John Fugelsang

Stage and screen

Fugelsang has appeared in diverse projects as an actor, ranging from CSI and Providence to Coyote Ugly. As a comedian, he has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and the Just for Laughs Festival in Montréal and he has made more than 20 appearances on Politically Incorrect.

In 2007, he premiered the solo show All The Wrong Reasons Off Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.^[4] The show received a Drama League nomination for Distinguished Performance.^[13] New York Magazine said "Fugelsang has the soul of an iconoclast" and The New York Daily News said the piece "packed an unexpectedly lovely and life affirming wallop".^[14]

Subsequent runs included Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City's Barrow Street Theatre, Albuquerque, and closing the South Beach Comedy Festival in Miami.

Additional film, television, and stage credits include Becker, Somewhere in the City, The Michael Richards Show, Beyond Belief, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Hamlet, Blue Window, and Savage in Limbo.

Fugelsang appeared in the 2015 documentary film Dream On.^[3]

Host and presenter

Fugelsang has hosted VH1 Archives, George Harrison: The Last Performance, and Paul McCartney's Live Town Hall on VH1. He was also on America's Funniest Home Videos^[4] (co-hosting with Daisy Fuentes) for two seasons (1998–99), co-hosted John McEnroe's short-lived CNBC talk show in 2004, and was a regular on CNBC's Bullseye and Red Eye on Fox News. He was the co-host of the World Series of Blackjack on GSN alongside Ben Mezrich, the author of Bringing Down the House. He also co-hosted, along with Debra Wilson and Teresa Strasser, TV Watercooler on TV Guide Channel (2005–09). In 2012, John Fugelsang hosted a series of videos on the YouTube channel entitled "POLIPOP". From January 2013 until August 2013, Fugelsang was the host of the Current TV political talk show Viewpoint.^[5] The show ended with the end of all live programming on Current.^{[citation needed]}

Political commentator

In addition to his appearances on the late-night political talk show Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), Fugelsang has been a contributor to HuffPost weblog.^{[citation needed]}

Fugelsang is a regular commentator and guest on the nationally syndicated progressive radio program, The Stephanie Miller Show, and has served as guest host on occasion. His usual guest spot on the show is entitled "Fridays with Fugelsang". He also tours alongside Miller and comedian and musician Hal Sparks as part of the Sexy Liberal Comedy Show. For 2017, the tour was entitled "Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour"^[15] along with Frangela (Frances Callier and Angela Shelton). The first show for the new tour was at the Barrymore, April 22, 2017, Madison.

Fugelsang has been featured on CNN, Fox News, Dennis Miller, The Young Turks,^[6] Air America, CNBC, and MSNBC. He served as the host on the Current TV political talk show, So That Happened. Additionally, he has contributed to Current TV's coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign. In an appearance on CNN in 2012, a question of his prompted the Romney campaign's Etch-a-sketch gaffe. On January 6, 2013, he replaced Eliot Spitzer as host of Viewpoint on Current TV.^[16] Since 2015, Fugelsang has been hosting Tell Me Everything, a "progressive talk" show on SiriusXM Insight.^[7]