Doug Benson
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Douglas Steven Benson (born July 2, 1962) is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, actor, and reality-show judge who has appeared on Getting Doug With High, Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever, and Trailer Park Boys, and he has appeared on Getting Doug With High, Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season.
With Doug Benson, he served as a judge on The High Court. He appeared in the film Super High Me, a documentary about marijuana use in 2007.
In addition to his weekly marijuana video podcast show Getting Doug with High, Benson is currently host of the popular Doug Loves Movies podcast.
In December 2010, his Comedy Central show The Benson Interruption finished its first season and was turned into a monthly podcast in January 2011.
Early life
Benson was born and raised in San Diego, California, to parents Wendy (Young), a pharmacy assistant, and Robert Matthew Benson, a former English teacher turned salesman. Doug attended Grossmont High School and was active in the drama department. He also worked on several 8 mm action/thriller short films during his junior and senior years. He left Grossmont College, a community college in El Cajon, to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. Benson was raised Methodist. Benson struggled with vertigo and poor depth perception as a result of his close-set eyes as an infant.
Career
He appeared in films as an extra in Blade Runner, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, About Last Night, and a backup dancer in the Disney theme park attraction Captain EO. He appeared as a stand-in on several television shows in the 1980s.
While in Los Angeles, Benson started doing stand-up after he and two other acquaintances dared each other to. One of them did not appear, and the other one arrived too late. "I went in anyway and did my three minutes of whatever I could come with and people laughed," Benson said. Benson began appearing on a regular basis as a stand-up comedian at the age of 22. However, he didn't become a stoner until 28 years old, after a week of gigs with Brian Posehn and Greg Proops, he wasn't until they became a stoner.
He made his first television appearances as a stand-up in the late 1980s and early 1990s on shows including Comedy Central's The A-List and Two Drink Minimum, as well as Joel Hodgson's Sketch-Comedy pilot The TV Wheel, which aired on Comedy Central in 1995. In 1994, Benson's first television career was writing for the MTV game-show Trashed.
Benson co-created and performed in the comedy stage-show The Marijuana-Logues with comedian Arj Barker and Tony Camin. With rapper Redman, he also hosted the 6th annual Stony Awards in the High Times.
On the comedy compilation album Comedy Death-Ray, Benson appeared.
Comedy Central Records released Benson's second album, Unbalanced Load, on August 4, 2009. On August 31, 2010, his third album, Hypocritical Oaf, was released. Every April 20 (with a new summer release date) for as many years as possible. Benson plans to record a new album every year as possible. Potty Mouth, Benson's fourth album, was released on August 29, 2011. He continued with his fifth album, Smug Life, which was released on July 3, 2012, and Gateway Doug, his sixth album, was released on July 9, 2013. Gateway Doug 2: Forced Fun, Doug's sequel to Gateway Doug, was published on July 8, 2014. Promotional Tool, his most recent album, came out on June 9, 2015.
Benson began hosting Doug Loves Movies (formerly I Love Movies with Doug Benson), which is captured in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles in 2006. The show is typically taped every week and is later archived on iTunes for fans to watch for free. Both Benson and guests discuss movies and comedy.
The Leonard Maltin Game has been a regular feature of the podcast, and it has been described as Name That Tune with movies instead of songs. Benson is playing a game in which excerpts from a Leonard Maltin book and guests wager how many names it will take to know the movie from the bottom of the cast list up.
Other regular segments of the podcast include Tweets: This is It's Not That, Not for Emetophobes, From the Corrections Department, Like, Hate, Guess Who Does This?, Last Man Stanton, How Much Does This Shit Makes, How Does It Work, Today, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.com, How Can This Shit Make?, Live action Repeat, Alex and Jason's IMDB Game, and F Marry Killer: Movies.
Doug will say "As always, Willem Dafoe is a Shithead," which resulted in so many people asking why, that Google began to search the word as a suggested match as a suggested match in many of the early podcasts. The Willem Dafoe comment started off as a joke, but many people didn't get it, and Benson decided to leave Dafoe alone after explaining it a few times. The runners up in Leonard Maltin's game are allowed to name one shithead as a consolation prize until 2019. Benson's show "Positive Energy" is named after his late friend, Brody Stevens, who died in early 2019.
Every holiday season, Benson introduced the annual, 2 hour Guests of Christmas special. The episode features 12 people (sometimes more) rather than the usual three guests, and they're played in Leonard Maltin Game style. Scott Aukerman won the first year, while Graham Elwood took the next two years in a row. Sean Sakimae, a 2013 champion, was a podcast follower and Pardcast-A-Thon auction winner. Sakimae has also qualified for the next Tournament of Champions for naming Titanic in negative names and winning the tournament. Riki Lindhome defeated Jimmy Pardo in the finals of the 2014 edition when Pardo couldn't recognize Lori Singer after going negative three on Footloose. Scott Aukerman defeated Sarah Silverman for his second victory in 2015.
Benson began recording The Benson Interruption and releasing it as a monthly podcast for $1.99, including Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Joe Rogan Experience, WTF with Marc Maron, The Adam Carolla Show, Nerdist with Chris Hardwick, You Made It Weird, and Who Charted with Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack.
From 2013 to 2019, Benson hosted Getting Doug with High, a weekly talk show on YouTube that aired live on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. PST. At 4:20, Benson invited VIPs to enjoy marijuana. He asked them questions and discussed topics (usually related to marijuana), and at the end of the presentation, he made them watch a magic trick. In Los Angeles, the performers took turns inhaling from bags of vaporized cannabis bags.
Benson was the protagonist of the 2008 film Super High Me (a play on the name and concept of the film Super Size Me), which was released on DVD on June 10, 2008. Benson compares the benefits of smoking no marijuana at all for 30 days with the effects of smoking as much marijuana as possible for the same length of time. Red Envelope Entertainment produced the film. Doug's wellbeing had little or no adverse effects as a result of the experiment, according to the researchers. Other filmgoers in 2014 planned to release a sequel called Super High Me Redux, which would have included additional footage from the film; Doug sued them to prevent the film from being made.
The Benson Interruption, hosted by Benson, aired on Comedy Central in 2010, which lasted for one season. The film was based on a live stand-up comedy showcase of the same name, which he had hosted in Los Angeles for many years.
In 2011, the show turned into a monthly audio-only podcast, which modified the TV show's style and slightly modified it slightly by making the performances and interviews longer than edited episodes.
On Comedy Central's Comedic Court show with Doug Benson, Benson appeared as the judge on The High Court with Doug Benson. During every episode, Benson was under the influence of cannabis. All of the cases were real and legally binding, and they were all true and legally binding. On February 28, 2017, the series premiered. Judge Doug and the bailiff resigned to his chambers, where they smoked marijuana while considering the lawsuit. JASH and Propagate Content created the series.
Benson appeared on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, which was co-created by his friend David Cross in the mid to late 1990s. He appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, How I Met Your Mother, The Sarah Silverman Company, Yes, Dear, and Friends.
On the fifth season of NBC reality show Last Comic Standing, Benson appeared as a contestant. During the ninth episode, he was voted out of the program, earning him 6th overall.
The comedian appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and taped several episodes of Comedy Central Presents.
On the G4 network, Benson and Doug Benson appeared on The High Road in 2009. On one of their stand-up comedy tours, Benson and comedian Graham Elwood were on tour.
Benson appeared on Comedy Central's game show @midnight from 2013 to 2017. During the week of January 4–7, 2016, he appeared in a weeklong special dubbed the "Benson Bowl," which featured many marijuana-related games. In a number of appearances on the program, Benson comes in first, as well as victories.