[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-lou-perez":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Lou Perez is an American comedian, producer and writer, and the author of That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore. He is best known as the former head writer and executive producer of We the Internet TV, the comedy channel that satirised politics and media and won a Webby Award in 2017 in the variety and reality category, where he wrote and produced sketches watched by tens of millions. He is a regular commentator on comedy, culture and free speech, has worked with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Free the People, Fox and TruTV, and has appeared on Gutfeld!.","He studied at New York University, where he performed with the sketch group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz, and went on to sketch and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatres in New York and Los Angeles. He is half of the comedy duo Greg and Lou, with Greg Burke, whose sketch Wolverine’s Claws Suck has been watched more than twenty million times. As a stand-up he has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore and Dave Smith, and toured North America with Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall. He produced The Attendants with Lorne Michaels’s Broadway Video, worked as a comedy producer on TruTV’s Impractical Jokers, and has taught creative writing at the City College of New York.","That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy was published in September 2022 by Bombardier Books. It works through the subjects audiences have come to treat as off limits and argues that the reflex to withdraw a joke damages comedy itself. He has hosted The Lou Perez Podcast since 2020, co-hosts Happy Hour Econ with the economist Phillip Magness, co-created the podcast Unsafe Space, and sits on the advisory board of Heresy Press. He makes the sketch series Comedy Is Murder with Free the People, whose video James Bond has a license to kill hate speech has passed forty million views. He closed the 2026 conference dinner in Próspera with a stand-up set.",1789340917645]