David Bass - Comedy Screenwriter
Greetings from my home in Raleigh, North Carolina. A lifelong Southerner, I began writing for laughs seriously in 2020 and have completed four feature film comedies, three short films and one TV pilot. In 2022, I created Dust and Sweat and Blood Productions LLC to develop and produce my screenplays.
I'm also a recovering accountant, with a business career that progressed over three decades from auditing to mergers & acquisitions consulting. It wasn't all spreadsheets though; once I nailed second place (out of eight) in the "Search for the Triangle’s Funniest Accountant" stand-up comedy competition. When I'm not writing, I enjoy giving unsolicited advice to my three adult children and playing or hosting poker games. One of my writing goals is to generate the best poker movie since ROUNDERS.
Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1910