Rick Glassman

Glassman's path into professional comedy wasn't a straight line. Stand-up in Cleveland first — then Los Angeles in 2008, years of grinding the club circuit before television came calling. When it did, it came in the form of *Undateable*, the NBC sitcom that ran from 2014 to 2016. His character Burski was a scene-stealer in the ensemble, and the show gave Glassman his first real national platform (Wikipedia, IMDb). From there, his film and TV work expanded in interesting directions. In 2018, he took on the role of Harold Ramis in *A Futile and Stupid Gesture*, the Netflix biopic about *National Lampoon* co-founder Doug Kenney — a casting choice that required him to embody one of comedy's genuine legends. That same willingness to take on character-driven, slightly offbeat projects carried into *As We See It* (2022) on Amazon Prime, where he played Jack, a young man with autism navigating independent life. It's the role that's drawn the most critical attention, partly because Glassman himself was diagnosed with ASD in his 30s — which gives his performance a texture that's genuinely difficult to manufacture. The thing nobody mentions enough is *The Sixth Lead*, the limited series Glassman created based on his own experiences making *Undateable*. It won awards on the festival circuit and showed a side of his creative voice that pure acting work doesn't always reveal. Most recently, he appeared as Edward in ABC's *Not Dead Yet* (2023–2024), adding another network sitcom credit to a resume that keeps getting harder to categorize in the best possible way (Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes). His podcast *Take Your Shoes Off* runs alongside all of it — a reminder that for Glassman, the stand-up instinct never really went away.