Josh Wolf (comedian)

Wolf is Jewish. He grew up in Massachusetts.^[3] He is an alumnus of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.^[4]

He was introduced to comedy at the age of sixteen, doing an entire set about his parents' gas. Having moved to Seattle, he became a spokesperson for Nintendo and interviewed Bill Gates for an internal film for Microsoft.^[5] He moved once more to Los Angeles and was spotted while doing a one-man show at the HBO Workspace. He signed a two-year deal with ABC to develop his own television show, but it was never broadcast.^[6] He instead concentrated on writing for sitcoms such as UPN's All of Us and Cuts.^[5]

Wolf was a regular on the round table of E!'s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately.^[7] He appears as one of the comedians on the "Comedians of Chelsea Lately" stand-up tour,^[8] and has previously appeared as the warm-up act for Chelsea Handler.^{[citation needed]}

He also appeared as a finalist on the fourth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing in the "Last Comic Downloaded" segment, he was beaten by Theo Von.^[9] In 2012, he worked on an untitled project for Fox, starring himself as a single father.^[10] It was to be a semi-autobiographical show, being based in part on Wolf's experiences as a single dad.^[11] He has also sold a book to Grand Central Publishing.^[6] Wolf has sold a script to Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions based on the true story of a traveling youth baseball team which was used as a cover for the robberies committed by its coach.^[12] On July 20, 2012, he began hosting a weekly podcast with fellow Chelsea Lately regular Ross Mathews called Josh and Ross.^[13] That same year, Discovery Channel hired Wolf to host Shark After Dark.^[14] In September 2013, Wolf began hosting his own podcast on the Toad Hop Network called Off the Rails with Josh Wolf.^[15] As of 2015, Wolf hosted a podcast with Sarah Colonna called Off the Rails with Josh Wolf and Sarah Colonna.^[16]

On June 11, 2015, The Josh Wolf Show, a late-night talk show which he hosts, debuted on CMT.^[17]

He has been married to director and writer Bethany Ashton Wolf since 2004 and has 2 children from a previous relationship, as well as a son, Jacob.^[11][18] His cousin is former Party of Five actor Scott Wolf.^[19]