1. Ben Gleib was born on June 18,1978 and is an American actor, stand-up comedian, satirist, news commentator, and writer.
32 Facts About Ben Gleib
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In 2006, Ben Gleib sold a television pilot, The Ben Gleib Show, to Fox.
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The series was based on a show of the same title that Ben Gleib had performed for four years while he attended college at the University of California, San Diego.
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In 2007, Ben Gleib starred in the NBC series The Real Wedding Crashers, a primetime comedy.
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Ben Gleib was billed as one of "the six comedians who could be comedy's next big things" and part of "a bumper crop of brilliant new-alt comics" by Esquire.
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Ben Gleib was named one of the "funniest comedians working today" by TBS.
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In 2008, Ben Gleib was featured on the NBC competition show Last Comic Standing.
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Ben Gleib subsequently performed stand-up twice on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly in 2009 and 2015.
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Ben Gleib is known for covering a wide range of topics in his act as well as his improvisational skills, often making up large sections of his performance based on interactions with the crowd.
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Ben Gleib has been a frequent guest on KPCC on the Patt Morrison Program, bringing his comedic spin to political issues.
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Ben Gleib won a Golden Mic aware for his work on Patt Morrison's Comedy Congress.
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Ben Gleib reported for KPCC live from the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota and the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Ben Gleib has appeared as an actor in thirteen movies, as well as several TV series.
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Ben Gleib's first notable role was a supporting role in the feature film Bar Starz, which had a limited theatrical release.
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Ben Gleib is billed in the main cast of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
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Ben Gleib has performed at Just for Laughs in Montreal, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, and the Laughing Matters Festival in the Netherlands.
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Ben Gleib hosted several podcasts for Current TV and wrote for the Radio Music Awards for ABC in 2002.
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Since November 2011, Gleib has hosted the podcast Last Week on Earth with Ben Gleib, distributed through Kevin Smith's SModcast Podcast Network.
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Ben Gleib served as head writer and co-executive producer for a portion of the show.
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Ben Gleib was guest co-anchor for a week for ABC News digital, from ABC News world headquarters in New York, and provided election night coverage for them in 2016.
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Ben Gleib has been a frequent on-air contributor on CNN, The Young Turks, and NPR, winning a Golden Mic Award for his work on Southern California NPR's Patt Morrison's Comedy Congress.
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Ben Gleib's follow up special, Ben Gleib: The Mad King, was produced by Helium Comedy Studios and released on their YouTube channel.
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Ben Gleib showed Kirk a photograph of a fetus and asked him if it was a human being, to which Kirk replied, "without a doubt", before Ben Gleib revealed that it was actually that of a dolphin.
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Since 2022, Ben Gleib has co-hosted episodes of The Young Turks.
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On December 2,2022, Ben Gleib, who is of Jewish heritage, made an appearance on The Young Turks criticizing Kanye West for an interview he had done with InfoWars, wherein West praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and denied the Holocaust.
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In 2018, Ben Gleib created the Telethon for America in partnership with Michelle Obama's When We All Vote organization.
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Ben Gleib again produced and hosted the Telethon for America in 2020 in partnership with Represent Us.
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On May 13,2019, Ben Gleib announced his candidacy for President of the United States on Twitter.
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Ben Gleib was interviewed by Larry King on Politicking with Larry King, by Hannah Jewell of The Washington Post, by Stuart Varney on FOX Business Network, by Tomi Lahren on Fox Nation, and on NowThis.
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Ben Gleib campaigned over the course of seven months in thirteen states and territories.
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However, Ben Gleib was unable to garner significant mainstream media attention or financing, raising less than $70,000 through all of 2019.
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Ben Gleib was on the ballot for the New Hampshire primary.