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Sleepless Nights

Comedian Dave Attell's insomnia
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The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

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ave Attell has had his
share of adventures on the
road — all after hours.
"I can't sleep," confides
the affable New York comic. "I have
insomnia. So I do a show, I go out
drinking, and I usually don't hook
up, because I look like Dave Attell,
not [rock star] Dave Matthews."
The scruffy, balding comedian may
be the first person ever to turn his
health problem into a TV show. In
Insomniac With Dave Attell (Comedy
Central, Sundays at 11:30 p.m.) he
prowls city streets to meet people
who work and play in the wee hours.
He rides with a mortuary pickup
service in San Francisco; saddles up
with the Federation of Black
Cowboys in Brooklyn; shmoozes
with garbage workers at a New York
waste transfer station and hangs with
the caretaker of a bullfighting ring in
Tijuana.
"I also visit a fortune cookie facto-
ry, which is like a love letter to
myself because I'm Jewish," he quips.
His cinema verite-style show blends

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late-night block (Insomniac and The
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Though the Nielsen wars promise
to be bloody, Attell won't ridicule
interviewees to boost ratings. "We're
not like Tom Green or [the MTV
show] Jackass, where they use real
people as foils," he insists. Rather, he
sees Insomniac as an alternative to
beautiful-people travelogues such as
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"If you're a hot model and you go
to the Bahamas, you're probably
going to have a good time," he says.
"But if you're Joe Shmo and you live
in Pittsburgh, there's got to be some-
thing for you to do at night, too."

Self-Deprecating Shtick

Thirty-six-year-old Attell, who grew up
a Reform Jew in Rockville Center,
N.Y., believes he turned to comedy for

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