Greg Shapiro

Gregory Scott Shapiro (born 1968) is a Dutch American comedian, best known as a member of the comedy group Boom Chicago, host of the Dutch satirical news program Comedy Central News, and the author of How to Be Orange: An Alternative Dutch Assimilation Course and How to Be Dutch: the Quiz. Shapiro was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University in Theater. In 1994, he came to the Netherlands to help establish the 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, Shapiro voiced the FloridaVotingMachine video that went viral before there was YouTube. In 2007, he hosted Comedy Central News and started his own video weblog Highly Dubious News. In 2009, he was named a "Hero of Amsterdam" by Time Out Amsterdam, for which he was a columnist. Shapiro has written and performed solo shows including Going Dutch, How to Be Orange, Superburger, The Madness of King Donald, Leaving Trumpland and Leaving Trumpland 2.0, and has 20 years of experience in corporate speaking and entertainment.

In 2011, he created and presented the television programme Planet Nederland, a review of Dutch society as a nature documentary, which aired on Dutch broadcaster VARA and NPO Humor TV. In 2017, Shapiro did the voice-over of "The Netherlands Second" video from Zondag met Lubach, which went viral with almost 39 million views. He has written three books, including The American Netherlander: 25 Years of Expat Tales, and has appeared in the films Down and Phileine Says Sorry, as well as the soap series Goede tijden, slechte tijden.