Dave Smith (comedian)

David Smith (born April 20, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and libertarian political commentator.[6][7][8] He has frequently appeared on Fox News Channel's Kennedy[9][10] and The Greg Gutfeld Show.[11][12][13] Additionally he was a recurring panelist on CNN's S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered.[14]

Dave Smith
Smith at 2022 Revolution hosted by Young Americans for Liberty
Born
David Smith

(1983-04-20) April 20, 1983
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationComedian
Political partyLibertarian[1][2][3][4][5]
Other political
affiliations		Mises Caucus
SpouseLauren Smith
Children2
Websitecomicdavesmith.com

Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[15] As of 2022, Smith was reportedly running the party's social media.[16]

Career

In 2013, Smith was featured as one of the New Faces at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He was a featured performer on the New York Comedy Festival's "New York's Funniest" showcase in 2014 and 2015.[17]

He hosts the Part of the Problem podcast and cohosts the comedy podcast Legion of Skanks.[6][11][18][19] He has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Timcast.[20][21][22][23][6]

He was the MC for FreedomFest, a libertarian festival, in 2021,[24] and a featured speaker there in 2022.[16] Smith was running the Libertarian Party's social media as of 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[16]

Political views

Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[15][25][26][27][28] Smith said in a 2017 Reason interview that he "became a libertarian through the Ron Paul movement".[29] He has opposed what he sees as big tech hegemony, describing it as "the biggest threat to liberty" aside from the "tyranny of COVID-19".[30] He said to Reason in 2021 that he did not plan to vaccinate himself or his child against COVID-19.[30][20] Reason described him as "a vocal opponent of wokeness and political correctness".[30] An admirer of the anarcho-capitalist economist Murray Rothbard, he told Reason that like Rothbard he would abolish government if he could.[31]

Smith has been noted for interviews with far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes,[32][33] Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and Christopher Cantwell.[32][34][16] Smith has called Fuentes a "fellow traveler", according to the SPLC.[16] In 2021, The New Republic called Smith "a Nazi sympathizer".[32] The SPLC noted that Smith is Jewish and has disagreed with far-right figures on the creation of a white ethnostate and the alt-right's tactics.[34] Debating with Fuentes, the SPLC said, Smith argued for "hard-right libertarian viewpoints".[34]

Personal life

Smith has two children with his wife, Lauren.[18]

See also

References
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  2. "How Can The Libertarian Party Effect Real Change? A Soho Forum Debate". September 20, 2019.
  3. "Libertarian Presidential Candidates Champion 'Open Borders'". February 26, 2020.
  4. "Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising". July 4, 2018.
  5. "Why Some Libertarians Support Vaccine Mandates". VOA. August 4, 2021.
  6. Gillespie, Nick; Weissmueller, Zach (June 20, 2022). "Dave Smith: Comedian, Podcaster…Presidential Candidate?". Reason.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  7. "What Is the Ideal Strategy for the Libertarian Party? A Soho Forum Debate". Reason.com. September 19, 2019.
  8. Cleary, Tom (April 27, 2021). "Comedian Slams Vaccine Passports on Joe Rogan's Podcast [WATCH]". Heavy.com. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  9. "Kennedy: Vaping ban is a 'knee-jerk, nanny state' reaction". Fox Business. January 21, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  10. "'Kennedy' panel flips the political script in 'Party Swap' game". Fox Business. November 13, 2020.
  11. Cleary, Tom (April 27, 2021). "Comedian Slams Vaccine Passports on Joe Rogan's Podcast [WATCH]". Heavy.com.
  12. "Halftime Report: A shout out to 'Red Eye' fans". Fox News. September 12, 2017.
  13. "Gutfeld: NBC decides to not air 2022 Golden Globes over lack of diversity". Fox News. May 12, 2021.
  14. Page, Nicholas (December 21, 2017). "S.E. Cupp Eviscerates Ex-Obama Advisor Ben Rhodes for Wishing Death on GOP Foes: 'Try Therapy'". Mediaite.
  15. Weissmueller, Zach; Gillespie, Nick; Thompson, Danielle (June 15, 2022). "Inside the Mises Caucus Takeover of the Libertarian Party". Reason.com. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  16. Newton, Creede (July 13, 2022). "Andrew Yang To Speak Alongside Far-right Figures at 'FreedomFest'". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  17. "Home". Dave Smith.
  18. "Libertarian Comedian Dave Smith on the Alt-Right, Christopher Cantwell, and How the Left 'Went Off the Rails'". Reason.com. September 8, 2017.
  19. "Nick Gillespie on Libertarianism, Why Gary Johnson Is a Success, Trump, Clinton, and Millennials". Reason.com. October 31, 2016.
  20. Amore, Samson (April 27, 2021). "Joe Rogan Slammed for 'Deeply Irresponsible' Anti-Vaccine Comments". The Wrap.
  21. "Joe Rogan Says YouTube Censorship Is One Reason He Went to Spotify". digitalmusicnews.com. April 26, 2021.
  22. Gipson, Johnell (November 15, 2020). "Joe Rogan Questions How America Will Improve With Joe Biden as President — 'Things Aren't Going To Change for the Better With Him'". cheatsheet.com.
  23. Carman, Ashley (April 27, 2021). "Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan's anti-vaccine remarks". The Verge.
  24. Wargo, Abby (July 21, 2021). "Gov. Noem, Dennis Quaid headline first night of FreedomFest". Rapid City Journal.
  25. Welch, Matt (July 4, 2018). "Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising". Reason.com. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  26. Carroll, William (June 28, 2021). "Free Staters' Porcfest draws a capacity crowd". The Conway Daily Sun.
  27. "Tom Woods, Dave Smith, and Jason Stapleton Join the Libertarian Party". The Libertarian Republic. July 13, 2018.
  28. Farivar, Masood (August 4, 2021). "Why Some Libertarians Support Vaccine Mandates". VOA. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  29. "Libertarian Comedian Dave Smith on the Alt-Right, Christopher Cantwell, and How the Left 'Went Off the Rails'". Reason.com. September 8, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  30. Gillespie, Nick (July 28, 2022). "Dave Smith: Libertarians vs. Big Tech, Big Government, and…Other Libertarians". Reason.com.
  31. Weissmueller, Zach (July 25, 2022). "Should Libertarians Root for a National Divorce?". Reason.com. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  32. Simons, Seth (February 9, 2021). "The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem". The New Republic. Retrieved July 18, 2022. In 2017, Dave Smith used a TGMS guest-hosting spot to interview Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell, giving both a friendly platform to lay out their vision for a white ethnostate.
  33. Horowitz, Justin (December 20, 2022). "Extremists, bigots, and conspiracy theorists: YouTuber Tim Pool's 2022 guests in review". Media Matters for America. Retrieved December 21, 2022. Smith is connected to white nationalist Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes and appeared on Pool's show in September.
  34. Newton, Creede (May 22, 2022). "Mises Caucus: Could It Sway the Libertarian Party to the Hard Right?". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved July 18, 2022. Smith ... has long invited extremists and hard right and fringe figures – including HotepJesus – on his podcast, "Part of the Problem" (PotP).
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