Greg Gutfeld

Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld in 2014
Personal details
Born	Gregory John Gutfeld (1964-09-12) September 12, 1964 (age 52) San Mateo, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Political party	Libertarian
Spouse(s)	Elena Moussa (2004–present)
Residence	New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Television personality
Religion	Non-religious

Gregory John "Greg" Gutfeld (born September 12, 1964) is an American television personality, author, magazine editor, and blogger. Since May 2015, he has hosted The Greg Gutfeld Show on the Fox News Channel. Gutfeld was the host of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel from 2007 to 2015. Since 2011, he is one of five co-hosts/panelists on Fox News' political talk show The Five. Gutfeld is a self-described libertarian and is non-religious.

Gutfeld was born in San Mateo, California, the son of Jacqueline Bernice "Jackie" (née Cauhape) and Alfred Jack Gutfeld. Gutfeld’s grandfather was Alfred Louis Gutfeld, the son of German Jewish parents, while he also has Irish, French, German and Mexican ancestry. He attended Junípero Serra High School and the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987 with a B.A. in English.

In a 2009 interview, Gutfeld explained that he started to experience a change in his political thinking while he was attending UC Berkeley:

I became a conservative by being around liberals (at UC Berkeley) and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there's something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing.

After college he had an internship at The American Spectator, as an assistant to conservative writer R. Emmett Tyrrell. He then worked as a staff writer at Prevention magazine and in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, as an editor at various Rodale Press magazines. In 1995 he became a staff writer at Men's Health. He was promoted to editor in chief of Men's Health in 1999. A year later, he was replaced by David Zinczenko. Gutfeld then became editor in chief of Stuff, increasing circulation from 750,000 to 1.2 million during his tenure. In 2003 he hired several dwarfs to attend a conference of the "Magazine Publishers of America" on the topic of "buzz", with instructions to be as loud and annoying as possible. The stunt generated publicity but led to Gutfeld's being fired soon afterward; he was then made head of "brain development" at Dennis Publishing.