Dave Smith (comedian)

In 2013, Smith was featured as one of the New Faces at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He was also a featured performer on the New York Comedy Festival's "New York's Funniest" showcase in 2014 and 2015.[15] He has appeared several times on The Joe Rogan Experience.[16][17][18][19] He hosts the Part of the Problem podcast and cohosts the comedy podcast Legion of Skanks.[11][20][21] He was the emcee for FreedomFest, a libertarian festival, in 2021.[22]

Smith has been associated with the libertarian movement and the Libertarian Party.[23][24] He is a member of the Mises Caucus.[25][26] Smith has stated in a 2017 Reason interview that he, "...became a libertarian through the Ron Paul movement."[27] He has said that the libertarian movement and Party should be more active in combating what he sees as big tech hegemony, describing it as "the biggest threat to liberty" aside from the "tyranny of COVID-19".[28] He has identified economist Murray Rothbard as a source of inspiration.[29]

Smith has been noted for interviews with far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes,[30][31] Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and Christopher Cantwell.[30][32][33] Smith has called Fuentes a "fellow traveler", according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[33] In 2021, The New Republic called Smith "a Nazi sympathizer".[30] The SPLC noted that Smith has disagreed with far-right figures on the creation of a white ethnostate and the alt-right's tactics.[32] Debating with Fuentes, the SPLC said, Smith argued for "hard-right libertarian viewpoints".[32]

Smith is Jewish, and has two children.[20][32]

• Mises Caucus
• Ron Paul

• Official website
• Dave Smith at IMDb