Bridget Nelson (born September 24, 1964), also credited as Bridget Jones or Bridget Jones Nelson, is a former writer for MST3K and has been married to Michael J. Nelson since 1989. They have two sons - George and August. August Nelson is an occasional writer for RiffTrax.
Bridget played various recurring or guest characters on the show in addition to co-writing. Her characters include Mr. B Natural, Nuveena, Flavia and Darlene.
In June 2015, Bridget teamed up with Mary Jo Pehl in a new series of short and feature film riffs for RiffTrax.
In 2017 she began her (approximately) one-minute podcast Instead of Tweeting. She has joined The Mads for two of their livestream events.
Guest Apperances[]
- Helen - Gamera vs Zigra
- Amazon Mom - Hercules
- Nuveena - 12 to the Moon, San Francisco International
- Lisa Loeb - Racket Girls
- Bridget of Deep 12 - The Sword and the Dragon
- Shelly - The Beast of Yucca Flats
- Mr. B Natural - Turkey Day '95 bumpers, Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day)
- Carla (voice) - The Brute Man
- Adrienne Barbeau - The Thing That Couldn't Die
- The Witch - The Undead
- Darlene - Parts: The Clonus Horror, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- Flavia - Prince of Space, The Horror of Party Beach, Devil Doll, Invasion of the Neptune Men, Space Mutiny
RiffTrax Appearances[]
- The Bridget & Mary Jo Collection
- June 10, 2007 - Grey's Anatomy (with Mike Nelson)
- October 15, 2007 - Next (with Mike Nelson)
- April 4, 2016 - Night of the Shorts: SF Sketchfest 2016 (with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Mary Jo Pehl, Adam Savage, John Hodgman, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton)
- September 21, 2016 - Rifftrax Live! MST3K Reunion Show (with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Mary Jo Pehl, Jonah Ray, Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff)
- August 10, 2017 - RiffTrax Live! Summer Shorts Beach Party (with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Paul F. Tompkins, Mary Jo Pehl, Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff)
- December 15, 2017 - Batman v Superman (with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, Matthew J. Elliot, Ian Potter, Conor Lastowka, Sean Thomason, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu)
- February 28, 2019 - Day of the Shorts: SF Sketchfest 2019 (with Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney, Cole Stratton Sean Thomason and John Hodgman)
- April 24, 2020 - The Most Dangerous Game (with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy)
- July 4, 2020 - An Airplane Trip by Jet (with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy)
- September 25, 2020 - Charade (with Mike Nelson)
Personal quotes[]
- "When I started on the show, Mike and I were engaged. I was writing scripts at home, so Mike would come home and the movie was still on the VCR, and he’d be like, “Oh, God—please!”"
- "We didn’t have the Internet when we started, so our references were from our own brains. There was no looking stuff up."