Liam Lynch

He also directed several short films that played as part of their live show, as well as a documentary called On The Road with Tenacious D which was a featured part of their DVD collection, The Complete Masterworks. He directed Sarah Silverman's movie, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic as well as a music video for Silverman called "Give the Jew Girl Toys". He wrote the original music used in the MTV animated series Clone High and co-wrote a song in the feature film, School of Rock. Lynch has an ongoing podcast available through his website that contains skits, videos he has created, and answering viewer mail.

Lynch was born William Patrick Niederst in Akron, Ohio, When he was three years old, he received a toy tape recorder, which he used to make his own shows. Aged 9, his family moved to Hudson, Ohio, a 'small town' where he rebelled against his confining surroundings. He learned to play his first guitar and write stories. He met his best friend and, later, creative partner, Matt Crocco, who had moved to Hudson from New York. In the fifth grade, Lynch was enrolled in a new "gifted" student program, where three days a week he left school to meet scientists, work at a TV studio, take poetry classes and visit art museums. He was also diagnosed with color blindness, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and sequential order deficiency. Read Less