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Winner of the Bill Hicks Spirit Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, author of HarperCollins’ bestselling satire “Get Rich Cheating,” on-camera contributor to HLN’s “Showbiz Tonight,” writer for Comedy Central’s Indecision2008, Huffington Post, TheStreet.com, and The Independent Film Channel, cast member of Shoot The Messenger (from the co-creator of “The Daily Show”), executive editor of “My Wall Street Journal,” and star of several hit international festival shows, Jeff Kreisler’s performed on TV, radio, and stage around the world, with passion, absurdity, and hope. A graduate of Princeton, Exeter, and Virginia Law School, Jeff now lives in New York City.
“Somebody get Jeff Kreisler on ‘The Colbert Report’… As funny and as quotable as anything that appears daily on late-night TV. You are guaranteed a few laugh-out-loud verbal souvenirs to try out on your friends” - The New York Times
“A heavy hitter… the smartest political comedy around” - The Scotsman
“Kreisler’s keen intellect sees to it that tired subjects are rendered shocking and original… Reflections so clever, you wonder why they aren’t present in the political discourse.” - Fest Magazine
“Critic’s Choice” - San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Don’t Miss” - Time Out New York
“This is one show that will have you laughing from start to finish” - Fresh Air
“A genuinely engaging performer” - EdFest Magazine
“Great stuff. Very funny. I wrote some of that down.” - United States Senator Tom Harkin
“You’ll struggle to find better than Jeff Kreisler… With slick and witty poise he mixes wry observation on current affairs with quirky bouts of surrealism ” - Three Weeks
About “Get Rich Cheating”:
“You’ll be laughing all the way to the bank, assuming other cheaters haven’t forced it into bankruptcy yet.” - Rachel Maddow (MSNBC)
“A very funny book with a very timely message” - Terry Jones (Monty Python)
“Catcher in the Rye for evildoers” - Penthouse Magazine
“This is THE book to read in the unemployment line.” - Lizz Winstead (Co-creator of The Daily Show)“Laugh out loud - roaring!” - CNBC
“A brilliant and brilliantly sustained satirical broadside. On just about every page, you’ll find a pithy, pointed barb worthy of the late great George Carlin” - Tony Hendra (Father Joe, George Carlin’s “Last Words”)
“Is (it) a humor book, prescient, or a Wall Street / Washington user’s manual? It is all three… Kreisler is that funny.” - The Reviews Page
“A Michael Moore-esque rallying cry… A really great performer” - Time Out New York
“Ever wonder what it’s like inside the mind of a genius? Well, now you can take a peek… In the God-is-Dead tradition of Nietzsche, Kreisler is superman.” - Miami Examiner
“One can easily envision Jeff Kreisler as a guest on The Colbert Report… Why? He’s funny, he has mad political criticism skills and, as his new book reveals, he’s shrewdly corrupt” - The Q Note
“A hilarious, recession-proof tutorial on how to get rich without regard for morals or other mortals” - Flavorpill
“A funny satirical attack on the culture of greed” - NY Theater.com
“Like all good satire, comedian Jeff Kreisler’s fake wealth-building seminar gets closer to the truth than the putative objects of its scorn.” - Show Showdown
“Get Rich Cheating, however, is about as smart as parody shows (and books) come.” - Talking Broadway
“Pitch perfect satire” - Theater Is Easy
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