Straight out of Philly! Entertainer Steve Cooper is ”Only as hip as his guests”. He hosts Comedians, Actors, Writers and Musicians and spends an hour with them for some organic chat about the biz!
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 29, 2015
Anthony Rich - Episode 370
Wednesday Apr 29, 2015
Wednesday Apr 29, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with director Anthony Rich. Anthony has worked on over four hundred episodes of prime-time network television and is currently a Director and First Assistant Director on the hit CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. He has directed nine episodes of the series, and in 2014, earned his first DGA Award nomination as Outstanding Comedy Director for the season six episode, The Love Spell Potential. In addition he has also directed multiple episodes of Mom starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney, Hot in Cleveland starring Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves and Young & Hungry starring Emily Osment and Jonathan Sadowski as well as episodes of The McCarthys starring Tyler Ritter and Laurie Metcalf “Kirstie” starring Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, and Michael Richards and See Dad Run starring Scott Baio. He also wrote an episode of ABC’s MacGyver that aired as the series’ fifth-season finale in 1990.
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Cindy Caponera - Episode 369
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Sunday Apr 26, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with writer Cindy Caponera. Cindy honed her comedy with two stints in at The Second City in Chicago and began her television writing career with the early Comedy Central series, Exit 57. She then landed a writing job with Saturday Night Live and after that has worked as a writer or producer on various shows that include Norm, My Boys, Sherri, Ground Floor, and Sunny with a Chance plus Showtime’s Shameless and Nurse Jackie. She recently published her collection of essays, I Triggered Her Bully which is available both in an online and print version, after being named a Kindle Top Rated Humor Book and will soon be available on audio book.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
John Riggi - Episode 368
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with writer/comic/director John Riggi. John is an Emmy-winning writer, director and producer. He started his career as a stand-up comedian, logging appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as well his own comedy stand up special on HBO. He made the transition from stand-up comedian to television writer when he began work as a staff writer on The Dennis Miller Show. From there he worked on -- and eventually became the head writer on -- the award winning Larry Sanders Show, starring Garry Shandling. He has written for such notable shows as Will & Grace, Family Guy and The Bernie Mac Show, where his writing was acknowledged with the Humanitas Prize. More recently he served for six seasons an executive producer on the Emmy Award-winning 30 Rock. In addition to writing, he directed numerous episodes of this critically acclaimed show. He currently Riggi is under contract with Warner Bros. Television and was thrilled to be reunited with Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow for The Comeback this past season.
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
Felicia Michaels - Episode 367
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with comic Felicia Michaels. Felicia has appeared on such networks as MTV, A&E, Comedy Central, VH1 and Showtime. Not to mention NBC, ABC and FOX. She also was the Comedy Grand Champion on Star Search. Her first comedy CD, Lewd Awakenings, landed her on XM Satellite’s list of top 100 jokes. She was nominated twice as Funniest Female by the American Comedy Awards before clinching it. Breaks from touring were supplemented with film and photography courses at NYU and The New School, which led to her writing and directorial debut with the Cine Eagle Award-winning short film In the Weeds. Work soon followed on Mitch Hedberg's Sundance Film Festival selection Los Enchiladas, as an actor and assistant director. Guest appearances followed on sitcoms, and her ongoing photo documentary project "Stand Up / Stripped Down" won first place at the Prix De La Photographie Competition in Paris. She currently performs across the country, has started painting and is working on a book.
Friday Apr 17, 2015
E.G. Daily - Episode 366
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor/singer E.G. Daily. E.G. has starred in more than twenty feature films as an actress and leaped to the top of the charts as a singer/songwriter. Recently E.G. had a role in a Nick Cassavetes film called My Sister’s Keeper and starred as Candy in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects. Her credits also include Street Music, Valley Girl, Streets of Fire, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Fandango, Loverboy, and Dogfight. She has done voices for numerous animated series, including the Emmy Award winning Rugrats (Tommy Pickles) and The Powerpuff Girls (Buttercup). She resumed her role as the voice of Tommy Pickles in all three animated feature films and can also be heard as the voice of Babe in the live-action feature Babe II: Pig in the City. Additional voice-over credits include Starship Troopers, Recess, Chalkzone, Eek! the Cat, Duck Days, Duckman, Jungle Cubs, Problem Child, and Baby Blues. She also provided the voice of Froggie in the feature film The Little Rascals, Bam Bam in The Flinstones, Lorenzo in the Academy Award winning feature film, Lorenzo’s Oil and Baby Mumbles in the Academy Award winning Happy Feet. In addition to her extensive voiceover work, she co-wrote and co-produced two solo albums, Wild Child and Lace Around the Wound on A&M Records. Several of her songs soared to the top of Billboard’s dance charts and became well-received music videos, including Say It, Say It, which became a number one hit. She has also composed music and performed on a number of soundtracks, including Street Music, Thief of Hearts, Scarface, The Breakfast Club, Summer School and Better Off Dead. She has collaborated with many well-known producers, such as Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Stock Aitken, Waterman, Jelly Bean Benitez and Harold Faltermeyer and recently was a favorite when she sang on NBC's The Voice.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Catherine Hicks - Episode 365
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor Catherine Hicks. Catherine is best known for her role as preacher's wife Annie Camden on the drama 7th Heaven which she played for 11 seasons. She first rose to prominence as Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope, a role she played from 1976 to 1978. In 1979, she was one of the leads in the television version of The Bad News Bears and in 1982 she took the lead role in the comedy/detective series Tucker's Witch opposite Tim Matheson. Supporting roles in movies followed, with appearances in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as Dr. Gillian Taylor, and Peggy Sue Got Married as Carol Heath (both 1986), but it was the role of the mother in the movie Child's Play (1988) that first established her as a name in Hollywood. The next year, she starred opposite Tony Danza in She's Out of Control. In the first half of the 1990s, she found acting work in the form of made-for-TV movies, but it wasn't until 1996 that she got the role on 7th Heaven. She has also starred on Broadway and many other plays.
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Nick Bakay - Episode 364
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Monday Apr 13, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with writer/actor Nick Bakay. Nick got his start when he a became a contributing editor for The National Lampoon Magazine, which led to a writing job and starring roles in two cable series, Night After Night and Sports Monster. After landing a job as a writer and sidekick/announcer on the syndicated The Dennis Miller Show, he decided it was time to move to Los Angeles. Since that time, he has written and performed in numerous television series including What's So Funny?, She TV, In Living Color and Comedy Central's Baseballapalooza and NFL Offsides. He has also guest-starred in the comedy series Coach, Ellen, Grace Under Fire, Seinfeld and That 70's Show. For the first four seasons of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, he was a writer/producer on the show. He has also taken on that role on many shows including The King of Queens, Til' Death and Two and a Half Men. He has additionally has written segments and commentary for ESPN and ESPN.com. and was the host of Reel Classics on ESPN Classic. Currently he is a writer/producer on Mom and has co-written both Paul Blart: Mall Cop movies.
Friday Apr 10, 2015
Phil Hendrie - Episode 363
Friday Apr 10, 2015
Friday Apr 10, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with radio legend Phil Hendrie. Phil is a creative genius chock full of character, comedy and commentary. He is famous for concocting a cast of fictional characters, all of whom he plays on air while simultaneously serving as host of his national talk radio program, Hendrie actually started out as a disc jockey at WBJW 1440 AM in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. After 15 years working as a disc jockey at stations across the country, he moved to Los Angeles and debuted in talk radio as a weekend host at KFI-AM 640. His popularity resulted in his radio show going national in 1999. By 2006, he was ready to explore the next chapter of his career, acting. For the last ten years he has had roles in the Fox animated shows King of the Hill and Futurama. Other work includes Giants of Radio, The Replacements, Three Strikes, The Unit, Teachers, Semi-Pro and a recurring role on Fox's New Girl. Although he enjoyed acting on a full-time basis, he missed the daily creative outlet that radio provided. In 2007, he returned to national radio in the late evenings, but in the Spring of 2014 he finally severed his ties with radio and made the show available exclusively online via podcasts.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
Ritch Shydner - Episode 362
Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with comic Ritch Shydner. Ritch made numerous appearances on TV in the 80s, including Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and he did an HBO half-hour special, One Night Stand. He played Al Bundy’s co-worker on Married with Children and made guest appearances on many other TV shows, such as Designing Women and Roseanne. He was able to translate his modest success on TV into an obscure film career, appearing in Steve Martin’s, Roxanne and Eddie Murphy's, Beverly Hills Cop II, before moving on to minor roles on smaller pictures. He also wrote for sitcoms such as Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show and HBO’s The Mind of the Married Man. He wrote material for Jeff Foxworthy’s Grammy nominated comedy albums, Totally Committed and Big Fun and he has written for Ron White and Jay Leno. In 2006 he was co-author of a book on stand-up, I Killed and in 2010 he produced and performed in an award winning documentary on the world of stand-up comedy, I Am Comic. Currently he is writing a movie adaptation for HBO of Bill Maher's book, True Story and performing around the world.
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Peter Dobson - Episode 361
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor Peter Dobson. Peter was 21 when he landed his first starring role - after being chosen from a nation wide search - in the Tri-Star Pictures musical, Sing, from the producers of Fame and Footloose. This was followed by the critically acclaimed adaptation of Hubert Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn, and Neil Simon's The Marrying Man. Director Robert Zemeckis cast him in the title role of the short lived but highly acclaimed comedy TV series CBS's Johnny Bago, which led to starring roles in numerous TV series and TV movies, including Michael Mann's Miami Vice. Other notable series include CBS's Lenny, FOX's Party of Five, HBO's Tales From The Crypt and Norma Jean and Marilyn. He portrayed young Elvis Presley in Academy Award winning Forrest Gump. Following that were Peter Jackson's cult classic The Frighteners, and Drowning Mona. With his growing popularity, he was then offered the title role in the USA Network series Cover Me: The True Life of an FBI Family. Following the series-run of Cover Me, he moved behind the camera. He wrote and produced the hilarious Sundance Film Festival favorite, his first film, Choose Life. (A story about two hit men obsessed with the 80's pop group Wham!). He then went on to produce his first feature Double Down starring himself and Jason Priestley. His second short film White Mule, proved that he is a force behind the camera as a Writer/Director, and was selected at 2013's Cannes Film Festival, among many others. And this has led to his upcoming feature film in Development, Exit 102: Asbury Park, attracting the great Robert Evans as Producer. Most recently, Dobson is executive producing and starring in new TV Series in development Dirty Dead Con Men.
Friday Apr 03, 2015
David Starzyk - Episode 360
Friday Apr 03, 2015
Friday Apr 03, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor David Starzyk. David started out on stage productions in New York and Boston before moving to Los Angeles. Since being in LA he has amassed an impressive resume which includes recurring roles on such shows as Desperate Housewives, 7th Heaven, Charmed, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, Days of Our Lives, Pacific Blue, Veronica's Closet, The Young and the Restless, Hot and Cleveland and many others. He has also guest starred on series like Person of Interest, Castle, iCarly, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Entourage, Charmed, Lost, Two and a Half Men, Bones, Masters of Sex, Revenge, The Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods and Mad Men to name a few. He has appeared in many commercials and was featured in the Chase Sapphire campaign.
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Pamela Des Barres - Episode 359
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with writer/groupie Pamela Des Barres. Pamela is known as the World’s Most Famous Groupie or Queen of the Groupies, but has many other facets, fascinations and unique talents. Known mostly for her heady dalliances and friendships with classic rock’s elite dandies in the 60s and 70s, she presciently kept copious diaries about those madcap revolutionary days and nights. Pamela has written four books, I'm With the Band, Take Another Little Piece of my Heart, Rock Bottom: Dark Secrets in Music Babylon and Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies. Known as Miss Pamela, she has shared her history on endless TV and radio shows and documentaries, including two memorable stints with both Oprah and Larry King. Last year she wrote and produced an hour-long VH1 Doc interviewing an array of supergroupies based on her most recent book. She has been teaching ongoing women’s writing workshops in Los Angeles and all over the country for twelve years, inspiring like-minded dolls to share their desire, stories and ideas in a totally safe environment. She calls these writing parties Groupie Therapy. And as an ordained minister, Pamela performs unique one-of-a-kind rock & roll weddings.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2015
Larry Poindexter and Rebecca Metz - Episode 358
Tuesday Mar 31, 2015
Tuesday Mar 31, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actors Larry Poindexter and Rebecca Metz. Larry and Rebecca stop by the studio to discuss the proposal called Actors Equity's proposed new 99 Seat Agreement. Thousands of actors in Los Angeles have come together to oppose a proposal by Actors’ Equity, the theater actors' union. The new proposal seeks to prohibit its members from lending their talents to small, nonprofit theaters by requiring these theaters to increase actor compensation nearly 1,000%. If this passes it could be very damaging to the LA theatre community and could cause some of these smaller performance houses to close. Larry and Rebecca both accomplished actors on stage, TV and screen are just two of the many Hollywood working and successful talents that are taking a stand.