Dana Gould

Gould was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts on August 24, 1964, the fifth of six children. He was raised Roman Catholic, and served as an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester.[citation needed]\n', ' Gould began performing comedy onstage at age 17. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but after a year moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in comedy. It was there he, along with fellow comedian Alex Reid, founded the San Francisco Comedy Condo in 1986.\n', ' Gould wrote and performed on The Ben Stiller Show; one such sketch features Gould as Otto, Cupid\'s twisted brother, whose arrows convince a young man to fall madly in love with an elderly woman. Another series of sketches features a heavily disguised Gould as Wilford Brimley advertising "Grady\'s Oats" (a parody of Brimley\'s Quaker Oats advertisements). In one, he speaks of his Uncle Ray\'s hobby of dressing in a pink taffeta gown and filling his panties with oatmeal; in another, he brandishes a revolver through the window at children. He also appeared in an episode of MADtv as Newt Gingrich and on one episode of Seinfeld ("The Junk Mail") as "Fragile" Frankie Merman, Jerry\'s childhood friend (also known as "The Summer George"). He co-created and was executive producer on Super Adventure Team. In addition, Gould\'s stand up material was featured in Comedy Central\'s animated series Shorties Watchin\' Shorties.\n', '