Dave Dameshek

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William David Dameshek (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Jewish American television writer and radio personality from Pittsburgh, PA. Dameshek is best known as the former sports reporter on the syndicated morning radio program The Adam Carolla Show. Dave met his wife, Cindi, while working at The Man Show. The couple are expecting their first child, a girl.

[edit] Career

Dameshek came to Los Angeles in 1999 to work in comedy writing and radio broadcasting. For the better part of two years, he wrote for various cable television shows, including Fox Sports Net's Sports Geniuses and Comedy Central's Battlebots. His first big break, though, came in 2001, when he was hired as a writer on Comedy Central's The Man Show, where he would work for the show's third and fourth seasons.

During that time, Dameshek became the co-host of a Fox Sports Radio show with radio veteran Kent Voss. The show became a national late-night institution for the better part of four months. He also wrote and/or appeared in a handful of Jimmy Kimmel's popular segment on Fox's NFL pre-game show.

Dameshek then moved on to write for the second and third seasons of Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, as well as I'm with Busey and Trigger Happy TV. In 2002, he began writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Along with his main responsibility of working on the show's nightly monologue, he made a number of appearances on the show.

In 2004, Dameshek became the weekly sports correspondent on Los Angeles' FM Indie 103.1's 'Mighty Morning Show' – hosted by Dickie Barrett, while making periodic appearances on regional and national ESPN Radio programs.

Dameshek received his undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from Indiana University. While there, he had a bad experience interviewing Bobby Knight, the coach during of the Hoosiers during that time. In which he was shot down plenty of times by him while completing a story on him. He then moved to Chicago.

His birthday is June 11.

On December 17, 2006, Dameshek wrote on 'The Adam Carolla Show' message board that he had been fired and would be replaced by Danny Bonaduce. [1] On December 21, 2006 CBS made an official announcement on the addition of Bonaduce as Dave's replacement.[2]

On January 27, 2007, Dave Dameshek debuted a 2 hour solo show on 101.5 Free Fm in Phoenix, the show ran on the following day as well and included Jimmy Kimmel as a phone guest. It is unknown if there will be any more shows although Dave insinuated he was hopeful for a job at the station.