Other favorite teacher stories included in the book come from:
Mary Kay Ash, Dave Barry, Baxter Black, Erma Bombeck, Erin Brockovich, Helen Gurley Brown, George H. W. Bush, Johnny Cash, Mary Higgins Clark, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Jeff Foxworthy, Monty Hall, Laird Hamilton, Mariel Hemingway, Florence Henderson, Dr. J. Marvin Herndon, Lee Iacocca, Shirley Jones, Garrison Keillor, Dean Koontz, Art Linkletter, Norman Mailer, Ed McMahon, Robert Novak, Joe Paterno, Charlie Pride, Joan Rivers, Bud Selig, Bart Starr, John Updike, Betty White and Vanna White.
Bio Information. Updated March, 2007
For over twenty years
Ron has traveled from coast to coast on the banquet circuit,
but he got into
his comedy accidentally. He was entertaining musically, but wasn't
'at home'
behind a microphone. Eventually he started collecting jokes and joke books,
which led to a library of humor and joke books that rivals any in the country.
In the early years, before going
out onto the banquet circuit, Ron wrote jokes and sold them
to some of the country's all-time comedy greats, including the late Rodney Dangerfield.
Event planners should know that his comedy is clean, yet funny, and is always priced right.
You've seen him quoted in The Reader's Digest and hear him quoted on ABC's Paul Harvey.
Ron says, "Eventually I was
being asked to emcee various functions, and before long
I was being contacted to be the
program at these functions. This soon interfered
with my 'real job' in the hospitality
industry. Then, in 1984/85 I was selected
as the Wisconsin winner in the 'Funniest Person
In America' contest.
I decided to leave my real job to work the banquet circuit full-time. "
For 20 years Ron
has been booked by corporations and associations from coast to coast,
for awards banquets, retirement parties, and to kick seminars off on a positive
note.
He has written two joke books: "HOW TO ARGUE WITH YOUR SPOUSE" & "DOWN
TIME"
Ron feels that humor not only
has a place in the work place, it is actually NEEDED.
While Ron mostly works on the
banquet circuit, he is also regularly booked as the opening act
for various nationally known entertainers including: Neil McCoy, Jo Dee Messina, George Jones,
Randy Travis, Sawyer Brown, Tanya Tucker, Marty Stuart, Billy Dean, Brenda Lee, B.J. Thomas,
'Weird Al' Yankovic, Crosby/Stills/Nash, Mary Wilson, Jim 'Gomer' Nabors, Christie Lane,
Michael Johnson, The Everly Brothers, Don Williams, Kenny
Rogers, and The Righteous Brothers.
Ron was born in Milwaukee, on Valentines Day, and his first 'real job' was as a police
officer
on the Milwaukee Police Department, where he was part of their Underwater Recovery
Team,
and delivered 17 babies while on the police ambulance. Ron Dentinger is presently a
member
of The American Police Hall of Fame, Celebrity Board of Advisors. He played 11
years of football
including: The University of Wisconsin and he was an All
Conference Guard for the
Racine Raiders in the Semi-pro Central States Football League.
Ron is also a founding member of the International Association of Pranksters & Hoaxers.
Click here for IAPH website.
Ron believes that everyone needs to
have a hobby, and if you don't have a hobby,
you should be required to work fifteen hours
a week for someone who does.
His hobbies include: Flying, SCUBA Diving, Music, Computers
& Computer MIDI Music,
Genealogy, Collecting Humor Books, Amateur Astronomy, and
Magic.
Regarding his grandchildren:
Ron says that most grandparents are totally blind to the faults
of their grandchildren, but I'm not. He says, "I'm sure I'd see their faults...if they had any."
And here's another great humor program: Sally Edwards is a genuine crowd pleaser, using all clean humor.
Click here for Sally Edwards' contact information.
