Dom Irrera: Dec 17-20
Nominated, six times for an American Comedy Award, Dom Irrera's stand-up material was honed in a multi-generational Italian household in South Philadelphia with his mother, sister, grandmother, uncles and cousins all under one very big roof. A great-grandmother even lived across the street. Together there were three floors and four generations of family. His first big break was his performance on Rodney Dangerfield's "Nothing Goes Right" comedy specials for HBO. In 1989 Irrera's own HBO "One Night Stand" earned him his first CableACE award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. In '95 he won a second CableACE for the Showtime stand-up series he hosted, "Full Frontal Comedy". That same year he received a second CableACE nomination in the writing category for his work on Comedy Central's animated series, "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist". He also starred in a solo stand-up special for HBO in '92 titled "Command Performance". He has performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", The Late Show with David Letterman", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "The View", and has made several appearances on "Oprah". Recent credits include an all-new stand-up special titled "Comedy Central Presents", which aired on the cable network this past summer As an avid sports fan, he hosts "Hang Time" for the NFL network. Prior to that he was the host for Comedy Central's irreverent football show, "Offsides", where he conducted hilarious on-the-field interviews with football greats. He also hosted Comedy Central's "Behind the Scenes at the American Comedy Awards: specials in '98 and '99.
Irrera presently resides as the
Judge in DirecTV's "Supreme Court of Comedy". His guest-star
credits include "Seinfeld" (he played an annoying prop comic
needling Jerry in the memorable episode), "Becker", "Everybody
Loves Raymond" and "King of Queens". In addition, Dom voices the
character Ernie, the demolitions expert, on Nickelodeon's "Hey
Arnold". He also is the voice of Duke the Dog on Nickelodeons
"Barnyard" .
His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle", a cameo in the Coen Bros. Film, "The Big Lebowski", "The Fourth Tenor", starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom De Luise film, "The Godson". Dom was also featured in "The Aristocrats" (Penn Jillette & Paul Provenza), "Behind The Smile", directed by Daman Wayans and "Barnyard" (animated), directed by Steeve Oderkirk (which has gone to series for the Fall). He was also chosen by LA Magazine as one of the 25 funniest people in 2005. He was number nine.
Dom has performed at Montreal's prestigious "Just For Laughs Festival" and "The Cats Laugh Festival" in Kilkenny, Ireland (he's made more appearances at both festivals than any other American comic), He also has performed at the "Melbourne Comedy Festival" in Australia. and at "Edinburgh Festival's" Assembly Hall. It was there that he received the "Herald Award" for artistic excellence. Dom's DVD "Is This Thing On" is available on www.myspace.com/domirrera "I don't mean that in a bad way."
His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle", a cameo in the Coen Bros. Film, "The Big Lebowski", "The Fourth Tenor", starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom De Luise film, "The Godson". Dom was also featured in "The Aristocrats" (Penn Jillette & Paul Provenza), "Behind The Smile", directed by Daman Wayans and "Barnyard" (animated), directed by Steeve Oderkirk (which has gone to series for the Fall). He was also chosen by LA Magazine as one of the 25 funniest people in 2005. He was number nine.
Dom has performed at Montreal's prestigious "Just For Laughs Festival" and "The Cats Laugh Festival" in Kilkenny, Ireland (he's made more appearances at both festivals than any other American comic), He also has performed at the "Melbourne Comedy Festival" in Australia. and at "Edinburgh Festival's" Assembly Hall. It was there that he received the "Herald Award" for artistic excellence. Dom's DVD "Is This Thing On" is available on www.myspace.com/domirrera "I don't mean that in a bad way."
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