Michael Swaim is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, and podcaster. While attending the University of California, San Diego, he became a columnist for the humor website Cracked.com, and after graduating from college in 2007, he joined with Abe Epperson to co-found the internet sketch comedy troupe Those Aren't Muskets. Along with Epperson and another frequent collaborator, Daniel O'Brien, he built a video department for Cracked in the late 2000s. His subsequent tenure as Head of Video for the website produced several viral web series that he and O'Brien often starred in; these include After Hours and the Streamy Award-winning Agents of Cracked. The 2010 independent horror-comedy film Kill Me Now was co-written by Swaim and features him in a starring role. Swaim is currently seeking funding through Patreon for an in-development short film. Through his affiliation with Cracked, Swaim contributed to the 2010 New York Times Best Seller You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News. He then served as a Senior Editor on a 2013 followup, The De-textbook. Until his departure from Cracked in October 2017, Swaim was a regular feature on podcasts produced by the website. In December 2017, Swaim launched Small Beans, an online comedy network funded through Patreon. He was joined in the founding of Small Beans by Epperson and another former co-worker from his time at Cracked, Adam Ganser. Over the years, Small Beans has grown to include more Cracked alumni as members and collaborators. Small Beans content primarily consists of podcasts and sketch comedy videos. In October 2019, Swaim announced that he would be producing video content for IGN while continuing to operate Small Beans.