Joseph Coaler Productions

Geoff and Steve met met while writing for an episodic stage play in Los Angeles called Tony Mack's Swingin' LA that won Best Cabaret in L.A. in Los Angeles Magazine in 1999. Their individual styles are distinct: They both love word play, but Hoff's sense of humor leans toward complex, obscure references and strange juxtaposition of imagery, while Mancini has an earthier, darker sense of humor. Even they, though, sometimes find it difficult to tell who came up with what. Mancini said, "The secret to long life is celibacy, but then, what's the point." Hoff wrote, "What is an olay and how do you extract oil from it?" Neither remembers who originated, "Thank you for calling me a sycophant."

Frustrated by trying to get anyone in the industry to read their work, they decided to take it directly to the public and formed the company Joseph Coaler Productions, created the web site www.JosephCoaler.com and posted the first installment of Weeping Willow on January 1, 2001. "We have no one but ourselves to answer to," Hoff says, to which Mancini replies, "I'm sorry, what? I was watching the bald man with the headphones."

Hoff and Mancini's writing has been favorably compared to Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," author J. P. Donleavy, Harvard Lampoon's "Bored of the Rings" and John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces." However, neither of them has read any of these classics so they don't understand. Hoff compares their writing to Monty Python but misspells Monte. Steve compares it to Mancini and Hoff.

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Steve and Geoff at a Christmas party a few years ago. Steve is the one with the beer.
	Geoff Hoff, born in Tokyo on October 9th, 1955, has been a dishwasher, actor, manic depressive, librarian, pizza slinger, life of the party, computer consultant, acting teacher, picture framer, standup comic, perennial uncle and pseudo-intellectual. Since meeting Steve Mancini sometime in the last century, he has devoted himself to showy, pretentious wordplay. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is survived by his cat, Cat.
Steve Mancini spent his early life in Port Huron, MI, where he grew up, won "Cutest Behind - Boy" award in high school and played baseball and competitive beer drinking. He worked as a draw bridge operator, but was fired. After deciding motel ownership and marriage weren't for him, he moved to Los Angeles to write. He's not dead, yet.

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