Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States on February 20th, 1960 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 64, Joel Hodgson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Joel Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor.
He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson.
In 2007, MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com.
Between 2007–2013, Hodgson was part of the "movie riffing" project Cinematic Titanic with several of his fellow MST3K alumni, performing live and producing content for DVDs and direct download.
He has also served as Creative Lead for Media at Pennyslvania technology firm Cannae.
Early life and career
Hodgson was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on February 20, 1960, and later moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was raised in an Evangelical Christian upbringing and later discovered that the various shows his church would put on had a huge influence on his desire to be an entertainer. Hodgson began his apprenticeship as a narrator and ventriloquist. Joel appeared at local events in Green Bay and attended Ashwaubenon High School. Hodgson migrated to Bethel University (Minnesota) to study Theatre and Mass Media following graduation. Hodgson continued to develop his magic show by adding comedy and launching musical performances at Bethel, as well as performing in coffee houses and comedy clubs. Hodgson cites a Theatre of the Absurd class at Bethel taught by Dr. David Horn for assisting him in clarifying the meaning of his comedy. He won the Campus Comedy Competition in 1981 and later in 1982, the first annual Twin Cities Comedy Invitational. Hodgson made his way to Los Angeles in November of the same year, where he became a regular performer at the Comedy Store and the Hollywood Magic Castle as well as the Comedy Magic Club. Hodgson was spotted by Late Night with David Letterman producer Barry Sand, and a month later, his first appearance at the Comedy Magic Club was on television. He made four other appearances on the Letterman show as a guest performer, as well as four on Saturday Night Live as a guest act. Hodgson, as well as Bill Maher, Paula Poundstone, and the Amazing Johnathan were among the featured performers on HBO's "Eighth Annual Young Comedians Special" hosted by John Candy, as well as Bill Maher, Paula Poundstone and the Amazing Johnathan.
He worked at the Comedy Store while in Los Angeles, as well as doing traveling stand-up in San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. Hodgson started standing up in 1985, citing the need for a creative sabbatical, but then migrated to Minneapolis.
Hodgson's 'official' return to comedy between 1984 and 1988 - he built and sold sculptures, designed toys, and began designing and making props for other comedians, including robots. In 1986, Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote an HBO special. He had also been considered for the role of Woody Boyd in Cheers. Mallon first met Jim Mallon in 1987, and in 1988, he became the production manager at the St. Paul UHF station KTMA Channel 23. In the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, Hodgson was the first actor to appear "Philo," but he had begun to produce a new kind of television program for KTMA at the time of the 1988 filming.