Benson graduated from a community college in San Diego, California, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. While working as a stand-in and extra in movies and TV, he did his first stand-up gig after he and two other friends dared each other to try it. One of them didn't show up, and the other had signed up too late. Read more about Doug Benson on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.