Comedian Theo Von

by Ryan Meehan

Theo Von is currently the host of Yahoo!’s popular daily recap show, Primetime in No Time, which averages over one million views a day.  He is also the genius behind CrankTexts.com, a website where he texts random numbers and gets into conversations with total strangers.  CrankTexts was a weekly featured article on College Humor.  CrankTexts.com has had 10 million page views and averages 18 clicks per visit. Theo has also been the host of The Comedy Sideshow podcast – consistently one of the 10 most downloaded video podcasts on iTunes.  He is a Louisiana native whom you may recognize as the winner of Comedy Central’s Reality Bites Back, from NBC’s Last Comic Standing S4, and Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham.  Theo’s work as a stand-up comedian has garnered him numerous accolades including performing internationally at the South African Comedy Festival and in the states at both the Chicago JFL Festival and South Beach Comedy Festival and later this summer at Montreal’s JFL Festival.  He attended 7 colleges/universities as a full time student, including Semester at Sea, a program actively fundraises for.  He currently headlines comedy clubs every weekend across the country.  And he’s our guest today in 5 Questions.  Continue reading →