Chris Valenti

A native of Bayport, NY, a small town on the south shore of Long Island, Chris graduated Tufts University with an electrical engineering degree. He was hooked on the entertainment business early on: His father was a professional singer. Chris enrolled at Playhouse West the moment he landed in Los Angeles to study with Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum. He still studies there to this day. After a few commercial roles - Remember the popular Da Da Da - Volkswagen commercial? That was Chris driving. - and a number of independent film roles, Chris decided to write and produce his own feature film. The result was Sensitive Johnson, a semi-musical romantic comedy about a tenderhearted musician with a premature ejaculation problem. The film screened at over 20 festivals, winning three of them, and took home many awards. He also appeared in the feature film "17 Again" and has made dozens of award winning short films for FunnyOrDie.com. Having written and recorded the soundtrack for Sensitive Johnson, Chris got hooked on making music. His next project was his first full length, full band studio album, Emotional Wreck. After being repeatedly told that his music was funny, Chris decided to just dive in and started performing stand up comedy. He's toured clubs, colleges, and military bases all over the US. Chris has also toured US bases in Afghanistan to entertain the troops. On his new musical comedy album, Live Emotional Wreckage, released by New Wave Dynamics, Valenti shares stories of struggles, blunders, and missed opportunities we all endure. His songs tackle politics - "I Want To Be Your Intern, Female President Clinton", technology - "Please Don't Text Someone While I'm Making Love To You", and he even festively released a upbeat single for Christmas for the lonely entitled "Single For Christmas." His live show is part music, part comedy, part therapy, and part romance as well as action, adventure, mystery and sometimes horror. A philosopher of love usually, the kind of love that did not exactly make it to that 'happily ever after' place, Chris has the knack for using self-deprecation and vulnerability to weave stories about the hazards and frustrations of love. He says the the best cure for a broken heart is laughing at someone else's.