William Dawes "Bill" Schulz (born August 14, 1975) is a regular panelist, writer, and producer on Fox News Channel's

Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

 late night show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...

since its debut on February 5, 2007. As a sidekick on Red Eye, Schulz routinely looks directly into the camera (even when he is not being talked to) with his signature "crazy-eyed look." Schulz provides the voice for an anthropomorphization of the The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

newspaper named "Pinch" (a sly reference to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., current publisher of the Times). The host of the show, Greg Gutfeld

Greg Gutfeld

Greg Gutfeld is an American television personality, political satirist, humorist, magazine editor and blogger. Gutfeld is the host of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel. He is also one of five co-hosts/panelists on Fox News political talk-show The Five, which debuted on July 11, 2011....

, consistently portrays Schulz as having weird sexual practices, such as bestiality; it is a recurring joke on the show. Schulz is also a freelance writer and a former senior editor of Stuff Magazine.

In April 2009, Schulz made a famous cameo on Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck

Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...

's TV program. Beck described Schulz as the "average American" and pretended to pour gasoline (actually water) on him from a red container during Beck's monologue against President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

. Beck discussed setting Schulz on fire (which could not happen since it was only water).

Personal life

Schulz was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended high school in Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 at Lake Forest Academy

Lake Forest Academy

Lake Forest Academy is a college preparatory boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12 located on the North Shore in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. As of the 2008-2009 school year, students at Lake Forest Academy come from 20 states and 28 countries. The current Head of School is Dr....

, and in 1998, received a BA in Print Journalism graduating from Emerson College

Emerson College

Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...

.

He is a direct descendant of William Dawes, Jr. who rode with Paul Revere

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride...

 to warn the colonial minutemen

Minutemen

Minutemen were members of teams of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.The minutemen were among the first...

 of the presence of British

British people

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 army troops before the Battle of Lexington & Concord at the beginning of the American Revolution.

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