Arthur Kade (né Kadyshes) is an American former
financial adviser
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, actor, and television personality.
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Biography
Raised by his grandmother in Northeast Philadelphia
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, Kade attended college at Temple University
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. Upon graduation, he began a career as a financial adviser with American Express Financial Advisers.Gossip Girl
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'' and on television, radio, in blogs and newspapers, as well as in an article in ''Philadelphia Magazine
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''.Showtime
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series ''La La Land
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'' in which the Borat
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-like host Marc Wootton
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, hoping for "a master class in self-confidence", interviews Kade while pretending to be a London cabbie wanting to become an actor.
Critics have argued that Kade's desire is simply to become famous at whatever cost.performance art
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project.
Authors James Frey
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and Anna David met Kade to try to find out; Frey, who says Kade's website is "one of the funniest, most absurd, most ridiculous things" he's ever seen, later wrote that he and David found Kade "nice and polite" and "a real person, one that was slightly delusional about himself, but not at all resembling the buffoon on his website or in his videos". Kade later blogged that the writers were "blown away with my looks and body", called Frey "an amazing author", and rated David "a cool, classy 7.5; probably a 9 fifteen years ago".Arthur and Anna and Me
, Gawker.com
In 2010, Kade announced he was playing a character in an attempt to create a television show in the style of comedian
Sacha Baron Cohen
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.
In 2011, he started interviewing celebrities and currently hosts the New York City-base
talk show ''#InTheLab with Arthur Kade''
References
External links
ArthurKade.com
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Living people
Businesspeople from Philadelphia
Temple University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Financial advisors