CooperTalk

Steve Cooper talks with actor Cory Jacob. Cory is very recognizable from his popular NFL commercial currently airing where he plays Gary, a huge Seattle Seahawks fan and has appeared in commercials for Big Lots!, StubHub, Quelf!, Fazolis, San Diego Tourism, E. Milione to name a few and co-starred with Celeb Chef Robert Irvine in a spot for EasyIce. He was also the spokesman for the GolfNow campaign on The Golf Channel and has starred in multiple indie feature films and filmed the lead in a pilot for The Travel Channel this year. He currently stays busy by booking gigs and performing in one of his three Improv troops that perform all over the Los Angeles area.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Peter Onorati. Peter has amassed quite the resume over his years in the business. He has starred in the TV series Cop Rock, Civil Wars, Murder One and Joe's Life and has appeared in shows that include Kate & Allie, Tales from the Crypt, The Pretender, NYPD Blue, Nash Bridges, Walker Texas Ranger, ER, Sex and the City, Everybody Hates Chris, Monk, NCIS, CSI:NY, Cold Case, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, The Mentalist, Glades, Rizzoli & Isles, Sons of Anarchy, Blue Bloods and Castle. He also lends his voice to many different projects including Teen Titans, Justice League and Batman Beyond. Currently he is working on two television pilots that are being pitched around town and will be one of the stars of a new TBS series coming out in 2014.

Steve Cooper talks with actor/singer-songwriter Kathleen Wilhoite. Kathleen is best known for her recurring roles in the TV shows ER and Gilmore Girls. She has also appeared on Cop Rock, Twin Peaks, Ally McBeal, Mad About You, 24, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds and The Mentalist to name a few. Her movie appearances include Pay It Forward, Road House, Lorenzo's Oil, Color of Night and Angel Heart. On the music front she has recorded two albums and her songs have appeared in many films and television series including Murphy's Law and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Kate Flannery. Kate is best known for playing Meredith Palmer on all the seasons of The Office. She's a former member of The Second City's national touring company and an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theatre and performed in the stage hit Valley of the Dolls in both New York City and Los Angeles. She also was a member of the band Mono Puff and toured with the band. Some of her other TV credits include The Bernie Mac Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, The Jay Leno Show and Chelsea Lately to name a few. She currently hosts Standup in Stilettos and performs in the popular fake lounge act The Lampshades.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Louis Lombardi. Louis co-starred in the 1993 Sundance Film Festival Amongst Friends that led him to a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. After that he hasn't looked back. He has appeared in the movies Beer League, The Usual Suspects, Suicide Kings, Beverly Hills Cop III, The Animal and Deuces Wild just to name a few and on TV he starred in the remake of Fantasy Island and in EZ Streets. His guest roles include Las Vegas, Entourage and CSI, however he is best known for playing Agent Skip Lipari in The Sopranos and Edgar Stiles on 24. He currently has a line of Italian food products that will be in store's soon and was just featured in Clint Eastwood's film, Jersey Boys.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Mindy Sterling. Mindy is best known for her role as Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers movies. She is very active with the LA based comedy group The Groundlings and her film rolls include Drop Dead Gorgeous and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. On the TV front she has been one of the stars or recurring characters on A.N.T. Farm, My Own Worst Enemy, iCarly, Desperate Housewives and Legit to name a few. She also does voice work where some of her credits include The Legend of Korra, Chowder, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robot Chicken, Kick Buttowski, Mars Needs Moms and The Looney Tunes Show.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Paul Carafotes. Paul is possibly known for playing Wayne Dyer in Knots Landing from 1988 to 1990. He was a hit at the age 20 in the independent movie Headin' for Broadway. Since then he has appeared in movies such as All the Right Moves, Clan of the Cave Bear, Blind Date and Fight Club to name a few. He also has been seen on TV shows like Castle, ER, CSI, Without a Trace and played the Man in Overcoat on Damages. He wrote and directed the short movie Club Soda which starred James Gandolfini, Lou Gosset, Joe Mantegna and Michael Rispoli. He currently just finished writing his second children's book in the Charlie Bubbles series.

Steve Cooper talks with comic ANT. ANT was a regular cast member on the WB series Unhappily Ever After and was on Last Comic Standing and appeared on six of the show's seven seasons being a contestant, a guest and a judge. He was the host of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club and was a regular judge on Steve Harvey's Big Time. His television series, U.S. of Ant was on the Logo network and he has appeared on Best Week Ever, CNBC's Dennis Miller, The Tyra Banks Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Howard Stone. Currently he performs stand-up comedy across the country and gives anti-bullying speeches to college students.

Steve Cooper talks with actor Dean Cameron. Dean is best known for his role as Francis "Chainsaw" Gremp in the movie Summer School and co-starred in Ski School and Ski School II. On television he starred in the series Spencer, Fast Times, They Came from Outer Space and Mister Sterling and has appeared on The Facts of Life, ALF, Felicity, ER, Newsroom and Psych to name a few. He recently toured with a two-person show that he wrote called The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival, the Just for Laughs Festival and the Upright Citizens Brigade. He also wrote and directed the short film Glutton Falls and directed the video Fat Girl for the heavy metal band Steel Panther.

Steve Cooper talks with comic/author John Wing. John, hailing from Canada has appeared in the Montreal Comedy Festival 7 times and the Just For Laughs National Comedy tour twice. He has performed at every Winnipeg Comedy Festival since it started in 2000 and has done the Halifax Comedy Festival four times and the Edmonton Comedy Festival twice. Since moving to LA in 1988 he has done The Tonight Show six times and has also appeared on Evening at the Improv, Comic Strip Live, MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour and VH1's Stand-Up Spotlight to name a few. He recently was a semi-finalist on America's Got Talent and is about to publish his eighth book of Poetry.