Joseph Coaler Productions

Take a look at our new project:

See new episodes every tuesday, HERE!

The Poor Paul Trailer:

Read Geoff's new blog, "That Would Be Me (dot net) - gently subversive ramblings in which Geoff dispenses stories, observations, opinions, pretentious worldplay and other nonsense.

Steve's blog: Fireworks and Liquor. Don't try this at home, folks.

Also check out our MySpace pages:
Geoff's MySpace Page
Steve's MySpace Page

Our old videos:
Click here to watch the video Steve's Favorites.

Click here to watch our Public Service Announcement!

We are pleased to announce the publication of Weeping Willow Volume One: Welcome to River Bend, the hysterically funny new book by Geoff Hoff and Steve Mancini, taken from their hit on-line satirical serial Weeping Willow. (You can read a free sample of the on-line version here.)

The book is available in both hardcover and paper back. Unlike the on-line version, you can hold it and carry it and thumb through the pages and read it on a plane or subway or in the tub or your cell.

Weeping Willow becomes a Best Seller!
Click here to see.

As of June 22, 2006, Weeping Willow has been added to the
collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. Check it out today!

Imagine a staid accountant from Chicago with a beige life forced to live in the attic of a diner owned by a man with questionable hygiene who has a prom carnation (and possibly Walt Disney) in his freezer, then reluctantly falling in with the local theater group (at least one of whom would spell it "theatre") after his wife falls for another man and empties his bank account.

Follow Lee Harris, who desperately tries to make sense of a new life that seems perversely committed to thwarting his efforts. You’ll also follow the "writers", Geoff (the man with the world's largest head) and Steve (who thinks Othello is a board game), who banter, argue and comment throughout the narrative.

If you’ve ever wondered how a gay man and a straight man could agree on including a thirty year old, mint condition box of Wheaties, an alley covered in bubble gum, a Dualit toaster (the Rolls Royce of toasters), Spinoza, a Stingray bike and several autographed pictures of Danny Bonaduce into a single story and still get along, get "Weeping Willow Volume One: Welcome to River Bend." (If you're still not convinced, you can get a free sample here.)

Click here to see Weeping Willow reach #10 on BarnesandNoble.com!

Click here to see Weeping Willow reach #26 on Amazon.com!

Geoff Hoff 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.

They're Raving About
Weeping Willow:

"… scathing satire, hip references to just about everything under the sun… A uniquely funny book that defies almost everything -- analysis, classification, categorization, the reader and this reviewer… a quirky, class-by-itself satirical novel with loads of hip humor for a with-it, young contemporary readership… I hope these guys keep plugging in Hollywood. They have a mini-series here, if only someone will take a close look."

John DeChancie
from Writer’s Digest

For more reviews and testimonials,
Click Here.

For the results of The First Ever Weeping Willow Contest, Click Here!

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.

Geoff and Steve created Joseph Coaler Productions in 2001 to take their work directly to the public. Joseph Coaler Productions is dedicated to developing and producing works by new voices for print, stage and screen that are original and quirky. We will also produce works for any other media that strikes our fancy.

Click here to see what they're saying about Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend.

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Weeping Willow becomes a Best Seller! Click here to see.

As of June 22, 2006, Weeping Willow has been added to the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. Check it out today!

Weeping Willow becomes a Best Seller!
Click here to see.

As of June 22, 2006, Weeping Willow has been added to the
collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. Check it out today!