Dave Jaffe

Multiple national award-winning humorist Dave Jaffe has written for print, television, radio, and online. Creative, clever, witty – these are traits that kept Dave in detention for most of the eighth grade. But as an adult these skills led to hundreds of columns, TV and radio commentaries, and books.

Dave’s work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, from HumorOutcasts and HuffPost to National Public Radio and The National Lampoon. He even wrote sketches for Bozo the Clown, although a merciful History has forgotten the “Bozo Juggles Invisible Chainsaws” bit.

Dave’s blog, Sleeping between Giants, received the 2018 and 2017 National Society of Newspaper Columnists first-place award for humor blogs, and he was selected Humor Writer of the Month by the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. His humor columns have twice been honored with Peter A. Lisagor awards by the Chicago Headline Club and with the Parenting Publications of America Gold Award for Humor.

The Sleeping Between Giants two-book series grew out of Dave’s affinity for dogs. Like them, he prefers to travel in a pack, which has led to numerous traffic citations. However, he is good with children and has had all his shots.

Sleeping between Giants, Book 1: Budleigh, the Early Year won the 2021 International Book Awards for Humor and the Indies Today 2019 Best Humor Book Award. The recently released sequel, Sleeping between Giants Book II, Ask a Terrier: Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog, establishes a more mature Budleigh, one reviewer wrote, as “The Ann Landers of Canines. Or perhaps Ann Landers is the Budleigh of humans.”