Rich Blomquist is a staff writer for The Daily Show. The show has won five Emmy awards during his employment; in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009. He has also contributed material to Saturday Night Live, specifically for Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse. Rich is originally from Westbrook, CT. He was educated at Elon University School of Communications.
Blomquist lives in New York City and is dating comedienne Kristen Schaal. They recently wrote a book together called "Sexy Book of Sexy Sex", it was published in July 2010 by Chronicle Books.