Harrison Greenbaum

Harrison Greenbaum (born September 14, 1986) is an American stand-up comedian and comedy writer. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Woodmere, on Long Island, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class at Lawrence High School. His paternal grandfather, Henry Greenbaum, was a Holocaust survivor. Greenbaum attended Harvard, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2008, won the 2006 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting, and earned the Gordon W. Allport Prize for his psychology thesis on the effect of racial humor on prejudice. While at Harvard he co-founded the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society.

Greenbaum has performed at leading comedy clubs worldwide, including Carolines on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, Comic Strip Live, and the Laugh Factory, and is a regular at the Comedy Cellar. He was the first-ever comedian or comedy magician to headline a Cirque du Soleil show, Cirque du Soleil's Mad Apple, at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. His solo comedy and magic show, "Harrison Greenbaum: What Just Happened?", premiered at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, had an Off-Broadway run, and toured internationally with performances at the Kennedy Center, the Magic Castle, and the Comedy Cellar.

On television, Greenbaum was the warm-up comedian for the first season of Katie Couric's talk show Katie in 2013, a semi-finalist on Last Comic Standing in 2015, and performed on Conan in 2018. He is a writer for MAD Magazine. His honors include the 2010 Andy Kaufman Award, the 2011 Magners Comic Stand-Off, and a 2011 Shorty Award. He was named one of 2010's "Comics to Watch" by Comedy Central, and in 2009 became one of the youngest people ever inducted into the New York Friars' Club. In 2017 he was awarded the Clarke Crandall Award for Comedy at the 80th Abbott's Magic Get-Together in Colon, Michigan.