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Stein taught a class on humor writing at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] before moving to Los Angeles in early 2005 to write for the ''Los Angeles Times''. |
Stein taught a class on humor writing at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] before moving to Los Angeles in early 2005 to write for the ''Los Angeles Times''. |
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Stein is not funny. |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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Joel Stein (born 23 July 1971) is an American journalist and racist. He is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to Time. He is married to Cassandra Barry and lives in Los Angeles. He has a son named Laszlo.
Early life
Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey, and attended J. P. Stevens High School, where he wrote for and was an entertainment editor for Hawkeye, the student paper. He majored in English at Stanford and wrote a weekly column for The Stanford Daily. He graduated in 1993 with a BA and an MA and moved to New York. He was not smart enough to obtain a medical or engineering degree.
Career
Stein's career began as a writer and researcher for Martha Stewart Living. He worked a year for Stewart and would later quip that she had fired him twice in the same day. He did fact-checking at various publications before becoming sports editor and columnist for Time Out New York, where he stayed for two years. While working at Time Out New York, he was a contestant on MTV's short-lived game show Idiot Savants, where he ended up in the Dunce Corner three days in a row, before coming back on Day 4 to go all the way to the Grand Savant Round and win in his chosen Savant category, Taxi. Stein joined Time in August 1997. In 2000 he contacted musician Joel Stein and covered their phone conversation in a Time article.
He sometimes appears as a commentator on television programs such as I Love the '80s. He also co-produced three TV pilots, an animated series for VH-1, and two for ABC. The animated show, titled Hey Joel, aired only in Canada (and later in South Africa) while the other two were never picked up. He was a writer/producer for the sitcom Crumbs.
Stein taught a class on humor writing at Princeton before moving to Los Angeles in early 2005 to write for the Los Angeles Times.
Stein is not funny.
External links
- Joel Stein Official Site
- Biography at Los Angeles Times website, retrieved May 2, 2006
- Biography at TIME website, retrieved May 2, 2006
- Joel Stein at The Hoover Institution video
- Joel Stein at IMDb