- Born
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Jake Fogelnest has been nominated for two Emmys and a WGA Award. He served as the Executive Producer/Showrunner for Corporate on Comedy Central. Jake was a Co-Executive Producer for Marvel's Runaways. Other credits include Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp, Difficult People, Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon's Cord and Tish specials and Billy On The Street. Most recently Jake was an Executive Producer on the second season of Liza On Demand.
Jake Fogelnest also writes for the enormously successful and extremely important news affairs program, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, working closely with the broadcasting legend who is an exhausting personality. Jake has directed many music videos and is an alumni of both Funny Or Die and Upright Citizens Brigade.
In 1994, he created Squirt TV, a Manhattan public access show which became a cult hit MTV series, hosted out of Jake's teenage bedroom. Please resist the urge to look up old clips of the show on YouTube.
Yes, Jake has been a guest on Marc Maron's podcast, but he's most proud of being asked to do a "What's In My Bag?" for Amoeba Records.
Jake Fogelnest lives in Los Angeles. He has an account on Instagram.
Attachments area Preview YouTube video Jake Fogelnest - What's in My Bag?
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseDevorah Fogelnest(October 30, 2020 - present)
- In 2004, Fogelnest won a New York City A.I.R. Award for hosting the "Top 92 Worst Xmas Songs of All-Time" on the former WXRK where he worked as a DJ for many years before the station changed formats and became WFNY-FM.
Upon K-Rock's format switch, Fogelnest hosted a radio show on the new Free-FM with Jackie Clarke called Jake and Jackie. The show was a combination of pop culture discussion and radio sketch comedy. Fogelnest left the show for Sirius XM radio in 2006.
From 2006-2014, Fogelnest hosted mornings on Sirius XM's College rock/Indie rock channel, Sirius XMU. He was also heard afternoons on Sirius XM Alt Nation. Fogelnest exited Sirius XM in November 2014 to focus full-time on writing and producing for television.
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