Steven Crowder
Steven Blake Crowder (/ˈkraʊdər/; born July 7, 1987) is a conservative American-Canadian comedian, actor and political commentator. [2]
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| Born | Steven Blake Crowder July 7, 1987 | |||||||||
| Citizenship | United States, Canada[1] | |||||||||
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, political commentator | |||||||||
| Years active | 1999–present | |||||||||
| Movement | Conservatism | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Hilary Crowder (m. 2012) | |||||||||
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| Website | louderwithcrowder.com | |||||||||
Early life and career
Crowder was born in Michigan in 1987. His mother is a French Canadian. Crowder grew up in Montreal. When Crowder was 12 years old, he played a cartoon bear nicknamed Brain in the television show Arthur. Crowder was also in Canadian television commercials.
Crowder started doing stand-up comedy at Just for Laughs when he was 18. In 2005, Crowder played a Canadian convenience store manager in the movie 3 Needles. Crowder was also Brain in an animated movie called Arthur’s Missing Pal. Crowder played a character called Party Kid in the horror movie, The Covenant. Crowder played a boy in a classroom in the horror movie The Secret. Crowder played a person playing baseball in the children’s movie the Velveteen Rabbit. Crowder played an important character in the Christian movie, To Save a Life.
In 2009, Crowder started working as a right-wing political commentator for Fox News. Crowder filmed comedy videos for conservative websites. In 2013, Fox News fired Crowder.
In 2015, Crowder filmed a series of videos of himself and some other people commenting on left-wing politics and telling jokes about it from a conservative point of view and posted the videos on the Internet as a conservative political comedy called Louder with Crowder.
In 2018, Crowder started going to colleges across the country sitting at a table with a sign saying that he has a conservative position on a specific controversial topic (male privilege, socialism, guns and abortion have been some of them) and asks people to change his mind. Crowder voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
In 2019, YouTube stopped letting Crowder make money from posting Louder with Crowder videos in response to a gay Hispanic journalist named Carlos Maza saying that Crowder was bullying him after Crowder used homophobic language to describe him.
Crowder was supposed to debate Ethan Klein but backed out when Sam Seder was brought in his place.
Personal life
In 2012, Steven Crowder married a woman named Hilary Korzon. Both before and after the wedding, Crowder argued in favor of sexual abstinence before marriage.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2000–2001 | Arthur | Alan 'The Brain' Powers | Voice |
| 2000 | Arthur's Perfect Christmas | ||
| 2001 | Two Summers | Friend | |
| 2004 | Arthur's Halloween | Alan 'The Brain' Powers | Voice |
| 2005 | 3 Needles | Depanneur Manager | |
| 2006 | The Covenant | Party Kid | |
| 2007 | The Secret | Classroom Boy | |
| 2008 | Bend & Break | Blake | |
| The Velveteen Rabbit | Baseball Boy #1 | ||
| 2009 | To Save a Life | Doug Moore | |
| 2017 | A YouTube Carol | Ebenezer YouTube |
References
- ↑ Steven Crowder [scrowder] (20 February 2014). "Allow me to clarify. I have dual-citizenship with the USA and Canada. I like the United States way, waaaay better" (Tweet).
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