Harrison Greenbaum
Harrison Greenbaum is a New York City-based stand-up comedian, summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University, and a magician (but that's a whole separate bio!). Harrison began his comedy career while a psychology and English student at Harvard. He was the co-founder of the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society (or "Harvard College SUCS"), which is still popular on campus today. In order to get stage time in comedy clubs at night, Harrison would implore people on the street to come inside and watch his show!
After graduation, Harrison moved to New York and jumped into performing comedy full time. He quickly became one of the most sought-after comedians, headlining more than 600 shows a year across America and internationally. Time Out New York and the NY Daily News called him "the hardest working man in comedy". As one of Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch," Harrison has received many awards and honors for his comedy including: the Andy Kaufman Award for comedic creativity and originality, the Shorty Award in collaboration with Comedy Central and the New York Comedy Festival for "Best Emerging Comic", and the Magners Comic Stand-Off.
Harrison has appeared on numerous TV shows: NBC's America's Got Talent, NBC's Last Comic Standing, TBS's Conan, Comedy Central's This Week at the Comedy Cellar, AXS TV's Gotham Comedy Live, and National Geographic Channel's Brain Games, to name just a few!
Harrison is the creator, writer, and director of Recalculating with Harrison Greenbaum, a travel series that has had over 2 million views, and has taken him all over the world! On Facebook Watch Harrison stars in What's Your Problem?. In these improvisational videos Harrison is a "comedian therapist" to unsuspecting people just passing by. He stops people anywhere and invites them to talk and joke about anything. In Harrison style, the "session" ends with a hug and a nonsensical prescription!
Behind the camera, Harrison was a producer for Primetime: Would You Fall for That? on ABC (which premiered in 2013 to over 3.5 million viewers not one of whom has Harrison ever met!) and a story producer for VH1’s This is HOT 97. He also appeared as the audience warm-up comic for Katie, Katie Couric's daytime talk show on ABC. In 2021, Harrison was a staff writer for Tha God's Honest Truth with Charlamagne Tha God on Comedy Central. Most recently, Harrison headlined performances of comedy and magic in Las Vegas five nights a week, 2 shows a night on Cirque du Soleil’s newest production - MAD APPLE - at New York New York Casino & Hotel!!! This uproariously funny and manic show is Cirque’s first to ever feature comedy!!!
Internationally, Harrison was the host of The Unbelievables: The World's Greatest Entertainers, which played 22 shows at the Sydney Opera House before touring nationally throughout Australia. He was also the head writer for Tu Nite con Lorenzo Parro, the first-ever late night show on NBCU/Telemundo; was a featured correspondent on the Japanese television show, Scooper, which was broadcast nationally on Nippon TV; appeared in the documentary, 10 Minutes in America, on France's Canal+; and was the co-host and featured performer of the official Times Square New Year’s Eve World Wide Webcast in 2010 and 2011, broadcasting live to over 250 million viewers around the globe.
In his easy, relaxed manner, full of gentle bemusement, Harrison takes obvious and disarming delight in bantering with his audiences, including hecklers! To quote Harrison: "doing stand-up is like jumping out of a plane without a parachute, and you hope you can build a parachute while you're falling". From colleges to comedy clubs, from talk shows to theaters, Harrison continues to bring his unique style of comedy across the country and around the world.