John Hodgman

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John Hodgman (2019)

John Kellogg Hodgman (* 3. June 1971 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) is an US -American author and humorist whose work in The Paris Review , the New York Times Magazine and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been published. He has also appeared on This American Life (Public Radio International), Wiretap ( Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ), and The Daily Show ( Comedy Central)) on. He achieved (even if not by name) greater popularity through his role as “PC” in Apple's “Get a Mac” commercials .

Hodgman's first book, The Areas of My Expertise , was published in 2005. In addition to his literary work, he is the founder and director of The Little Gray Book Lectures in Williamsburg, Brooklyn .

biography

Hodgman was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts and attended high school there . He graduated from Yale University . Hodgman took clarinet lessons at the All Newton Music School in West Newton, Massachusetts. Before becoming known as a writer, Hodgman worked as a literary agent at the Writers House in New York , where he represented Darin Strauss , David Grand , Deborah Digges and actor Bruce Campbell , among others . Hodgman worked on these experiences as an agent in his column Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent at McSweeney's Internet Tendency . Hodgman lives in New York.

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Hodgman appeared on the comedy show The Daily Show on November 16, 2005 to promote his book The Areas of My Expertise . Moderator Jon Stewart described the book as "very funny" and said that the section on hobo names in particular was written with a "certain ingenuity." On January 16, 2006, Hodgman appeared again on The Daily Show , this time in an interview with Stewart as an "expert" on Iranian nuclear ambitions. On January 31, 2006, he appeared for the third time on the show as an expert to discuss Alan Greenspan's departure . It reappeared on March 8, 2006 in a report on Indo - Pakistani relations. On March 20, 2006, he appeared as an expert on the potential effects of global warming. On April 25, 2006, he was a juror for the US Army essay competition . On July 19, 2006, Hodgman appeared as an expert on net neutrality in a program that made joking allusions to his appearances in the Apple advertising campaign (see below).

In February 2006, Hodgman appeared on Attack of the Show , a technical program that airs daily on G4, to allow the presenter to view and promote his book The Areas of My Expertise . In this appearance Hodgman told the sad story of the lobster (about which he said he was actually a small, furry, extinct species, which was killed by the creatures and replaced, which we know as lobsters today) and took Jonathan Coulton with a close collaborator and musical director of the Little Gray Book lectures . Coulton performed a song called “Furry Ol 'Lobster” (“Furry Old Lobster”).

On August 24, 2006, Hodgman appeared on The Daily Show to explain the newly discovered planets to viewers. He gave them the motto "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza Cars 2003 UB313 (Xena) AKA (Also Known As) Lesbian." Hodgman used his appearance on The Daily Show on October 21, 2008 for his second book, More Information Promote Than You Require . During the course of the show, he got several swipes at the usual practice of the authors and Jon Stewarts himself.

Hodgman appeared in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign that began in May 2006. In the spots he plays a personalized PC at the side of his Mac opponent, played by Justin Long . In the satirical web series Codefellas , which has been published since 2013, Hodgman speaks to the aging special agent Henry Topple of the NSA in dialogue with the young hacker Nicole Winters (Emily Heller). Hodgman is also the eponymous host of the podcast Judge John Hodgman and author of the column of the same name in the New York Times Magazine , in which he judges everyday disputes as a “judge”.

Movies

Hodgman has had supporting or speaking roles in several films:

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ask A Former Professional Literary Agent, Part I. , John Hodgman, accessed May 12, 2014
  2. ^ Daily Show Video , accessed May 12, 2014.
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  10. ↑ web series "codefellas" will monitor the mickey , blog.zeit.de . Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  11. ^ Judge John Hodgman | Podcasts. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (American English).
  12. ^ Judge John Hodgman . In: The New York Times . ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 13, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hodgman, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodgman, John Kellogg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline , Massachusetts