Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. Unger was an original correspondent and producer to The Daily Show, from 1996 to 1999. He is now a correspondent for NBC's "The Jay Leno Show," and provides regular commentary to NPR's "All Things Considered." He also provided regular commentary ("The Unger Report") for the NPR show Day to Day from its launch in 2003 until its cancellation, making his final "Unger Report" on March 16, 2009. He has also served as a guest host on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He also hosted the Discovery Channel show Some Assembly Required with University of Virginia Professor of Physics, Lou Bloomfield, and then eventually hosted the show solo in its final season.

Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication, and worked on a television show called Fridays Live, an OU student-produced comedy show airing on WOUB-TV, the local PBS affiliate. Unger recently returned to make a cameo on the show's Season 17 finale.

While working for The Daily Show in 1998, he was named one of Entertainment Weekly's "100 Most Creative People in Entertainment."

Unger's other television appearances include O2Be on Oxygen, the Comedy Central shows Reno 911! and The Man Show, various I Love the... shows on VH1, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hollywood Off-Ramp on E!, as well as appearances on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, NBC's Later, E!'s Talk Soup, the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Extra, the stand-up comedy DVD Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion. He was also the spokesman for Yoo-hoo and Maxwell House Coffee. In 2008 Brian appeared in a BMW documentary about real word testing of BMW diesels as they embark on a 500 mile road trip from South Carolina to Virgina. The films purpose was to raise awareness of driving diesels in the United States (Produced and Directed by Neil Moreno)From that venture Brian was asked to be the official spokesman for BMW Advanced Diesel.

Unger's written commentary has appeared in The New York Times and "The Minneapolis Star Tribune," and has written a book review for The Washington Post.

Unger was one of the co-hosts for the pilot of a new PBS series, Wired Science, which aired in January, 2007 and was subsequently picked up to debut later in the year, though Unger did not remain involved with the show.

References

1. http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/page/credits_prod.html

External links

• NPR Biography of Brian Unger
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• NPR's The Unger Report
• Wired Science on PBS