Dennis Blair (born February 21, 1955) is an American

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

Career

He is known for writing and appearing in the 1983 movie ''

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'', alongside his

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. He wrote for Dangerfield for four years including sketches for his network specials and jokes for his act. He provided the voice of Lem and Clem in the animated film ''

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''. He also wrote a Broadway show for

Jackie Mason Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza; yi, יעקב משה מזא; June 9, 1928 – July 24, 2021) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. His 1986 one-man show ''The World According to Me!'' won a Special Tony Award, an Outer Critics Cir ...

. In 1998 he and Dug McGuirck produced "I Sleep Naked in the Rain", an album of songs from a then unproduced one man show with music. Blair has served as the

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for about 150 celebrity headliners, including comedians Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jackie Mason, and Alan King. He toured for 20 years with

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. His days as an opening act to the stars prompted him to write a book about those experiences, titled ''Me First''. Blair has appeared on over 50 television shows, including ''The Tonight Show''. He was a co-writer of the program for the

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and the 2006 Writers Guild Awards.February 4, 2006 Press Release
of the

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Blair won the Charlie Award for best comedian in New York, and an Emmy Award for ''Confessions of a Standup'' He is also a songwriter, having contributed the song "Ordinary Man" to the ''Easy Money'' soundtrack. Dennis and his songwriting partner John Durkin won the top-40 prize in "The American Song Festival." The duo won first place in the country music category of the Indie Music Channel's Radio Music Award for their song, "She Stayed". Blair produced the album ''Rappin Rodney'', which was nominated for a Grammy. He also co-wrote the album's title song.

Personal life

Blair lives in Las Vegas, playing music and performing comedy in clubs, casinos, theatres and cruise ships. His latest country songs are on iTunes and are played in many countries around the world.

References

External links

Official website
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Dennis Blair
at Rooftop Comedy

Living people 1955 births American stand-up comedians {{US-comedian-stub