Dr. Joel Stein, M.D

Joel Stein grew up in Edison, N.J., and went to Stanford. From 1997-2017 he was a staff writer for Time magazine, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories; he was also the back page columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the opinion section of The Los Angeles Times . He has contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek , GQ , Esquire , the New Yorker , Food & Wine , Travel + Leisure, The New York Times Book Review, Elle , and Men's Health. Stein was a Ferris Professor of...See more

Joel Stein grew up in Edison, N.J., and went to Stanford. From 1997-2017 he was a staff writer for Time magazine, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories; he was also the back page columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the opinion section of The Los Angeles Times . He has contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek , GQ , Esquire , the New Yorker , Food & Wine , Travel + Leisure, The New York Times Book Review, Elle , and Men's Health. Stein was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton and has appeared as a talking head on television shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher , Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and VH1's I Love The '80s . He's interviewed celebrities for HBO, Cinemax, and Comedy Central. In addition to writing on staff for two television shows, he created an animated show for VH1 ( Hey Joel ) and wrote six network pilots. His 2012 book, Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity , was a bestseller, and Fox hired him to adapt it as a film script. He's currently writing for the upcoming show American Princess produced by Jenji Kohan -- best known as the creator of Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and Netflix series Orange is the New Black . See less