Matt Bellassai is an American comedian and writer. He hosts the "Unhappy Hour" podcast and web series "To Be Honest". He formerly starred in the BuzzFeed web series "Whine About It", which attracted 3.5 million weekly viewers. He received the 2016 People's Choice Award for Favorite Social Media Star, and is the author of "Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations", a collection of essays. Bellassai grew up in the Chicago suburbs of Alsip and Palos Heights, Illinois. He studied journalism at Northwestern University, and interned at the magazine "In These Times". After graduation he moved to New York and joined BuzzFeed as a writer of humorous lists, and soon developed "Whine About It", a series of videos featuring himself drinking wine and complaining. Bellassai is gay. He attended a Pride parade for the first time at the age of 19. He considers Honey Boo-Boo and Ellen DeGeneres as LGBTQ icons.