Mark Gagliardi Of ‘Blood & Treasure’ On The Five Things You Need To Shine In the Entertainment Industry
… I appreciate hearing comedians who are like, “Oh yeah, I cringe a little at some of the stuff that I used to do because it was punching down. It was hurting people.”
So that’s the fun challenge of the job, to keep the comedy universal or to specifically punch up — there are a lot of people in power that deserve to have satire aimed at them. Punching laterally, I think, is okay. And inwardly.
You just have to be careful not to punch your self-esteem too hard.
I had the pleasure to talk to Mark Gagliardi. Mark currently stars as ‘Father Chuck’ in the Paramount+ globe-trotting action-adventure drama series BLOOD & TREASURE.
You may be familiar with Gagliardi as the original and frequent narrator of Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning DRUNK HISTORY or as ‘Croach the Tracker’ in the star-studded Largo hit THE THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR. You may have heard him as Batman on DC SUPER FRIENDS or met him at a…