Dave Attell
Born in Queens, New York on January 18, 1965, Dave Attell grew up to become an American actor working in the English language.
Attell attended South Side High School before going on to study at New York University. These years of formal education preceded his career in performance, which would establish him as a working actor in the United States entertainment industry.
As a United States citizen who built his professional life in American performance, Attell developed a career as an actor over the course of several decades. His work has been documented in library authority records, including entries held by the Library of Congress Name Authority File and the Virtual International Authority File, reflecting a body of professional activity substantial enough to warrant cataloguing by major reference institutions.
A photograph taken in 2009 and preserved in the Wikimedia Commons archive provides a record of Attell during his active professional years, serving as one of the more widely available documentary images associated with his career as an actor.
Quotes by Dave Attell
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Once you get offstage you’re just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.
Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It’s garbage. It’s not going to go bad again.
Sometimes. I get recognized, but I’m not really a famous famous. I’m pretty low on the showbiz totem pole – I mean, I’m no Jon or Kate plus eight. I’m just a comic, not a baby factory.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
You can say, ‘Can I use your bathroom?’ and nobody cares. But if you ask, ‘Can I use the plop-plop machine?’ it always breaks the conversation.
I’m a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
My gym has two-pound weights. If you’re using two-pound weights, how did you even open the door to the gym? What’s your dream? To pump up and open your mail?