Greg Gutfeld
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Greg Gutfeld is an American
television personality, political satirist, humorist, magazine editor and blogger. Gutfeld is the host of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
on the Fox News Channel
. He is also one of five co-hosts/panelists on Fox News
political talk-show The Five
, which debuted on July 11, 2011. Gutfeld identifies politically as libertarian
. Gutfeld (2009): "I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing."
. He attended Junípero Serra High School and the University of California, Berkeley
, graduating in 1987. He currently resides in New York City
with his wife, Elena Moussa, whom he met in London
. He previously lived in Allentown, PA for approximately 10 years.
, as an assistant to R. Emmett Tyrrell
. He then got his first full-time job as a staff writer at Prevention
magazine. In 1995, he became a staff writer at Men's Health
.
He was promoted to editor-in-chief of Men's Health in 1999. In 2000, he was replaced by David Zinczenko
and became editor-in-chief of Stuff
. At Stuff, the circulation increased from 750,000 to 1.2 million during his tenure. In 2003, he hired several midget
s to attend a conference of the "Magazine Publishers of America" on the topic of "buzz," with the instructions to be as loud and annoying as possible. The stunt did generate publicity for Stuff, but it led to Gutfeld being fired from the magazine soon afterward; he was then made head of "brand development" at Dennis Publishing
.
He helmed Maxim
magazine in the UK
, from 2004 to 2006. However, Gutfeld's contract expired without renewal after losses in readership under his tenure. His final year at Maxim saw a loss of about 40,000 readers. On the December 16, 2009 episode of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, Gutfeld's former boss, Maxim owner Felix Dennis
, stated that Gutfeld was fired as a result of a Maxim story entitled "The Ikea
Sex Party", for which the publication was sued.
Gutfeld was one of the first posting contributors to the The Huffington Post
from its launch in 2005 until October 2008; frequent targets of his sarcasm included his colleagues Deepak Chopra
, Cenk Uygur
and Arianna Huffington
and Huffington Post bloggers. Many of his Huffington Post commentaries/blogs are still available on its website. He currently blogs at his own site, "The Daily Gut."
Since February 5, 2007, Gutfeld has been host of the hour-long Fox News Channel late-night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
, which airs at 3 AM Eastern Time. Since the show began, Bill Schulz
has been Gutfeld's sidekick
and Andy Levy has been the show's ombudsman
. Schulz is a former colleague of Gutfeld's from Stuff
magazine and Andy Levy was a blogger at The Huffington Post
who caught Gutfeld's attention with his funny postings.
In July 11, 2011 Gutfeld became a co-host/panelist, along with Juan Williams
, Dana Perino
, Andrew Napolitano
and others, on the Fox News political-opinion program 'The Five'. The panel for the first four episodes consisted of Gutfeld, Andrea Tantaros
, Bob Beckel
, Dana Perino
, and Eric Bolling
. The program airs weekdays at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT.
He also appeared on the show Louie
in the episode titled "Come On, God". He plays himself hosting a parody show called Real Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. His show is hosting a debate between Louis C.K.
& Ellen Farber (Liz Holtan). Ellen is the spokeswoman for an organization called Christians Against Masturbation, while Louie is the only person they could find to defend masturbation. The episode aired on August 11, 2011 on FX.
after he, Bill Schulz and guest panelists of Red Eye mocked a Canadian military official's remarks that Canada's military could take a year-long 'synchronized break' from its role in the War in Afghanistan
. Canadian Minister of National Defence
Peter MacKay
demanded an apology from Fox News, which Gutfeld then provided a day later, saying in a statement that "It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military, and for that I apologize."
In August 2010 Gutfeld made news by proposing to open a gay bar
for Muslims
next door to the planned Park51 Mosque in New York City
, sometimes referred to as the "Ground Zero
mosque".
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television personality, political satirist, humorist, magazine editor and blogger. Gutfeld is the host of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...
on the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
. He is also one of five co-hosts/panelists on Fox News
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
political talk-show The Five
The Five (TV program)
The Five is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel featuring a rotating panel of contributors who discuss current political issues. The show premiered in July 2011, replacing the Glenn Beck program, and airs on weekdays at 5:00 PM ET....
, which debuted on July 11, 2011. Gutfeld identifies politically as libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
. Gutfeld (2009): "I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing."
Personal life
Gutfeld was born and raised in San Mateo, CaliforniaSan Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...
. He attended Junípero Serra High School and the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, graduating in 1987. He currently resides in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
with his wife, Elena Moussa, whom he met in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. He previously lived in Allentown, PA for approximately 10 years.
Career
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in English, he interned at The American SpectatorThe American Spectator
The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation. From its founding in 1967 until the late 1980s, the small-circulation magazine featured the writings of authors...
, as an assistant to R. Emmett Tyrrell
Emmett Tyrrell
Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is an American conservative magazine editor, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. He writes under the byline R...
. He then got his first full-time job as a staff writer at Prevention
Prevention (magazine)
Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, started in 1950, and published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects includes food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, and cooking. It was founded by J. I. Rodale...
magazine. In 1995, he became a staff writer at Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
.
He was promoted to editor-in-chief of Men's Health in 1999. In 2000, he was replaced by David Zinczenko
David Zinczenko
David Zinczenko is the editor-in-chief of Men's Health magazine and editorial director of Women's Health, Prevention, and Organic Gardening. He authors the bestselling series, Eat This, Not That! and the Abs Diet...
and became editor-in-chief of Stuff
Stuff (magazine)
Stuff is a men's magazine featuring reviews of consumer electronics, and other articles of interest to a predominantly male audience.- UK edition :...
. At Stuff, the circulation increased from 750,000 to 1.2 million during his tenure. In 2003, he hired several midget
Midget
A midget is a short person with relatively average bodily proportions in comparison with other human beings. The term is often improperly used to describe a person with the medical condition dwarfism. The two terms are often used synonymously because both terms originate as words defining small...
s to attend a conference of the "Magazine Publishers of America" on the topic of "buzz," with the instructions to be as loud and annoying as possible. The stunt did generate publicity for Stuff, but it led to Gutfeld being fired from the magazine soon afterward; he was then made head of "brand development" at Dennis Publishing
Dennis Publishing
Dennis Publishing Ltd. is an independent publisher. It was founded in 1974.As of April 2010 the company publishes 31 magazine or online titles, predominately in the UK....
.
He helmed Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
magazine in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, from 2004 to 2006. However, Gutfeld's contract expired without renewal after losses in readership under his tenure. His final year at Maxim saw a loss of about 40,000 readers. On the December 16, 2009 episode of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, Gutfeld's former boss, Maxim owner Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis is a British magazine publisher, poet, and philanthropist. His privately owned company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom...
, stated that Gutfeld was fired as a result of a Maxim story entitled "The Ikea
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
Sex Party", for which the publication was sued.
Gutfeld was one of the first posting contributors to the The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
from its launch in 2005 until October 2008; frequent targets of his sarcasm included his colleagues Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...
, Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur
Cenk Kadir Uygur , is the main host and co-founder of the liberal Internet and talk radio show, The Young Turks . A naturalized U.S. citizen, Uygur was born in Turkey and raised from age eight in the United States. He worked as an attorney in Washington D.C. and New York before beginning his career...
and Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s...
and Huffington Post bloggers. Many of his Huffington Post commentaries/blogs are still available on its website. He currently blogs at his own site, "The Daily Gut."
Since February 5, 2007, Gutfeld has been host of the hour-long Fox News Channel late-night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...
, which airs at 3 AM Eastern Time. Since the show began, Bill Schulz
Bill Schulz
William Dawes "Bill" Schulz is a regular panelist, writer, and producer on Fox News Channel's late night show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld since its debut on February 5, 2007...
has been Gutfeld's sidekick
Sidekick
A sidekick is a close companion who is generally regarded as subordinate to the one he accompanies. Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato and Batman's Robin.-Origins:The origin of the...
and Andy Levy has been the show's ombudsman
Ombudsman
An ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests...
. Schulz is a former colleague of Gutfeld's from Stuff
Stuff (magazine)
Stuff is a men's magazine featuring reviews of consumer electronics, and other articles of interest to a predominantly male audience.- UK edition :...
magazine and Andy Levy was a blogger at The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
who caught Gutfeld's attention with his funny postings.
In July 11, 2011 Gutfeld became a co-host/panelist, along with Juan Williams
Juan Williams
Juan Williams is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel, he was born in Panama on April 10, 1954. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic...
, Dana Perino
Dana Perino
Dana Maria Perino is an American political commentator for Fox News. She served as the White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007 to January 20, 2009...
, Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Paolo Napolitano is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and now a political and legal analyst for Fox News Channel. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998, and currently serves as the network's senior judicial analyst, commenting on legal news and trials...
and others, on the Fox News political-opinion program 'The Five'. The panel for the first four episodes consisted of Gutfeld, Andrea Tantaros
Andrea Tantaros
Andrea K. Tantaros is a political analyst and commentator on Fox News, Fox Business Channel and writes for the New York Daily News and Newsmax magazine. Her columns appear in the New York Daily News every Thursday.-Early life:...
, Bob Beckel
Bob Beckel
Robert Beckel is an American political commentator and an analyst on the Fox News Channel. He is also a columnist for USA Today where he writes "point-counterpoint" style articles with friend and political opposite Cal Thomas. He is the brother of actor Graham Beckel.-Career:Beckel holds a B.A....
, Dana Perino
Dana Perino
Dana Maria Perino is an American political commentator for Fox News. She served as the White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007 to January 20, 2009...
, and Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling is an American television personality who specializes in financial news and political commentary. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television. Bolling was involved in developing CNBC's Fast Money...
. The program airs weekdays at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT.
He also appeared on the show Louie
Louie (TV series)
Louie is an American comedy television series on the FX network that began airing in 2010. It is written, directed, edited and produced by the show's creator, stand-up comedian Louis C.K., who stars as a fictionalized version of himself, a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two...
in the episode titled "Come On, God". He plays himself hosting a parody show called Real Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. His show is hosting a debate between Louis C.K.
Louis C.K.
Louis Szekely , known professionally as Louis C.K., is a stand-up comedian, television and film writer, actor, producer, and director...
& Ellen Farber (Liz Holtan). Ellen is the spokeswoman for an organization called Christians Against Masturbation, while Louie is the only person they could find to defend masturbation. The episode aired on August 11, 2011 on FX.
Controversial Remarks
In March 2009 Gutfeld faced a public outcry in CanadaCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
after he, Bill Schulz and guest panelists of Red Eye mocked a Canadian military official's remarks that Canada's military could take a year-long 'synchronized break' from its role in the War in Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...
. Canadian Minister of National Defence
Minister of National Defence (Canada)
The Minister of National Defence is a Minister of the Crown; the Canadian politician within the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the Department of National Defence which oversees the Canadian Forces....
Peter MacKay
Peter MacKay
Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for Central Nova and currently serves as Minister of National Defence in the Cabinet of Canada....
demanded an apology from Fox News, which Gutfeld then provided a day later, saying in a statement that "It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military, and for that I apologize."
In August 2010 Gutfeld made news by proposing to open a gay bar
Gay bar
A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBT and queer communities...
for Muslims
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
next door to the planned Park51 Mosque in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, sometimes referred to as the "Ground Zero
World Trade Center site
The World Trade Center site , also known as "Ground Zero" after the September 11 attacks, sits on in Lower Manhattan in New York City...
mosque".
External links
- Greg Gutfeld archives at Huffington Post
- Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld at Foxnews.com
- The Daily Gut