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Rich Dahm

Richard Dahm (often credited as Rich Dahm) is an American

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from Wisconsin

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. A Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer for The Colbert Report
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, he has also written for Dennis Miller Live
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and Da Ali G Show
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Dahm attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s, where his professional career began as a writer for the then-new The Onion

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. He is the author of The Cultural Idiocy Quiz and co-author of several other humor books.

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Richard Dahm (often credited as Rich Dahm) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
from Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
. A Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer for The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report is a Peabody Award- and Emmy Award-winning American news satire television program that airs from 11:30 p.m. to 12:00 midnight Eastern Time Zone each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States and on both The Comedy Network and CTV Television Network in Canada....
, he has also written for Dennis Miller Live
Dennis Miller Live

Dennis Miller Live was a weekly talk show on HBO, hosted by comedian Dennis Miller. The show ran 215 episodes from 1994 to 2002, and received five Emmy awards, plus an additional 11 Emmy nominations....
and Da Ali G Show
Da Ali G Show

Da Ali G Show is the name of two related Satire TV series starring Great Britain comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G....
.

Dahm attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s, where his professional career began as a writer for the then-new The Onion
The Onion

'The Onion' is an United States "news satire" organization. It features satire articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V....
. He is the author of The Cultural Idiocy Quiz and co-author of several other humor books. A three time Emmy nominee, Dahm currently resides in New York with his wife, screenwriter Leyla Kader Dahm.

Works
The Cultural Idiocy Quiz, Adams Media Corp, 1997. ISBN 1-55850-796-5 Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15, Three Rivers Press, 2004. ISBN 1-4000-5455-9

Rich is also a founding member of the 3-D House of Beer and a regular at Camp Funship.

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