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Arts & Entertainment

Comedian Kevin Flynn

Besides numerous television appearances on HBO, COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV and NBC as a stand-up comic, Kevin has appeared as in a number of movies as well.

He can be seen along side Ben Stiller in “The Heartbreak Kid,” with Jim Carrey in, “Me, Myself and Irene,” and along side Bill Murray in “Osmosis Jones.” You may also recognize him as one of Charlotte’s boyfriends in HBO’s “Sex in the City.”

Kevin got his start as an athlete, lettering in four sports in high school. He then attended the University of Massachusetts where he was a two time team captain and went on to win a variety of honors including “New England College Player of the Year” and a position on the 1984 Olympic Development Soccer Team. He then went on to play three years of professional soccer in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL).

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Following his soccer career, Kevin transitioned from pro-athlete to professional sportscaster, host, and entertainer. He covered World Cup Soccer for Fox Sports, ESPN, and ABC. Kevin’s Sport Figures television show on ESPN received the POLK Award for excellence in children’s programming.

In 1996, Kevin became one of the first television hosts to travel the world in search of extreme outdoor adventures. As star of the Discovery Channel’s Go for It, Kevin navigated life-threatening challenges routinely as he swam with the sharks, jumped out of airplanes, scaled dangerous peaks, and sped around racetracks. The show aired throughout the United States and 24 countries around the globe and can still be seen today.

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Kevin’s one-man show based on that experience, “The Go For It Guy” won the “Best of Fest” at the Boston Comedy Festival and HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.

He is currently producing a children’s cartoon for Disney, as well as producing a World Cup Soccer Movie for IMAX entitled, “One World, One Game.” This summer Kevin launches the “Nantucket Comedy Festival,” the first festival in the country dedicated to presenting quality comedic entertainment for all ages.

Most weeks Kevin can be seen on the New York Times, Humor Blog, as well as “warming up” the audience

for Steven Colbert and the Colbert Report and as a “Political Humorist,” on Fox Networks “The Strategy Room.”

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