Author, columnist, and comedian Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest
working man in show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown.
Hofstetter's national TV debut came on ESPN's Quite Frankly, where Stephen
A. Smith yelled at him for three minutes. Hofstetter has also appeared on
Showtime's "White Boyz in the Hood," VH1's "Countdown," and
does what he can to represent American comedy in the groundbreaking New Line
documentary "On the Road in America." Having appeared on networks
from Boston to Denver, his local television appearances are too numerous to
count, especially if you're using your fingers.
One of the top booked acts on the college circuit, the 28-year-old humorist
also just released his third album and his third book. The book is titled
"National Lampoon's Balls!" Thankfully, It's a sports book.
After hosting Four Quotas on Sirius Satellite Radio for two seasons,
Hofstetter moved to broadcast radio, and his Sports Minute (Or So) is currently
syndicated on over 150 stations and in over 30 newspapers. Hofstetter released
his first live comedy album in 2006, CURE FOR THE CABLE GUY, which debuted at
#22 on Billboard's comedy charts. Hofstetter is a former weekly columnist for
SportsIllustrated.com and NHL.com, where he publicly admitted to being a Ranger
fan.
Hofstetter's brutal tour schedule consists of over 100 colleges and dozens
of clubs every year, and is fueled by an immense online popularity, tons of
press, and a Prius with great gas mileage. His reach includes 200,000 friends
on Facebook and 400,000 more on MySpace, with thousands more every week.
SteveHofstetter.com is one of the top two most trafficked websites of any
American standup act on the market today, behind Dane Cook's appropriately
named DaneCook.com.
Hofstetter was named one of Two Drink Minimum magazine's Best New Faces of
2004, which confuses him since he definitely had a face in 2003. And while
Hofstetter's live shows are routinely sold out, he is best known for his
writing, first published at age 15 (when he also had a face). At 18, he
co-founded "Sports Jerk of the Week," an irreverent website featured
by press like USA Today's Baseball Weekly, Sports Illustrated and CNN. And at
20, Hofstetter took a year off of school to head up web content for the New York
Yankees. The Yankees won the World Series that year, which would have been
wonderful if they hadn't beaten Hofstetter's Mets. He did not have a face that
night.
While an undergraduate at Columbia University, Hofstetter was a well-read
columnist for the Columbia Daily Spectator and a voice of the Lions. After a
summer writing for Maxim, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated for Kids, Hofstetter
turned his column into two books. The column gained popularity with syndication
in several newspapers and websites, including collegehumor.com.
Hofstetter also looks a great deal like Michael Rappaport.