DC BENNY: funny motherflower

dc Benny

funny motherflower

© 2006 DC Benny (837101181761)

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D.C. Benny was born Benjamin Wartofsky in Washington, DC sometime during the 60's, the first child of a struggling artist and a struggling modern dancer. There was a lot of struggling. His Polish/Austrian Jewish background was confusing because he looked like a giant Mexican. Early on, the youngster showed comedic promise. At a young age he started doing random impressions of Martin Luther King and Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, which made his parents and kindergarten teachers laugh even though none of them knew who Toshiro Mifune was.

Benny grew up an off-white kid in the predominantly black DC public schools. There he learned that being funny would save him from the multiple ass-whoopings that were a rite of passage in grade school. He also studied Kung Fu under the tutelage of a very large Jamaican, which came in handy when his tormenters didn't have a sense of humor and took the sting out of living on welfare. During this time, his parents produced two more brothers, who followed in the Wartofsky tradition of getting kicked out of schools for not going to them. The brothers looked out for each other and "had each other's back" during constant run-ins with the authorities of all kinds. Never a dull moment.
In high school Benny gave up Kung Fu to pursue break dancing with an all-Nicaraguan crew named The Bad Boy Breakers. He also tutored them in English so they could compete in Rap battles with the rhymes he wrote for them when he was supposed to be doing homework. Sample: "My name is Garcia, and I rhyme real hard, I got da baddest crew, but no green card..." Benny put his rap career on hold after losing a talent competition to a Prince lip sinc'er from North Carolina in a hotly contested decision. He turned his talents to writing funny skits that he and his roommate would perform on a college radio show. Everything was going well until a satirical skit on how bad the cafeteria food hit the airwaves. Alas, the show was no more.

Never a quitter, Benny found new ways to vent his creativity. One favorite was dressing up as a foreign student and showing up to classes he wasn't a part of. He would then ask inflammatory questions in character until he was asked to leave.

After high school, he began attending college in College Park, Maryland at the University of Maryland. He supplemented his income by working at a fancy men's wear boutique and started working as a professional male model. Eventually, he tried stand-up comedy at a Korean Moonie bar in College Park. When a bunch of drunk rednecks started heckling him, he abandoned his prepared act, started insulting them, and had the whole place laughing. Soon after, he moved to New York to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comic.

When he arrived in New York, he didn't make it easy for himself. He became the only white comic working at Harlem's Uptown Comedy club where people came to heckle him every week. An old comic named Uncle Jimmy Mac - who gave everyone nicknames - nicknamed him D.C. Benny and the name stuck.

While at the Uptown, Benny would do all his characters, Puerto Rican building superintendents, Pakastani cabdrivers, Korean deli owners, Israeli Gangsters, Jamaican Nannies; everyone he interacted with became part of his act. To blow off steam he embarked on a secret career as an amateur boxer, fighting out of Brooklyn's world-famous Gleason's Gym, the palace of broken noses, his included. He soon met and married a beautiful black psychologist who was the best thing that ever happened to him.

Over the last few years, Benny's comedy and face have been popping up everywhere. His comedy performances have been featured on "Showtime at the Apollo," "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," and "Comedy Centrals USO Tour" As an actor, he's made numerous television appearances, including "Law and Order," "Now and Again," and the soap-opera "Guiding Light," where he was given the opportunity to use his finely honed fighting skills to beat-up one of the main characters. You might be a little surprised to know that he's also the "How You Doin'" guy from the popular Budweiser ad campaign. Most recently, he was featured in his very own Comedy Central half-hour comedy special, was a finalist in NBC's Last Comic Standing and is in the films "Freedomland" with Samuel Jackson, "Where God Left His Shoes" with John Leguizamo, "Spiderman 3", and as Cesar in "Illegal Tender" produced by John Singleton.

Luckily, you can see him perform at most of New York's major Comedy Clubs and tune in EVERY Monday-Friday on BREUER UNLEASHED on Sirius sattelite Raw Dog 104.

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  • HILARIOUS
    author: CHERIE CLAYTON

    WE LISTEN TO YOU ALL THE TIME ON SATELITE RADIO SO WE BOUGHT YOUR CD. YOU ARE A VERY FUNNY MAN THANKYOU FOR THE LAUGHS!

  • Funniest comic around
    author: Jeff Brozek

    The CD was hilarious. I listen to it all the time. DC Benny does THE best and funniest impersonations of any comic.

  • Sweet
    author: Nick Meier

    Good cd from an extremely underated comedian.

  • author: al

    great cd - i laughed the entire time. wish it was a bit longer though, can't wait for the next one. keep up the good work. p.s. keep an eye out for the chancho!!

  • I LOVED IT!
    author: Rosita

    The CD was great, I couldn't stop laughing. I heard the entire CD three times already and laughed every time.

  • D.C. Benny deserves a primetime show
    author: Tony D

    From the moment you click play on your stereo you are already laughing from jokes DC Benny is making, the entire CD is too funny. The bits were he is interacting with the audience are too funny, way to funny. The CD is perfect and keeps you asking for more every time, I've listen to it so many times since I've gotten it last week. It would have been great to see him in person, like a DVD just to see how funny he looked while doing everything but the CD allows you to imagine it in your head and still gets you laughing. DC Your the man, keep producing this stuff because it is the best stuff I've heard in a while.

  • More, please! Fabulously funny.
    author: Denise

    Great CD--we're still reciting lines from it--and laughing. Leaves us wanting MORE from DC Benny, so get working on another one SOON!

  • DC Benny delivers!
    author: Steve Turner

    A hilarious CD, leaving me anxious for more. DC Benny is quick-witted and clever, and this has left quite a few people I've played it for busting a gut! If you've never heard his material, get this ASAP, and check out his website, for that has some cool clips as well!

  • Amazing to say the least
    author: Elvin

    DC Benny is a comic genius. I laughed the whole time.and when the cd ended I played it again. There's alot of lackluster comics out there, and DC is definately NOT one of them. He's genuinely funny, just look at his discussion with the hecklers. When he releases a new cd I'll definately buy it.

  • more please!!!
    author: kim

    I put the cd in my player the moment I received it in the mail and it didn't disappoint. All I can say is, I need MORE!!! I want MORE!!! DC's humor and impressions are so funny and such a portrait of NYC. I'll be waiting for your new CD, DVD or whatever project you will be doing next.

  • Hilarious
    author: Cathy

    Very funny, not too dirty. Only complaint is it's too short.

  • genius, had me driving off the road in laugher
    author: Gordie

    unagi GOOD!! god i laugh at it every time, i've already shared this cd w/all of my friends. your fan club grows my friend

  • Hilarious
    author: Bobby and Janet Kennedy

    Great comedy CD, keeps you laughing from beginning to end!

  • Plenty of belly laughs throughout this nearly 40-minute disc
    author: William Kraken

    In an effort to convince the audience that they are just talking to friends and not performing a string of premeditated jokes, some comics stock their sets with bits based on believable premises. The idea is that whether these bits are pure fiction, 100 percent true or a combination of those scenarios, the listener theoretically should believe every word coming out of the comic’s mouth. As in, it’s funny because it’s true. Then some comics deal in the absurd, which is when realistic constructs are abandoned in favor of bizarre musings. On Funny Mother Flower, Brooklyn-based comic, D.C. Benny combines reality and absurdity – many times in the same joke – and proves the marriage of these strategies makes for a valuable formula. This recipe is strong in effect when he tells the D.C. Improv about the time he took a yoga class at his wife’s urging. Forced to wear pajama pants because he had no clean sweats, things go awry when a heated exchange with another class member results in his dick popping out of his pants. Absurdity also meets reality when Benny tells his hilarious cab story, wherein a New York City cab ride turns into an “Indian Nascar event” when another taxi driver challenges Benny’s driver to a race across the Brooklyn Bridge. Benny also finds humor in the mundane, like when he chews over his experiences with his dentist: “The dentist brings me into the office and starts digging in my mouth. He’s like ‘There’s some bleeding from your gums. You must not be brushing.’” Benny’s response? “That wouldn’t have anything to do with that metal fucking hook, would it?” And if you’ve seen Benny’s Comedy Central Presents, you’ll recognize his now classic bit about how he was forced to take Luwanda, a 300-pound cheerleader, to the prom. Hint: That’s what happens when you grow up poor in Washington, DC and Popeyes biscuits – which were as good or better than cash – are used against you. Throughout Funny Mother Flower, Benny does a great job grounding his material with situations his audience could relate to but then adding hilarious fantasy in a way that his fans could never do on their own. The result: plenty of belly laughs throughout this nearly 40-minute disc.

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