After graduation, Behrendt moved to San Francisco, where he joined an improvisational troupe, and met fellow comic Margaret Cho. In his early years, he performed comedy and
improv in San Francisco. He was a member of the improv troupe Crash and Burn, whose members included
Margaret Cho. He came up as a performer alongside such comics as
David Cross (with whom he roomed for years) and
Patton Oswalt. in the UK. His daily daytime "self-help" talk show,
The Greg Behrendt Show, premiered September 12, 2006, four months later
Sony Pictures Television announced, in January 2007 that the series would not have a second season, and the show aired its last new episodes in February 2007. He also did a mid-season program for the 2006–07 television season ''Greg Behrendt's Wake-Up Call'' for
ABC, which never aired on the network. The program began airing in January 2009 on ABC's sister cable network
SoapNet. He also appeared on the Great Debate at the 2010
Melbourne Comedy Festival, in which he argued as the third speaker for the negative team on the debate "Food Is Better Than Sex". Behrendt's team, made up of
New Zealand comedian
Cal Wilson, English comedian
Russell Kane and Behrendt himself, won the comedy event. He started the
podcast Walking the Room with his friend
Dave Anthony. ==Personal life==