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Anthony "Tony" Goldmark (born August 18, 1983) is an American podcaster, comedian, media critic, actor, and former YouTuber and comedy musician. He hosts the podcast Escape From Vault Disney (2019–present), where he and guests discuss randomly chosen titles on Disney+, and formerly hosted the comedic theme park review YouTube series Some Jerk with a Camera (2011–2016). The latter series and various others created by Goldmark were affiliated with Channel Awesome from 2015 until 2018. He also received media attention in 2020 for creating an extensive fan chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which went viral on Twitter.

Prior to his YouTube and podcasting pursuits, Goldmark, the son of Rock Bottom Remainders founder Kathi Kamen Goldmark, recorded several comedy albums from the age of 13, songs from which were played on The Dr. Demento Show and are archived at The FuMP. He has appeared on a number of podcasts and web productions besides his own, and in 2020 he received significant media attention for creating an extensive fan chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that went viral on Twitter.

Early life
Goldmark was born on August 18, 1983 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark and the late Kathi Kamen Goldmark, an author, publishing consultant, and musician who founded the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders. Both parents were Jewish and gave Goldmark a Jewish education, although he chose to record an album instead of having a bar mitzvah, a choice his parents offered. The couple divorced when Goldmark was in college, and in 2009 Kamen married author and Rock Bottom Remainders bandmate Sam Barry. Kamen died of breast cancer in 2012, survived by Goldmark, Barry, and Barry's children Daniel and Laura. Goldmark attended Columbia College Chicago.

He has cited Mr. Toad's Wild Ride as the first Disney attraction that made him laugh as a child, and the Indiana Jones Adventure as the first that "really blew me away".

Comedy music
Goldmark recorded his first comedy album, You Bug Me!: Songs Guaranteed to Annoy Your Parents, in 1996 at the age of 13, produced with the help of his parents and various family friends. The album's liner notes featured a message from Dave Barry praising the young Goldmark's talent, and the organization H.E.A.R. named him Artist of the Month in September 1997. Shortly after the album's release, the song "I Know You're A Fish" received airplay on The Dr. Demento Show, where he would be featured many times and appeared on several of Demento's compilation albums and basement tapes. His second album, Masterpiece Weirder (2001), also received play on KVRX. He subsequently released Rage Against the Mundane (2004), the Harry Potter parody album One Bad Muggle (2005), and Goldmark After Dark (2014).

Goldmark performed at Demento's Festival of Dementia at Dragon Con in 2012, appearing alongside Luke Ski, Tom Smith, and Aurelio Voltaire. Several of his songs are archived at The FuMP, and his music was nominated at the Logan Whitehurst Memorial Awards, where he subsequently served as a musician juror. He was featured on the Rock Bottom Remainders compilation album Stranger than Fiction (1998) and on Luke Ski's albums Worst Album Ever (2003) and Forgotten Fishheads Double Feature (2004).

Some Jerk with a Camera and other YouTube work
Following his comedy music career and early unsuccessful YouTube content, Goldmark sought work as a television writer in Los Angeles. During this time, he discovered comedian Doug Walker's Nostalgia Critic web series and was inspired to apply a similar review format to theme parks like Disneyland. Some Jerk with a Camera premiered on Blip.tv on February 3, 2011 with a review of the 2002 film The Country Bears (the series would remain on Blip to avoid copyright strikes until its demise in 2015, at which point the series returned to YouTube). The video gained traction when Goldmark shared it on the Channel Awesome forums, and Goldmark joined Channel Awesome officially in October 2014. While at Channel Awesome, Goldmark collaborated with several other site contributors, including video essayist Kyle Kallgren on a three-part musical review of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and with Walker on a Nostalgia Critic episode on The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010).

Shot on location at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and later Universal Studios Hollywood, the series depicts Goldmark as the titular Some Jerk with A Camera, reviewing park attractions and related paraphernalia (such as films and television specials) with fast-paced, dark, and often surreal self-referential humor, intermingled with sincere appreciation of the parks. In addition to Goldmark and various other reviewers, the show also featured celebrity cameos from Dr. Demento, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 actor Kevin Murphy. The final Some Jerk episode, "Harry Potter at Universal Hollywood!", a review of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, was released on October 31, 2016. Goldmark officially left Channel Awesome in April 2018 due to the company's mismanagement allegations.

Outside of Some Jerk with a Camera, Goldmark's YouTube channel also hosted State of the Parks, where he discussed theme park news; One Movie Later, a vlog series where Goldmark and various friends discussed theme park-related films they had just seen in theaters; vlogs of Goldmark and friends visiting new park attractions; and various sketches and other specials, such as a three-part riff of Disneyland's 1955 opening day telecast. The channel has been minimally active since 2020, and Goldmark has confirmed he has no current plans to continue Some Jerk with a Camera.

Escape From Vault Disney
Since 2019, Goldmark has hosted the semi-weekly podcast Escape From Vault Disney, produced by the Pipedream Podcasts network, wherein he and various guests watch and discuss titles available to stream on Disney+. Titles are usually films, TV episodes, and short films chosen at random from a shortlist via a "Randomizer" (inspired by the Disney Channel film Smart House, the subject of the first episode). Episodes typically end with "What's The Attraction?", where guests suggest become an attraction at the Disney parks, and a final segment where each person rates the subject either a "Disney Plus" or a "Disney Minus". The show went on hiatus in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but resumed the following September with a Zoom-recorded episode on The Little Mermaid episode "Island of Fear". Following the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Goldmark pledged to donate all Patreon proceeds for the following month to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Notable guests on the podcast have included Mighty Magiswords creator Kyle Carozza; comedy musicians like Worm Quartet's Tim "Shoebox" Crist, Sudden Death's Tom "Devo Spice" Rockwell, and Bonnie Gordon of Library Bards; YouTubers like Kyle Kallgren, Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug, Jenny Nicholson, and Defunctland 's Kevin Perjurer; Variety editor and screenwriter Jenelle Riley; filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist of The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut fame; and Disney/theme park professionals like Jim Henson Company puppeteer Grant Baciocco, Journey into Imagination performer Ron Schneider, and Men in Black: Alien Attack creative director Dave Cobb. The show also features recurring fictional characters, including short-tempered mad scientist Agatha Vile, Santa Claus impersonator Carl Featherbottom, and parody versions of Count Dracula and Sam Eagle.

Outside of Escape From Vault Disney, Goldmark has appeared on podcasts including Musicals with Cheese, Gals of Geekdom, Timeline Scavengers,  Dreamfinders!, AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast, and The "Weird Al" Phabet.

Other work
A young Goldmark was interviewed by filmmaker Errol Morris for a 2002 short film that was shown at the 74th Academy Awards, appearing alongside the likes of Iggy Pop, Laura Bush, and Walter Cronkite. A passionate and lifelong fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic, Goldmark appeared as an extra in Yankovic's "Perform This Way" music video and in the documentary Yankoheit 27 (2012), about the fan campaign for Yankovic's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A biographical essay he wrote on comedian George Carlin was published by Amoeba Music on their website.

Goldmark has appeared in several web films, including All Critics Must Die (which was filmed in 2012 but not released until 2020) and the six-part audio drama A Voice from the Dark (2019), produced by Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug. He was slated to appear in Channel Awesome's tenth anniversary special, The Devil's Jesters, but the project was cancelled prior to filming and Goldmark left the site. He voiced Disney animator Dick Huemer for Defunctland 's documentary "The Craziest Party Walt Disney Ever Threw".

In May 2020, Goldmark, a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, went viral on social media for posting an extensive chronological order of scenes from MCU films, beginning with the prologue of Thor: The Dark World, ending with the final scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home, and excluding TV series, One-Shots, and deleted scenes. He began the project out of "nerdy curiosity" during the COVID-19 pandemic, although he warned that the list was not "an inherently preferable viewing order" and that casual fans "should absolutely watch [the films] as the filmmakers intended". Goldmark maintained the list until the season finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in October 2022, at which point he confirmed via Twitter that he was abandoning the project and shared a link to the Google Doc for "anyone [who] wants to pick up where I left off".

Personal life
Goldmark lives in California. He was previously divorced, and has dated fellow podcaster Kit Quinn since 2017. He is autistic.

A democratic socialist and anti-capitalist, Goldmark is often outspoken about politics, such as a video on The Hall of Presidents where he was intensely critical of then-U.S. President Donald Trump and encouraged viewers to vote in the 2018 United States elections.

Filmography
(IMDb)

Studio albums

 * You Bug Me!: Songs Guaranteed to Annoy Your Parents (1996)
 * Masterpiece Weirder (2001)
 * Rage Against the Mundane (2004)
 * One Bad Muggle (2005)
 * Learning to Read Made Me Cool!! (2009; as Flying Like Wilma)
 * Goldmark After Dark (2014)

EPs

 * Alconoclast (2000)