Joel Rubin

Joel Rubin is a host at SourceFed, former employee of Rooster Teeth Productions who worked as a former member of the Funhaus team. He acted as the Senior Director of Channel Programming and Strategy for Funhaus during his time there. His Rooster Teeth profile can be found at JoelRubin. Before Rooster Teeth and Funhaus, he also worked in TV (various cruddy sitcoms that never made it to air, plus a 3-year stint on G4TV’s X-Play), at Machinima (founding MachinimaRealm and working on the Machinima, Inside Gaming, and ETC channels and brands).

He is currently engaged to his partner, Dana.

Joel officially announced his departure from Funhaus (and subsequently Rooster Teeth) on April 5, 2016 on a reddit post and a journal entry on his Rooster Teeth profile and left the company on Friday April 8, 2016. Despite leaving Funhaus and Rooster Teeth for another job, Rubin has stated that he will continue to reside in Los Angeles, still attend RTX 2016 and will definitely still pop up in Rooster Teeth and Funhaus videos every now and then. On April 19, 2016, the former Funhaus member and ex Rooster Teeth employee officially announced through a tweet on his official Twitter page that he would be working as a host on SourceFed and as the Director of Progrmming at SourceFed Nerd and dsaid he was excited into joining the SourceFed family. When asked what he was hoping to bring to SourceFed, he said that his main goal is making the channels grow. The shows are really good, the talent is very talented, but for some reason the audience just isn't watching. He wants to figure out why and get then watching. Rubin was also excited to get into some of the news coverage beyond just gaming and geek. That stuff is great, and is really fun to watch, but he thinks there's a lot of potential to go broader with our news.

History
Before fame, He grew up on video games, playing the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Joel was also formerly the Channel Director for Machinima's Inside Gaming before its closure and reopening.