SNL Italia

Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night! Or in this case from Milano! Hosted SNL Italia this weekend. It was a blast and with it I returned to my early days in LA at the Comedy Store and trying to make something wonderful right away.

Maschi contro Femmine

I just finished work on a film here in Italy, Maschi contro Femmine.  I played the part of Captain William T. Bell in the romantic comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi and produced by Italian International Film for RAI Cinema.  It will be in the theatres in late October here in Italy. My scenes were part [...]

ELEW at Ischia Global Fest

I arrived to the Ischia Global Fest, and saw Eric Lewis, now known as ELEW. First saw him at TED and I catch up with him on TechCrunch. Amazing. Watch from TED:

Tati, McVicar e Verdone

I attended a marvelous screening from the Museum of Cinema here in Torino yesterday. Jacques Tati’s “Playtime”, an extraordinary film achievement that had recently been restored. The great film, putting Tati’s character Hurlot in a “modern” Paris was introduced and presented by one of Italy’s modern filmmaking treasures, Carlo Verdone. Carlo Verdone has consistently been [...]

Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry

Without a studio audience, Craig Ferguson interviews Stephen Fry for the entire show.  Thanks Craig.

Former Loves

I was thinking back to old times, to former loves today. I came across a picture of a baby that I once had. It was back in 1991. She was gorgeous, quite advanced at the time with 80 mb of hard disk storage, and I could upgrade to 8 whopping mb of ram. Oh, the [...]

Visiting Ronn in Rome

I got to visit Ronn last month in Rome as he is doing the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars….”Ballando Con Le Stelle”. He is doing great! I surprised him in rehearsal, and his partner was very surprised. Ronn knows me well, so he enjoyed the moment.

Happy New Year

Noir Fest in Courmayeur

Marco and Antonio Manetti, or the Manetti Bros as they are known, gave me a great tip to come up to the Courmayeur Noir Fest in the Aosta Valley. While the winter wind chilled us, and the snow coated the city and streets with a dusty white, the dark side of cinema was being shown [...]

Fun with Ezio in Monte Carlo

Right after our Thanksdinner, I jumped down to Montecarlo to present a Platinum award at Ezio Greggio‘s Monte Carlo Film Festival for comedy. It’s great to see Ezio, and sharpen my with in Italian on stage.  He was sharp in four languages, English, Italian, Spanish and French. Grande!

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