PERSON: Pete Dominick

Peter J. Dominick (born October 31, 1975) is an American prop comedian and talk radio personality. Dominick grew up in Marcellus, New York and now lives in Rockland County, a suburb of New York City where he has lived for about 10 years. Dominick was born in Syracuse, New York, and started performing in public during high school, where he would emcee talent shows and read morning announcements over the public-address system. His career took off in the late 1990s when he performed in various clubs around Manhattan, first as an amateur and later as a professional. Dominick’s career expanded around the turn of the century when he began performing at colleges all over the country. He has performed at hundreds of campuses and started headlining clubs and theaters in 2005. One of Dominick’s highest profile mediums as a stand-up comic was as the warm-up act for The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central. He has also filled in as the warm-up act for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on over 100 episodes. One of Dominick’s highest profile mediums as a stand-up comic was as the warm-up act for The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central. He has also filled in as the warm-up act for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on over 100 episodes.<br> <br> n February 21, 2008, Dominick began hosting the political talk show Pete’s Big Mouth on the now-defunct Sirius channel Indie Talk, which had launched two weeks earlier, along with Sean Bertollo (executive producer), Aaron Hodges (co-producer), and Alexandra Di Trolio (co-producer). The show continued until November 12, 2008, at which point it was renamed Stand Up! with Pete Dominick during the new channel lineup that resulted from the merger of Sirius and XM, which also saw Indie Talk on Sirius and P.O.T.U.S. ‘08 on XM being combined to form P.O.T.U.S. on Sirius 110 and XM 130.<br> <br> The three-hour program was broadcast live weekdays from 3:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern and explored political and current events relevant to the United States, consistent with the motto of the P.O.T.U.S. channel: “Politics of the United States, for the people of the United States.”<br> <br> In February 2013, Dominick and Stand Up! with Pete Dominick left P.O.T.U.S. and moved to Indie, in the morning time slot of 6:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern, with a repeat immediately following at 9:00 AM. On this new channel and slot, the show has continued to spend a lot of time on politics, but has also had more freedom to branch out into other topics, including religion, race, energy, education policy, veterans’ issues, and parenting, among others.<br> <br> Guests that have been interviewed on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick include: Michael Scheuer, former CIA analyst; Tim Wise, prominent anti-racist activist and writer; David Kilcullen, former senior counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus; Evan Wolfson, civil rights attorney and advocate; Ann Coulter, social and political commentator, columnist, and author; Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota; Kashif Hasnie, RAND fellow and expert on issues pertaining to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and many others