1. Brian Dunkleman is an American comedian, actor, and television personality.
20 Facts About Brian Dunkleman
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Brian Dunkleman is best known as being co-host with Ryan Seacrest on the first season of American Idol, in 2002.
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In 2002, Dunkleman appeared as the co-host with Ryan Seacrest during the first season of American Idol.
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However, one journalist believes that Brian Dunkleman would have been fired had he not quit earlier, a fact numerous Idol staffers would eventually admit: Brian Dunkleman had submitted his resignation shortly before news of his firing could reach him.
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Brian Dunkleman stated his departure was due to the terrible way they treated the young contestants on the show, staging the fights between the judges and reshooting contestants with producer-provided glycerin tears in their eyes.
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Brian Dunkleman went on to say that leaving the show was a mistake.
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Brian Dunkleman conceded that he experienced several months of depression, and still harbored resentment against current show host Ryan Seacrest, but has come to terms with his situation.
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In 2016, Brian Dunkleman backtracked and said that the mutual decision to part ways was not a mistake on his part.
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In 2000, Brian Dunkleman appeared in "The One with the Ring", a sixth season episode of Friends, as the man who buys the engagement ring Chandler wants to buy Monica.
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Brian Dunkleman has appeared in pilots for ABC and 20th Century Fox and guest-starred on the late-night talk show Talkshow with Spike Feresten, Ghost Whisperer and Las Vegas.
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Brian Dunkleman had a recurring guest role on Two Guys and a Girl, played a stand-up comic suspected of murder in NYPD Blue, and appeared in an independent film called Comedy Hell.
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Brian Dunkleman's voice acting includes voicing himself in an episode of The Proud Family, in which the show parodied American Idol, did voices for the short-lived animated sitcom 3-South, and playing Ruiga in the English dub of the Japanese anime series Naruto.
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Brian Dunkleman was a co-host with Eric the Actor on The Idol Re-cap Show on Sirius's Howard 101.
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Brian Dunkleman did voice over for the 1st season of American Idol Rewind.
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Brian Dunkleman played himself on an episode of My Name Is Earl, hosting a reality contest show called Estrada or Nada, in which contestants show their skills in an America's Got Talent-esque show starring Erik Estrada.
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Brian Dunkleman was parodied in the series finale of Drawn Together.
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In 2009, Brian Dunkleman pitched a TV series about his life after American Idol entitled American Brian Dunkleman.
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Brian Dunkleman does stand up regularly in Los Angeles at the Laugh Factory and The Improv, and he makes regular appearances as the host of Family Feud Live in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for Fremantle Media.
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In November 2019, Brian Dunkleman was on the third episode of Season 1 of the CNBC series Back in the Game, hosted by Alex Rodriguez.
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In September 2021, Brian Dunkleman started his own podcast called Dunklevision.