Steve Gerben

Gerben started out his comedy career as a stand-up comedian, but his career in that field never took off.^[3] While working in stand-up, he became friends with Shane Gillis, who he has worked with throughout his career.

Gerben is most well-known for creating and starring in Tires on Netflix with Shane Gillis where he plays the manager of his father's Valley Forge auto-repair shop.^[4] The show is semi-based around Gerben's personal life as his real-life father owned an auto-repair shop.^[5] The show was originally supposed to be on YouTube, but was bought by Quibi until that platform went under, and the TV-series ultimately was bought by Netflix.^[5]

Gerben works with Shane Gillis and John McKeever ("McKeever"). Gerben has been on several episodes of the Sketch comedy series, Gilly and Keeves, produced by Gillis and McKeever.^[6] He was also in Delco Proper, another series set around Philadelphia, and directed by McKeever and written by Gillis.^[7] Another project he has acted in was as Mayor Steve in Holly and the Hot Chocolate Movie, a movie produced by McKeever.^[8]

Outside of his comedy and acting career, he worked at his father's auto-body shop before his career got started and has worked as a paralegal for his brother who is a trademark attorney.^[5] After failing out of college, he also worked as a postal carrier in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.^[3]

Gerben has arthritis, which only allows him to fully utilize one of his fingers.^[9] In 2021, he explained on Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast that COVID-19 made his arthritis worse and the medication he was using stopped working.^[9][10]

He has made appearances on several podcasts and talk shows, including Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast,^[11] Flagrant,^[12] Late Night with Seth Meyers,^[13] No Bad Lies,^[14] Look at Dish with Tommy Pope and Chris O'Connor,^[15] and RoneDotCom with Adam Ferrone of Barstool Sports.^[16]