About Chris Serico
A reporter dabbling in music, comedy and voice-overs in New York.
Biography
An award-winning journalist who also performs music, comedy and voice-overs, Chris Serico would gladly give it all up to host game shows.
As a Gannett reporter, he's written more than 1,500 articles, contributed hundreds of posts to The Journal News’ entertainment blogs — the celebrity-centric Suburbarazzi and the television-themed Remote Access — and provided entertainment analysis on RNN-TV's "NewsCenter Now."
He's also interviewed an eclectic range of celebrities, including actors Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Jill Hennessy, Bobby Moynihan and Rooney Mara; comedians Jim Gaffigan, Nick Di Paolo, Jerry Stiller, Ralphie May, Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood, Kevin Meaney, Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer; musicians Yoko Ono, Paul Shaffer, Mike Love and Sonny Rollins; authors James Bradley ("Flags of Our Fathers") and T.C. Boyle ("The Road to Wellville"); fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi; "American Idol" stars Kara DioGuardi, Taylor Hicks and Kimberley Locke; Howard Stern sidekick Fred Norris; talk-show host Montel Williams; "Top Chef" winner Hung Huynh; and “Baseball Tonight” analyst Buster Olney.
His contributions to The Journal News' entertainment blogs helped him attend NBC's inaugural blogger convention and have been cited by Entertainment Weekly, Best Week Ever and Mediabistro.
His humor writing captured the attention of The New York Times, which profiled his own pop culture and general-interest blog, Varsity Basketweaving. Comedy Central, Gawker, Best Week Ever, The Apiary, GorillaMask, Gothamist and Cracked are among the high-profile Web sites to reference Varsity Basketweaving. In addition to launching Headline Punchline, which features his own one-liners about headlines in mainstream media, he also has a Twitter feed dedicated to pithy attempts at profundity.
His flair for comedy and commentary also helped land him screen tests to be a VJ and on-air panelist for FUSE, Cablevision's music video channel reaching 45 million people nationwide.
For Gannett, Serico also wrote a sports column called Intentional Grounding, designed to ignite debate through humor. He reached an even larger audience with Encroachment, a humor column that infused sports with pop culture on the Buffalo Bills' official Web site.
He worked a year with The Journal News as a producer — writing, editing and evaluating editorial content for Metromix Hudson Valley, the premier Internet guide to regional nightlife, dining and entertainment.
A cum laude graduate of Boston College, Serico earned a 4.0 GPA in journalism as an English-Communication double major.
In addition to be being a cofounder of Unsung Heroes, a New York City vocal band recruited for NBC's "The Sing-Off" and one of Time Out New York's "Best A Cappella Groups in NYC," Serico has studied comedy at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and provided voice-overs for video games and other clients. c
He is not particularly fond of pea soup.
As a Gannett reporter, he's written more than 1,500 articles, contributed hundreds of posts to The Journal News’ entertainment blogs — the celebrity-centric Suburbarazzi and the television-themed Remote Access — and provided entertainment analysis on RNN-TV's "NewsCenter Now."
He's also interviewed an eclectic range of celebrities, including actors Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Jill Hennessy, Bobby Moynihan and Rooney Mara; comedians Jim Gaffigan, Nick Di Paolo, Jerry Stiller, Ralphie May, Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood, Kevin Meaney, Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer; musicians Yoko Ono, Paul Shaffer, Mike Love and Sonny Rollins; authors James Bradley ("Flags of Our Fathers") and T.C. Boyle ("The Road to Wellville"); fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi; "American Idol" stars Kara DioGuardi, Taylor Hicks and Kimberley Locke; Howard Stern sidekick Fred Norris; talk-show host Montel Williams; "Top Chef" winner Hung Huynh; and “Baseball Tonight” analyst Buster Olney.
His contributions to The Journal News' entertainment blogs helped him attend NBC's inaugural blogger convention and have been cited by Entertainment Weekly, Best Week Ever and Mediabistro.
His humor writing captured the attention of The New York Times, which profiled his own pop culture and general-interest blog, Varsity Basketweaving. Comedy Central, Gawker, Best Week Ever, The Apiary, GorillaMask, Gothamist and Cracked are among the high-profile Web sites to reference Varsity Basketweaving. In addition to launching Headline Punchline, which features his own one-liners about headlines in mainstream media, he also has a Twitter feed dedicated to pithy attempts at profundity.
His flair for comedy and commentary also helped land him screen tests to be a VJ and on-air panelist for FUSE, Cablevision's music video channel reaching 45 million people nationwide.
For Gannett, Serico also wrote a sports column called Intentional Grounding, designed to ignite debate through humor. He reached an even larger audience with Encroachment, a humor column that infused sports with pop culture on the Buffalo Bills' official Web site.
He worked a year with The Journal News as a producer — writing, editing and evaluating editorial content for Metromix Hudson Valley, the premier Internet guide to regional nightlife, dining and entertainment.
A cum laude graduate of Boston College, Serico earned a 4.0 GPA in journalism as an English-Communication double major.
In addition to be being a cofounder of Unsung Heroes, a New York City vocal band recruited for NBC's "The Sing-Off" and one of Time Out New York's "Best A Cappella Groups in NYC," Serico has studied comedy at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and provided voice-overs for video games and other clients. c
He is not particularly fond of pea soup.
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