David Peisner

David Peisner is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience reporting and writing for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, New York magazine, Esquire, Fast Company, Mother Jones, Playboy, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He’s traveled to Tunisia to write about the role of hip-hop in the Arab Spring revolutions, to Uganda to profile a singer-turned-politician trying to unseat an entrenched dictator, and to Jonesboro, Arkansas to examine the horrors of living through a school shooting. His 2024 profile of Kid Rock in Rolling Stone was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Peisner is the co-author of two New York Times’ best-selling memoirs, and his book, Homey Don’t Play That!: The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution was named by New York magazine to a list of “Books All Comedy Fans Should Read.” He’s had a gun pulled on him by Kid Rock, been denounced as “a professional Antifa apologist” by Tucker Carlson live on Fox News, and once spent three days on a bus with Kanye West. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.