19 Facts About Josh Ostrovsky

Josh Ostrovsky grew up in Manhattan on the Upper West Side.

Josh Ostrovsky attended several schools, starting at the Packer school in Brooklyn, and then attending Trevor Day School and the Dwight School, both on the Upper West Side.

Josh Ostrovsky is a co-founder of Swish Beverages, which launched White Girl Rose in 2015, followed by the Babe family of sparkling canned wines.

In 2011, Josh Ostrovsky started an Instagram account with the handle "TheFatJewish".

The account went viral in 2013 after Josh Ostrovsky posted a video parodying SoulCycle, in which he led a spin class for homeless people on Citi Bikes parked on the street.

Josh Ostrovsky has been hired to do product placement in his social media posts by companies including Burger King, Virgin Mobile, Apple, Budweiser, Weight Watchers, and Stella Artois.

Josh Ostrovsky sold a show parodying the Williamsburg, Brooklyn hipster culture to Amazon in 2013, which went unproduced.

Josh Ostrovsky signed with Creative Artists Agency in 2015, and that year began making regular appearances on Bloomberg News, starred in a Bud Light commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLIX, and appeared in the music video for DNCE's "Cake by the Ocean", as well as "Boys" by Charli XCX.

Josh Ostrovsky has appeared as himself in numerous reality television series, including 3AM and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Josh Ostrovsky has played supporting roles in several films, including the teen comedy Status Update, starring Ross Lynch and Olivia Holt.

Josh Ostrovsky was featured in a 2017 ad campaign for Malibu Rum.

Josh Ostrovsky appears in the documentary The American Meme, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

In June 2012, Josh Ostrovsky signed a modeling contract with One Management.

Josh Ostrovsky formerly hosted a radio show on Apple Music Beats 1 called Money, Pizza, Respect.

Josh Ostrovsky has said that the moniker was inspired by one of his counselors at Eisner Camp and by Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein.

In September 2016, Josh Ostrovsky announced his Major Lazer tribute band Major Behavior, formed with DJ Maachew Bentley and billed as the world's first EDM tribute band.

In 2018, Josh Ostrovsky hosted a radio show called Major Behavior on Diplo's Revolution, an electronic music channel on SiriusXM.

In 2015, Josh Ostrovsky was accused of posting screenshots of other comedians' jokes on Instagram and Twitter without their permission, and with the credits cropped out.

Josh Ostrovsky is an ordained minister and has officiated many wedding ceremonies, including a spontaneous wedding at Nikki Beach in Miami in December 2017.