David Kleinberg :: Going Nowhere

Kleinberg Resume

Work With (Paid)

Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Bobby Slayton, Sinbad, Richard Lewis, Christopher Titus, Arj Barker, Leland Cotton Brown, Jim Short, Clinton Jackson, Ray Booker, Doug Ferrari, Johnny Steele, Brian Copeland, Dan St. Paul, Mickey Joseph, Don McMillan, Stephen B, Donald Lacy, Tom Ammiano, Rick Right, Ngaio Bealum, Al Madrigal, Andrew Norelli, Larry Bubbles Brown, Melinda Hill, Sherry Sirof, Rob Cantrell, Rick Pulido, Chicago Charlies Barkley, Reggie Seele. Not Dead Yet Comedy Tour (With David VanAvermaete, Anthony Hill, Debbie Campo)

Featured

Last Day Saloon (Santa Rosa): For 'Last Comic Standing' Sean Kent; Bunjo's (Dublin): For "Last Comic Standing" Jackie Kashian; Tommy T's (Pleasanton) : For Michael Mancini. For Jim Sommers. Napa Opera House: For Tommy Savatt.Fat Cat's (Modesto): For Jason Restler; Sports Bar & Grill (Modesto): For Eric Cash. Crow's Nest (Santa Cruz): For Dave Burleigh. For Cain Lopez. Faultline Brewery Co.: For Cain Lopez.

Host/Opener

Cobb's: For Richard Lewis ; San Jose Improv: For Bobby Slayton. Tommy T's: For Christopher Titus. For Eddie Ifft. For Carrie Snow. Reno, Comedy Comedy, Hilton Hotel, Reno Nv: For Rick Pulido. For "Last Comic Standing" Rob Cantrell. Fat Cat's Lounge Modesto: For Cash Levy. For Carla Clay. Ukiah Community Center : For Mark Pitta. Pepperbelly's : For Mickey Joseph. Crystal Bay Casino, Lake Tahoe : For Scott Bruce.

Showcase Headliner

SF Comedy Club (50 Mason, San Francisco), Red Vic Hotel (San Francisco), Club Deluxe (San Francisco), Out Little Theater (San Francisco), Comedy Station (San Francisco), Julia's Super Club (San Francisco), Cafecito (San Jose), Sonoma Chicken Coop (Campbell), Mission Bay Coffee (Sunnyvale), Blue Rock Shoot (Saratoga), Winters (Pacifica), Spud's (Berkeley), Listen & Be Heard (Vallejo), 950 Pub (Stanford), Rudy's (Palo Alto), Cue Productions (Concord), Ron's Farmhouse (Mt. View), Graeme Mathews Studio (San Jose). Mission Pizza (Fremont), Blue Bar (Livermore). The Swinging Door (San Mateo). El Patron (San Jose). Villa Roma (Redwood City).

Show Cases

Boston: Comedy Connection (Faneuil Hall). Nick's Comedy Stop. Dick Doherty's Comedy Cafe.

Ireland: International Bar (Dublin), Grainery (With David McSavage, Killarney).

San Francisco: Punchline, Cobb's Comedy Club, Purple Onion, Green Room Comedy Club, LGBT Gay Comedy Showcase, Comedy Internet Showcase (Punchline), Doug Ferrari's Java Beach, Doug Ferrari's Bazaar Cafe, SF Comedy 50 Mason, Mock Cafe, Blue Danbue, Club Deluxe, Carmen's.

South Bay : Punchline, San Jose; Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale; Rose & Crown, Palo Alto; Rudy's, Palo Alto. Blue Rock Shoot, Saratoga; Winters, Pacifica; Sonoma Chicken Coop (Campbell); Mickey Joseph's Comedy, Fox Theater, Redwood City; Ron's Farmhouse, Mountain View.

East Bay: Kimball's East, Emeryville; Main Street Brewry, Pleasanton; Pepper Belly, Fairfield; Tyrone's, Oakland; Dorsey's, Oakland; End Zone, Oakland; Mira Theater, Vallejo; Coach's Bar & Grill, Pinole; Red Caboose, Antioch.

North Bay: Mark Pitta's Comedy, Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley. 2005 Gay Comedy Competition, Guerneville.

Competitions

2006 SF Comedy Competition: Finished three spots shy of semifinals. 2007 Tommy T's: Finished first in preliminary round.

Miscellaneous

Producer and Host: Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco (six months). Lost and Found Saloon, San Francisco (six months).

Other Entertainment Background: Editor, Sunday Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle, 1980-1994. Interviewed: Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Jim Carrey, Jay Leno, Bob Goldthwait, Rob Becker, Bobby Slayton.

Trained With : Neil Lieberman, Comedy Coach, 2004. Mickey Joseph, Comedy Coach, 2005-Current.

Dave's Biography

     Comic David Kleinberg doesn't worry about getting laughs. "That's one of the great things about starting to do comedy in your 60s," he says. "I've already failed at so many things in life that this isn't anything. You know the only difference between me and the young comics? I already know I'm going nowhere."

     Kleinberg started doing comedy in 1997 when he was 54 years old after a 34-year newspaper career. He served his last 14 years as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Datebook, the largest entertainment magazine in Northern California.

     "I have loved comedy all my life," Kleinberg says, "and as editor of the Pink Section, I made certain comedy got the respect and coverage it deserved." As a young man growing up in San Francisco, Kleinberg witnessed comedy first-hand in its hey-day, frequently an audience member at Enrico Banducci's hungry i where he saw such early legends as Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters and Mort Sahl.

     Kleinberg, a native of San Francisco, believes he brings this comic background and a lifetime of local experience to the stage today, railing at the city's current political correctness.

     Kleinberg loves comedy. "It's the most challenging, creative and in-the-moment thing I've ever done in my life," he says. "I am blessed to be at the point in my life where I can do this for only one reason: to see people laugh, and I have to do my best to make that happen."

2008 David Kleinberg