Jordan Klepper has been doing comedy for the better part of the last two decades. He is an Emmy winning co-host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central where he pulls double duty behind the desk and in the field. He recently won another Emmy for his latest special, Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation. He's executive produced, written and starred in 6 other specials on Comedy Central including Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Into The MagaVerse, Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Hungary for Democracy and Jordan Klepper Solves Guns. In addition, he was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in television journalism, and a Peabody Award for his work with The Daily Show.
Beyond The Daily Show, Jordan has chronicled his experiences in the world of politics from essays on CBS Morning to Op-Ed's for the Boston Globe. He's toured the country, selling out theaters with his stand-up/storytelling/ power point stage show Suffering Fools. His Ted Talk on how to save democracy and lose at conversations has been seen by millions, and listed as one of the top Ted Talks of the year.
He was the creator and star of the Comedy Central docu-series, Klepper. The show was called "a fresh, powerful interpretation of news (Detroit Free Press) that brings Klepper to "new comedic heights" (Vanity Fair). He was formerly host and executive producer of the weeknight Comedy Central talk show, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper.
Klepper has also been seen on CNN, MSNBC, guest hosting Showtime's The Circus, HBO's Night of Too Many Stars, The Who Was Show on Netflix, Bunk on IFC, Would I Lie To You on the CW, Friday Night Tailgate on the Big Ten Network, and @Midnight on Comedy Central as well as writing on multiple projects from MTV2's Charlamagne & Friends to HBO's Ferrell Takes the Field.
On the podcast front he co-hosted Kasich and Klepper with former governor John Kasich as well as the Fingers the Conspiracy podcast with The Daily Show which he won a Webby for. He has also co-hosted Star Talk Live with Neil deGrasse Tyson. His independent films, Peepers and TMI, have played at the Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance. He spent nearly a decade in Chicago performing with The Second City as well as I.O. In New York he was a regular at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
