Harmon Leon

Harmon Leon is a primarily a humorist. He is an author of 6 books, a filmmaker, and has done some stand-up comedy. He has contributed to Esquire, Wired Magazine, Salon.com, National Lampoon, Maxim, National Geographic, and NPR. His typical comedic style is to impersonate a character, infiltrate some organization, then write about the experience, thus relating the absurdities of modern American life.

His first book, "The Harmon Chronicles"," was published in 2002, and "'," was printed in 2005 by Prometheus Books and ' (Prometheus Books), which came out in 2006.

The undercover journalism piece details his adventures in conservative organizations and occupations, and was described by talk show host Howard Stern as "funny as hell."

Harmon Leon is also the author of National Lampoon's Road Trip USA, a road trip book for National Lampoon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Vacation movie. It hit the shelves in May 2007. For the book Harmon went on a road trip to the worst places in America. Some of the highlights included a fake Iraqi village by Palm Springs, cockfighting in rural Louisiana, wild boar hunting with rednecks in the Florida everglades, and a visit to the Mormon polygamy community of Colorado City.

Harmon has 2 new books coming out in 2008. In The American Dream (Nation Books), Harmon searches for the American Dream as he lives several vastly different people's perception walking in their shoes. Harmon lives the life of carnies in rural Indiana, arms dealers in Florida, bible-thumpers in Kansas, and pot farmers in Northern California.

His first work of fiction, The Brother's Rjukerooka, chronicles the exploits the life of two Finnish explorer brothers, who are like the Indiana Jones of Finland, who go on to discover history's lesser known religious artifacts.

He also produces videos/TV for Current TV, FX, VH1, Fox Family Channel, and National Lampoon. His films have been shown at SXSW, Florida Film Festival, Newport Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival.

Harmon has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and the BBC. He co-starred with OJ Simpson in a straight-to-DVD hidden camera prank show called, "Juice'd." (As in pranks were pulled, OJ Simpson pops out and goes "You've been Juice'd!")

He's also performed comedy internationally at the Montreal, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway Adelaide, Wellington, and Melbourne Comedy Festivals.

As "The infiltrator," Leon has appeared on the television shows Whammy!, Lie Detector, Judge Joe Brown, and Blind Date.

External links

* [http://www.misterpants.com/library/harmonleon/ Articles by Harmon Leon] .

http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=733

http://www.thewavemag.com/printarticle.php?articleid=21668

http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/11/20/cosmetic/print.html

http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien410.html

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/03/66964

http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-02-23/news/my-dinner-at-applebee-s-with-white-supremacists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qsX2hG2z3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3DXn5yQhGU