david kirk taylor mr zed

A week later they discovered they had a baby on the way. Don't Change the baby! Born in Indianapolis the third child in a family of four he began his television career on the local program "Frank Edwards Presents" at the age of five, and his stage career as a mechanical toy in the Royal Danish Ballet at the age of seven. This was a major turning point in his life. 7.8 on the Richter scale it destroyed almost everything they had. Change the diaper. Arriving in Rome with two hundred dollars in travelers checks, within a year he went from starving foreign student to international television phenomenon. Two hundred dollars wasn't much, even back then, so in addition to a full academic work load at the university he worked as a mime in Rome's piazza Navona by day, and as a disc jockey in English at Radio Daily American by night. The record company made good on their offer and even before the record was recorded David was a costar on the phenomenally popular program "TILT!". In June David was called back to Italy to do his own TV show, but not for the Italians. In his junior year he won a scholarship to study abroad in Rome Italy. Originally constructed in the not so distant future as part of the ill fated ZED-X project he was used as a guinea pig the first experiment in time travel.

Not only is "Mr. Zed" a character that David Kirk Taylor has been doing, but it's an alter ego he developed two decades ago and has been entertaining audiences with, both here but even more over in Italy, ever since, performing for the Pope and the president. Then president Paul Taylor asked Drake Dillard and David Kirk to research and establish a plan for camp that would introduce minority students with a focus on black students to architecture with the ultimate goal of creating more licensed black architects. The Jack Dee Show from London followed shortly there after. He made the rounds of the most popular American television programs.

The Mr. Zed show, ran for five years in it's various versions. Once performed for the President of the United States on ABC (American Television) at the Ford theatre in Washington D.C. The first camp was held in 2006 in Cincinnati by the South West Ohio NOMA chapter. A variety/talk show starring Raffaella Carà, it was the perfect comedy gym for David. All the work he had scheduled seemed to dry up before his eyes at the same time. The record was immediately a top 40 hit. As of this writing he has written and performed in nine TV series in three languages on four continents and made guest appearances on many more. EMI records, seeing David's success, bought out his contract and put him on the San Remo music festival as a special guest star. As a child studied acting and writing for the theater under Walter Roberts, Eric and Julia Roberts's father. His mime work involves portraying "Mr. Zed", a … For an international satellite television network, to thirty five countries, in English. At the end of the tour the record company that sponsored the show made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

But his real passion was comedy so, still in his teens he started hanging out in the back of the Improv in New York (on Thursdays when there was no cover) and doing stand up of his own at any and every venue that would allow a baby face to perform.

Here he was back in 1993 with Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford. To this day however, most Italians know him and his ZED Robot alter ego from a live daily program that became one of the most popular television programs in Italian television history: "Pronto Raffaella?".

David is still based tin Rome, it's a lot closer to London and the same distance from Tokyo as Los Angeles.

Then came movies and a high brow theater show for La Scala di Milano. In 1989 David returned to the states. Every weekday he wrote and performed a sketch and improvised live (no 7 second delay) with celebrity guest stars. In '91 he married his Italian girl friend.
A believer that "Man does not live by Zed alone" he has diversified and to many is now better known for straight acting rolls.

In '97 David's second daughter Marina was born. That's right! Zed Robot, stand up comedian, singer, international television star and sought after party guest. He played Vegas. In the mean time the Japanese and the Brits woke up to ZED. At the end of the semester he got an offer to show tour of Italy.

He became one of the most prolific writers for the Italian version of the popular British political satire program "Spitting Image".

In college he studied Radio, Television and film at Temple University in Philadelphia. In '93 he was the first new comedian on Jay Leno's Tonight show. David Kirk Traylor, best known by his stage names David Zed and Mr. Zed, is an American mime, actor and singer, mainly active in Italy.