Harmon Leon

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Harmon Leon is a primarily a humorist, though he has also done some stand-up. He has contributed to Wired Magazine, Salon.com, National Lampoon, 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 "Republican Like Me: Infiltrating Red-State, White-Ass, and Blue-Suit America," was printed in 2005 by Prometheus Books and The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right Wing America (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's current book is National Lampoon's Road Trip USA, a road trip book for National Lampoon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Vacation movie which hit the shelves in May 2007. For the book Harmon went on a road trip to the worst places in America.

Harmon will have 2 new books come out in 2008, which include The American Dream (Nation Books), and his first work of fiction, The Brother's Rjukerooka. The book chronicles the exploits the life of two Finnish explorer brothers. It hits the shelves in June 2008.

He also produces videos for Current TV, FX, VH1, 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 at the Montreal, Edinburgh, 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.