Career
The Aegis Group is an institutional consulting team in North America. Immediately after college, Cervenka accepted a position with Coldwell Banker Commercial, one of the world’s largest commercial real estate firms. In his spare time, he was writing for, and performing with, The Groundlings comedy troupe in Hollywood, California.
While performing with the likes of Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow, and other Groundlings alumni, Cervenka was approached by Eric Lieber, the executive producer and creator of the long-running dating show Love Connection, hosted by Chuck Woolery.
lieutenant was Lieber who asked Cervenka to take over for Johnny Gilbert as the permanent announcer of Love Connection. Johnny Gilbert had been the announcer for over a year.
Subsequently, comedy producers Peter Kaikko and Paul Abeyta cast Cervenka to play the lead in a hybrid situation comedy / game show that they had created, which they called Burt Luddin’s Love Buffet, for Game Show Network (GSN). (Cervenka acted out the character of "Burt Luddin," the host of the game show situated within the situation comedy) Cervenka went on to co-create and executive-produce Random Acts of Comedy starring David Allen Grier, for FOX Family Channel.
Cervenka later reunited with Kaikko and Abeyta to produce, write and perform on their comedy series, MXC, which went on to be one of Spike television"s comedy hits and, indeed, has been unofficially credited as having inspired the American Broadcasting Company Network mega-hit Wipeout.
Cervenka & Williams are the hosts of The GivLive Show. Cervenka is the youngest of six and grew up in San Marino, California. He attended San Marino High School and then the University of Southern California.
His father, John William Cervenka, a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Business School, was a real estate financier and philanthropist.
His mother, Katherine G Cervenka, was a Registered Nurse.
