Moshe Kasher

Mark Moshe Kasher (born July 6, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16. In 2009, iTunes named Kasher "Best New Comic" and his comedy album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die, and Then You Are! was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes that same year. He was also named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine. Kasher moved to Oakland, California with his mother and brother when he was one year old. A son of deaf parents, Kasher worked as a sign-language interpreter from the age of 17. His parents met at the World Games for the Deaf in 1967 and split up when Kasher was nine years old. Kasher regularly spent summers with his father in Sea Gate, Brooklyn until his death Kasher's brother is a rabbi.

In his autobiography Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, Kasher wrote about having been moved in and out of mental institutions from the age of four and using drugs from the ages of 12 to 16. He was kicked out of four different high schools. He earned his G.E.D. at age 16 and later became a sign-language interpreter. In 2008 Kasher moved to Los Angeles. He has appeared on Conan, Showtime's Larry Wilmore's Race, Religion & Sex. He has also appeared as a frequent panelist on Chelsea Lately. and South By South West both held in Austin, Texas, as well as Cat Laughs in Kilkenny, Ireland, and the Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Washington. In 2011 he appeared at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Kasher has also attended SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California on several occasions.

In addition to the iTunes awards in 2009, Kasher was named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine John Wenzel of The Denver Post also ranked Kasher #2 on his list of the top 10 comedy shows he attended in the Denver area during 2011.

In January 2012, Kasher recorded his first solo comedy special for Netflix, Moshe Kasher: Live In Oakland at The New Parish nightclub in his hometown of Oakland.

In September 2016, Comedy Central ordered a talk show series to be written and hosted by Kasher, entitled Problematic, which premiered on April 18, 2017.

Writing Kasher is a published playwright, writer, and author. While still in college, Kasher's long-form monologue "Look Before You Leap" was included in the literary collection Monologues For Men By Men: Volume Two published in 2003. In 2011 and 2012 he contributed several articles to Heeb magazine. In 2012, he published his autobiography Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 published by Hachette Book Group's Grand Central Publishing. He wrote an episode titled "Pardon Me" for the television show, The New Normal.

Acting Kasher played small roles in the independent films Sorry, Thanks (2009) and Wish Makers of West Hollywood (2010). He appeared on episodes of the Fox sitcom Traffic Light in 2011 and the NBC sitcom Whitney in 2012. Kasher played the role of Ruben — a gay, deaf man who uses a wheelchair — in an episode of the U.S. television series Shameless which aired March 18, 2012.

Podcasts In 2011, Kasher, along with Neal Brennan (co-writer of Chappelle's Show) and DJ Douggpound (Doug Lussenhop of Tim and Eric Nite Live!), started a podcast called The Champs. The podcast ended in 2016.

In October 2014, Kasher premiered a new podcast on the Nerdist Podcast Network. Hound Tall Discussion Series is a live monthly podcast that covers a single topic. It's "an hour long chat with an expert and a panel of comedians, they learn all there is to know about things". The first episode was about harems and the expert was Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls, while Pete Holmes and Beth Stelling made up the comedic panel.

On 15 July 2019, The Endless Honeymoon Podcast co-hosted with his wife, Natasha Leggero, premiered on most platforms such as Apple, Spotify, Stitcher and YouTube.

In 2020, Moshe and his brother Rabbi David Kasher began their podcast Kasher vs. Kasher to explore life during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Personal life Kasher married fellow comedian Natasha Leggero, who converted to Judaism, in October 2015. The couple had a baby girl in February 2018.

Filmography Sorry, Thanks (2009) (Andrew) Wish Makers of West Hollywood (2010) (waiter) Zoolander 2 (2016) (Chimney Sweep)

Television Live at Gotham (2009), (himself - stand up) Chelsea Lately (2010–2014), (himself - panelist) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2010, 2012), (himself - stand up) John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show (2011), (himself - stand up) The Daily Habit (2011), (himself - panelist) Traffic Light (2011), (Spike) Whitney (2012), (waiter) Conan (2012), (himself - stand up) Shameless (2012), (Ruben) Transparent (2014), (Moshe Pfeffierman) Moshe Kasher: Live in Oakland (2012), (himself - stand up) Drunk History (2013), (Albert Parsons) @midnight (2013–2017), (himself) The Pete Holmes Show (2013), (himself - interview) Garfunkel and Oates (2014), (nurse Durst at a medical marijuana shop) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2014), (Duncan Traub) The League (2014), (November) Another Period (2015), (Dr. Goldberg) Problematic with Moshe Kasher (2017), (himself) The Honeymoon Stand Up Special (2018), (himself) This Close (2018–2019) (Jacob) The Good Place (2018), (News Man) A Little Late with Lilly Singh (2020), (himself) Crowd Control (2025), (himself) The Pitt (2026), (Samuel Jacob)