Scott Blakeman is a standup who doesn't dumb down. His comedy is a warm, likeable blend of progressive political and contemporary Jewish humor.

And Scott stands out as a comedian who knows what's appropriate and what's funny, for all age groups and venues, from Bar Mitzvahs to corporate events.

He has made more than thirty national television appearances, including Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and co-host of several political humor segments on NBC's "Sunday Today".

Scott was the warmup comedian for the Late Show with David Letterman and the CBS comedy series Welcome To New York.

He can be heard regularly on National Public Radio.

Scott co-founded Standup for Peace:The Two Comedian Solution to Middle East Peace with Palestinian-American comedian Dean Obeidallah and they perform their highly acclaimed evening of Jewish and Arab-American comedy for colleges, theaters, Jewish Community Centers, and Temples across the country.

Blakeman was a regular political humorist on USA Live on the USA Network, and was the host of "Headliners", a television pilot that took a comedic look at the week in review. He was also the host of A Night at the New School, a live weekly cable talk show.

Scott was a writer/performer on the ABC late-night series "Where's The Party?" and has appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and "Caroline's Comedy Hour", as well as Comedy Central's "Comics Only". He was also featured on a PBS special "Why Bother Voting?", and the PBS show "Adam Smith".

He was featured on Middag Editie, a national television show in the Netherlands, as part of his tour of comedy clubs in Amsterdam and Utrecht, where he also appeared at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

Other performances abroad include the Bar Mitzvah Show at the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

For the past 21 years, Scott Blakeman has taught a Stand-up Comedy Workshop at The New School in New York. The class has been featured on WABC-TV, PBS, The Village Voice and Newsday, and was the subject of a documentary film for Touchstone Pictures.

Among his many commercial appearances, Blakeman received national acclaim as the straight actor who played the part of a gay man in the history-making Ikea television commercial, which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Television and Radio, and was named one of the 50 best commercials of all time by Entertainment Weekly magazine.

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