Denis Leary

The close relationship he has developed with the FDNY, as well as individual firefighters across the New York/New England area, has resulted in Leary's most recent television show, Rescue Me, a drama-comedy on FX. 2004 - Academy Awards - Nominated - Best Song - A Mighty Wind (shared with Annette O'Toole). As the foundation's president, Leary has been active in all of the fundraising, and usually presents large checks and donated equipment personally. 2004 - Broadcast Film Critics Assocation Awards - Winner - Best Song - A Mighty Wind (shared with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy). A separate fund run by the Leary's foundation, the Fund for New York's Bravest, has distributed over $2 million (USD) to the families of the 343 firefighters killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as provided funding for necessities such as a new mobile command center, first responder training, and a high-rise simulator for the FDNY's training campus. 2004 - Golden Satellite Awards - Nominated - Best Original Song - A Mighty Wind (shared with Annette O'Toole). In response, the comedian founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation, which has since distributed over $2.5 million (USD) to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston, and New York City areas for equipment, training materials, and new vehicles and facilities. 2004 - Grammy Awards - Winner - Best Song Written for a Motion Picture - A Mighty Wind (shared with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy).

Tommy Spencer. Vanston). Among the dead were Leary's cousin, Jerry Lucey, and his close childhood friend, Lt. 2003 - Seattle Film Critics Awards - Winner - Best Music - A Mighty Wind (shared with Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Annette O'Toole, Harry Shearer and Jeffrey C.J. On December 3, 1999, 6 firefighters from Leary's hometown of Worcester were killed in a massive warehouse fire. 2003 - DVD Exclusive Awards - Nominated - Best Animated Character Performance - The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (shared with Ritsuko Notani). However, many other comedians - including Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Colin Quinn, and Lenny Clarke - have formed close personal and professional relationships with Leary, which suggests that the opinion of him as a material thief is not shared by everyone within the profession. 2001 - DVD Exclusive Awards - Winner - Best DVD Audio Commentary - This is Spinal Tap (shared with Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer)'.

While it has never been proven that Leary took any of his jokes from other comedians (a claim he fiercely denies), some comedians (notably Joe Rogan and Greg Giraldo) and especially fans loyal to Hicks consider aspects of Leary's act and persona to be stolen. He is currently on Broadway in a production of Hairspray and is also apparently writing his own musical with O'Toole. The friendship ended as a result, though Leary has said he wanted to patch things up before Hicks died in 1994. Along with O'Toole, McKean had written a love song A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow which was then featured in the film, and was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award. For many years, Leary had been friends with fellow comedian Bill Hicks. However, when Hicks heard Leary's 1993 release No Cure For Cancer, he decided Leary was stealing his material, due to the perceived similarity in topics covered and some punchlines of Hicks', particularly those on Hicks' releases of 1989 (Sane Man) and 1990 (Dangerous). In 2003, he appeared in the Christopher Guest comedy A Mighty Wind. Leary also produces numerous movies, television shows, and specials, including Comedy Central's Shorties Watching Shorties and the movie Blow, through his production company, Apostle. McKean played Perry White, who - in the Superman universe - ultimately becomes Clark Kent's boss.

He also provided voices for characters in animated films such as Ice Age and A Bug's Life. In 2003, he guest starred on Smallville, the Superman prequel on which his wife starred as Martha Kent. Although he says he is most at home on stage doing stand-up, Leary has appeared as an actor in over 40 movies, including The Match Maker, The Virgin Suicides, The Ref, Wag the Dog, and Demolition Man. The character appeared on their short-lived spin-off series in 2001, and then returned to The X-Files in its final season for an episode called Jump the Shark. Due to its explicit and controversial content, however, it received limited airplay on mainstream American radio stations. The character was a success, and reappeared in 1999's Three of a Kind, an episode which focused on the recurring characters of The Lone Gunmen. It was voted #1 in a major Australian youth radio poll, the Triple J Hottest 100, and the video became a late-night MTV staple. In 1998, he guest starred in a two-part episode of The X-Files called Dreamland in which his character, Morris Fletcher, switched bodies with Fox Mulder.

In 1994, his sardonic commentary song on the American lower-middle-class male, "Asshole", achieved much notoriety. Recent TV guest appearances include The Simpsons, Family Guy, Star Trek: Voyager, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law. No Cure for Cancer was written with contributions from the English comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel when Leary was forced to stay over in London for a short period due to his son's premature birth there and ensuing health problems. His more recent films have included Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Mystery, Alaska (1999), Best in Show (2000) (in which he reunited with Christopher Guest), Little Nicky (2000), The Guru (2002) and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003). He has also released two records of his stand-up comedy: No Cure for Cancer (1993) and Lock n' Load (1997). In 1999, with two children from a previous marriage, McKean married Annette O'Toole. Leary first became famous through an MTV sketch in which he ranted about REM. After leaving Saturday Night Live, McKean spent a lot of time doing children's fare, voicing various TV shows and movies.

Leary is a distant cousin through marriage of Conan O'Brien; contrary to popular belief, they are not actually related through a recent common ancestor. Dittmeyer in The Brady Bunch Movie. He is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, where he also taught comedy writing classes for five years after graduating. During this time, he also released a video follow up to Spinal Tap, and playing Mr. August 18, 1957) is an actor/comedian/writer/director whose father immigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts from Ireland. Having already appeared as a musical guest and then host of Saturday Night Live, McKean joined the cast in 1994. Denis Leary (b. He also had guest roles on such shows as Murder She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Caroline in the City.

McKean quickly became a recognisable name in film and television, with appearances in films such as Clue (1985), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) and Coneheads (1993). Hubbins in the cult spoof documentary movie This is Spinal Tap and appeared in the soap opera spoof Young Doctors In Love. After leaving Laverne and Shirley in 1982, McKean played David St. McKean also played his character in an episode of Happy Days.

McKean directed one episode, and the characters became something of a phenomenon, even releasing an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1980, which featured a young Christopher Guest on guitar (credited as Nigel Tufnel, the name Guest would use a few years later as part of the spoof rock band, Spinal Tap). McKean began his career as part of the comedy group Credibility Gap with Harry Shearer and David Lander but his breakthrough came in 1976 when he joined the cast of Laverne and Shirley, paired with David Lander who played Squiggy. Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard 'Lenny' Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley.