Background
Branum was born and raised in Yuba City, California.
Branum was born and raised in Yuba City, California.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1994-1998 where he was a history and political science major.
He currently hosts the podcast People’s Rocket on the Maximum Fun He wrote a column for the Daily Californian, one of which brought the United States Secret Service to his apartment in November 1997 before the Big Game between Berkeley and Stanford University, in which he made suggestions that Berkeley students murder Stanford Freshman Chelsea Clinton. He then moved to Minnesota, where he attended the University of Minnesota Law School, and was on the U of M Quiz Bowl team that placed third at China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations nationals in 1999. After graduating he returned to California.
After being recommended by co-hostess Laura Swisher, Branum was hired as a writer for Unscrewed with Martin Sargent while it was still on TechTV in San Francisco.
On Unscrewed, he regularly appeared as a sweater model and as The Ambassador of Gay. He was also a writer and producer on G4tv.com, and head writer on the G4 channel program X-Play.
He also contributed to the comedy podcast Weezy and the Swish. In December 2007, Branum became a writer and an onscreen comedy performer on Chelsea Lately.
He made his feature film debut in January 2011 in Number Strings Attached.
In 2012 Branum became a writer for the show Totally Biased with West. Kamau Bell, performing a recurring segment "Number more Mr. Nice Gay." He appeared on the eighth season of Last Comic Standing. Branum is openly gay.