Craig Gass
(born February 15, 1970 in Mount Vernon, NY) is an American stand-up comedian known for his impressions of celebrities.
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Biography
Gass has been "performing stand-up comedy since 1993 when he decided to get revenge on a group of comedians who had ridiculed him for attempting to perform at an
open mic."
He acquired his peculiar talent of
imitating characters and
actors by learning to speak as a child from watching
television. Both his parents and sister are completely
deaf. With his family unable to serve as a model for how to speak, Gass grew up imitating the voices on TV .
Career
Radio work
Many radio listeners have probably heard Gass's voice at one time or another, but may not have known it. He has been heard on several radio programs like
The Howard Stern Show
, "The Dan Lebatard Show
,The Kidd Chris Show
(Philadelphia),
The Steve Dahl Show
(Chicago),
KRQQ,
The Frank Show,
The Mikey Show
(San Diego),
The Marconi Show
(Portland),
92 KQRS Morning Show
(Minneapolis/Saint Paul),
The BJ Shea Morning Experience
(Seattle), Bob Rivers Twisted Radio (Seattle),
The Johnny Dare Morning Show
(Kansas City),
The Pugs and Kelly Show
(Dallas),
Bobby Bones Show
(Austin),
Drake and Zeke in the Morning
(Memphis),
Toucher and Rich
(Boston), Roger and JP (Long Island NY) and
The Chunga Show
(Salt Lake City). Familiar characters Gass performs include:
- Tom Arnold
- Morgan Freeman
- Sam Kinison
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Dennis Miller
- Tracy Morgan
- Al Pacino
- Adam Sandler
- Gene Simmons
- Paul Stanley
- Lars Ulrich
- Christopher Walken
- Owen Wilson
A Howard Stern fan favorite is Gass's impersonation of
Gary Dell'Abate, also known as
Baba Booey
Television work
In 2002, Gass found work on
HBO's Sex and the City
. He claims to have put on over 30 pounds for his role as Tom "Big Boned" in the episode "Cover Girl". On the Howard Stern Show in December of 2007, Gass told of some intimate details about the time he spent with Cynthia Nixon, with whom he had to perform a sex act for 19 hours his first day on the set of the show.
He co-starred with
Alec Baldwin on
NBC's Las Vegas
in early 2005 where he played a comedian, "Richie Phillips," who would begin his act by stirring people's drinks with his
penis. Gass has related stories about his time on the set telling jokes to Baldwin, James Caan and Josh Duhamel. On "Las Vegas", Gass and Baldwin conspire to rob the casino, only to get caught by James Caan.
In 2004, Gass was hired by Kevin James to play the new driver in the episode "Entertainment Weakly" on
King of Queens. On the show Gass was the new beloved employee at the shipping company, doing impressions for all the fellow employees in the break room. Kevin James' character became very jealous because he wanted to be the "funny guy" at work. In the end, Kevin james sent Gass' character out on a fake delivery route which got Gass into a bad neighborhood where he got beat up and put in a hospital.
In 2007, Gass competed on the television show
The Next Best Thing, performing as an Al Pacino impersonator. While Gass was chosen as a semi-finalist, he was eliminated in the first semi-final round. More recently, Gass roasted
Gene Simmons on
A&E Network.
Gass has recently been hired (as of December 2008) by the animated Fox shows "Family Guy" for his impersonations during dream sequences and other things on the show. In the summer of 2009, his voices started being added to storylines on FOX shows "American Dad" and "Cleveland".
Other television highlights include a guest spot on
Law & Order
as "Mark Grandy," and some commercial work for
AT&T and
Smirnoff.