Born in Buffalo, Bob Smith has the distinction of being the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and also have his own HBO Comedy Half-hour. Other TV appearances include Politically Incorrect, The Late, Late Show, Entertainment Tonight, Tom Snyder and Comedy Central's Out There. Bob's Lambda Literary Award-winning collection of essays, Openly Bob, was published to acclaim by Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow and his most recent Lambda Literary Award-nominated book, Way To Go, Smith!, was published by HarperCollins. He's written for Amblin Films, The MTV Video Awards, Dennis Miller, Roseanne and was a staff writer for Fox's MAD-TV. His sketch, The Zapruder Films, was recently featured in The Best of MAD-TV. Bob's comic essays have appeared in the anthology, Americas Best Contemporary Humorists: Mirth of A Nation and 101 Damnations published by St. Martin's Press. His most recent essay, "The Test" appears in When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg. Bob is a regular contributor to Out magazine. He's appeared in HBO's documentary about the first gay and lesbian family cruise, All Aboard -- Rosie's Family Cruise. He taped a comedy special for Logo Wisecracks/Outlaugh and was filmed for a Logo documentary called Laughing Matters about six gay male standup comics. His first novel, Selfish and Perverse, a comedy set in Los Angeles and Alaska, was published by Carroll & Graf.