Paul Mecurio

A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Paul Mecurio graduated with honors from Georgetown Law School and began his career on Wall Street as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at the law firm of Willkie Farr and Gallagher and, later, as an investment banker at CS First Boston. All the while, Paul was honing a second career, writing and performing comedy and was hired by Jay Leno to write jokes for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). In 1995, with the encouragement of Jay, Paul moved center stage, leaving Wall Street and starting his career as a stand-up comedian. In 1996, Paul was invited to be on the original writing team for a new Comedy Central show called The Daily Show (1996). In 2001, as a writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", Paul won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. For his work on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000", Paul was honored with a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcastin