Randy Credico is an American political comedian and activist and the former Director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice and co founder of Mothers of the NY Disappeared along with ex drug law prisoner Anthony Papa.
Once active on the comedy circuit, including an appearance on the Tonight Show at age 29, he began a seven year campaign against New York state's Rockefeller drug laws, which he thought were too harsh, disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities. Small changes softening the stiffest penalties were passed in the state legislature, which Credico thought was insufficient.
Credico spent 4 years in Tulia, Texas bringing national attention to a racially charged mass drug arrest. The Kunstler Fund produced an award winning documentary on the subject entitled "Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War," written, directed and edited by Emily and Sarah Kunstler.
Credico is the subject of the film Sixty Spins Around the Sun, directed by comedian Laura Kightlinger and produced by actor Jack Black. Credico is also alleged to have imitated political consultant Roger Stone's voice in a threatening phone call to NY Governor Elliot Spitzer's father which caused Stone to be fired as a consultant to the NY State Senate by Joe Bruno. Credicosays that he was in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the day of the profane call to Mr. Spitzer. The case remains an unsolved mystery to some http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/08/the_credico_connection.html.
In 2009, Credico attended an meeting of the New York State Senate on Open Government dressed as the Greek Philosophe Diogenes the Cynic seeking an honest politician.
Credico was featured on the 1988 comedy album, "Strange Bedfellows: Comedy and Politics" along with Jimmy Tingle, Barry Crimmins, and Wil Durst. Credico produced, directed and wrote the radio program 60 Mimics. He has worked as a political consultant on several political campaigns including that of Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa in 1996 in which he organized the national comedy tour Humor for Hoffa. Credico came to regret his work for Hoffa and helped his opponent in a losing bid for the Teamster presidency in 2001.
Credico was born in Southern California and moved to New York in 1980. Credico, a recovering
alcoholic, lives in
Manhattan where he is working on a memoir called "Burning Bridges." He is the official comedian of Talk1300's live with Fred Dicker.