A man of great passion and artistic ability, Seattle's Rod Long is a professional photographer, writer and stand-up comedian. He holds degrees in Journalism (Seattle University) and Motion Picture Production (Brooks Institute of Photography).
Always the consummate jokester from infancy, he began dabbling in stand-up comedy professionally while living in Los Angeles, where an uncanny impression of Muhammad Ali promoting bug killer got big laughs -- and he became hooked on facilitating laughter.

Now a veteran on the comedy scene, Long won the 1987 Seattle International comedy Competition and the 1998 "Emerald City's Funniest Person" contest. He has been seen on the Showtime Comedy Club Network -- twice -- and has performed at Caesar's Palace, Caroline's, the Comedy Underground, and many other venues throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He is co-host of Seattle P-I Annual Sports Star of the Year with Steve Raible and the color commentator of the annual Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Tournament.

Satisfied corporate clients include Microsoft, Boeing, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle/King County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Port of Seattle, Seattle P-I Newspaper, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean International; benefit performances include the Charles Barkley Foundation, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and the Make a Wish Foundation.

Rod most recently opened for The Temptations and has done so for many other greats including, Lou Rawls, Smokey Robinson, Arturo Sandoval, Ertha Kitt, Bobby Hutchinson and Ray Charles. Plus, comedy greats, Jerry Seinfeld, Marsha Warfield and the late, great Bill Hicks.