41 Facts About Dave Anthony

David Sean Anthony was born on August 26,1967 and is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and podcaster.

Dave Anthony is best known as the creator and co-host of the comedy podcast The Dollop, in which he tells notable stories from American history to his friend and fellow comedian Gareth Reynolds, who has not heard the story before.

Since 2019, Dave Anthony has co-hosted the podcast The Audit with writer Josh Olson.

David Sean Dave Anthony was born in Marin County, California, on August 26,1967, the son of a hairdresser mother and lawyer father.

Dave Anthony has one sister, Pam, who is two years older.

Unlike most of Marin County, home to some of the richest Americans, Dave Anthony's family had far less money.

Dave Anthony graduated from Marin Catholic High School and earned a degree in physical geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

From age five, Dave Anthony knew he wanted to be a comedian.

Dave Anthony grew up listening to the comedy albums of comedians such as Richard Pryor and the fact that Robin Williams was from Marin County was significant to him.

Dave Anthony first performed stand-up at the age of 23.

Dave Anthony began his career as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco in 1989, performing for the next five years.

Dave Anthony then lived and performed in New York City for four years before settling in Los Angeles.

Dave Anthony became a regular at the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco.

Dave Anthony has performed stand-up comedy on various late-night shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show, as well as on Comedy Central.

Dave Anthony has performed stand-up in every state in the continental US and all over the world, including the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Dave Anthony has released two comedy albums, Hot Head and Shame Chamber.

Dave Anthony appeared on the show playing comedic characters, including the recurring character Waffle Man.

Dave Anthony has worked on several pilots with Bob Odenkirk.

Dave Anthony had multiple job titles on the show Maron on IFC.

Dave Anthony played an exaggerated version of himself, and his wife was played by Amy Smart.

Dave Anthony became the show's story editor in the fourth season and directed an episode.

Dave Anthony was the political editor for SuicideGirls, wrote for the Comedy Film Nerds website, and had a blog called Stop All Monsters.

Dave Anthony was a story consultant on the scripted audio drama Bronzeville written by Josh Olson and starring Laurence Fishburne.

Dave Anthony has written a screenplay based on the Piedras Negras jailbreak.

In 2009, Dave Anthony's son was born and Dave Anthony became a stay-at-home dad.

Dave Anthony approached his friend, comedian Greg Behrendt, with whom he had hosted an internet radio show called Manversation on Comedy World Radio in 2001.

Dave Anthony was the producer and editor of the show, which was named one of the AV Club's best podcasts of 2012.

Dave Anthony regularly appears as a guest on other podcasts, including FOFOP, a podcast started by Wil Anderson when his TOFOP cohost, Charlie Clausen, was unavailable to record for an extended period.

Dave Anthony has said that Reynolds is the funniest person he knows.

Dave Anthony was tired of talking about himself and decided that the new podcast would be more structured.

The original plan was to have a different comedian sit in each week, and Dave Anthony invited Reynolds to be the first guest.

From 2019 to 2022, Dave Anthony co-hosted the podcast The West Wing Thing with writer Josh Olson.

On July 9,2015, Alan Bellows posted a letter accusing Dave Anthony of plagiarizing Damn Interesting's content for use on The Dollop.

Dave Anthony is strongly anti-capitalist and traces many of America's problems back to capitalism.

Dave Anthony has said that he uses his platform to turn more people against capitalism, and claims to have gotten feedback confirming that it is working.

In 2020, Dave Anthony backed Nithya Raman for Los Angeles City Council.

Dave Anthony encourages others to become involved in local politics, believing it is a better way to effect change than focusing on national politics.

Dave Anthony is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Dave Anthony has spoken about his fears for the planet as a whole and for his own child's future.

Dave Anthony was engaged to a woman whose identity has not been disclosed, and once even paid off her father's debts to the mafia to stop him from getting his leg broken, but the engagement later ended.

Since 2006, Dave Anthony has been married to Heather, a doctor of psychology.