Favorite Seinfeld episodes are The Opposite, The Cadillac, The Switch, The Scofflaw, The Doll and The Bizarro Jerry.
Is of Italian and Alsatian descent.
His father Paul Zappa directed Center Civic Opera in Convington from 1976 till 1983.
Brother of John Zappa, highly regarded, long-time Cincinnati-based jazz trumpeter and drummer. Many of Joe's films feature original music from John's albums.
Graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts 3 years before the new facility was built and named after Cincinnati Pops Maestro Erich Kunzel.