Mark Groubert

[Mark Groubert]

BIO

After attending Bard College, The New School for Social Research and New York University Film School Mark Groubert decided it was time to get a serious job.

He became a staff writer for National Lampoon Magazine.

Following in the tradition of his political satire mentors: Doug Kenney, Tony Hendra, John Hughes, and Michael O’Donoghue, Groubert created such iconic features as Mass Murderer Trading Cards, The Klaus Barbie Doll, Capitalist Hall of Fame Plaques, and Sexual Jeopardy: The Home Game.

Groubert, also co-wrote the immensely popular National Lampoon Dirty Joke Book.

He then created, published and edited MTV Magazine; the first nationally distributed desktop publication in America. Magazine Week nominated the monthly publication for its Publishing Excellence Award.

Groubert also produced the hit show Mambo Mouth, which won an Off-Broadway Obie Award for star John Leguizamo. Groubert followed by producing the filmed version for HBO and Island Pictures.

For the HBO Network Groubert then co-produced On The Ledge, an avant-garde variety show, as well as talent producing the award-winning documentary: Mo’ Funny: Black Comedy in America.

He did a stint as editor of The Weekly World News. He has written for High Times, Penthouse, LA City Beat and numerous other publications.

Groubert serves as the Senior Film and Book Reviewer for the popular political website Crooks and Liars.Com.

He has been an investigative reporter/features writer for the LA Weekly (Village Voice Media) since 1994. His recent work includes Rehab City – a three-part investigative series looking into the Los Angeles drug rehab scene, as well as, Box of Dreams: In Search of a Soul Lost and Found in L.A.

He recently wrote the book "Rehab Nation: Inside The Secret Work of Celebrity Drug Rehabs” currently doing well on Amazon.

He is a life long Dodger fan and bleeds Dodger Blue.