Bert Kreischer Height 2026: How Tall Is Bert Kreischer?

Last updated: November 11, 2026. By Nathan Cole

Bert Kreischer is 6 feet tall (183 cm). That is the short answer, and it is the figure this article uses after checking every outlet that prints a number for him. His IMDb listing says 6 feet 1 inch. Several other listings say 5 feet 11¾ inches. A few say 5 feet 11 inches flat. The gap between the highest and lowest published figures is two inches, which is why a search for his height turns up a different answer on every site. He is 54 years old in November 2026, born November 3, 1972, and he has spent nearly thirty years turning a college party story into one of the biggest touring businesses in stand-up comedy.

Height is a strange thing to measure a comedian by, and Kreischer knows it. He performs shirtless, which means the audience sees his whole frame for ninety minutes: a big man, broad and heavyset, working a stage the way a frontman works a room. The shirt is part of the act — it came off during a bit years ago and never went back on — and it makes his size part of the show. Fans ask how tall he is because on stage, next to a microphone stand, he looks bigger than six feet. Off stage, next to his podcast co-host Tom Segura, he looks about the same height. The camera, the shoes, the posture and the shirt all move the number around, and the reporting has never settled it.

This article settles it as far as the reporting allows: 6 feet, with the full spread of sources laid out in a table so readers can see where every figure comes from. It also covers the rest of the man, because nobody searches for Bert Kreischer’s height and stops there. His net worth is reported between $14 million and $20 million in 2026. His sixth stand-up special, Lucky, premiered on Netflix in March 2025. His scripted Netflix series Free Bert debuted in January 2026 and was renewed for a second season. He is on his Permission to Party World Tour through the end of 2026, and his Fully Loaded at Sea comedy cruise sails from Miami to Cozumel on November 19, 2026. Every figure in this article is attributed to the outlet that reported it, and where the reporting conflicts — his height, his net worth — this article says so and shows its work.

The Short Answer: Bert Kreischer Is 6 Feet Tall

Bert Kreischer is 6 feet tall (183 cm). He was born Albert Charles Kreischer Jr. on November 3, 1972, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and he turned 54 on November 3, 2026. He is a stand-up comedian, a podcaster, an actor and a television host, and he is known to most of the world as “The Machine” — the nickname that came out of a story he has told on stage for more than twenty years.

The height question follows him because of how he performs. He takes his shirt off on stage, and he has done it for years, so the audience sees a big, bare-chested man working a microphone for an hour and a half. A shirtless performer reads bigger on stage than a suited one. The microphone stand is the only scale the audience has, and a standard mic stand adjusts to whoever holds it, so it tells the crowd nothing. Fans go home, open their phones, and type the question. The answers they find disagree by two inches, which is why this article exists.

For the record: the tallest published figure is 6 feet 1 inch, from his IMDb listing. The shortest credible figure is 5 feet 11 inches, from Facts.net and National Today. The figure in the middle — 6 feet even — is the one this article prints as its headline, with the sources behind every number in the table below. Nobody who has stood next to him has published a tape-measure reading, and this article does not pretend one exists.

The Height Breakdown: Why Sources Say 5’11” to 6’1″

Celebrity heights are almost never measured. They come from casting sheets, talent-agency listings, interviews where the celebrity states the number himself, and aggregator sites that copy each other. Kreischer’s case is typical: one listing says 6’1″, several say 5’11¾”, and the number drifts by an inch depending on which site a reader lands on. The table below is every figure this article found, with the outlet and the date where one was printed.

Five of the ten outlets converge on 1.82 metres, which converts to 5 feet 11¾ inches. Three repeat the 6’1″ IMDb figure. The honest reading is that Kreischer is somewhere between 5’11” and 6’1″, and that the difference is an inch of rounding, footwear and posture — the usual noise in celebrity height reporting. This article’s anchor of 6 feet even sits inside that range and matches what audiences see: a six-foot man, not a tall man by athlete standards, but a big presence on a stage.

Two things move the number in real life. Shoes add an inch, and Kreischer performs in boots and sneakers, never dress shoes. Posture moves another half-inch: he is a physical performer who crouches, leans into the crowd and mimes the stories he tells, so a still photograph catches him at a different height than a standing measurement would. None of that changes the anchor. It explains why two honest people who have met him can disagree by an inch.

Early Life: Tampa, Jesuit, and Florida State

Bert Kreischer was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, on November 3, 1972, and grew up in Tampa. He attended Jesuit High School, a Catholic boys’ school in Tampa, and then enrolled at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The FSU years are the whole origin story: the parties, the stories, the Russian trip, and the Rolling Stone article that turned a college student into a national punchline and then into a career.

Tampa in the 1970s and 1980s was a working Florida city, not a show-business town, and nothing in Kreischer’s childhood pointed at a stage. He was a big kid — the height and the frame were there early — and a funny one, the kind who held a room at a party before he knew a room was something you could hold for a living. Jesuit gave him the discipline of a strict school; FSU gave him the freedom to ignore it. He has told the story of his college years so many times, on so many stages, that the details have become part of American comedy folklore: the drinking, the pranks, the house parties, the total absence of a plan.

The plan arrived from outside. In 1997, Rolling Stone sent a reporter to Tallahassee to write about the biggest partier in America, and the magazine’s editors picked Kreischer. He was 24. The article ran, the phone started ringing, and a student with no show-business ambitions had a career handed to him by a magazine. He moved to New York, started doing stand-up in clubs, and spent the next decade learning the job in front of small rooms.

Rolling Stone’s “Number One Partier” (1997)

The Rolling Stone article is the single most important document in Bert Kreischer’s life, and it is worth describing plainly. In 1997, the magazine named him the “Number One Partier in the Nation” — the top partyer at the top party school in America, in the magazine’s telling. The piece followed him through Tallahassee bars and house parties and printed the details: the drinking, the chaos, the stamina. It was the kind of article that ends a normal career before it starts. For Kreischer, it started one.

Hollywood read the article and saw a character. The 2002 film National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, starring Ryan Reynolds as a seventh-year college student who never wants to leave, was built on the Rolling Stone piece — the studio optioned the article and turned its subject into a movie hero. Kreischer has talked about the film for years, with the mix of pride and disbelief the story deserves: a magazine article about his drinking became a studio comedy, and the character on screen was a cleaned-up version of him.

The article also gave him his first lesson in the economics of fame. A magazine could make him famous in a week, but fame without a skill is a short lease. He spent the next ten years building the skill — stand-up, hour after hour, club after club — so that when the Rolling Stone story faded, there was a comedian underneath it. The story never faded, though. He still tells it, and the audience still laughs, because the kid in the article and the man on stage are the same person, twenty-nine years apart.

The Machine: Russia, the Train, and the Story That Built Him

The Machine is the story Kreischer has told more than any other, and it is the story that named him. During a Florida State study-abroad trip to Russia, he fell in with a group of Russian mobsters on a train. He drank with them, earned their trust, and — in the version he tells on stage — ended up helping them rob the train he was riding on. The bit runs twenty minutes in its full form, and it is the closest thing modern stand-up has to a folk tale: a true story, told by the man who lived it, that gets bigger and funnier every time he tells it.

The story did what no agent could. It gave him a nickname, a signature bit, and a calling card he could use in any room in America. Club owners booked “the Machine guy.” Audiences who had never heard of Bert Kreischer had heard the train story. In 2016, Showtime released a stand-up special called The Machine, built around the bit. In 2023, the story became a feature film, also called The Machine, with Kreischer starring as himself alongside Mark Hamill as his father. The film opened May 26, 2023, and grossed $5.9 million over Memorial Day weekend in the United States and Canada, per MoneyMade — a modest box-office result for a film, and a remarkable one for a stand-up bit.

How much of the story is literally true is a question Kreischer has answered the way comedians always answer it: the trip happened, the mobsters were real, and the details belong to the stage. The train robbery is the part audiences argue about, and the argument is the point. A story that survives twenty-five years of retelling, a Showtime special and a feature film does not need a fact-checker. It needs a room, a microphone and a man tall enough to be seen from the back row.

Stand-Up: Six Specials and the Shirtless Stage

Kreischer has released six stand-up specials, and the list is the spine of his career. Comfortably Dumb aired on Comedy Central in 2009. The Machine aired on Showtime in 2016. Then came the Netflix run: Secret Time in 2018, taped in Philadelphia; Hey Big Boy in 2020, taped in Cleveland; Razzle Dazzle in 2023, taped at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha; and Lucky in 2025, filmed in his hometown of Tampa. Four of the six are Netflix originals, and the Tampa homecoming for Lucky sold out all six tapings within 24 hours of the on-sale, according to the venue pages for the tour.

Lucky premiered in Netflix’s Top 10 Most Watched TV Shows in March 2025, and it is the most personal of the six. The hour covers the 45 pounds he lost, the family stories that come with two teenage daughters, and parenting tips he says he got from Snoop Dogg. The weight-loss material lands because the audience can see it: the shirt comes off, and the man on stage in 2025 is visibly lighter than the man in Secret Time seven years earlier. The shirt is the through-line. He took it off during a bit years ago, the crowd went wild, and it never went back on. It is a gimmick that would sink a lesser comic, and it works for Kreischer because the material underneath it is strong enough to carry the room on its own.

The touring numbers are the real story of the last five years. Kreischer went from clubs to theatres to arenas, and the Permission to Party World Tour that runs through the end of 2026 plays rooms that hold thousands. Twelve shows were listed from November 12 to December 12, 2026, in Port Chester, Providence, Worcester, Portland and eight more cities, according to Disciples of Comedy, which checked the listings on November 10, 2026. A comedian who sells out six Tampa tapings in a day is not a club act anymore. He is a touring business, and the stage is the factory floor.

2026: Lucky, Free Bert, and Permission to Party

November 2026 is one of the busiest months of Bert Kreischer’s career, and the calendar proves it. The Permission to Party World Tour is on the road, with dates at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester on November 14, 2026, the Merrill Auditorium in Portland on November 15, and the Topeka Performing Arts Center on December 5. The Fully Loaded at Sea comedy cruise sails from Miami to Cozumel on November 19–23, 2026, with a lineup that includes Whitney Cummings, Ms. Pat, Big Jay Oakerson, Felipe Esparza and Sam Jay, per his official site, bertbertbert.com. He headlined the National Comedy Center’s annual festival in Jamestown, New York, on August 8, 2026, alongside Jerry Seinfeld and Seth Meyers.

The television work kept pace. Free Bert, his scripted Netflix comedy series, debuted in January 2026 and broke into Netflix’s United States and global Top 10, and a second season was ordered in 2026, according to the venue bios that carry his current credits and Disciples of Comedy. The show casts him as a fictionalised version of himself — a comedian, a father, a man whose life is a series of escalating bad decisions — and it is the first scripted series he has headlined. An upcoming film, Homecoming, directed by Jeff Tomsic, who made Tag, is also on his slate, per the Chartway Arena announcement for the tour.

The 2026 run matters for the height question in a small, concrete way: a man touring arenas at 54, shirtless, for ninety minutes a night, is a man whose body is part of the act. The weight loss, the touring schedule, the cruise and the festival are all pieces of the same picture — a performer who turned his size into a brand and his brand into a business, and who is still adding dates to the calendar in the year he turned 54.

Fully Loaded: The Festival He Built

Kreischer founded the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival in 2022, and it is the most ambitious thing he has built. The idea was simple: a comedy festival run like a music festival, outdoors, with a whole bill of comics instead of one headliner. The 2023 edition ran from Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on June 14 to The Gorge in Washington State on September 15, with the lineup changing from stop to stop, according to ReservedSeat’s festival history. The festival has since expanded to stadiums, arenas and sold-out cruises, per the venue bios — and the cruise is the version that made headlines, with record alcohol sales at sea reported in the Chartway Arena announcement.

The festival is also a business lesson. A headliner takes a fee; a festival owner takes the gate, the merchandise, the sponsorships and the brand. Kreischer’s production company, Berty Boy Productions, is the home of the whole operation — the podcasts, the festival, the specials, the tours — and the festival is the piece that turns a touring comedian into an entrepreneur. The comics on the bill are his friends and peers: the kind of lineup a headliner can only assemble after twenty-five years of working rooms with the same people.

Fully Loaded at Sea 2026, sailing November 19–23 from Miami to Cozumel, is the festival’s newest form: a comedy cruise with live performances by Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Ms. Pat, Big Jay Oakerson, Felipe Esparza, Sam Jay, Steph Tolev, Joe Derosa, Rosebud Baker, Katherine Blanford, Ian Fidance, Shane Torres, Dave Williamson, Cipha Sounds and Ruby Setnik, per bertbertbert.com. Fifteen comics, five days, one boat. It is the kind of idea that only works if the headliner’s name can fill the ship, and the ship sold out.

Podcasts: Bertcast and 2 Bears 1 Cave

Kreischer has hosted the Bertcast since 2012, and it is one of the longest-running comedy podcasts in the medium. The format is loose: Bert, a guest, a conversation that goes wherever it goes. The show’s value is the host — a man who has a story for every subject and no filter on any of them — and it has been a steady income stream and a marketing channel for fourteen years. Every tour date, every special, every festival gets announced on the Bertcast first, to an audience that already trusts the man selling the tickets.

2 Bears 1 Cave, the show he co-hosts with Tom Segura, started in 2019 and is the bigger of the two. The premise is two friends talking, and the chemistry is the product: Segura is dry, precise and deadpan; Kreischer is loud, physical and shameless. The contrast is the show. The two men are close in height — Segura is listed around 6 feet himself — and the running joke in the studio is that neither of them is the tall one. The show’s live events have grown into their own business: the second annual 2 Bears 5K, held at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium in 2025, drew more than 7,000 participants, including NFL star Jason Kelce and country artist Jelly Roll, per the Chartway Arena announcement.

The podcasts are also where the height question gets answered in the most human way possible: by comparison. Listeners who watch the video version of 2 Bears 1 Cave see two men sitting side by side at a table, and they look the same height. That is the visual evidence behind the 6-foot anchor — not a tape measure, but a thousand hours of two friends on camera, one of whom is listed at 6 feet and the other of whom sits level with him.

Net Worth 2026: The M–M Range

Bert Kreischer’s net worth in 2026 is reported between $14 million and $20 million. Celebrity Net Worth’s current listing is reported at $20 million, per CineNetworth, CafeCloudy and WiseToast, all citing Celebrity Net Worth. Asia Media Journal printed $14 million on January 9, 2026, and ShowbizTom also cites $14 million from Celebrity Net Worth. The two figures come from the same source family at different dates, which is why this article publishes the range and anchors on $20 million — the most recent reported figure — rather than pretending the number is settled. Readers who want the full money story can read our Bert Kreischer net worth profile for 2026, which breaks down the estimate in detail.

The money comes from five directions. Touring is the biggest: arena and theatre dates on the Permission to Party World Tour, with ticket prices and room sizes that put a headliner of his level in the top tier of working comedians. Netflix is second — four original specials plus the Free Bert series, with the streaming deals that come with them. Podcast advertising is third: two shows, fourteen years of Bertcast and seven years of 2 Bears 1 Cave, with the live events and the 5K race on top. The Fully Loaded festival and cruise are fourth, and they are the only income stream he owns outright rather than renting from a platform. Film, television hosting, the Life of the Party book and merchandise sit behind those four.

Older figures deserve a warning, because they still circulate. Film Daily, updated May 29, 2026, still cites a $3 million figure from older Celebrity Net Worth data. Capitalism.com printed $5 million in 2023, and Fameshala repeated it in 2024. MoneyMade printed $8 million. One site, Zyntharo, printed $30–40 million in July 2026 with no named source behind it — that figure is speculative and this article does not use it. The $14M–$20M range is the honest answer: a comedian who has spent a decade at the top of the touring business, with a festival, two podcasts and a Netflix deal, is worth far more than $5 million and far less than $40 million. The same range sits next to his peers: Tim Dillon’s $12 million comedy empire, built on podcasting and Patreon, shows what a comic of the same generation earns from a similar mix of touring and audio. Readers can browse more profiles in our Celebrity Net Worth section.

How Tall Is He Next to His Peers?

Height means more in comparison than it does on its own, and Kreischer’s peer group is the comedy-podcast world he lives in. The men he shares stages and studios with are mostly between 5’8″ and 6’1″, and Kreischer sits at the top of that band. The table below uses listed figures — the same kind of reporting this article adjudicated for Kreischer himself — and the links go to our own profiles where the detail lives.

The most useful comparison is the one audiences can check themselves. Theo Von’s height is listed at the same 6 feet, and the two men have shared festival bills and podcast studios for years — on stage together, they read as the same height. Joe Rogan’s height, listed at 5 feet 8 inches, is the contrast: Rogan is famously compact and muscular, and in photographs with Kreischer the four-inch gap is plain to see. Bill Burr, 58 in 2026, is listed at 5 feet 10 inches and is a leaner, smaller-framed comic — the difference between Burr and Kreischer is not height so much as mass. Kreischer is the biggest man in his peer group by build, and his height is only part of that.

The comparison also explains why the 6’1″ listing survives. Next to Rogan, Kreischer looks tall. Next to Segura, he looks the same. Next to a six-foot door frame, he looks six feet. The eye measures a man against the people around him, and the people around Kreischer are mostly shorter than he is. That is the whole secret of the height question: he is not a tall man by the standards of athletes, but he is a tall man by the standards of the room he works in, and he performs like a man who knows it.

Personal Life: LeeAnn, Georgia, and Ila

Bert Kreischer married LeeAnn Kreischer in 2003, and the marriage is the longest-running storyline in his act after The Machine. LeeAnn is a writer and podcaster in her own right — she hosts the Wife of the Party podcast — and she is the person the family stories are about. The act is built on their life together: the house, the kids, the holidays, the arguments, the apologies. Audiences who have followed Kreischer for years know LeeAnn’s name as well as they know his, because she is in the material every night.

The couple has two daughters: Georgia, born in 2004, and Ila, born in 2006. The girls grew up inside the act — the Lucky special is full of stories about parenting teenagers — and Kreischer has talked openly about the balance between a touring schedule and a family that stays home. The family lives in Los Angeles, and Tampa remains the hometown base: the 2 Bears 5K runs at Raymond James Stadium, the Lucky tapings were in Tampa, and the Fully Loaded at Sea cruise sails from Miami. The geography of his life is Florida roots, Los Angeles home, and a tour bus in between.

LeeAnn’s role in the business is easy to miss and worth stating. She is the person who keeps the household running while he tours, the first audience for new material, and the co-host of a podcast that turns the family stories into a second income stream. The Kreischer household is a family business in the literal sense: the husband tours, the wife podcasts, the daughters grow up inside both. It is the least chaotic part of a life built on chaos, and it is the reason the chaos on stage works — the audience knows there is a home to go back to.

Weight, Health, and the 45-Pound Story

The question that follows the height question is the weight question, and Kreischer has answered it himself. He has spoken openly about weighing 275 pounds at his heaviest and bringing it down to 230 pounds, per FL Reporter in January 2025, citing his own social posts. The Lucky special, filmed in Tampa in 2025, is built around the weight loss: 45 pounds gone, and an hour of material about how it happened, what it cost, and what his family thought of it.

The weight matters to the height question because the two numbers describe the same body. A six-foot man at 275 pounds reads as a big man; the same man at 230 pounds reads as a tall one. The 45-pound loss changed how audiences see him on stage — less bulk, more height — and it is part of why the height listings that date from before the weight loss read differently from the ones printed now. A body changes, and the numbers that describe it change with it.

The health story is also a business story. A touring comedian who performs shirtless for ninety minutes a night, in arenas, at 54, needs the stamina the schedule demands. The weight loss, the touring, the cruise and the festival are all pieces of the same 2026 picture: a performer who treats his body as part of the act and takes care of the instrument. The Snoop Dogg parenting tips in Lucky are the joke; the 45 pounds are the fact underneath it.

What Comes Next for Bert Kreischer

The next twelve months have three tracks, and all three are already running. The Permission to Party World Tour continues through December 2026 and into 2027, with new dates announced through his official site. The Fully Loaded at Sea cruise sails November 19–23, 2026, and the festival’s land editions will follow in 2027. Free Bert returns for a second season on Netflix, and the film Homecoming, directed by Jeff Tomsic, is on the slate.

The question nobody can answer yet is whether there is a seventh special in him, and the answer is almost certainly yes. Six specials in sixteen years is a steady pace, and Lucky’s Top 10 debut in March 2025 showed the audience is still growing. The material writes itself: the tour, the cruise, the daughters growing up, the weight loss, the festival. A comedian with a life this eventful does not run out of stories. He runs out of nights to tell them in.

Either way, the number at the top of this article will not change. He is 6 feet tall, he is 54 years old, and the conversation about his height will follow him the way the conversation about The Machine has followed him for twenty-five years. The answer has not changed since the first person typed the question into a search bar, and it will not change now: 6 feet, 183 centimetres, a $14M–$20M fortune, and a stage act that makes him look bigger than the number.

Frequently Asked Questions About Bert Kreischer’s Height

Sources & Reporting

This profile was reported from the following sources, all checked in November 2026: bertbertbert.com (official site) for the Permission to Party tour, the Lucky special, the Free Bert series, the Fully Loaded at Sea cruise of November 19–23, 2026, and Berty Boy Productions; Disciples of Comedy (checked November 10, 2026) for the 12 shows from November 12 to December 12, 2026, the six-specials list, and the Free Bert second-season renewal; ReservedSeat (October 29, 2026) for the Fully Loaded festival history, the Permission to Party tour, the Lucky March 2025 premiere, Free Bert’s January 2026 debut, and The Machine film’s May 26, 2023 release; Topeka Performing Arts, Hanover Theatre, PortTIX, Landmark Theatre and Chartway Arena (2026 venue pages) for Lucky’s six sell-out tapings in 24 hours, the Netflix Top 10 debut in March 2025, the Fully Loaded festival’s expansion to stadiums and cruises, the 2 Bears 5K 2025 at Raymond James Stadium with 7,000+ participants including Jason Kelce and Jelly Roll, and the film Homecoming; I Love NY / National Comedy Center (April 2, 2026) for the August 6–9, 2026 festival and Bert’s August 8 headline set; CafeCloudy for the IMDb-listed 6 ft 1 in height, the $20 million net worth, and the LeeAnn and daughters details; ScreenDollars and Capitalism.com for the 5 ft 11¾ in (1.82 m) height; Facts.net for the 5 ft 11 in height and the St. Petersburg birthplace; AstroTheme for the 5 ft 11½ in (1.82 m) height and the November 3, 1972 birthdate; FL Reporter (January 4, 2025) for the 6 ft 1 in height and the 275-to-230-pound weight change; National Today for the 5 ft 11 in height; WiseToast and Bert Magazine for the 1.82 m height and the $20 million and $14 million net worth figures; Asia Media Journal (January 9, 2026) for the $14 million 2026 net worth; CineNetworth for the $20 million 2026 net worth; MoneyMade for the $8 million net worth and The Machine film’s $5.9 million Memorial Day weekend gross; Film Daily (updated May 29, 2026) for the older $3 million Celebrity Net Worth figure; Gripeo for the discarded 5 ft 9 in outlier; Zyntharo (July 16, 2026) for the discarded $30–40 million speculation; and Guide Net Worth’s own live profiles for the peer heights (Theo Von 6 ft 0 in, Joe Rogan 5 ft 8 in, Bill Burr 5 ft 10 in) and the Bert Kreischer net worth profile. Height and net worth figures are reported estimates, not measured facts: no official height measurement exists, and Bert Kreischer has never disclosed his finances. Where sources disagree, this article publishes the range and names the outlet behind each figure. Corrections: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.