Oct 15, 2019
Hooray and hallelujah!
This is the first ever live recording of my podcast coming to
you from the hipster city of Portland, Oregon! Dante Rusciolelli is
the co-founder of the Portland comedy festival and he and I riff
like the skilled joke slingers that we are in front of a hot live
audience at Harvey's comedy club. Dante and I are kind of related
because in the late 1990s he was on a show on the BET network where
he played my father's son. That's right! My father was on a BET
show in the late 1990s and Dante regales us with those memories and
how his comedy career began in the California desert. Dante is
someone I knew I would like even before I met him and you will love
this conversation and the light he brings to your soul with his
musings here. It was a special weekend being a part of this first
ever Portland comedy festival and I'm happy that this memory was
commemorated and my friendship sealed with the man who invited me
there. Like me, Dante seems to be on an upswing in his life and for
creating this festival he is the mayor or fun city in my opinion. I
know you will love this man as much as I do and be tickled silly by
this conversation which is why it is my pleasure to present to you
now the one and only Dante Rusciolelli!