Camp not only likes to produce comedy to make people aware, but he tries to inspire action, as he is an activist himself, where he participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement. He has seen both sides of thought-provoking comedy being involved in performing, writing and producing. He used to write comedy for Huffington Post and The Onion.
Regarding his new comedy show, he said, “I have been doing political stand-up comedy for 15 years now. I was based in New York City, but I have been touring the country and some other countries. Then, I was appearing as a humorous talking head in RT America, so when they decided to create a comedy show, they came to me and asked me if I would do it.
Camp’s show also produces website content outside of its original broadcast, which is primarily focused on high-profile interviews with major politicians, public figures, dignitaries and athletes.
His book, Lee Camp’s Moment of Clarity: The Rantings of A Stark Raving Sane Man, is a collection of transcripts from his first YouTube show, and it fared well, making the Top 5 on Amazon’s Top political humor charts list. “It was based on my political comedy essays on a lot of things, and it was based on my popular YouTube series, so that also played a factor,” he said.
Camp revealed that he has been performing stand-up comedy since the age of 18. He attended the University of Virginia where he opened for such comedians as Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Darrell Hammond. “Within the first six months, I knew that I wanted to do comedy. These big name guys allowed me to open for them and they gave me a taste of what it was like,” he said.
His comedic writing is inspired by “anger and disbelief at the system in which we live.” “That is the center of a lot of it. The lies that are being told and the nonsense that is covered on our nightly news as having meaning, and it makes me angry, and that can be transferred into humor a lot of the time, and oddly, it can be done while still keeping the heart of what it is I am angry about. I don’t think that by adding jokes or laughter to what I am talking about undermines the ultimate point. I think you can have both: the laughter and get information across at the same time,” he concluded.
To learn more about comedian Lee Camp, check out his official website.
