Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator. As a television host he presented the show Redacted Tonight for several years on the network RT America until the network shut down in March 2022. In July 2022 he started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp with MintPress News.

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Early life

Camp was born in Richmond, Virginia[1] to Laurie Smith Camp who was a federal judge.[2] and lived in Bethesda, Maryland until 1989. His father is a psychoanalyst who served 20 years in the United States military as a doctor, and his mother is a social worker. In 1989, the family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Camp stayed until he went to college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

At the University of Virginia, he won a competition to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper The Cavalier Daily. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub in Richmond.[3]

Career

Camp's first book was Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent, a collection of his best humor columns from The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia newspaper. With Nick Alexander and Alan Lord, Camp co-authored the 2005 BIGfib Book of Bollocks, a collection of stories from the satirical website BIGfib.com. Camp has been a contributor to The Onion since February 2009 and was a staff comedy writer for The Huffington Post for ten months.[4] He wrote and hosted OnDemand's "The Movie Loft" for three months in 2009.

In 2017, Camp and Eleanor Goldfield created the Common Censored podcast, which focuses on grassroots activism issues.[5]

RT America

Camp was the host and head writer of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, which aired on RT America. Camp told Rachel Manteuffel of The Washington Post Magazine that the Russian government had funded his show, although he emphasizes in all interviews that no government agency, organization or network has ever told him what to say, what not to write about, and what stories he can or cannot cover.[6] When asked about advertising, he said, "one of the reasons I'm at RT America is because there’s no advertising. If there were advertising, no channel really wants someone who goes after corporations as much as I do."[7]

After RT America shut down in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Camp blamed the "U.S. government war machine" for the end of the network.[8] Following the closure of RT, Lee started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp; featured with MintPress News, beginning in July, 2022.

Discography

DVD

• Sometimes Funny Hurts (2007)
• Lee Camp Live At Comix (2009)
• We Are Nothing (2014)

CD

• Chaos for the Weary (Stand Up! Records, 2011)
• Pepper Spray the Tears Away (Stand Up! Records, 2012)

Filmography

Bibliography

• Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy, PM Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-62963-785-3[9]

References

External links

• Lee Camp's official website

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