Wanna be on national TV? It helps if you’re from Westchester. Just ask Kara DioGuardi and Bobby Moynihan.
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August has been a good month for Westchester natives who seek a national network TV audience.
Today it was announced that Kara DioGuardi, who grew up in New Rochelle, was named the unprecedented fourth judge on “American Idol.”
I spoke this afternoon with her proud papa, Joe DioGuardi, an Ossining resident and former U.S. Congressman. He told me Kara was raised in the Wilmot Woods section of New Rochelle, attended the Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Scarsdale and graduated from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. He said his phone has been ringing off the hook today but was proud of and thrilled for his daughter.
It’ll be interesting to see with whom she most often sides on the panel. I’m guessing she’ll have the compassion of Paula but the ear of Simon, which in my mind is the ideal combination.
This was the second bit of exciting news for Westchester natives this month. As I reported last week for sister blog Remote Access, Eastchester’s Bobby Moynihan is joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live.”
I’m psyched not only because he’s a talented product of the Lower Hudson Valley and because I love the show, but also because I’ve been friends with him since we were in middle school. Call it full disclosure or name-dropping. Either way, I’m proud of him.
With a budding film career and tons of experience performing at the Upright Citizens Brigage Theatre in Manhattan, Moynihan’s an outstanding sketch and improv comedian and will quickly become an audience favorite.
Want some gossip about him? He really likes peach Snapple. Ooooh! Call the Enquirer!
(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello; Moynihan photo/Brendan McMullen)
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Chris, you’ll finally have a good pickup line to use on the ladies.
“Did I mention I used to play tetherball with Bobby Moynihan?”
I’m still using my “One time I drank cappuccino with Hakeem Olajuwon’s older brother” story, which has worked pretty well so far.
Ha. Tetherball, eh? Were we in the 1960’s? Or “Napoleon Dynamite”?
Napolean Dynamite, now that’s a good movie. I loved the tetherball ending.