Comedian Dave Hill (Netflix, HBO, Adult Swim, CBS, Comedy Central)
Description: Fresh off a year that has included touring with Tenacious D and Bill Murray and a solo Off-Broadway run, Dave Hill invades White Eagle Hall for a night of jokes, stories, sweet guitar solos, and ill-advised feats of strength.
Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City, which is great. He has appeared on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, Joe Pera Talks with You, Inside Amy Schumer, After Midnight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tick, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and Would I Lie To You among other programs. And he plays a Devo-obsessed W**d dealer in the new film Drunk Bus starring Ozark’s Charlie Tahan and Will Forte. Dave has also starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it.
Dave has been a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly Prairie Home Companion) and also hosted his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey for five years. Dave is also the resident heavy metal expert on Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast.
Dave performs live comedy in theaters, prisons, and basements all over the world. He appears regularly with fellow comedians such as Janeane Garofalo, Tom Papa, and Gary Gulman and has opened for musical acts including Tenacious D, Bill Murray and His Blood Brothers, Snoop Dogg, Broken Social Scene, Down, Autopsy, Quicksand, and Rhett Miller.
Dave also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death). He is the the founding member of Witch Taint, most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana ever probably (go to www.theblackmetaldialogues.com [
http://www.theblackmetaldialogues.com/] for more info). He also composes music for TV and film.
Dave has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, The New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications, and is author of four books, The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey (2023 Doubleday Canada and Triumph Books), Parking the Moose (2019 Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House), Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (2016 Blue Rider Press, and Tasteful Nudes (2012 St. Martin’s Press). He also smells really great you can ask anyone.
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