Boston Comedy Festival Podcast

Suzi Berlin and I interview Dana Gould about starting out in Boston, the beginning of alternative comedy and of course the Simpsons. Dana was amazing and really made the Boston Comedy Festival so proud that he is out Comedian Of the year. About Dana Gould: Raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts, Dana began performing comedy onstage at age 17. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but after a year moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in comedy. It was there he, along with fellow comedian Alex Reid, founded the San Francisco Comedy Condo in 1986. Gould wrote and performed on The Ben Stiller Show; one such sketch features Gould as Otto, Cupid’s twisted brother, whose arrows convince a young man to fall madly in love with an elderly woman. Another series of sketches features a heavily disguised Gould as Wilford Brimley advertising “Grady’s Oats” (a parody of Brimley’s Quaker Oats advertisements). In one, he speaks of his Uncle Ray’s hobby of dressing