The day before beginning previews of her new Off Broadway show, “One Funny Mother,” Dena Blizzard was taking cold medicine and tending to her 11-year-old daughter, who had recently received nine stitches in her knee after falling in a creek. “I should have expected this was how the show would launch,” she said over lunch in Midtown…

The growing obsession with Pokémon Go has led to everything from random hook-ups to a player's accidental dip into a pond, but one comedian believes that there is a better gaming option for adults — and it involves plenty of booze. Dena Blizzard, a 43-year-old comedian and mother-of-three from New Jersey, has created a brilliant parody video that not only p

CLASSICALLY, the Miss America contest has not been a feeder system for stand-up comedy. But earlier this month, Dena Blizzard, a former Miss New Jersey who lives in Runnemede, beat out dozens of other women from the New York City region to win the amateur category in the Ladies of Laugh

“Humor can disarm, enlighten and create connection…and connection is the highest form of communication that exists.” These pearls of wisdom, offered by female comedian Karith Foster, are the secret sauce shared by women in comedy. The founder of Inversity Solutions believes the same skills that make female comics…

Gotta drink 'em all. While kids (just kidding—adults) have been running amuck throwing Pokéballs in the spirit of catching all the Pokémon, moms have been left to wonder: WTF is a Diglett? But now, thanks to Dena Blizzard, a comedian and creator of the off-Broadway show One Funny Mother, moms can forget Cha

While strategically placing the Elf on the Shelf has become an Olympic sport for moms over the past few years, there’s a new game in town that parents everywhere are sure to love. Dena Blizzard of the Off Broadway show One Funny Mother has recently created Shiraz On the Shelf, an adult-friendly twist on

Now that I am married and have two kids, I feel the pressure to be cool. On weekends, I try to act like I'm not married and have no kids. So I'm at a stop light and look over at the guy next to me. He's checking me out!

Thirteen years ago, Dena Blizzard -- the 1995 Miss New Jersey with a graduate degree in gerontology -- had just given birth to her second child, when her approaching 30th birthday hit her hard. "I thought my life was over and I wa

Yes, yes we know, Pokemon Go is awesome and everyone's kids have miraculously gotten up off the couch for once. Congratulations on your newfound free time, btw, parents everywhere. Still, I'd argue that comedian Dena Blizzard's idea for Chardonnay Go is even awesomer.

She once made headlines as Miss New Jersey, but now Dena Blizzard is gaining national attention for her back to school video shot in Target. The Mooresetown mom and comedian says she's so happy to send her kids back to school that she's ready to buy whatever the teachers want.

Authentic Jersey girl Dena Blizzard has turned her likability, presence and timing into a career built around her comedic frustrations with – and silly celebrations of – being a suburban Philly wife and mom. Come July 2, the one-year anniversary of the release of her insanely viral (23 million views, by Blizzard's count) video – Chardonnay Go – Blizzard

Comedian Dena Blizzard has always used humor to help her daughter, Brooke, work through learning challenges. Their journey with learning and thinking differences hasn’t been easy, though. Here, Blizzard shares some of the surprises, challenges, and joys they’ve encountered along the way….

The mom who’s made everyone laugh with her viral video about Target back-to-school shopping is back. Only this time she’s crying. Real tears. In a Facebook live video posted Monday morning, Dena Blizzard sits in her car looking exhausted and emotionally spent. She’s in a CVS parking lot after an IEP meeting with her 8th-grade daughter’s teachers and case manager.

Real Simple welcomes Dena Querubin-Blizzard as a co-host for its second season on PBS. Whether discovering new ways to balance work and family, or working with experts to share strategies to save viewers’ time and money, Dena — a busy mother of three — brings to the program an upbeat perspective and understanding of

This year the supply list for an elementary school student costs about $650, up from an inflation-adjusted $375 in 2006, according to the annual Huntington Bank's Backpack Index, which tracks the change in a representative basket of goods over time.

TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Just a block and a half away from Broadway, one woman is putting her New Jersey household on stage. Dena Blizzard stars in the one-woman show "One Funny Mother," a comedic look at the challenges of parenting young children. Blizzard is a former Miss New Jersey turned stand-up comic wh

It’s 7:30 p.m. on a Friday in October, and Dena Blizzard is beginning the nearly two-hour drive from New York City back to Camden County, where she lives with her husband and three kids. The lifelong Jersey girl has just finished week three in the second cycle of a harrowing four-week work schedule — three weeks on, one week off — as warm-up…

Many people wouldn’t see a connection between Pokemon Go, Chardonnay and being a mother – unless you’re One Funny Mother Dena Blizzard. Blizzard found the humor and went viral with her “Chardonnay Go” video this summer, but she didn’t stop there. This week, the South Jersey local competed as a top five finalist for a sh…

Sometimes it’s good to follow advice. Sometimes it’s not, and Dena Blizzard knows the difference. She followed the advice she asked for after she lost her first attempt to be crowned Miss New Jersey, and she won the next time around. She dismissed the advice she didn’t ask for, and by standing by her insti

Dena Blizzard can recall with clarity the day she realized she had what it would take to survive stand-up. It was 2001 and while at the mall with her first child, then still a toddler, the South Jersey mom watched with dismay as the tot lau