FRANK CONIFF (Timmy Schmidt) Frank was a writer on the Peabody Award winning Comedy Central series Mystery Science Theater 3000, where he also played TV's Frank, the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist sidekick. He went on to be a writer, producer and actor on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, and a writer and producer on The Drew Carey Show. He was also a writer and actor on the satirical Oxygen series O2Be and was head writer of the animated Nickelodeon series Invader Zim. He recently was the executive producer of This Evening With These People, a comedy pilot he created for the Bravo network.