Paul Rust
Rust in 2016
Occupations	Actor comedian writer musician
Years active	2003–present
Spouse	Lesley Arfin ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Comedy music geek rock
Instruments	Vocals bass guitar
Musical artist
Website	paulrust.com

Paul Rust is an American actor, comedian and writer. He starred in the 2009 filmI Love You, Beth Cooper and in the Netflix seriesLove.

Rust is the son of Jeanne and Bob Rust.^[1] His family is ofGerman heritage.^[2] Rust was raisedRoman Catholic and attendedGehlen Catholic High School. His mother was a teacher at Le Mars Community High School and his father owned a Western goods and boot-repair shop.^[3] He graduated from theUniversity of Iowa in May 2004.^[1][4]

Rust struggled withobsessive-compulsive disorder in his youth.^[3]

Rust is best known as a stand-up and sketch comedian at theUpright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the sketch comedy group A Kiss from Daddy and the improv team Last Day of School. He has appeared in films such asInglourious Basterds,Ass Backwards,Freak Dance,Paper Heart andSemi-Pro. He made his most high-profile acting role in summer 2009, playing the male lead in the comedy filmI Love You, Beth Cooper alongsideHayden Panettiere. Rust has written for television programs such asHuman Giant andMoral Orel.

In November 2010, Rust appeared in theComedy Central sketch comedy specialThis Show Will Get You High, created by and starringMatt Besser. He andPaul Reubens co-wrote thePee-wee Herman filmPee-wee's Big Holiday, which was released in 2016.^[5]

Rust appears as a frequent guest on theComedy Bang! Bang! podcast, where he is best known for his "New No-Nos" segment.^[6] He has written forIFC'sComedy Bang! Bang! and also as a writer and story editor on the revived forNetflix fourth season ofArrested Development in 2013.

Rust starred in theJudd Apatow-produced Netflix seriesLove (2016–2018) withGillian Jacobs. He co-created the show with his wife,Lesley Arfin.

Rust and the comedianCharlyne Yi formed the band The Glass Beef in 2006. They appeared together in a video for "Song Away" byHockey. He is also the lead singer and bass guitar player in the comedy rock duo Don't Stop or We'll Die with fellow comedian Michael Cassady. The band hadHarris Wittels on drums until his death.

In 2018, he started hostingIn Voorhees We Trust With Gourley and Rust withMatt Gourley, a podcast series reviewing every film in theFriday the 13th franchise. The self-proclaimed "easy-listening cozy-cast," now simply titledWith Gourley and Rust, has had several seasons analyzing and discussing horror films.^[7]

Rust married comedy writer and authorLesley Arfin in October 2015.^[3] They have a daughter born in 2017.^[8]

Albums(with Don't Stop or We'll Die)

• Gorgeous(2014)^[9]
• Dazzle Me(2018)^[10]
• SONG-A-WEEK Volume One: Bloom of the Goji(2021)^[11]
• Lives of Leisure, SONG-A-WEEK Volume II(2021)^[12]
• Signature Please(2023)^[13]

EPs(with Don't Stop or We'll Die)

• The Ballad of Bird and Fox(2008)^[14]
• One of the Gang(2011)^[15]
• Diamond Skies Over Western Dreams(2019)^[16]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toPaul Rust.

• Paul Rust atIMDb
• Paul Rust on Myspace

• Living people
• Male actors from Iowa
• American comedy musicians
• American male film actors
• American stand-up comedians
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• American television writers
• American male television writers
• University of Iowa alumni
• American people of German descent
• Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
• Screenwriters from Iowa
• 21st-century American comedians
• 21st-century American male actors
• American Roman Catholics
• 21st-century American screenwriters
• 21st-century American male writers
• People with obsessive–compulsive disorder
• Comedians from Iowa
• American male comedians

• Webarchive template wayback links
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use American English from February 2020
• All Wikipedia articles written in American English
• Use mdy dates from February 2020
• Articles with hCards
• Pages using infobox musical artist with associated acts
• Commons category link is on Wikidata
• Year of birth missing (living people)