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
Saturday May 30, 2015
Ali Spagnola - Episode 378
Saturday May 30, 2015
Saturday May 30, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with Ali Spagnola. Ali is a pop/rock/electro musician. She created a Power Hour Drinking Game Album that contains 60 one-minute songs that are also a drinking game. She self-released the album on a USB drive kept within a shot glass. She has also created several of the ringtones shipped on multiple android phones. In 2008, she started a project called Free Paintings. She takes requests online via email about what she should paint. She fills one request a day creating a 12x12", bright, pop art, acrylic painting. She then mails the painting to the requester for free. Requests are filled on a first come first served basis. The wait list is reported to be over 1,300 people long. She has completed over 2,000 paintings for the project and still continues to create one square foot of art a day. She recently moved to LA to record a new CD and has also toured the country many times playing her music and was at one time a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Girl.
Saturday May 23, 2015
Mark Moses - Episode 377
Saturday May 23, 2015
Saturday May 23, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor Mark Moses. Mark is probably best known for his roles as Duck Phillips on Mad Men, Dennis Boyd in Homeland and Paul Young in Desperate Housewives. He made his film debut in the Best Picture Academy Award winner Platoon and then appeared in Born on the Fourth of July and The Doors, each directed by Oliver Stone. Among his other movies have been Ridley Scott’s Someone to Watch Over Me, Ronald Maxwell’s Gettysburgh, Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact, Sean McNamara’s Race to Space, Brett Ratner’s Red Dragon and After the Sunset, Robert Luketic’s Monster-In-Law, John Whitesell’s Big Momma's House 2, Joshua Stern’s Swing Vote and Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima. He is also a very familiar face to TV being a regular on series including Grand, The Single Guy, The Killing and Manhattan and guest starring on numerous shows including Criminal Minds, Family Ties, The Practice, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Scandal, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Covert Affairs, The Closer, Human Target, Castle, Law & Order: SVU and many, many more. He can be seen starting in June playing President Jeff Michener in The Last Ship.
Thursday May 21, 2015
Jamal Doman - Episode 376
Thursday May 21, 2015
Thursday May 21, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with comic Jamal Doman. Jamal is a Philadelphia native who started doing stand-up in his hometown in 1993. In 1998 he moved to Hollywood and quickly became an industry favorite. Soon he landed spots on such shows as Showtime At The Apollo, BET's Comicview, Martin Lawrence Presents The 1st Amendment, Comics Unleashed and Who Wants To Date A Comedian. For the love of his country, he has also performed around the world for US troops in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Kuwait, South Korea, Iceland and Guam. He has also starred in such films as Repos, The Greatest Song and Streets! Jamal is also an internet sensation with his videos getting thousands of views. His Juicy T.-Certified Pimp webisodes are considered classics and has a huge following with his King of Captions on Instagram.
Monday May 18, 2015
Nick Searcy - Episode 375
Monday May 18, 2015
Monday May 18, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with actor Nick Searcy. Nick a consistent presence in American film and television for almost twenty years and a Peabody Award winner, has starred in independent films as well as studio blockbuster hits, including The Ugly Truth, The Last Song, Castaway, The Fugitive, Head of State, Runaway Jury, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Blood Done Sign My Name, The Dead Girl, An American Crime, Moneyball and Fried Green Tomatoes among others. On television, Nick was a series regular on five different shows: 7 Days, American Gothic, From the Earth to the Moon, Rodney, and Easy Money. He has guested on many shows such as The West Wing, Boston Legal, Hawaii Five-0, Mom, Hot in Cleveland and CSI. He also has shocked horror fans in the features Deadly End, Cold Storage and Timber Falls. He is recently finished filming the last season of the FX Network’s Justified, where he portrayed Chief Deputy Art Mullen.
Thursday May 14, 2015
Lew Schneider - Episode 374
Thursday May 14, 2015
Thursday May 14, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with TV writer/producer Lew Schneider. Lew got his start in stand-up comedy working the clubs in NY and around the country. His comedy was seen on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and HBO's One Night Stand. He also hosted Nickelodeon's game show Make the Grade which led to starring in two sitcoms, Wish You Were Here and Down the Shore. Soon after that he started writing for television where his credits include The George Wendt Show, The John Laroquette Show and the Naked truth. He eventually joined the staff at Everybody Loves Raymond and served as Supervising and Executive Producer throughout it's 9 year run and won 2 Emmys. Since then he has written for shows such as American Dad, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Men of a Certain Age. Currently he is Co-Executive Producer on The Goldbergs and directed an episode this past season.
Tuesday May 12, 2015
Michael Aston - Episode 373
Tuesday May 12, 2015
Tuesday May 12, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with musician Michael Aston. Michael Aston is the founding member, lead singer and leader of Gene Loves Jezebel. 1989 he left Gene Loves Jezebel due to his unhappiness with the direction of the band and strained relations with his twin brother, Jay. Moving to California, he started The Immigrants which eventually became Edith Grove. Edith Grove released its debut album to rave reviews and he eventually decided to tone things down a bit and he wrote and released his first solo album, Why Me Why This Why Now?. He reformed Gene Loves Jezebel instead of writing and recording a new Edith Grove album; the band's debut album was its only album. Between 1993 and 1997 Jay and him were working together on various projects and recordings, including an album that would eventually become VII. Both brothers did a reunion tour from February 1997 to October 1997 as Gene Loves Jezebel, however that ended with the recording and subsequent tour for VII. Another bitter falling out ensued. According to Michael, he refused to be pushed out of the band after all of the work he had put into the reunion and reformed GLJ with the backing band used on the first '97 Pre-Raphaelite Brothers tour. This caused much confusion amongst the fans as to who had the rights to the band name. Jay sued Michael to stop him from using Gene Loves Jezebel. Judge O'Brien in LA Superior Court denied twice the injunctions intended to stop Michael from using the Gene Loves Jezebel name. Jay withdrew the case with prejudice meaning that he could never sue Michael again. Jay released VII in 1998. Jay erased all of Michael's vocals and credits off the album however, a copy of this album with Michael's vocals was released as The Doghouse Sessions. Michael owns the exclusive rights to Gene Loves Jezebel in the US and continues to perform and release new material as Gene Loves jezebel throughout the world.
Sunday May 10, 2015
Lucky Lehrer - Episode 372
Sunday May 10, 2015
Sunday May 10, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with drummer Lucky Lehrer. Lucky is a drummer from Los Angeles, California who was voted the best punk drummer of all-time by fanzine, Flipside. He was originally trained in jazz but most famously played in LA punk rock bands, particularly the Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Bad Religion, Darby Crash Band and LA's Wasted Youth, among others. He also appeared in three notable documentary films charting the punk rock music scene. He is the brother of LA's Wasted Youth guitarist Chett Lehrer and teaches drums, with notable students being future Bad Religion drummers Pete Finestone and Bobby Schayer.
Friday May 01, 2015
Phoef Sutton - Episode 371
Friday May 01, 2015
Friday May 01, 2015
Steve Cooper talks with writer Phoef Sutton. Phoef started his career at the NBC television show Cheers. He stayed with the show for eight years, working his way up from staff writer to executive producer, winning two Emmys and a Writer’s Guild Award. After Cheers, he has produced and created a number of television shows and consulted on others, including News Radio and Boston Legal. He is honored to have won a Peabody Award, a GLAAD award and a Television Academy Honors award for this work on Boston Legal. Recently, he has worked on critically acclaimed series Terries for FX , The Soul Man for TV Land and Defiance for the SyFy Channel. A particular favorite is of his is the cult comedy Thanks, a sit-com about the Pilgrims starring Cloris Leachman and Jim Rash. He has also worked for many years as a screenwriter and script doctor. Mrs. Winterbourne, directed by Richard Benjamin was an adaptation of a novel by one of his favorite authors, Cornell Woolrich. The Fan, directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert DeNiro was an adaptation of the novel by Peter Abrahams. He is also a published novelist with Always Six o’Clock a romantic-thriller and The Midnight Special a horror novel and he recently announced that is he co-authoring a series of 4 books with best selling author Janet Evanovich, the first of which will be published this year.