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{{Infobox television
| image = Insomniac with Dave Attell.jpg
| caption = 
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator = [[Dave Attell]]
| producer = Nick McKinney<br>Dave Hamilton<br>Mala Chapple
| starring = Dave Attell
| country = United States
| language = English
| network = [[Comedy Central]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|2001|8|5}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2004|11|11}}
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 44 
}}

'''''Insomniac with Dave Attell''''' is an American television show on [[Comedy Central]] hosted by [[comedian]] [[Dave Attell]], which ran from August 5, 2001, until November 11, 2004.<ref>{{cite news|archive-date=February 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222205947/http://tv.nytimes.com/show/156702/Insomniac-With-Dave-Attell/overview|url=http://tv.nytimes.com/show/156702/Insomniac-With-Dave-Attell/overview|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Insomniac with Dave Attell}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=TELEVISION/RADIO; Sleepless in Boise, or Any Town With a Comedy Club|author=Hopper, Joseph|date=June 30, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/arts/television-radio-sleepless-in-boise-or-any-town-with-a-comedy-club.html}}</ref>

==Overview==
Host [[Dave Attell]] goes through a particular city at night, usually close to midnight beginning with his performance at a local [[comedy club]], then going to various bars, clubs, and city landmarks. Along the way Attell cracks jokes with passersby and takes pictures with a [[disposable camera]] which would be shown during the end credits. Every episode concludes with the sun rising into the next morning and Attell saying his catchphrase "Get some sleep!"

Episodes include a visit to Chicago's world-famous [[The Wieners Circle]], where the staff routinely got in cursing matches with their customers<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/redeye-dave-attell-club-comic-20151006-story.html|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|title=How Dave Attell's career boomed when he accepted his 'club comic' label|author=Ely, Sean|date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> and a visit to a Phoenix [[naturist resort|nudist camp]].

U.S. cities featured on the show were [[Albuquerque]], [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], [[Atlanta]], [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Baltimore]], [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]], [[Boston]], [[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]], [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], [[Chicago]], [[Cleveland]], [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Honolulu]], [[Houston]], [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Key West]], [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[Little Rock]], [[Long Island]], [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Miami]], [[Myrtle Beach]], [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], [[New Orleans]], [[New York City]], [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], [[Philadelphia]], [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Reno, Nevada|Reno]], [[San Francisco]] and [[Salt Lake City]]. Other cities featured on the show were [[Amsterdam]], [[Dublin]], [[London]], [[Montreal]], [[Tijuana]], [[Toronto]], and specials that took place in [[Berlin]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Tokyo]] and the [[Southern United States]].

The 30-minute program ran for four seasons on [[Comedy Central]] and continued with four one-hour specials. In 2003, two volumes of the show under the title ''The Best of Insomniac Uncensored'' were released on [[DVD]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/6145|title=Best of Insomniac With Dave Attell: Uncensored Vol. 1|date=April 23, 2003|author=Gross, G. Noel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/8531|publisher=DVD Talk|date=December 2, 2003|title=Best of Insomniac With Dave Attell: Uncensored Vol. 2: SE|author=Gross, G. Noel}}</ref>

The producers of ''Insomniac'' were Nick McKinney,<ref name=NYTC>{{cite news|title=Insomniac with Dave Attell Credits|url=https://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/156702/Insomniac-With-Dave-Attell/details?gwh=20D45E9BD3F78573B01EA8DF5DFDE968|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307102239/https://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/156702/Insomniac-With-Dave-Attell/details?gwh=20D45E9BD3F78573B01EA8DF5DFDE968|archive-date=March 7, 2016|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Dave Hamilton<ref name=NYTC/> and Mala Chapple.  McKinney and Hamilton also directed all the episodes.  The show's theme song and series composer was Bob Golden.

==Cities visited==
{|
!width="150" align=left| '''Season 1'''
!width="150" align=left| '''Season 2'''
!width="150" align=left| '''Season 3'''
!width="150" align=left| '''Season 4'''
|-
|[[New York City]]
|[[Chicago]]
|[[Toronto]]
|[[Amsterdam]]
|-
|[[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]]
|[[Philadelphia]]
|[[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]
|[[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]
|-
|[[Miami, Florida|Miami]]
|[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
|[[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
|[[London]]
|-
|[[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]
|[[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
|[[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina|Myrtle Beach]]
|[[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]]
|-
|[[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]]
|[[Reno, Nevada|Reno]]
|[[Cleveland]]
|[[Key West, Florida|Key West]]
|-
|[[Houston, Texas|Houston]]
|[[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]]
|[[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]]
|[[Austin, Texas|Austin]]
|-
|[[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]
|[[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
|[[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]]
|[[Dublin]]
|-
|[[Tijuana]]
|[[Montreal]]
|[[Portland, Oregon|Portland]]
|[[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
|-
|[[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]]
|[[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]]
|[[Oakland, California|Oakland]]
|[[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]]
|-
|New York City
|New York City
|[[Long Island]]
|New York City
|}

==Specials==
* ''March on the South'' ([[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]], [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]])
* ''Rio Dave Janeiro'' ([[Rio de Janeiro]])
* ''Sloshed in Translation'' ([[Tokyo]])
* ''Insomni-Achtung Baby!'' ([[Berlin]])

==See also==
* ''[[Dave Attell's Insomniac Tour]]''

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://daveattell.com/}}
*{{facebook|id=100090367530293}}
*{{IMDb title|0292805}}

{{Comedy Central programming}}

[[Category:Comedy Central original programming]]
[[Category:Comedy Central late-night programming]]
[[Category:2000s American late-night television series]]
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