In "Random Acts" pilot, Jim turns room service into improv comedy.
Jim as the Viking character from a Disney show pilot
T.I.T.S. was from the Comedy Central "half hour network" pilot
"Sportscaster" was part of the VH-1's Random Play
"Flea Market" clip was for the pilot of HBO's SketchPad .
"Silver" was on the VH1 sketch show, Random Play

RANDOM ACTS (PILOT)
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DISNEY
"Viking"
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COMEDY CENTRAL
T.I.T.S.
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VH-1
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"Sportscaster"
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COMEDY LAB
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VH-1
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"Silver"
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HBO'S SKETCHPAD
"Flea Market"
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There are many voices in my head.

Sure a couple of them are telemarketers.

Many of these voices were developed into characters at Surf Reality and other places on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Some of the characters, "Silver" and "Sportscaster," were on the VH1 sketch show, Random Play.

"Roscoe the Wood Guy" came from the thought, What if someone from the Spoon River Anthology era of -- I don't know, a long time ago, I'm too lazy to look it up -- moved to New York and started doing stand-up? The Viking was from a Disney show pilot and T.I.T.S. was from the Comedy Central "half hour network" pilot.

MAN ON THE STREET
Essentially when I do man on the street work I'm doing exactly what I got in trouble for as a kid -- talking to strangers.

I've done man on the street work in commercials (Kodak), industrials (IBM) and meeting women (my wife). You may have seen me as the man on the street during the CBS Thanksgiving Day parade or in the USA Network interstitials called Boundary Breakers . The "Flea Market" clip was some street work for the pilot of HBO's SketchPad .

TALKING HEADS
I know what you're thinking. He put everything he ever did on the damn website. (Please don't use that language around me, buddy!) Actually, I didn't. But there is some fun stuff I did when I wasn't getting real acting work.

I was a correspondent for VH1's Rock Candy and was a sci-fi nerd talking head who lived in a van for Showtime's Sci-Friday Chronicles .

THEATER
I love being on the stage and NYC, the best theater city in the world, has many outlets for stage work besides stand-up. I've appeared in numerous off-off-Broadway plays including "The North American White Male," a two person play I wrote with Tom Shillue that toured Manhattan for a year. In the winter of 2001, I directed "Tales From the Oven" at the Nuyorican in NYC's East Village.

 

 
 
 

 
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