http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/comedy-cellar/25791

Read the interview here

(photo credit: Matthew Salacuse)

Read my Artie Lange feature in Penthouse Magazine that he joked, “Took longer to complete than The Catcher in the Rye”

Gawker “One of the many takeaways from this awesome profile of Doron Ofir, the casting director behind Jersey Shore and countless others, is that he’s looking for a whole new cast for the show’s third season. First they came for Snooki…”

Vanity Fair “There is so, so much information in BlackBook’s new interview with Doron Ofir, the infamous casting director/producer behind such landmarks in the annals of American empiric decline as Jersey Shore, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Paris Hilton’s My New B.F.F., and My Super Sweet 16. In a lab in Los Angeles somewhere, Ofir personally created Snooki, the Situation, Tila Tequila, and JWOWW using only tanning oil, the residue of decades of ethnic stereotyping, and some hair extensions….How might one get cast on such a show? How can you win a chance to become as famous as, say, that person who won the Paris Hilton’s B.F.F. thing?”

New York Magazine/Vulture: “Jersey Shore’s Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino has presented himself as quite the genius when it comes to nicknames; he even went so far as to dub Conan “the Solution.” But a BlackBook profile of Doron Ofir, the man who cast the Jersey Shore (and is now busy casting not only The Persian Version, Wicked Summer, and Jersey Shore 3, but also Chongas, “a Jersey Shore–like take on Latino gay men”), suggests Sorrentino might be misrepresenting his talents. In his casting video, Sorrentino told producers, “Mikey Abs, Mikey Arms and The Situation are my nicknames.” Those first two don’t have quite the same ring to them, now do they now? [BlackBook]”

New York Post: “Calling all self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes! Now is your chance to fist-pump like a champ on TV.”