GRUBARD
ABSURDIST COMEDIAN
ALEX GRUBARD
STAND-UP, WRITER & GAME SHOW ENTHUSIAST
Alex Grubard is a stand-up comedian and friendly American living in New Jersey. His first album Let Me Teach You How To Distill Gin was released on Helium Comedy Records in 2021. Grubard is host and creator of Weeding Out The Stoned, which has toured the country to rave reviews. He's performed sketch comedy on Comedy Central, stand-up on mtvU and heard on SiriusXM. Grubard has been in lots of comedy festivals, comedy competitions and social gatherings with some of the biggest comedians working today.
Grubard began performing stand-up in NYC as a teenager and spent his 20s studying at Temple University in Philadelphia. Alex is a staple of multiple comedy circuits and known for his high energy stage presence and quotable jokes. While Alex is a regular at comedy clubs around the country, he is an absurdist at heart and always ready to make every show a unique experience for the audience and himself. Currently living in New Jersey, Alex can frequently be found hosting popular stand-up comedy nights in Jersey City at Pet Shop and White Eagle Hall.
Weeding Out The Stoned
The Game Show of Sobriety Tests
Weeding Out The Stoned is The Game Show of Sobriety Tests. A pack of comedians enter the games. All but one of them are stoned! It's up to the live audience to eliminate the high comics and leave the sober individual at the end in order to win sweet prizes! Alex Grubard leads the investigation by seeking audience testimony, playing mind games and administering sobriety tests of America's funniest potheads.
Since its inception in 2015 in Philadelphia as a part of Five Dollar Comedy Week, the show has gone on to sell out shows around the US and has been written about in Time Out New York, Gothamist, BrooklynVegan, Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Westword, Worcester Telegram, Delaware News Journal and Emerald Magazine and been called one of, "The Best 4/20 Events in The United States," by Philadelphia Weekly and, "The Chillest Ways To Spend 4/20 in NY & NJ," by Gothamist.