Dave Rosner is a stand-up comedian and a U. S. Marine. He became a member of the prestigious Friars Club in October 2006. Dave has performed comedy in clubs, synagogues, veteran’s hospitals, and military bases in the United States, Australia, Canada, Kuwait, and Iraq.
He is also a political and military commentator, spokesmen, speaker, producer, writer, and actor.
As a political and military commentator Dave offers his distinctive take on world events. His life experiences as a U. S. Marine with specialties in Public Affairs (Media), Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence, and Ground Supply (Logistics) combined with having lived in Israel and Australia, a veteran of two wars, Desert Storm (Gulf War One) and Iraq, and being raised in a non observant Jewish family and then becoming observant gives Dave a very unique insight. He has appeared on Fox News “The Strategy Room,” and “The Comcast Network's It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle.”
As a spokesman Dave has helped raise awareness to “fast track” the drug Oxycyte in the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) to help those with traumatic brain injury (TBI). He produced a You Tube video titled “Curing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): My July 4th Wish” and submitted an Op-Ed “A Marine's July 4th Wish: Find a Cure for TBI” this can be see on his blog and on Political Mavens dot com. Dave also helped promote a fundraiser for the NYC Mess Night by appearing on CBS Radio “The Barry Z Show” and NYC Local TV on PIX11.
Dave speaks primarily for Jewish organizations about his experiences in the Marines. These talks average about one hour.
Dave has performed and produced many military and veterans shows: Two “Tell it to the Marines” shows at the Friars Club, with Colin Quinn and Jeffery Ross as headliners, and frequent shows at the Manhattan and Brooklyn Veteran's Hospitals. In conjunction with the Friars Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Friars Club, he performed and produced a show for Wounded Warriors Battalion - East, at Marine Corps Base in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and shows for Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He has hosted and produced The Dave Rosner Comedy Rooms in NYC at Yello in Chinatown, Kabbalah and Komedy and a benefit for Families of Fallen Service Members and performed in benefit shows for Pediatric AIDS and Care.org.
He has contributed as a writer to The Man Show on Comedy Central (the bit where Jimmy Kimmel asks women on the street to sleep with him. Pitched to Rick Rosner and it got on the show, then paid for it by Rick, now you know). He played and created several characters on Mancow Radio Madness (like all the other comics in NYC who know Harry).
He was on CBS Sunday Morning News as part of a segment on the Friars Club “So You Think You Can Roast” competition, the film “Hastey Hastey Follow Your Heart” as Mr. Greg. Has been on SIRIUS radio and acting in a promo for the MTV Movie Awards. He can be seen performing stand-up comedy and his One Man Show: The Non-Formulary: U. S. Marine Veteran, Comedian, Jew, in New York City.
While living in Australia from 1998 to 2001, he acted on a network TV drama “All Saints,” in TV commercials and starred in the TV sketch comedy, “The Procrastinator.” He has performed improv with Loose Screws in Honolulu, Lo Shems in Israel, ImproAustralia in Sydney, and with Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) in NYC.
Rosner’s seeming contradictions, Jewish-Marine, Marine-Comedian, Observant Jew in the Marines, and right leaning politics as a Jew have been written about in The Jewish Week, The New York Sun, The Forward, TimeOut New York, and Mann About Town. (see press page or just google “Dave Rosner”)
Rosner was an active duty (full-time) U.S. Marine for over four years and served in the First Gulf War. As a reserve Marine (part-time) for fifteen years, he served in the Iraq War. He now holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He is a member of a Public Affairs unit in New York City. His specialties are Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence, Public Affairs (Media) and Ground Supply (Logistics).
He attended the U. S. Marine Corps Commanders' East Coast Media Symposium as a student and, later, as a trainer and coordinator. The symposium examines the impact of the news industry on military operations. Invited keynote speakers are renowned professionals, experts in public relations, journalism, radio, television, newspapers, and new media. Leading New York news professionals discuss the latest reporting techniques to use when dealing with the media. They present useful methods and principles to communicate with efficacy a command's message to the public.
Dave was banned from a comedy club because of a joke about his Marine Corps radio call sign --Mazel Tov Cocktail-- was seen as too political. Dave logged a protest with the union against stupid club bookers and awaits a response before moving to sue the pants off the guy or just kick his ass. Further, Dave manned up to a drunken New Zealand heckler with his sloppy British girlfriend and, subsequently, was banned from that club. However, shortly thereafter, the club went belly up and became an Indian (dot on your head not feathers) restaurant. Let that be a lesson to all!
Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has lived in Hawaii, Israel, and Australia.
All views expressed here and on his web site are his own. He is not representing the United States Marine Corps or any other branch of the U. S. Government.