Tahoe World editor Keith Sheffield tracked this funny man down with the wonders of technology (that’s been around for more than a decade) in an e-mail Q&A.

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Tahoe World: Your performance at the Crystal Bay Casino is on Sept. 11. I didn’t know we could laugh on that day yet?

Dave Burleigh: For me 6 or 7 years later is nothing for me. I was scheduled to do a club in Monterey the week it happened. Me and the other comics thought the shows were going to be cancelled, but the club owner said “on with the show” I performed two days after 9/11 to 12 people who just wanted to get away from their TV’s but still weren’t sure if comedy was the answer for their shock. It was very surreal as you could hear fighter jets were running practice runs out in the Monterey Bay between each joke — not real conducive for comedy.

Tahoe World: You live a few hours away in San Francisco. How rich is the Bay Area for material?

Dave Burleigh: Well now that all depends. It most certainly is great training ground to know your audience. Politically, socially and strangely. You get a little bit of everything — so it prepares a road comic to go anywhere.

Tahoe World: Describe a typical San Francisco moment.

Dave Burleigh: Circle the block 18 times for a parking place, so you can go visit your friend who lives in a 400 sqare-foot apartment and pays $2,200 a month. Once you’ve found parking you then put “The Club” on your steering wheel — and walk 18 blocks to your friend’s apartment with the summer scent of urine in the air.

Tahoe World: Which of these photos in your image gallery is more fake than the others … the doctor scene, delivery boy scene, or you as Isaac from The Love Boat?

Dave Burleigh: Gotta be the Doctor. Not only am I fearful of needles but I’m fearful of Healthcare — that’s why I don’t have it … Oh, and also because I make $4,500 a year.

Tahoe World: After some online investigative research, I see you’re a broadcast journalism major from Cal Poly SLO. This puts you in a good position to answer this … What’s a Poly Dolly? Is that like a Humboldt Honey?

Dave Burleigh: Yeah, actually that’s putting it nice — When I was there they were called Poly Pigs … I think that started in the 70s when the Ag department was really humming.

Tahoe World: What makes you laugh?

Dave Burleigh: When everyday things happen to people and they don’t mean them to be funny.

Tahoe World: You have a bit about dating and you slip into a Beaver Cleaver impression. Audiences still remember the Cleavers?

Dave Burleigh: Once again knowing your audience — I don’t do that bit for drunk college kids drinking shots and purple hooters — they usually give me the deer in headlights look.

Tahoe World: Being fan of situational comedy, what are your favorite sitcoms?

Dave Burleigh: I really miss Arrested Development which was cancelled last season… I’ll always be a sucker for Seinfeld. Oh and my show of course, which is in a 15 year development process … OK maybe 20.