Joe Schiappa is a writer/performer based in New York City. He is a winner of the Sierra Mist Creative Lab. He most recently wrote for MTV’s Silent Library.
He has worked as a theatre director specializing in developing shows that have gone Off Broadway, to the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen in 2003 and 2007 and the Strip in the Las Vegas.
Joe trained with the Second City Training Center and Shira Piven of The Piven Theatre. He currently performs and teaches sketch and improv at The People’s Improv Theatre in New York City.
At the end of King Kong, Kong is taken to New York, and there’s this big theater marquee reading “KONG! THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD”. The theater is packed as the curtain rises and there’s Kong. The photographers start taking pictures and the flashbulbs freak Kong out and he breaks his chains and escapes.
I’m just curious, had he not broken the chains…
What was the show?
I wrote an article for Splitsider about the Ernest movies. Check it out!
Another call after the 1988 Cable Ace Awards.
Another call from Gerald McRaney. I have so many of these.
Hugh Fink. A great guy and my comedy mentor.
Steve Schirripa & Hugh Fink in a cab after the Letterman taping.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8PM - The Peoples Improv Theater
Dos Experimento
FEATURING:
Burton and Wean
(Brett Wean and Michael Burton)
THE SCOLERI BROTHERS
(Will Nunziata and Joe Schiappa )
CARR KULHAN
(Cathleen Carr and Bob Kulhan)
Cathleen Carr (Birds, The Scene) and Bob Kulhan (Second City, The Scene) bring together improvisation’s finest two-person acts for an evening of separation anxiety. Every show, the audience is given a chance to scramble established two-prov acts to create unique, one-night-only pairings. Watch New York City’s best improvisers shake it up. It’s a Dos Experimento!
Panicked call from Gerald McRaney after we hooked up in 1984. I received hundreds of these over the years and I hope to post them here.
My tutorial on opening Google Chrome. Enjoy techies!
Joe Schiappa. Racist, Bigot, Misogynist. It’s a wonder we even bothered to interview him really. Of course we kid, Joe is probably our favorite twoproviser and he taught Rob in level 2, although Rob doesn’t remember any of Joe’s wise words. Joe also picks more holes in the terrible game that is ‘Guess Who.’ Thank god for Iliana or this podcast would fall apart.