Dan Bennett learned to juggle in 1970, when he was eight years old. It was in college, however, that he discovered his propensity for comedy. While earning his bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Dan worked as a teaching assistant in the math lab. His love for teaching soon spilled over into tutoring with comedy. Eventually, Mr. Bennett was holding workshops in calculus and mixing mathematics with humor. While lecturing about ballistics, he devised the object lesson now so central to his performances: catching a bowling ball with his face. There was no turning back once he discovered how fun it was to entertain with math, physics, and economics. Intellectual joke-telling evolved into scientific bravado, which in turn utilized the visual aids of juggling, balancing, and prop manipulation. A show was born.

After earning a master’s degree in mathematics from UCLA, Dan began headlining on the major cruise lines and in comedy clubs. Appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, and other talk shows set Mr. Bennett on a course that has never turned back. He has been featured in some 30 com-mercials with corporations such as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Nabisco, Nu Skin, Southwest Airlines, Cir-cle K, Novell, Quaker Oats, Pier One Imports, Big Planet, and Baker’s Square, to name a few.

Dan has four gold medals from the International Jugglers’ Association and is in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records for numbers juggling. These skills are indispensable in his performances as a science and math variety comedian. He has been the keynote “comediantic” at several mathematics conferences. His facility with sports equipment was highlighted by the Wilson Sports Corporation, where Dan enter-tained as a comedy product design engineer. This led to some very interesting special advertising videos with the company. His trademark counting with Roman numerals has been used in conjunction with the Merck Corporation to promote product visibility. General Motors’ Saturn division is another beneficiary of the professor’s high-energy “edutainment.” Dan is a regular at sales meetings and motivational sem-inars, where he showcases his talent and humor to elevate teamwork and problem solving. He also ap-pears simply as a variety comedian for any number of events.