834 Comedian and Awesome person Dean Edwards
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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It's the Friday show so no news recap just me and my guest who today is an old friend from my years in the new York city comedy scene who I greatly admire respect and truly love Dean Edwards.
Dean Edwards is an American actor, comedian and writer. Most notably recognized for his two year tenure as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Edwards is best known for his multitude of remarkable celebrity impressions that include Denzel Washington, Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Mo’Nique, Chris Rock, 50 Cent, and Eddie Murphy. Recently, Dean showcased his amazing talents in his first comedy special, Netflix’s Tiffany Haddish Presents: THEY READY, Season 2.
Edwards’ filmography includes supporting roles in Top Five, Spiderman 3 and Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding. He has had guest appearances on Hulu’s supernatural comedy series, Deadbeat, as well as HBO’s The Sopranos. Dean also spent 2 years creating and workshopping the character of “Donkey” in Dreamworks’ SHREK THE MUSICAL on Broadway. This led to his being chosen as Eddie Murphy’s vocal double, voicing the role of Donkey in Dreamworks’ animated Halloween special, Scared Shrekless and countless other Shrek related projects. Dean has also built an extensive career as an in demand voice over actor for video games and commercials, as well as television and film.
Most recently, Dean wrapped filming the independent film, Write It Black. On television Dean voiced Corey Booker, Common and various roles on the 2nd & 3rd season of Showtime’s television series, Our Cartoon President. His talents were also just showcased on multiple episodes of Robert Smigel’s new FOX series, Let’s Be Real as well as appearing on HBO’s Game Theory with Bomani Jones.
As a stand-up comedian, Dean is an in-demand headliner at comedy clubs worldwide: with his 2019 tour making stops overseas in Qatar, China and Saudi Arabia. Dean was also one of the highlights at recent Dubai Comedy Festival.
Dean is currently starring in RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY, which premieres during the New York Theatre Festival in June, 2022. He is also producing a historic project and a lifestyle, cooking show, both in various stages of development with Silent Crow Arts Productions, as well as a writing a project with Tiffany Haddish’s, She Ready Productions. Stay Tuned.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bear Bones Friday show, which means basically usually I have one or two guests. |
| 0:08.0 | Often it's Christian Finnegan, sometimes Christian and Ophira Eisenberg, who I'm going to be talking to actually later today |
| 0:16.0 | and I'll drop that later today as well for the weekend. |
| 0:19.0 | And I know this one's up a little bit late here on a Friday morning, but that's because you kept me up late. |
| 0:25.0 | At a Thursday night hangout with stand-up listeners, subscribers over 50 of you were there. We had a great, great time. |
| 0:31.0 | Last night was one for the ages, for sure. If you're not at our hangouts and you are a subscriber, you ought to come by, keep your camera off. |
| 0:38.0 | You can just hang out if you want. And if you're not a subscriber, you ought to sign up. Standupapete.com right now. |
| 0:45.0 | So today I have an old friend of mine on the show. He's one of the most respected comedians in the game. |
| 0:53.0 | And he has been for a really, really long time. Dean Edwards joins me here for the first time on the podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | And I couldn't be more excited for you to hear our conversation. He is a hilarious comedian, he's a writer, an actor, |
| 1:06.0 | probably most notably recognized for his two-year, ten-year as a cast member. |
| 1:10.0 | At NBC's Selenette Live, he's known for his multitude of remarkably amazing celebrity impressions from Denzel Washington, |
| 1:19.0 | Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Monique, Chris Rock, 50-cent, Eddie Murphy, of course, Tracy Morgan, who we get to hear from today. |
| 1:25.0 | He recently showcases hilarious, amazing talents in his first comedy special. Netflix's Tiffany Haddish presents, they ready season two, which you should go watch. |
| 1:36.0 | Here's just a quick snippet of Tiffany Haddish talking about Dean before he comes out and performs on that special. I thought this was pretty cool. |
| 1:44.0 | Dean Edwards is one of my favorites. Over the years, we have done many, many shows together. |
| 1:49.0 | We have had some crazy experiences, we have seen a lot of wild stuff, been at some parties and whatnot. And that man has protected me. |
| 1:57.0 | Now, Dean is a powerhouse of impersonations. He also was on SNL, and I feel like they didn't allow him to really showcase his talent the way that I believe he should have. |
| 2:08.0 | And so, because he was my guardian angel, I would like to be an angel to him, and here we are today. |
| 2:15.0 | All right, there you go, that's Tiffany Haddish talking about my guest today, Dean Edwards, who I go way back with. |
| 2:20.0 | Dean and I have known each other for a really long time, which is why I was so honored and flattered when he talked about. |
| 2:26.0 | Well, he paid me some nice compliments here in our conversation, which made my day hearing it from him. |
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