Career
He was called by Esquire one of "the six comedians who could be comedy"s next big things" and part of "a bumper crop of brilliant new-alt comics". Gleib is a regular round table guest on the East! late night talk show Chelsea Lately, and has been appearing on the show since January 2008. He also reported for KPCC live from the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
He starred in the National Broadcasting Company series The Real Wedding Crashers, a prime time comedy that aired on the network Mondays at 10pm, with the show Heroes as a lead-in.
The show also aired on BRAVO and STYLE Network. In 2009, he performed his standup on National Broadcasting Company"s Last Call with Carson Daly, and in 2008, Gleib was featured on the National Broadcasting Company competition show Last Comic Standing.
He is known for covering a wide range of topics in his act, rovisational skills, often making up large sections of his performance based on interactions with the crowd. In 2006, he sold a pilot called The Gleib Show to Fox, proved by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, Broadway Video, and National Broadcasting Company/Universal.
This show was based on a television show that Gleib directed, wrote, and starred in for three seasons on the National Lampoon Network from 2003–2005, which aired to college campuses across the country, and was consistently the network"s number one show.
lieutenant was also written and produced by Scot Richardson. The show was based on a show of the same title that Gleib did for four years during his time as an undergrad at the University of California, San Diego. At University of California, San Diego he studied Communications and Theater, and graduated in the Honors Thesis Program.
He was Ben Gleib appears in a supporting role in the feature film Bar Starz, which had a limited theatrical release.
The film also featured Charlie Murphy, Daniel Franceze, Derek Waters, John Bernthal, and Nikki Griffin. In addition, Gleib has performed on The Late Late Show on Columbia Broadcasting System, at the Vancouver C veral pods for Current television, and in 2002 wrote the "Radio Music Awards" for American Broadcasting Company. Since November 2011, Gleib has hosted the podcast Last Week on Earth with Ben Gleib, distributed through Kevin Smith"s Smodco Podcast Network.
He currently hosts Idiotest, a game show on Game Show Network.
