American comedian Doug Benson is one of the top 10 finalists on the fifth season of NBC’s reality talent show Last Comic Standing, who also appeared in the fourth season. He has worked on a number of other television productions such as
Curb Your Enthusiasm , Mr. Show,
Friends , Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Comedy Central Presents. Benson also performed and was part of the creative team for The Marijuana-Logues, an off-Broadway comedy show, along with Arj Barker and Tony Camin. The show’s original cast recording was released on CD by Comedy Central, along with a book titled Marijuana-Logues: Everything About Pot That We Could Remember. The title is a play on the well-known Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues, but instead of discussing women’s issues, the comedy show and its related media rhapsodize about marijuana.
Benson was awarded Stoner of the Year by High Times magazine during its 2006 Stony Awards for movies and television shows. Aside from competing in Last Comic Standing, he is also working on the project Super High Me, this time a take-off from the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me. In it, Benson’s life is documented as he avoids smoking pot for 30 days, and then when he smokes pot for 30 days in a row.
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