Brian Dunkleman
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| Brian Dunkleman | |
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| Born | Brian Dunkleman September 25, 1971 Ellicottville, New York |
| Other name(s) | B Dawg, Dunk[citation needed] |
| Occupation | comedian, actor, and former co-host of American Idol |
Brian "B Dawg" Dunkleman (born September 25, 1971 in Ellicottville, New York) is a comedian and actor. He is best known for failing to re-join co-host Ryan Seacrest after the first season of American Idol on the Fox Network.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Acting
He has appeared on The Tonight Show, had a recurring guest role on Two Guys and a Girl, played a stand-up comic suspected of murder in NYPD Blue, voiced himself in an episode of The Proud Family, in which the show parodied American Idol, did voices for the animated 3 South, and is acting in an independent film called Comedy Hell. He also had a small role on an episode of Friends as the man who buys the engagement ring Chandler wants to buy Monica.
Dunkleman recently was a co-host with Eric the Midget on "The Idol Re-cap Show" on Sirius’s Howard 101. He now does voice over for American Idol Rewind.
[edit] Reality Television
Having admitted a weight problem, he is appearing on the sixth season of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club. It was on Celebrity Fit Club that he spoke about his reasons for leaving American Idol after hosting the first season. He stated his departure was due to the terrible way they treated the young contestants on the show, staging the fights between the judges, reshooting contestants with glycerin producer-provided tears in their eyes. He went on to say that leaving the show was a mistake. However, the Doctor on the panel reminded him that acting according to one's values is never a mistake. Dunkleman lost 15 pounds on the show, and his team won the grand prize.
[edit] Comedy
Dunkleman began doing stand-up comedy in 1992, winning the title Buffalo’s Funniest New Comedian. Since then he’s also performed at HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, NBC’s Late Friday, and TBS’s Very Funny at the Laugh Factory. He's also acted in pilots for ABC and 20th Century Fox and guest-starred on the late night talk show Talk Show with Spike Feresten, Ghost Whisperer and Las Vegas.
Brian can also be seen doing stand up regularly in Los Angeles at the Laugh Factory and Improv, and he makes regular appearances as the host of Family Feud Live in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for Fremantle Media.
During a July 2007 appearance at Laugh Factory in West Hollywood Dunkleman, while poking fun of his time on Idol, joked that, "If wishes came true Ryan Seacrest would have AIDS," followed by a guess that Seacrest "probably already has AIDS." Train Wrecks, (July 27th 2007 4:15PM)[1] TMZ.
[edit] Parody
A fictionalized version of Brian was featured on Comedy Central's Drawn Together on the November 14, 2007 series finale. He declined to voice himself; instead, his voice was impersonated by series co-creator Matt Silverstein.
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