Harmon Leon

Harmon Leon is an American journalist and humorist. He is an author of six books, a filmmaker, and has done some stand-up comedy. He has contributed to Esquire, Wired Magazine, Salon.com, Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, National Lampoon, Maxim, nthWORD, National Geographic and NPR. His typical comedic style is to impersonate a character, infiltrate some organization, then write about the experience, thus relating the absurdities of modern American life.
His first book, The Harmon Chronicles, was published in 2002, and Republican Like Me: Infiltrating Red-State, White-Ass, and Blue-Suit America, was printed in 2005 by Prometheus Books. The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right Wing America came out in 2006. (This undercover journalism piece details his adventures in conservative organizations and occupations.)
Harmon Leon is also the author of National Lampoon's Road Trip USA, a road trip book for National Lampoon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the . It hit the shelves in May 2007. For the book Harmon went on a road trip to the worst places in America. Some of the highlights included a fake Iraqi village by Palm Springs, cockfighting in rural Louisiana, wild boar hunting with rednecks in the Florida everglades, and a visit to the Mormon polygamy community of Colorado City.
Harmon had two new books come out in 2008. In The American Dream, Harmon searches for the American Dream as he lives several vastly different people's perception walking in their shoes. Harmon lives the life of carnies in rural Indiana, arms dealers in Florida, bible-thumpers in Kansas, and pot farmers in Northern California.
His first work of fiction, The Brother's Rjukerooka, chronicles the exploits the life of two Finnish explorer brothers, who are like the Indiana Jones of Finland, who go on to discover history's lesser known religious artifacts.
He also produces videos/TV for Current TV, FX, VH1, Fox Family Channel, and National Lampoon. His films have been shown at SXSW, Florida Film Festival, Newport Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival.
Harmon has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and the BBC. He co-starred with OJ Simpson in a straight-to-DVD hidden camera prank show called, "Juice'd." (As in pranks were pulled, OJ Simpson pops out and goes "You've been Juice'd!")
He has performed comedy internationally at the Montreal, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway Adelaide, Wellington, and Melbourne Comedy Festivals.
As "The infiltrator," Leon has appeared on the television shows ', Lie Detector, Judge Joe Brown, and Blind Date.
Along with filmmaker Scott Calonico, Harmon launched in 2008 the website freedomhaters.org. The theme of the website is: Politics, Irony, Conspiracy, Nachos

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