Andrew Schulz Age 2026: How Old Is Andrew Schulz Today?

Last updated: November 15, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Andrew Schulz is 43 years old in 2026. He was born Andrew Cameron Schulz on October 30, 1983, in New York City, and he turned 43 on October 30, 2026. That is the short answer — and it is worth stating plainly, because much of the internet gets it wrong: stale profiles still call him 42, one popular roundup lists his birthday as August 26, and another gives his birth year as 1987. None of those is right. The documented date, consistent across Wikipedia, TV Insider and his booking profiles, is October 30, 1983.

The age matters because of what he has packed into 43 years. Schulz went from open mics in California to MTV2’s Guy Code, then walked away from the traditional comedy system and built his own: self-released specials on YouTube, two of the most-downloaded comedy podcasts in the world, three Netflix specials, film roles, and a touring business that sells out arenas. His net worth is an estimated $4 million to $10 million in 2026, anchored on Celebrity Net Worth’s $4 million figure. He is married to Emma Turner, and in 2026 he became a father for the second time.

This article answers the age question first, then works through the timeline properly: the East Village childhood, the California years, Guy Code, the independent specials, Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots, Netflix, the films, the family, the money, and what he is doing in 2026. Money figures are labelled as estimates, height is labelled as listed, and where sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than smoothed over.

The Short Answer: 43, and Two Decades Into the Act

Andrew Schulz turned 43 on October 30, 2026. He is in his 44th year, and he will turn 44 on October 30, 2027. The confusion online comes from stale pages: profiles written in 2024 still call him 41, and profiles written in 2025 still call him 42. Both were right when they were written. Neither is right now.

His age is interesting for a second reason: he is old enough to have built a career inside the old system and young enough to have walked away from it. He was 27 when Guy Code made him a television name, 35 when he started Flagrant, 37 when his first Netflix special premiered, and 42 when he married and became a father. The timeline below follows that arc year by year, because the age only makes sense inside the career.

Early Life in New York’s East Village

Schulz was born on October 30, 1983, in New York City, and grew up in Manhattan’s East Village. His mother, Sandra Schulz — née Cameron — was a Scottish immigrant and a professional ballroom dancer. His father, Larry Schulz, was a reporter and a military veteran of German and Irish descent. Together his parents owned the Sandra Cameron Dance Center in Lower Manhattan for three decades, which means Schulz grew up inside a family business built on performance, discipline and showing up on time — three things that later defined his comedy career.

He attended New York City public schools, including Lillie Devereaux Blake Primary School and Robert F. Wagner Middle School, then Baruch College Campus High School. The East Village of his childhood was a place where a kid could watch the city perform every day, and the speed of his comedy — the quick crowd work, the instant read of a room — has the rhythm of a New Yorker who learned to talk fast because the city rewards it. Growing up above a dance studio also meant growing up around rehearsal: his parents’ business ran on practice, repetition and showing up, and the discipline of that household is visible in a career that has never had a fallow year.

College, California and the First Open Mics

Schulz went west for college, to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. It was in California that he started doing stand-up, at open mics, while still a student. Psychology is a useful degree for a comedian — the whole job is reading a room — and his act has always been built on observation first, punchline second.

He returned to New York in the mid-2000s and kept going: a regular at the Comedy Village, grinding the club circuit, and in 2008 he debuted at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, at 24. Edinburgh is where comedians go to be judged by the toughest crowds in the English-speaking world, and a debut there at 24 is an early sign that the industry saw something in him. The next three years were the slow build — clubs, spots, a name that bookers started to remember — and then television called. The psychology degree was not wasted in those years: his act has always been built on reading people quickly, and the open-mic circuit is a laboratory for exactly that skill. Every bad set teaches the same lesson — the room decides, and the comic adapts or dies.

Guy Code: The MTV2 Breakthrough

In 2011, at 27, Schulz joined the cast of MTV2’s Guy Code, a panel show where comedians talked about dating, friendship and the unwritten rules of being a young man. The show ran until 2013 and made him a television face: quick, confident, and comfortable arguing a joke in front of a camera. The spinoffs followed — Guy Court, Girl Code — and for the first time, his audience was national rather than a room in the Village.

Guy Code mattered for a reason that only became clear later. It taught him television, and it taught him what television would not let him do. The jokes he wanted to tell did not fit a network schedule, and the specials he wanted to make did not fit a network budget. When the show ended, he did not chase another one. He built his own distribution instead — a decision that, a decade later, looks like the smartest move of his career. The show also gave him his first national audience of young men, the same audience that would later follow him to YouTube, to the podcasts, and to the arenas. He has never had to find a new crowd. He has kept the one Guy Code gave him, and grown it.

The Independent Specials: Bypassing the Gatekeepers

Schulz’s signature move was to self-release his specials on YouTube, free, instead of selling them to a network. The crowd-work clips — unscripted, fast, sometimes brutal exchanges with audience members — spread on their own, and the model worked: no network notes, no waiting for a green light, and a direct line to the audience that paid for the tours. He became known as the comedian who proved a comic could skip the gatekeepers entirely, and younger comics started copying the playbook.

The touring business grew with the clips. Arena shows followed club shows, and the independent model paid in a way the old model never had: he kept the rights, kept the ticket revenue, and kept the audience. Reports put his Patreon income at roughly $1 million a year from subscribers alone — a figure that says as much about the loyalty of his audience as it does about the money.

Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots: The Podcast Empire

In 2018, Schulz launched Flagrant — originally called Flagrant 2 — with Akaash Singh, Kaz Mir and Mark Gagnon. The show is unscripted conversation about comedy, culture and current events, and it grew into one of the most-downloaded comedy podcasts in the world. The format fits him: long, loose, argumentative, and funny in a way that a tight television segment never allowed. Flagrant became the cornerstone of his media business, earning millions a year through sponsorships and live recordings, according to industry estimates.

The second podcast, The Brilliant Idiots, pairs him with Charlamagne tha God, his co-host and longtime collaborator, and blends comedy with social commentary. The two shows together give him something almost no other comedian has: a daily presence in his audience’s ears, independent of any network, studio or platform. That independence is the point. When Netflix, YouTube or a sponsor changes its mind, Schulz still has the microphones.

Netflix: Schulz Saves America, Infamous, Life

After years of going independent, Schulz signed with Netflix for his specials — on his terms. Schulz Saves America premiered in December 2020, when he was 37, and was his first Netflix special. Infamous followed in 2022. In March 2026, at 42, he released Life, his third Netflix special. The sequence tells its own story: the independent comic who refused to sell his specials to a network eventually sold them to the biggest streamer in the world, after proving he did not need to.

The specials are the polished version of the act — the crowd work tightened, the stories shaped — but the voice is the same one from the open mics: fast, observational, and willing to say the thing the room is thinking. The Netflix deal also put him in front of an audience far larger than the clubs, which is why the tours kept growing after each release.

Acting: Sneaky Pete, You People, Street Fighter

Schulz’s acting career runs alongside the stand-up, and it has grown steadily. He appeared in Amazon’s Sneaky Pete, and in 2023 he co-starred in You People, the Netflix film built around Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy, playing a role that used his fast-talking comic timing inside a mainstream romantic comedy. The Underdoggs followed in 2024. None of these roles made him a movie star. All of them made him a working actor with a film résumé that keeps growing.

The newest chapter came in October 2026, when he was cast as Dan Hibiki in Legendary Entertainment’s live-action Street Fighter film. Dan Hibiki is a joke character in the games — a parody fighter who loses as often as he wins — and the casting is a knowing choice: Schulz is the comedian who plays the loudmouth who backs it up. It is his biggest film role to date, and it arrives at 43, two decades after his first open mic.

The Trump Interview and the Politics Question

In October 2024, Schulz interviewed Donald Trump on Flagrant, in the middle of the presidential campaign. The conversation was widely covered, and it put him in the centre of a question he has answered ever since: what are his politics? His answer is explicit — he says he is not conservative, and he has said so on the record more than once. The interview was a podcast booking, not an endorsement, and he has kept the same line since: he talks to everyone, and he belongs to no camp.

The episode is worth noting because it shows how far his reach now extends. A comedian who started in open mics was, by 2024, a stop on a presidential candidate’s media tour. Whatever a reader thinks of the booking, the fact of it — a comic with his own microphones, choosing his own guests — is the story of his career in miniature.

The Business Model: How the Independent Comic Gets Paid

Schulz’s career is a case study in owning the means of distribution, and it is worth spelling out because it is the reason his net worth is so hard for outsiders to count. The old comedy model was simple: a network paid for a special, the network owned it, and the comic toured behind it. Schulz inverted it. He paid for his own specials, put them on YouTube for free, and kept the rights. The clips advertised the tours, the tours filled the rooms, and the rooms produced new clips. The audience paid him directly — through tickets, through Patreon, through merchandise — instead of paying a network that paid him.

The numbers that are public tell the shape of it. Patreon is reported at roughly $1 million a year from subscribers alone. Touring fills arenas, where a single night can gross more than a network special once paid. The podcasts — Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots — earn sponsorship and live-show revenue, and the live recordings have become touring events of their own. YouTube pays for the clips, Netflix pays for the specials, and the merchandise table at the arena pays for itself. No single stream dominates, which is the point: when one stream slows, the others carry the year.

The model has a cost, and it is worth naming. Independence means paying for everything yourself — the production, the crew, the marketing — and carrying the risk when a special underperforms. It also means no network to blame and no network to hide behind. Schulz has carried that risk for a decade, and the $4 million to $10 million estimate is the result: not a salary, but the value of a business he owns outright. Younger comics copy the playbook now, but they copy it from the man who wrote it.

Net Worth and Income in 2026

Andrew Schulz’s net worth in 2026 is an estimated $4 million to $10 million. Celebrity Net Worth lists $4 million, and the most commonly repeated band across trackers is $4 million to $6 million, with some outlets reaching $10 million to $12 million when they count his full portfolio of income streams. The wider spread exists because his money is unusually hard to count: podcast revenue, touring, Patreon, YouTube, Netflix deals and merchandise all flow through a business he owns himself, and none of it is public. The full dated breakdown of the estimates — including the $40 million figure one outlet prints, and why this article does not use it — is in our sister site’s profile of Andrew Schulz’s net worth in 2026.

The income behind the number is easier to describe than to total. Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots bring sponsorship and live-show revenue. Patreon is reported at roughly $1 million a year from subscribers alone. Touring fills arenas. Netflix pays for the specials. YouTube pays for the clips. No single stream dominates, which is the point of the model he built: when one stream slows, the others carry the year.

Personal Life: Wife Emma Turner and Two Children

Schulz married Emma Turner on December 18, 2021, in Montecito, California. He was 38. The wedding came a decade into his public career, and it marked a visible shift in the act: the comic who had built his name on dating jokes started talking about marriage, and then about fatherhood, with the same speed and honesty.

Their daughter, Shiloh Jean, was born in February 2024. Their son, Lincoln Lawrence Schulz, was born in January 2026. Schulz talks about fatherhood on the podcasts — it has become one of his most frequent topics — but he keeps the children themselves out of the spotlight. The shift is audible in the act: the comic who once built whole routines on dating now builds them on marriage, on a daughter, on a newborn son, and on the gap between the life he expected and the one he is living. The family lives in New York, and the balance he strikes is the one he has kept since Guy Code: the act is public, the family is private.

Height and Appearance

Schulz is listed at 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall. The figure is a reported listing rather than an official measurement, and some profiles print 6 feet even — the disagreement is common for a working comedian whose height is not part of the act. The full breakdown of the listings, and why the 6 ft 2 in figure is the one most outlets use, is covered in our profile of how tall Andrew Schulz is. On stage he dresses simply — dark blazer, black t-shirt, microphone in hand — and the look has barely changed in fifteen years, which is the point: the act is the show, not the wardrobe.

What Andrew Schulz Is Doing in 2026

2026 has been a full year. His son Lincoln was born in January. His Netflix special Life premiered in March. He is touring, recording Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots, and in October he was cast as Dan Hibiki in the live-action Street Fighter film. The podcasts now record live shows in front of audiences that treat them like concerts, and the Flagrant live recordings have become an event of their own — the podcast as a touring show, with the same crowd-work energy as the stand-up. At 43, he is doing the same things he was doing at 33 — stand-up, podcasts, acting — at a scale the 33-year-old could not have imagined, and with a family the 33-year-old did not yet have.

The next milestone is simple arithmetic: he turns 44 on October 30, 2027. Between now and then, the Street Fighter film will put him in front of the largest audience of his career, and the podcasts will keep him in his audience’s ears every week. The independent model he built a decade ago is now the model the rest of comedy is copying.

Andrew Schulz’s Career Timeline, Year by Year

The cleanest way to see how fast 43 years went is to lay them out in a table. Every age below is the age he was when the event happened, computed from the October 30, 1983 birth date — which is also how the stale profiles get caught: a page that calls him 42 in 2026 is a page that never updated its arithmetic.

Two things stand out in the table. First, the long runway: he was doing stand-up for a decade before Guy Code, and for seven more years before Flagrant. Second, the compression after 2018: in eight years he launched two podcasts, released three Netflix specials, acted in two films, married, and had two children. The first fifteen years built the comic. The last eight built the business.

The Crowd-Work Style: Why the Act Works

Schulz’s act is built on crowd work — unscripted exchanges with audience members, in the moment, with no safety net. It is the hardest form of stand-up, because it cannot be rehearsed, and it is the form that made him famous, because the clips of it spread further than any written joke could. A five-minute exchange with a stranger in the front row can do what a polished hour cannot: prove, in real time, that the comic is fast enough to survive anything the room throws at him.

The style has a business logic behind it. Written jokes belong to the comic who wrote them; crowd work belongs to the night it happened, which means every show produces fresh clips, and every clip advertises the next tour. The YouTube channel became a machine for turning one night’s improvisation into the next month’s ticket sales. That is why the independent model worked for him and not for everyone who tried it: the act itself generates the marketing.

It also explains why the podcasts work. Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots are crowd work stretched to two hours: unscripted conversation, fast reactions, and a willingness to argue a point live rather than prepare one. The audience that watches the clips is the same audience that listens to the shows, and the shows sell the tours, and the tours produce the clips. At 43, Schulz has a loop that feeds itself — and he built it before the rest of the industry understood what it was.

How Andrew Schulz Compares to Other Comedians

Schulz is 43, which puts him in the middle of his generation’s comedy timeline. Bill Burr is 58 in 2026, with 34 years doing stand-up behind him — the veteran Schulz’s generation learned from. Kevin Hart is 47, the arena comic who turned stand-up into a film and business empire. Dave Chappelle is the standard every comic of Schulz’s era is measured against. Schulz’s path is different from all three: he did not climb the club ladder into television, or television into film. He built his own distribution, and then television and film came to him. More profiles from the same era are in our Celebrity Net Worth archive.

Sources & Reporting

Wikipedia (Andrew Schulz profile, biography and career timeline); TV Insider (birth date, age 43); MN2S (biography and booking profile); Disciples of Comedy (checked November 14, 2026); National Report, September 13, 2026 (wife, children, net worth); Comedyville, July 6, 2026 (net worth, Patreon, Netflix special Life); Asap Land (net worth $4–6 million); InfoCelebs (net worth $40 million outlier, Street Fighter casting); The News God (net worth $4 million, Patreon); Net Worth Spot, October 1, 2026 (YouTube-only estimate $2–2.8 million); Celebrity Net Worth ($4 million anchor). Figures are estimates built from reported earnings and public estimates, not audited financial statements. Where outlets disagreed — on the birth date, on the age, on the height, and on the net worth — this article prints the range and the reason for it rather than picking the biggest number. If new reporting emerges, this article will be updated and the change noted here.

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