PCM's Kristyn had the chance to chat with CBS correspondent and host of DIY networks hit show "Garage Mahal" Brian Corsetti!

Q: While researching you a bit, I am guessing that you are used to being on the other side of doing interviews.

Brian Corsetti: Yeah, I am used to being the one doing all of the interviews

Q: So, what can you share with our site readers about yourself?

BC: Well, a lot of people don’t know that I can pick up a quarter with a fork-lift and I have a captains license for a ship. I am like the jack of all trades.

Q: Oh, I know! I was going to say that you are such a renaissance man!

BC: Yeah, and trust me I definitely have some good stories. I do this show, Garage Mahal, and I am also a licensed contractor, I mean, I got my start re-tiling bathrooms and doing concrete work. My father was a contractor so that is how I made money, instead of doing the serving of the tables, so I got my license and Garage Mahal was the perfect fit. At the same time I got used to doing red carpet for CBS, so just the way it worked out I am able to wear multiple hats. It’s definitely interesting.

Q: How hard is it to jump back and forth between the garages and the red carpet?

BC: At first Garage Mahal was kind of a challenge because I was teaching guys and I was coordinating different things and making things happen, like giving people responsibilities on a building level. When building something it has got to be done right and you are able to give people direction, it is not like on the red carpet where I am talking a celebrity or something and hey, if we screw up it’s no big deal, we can edit it out or whatever. It was a little bit problematic at first, but it is pretty easy just as long as I know the plan I am able to constantly jump back and forth pretty easily.

Q: How are you dealing with the heart-throb host status? I have seen you labeled as such a few places online.

BC: Wait a sec….who’s labeled that? (laughs) Heart-throb host, that’s great! I like that!

Q: (laughs)

BC: I’m okay with it, that is the first time I have heard about it so, that’s interesting. I really don’t have a comment on that! I think I am just the guy that everyone can relate to!

Q: Is there one medium that your prefer working in over others? I know you have done voice-overs, red carpet appearance, and television. Did I see something about a short film as well?

BC: Yes. I actually directed and produced a short film that has aired in Italy. I got it into a film festival in Italy. My whole motto is: Try it out! If someone is going to ask “Can you do this, can you do that”, try it out and if it works it works and if it doesn’t then just check it off your list saying “Hey, I tried it “ and move on to the next thing. My main thing is that I enjoy working with people. I like talking to them, getting a crowd going, teaching people how to build things, finding out new information and learning to relate with them. I was on the red carpet once speaking with Blake Lively and I learned she is a very competitive person, which I didn’t know before-hand, and I am a very competitive person as well so, we had a really cool conversation about being competitive which had nothing to do with entertainment news, but those surprises I look forward to!

Q: It is great when you can develop a common thread with someone, but I know my nerves would get in the way (laughs)

BC: It’s six and one half a dozen the other. I just try things out and do it the best I can and if I’m not good at it then hey, check it off your list and move on! I tried voice overs and I still do voice overs, but I can’t make as much of a living off of that as I can doing the hosting thing, so that is what I stuck with.

Q: Did you do any vocal training? You certainly have that “host’s voice” and it works!

BC: I did not do any formal training. I took voice over classes, but I don’t consider that training because it just tells you the steps on going into voice over auditions and certain reads. I did however constantly have a mic in my hand since I was a child. When I was younger I convinced a group of Catholic nuns to give me their PA set, and I was only like seven years old. I remember being in my room with a PA just hearing the guys on the radio and trying to imitate them. I always knew what I wanted to do, but I didn’t know until three years ago that hosting is the name of it, which is I guess the technical term for it is that I wanted to do so long ago. I tried all these things out. I was an account executive in New York for awhile and that didn’t work out then I tried voice overs and now finally within the last two or three years I have figured it out!

Q: And you have also done some radio work in the past, am I correct?

BC: Yeah, working along with those guys got me the opportunity to work with Opie and Anthony, Stern on one occasion, however I don’t really count that because I wasn’t in the studio and I didn’t actually get to meet him, but working with his crew to see them and see how they deliver certain lines was certainly a learning process. I remember when I first got my radio gig, I was eighteen years old and I went into the production booth and did a demo reel, in fact I still have it, and the DJ who listened to it said “ You will never work in radio with a voice like that, or any kind of camera work”.

Q: Really?

BC: Yeah, she said “That’s horrible”! I was shocked because that is what I truly wanted to do at the time, so I just worked on it. It was a craft that I worked everyday at, until I was satisfied. I would get up everyday at 6am and read a newspaper out loud to myself, just simple things like that to try to be better than the other person.

Q: Just for fun, what would be one of your most embarrassing moments?

BC: Oh, I’ve got one! I was in college and I was always the class clown so, the teacher said “Mr. Corsetti! Sit down in front, your in the wrong row” and I was said “Oh, I’m in the wrong row, alright” (sarcastically) I was definitely mocking the teacher a little bit and everyone was laughing. So, then I went to go jump in my seat in front of me, when not only did I trip over the row in front me, but my pants split right for the back all the way to the front. Also, because I had tripped it pulled my pants all the way down to my ankles so when I stood up I was only in boxers.

Q: Ouch!

BC: In college that was pretty embarrassing.

Q: That is straight out of a movie, man!

BC: I even have another one! I was in London and I had tight jeans on, almost like bell bottoms. I remember at an outdoor mall of some sort and I was running up the stairs and I had my hands in my pockets, I thought I was cool, you know when you are wearing a kick ass outfit you are like, “Yeah, I’m stylin’”! Well, I tripped going up the stairs and I couldn’t get my hands out of my pockets to catch myself, so I ended up flat on my chest in front of everyone!

Q: Oh, no! (laughs)

BC: A lot of falling stories (laughs) Just me being a klutz!

Q: Beside working with DIY and CBS, are there any other upcoming projects you have going on that you can speak about?

BC: I’ve got one that I can’t speak about just yet because the details are still being finalized. That would be for this coming sports season. CBS uses me for a lot of different shows so, I have that going on and I am crossing my fingers that Garage Mahal gets picked up for a second season which we should know in the next 30 days. In other little things, I have a national Coors Light commercial coming out!

Q: Do you keep your personal website updated with what is going on in your world?

BC: Yeah, definitely! The site could use a little remodeling right now, but as far as updates, I do keep it regularly updated within a 3 to 4 month period.

Q: So have you jumped on the Twitter and MySpace bandwagon?

BC: Yes, my girlfriend insisted that I get a Twitter, however I don’t Twitter that often! I do have a Facebook account and such. It is such a new world we are living in, and all of that definitely catches my interest.

Q: Do you have a favorite or most memorable celebrity interview that you have done?

BC: Larry David. I was interviewing him at a celebrity golf tournament in Malibu and that guy not only made me look good as an interviewer but he was exactly how he is on his show. He was hysterical, he was cracking every reporter up on the line. It was a great experience.

Q: That’s awesome! I think you have my dream job! I like to end my interviews on a word association, when I say the words “Pop Culture” what is the first thing that comes to mind?

BC: The word “kitsch” is honestly the first thing that popped into my mind. Pop Culture is about bringing subcultures into the mass media, subculture I guess is what I think of pop culture, because I do think that there are companies out there that do take subcultures and brand them and then turn it into pop culture.

Q: Thank you for such a well thought out answer! Normally I get either Britney Spears or Zac Effron.

BC: (laughs) Pop Culture would not survive with out subcultures and in turn subcultures would not survive without Pop Culture. They both feed off of one another.