Eugene Mirman
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Eugene Boris Mirman is a comedian, writer, and film maker based in New York City who emigrated from Russia. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts.
Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats and more. He also played a spokes-potato on Food Network and other oddities on various programs. He served as producer for the Boston-area satirical newspaper The Weekly Week from 1997 to 1999. In 2004 he released The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of Eugene Mirman, a CD/DVD on Suicide Squeeze Records. The album was voted one of the Best Albums of 2004 by both The Onion and Time Out New York.
Mirman has appeared at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, Bumbershoot, and South by Southwest. His weekly standup-variety show Invite Them Up, which he co-produces with Bobby Tisdale and Holly Schlesinger, recently won a Nightlife Award.
Mirman, much like David Cross and Patton Oswalt, is known to often perform in rock clubs and theaters, as opposed to traditional comedy clubs. Often touring the United States, Mirman occasionally opens for the comedy troupe Stella (former members of The State), various bands, or with others. He has opened for The Shins and toured with Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo and Cake.
Mirman is currently on tour with Michael Showalter and Leo Allen.
Bizarre Humor
In addition to Mirman's stand-up, he also produces a fair amount of videos of himself acting in character. He is fairly well known on the internet for making a video mimicking anti-marijuana adverts in the 1990's and for his Sexpert video giving advice about women.See also
External links
- [Eugene Mirman official website]
- [Sexpert video]
- [Kittenpants.org interview]
- [Interview From September of 2005]
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