Katie Halper Bio | Wiki
Katie Halper is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She serves as the host of the podcast The Katie Halper Show and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi.
Halper is also a co-founder and member of the comedy ensemble Laughing Liberally. Additionally, she has performed at Town Hall, The Culture Project, Symphony Space, D.C. Comedy Festival, and The Nation Magazine Cruise.
Her writing and videos have appeared in Salon, Comedy Central, The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, and more. Moreover, Halper appears regularly on HuffPost Live and MSNBC, RT, the Alan Colmes Show, and Sirius radio. Her latest project is the award-winning film, COMMIE CAMP, a documentary about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp the Right loves to hate.
Katie Halper Age | Birthday
Halper was born on July 11, 1981, in New York, New York, United States. She is 41 years old.
Katie Halper Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Katie Halper Family
She was born and raised in New York City’s Upper West Side, on Riverside Drive by her mother Nora Eisenberg, and her father. Halper’s father is a psychiatrist while her mother is an English professor and novelist. She is Jewish, however, she considers herself secular. She holds an American nationality.
Katie Halper Husband
Halper is a woman who enjoys her life and career. However, she keeps her love life private. Therefore, it is not known whether she is married, dating, or single. She owns a dog named pooch Bodhi.
Katie Halper Education
She attended Dalton School and graduated from Wesleyan University. Later, Halper served as a development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV). Additionally, she also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida. Halper has also taught history at her alma mater, the Dalton School. Additionally, she has performed at Town Hall and The Culture Project.
Katie Halper Show
Previously, Halper served as a co-host of the podcast Morning Jew with Heather Gold. Currently, she hosts The Katie Halper Show, a weekly WBAI radio show and podcast. The show takes a humorous look at the news, pop culture, politics, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, activists, artists, journalists, and political comedians.
The show garnered attention when she held an interview with Tara Reade, a former Senate staff assistant of Joe Biden, released as a podcast on March 25, 2020. Tara Reade alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill office building in 1993. A Biden spokesperson said that the allegation was false.
Katie Halper Podcast | Useful Idiots
In 2019, Halper and Matt Taibbi launched and co-host the podcast Useful Idiots, distributed by Rolling Stone. The podcast has since featured interviews with Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, and many more. In March 2021, Taibbi announced that Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone and would instead be moving to Substack.
Katie Halper Youtube | Films
Halper has more than 50,000 subscribers on her Youtube Channel. She also hosts her live show The Halper Show, a political talk show on Thursdays & Sundays at 7:00 P.M EST. Halper is also a writer and producer, known for:
La memoria es vaga (2005)
Commie Camp (2013)
Happy Ending (2017)
Free to Fly: The US-Cuba Link (2004)
Embedded Live (2005)
Commie Camp (2013)
Katie Halper Net Worth
She earns her wealth as a comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. Therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Halper’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Katie Halper
Halper is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She serves as the host of the podcast The Katie Halper Show and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi. Halper is also a co-founder and member of the comedy ensemble Laughing Liberally. Additionally, she has performed at Town Hall, The Culture Project, Symphony Space, D.C. Comedy Festival, and The Nation Magazine Cruise.