Colton scored a 1600 on the SAT and was a contributor to an SAT guidebook entitled "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT."
In the late 1990s, Colton was a Journalist at The Washington Post. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeney's.
From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, NY best known for its online magazine.
He married Lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.
During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007–2008, Colton and Aboud created the website AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.
