About Ben



A two-time Emmy Award winner, Ben's television credits include PBS' WordGirl, Comedy Central's Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, NBC's Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman.

Ben has studied improvisation with Matt Besser and Amy Poehler of the Upright Citizens Brigade, is a regular contributor to the David Feldman Comedy Podcast and Jimmy Dore Live on Pacifica Radio. He also did all the stuff you see over there to the right of this bio.

Ben's Friends

Rachel Allen
American Hockey Fan
Comedy and Everything Else
Jimmy Dore
David Feldman
Ruth McKee
Nothing Comics
One Good Reason
Screenwriters Rehab
What Sucks...
Jeff Yorkes

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8 December 09

Ben and Jerry’s New “Cormac McCarthy” Line

  • Orchard Keeper Apple
  • Outer Dark Chocolate
  • Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West Sorbet
  • All the Pretty Heath Bar
  • Cities of the Plain Vanilla
  • No Country for Old Mint
  • The Rocky Road

24 November 09

Ways Your Mom is Preparing for Thanksgiving

  • Tossing the salad
  • Makin’ gravy
  • Stuffing the Butterball
  • Having sex with your dad

17 November 09

Other New Exhibits at the National Gallery

According to Reuters, the National Gallery in London has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam’s Red Light District including life-like models of scantily clad women displaying themselves in windows. On display elsewhere in the gallery:

  • Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks Having Sex at the Diner
  • Pablo Picasso’s Old Naked Guitarist
  • Edgar Degas’ Girl With a Hat and Nothing Else
  • James McNeill Whistler’s Mother’s Boobs
  • John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame XXX
  • Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa (with “nip slip”)
  • Edvard Munch’s The Scream of Pleasure
  • Venus de Milo (you can totally see her you-know-whats!)

5 November 09

One Letter Off Movies

OK, so it was a Twitter meme…it still counts as humor:

  • The Wizard of AZ
  • O Brother, Where Art Thor?
  • Ratman
  • Ghostbasters
  • Pee Wee’s Bog Adventure
  • Barton Funk
  • You Don’t Mess with the Lohan

And in the adult section, behind the beaded curtain:

  • Revenge of the Nards
  • Midnight Rub
  • Superbed
  • Reservoir Dongs
  • The Boondock Taints
21 October 09

Ways to increase interest in hockey

  • Introduce new puck made of papier-mâché and filled with candy and prizes
  • ESPN 30-for-30 documentary commemorating tragic loss of Polish national team during spring training
  • Hold exhibition game in a runaway weather balloon high above Fort Collins, CO
  • Launch promotional campaign featuring A-list celebrity hockey fans Jim Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jason Priestley
  • Extra-slippery ice
  • Put Tuomo Ruutu, Jordin Tootoo, and Jonathan Cheechoo on a line together to generate big laughs in the play-by-play booth
  • Increase maximum allowable stick curvature to ¾”, increase maximum allowable mullet length to 6 ¾”
  • Distribute penalty minutes according to bodily injury inflicted:  knock out a tooth, one minute.  Slash across the glove, five minutes.  Knee to the groin, two minutes.
  • Replace Jon and Kate’s eight with Washington Capitals #8 Alex Ovechkin
  • Ensure high-scoring games by freezing goaltenders in the ice from the waist down
  • Get it the hell off of Versus

7 October 09

Acceptable reasons for a guy to wear sunglasses on the subway

  • Legally blind
  • Just had cataract surgery
  • Bug once flew into his eye and he’s been overly cautious ever since
  • Is one of the Blues Brothers (original only, not 2000)
  • A degenerative muscle disease has left him too physically weak to remove and place them in pocket
  • Is trying to encourage his nose and ears to work together on something
  • Misplaced his regular glasses and must wear prescription sunglasses until replacement pair is ready for pickup at LensCrafters (excuse only good for about an hour)
  • His eyes are sensitive to the blazing bright light that is the hallmark of the New York City subway system
  • Doesn’t want his mother to see the shiner the Cobra Kai gave him (Daniel LaRusso only)
  • Is a jagoff