The Daily Feather — Celebrity Guessing Games

Hint #1: Born July 19, 1980 in Palm Springs, California.

Hint #2: Graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Loyola Marymount University in 2002.

Hint #3: Founded a band named Sully and the Benevolent Folk.

Hint #4: Has one son named Bear Maxwell born July 28, 2020.

Still stumped? After college, he toured with the longest-running one-man show in Broadway history, “Defending the Caveman,” performing it more than 1,000 times on the road. He was part of the original Broadway cast of “Lombardi” and played alongside Matthew Broderick in “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” On the big screen, he was ‘Taserface’ in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. On the small screen, he starred in Steven Soderbergh’s drama “The Knick” and won a Satellite award for Best Ensemble. His most familiar role of “Toby” on NBC’s award-winning show “This is Us,” earned him two Emmy Award Nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Of all his recognizable performances, one stands above the rest: Chris Sullivan was the voice of Caleb the Camel in the wildly popular, meme-generating Hump Day GEICO commercial.

Today’s Hump Day economic calendar features a vital update to 2023’s fourth-quarter labor market data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Business Employment Dynamics (BED) report hits at 10:00 a.m. ET. While most will ignore it, we don’t have that luxury as it incorporates the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of private sector job growth, the hardest data in existence. QCEW benchmarks nonfarm payrolls on a lower frequency, once a year. In the third quarter, BED’s net change in private sector jobs flipped a nearly 500,000 positive print to -192,000, a recessionary decline. Should the fourth-quarter print with another negative sign, stretching the streak of job losses to six months, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s qualifying “unexpected weakening” in the labor market will have unequivocally been met.