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Hero Style

About Me

Michael Costantini and Joe Donatelli are Hero Style, a two-man comedy group in Los Angeles. Hero Style is known for its original music, irreverent sketch comedy and for drinking heavily at the bar it brings onstage. Mike and Joe have performed at The Knitting Factory, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Improv Olympic West, Upright Citizens Brigade, Gardner Stages (with The Great Adventure) and Westside Eclectic. They also perform long-form improv as part of the group Pangea and have a podcast called The Second Column you can access at joedonatelli.com.
“Hero Style’s unique and seamless blend of music and comedy, both sketch and improv, is wonderfully entertaining and their energy on stage is intoxicating.” - Marc Campbell, owner, The Westside Eclectic
“Hero Style was fun, original, and engaging, so much so that I was disappointed when the show ended! I can’t wait to see them again.” - Alison Wolk Campbell, cofounder, The Westside Eclectic
“Joe Donatelli possesses a sharp, witty sense of humor that skewers through every piece he writes. Mike Costantini exploits his own innocence on stage, bringing a unique, vulnerable straight man to the guitar and to the stage. They are totally in on their own joke of drinking for charity, which makes their work pop with self-referential brilliance.” - Rasika Mathur, actress
"You guys rocked!” - Josh Meindertsma, The Great Adventure
"You made our job so much easier by getting everyone to laugh with your catchy, witty songs!" - Sebastian Clark, singer, on opening for him
“Hysterical.” – Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, on Hero Style's "Save The NBA" video

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/4/2006
Band Website: www.herostyle.com
Band Members: Emmy-winning musician Michael Costantini and non-Emmy winning writer Joe Donatelli, with appearances by Carlos Jaime and Sean Kearney and writing by Dan Donatelli
Influences: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Howard Stern, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious D, Spinal Tap, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, George Carlin, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Dave Barry, Hunter S. Thompson, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Richard Pryor, Madeline Kahn, Don Knotts, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Hero Style TV Debut

Yeah, that was us on History Channel's "History of the Joke" last night. If you tuned in 1 hour and 20 minutes into the 2-hour special, you would have seen Hero Style in three seconds of kick-ass B-ro...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:47:00 GMT

Hero Style guys in The Second Column podcast

Have iTunes? Check us out every week right here.
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:07:00 GMT

Hero Style Guys In "Let Me Borrow That Top"

Mike and Joe made appearances -- ever-so briefly -- in Kelly's new music video "Let Me Borrow That Top." Catch Mike as a student in a pink shirt in the bleachers at 05:39, 05:44, 05:49....
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:29:00 GMT

Hero Style Wins Dirtiest Sketch in LA

We came. We saw. We threw our bloody red testicles around the UCB stage. Good times. "Mistake Makers"Directed by Joe DonatelliWritten by Mike Costantini, Dan Donatelli, Joe Donatelli, Sean KearneyPerf...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:59:00 GMT

McCabe's Show

We played a VERY cool gig Saturday night at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Mike and I opened for Sebastian Clark, a very talented musician whom we're lucky to call our friend. This was our fir...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:20:00 GMT

We Love These People

Special thanks to the three fine individuals who helped us raise an additional $38 at Saturday's show during our props auction. Your money will be sent directly to the MS Society, and you will always ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:46:00 GMT

The Long-Awaited April 21st Show!

Mike Costantini and Joe Donatelli are ... Hero StyleSaturday, April 21 @ 9:30 PMWestside Eclectic (http://www.westsideeclectic.com)With special guest from Japan - David Pavlina, AKA Mondaiji- A portio...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:27:00 GMT

April 7 Show Postponed

The Sat., April 7 Hero Style show has been postponed. Half of our two-man cast was sick in bed earlier this week, unable to rehearse, and the other half of the cast was sick in bed later in the week, ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:35:00 GMT

Final 1-Hour Show - Sat. April 7

Friends, Saturday, April 7 is your last chance to see Hero Style's one-hour musicand sketch charity show at Westside Eclectic. The show is at 9:30 PM andyou can get directions, parking and ticket info...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:09:00 GMT

Abstinence Camp Takes 2nd Place

The little video about why it's OK to pork your brains out took 2nd place at Shiner's video competition at Westside Eclectic tonight. For those of you keeping track, we've had quite a month in the wor...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:29:00 GMT