Brian K. Murphy


Brian Kevin Patrick Murphy is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is best known for his various roles in CollegeHumor videos, his role as Murph on truTV comedy original Adam Ruins Everything, and his role on the Pop TV original Hot Date, co-starring with his wife Emily Axford. Axford and Murphy co-wrote the book HEY, U UP? : How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact, a satirical relationship advice that was published in 2018.

Early life and college

Murphy grew up in New Jersey. He went on to study at Rowan University, where he dual majored in Film and Journalism.
Prior to his career as an actor and comedian, he was frontman to the band Barracuda Emergency, a pop punk band from Stonetown, New Jersey. Barracuda Emergency was together from 2001-2002. He played guitar and sang.

Other work

From 2010 to 2017, Murphy was an actor and writer for CollegeHumor. In 2015, he hosted Middle of the Night Show, a late-night television series on MTV. In 2017, Murphy and his wife Emily Axford began working as executive producers and actors on the Pop TV original Hot Date. The previous incarnation of the show was a web series for CollegeHumor. The TV program's second season premiered in September 2019.
Murphy was also one of the hosts of "8-Bit Book Club" alongside Axford and Caldwell Tanner, a podcast where they read books about video games. He is now the host and Dungeon Master of the HeadGum podcast "Not Another D&D Podcast" with Axford, Tanner, and Jake Hurwitz. He is also a player on Dimension 20, a Dungeons & Dragons actual play show from CollegeHumor's streaming service Dropout. His characters include Riz Gukgak, Kugrash, and Theobald Gumbar.