Bio - Ross ShaferRoss
Shafer is a 6 time Emmy Award winning comedian writer author and TV producer.
Ross is a very entertaining and engaging professional speaker who will motivate
and encourage your team to be successful. Ross
Shafer is a seasoned entertainer and television personality. In 1983 Ross won
the Showtime Comedy Laugh Off…and virtually overnight (six grueling years)
major nightclubs and corporations were duped into hiring Ross to open shows for
Dionne Warwick, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, Neil Sedaka, and other famous people
with good voices. In the summer of 1984, a Seattle television station (KING-TV)
had the notion to produce a weekly comedy/talk show called, "Almost Live
with Ross Shafer" and launched a search for a comedian with that name. Imagine
Ross' amazing luck. In
the four years Ross was at the helm of Almost Live, the show collected almost
40 Emmy Awards; six going to Ross for his work as Host, Actor, and Writer - and
the prestigious IRIS award for the "Best Entertainment Series" in the
United States; which can only be explained as a typo. These
were busy times for Ross; who also hosted a daily four-hour afternoon drive radio
program on KJR-AM. He never played accordion music. Ross
also became a regular contributor to Dick Clark's "TV's Bloopers and Practical
Jokes" and appeared with Dick as a guest when Ross successfully changed the
Official Washington State Song to "Louie, Louie." Ross could finally
get some sleep.
MORE… For
a while, critics claimed that with his massive head of hair, Ross looked more
like a game show host than a comedian. So, in a semi-hostile takeover, the USA
Network hired Ross to host their game show, "Love Me, Love me Not."
He also taped game show pilots for NBC and ABC. A disturbing and almost profitable
pattern was developing. Under
the illusion that Game Shows were somehow culturally important, Ross was offered
(2) Ross Shafer Comedy TV Specials, plus a recurring role on Fox Television's
"21 Jump Street." About the same time, the Fox network lost Joan Rivers
as the host of their flagship late night program, "The Late Show." Next
came, "Days End, a nightly ABC entertainment magazine co-hosted by Ross and
Matt Lauer. The show lasted 6 months and Ross has always wondered whatever became
of Matt? Ross also became a published author with the comedy cookbook, "Cook
Like A Stud"…38 recipes men can prepare in the garage using their own
tools. And he wrote and produced the highly acclaimed comedy CD, "Inside
the First Family," a send up of the Clinton Scandals. You're right if you
think Ross had too much time on his hands. Oh
yes, and there was the successful run as the host of ABC-TV's "Match Game."
The show still plays every morning on the Game Show Network. All
along, Ross has continued to perform for corporate audiences worldwide. Two new
careers came from his corporate exposure. He found that many top company executives
are plagued with stage fright. So, Ross is frequently asked to work one-on-one
as an executive Public Speaking Coach. Secondly, he has taken a special interest
in the decay of Customer Service in this country. With as much traveling as he
has done, he found that good customer service was as rare as a five-legged chicken.
So, rather than complain about it, he has written and produced a dozen funny HR
Training Films on the subject; which are now distributed all over the world. | 
