Gregory Scott Shapiro (born 1968) is a

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comedian, best known as a member of the comedy group

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'' ( nl) and the author of ''How to Be Orange: An Alternative Dutch Assimilation Course'' and ''How to Be Dutch: the Quiz''. Shapiro was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he graduated from

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. In 1994, he came to the

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to help establish comedy theater Boom Chicago, where he worked with

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, and

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, among others. In 2004, he voiced the ''FloridaVotingMachine'' video that went viral before there was YouTube. In 2007, Shapiro hosted ''Comedy Central News'' on

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and started his own video weblog ''Highly Dubious News''. His radio column ''The New and Improved America'' appeared on

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in 2008. His vlog ''War for the White House'' appeared on Volkskrant.nl in 2008. In 2009, Shapiro was named a ‘Hero of Amsterdam’ by ''Time Out'' Amsterdam, for which he was a columnist. His writings have also appeared in ''Hollands Glorie'' magazine and ''The XPat Journal''. Shapiro has written and performed the solo shows ''Going Dutch'', ''How to Be Orange'', ''Superburger'' and ''How to Be Frisian''. He is now touring his solo show ''Part-Time Hypocrite''. Shapiro also has 20 years experience in Corporate Speaking / Entertainment. In 2010, he joined

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at Boom Chicago for the comedy show ''Political Party'', in which he improvised with (and impersonated) Dutch politicians such as

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, Maxime Verhagen,

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, and Tofik Dibi. In 2011, he created and presented the television programme ''Planet Nederland'', a review of Dutch society as a nature documentary. It appeared on Dutch broadcaster

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and on

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. In 2012, for NPO HumorTV, he presented a vlog about the Dutch elections called ''Verkiespijn'' and a vlog about the 2012 US election called ''United States of Shapiro''. Shapiro is currently the producer, writer and host of ''United States of Europe'' for Zoomin.TV. He is the host of the ''QuickestQuiz'' app. And he is the co-host of the ‘Amsterdam Comedy Podcast’. He tours with his fourth solo show ''Part-Time Hypocrite''. And his book ''How to Be Orange: An Alternative Dutch Assimilation Course'' is available internationally. He has also appeared in the films ''Down'' and ''

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'', and in the soap series ''

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''. His new book is called ''How to Be Dutch: the Quiz''. In 2017 Shapiro did the voice-over of " The Netherlands Second" video from

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, this video went viral with almost 39 million views.''Shapiro interview with Eva Jinek''
on YouTube

References

External links

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Greg Shapiro YouTube Channel

GregShapiro.nl
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Greg 1968 births Living people Dutch male comedians American emigrants to the Netherlands Male actors from Chicago Northwestern University alumni Comedians from Illinois Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award American people of Dutch-Jewish descent