1. Mark Moshe Kasher was born on July 6,1979 and is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area.
21 Facts About Moshe Kasher
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Moshe Kasher is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16.
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Moshe Kasher was named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine.
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Moshe Kasher grew up in North Oakland's Temescal and Piedmont Avenue neighborhoods, and his family lived mostly on disability assistance and food stamps.
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Moshe Kasher's parents met at the World Games for the Deaf in 1967 and split up when Kasher was nine years old.
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Moshe Kasher was kicked out of four different high schools.
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Moshe Kasher attended community college in the Bay Area, where he studied theater and wrote several long-form monologues.
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Moshe Kasher later transferred to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a degree in religious studies and minored in Jewish studies.
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In 2001, Moshe Kasher attended an open mic comedy night in New York which included a performance by Chelsea Peretti, a comedian and writer with whom Moshe Kasher had attended junior high school in Oakland.
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Moshe Kasher was named "Best of Fest" at that year's Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival; his performance in Aspen garnered him an invitation to the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal that same year.
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Moshe Kasher was recognized by iTunes as the Top New Comedy Artist of 2009.
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Moshe Kasher's stand-up act has been featured on such television programs as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2010 and John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show in 2011.
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Moshe Kasher has appeared as a frequent panelist on Chelsea Lately.
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Moshe Kasher has attended SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California on several occasions.
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In September 2016, Comedy Central ordered a talk show series to be written and hosted by Moshe Kasher, entitled Problematic, which premiered on April 18,2017.
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Moshe Kasher wrote an episode titled "Pardon Me" for the television show, The New Normal.
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Moshe Kasher played small roles in the independent films Sorry, Thanks and Wish Makers of West Hollywood.
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Moshe Kasher appeared on episodes of the Fox sitcom Traffic Light in 2011 and the NBC sitcom Whitney in 2012.
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Moshe Kasher said the following of the podcast in a 2011 interview with SanDiego.
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In October 2014, Moshe Kasher premiered a new podcast on the Nerdist Podcast Network.
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Moshe Kasher married fellow comedian Natasha Leggero, who converted to Judaism, in October 2015.