After college, he worked as a
Fortune 500 management consultant while moonlighting as a
stand up comic. A few years later, he entered the PhD program
in Neuroeconomics at California
Technical Institute (CalTech), but
ultimately quit grad school to
pursue comedy full-time.
At the beginning of 2016,
Rosenfeld released The Russian
Optimist, his second comedy album. Recorded live last September at New York Comedy Club,
the album captures Rosenfeld’s
set offering social commentary
on everything from dark Russian
nursery rhymes to sharing scientific findings about whether monogamy is natural to explaining
why America runs on fear.
Those of a certain age may remember Yakov Smirnoff who
became famous in the eighties
for his comparison of life in communist Russia versus America.
Known for the tag line, “What a
country!” his jokes took a differ-
Ben Rosenfeld talks about “Divorced Bedtime Stories”
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