CooperTalk

Steve Cooper with comic Wendy Liebman. Wendy returns to CooperTalk for the fifth 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'Donne...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/comic Mary Lynn Rajskub. Mary Lynn is best known for her iconic performance as Chloe on FOX’s 24, which she reprised on 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, the number-one rated show of 2014. She has also appeared in recurring arcs on 2 Broke Girls and Californication and has guest starred on various series including Modern Family, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mentalist, R...

Steve Cooper talks with comic Heather McDonald. Heather  just debuted her first Showtime special I Don’t Mean To Brag, which achieved record ratings on the network and is currently streaming on Netflix. She gained a throng of loyal fans as a staff writer and for her regular roundtable appearances on E!’s top rated show ‘Chelsea Lately’. She also starred in After Lately, a mockumentary series on E!...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Sunkrish Bala. Sunkrish is best known for his co-starring roles in The Walking Dead and Castle. He has starred in the sitcoms Notes from the Underbelly and I Just Want My Pants Back and recurred on such series as Awkward, Shameless, My Name is Earl and Barbershop. He has also guest starred on various shows including Bones, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Damages, Brot...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Eric Lange. Eric started acting in commercial and his most high-profile gigs included playing Stuart Radzinsky on the hit ABC series Lost and the eccentric acting teacher Mr. Sikowitz on the Nickelodeon teen show Victorious. He also had a featured role on the short-lived CW series Cult and on the FX series The Bridge, where his character is the antagonist of the lead....

Steve Cooper talks with comic John DiCrosta. John has been on mainstay on the comedy circuit for years. He has headlined all over the country and is a regular on cruise ships and in Las Vegas. Since being in LA he has become a very popular warm-up comic working the crowds of many shows including Politically Incorrect & Real Time with Bill Maher, Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, America's Funnies...

Steve Cooper talks with comedy writer John Matta. John is a friend of Steve Cooper's from the old Philly comedy circuit and makes his 3rd visit to the show this time to promote his book. Every day for 4 years he has hand drawn a one panel cartoon on a napkin and posted it on the web. After creating over 1,000 he’s partnered with Odd Charm Press to gather his work into the full-color collection: Ma...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Tom Wright. Tom has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. co-starred in the feature films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube. He also co-starred with Angela Bassett as her ex-lover in Sunshine State, his sixth film with writer/director John Sayles. The other Sayles films include: Passion Fish, City of Hope, Honeydripp...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Romy Rosemont. Romy is best known for her role as Carole Hudson in the TV series Glee and as Jaqui Franco in CSI: Crime Investigation. She has had recurring roles in numerous series such as Resident Advisors, Secrets & Lies, Silicon Valley, The Fosters, Shark, Prison Break and many more. She has guest starred on various series including Scandal, Justified, The League,...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/drummer Johnny Sneed. Johnny launched his acting career through appearances in popular TV shows such as Friends and ER and later on landed a recurring role on The Guardian, where he played Brian Olson. His other television credits include being a regular on Unhitched a recurring character on Parks and Recreation and appearances on such shows as Master of Sex, The Ment...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Spencer Garrett. Spencer returns to CooperTalk after a busy year where he was a regular on Satisfaction, Aquarius and Murder in the First and co-starred in All the Way playing Walter Reuther. He got introduced to the entertainment field at a young age, his mother was an actress and his father was a talent agent. After college he gravitated towards the industry and stu...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Dana Gourrier. Dana holds a BFA in Performance Art from UL Lafayette and an MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. The triple threat can be seen in recurring roles in some of the best programming being produced today; True Detective, American Horror Story, Togetherness, The Astronaut Wives Club, and Treme to name a few. Her feature credits include Lee Da...

Steve Cooper talks with Lee Brownstein. Lee recently directed and co-wrote the hit movie Out West and also graduated high school with the CooperTalk host. Lee is equal parts Producer, Creative Director and Marketing Executive and applies a broad range of skills and experience acquired during his eclectic career to each and every project.  An originator of the widely copied MTV Editorial Style, he...

Steve Cooper talks with actor John Prosky. John's numerous TV credits include Scandal, Major Crimes, NYPD Blue, ER, Heroes, Criminal Minds, True Blood, JAG, My So-Called Life, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Practice, The X-Files, The West Wing, Charmed, 24, House, Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars, and Fringe. His film credits include The Nutty Professor, Bowfinger and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. H...

Steve Cooper talks with comic Darren Carter. Darren returns to CooperTalk for the 5th time. He has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comics Unleashed, Premium Blend on Comedy Central, and as a supporting character in the 2005 feature film Be Cool with John Travolta. He debuted on the comedy scene in 1996 with an appearance on Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival followed by various stand-up...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Jessica Tuck. Jessica best known for her performances on television as Megan Gordon Harrison on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, Gillian Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy, and as Nan Flanagan on the HBO series, True Blood. She has appeared in a number of films, most notable are Secretary and Super 8. She also appeared in High School Musical 2, High School M...

Steve Cooper talks to Writer/Director Steve Skrovan. Steve has won two Emmys for Everybody Loves Raymond where he served as executive producer and writer. He has also held the same position for the show Hot In Cleveland, Til' Death and many others. He was a staff writer on Seinfeld and co-wrote and directed the documentary An Unreasonable Man which is about Ralph Nader and also directed the featur...

Steve Cooper talks with Chris Wyse. Chris stops by the studio with fellow Owl band member Jason Achilles Mezilis. You’ve definitely heard Chris's bass playing. It’s an inimitable, infectious rumble that has resounded through recordings from the likes of The Cult, Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Tal Bachman, and countless others, as well as his own heavy alternative trio, Owl. Utilizing both electric u...

Steve Cooper talks with former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy. Rodney appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s, as well as in numerous roles in television and movies. In the advertisements, Rippy was seen trying to wrap his mouth around the super-sized Jumbo Jack hamburger. The tag line "It's too big to eat!" (pronounced "It's too big-a-eat!") became a...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Tony Amendola. Tony is an American actor who is best known for playing the Jaffa master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1. Amendola is also known for his recurring role as revolutionary leader Edouard Kagame of Liber8 in the television show Continuum. He is currently playing a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time as Pinocchio's creator/father, Geppetto. Major movie roles includ...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Anthony Azizi. Anthony is mainly known for his television work. He has had recurring roles on 24 as terrorist Mamud Faheen (Season 2), on 24 as Rafique (Season 4) and on Commander in Chief as presidential aide Vince Taylor. He was also a regular on the short-lived television series Threat Matrix. He has also guest-starred on Single Ladies, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami,...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Todd Stashwick. Todd started his career in improve in Chicago and then moved to New York. Soon work in television and film drew him to Los Angeles where he shot several pilots, series and recurring work. He has been seen in such films as You, Me and Dupree, Surfer Dude, The Air I breathe and Live!  Most notably he can be seen as Dale in the FX series The Riches opposi...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Bruce Nozick. Bruce has been acting for over 30 years and has amassed over a hundred credits. Some of his movie appearances include The Wanderers, The Souler Opposite, Mystery Alaska, Along Came Polly, God Bless America and Hurt. His numerous television appearances include guest starring on popular series such as E.R., Ally McBeal, Judging Amy, Without a Trace, Six Fe...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Scott Lowell. Scott is best known for his role as Ted Schmidt in Showtime’s popular and critically acclaimed Queer as Folk for which he was twice nominated for a Prism Award. He moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly found himself busy in a number of successful commercial campaigns, guest roles on sit-coms and a lead in a sci-fi television film. He has appeared on s...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Joanna Going. Joanna appeared in soap opera roles in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. She went on to portray lead character Victoria Winters on the 1991 primetime series Dark Shadows. She later starred in short-lived television series Going to Extremes and guest-starred on Columbo, Spin City, The Outer Limits, and Law & Or...