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Kevin Pereira (December 28, 1982) is co-host of G4's Attack of the Show! (formerly The Screen Savers) with Olivia Munn.
Biography
Kevin was born in San Leandro, California. While at high school, Pereira hosted Pointless Audio under the pseudonym Captain Immy. The show featured many prank calls and was hosted on such gaming sites as Penny Arcade and ShugaShack (now ShackNews); it later evolved into Pointless TV, and finally LickMySweaty.com. One of the projects featured on the latter site, a short film created for his video production class at Deer Valley High School, earned him three California Media Festival awards in 2001. Another film project was recognized in 2002. He studied screenwriting and film production with a scholarship to the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco, California.
After working as a network administrator at an internet service provider for five years and also at a television network, he pursued a career at G4. He started on (the network now called) G4's Arena as a co-host where he quickly moved to the network's other show, The Screen Savers in 2004. Kevin Periera was a cohost of G4's Attack of the Show! and is the only AOTS member still on the show. He currently hosts the show with Olivia Munn. Soon he will be the thrid Co-Host on Diggnation podcasts with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Or maybe not.
Pereira has hosted or been a guest on many other programs besides Attack of the Show!, including Pulse, Arena, G4tv.com, X-Play, Robot Wars, Battlebots, Reviews on the Run, and Cheat!.
Trivia
- His MySpace states that he is interested in Hentai, among other things.
- Kevin is of the cousin to the former TechTV (and current KTLA Morning News) anchor, Michaela Pereira.
- Use to go by the name of Sal Barone when he was a child actor, and played the oringal DJ on Roseanne untill he and Sara Gilbert had a huge fight which lead to Michael Fishman to take on the role of DJ.
Notes
- Kevin Pereira (28 December 2005). Operation: Birthday. From his blog page at http://kevinpereira.com. Accessed 2006-11-04.
- ^ Stephen A. Johnson (April 15, 2006). AOTS hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn. Accessed 2007-01-25.
- 2001 Secondary Subject Area Award Winning Videos. 35th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01-26.
- Secondary Awards 2001-2002 School Year. 36th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01.26.
- IMDb: Kevin Pereira
- Kevin Pereira's MySpace. Accessed 2007-01-25.