Brian Douglas Unger[1] (born 1965) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and commentator.
He has hosted on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Discovery Channel show Some Assembly Required (with University of Virginia Professor of Physics Lou Bloomfield; and then solo in its final season).
Unger was the narrator for the PBS American version of Nature's Spy in the Wild.
Unger hosted a documentary special on The History Channel titled How the States Got Their Shapes.
As of September 8, 2013, Brian Unger hosted an NFL.com segment titled "Game Day Satisfaction: Week 1".
[6] On The Young Turks online show "Old School" (July 10, 2023, with co-hosts Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz), Unger disclosed publicly for the first time that he is gay, and married to former child actor Nicholas Phillips.