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Svengoolie

Don't you wish your ghoul friend was hot like me?

About Me

SVENGOOLIE- AT 9pm Saturdays on WCIU !!!...or, 1 am on Me-TV- broadcast channel 23- Comcast digital cable channel 223 !PLUS- classic Sven at 3am Friday overnights (and a couple other nights as well currently- check the listings) on MeToo!(Check local listings!-same goes for Milwaukee and South Bend!)More Sven public appearances coming soon!GO TO the new WWW.WCIU.COM FOR LOTS OF SVEN CONTENT!!! Click on the "Svengoolie- open the coffin" box- for my daily blog, webisodes, bio,t-shirt info and lots more!!!Now, about me... I've played the Svengoolie character since 1979, with the kind permission of the original Sven, Jerry G. Bishop.The current home base for my show is WCIU-TV in Chicago, Saturday nights at 9 pm. Multiple Emmy award winner and recipient of the TV Academy "Silver Circle" award. PLEASE NOTE: this is the ONLY legitimate Svengoolie listing on myspace. For proof- simply e-mail me at the address you see every week on my show- [email protected] or [email protected] Many thanks to all the Sven fans for your loyal support! FOR MORE SVEN INFO: check out www.wciu.com, and the Svengoolieweb Yahoo group! AND- visit Horrorbles- provider of rubber chickens and more to the Sven show! www.horrorbles.com -or- visit them in BERWYN- 6731 W. Roosevelt ! Check out the great book- "Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows: from Shock Theatre to Svengoolie"- available at Horrorbles, most decent bookstores, and at amazon.com !!!

My Interests

A lot of my interests are a part of my job!

I'd like to meet:

....who've you got?

Music:

All kinds- well, not Peruvian throat singing....

Movies:

"A Christmas Story" (it's a major award!)- "Batman Begins"- "Zontar: the Thing from Venus"-the original Universal Horror flicks- "Attack of the Mushroom People"-etc.

Television:

SCTV, Fawlty Towers and the Pythons,Scrubs,My Name is Earl, the Office, Seinfeld, Nova,Supernatural,JLU, and many guilty pleasures.

Books:

...just wait until I write one...

Heroes:

Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, the SCTV folks, Dick "ChickenMan" Orkin, my "dad" Jerry G. Bishop,and certain other people for certain other reasons...

My Blog

Sven in Berwyn parade June 1 !!!

Come wave at me, as I ride in the Berywn Centennial parade on Sunday June 1- it kicks off at Lombard and Cermak at 2 pm, and goes down Cermak Road.I promise I'll wave back...
Posted by Svengoolie on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:16:00 PST

No More "Bought You as a Pet" Please

I  love you guys - but, please do not send any more application-bearing comments- "bought you as a pet'-"hired you"- "Human gift"-"match movies" - etc.. I do not want these applications, and will...
Posted by Svengoolie on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:14:00 PST

Tv Turnoff Week winding down...for morons

Yes, it was the beloved 'Tv Turnoff Week"- oooh, we have to turn off the tv and do other things! Spoken like true idiots with no self control. Moderation? They never heard of it! It's like those nose-...
Posted by Svengoolie on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:36:00 PST

The new office!

Well, here I sit at my new cubicle in the new production office of our beloved 26 N. Halsted headquarters...it only took me a week and a half to sift thru all the stuff at the old desk on the other si...
Posted by Svengoolie on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:33:00 PST

Radio commercials -mostly static!

Having worked in radio, and in the subcategory of radio advertising- I have to note how many lousy radio ads we all hear every day.Among the most annoying: the awning spot where the guy is talking abo...
Posted by Svengoolie on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:43:00 PST