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Dave Gorman (born March 2, 1971 in Stafford,
England) is a documentary-comedian and list of
humorists|humorist. He performs comedy shows on
stage in which he tells true stories of extreme
adventures and presents the evidence to the
audience in order to prove to them that, unlike in
most other stage presentations, it is a true
story. He is a former stand-up comedian.

==Are you Dave Gorman?==


Dave Gorman shot to fame following a drunken bet
with his friend Danny Wallace (writer)|Danny
Wallace.  The bet was thus: Dave claimed that he
shared the name "Dave Gorman" with the assistant
manager of East Fife F.C. and that there must be
"loads" of others around.  Danny disagreed with
him.  So the two travelled to East Fife (from
London—several hundred miles), with a video
camera, to meet the assistant manager, whose name
was indeed Dave Gorman.  More trips followed to
meet more Dave Gormans.

Thus far the bet was fairly vague, but on the way
to meet Dave Gormans numbers four and five, they
debated what "loads" meant.  Danny decided on one
for every playing cards|card in the deck.  That is
54 (including jokers).

To aid the search, which by his own admission
became scarily serious, Dave created a stage-show
about their travels that was also used to appeal
for further Dave Gormans to come forward. The show
was called Are You Dave Gorman?.  This acquired
something of a cult following and several people
helped Dave in his quest, which he did eventually
complete. (Five even changed their names by deed
poll to Dave Gorman).

All this came to the attention of the BBC, who
gave Dave a series, co-written and co-produced by
Danny, entitled The Dave Gorman Collection, which
took the form of televised lectures, in which he
explained what he had done.  Later a book entitled
Are You Dave Gorman? was written by the two of
them. 

Once the TV show existed Dave stopped touring the
show in the UK, instead taking it to several
overseas festivals and later running the show for
3 months off-Broadway, a run which saw Dave
appearing as a fully-fledged guest on The Late
Show With David Letterman. 

Two Australian soap operas have named fictional
characters Dave Gorman as an in-joke and the
comedian has been bombarded with so many e-mails
about it that he has had to publicly appeal to
people to stop sending him details of other Dave
Gormans. He was, after all, only trying to meet
54. At the time of writing he has met 107.

==Dave Gorman's important astrology experiment==

His second television series was entitled Dave
Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment, and was
quite a novel and unexpected idea for a comedy
show, being based upon the idea of a controlled
Experiment|scientific experiment, although
naturally not a serious one.

The premise was that it would test whether or not
astrology really worked. Over the course of forty
days, he would try to follow any instructions
given to people with his Astrological sign|star
sign in a selection of horoscopes, while his
"control experiment" (his twin brother, Nick)
ignored them. Each would record the events of each
day, and how they fared in each of three areas of
life: love, health, and wealth. On each episode of
the show, Dave would show footage of the amusing
situations he got into by trying to follow his
horoscope, and then asked a panel of "experts" in
the studio to assess how he had fared in the three
areas. Following an audience vote, Dave would
display on a "happiness graph" the difference
between how he and his twin brother had fared that
week, and whether it showed that astrology had
produced a positive effect, a negative effect, or
no significant effect at all. To reveal its
conclusion would perhaps spoil the ending for
anyone who has not seen it, and would in any case
not add greatly to human knowledge, as it was all
just a bit of fun.



==Dave Gorman's googlewhack adventure==

In 2003 he toured United Kingdom|Britain with a
show entitled Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure,
and published a book of the same name.  It is
another true story.  While pretending to write a
novel for his publisher (Random House) Dave became
obsessed with Googlewhacks and travelled across
the world finding people who had authored them. 
This show was premiered at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival and then went on to
sell out for a two week run at the Sydney Opera
House (albeit in its smallest venue: Studio
Theatre). It also sold out in a major venue at the
2003 Edinburgh Fringe before embarking on a major
UK tour of 75 shows in the space of 3 months. It
won Dave the award for Best One Person Show at the
HBO US Comedy Arts Show in Aspen, Colorado, an
award he had previously won for the show "Are You
Dave Gorman?" He ended up writing a book about his
Googlewhack Adventure which went on to be the
Sunday Times Number One Best Seller. During his
"Googlewhack Adventure", Gorman had a nervous
breakdown which he discusses frankly in the show.

In 2004 a DVD of the Googlewhack adventure was
released.

In 2005 he tours the USA with his Googlewhack
show.

Before his solo successes, Dave was in demand as a
writer, having co-written three series of The Mrs
Merton Show as well as writing for many other
Television|TV series(episodes?) in the United
Kingdom|UK. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer
as one of the Observer's 50 funniest|50 funniest
acts in British comedy.