A native of Worcester and a 1979 graduate of Emerson, Denis Leary has won critical acclaim as an actor, director and comedian, and public respect for his work on behalf of charitable organizations.

Leary has appeared in over 25 motion pictures, including such critically acclaimed fare as The Ref, Wag the Dog, A Bug’s Life, The Thomas Crown Affair, Jesus’ Son, Monument Ave., True Crime and the Oscar-nominated Ice Age.  He currently appears in the critically acclaimed FX television series Rescue Me, which explores the lives of New York City firefighters through their relationships with each other and their families. The series revolves around a recently divorced firefighter named Tommy, whom Leary plays.

In 1993, Leary started his own production company, Apostle. The company produced Ted Demme’s final film, Blow, and the award-winning ABC sitcom The Job, which was co-written by Leary and Peter Tolan. Apostle also produced each of Leary’s hit one-man shows and their subsequent presentations on Showtime and HBO – No Cure for Cancer and Lock ‘N’ Load as well the cult hit Contest Searchlight mini-series for Comedy Central.

In the wake of the tragic Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse Fire in December 1999 -- which killed six firefighters including his cousin Jerry Lucey and childhood buddy Lt. Tommy Spencer -- Leary formed The Leary Firefighters Foundation. After September 11, 2001, the foundation extended its charitable work from Worcester to New York City. The foundation is supported by an annual celebrity hockey game in Boston.

For the past 10 years Leary and Apostle have produced the annual Comics Come Home gala in Boston to support The Neely Foundation. Founded by Leary and former Boston Bruin hockey player Cam Neely, the charity supports the Neely House at the Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, where the families of cancer patients live for free while treatment is underway. Over the years the gala benefit has included the talents of Jay Leno, Steven Wright, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Lenny Clarke, Rosie O’Donnell, Janeane Garafalo, Robert Schimmel, Woody Harrelson, Colin Quinn, Anthony Clarke, Michael J. Fox and many others.  In recent years, the Neely Foundation has expanded its work to include The Neely Cancer Research Fund. The ultimate goal is to find a cure. Leary is also involved in supporting The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. In addition, in 2003, he helped organize Betting on a Cause and a Cure, which raised funds for the firefighters, Neely and Fox foundations.

Leary has also written many comic essays over the years for publications as disparate as New York Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The New York Post, Men’s Journal, The London Times, Details, Context, Film Quarterly, The Improper Bostonian and The Hockey News.

Eddie Brill is the audience warm-up and Talent Coordinator for the comedians who appear on the "David Letterman Show". 

He started stand-up comedy in the late 70's in college, but moved back to NY and was a copywriter for an advertising agency for a short while. But in July of 1984 he got back into doing stand-up when he started, booked and hosted the very successful Paper Moon Comedy Club in the west village of NYC and hasn't stopped since. Since then he has become an international comedian who can work most anywhere in the world...anywhere in the world where they speak English of course. He has taped more than 100 television shows in six different countries. He is also a 3-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Best Male Stand-up Comic in NYC. 

He has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events including ESPN, Glaxo Welcome. Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software. He performed on some of the greatest stages in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the audience warm-up for many shows including the "Dana Carvey Show," "Madigan Men," "This is Your Life" and for a short time....early episodes of "Saved By The Bell." He has appeared in numerous films as an actor...most recently, 30 Years To Life with Tracy Morgan. He has used his voice talents in many animated series including Comedy Central's "Dr Katz" and ABC's "Science Court." 

Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the world. Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he helped create one of the first ever college comedy writing departments in the country at Emerson College in Boston. He also helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop, about to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Some of the talents emerging from that workshop: Denis Leary, Mario Cantone, Anthony Clark, David Cross, Bill Burr to name a few. He currently teaches a highly acclaimed stand-up comedy workshop worldwide that helps comics young and old take their comedy work to the next level. Starting in April, Eddie will be a consulting editor and humor consultant for Readers' Digest, promoting the magazine's humor franchise in his travels around the country, at college campuses, on the radio and working to get the humor on Reader's Digest's pages translated into many different media. 

Eddie performs and helps raise money for many benefits including The Roberto Clemente Foundation (for underprivileged children), Sisters in Survival (women with Breast cancer). Juvenile Diabetes, The American Cancer Association, and, of course, with Reader's Digest and St. Jude on Stand-Up for the Children. He will be hosting the Comedy Night/Stand-Up for the Children for the third year in a row. 

Phew. How Eddie Brill finds time to eat and sleep, I have no idea.
 

Bill Burr is a Irish American comedian from Canton, Massachusetts. 

In 1995, Bill moved to New York to pursue his dream of a life in comedy. Eight months later, he moved to Los Angeles. There he worked on a number of film and television projects. Bill returned to New York City in 1999, to get back to his roots and concentrate on comedy. 

He performs over three hundred shows annually, has two movies to be released in 2006, as well as appearances on David Letterman. In 2004, he began working on Chappelle's Show. In September, 2005 Bill's HBO comedy special aired. Along with many other projects, Bill has also been a guest comedian on the Opie and Anthony show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. (Wikipedia)
 

Anthony Clark is a small-town Southern boy who went to college in Boston and tinged his down-home humor with an urban edge to become a successful stand-up comedian. In his first starring role in the sitcom "Boston Common" (NBC, 1996-97), he portrayed a small-town Southern boy who ventures to Boston to watch over his college-student sister and becomes the janitor at her dorm where he often makes everyone laugh. 

The Virginia native, who was raised on a tobacco farm, began his career as a child performer, appearing in stage musicals like Li'l Abner and The Music Man. He broke into stand-up comedy soon after completing his courses at Emerson College. After appearing in New York at such famed spots as Catch a Rising Star, The Improv and Caroline's, he was slotted by MTV into a "5 Funny Guys" special in 1989. Appearances on "The Comedy Club Network" and on various programs on The Nashville Network followed. In 1995, Clark was the hit of the "Young Comedians Show" on HBO, hosted by Garry Shandling. By then, Clark had also appeared as a gas station attendant in the 1990 award-winning Broadway production of The Grapes of Wrath starring Gary Sinise and Lois Smith, a role he reprised for the 1991 "American Playhouse" (PBS) production. He also appeared in a recurring role on ABC's "Ellen" (1995-96), before snagging his own sitcom. 

Clark's feature film work has been slower in happening. He had his debut in Dogfight (1991), as a marine, co-starring River Phoenix. He reteamed with Phoenix and Sandra Bullock in Peter Bogdanovich's The Thing Called Love (1993), in which Clark played a country comedian amongst aspiring country-western singers. He also was cast in the abominably stereotypical gay barber who cleaned up Sean Connery in Michael Bay's The Rock (1996). 

Following the demise of "Boston Common", Clark could often be found in comedy clubs honing new material. He also returned to the genre in 1997 when he joined the ABC series "Soul Man" as a bumbling, overeager, recently graduated divinity student who often was at odds with Dan Aykroyd's free spirited pastor. Clark made a third attempt at series stardom as a first-time parent juggling the demands of career with his desire to help his wife with their baby in "Yes, Dear" (CBS, 2000- ). 
 

"My name is Jose Jiminez" -- with those five words actor Bill Dana introduced a character that would become an international sensation during the early 1960s. For Baby Boomers and The GI Generation, Bill Dana is one of the best-loved funnymen in America. He wrote himself into show business history in 1959 with the immortal line, "My name: Jose Jimenez," and his fans haven't stopped laughing since.

In a variety of roles from comedy team, Dana and Wood, to his head-writership and membership in "The Men In The Street" of The Steve Allen show, Bill is only three years shy of being in television for its entire lifespan. Plus TV guest shots, including 17 Ed Sullivan Shows, Bill was part of the late fifties-early sixties night club scene pantheon with Jonathan Winters, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Lenny Bruce, Shelly Berman, Bob Newhart, Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, and Phyllis Diller. 

Jose Jimenez was already a national phenom when Garry Moore Show staff member Neil Simon asked whether Jose had ever been an Astronaut. That appearance was followed by the Kapp recording "Jose The Astronaut" - Its "Light Stuff for The Right Stuff guys" historic timing was such that Dana's reluctant space venturer was adopted as the official eighth mercury astronaut (out of a possible seven). On May Fifth (Cinco de Mayo) 1961, the first words spoken from the ground to an American entering space were,"Okay Jose, you're on your way."

Having become a part of the extended astronaut family, Bill serves currently on the advisory board of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and is on the Nominations Committee of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Jose is acknowledged in The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and enshrined at the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame at Titusville, Florida. 

From his comedy creations as head writer of the Golden Age Steve Allen Show, his own NBC vehicle, "The Bill Dana Show", "Golden Girls", Uncle Angelo, and over a dozen chart-busting comedy albums to his present day multi-media activities, Bill has been an innovator in humor and has helped launch other comic greats such as Don Adams, Don Knotts, Jackie Mason and Jim Nabors. 

The Bill Dana written multi-Emmy winning "All In The Family" episode "Sammy Davis Visits Archie Bunker", is #12 in the TV Guide Best 100 Episodes in the history of television. "The Laughter Prescription" (Ballantine 1983) co-authored with the late Dr. Laurence Peter of Peter Principle fame, was the first book of its nature following Norman Cousin's "Anatomy Of An Illness." 

Born William Szathmary in Quincy, Massachusetts on October 5, 1924, Bill was educated in Quincy schools, is a decorated combat infantry veteran of WWII, (for conspicuous precaution under cover) and a graduate (1950) with highest honors from Emerson College in Boston. Bill is married to Evelyn Shular Dana of Walden's Creek, Tennessee, his inspiration and partner in life and business.
 

At six foot six, Jim McCue stands head and shoulders above the sea of 'stick to the script' club comedians. Jim blends thought provoking material and uncanny improv skills with a style that actually encourages audience participation. Featured on Comedy Central, Comcast Comedy Spotlight and at the Boston Comedy Festival, and most recently, entertaining our troops in Iraq, Jim's versatility makes him perfect for any venue; clubs, colleges, corporate, television or film.