Lee Camp Biography
Lee Camp is a comedian, writer, podcaster, news journalist, and news commentator from the United States. For several years, he hosted the show Redacted Tonight on the Russian state-funded network RT America.
Lee Camp Age
Lee was born on July 21, 1980, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Lee is 43 years old as of July 2023.
Lee Camp Education
He studied at the University of Virginia and wrote for The Cavalier Daily. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology in 2002.
Lee Camp Family- Parents
Camp was born at Washington, D.C.’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center.His father worked as a military doctor. Camp comes from a Jewish family and has two brothers. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, before moving to Richmond, Virginia, when he was eight years old.
Lee Camp Career
In July 2022, he launched a new MintPress News show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp. Lee Camp has a news show on YouTube called Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp. On his 19th birthday, he began performing stand-up comedy at an open-mic night at Matt’s Pub in Richmond. Camp moved to New York City after graduating from UVA, where he performed regularly at the Ha! Comedy Club. He went on to perform at colleges on a regular basis, and it was during this time that he began to incorporate political material into his stand-up act, which led to appearances at political events such as Netroots Nation conventions and Rock the Vote events. In the 2000s, he also opened for Jimmy Fallon, Darrell Hammond, and others.
Camp’s first book, Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent, was released in 2002 as a collection of his best humor columns from The Cavalier Daily. Camp co-wrote the 2005 BIGfib Book of Bollocks, a collection of stories from the satirical website BIGfib.com, with Nick Alexander and Alan Lord. Camp has written for The Onion and The Huffington Post. Camp and his partner Eleanor Goldfield launched the Common Censored podcast in 2017, focusing on grassroots activism issues. For eight years, Camp hosted and wrote the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, which aired on RT America. He told The Washington Post Magazine’s Rachel Manteuffel that the Russian government funds the network that airs his show.
Lee Camp Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
Lee Camp Films
Sometimes Funny Hurts (2007)
Lee Camp Live At Comix (2009)
We Are Nothing (2014)
Chaos for the Weary (Stand Up! Records, 2011)
Pepper Spray the Tears Away (Stand Up! Records, 2012)
2005 Dealbreaker
2005 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2006 Exposing the Order of the Serpentine