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Dave Barry
may be kidding,
but we're not making this up
Pulitzer
Prize-winning humorist will be the
banquet speaker for the ACES conference
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Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years, he was
a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers
in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize
for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this
happened.
Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none
of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the
basis for the CBS TV sitcom “Dave’s World,” in which Harry Anderson
played a much taller version of Dave.
Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom
Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley
Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are
extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one
on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to
set fire to a pair of men’s underpants with a Barbie doll.
In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United
States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death
penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow
toilets.
Dave lives in Miami with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has
a son, Rob, and a daughter, Sophie, neither of whom thinks he’s funny.
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