A bit player and occasional scriptwriter on features, Ben Best made his entrée into show business in the mid- to late 2000s, by authoring the screenplay and playing one of the leads in independent director Jody Hill's low-budget martial arts comedy The Foot Fist Way (2006). Best followed that up with small on-camera assignments in A-listers including Superbad (2007) and What Happens in Vegas (2008).