Here's what some of my close personal friends have said about me…to my face…

"...a funny-as-hell guy..."- Greg Preece, comedian and creator of "The Naked Critic" on the column, "Movies that Suck"

"I've been watching Danny Gallagher grow as a writer for years. How could I not? The little bastard is everywhere, swiping my gigs. Guess I need to show more chest. Amenities aside, I read mountains of humor because it's my job. I read Danny because I want to, if there's time after I wind my yarn ball and floss the Garden-Weasel¨."- Mike Durrett, Humor Guide for About.com on my work

"...I thought the whole world or at least this newspaper's readers should be aware of the wondrous work that 'Danny & the Mouth' do."- Celine Chamberlin, columnist for the Statesman Journal
on my column, "Dear God, Noooo! with Danny & the Mouth"

"...such a good writer and a nice young man. Now if only he would comb his hair and get a real job like his brother, Paul."- Danny's mom on his case, as usual.

I have been writing columns, jokes, stories, essays and features that are funnier and more entertaining than this bio for a number of newspapers and online publications.

My humor has appeared in the fish wraps where I have worked as a full-time reporter including the McKinney Courier-Gazette , the Paris News and the Henderson Daily News all of Texas. But I've also supplied websites, newspapers and magazines like The Center for the Easily Amsued (formerly at www.amused.com), Sillybuddies.com, the Canadian e-zine Caffimage.com, Timonthy McSweeney's Internet Tendency , the Austin American-Statesman, the Daily Texan, Uproar.com and Playboy's Rouze.com with everything from entertainment features and reviews to online trivia games to thoughtful and funny comedy and humor.

These days when I'm not pounding my fingers on my keyboard for a project or my fists on the top of my skull for ideas, I'm a regular contributor to Arriviste Press, a monthly online magazine that features some of my humor essays and interviews with notable people such as author Marty Beckerman, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and musician, humorist and the next Governor of Texas Kinky Friedman. I write the hilarious monologue jokes for The Steve Levy Show in Chicago and yell at Steve afterwards for screwing them up. I'm the creator of a movie humor column called "Movies that Suck," a weekly online column that tells stories of life, love and a lack thereof at a theater near you. It has been running online with regular readers for the past three years. I also regularly write other humor columns that have appeared in various newspapers and at Arriviste Press including "Home is Where the Heartbreak Is" a deeply personal look at life after Hurricane Katrina decimated my hometown of New Orleans that makes jokes about the New Orleans Saints' lousy track record.

I have also worked as a humor ghostwriter for several authors and public speakers, and I would tell you more about them…but I really like being able to use my legs.

I'm also a full-fledged member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the online humor columnist collective The Netwits and the Erma Bombeck Humor Writing Asylum, and boy is my ass sore.