Arlington Drafthouse Presents
An Evening with Dave Barry
Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a
syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United
States and abroad. In 1988 he won the
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how
this happened.
Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although
virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used
as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry
Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.
Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the
Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan,
Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are
extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the
David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair
of men's underpants with a Barbie doll.
In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of
the United States.
If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever
is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.
Dave lives in Miami, Florida,
with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has a son, Rob, and a daughter,
Sophie, neither of whom thinks he's funny.