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| Blaine Capatch | |
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 Capatch in 2018 | |
| Born | September 19, 1965 York, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand up |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse | Vera Duffy (m. 2005) |
| Notable works and roles | Beat The Geeks |
| Website | blainecapatch |
Blaine Harold Capatch (born September 19, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He is best known for hosting Season 2 of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks . [1]
Capatch was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Jean and Harold Capatch. He grew up in the small town of Dallastown, Pennsylvania, where his father owned and operated a barber shop. He is a 1983 graduate of Dallastown Area High School. After high school he attended York College of Pennsylvania. He began his stand-up career in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Charm City comedy club.
Capatch and then-comedy partner Patton Oswalt worked as sketch writers in the early years of MADtv . [2] He also wrote for The Martin Short Show , Blue Collar TV , The Jamie Kennedy Experiment , Mind of Mencia , Web Soup , and Comedy Central's Roast of Roseanne Barr, amongst others.
He hosted a comedic quiz show on the Comedy Channel from 2001–2002, called Beat the Geeks . The program reached 130 episodes, and saw international broadcast in Canada and New Zealand after its original run.
Since 2002, he has hosted the live burlesque/Mexican wrestling show Lucha VaVOOM in Los Angeles, California.
Since 2005, he has been a live announcer for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls, a banked track roller derby league.
In 2007, Capatch appeared in the "Comedians of Comedy: Live at the Troubador".
From 2008 to 2014 he hosted the weekly comedy show, What's Up Tiger Lily?, created by Maria Bamford and Melinda Hill in Los Angeles, California. [3]
Since November 28, 2012, he has participated in a podcast called Nerd Poker hosted by Brian Posehn.
Capatch was a writer on Comedy Central's @Midnight hosted by Chris Hardwick from 2013 to 2017.
