People often refer to Jeffrey Gurian as a “Renaissance Man”, because he’s involved in so many things. He’s a comedy writer, performer, director, author, producer, radio personality and doctor, and not always in that order.
He’s worked with and befriended many big stars and comedy legends, like Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, George Wallace, Phil Hartman, Richard Belzer, Jerry Lewis, and Andrew “Dice” Clay, among many others. Jeffrey has performed stand-up comedy at most of the big clubs in NY and L.A. and was featured several times on Comedy Central’s hit Kroll Show with Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen, Laura Dern and Katy Perry.
He was actually the first to be pranked with Too Much Tuna in the viral “Too Much Tuna” sketch on Kroll Show, and was also a regular on-air personality on Sirius XM’s Bennington Show, (formerly Ron and Fez), for two years, where he also brought on special guests/friends like Russell Peters, Trevor Noah, Colin Quinn, Artie Lange, Susie Essman, D.L. Hughley, and Lisa Lampanelli.
He’s also a comedy journalist and has been covering the comedy scene since 1999. From 2014-2019 he wrote a weekly column covering the comedy scene for The Interrobang called “Jumping Around With Jeffrey Gurian”, and has also written for MTV, National Lampoon, Weekly World News, The Weekly Humorist and many Friars Roasts.
His Comedy Matters TV, You Tube channel has over 500 A-list celebrity interviews including Jimmy Fallon, Marc Maron, Bill Burr, Tracy Morgan, Chelsea Handler, Jim Carrey, Trevor Noah, Lisa Lampanelli, Susie Essman, Nick Kroll, Amy Schumer, Gilbert Gottfried, John Mulaney, Amy Poehler, and many, many more, and has well over two million views.
He’s produced shows starring Kevin Hart and Susie Essman, and according to Paul Provenza, and Nick Kroll is known by everyone in comedy. Nick says on camera that “nobody has more access to people in comedy than Jeffrey Gurian.”
He was honored to have been given his own column in the legendary Weekly World News, ( the pre-cursor to The Onion), called “Gurian’s World of the Bizarre”. That led to the creation of GNN (Gurian News Network) which brings you the most unusual stories in The Universe, missed by mainstream media. He claims to have not slept in many years in order to bring these stories to light!
He filmed several episodes of Real Housewives of New York and created a sketch for Countess LuAnn and Princess Carole Radziwill, and recently filmed an episode of HBO’s hit Crashing at the request of director Judd Apatow.
He’s written six books. His latest book “Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind – A Spiritual and Humorous Approach To Achieving Happiness” recently attained Best Seller status on Amazon, and is available as an e-book, a paperback and an audio book as of December 2018.
Jeffrey is also a doctor, a former Cosmetic Dentist, and a former Clinical Professor at NYU in the Oral Medicine/Oro-Facial Pain Department, and is on the Board of The Assoc. For Spirituality and Psychotherapy since 1999, plus he developed a cure for Stuttering which he used to cure himself of a severe stutter!
Because of his eclectic background two different documentary films about his life came out in 2020.
For more on Jeffrey visit his website at http://www.comedymatterstv.com
And please subscribe to his Comedy Matters TV channel on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/comedymatterstv
And on Twitter and IG he’s @jeffreygurian
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