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The ONLY Jewish Marine Comedian and more!

Dave Rosner is a stand-up comedian and a U. S. Marine. He became a member of the prestigious Friars Club in October 2006. But needs you to book him on paid gigs so he can pay his Friars Club tab off.
Dave has performed comedy in clubs, synagogues, veteran’s hospitals, and military bases in the United States, Australia, Canada, Kuwait, and Iraq.

Just finished as the lead role in the film Bert's Plan, a short dark comedy, written and directed by Yair Shvartz.

Currently emceeing Marine Corps IRR Musters monthly across the country. Specifically on orders to make Marines laugh. Finally able to combine his many worlds.

He is also a political and military commentator, spokesmen, speaker, producer, writer, and actor. He is currently working on a book that he was approached cold by a literary agent and publisher.

As a political and military commentator Dave offers his distinctive take on world events. His life experiences as a U. S. Marine with specialties in Public Affairs (Media), Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence, and Ground Supply (Logistics) combined with having lived in Israel and Australia, a veteran of two wars, Desert Storm (Gulf War One) and Iraq, and being raised in a non observant Jewish family and then becoming observant gives Dave a very unique insight. He has appeared on Fox News “The Strategy Room,” Fox Business America's Nightly Scoreboard, and The Comcast Network's It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle.

As a spokesman Dave has helped raise awareness to “fast track” the drug Oxycyte in the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) to help those with traumatic brain injury (TBI). He produced a You Tube video titled Curing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): My July 4th Wish and submitted an Op-Ed “A Marine's July 4th Wish: Find a Cure for TBI” this can be read on his blog and on Political Mavens dot com. Dave also helped promote a fundraiser for the NYC Mess Night by appearing on CBS Radio The Barry Z Show and NYC Local TV on PIX11.

Dave speaks primarily for Jewish organizations about his experiences in the Marines. These talks average about one hour.

Dave has performed and produced many military and veterans shows: Two Tell It To The Marines shows at the Friars Club, with Colin Quinn and Jeffery Ross as headliners, and frequent shows at the Manhattan and Brooklyn Veteran's Hospitals. In conjunction with the Friars Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Friars Club, he performed and produced a show for Wounded Warriors Battalion - East, at Marine Corps Base in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and shows for Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He has hosted and produced The Dave Rosner Comedy Rooms in NYC at Yello in Chinatown, Kabbalah and Komedy and a benefit for Families of Fallen Service Members and performed in benefit shows for Pediatric AIDS and Care.org.

He has contributed as a writer to The Man Show on Comedy Central (the bit where Jimmy Kimmel asks women on the street to sleep with him. Pitched to Rick Rosner and it got on the show, then paid for it by Rick, now you know). He played and created several characters on Mancow Radio Madness (like all the other comics in NYC who know Harry).

He was on CBS Sunday Morning News as part of a segment on the Friars Club So You Think You Can Roast competition, the film Hastey Hastey Follow Your Heart as Mr. Greg. Has been on The Monica Crowley Show, SIRIUS radio and acting in a promo for the MTV Movie Awards. He can be seen performing stand-up comedy and his One Man Show: The Non-Formulary: U. S. Marine Veteran, Comedian, Jew, in New York City.

While living in Australia from 1998 to 2001, he acted on a network TV drama “All Saints,” in TV commercials and starred in the TV sketch comedy, The Procrastinator. He has performed improv with Loose Screws in Honolulu, Lo Shems in Israel, ImproAustralia in Sydney, and with Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) in NYC.

Rosner’s seeming contradictions, Jewish-Marine, Marine-Comedian, Observant Jew in the Marines, and right leaning politics as a Jew have been written about in The War Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Jewish Week, The New York Sun, The Forward, TimeOut New York, and Mann About Town. (see press page or just google “Dave Rosner”)

Rosner was an active duty (full-time) U.S. Marine for over four years and served in the First Gulf War. As a reserve Marine (part-time) for fifteen years, he served in the Iraq War. He now holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He is a member of a Public Affairs unit in New York City. His specialties are Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence, Public Affairs (Media) and Ground Supply (Logistics).

He attended the U. S. Marine Corps Commanders' East Coast Media Symposium as a student and, later, as a trainer and coordinator. The symposium examines the impact of the news industry on military operations. Invited keynote speakers are renowned professionals, experts in public relations, journalism, radio, television, newspapers, and new media. Leading New York news professionals discuss the latest reporting techniques to use when dealing with the media. They present useful methods and principles to communicate with efficacy a command's message to the public.

Dave is a Reagan Republican: Less government, Lower Taxes, and Strong Defense. He has debated as a surrogate for the Republican Jewish Coalition during the run up to the 2008 Presidential election and has been leading discussions for the Republican Jewish Coalition after screenings for The Heritage Foundation’s film,  33 Minutes: Protecting American In The New Missile Age. He has spoken at the Young Jewish Leadership Political Action Committee about the importance of electing leaders that deal with fact not emotion.

Dave was banned from a comedy club because of a joke about his Marine Corps radio call sign --Mazel Tov Cocktail-- was seen as too political. Dave logged a protest with the union against stupid club bookers and awaits a response before moving to sue the pants off the guy or just kick his ass. Further, Dave manned up to a drunken New Zealand heckler with his sloppy British girlfriend and, subsequently, was banned from that club. However, shortly thereafter, the club went belly up and became an Indian (dot on your head not feathers) restaurant. Let that be a lesson to all!

Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has lived in Hawaii, Israel, and Australia.

All views expressed here and on his web site are his own. He is not representing the United States Marine Corps or any other branch of the U. S. Government.