Mike Bocchetti was born on April 3,1961 and is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Staten Island, New York.
14 Facts About Mike Bocchetti
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Mike Bocchetti is most notable for his role as the announcer on The Artie Lange Show from 2012 to 2014, and has acted frequently on film and television.
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Mike Bocchetti was born on April 3,1961, in Staten Island to a Catholic Italian family of what he once called "a very humble blue-collar background".
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Mike Bocchetti joined the Marines in 1980 but washed out after a few weeks; he wrote about the experience for his 2019 stage show Space Cookie.
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Mike Bocchetti started performing comedy in 1992 and has performed on New York-area stages for decades, including the Staten Island Comedy Festival and New Jersey music festival The Bamboozle.
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Mike Bocchetti was the announcer on DirectTV's The Artie Lange Show from 2012 to 2014.
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Mike Bocchetti played a homeless man in the 2004 Monk episode "Mr Monk Takes Manhattan".
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Mike Bocchetti was a guest on 25 episodes of Mary Dimino's New York-area cable-TV series Nights With Mary between 2003 and 2012.
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Mike Bocchetti formed a production company with comedian Ken Burmeister, Blasted Films, which made Tubby Man: Hero of the Bullied, a semi-autobiographical comedy web series with an anti-bullying message, for Blip TV in 2013.
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In May 2024, Mike Bocchetti starred as the fictional President of the United States, Jimble, in Adult Swim's comedy cartoon Smiling Friends.
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Mike Bocchetti has been a frequent guest on talk-radio shows and podcasts including The Howard Stern Show and Opie and Anthony, as well as The Jim Breuer Show, The Chip Chipperson Podcast, The Dump with Steve Conti, The Anthony Cumia Show, The Miserable Men Show and The Slant.
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In 2014, Bocchetti started his own podcast, The Mike Bocchetti Show, which ran for 13 episodes.
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In 2002, Mike Bocchetti played one of the Grand Masters of the Illuminati in avant-garde artist Matthew Barney's film Cremaster 3.
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In 2018, Mike Bocchetti published an autobiography, Still Standing, covering his life from childhood through his 2017 heart attack.