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
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Ione Skye - Episode 505
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actor Ione Skye. Ione is best known for her role as Diane Court in the iconic 80s film Say Anything written and directed by Cameron Crowe. She has starred in many films including River's Edge, Wayne's World, Gas Food Lodging, Four Rooms, Fever Pitch, Bad Girls Behind Bars and appeared in television shows such as Covington Cross, The Twilight Zone, The Dead Zone, Private Practice and Arrested Development. She is also an accomplished painter having art shows in Tokyo and Los Angeles and recently had a children's book published.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016
Greg Hetson - Episode 504
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with guitarist Greg Hetson. Greg is known as the Gordie Howe of Punk”, has been a staple of the L.A. punk scene since 1979. He got his start playing in the influential Red Kross, leaving in ’80 to form the Circle Jerks (featured in The Decline of Western Civilization Vol. I). Since 1984, he has split his time between Bad Religion, the Circle Jerks and a variety of other projects including more recently Black President (with members of Goldfinger, Unwritten Law and Guttermouth), Punk Rock Karoke (with members of NOFX and Social Distortion), and GFP. He is currently working on recording tracks utilizing many musical genres.
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Steve McGrew - Episode 503
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with comic Steve McGrew. Steve better known as 'Mudflap' (the hellbent southern gent) has been featured on Comedy Central in his own half hour special. He can be heard on 24/7 Comedy and on Sirius XM radio. He has released several comedy CDs, his latest, One Sick Puppy, is now available on iTunes. He is a regular at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory and Sin City Comedy club in Las Vegas. He is also in high demand for comedy clubs and casino shows all around the country. He performs regularly in London and around the UK and in China. Additionally, he has opened concerts for several rock and country artists. He was an award winning morning radio host with 3 CMAs (country music awards) and currently is the host of the popular podcasts Re-Masculate and Wrinkled Sheets.
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Phil Varone - Episode 502
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with drummer Phil Varone. Phil is a founding and former member of the band Saigon Kick from 1988–1996 and from 2012–2015. While out of Saigon Kick for several years, some of which Saigon Kick wasn't active, he played for Prunella Scales, Skid Row, and Vince Neil. When he left the music business in 2004 he decided to pursue a career in acting and stand up comedy. He appeared as a celebrity customer in an episode of Miami Ink, in which he got a tattoo of his son's name. He also appeared in episodes of the Showtime series Californication, and the CBS series Numbers and appeared the E! program Inside Celebrity Rehabs, the NBC game show Identity, in which he was correctly matched to his identity as a rock and roll drummer, and on an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories on the BIO Channel. He also appeared in an Asian Nokia TV commercial. He has participated in Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew and appeared on episodes of Oprah,The Tyra Banks Show and the Today show. Years ago he was a Playgirl centerfold and in April 2013 Un-Philtered: Real Life On and Off the Rock'n'Roll Tour Bus, a tell-all memoir of his days on the road, was published by Riverdale Ave Books.
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Frazer Smith - Episode 501
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Friday Apr 22, 2016
Steve Cooper talk with radio host/comic Frazer Smith. Frazer is not only one of the funniest comics on the LA scene today, he is also one of comedy’s most well connected personalities. He is undoubtedly a MADE MAN in the comedy business. After 30 years in the business as a comedian, he has made stops on numerous TV shows as well as being one of the nation’s most listened to radio jock’s on KLOS for years on end! You may also recognize Frazer as the host on NBC’s Rock 'N' America and from recent appearances on Comics Unleashed and Maron. He has the ability to make you laugh and inform you as well. One of the industry’s top interviewers, he can do more than just ask questions with the best of them, he can get all the right people to answer those questions too! He has interviewed everyone from comics, to athletes, to big celebrities. He is no stranger to live comedy and his interviewing style is synonymous with the likes of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and David Letterman. Listen to him live on air on Los Angeles' 95.5 KLOS Sunday nights 9PM - 2AM.
Saturday Apr 16, 2016
Patrick Fabian - Episode 500
Saturday Apr 16, 2016
Saturday Apr 16, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actor Patrick Fabian. Patrick is best known for his roles as Howard Hamlin on Better Call Saul, Professor Jeremiah Lasky in Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Cotton Marcus in the feature The Last Exorcism. His recurring roles include shows such as Big Love, Veronica Mars, Providence, Joan of Arcadia, 24, The Newsroom and others and he has co-starred in countless series like Ugly Betty, NCIS, Will & Grace, Friends,Scandal, The Mentalist, CSI: Crime Investigation Scene, Bones, Criminal Minds, Castle, Burn Notice, Longmire and many more.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Bodhi Elfman - Episode 499
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actor Bodhi Elfman. Bodhi has had roles in films such as Mercury Rising, Collateral, Godzilla, and Armageddon along with smaller parts in The Mod Squad, Keeping the Faith, and Gone in 60 Seconds. He starred in the TV series Freedom and in Pirates of Silicon Valley alongside Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall. He appeared in the short-lived television series Hiller and Diller and guest-starred in such series as Code Black, Criminal Minds, Melrose Place, Dharma & Greg, Ellen, Veronica's Closet, Las Vegas, The Mentalist, Sliders, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and many more. He was also part of the recurring cast of Touch and currently co-hosts the podcast Kicking and Screaming with his wife Jenna Elfman.
Tuesday Apr 12, 2016
Francesco DiCosmo - Episode 498
Tuesday Apr 12, 2016
Tuesday Apr 12, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with bassist Francesco DiCosmo. Francesco played with a number of bands in the northeastern Pennsylvania area, before moving to Los Angeles and being chosen by Billy Sheehan to take part in the Musicians Institute Scholarship Contest. He attended the Institute during the 1990s, graduating in 1995, and subsequently teaching and providing private tuition. In the late 1990s he joined Mumbo's Brain with former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, and also performed on Poland's solo album Chasing the Sun. He later worked with Stanley Whittaker with whom he formed Spirit Noise, along with his brother Rico DiCosmo. He subsequently undertook more session work with a number of artists. In 2002, DiCosmo worked with Evanescence on their debut album Fallen, which was released the following year. The album produced a number of hit singles featuring him on bass including Bring Me to Life and My Immortal. Between 2007 and 2009, DiCosmo played bass guitar as a member of Thin Lizzy and later toured with ex-Toto frontman Bobby Kimball and returned to session work with artists such as Ronnie Montrose and Jason Bonham.
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Eric Lutes - Episode 497
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Steve Cooper talk with actor/artist Eric Lutes. Eric is best known known for his roles as Del Cassidy on Caroline in the City, Jerry Stanton in Switching Goals and Jake Carlson on So Little Time, both starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. His career started with several commercial spots. He then moved to New York and appeared in many off-Broadway productions before finally making the move to Lo Angeles where he landed the role on Caroline in the City. He also played the KACL station manager, Tom Duran in the second season of Frasier and has appeared in numerous TV movies. He guest-starred on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Harry O'Neal, a guest who conned the Tipton staff into giving him free stuff and has also guest-starred on 90210, Cold Case, CSI: Miami, House M.D., Desperate Houswives, How to Get Away with Murder and many more series. Besides being a talented actor he is an accomplished artist whose paintings are displayed in galleries across the USA.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
Kirsten Vangsness - Episode 496
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actress Kirsten Vangsness. Kirsten is best known as the bespectacled-brainiac-tech-kitten Penelope Garcia on the CBS hit drama Criminal Minds (and its spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior). She has had a long and varied career prior to joining the cast of the hit CBS series. Stage appearances include Perfuct, The Book of Liz and a number of plays at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE (where she has been a longtime member and past president of that theater's Artistic Board), including The Learned Ladies, The Fan Maroo, Spider Bites and A Mulholland Christmas Carol. Her stage work has garnered the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award for best emerging comic actress, the 15 Minutes of Fem Best Actress Award, and a Garland Award for best actress for the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at the Geffen Playhouse. She was recently seen on stage as the torch-singing femme fatale in Bill Robens' critically acclaimed film noir spoof Kill Me, Deadly which has been made into a feature starring and executive produced by her.
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Mark Polish - Episode 495
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actor/writer/director Mark Polish. Mark broke onto the independent filmmaking scene at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 with the premiere of his first film Twin Falls Idaho, an atmospheric and heartfelt tale of conjoined twins, which he co-wrote and starred in with his identical twin brother Michael Polish. His second film, Jackpot, received the John Cassavetes Best Independent Film Award at the 2001 Spirit Awards and the New American Cinema Award at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival. His third film, Northfolk, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was hailed by Roger Ebert as “a masterpiece.” For Lovers Only, a black and white homage to the French New Wave, starred him and Stana Katic as regretful former lovers reunited in France by fate. The film was released on iTunes where it remained at number one for three weeks. His next film, Headlock, which he wrote, directed and stars alongside Dianna Agron, will premiere in 2016. Filmed on location in over 15 countries, the story centers on married intelligence traffickers battling nano-terrorism. He also co-wrote The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking, a practical guide to writing, shooting, editing, scoring and distributing films, published by Harcourt.
Saturday Apr 02, 2016
Amanda Wyss - Episode 494
Saturday Apr 02, 2016
Saturday Apr 02, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with actor Amanda Wyss. Amanda was discovered by an agent as a teen while starring in the play, The Bad Seed at a local LA theatre and then went on to work in many commercials and landed her first television role, recurring on Universal's When the Whistle Blows as Dolph Sweet's daughter. Some of her most memorable film performances were in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Better Off Dead, Silverado, and the award-winning Powwow Highway. She's also worked extensively in television, with recurring roles on St. Elsewhere, Cagney & Lacey, Highlander, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Dexter. She is honored to lend her time and talent to environmental organizations, The Erudio Project, Technology for Peace and Project Happiness. Look for her in the soon to be released The Id and William Froste.
Thursday Mar 31, 2016
Lou DiMaggio - Episode 493
Thursday Mar 31, 2016
Thursday Mar 31, 2016
Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor/writer Lou DiMaggio. Lou began his career as a comic in NYC in the boom 80’s. After moving to Los Angeles he appeared in many national commercials, TV shows and films. He’s probably best know for his role as a restaurant investor alongside Ted Danson and Michael York in Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also won an Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein’s Money. He stopped doing stand-up in the late 90’s but is now making a comeback which is documented in the film he’s currently making with director Brad Kuhlman entitled, Where Have you Gone Lou DiMaggio? This film explores the process of returning to the stand-up stage after an 18 year hiatus. It features appearances from such comedy greats as Larry David, Ray Romano, Colin Quinn, Jeff Garlin Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Howie Mandel and many more.