Q&A

Q: What makes you tic?
A: Depak Shopra said “Find what you love to do, it’s your gift. Everything else will follow.” I love that!
Q: What’s your favorite word?
A: Passion.
Q: What are you passionate about?
A: In 1936 they were going to close the U.S. patent office they said, “Everything had already been invented.” I am glad they were wrong.
Q: How often do you practice you’re craft?
A: Daily.
Q: When and where do you practice?
A: At home, in a hotel room on the road, late at night when everything is quite I start working molding, writing and re writing. As Woody Allen once put it you have to write a 100 jokes to keep one.
Q: Do you think you’re funny?
A: Funny? What like, clown funny? Sorry Joe Peci I wont steal your line. But really seriously I’m not funny. Situations that come up in a live performance are funny. That’s why sit coms have endured the situations are sometime funnier then the people. All I do is create a situation and keep on my toes and watch for my ques from the audience.

ivanamodei - awards

  • 2010 NOMINATION FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR HUMOR — FOREWORD REVIEW
  • 2005 (SAM) SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MAGICIANS — FIRST PLACE
  • 2005 (SAM) SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MAGICIANS — PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
  • 2005 (IBM) INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAGICIANS — FIRST PLACE
  • 2004 (IBM) INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAGICIANS — FIRST PLACE
  • 1999 (PCAM) PACIFIC COAST ASSOCATION OF MAGICIANS —FIRST PLACE
  • 1999 (PCAM) PACIFIC COAST ASSOCATION OF MAGICIANS —OUTSTANDING SHOWMANSHIP
  • 1998 (IBM) INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAGICIANS — AWARD OF MERIT
  • 1995 THE LAS VEGAS CLOSE-UP CLASSIC — FIRST PLACE