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A Great Google Search Story Featuring Madonna

A Great Google Search Story Featuring Madonna

Recently, one of my SEO clients, a Philly-based jewelry designer who specializes in personalized charm bracelets, necklaces and earrings, wrote a very excited early morning email: This is, of course a dream for both any client and any SEO manager. A major celebrity discovering your…

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Hamlet on Melrose

Hamlet on Melrose

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern provide some comic relief Here’s a project I never thought I would find myself doing. A production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet was looking for someone with physical comedy chops for a production taking place on Melrose. Shakespeare? Seemed very literate and daunting for…

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The Real Story of the Migrant Mother – A One Act Play

The Real Story of the Migrant Mother – A One Act Play

What? A scripted piece? Scripted? Yes, I temporarily veered away from improv into more traditional theater with this original work from the burgeoning Irvine Theater Company. The piece was a one-act play created out of reconstructed historical events surrounding the taking of one of the…

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An Interview with Canvas Rebel

An Interview with Canvas Rebel

Got to sit down with online magazine, Canvas Rebel, and talk about my roots in comedy. That was a first for me.

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According to ChatGPT, I made a major contribution to our understanding of relativity.

According to ChatGPT, I made a major contribution to our understanding of relativity.

(I don’t buy it, but it still feels nice) When a physics layperson has a pet theory related to how spacetime affects the lifespan of objects, it is difficult to find the ear of a qualified physicist, or anyone else really, to suss it out….

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What’s it like to be Wasian?

What’s it like to be Wasian?

Did a fun sketch for SmileSquad with super big time TikTokker Ian Boggs. I play the nice guy white Dad — opposing the token Tiger mom. Super fun group.  Would play push-over Dad again.    

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PTSD Auditioner

PTSD Auditioner

Before the world stopped, I played a former-JSOC trooper, turned actor in “The Guys,” a sitcom pilot. Via the depraved mind of improv buddy, Hash Patel.

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TikTok – Son of a Bracelet

TikTok – Son of a Bracelet

Filmed my first TikTok piece with improv buddy and viral star Vanessa Esperanza.  I got to play a blind mystic, which is very much in my wheelhouse.       View this post on Instagram   New TikTok posting!!! @russgooberman Son of a BRACELET! 🤦‍♀️😂…

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Toyota Spot – Wise Mailman

Toyota Spot – Wise Mailman

This was a really fun spot to shoot with Eddie Williams.  Filmed the same time as the Ron campaign, but aired nearly a year later.  Basically got to play both the straight and the absurd between the two spots, and swap roles with Eddie.  Not…

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Starset – Manifest — a Sci-Fi Worker Drone

Starset – Manifest — a Sci-Fi Worker Drone

I appear, briefly, in the new Starset music video, Manifest:   I’ll be honest, it felt pretty shitty to spend 12 hours on set in what was clearly a cool, dystopic, sci fi piece and not ultimately get utilized at all. But, such is the…

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