Mark DeCarlo is an American actor, television host, comedian, travel, internet personality, and Foodie. He is currently known for being a contributor to WLS-TV morning show Windy City Live, a locally produced Chicago program that replaced The Oprah Winfrey Show following its 2011 ending. DeCarlo has been awarded three local for his work on Windy City Live.
DeCarlo's first major exposure came in 1991 when he became host of the dating game show Studs. He is also known for providing the voice of Hugh Neutron, the title character's father in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius for Nickelodeon and for portraying Alec Berg in the Seinfeld episode, “The Face Painter”. DeCarlo authored “A Fork on the Road: 400 Cities, 1 Stomach” which is a comedic travelogue & cook book published by Lyons Press.
DeCarlo rose to influencer-style fame on the internet in July 2021 when Hugh Neutron gained a meme-centric cult following, in an attempt to get the Jimmy Neutron character into the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl video game.
DeCarlo hosted two more TV shows, Fox's extreme game show, Big Deal, and FX's late night talk show The X Show. He appeared on the game show Street Smarts in 2002, playing against Mark L. Walberg as part of a "Game Show Showdown", and lost the game with $1 to Walberg's $2. Since it was a charity episode, he still earned $500 for the M.S. Society of America. In 2005, DeCarlo starred in .
DeCarlo appeared on an episode of the show Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis on Bravo that aired May 16, 2012. He co-hosted the TV series THIS vs THAT that premiered internationally in November 2012. He also had a small role on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2013, he hosted EconomicalECO, a how-to series that popularized ways to radically reduce the cost of living by choosing economical American products.
On a 1992 episode of Studs, DeCarlo hosted Ronald Goldman, at the time an aspiring actor who become well known two years later after being murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994, which led to the arrest and Trial of O.J. Simpson.
In September 2022, DeCarlo and his wife, Yeni Álvarez, resumed travel for their podcast, A Fork on the Road, which they began in 2017 but set aside due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
On July 13, 2021, GameMill Entertainment announced Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a Platform fighter video game for Fall 2021.Archived at Ghostarchive and the
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine: The same day as the announcement trailer, the hashtag "#HughNation" and Hugh Neutron began to trend on Twitter, as memes of Mark's character becoming a playable fighter in the video game circulated. What started as a joke began to build a serious cult following for DeCarlo's character to be included. As a result, a Discord server for DeCarlo's fanbase got DeCarlo himself involved, in which he fueled the community's desire for the character to be added. DeCarlo further interacted with his fans by reading submitted memes via Twitter, and later through his Cameo page.
On May 13, 2022, GameMill Entertainment released a reveal trailer for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's newest DLC fighters, including Hugh Neutron, which DeCarlo and his fanbase had been rallying for since the game's reveal. On August 5th, 2022, Hugh Neutron released as a paid downloadable fighter for the game. On the DLC's release day, DeCarlo and Debi Derryberry commentated a Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl tournament, consisting of twelve online content creators.
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Also co-writer and producer | |
Episode: "A Slice of Life" |
Episode: "Everything but Love" |
Episode: "Aging Gracefully" (Uncredited) |
Host |
Episode: "The Outing" |
Episode: "With Flea" |
Episode: "The Last Laugh" |
Episode: "Who Killed Skippy's Master" |
executive producer |
Episode: "The Face Painter" |
Episode: "Bikini Patrol" |
Episodes: "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W." "Exile in Guyville" |
Episode: "Quiz Show" |
Episode: "America's Wackiest Home Movies/The 'Lympics" |
Episode: "Side by Side/Hooked on Phobics" |
Episode: "Holloween" |
Episodes: "Vegas," "Dating" |
Episode: "Shaq" |
Main Role, Also performed songs, "Basking the Warmth," and "Pule Song" in "Holly Jolly Jimmy" |
Episode: "Idol Chatter" |
TV Movie |
Host |
Episode: "And Here's Mike with the Weather" |
Episode: "Hot Enough for You?" "World Wide Web" |
Episode: "Bomb Shelter" |
4 Episodes |
Episodes: "Padre de Familia," "FOX-y Lady" |
Episode: "Baby Cupid" |
Episode: "Washing My Sheen/Stuck in the Riddle with You" |
Episode: "The Tools New Team," "Hank's Birthday" |
Episode: "The Second Act" |
Episode: "Send in the Clowns" |
Episode: "Give Me a Break Up" |
Episode: "Los Angeles: All That Glitters Is Not Gold" |
Episode: "The Last Heartbreak" |
Episode: "Everybody's a Superhero" |
Episode: "Prison Penguins" |
Episode: "Casualties" |
Main Role, also Writer, and Director |
6 Episodes, Podcast |
Episode: "Road Trip: Bringing Down the House/Road Trip: Mountain Hard Pass" |
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