The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Tonight Show  with Johnny Carson EMMY Award Individual Achievement in Writing Cable Ace Award Nominee  Writer's Guild Award Nominee Winner:  San Francisco International  Stand-Up Comedy Competition 70 National Television Appearances

WRITER       Mike Dugan has written on television series, pilots, or specials for a long list of comedians, including Dennis Miller, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Tom Arnold, Rich Hall, Paul Rodriguez, Stephanie Miller,  and even George Hamilton. In 1994  he received, along with five other writers, an Emmy Award  for writing on the first season of  'Dennis Miller: Live' on HBO.  The show's writers were also nominated for Cable Ace and Writers Guild of America Awards. Mike also co-created with Rich Hall the TV pilot "Rich Hall's Badly Funded Think Tank", filmed for the BBC.    PERFORMER            Mike Dugan has performed extensively throughout America,  appearing at comedy clubs, colleges, corporate events, and as an opening act for musical artists such as Roy Orbison, Ricki Lee Jones, Chuck Berry, Harry Belafonte, and Shawn Colvin.        Mike grew up in Ramsey, New Jersey and began performing stand up comedy as a regular at New York's famed  'Improv' Comedy Club in 1985. In early 1987 he set out for San Francisco's 'Holy City Zoo' Comedy Club to experience what was then the "hands down best comedy scene in the country", and by the end of 1988 he had won the prestigious San Francisco International Stand-up Comedy Competition, capping off the month-long event with two shows for  six thousand comedy fans at Davies Symphony Hall. A move to Los Angeles quickly led to a shot on 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson'. Johnny raved, and that debut was followed by over seventy television appearances, including one more spot on "Johnny" before his retirement and another appearance with Jay Leno - making Mike one of only a handful of comics to have appeared on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny and Jay.  Dugan spent two years touring throughout Europe and the UK while developing Men Fake Foreplay, and has performed 'Men Fake Foreplay' in London, Paris, Amsterdam, and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.