American stand-up comedian, podcaster, reality television host and actor Bert Kreischer is the producer and host of Bertcast, a weekly comedy podcast on the All Things Comedy network. He is also the co-host of the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast with fellow comedian Tom Segura, and co-host of the Bill and Bert podcast with actor and comedian Bill Burr. In 1997 he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer "the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country."[ The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder. Kreischer has served as host of the television series Hurt Bert on FX as well as Bert the Conqueror and Trip Flip on Travel Channel. As a stand-up, Kreischer has performed on late night talk shows Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Conan. In 2009 his first comedy special Bert Kreischer: Comfortably Dumb appeared on Comedy Central.[ His second special Bert Kreischer: The Machine was released in 2016 on Showtime. He is slated to appear on The Machine, a comedy film based on his life and career.