Benjamin Jacob Fogelnest (born March 14, 1979), known professionally as Jake Fogelnest, is an Emmy and WGA Award nominated writer, comedian, former radio personality, and satirist.

Career

Squirt TV

In January 1994, when he was 14 years old, he started a pop culture television show, ''Squirt TV'', from his

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bedroom and aired on Manhattan

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. In 1996 the show moved from public-access television to

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under the name ''Squirt TV on MTV''.

Television

In 2005, he created ''Ten Years Later'' for MTV, a fictional documentary which followed Fogelnest's life if he "never grew out of 'Squirt TV.'" The show was co-written and directed by Tom Gianas. * Creator of the unproduced series ''Start Making Sense'' for IFC.

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served as executive producer and was slated to direct the pilot. * Staff writer for

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's '' Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.'' * Story editor for the first season of the

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series ''

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,'' and became a consulting producer for the second and third seasons. * Writer for two seasons on

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's ''

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''. * Co-producer on ''

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'' for Netflix and wrote the episode ''Long Ass Pants.'' * Executive producer/

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for season one of the

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series ''

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'', also writing the episode ''Society Tomorrow…'' * Wrote for the

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and

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specials ''The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish'' for Amazon and ''The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!''for HBO. * Executive producer on the second season of '' Liza on Demand''.

Other television

He was a regular commentator on

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's '' I Love the...'' series. Other television credits include a 1995 hour-long special for

, MTV's ''

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'', ''

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'', and guest appearances on ''The Jon Stewart Show,'' ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2018, he appeared as DJ Dan Lyon in season two of the Netflix series ''GLOW''.

Additional writing

He has written for magazines such as ''

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'', ''Ray Gun'', ''Bikini'', ''

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'', and '' Jane'' and ''

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.'' He contributed to the liner notes for

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's 2015 boxset, ''The Best of the Best Show'' with a definitive interview he conducted with

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and

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. In 2015, he wrote a piece for ''

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'' sharing his feelings about the retirement of David Letterman from late-night television.

Theatre

In 1999, became actively involved at the

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in New York City when it opened in 1999. In 2000, he co-directed ''

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is a Black Man'' for the ''

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'' alum. The show originated at UCB and was also performed at The Second City in Chicago. In 2001, he served as assistant director for

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's one-woman show Jesus Is Magic at Joe's Pub. In 2002, he co-directed (with

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) the two-person show "Eye Candy," starring

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and

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, which was selected for the 2002

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US Comedy Arts Festival. In 2004 he participated in the creation of " George Bush is a Motherfucker," which featured many members of

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and was produced by Adam McKay. In 2005 he and Paul Scheer regularly hosted the show ''Talk Show with Jake Fogelnest'' at the original New York UCB Theatre. In 2015, Scheer and Fogelnest brought the show ''Talk Show with Jake Fogelnest'' back for one-night only to celebrate the UCB Theatre's 10th Anniversary in Los Angeles. In 2015, Fogelnest worked as a director with "Three Busy Debras" at the Annoyance Theatre in Brooklyn, New York.

Radio

In 2004, he won a New York City A.I.R. Award for hosting the "Top 92 Worst Xmas Songs of All-Time" on the former WXRK where he worked as a DJ before the station changed formats and became WFNY-FM. Upon K-Rock's format switch, he hosted a radio show on the new Free-FM with Jackie Clarke called ''Jake and Jackie''. The show was a combination of pop culture discussion and radio sketch comedy. He left the show for

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radio in 2006. From 2006-2014, he had a show on

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channel, Sirius XMU. He was also heard on Sirius XM

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Podcasting and web productions

In 2012, he appeared as a DJ in the music video for

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's video, "Easy". In September 2012, he launched, ''The Fogelnest Files'' on

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. Due to his increasing workload in television, he put the show on hiatus in 2014. In 2014, he served as a staff writer and director at

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. He has appeared as a guest on numerous podcasts over the years, including ''

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.'' In 2017, he appeared on the "What's in My Bag" series from

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. In 2019, he began writing for "The Ron Burgundy Podcast." In August 2020, he launched his official Patreon

References

External links

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Jake Fogelnest's Patreon: Professional Digital EntertainmentInstagramTwitterJake Fogelnest on Funny Or Die''The Fogelnest Files'' podcast
on

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