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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Comedian

Name
  
Lee Camp


Subject(s)
  
Society

Years active
  
1990–present

Movies
  
Dealbreaker

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Born
  
July 21, 1980 (age 43) Washington, D.C., U.S. (
1980-07-21
)

Genres
  
Black comedy, Political satire, Observational comedy

Influences
  
Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Barry, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Lewis Black, Chris Rock, Greg Giraldo

Notable works and roles
  
The Green Room with Paul Provenza Moment of Clarity (on YouTube and podcast)

Influenced by
  
George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Lewis Black, Doug Stanhope, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Greg Giraldo, Dave Barry

Books
  
Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent: A College Humorist's Take on Life, Moment Of Clarity

Medium
  
Stand-up comedy, Television, Film, Podcast

Similar People
  
Abby Martin, Peter Joseph, Doug Stanhope, George Carlin, Bill Hicks

Profiles

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Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and activist. He is the host of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America (formerly "Russia Today").

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Early life

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Camp was born July 21, 1980 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and lived in Bethesda, Maryland, until 1989. His father is a psychoanalyst who served 20 years in the military as a doctor. His mother is a social worker. In 1989 the family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Camp stayed until he went to college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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He started writing comedy when he was 12, then got his humor columns printed in the high school literary magazine. Upon arriving at the University of Virginia, he won a competition to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper "The Cavalier Daily". Camp then wrote a weekly humor column for all four years he attended the university. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub in Richmond. The Richmond Comedy Club was downstairs, which was where Camp got his first paying gigs. He also performed regularly throughout the rest of his time at the University of Virginia, opening for Jimmy Fallon, Darrell Hammond, Lewis Black, and Tracy Morgan when they came to do shows at the school. In his final year of college, Camp self-published a book of his humor columns entitled "Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent". Upon graduation he moved to New York City.

Stand-up

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Camp spent the following years performing three shows per night at Ha! Comedy Club, N.Y.C. and performing at between 70 and 100 colleges per year.

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Camp performed at the first five Netroots Nations for the liberal blogosphere as well as the 2008 Democratic National Convention, performing during presentations that also featured Pres. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Harry Reid, and John Edwards.

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In 2008 before the presidential campaign he appeared on Fox News morning show Fox & Friends. They asked him to do left-wing jokes along with a right-wing comedian. Instead he went live on air saying "What is Fox News? It's just a parade of propaganda, isn't it? It's just a...festival of ignorance." The video clip was viewed by millions.

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He was featured running for president on Comedy Central's Fresh Debate '08, and also appeared on ABC's Good Morning America that year.

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His web series Moment of Clarity started in March 2011. It became a short podcast as well in June, 2011. There have been over 240 episodes.

Camp is a regular performer at the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

He is featured in the new book ¡Satiristas! by Paul Provenza and Dan Dion.

Camp bears a tattoo on his left forearm, a quote from Howard Zinn, which says “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.”

On December 16, 2013, Camp appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Writing

Camp's first book was Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent, a collection of his best humor columns from The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia newspaper. Cartoons were supplied by his younger brother Dean, who is also a filmmaker and author. Dean has a hit web video called Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and the children's book of the same name was a New York Times bestseller.

With Nick Alexander and Alan Lord, Camp co-authored the 2005 BIGfib Book of Bollocks, a collection of stories from the satirical website BIGfib.com. Camp is a contributor to The Onion since February, 2009, and was a staff comedy writer for The Huffington Post for ten months. He wrote and hosted OnDemand's "The Movie Loft" for three months in 2009.

Camp's most recent book is made up of the transcripts from his webseries and is titled Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity: The Rantings of A Stark Raving Sane Man. The book got as high as #5 on Amazon.com's list of top political humor books.

Television

Camp is the host, creator, and head writer of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp. It airs every Friday at 8pm EST on RT. Camp was a staff writer for the 2009 TV comedy Inside the Cinema. He is featured on the new Showtime show The Green Room with Paul Provenza. He has also been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, BBC's Newsnight, Fox News's Fox and Friends, Current TV's Viewpoint, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show, RT's Breaking the Set, Al Jazeera English's election night coverage, and RT's Keiser Report.

Acting

In 2005 Camp played the role of a waiter in Gwyneth Paltrow's short film Dealbreaker, a Sundance Film Festival official selection. That year he also appeared in the episode "Intoxicated" (season 6, episode 19) of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In the 2006 TV short Exposing the Order of the Serpentine, Camp played the role of Ashamed Man.

Radio

Camp's comedy is played regularly on SiriusXM radio.

Activism

Currently Camp works for RT televesion, which is funded by the Russian government. In many ways, RT is the Russian version of America's PBS and Britian's BBC, but with more independence from the government. There is no evidence to suggest that Camp has ever been directed to avoid any topics in his show, unlike many other news agencies.

Camp is a supporter of Occupy Wall Street and has collaborated with Peter Joseph, the Zeitgeist movement founder - and his new series Culture in Decline.

Camp was arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of Congress as part of the Democracy Spring movement to get money out of politics.

Camp attended the violent Unite the Right rally protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that took place from August 11–12, 2017. Its stated goal, from Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist organizers, was to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park. Camp was 10 feet away from, and has footage on his website of James Alex Fields, a man linked to white supremacist groups ramming his car into a crowd of counterprotesters about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the rally site, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. Camp stated on his show he is a direct descendant of John Marshall who was Robert E. Lee's third cousin. Camp being a distant relative of the Civil War Confederate General stated: "It's time to take down the Statues of Robert E. Lee or just move them all to a big building where anyone who wants to go see them can, and it will be called The Museum of Values most of us have evolved beyond".

DVD

  • Sometimes Funny Hurts (2007)
  • Lee Camp Live At Comix (2009)
  • We Are Nothing (2014)
  • CD

  • Chaos for the Weary (Stand Up! Records, 2011)
  • Pepper Spray the Tears Away (Stand Up! Records, 2012)
  • Books

  • Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent, Xlibris Corporation 2002, ISBN 1-4010-4266-X (hard-cover), ISBN 1-4010-4265-1 (paperback)
  • Bigfib Book of Bollocks (with Nick Alexander), BIGfib Books 2005, ISBN 2-9524899-3-9
  • Moment of Clarity - transcripts from 90 Moments of Clarity, with photographs from CS Muncy, CreateSpace 2012, ISBN 1-4699-6923-8 (paperback)
  • References

    Lee Camp (comedian) Wikipedia