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Dave Rosner - To date served in Iraq twice. Once as a Marine, once as a comedian. I caught malaria and diarrhea while I was in Iraq--those are Saddam's twin daughters. |
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The ONLY Jewish Marine Comedian! Dave Rosner is a stand-up comedian and a U. S. Marine. He became a member of the New York Friars Club in 2006. Dave has performed comedy in clubs and synagogues all over the United States, Australia, Canada, Kuwait, and Iraq. He is also an actor, a writer, public speaker, TV commentator and blogger on Political Mavens dot com. (go to that later—stick with this intriguing bio for now). Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has lived in Hawaii, Israel and Australia. 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, and 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. Recently he was in Iraq and Kuwait on a stand-up comedy tour with Comics Ready to Entertain with comedians Scott Kennedy and Steve Mazan. His jokes can be read in Filthy, Funny, and Totally Offensive - Jokes So Dirty Comedians and Entertainers Only Tell Them To Each Other by Jeffrey Gurian and Tripp Whetsell. (don’t fret, he works clean but wanted a literary, if you can call it that, writing credit) He was recently 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 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. 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). 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. As a seasoned political and military commentator, Dave Rosner has appeared on The Comcast Network's It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle. Rosner’s seeming contradictions have been written about in The New York Sun, The Forward, TimeOut New York and Mann About Town. (see my press page) 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 fourteen 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 and Public Affairs. 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 was recently 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! When not in front of the camera he works as a TV Producer and can video edit on Final Cut Pro and AVID. 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.
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