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Sarge
Sarge went to all boys private boarding school and graduated from South Kent School in the spring of 1979 where he received the music award while lettering in Football. He then attended Boston University's School of Public Communication where the concentration was in Advertising and Mass Communication. Six months before graduation he landed a job with a small modeling agency in Boston, owned and run by a Boston Red Sox player's wife. This experience handling the agency's public relations jettisoned him to New York and a booking agent job with the prestigious Wilhelmina Models where he learned the nuts and bolts of the talent side of the New York fashion industry. By the time Sarge was 24, he was a partner in his own talent representation firm, "Punch Models". While lucrative and exciting, the stage was calling and Sarge enrolled at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute thinking he would no longer represent talent but "be" talent. This didn't last long as he also was drawn to the world of television sports and worked extensively for ABC Wide World of Sports as a production assistant. After getting fired from ABC, Sarge worked for CBS Sports and wrote, did research for and assisted production on everything from baseball's World Series to the Super Bowl. However it was finally the inspirational words of "The NFL Today" host Greg Gumbel, who encouraged Sarge to "be a comedian, you're too funny, too creative and too bright not to go for a comedy career." So after a six month stint in Bristol, Connecticut writing and highlight producing for ESPN, on February 2, 1992, Sarge moved to his best buddy's pull out sofa in NY to embark on a career in stand-up comedy and he's never looked back. After playing clubs and colleges all over America for approximately 3 years, Sarge was signed by the prestigious William Morris Agency and began opening for some of the biggest names in music, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Paul Anka, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Taylor Dayne, Donna Summer and Wayne Newton to name a few. It was these high profile gigs which moved Sarge to begin including his own musical talents in his incredibly well received appearances.
Since the 60's, "when everybody did everything" there hasn't been a comedian/ musician/ singer like him to come along.
Sarge has worked some of the biggest stages in show business. From Radio City Music Hall to Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, Sarge's ability to improvisationalize and tailor his show to specific audiences is uncanny.
Highly sports knowledgeable, Sarge had his own nationally syndicated sports radio talk show on Fox Sports Radio , heard in 128 cities, while writing, producing and performing segments for Fox's wildly successful "Best Damn Sports Show Period".
Just having returned from a life changing, amazing trip to Iraq to entertain the troops, he is looking forward to returning to Iraq soon to do more of the most fulfilling entertaining he's ever done.
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