Comedy Store “King Gong” October 2006 Winner
Beat The Frog World Series 2005 Finalist
Comedy Store “King Gong” October 2005 Winner
FHM/Holsten Pils Stand-up 2004 Finalist
Metro London Comedy Festival Newcomer 2003 Finalist
BBC stand-up comedy competition 2003 semi finalist
Comedy Store “King Gong" 2003 January Winner.
Take the Mike 2002 semi finalist.
Channel 4 “So You think you’re funny” 2002 semi finalist.
Website
still working on that one
Influences
Woody Allen, Ultraman, Bernard Herrmann, David Cross, Ed Wood, James Woods, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Lee, Omar Hassan (skater not president of Sudan), Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Dave Chappelle, Dick Gregory and Mose Alison.
TV Shows
Elite Coffee commercial Israel 2007
James Dean Bradfield Music Video 2006 (to have a look, just click on it above)
Burger King commercial 2005
BBC Southampton Inside Out Presenter 2005
Kings of Comedy pilot 2004
BBC Malai Monologues 2003
Macleans commercial 2000
Gladiators contender 1993
Films
Not really film, but alot of background stuff, including Drop Dead Donkey and Pie in the Sky
Rick's Interests
General
Skating, writing, surfing, trying to play guitar, history. And basically trying not to piss too many people off.
Music
My Morning Jacket, Buffalo Springfield, Saint Etienne, Mose Alison, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Zepplin, Springsteen, Ben Watt, Paul Weller, Smiths, Family Stand, Bowie, DJ Shadow, Killers, Eagles, Supertramp, The The, Todd Rundgren, America, Sam Prekop, Smashing Pumpkins, Steely Dan, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, John Martyn, Bran Van 3000, Lauren Hill, Kansas, The Band, Boston, Len.
Movies
Ed Wood, Enter the Dragon, Bad Lieutenant, Big Wednesday, King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Jason and the Argonauts, Saving Private Ryan, Seven Samurai, Twilight Samurai, Tokyo Story, Ikiru, Dazed and Confused, Kids, Funny Games, Man Bites Dog, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Boost, Salvador, Wizard of Oz, Deerhunter, Manhatten, Yojimbo, Fletch, Silence of the Lambs, Zoolander, Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, The Money Pit, European Vacation, Planet of the Apes (1968), The Fountainhead, Abyss.
Television
Early Twilight Zone and Star Trek, 3 Stooges, Office, Shameless, Mighty Boosh, Big Train, Alan Partridge, The Day Today, 15 Storeys High 'Blue Rat', Dogtown and Z boys, Apocalypse Now, Almost Famous.
Books
The Fountainhead, On War, The Answer is Never, Dracula, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Where the Suckers Moon, The 48 Laws of Power, Dogtown, All That is Solid Melts into Air, The End of History And The Last Man, Atlas Shrugged, Things Snowball, The Giving Tree.
Heroes
Bruce Lee, Woody Allen, Neil Young, Beat Takeshi, Mike Vallely, Kelly Slater, Dick Gregory, Sammy Davis Jr, Dave Chappelle, Wilbert Montgomery.
About me: I was born in Okayama, Japan and then adopted by an American couple. My Dad's background is more Philadelphian street kid and my Mum is Italian American. We ended up in a small town in New Jersey, called Medford Lakes, where I grew up. In the background, there were Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, the Iggles, White House Hoagies, FDR park and Boardwalks. It was a mix of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Dazed and Confused." I escaped by joining Military Intelligence when I was 17 and I was attached to 11th Armoured Cavalry (like in Apocalypse Now). I returned from Germany to study Political Science at Rutgers, before quitting that to get a degree in Graphics at Leicester Poly. I've lived in the Britain ever since. Mostly working in Advertising before discovering stand up in 2003. I'm still discovering.
Who I'd like to meet: Neil Young, Francis Fukayama, Robin Williams, Adam Gopnik, Tony Hawk, Omar Hassan, Tony Trujillo, Burt Kwouk, Richard Belzer, anyone who is still alive from 'The Dirty Dozen', Charlize Theron, Banksy, Bjork, Woody Allen and Dan Weiden.
thanks for the add. i saw you on last comic standing last night and i thought you were funny as hell, i can't believe you didn't get through. Hopefully see a full set someday Thom
i saw you on paramount comedy tonight for the second time. maybe they'll give you your own show and you can fill it with even more ethnic stereotypes. i was actually gutted you didn't get through, the jewish kid who looked like a foetus was good though. hope you're edinburgh show goes well, where are the previews? it just says "london". even if i start looking really early, it might be hard to find "london".
yo! bummer about the lcs audition man, i really liked your iraq opening line though, i thought it was funny. why'd it go downhill after that? anyhow, hope alls well. haven't seen you around recently. hope alls well. talk soon.
-me
