Author, columist, and comedian
Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest working man in
show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown.
Hofstetter’s national TV debut
came on ESPN’s “Quite Frankly,”,where Stephen A.
Smith yelled at him for three
minutes. He also appeared on CBS’ “Late Late
Show with Craig Ferguson,”
Showtime’s “White Boyz in the Hood,” VH1’s “Countdown,”
the syndicated “Comic’s Unleashed,” and ABC’s “Barbara
Walter’s Special,” where he did not cry. Having appeared on
networks from Boston to Miami, his local television appearances are
too numerous to count, especially on your fingers.
No comedian performs at more
colleges than Hofstetter, and the 29 -year-old humorist has
written three books and released
three albums. Hofstetter has written humor columns for the
New York Times,
SportsIllustrated.com, and NHL.com, where he publicly admitted to
being a
Ranger fan.
After hosting Four Quotas on
Sirius Satellite Radio for two seasons, Hofstetter moved to broadcast
radio, and his Sports Minute (Or So) is currently syndicated on over
170 stations and in over 30 newspapers. Hofstetter’s second live
comedy album (“Cure For the Cable Guy”) reached #20 on Billboard’s
comedy charts. His third album (“Dark Side of the Room”) is the
first ever “pay-what-you-want” comedy album, since people were
going to steal it anyway.
Hofstetter’s brutal tour
schedule consists of over 100 colleges and dozens of clubs every year,
and is fueled by an immense online popularity, tons of press, and a
Prius with great gas mileage. He reached 200K friends on Facebook and
400K on MySpace, and high shelves in grocery stores.
While Hofstetter’s live shows
are routinely sold out, he is best known for his writing. Hofstetter
was first published at age 15, which impressed his parents’ friends.
At 18, he co-founded “Sports Jerk of the Week,” an irreverent
website featured by press like USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Sports
Illustrated and CNN. And at 20, Hofstetter took a year off of school
to head up web content for the New York Yankees. The Yankees won the
World Series that year, which would have been wonderful if they hadn’t
beaten Hofstetter’s Mets. But really, who hasn’t? Hofstetter is
currently touring, performing over 300 live shows a year, and even
more if you count the ones where he’s so tired he feels like he’s
dead. He is in development on a movie and a TV series, and we suggest
you work with him before he gets too expensive. Which will hopefully
happen soon because we want to buy a Prius, too.
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