Jeff Nichols is a comedian and writer based in NYC. Nichols was born in Manhattan on the upper-east-side in 1969. Growing up, Nichols struggled with learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette Syndrome

Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...

. His memoir, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit is a 2007 American comedy drama written and directed by Tod Harrison Williams and based upon the autobiographical book The Little Yellow Bus by Jeff Nichols.The film was premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on 14 June 2007 and put on general release...

that focuses around his struggles with various learning disabilities, drug and alcohol abuse, and the hardships he faced, was published by Simon & Shuster in 2009. The original book version entitled, The Little Yellow Bus, inspired the 2007 movie, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit is a 2007 American comedy drama written and directed by Tod Harrison Williams and based upon the autobiographical book The Little Yellow Bus by Jeff Nichols.The film was premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on 14 June 2007 and put on general release...

directed by Tod Harrison Williams, and produced by Kip Williams, director of Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2 is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by Tod Williams and written by Michael R. Perry. The film is a parallel prequel to the 2007 film Paranormal Activity, beginning two months before and following up with the events depicted in the original film...

and Anne Carey

Anne Carey

Anne Carey is an independent film producer based in New York City.Carey began her career working as the head of development for William Morris Agency, serving their top film and television clients. In the early 1990s she began working as both a producer and head of development for production...

 of This is that corporation

This is that corporation

This is that corporation is one of the leading independent feature film production companies. Established in 2002, and based in New York City, the company was founded by and is fully owned by Anne Carey, Ted Hope, and Diana Victor...

. The movie stars Seann William Scott

Seann William Scott

Seann William Scott is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Steve Stifler in the American Pie film series...

, Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin

Jeffrey "Jeff" Garlin is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, voice artist, director, writer and author, best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm...

 and Gretchen Mol

Gretchen Mol

Gretchen Mol is an American actress and former model. She is known for her roles in films like Rounders, Celebrity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Thirteenth Floor,and The Notorious Bettie Page, where she played the title character...

.

The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival

Seattle International Film Festival

The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...

in 2008 and went on to several other festivals including the Traverse City Film Festival

Traverse City Film Festival

The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held every late July through early August in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema." The event was co-founded by Michael Moore, the...

co-founded by Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...

 and the Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...

, but never received a wide release.

As well as Trainwreck, Nichols' has had various humor articles published in The New York Post and Dan's Papers. As a stand up comic he has opened for Lewis Black

Lewis Black

Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena...

, Robert Klein

Robert Klein

Robert Klein is an American stand-up comedian, singer and actor.-Early life:Klein was born in the Bronx, the son of Frieda and Benjamin Klein, and was raised in a "prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School, Klein planned to study medicine...

, and sketch comedy group, The Whitest Kids U' Know

The Whitest Kids U' Know

The Whitest Kids U' Know is an American sketch comedy troupe and television program of the same name. The group consists of Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter, though other actors occasionally appear in their sketches. They were accepted into the HBO U.S...

. Jeff also ran a college game show called Laugh You Lose, where he worked with comics Steve Byrne

Steve Byrne

Steve Byrne is an American stand-up comedian.-Personal life:Steve Byrne was born in Freehold, NJ. Byrne is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and went to Hampton High School He is of Irish and Korean descent. Steve has a younger brother, William Byrne whom he mentioned in his Comedy Central...

, Brody Stevens

Brody Stevens

-Life:Brody Stevens' family is from New Mexico and Arizona. He describes them as the "pioneering Jews of the southwest". Brody grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. He was briefly enrolled in private school, until his mother decided he would attend public school...

 and John Viener. Nichols has been on numerous radio shows including the Joey Reynolds

Joey Reynolds

Joey Reynolds is the pseudonym of Joey Pinto, host of the U.S. radio program The Joey Reynolds Show via the WOR Radio Network. Reynolds' broadcasting career started on TV- in Buffalo at WGR TV 2...

 show on WOR

WOR

WOR or Wor may refer to:* WOR , a radio station licensed to New York, New York, United States* WRKS, a radio station licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WOR-FM from 1948 to October 1972...

 and The Howard Stern Show.