{"id":10,"date":"2026-01-03T00:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecomedybook.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:48:59","slug":"about-dave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecomedybook.com\/index.php\/about-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Schwensen is the author of How To Be A Working Comic: <\/em><\/strong>An Insider\u2019s Guide To A Career In Stand-Up Comedy<\/em>, Comedy FAQs And Answers: <\/em><\/strong>How The Stand-Up Biz Really Works<\/em>, and How To Be A Working Corporate Comedian: <\/em><\/strong>A Step-By-Step Guide Into Launching & Building Your Career<\/em>. His credits include Talent Coordinator for the television show A&E\u2019s An Evening At The Improv<\/em><\/strong>, The Hollywood<\/strong> and New York City<\/strong> Improv Comedy Clubs, and Assistant to Improv founder Budd Friedman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With The Improv in Hollywood and New York, Dave coordinated talent showcases and auditions for major television shows, networks and film studios. Included in this list are The Tonight Show with Jay Leno<\/em>, Late Night with David Letterman<\/em>, The Today Show<\/em>, The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, Disney, Paramount, MTV, VH-1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO, Showtime and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dave has also managed The Cleveland<\/strong> Improv Comedy Club and Restaurant, giving him an exclusive bragging right. He is the only person (on the face of the earth<\/em>) to have held these positions from coast (Atlantic) to coast (Pacific) to coast (Lake Erie – the U.S. North Coast). He\u2019s worked in the comedy industry for over three decades and decided to do one comedy workshop in 1994. Just one. They\u2019ve continued since.<\/p>\n

As a comedy coach, author and consultant, Dave has been featured on PBS Television and Radio, Chicago Tribune, Ohio Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Backstage (industry) newspaper, InsideBiz.com Magazine and many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Coach, Talent Agent, Manager… and University Instructor? Uh… yeah.<\/h3>\t\t\t

Dave has extensive experience within the New York, Hollywood and Midwest regions as a college and corporate booking agent (comedians, speakers and variety acts), talent manager, publicist, radio host, entertainment journalist and award-winning humor columnist. In addition to his comedy workshops and entertainment business seminars, which have been held in major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Charlotte, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Dave has designed and instructed business courses in communications and presentation skills for Cleveland State University, Youngstown State University and other “halls of higher learning.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Career Day: Comedy – R U Kidding Me?!<\/h3>