Greg Behrendt is a $2.5 million net-worth American stand-up comedian and novelist. Greg Behrendt is best known for co-writing “He’s Just Not That Into You,” a 2004 book with Liz Tuccillo. The book was adapted into a film with the same title, starring Drew Barrymore, in 2009. He was also a script supervisor for the film “Sex and the City.” Greg has four books to his credit and has hosted multiple TV talk shows.
Who is Greg Behrendt?
Greg Behrendt was born in San Francisco, California on July 21, 1963. He enjoyed playing rugby and other sports throughout high school and also had an interest in dramatic arts, which he did not fully explore until college. He enrolled at the University of Oregon with the goal of majoring in business. He did, however, eventually acquire his Bachelor of Arts in drama, graduating in 1991.
How old is Greg Behrendt?
He is currently 60 years old.
What is Greg Behrendt’s net worth?
He is estimated to be worth $2.5 Million.
What is Greg Behrendt’s career?
Behrendt relocated to San Francisco after graduating from college. There, he joined an improv comedy troupe and met fellow comic, Margaret Cho. He began his career as a member of the improv troupe Crash and Burn, performing comedy and improv in San Francisco. Cho was a part of the troupe as well. He also met and performed with comedians Patton Oswalt and David Cross around this period. For many years, Behrendt and Cross shared a room.
As he improved his humorous abilities, he was given more and more opportunities at the national level. He started booking comic segments on “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” By the mid-2000s, he had begun to create his stand-up specials. “Greg Behrendt is Uncool,” his first special, premiered on Comedy Central in January 2006. In June 2006, he competed on the reality show “Celebrity Poker Showdown.” His entire winnings were given to a domestic violence charity.
His daily midday talk show, “The Greg Behrendt Show,” debuted on Superstition WGN in September 2006. Behrendt, as the show’s host, frequently had couples as guests and explored various relationship challenges with them. Other episodes of the show focused on delivering makeovers to guests. The show was canceled in January 2007, and the final episodes aired in February 2007. The show was reruns till September of that year.
Behrendt also hosted “Greg Behrendt’s Wake-Up Call” for ABC during the 2006-2007 television season. The show was never broadcast on the network. However, it debuted on ABC’s sister cable network, SoapNet, in January 2009. He also performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2010. At the festival, he took part in a debate about whether food was better than sex. He was a member of a team that included New Zealand comic Cal Wilson and English comedian Russell Kane. His squad won the competition.
In 2009, Behrendt published his second comedy special, “That Guy From That Thing.” Much of the content from his first special, “Greg Behrendt is Uncool,” was re-released in 2011 in a newly trimmed special dubbed “Original Uncool.” He didn’t release another special until 2018, with “Why Are You In Here?”
Behrendt has a strong writing career in addition to his work as a comedian. Behrendt and co-author Liz Tuccillo wrote the 2004 self-help book “He’s Just Not That Into You.” They followed up the following year with “Pocket Guide to He’s Just Not That Into You: The No-excuses Truth to Understanding Guys.”
Drew Barrymore’s production firm, Flower Films, later converted the original novel into a script. In February 2009, the film of the same name was released. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, and Justin Long appeared in the picture.
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