directed by Dan Eckman, which won Best College Short at the 2006 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Other credits include numerous childhood exploits on Saturday Night Live and The Late Show with David Letterman. He is a founding member of the sketch/improv troupe, The Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz (2005 ECNY Winners for Best Sketch Group), and has performed with them at the UCB Theatre in the sketch revues: "Reading Is For Dicks", "A Wicked Wicked Christmas", "...And Other Reasons To Cry", and "Hammerkatz Actually". He has studied improv under Matt Besser, Michael Delaney, Billy Merrit, Seth Morris and Jackie Clarke. Greg is also a member of the prestigious First Look Theatre Company at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Lou Perez is a graduate of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. In 2006 he co-starred in the film Checkout, directed by Dan Eckman, which won Best College Short at the 2006 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. He is a member of the sketch/improv troupe, The Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz (2005 ECNY Winners for Best Sketch Group), and has performed with them at the UCB Theatre in the sketch revues: "Reading Is For Dicks", "A Wicked Wicked Christmas", "...And Other Reasons To Cry", and "Hammerkatz Actually". He has studied improv under Anthony King, Owen Burke, Chris Gethard, Jackie Clarke and Eliza Skinner. He is pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The City College of New York where he teaches undergraduate classes in English and the World Humanities. In addition to writing and performing for stage, film, and television, Lou writes fiction and poetry, often credited as Luis Amate Perez.