Kim “Howard” Johnson is an accomplished writer, performer and improviser who has studied and collaborated with Del Close and Charna Halpern for many years. Howard is the author of the best-selling The First 200 Years of Monty Python, And Now for Something Completely Trivial and Life (Before and) After Python. He is also a veteran magazine writer, covering the worlds of film, television and fantasy for Starlog, Prevue, Comics Scene and Video Action magazines as well as various projects for DC Comics. In addition to working for several years as a reporter and announcer in radio news, Howard has worked for and with the Monty Python group as part of the crew of Life of Brian.

Upon making his home in Chicago, he began studying at Second City and performing stand-up comedy, and shortly thereafter started with the i.O., studying and performing for several years, culminating in the writing and performing of the Del Close-directed Honor Finnegan vs. the Brain of the Galaxy.