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 Dom
Irrera
Nominated six times for
an American Comedy Award, Dom Irrera's stand-up material was honed in a multi-generational
Italian household in South Philadelphia with his mother, sister, grandmother,
uncles and cousins all under one very big roof. A great-grandmother even
lived across the street. Together there were three floors and four generations
of family.
His first big break was
his performance in Rodney Danmgerfield's "Nothing Goes Roght" comedy
specials for HBO. In 1989 Irrera's own HBO " One Noght Stand" earned
him his first CableACE award for BEst Stand-Up Comedy Special. In '956 he
wona second CableACE for the Showtime series he hosted " Full Frontal
Comedy". That same year he received a second CableACE nomination in
the writing category for his work on Comedy Central's animated series "Dr.
Katz: Professional Therapist". He also starred in a solo satnd-up special
for HBO in '92 titled "Command Performance".
He has performed on "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Late
Night with Conan O'Brien", " The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "The
View" and has made several appearances on "Oprah". recent
credits include an all-new stand-up special titled "Comedy Central Presents",
which aired on the cable network this past summer.
As an avid sports fan,he
hosted four seasons of Comedsy Central's irreverent football show, "Offsides",
where he conducted hilarious on-the-field interviews with football greats.
He also hostedConedy Central's "Behind The Scenens at the American Comedy
Awards" specials in '98 and '99.
Irrera was a series regular
on the '98 Fox comedy "Damon" starring Damon Waynes and his guest-star
credits include "Seinfeld" (he played an annying prop comic needing
Jerry in the memorable episode), "Becker","Everybody Loves
Raymond" and "King of Queens". In addition, Dom voices the
character Ernie, the demolitions expet, on Nickelodeon's "Hey, Arnold".
His film work includes
a featured role in Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle", a cameo
in the Coen Bros. film, "The Big Lebowski", "The Fourth Tenor",
starring old pal Rodney Dangerfiled, and he played himslef in the Rodney
Dangerfield/Dom De Luise film "The Godson".
Dom has performed at Montreal's "Just
For Laughs Festival" and "The Cats Laugh Festival" in Kilkenny,
Ireland (he's made more appearances at both festivals than any other American
comic). He also has performed at the "Melbourne Comedy Festival" in
Australia and at "Edinburgh Festival's" Assembly Hall. It was there
that he received the "Herald Award" for artistic excellence.
"I don't mean that
in a bad way"
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