Alex Falcone

Falcone grew up in Reno, Nevada, the son of journalists Kitty and Steve Falcone; he has two sisters.^[1][2][3][4] He went to Galena High School and graduated from TMCC High School in 2003.^[1] He was part of a sketch comedy group called "TV You Can Heckle," and acted in a television commercial about teen pregnancy.^[1][5]

Falcone moved to Portland, Oregon where he did stand-up, had a podcast, did freelance writing for the Portland Mercury, and taught comedy workshops.^[6][1] He played bit parts in the television show Portlandia and performed in local car commercials. He was named Portland's Funniest Person in 2018 and called a "local powerhouse comic" by the Oregonian.^[7][8] A local ice cream shop, Salt & Straw, named a flavor after him: Chocolate and Falcognac.^[9]

He was the creator of the comedy show Late Night Action, a comedy spoof of the late night talk show format.^[10] The show ended in 2016 and Falcone moved to Los Angeles in 2019.^[10][11] He appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2021.

Falcone's grandfather was a carnival pitchman selling "kitchen gadgets and magic tricks" which piqued Falcone's interest in schemes.^[12] His series of videos called "Is It a Scam? Yep." humorously discusses a wide variety of frauds and scams.^[12] He creates short explainer videos on topics such as how many competing brands on products (potato chips, soft drinks) are all owned by the same company.^[13] He has also written about scams for Time Magazine, discussed scams on the Yahoo Sports podcasts, and discussed how to find good coffee on the road as a guest columnist for the Washington Post.^[14][15][16]

He is the co-author, with Ezra Fox, of Unwrap My Heart, a YA romance spoofing the paranormal romance genre.^[17]