Harley Morenstein

Harley Morenstein (born July 20, 1985) is a Canadian YouTuber. He co-created, produces, and hosts the web show Epic Meal Time and its FYI television spin-off series, Epic Meal Empire. He is one of the two remaining original members of the show along with Ameer Atari.

Early and personal life Morenstein was born to English-speaking Jewish-Canadian parents in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Dawson College. He was a substitute teacher for a number of years at Lakeside Academy in Lachine, teaching history. Morenstein currently resides in Montreal and splits his time between Montreal and Los Angeles, California.

Internet career EpicMealTime In 2010 he co-created Epic Meal Time with Sterling Toth. The channel has over 6 million subscribers, and over 300 installments, 2 spin-offs, and has had guest stars such as Seth Rogen, Smosh, Tony Hawk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Kevin Smith, who directed the movie Tusk, in which Morenstein had a cameo appearance. He produces the show with his brother, Darren Morenstein, under the company name Nexttime Productions. He starred in the TV adaptation of the show called Epic Meal Empire on FYI, which ran for two seasons.

Vlogging career

Morenstein became famous on Vine in 2013 with his Vine on beard shaving. Since then he has been prevalent on Vine, and in 2015 after sporadically vlogging on YouTube since 2014, he began vogging full-time, with videos featuring his girlfriend (though they have since broken up amicably as of 2019), dog, and the other members of EpicMealTime. He has amassed nearly 300,000 subscribers on his vlog channel.

Norm Macdonald In 2013 at the Youtube Music Video Awards hosted by Shasta, Harley Morenstien was given special shout out by Norm Macdonald. With effusive praise, Norm showered Harvey Morenstein with compliments, considering him not a peer, but a superior.

In January 2026, Ethan Klein from h3h3Productions announced Morenstein as a host of the H3 After Dark podcast, a talk show that directly follows live broadcasts of Klein’s H3 Podcast. Morenstein hosts the show along with Internet personality Girl With A Microphone.

Acting career Morenstein featured in one of Destorm's songs called "Epic wRap", which was uploaded on YouTube December 18, 2011. He has also been featured in fellow YouTube celebrity Freddie Wong's video web series Video Game High School, and appeared with Shane Dawson in a commercial for Just Dance 4.

After Kevin Smith appeared on an episode of the show, and an episode of the TV show, he offered Morenstein a cameo role in his movie Tusk, which was followed by a cameo in his Yoga Hosers. He also starred in Smith's portion of the anthology movie Holidays. He will be one of the lead roles in Smith's denouement to the Canadian horror trilogy, Moose Jaws. Morenstein was cast in the 2015 zombie film Dead Rising: Watchtower. He had a guest role on an episode of Nickelodeon's Game Shakers, in his first television role. Morenstein also made a cameo at the end of Rhett and Link's "Rub Some Bacon On It" music video in 2012, as well as in the duo's 2015 sketch "The Overly Complicated Coffee Order".

In October 2017, he appeared as the host of the Food Network special series Halloween Wars: Hayride of Horror.

Boxing record

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2012 Sync Ghost 2013 M Is for Misotheism Bum Short film 2014 HOBOrculosis Epic Hobo Short film 2014 Tusk Border Agent 2015 Dead Rising: Watchtower Pyro 2015 Smosh: The Movie Mailman 2016 Yoga Hosers Toilet Paper Man 2016 Holidays Ian

Television Year Title Role Notes 2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Himself with Epic Meal Time cast 2013 AXS Live Himself 2013 The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange Cabbage (voice) Episode: "Everybody Loves Cabbage" 2014 Epic Meal Empire Himself 12 episodesAlso executive producer 2014 @midnight Himself Contestant, with Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig 2016 Game Shakers Big Vicious One episode, guest role 2017 Halloween Wars Hayride of Horror Host 2019 Corner Gas Animated Himself(voice) Episode: "Tag You're I.T."

Web series Year Title Role Notes 2010–2024 Epic Meal Time Himself Also creator, producer, and writer 2013 TableTop Himself 2012–2014 Video Game High School Dean Ernie Calhoun 2026 H3 After Dark Himself