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TV credits include "Hardcore TV" HBO. Stand-Up TV "Evening At The Improv,"
"Caroline's Comedy Hour" A&E, "Girl's Night Out" Lifetime, "SAST," "Stand
Up Stand Up" Comedy Central, and "Star Search." New York based
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BIO:
From The LiE (Long Island Entertainment) February 1998 Dan Wilson is one of those breezy, gentle types that will hit you
like a building collapsing if you’re not paying attention. A naturally funny
man, Wilson ripped through an inspired set that somehow connected Rudy Vallee-style
rapping (Go ahead, picture that, we’ll wait), midget-wrestling, plane flight
annoyances, Barney Fife impressions and a visit to the dentist that was TOO
accurate. A tremendous amount of his material is potently funny, a sucker
punch that you don’t expect from an innocent smile and an average Joe, but
Wilson is one of the great "class clowns" in the business. This is good-time
comedy, clean, inoffensive but still mondo humorous and it’d be a darn good
idea to see for yourself. Dan Wilson is a comedic force to be reckoned
with. Long a favorite on the college and club circuits, Dan began to branch
out in 1989 with a talked about appearance at Budd Friedman’s American Comedy
Convention, held at The Riviera in Las Vegas. With that industry exposure
under his belt, he began a string of television appearances including "Star
Search `90," A&E’s "Evening at the Improv," MTV’s "Half Hour Comedy Hour,"
and Lifetime’s "Girls’ Night Out." His rubbery face and keen ear for voices
earned him status as a recurring sketch performer on HBO’s "Hardcore T.V."
Dan has opened for Dana Carvey, Richard Lewis, Emo Phillips, and Richard
Belzer. His quirky style mixes keen observations with outrageous physical
humor, all delivered in a genial "I’m-only-trying-to-fix-the-world-before-it’s-too-late"
deadpan From The LIE (Long Island Entertainment) January 1999 Something
you don’t often see is a comic who’s funnier than his material when his material
is actually good. You see a lot of new comics who have better deliveries
than jokes, but their material is usually raw or straight-out pathetic, but
when it comes to veterans, you usually see comedians who are as funny as
the material they wield. Dan Wilson is the exception to the rule, a mischievous
and likeable bloke that is funny whether he’s pausing to look at you or working
with sound effects, or actually doing the situational humor that’s his trademark.
His recent show at Brokerage reaffirmed that the man is a natural.
After a steady flow of laughs, it was Wilson time and the light-hearted lunatic
was off and running from the second one. If Wilson isn’t getting huge laughs
from physical humor, he’s getting you with smart little ideas, visual gags
or singing. You have not lived until you’ve seen midget wrestling, which
he did NOT do this show, but it mattered little. Wilson was uncorking some
hysterical tomfoolery as a Rudy Valee-styled rapper (something else you must
see to believe), creating nervous laughter from a "trip to the dentist" and
tossing in a world-class Barney Fife impression whenever there was the threat
of a quiet moment. Wilson isn’t one of those comics that argue about at the
water cooler days later because of the profound things he says, no, rather,
he’s the type of stand-up that reminds you of those summer night when you
were a kid when your best friend got you giddy and made you laugh at nonsense
for so long that it hurt when you went home. This is light, good-natured
humor, whether it’s recollections of the airlines or just clowning off of
crowd members. Beyond being a comedian, Dan Wilson is just a fun guy to be
around.
Dan Wilson would get solid marks in everything from his material to his timing
to his stage persona (which is clearly a down-to-earth guy as opposed to
what we consider a celebrity). He’s one of those acts that would crack up
a firehouse as easily an Elks lodge, a bachelor party as fast as a PTA bakesale,
a corporate meeting as fast as a little league fundraiser. People don’t usually
compare universal appeal to the shock artists that get record deals and HBO
specials, the question does eventually become: What is true comedy? True
comedy is the ability to make the masses laugh at life and the experience;
Dan Wilson practices true comedy with less hoopla, hype and notoriety. He
practices it as well as anybody in the business.
