Dave Hill

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, musician, actor, radio host, and man-about-town originally from Cleveland, Ohio but now living in New York City in a totally sweet apartment with a party deck and everything. Hot chicks come over to hang out and eat cheese plates and stuff with him all the time and it’s awesome. Anyway, on the show business front, Dave has appeared on Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Amazon’s The Tick, Comedy Central’s @midnight and Inside Amy Schumer programs, TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, TV Land's The Jim Gaffigan Show, and TruTV's Comedy Knockout among a bunch of others. He is a frequent on-air host for HBO and Cinemax and has been on channels like MTV, VH1, BBC-America, and the Sundance Channel a whole bunch too. Dave also starred in his own television program The King of Miami on the Mojo Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it. The show also aired in the United Kingdom on Sky TV’s Film24 Channel. And you can still watch The King of Miami on Hulu too, which Dave is super pumped about. Oh, and Dave was a correspondent on Hoppus on Music starring Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus on the Fuse channel, which ruled. Dave has been on other shows and in obscure movies too but let’s keep moving for now.

Dave performs live comedy over the world and has appeared at such festivals as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, SXSW, San Francisco Sketchfest, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Sasquatch Festival, Bumbershoot, Bonnaroo, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, the Crap Comedy Festival in Oslo, Outside Lands in San Francisco, and then some other ones too. He has also performed comedy at Sing Sing Correctional Facility twice and even ripped some guitar solos inside a Mexican prison once. In 2007, Variety magazine named Dave one of their “10 Comedians to Watch,” something he still won’t shut up about.

Dave hosts his own radio show The Goddamn Dave Hill Show on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey every Monday night from 9pm to midnight. The show is also broadcast on the UK's Fubar Radio. Dave is also a frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life. He has also appeared on podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron, The Adam Carolla Show, The Nerdist, and then roughly 78 other ones besides those.

Dave is the author of two books, Tasteful Nudes (St. Martins Press, 2012) and Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Blue Rider Press 2016). He has also written for the New York Times, GQ, Salon, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, VICE,Guitar World, and a bunch of other places too. Comedy legend Dick Cavett called Dave “a major figure among American comic writers, past and present,” which is pretty much the coolest thing that has ever happened as far as Dave is concerned.

Dave is also a musician who currently sings and plays guitar in the power pop band Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the psych/garage rock band Painted Doll. He was also a member of Cleveland rock bands Sons of Elvis and Cobra Verde as well as Diamondsnake, a heavy metal band with Moby. Additionally, Dave has played guitar for Walter Schreifels and muscle metal band Thor and bass for Lucy Wainwright Roche and former Faith No More singer Chuck Mosley. He also contributed musical scores to films such as Dirty Deeds, Shoot First and Pray You Live, and then some other ones besides those two.

Additionally, Dave’s mostly imaginary Norwegian Black Metal Band Witch Taint is currently bringing its own disturbing brand of comedy and music to audiences all over the world. They’ve also sold a lot of T-shirts.

Dave has made out with a lot of chicks, is sweet at guitar, and smells really great. You can ask anyone.

If you feel like doing some more reading, here are a bunch of nice press quotes about him organized in the convenient and popular quotation format:

“Whether he’s interviewing a pet psychic or Jimmy Kimmel, Hill usually manages to derail the conversation to his own insecurities with hilariously uncomfortable results.” -Variety Magazine

“Brilliant.” -New York Magazine

"Cult New York comedian Hill is a hugely talented funnyman." -Time Out London

“Hill’s loose jabs and affable, nice-guy demeanor are what make his gently absurdist comedy so enjoyable.” -The Onion

"Great comic ideas seem to flood out of him, whether he's mashing up home videos with clips of extreme arthouse movies or engaging in a six-month flame war with a Norwegian black metal musician." -The Guardian UK

"He’s a charming, guileless ingenue with an outlook that’s distinctively his own and a collection of wonderfully entertaining anecdotes painting vividly funny pictures." -Chortle UK

"He is at the vanguard of a new class of entertainers." -Wall Street Journal

"F@#king awesome!" -NRK Norway

"Ever since Dave Hill moved from his hometown of Cleveland to New York four years ago, the Gotham comedy scene hasn't been the same" -New York Daily News

"He's always 'on,' and by that we mean 'hilarious.' We admit to be being a little bitter and jealous about this." -McSweeney's

"One of the funniest people alive." -The Atlantic

"Absurd kook Dave Hill looked like an English fop but riffed like the seasoned ’Seppo sensei of comedy that he is." -Herald Sun Australia

"Dave Hill makes the rest of us look terrible." -Portland Mercury

"Like the best comedy, it can be unsettling, and it works because it contrasts so perfectly with the aura of unironic sweetness that Hill projects." -Capital New York

“I saw a great young guy last night named Dave Hill who is really funny.” -Robin Williams, MoviesOnline.ca

“I was royally rocked by Dave.” -The Daily Mirror UK

"50 Funny People You Should Be Following On Twitter" List -Huffington Post

"Hill actually is awesome at man-on-the-street interviews. He has a harmless approach but throws zingers when they're least expected." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"140 Characters You Should Follow on Twitter" List -Paper Magazine

“Hill’s deadpan delivery as a talk show host who has severely overestimated his own coolness is priceless.” -AM New York

“He's comedy's master craftsman.” -Philadelphia Weekly

“Dave Hill’s talk show is like being on an acid trip with a gentle bunny and Joe Franklin.” -Time Out New York

“Like watching a self-important teenager strut around his bedroom, a fantasy world of his own fame complete with nunchucks and all that is ‘totally sweet’.” -The Aspen Times

“It really burns my tollhouse cookies that more people aren't aware of the genius of New York comedian Dave Hill.” -Portland Monthly

“Thanks to his quirky humor and knack for attention-getting, Dave Hill has shot to the top in a surprisingly short period of time.” -Time Out New York

"Dave Hill needs an introduction -- but not for long." -L.A. Weekly

"Dave Hill was weird and I liked it." -The Scotsman UK

“He has an incredibly quick wit...Hill’s greatest strength: his ability to include the subject, and by extension, the audience in the creation of the joke. He is genuine, which is why it works.” -Fine Arts LA

"This is thoroughly endearing comedy." -The Stage UK