Charlie Viracola

Charlie Viracola
Birth name	Charles Viracola
Born	June 24, 1973 (1973-06-24) (age 38) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Website	www.planetcharlie.com

Charles "Charlie" Viracola (born June 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian from Los Angeles, California. He is relatively well known among comedy fans in the United States, Canada, England, and Europe.^{[citation needed]} He was born to an engineer father and teacher mother, and is 3/4 Italian, 1/4-European and Native American Indian Mixed.

Charlie Viracola has appeared on several television comedy shows since his 2001 appearance on Premium Blend. Most of his appearances are late-night shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Comedy.tv. He has had his own Comedy Central Presents episode in 2004. He also has appeared on the British shows, The World Stands Up and Live at Jongleur's. He also worked for a time as a writer for Carrot Top and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Charlie Viracola (then Charles Viracola) had some minor success in the late 1980s on cable comedy shows such as A&E's Comedy on the Road, Showtime's Full Frontal Comedy, and the Comedy Club Network.

Charlie Viracola could probably be best classified as an observational rant-style comedian. His style of delivery has been most compared^[who?] to comedians like George Carlin and Bill Hicks. He also delivers material with a completely different style more like Steven Wright and has appeared on television in the US with this separate persona several times.

Viracola is also a computer application designer and has created some very popular iPhone applications (apps) in the iTunes Music Store.^{[citation needed]}

On October 24, 2011, Viracola appeared with Carrot Top on an episode of the popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron.

References

External links

• Charlie Viracola at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Viracola, Charlie
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Date of birth	June 24, 1973
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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