BIO & QUOTES
02
May
> Abbreviated bio below <
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- “This up-and-coming US star is already developing a reputation for fearless political comedy, with some calling him an heir to the crown of the late, great George Carlin. ….He gets our seal of approval.” –Time Out Sydney
- “Lee Camp is an amazing writer and a great political thinker. He’s the change you and I want to see.” –Janeane Garofalo
- “Like Jon Stewart from the Daily Show but with sharper teeth.” –the Herald
- “Lee Camp is the Che Guevara of comedy. Congrats to him on his balls and integrity. Everything he does is SO good. We need more comedians with his kind of fearlessness. It’s so rare to find such artful, thoughtful passion in comedy these days. …or in life. He’s waiting for a generation to catch up with him.” –Paul Provenza
- “Lee is totally inspiring. I kinda wanna be like him when I grow up.” –Rain Pryor (actor, comedian, daughter of Richard)
- “Lee Camp has found the hole in America’s brain where reason has been replaced by Wal-Mart. Lee’s rants channel the gunk oozing out. You have to admit, that’s why he’s so fucking funny.” – Greg Palast
- “A comedy evangelist… Blistering punchlines…”–The Guardian
- “An incredibly funny man.”–John Oliver
- “Smart, clever, wonderful.” –Dick Gregory
- “Super impressive.” –Roseanne Barr
- “Courageous. …Truly demonstrating the power of comedy.” –Rick Shapiro
- “One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there – Lee Camp.” –Matt Labash (Conservative reporter for the right-wing publication The Weekly Standard)
- “Very funny.” –General Wesley Clark (former NATO Supreme Allied Commander)
- “The best and most exciting and new and fresh and VITAL performer I’ve seen in the past 30 years… The Kurt Cobain of comedy…” –Alan Lord (satirist, author of “ATM Sex”)
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> My twitter page is at www.Twitter.com/LeeCamp
The best book on comedians in 25 years is finally out - “iSatiristas!” by Paul Provenza & Dan Dion (as featured on the LA Times Bestseller list). The book includes interviews with, and photo portraits of, almost every great comic from George Carlin to Stephen Colbert to Lewis Black to Conan O’Brien. And I’m THRILLED to be included. If you have ANY interest in comedy or comedians or even laughing, you MUST get this book
ABBREVIATED BIO
- Featured on the new Showtime show “The Green Room with Paul Provenza“
- Featured in the book “iSatiristas!” by Paul Provenza and Dan Dion
- Star of Comedy Central’s “Fresh Debate ’08″ – writer/performer
- Contributor to The Onion
- Featured on BBC’s “Newsnight”
- Featured on Al Jazeera English
- Featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America”
- Former host and co-writer of OnDemand’s show “The Movie Loft”
- “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” – featured sketch (actor)
- Regular humor writer/video creator for The Huffington Post
- Regular contributor to numerous radio stations – both local and national
- Voted Best Political Comedy for 2008 by ComedySmack.com
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010
- Montreal Comedy Festival 2009 – “Best of The Fest” shows
- Montreal Comedy Festival’s 2006 New Faces – listed as one of the “best of the fest” by Hollywood Reporter, Variety, & Time Out NY
- Finalist in New York Comedy Festival’s Funniest Comic Contest
- PBS’s special “Make ‘Em Laugh” – interview/ commentary
- The Laura Flanders Show – interview/commentary
- MTV’s “Most Valuable Players” – comedic commentary
- E! Network – comedic commentary
- CNN – featured sketch
- FOX News – comedic commentary
- Animal Planet – comedic commentary
- Headlined over 500 college shows
- 2008 Democratic National Convention – featured performer
- Jon Oliver’s BBC Radio show “Political Animal” – featured comedian
- “Dealbreaker” (short film written & directed by Gwyneth Paltrow) – comedic actor (a Sundance Film Festival Official Selection)
- Spike TV’s comedy special “The Order of The Serpentine” – comedic actor
- Direct TV’s Channel 101 – featured actor/writer
- Author – “Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent”
- Co-Author – “The BigFib Book of Bollocks”
- MySpace Featured Comedian
- Washington Post – featured interview
- Sirius/XM Radio – Featured Comedian
- Sirius/XM Radio – writer/voice over
- Thousands of comedy club shows
- “Law & Order: SVU” – actor
- My various comedy writings and interviews have been picked up by: The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Politico, The Dan Abrams Show (MSNBC), The Stephanie Miller Show, The Thom Hartmann Show, The Ed Shultz Show, Comedy Central’s Indecision ’08 online, & dozens of local radio stations
Hello, and greetings from Minnesota:
(and subsequent apologies from Minnesota for Michele Bachmann; that woman is an idiot and I did not vote for her.)
I’m gonna try to not go all fangirl-y on you ’cause that’s super-creepy, but, man!, I think you’re kind of awesome. I caught one of your Moments on the Best of the Left podcast from a few days ago and have spent all the time since then horfing down every video clip I can find, reveling in your righteous anger at the broken world we live in and your quirk, adorable, witty way of phrasing that anger. You’re saying what we’re all thinking and phasing it better than most of us are capable.
Thank you!
Jess
Thanks Jess! That’s so flattering. It’s good to know people out there agree with me. And who’s to say I don’t like creepy fan-girls? But seriously, get ahold of Bachmann. Put her back in her cage.
~Lee
Lee,
got to you through Brasschecktv.com, I am based in the EU and I am sure we’ll hear more from you over here!
Tell it as it is,
ciao
FC
Your commentary is therapy. Your feature on Best of the Left is always the Best of the Best of the Left. Listening helps me survive working at the plantation that is Duke University. Thank you!
Thank you, Amy! Very kind of you. Yes, BOTL is great. Thanks for listening.
Lee — I know I’m behind the game, but I just caught the Fox news bit for the first time. First — it was awesome, thank you. Second — I thought you’d get a laugh to know that my wife was good friends of the host in that clip from school days and we’ve been social with him and his family many times over the years. I actually like him quite a bit, but I’ve often worried for him that one can’t swim in the cesspool for too long without getting covered in poo…
Keep up the good work, brother! I have a lot of respect for your work.
Just discovered you TODAY! FANTASTIC! I’ve been fighting for liberal causes since McGovern, and loosing. Even the church didn’t like a single mom and used me, I fought for Child Support Enforcement who liked my cowboy, bull-riding x better, and never gave me a dime while my daughters and I were literally starving, living in attics and basement when even the cops didn’t care if he showed up every few months after the bar closed “to see HIS kids”, to rough me up, knock out a few more teeth… (I had signed up for SPEECH COMP! one quarter before having my mouth wired back up, a concussion… ) but no-one wanted to deal with “my” “domestic situation” even years after I paid an attorney with a horse I broke while pregnant to get a divorce and get the hell out of that “domestic situation”, and had plenty of TRO’s after that.
I worked and went to school, then began “working my way up” for good causes: Women, Infants…. (WIC), Garden City Harvest, then I worked as a Union Rep, and got raped by the VP, Tom Chase, who I found out later was well known as a rapist….
There is nowhere for a liberal to go?! You said it! Get out our Chalk!
You are amazingly cool! I love what you do.
Keep it up, Lee!
Heard you on The Point, good stuff man