Charlie Berens is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, comedian, host, and creator of the Manitowoc Minute. The Wisconsin native has been featured on Fox, CBS, Funny or Die, TBS Digital, Variety, MTV News, and more.

Berens began his career working for MTV News’ Choose or Lose. In 2012, Tribune Media tapped Charlie to host the comedic news show Nightcap. In 2013, he won an Emmy for “The Cost of Water” while reporting for KDAF in Dallas, Texas. In 2014, Berens hosted the CBS Sports Network game show, You’re So Money, and the PMC (Variety, Deadline) comedy/entertainment news brand @Hollywood.

A frequent collaborator on Funny or Die his comedic mashups including “If Jack Dawson Was Really from Wisconsin” have garnered more than 16 million views. In 2017, Berens began the viral Midwest comedic new series “Manitowoc Minute.” He currently has more than 1.9 million Facebook followers. He toured the U.S. selling out venues within minutes. Most recently, Berens’ Midwest-focused sketch comedy videos have garnered hundreds of millions of views. In addition to sketch comedy and the Manitowoc Minute, he also hosts Dark Side Of on Discovery ID.