Greg Shapiro
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Greg Shapiro (Gregory Scott Shapiro) is a Dutch American comedian, known as a member of the comedy group Boom Chicago, as news presenter of the Dutch satirical news programme Comedy Central News, and as the author of How to Be Orange.
Shapiro was born in Chicago, and he graduated from Northwestern University in Theater. In 1994 he came to the Netherlands to help establish comedy theater Boom Chicago, where he worked with Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Ike Barinholtz, Kay Cannon, Heather Anne Campbell, and Allison Silverman, among others. In 2004 he voiced the FloridaVotingMachine video that went viral before there was YouTube. In 2007 Shapiro hosted Comedy Central News and started his own video weblog Highly Dubious News. His radio column 'The New and Improved America' appeared on BNR Newsradio in 2008. His vlog 'War for the White House' appeared on Volkskrant.nl in 2008.
He was named a Hero of Amsterdam by Time Out Amsterdam magazine in 2009. His columns have appeared in TimeOutAmsterdam, in Hollands Glorie, http://hollandsgloriemagazine.nl/ and in XPat Journal http://www.xpat.nl/xpat-journal.
Shapiro has written and performed the solo shows Going Dutch, How to Be Orange, Superburger and How to Be Frisian. He is now touring his solo show Part-Time Hypocrite. Shapiro also has 20 years experience in Corporate Speaking / Entertainment. In 2010, he joined Maurice de Hond at Boom Chicago for the comedy show 'Political Party,' in which he improvised with (and impersonated) Dutch politicians such as Lodewijk Asscher, Bert Koenders, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Maxime Verhagen, Ronald Plasterk, Femke Halsema, Hero Brinkman, and Tofik Dibi.
In 2011, he created and presented the television programme Planet Nederland, a review of Dutch society as a nature documentary. It appeared on Dutch broadcaster VARA and on NPO Humor TV. In 2012 for NPO HumorTV he presented a vlog about the Dutch elections called 'Verkiespijn' and a vlog about the 2012 US election called 'United States of Shapiro.'
Shapiro is currently the producer, writer and host of ‘United States of Europe‘ for Zoomin.tv. He is the host of the QuickestQuiz app. And he is the co-host of the Amsterdam Comedy Podcast. He tours with his 4th solo show ‘Part-Time Hypocrite.’ And his book ‘How to Be Orange: an Alternative Assimilation Course’ is available internationally. He has also appeared in the films Phileine Says Sorry, Down and in the soap series Goede tijden, slechte tijden. His new book is called How to Be Dutch: the Quiz.
External links
- Greg Shapiro at the Internet Movie Database
- Amsterdam Comedy Podcast
- Greg Shapiro YouTube Channel
- GregShapiro.nl
- Quickest Quiz App
- How to Be Orange Amazon.com
- How to Be Orange book overview