Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City. He has appeared onUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, Joe Pera Talks with You, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tick, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and the new U.S. version of Would I Lie To You among other programs. And he plays a Devo-obsessed weed dealer in the new film Drunk Bus starring Ozark’s Charlie Tahan and Will Forte. Dave has also starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it.

Dave is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly Prairie Home Companion) and also hosted his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey for five years. Dave also hosts the podcast The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour  and is the resident heavy metal expert on Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast.

Dave performs live comedy in theaters, prisons, and basements all over the world and even opened for Snoop Dogg once.

Dave also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death). He is also the founding member of Witch Taint, most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana ever probably (go to www.theblackmetaldialogues.com for more info).

Dave has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, The New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications, and is author of three books, Parking the Moose (2019 Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House), Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (2016 Blue Rider Press, and Tasteful Nudes (2012 St. Martin’s Press). His fourth book will be published by Penguin Random House in the fall of 2023.

Dave Hill has appeared at various comedy festivals including Melbourne International Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SXSW (Austin, TX) Bumbershoot (Seattle, WA) Crap Comedy Festival (Oslo, Norway) Sasquatch Festival (Seattle, WA) Bonnaroo (Manchester, TN Wacken Open Air (Wacken, Germany) Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland, OR) Carlsberg Comedy Festival (Dublin, Ireland) Outside Lands (San Francisco, CA) U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (Aspen, CO) Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival (New York, NY) Riot LA (Los Angeles, CA) New York Comedy Festival (New York, NY) Accidental Comedy Festival (Cleveland, OH) Out of Bounds Festival (Austin, TX) Wells Comedy Festival (Wells, England) Camden Fringe Festival (London, England) French Fried Comedy Festival (Paris, France) High Mud Comedy Festival (North Adams, MA) Toumazing Comedy Festival (Stavanger, Norway) High Plains Comedy Festival (Denver, Colorodo) Copenhell (Copenhagen, Denmark)