CooperTalk
1,001 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsStraight 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!
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Episodes
Pamela Des Barres - Episode 359
April 02, 2015 18:34 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve 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 ...
Larry Poindexter and Rebecca Metz - Episode 358
April 01, 2015 00:35 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve 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...
Roxanne Hart - Episode 357
March 30, 2015 17:49 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Roxanne Hart. Roxanne is best known for her roles as Camille Shutt on Chicago Hope and as Brenda J. Wyatt in Highlander. An accomplished stage actor she has also been a recurring character on TV shows such as Dream On, Hung, E.R., Law & Order, Medium and Oz and guest starred in numerous shows including Remington Steele, Cold Case, Party of Five, House M.D., Numb3rs,Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Private Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Mentalist and many oth...
Lex Medlin - Episode 356
March 26, 2015 19:48 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Lex Medlin. Lex is best known for his roles as Owen French in Drop Dead Diva and as Detective Andy WIlliams in Southland. He has appeared in countless commercials and has been a co-star or recurring character in numerous series such as Happy Hour, Rock Me Baby, Mental, Still Standing and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. His acting covers both comedy and drama and has guest starred in hit series like Castle, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Closer, Modern Fam...
Kurt Fuller - Episode 355
March 25, 2015 03:36 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Kurt Fuller. Kurt is best known for his role as Woody in Psych and Zachariah in Supernatural. He appeared in numerous films, working with acclaimed film directors such as Brian DePalma, Paul Schrader, Harold Ramis and Ridley Scott. His film career include appearances in Ghostbusters II, Wayne’s World, Reflections on a Crime, Pushing Tin, Scary Movie, Auto Focus, Anger Management, Ray, The Pursuit of Happyness and Midnight in Paris. He also has an extensive televi...
Roma Maffia - Episode 354
March 22, 2015 21:37 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Roma Maffia. Roma is best known as Liz Cruz on the FX Network series Nip/Tuck, the anesthesiologist colleague of two dysfunctional plastic surgeons. She began her acting career in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions. In 1994 she made her film debut playing the minor role of Carmen in director Ron Howard's film The Paper. Soon after, she landed a role on the television series Chicago Hope. Her television career continued as she played Grace Alvarez, the ...
Paul Ben-Victor - Episode 353
March 20, 2015 16:04 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Paul Ben-Victor. Paul has built a career entertaining audiences and impressing critics with his work in film, television and on stage. With roles on numerous HBO series and over 50 films, he has time and again delivered standout performances with his tremendous range of characters. For the past two decades, Ben-Victor has been an actor in demand. On television, he has made a lasting impression with his quiet ruthlessness as the Greek henchman Spiros Vondas on t...
Ron Zimmerman - Episode 352
March 16, 2015 01:40 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with writer/comic Ron Zimmerman. Ron started doing stand-up comedy in Washington DC and parlayed that into a successful career as a TV writer/producer. Some of the shows he worked on have been Action, 7th Heaven (which he also had a recurring role on as the character Doc),V.I.P., Rude Awakening, The Michael Richards Show, My Wife and Kids, Til' Death and Shake It Up. He also has written comic books for Marvel including The Rawhide Kid and has a been a frequent guest on The ...
Ian Roumain - Episode 351
March 11, 2015 19:09 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with agent/director Ian Roumain. Ian graduated the NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and then worked on many movies such as Great Expectations, I.Q., Donnie Brasco, The Devil's Advocate and The Imposters as a Production Assistant. He decided to move to LA in 1999 and got a job as an assistant at SMS Talent and after years of hard work became and Agent for them in 2004 and a then Partner in 2012. He also has co-written a novel and has directed two documentaries, That Guy...Who ...
Vanessa Angel - Episode 350
March 09, 2015 22:42 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Vanessa Angel. Vanessa is best know for playing Lisa in the USA TV series for 5 years and for her role asClaudia in the movie Kingpin. She began modeling at 16 when she signed up with Eileen Ford and relocated to New York. After taking on a Russian accent for Landis' goofy Chevy Chase-Dan Aykroyd comedy, she studied the craft further at the Actors Studio. She combined her past and present professions playing a model in a guest appearance on TV's Melrose Place and...
Jim Beaver - Episode 349
March 05, 2015 06:34 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Jim Beaver. Jim is best known for his leading roles as Bobby Singer in Supernatural and Whitney Ellsworth in Deadwood. He has also co-starred or had recurring roles in many series including Justified, John From Cincinnati, Harper's Island, Day Break, Big Love, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Thunder Alley, Reasonable Doubts and Breaking Bad. As a guest star he has been in series such as Dallas, Psych, NYPD Blue, That 70's Show, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, CSI, Criminal...
Wade Williams - Episode 348
March 02, 2015 00:08 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Wade Williams. Wade is best known for his starring role as Brian Bellick on Fox's Prison Break. He began his acting career at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and then continued with performances on and off Broadway and toured nationally in productions such as Ragtime, Guys and Dolls and Kiss of the Spiderwoman and many others. His films credits include Jarhead, Flicka, Ali, Collateral, Erin Brokovich, The Dark Knight Rises, Draft Day and Gangster Squad. On ...
Jack McGee - Episode 347
February 27, 2015 16:16 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Jack McGee. Jack has been very the last two years starring in NBC's The McCarthy's and USA's Benched and Common Law. Born and raised in the South Bronx, he is the youngest of eight children. Admittedly, this may have been his impetus to strive to get noticed – and successfully so, as he was the president of his senior class and a star football player. Shortly thereafter, he realized he had a knack for performing, and joined the 1960s rock band The Young Rascal...
Illeana Douglas - Episode 346
February 23, 2015 15:11 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Illeana Douglas. Illeana was one of the more versatile performers to emerge on film in the early 1990s. After small contributions to a few of director Martin Scorsese's films, including GoodFellas (1990), the actress grabbed the attention of audiences with her gutsy performance opposite Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (1991). She followed with a plethora of supporting roles, among them turns in the survival tale Alive (1993) and Gus Van Sant's dark satire To Die For...
Daniel Roebuck - Episode 345
February 21, 2015 18:39 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Daniel Roebuck. Daniel has many film credits including having starred in blockbusters like The Fugitive, US Marshals,and final Destination, as well as popular titles including Agent Cody Banks and it's sequel, That's What I Am, Money Talks, Flash Of Genius and so many more and he has also starred in dozens of TV Movies. Perhaps his most famous turn was his critically acclaimed portrayal of Jay Leno in The Late Shift. He stepped into another pair of famous shoes w...
Mark Rolston - Episode 344
February 15, 2015 18:53 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Mark Rolston. Mark is best known for his role Bogs Diamond in the multi-Oscar nominated film The Shawshank Redemption but has appeared in countless other movies and TV shows. His first big role came in James Cameron's Aliens and has been seen in The Departed, Weeds, RoboCop 2, Hard Rain, Lethal Weapon 2, Saw V & VI, Rush Hour and many others. On television he has had recurring roles on series such as Profiler, CSI: Miami, Young Justice, The Shield, NCIS, Cold Cas...
Chris Caldovino - Episode 343
February 13, 2015 16:53 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Chris Caldovino. Chris booked the recurring role of Billy Leotardo in 2004, on HBO's The Sopranos. After working on the famed show, Chris went on to book many more roles on TV and film, including FOX's The Good Guys and the film Brooklyn Rules with Alec Baldwin. As of late Chris has had roles in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated film The Wolf Of Wall Street and the film Stealing Cars produced by Oscar-nominee Rachel Winter of Dallas Buyers Club, which will be rel...
Tomas Boykin - Episode 342
February 10, 2015 23:31 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Tomas Boykin. Tomas recently played God in the hugely popular Super Bowl commercial for Mophie. He has various TV, film and stage credits. He was born to a musician father and a stay at home mom. Growing up he enjoyed playing a musical instrument, painting, drawing, singing and dancing. He once stated, "We danced in our house. There were no wall flowers." He was encouraged to act as early as the 3rd grade. By the time he left college he had experienced "A Chorus...
Jaime Klein - Episode 341
February 08, 2015 15:53 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with photographer/writer Jaime Klein. Jaime moved out to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. A regular spot at the Comedy Store, turned into writing gigs for Fernwood 2Nite and later the Gong Show. That evolved to a produced screenplay called Pandemonium. 10 years of development deals for screenplays and pilots lead to a gig in broadcast marketing where he stayed for 15 years writing and producing promos/launch campaigns and short form programming for s...
Xander Berkely - Episode 340
February 06, 2015 20:26 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Xander Berkeley. Xander started off playing minor roles in 1981, with appearances in Remington Steele, Miami Vice, Moonlighting and countless other series. Much later, he also appeared on The X-Files, CSI, ER, 24, and Law & Order. As for the big screen, he counts Sid & Nancy, North Country, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Gattaca, The Rock, Air Force One, Spawn, Amistad, and Timecode as some of his credentials. In 2001, he bagged a recurrin...
Matt Gallant - Episode 339
February 04, 2015 16:59 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with host Matt Gallant. Matt is an Emmy Award-winning television host. For five seasons, he was the host of the Animal Planet's popular series "The Planet's Funniest Animals," although the show is no longer in production, it regularly airs in repeats and continues to find new audiences in international markets. He has hosted shows on MTV, ESPN2, G4, NFL Network, Fine Living, ABC, DirecTV to name a few. He hosted the ABC's Network prime time hit American Inventor. In 2008, G...
Rae Dawn Chong - Episode 338
January 31, 2015 19:02 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Rae Dawn Chong. Rae Dawn began appearing on Canadian television in her preteen years. Chong's first major TV role was on the popular 1974 sitcom The Wiz Kid of Riverton. Seven years later, she exploded onto the big screen as the mud-covered cave dweller Ika in Quest for Fire (1981), which earned her the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Award. Playing a variety of striking characters, she would be prominently cast in such films as The Color Purple (1985), Americ...
Deon Estus - Episode 337
January 29, 2015 01:28 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician Deon Estus. Deon is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael’s bassist on all of the latter’s subsequent projects. In 1988, he released a solo album entitled Spell and scored a U.S. #3 Billboard Hot 100 hit pop single, “Heaven Help Me”. He also played with Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, Frank Zappa, George Clinton, Annie Lennox, Edgar Winter, Aaron Neville, Elton John. He toured China with Wham!, performed at Ro...
Eddie Jemison - Episode 336
January 25, 2015 18:42 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/director Eddie Jemison. Eddie is best known for his role as Ronnie Haxon on two seasons of HBO's series Hung. His first national break came in the Yes, I Am / Dr. Galakowitz spots for Bud Light. Several appearances on David Letterman followed. Soon after, he acted in his first film, Schizopolis, directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh. He went on to act in Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen and relocated to Los Angeles. His feature work also incl...
Brian McNamara - Episode 335
January 23, 2015 05:18 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Brian McNamara. Brian is best known for his role as Michael Holden for 7 seasons on Lifetime's top-rated show Army Wives and has been acting for over 30 years. He got his break in Hollywood with a part in the hit movie Flamingo Kid and has since appeared in numerous roles in both film and television. McNamara starred in one of the first Lifetime Movies, Storm and Sorrow as well as The Secret Lives Of Second Wives. Some of his other film credits include, Short Cir...
Jason Whitton - Episode 334
January 21, 2015 00:33 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with Singer/Songwriter Jason Whitton. Jason was raised in Houston, TX, where he grew up listening to R&B, Rap (that's what they called it back then), and Country. His musical tastes are ALL over the map, including everything from Eminem to Tom Waits. His influences range from Garth Brooks, to George Strait, to James Taylor. He's released three records, Thriftstore Cowboy, Broken Horses, and My Way Home. You can find them on cdbaby.com and iTunes. He is currently in the stu...
Patrick O'Sullivan - Episode 333
January 17, 2015 17:51 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/comic Patrick O' Sullivan. Patrick just wrapped 2 seasons as Alien Johnny Unitas on ABC's Neighbors and guests stars this season on Adult Swim's Hot Package. He has also guested on ABC's Happy Endings, Comedy Central's Free Radio and is the creator of the hit impersonator stage shows All About Walken and All About Jack. He had a two year run as Gary Busey in Point Break Live! and his one man show Young Sully was chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Pick of the Wee...
Suzanne Whang - Episode 332
January 12, 2015 00:39 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/host/comic Suzanne Whang. Suzanne was the host of House Hunters the #1 rated show on HGTV (Home & Garden Television Network) for almost ten years, and she also hosted the hit spinoff show House Hunters International. She had a great time as Dick Clark’s co-host on TV's Censored Bloopers for NBC, while concurrently co-hosting New Attitudes on Lifetime Television. Prior to that, she was a field host/fill-in co-host for Fox After Breakfast with Tom Bergeron, and a f...
Brian Howe - Episode 331
January 08, 2015 19:28 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Brian Howe. Brian is typically cast as an American everyman in many ways, the most challenging of roles to play. After spending time in stage productions in Boston he began his TV career during the mid-'90s, as an occasional guest player on episodes of such series as Law & Order and Spencer for Hire and the short-lived sitcom The Bonnie Hunt Show. He re-teamed with the venerable Hunt for a small role in his first feature, which the actress directed: the romantic ...
Christine Blackburn - Episode 330
January 05, 2015 19:29 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor/comic/host Christine Blackburn. Christine has performed stand-up, wrote, produced and acted in her own one-woman show The Big Picture and has appeared in over 60 national commercials throughout the years. She spent two years as the co-host of the USA Network series Ready For The Weekend Movie and on the acting front‚ has starred in three feature films, Halloween Party, Interviewing Norman and the Wedding Video. Currently her podcast, Story Worthy just celebrated ...
Joe Nipote - Episode 329
January 02, 2015 19:42 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic/actor Joe Nipote. Joe has headlined comedy clubs across the country and became a favorite opening act for many headliners in Vegas, Reno, Tahoe, and Atlantic City for such artists as Tina Turner, Captain & Tenille, The O'Jays, Dwight Yokum, Judy Collins, Barbara Mandrell, Robert Goulet, Frankie Avalon, Ben Vereen and many, many more. He went on to host WRIF in the morning for a year in 1987. His hunger for stand-up and acting drove him out of the radio booth and...
Gregory Behrendt - Episode 328
December 31, 2014 17:40 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic/writer/musician Gregory Behrendt. Gregory started his stand-up career in San Francisco and later appeared on The Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien and recorded a special for HBO and two for Comedy Central. He landed a job on Sex and the City as a script consultant that led him to co-authoring the New York Times best seller He's Just Not That Into You which later became a major motion picture. He also hosted the talk show the Greg Behrendt Show and Gr...
Wendy Liebman - Episode 327
December 27, 2014 19:34 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic Wendy Liebman. Wendy returns to CooperTalk for the fourth time. She has been doing stand-up for over 25 years and has been a regular on the Late Show with David Letterman and has appeared on the Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Kimmel Live! In addition she was the first comedian to appear on the Rosie O'Donnell Show and has done comedy specials for HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime. She has also pe...
Lance Barber - Episode 326
December 25, 2014 21:18 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Lance Barber. Lance just reprised his role of Paulie G in HBO’s critically-acclaimed The Comeback, where the New York Times described him as “among the great villains of television comedy.” Lance is an alumni of Chicago's Second City and has been seen in recurring roles on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Californication and United States of Tara. He has also appeared on Masters of Sex, Grey’s Anatomy, Justified, How I Met Your Mother, Harry’s Law, The Crazy On...
Mark Valley - Episode 325
December 21, 2014 17:25 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks to Actor/Comic Mark Valley. Mark is making his third appearance on CooperTalk and has been a fixture on Prime Time TV for years. After graduating West Point he did extra work in Germany. He then moved back to the US and landed dozens of commercials and a part on NBC's Days of our Lives. He then began to star in many TV series including Pasadena, ER, Keen Eddie, Boston Legal, Fringe, Human Target and Murphy's Law, ABC's Body of Proof and also had a role in Zero Dark Thirty. ...
Amy Dresner - Episode 324
December 17, 2014 17:23 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with writer/comic Amy Dresner. Amy was the first guest ever on CooperTalk. She's a recovering comedian and currently a columnist for The Fix magazine where she has written over 40 pieces. She has also freelanced for Refinery 29, Alternet, After Party Chat, Salon, The Frisky, Cosmo Latina, Unbound Box and others. One of her short stories was published in the anthology True Tales of Lust and Love. She is has been interviewed by Huffington Post Live on the connection between ...
Steve Hofstetter - Episode 323
December 13, 2014 01:26 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic Steve Hofstetter. Steve made his national TV debut came on ESPN's Quite Frankly, where Stephen A. Smith yelled at him for three minutes. He has also appeared on CBS' Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Showtime's White Boyz in the Hood, VH1's Countdown, Sundance's On the Road in America and ABC's Barbara Walter's Special. One of the top booked acts on the college circuit, the original writer for collegehumor.com has also released five albums and three books. He h...
Alicia Coppola - Episode 322
December 10, 2014 16:58 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Alicia Coppola. Alicia starred on CBS’s Jericho, the only television show in a decade to be renewed after cancellation due to popular fan response. You also know her from the 141 episodes of primetime television that she has done in her twenty-year career: From the role of Lorna Devon on NBC’s long running soap opera Another World for which she was nominated twice and won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress to starring in televisio...
Steve Simeone - Episode 321
December 08, 2014 23:39 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comic Steve Simeone. Steve has spent the last ten years slowly honing the craft of Stand Up Comedy. He is a regular performer at Hollywood’s most prestigious Comedy Clubs, The Comedy Store, The Improv, and The Laugh Factory. When he’s not headlining clubs on his own he can be seen on the road with The Playboy Comedy Tour, Pauly Shore, and Andrew Dice Clay. A proud member of Comics On Duty, Steve has entertained our troops around the globe on four continents. He has ...
David Ury - Episode 320
December 06, 2014 17:20 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor David Ury. David is an actor/comedian best known for his role on Breaking Bad, where he was crushed by an ATM. A chameleon character actor, he has played various dirt bags in films and dramas, as well as a 12 episode run as Don the Donut Man on Disney's Zeke and Luther. He's had recurring roles on Grimm, Raising Hope, Heroes, Life, Hollywood Heights, and the Young and the Restless and guest starred on shows such as Major Crimes, The Mentalist, CSI: Crime Investig...
Alan Ruck - Episode 319
December 03, 2014 17:49 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Alan Ruck. Alan is best known for his role as Cameron Frye, Ferris Bueller's hypochondriac best friend, in Ferris Buehler's Day Off and as Stuart Bondek, the lecherous, power-hungry member of the mayor's staff on the hit series Spin City. His first film role was in the 1983 drama film Bad Boys and has appeared in numerous films since then such as Class, Three for the Road, Young Guns II, Speed, Three Fugitives, Star Trek Generations, Extraordinary Measures, The H...
Rachel Butera - Episode 318
December 01, 2014 17:31 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with comedian/voice actor Rachel Butera. Rachel is most recognized for her impressions on the Howard Stern Show, and most recently as a contestant on America's Got Talent. She does stand-up all around LA, and incorporating the voices of Wanda Sykes, Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Rivers, Jodi Foster, among many others. She draws her humor from her crazy family and the rich New Jersey characters she grew up with. She currently provides voices for FOXADH...
Sean McNabb - Episode 317
November 29, 2014 19:51 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with musician/actor Sean McNabb. Sean got his first big break in music playing bass for Quiet Riot when he was 21. He has recorded over 35 CD's in his discography. He has also toured and recorded with House of Lords, Great White, Lynch Mob, Montrose, Edgar Winter, Maya, Bad Moon Rising, Rough Cutt, and XYZ. He can be heard on the Dr. Phil Show in the music tracks and the I'm Loving It, McDonald's breakfast commercials. He has also performed with several pop artists, country...
Brad Carter - Episode 316
November 26, 2014 01:35 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with Brad Carter. Brad is a multi-talented actor, musician and comedy writer who recently earned critical acclaim as incarcerated criminal Charlie Lange opposite Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey and Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson in the HBO Emmy nominated series True Detective. He also joined the final season of Kurt Sutter’s critically acclaimed FX series Sons of Anarchy in the recurring role of Leland Gruen opposite Charlie Hunnam and will soon star in SyFy’s new highly an...
Michael Platt - Episode 315
November 21, 2014 18:54 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with TV writer Michael Platt. Michael got his start in stand-up performing around NYC and on the road, appearing on shows such as Evening at the Improv, Caroline's and on Comedy Central and later opened on the road for Howie Mandel. He crossed over to the writing field when he got a staff job for the Rhea Perlman's sitcom Pearl. Since then he has written or been a producer for numerous shows including Weeds, Glory Daze, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Howie Mandel Show, Wha...
Erik Palladino - Episode 314
November 19, 2014 00:45 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Erik Palladino. Erik has been in over 20 feature films. He has starred in movies U-571 alongside Matthew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel, Finders Fee opposite James Earl Jones and the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait. In 1999, Palladino landed his breakthrough series regular role, one month after returning from the U-571 shoot in Rome, on ER as Dr. Dave Malucci, which he played in season six until season eight in 2001. In 2005, he was one of the leads of the critica...
Alex Fernandez - Episode 313
November 16, 2014 19:17 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Alex Fernandez. Alex is an accomplished actor and with voice-over work artist. Through the latter you may have heard him in Spawn, Pet Shop of Horrors, Spicy City, Final Fantasy X, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, Dead Rising, Saints Row and many others. As an actor he has had recurring roles or been a regular on series such as Dallas, The Bridge, Devious Maids, Commander in Chief, Prison Break, Army Wives, NCIS and Killer Women and has guest starred in num...
Thaao Penghlis - Episode 312
November 12, 2014 21:36 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Thaao Penghlis. Thaao is better known for roles in U.S. daytime Soap Operas such as Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives where he played Tony DiMera and General Hospital where he was Victor Cassadine. He has also appeared on many major crime shows such as Kojak, Cannon, Hart to Hart, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe and Magnum P.I. plus he starred in the late 80's remake of Mission Impossible. An accomplished stage actor and master storyteller he is about to release his secon...
Larry Hankin - Episode 311
November 10, 2014 00:49 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Larry Hankin. Larry is an American actor, producer, director and performer. He studied acting at Syracuse University and started his career doing stand-up comedy where he opened for acts such as Woody Allen and Miles Davis. He is known for his roles on the TV series Seinfeld and Friends as Mr. Heckles and has appeared in over 100 other shows. One of his notable roles was in the movie Escape from Alcatraz, in which he acted with Clint Eastwood. He also had a signi...
Perry King - Episode 310
November 07, 2014 18:13 - 1 hour - 55 MBSteve Cooper talks with actor Perry King. Perry has had a very versatile career starring in roles in film, television and on Broadway. He first became a favorite with American TV audiences playing Dectective Cody Allen in Riptide. In 1995 he starred as Haley Armstrong on Melrose Place. He also had a recurring role as Heather Locklear's love interest on Spin City and has had guest starring roles on shows such as Will & Grace, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Drop Dea...