Born and raised in Southern California Gary began his leap into comedy while studying Engineering at Cal State Long Beach. After receiving two degrees in aerospace engineering and working full time during the day as an engineer and working at night as an emcee at a comedy club in Hermosa Beach, CA, he decided to quit the steady income of the engineering job and go into stand-up comedy full time.

Since his decision Gary and his observational humor has been featured on many comedy shows including NBC's "Friday Night", A&E's "Comedy on the Road", "An Evening at the Improv", Comedy Central, and a PBS comedy special entitled "Can We Be Serious".

Not only is he featured regularly on Sirius/XM Satellite radio, for over 4 years, he hosted his own weekly show with Blue Collar comedian Bill Engvall called “Off The Cuff”.

Gary continues to perform at theatre’s and clubs opening for the likes of Bill Engvall, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Brian Regan, Garry Shandling, and many others.

He has, and continues to travel extensively all over the world for the USO and Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) entertaining the currently deployed men and women our United States military.