CooperTalk

Steve 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 thereaft...

Steve 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 rol...

Steve 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...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 fi...

Steve 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 enco...

Steve 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 s...

Steve 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...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 st...

Steve 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, Ann...

Steve 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 Soderber...

Steve 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 Sorr...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 Bre...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 th...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 mo...

Steve 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 whic...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 appear...

Steve 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, Fri...

Steve 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...

Steve 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 circ...