Nationality American Name Jake Sasseville Books Slightly Famous | Website Official website Role Journalist | |
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Birth name Jacob-Steven Sarto Sasseville Notable works and roles "The Jake Sasseville Show""Delusions of Grandeur'"The Mash'The Edge with Jake SassevilleLate Night Republic Education | ||
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Jake Sasseville (born November 30, 1985) is an American broadcaster and journalist who was the youngest host in late night TV history on ABC. He has hosted his own talk show, The Edge with Jake Sasseville, on ABC, "Late Night Republic with Jake Sasseville" on FOX and has written the book Slightly Famous, his first book. He lives in Maui.
Contents
- Interview with late night republic jake sasseville
- Jake sasseville goes to temple late night republic
- Biography
- The Jake Sasseville Show
- Criticism
- References
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Biography
Sasseville grew up in Auburn, Maine, and attended Edward Little High School He attended Edward Little High School in Auburn. At age 13, Sasseville took up magic, taking lessons weekly with local Maine magician Bob Nixon. He began performing card magic and stage magic a few months later. Both shows passed on Sasseville as guest, despite the fact that at age 14, he was one of the youngest to join the Society of American Magicians. Sasseville continued performing throughout high school, as a means to fund his local access TV show.
Sasseville left the US when he was 15 to study abroad in France. and subsequently enroled in the New York Institute of Technology. and transferred to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City for two and a half years, before dropping out of college to pursue his career full-time.
Sasseville favours the reality-talk formula as seen on "The Edge.". He launched Late Night Republic on CW and FOX, a crowd sourced late night talk show. In 2012, he created "Delusions of Grandeur" which has elements of reality and sitcom combined.
In 2012, Sasseville created the sitcom "Delusions of Grandeur," which ran on ABC Family. He was the host and executive producer of Late Night Republic on CW and Fox which ran from 2010–2012, and the host of The Edge with Jake Sasseville which ran from 2007–2010.
Sasseville has conducted off-beat interviews—including a variety of locations and odd pairings. Guests included actor Rainn Wilson of The Office, musician and activist Wyclef Jean, the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, Al Capone's grandson Chris and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Sasseville has conducted a number of university speaking tours. From 2007 to 2010, he hosted and produced portions of the "Crocs Next Step Campus Tour," a music tour featuring Kanye West, One Republic, Guster, Fabolous and Brett Dennen. In 2010 and 2011, he launched The Pringles Xtreme Campus Tour, a charity program to help education in southeast Asia. To promote his new show "Late Night Republic," he also embarked on a 40-city road tour, speaking at universities among other events.
Sasseville was named by the White House as one of the top entrepreneurs in America in 2012.
The Jake Sasseville Show
On September 16, 2014, Sasseville launched "The Jake Sasseville Show," a podcast, and the show quickly built an audience of one million listeners thanks in part to initial guests like Yvette Noel-Schure (Beyonce's publicist), presidents of Fortune 500 companies and NBA teams, professional sports athletes, Grammy winning musicians and best-selling authors. In order to launch the show successfully, Sasseville called on his wide circle of friends as initial guests.
In 2015, Huffington Post wrote of the show: "The Jake Sasseville Show is at the intersection of Culture and Consciousness" in a story re-capping Sasseville's interview with Garrett Madison, Mount Everest climber and survivor of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Criticism
Sasseville has drawn criticism from his disruptive marketing tactics. When the restaurant chain Wendy's refused to take his call to advertise with him, Sasseville showed up at the flagship store beside the corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, inviting every woman named Wendy in the area to have lunch with him at Wendy's. He broke the world record for largest drum ensemble on Pringles Xtreme cans to win the affinity of the brand.
In 2008, the New York Observer 's Spencer Morgan called Sasseville "a most Un-PC Talk Show Host."