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January 1, 2003
About Dan Margarita
When the comedy boom erupted in the 1980's, Dan Margarita decided to fulfill a lifelong dream. Venturing to the Stitches comedy club in Boston, Dan appeared at an open mike night, and a career was born. His initial success led him to be invited to perform at the first WBCN/Stiches Comedy Riot.
The Boston Globe's Steve Morse declared that Dan had "a promising flare for the absurd." After developing and honing his act, Dan soon began getting paid work in the Boston area and before long at clubs and colleges all over the country. Dan made a number of television appearances including The Good Day Show (Boston, Ma.) and The Late Shift with Kevin Stevens (Ft. Wayne, In.). Dan has performed with such notable comics as Sam Kinison, Lenny Clarke and political satirists Jimmy Tingle and Barry Crimmins.
He was also a member of such sketch comedy groups as Cross Comedy, led by David Cross of HBO's Mr. Show and The Sketch Society.
When the comedy boom began to subside in the 90's, Dan, tiring of the road, put pen to paper, writing occasional humor columns for his local paper, The Stoneham Independent. By the late 90's the column had become quite popular in Stoneham and the paper asked Dan to make it a weekly feature, thus was born Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville. It has appeared in other publications including, The Wilmington Town Crier, The Wakefield Daily Item, The Stoneham Sun and the noted Editorial Humor magazine, which features editorial cartoons and humor from around the world.
Posted by dmargarita at January 1, 2003 6:31 PM