About Dick
For the past 15 years on WISH-TV’s Daybreak, Dick Wolfsie has lent his unique brand of wit and humor to the screen. His video essays and personal stories are unique to Indiana television. Many are syndicated nationally.
After 25 years in Indianapolis, this former high school and college English teacher has netted over 10,000 hours of television. Wolfsie’s work in the media has netted him over a dozen awards including a regional Emmy for best host, a national ACE award and a Casper Award for five years as host and producer of AM Indiana. He was recently nominated for his second Emmy Award.
He has hosted local talk shows in New York, Chicago, Boston and Columbus, Ohio. Dick also served as a regular host for a series of Multimedia cable talk shows originating in New York and broadcast throughout the US and Canada.
Dick is presently a weekly humor columnist for 25 central Indiana newspapers. Dick is presently a weekly humor columnist for 25 central Indiana newspapers. He has written eight books, including “Barney, The Stray Beagle Who Became A TV Star”; “Wolfsie in Sheep’s Clothing”; “Dog Dilemmas and Cat Conundrums” (written with dog behavior expert Dr. Gary Sampson); and “Indiana Curiosities, the 300 most off-the-wall people and places in Indiana” which is a revision of his 2001 best-seller.
Dick’s new book, “67 Ways to Amuse Yourself in Two Minutes or Less”, will be published by Life Time Press in June.
See Dick Speak, Hear Jane Laugh
Not just Jane, but anyone who has ever heard one of Dick’s humor presentations over the past 20 years. Learn why we laugh and how humor changes our lives. It’s the perfect after dinner (breakfast or lunch) speech. Caution: Speeches during dinner result in food sprayed all over the place. You can’t swallow and laugh at the same time. Contact Dick about speaking at your next event!
