Early career and Fox News At age 12, he worked as a voice actor. His most well-known role was as the character
Alan "The Brain" Powers on the children's television series
Arthur, for its fifth and sixth seasons. He began performing
stand-up comedy at age 17. He then acted in a number of films, including the role of Doug Moore in the 2009 movie
To Save a Life. From 2009 to 2012, Crowder worked for
Fox News. and later at
Andrew Breitbart's
Big Hollywood. Crowder served as the master of ceremonies at the 2011
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and generated some controversy with a rap video he premiered at CPAC 2012.
December 2012 union protest At a December 2012 protest, Crowder was punched repeatedly in the face by a union member who claimed he was acting in self defense after being pushed to the ground. The incident began with an attempt by union activists to tear down the Americans for Prosperity tent, which was eventually successful. During the altercation, Crowder was punched several times by a union activist. Crowder posted an edited video of the incident to his YouTube channel that cut footage of the alleged assailant being pushed to the ground and getting back up, right before throwing the punches at Crowder. However, Fox News' broadcasts of the incident included footage of the man being pushed.
The New York Times stated, "The same footage also shows that Mr. Crowder had his hand on that man's shoulder just before he tumbled to the ground, but, while the camera does not capture the whole sequence of events, it seems likely that the man was knocked to the ground as members of the two sides pushed against one other, not shoved down by Mr. Crowder." Crowder later released an unedited copy of the video. An
AFL–CIO spokesman, Eddie Vale, stated that the organization did not condone the tearing down of the Americans for Prosperity tent or the violence against Crowder and his group. In March 2013,
Ingham County Prosecutor
Stuart Dunnings III declined to press charges against anyone involved in the December 2012 altercation. According to Dunnings, his office was originally sent an edited version of the video of Crowder's altercation. However, upon reviewing the unedited version, the prosecutor's office decided not to pursue the case because the union member had acted in self-defense. where Crowder was hosted until December 2022, alongside his YouTube channel, which has existed since 2009. "Change My Mind" is a regular segment conducted by Crowder in which he sits at a table with a sign including the phrase "Change My Mind" and invites people walking by, often students at a university campus, to change his mind on a controversial subject. A photograph of Crowder seated behind a sign in February 2018 reading "
Male Privilege is a Myth | Change My Mind" outside the
Texas Christian University campus became an
Internet meme. Variations of the meme often feature humorously controversial statements in place of "Male Privilege is a Myth", such as "
Pineapple goes on pizza". Francesca Tripodi, a sociologist at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that Crowder is "very popular, especially among young, conservative voters". File:America Is Superior - Change My Mind.webm|thumb|"America Is Superior [To Every Other Country], Change My Mind" Crowder's show has also seen success on
Apple's podcast list, having remained on the top 100 list over the course of 2020. On YouTube, the
Louder with Crowder podcast has 5.94 million subscribers and his secondary channel CrowderBits has approximately 1.21 million subscribers. On September 11, 2025, Crowder claimed to receive a leaked e-mail from an officer at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the gun casings of
Charlie Kirk's shooter had "engraved wording on them expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology." He would later report that his company was being subpoenaed over the leak from ATF.
Dispute with The Daily Wire In January 2023, Crowder revealed on
Louder with Crowder that he had received a
term sheet from a conservative media outlet that he left unnamed. Crowder listed the offer's stipulations that, if he were to be demonetized or removed from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook or the
iTunes Store, his payment would be cut substantially during that period. He criticized this as a symptom of right-wing media not fighting back against, but rather implicitly condoning, what he considered censorship by Big Tech, stating that "Big Tech is in bed with Big Con". It was later confirmed that the unnamed media outlet was
The Daily Wire.
Jeremy Boreing, the CEO of
The Daily Wire, claimed Crowder had misrepresented the terms of the contract and that the contract would have paid Crowder $50 million over four years. Furthermore, Boreing asserted that the stipulation was necessary to ensure profitability. On March 3, 2023, Crowder announced on
Russell Brand's show that he would be moving his show to
Rumble. In August 2023,
Vanity Fair reported that the show's viewership on Rumble was declining following the dispute with
Daily Wire as well as other controversies and lawsuits over sexual harassment. Crowder announced he was partnering with
Alex Jones, as well as comedians
Nick Di Paolo,
Josh Firestine, and
Bryan Callen, to offer an expanded version of his Mug Club to be streamed via Rumble. == Controversies ==