Dave Attell Net Worth 2024

What is Dave Attell’s Net Worth?

Dave Attell is an American stand-up comedian, author, and actor with a net worth of $6 million. Dave Attell is probably greatest often known as the host of Comedy Central’s “Insomniac with Dave Attell” (2001–2004). He has written for “Saturday Night Live” (1993–1994) and “The Jon Stewart Show” (1993–1995), and his movie and tv appearances embody “Arrested Development” (2005), “Funny People” (2009), “Trainwreck” (2015), “The Jim Gaffigan Show” (2015–2016), and “Crashing” (2017–2019). Dave has additionally lent his voice to a number of tasks, together with “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist” (1995–1997), “Bob’s Burgers” (2017), and “The Simpsons” (2018).

Early Life

Dave Attell was born David Attell on January 18, 1965, in Queens, New York. He grew up in a Jewish family in Rockville Centre, New York, and his youthful sister, Monica, is a musician who has served as Dave’s opening act. Attell attended New York University, incomes a communications diploma in 1987, and commenced attempting out his comedy at open mic-nights after graduating.

Stand-Up Comedy Career

Dave labored his first stand-up gig at Governor’s in Levittown and has stated that he “completely bombed.” He made his TV debut on VH1’s “Stand-Up Spotlight” in 1988, and he carried out on “The Late Show with David Letterman” for the primary time in 1993. Lorne Michaels noticed Attell’s efficiency and employed him to be a author on “Saturday Night Live.” Dave wrote on 20 episodes of the collection and appeared on seven episodes.

Attell was then featured on the “HBO Comedy Showcase” (1995) and the “1995 Young Comedians Special,” and he acquired his personal “HBO Comedy Half-Hour” particular in 1996. Dave later appeared on “Pulp Comics” (1997), “Mr. Vegas All-Night Party Starring Drew Carey” (1997), “Just for Laughs” (1997), and “The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey” (1998). In 2001, he was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic, and he launched his first comedy album, “Skanks for the Memories…,” in 2003. In 2006, Attell launched the DVD “Hey, Your Mouth’s Not Pregnant!,” and the next 12 months, HBO aired “Captain Miserable,” his first one-hour particular. In 2014, his one-hour particular “Road Work” aired on Comedy Central. Dave toured with Jeff Ross in 2018, and so they filmed a three-part documentary for Netflix entitled “Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell.”

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Television Career

A squiggly, animated model of Dave appeared on “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist” in 1995 and 1997, and he was a commentator on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” from 1999 to 2002.  He hosted “Insomniac with Dave Attell” from 2001 to 2004 and visited cities equivalent to Atlanta, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, and Philadelphia. The collection aired 45 episodes, and the DVDs “The Best of Insomniac Uncensored (Vol. 1)” and “The Best of Insomniac Uncensored (Vol. 2)” have been launched in 2003. Attell started showing on “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn” in 2002, and in 2005, he appeared on two episodes of “Arrested Development,” enjoying himself, who in flip was enjoying David Cross‘ Tobias Funke on the show-within-a-show “Scandalmakers.” In 2008, Dave hosted “The Gong Show with Dave Attell,” which ran for eight episodes on Comedy Central, and he hosted “Dave’s Old Porn” on Showtime from 2011 to 2012. He hosted the stand-up comedy showcase “Comedy Underground with Dave Attell” in 2014, and he performed himself on three episodes of TV Land’s “The Jim Gaffigan Show” in 2015 and 2016 and three episodes of HBO’s “Crashing” from 2017 to 2019.

Film Career

In 1999, Attell appeared within the movie “Los Enchiladas!,” which was written and directed by fellow comedian Mitch Hedberg, who sadly handed away in 2005. Dave went on to look in “Pootie Tang” (2001), “Crazy for Love” (2005), “Scary Movie 4” (2006), and “The Great Buck Howard” (2008), then performed himself in Judd Apatow’s 2009 movie “Funny People.” He was the voice of the Mystery Machine’s GPS in “Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo” (2010), and he co-starred with Amy Schumer in 2015’s “Trainwreck” and 2018’s “I Feel Pretty.”

Personal Life

Dave dated Sarah Silverman within the late Eighties.

He is superb buddies with Amy Schumer. Amy even initially named her son “Gene Attell Fischer” in his honor. Amy later modified Gene’s center title to David after she realized that “Gene Attell” appears like “genital.”