Michael Malice

Malice was born in the city of Lviv, which at the time was part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[4] Malice is an only child.[4][5] He is of Jewish heritage[1] and grew up speaking Russian.[6]

When he was two years old, he moved with his parents to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.[1][4][5] His father originally worked as a courier and went to Baruch College to study computer science. He later worked for Merrill Lynch[4] and Goldman Sachs.[7] Malice attended Stuyvesant High School[8] and Bucknell University.[5][9]

Malice's pseudonym was inspired by nicknames such as Sid Vicious and Poly Styrene that were common within the punk movement and the cultural movement that centered around Andy Warhol, two cultural movements that greatly influenced Malice.[1]

Malice is the co-creator and founding editor of the humor blog Overheard in New York that posts submissions of conversations allegedly heard by eavesdroppers in New York City.[9][10][11] Launched in 2003, the site was inspired by a conversation overheard by co-creator S. Morgan Friedman.[11][12] A book based on some of the site's submissions was published in 2006.[9][11][12]

Malice is also the subject of Harvey Pekar's 2006 biographical graphic novel Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, illustrated by Gary Dumm.[9][10] As the title suggests, the biography deals with the development of Malice's egoic personality, a characteristic that Malice does not dispute.[13][14]

Malice is the co-author of several celebrity memoirs. He co-wrote MMA fighter Matt Hughes's 2008 autobiography Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History.[1] He co-wrote Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off – and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen (2011) with Michael Fazio, one of New York City's most highly sought concierge to the rich and famous,[1] Malice also co-wrote comedian D. L. Hughley's 2012 book I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America and his 2016 book Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years.[1]

In 2014, he published his first solely authored work Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. It was crowdfunded through Kickstarter and published through Amazon's CreateSpace program.[15] The book is written from the hypothetical first-person view of Kim himself and is a semi-farcical commentary on how he is portrayed to the North Korean people.[1][16][17] Much of the material was based on English language propaganda material that Malice collected while on a week-long trip to Pyongyang, North Korea in 2012.[1][16][17] Malice had previously recounted his experiences of his trip in a 2013 article for Reason magazine.[18] In a generally positive review for NK News, Rob York described Dear Reader as "informative, and surprisingly earnest."[19]

Since 2014, Malice has been a regular guest on the Fox News and Fox Business Network shows The Independents,[20] Kennedy,[21] Red Eye,[21] The Greg Gutfeld Show,[22] The Story with Martha MacCallum,[23] and Tucker Carlson Tonight.[24] He is also a regular guest on The Tom Woods Show podcast[25] and has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience[21] and The Rubin Report.[26] Malice is also a regular columnist at Observer.[27]

In 2017, Malice joined Compound Media as the host of the weekly talk show "YOUR WELCOME."[21][28] The show's name comes from a purposefully misspelled phrase that Malice often tweets, within quotation marks and in all capital letters, knowing that it will elicit responses from people who will feel the need to correct the spelling of "your".[28] In 2018 "YOUR WELCOME" moved to the GaS Digital Network and Malice became the host of late-night talk show Night Shade with Michael Malice that same year.

In 2019, Malice published his second solely-authored work The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics. The book is a historical analysis of the American New Right movement and additionally contextualizes the events surrounding Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Malice is an anarchist,[1][26] and in 2014, he wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian explaining why he does not vote.[29]

As sole author:

• 2014: Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
• 2019: The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

As co-author:

• 2006: Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story (by Harvey Pekar, illustrated by Gary Dumm)
• 2006: Overheard in New York (with S. Morgan Friedman)
• 2008: Overheard in the Office: Conversations from Water Coolers, Conference Rooms, and Cubicles (with S. Morgan Friedman)
• 2008: Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History (with Matt Hughes)
• 2011: Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off – and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen (with Michael Fazio)
• 2012: I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America (with D. L. Hughley)
• 2013: The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health (written by John Durant, with contributions by Michael Malice)
• 2016: Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years (with D. L. Hughley)

• Books by Michael Malice
• Appearances on C-SPAN