Brian Unger

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Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. Unger was an original contributor to The Daily Show, from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show Day to Day and guest hosts MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He also hosts the Discovery Channel show Some Assembly Required with University of Virginia Professor of Physics, Lou Bloomfield

Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication, and worked on a television show called Fridays Live, an OU-produced comedy show airing on WOUB-TV, the local PBS affiliate.

While working for The Daily Show in 1998, he was named one of Entertainment Weekly's "100 Most Creative People in Entertainment."

Unger's other television appearances include the Comedy Central shows Reno 911! and The Man Show, various I Love the... shows on VH1, as well as appearances on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, NBC's Later, E!'s Talk Soup, the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Extra, the stand-up comedy DVD Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion. He was also the spokesman for Yoo-hoo.

Unger's written commentary has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Unger was one of the co-hosts for the pilot of a new PBS series, Wired Science, which aired in January, 2007 and was subsequently picked up to debut later in the year, though Unger did not remain involved with the show. [1]