Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by comedian Bob Einstein. He is an inept, greedy and self-absorbed stuntman who is frequently injured when his stunts go wrong. Super Dave Osborne (born November 20, 1940, in Los Angeles, California) is the stage name of Bob Einstein (brother of actor Albert Brooks), a comedic stuntman whose persona is modeled after Evel Knievel. ... Stunt man and stunt woman redirect here. ...

Appearance history

Super Dave made his first appearance on The John Byner Comedy Hour, a 1972 TV series. Einstein then regularly played the character on the short-lived 1976 variety series Van Dyke and Company starring Dick Van Dyke. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Richard Wayne Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. ...

Super Dave received his first significant exposure as a regular on the 1980's TV series Bizarre. He was also a frequent guest on Late Night With David Letterman. Bizarre was a weekly 1980s Canadian TV sketch comedy series. ... Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. ...

In 1987 he got his own variety show named Super Dave, followed in 1992 by the animated series Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire that aired on FOX. In 1995, he starred in Super Dave's Vegas Spectacular, and in 1997, he starred in Super Dave's All Stars. Super Dave starred in a movie released in 2000, The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave. Super Dave was a variety show starring, and hosted by the fictional character Super Dave Osborne (played by Bob Einstein). ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...

Super Dave also appeared in Nike commercials in 1990, during the run of Super Dave, comparing his latest dunking contraptions to the Nike Air Flight basketball shoe. One commercial had him appearing with Reggie Miller, and another with Gerald Wilkins (mistaking their names as Roger and Harold, respectively). Nike, Inc. ... Reginald Wayne Miller (born August 24, 1965, in Riverside, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. ... Gerald Bernard Wilkins (born November 9, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a 66 shooting guard/small forward, who played collegiately at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and later in the NBA. Gerald is the younger brother of former Atlanta Hawks superstar Dominique Wilkins and father of current Seattle...

About the character

Super Dave is supposedly an "accomplished" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing the stunts depicted onscreen. His signature signature is to perform outrageous daredevil stunts which invariably go awry and result in his grievous injury. These include such mishaps as riding inside the hub of a giant yo-yo suspended from a crane (the yo-yo broke free of its string and rolled off a cliff into a ravine) and being flung inside a giant football (the catapult malfunctioned and "spiked" the football instead of throwing it). After an injury has occurred, Super Dave would usually appear torn apart, stretched, or otherwise injured. One of his signature logos is a drawing of his head (in a helmet or his ballcap) on top of a pair of shoes with no body. This was occasionally how he appeared after a stunt resulted in something heavy falling on top of him. The yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally-sized discs of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, around which a string is wound. ... A football is a ball used to play one sports known as football. ... Replica catapult at Château des Baux, France For the handheld Y-shaped weapon, see slingshot. ...

He is often accompanied on his various exploits by loyal friend, sidekick and assistant stunt coordinator Fuji Hakayito, played by comedian Art Irizawa. It is usually left to Fuji to set whatever stunt Dave is performing in motion.

He is the inspiration and head of the fictional "Super Dave Compound" - a combination resort/theme park/learning centre/etc. (anything needed for a particular episode). The demonstration of many of these aspects of the compound were also the basis for many of his misadventures.

Trademark components of the Super Dave character include his frequent thumbs-ups, and his many uniforms - most of which include red, white and blue, yellow stars, and stripes, somewhat reminiscent of those worn by Evel Knievel. Often-uttered phrases include "sensational" and "putz". Robert Craig Evel Knievel, Jr. ...

Trivia

• He is usually referred to as "Super" rather than "Dave" when only one name is used. Mike Walden often calls him "The Super One".
• He always wears some kind of head wear - usually a baseball cap or a helmet.
• Super Dave has never shed any blood on camera, even when a stunt goes unbelievably bad.
• He often claimed his jacket to be "genuine Saskatchewan seal skin" — the joke being that this Canadian province is landlocked and therefore has no seals. Furthermore there were frequent references to "genuine Saskatchewan seal skin bindings", used when discussing how he was attached to various devices for his stunts.

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External links

• http://www.extravalue.com/video/superdave/about/
• http://bobeinstein.com