Lenny Clarke

Lenny Clarke
Clarke in January 2006
Born	(1953-09-16) September 16, 1953 (age 63) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Medium	Stand-up, film, television
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Massachusetts Boston
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Jennifer Miller (m. 1996)
Website	Official website

Lenny Clarke (born September 16, 1953) is an American comedian and actor, famous for his thick Boston accent and role as Uncle Teddy on the series Rescue Me.

Clarke was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the most famous "saloon comic" in Boston during the 1980s, the heyday of the Boston comedy scene. The DVD release When Standup Stood Out (2006) details Clarke's early career and affiliations with other famous Boston comics, such as Steven Wright and Denis Leary, his good friends. In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a local television show Lenny Clarke's Late Show featuring Wright and Leary, in collaboration with Boston comedy writer Martin Olson. Clarke and Olson were roommates, and their apartment, known by comedians as "The Barracks", was a notorious "crash pad" for comics visiting Boston, and the subject of a documentary film as Clarke and Leary explain in When Standup Stood Out.

Since his early days in Boston, Clarke starred in his own short-lived network sitcom Lenny (1990), and in such TV shows as Contest Searchlight, The Job, The John Larroquette Show and It's All Relative and movies like Monument Ave., Fever Pitch and Southie. From 2004 to 2011, Clarke appeared in the recurring role of Uncle Teddy on the FX comedy-drama Rescue Me.