| Mark Malkoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 20, 1977 New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Television |
| Website | http://www.markmalkoff.com/ |
Mark Malkoff is an American comedian, writer, and filmmaker who formerly worked for Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. He is a graduate of New York University and currently lives in New York City.
He gained worldwide media attention when he made a video detailing his attempt to visit all 171 Starbucks franchises in Manhattan in a single day during the summer of 2007.[1][2]
He made headlines in January 2008 when he moved into an IKEA store in Paramus, New Jersey for a week as his apartment was fumigated.[3][4][5][6]
In June 2009, Malkoff lived on an AirTran jet for 30 days in order to conquer his fear of flying. After completing this endeavor, he broke the Guinness World Record for most flights taken in a 30-day period with 135 flight segments.[7]
On October 5, 2009 Malkoff traveled for four weeks in a Ford Fusion Hybrid around the country seeing how many U.S. mayors he could get to present him their key to the city. As of December 20, 2009 Malkoff has been presented ninety-five keys from mayors including Baltimore, MD, Milwaukee, WI, Tampa, FL, Harrisburg, PA, Frederick, MD, Durham, NC, Marietta, GA, and Fairfax, VA.[8]
In February 2010 Malkoff made headlines again with a video in which to disprove the myth that New Yorkers are rude he was physically carried 9.4 miles in Manhattan by 155 individuals.[9][10]
On January 20, 2010 Malkoff wrote a piece for Huffington Post entitled "The Will Ferrell Curse" which was featured by Nikki Finke on Deadline Hollywood. In it Malkoff discusses the fact that every time Will Ferrell has appeared as the first guest on a talk show the show has not made it past a season. Ferrell appeared as the first guest on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, The Megan Mullally Show, and John McEnroe's talk show McEnroe which aired on CNBC.[11]
In July 2011, Malkoff tried to be thrown out of a Manhattan Apple Store, including having a pizza delivered, bringing in a band to play live music, bring in a pet goat, and trying to have a quiet candle-lit dinner with his wife.[12]
In August 2011, Malkoff launches 101 other things to do in Holland, except the smoking of weed, including descend the Euromast (328 feet) in Rotterdam, try to pay off the U.S. dept by collecting money in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam and fool around with street performers at the Dam square in Amsterdam.[13]
On September 29, 2011, Malkoff gave free cab rides out in New York with the catch of strange behavior and other quirks from the driver, as well as antics as the passenger area slowly filling with popcorn.[14]
Malkoff currently makes videos for the comedy website My Damn Channel.