Brian Dunkleman has appeared on The Tonight Show, had a recurring guest role on Two Guys and also a Girl, played a stand-up comic suspected of murder in NYPD Blue, voiced himself in an episode of The Proud Family, where the show parodied American Idol, did voices for that animated 3 South, is acting in an independent film called Comedy Hell. He also had a tiny role on an episode of Friends  as the person who buys the engagement ring Chandler  really wants to buy Monica.

Dunkleman recently was a co-host with Eric the Midget on The Idol Re-cap Show on Sirius’s Howard 101. He also did voice over for the first season of American Idol Rewind.

Brian Dunkleman played himself on an episode of My Name is Earl, hosting a reality contest show called "Estrada or Nada," where contestants show their skills in an America’s Got Talent-esque show starring Eric Estrada. As Brian ended a segment on the show he said, "Dunkleman… out. No, Ryan Seacrest didn’t steal it from me."

He’s currently pitching a fictional series about his life after American Idol entitled American Dunkleman. The series is really a fictional account among the actor-comic’s life, following the fictional Dunkleman as he tries to figure his way back to the tv industry, embarrassing himself and disappointing his friends while constantly being reminded that he "could have been a millionaire" had he stuck with Idol.