Harmon Leon
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Harmon Leon is a primarily a humorist, though he has also done some stand-up. He has contributed to Wired Magazine, Salon.com, National Lampoon, and NPR. His typical comedic style is to impersonate a character, infiltrate some organization, then write about the experience, thus relating the absurdities of modern American life.
His first book, "The Harmon Chronicles," was published in 2002, and "Republican Like Me: Infiltrating Red-State, White-Ass, and Blue-Suit America," was printed in 2005 by Prometheus Books. The undercover journalism piece details his adventures in conservative organizations and occupations, and was described by talk show host Howard Stern as "funny as hell."
His latest book is called The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right Wing America (Prometheus Books).
Harmon Leon is currrently working on a road trip book and documentary for National Lampoon to commerate the 25th anniversary of the Vacation movie which will be out fall of 2007.
He also produces videos for Current TV and has films, and has had films shown at SXSW and the Florida Film Festival.
Harmon has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and the BBC. He co-starred with OJ Simpson is a horrible straight to DVD hidden camera prank show called, "Juice'd." (As in pranks were pulled, OJ Simpson pops out and goes "You've been Juice'd!")
He lives in San Francisco, California.
