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Dan Cummins is a professional stand-up comedian. His first comedy CD "Revenge is Near", distributed by Warner Brothers, was ranked at one of the top 10 comedy CDs of 2009 by Punchline Magazine and his first hour special for Comedy Central, titled Crazy With A Capital F, will premiere May 29, 2010.

Personal Life
Dan Cummins was born on May 17th, 1977 in Grangeville, Idaho, growing up in the small nearby town of Riggins, Idaho, population 410, where he graduated high school in 1995. He went on to attend college at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, graduating in 1999 with a BA in Psychology, going to work at a local residential treatment center as a Child and Family Counselor. Dan has two children, a four year old boy and two year old girl, with his former wife, who he divorced from in 2009. Dan shares custody of his children who split time between Spokane and Santa Monica, where Dan currently lives with his girlfriend.

Career
In 2000, Dan had his first taste of standup, performing at the open mike of the now defunct Laugh’s Comedy Cafe inside the Season Ticket bar near the Spokane Arena. In 2001, Dan entered the Seattle Comedy Competition, finishing as runner-up, and meeting David Crowe, who he formed a two man stand-up/sketch/music act with, COBDOG, (Crowe On Bass, Dan On Guitar), the highlight being having a radio friendly version of one of their sketches, titled At The Coffee Shop, making the nationally released Best of The Bob and Tom Show CD, Bob And Tom Gone Wild, before deciding to work separately in 2003.

In 2005, Dan performed at the New Faces showcase at the Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, catching the attention of both Comedy Central and The Late, Late Show talent booker. In 2006, Dan performed on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, his first performance recorded for television. A month later, he made his cable television debut, performing on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Also, in 2006, he performed at his second major festival, the HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festival. 2007 started off with Dan performing at the Comedy Central South Beach Comedy Festival, and then booking approximately 100 college dates at the NACA Nationals college booking convention in Nashville. Dan then recorded his first television stand-up special, Comedy Central Presents Dan Cummins, in August at the Hudson Theater in New York City. In 2008, Dan performed at nearly 100 schools and also advanced to the semi-finals of Last Comic Standing, season 6.

In 2009, Dan’s Comedy Central Presents was voted 3rd favorite by fans in Comedy Central’s annual Standup Showdown, and shortly after, Comedy Central bought the rights to air a one hour special. On October, 17th, 2009, in front of a sold out audience at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, Washington, Dan recorded his first one hour comedy central special, “Crazy With A Capital F”. It’s initial air date on Comedy Central is set for Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 29th, 2010 at 11PM. The accompanying CD and DVD will be released through Warner Brothers records, available this summer.

Later in June of 2009, Dan performed at the 2nd annual Rooftop Comedy Aspen Comedy Festival. Also, Dan made two additional television appearances in 2009, appearing on an episode of Byron Allen’s Comedy.TV, and on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien the day before Thanksgiving. 2009 also included the release of Dan’s first nationally distributed CD, Revenge is Near, on Warner Brothers records on June 23rd. It peaked at #7 on the Billboard Comedy Charts, and Punchlinemagazine.com put it in their top ten list for the best comedy CDs of 2009.

So far in 2010, Dan has appeared in season two of G4’s The International Sexy Ladies Show, and has moved to Santa Monica, where he has began working with Creative Artists Agency, and is currently trying to get numerous television projects into development, while still maintaining a busy tour schedule of colleges, clubs, and theaters. Dan has numerous videos out on the web, with clips from both televised and non-televised jokes, and various web series. Finally, since early 2009 filmmaker Mike Newman has been filming an ongoing documentary on Dan’s journey through stand-up, and a teaser/trailer of this ongoing documentary will be included in the bonus section of the “Crazy With A Capital F” DVD.

Stand Up Releases

 * Comedy Central Presents Dan Cummins (2008)
 * Dan Cummins' Revenge is Near (2009)
 * Dan Cummins' Crazy With A Capital F (2010)