Moshe Kasher

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Mark Moshe Kasher (born July 6, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in the Los Angeles area.

He is the author of the 2012 book Kasher in the Rye: The True Story of a White Boy from Oakland, Who Became a Drug Addict, Legal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16. Kasher "Best New Comic" and his comedy album were released in 2009. You Know It Will Die is a movie about You! In the same year, he was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes.

Punchline Magazine has also listed him as "Comic to Watch in 2010."

Early life and education

Kasher was born in Queens, New York, and with his mother and brother when he was one year old, they moved to Oakland, California. Kasher grew up in Temescal and Piedmont Avenues in North Oakland, and his family survived mainly on disability and food stamps. Kasher, the son of deaf parents, served as a sign-language interpreter from the age of 17. In 1967, his parents attended the World Games for the Deaf, but when Kasher was nine years old, they split up.

Steven, a former painter who was born to secular, communist Jewish parents, became a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn's Satmar neighborhood; Steven's grandfather, who was born in Hungary, was a New Square Skverer Hasid. Kasher was a student at the University of Ontario until his death, he spent summers with his father in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, until his death. Gaucher's disease affected his father. The brother of Kasher is a rabbi.

Kasher's autobiography The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, Kasher talked about being moved into and out of mental hospitals from the age of 4 and using opioids from 12 to 16. He was kicked out of four separate high schools. Kasher said himself in a SanDiego.com interview that he was "pretty straight edge," implying that he has been clean "since I was young." He received his G.E.D. I was born in the United States at the age of 16 and later became a sign-language interpreter.

Kasher studied theater and wrote several long-form monologues at a Bay Area community college. He later enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned a degree in religious studies and minored in Jewish studies. Kasher had hoped to become a college professor in Jewish history before his career in comedy.

In 2001, Kasher attended an open mic comedy night in New York, which featured Chelsea Peretti, a comedian and writer with whom Kasher had attended junior high school in Oakland. Kasher begged Peretti to accompany him on future appearances after hearing her perform. She brought him to an open mic at San Francisco's Luggage Store Gallery.

Personal life

In October 2015, Kasher married Natasha Leggero (who converted to Judaism) a fellow comedian. In February 2018, the couple had a baby girl.

He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Career

Kasher appeared in the Bay Area most often in the early 2000s, appearing at San Francisco's Punch Line and Cobb comedy clubs. He appeared in numerous comedy shows with fellow comedian Brent Weinbach and Alex Koll from the mid to late 2000s. In 2008, Kasher moved to Los Angeles.

Kasher's comedy career had a fruitful year in 2009. At that year's Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, he was named "Best of Festival"; his appearance in Aspen earned him an invitation to the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal the same year. This was followed by an appearance on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham. Everyone You Know Is Going to Die is Going to Die, Kasher's Comedy Album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die, and then You Are! Rooftop Comedy Productions began in April 2009, and at the time, the album was listed as one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes. Kasher was also listed as the top New Comedy Artist of 2009.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in 2010 and John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show in 2011. Larry Wilmore's Race, Religion, & Sex appeared on Conan, Showtime's Larry Wilmore's Race, Religion & Sex. He has also appeared on Chelsea Lately as a regular panelist.

Kasher has appeared at festivals around the world. In 2010, he appeared at the Rooftop Comedy Festival and Just For Laughs, as well as Cat Laughs in Kilkenny, Ireland, and the Sasquatch. In George, Washington, the music festival was held. He appeared at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2011, Australia, in 2011. Kasher has appeared at SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California, on several occasions.

Kasher was named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine as well as "One of the Top 20 Jews in the Arts" by Shalom Life in 2011. On his list of the top ten comedy shows he attended in the Denver area during 2011, John Wenzel of The Denver Post ranked Kasher #2.

In January 2012, Kasher hosted his first solo comedy special for Netflix, Moshe Kasher: Live In Oakland, his hometown of Oakland.

Problematic, a comedy central order, was ordered to be written and hosted by Kasher in September, 2016.

Kasher is a published playwright, writer, and author. Kasher's long form monologue "Look Before You Leap" was included in the literary collection Monologues For Men, Volume Two, which was released in 2003. He wrote several articles for Heeb magazine between 2011 and 2012. He published his autobiography Kasher in the Rye: The True Story of a White Boy from Oakland, Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 by Hachette Book Group's Grand Central Publishing in 2012. For the television show The New Normal, he wrote an episode titled "Pardon Me."

Kasher appeared in the independent films Sorry, Thanks (2009) and Wish Makers of West Hollywood (2010). In 2011, and the NBC sitcom Whitney in 2012, he appeared on episodes of Fox sitcom Traffic Light and the NBC sitcom Whitney. In an episode of the American television series Shameless that aired on March 18, 2012, Kasher appeared as Ruben, a gay deaf man chained to a wheelchair.

Kasher and Neal Brennan (co-writer of Chappelle's Show) and DJ Douggpound were among the performers on Doug Lussenhop of Tim and Eric Nite Live in 2011. The Champs, a TV show, has been released. In a 2011 interview with SanDiego.com, Kasher said the following: "It's Doug dropping sound effects and beats over me and Neal hosting an hour of crappy chat." Every week we have a rotating black guy guest, and every week there is a new black guest.' Wayne Brady and David Alan Grier, as well as musician Questlove, adult film star Lexington Steele, and professional basketball player Blake Griffin were among the guests on the show. On occasion, the show has departed from its guest list, including comedian and actor Bobby Lee, former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco, and actor Aziz Ansari. In 2014, the Champs was named "Best Podcast" as part of Los Angeles Weekly's "Best of Los Angeles" issue. In 2016, the show was no longer available.

On the Nerdist Podcast Network, Kasher premiered a new podcast in October 2014. Hound Tall Discussion Series is a live monthly podcast that focuses on a single topic. They find out all there is to know about things after an hour of conversation with an expert and a panel of comedians. Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls, was the first episode, and Pete Holmes and Beth Stelling made up the comedic panel.

The Endless Honeymoon Podcast co-hosted with his wife, Natasha Leggero, on July 15, 2019 on most websites such as Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and YouTube.

Moshe and his brother, Rabbi David Kasher, launched Kasher vs. Kasher to look at life during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

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