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Technology comedian Don McMillan is available for booking at your next technology conference. Contact us today to schedule an appearance with Don.
Don McMillan is the ONLY comedian working in PowerPoint - has performed at over 300 Corporate events over the last 10 years. After spending 10 years as an engineer at IBM, AT&T, and VLSI Technology, he knows what corporate life is about. He is known for his smart, clean, humor AND he is the ONLY comedian working in PowerPoint.
Don McMillan graduated from Stanford University with a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982. (He has a BSEE from Lehigh University) He went to work for AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked as part of the team that designed the world's first 32-bit Microprocessor. He then moved to the Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) where he worked at VLSI Technology as a computer chip designer. During his 6 years at VLSI he designed more than 50 Standard and ASIC Designs many of which are still out there today.
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After winning the 16th Annual San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1991, Don turned in his chips for a microphone. He went on to be $100,000 Grand Champion on "Star Search" in 1993. He's had numerous television appearances including "The Tonight Show" on NBC, CNN's "The Larry King Show", MTV's "Half Hour Comedy Hour", and A&E's "Evening at the Improv". Nowadays, you can catch Don headlining comedy clubs from the "Improvisation" to "Catch-A-Rising Star" across the country.
You most likely have seen Don as the star of fifteen national commercials for Budweiser Beer. He plays the Bud delivery guy who mans the "freshness hotline" and protects the world against "skunky" beer. He can also be seen in commercials for 7-11, Franco-American Ravioli, Little Caesar's Pizza, ServiStar Hardware, and United Airlines.
In the movies, Don is currently starring in the award winning independent feature "Don: Plain & Tall". It's the story of an engineer who tosses it all away to become a stand-up comic (sound familiar?). "Don: Plain & Tall" was awarded "Best Feature - Comedy" at the Back East Film Festival. Don has also appeared in the feature length films: "Air Bud IIIWorld Pup", "Life Without Dick", "Macon County Jail", "Party Crashers", and "Fanatics". Don has guest starred on the TV series "Star Trek: Voyager", "Babylon 5", "City Guys", and "Step by Step".
Don has not lost contact with his high-tech roots. He has performed over 300 shows for major corporations around the United States including IBM, Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco (See "Corporate Comedy"). Don's corporate show utilizes his unique background to take a lighthearted look at computers, technology, and the high-tech life. His PowerPoint slides are like none you’ve ever seen. He is the only comedian that references "Avagadro's Number", "DRAM", XML, and he Beta tests all his jokes. .
Clients include:
Cisco Systems
Apple Computer
J.D. Edwards
Ariba, Inc.
AT&T Corp.
Gateway Computer
Compaq Computer
Dell Computer
Philips, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
SUN Microsystems
Motorola, Inc.
TIBCO
Intel Corporation
Agile Software
Cypress Semiconductor
Lucent Technologies
Silicon Graphics
Cadence Technology
BellSouth
National Semiconductor
Commerce One
Hewlett- Packard
Nortel
Parsons Corporation
Sony Corporation
Ericsson, Inc.
Allegis Group
Novell Systems
Unisys Corporation
TSMC, Inc.
Mentor Graphics
AVCOM
Gupta Corporation
Texas Instruments
Dallas Semiconductor
Quickturn Design Sys.
KLA Instruments
Seagate Technology
Actel Corporation
Symantec, Inc.
Avenet Electronics
Veritas Software
Adaptec. Inc.
Ingram Micro
PerkinElmer
Ross Systems
ServiceWare Corp.
First Data Resources
IONA Technologies
Hitachi
Insight Electronics
Siemens Corporation
Advisor Media
Vertex
Semiconductor
QAD Corporation
LynuxWorks
Stratus Computer
WEBCOM Corporation
LaserFiche
Filemaker, Inc.
Alliance Data Systems
Camstar Systems
Valor Electronics
Pentasafe, Inc.
Crescendo Ventures
Graybar, Inc.
ARM, Inc.
Megatest Corporation
DiTech
Intuit
Perot Systems
SeeBeyond
Novellus
InterVoice
SSA
Global Technologies
In addition to seeing Don at corporate events and on film and television, he has also been profiled in both "Entertainment Weekly" and "TV Guide".
Comedian Don McMillan is available for booking at your next special event or corporate conference!