You may be asking, "Where am I? What the hell kind of site is this anyways? Why am I here?
Why is a bunny with a pancake on its head talking to me? What kind of messed up, freaked out
place is this?" Well, for those of you who are directionally challenged, easily confused,
paranoid, and have ADHD with multiple personality disorders, let me calm you down a bit and
explain who I am and what this site is all about, okay? How about a nice, soothing Valium or
Zoloft before we get started, okay? There you go...
My name is Kevin Pittinaro. I'm a comedian and actor, originally from the Rochester, NY area.
(I'm actually from a small town called Macedon, but most people have never heard of it. Rochester
is one of the closest larger cities nearby to my hometown (Syracuse being the other) and since
I've spent more time around Rochester, I tell people I'm from that area.) I'm currently residing
in the Albany, NY area though (Capital Region, whatever you want to call it). I've been performing
for over two years now in the Capital Region. I still get out to Rochester though here and there.
I started performing Stand-Up comedy about 5 years ago in the winter of 2005 in Rochester, NY at
the (now defunct) Comix Cafe. They used to hold open-mics there, hosted by comedian and comedy
booker Danny Liberto. Dan was a great guy and gave me some pointers and advice on comedy early on.
I also met another comedian at Comix Cafe, Andrew Boccacino. A true "outside-the-box" thinker
when it comes to comedy, I still enjoy his comic sense and sometimes perform together on stage.
There are an innumerable list of comedians I have come across in my travels and I cannot
take the time to acknowledge them all, suffice to say it has been real, it's been fun, but it
ain't been REAL FUN!
Since moving to the Albany area, I've been fortunate enough to perform at a few venues and have
met quite a few interesting local comedians. It is also where I met Greg Aidala, a local comedian
who put on several comedy workshops for aspiring comedians, as well as started a local open-mic.
Thanks in part to his efforts, a new crop of young, aspiring comedians has evolved in the area
and I know many are thankful to him for that. There has also been a recent explosion of comedy
open-mics and shows around the Albany area, so it really has opened up into a veritable hotbed for
comedy in Upstate New York. It's been a fun few years in Albany so far and who knows where the
future will take me.
I'm not originally an entertainer by any means. I went to college for Information Technology
and have my Bachelor of Science degree from RIT. I really wanted to work with computers in some
capacity and originally wanted to work for the FBI investigating computer crime. But, since I
graduated, finding a job in my field hasn't been so easy in the wake of the tech bubble burst
of the late 1990's. I applied to the FBI, and then state and local police forces, only to be
turned down. In my spare time, I felt I needed an outlet to voice my frustrations with life
and to make fun of things that bothered me. So started my stand-up career. I equally fell
ass-backwards into acting. In 2006, I responded to an ad looking for extras for a movie and
ended up appearing in "The Game Plan". Since then I've appeared in 3 other movies and continue
to actively pursue acting and the performing arts in general.
As a bit of a "computer geek", my humor both on and off stage tends to revolve around computers
and technology, and is more intellectual than many other types of comedy. I have been known to
"shake things up" though and if one thing could be said of my comedy, it is unconventional. I
have often tried new things and new material. I've done everything from impressions to prop comedy
to skits and improv. Typically, I've never done anything twice, although I'm starting to go back
to material I liked in the past and trying to refine it into a set.
Okay, so that is quite a bit about me, the site is obviously about me and to some degree some of
the comedians I work with. The banner for the site I just kind of thought up one day. I was
thinking about those wind up teeth you can get at joke shops, so I incorporated them. The
bunny
with a pancake on its head is an "old" Internet forums joke (and by "old" I mean like within
the past 7-10 years). If you frequent any website with a forum (or bulletin board, as they used to
be called 1,000,000 years ago...) I'm sure you will run into the
bunny or the
LOLcats eventually.