Dave Dameshek

"Funny" Dave Dameshek
Born	William David Dameshek June 11, 1970 (1970-06-11) (age 41) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Alma mater	Indiana University[citation needed] Poupon University
Occupation	Radio personality, television writer, podcast host, list-based infotainer
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Cindi Brodack (2006-present)
Website
www.dameshek.com

Dr. William "Funny" David Dameshek (born June 11, 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American television writer and radio personality. Dameshek is currently a football analyst and writer for NFL.com, appearing on NFL Fantasy Live and hosting the Dave Dameshek Football Podcast.

Early life

Dameshek received his undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from Indiana University and moved to Chicago shortly after college.

Professional career

Early career

In 1999, Dameshek moved to Los Angeles where he vowed to cut out the noise and soon began writing for cable television shows including Fox Sports Net's Sports Geniuses and Comedy Central's Battlebots. David always had a knack for writing robot jokes, so he thrived on Battlebots. He received his first big break in 2001 when he was hired as a writer on Comedy Central's The Man Show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla. Dameshek was hired for his trademark "Upper Hand" routine, a bit developed from his Best Man speech. He worked as a staff writer for the third and fourth seasons of The Man Show, during which time he met his future wife Cindi. They married in 2006 and have two young children.

While working on The Man Show, Dameshek became co-host of a Fox Sports Radio show with radio veteran Kent Voss. The late-night show aired for about four months. Dameshek also wrote and appeared in several segments with Jimmy Kimmel on Fox's NFL pre-game show.

Dameshek moved on to write for the second and third seasons of Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, co-created by Kimmel and Carolla, as well as for I'm With Busey and Trigger Happy TV. In 2002, he began writing for Kimmel's new late-night talk show on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he made several appearances in addition to his main responsibility of working on the show's nightly monologue.

In 2004, Dameshek became the weekly sports correspondent on the Los Angeles FM station Indie 103.1's Mighty Morning Show, hosted by Dicky Barrett, while making periodic appearances on regional and national ESPN Radio programs.

The Adam Carolla Show

The Adam Carolla Show debuted in January 2006, recorded in Los Angeles and airing in syndication on stations across the western United States. Dameshek was a regular cast member on the show from the beginning, serving as the show's official sports reporter. In December 2006, he and several other staff members were cut from the show, a move attributed to a ratings drop in the second half of the year. Dameshek wrote in a December 17 post on the show's online message board that he had been fired and would be replaced by Danny Bonaduce; CBS officially announced four days later that Bonaduce would be joining the show in Dameshek's stead.^[1][2]

Sports radio and podcasts

From January to July 2007, Dameshek hosted Dave Dameshek's Sports Contraption on radio station WTZN (now KDKA-FM) in his hometown of Pittsburgh. The show's guests trended towards nontraditional sports personalities rather than well-known sports journalists. Regular guests included the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Rob Rossi and John Harris, and the creators of the websites Pitt Blather and Mondesi's House. ESPN.com writer Bill Simmons guest-hosted in April.

In November 2007, Dameshek debuted a new sports-oriented radio show, The Dave Dameshek Show, broadcast by ESPN Radio on KSPN 710 AM in Los Angeles.^[3]

In June 2008, Dave Denholm and Brian Long joined Dameshek's show as co-hosts and it was renamed The Dameshek, Denholm and Long Show. Soon afterward, Dameshek left the show, which was subsequently renamed again to The Denholm and Long Show.

In July, Dameshek debuted his own podcast, Dave Dameshek On Demand. The podcast was recorded at the KSPN offices. On November 11, 2009, Dameshek had his final Dameshek on Demand podcast for ESPN. Dameshek then moved his podcast over to Accuscore[1]. The Dave Dameshek Show Powered by Accuscore lasted 13 episodes.

On the March 1, 2010 episode of The Adam Carolla Podcast, Dameshek announced his new podcast with co-host David Feeney would premiere March 2 on Carolla's ACE Broadcasting Network.^[4] Daves of Thunder soon became the second most popular podcast on the network. The podcast was cancelled one year later after 64 episodes.

For the 2010 NFL Season, Dameshek was announced as a fantasy analyst for the NFL Network. Along with Michael Fabiano, he acts as a primary analyst and commentator for fantasy football on NFL.com, including a weekly column and the "Shame Report."

On May 7th, 2011 Dameshek began hosting the Dave Dameshek Football Podcast for NFL.com.

References

1. ^ http://adamcarolla.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=2131&st=150&#entry23162
2. ^ CBS RADIO - Press Center
3. ^ 710 ESPN - Los Angeles - 710 ESPN Relaunches radio station with new afternoon and evening programming
4. ^ http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2010/03/02/dave-and-dave/

External links

• The Dave Dameshek Show on 710 ESPN, Los Angeles
• David Dameshek at the Internet Movie Database
• Dave Dameshek on Twitter
• Dave Dameshek Show Message Boards
• The Daves of Thunder Archive

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Name	Dameshek, Funny Dave
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Date of birth	June 11, 1970
Place of birth	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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