Lance Norris (August 9, 1962 - December 10, 2023) was an American actor/writer/director/stand-up comic/critic/mentalist.
Life and career
Norris was born in
Des Moines, Iowa, and attended
Emerson College and
Whitman College. Norris contributed to morning shows for
Boston's
WBCN and
WZLX. He collected some of his radio scripts as the book Ask A Bitter Man. He was also a consultant for the short-lived Mike O'Malley Show on
NBC, and wrote for the
Emmy-nominated Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on
Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update on NBC. He was listed as a Contributing Editor in one issue of the National Lampoon, in 1994. Norris has written a number of plays including 8 Gr8 D8s and JWL and taught acting workshops. He is an adjunct professor at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. His band, Lance Norris and The Dog Track Gravy, are currently active in the Northeast college and club market.[1] His song "Good Morning" is played every morning at 7:00 on Radio A1A in Key West. The song was also used as the theme music for The Big Mattress on WBCN in Boston in the 90's.