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Denis Leary was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Nora (Sullivan) and John Leary, Irish immigrants who had grown up together. His mother was a maid and his father was an auto mechanic. After a childhood in the 1960s, Leary went to Emerson College in Boston, where he tried his hand at acting and writing. He was a charter member of Emerson's Comedy Workshop, and taught at the college for five years after graduating. By that point, he had written several pieces for magazines and had worked at stand-up comedy for a time. In 1990, he and his wife, Ann Leary, flew to London to perform in the BBC's Paramount City. That weekend, Ann's water broke. Their planned weekend trip became a stay of months, and Denis, with not a whole lot to do in London, wrote a one-man comedy act. He brought friends in from the States, and they wrote songs to perform on stage. Leary, with Chris Phillips and Adam Roth on guitar, performed "No Cure For Cancer" at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in Scotland. Despite some protests about the title, the show won the Critic's Award and the BBC Festival Recommendation. The next year, the show was moved to America, and it was eventually taped and broadcast on Showtime (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer (1993)). The show spawned a book, CD, cassette, and a videotape. It also started Leary's movie career. Since then, he has starred in several films and has had two of his own TV series.

Denis Leary at an event for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

CD, tape, book and video: &quot;No Cure For Cancer&quot; (1993)

CD and tape: &quot;Lock &#39;N&#39; Load&quot; (1997)

TV commercial for IBM (Lotus Domino) (1996)

Music video for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1596332/?ref_=nmwrk">The Muppets</a>&#39; &quot;She Drives Me Crazy&quot;.

TV Commercial for &quot;Quaker State Motor Oil&quot; (1998)

TV commercial for Holsten Pils Lager (early 1990&#39;s)

Satire: &quot;An Interview With Pope John Paul II&quot;, &quot;Playboy&quot; (USA), June 1995, p.131+142+161.

CD: &quot;Merry Fucking Christmas&quot; (2003)

TV commercial for Boston radio station WAAF 107.3 FM (2006

(2009) TV commercial for DirecTV satellite service

(1992) Release of his book, &quot;No Cure for Cancer&quot;.

(2008) Release of his book, &quot;Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid&quot;.

(December 2010) Release of his book, &quot;Suck on This Year&quot;.

(2017) Book: &quot;Why We Don&#39;t Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches&quot;. New York: Crown Archetype. ISBN 1524762733

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