KENNY MORSE'S BIO
A.K.A. "MR. TRAFFIC"

Kenny Morse (born Kenny Morse Schaffel in New York City, the name Morse coming from his late Uncle Morris Silverman, father of famed opera singer BEVERLY SILLS) literally grew up in show business as the son of noted New York production executive HAL SCHAFFEL (who brought us such television classics as "HOWDY DOODY", "NAKED CITY" and "THE DEFENDERS" and movies such as "MIDNIGHT COWBOY" and "THE MAIN EVENT").

As a child actor, Kenny had many parts on episodic television shows, commercials and was one of the original "Sonny"'s in the National Tour of the Broadway show "GREASE" and "Pilate" in the Los Angeles company of "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR". He Associate Produced the Broadway show "THE HEIRESS" with Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley. A graduate of Boston University School of The Arts, he gained production management experience through the '80's as an Assistant Production Manager or Location Manager on many television movies. Kenny took a staff position in television development at 20th Century Fox in the late '80's.

Kenny was offered an opportunity in 1987 to take his show business and management experience to help make better drivers at LETTUCE AMUSE U/WEST COAST TRAFFIC SCHOOL, then, the largest in California, overseeing a stable of 40 teachers. He started teaching these classes himself which garnered him worldwide publicity.

In 1990, Kenny created "ASK MR. TRAFFIC" as a Los Angeles television and talk radio show. As a regular contributor on KFI Radio in LA, Kenny made the “Mr. Traffic” name an LA Icon and he was honored with the Southern California Cable Association's "DIAMOND AWARD" for "Best Live Call-in Show on Southern California Cable." The show IS the longest running LIVE CALL-IN SHOW on Southern California Cable Time Warner.

Stories have been written in major Los Angeles papers and magazines as well as international television shows and newspapers about his traffic school classes and he has been featured on PBS, Toronto, London and Paris television shows about driving in California.

Mr. Traffic has appeared on many local and national television shows ranging from "Good Morning America," "Talk Soup," "The Home & Family Show" (on The Family Channel), "Mike & Maty," on ABC, "Great Day America" and "EXTRA." Mr. Traffic has also been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX news.

He hosted his own radio show "THE DRIVING SHOW with Mr. Traffic",  on KRLA in Los Angeles, and a fill-in host on TalkRadio 790, KABC in addition to contributing to many other local, national and international TV & Radio shows. For the past 2 years, Kenny is featured on THE PREMIERE RADIO NETWORK hosting "DRIVETIME with MR. TRAFFIC" where he interviews the biggest driving safety officials in our government.

As a member of the California State Drunk Driving Task Force, Kenny helped shape new laws against the #1 most committed violent crime in America....Drunk Driving.

A lecturer on all the issues related to driving, Kenny's approach and commitment to making people safer on our has been the keynote speaker at huge corporations like EXXON and many smaller corporations like VONS, countless civic groups and the U.S. Government. He even appeared at the Paris Auto Show as "Monsieur Traffic."

As a television Producer, in addition to "Mr. Traffic", Kenny has produced over 400 hours of programming in the past 19 years with his other two cable TV shows, "IN THE BIZ" and "A CONVERSATION WITH...", both educational ventures aimed at helping people be informed about issues in the Los Angeles community.

In the summer of 1995, Kenny created this worldwide public service resource on the Internet World Wide Web with his ASK MR. TRAFFIC website, the BEST drivers resource on the Internet where approximately 30,000 unique users visit daily.

Kenny has the most requested traffic school classes in California, based in Los Angeles and Orange County for THE IMPROV TRAFFIC SCHOOL, an offshoot of the famous comedy club THE IMPROV.

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