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Joel Moss Levinson is a writer, comedian from Yellow Springs, Ohio. He often collaborates with his older brother, Stephen Levinson, as the Levinson Brothers.
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- MUSICAL COMEDY
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In 2016 they began work on a musical comedy called "Boy Band," the story of a late 1990's Boy Band who were wildly successful but have now gotten older, fatter and balder and haven't realized they are no longer "boys." The movie was primarily filmed in and around Dayton, Ohio and gained attention from national publication Newsweek as a new approach to advance the "decentralization of comedy." The movie stars Steve Agee, Jordan Carlos, Dave Hill and Seth Herzog as the boy band "The Heartthrob Boyz," and was the subject of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
The pair were a part of TedX Dayton 2014, speaking about successful collaboration.
MUSICAL COMEDY
Along with their third partner, CONAN and former Daily Show writer Rob Kutner, the Levinson Brothers released "2776" a comedy/musical album benefitting the charity OneKid OneWorld. Featuring Aimee Mann, Patton Oswalt, Ed Helms, Ashanti, Reggie Watts, Ira Glass, Nina Totenberg, Will Forte, Rebirth Brass Band, Yo La Tengo, Margaret Cho, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan, Dick Cavett, Dick Gregory, k.d. lang, Will Arnett, Alex Trebek and more, the album appeared briefly on the Billboard Comedy charts. The album's liner notes were written by George Saunders and appeared in the New Yorker Joel composed the music for all but two of the 28 tracks.
In 2012, the Levinson Brothers and Rob Kutner released an EP called "It's OK To Do Stuff" in celebration of the 40th anniversary of "Free To Be You And Me." Made up of songs satirizing the original with songs about gender, childhood, equality and relationships. "It's Okay to Do Stuff is first and foremost meant to be funny — and it is, most of the time. Here, the earnestness of Free to Be is replaced with satire, but irony is the ethos of our age, remember?" The album features Lizzy Caplan, Fred Willard, Jane Weidlin, Steven Page, Colin Hanks, Fred Stoller, Eddie Pepitone, Eugene Mirman and others.
INTERNET
Joel gained national attention in 2008 as an Internet personality who professionally wins consumer generated marketing contests, and earned more than money and prizes, by creating corporate jingles and short commercials.
Levinson grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father Jim was a prosecutor and his mother was a writer. He attended George Washington University for a few semesters. He worked for the KIO (Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio) region for BBYO and traveled the country as a song leader for the organization.
In November 2008, he appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about his contest winnings. Joel was named an Access Hollywood Rising Star on December 1, 2008. In 2009 he appeared on CBS News with Katie Couric.