Cecil always loved a good story. When he was little he used to entertain the family with his wild tales. The youngest of 6 kids, he knew his stories had to be good if he was going to get any attention at the dinner table. He started writing his one liners and zingers in the afternoon, jotting down observations about the things he saw in the neighborhood or overheard in the schoolyard. By the time he graduated from college, with a double major in creative writing and rhetoric, he thought he only had the obvious options: the starving artist path, the unglamorous marketing agency track, or move straight into publishing. But Cecil’s life took a decidedly different turn when he and a friend started a bespoke fortune cookie company with handwritten fortunes. A chance encounter at a speed dating event got his fortune cookies into a gift basket for Tim Carvell, an editor at Fortune, who also happened, at the time,  to be head writer for the Daily Show. Which is how Cecil got his dream job, the one he had as a child, sitting at the table telling stories and writing zingers, except now he gets paid to do it.

Cecil is approximately 7” tall