DAVE RUSSO
THE ENTERTAINER

Dave Russo has yet to meet the audience he can’t win over. Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, this boisterous and high energy comic has performed all across the country, with everyone from Rich Little, Lewis Black, and Sinbad to Andrew “Dice” Clay, Kevin Hart, and Bill Burr.

Dave started off his comedy career with a bang, winning the first ever Boston Comedy Festival, with only a couple years experience under his belt. From there, it was off to New York City and then Las Vegas, where he was hand selected out of thousands of performers for a coveted spot as a competitor on Wayne Newton’s reality series The Entertainer on the E! Network. Performing alongside ten other comedians, magicians, and singers, Dave was the only comic to survive the entire series, as others were swiftly eliminated, and although Dave did not win the series’ grand prize, a $1 million contract to serve as Newton’s opener, as runner-up he did win a contract to remain in Vegas, where he spent the next several years honing his act (and if we’re being truthful, we bet you can’t name the singer who walked away with the $1 million).

Upon returning to Boston, Dave took his place among the city’s legendary headliners, performing at Denis Leary and Cam Neely’s annual Comics Come Home, and he became the comedy host for the city’s premier nightlife TV series, Dirty Water TV on NESN, where he reported on nightlife events and interviewed the city’s biggest movers and shakers. Along with other Boston comedy legends and hockey legends Cam Neely and Mike Richter, he appeared in the classic Thanksgiving commercial “A Very Farrelly Thanksgiving” for NBC (directed by the Farrelly Brothers of Dumb and Dumber fame), and he appeared with Tom Brady in a Shields MRI commercial.

His credits include NESN’s Comedy All-Stars, NBC Sports’ Charlie Moore Outdoors, TV 38’s The Phantom Gourmet, and NBC’s The Today Show. A lifelong sports fan, Dave’s charity work includes appearances at New England Patriot Matt Light’s annual “Celebrity Shoot-Out,” golfing alongside Micky Ward at the legendary boxer’s charity golf tournament, and competing in the Boston Bruins Alumni charity games. He has done similar work with the Genesis Fund and most notably the Mark Bavis Celebrity Golf scholarship Event.