Chris DeLuca (on left).
Chris DeLuca is writer/ comic/ producer and sometimes correspondent, with close to two decades of experience working in comedy, news, sports and live events. As a writer he’s been on staff for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and has been a contributing writer to SNL’s Weekend Update. For four years, Chris was head writer for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, working with hosts Samuel L. Jackson and Jack Black. In 2009, he created, wrote, and co-starred in the late night, low budget Spike sitcom, “Mocap, LLC” which was called (among other things) “…Always Sunny In Philadelphia, locked inside an X-Box.” by the venerable “Maxim” magazine. Chris has written extensively for Comedy Central, MTV, NICK, SPIKE, VICELAND and BET where he was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
Chris has extensive experience writing and producing on a number of large-scale live events. He was one of two writers on the historic “12/12/12 Concert For Sandy Relief” and has written on award shows such as the VMA's and the CFDA Fashion Awards. Chris was a writer for "We Love NYC: A Homecoming Concert", which took place at Central Park’s Great Lawn, and is the in-house writer for the NBA’s All Star Saturday Night, writing the “Rising Stars” game as well as the slam dunk skills competition.
For three years Chris served as a Supervising Producer at CNN/ HLN heading up a digital content team. In 2018, he was nominated for an Emmy for his work as a Senior Producer on the daytime-comedy talk show "Steve" starring Steve Harvey. The following year Chris wrote and produced 24 episodes of the comedy webseries "They Had It Coming" and "We Can't Believe They Survived" for the NY Post’s Page Six video department. He's served as writer and "host producer" for Sean Evans, at "Hot Ones: The Game Show", Nikki Glaser at MTV’s “Nikki & Sara Live” and Eli Manning at the New York Football Giant’s “Eli Manning Show”.
In the studio, Chris worked closely with Nick Cannon as his Senior Celebrity Talent Producer at the "Nick Cannon Show", and served the same role for Charlamagne Tha God at Comedy Central's "Hell of A Week", producing one-on-one interviews with Stephen Colbert, Issa Rae and Whoopi Goldberg.
For the past two years, Chris has been Lead-Writer and Senior Producer at Fanatics Fest, writing and producing panel interviews with, among others, David Beckham, Kevin Costner, Spike Lee, Derek Jeter, Druski, and the World Champion New York Knicks (Knicks in 5!). Currently, Chris is the Panel Producer at FOX’s The Masked Singer.