Rhea Butcher Biography
Rhea Butcher an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, producer, and podcast host known for personal, observational comedy focused on their vegetarianism, feminism, love of baseball, and experiences as a butch lesbian. Originally from Akron, Ohio, Rhea currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Rhea Butcher Age
Rhea was born on August 12th, 1982 in Akron, Ohio in the United States.
Rhea Butcher Career
Rhea started their comedy career performing improv in Chicago at The Second City and has since performed stabd-up at clubs including Zanies, the Jukebox, and Flappers, as well as Chicago Underground Comedy, The Hideout, The Lincoln Lodge, UCB, Cole’s, and Meltdown.
They made a late-night debut on Conan in June 2016. In the fall of 2014, they featured together with Cameron Esposito in a series of clips for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures known as ”Ask a Lesbian”. Rhea and Esposito also co-hosted the web series ”She Said” for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Network.
The two wrote and began together again in taking My Wife, on the comedy streaming services Seeso. Rhea also co-hosted the stand-up comedy podcast Put Your Hands Together with Cameron Esposito, which was recorded weekly in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles un till it ended in July 2019.
Their first comedy album Butcher was unleashed in August 2016 by the independent record label Kill Rock Stars. The set was performed at Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon. It debuted at number one on iTunes. They featured in 8 episodes of the first season of Adam Ruins Everything in 2016.
They came back in 2017 for one additional feature. They began hosting a baseball focused podcast known as the Three Swings. As stated in an interview, Rhea said their strongest comedy influences are Rosie O’Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Brett Butler, Elayne Boosler, Maria Bamford, and Paul F. Tompkins.
Rhea Butcher on Ellen
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is an American daytime TV comedy talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8th, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBCUniversal. For its first five seasons, the show was taped in Studio 11 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
From season 6 onwards, the show moved to be recorded at stage 1 on the nearby Warner Bros lot. Since the beginning of the sixth season, Ellen has been broadcast in high definition. The show has received 166 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and has won 61 Daytime Emmy Award nominations as of 2019, including four for Outstanding Talk Show and seven for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment, exceeding the record held by The Oprah Winfrey Show, which won nine.
The show also won 17 People’s Choice Awards. The show also won 17 People’s Choice Awards. The talk show’s YouTube channel is in the top 20 most-subscribed YouTube channels. DeGeneres announced she had signed for three years, on May 21st, 2019 renewing the show through 2022. DeGeneres also announced over Twitter that for now, she will be shooting her show with no studio audience to protect the health or the safety of the fans, staff, and crew.
In a tweet dated March 13th, Ellen announced that production of the show was being suspended until March 30th, to protect the health of her audience and staff during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rhea Butcher Album
Butcher perfectly showcases Rhea’s brilliant takes on vegetarian dog ownership, their wardrobe and mistaken identity, their Ohio roots, and much more. Preview the unreleased album track ”Bicycles and Baseball” at AV Club.
Rhea Butcher Net Worth
Rhea stands tall at an estimated Net Worth of $1 million – $5 million.
Rhea Butcher Height and Weight
Butcher stands tall at a height of 5’10” (feet and inches) 1.778 meters and 177.8 cm and has a moderate body weight.
Rhea Butcher Education
Rhea joined Our Lady of the Elms High School and later graduated from Archbishop Hoban High School in 2001. While at the University of Akron, he as well worked at a skateboard shop known as SXummer SXquall and an indoor skating facility known as Joe’s Skate Park and helped design a skatepark that opened in Akron on 2011.
He later graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in printmaking in 2005. He as well attended and graduate school at the University of Notre Dame.
Rhea Butcher Family
Rhea was raised up in the Kenmore neighborhood of Akron, Ohio as the only child whose parents separated when he was one month old. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once we get it from a credible source.
Rhea Butcher Wife
Rhea first met fellow comedian Cameron Esposito at an open mic hosted by Esposito. The duo began working together and then began to date. He married Esposito onstage at The Hideout in Esposito’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois on December 12th, 2015. Esposito wrote an article for the New York Times discussing the couple’s pending divorce in September 2019.