Sandy’s family eventually moved from Chicago to Northern California where he began to showcase his comedic talents while in high school, helping to create Gross Gems Productions, an amateur film company specializing in comedy film shorts. The films were an instant hit, taking five awards out of their six films entered at the annual Eastman Kodak Film Festival.

Gross Gems film showings became so popular, they later added live sketch comedy between films, creating a unique and well rounded ninety minute show, selling out every performance.

Although accepted at The Julliard School of Music in New York City, Sandy chose California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles for his college experience. It was here that Sandy fell in love with television and entertainment. 

After college, Sandy moved back to Northern California where he was given his own weekly television talk show during the early days of cable. Years later he moved back to Los Angeles where he performed regularly at The Improv in a comedy improvisational group and eventually worked his way into stand up comedy.

The rest is history. For more years then he’d like to admit, Sandy has shared his hilarious style of insanity with millions of people coast to coast performing in clubs, colleges and finally spots on BET (Black Entertainment Television) and an ABC Pilot.

Today Sandy has been married to his beautiful and very tolerant wife Beatrice for the past thirty six years and has two grown sons, Nick (his oldest) and his wife Kimberly, (Sandy’s Daughter-in-law) are both Pastors at a Christian church in North Hollywood, and Tony (Sandy’s youngest) is a budding sports television producer in the Los Angeles area. Sandy is more than proud of them all.