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Mark DeCarlo
2015 Media Kit
2013, 2012, 2011 Emmy Award winner,
Comedian/Travel & Foodie Expert Mark DeCarlo,
provides the comedy for 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 real
people, places and slightly offkilter 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 four 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 our hungry
people emerged. These hilarious stories –
and previously secret recipes – are collected in Mark’s Amazon Top 20 book,
“A Fork on the Road: 400 Cities, 1 Stomach,” a comedic travelogue/cook book
published by Lyons Press to sparkling reviews. AFOTR was a best seller for 19
weeks, and spawned Mark’s new travel shows.
Double-click on the speaker icon below to hear one of Mark’s
weekly radio segments as Captain Fun - Travel Guru. He fixes
travel problems with humor and special discounts, while
providing prizes to callers. Mark also broadcasts live from Food
& Wine Festivals, like this episode with Michael
Symon.
With over 750,000+ weekly subscribers, Mark &
his wife, The Traveling Diva Yeni Alvarez, host
the web’s #1 Travel/Foodie Entertainment
program, “A Fork on the Road Show.”
Recent guests include; Robert DeNiro, Emma
Thompson, Samantha Brown, Dick Van Dyke &
Slyvester Stallone. Each episode features
interviews with celebrities, chefs, rock stars like
Derek Trucks, local characters and features travel
deals & prizes for listeners all around the country.
The show is broadcast from studios in LA, and via
LIVE REMOTE from Festivals around the US.
Mark’s Travel Blog for HuffingtonPost.com’s
6,000,000 daily readers chronicles the characters
he meets on his adventures performing at
festivals, corporate events and comedy shows
around the world.
Mark is a frequent emcee at National Sales
meetings, performing as a keynote speaker and
comedic host for Fortune 500 corporate
clients including; McDonalds, Burger King, Media
Week Awards, DJO Global, Stryker, Credit
Unions of America, US Foods, IHOP, Blue Bunny
Ice Cream, International Restaurant & Hotel
Awards, Ernst & Young, and Sonic Burger.
Mark also fronts his authentic blues/rock band, Old Blues Eyes.
In late 2014, Mark completed production on the ground-breaking consumer
advocacy digital series, EconomicalECO.com. The series of five minute shorts
chronicle a
complete home rebuild, using
exclusively
American-made, economical to
purchase and use
products. The remodel was
completed for 33% less than a conventional job, doubling the size of the home,
while cutting energy usage by 20%. The completed 52 HD webisodes will be
released in 2015. [beta site password = savegreen]
Recent Corporate Performances
Awards Shows * Meetings & Keynotes * Custom Content
February, 2015
We keep hiring Mark DeCarlo because he keeps our clients happy.
As a meeting and awards show emcee, Mark elevates the boiler plate
‘rubber chicken’ awards show with creativity, improv, and deft audience
participation that makes a positive impression on the audience, and
most importantly, our clients.
In the corporate events and media world, we strive to keep the perfect
balance between cutting edge and safely familiar. Because Mark studies
the client and the audience before events begin, he knows where that
edge is, and which kinds of comedy work for each facet of his
audience.
He excels at both live, on-the-fly event hosting, and pre-produced
comedy videos featuring members of the client’s executive team and
employees.
If you know him primarily at a TV personality, you’re missing The Big
Picture. As a writer and performer of on-message, original material, he
infuses generic scripts with on-point humor, making the shows more
entertaining, and more valuable, as people continue to laugh and
discuss the event long after their busses leave for home.
Mark at the helm of our programs, means less worries and satisfied
clients. It’s a good partnership.
George Lang
1099 D Street, Penthouse A, San Rafael, CA 94901
415-454-2589 office / 415-760-5200 cell
Emmy® award winner