Bert Kreischer Net Worth 2024

What Is Bert Kreischer’s Net Worth?

Bert Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, actuality tv host, author, producer and podcaster who has a net worth of $14 million. On an August 2023 episode of his “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast (which featured Rob Lowe), Bert publicly commented on our $8 million (on the time) estimate of his net worth and stated “mine’s low. I believe they undershoot these.“

Dubbed “The Machine,” Bert Kreischer is understood for performing stand-up comedy shirtless. He has starred within the comedy specials “Comfortably Dumb” (2009), “The Machine” (2016), “Secret Time” (2018), “Hey Big Boy” (2020), and “Razzle Dazzle” (2023). In 2023 a movie adaptation of his well-known “The Machine” story was launched as a movie by the identical title.

Bert started internet hosting the podcast “Bertcast” in 2012, and he co-hosts two different podcasts, “Bill and Bert” (with Bill Burr) and “2 Bears 1 Cave” (with Tom Segura).

Kreischer has hosted the exhibits “Hurt Bert” (2004), and “Bert the Conqueror” (2010–2011; 2016), and he created and hosted the cooking present “Something’s Burning” (2018). In 2020, Bert starred on the Netflix actuality collection “The Cabin with Bert Kreischer,” and he’s additionally credited as an govt producer on that present (in addition to “Hurt Bert,” “Comfortably Dumb,” “The Machine,” and “Something’s Burning”). Kreischer printed the memoir “Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child” in 2014, and in July 2021, he obtained “Variety’s” Creative Impact in Comedy Award.

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Early Life

Bert Kreischer was born Albert Kreischer Jr. on November 3, 1972, in Tampa, Florida. His father, Al, was a real-estate legal professional, and his mom, Gege, had a profession in early childhood growth. Bert studied at Jesuit High School, and after commencement, he enrolled at Florida State University, the place he joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and majored in English. During his sixth yr on the college, “The Princeton Review” ranked FSU #1 on its checklist of America’s high “get together faculties” of 1997. Kreischer was later named “the highest partyer on the Number One Party School within the nation” by “Rolling Stone” journal, which printed a six-page article about him entitled “Bert Kreischer: The Undergraduate.” The article caught the eye of director Oliver Stone, who optioned the rights to Bert’s story, and a number of other writers submitted scripts to Stone. After the deal fell by way of, a kind of writers modified Kreischer’s identify to “Van Wilder” within the script and bought it to National Lampoon. “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” was launched in 2002 with Ryan Reynolds within the title position. In 2014, Bert stated of the movie, “I’ve by no means seen it. I had nothing to do with it.”

Career

Bert first carried out stand-up comedy on the Tallahassee bar/nightclub Potbelly’s. He despatched a tape of his set to agent Jason Steinberg, who invited him to come back to New York City to see a number of stand-up exhibits. Kreischer then received a job working the door at Greenwich Village’s Boston Comedy Club, and some months after transferring to NYC, he was supplied a sitcom deal by Will Smith’s manufacturing firm.

In 2001, Bert appeared within the quick movie “Prepare to Meet Thy God” and the pilot “Life with David J.” In 2004, he appeared on the DVD “National Lampoon Live: New Faces – Volume 2” and guest-starred on “The Shield,” and one in every of his tales was animated for Comedy Central’s “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties.” Kreischer appeared within the 2007 movie “Alpha Mail,” then he competed on the 2008 actuality collection parody “Reality Bites Back” alongside Amy Schumer, Tiffany Haddish, and different comedians.

His first comedy particular, “Comfortably Dumb,” aired on Comedy Central in 2009, and the next yr, he started internet hosting the Travel Channel collection “Bert the Conqueror.” From 2011 to 2015, Bert usually appeared on “Rachael Ray,” and he has additionally appeared on “Conan,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Master Debaters with Jay Mohr,” “Comics Unleashed,” “Last Call with Carson Daly,” “Lights Out with David Spade,” “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” and “This Is Not Happening.”

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From 2012 to 2015, Kreischer hosted “Trip Flip” on the Travel Channel, and his second comedy particular, “The Machine,” aired on Showtime in 2016. In 2017, he lent his voice to the animated Nickelodeon collection “The Loud House,” and his Netflix specials, “Secret Time” and “Hey Big Boy” have been launched in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

In 2020, he starred on Netflix’s “The Cabin with Bert Kreischer,” a actuality collection through which he “heads to a cabin for some self-care and invitations his humorous buddies to affix his quest to cleanse his thoughts, physique and soul.”

In April 2021, it was introduced that Kreischer and Mark Hamill could be starring within the movie “The Machine,” which is described as a “genre-bending comedy impressed by Bert’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine ‘The Machine.'” That stand-up routine, which has been seen over 80 million instances, is a couple of go to to Russia that concerned Bert robbing a prepare with the Russian mafia. Kreischer can be govt producing the movie. In 2023, Netflix launched his particular, “Razzle Dazzle.”

In 2011, he appeared on the DIY Network collection “Man Caves,” and hosts Tony Siragusa and Jason Cameron turned his storage into a person cave that included a humidor and “floor-to-ceiling media middle.” Bert data his weekly podcast, “Bertcast,” in his man cave, and he produces the podcast as properly. Kreischer has additionally appeared as a visitor on a number of podcasts, akin to “WTF with Marc Maron,” “The Joe Rogan Experience,” and “Doug Loves Movies.”

Personal Life

Bert married LeeAnn Kemp in December 2003, they usually have two daughters, Georgia (born in 2004) and Ila (born in 2006). The family lives in Los Angeles, and LeeAnn hosts the podcast “Wife of the Party” from Bert’s man cave. When requested by “Fatherly” to explain himself as a father, Kreischer replied, “Selfish. Mediocre. Loving. There are dads who kill it. I’m not a kind of dads.” In that interview, Bert additionally revealed that he grew up Catholic and is “ten instances extra spiritual than anybody else in [his] family,” however he and LeeAnn aren’t elevating their youngsters religiously as a result of LeeAnn is not spiritual.

Real Estate

In 2010, Bert and LeeAnn paid $529,000 for a house within the LA suburb of Valley Village, California. At the time of buy the property featured a comparatively modest 1,400 sq. foot house. Bert and LeeAnn carried out a significant renovation to the house and added a construction within the again which has been used for podcasting. They personal a minimum of one different property in Los Angeles and a house in Tampa, Florida.