Acting
Aug 22, 1991
Jack Bensinger
Acting
Biography
Jack Bensinger is a comedian, writer, and sketch performer based in New York City who is well-known for his hilarious Twitter videos. Most recently, Jack was hired as a writer for SNL Season 51. Currently, Jack can be seen in the film RAP WORLD (YouTube), directed by Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharar. He previously developed a television project for FX with Jason Woliner and Nick Hatton attached to produce. In television, he can be seen in season 2 of THE BEAR for FX. Jack voiced “Glen Michaels” on the Comedy Central animated TV series FAIRVIEW and was a writer and voice actor on Stephen Colbert’s Paramount+ animated news show, TOONING OUT THE NEWS. Jack wrote on the 6th season of THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW for Adult Swim and was a writer, producer, and editor for Conner O’Malley’s FX pilot. Jack has opened for Eric Andre and frequently opens for Sarah Sherman. Jack is an Executive Producer on Sarah Sherman’s HBO comedy special LIVE + IN THE FLESH. He co-hosts the weekly podcast JOY TACTICS with Eric Rahill and Nate Varrone. Jack started his comedy career in Chicago performing at iO and the Annoyance Theater.
Feature Films (8)
In 2009, four friends living in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, document their attempt to record a rap album over the course of one eventful night.
Rap World
After four seasons (and counting) on Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman's unholy alter ego, Sarah Squirm, slithers onto your screen and rips off the straitjacket, unleashing a festering and hilarious hour of bodily fluids, open-wound confessionals, and jokes that will leave scars on your soul.
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
A unique man makes unexpected connections while attempting to walk through New York City in a perfectly straight line.
Straight Line
A very helpful tutorial on how to make photos look vintage, from Sam Campbell. As part of Remote Comedy From The Paddock.
Ultromedia Please
Tommy McNamara is alone in the bathroom of a karaoke bar, reminiscing on broken friendships and practicing the one song he knows will make everything right: I Try by Macy Gray.
I TRY
Based on an original idea Samantha Carroll developed over several years, 'Close to Nowhere' follows small-town Coco, who, while struggling with unfulfilled artistic ambitions, concocts fake psychic abilities in an effort to impress a famous writer.
Close to Nowhere
Rachel's only dream has been to dunk, but she's too short. So she gives herself 30 days to finally do it... or else a hitman will kill her.
Dunk Munth
Television & Series (3)
A variety series featuring a cast of animated characters mocking real-world events the same day that they happen, and even interviewing real-world guests and newsmakers...
Tooning Out the News
Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
The Bear
National politics causes wild small town drama in the Natty Light-chugging, grocery store parking lot-fighting, public urinating town of Fairview through the lens of its sloppy party girl turned pragmatic mayor, Kelly Sampson.