Dave Smith (comedian)

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Smith at 2022 Revolution hosted by Young Americans for Liberty
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David Smith

(1983-04-20) April 20, 1983 (age 41)
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Comedian
Political party Libertarian [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Other political
affiliations		 Mises Caucus
Children2
Website comicdavesmith.com

David Smith (born April 20, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and libertarian political commentator. [6] [7] [8] He has frequently appeared on Fox News Channel's Kennedy [9] [10] and The Greg Gutfeld Show. [11] [12] [13] Additionally he was a recurring panelist on CNN's S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered . [14]

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Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party. [15] As of 2022, Smith was reportedly running the party's social media. [16]

Career

In 2013, Smith was featured as one of the New Faces at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He was a featured performer on the New York Comedy Festival's "New York's Funniest" showcase in 2014 and 2015. [17]

He hosts the Part of the Problem podcast and cohosts the comedy podcast Legion of Skanks . [6] [11] [18] [19] He has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Timcast. [20] [21] [22] [23] [6]

He was the MC for FreedomFest, a libertarian festival, in 2021, [24] and a featured speaker there in 2022. [16] Smith was running the Libertarian Party's social media as of 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). [16] He is scheduled to speak at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention. [25]

Political views

Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party. [15] [26] [27] [28] [29] Smith said in a 2017 Reason interview that he "became a libertarian through the Ron Paul movement". [30] He has opposed what he sees as big tech hegemony, describing it as "the biggest threat to liberty" aside from the "tyranny of COVID-19". [31] He said to Reason in 2021 that he did not plan to vaccinate himself or his child against COVID-19. [31] [20] Reason described him as "a vocal opponent of wokeness and political correctness". [31] An admirer of the anarcho-capitalist economist Murray Rothbard, he told Reason that like Rothbard he would abolish government if he could. [32]

Smith has been noted for interviews and debates with far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes, [33] [34] Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and Christopher Cantwell. [33] [35] [16] Smith has called Fuentes a "fellow traveler", according to the SPLC. [16] In 2021, The New Republic called Smith "a Nazi sympathizer". [33] The SPLC noted that Smith is Jewish and has disagreed with far-right figures on the creation of a white ethnostate and the alt-right's tactics. [35] Debating with Fuentes, the SPLC said, Smith argued for "hard-right libertarian viewpoints". [35]

Personal life

Smith has two children with his wife. [18]

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  33. 1 2 3 Simons, Seth (February 9, 2021). "The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem". The New Republic . Retrieved July 18, 2022. In 2017, Dave Smith used a TGMS guest-hosting spot to interview Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell, giving both a friendly platform to lay out their vision for a white ethnostate.
  34. ↑ Horowitz, Justin (December 20, 2022). "Extremists, bigots, and conspiracy theorists: YouTuber Tim Pool's 2022 guests in review". Media Matters for America . Retrieved December 21, 2022. Smith is connected to white nationalist Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes and appeared on Pool's show in September.
  35. 1 2 3 Newton, Creede (May 22, 2022). "Mises Caucus: Could It Sway the Libertarian Party to the Hard Right?". Southern Poverty Law Center . Retrieved July 18, 2022. Smith ... has long invited extremists and hard right and fringe figures –including HotepJesus –on his podcast, "Part of the Problem" (PotP).
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