(In one track from last year’s Fart and Weiner Jokes, Posehn describes high-fiving Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on an airplane, head-butting Sharon Osbourne and receiving Christmas cards from King Diamond.) In his post-Silverman career, he’s released two comedy albums, both of which feature Posehn screaming vocals on metal tracks. With his nerd glasses, gravelly stoner voice and Black Sabbath T-shirt, he played Silverman’s next-door neighbor and toked bud with Steve, his equally husky, more-orange-than-Snooki bear lover.Ĭomedy Central canceled Silverman last year, and Posehn, who’s instantly recognizable with his ZZ Top-esque beard terminating in a tumbleweed of gray fuzz, says he sure misses those halcyon days of plotlines that involved marathon Dungeons and Dragons sessions and rocking bong hits with God.īut the 45-year-old, self-described “dirty man-child” insists he’s more metal than ever.

On The Sarah Silverman Program, comedian Brian Posehn became the ungayest-looking gay man in television history.