His directorial debut, Sleepwalk with Me (2012), was loosely based on his own life. Especially autobiographical are the main character's early struggles as a stand-up comedian and his issues with sleepwalking due to his having "rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder".
His wife, Jennifer Stein, is a poet. Jen writes and publishes under the name J. Hope Stein.
Does the Secret Public Journal whenever on the Bob & Tom Show.
He has Italian, Irish, and more distant English and German ancestry.