
Mark DeCarlo
Comedian, Cartoon Voice, Actor, TV Host
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- Program Type
- - Entertainment for Organizations
- - Performance for General Audience
- Traveling From:
- California
Topics
- Arts & Pop Culture
- Celebrity Speakers
- Food & Wine/ Hospitality
- Comedy Headliners
Bio
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2012 & 2011 Emmy® Award winner, Comedian/Travel & Foodie Expert Mark DeCarlo was thrilled to win back to back Midwest Emmys for contributing his comedic whimsy to Chicago’s #1 daytime show, ABC’s Windy City LIVE. On the show, which premiered in May 2011 in Oprah Winfrey’s historic time slot, Mark hosts and produces comedic segments celebrating the people, places and slightly off-kilter characters that make Chicago the best city in America to work, play and live…May through October.
Prior to WCL, Mark rode the road less traveled for 4 seasons on the Travel Channel’s “Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo,” scouring the U.S. for delicious food and the quirky zealots who champion ancestral recipes and down-home stories over mass-produced mush. It took 400 cities, and a lot of napkins, but through it all, a portrait of America… and its hungry people emerged. These hilarious stories – and previously secret recipes - are collected in Mark’s best selling new book, “A FORK ON THE ROAD: 400 Cities, 1 Stomach,” a comedic travelogue/cook book published by Lyons Press in 2011 to sparkling reviews.
Mark continues his book tour through 2012, traveling the country performing LIVE Foodie demos, Comedy shows, and hosting Travel, Music and Food Festivals. Mark also performs with his blues/rock band, Old Blues Eyes. Mark is also in-demand as a keynote speaker and comedic host for corporate clients at dozens of Fortune 500 Companies.
In addition to continuing on WCL, Mark will host two new series in 2013. EconomicalECO, a How-To series that popularizes ways to radically reduce cost of living by choosing economical American products & services, without mutating into a radical, off-the-grid hippie and sleeping in a Yurt, premieres in early in 2013.
The second series, THIS vs THAT, is a show that blends science & comedy into an entertaining weekly hour of high energy hijinks. Mark, with co-hosts Brad Sherwood and Chris Tallman, guarantee laughter, knowledge and spit-takes. The show premieres January 2013.
Prior to Mark’s recent burst of activity, he’s always kept busy, succeeding in virtually every cul-du-sac of show business. Three months after his UCLA graduation, Mark became the All-Time Champion on NBC’s “Sale of the Century,” winning over $115,000 and jump-starting his comedy career. After founding the Second City’s West Coast Touring Company in Santa Monica, Mark hosted Fox’s hit dating show STUDS for 580 episodes, birthing reality TV – for which he is truly sorry. Juicy roles on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tracey Takes On, and The Ben Stiller Show kept him in demand between live shows with his improv group, The Frayed Knots! In 2001 Mark starred in the Oscar® Nominated “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius” as befuddled cartoon dad Hugh Neutron, continuing for a decade on the award winning Nickelodeon TV series. Animated stints on Barnyard, Planet Sheen, Johnny Bravo, Handy Manny and the Thumb series of comedies Thumb Wars, BaTThumb and Thumbtanic keep Mark in demand as a cartoon voice actor. After Studs, Mark hosted 3 more hit shows; Fox’s extreme game show Big Deal, and FX’s late night talk show The X Show, before hitting the road from 2005-2009 for the Travel Channel.
Speaker Programs
Travel on Your Tongue: How to Travel Like a Celebrity Chef
Tourism planning based around culinary adventures and must-see spots. Experiencing a region can only truly be done through an exploration of the local food trends and traditions. Personality-driven foodies, meeting the people behind the food. Using funny video clips from his Travel Channel series, “Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo,” Mark showcases the amazing regional diversity and presents a tale of 2012 America that, according to Amazon.com calls to mind “Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley… as a snapshot of our country through the lens of food and the people who passionately prepare it.” Mark explores and expands on the endless variety of experience available close to home and concludes the talk with Q&A that hilariously turns audience comments into riffs on America and the culture we all love to hate.
Meetings Don't Have to Be Boring: Create a Corporate Meeting that Feels like a Vacation
Tapping into a venue/host city’s attractions, restaurants and sub-cultures to develop team-building excursions, social bonding and contests that transform a drab sales or regional meeting into a fun and educational event that deepens skills and cohesion among co-workers.
Leave Town For Less: Economical Tourism
Through a combination of social media, following your interests and educated travel-sense, design and execute vacations for families, couples, and groups that will spawn memories that last a lifetime… using time and money saving tricks picked up over a decade of professional travel. Whether it’s a romantic trip, a family trip or a business trip, Mark’s tips can increase your fun and decrease your cost.
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