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 David
Crowe
AWinner of the 1996 San
Francisco Stand-up Comedy Competition Winner of the 1995 Seattle Stand-up Comedy
Competition Opened for the President of the United States, William Jefferson
Clinton at the Democratic National Committee's Saxophone Club Fundraiser Describing
David Crowe's Stand-up sounds a lot like the beginning of the classic Dickens
novel, A Tale of Two Cities. "It was the smartest of shows. It was the
dumbest of shows. It was erudite and sophisticated. It was bold and physical.
He is Dick Cavet. He is Jim Carrey. It was horrifying. It was hilarious."
Crowe is a brilliant combination
of socially relevant, issue fired intellectualism and physical buffoonery. He
takes on topical subjects, historical events and personal experiences using
an outrageous animation. The result is a totally original style of brain boning
jocularity.
David is the only comedian
in history to have won both the Seattle International Comedy Competition and
the San Francisco International Comedy Competition. He won them back to back,
within nine months of each other. In just four years he has gone from his first
road trip, to headlining some of the best clubs across the country. After just
one appearance, he became a favorite on the "Bob and Tom Radio Show",
syndicated to over 100 markets nation wide. In 1996 he was chosen to open for
President Clinton when he spoke to over two thousand supporters at the Paramount
Theater in Seattle. He is a true stand out among his peers and the more familiar
a person is with the art of stand-up, the more they appreciate what he does.
Crowe's comedy is a "Cirque
de Surreal". In one show I saw bull riding as an Olympic event, Grandparents
rocking out to Led Zepplin, a gynecologist gunned down by a fetus and Pearl
Jam singing in the sound of music. He truly transcends the art form. If you
like your stand-ups to just stand-up - avoid this show! David was raised in the
Pacific Northwest. He spent his summers on a small boat exploring the many islands
and inlets that clutter the coastline between Washington and Alaska. At the
age of twenty he spent the winter living with the Cofan, a native tribe of the
upper Amazon, then went on to graduate from the University of Washington with
a degree in English Literature. After graduation he killed the travel bug by
visiting forty-two countries and learning to say "I love you" in six
different languages. But he always knew his true calling was to be a stand-up
comedian. An itinerant joke teller who goes from town to town just making people
laugh. That is what he plans to do until he dies. Unless, of course he dies
on stage, then he will happily rise from the dead and do it again.
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