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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American musician}}<br />
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{{Infobox comedian<br />
| name = John Valby<br />
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| birth_name = John R. Valby<br />
| birth_date = November 22, 1944<br />
| birth_place = [[Buffalo, New York]]<br />
| death_date = <br />
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| nationality = American<br />
| medium = [[Stand-up]] <br />
| active = 1970s-present<br />
| genre = [[Blue comedy]], [[musical comedy]], [[insult comedy]], [[improvisational comedy]]<br />
| subject = [[Human sexuality]], [[race relations]], [[American politics]], religion, everyday life<br />
| influences = <br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
| website = {{Official website|http://www.johnvalby.com/}}<br />
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'''John R. Valby''' (born November 22, 1944)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thestaffordpalacetheater.com/event/364035-john-valby-aka-drdirtys-stafford-springs/<br />
|title=The Stafford Palace Theater - John Valby aka Dr.Dirty's Special Christmas Show - Stafford Springs, CT |date=December 14, 2013 |accessdate=November 1, 2014 }}</ref> is an American musician, singer, songwriter, comedian, and producer known for his comedic and obscene song parodies. Also known as '''Dr. Dirty''', he typically performs in a white tailcoat suit and black derby hat. His songs and shows focus mainly on sex and racial slurs, with a mix of current and historic people and events.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Valby was born and raised in Western New York.<ref name=IJ77>{{cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/image/255246289/|title=Warning: Dr. Dirty is strictly X-rated humor|first=Marilyn|last=Laverty|date=22 October 1977|newspaper=The Ithaca Journal|page=31|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> He attended school in [[Rochester, New York]], where at age seven, was taught to play the piano by two nuns.<ref name=IJ77/><ref name=SG96>{{cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/image/279498278/|title=John Valby comes clean|first=Daniel|last=Aloi|date=14 March 1996|newspaper=Star-Gazette|page=34|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> At ten, Valby wanted to become a performer. In 1966, Valby graduated from [[Middlebury College]] in [[Middlebury, Vermont]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=JohnValby.com - The Official Home Of Dr. Dirty|url=http://www.johnvalby.com/bio.html|access-date=2021-04-28|website=www.johnvalby.com}}</ref> At one point he considered a profession as a philosophy teacher, but soon realized it was not right for him and focused on musical entertainment.<ref name=IJ77/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Valby joined various rock bands in his early career that "kept on breaking up", which drove him to become a solo piano act of mostly rock and roll and honky tonk tunes. At one show in May 1974, he added some dirty songs of his own into the set.<ref name=BCE98/> The positive response to the dirty songs led Valby to focus on the more adult material.<ref name=BCE01>{{cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/image/206039854/|title=Blue, period|first=Dana|last=Carter|date=19 October 2001|newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer|page=29|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> He would often write new material while transporting between gigs.<ref name=BCE98/> Valby claimed that he was named "Dr. Dirty" by the National Entertainment Conference, a booking organisation for the college circuit. He stated that he disliked the name because it "takes away from the element of surprise".<ref name=IJ77/> He credited some of his obscene act as a reaction to the Catholic repression that he faced during childhood.<ref name=BCE01/><br />
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In addition to his blue comedy act, Valby has recorded and produced pop and rock albums for himself and other artists, including [[Buffalo Sabres]] defenseman [[Jim Schoenfeld]], with whom Valby recorded two albums, ''Schony'' (1972) and ''The Key is Love'' (1974). He also had a small role as a piano player in a Tijuana brothel in the 1983 film ''[[Losin' It]]'' which featured an early performance by [[Tom Cruise]].<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Valby is married to his wife Anne; together they have six children.<ref name=BCE01/><ref name=BCE98>{{cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/image/207222132/|title='Dirty' performer keeps it clean at home|first=Mark|last=Schwerin|date=19 March 1998|newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer|page=5|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> In August 2012 his home in [[Clarence, New York]] was burned due to suspected arson.<ref>{{cite news | last = Tokasz |first= Jay |date=August 26, 2012 |url=http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/clarence/article1024025.ece |title=Musical entertainer's home heavily damaged by fire |work=The Buffalo News |accessdate=August 26, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829032844/http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/clarence/article1024025.ece |archivedate=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2016, he still lives in Clarence.<br />
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Valby endorsed [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election]] and recorded a song and music video supporting his campaign.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKRzkrawKRk John Valby sings "Everybody Hates Trump"] at [[YouTube]] (April 18, 2016).<!-- The account of Marshal Berle, which posted the video, is also the account Valby links to on his official site, making it as close to official as possible. --></ref> (He would later backtrack on his endorsement, working a line into a 2018 song stating that Trump was "full of shit".)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eds5hzYA1-E John Valby - "Give My Remains to Science"] on [[YouTube]] (January 29, 2018).</ref><br />
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== Discography ==<br />
*1974 – The Key Is Love (collaboration with [[Jim Schoenfeld]])<br />
*1974 – Philosophical Bull Shit<br />
*1975 – Dirt<br />
*1977 – Hotel Buffalo<br />
*1978 – Concerto for Piano, Voice and 500 Screaming Assholes<br />
*1980 – Lily White And Burnout Blue<br />
*1980 – Give Me Dirt or Give Me Death<br />
*1982 – Sit on a Happy Face<br />
*1982 - Jingle Balls<br />
*1982 - Dr. Dirty in Pixieland<br />
*1986 - What I Did on My Summer Vacation<br />
*1986 - A Sawmill River Christmas<br />
*1987 – A Midsummer's Wet Dream<br />
*1988 – Don't Go Soft on Me Now<br />
*1988 – Beaver Fever<br />
*1989 – Your Face or Mine<br />
*1989 – Compact DIRT: Digital Ditties<br />
*1990 – Fruits of an Idle Mind<br />
*1990 – Double Valby: Don't Go Soft on Me Now/Your Face or Mine<br />
*1991 - Bootleg Valby<br />
*1991 - Dirt the Movie (VHS)<br />
*1992 - The Doctor Is In<br />
*1992 - Half in the Bag<br />
*1992 – Butt Seriously Folks<br />
*1992 - Live from Jackinsack New Jersey<br />
*1992 – It's a Small Dick After All and Other Short Subjects (live album)<br />
*1993 – Double D CD<br />
*1994 – Up for Re-Erection<br />
*1995 – Scratch N Sniff<br />
*1995 - Super Pixies<br />
*1995 - 20 Years as Dr. Dirty in America (VHS)<br />
*1996 – Fruits of an Idle Mind<br />
*1997 – Butt's Up Doc<br />
*1998 – Cherry Poppin' in Grand Rapids<br />
*1998 – WWW.VALBY.CUM<br />
*1998 - Same Shit Different Cover<br />
*1999 - Half in the Fuckin' Bag<br />
*2000 – Best of Dr Dirty<br />
*2000 - The Not Yet On CD, CD*<br />
*2000 – Herniated Jingle Balls<br />
*2001 – Dr. Dirty's Sphincter Unplugged<br />
*2001 – American Troubadour<br />
*2001 – Dr. Dirty: O&A and T&A Video<br />
*2001 – Greatest Tits<br />
*2003 - Operation Fuck Iraq<br />
*2003 - Up for Re-Erection<br />
*2004 – The Old Fart Cuts Another One<br />
*2005 – Valby Rocks<br />
*2006 - Treasury of XXXMas Classics<br />
*2007 – Coming Soon on a Face Near You<br />
*2007 - I'm Here for the Gangbang<br />
*2008 – Sheep Thrills<br />
*2009 - The Dirt Poems<br />
*2009 - Tequila Mockingbird (DVD)<br />
*2012 – Tickling the Ovaries<br />
*2015 – Survival of the Stiffest<br />
*2015 – Keep Calm and Valby On<br />
*2016 - Democracy Is Working Again<br />
*2018 - Juicy Tidbits<br />
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Unknown Years <br />
*Live at the Pine Inn<br />
*Ivy<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Richard A. Reuss, ''An Annotated Field Collection of Songs From the American College Student Oral Tradition'' (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Masters Thesis, 1965).<br />
* Ed Cray, ''The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs'' (University of Illinois, 1992).<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{Official website|http://www.johnvalby.com/}}<br />
*{{IMDb name|id=0883528}}<br />
*{{lastFM_music|John+Valby}}<br />
*{{discogs artist | 938803-John-Valby}}<br />
*[https://music.apple.com/us/artist/john-valby/59490768 iTunes]<br />
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