Biography
Jake started a television show, Squirt TV, from his New York City bedroom when he was 14 years old. Squirt TV made its debut in January 1994 on Manhattan public-access television cable TV. The show, which Fogelnest wrote, produced, and directed, featured his opinions on music, film and television. The one-man show quickly became a cult success in Manhattan, attracting with its quirky style, sense of humor and edgy commentary a fan base of night owls, including Beastie Boys, Janeane Garofalo, and Eric Bogosian.
Squirt TV soon moved from public-access television to MTV (a trajectory that echoed the movie Wayne's World, released in 1992). Still recorded from Fogelnest's bedroom, the show featured more celebrity guests, including Adam Sandler, Beck, and The Kids in the Hall--some of whom had appeared on Squirt TV in its original public-access television incarnation.
Fogelnest is a regular commentator on VH1's I Love the... and The Greatest. Other television credits include a special for Comedy Central, MTV's 12 Angry Viewers, Upright Citizens Brigade, and guest appearances on The Jon Stewart Show, Howard Stern and Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. In 2005, Fogelnest created Ten Years Later for MTV, a fictional documentary which followed Jake's life if he "never grew out of 'Squirt TV.'" The show was co-written and directed by Tom Gianas.
Fogelnest had a cameo in the film Wet Hot American Summer and is interviewed in Gigantic: A Tale Of Two Johns, a documentary on the band They Might Be Giants. He also appears as himself in the Amy Heckerling film, Vamps.
Fogelnest served on the writing staff of the VH1 series Best Week Ever and regularly contributed jokes to Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." He's written for magazines such as Spin, Ray Gun, Bikini, Alternative Press, and Jane, and he's appeared in the "Say Something Funny" feature of The Onion'."
Fogelnest co-directed Jerry Minor is a Black Man for the Saturday Night Live alum. He served as assistant director for Sarah Silverman's one-woman show Jesus Is Magic at Joe's Pub. He's worked on tour with the Upright Citizens Brigade and has developed numerous comedy projects at their downtown New York City theater. There he co-directed (with Amy Poehler) the two-person show Eye Candy, starring Dannah Feinglass and Danielle Schneider, which was selected for the 2002 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. Fogelnest's most acclaimed UCB production is George Bush is a Motherfucker, which featured many members of Respecto Montalban, and was produced by Adam McKay.
In 2004, he won a New York City A.I.R. Award for hosting the "Top 92 Worst Xmas Songs of All-Time" on the former WXRK where he worked as a DJ before the station changed formats and became WFNY-FM.
Upon K-Rock's format switch, Jake hosted a radio show on the new Free-FM with Jackie Clarke called Jake and Jackie. The show was a combination of pop culture discussion and radio sketch comedy. The show also featured many frequent guests, including Penn Jillette, Michael Musto, Tom Scharpling, Fred Armisen, Horatio Sanz, Rob Huebel, Chuck Nice, John Gemberling, Curtis Gwinn, Bobby Moynihan and Paul Scheer (the show's Hollywood correspondent). Jake left the show for Sirius XM radio in 2006.
Currently, he has a show on Sirius XM's College rock/Indie rock channel, Sirius XMU, every day from 6 am to noon ET. He can also be heard from Noon to 6 pm on Sirius XM Alt Nation. Fogelnest also does live webcasts on Stickam which has received nearly 4,000,000 live views. In August 2012, he announced the launch of a new podcast "The Fogelnest Files" through Earwolf.
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