Biographie
Jeffrey Gurian's comedy writing career really began when Alan Zweibel of SNL fame saw his videos and sent him to see his manager way back in 1977. His next big break was when Rodney Dangerfield started performing his jokes on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Since then he's worked with performers that have ranged from legends like Milton Berle, ( his original sponsor in The Friars Club), and Jerry Lewis, to comics like Richard Belzer, the late Phil Hartman, Gilbert Gottfried, Joan Rivers, Pat Cooper, Pauly Shore, Dice Clay, George Wallace, and most recently Kevin Hart, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney.
Jeffrey holds the honor of being the first to be pranked with Too Much Tuna by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Comedy Central's Kroll Show.
He was a regular for two years on Sirius XM's Bennington Show bringing on celebrity guests/friends like Trevor Noah, D.L. Hughley, Robert Smigel, Colin Quinn, Susie Essman, and Russell Peters to name a few.
Paul Provenza, the director of the hit film "The Aristocrats", wrote the forward to Jeffrey's first book, " Filthy, Funny, and Totally Offensive" in 2007, based on his many years of writing for the famed Friars Roasts.
The book is packed with the favorite nasty jokes of more than 250 stand-ups and celebs from all areas of entertainment, including Drew Carey, Jason Alexander, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Adam Ferrara, Chris Elliott, Jeffrey Ross, Artie Lange, Lisa Lampanelli, Ice-T, The Sopranos, and many more.
Jeffrey's writing for the legendary Weekly World News led him to have his own column called "Gurian's World of the Bizarre", where he reported on stories like "Tap Dancing For The Criminally Insane", and "Man Paints Replica of the Sistine Chapel With His Beard" which led him to launch an animated short film "news" series.
Produced by GNN (Gurian News Network) it features "All The News That's Fit To Dance To", with animated stories like "Man Robs Bank With His Chin", " George Washington Wore Wooden Pants", and "Man With Infant's Head Sues For Discrimination", which were shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in the Short Film Corner. GNN also produces short bizarre "news" stories made specifically for radio stations.
Jeffrey has written two award winning films, one feature called "Face to Face" AKA "Italian Ties", and one short, "I Am Woody". In 2021 he has two films in pre-production with feature film producer Noel Ashman. One is a romantic comedy called "Baby and Max" a love story about a very unlikely couple, and the other is called "Men of Violence" his first non-comedy project, a gangster/martial arts film.
He's written 7 books. one of which, "Make Em Laugh" went along with co-producing a documentary film on the history of The Comic Strip, the longest running comedy club in New York City, with owner Richie Tienken, who opened that club in 1976.
He interviewed Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, Billy Crystal, Lewis Black, Susie Essman, Colin Quinn, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Breuer, Lisa Lampanelli, Ray Romano, and many others. He has been a regular guest on many radio shows, both comedy and of a serious nature and has been featured on many TV news shows and networks due to his multiple careers.
Jeffrey created the comedy variety show "Uncle Nat's Traveling Peep Show", he co-produced the Hamptons Comedy Festival in 2004, which was a fund-raiser for Comedy Fights Cancer, and has been writing the national celeb-based entertainment column/Vlog Comedy Matters since 1999. It's an inside look at the comedy world, currently in The Interrobang and on You Tube as Comedy Matters TV with well over 2 million views.
He is also a doctor, a former Professor at NYU in the Oral Medicine/Oro-Facial Pain Department, and is on the Board of The Assoc. For Spirituality and Psychotherapy for the last twenty years. He is a lecturer at Energy psychology conferences, an author, a playwright, a comedian, and he developed a cure for Stuttering, which he used to cure himself, and now works with Stutterers all over the world.
He often appears on radio shows to discuss his Energy Healing techniques for treating stress-related illness and Depression, and as a result of his last two books on Happiness becoming Best Sellers on Amazon he's become a motivational speaker who has done several online conferences during the pandemic.
A documentary film was made about him that premiered in July of 2020 called "Who The F*ck Is Jeffrey Gurian" which can be seen on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tSiROK60A
He's a Renaissance man in the true sense of the word.
