Raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gregg Binkley completed his secondary education at Washburn Rural High School, where he served as class president in 1981, before relocating to California and briefly appearing as a contestant on Classic Concentration in 1988. Early on, he cultivated a niche in celebrity impersonations, notably mimicking Don Knotts’ Barney Fife for phone-call pranks and later portraying t…