Dan Barton
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Dan Barton

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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I started performing stand-up comedy and writing novels at about the same time and place–at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, I moved to Houston to hone my comedy craft at the legendary Comedy Workshop. My first night there I shared the stage with two comedy legends: Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison. After two years, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue my twin passions: comedy and writing. I spent many years playing the same clubs in Hollywood as the biggest names in comedy: the Comedy Store, the Improv, the Laugh Factory, and The Ice House. I scored appearances on television, commercials, and feature films. I spent years working as a headliner playing every gig I could find across the country and even overseas. After more hotel rooms and frequent flyer miles than I care to admit, I got a job working behind the camera as a producer and writer for E! Entertainment Television, including a memorable stint as the supervising producer for the travel series "Wild On!" hosted by Brooke Burke. After that, I walked every red carpet in town as writer and producer for TV Guide Network. I wrote, produced, and directed more than a hundred episodes of the series "What's On DVD," TV Guide's show about the best in home entertainment. I conducted over a thousand celebrity interviews over the course of my career. I used my real-life experience as a comedian and entertainment professional to form the basis for the Biff Kincaid mystery series. I depict the comedy world the way I saw it–a life of stark contrast between the creative joy of bringing laughter to audiences on stage and the off-stage life that was often fraught with peril. I mix in my experience with the inner workings of Hollywood as a background for biff's adventures. I now write full time in Toluca Lake, California–the setting of an upcoming Biff Kincaid adventure.
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    • A Biff Kincaid Mystery (Biff Kincaid, Book 3)
    • By: Dan Barton
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    • Series: Biff Kincaid, Book 3
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2022
    • Language: English
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