Carmen Ciricillo
The Construction Comedian

Carmen Ciricillo is a nationally touring comedian who has performed regularly since winning his first comedy competition at the Cleveland Comedy Club in 1986. Since then, Carmen has covered a lot of ground. Currently he appears daily on the Discovery Channel's "Your New House" television program. He also has a principle role in three national television commercials for Michael Holigan Homes, filmed in 1999 and currently running. Carmen will also tour on the NASCAR circuit with the #25 car for Michaelholigan.com beginning at the 2000 Daytona 500.

One of the unique aspects of Carmen's stand up routine is his Construction Comedy routine. From 1990 to 1992 at the "Santa Monica Improv" in California, he developed an act solely based on the construction business. This specialized niche of comedy has been extremely well received not only by the construction industry, but also by audiences in general. Imagine watching a comedian and listening to hilarious, clean humor on a topic you have never heard before. That is what Carmen does!

Of Course, Carmen does have material on other topics such as family, being Italian, relationships and much more. He has performed for hundreds of comedy clubs from "Catch a Rising Star" in Vegas, to the "Punchline" in Atlanta and San Francisco.

Carmen also writes humorous short stories on the construction business for several magazines, has sold jokes to Jay Leno and the "Tonight Show". He has also does 150 personal appearances at comedy clubs, colleges, corporations, trade shows and associations a year.

Acting has been a new adventure for Carmen. He has been on local and regional shows in the past but things are changing. From his television commercials in 1999 he has been gaining attention for bigger things. Recently he auditioned in New York at "Silvercup Studios" for Executive Producer, David Chase and Casting Director, Georgianne Walken, for the "Sopranos". Getting on television has increased Carmen's marketability tremendously and his future has never looked brighter.


Hire Carmen to torment your people by introducing him as the new Vice President of Risk Management or the Director of Business Development. Carmen is extremely good at portraying a FAKE PROFESSIONAL. He has been very successful infiltrating the corporate structure and blending in. Everything seems okay until Carmen starts acting a little strange, not too strange, just odd enough where people are beginning to talk. No one can put their finger on it but they know there is something wrong with this guy. The word begins to spread around the company about the new guy and some of the things he has been doing and asking for.

But the office staff is just the beginning, Carmen will go out to field offices and start to wreak havoc with supervisors, project managers, engineers, laborers and whoever else is in his path. Havoc is probably not the right word, more like rumblings, shaking it up but not enough to break anything. The group is completely fooled and cell phones start ringing. Of course the people in on the gag are inundated with questions like – "Are you sure this guy is right for our Company?

The next day is usually a Company function where Carmen continues the hoax for awhile. People shun him, spouses fear him and large men want to escort him back from where he came. Then the real show begins-it is announced that we will not be hiring Carmen Ciricillo as Director or VP or whatever fake title he holds, because Carmen is truly a COMEDIAN!

The crowd seems relieved and Carmen recants the last 2 days of events and performs his stand-up comedy routine for the group.

CARMEN’S MANY FAKE PROFESSIONAL TITLES