I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

He plays the character Barker in the 2008 comedy film Harold. Stand-up comedy
After graduating from New York University in 1987 with a degree in communications Attell worked menial jobs during the day and put in his time at comedy clubs at night.

Dave Attell (born January 18 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell and The Gong Show with Dave Attell.