Ben Doyle

**Benjamin "Ben" Doyle** (born March 30, 1999 (1999-03-30) [age 24]) is one of the three primary hosts and editors (alongside Sam and Adam) for Jet Lag: The Game. He used to write for Half as Interesting more, but now he is mainly dedicated to Jet Lag. He has played in every season since the conception of the show and has won 4 seasons, tied for the most and three of them with Adam. He is from Baltimore, Maryland.

His father is the *Simpsons* and *Looney Tunes: Back in Action* writer Larry Doyle. His mother is Becky Lichtenstein, who is a Communications Associate for the Park School. He has 2 siblings.

## Education

Doyle attended the Park School of Baltimore for high school. For university, he studied Literary Arts at Brown University from 2017-2021, and led a project to revive the Brown Jug, Brown University’s oldest humor magazine, and managed a staff of 30+ students as its Editor-in-Chief.

## Appearances on Jet Lag

 Season 7: Tag Across Europe (2) | Victory

## Trivia

* He is 5'7".
* Ben writes for Half as Interesting, but now spends the majority of his time on Jet Lag due to its explosion in popularity.
* Ben was drunk at least once in all but two seasons, which are Tag Across Europe and Capture the Flag. This tendency to become drunk has become infamous amongst the audience of Jet Lag: The Game.
* He is always paired with Adam whenever possible.
* Ben was introduced to the Wendover Productions team by Adam.
* As a child, he was carrying a sword and ran into the wall, resulting in part of his skull being damaged.
* He is banned from the Art Institute of Chicago for "being an accessory to the destruction of priceless art". He said it was accidental.
	+ He was there with his high school girlfriend, and she accidentally knocked something over.
* The reason why he gets drunk and Adam drives is because, even though he *can* drive and has a license, he has said he thought he is a bad driver because when he was learning how to, he liked a girl and was focused on her, rather than on driving.
	+ "Ben describes that at age 15, he started dating his childhood best friend right after another girl at summer camp was interested in him. This was when he started driver's education, and so he kept having panic attacks while driving and didn't complete driver's ed, and only learned to drive several years later. This is why he never drives in *Jet Lag*."

## References

1. ↑ https://parkschool.net/faculty-staff/becky-lichtenstein/
2. ↑ https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/07/22/larry-doyle-portrays-himself-only/52841756007/
3. ↑ Ben Doyle [@thewheatgerm] (December 26, 2022). "i am five foot seven otherwise known as the 24th percentile (normal alert!!) for men in the united states" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Retreived on December 24, 2023.
4. ↑ https://nebula.tv/thelayover/the-layover-have-sam-and-adam-actually-learned-anything-about-the-world-or-is-jet-lag-the-game-just-another-naval-gazing-colonial-enterprise-created-by-three-white-men-in-a-cynical-pursuit-of-profit-the-trivia-show
5. ↑ https://nebula.tv/videos/jetlag-jet-lag-the-outtakes-everything-we-cut-from-season-8
6. ↑ The Layover Podcast
7. ↑ https://nebula.tv/thelayover/the-layover-episode-2
8. ↑ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/JetLagTheGame