The year was 2001. In 36 hours, the World Trade Center would collapse upon itself and change America forever. But on Sunday Night, September 9th, a group of people sat around a collection of side-by-side banquet tables to read a script together. The book was a play called “The Man Who Came to Dinner”, and it was the first-ever acting opportunity for Damian Muziani. One of his fellow actors was a 9-year-old girl named Maddie Brewer. Even at that age, Brewer had an actor’s approach to rehearsing. She watched others, took in what she saw, absorbed the way adults talked, and reacted to each other. Fast-forward to July 13th, 2021, and Brewer (who now goes by Madeline) is basking in the glow of receiving her first-ever Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Janine in the hit Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale”. After Damian Muziani congratulated Madeline on Instagram with a copy of her bio from 20 years ago, she wrote back:

For Brewer, this is a sign of even bigger things to come in her career moving forward. And it all started in a little town in New Jersey, on the eve of a different America for as long as we will ever know it.

New York — Each Monday, a 180-second report pops up on YouTube and other outlets across the Internet, accounting for a few notable news happenings from the previous few days. “Hindsight 2021” is the brainchild of Damian Muziani, who spent most of the recent Global Pandemic trying to rebrand his skills, in much the same way that online sensation Sarah Cooper did by lip-syncing audio from former President Donald Trump.

“I’ve worked with Sarah multiple times. We’ve played off each other in funny commercials and when she blew up I had to ask myself if I’ve been focusing on the wrong skills for my brand”, Muziani says.

The result is a self-described “Savage Weekly Capsule” that both reports and satirizes 3–4 news stories in three minutes. Hindsight 2021 has gained in popularity and platitudes over the last few months and can be found every Monday Morning at www.YouTube.com/Hindsight2021 and on the DB and A Television Network at https://dbandatelevision.com/db%26a-television-stream.

PHILADELPHIA — Sunday afternoons are easier for Damian Muziani after football season ends. That is usually when he is culling journalistic minefields for stories to tweak for delivery to his viewership of Hindsight 2021, a “Savage Weekly Capsule” of witty writing and wacky logic. Muziani has a lot to say, but don’t try to put him in the corner. “I don’t like taking sides, and will play ‘Devil’s Advocate’ to spite myself more often than not.”

His reference is a refusal to commit to a political stance or party, symbolized in the Hindsight 2021 logo of a pair of eyes, one red and the other blue. “I’m more likely to take a stand against specific members of the media or celebrities for either lazy journalism or outright hypocrisy. But it's done more for humor than to castigate.”

Such is life for Muziani, 51, a late-blooming actor and host who had gotten by on survival jobs in telemarketing while as a member of Mensa, hoping and working towards a better life since the Bush Administration. The first Bush Administration. After watching other middle-aged comics take matters into their own hands, such as that of Sarah Cooper, the Trump-miming Tik-Tok sensation who became a household name seemingly overnight, Muziani decided to focus on what he does best: be funny. “I worked with Sarah on about a half-dozen commercials a decade ago, at the time we were both trying to find ways to share our talents with the world. She was struggling in comedy clubs and wrote a book that didn’t find a real audience at first. I was doing physical comedy, local TV hosting, and sports broadcasting. The difference between us is that Sarah had been pushing her brand all along until finally it got noticed. I didn’t really start pushing mine until Hindsight came along.”

That push began with a hosting audition to cover the 2020 presidential election in October of last year. The casting company wanted someone to cut and paste news headlines and riff on them. “I thought it would be a great fit for me,” relates Muziani, “but they wanted this cantankerous old-school editor-type, who sits at his messy desk all night in frumpy clothes with a bottle of whiskey. I’m more of a class clown, 80’s David Letterman-type.” What Muziani submitted on a tape to producers was, in essence, a pre-cursor to Hindsight 2021. Talk Soup meets Weekend Update, with a twist; sometimes Muziani would take a real story and embellish a new ending, under a lead-in of “sources say” or “we believe”, so as to not be libelous. “It's a trick that many members of the media use on a regular basis, either to hide a political affiliation, personal vendetta or to fulfill a payola-type agreement. For the most part, no one can force a reporter’s hand to reveal their sources or true motivations and in the meantime, public sentiment gets affected by misinformation. Hindsight takes that to a comic level, but in doing so the hope is to heighten a viewer’s awareness of the partisan powers that are fighting for their approval every day, in print, online, and on television.”

Needless to say, Muziani did not land the job, but the experience awoke a desire to try again, so he did. “Hindsight 20/20 was born in October of last year, and after a few weeks, I decided to carry it into the new year as Hindsight 2021. We’ve been steadily adding viewers ever since.”

Hindsight 2021 can be found on YouTube at www.youtube.com/Hindsight2021 and is currently also broadcasted on the DB&A Television Network via Roku, Amazon Fire, and Apple+ every Monday. The three-minute program is written, edited, and hosted by Damian Muziani.

Congress now has full Hindsight. The current edition of the popular weekly news satire capsule was delivered with a surprise; host Damian Muziani’s endorsement of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a key politician in a tightly-divided US Senate. Muziani appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball program last decade to endorse Manchin, who was running for an open Senate seat and trailing behind in polling against rival John Raese. Days after Muziani’s live segment aired, Machin overtook Raese in the polls and went on to win the election. His position in a 50/50 Senate as a centrist Democrat means that his vote is now nearly as valuable as that of tie-breaker Kamala Harris. Watch this intriguing dynamic timeline on Hindsight 2021 here: https://youtu.be/Wq5hkvOQ238

As the 2020 Presidential Election was nearing, Muziani kicked off a new weekly satire segment called “Hindsight 2021”, a three-minute comedy review of the previous week’s political and entertainment headlines. “Hindsight” now has a four-figure subscriber base on YouTube and is carried fresh every Monday morning on the DBA Television Network on the Roku platform.

Damian Muziani recently completed a regional commercial for Giant Supermarkets, as an eavesdropping shopper who gets the scoop on the benefits of the new Giant Shopping App! Produced just before the global-wide production shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this spot will be appearing in a regular rotation shortly!

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