Matt Bellassai is an American comedian and writer. He hosts the Unhappy Hour podcast and web series To Be Honest.[1] He formerly starred in the BuzzFeed web series Whine About It, which attracted 3.5 million weekly viewers.[2] He received the 2016 People's Choice Award for Favorite Social Media Star. He is the author of Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations, a collection of essays.[3]
Bellassai grew up in the Chicago suburbs of Alsip and Palos Heights, Illinois.[4] He studied journalism at Northwestern University, and interned at the magazine In These Times. After graduation he moved to New York and joined BuzzFeed as a writer of humorous lists, and soon developed Whine About It, a series of videos featuring himself drinking wine and complaining.[4][5]
