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You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Awards
  
WGA Award for Best Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) Series - Television

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Joshua Lyons "Josh" Gondelman (born January 15, 1985) is an American actor, comedy writer, and stand-up comedian. He is known for his work as a writer on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and for co-creating the parody Twitter account SeinfeldToday.

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Early life and education

Gondelman was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts to a Jewish family, where he graduated from Stoneham High School. He later graduated from Brandeis University in 2007, where he double majored in creative writing and English. After graduating from college, he moved to New York in 2011 with his then-girlfriend.

Magazine journalism

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Gondelman began working for magazines after he started his stand-up career, because stand-up had proved not to be very profitable for him. His first major story, Both Sides of a Break Up, was co-authored by him and his then-girlfriend and published in New York Magazine in 2012. In 2013, he wrote a story for Esquire describing his experience running in a Tough Mudder race to promote Wheaties in exchange for monetary compensation from General Mills and Zeus Jones.

Stand-up career

As a stand-up comedian, he has opened for John Oliver, Jen Kirkman and Pete Holmes, but also (as of November 2015) performs regularly at small New York City venues. Eve Peyser has said that during his stand-up, Gondelman "radiates humility and a relatable, everyday awkwardness alongside fierce confidence and wit." His debut album, "Physical Whisper" was released on March 18, 2016.

SeinfeldToday

In December 2012, he created the Twitter account "SeinfeldToday", along with Jack Moore of Buzzfeed. This account posts humorous tweets reimagining Seinfeld characters in modern-day situations. As of October 2015, it had more than 900,000 followers. At the 6th annual Shorty Awards in 2014, the account won an award in the "#Fakeaccount" category. In October 2015, a book co-authored by Gondelman and Joe Berkowitz and based on the SeinfeldToday account, entitled You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life, was published.

Last Week Tonight

In 2014, he was hired by Last Week Tonight as a producer of original web content for the show's first season, and became a staff writer for their second season. In 2016, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work on the show.

Discography

  • Physical Whisper (2016)
  • Personal life

    As of October 2015, Gondelman was dating Maris Kreizman, the creator of the blog "Slaughterhouse 90210".

    He once dated Internet personality Gaby Dunn.

    References

    Josh Gondelman Wikipedia