Doug Benson

Benson began doing stand-up after he and two other friends dared each other to. One of them didn't show, and the other one signed up too late. Benson claimed that "I went in anyway and did my three minutes of whatever I could come with and people actually laughed." At the age of 22, Benson began performing regularly as a stand-up comedian. He made his earliest television appearances as a stand-up in the late 1980s and early 1990s on programs such as Comedy Central's The A-List and Two Drink Minimum.… Show more One of Benson's earliest jobs in television was writing for the MTV game-show Trashed in 1994. Benson co-created and performed in the comedy stage-show The Marijuana-Logues. He also hosted High Time's Magazines 6th annual Stony Awards with rapper Redman. Doug has also appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season. In 2007, he starred in the film Super High Me. Benson also currently hosts the popular Doug Loves Movies podcast.

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