Shaun Eli: The World's Only Jewish Comediansm
                  
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      BIOGRAPHY

Reader's Digest called Shaun Eli one of the smartest comics in the country. Shaun is the founder and host of Ivy Stand-up(sm) which has been featured on CBS News and was the subject of a front page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He continues to write political comedy for late-night television, for the print media and for the stage. His stand-up comedy can be heard on XM Sirius Satellite Radio and on his website www.BrainChampagne.com, one of the most popular stand-up comedy websites in the world.

More than just smart, funny and clever, he is determined to express his opinion passionately, not surprising for someone who wrote his first satirical essay at age ten.

When profiled in Fortune magazine Tonight Show host Jay Leno quoted one of Shaun's jokes, citing it as an example of the type of "smart comedy" which he's happy to include in his opening monologue. Jay has been incorporating Shaun's topical material in his monologue for more than a decade.

Drawing on his vast wealth of clean, clever material Shaun has quickly become one of New York's brightest, funniest, fastest-rising comedy stars. When Shaun takes the stage other comedians stop and watch. Comedians with ten times his experience have come to him for advice.

A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Shaun is frequently published in The New York Times and has the unmatched achievement of having had two letters published in the Times the same day. Twice. He has also been quoted in a wide variety of other periodicals ranging from The Wall Street Journal and Business Week to Popular Photography to Food & Wine and the scientific humor magazine The Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Outside of the world of comedy, Shaun is a former world-class athlete in both rowing and dragon-boat racing, has trained lifeguards, and is an instrument-rated pilot.  Shaun is an award-winning economic forecaster who once sold his car to a hitchhiker.

He bakes the world's greatest cheesecake.  He's still friends with the first girl he ever kissed.  You can watch his video and read more about him, including examples of jokes he's written for late-night television, satirical political essays and a schedule of his upcoming performance dates, on his web site www.BrainChampagne.com, where his slogan "Brain Champagne: Clever Comedy for Smart Minds(sm)" rings true.

To open or download Shaun's biography in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, click here            For Shaun's one-sheet (short bio and pitch info), please click here

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WRITINGS / ARTICLES

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"From Justice to Laughter," Shaun Eli's NJ Lawyer Magazine article on attorneys who became comedians

Shaun Eli's children's story "A Tale of Two Kiddies"

"Don't Step on your Laughter," Shaun Eli's article on How to Tell a Joke


PRESS QUOTES / FEEDBACK / PRAISE

"Shaun Eli is a smart and witty comedy writer.  He is a gifted monologist.  He avoids the topics other comedians have burned out.  His observations about our society’s insanity are fresh, entertaining and funny.  He has a genuine gift to make us laugh."
-Stephen Rosenfield
Director, The American Comedy Institute

"You're wonderful!  Bless you for coming!  This is the first time in three months I’ve seen my wife smile."
-husband of a cancer patient after a show at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

"Shaun had our attention from the start.  Even our fittest divers were laughing so hard they could barely catch their breath.  Shaun was so polished and professional, we still can’t believe he’d been performing for only four months.  Our members, and their families, keep talking about the show he put on, and they want him back next year."
-Dr. Soliman Shenouda
President
The Scuba Sports Club

"...humor that is smart and wry and a little cerebral."
-Scarsdale Inquirer

"You were the most talked-about part of our group's trip to NYC- everyone had such a wonderfully hilarious evening.  We all appreciated your ability to interact with a very diverse audience, military officers and diplomats intermixed with New Yorkers and visiting tourists from all over, and still keep your material fresh, clever and relevant to everyone.  People who've made a career out of slogging through mud while under fire aren't going to be offended by dirty words, but they still marveled at your friendly and professional ability to rock the room without the use of foul language or vulgar content.  I would recommend you to any group seeking entertainment."
-Jiyul Kim
Colonel, U.S. Army
Director of Asian Studies
U.S. Army War College

"From your first sentence you had us all hooked, starting with one-liners and building into a routine that made us think while we were laughing, an awesome combination!  Come back, we want more!"
-Lesa Pascal
President of the African/Latin Heritage Club and Officer of Student Government Association
Concordia College-New York

"Shaun was a blast to have on.  Even though we had some technical difficulties and couldn't play clips from his performance, he took it in stride and was VERY entertaining."
- Lou Ruggieri, host of "The Stress Factor" on WMSC radio (Meeker Broadcasting)

"We're always thrilled to have Shaun Eli host our Comedy Fights Cancer shows-- he's warm, hilarious and great with the patients and their families. His professionalism and brilliance always shine."
- Abby Russell
Founder
Comedy Fights Cancer

Shaun has become a real asset to the Joey Reynolds Show. We enjoy him so much we've made him a quasi-regular. He's smart, quick, flexible, enthusiastic, professional and is totally there. He also interfaces well with whatever microphone starved maniacs happen to be on the show with him.
- Myra Chanin
Producer
The Joey Reynolds Radio Show (WOR 710 AM in NYC and syndicated to hundreds of radio stations across the U.S.)

Thanks for making such a terrific resource available to anyone who wants it (and for free!).  I'm due to perform my first ever stand up routine in a few weeks (at the age of fifty), so I'm voraciously reading anything and everything I can lay my hands on. I really enjoyed your FAQ page and found a lot of the info very helpful.
- Rob Hart
Advertising Copywriter
Adelaide, Australia

Thank you for your monthly dose of humor. I enjoy opening your mail. If you are ever doing a show in South Africa let me know; I would love to see you live.
- Michael Leaper
Software Developer
South Africa

TRAINING AND SPECIAL SKILLS:

Stand-up Comedy:  Stephen Rosenfield & Clayton Fletcher, American Comedy Institute
Eddie Brill- Stand-up Seminar (booker for "Late Show with David Letterman")
Improvisation:  Jane O'Leary, Gotham City Improv
Acting:  Weist-Barron
SportsRowing/Sculling (National Team Champion and world-class competitor), Dragon-Boating (National Champion and world- championship finalist), Canoeing, Swimming (former lifeguard & lifeguard lifesaving instructor), Running, Cycling
Other Skills:  Can drive stick-shift, fly single-engine aircraft (instrument-rated pilot, certified for high-performance, complex and tailwheel aircraft), ride motorcycles (graduate of Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic and Advanced Rider Courses), cooking & food prep, auto repair, conversant in French

"A scientist has invented a new machine that can give a woman an instant orgasm.  It has four power settings: Low, Medium, High and… Shaun Eli."
- Shaun Eli

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