About Dave

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Biography

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After winning the inaugural Boston Int'l Comedy Festival "Best New Comic award", Dave received national attention when he beat out 5,000 entertainers to be a part the E! Entertainment Networks 10 episode TV series "The Entertainer".

Dave was recently hand selected by the producer of NBC's Last Comic Standing to perform on the new TV show NESN's COMEDY ALL-STARS and is on the cover and prominently featured in "THE COMEDIANS" Americas Comedy Magazine!

Dave has made himself a reputation of being one of the country's most versatile comics working today! His act is a CLEAN high energy combination of improvisation, singing, dancing, mime, storytelling, and rapid fire punchlines!

Dave has worked with heavyweights in the entertainment industry such as The Bare Naked Ladies-911 Benefit show, Wayne Newton's USO tours, The Righteous Brothers, ABBA, Joe Cocker, The Beach Boys, Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, Steven Wright, Paul Rodriguez, Sinbad, Kevin Pollock, and Mitch Hedberg to name a few.

Dave on Home Skooling

On the subject of being asked 'What was the worst day of Home-Skooling?'

"School cancellations because of the snow days! I would watch the TV to see all the neighboring schools being canceled - Boys Public, Girls Catholic, Hebrew Academy.... Ya, Never once did I ever see DAVID'S Home-Skooling!"

"The skool dance kinda sucked!"

"My older sister would practice putting make-up on me. I was 5 years old, I didn't know any better. I felt pretty!"

Comedy

  • Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Competition - Best New Comic
  • 25th Anniversary San Francisco Int'l Comedy Competition - 2nd runner-up
  • Comedy Central's Laugh Riots - Semi-Finalist
  • Boston

    • The Comedy Connection
    • Nick's Comedy Stop
    • The Comedy Palace
    • Giggles
  • New York City

    • Caroline's
    • The Comic Strip
    • Gotham Comedy Club
    • Stand-up New York
    • Dangerfield's
    • The Boston Comedy Club

Television

  • E! Entertainment Television's "The Entertainer" - 1st Runner-up
  • Robert Klein's "New Joke City" - Featured Comedian
  • Jenny McCarthy's Party at the Palms - Featured Comedian
  • San Francisco Comedy Festival - Finalist
  • Comedy Central's Laugh Riots - Semi-Finalist

Theater

  • The Time of the Cuckoo - Lead/Nick Winchester Players Group
  • The World - Lead/John Winchester Players Group

Commercials

  • Sugar Babies Candies - National
  • Dunkin' Donuts - National
  • AT&T Media Services - Regional
  • The Boston Billiards Club - Regional

Training

  • Jane Elmes Crahall - Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
  • David O'Brien - Boston, MA

Wonderful Skills

  • Comedy Writing
  • Improvisation
  • Singing, Dancing, Mime
  • Hockey, Ice Skating, Boxing
  • Gold Medalist For Wrestling in the '98 Bay State Games