{"id":860,"date":"2015-04-20T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:57:32","slug":"whos-reading-my-book-15-comedian-rocky-laporte-season-8-finalist-on-nbcs-last-comic-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/whos-reading-my-book-15-comedian-rocky-laporte-season-8-finalist-on-nbcs-last-comic-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who\u2019s Reading My Book\u2019 #15:  Comedian Rocky LaPorte, Season 8 finalist on NBC\u2019s \u2018Last Comic Standing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-861 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte2.jpg\" alt=\"RockyLaPorte2\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>\u2018Who\u2019s Reading My Book\u2019 #15 features\u00a0 comedian Rocky LaPorte, Season 8 finalist on NBC\u2019s \u2018Last Comic Standing\u2019<\/span> I co-starred with my good friend Rocky on the popular Showtime movie \u2018The Godfathers of Comedy.\u2019 <!--more--> In 2005 Rocky had his own stand-up special on Comedy Central Presents, he was named \u2018Stand-up Comic of the Year\u2019 at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and also appeared on \u2018The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.\u2019 Most recently, Rocky was a Top-5 finalist in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> season of NBC\u2019s \u2018Last Comic Standing.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockylaporte.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.rockylaporte.com\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-862 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte4.jpg\" alt=\"RockyLaPorte4\" width=\"271\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte4.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RockyLaPorte4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a> See why everyone is reading and raving about Paul D\u2019Angelo\u2019s hilarious new book \u2018Stories I Tell.\u2019 Just named a Gold Medal Winner of the global 2015 eLit Awards! You can buy the book through my web-site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.pdangelo.com<\/span><\/a> or this direct link to my page on Amazon: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/069229435X\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/amzn.com\/069229435X<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Who\u2019s Reading My Book\u2019 #15 features\u00a0 comedian Rocky LaPorte, Season 8 finalist on NBC\u2019s \u2018Last Comic Standing\u2019 I co-starred with my good friend Rocky on the popular Showtime movie \u2018The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/whos-reading-my-book-15-comedian-rocky-laporte-season-8-finalist-on-nbcs-last-comic-standing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Who\u2019s Reading My Book\u2019 #15:  Comedian Rocky LaPorte, Season 8 finalist on NBC\u2019s \u2018Last Comic Standing\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whos-reading-my-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-dS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}