Jefferson Dutton

Jefferson "Dutts" Dutton (born May 8, 1983) is a Los Angeles comedian, actor, director, producer, podcaster, and musician. He started his career in production before forming The Birthday Boys sketch group with fellow Ithaca College graduates in Hollywood, Los Angeles.^[1]

In 2013, Dutton started his band, The Sloppy Boys, with fellow Birthday Boys Mike Hanford and Tim Kalpakis. In 2020, the trio started a podcast by the same name.^[2]

Dutton was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He graduated from Bishop Guertin High School. His parents owned a chocolate factory.

Dutton studied film at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.^[3]

As a student at Ithaca College, Dutton began working for Michael J. MacLeod of MJM Productions. Under MJM, Dutton wrote Brotherhood, a 2002 film shot in Derry, New Hampshire about old friends who have returned to their small New Hampshire town after college. Later that year, Warner Bros. Pictures asked for a television script based on the film.

In 2003, MacLeod took action against David E. Kelley of Kelley Productions, Inc., CBS Broadcasting, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement regarding their 2003 television series, The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire, in hopes of a preliminary injunction to prevent the broadcast of the series in New Hampshire. The injunction was ultimately denied.^[4][5][6][7]

Dutton began his career in Hollywood, Los Angeles. In 2007, he started a sketch comedy group, The Birthday Boys with friends he met at Ithaca College.^[8] They quickly came to prominence on the Internet, with Dutton also making sketch comedy videos for Funny or Die and Yahoo TV's show Sketchy.^{[9][10][11][12]}

The Birthday Boys were discovered at Upright Citizens Brigade by Bob Odenkirk, who took it upon himself to produce their self-titled TV show on IFC.^[13][14][15] The show premiered on October 18, 2013.^[16][17][18] It has since been recognized as a cult classic.^[19]

In 2013, Dutton started a Weezer cover band, The Sloppy Boys Jangly Band with fellow members of the Birthday Boys Tim Kalpakis and Mike Hanford in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. The group's name was later shortened to The Sloppy Boys. The band started writing original music in 2018.

During the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, the band started doing weekly "Zoom Rooms" to promote their third album, Paradiso, and connected with fans worldwide.^[20]

The Sloppy Boys were the subject of the 2023 documentary film Blood, Sweat and Beers, or How the Sloppy Boys Made an Album on a Farm in West Texas. It followed their five days of production with Money Mark of Beastie Boys fame, and won the Audience Award at the 2024 El Paso Film Festival in El Paso, Texas.^[21]

Dutts is Dutton's "homemade pop star" persona. His debut solo album, Beyond Cool, was released July 28, 2023.^[22]

He released a remix album, Way Past Cool, the next year, on July 19, 2024.^[23]

Riding the momentum of their Zoom rooms, The Sloppy Boys started a self-titled weekly cocktail podcast on October 22, 2020. Their goal was to drink their way through the International Bartenders Association's official cocktail list.^[24] They launched their Patreon bonus show, The Sloppy Boys Blowout the same week.

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