Discover the Best Books Written by Lee Champ

Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist, and news commentator. As a television host, he presented the show Redacted Tonight for several years on the Russian state-funded network RT America until it was shut down after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In July 2022, he started a new show, Most Censored News, with Lee Camp with MintPress News.

The camp was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Laurie Smith Camp, who was a federal judge—and lived in Bethesda, Maryland, until 1989. His father is a psychoanalyst who served 20 years in the United States military as a doctor, and his mother is a social worker. In 1989, the family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Camp stayed until he attended college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

At the University of Virginia, he won a competition to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub in Richmond. Camp's first book was Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent, a collection of his best humor columns from The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia newspaper. 

Camp co-authored the 2005 BIGfib Book of Bollocks with Nick Alexander and Alan Lord, a collection of stories from the satirical website BIGfib.com. The camp has contributed to The Onion since February 2009 and was a staff comedy writer for The Huffington Post for ten months. He wrote and hosted OnDemand's "The Movie Loft" for three months in 2009. In 2017, Camp and Eleanor Goldfield created the Common Censored podcast, which focuses on grassroots activism issues.

The camp was the host, and head writer of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, which aired on RT America. Jason Zinoman wrote in The New York Times that his appearance on the channel: "raises questions about the comedian’s independence." He told Rachel Manteuffel of The Washington Post Magazine that the Russian government funds his show. 

When asked about advertising, he said, "one of the reasons I'm at RT America is because there’s no advertising. If there were advertising, no channel really wants someone who goes after corporations as much as I do." After RT America shut down in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Camp blamed the "U.S. government war machine" for the end of the network. Following the closure of RT, Lee started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp, featured with MintPress News, beginning in July 2022.