Doug Benson
Benson was born and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from a community college in San Diego before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
The most recent comedic marijuan actavist, Benson first started doing stand-up after he and two other friends dared each other to try it. One of them didn't show up, and the other had signed up too late. Benson claimed that "I went on anyway and did my three minutes of whatever I could come with and people actually laughed". Turning 22, Benson began performing regularly as a stand-up comedian, he made his earliest television appearances as a stand-up in the late 1980's and early 1990's on a number of programs such as Comedy Central's "The A-List" and "Two Drink Minimum". He also made early appearances playing bit parts on HBO's Mr. Show and was one of the featured comedians in the cast of Joel Hodgson's sketch-comedy pilot The TV Wheel which aired on Comedy Central in 1995.
With his pot patna's Arj Barker and Tony Camin, Benson co-created and performed in the hit comedy stage-show The Marijuana-Logues. He also won High Times Magazine's "Stoner of the Year Award" in 2006. Benson also made his own documentary Super High Me, which was released on DVD on June 10, 2008.
Benson also appears on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray. Benson released his first full-length solo comedy album, Professional Humoredian, on July 15th, 2008.
Benson currently hosts the popular comedy podcast "I Love Movies with Doug Benson", which is recorded in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. The show typically tapes weekly, and is later archived on iTunes for fans to listen to for free. Benson's guests have included comedians such as Brian Posehn, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, Jon Hamm, Adam Carolla, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Scott Aukerman and Paul F. Tompkins. A regular feature of the podcast is the Leonard Maltin Game, in which Benson reads the cast of an unknown movie in reverse order (star of the movie comes last) from Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide to his guests, who attempt to guess the movie. At the conclusion of many of the early podcasts, Doug would state "Willem Dafoe is a shithead", which resulted in so many people wondering about why, that Google searches began to automatically complete the phrase as a suggested match.
On August 4, 2009, Benson's second CD, Unbalanced Load, was released by Comedy Central Records
The most recent comedic marijuan actavist, Benson first started doing stand-up after he and two other friends dared each other to try it. One of them didn't show up, and the other had signed up too late. Benson claimed that "I went on anyway and did my three minutes of whatever I could come with and people actually laughed". Turning 22, Benson began performing regularly as a stand-up comedian, he made his earliest television appearances as a stand-up in the late 1980's and early 1990's on a number of programs such as Comedy Central's "The A-List" and "Two Drink Minimum". He also made early appearances playing bit parts on HBO's Mr. Show and was one of the featured comedians in the cast of Joel Hodgson's sketch-comedy pilot The TV Wheel which aired on Comedy Central in 1995.
With his pot patna's Arj Barker and Tony Camin, Benson co-created and performed in the hit comedy stage-show The Marijuana-Logues. He also won High Times Magazine's "Stoner of the Year Award" in 2006. Benson also made his own documentary Super High Me, which was released on DVD on June 10, 2008.
Benson also appears on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray. Benson released his first full-length solo comedy album, Professional Humoredian, on July 15th, 2008.
Benson currently hosts the popular comedy podcast "I Love Movies with Doug Benson", which is recorded in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. The show typically tapes weekly, and is later archived on iTunes for fans to listen to for free. Benson's guests have included comedians such as Brian Posehn, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, Jon Hamm, Adam Carolla, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Scott Aukerman and Paul F. Tompkins. A regular feature of the podcast is the Leonard Maltin Game, in which Benson reads the cast of an unknown movie in reverse order (star of the movie comes last) from Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide to his guests, who attempt to guess the movie. At the conclusion of many of the early podcasts, Doug would state "Willem Dafoe is a shithead", which resulted in so many people wondering about why, that Google searches began to automatically complete the phrase as a suggested match.
On August 4, 2009, Benson's second CD, Unbalanced Load, was released by Comedy Central Records
Benson at the premire of 'EXTRACT'
Bio
- BORN: May 7, 1964
- WHERE: San Diego, CA
- MEDIUM: Stand Up Comedy
- Nationality: American
Discography
Comedy Death-Ray (2008)
Professional Humoredian (2008)
Unbalanced Load (2009)
Professional Humoredian (2008)
Unbalanced Load (2009)
Filmography
Heckler (2007)
Super High Me (2007)
Yacht Rock (2005)
Run Ronnie Run (2002)
Super High Me (2007)
Yacht Rock (2005)
Run Ronnie Run (2002)
