Greg Benson

Gregory Benson (born January 23, 1967/68) is an American comedian, actor, Twitch streamer and director. His production company, Mediocre Films, creates comedic short films, generally for YouTube. He is a frequent director for The Guild.

History

Benson grew up in Dallas, Texas. He moved to California, where he has since appeared in several television commercials. Benson is a sometime member of the ACME Comedy Theatre improv troupe in Hollywood, where he first worked with writer/actor Wil Wheaton, who has since appeared in a variety of Benson's projects.

He started making videos in 2005, initially hosting them on his own Mediocre Films website. Eventually he moved his distribution from his own site to YouTube, where within one month, "Greg Hits Hollywood", one of his shorts, was featured on the site's home page. The video and its sequels feature Benson interviewing strangers as a pretext for hitting them with his microphone to see "what people will put up with just because they want to be on TV, or even just YouTube."

Benson's most prominent directing credit is his work on the Internet series The Guild, on which he worked again with his wife, Kim Evey, producer of The Guild, as well as creator and performer of the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. He also portrayed one of the passengers on the short Docudrama "The Flight that Fought Back". He and his wife, Kim, adopted a baby boy named Charlie in January 2016.

Awards

His first video, "Coming Home", was chosen by Amazon.com customers as one of the top five videos of the Amazon/Tribeca Film Festival's short films division.

His short "Phone Call to God" was chosen for second place in the best comedy division at the 2006 Evil City Film Fest.

"The Guild", which Benson Directed the second half of season 1, has won several awards including 2007 YouTube Awards (Best Series), 2009 Streamy Awards (Best Series, Best Comedy Series), 2012 IAWTV Awards (Best Comedy Web Series).

Retarded Policeman

Retarded Policeman is an American YouTube comedy web series written, directed, and edited by Benson, and based on an idea by his wife, producer and performer, Kim Evey. Scott Perry, Josh "The Ponceman" Perry's brother, has worked on the series.

The videos were uploaded on YouTube under the channel MediocreFilms, later made private at an unknown date.

Synopsis The fictional series follows learning impaired Officer Ponce (Josh "The Ponceman" Perry) as he pulls over members of the public.

Theme song The following is the lyrics to the 8 second long theme song played at the start of the video. Episode 15 had a rock remix of the theme song performed by Dave Days.

He is a cop,

And he's learning impaired,

He's the retarded policeman! (that's me!)

Episode list

Season 1 Episode no. Episode name Guest starring Air date 1 Hi Scott Perry and Stacey Perry September 19, 2007 2 Officer Monkey Kim Evey September 27, 2007 3 Coked Up Greg Benson October 4, 2007 4 Racial Profiling Cozmo Johnson November 20, 2007 5 Writers Strike Wil Wheaton January 22, 2008 6 Sobriety Test David Hussey February 4, 2008 7 MILF Cory Williams and Jody Hoells March 20, 2008 7.5 Fish (April Fools) Felicia Day March 31, 2008 8 Tazer Mark McCracken and Laura House April 1, 2008 9 Boobies! Heather Provost, Valerie Querns, Alan Heitz and Scott Perry April 23, 2008 10 Mexicans Connie Perry and Al Perry June 10, 2008 11 GILF Peggy Grigsby June 25, 2008 12 Casual Friday Shelby Malone July 2, 2008 13 Mime Doug Jones July 10, 2008 14 Bribes Phil DeFranco July 25, 2008 15 Assburgers Syndrome Charles Trippy and Dave Days August 8, 2008 16 Stalker Michael Buckley August 15, 2008 17 Nalts Kevin Nalty August 29, 2008 18 Underage Girls Rain Echo Scott, Rina Beyda, TJ Sonnier September 5, 2008 19 Chad Vader Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda October 17, 2008 20 Lesbian Bikini Wrestling Michelle Beyda Scott, Veronika Olah, Amber Smyser November 24, 2010 21 Lt. Ballsack Greg Benson November 14, 2008 1.Initially a DVD-exclusive.

Season 2 Episode no. Episode name Guest starring Air date 22 Bitches Kathleen Victoria Elliott and Tonilyn Hornung January 5, 2012 23 Pepper Spray Bob Bendick January 12, 2012 24 Foursquare Kassem G January 19, 2012 25 Sexual Harassment Abigail Grace Tallman February 1, 2012 26 Invisible Driver Lindsey Koens February 9, 2012 27 Panty Inspector Allison Scagliotti and J.P. Manoux February 16, 2012 28 Donuts Sandeep Parikh Unknown 29 Gun Fight Shay Carl March 8, 2012 30 New Friend Jesse Mackey March 15, 2012 31 Framed for Murder DeStorm Power April 5, 2012 32 Child Driver Mackenzie Hillhouse April 12, 2012 33 Blonde in a Convertible Teal Sherer April 19, 2012 34 FART Toby Turner May 10, 2012 35 Politically Correct Episode Brittani Louise Taylor May 25, 2012 36 Oh Look! A Foreigner! Miles Grose June 7, 2012 2.Reuploaded on September 20, 2012.