Raised in New York City, he briefly attended Princeton University but dropped out, never completing his undergraduate degree.

Kornbluth's live and filmed works are almost entirely solo monologues based closely on events and people his life, his upbringing, and his career.

Playing a hapless, sincere, and sometimes buffoonish everyman caught up in world events, he demonstrates the relevance of these concepts to daily life.

[5][6] In 2017, Kornbluth served as an Atlantic Fellow with the Global Brain Health Institute at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

[12] Since 2012, Kornbluth has participated in the annual Team in Training endurance bike ride, a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.