Saturday, October 26, 2019

WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD SHINES

Now and then #1 Son, Anthony, lays one on us his parents. National Honor Society student wasn’t enough, graduation from a top university in America isn’t enough, excelling at a job I got him while he was in college and the company hiring him from a summer intern to full-time writer where the demand was there for his ability and likeability all were not enough.

Then there was this reference to me as his father: “Anthony’s Father” after years known as Mr. Del Bloggolo until he showed up. If I ever was diminished and loved it, that was the occasion!

He goes away to California to become a writer and almost immediately makes us proud once again, writing for children’s shows for Nickelodeon, then catching fire on one of the most popular shows in many years, THE BIG BANG THEORY.

Are we done yet? Well, aside from marrying Courtney Hyde Del Broccolo, a brilliant and creative person who was so beautiful she should have been a movie star, he has two of the most beautiful children I have ever seen, he gives my wife Ellen and I these children as our grandchildren.



NBC Buys eSports Comedy ‘The Squad’ From Anthony Del Broccolo & Johnny Galecki 

NBC has put in development The Squad, a half-hour multi-camera eSports comedy from former The Big Bang Theory writer-producer Anthony Del BroccoloJohnny Galecki’s Alcide Bava Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where Alcide Bava is based. Written by Del Broccolo, The Squad centers on a new group of friends (and…


And so it goes, just another day in a kid who only wanted to be Batman, or at least Robin, become a scrappy second baseman for the New York Mets and correct his father when needed.

Every time I see his name on the TV I think of his namesake, my DAD, who hopefully knows somehow that his son did something right, had this kid. If he were alive now there would be no living with him as he would see his name flashed across the TV screen because of his grandson.

I still have another son waiting in the wings that will amaze you, too.

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