After leaving the show in 2002, Daly crossed paths with UCB founding member Matt Besser, who cast the bespectacled performer alongside up-and-coming comics Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt and David Koechner in a weekly gig at L.A.'s Improv Olympic. During his two years as a performer and writer, Daly saw his soft-spoken performance style and poker-faced characters increasingly relegated to the sidelines so he concentrated on honing his straight main skills against the more colorful creations of his castmates.
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Meant to serve as a serious challenger to "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ) and its decades-long reign over TV comedy, "MADtv" ended its first season a would-be contender. In 1999 the two were invited to perform at the famed Aspen Comedy Festival, and a year later Daly found himself the newest cast member of FOX's upstart sketch comedy series, "MADtv." By the time Upright Citizen's Brigade landed in Chelsea in 1996, Daly had become one of CCL's headlining performers and crossed over to TV with a brief role on the political sitcom "Spin City." Over the next few years Daly juggled his training at the groundbreaking UCB Theatre with anything-goes appearances on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (NBC, 1993-2009) and performances with partner Andy Secunda as The Two Andys. After becoming more involved with sketch comedy in high school, Daly studied drama at Ithaca College, and his post-graduation move to New York City led him to the newly imported improv comedy troupe Chicago City Limits. Growing up in Mount Kisco, NY, Daly knew early on he wanted to pursue a career in comedy he counted Martin Short as one of his early comic influences and was enamored with Charles Grodin's put-upon straight man in 1988's "Midnight Run." He quickly became known as the class clown and teachers would let him perform at the end of class as a way to entice him to sit still.
Sure, he looks more like a suburban math teacher than a trailblazing comic talent, but Daly's razor-sharp ability to play it straight is the key to his success. Both his 2008 debut comedy album, 9 Sweaters, which showcased nine different characters, and his side-career as a voiceover artist on shows such as HBO's "The Life & Times of Tim" (2008-2012) gave Daly even more opportunities to stretch his creative muscles.
But with a strong background in improv comedy (he trained in New York City with both the Upright Citizen's Brigade and Chicago City Limits) and a deep commitment to characters both unassuming and unstable, in the mid-2000s Daly began piecing together a career that spanned television, movies, and the Internet.
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A brief stint in the early 2000s on the sketch comedy series "MADtv" (FOX, 1995-2009) was marked by unassuming straight man roles and thankless supporting parts. One of his first childhood impressions was of "60 Minutes" (CBS, 1968- ) resident curmudgeon Andy Rooney, and neither a well-received performance with partner Andy Secunda at the 1999 Aspen Comedy Festival, or his TV debut on "Spin City" (ABC, 1996-2002) ignited his fledgling career. Andrew Daly wasn't the flashiest comedian.
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