email: Camp337@hotmail.com ** also at YouTube.com/LeeCamp ** and on FACEBOOK (search "Lee Camp")
TV Shows
BELOW IS THE LEE CAMP SAMPLER (including Comedy Central, MTV, & some standup at Carolines on Broadway - don't swim for one hour after consuming the sampler)
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If you’re reading this you’d like to know a little about me ...unless you stop reading right now. If you did, you didn’t really want to know much about me. BUT if you’re still reading now - you actually do want to know about me. Now that we’ve weeded out those other pricks, let’s get to it. The question becomes - If I boiled my entire existence down to one sentence what would it be? It would probably be "Zero hero cat’s turtle havoc on the underside," but that would make little sense to anyone but me. So here’s a little more - I grew up in VA, went to Univeristy of VA, started performing comedy at 19 in hell hole called Matt’s Pub and Comedy Club in Richmond, VA. I moved to NYC at 22 with no friends, little money, little understanding of the world, and very little common sense. I would hand out fliers in Times Square in negative temperatures for three hours a night in exchange for 7 minutes onstage per hour. I almost died that year - not due to the temperatures, but due to the SPAM on bread I ate as dinner. Somewhere around age 23, while doing comedy, I realized our world is a mess. I find the best way to come to terms with just how f*cked things are is to make people laugh at it. If I weren’t yelling jokes onstage, I’d be yelling them in the streets just to get them out of my brain and into a puddle on the sidewalk. Then when someone stepped in the puddle of my rantings, I would feel i had contributed to the solution. ...And that’s my life. Please don’t print it on a tee shirt.
~Lee
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Lee’s First comedy DVD "Sometimes Funny Hurts" is now available. It’s 50 minutes of his live stand-up plus two episodes of his critically-ignored comedy webcast. The DVD only costs $14.99 and one dollar of every sale goes to help victims in Sudan. To order just go to www.FilmBaby.com and do a search for "Lee Camp". ***
Films
LEE’S TELEVISION APPEARANCES: 1) Comedy Central’s "Fresh Debate ’08"2) MTV’s "Walk of Shame" (as a comedian commentator)3) Fox News’ "Red Eye" (as a comedian commentator4) CNN (his sketch was featured)5) Spike TV’s "The Order of The Serpentine"6) E! network’s "50 Best Chick Flicks" (as a comedian comentator)7) "Law & Order: SVU"8) Animal Planet’s "The A List" (as comedian commentator)9) DirecTV channel 101 "The Fizz Newz"10) his performance in the Finals of the NYC Comedy Festival was shown on TV in and around NY
FILMS THAT FEATURED LEE:
1) "Dealbreaker" - a short film by Gwyneth Paltrow which was shown in the Sundance Film Festival
2) "Saffron Park" - an independent short film
3) "Road Dog" - a documentary about stand-up comedy
COOL WEB APPEARANCES:
1) Regular contributor to HuffingtonPost.com and 236.com
2) Featured on homepage of Robert Greenwald’s BraveNewFilms.org
3) Featured on frontpage of Alternet.org
4) Featured on frontpage of DailyKos.com
5) Featured regularly on OpenLeft.com
Albums
OTHER COOL STUFF:
-Lee was recently a FINALIST in the New York Comedy Festival’s Funniest Stand-Up competition.
-Lee was featured in the Montreal Comedy Festival’s New Faces. He got named one of the "Best of the Fest" by Time Out New York. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety also picked him as one of the standouts.
-Recently Lee performed before John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barak Obama at the YearlyKos Convention. General Wesley Clark -former Supreme Allied Commander - called him very funny.
-Lee’s CD/ DVD "Sometimes Funny Hurts" is now available at CDBaby.com or FilmBaby.com as well as iTunes and Napster.
-He’s written three comedy books.
1) A humor novel entitled "Broke ’n Times Square" which is available at www.CafePress.com/LeeCamp
2) A collection of his humor columns published in the Universtiy of VA’s newspaper. It’s called "Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent: A College Humorist’s Take On Life" and is cheapest when purchased at www.XLibris.com
LEE CAMP's Interests
Music
AGENT for COLLEGE BOOKING: Joey Edmonds Presents (JoeyEdmonds.com)
LITERARY AGENT: Bob MeCoy at Creative Book Services (BobMecoy.com)
Movies
Recent quotes about Lee's comedy-
Review on DailyKos.com: Lee Camp kicked ass so hard it didn't even look like ass anymore.
Darrell Hammond said: [Lee's] really got what it takes. Impressive.
The top political comedian in the country, Will Durst, said in a recent interview:
Lenny Bruce was my biggest influence. I used to listen to him before I went on stage. And there are great political comics out there [like] Lee Camp, Costaki, David Feldman, Johnny Steel, Barry Weintraub. Marga Gomez is my hero.
Television
TELEVISION LEE LIKES:
Family Guy, West Wing, Simpsons, Daily Show, Family Guy, West Wing, American Dad, Family Guy, West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Family Guy, West Wing, The Office, Countdown with Keith Olberman
>>>MOVIES LEE LIKES:
Fight Club, Office Space, Mulholland Drive, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Requiem For A Dream, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, Dazed & Confused, Back To The Future
Books
Confessions of An Economic Hit Man, Static, Exception To The Rulers, Catch 22, 1984, any Al Franken, any Michael Moore, Seinlanguage, Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent: A College Humorist's Take On Life, Broke 'N Times Square, Lies My Teacher Told Me
Heroes
Pastor Martin Niemoller's famous poem, updated by me to fit our current situation:
They came first for the Homosexuals,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Homosexual.
Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim.
Then they came for the Immigrants,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an Immigrant.
Then they came for the Journalists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Journalist.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up for me.
About me: Black Eyed Peas OBAMA music video:
Posted by Paul Provenza (Producer/Director of the movie "The Aristocrats"):
Congrats to LEE CAMP on his balls and integrity! We need more comedians with his kind of fearlessness. This is right up there with Stephen Colbert at the White House Press Corps dinner and Jon Stewart on Crossfire. Way to go, Lee. I knew you were gonna be the best kind of trouble when I met him.
REVIEW FROM PUNCHLINE MAGAZINE written by JESSICA AGI
Nov 11, 2007
"I had somehow never seen Lee Camp before, but I thought his stand-up was fantastic! ...Whether talking about celebrities going to rehab for dumb reasons or childhood obesity (his idea for an obesity exchange program is alone worth seeing this guy live), Camp put a new spin on topics everyone’s familiar with. His last line, 'I’m a cynical optimist–I see the glass is half FULL of shit,' sums up his material best."
E-mail sent by Andrew at University of Delaware
"Man, I just gotta say you're the only comedian we've had that I looked up on myspace and added. I did so because I thought you were really funny and I hadn't ever heard of you before so I wanted to find out more, and I liked the more that I found out. You've got a really solid act and a distinct style that is hilarious. I really liked the uniqueness of your performance. I've worked at the comedy night event every week for the past couple years, and it's easy to tell when someone has command over their set. You definitely should be playing larger crowds than "the Scrounge" at U. Delaware."
To buy an MP3 or ringtone of Lee's comedy go to: www.payplay.fm/leecamp
OR www.phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/
MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=260087978
OR www.groupietunes.com/artists/LeeCamp
WATCH LEE BRINGING A LITTLE TRUTH TO FOX NEWS:
LEE STAND-UP AND INTERVIEW:
Who I'd like to meet:
If you're with a college activities board and are considering bringing Lee to perform at your school, e-mail Lee's college agent at info@JoeyEdmonds.com
To get in touch with Lee outside of MySpace or to purchase his DVD or CD, e-mail Camp337@hotmail.com
If you're a college student but not on the activities board and wish to have Lee perform at your school, e-mail Camp337@hotmail.com to get more information.
Lee is also at YouTube.com/LeeCamp and on FaceBook (just do a search for "Lee Camp")
My friend saw you in NY and said you were awesome. *sighs* One day Lee, one day I will see your funny in person. Until then, I remain loyal to your myspace! hahaha
Lee! Funny man! I..m so glad I caught one of the shows while I was in NYC. You were great! I hope you come down to VA sometime... Cheers and have fun on the 21st! Wish I could be there. You and John at the same evening - Oh, man!
I think it was a NYT article which noted that when asked how he would balance the budget, McCain gave the standard answer of "stimulating the economy". And that he approvingly cited the economic policies of His Holiness Ronald Reagan.
What a curious economic theory! Balancing the budget .... by racking up the deficit? Hmm.
John McCain: From conducting the Straight Talk Express to riding backseat in the Bush Bandwagon.
I am due for a trip up there soon. I usually go every 2 years so when I make it up there I will definitely check you out. Great work on Fox by the way...you had them on their heels the whole time!
Hey hey old timer! I have been keeping up with your posts and blogs...seems like you are flourishing. I just wanted to congratulate you on your success. Hope all is well and let me know if you are ever in the RIC. Keep it up...you are doing great!
