Briefly played professional baseball and originally planned on being a sports journalist.
Made his reputation as an actor in Off-Broadway revues in which he specialized in portraying oddball characters.
Under Betty Thomas' direction in The Late Shift (1996) (TV) and Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997), he portrayed an NBC Executive in both films. In The Late Shift (1996) (TV), he was an Executive for NBC West Coast television operations and, in Private Parts (1997), he was an Executive for NBC New York station.