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Dan Finnerty Biography
Dan Finnerty is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is the lead singer of the cult hit comedy group he created called The Dan Band, which Entertainment Weekly dubbed “the hottest ticket in Hollywood.” The live show was filmed in Los Angeles as a one-hour concert special Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band: I Am Woman on the Bravo channel, directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
Dan Finnerty Age
Dan was born 22 January 1970 and he is 49 years as of 2019.
Dan Finnerty Net Worth
Dan Finnerty is an American actor and singer who has a net worth of $2 million.
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Dan Finnerty And The Dan Band
The Dan Band is a comedy band created by actor/comedian Dan Finnerty.
The band is known for its covers of originally female-performed pop songs, with added obscenities and swearing, made famous by Finnerty’s appearance in the films Old School and The Hangover
Finnerty has appeared in the hit movies Old School (singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Lady”), The Terminal, Starsky & Hutch, where he performed Roberta Flack’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love” at a bat mitzvah, and The Hangover (performing “Candy Shop” and “Fame”) in a wedding scene reminiscent of his appearance in Old School.
In 2005, they released The Dan Band Live, their live full-length debut album. They gained attention due to their expletive-heavy version of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” as well as their cover versions of “Lady” by Styx, “Milkshake” by Kelis, Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” and many others.
They filmed a one-hour concert special of their live show called Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band: I Am Woman, for the Bravo network, which was directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
The band released a Christmas LP called Ho: A Dan Band Xmas. The album consists completely of original Dan Band songs, with no covers. Songs on the album include “Ho, Ho, Ho” (a smooth R&B Christmas song about a prostitute), “Merry Christmakwanzakah”, “Please Don’t Bomb Nobody This Holiday” and “I Wanna Rock U Hard This Christmas” with a video featuring Florence Henderson from The Brady Bunch making the moves on Santa at a retirement home. The video for “Please Don’t Bomb Nobody This Holiday” featured many celebrity cameos, including Sheryl Crow, Christina Applegate, Nicole Scherzinger from The Pussycat Dolls, Kyle Gass from Tenacious D, Neil Patrick Harris, Meg Ryan, Macy Gray, Christopher Guest, among others.
In addition to their numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, they have been seen as the house band on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Pajama Party and Spike TV’s Spike Guys’ Choice Awards 2009 as well as appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show, and Last Call with Carson Daly. Finnerty wrote and performed the finale song for the NBC show Last Comic Standing and was a regular comedy correspondent on The Jay Leno Show and continued on as a correspondent on the new The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performing all original material for the show.
In 2015, the band released their third album, entitled The Wedding Album, a mixture of covers and originals, featuring collaborations with Nicole Scherzinger, Train, Nuno Bettencourt, Bridget Everett, and Rob Thomas.
Finnerty recently co-wrote the song “Look At Her” with American Idol musical director Michael Orland and performed it in the Netflix movie Dumplin’ starring Jennifer Aniston.
Dan Finnerty Movies
. The Princess and the Pea
. Old Scool
. The Terminal
. Extreme Movie
. I Hate Valentines
. The Hangover
, Bench Seat
. Rock os Ages
. Dumplin
Dan Finnerty Candy Shop Video
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Dan Finnerty Wife
Finnerty was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in the small town of Bath, New York. He attended Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the hit off-Broadway show Stomp in New York City. In August 1998, he married actress Kathy Najimy. Gloria Steinem officiated the ceremony. The couple has one daughter, musician Samia Finnerty born December 1996.
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He is the lead singer of the cult hit comedy group he created called The Dan Band, which Entertainment Weekly dubbed “the hottest ticket in Hollywood.” The live show was filmed in Los Angeles as a one-hour concert special Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band: I Am Woman on the Bravo channel, directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
Finnerty gained fame for his hilariously foul-mouthed rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as the wedding singer at Will Ferrell’s wedding in the movie Old School, directed by Todd Phillips. Phillips continued to feature Dan, as the sleazy bat-mitzvah singer in Starsky & Hutch and again as the irreverent wedding singer in The Hangover, which broke all box office records becoming the number one comedy movie of all time.
After seeing The Dan Band, Steven Spielberg cast him in The Terminal and signed on to executive produce his comedy special.
Finnerty originated the role of Lonny in the world premiere of “Rock of Ages” in Los Angeles along with Kyle Gass from Tenacious D and made a cameo appearance in the film version of “Rock of Ages” as the tour manager for Stacee Jaxx played by Tom Cruise.
He appeared over 15 times as a comedy correspondent on “The Jay Leno Show” and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
“The Dan Band” has released 3 albums:
The Dan Band Live, the full-length CD of his live show released by Side One Dummy Records.
Ho. A Dan Band Xmas, featuring all original holiday songs, with videos for “I Wanna Rock U Hard This Christmas” featuring Florence Henderson from The Brady Bunch making the moves on Santa at a retirement home, as well as the anthemic “Please Don’t Bomb Nobody This Holiday,” featuring celebrity cameos including Sheryl Crow, Christina Applegate, Nicole Scherzinger, Kyle Gass from Tenacious D, Neil Patrick Harris, Meg Ryan, Donald Faison, Macy Gray, Christopher Guest, Cheri Oteri, Rachael Harris, Kathy Najimy, Nia Vardalos, Ian Gomez, Nathan Fillion, Ricki Lake, Michael Johns, Janeane Garofalo, Lauren Tom, Gia Carides and Matthew Perry.
The Wedding Album, released 2015 through Comedy Dynamics includes collaborations with Nicole Scherzinger, Rob Thomas, Bridget Everett, Nuno Bettencourt, and TRAIN.
The Dan Band appeared numerous times on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show, Last Call with Carson Daly’ and as the house band on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Pajama Party, and Spike TV’s Spike Guys’ Choice Awards. Finnerty also wrote and performed the finale song for the final season of Last Comic Standing.
In March 2017, AT&T announced that Finnerty would appear in advertisements for DIRECTV during March Madness, co-starring with Greg Gumbel. The spots feature Finnerty performing the Aerosmith song “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”, with lyrics tailored to each scene.
He recently appeared in the Netflix film Dumplin’ starring Jennifer Aniston as pageant host Eugene Reed, performing the song “Look At Her” which he co-wrote with American Idol musical director Michael Orland.
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Dan Finnerty Total Eclipse Of The Heart
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and released on Tyler’s fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983). The song was released as a single by Columbia Records on 11 February 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 31 May 1983 in the United States.
The song became Tyler’s biggest career hit, topping the UK Singles Chart, and becoming the fifth-best-selling single in 1983 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the single spent four weeks at the top of the charts and was Billboard’s number-six song of the year for 1983. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Worldwide, the single has sales in excess of 6 million copies and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 1 million copies after its release, updated to Platinum in 2001 when the certification threshold changed. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation’s third favorite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.
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See you tonight d’Anaheim!
We go on right at 9! https://t.co/2fmWofVTFz— dan finnerty (@thedanband) July 20, 2019