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X-WR-CALNAME:Paul Mecurio in Columbus at Funny Bone Comedy Club and Ca
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SUMMARY:Paul Mecurio
DESCRIPTION: A native of Providence\, Rhode Island\, Paul Mecurio grad
	uated with high honors from Georgetown Law School and began his career
	 on Wall Street as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at the law firm o
	f Willkie\, Farr and Gallagher and later as an investment banker at CS
	 First Boston. All the while\, Paul was honing a secret\, second caree
	r writing and performing comedy in New York City. After several years 
	on Wall Street\, Paul moved center stage\, leaving Wall Street and sta
	rting his career as a stand-up comedian. In 1996\, Paul was invited to
	 be on the original writing and performing team for a new Comedy Centr
	al show called\,The Daily Show. In 2001\, as a writer for The Daily Sh
	ow with Jon Stewart\, Paul won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individu
	al Achievement In Writing In A Variety\, Music or Comedy Program. For 
	his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000\, Paul wa
	s honored with a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting (think T
	he Pulitzer Prize for Broadcasting). In 2002\, Paul received his secon
	d Emmy nomination and win for his work on The Daily Show. In 2003 Paul
	 won his second Emmy Award for The Daily Show. Paul has also been feat
	ured as a field correspondent on The Daily Show and in The Daily Show 
	segment\, Second Opinion\, in which he skewered the medical profession
	 playing an HMO representative with a less than sympathetic mindset.  
	Paul recently shot the television pilot\, Sports Central\, in which he
	 starred\, co-created and executive produced. Using a news format\, Sp
	orts Central is a funny\, smart look at the controversial off-the-fiel
	d issues and player behavior plaguing sports. A national headliner in 
	clubs and theaters across North America and in Europe\, Paul has perfo
	rmed at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal an
	d has made numerous TV appearances including Comedy Central Presents\,
	 The Late\, Late Show with Craig Kilborn\, Late Night w/Conan O'Brien\
	, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn\, Comedy Central's Dr.
	 Katz\, NBC's Late Friday\, and numerous appearances on VH1's popular 
	clip shows. Paul has been a guest on Fox News Channel and makes regula
	r appearances on CNN\, CNNfn and MSNBC as a political satirist. On May
	 21\, 2004\, Paul premiered his own Comedy Central Presents half-hour 
	special. Paul was featured as a political satirist in the 2004 Preside
	ntial Election coverage by The Daily News\, CNN\, MSNBC\, CNNfn\, and 
	ESPN2. Paul was seen in a guest-starring role opposite John Cleese in 
	the ABC sitcom Wednesday at 9:30 and shot\, The Joke Show\, a televisi
	on pilot set in New York City for famed producer/directors Barry Levin
	son and Tom Fontana. He can also be seen in the upcoming film drama\, 
	High Art\, Low Life\, written and directed by Peter Nourjian and recen
	tly shot the lead role in the independent film Faux Pix. Paul has writ
	ten\, produced and directed five short films\, the latest of which\, G
	loves\, an off-center dark comedy has been screened at several prestig
	ious film festivals including The US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen\, T
	he Toronto Film Festival\, The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival a
	nd The San Sebastian Film Festival”in Spain. Paul also worked on the
	 film American Buffalo\, starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz base
	d on the award winning David Mamet play of the same name. Paul is curr
	ently featured in the November issue of Penthouse magazine and is the 
	host of "Mecurio's Mob Rule" on Sirius Radio: 104 Raw Dog.  To find ou
	t more about Paul visit www.paulmecurio.com and /or at myspace.com/pau
	lmecurio. \n
LOCATION:Funny Bone Comedy Club and Cafe @ 145 Easton Town Center, Col
	umbus, Ohio 43219 United States
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