Harley Morenstein

Harley Morenstein
Morenstein speaking at the 2014 VidCon
Personal information
Born	(1985-07-20) July 20, 1985 (age 39) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Education	Dawson College McGill University (BEd, 2009)
Occupations	YouTube personality Actor
YouTube information
Channel	Harley Morenstein
Years active	2010–present
Genre	Cooking
Subscribers	274 thousand[1]
Total views	31.68 million[1]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: June 28, 2023

Harley Morenstein (born July 20, 1985)^[2] is a Canadian YouTuber. He co-created, produces, and hosts the web show Epic Meal Time and its FYI television spin-off series, Epic Meal Empire. He is one of the two remaining original members of the show along with Ameer Atari.^[3]

Life and career

Morenstein was born to English-speaking Jewish-Canadian^[4][5] parents in Montreal, Quebec.^[6] He attended Dawson College. He was a substitute teacher for a number of years at Lakeside Academy in Lachine, teaching history. Morenstein currently resides in Montreal.^[7]

Internet career

EpicMealTime

In 2010 he co-created Epic Meal Time with Sterling Toth. The channel has over 6 million subscribers, and over 300 installments, 2 spin-offs, and has had guest stars such as Seth Rogen, Smosh, Tony Hawk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Kevin Smith, who directed the movie Tusk, in which Morenstein had a cameo appearance. He produces the show with his brother, Darren Morenstein, under company name Nexttime Productions. He starred in the TV adaptation of the show called Epic Meal Empire on FYI, which ran for two seasons.

Vlogging career

Morenstein at VidCon in 2012

Morenstein became famous on Vine in 2013 with his Vine on beard shaving. Since then he has been prevalent on Vine, and in 2015 after sporadically Vlogging on YouTube since 2014, he began Vlogging full-time, with videos featuring his girlfriend (though they have since broken up amicably as of 2019),^[8] dog, and the other members of EpicMealTime. He has amassed nearly 300,000 subscribers on his vlog channel.

Acting career

Morenstein featured in one of Destorm's songs called "Epic wRap", which was uploaded on YouTube December 18, 2011.^[9] He has also been featured in fellow YouTube celebrity Freddie Wong's video web series Video Game High School,^[10] and appeared with Shane Dawson in a commercial for Just Dance 4.^[11]

After Kevin Smith appeared on an episode of the show, and an episode of the TV show, he offered Morenstein a cameo role in his movie Tusk, which was followed by a cameo in his Yoga Hosers. He also starred in Smith's portion of the anthology movie Holidays. He will be one of the lead roles in Smith's denouement to the Canadian horror trilogy, Moose Jaws.^[12] Morenstein was cast in the 2015 zombie film Dead Rising: Watchtower. He had a guest role on an episode of Nickelodeon's Game Shakers, in his first television role. Morenstein also made a cameo at the end of Rhett and Link's "Rub Some Bacon On It" music video in 2012, as well as in the duo's 2015 sketch "The Overly Complicated Coffee Order".

In October 2017, he appeared as the host of the Food Network special series Halloween Wars: Hayride of Horror.

Boxing record

2 fights	1 win	1 loss
By decision	1	1

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
2	Loss	1–1	John Hennigan	TKO	3 (5)	April 15, 2023	Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida, U.S.	Exhibition bout
1	Win	1–0	Arin Hanson	TKO	2 (5)	May 14, 2022	Yuengling Center, Tampa, Florida, U.S.	Exhibition bout

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Sync	Ghost
2013	M Is for Misotheism	Bum	Short film
2014	HOBOrculosis	Epic Hobo	Short film
2014	Tusk	Border Agent
2015	Dead Rising: Watchtower	Pyro
2015	Smosh: The Movie	Mailman
2016	Yoga Hosers	Toilet Paper Man
2016	Holidays	Ian

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Himself	with Epic Meal Time cast
2013	AXS Live	Himself
2013	The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange	Cabbage (voice)	Episode: "Everybody Loves Cabbage"
2014	Epic Meal Empire	Himself	12 episodes Also executive producer
2014	@midnight	Himself	Contestant, with Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig
2016	Game Shakers	Big Vicious	One episode, guest role
2017	Halloween Wars Hayride of Horror	Host
2019	Corner Gas Animated	Himself (voice)	Episode: "Tag You're I.T."

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010–present	Epic Meal Time	Himself	Also creator, producer, and writer
2013	TableTop	Himself
2012–2014	Video Game High School	Dean Ernie Calhoun	From season 1 (episode 1) to season 3 (last episode)

References

1. "About Harley Morenstein". YouTube.
2. "The Real-Life Diet of Epic Meal Time's Harley Morenstein, Preparer of 100,000-Calorie Meals". September 25, 2018.
3. "Official EpicMealTime Website". EpicMealTime. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
4. HOW JEW ARE YOU? Feat Harley Morenstein from Epic Meal Time. Rachel David. May 25, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2022 – via YouTube.
5. Epic Meal Empire: Harley Remembers His Bar Mitzvah | FYI. Home.Made.Nation. August 18, 2014. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2022 – via YouTube.
6. Boone, Mike (January 19, 2011). "Men gone wild -with food". The Gazette. Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
7. Morenstein, Harley [@HarleyPlays] (May 2, 2016). "@JackSWS I live in Montreal. Spend half the year in LA. Sliding in to your dms now" (Tweet). Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022 – via Twitter.
8. MAYBE I WAS DEPRESSED?!. Harley Morenstein. May 9, 2019. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2022 – via YouTube.
9. Horowitz, Julia (January 25, 2011). "Montrealers grab YouTube fame with Epic Meal Time". The Brock Press. Archived from the original on August 4, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
10. "VGHS«Rocket Jump". Rocket Jump. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
11. Carrasco, Ed (January 23, 2013). "Spread Your Wings and Fly, My Eagles: 5 TV Commercials Featuring YouTube Stars". NewMediaRockstars. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
12. Morenstein, Harley (June 17, 2015). "Couldn't really mention this before, but since it's now on IMDB I guess it's public knowledge. Kevin Smith asked me to be the lead in Moose Jaws. The conclusion to his Canadian Horror Trilogy". Facebook. Retrieved January 26, 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Harley Morenstein at IMDb