Second Chances

Greg Roque is a screenwriter and accomplished stand-up comedian residing in the Los Angeles area. He’s been featured on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle II and is the 2017 winner of the Uncle Clyde’s Comedy Contest at Flapper’s Comedy Club as well as a finalist in The US Comedy Contest.

Uzette Salazar is radio personality, producer and TV host. She was the producer and on air personality of the popular radio show Sara & Vinnie on Alice 97.3, co host with Don Bleu on Star 101.3, and worked for numerous other radio stations. She Currently, does segments for KOFY TV-20 and voicetracks for Hall of Fame Music Radio.

Danny Boy O'Connor is a rapper, hip hop artist, founding member of the rap group House of Pain, current member of the hip hop supergroup La Coka Nostra, creator of the Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team, and owner of The Outsiders House Museum.

Abby Roberge, born Abbyram Roberge is an extremely talented and popular comedian who has been making everyone laugh. He has built a name for himself in the L.A. scene, regularly performing at The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory. In 2016, videos of his stand-up and sketches were viewed over 100 million times. He has performed at Just For Laughs Northwest, toured with Bill Burr, Bob Saget, Steve-O, and many more. As an actor, Abby has played in a major NBC pilot and just wrapped a guest-starring role on MODERN FAMILY.

You probably know Rosalee Mayeux from the cult classic The Lawnmower Man with Pierce Brosnan. A high-fashion Ford model in New York and Paris the 80’s, Rosalee moved to Los Angeles and played the quintessential mom in over 300 movies, commercials, and TV shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, Nickelodeon. Rosalee won The Columbine Writers Award for non-violent conflict resolution at the Moondance International Film Festival 2005 for not killing her sons’ drug dealer in the short, Coyote Nights. Catch her standup comedy at clubs all around Los Angeles, and watch her in the new YouTube series: Comedy Girls Road Trip with Jessica Wellington.

Matt Pinfield is an American music personality, TV host and radio DJ best known as a video deejay on MTV and VH1. Pinfield also worked as a Vice President of A&R and Artist Development for Columbia Records.

Joe Manganiello is an actor, director, producer, and Emmy Award-winning narrator. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and during high school, he was captain of the football, basketball and volleyball teams. He went on to play varsity level in all three. It was during school that he enjoyed making films with his friends and, as a result, became interested in acting. He went on to study acting at Carnegie Mellon, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He landed a great first job as 'Flash Thompson' in Spider-Man (2002). He is also known for his roles as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO series True Blood, and as Big Dick Richie in the Magic Mike films, as well as countless others. Joe is married to actress Sofia Vergara.

Alexandra Rose shares her journey of how she went from being a junkie to being an entertainment lawyer. After battling a heroin addiction, she got sober at the age of 19 and has been unstoppable ever since. She dropped out of high school at 16, got her GED, moved away from Massachusetts, got sober in Orange County, attended UCLA, graduated law school, and passed the bar exam just recently on her first attempt. Alexandra is also an open lesbian and talks about her scary and surprising coming-out story. Today, with 11 years of sobriety, she works for one of the top music law firms in the country. Alex considers her life’s purpose is to inspire people to achieve their goals and to never give up. How that new purpose manifests is anyone’s guess, but we know it will be as inspirational as she is.

Gerry Pass is a Producer and President of Chrome Entertainment in Los Angeles, established in 2013. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, he began his career at Paramount Pictures in NYC then moved to Walt Disney working for studio icons Gordon Weaver, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Cook, Michael Eisner and Arlene Ludwig on many movies including TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS, A CHORUS LINE and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.

The beautiful and talented Bobbie Brown was spotted in a mall in 1987 and said yes to entering the Miss Louisiana Teen USA Competition. After winning the pageant, Bobbie went on to star in 9 music videos, the most famous being “Cherry Pie” by Warrant. Chasing the Hollywood Dream, the actress and model won the spokesperson competition on Star Search 13 consecutive times and has 16 filmography credits. Most recently, Bobbie has authored two books, Dirty Rocker Boys and Cherry on Top, and has a podcast called “The Bobbie N’ Sharise Sweet and Sour Hour”. She has her own memorabilia website and you can catch her live on stage doing stand up comedy in Los Angeles, usually at The Dojo. She is very funny and has recently headlined The Shindig Show.

Jason's uniquely Yankee American upbringing as an adopted Korean kid in Mr. Roger's white picket fence neighborhood of New Boston, New Hampshire gave him a distinctive "slant" on life, now put to hilarious use in his stand-up routines. The self-proclaimed "Caucasian Asian" put it this way in his "Go pahk yah cah" wicked-thick New England accent, "I created the show to incorporate all kinds of comedians. I wanted to stay away from an all Asian-, white-, black-, purple-, blue-themed show." American Me Comedy, is an evening of the best standup comedy featuring today's hottest working comics from all walks of life—race, color, religion, sexual orientation—sharing their unique and hilarious perspectives on life experiences. Catch the show monthly at the Hollywood Improv and San Jose Improv and periodically at the Punch Line San Francisco.

Actor/comedian Darrell Hammond fondly recalls his first taste of show business at age five practicing the impressions of his family members on the porch of their home in Melbourne Florida. It wasn’t many years later when Darrell realized he wanted to submerse himself in the pursuit of bringing his comedy and impressions to a much bigger stage. For years now, Hammond has brought to life a cavalcade of politicians, media figures, celebrities and newsmakers on television. Darrell is known for being one of the most prolific comedians of his time. He holds the title for being the longest-running cast member on SNL. He frequently tours comedy clubs and theaters boasting a number of brilliant impressions in his act that keep people laughing nationwide.

ANT, Former co-host of Second Chances Podcast returns to the show to catch us up on what’s going on in his life and career. Since leaving the cast, he continues to slay on stage, help others in comedy and recovery, and work for a better world battling addiction by starting a company, Continued Compliance.

Mark Brazill is an American stand-up comic, television creator and executive producer. He is most well known as being the co-creator of the FOX situation comedy That '70s Show which aired for eight seasons, and continues to be a large part of the American pop-culture zeitgeist. Mark was also a consulting producer and later a producer of NBC's 3rd Rock from the Sun. Early in his career, he was an uncredited writer for the video game film adaptation Double Dragon, mainly for the comedy.

A regular panel member on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around the country laugh for more than 20 years. In his stand-up special, Heavy Lightweight, which streams on Amazon Prime Video, he presents a range of topics from slavery, cell phones, and the #MeToo movement, to millennials, Kanye West and Taco Bell. As he says, "he likes to mix it up and hopes that audiences will join him for a laugh and a think, or two."  Last year, Alonzo released his fifth comedy CD titled Man Overboard, and currently hosts the podcast Who's Paying Attention? where he gives his unique take on what's going on in the world.

Jimmy Shin joins Greg Baldwin as the co-host of Second Chances Podcast! Jimmy has been Mixing his musical and comedic talents all of his life. After graduating from California Western School of Law, Jimmy decided to take a more humorous path. While in Seattle, Jimmy won the honor of "Rookie Comedian of the Year" in the Seattle International Comedy Competition in 2005 and was advised by Ron Reid (The Producer of the competition) to move to Los Angeles. Although urged by his parents to become a lawyer, Jimmy decided to take a leap of faith and pursue his dreams of becoming a comic in LA. After moving to Los Angeles, Jimmy has been performing all around the country and producing shows at The World Famous Comedy Store. He has performed regularly at the Improv, Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store. His break came when he performed three times on The Tonight Show. His parents finally acknowledged that he was a real Comedian when they saw him perform on The Tonight Show and began supporting his decision to pursue a ca

Greg Baldwin, Cecilie Korst, and Charlene Goto get together in the studio and talk about the podcast, what it takes, and a little about Cecilie (which she finds totally unnerving because she prefers working behind the scenes). Second Chances is celebrating 90 episodes and is moving on to a slightly different format with a new co-host and more comedians. All three of us have loved the guests, co-hosts, and subjects, and we hope all of our listeners continue to enjoy the show!

Charlene Goto is a San Francisco native and has been working in market 4 since 2002 and is the owner of Go-To Productions, a creative services production company, specializing in producing quality audio content and entertainment through radio shows, podcasts & live broadcast events. A Television & Radio graduate of San Francisco State University, she got her start in broadcasting as a Production Assistant for the cable channel G4 TV, while also working on the award-nominated programs  CyberCrime & Tech Live. She began her venture into radio with an internship on “The Sarah & Vinnie Morning Show”, a top-rated morning show on CBS Radio in San Francisco. She parlayed her internship into becoming the San Francisco Affiliate Producer for “The Howard Stern Show” on Live105 FM, and then became the co-producer of “The Sarah & No Name Show”, as well as Programming Coordinator for Alice@97.3. In 2008, she moved on to work with Westwood One & Metro Networks (Now iHeartMedia’s Total Traffic Networ

In the fourth grade, Olivia used to stare out the window of her second-story classroom and daydream. Her teacher declared that she would be a writer. He was right. Born in Quebec City, educated in Montreal and brought to maturity in Los Angeles, Olivia has worked as a freelance writer, translator, art gallery curator, and retail manager. In 2014 she quit a good corporate job and moved to Thailand to finish her novel. Today she works as a French-speaking tour guide and lives the globetrotting life of a digital nomad. In her downtime, she can be found in remote parts of the world working on new manuscripts and the occasional short story.

Doug and Christine Fekete have an encouraging story of reconciliation.  They were married for almost 20 years, divorced for eight, and have recently reconciled.  Their journey begins when they met in college and continued in Nashville, TN, London, England, and includes four birth children AND four adopted children. Christine is a writer, actor, abstract artist and comic in the LA area.  She is also the founder of THINK HAPPY STUFF- a gift company with a logo that reminds us that even the little things can make a big difference.  Doug is the business director of THINK HAPPY STUFF and is helping to grow the company here in L.A. Throughout the divorce and time apart, Doug and Christine were able to remain friends and partners in raising their large and colorful family.  Their story reminds us that grace runs deep and there are indeed, many second chances to be found.