Roy Firestone, Emmy Award winning Interviewer

Today, my guest is Roy Firestone, a seven-time Emmy Award-winning and seven-time cable ACE Award-winning host, interviewer, narrator, writer, and producer. 

As the ground-breaking, original host of ESPN’s legendary Up Close, Up Close Classic and Up Close Primetime, Roy has interviewed more than 5,000 athletes, musicians, actors and political figures, as well as scores of writers and filmmakers.

Critically acclaimed as a performer, monologist, humorist, musician and impressionist, Roy is one of the nation’s most sought after live corporate performers, keynote speakers and lecturers. 

As an actor, Roy was featured in the Academy Award-winning film, Jerry Maguire, where he played himself in an unforgettable (and often repeated) scene with Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.