[2] His book, released in February 2008, is a collection of essays entitled Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me.
It contains essays by Andy Richter, Will Forte, David Wain, Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, and many others.
[6] Karlin served as a columnist and sportswriter for The Daily Cardinal, which led him to work as a reporter, covering the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for United Press International.
There they formed a writing team, and by fall they had a pilot order from Fox to make a show based on their work at The Onion, called Deadline: Now.
[6][13] A year later Karlin, Stewart, and at the time Daily Show head writer, David Javerbaum, co-wrote and edited America (The Book), a parody of a United States high school civics textbook.
[6] To make sure there was no overlap in subject matter between the two shows, Karlin made trips between the studios during the Report early days to supervise scripts.
[18][19] In a counter-complaint filed on behalf of Frappe, Inc., e-mails are revealed as court evidence in which Ben Karlin is self-described as an "asshole" and "difficult".
[20][21] Additionally, Karlin has been involved in public conflicts with creative peers/partners such as Benjamin Wallace[22] over ownership of production rights to a wine-fraud related movie.