Barry Lank
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Barry Lank is a comedian, journalist, and founding writer at Air America Radio.
Lank was born in Diamond Bar, California in June, 1960 – the first person born there after the area converted from cattle ranchland to a residential development. He attended high school in Claremont, California, and earned a bachelors degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, a masters in creative writing from San Francisco State in 1996 and a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997.
He began performing as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco in 1982, and three years later formed the comedy team "Lank and Earl" with his high school friend Jim Earl. After the team broke up, he worked as a reporter at "The Hour" in Norwalk, Connecticut, a comedy writer at Court TV, night editor and columnist at the "Herald News" in Passaic County, New Jersey, and editorial writer, editor and columnist at the "Courier-Post" in Camden County, New Jersey, before joining Air America.
Lank wrote and performed on several shows at Air America and delivered the "B.S. News" segment on The Randi Rhodes Show. He now freelances for the network.
