“I interviewed Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser , Gilbert Gottfried, Susie Essman,” and the list goes on. “So many of them started their careers at that location. And it’s still open today.” New comics keep launching careers there, and several have gone on to become SNL cast members, like Colin Jost, Jay Pharoah, and Pete Davidson, so a new, updated version of the book, retitled “Laughing Legends,” from Skyhorse Publishing, is due out on July 5th, 2016.
There is yet another way you could possibly know Jeffrey Gurian. You might have heard him say, “Open wide.” Jeffrey Gurian had what some might be tempted to call a secret identity – as Dr. Jeffrey Gurian, a successful cosmetic dentist.
“While I was writing for Rodney [Dangerfield] and Joan Rivers, and the Friar’s Roasts, I was a cosmetic dentist,” he confesses. “When I was 12 years old, I decided I wanted to be a dentist, and I was already writing comedy. So my whole life was that split.”
But it doesn’t end there. After pursuing a successful second career rebuilding smiles, he became a teacher. More specifically, a clinical professor at NYU School of Dentistry, in the Oral Medicine/Oro-Facial Pain Dept.
“My specialty was taking away headaches with just my hands. No medication and no injections.” Gurian says he was and still is a strong believer in energy healing. “They allowed me to do that when I was at NYU, and they let me lecture to the graduate students and attending doctors on my techniques of “Healing Thru Touch.” Healing, Spirituality and Energy Work are a big part of his life. He also developed a cure for stuttering which he used to cure himself of a severe stutter which he suffered with into his twenties and beyond.
Jeffrey With Judd Apatow
Jeffrey With Ellie Kemper
Jeffrey With Amy Poehler
Jeffrey With Amy Schumer