| Intro | American comedian |
| Is |
Comedian Actor Screenwriter Stand-up comedian |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Entertainment Film, TV, Stage & Radio Humor |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 16 March 1983, Albuquerque |
| Age: | 37 years |
Joe Mande (born March 16, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Mande is known for using the Internet to try to elicit responses from famous people and businesses to bring attention to himself.
Career
Mande graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he formed a sketch comedy group with Harris Wittels and Armen Weitzman.
Mande has appeared on such TV shows as Comedy Central’s The Half Hour, VH1’s Best Week Ever and Conan. He is also the author of the book Look At This Fucking Hipster.
Mande was a writer for the final three seasons of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, also appearing in seven episodes as Pawnee resident Morris Lerpiss. He has also written for the Comedy Central sketch series Kroll Show, and the Adult Swim series Delocated.
Bitchface
Mande released his first comedy album, Bitchface on March 14, 2014. The album was done in the style of a mixtape with voicemail messages from Fabolous, Roy Hibbert, Jenny Slate, Nick Kroll, Aziz Ansari, The RZA and Amy Poehler.
Personal life
Mande is Jewish.
In his spare time, Mande claims that he has a list of corporations and celebrities who he tries to antagonize on Twitter. “That’s my favorite thing. It’s so much fun to do, but I don’t wake up in the morning and rub my hands together thinking about who I’m going to mess with today,” he says. He continued calling himself a hypocrite in saying “Also it’s so funny that when people write mean things to me, I take it so personally. I have no right. I’m such a hypocrite.”
In 2011, Mande monitored the Twitter account of former NBA player Gilbert Arenas over the course of many months, then saved and posted the pictures which he deemed offensive while also writing a critique of what he thought of Gilbert Arenas.
In April 2012, Mande was sent a cease and desist letter from LaCroix Water.
On July 14, 2014, Mande announced that he started a Kickstarter for “The Million Dollar Podcast”, saying that if he raised one million dollars he would interview “comedians and musicians and shit like that.” He was briefly held up by Kickstarter, who initially rejected the project, saying that it didn’t “create something to share with others.” Mande appealed and the Kickstarter was finally allowed to begin. It ran from July 16 – August 15, 2014, with Mande claiming that he would “mention your name on the podcast or something” if someone were to donate $1000.
On January 20, 2017, following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, 33-year-old Mande tweeted about Trump’s youngest son, 10-year-old Barron Trump, saying he “will be mutilating cats on the white house lawn in like two weeks.” Comedian Stephen Spinola and SNL writer Katie Rich made similar tweets, both later apologized after NBC suspended Rich from the show.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Money From Strangers | Himself | 5 episodes |
| 2012–2015 | Parks and Recreation | Morris Lerpiss | 7 episodes; Also Writer |
| 2013 | Kroll Show | Elon Faizon | 2 episodes; Also Writer |
| 2014 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Isaac | Episode: “Charges and Specs” |
| 2014 | The Interview | Joe | |
| 2015-present | Modern Family | Ben | 5 episodes |
| 2016 | Animals. | Branch (voice) | Episode: “Pigeons.” |
| 2016 | Love | Jeffrey | Episode: “Party in the Hills” |