American comedian, writer, and activist (born 1980)

Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer and television host who appeared on the Russian state-funded network RT America until it was shut down after Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 RT America
• 3 Discography
  • 3.1 DVD
  • 3.2 CD
• 4 Filmography
• 5 Bibliography
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life

Camp was born in Richmond, Virginia to Jewish parents, and lived in Bethesda, Maryland until 1989. His father is a psycho*yst who served 20 years in the United States military as a doctor, and 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.

At the University of Virginia, he won a compe*ion to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper The Cavalier Daily. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub in Richmond.

Career

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. With Nick Alexander and Alan Lord, Camp co-aut*d the 2005 BIGfib Book of Bollocks, a collection of stories from the satirical website BIGfib.com. Camp has been 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.

In 2017, Camp and his girlfriend Eleanor Goldfield created the Common Censored podcast, which focuses on gr*roots activism issues.

RT America

Camp was the host and head writer of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, which aired on RT America. Jason Zinoman wrote in The New York Times that his appearance on the channel: "raises questions about the comedian’s independence." He told Rachel Manteuffel of The Washington Post Magazine that the Russian government funds his show. When asked about advertising, he said, "one of the reasons I'm at RT America is because there’s no advertising. If there were advertising, no channel really wants someone who goes after corporations as much as I do."

After RT America shut down in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Camp blamed the "U.S. government war machine" for the end of the network.

Discography

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)

Filmography

Bibliography

• Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy, PM Press, 2020. ISBN:978-1-62963-785-3

References

External links

• Lee Camp's official website