BIO
Dave began performing stand-up comedy in late 1997 after realizing that is was his true calling. In May 2002 Dave quit his day job prematurely and decided that he would devote his life to stand-up comedy, producing, promoting and performing in hundreds of shows. Consequently Dave has produced over 500 comedy shows since 2001 and has given many Chicago comics their start.
Over the years Daves act developed in front of hundreds of different audiences in hundreds of different rooms into the whip smart, edgy, and always poignant comedian he is today. His material ranges from relationships and mundane middle American suburbia to terrorism, racism, religion and other hard hitting subjects. Every audience member that has seen Dave perform has walked away with a little something more than just a good laugh. Often times people comment on how one of Daves jokes was used to illustrate a point to someone at a party or the office.
Dave has performed with greats such as Kevin Meaney, Todd Barry, Doug Stanhope, Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedberg and more. He has appeared on the BBC documentary Letters From America and appeared as a comedy mentor to Maureen on the first season of Starting Over on NBC. His comedy is also regularly featured on XM Satellite Radio. He was also chosen as a national semi-finalist in The Wendys Comedy Challenge. Currently Dave is touring the country and appearing in clubs, colleges, and one nighters throughout the Midwest and running The Edge Comedy Club in Chicago.
Dave has decided that stand up comedy is the one goal he has ever had in life that he has been completely and totally dedicated to, and hopes to advance his career by working his way up the ladder to at least sub-stardom.
CONTACT INFO
DAVE ODD
847-409-8623 (cell)
dopentertainment@msn.com
Gray Wolf: astral projection spirit guide animal
Website
daveodd.com
Influences
Carlin, Black, Kinison, Stanhope, Cross, Boosler.
Members
TV Shows
"Starting Over" NBC 2003
"Letters From America" BBC 2001
Films
Sketch, 2007 www.imdb.com it mo-fo
Albums
Delaine Farm and Other Shattered Dreams 2006 52 mins.
Hug For All 2007 54 mins.
Dave Odd's Interests
General
Stand-up comedy, nature, animals, photography, the supernatural, karaoke (Sinatra baby!), writing, drawing, cooking, hiking, roadtripping, etc. etc.
Music
Talking Heads, David Byrne, Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Dion and the Belmonts, Cake, Blues Brothers, The Police, Santana, 80's stuff, Oldies, Big Band, etc. etc.
Movies
Die Hard with a Vengance, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk 'til Dawn, anything with Zombies, Ghost and the Darkness, Jaws, Terminators (all of them), Dead Alive, the original Star Wars movies, sci-fi, a variety of other stuff as well but those are the ones that come to mind.
Television
I really don't watch too many TV shows, but I can't miss Family Guy and American Dad, Futurama, Comedy Central, Daily Show, Conan O Brien, Simpsons, etc. etc.
Books
Do I read anymore? Peterson's Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern North America, Audobon Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of North America as silly as it sounds these two books have been with me most of my life and have really given me the most enjoyment. I always appriciate a good aliens, ghosts, Bigfoot sort of factual based book as well.
Heroes
George Carlin, Doug Stanhope, David Cross, Issac Asimov, David Byrne, Alton Motherfucking Brown
Niles North High School
Skokie,Illinois
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Get beat up by everybody club.
I like crying club.
Superfudge study.
About me:
First and foremost I am a stand up comedian. But I also a comedy producer, writer, improviser, and artist. Comedy has always been an outlet for me since I was a kid. I was a middle child (older bro younger sis) so I was always getting blamed for something or being compared to my siblings. I was always getting in trouble and consequently I am the black sheep, even though my sister was a much more troubled child growing up. I was also a runt growing up so I was constantly getting picked on at school, my only defense was to act crazy or silly or goofy to get people to like me and stop pushing me around. For the most part that worked, and I got to hang out with the cool kids because I made them laugh, of course they wouldn't let me hang around with them outside of school though. Eventually I befriended the straightedge kids, which worked well because I wasn't into drugs or drinking, but alas we got in plenty of other sorts of trouble. I kind of became the comic relief for this merry band of social rejects and would lead ding dong ditching, snowball throwing, rabble rousing adventures throught the neighborhood.
After high school I seperated myself from all the troublemakers and after floundering through community college for a few years I quit. I decided that I wanted to be a screenwriter, and saw that a lot of actors and directors got started in comedy. So I tried out improv, and eventually in winter of 97 tried stand up. I loved it, and now I am slowly but surely building my comedy resume up before hitting the road. In my fairly short comedy career I have produced over 700 shows, appeared on NBC, BBC, and performed with Doug Stanhope, Mitch Hedberg, and Kevin Meaney among others. I'd still like to be a screenwriter, but all my once original ideas seem to have all been taken in the last few years.
In addition to all of that. I also do programs for nature centers on The Snakes of Chicagoland. I hunt for, collect, and photograph wildlife, specifically reptiles and amphibians for educational purposes. It's always been a passion of mine, I grew up near a nature center that was my best friend when everyone else let me down. I have always had a fascination with animals ever since my brother brought home a turtle from the nature center pond when I was about 6 years old.
Also, and this is where it gets really weird, I am a medium and theorist for a paranormal research company I co-founded with my friend Jay shortly after I got started in stand up. It's called Supernatural Occurrence Studies Inc. I promise you I'm not crazy, we approach the subject from a very logical and scientific point of view. Basically our standpoint is that there is something out there that makes everyone thinks ghosts exist, but it's probably just a naturally occuring phenomenon however strange that modern science hasn't quite grasped yet.
So thats entirely too much about me. And if you read all that, and you still want to talk to me, we might as well get married.
Dave
Who I'd like to meet: Pretty much everyone, I basically joined here to meet new people and get a nice fan base for my stand up.
Elias' son Manuel was stabbed in the brain with a knife over a bag of sugar a few months back and I imagine most of the money raised will go towards his rehabilitation.
It doesn't seem like all that much cash, but realize that it takes roughly $200,000 ZIM dollars to equal ONE US DOLLAR.
if we can get 100 people to come over, we'll have raised $200,000 ZIM DOLLARS!
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THANKS AGAIN for adding us AND if the mood strikes you - FEEL FREE TO REPOST THIS AS A BULLETIN - YOU'LL BE HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED AND THAT'LL MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD!
JRP
Between 1981 and 1987, 200 people disappeared from Harrisburg, South Dakota without explanation.
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So I saw this lady with a really horrible, multi-colored, fake reptile skin purse; I thought to myself, "If that purse were a short sleeved, button-up men's shirt, Dave Odd would totally wear it!
