Dan Schlissel is known for his work with Black and other comics including Doug Stanhope, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, and Mitch Hedberg, and helping release the debut record of Iowa metal band Slipknot.
10 Facts About Dan Schlissel
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Dan Schlissel was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Israeli immigrants Sam and Helena Dan Schlissel.
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Dan Schlissel's father, born in Poland, was a Holocaust survivor who worked in the textile industry, and his mother was a native Israeli.
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Dan Schlissel's family moved up and down the East Coast when he was a child, living in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and frequently visiting relatives in the Bronx, where Schlissel first discovered comedy via Saturday Night Live's first season and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
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Dan Schlissel cites Rodney Dangerfield's No Respect as his favorite comedy album.
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Dan Schlissel helped then-unknown Iowa metal band Slipknot release its first album, Mate.
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Slipknot later moved on to major label Roadrunner Records, and Dan Schlissel became disillusioned with running a music label; he moved to Minneapolis in 1998 to take a job at a software company.
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Dan Schlissel considered folding -ismist, but instead found new focus after convincing Lewis Black to work with him after meeting the comedian after a show.
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Dan Schlissel recorded Black's The White Album in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1999, with John Machnik, who would be his production partner for many years.
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Also for Comedy Central Records, Dan Schlissel was the recording engineer on Mitch Hedberg's last album, Mitch All Together, which was recorded live in 2003 in Minneapolis, and produced Hannibal Buress' Animal Furnace and Ryan Stout's Touche.