Richard Dahm is an American

United States

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 comedy

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 writer

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 from Wisconsin

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. A Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer for The Colbert Report, he has also written for Dennis Miller Live

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 and Da Ali G Show

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.

Dahm attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 in the late 1980s, where his professional career began as a writer for the then-new The Onion

The Onion

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. He is the author of The Cultural Idiocy Quiz and co-author of several other humor books. An Emmy Award winner, Dahm currently resides in New York.

Works

The Cultural Idiocy Quiz, Adams Media Corp, 1997. ISBN 1-55850-796-5
Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15, Three Rivers Press, 2004. ISBN 1-4000-5455-9

Rich is also a founding member of the 3-D House of Beer and a regular at Camp Funship.

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