Transcript for #791 - Steve Schirripa

No. I got a flip phone. It's a simple guy. You know, me a long time. What do I need? I take, I get text and take my call.

Absolutely. That's it. So that way, if you text me, I'll give you an answer, but it's gonna take a while. And just give you quick hints. I can't have a conversation like people do. Some people get ridiculous.

Exactly. That's why I say you want to talk like a 12-year-old girl and you call me man or what are we doing? I mean, I'm not a teenager. Call me, you want to talk. That's what I'm saying. Shit.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I ran it too. I think a little Italy. I came back when I was living down there, so I had to be early. 2000, like that, 99. Yeah.

Yeah. You know what the thing is? I can't even say, like, you know, Joe, like, I couldn't even say, well, you know, it was a dream, man. I always wanted to do it because I never wanted it. You know, I was like screwing around, you know, and I think Pollock put me in it's one of his things and Proust Baum, and you know, I was running the club. You know, he used to work the club, right? The extreme comedy, man.

Yeah.

I wish I could have went back because it was, at one time it was good, it was really good.

No, they're not going to down. I think they start this summer. I think they start soon, you know, I'm not gonna be saying that.

I went down there. They were doing, they started doing shows up there, they gave me a show and they did dice and Gilbert and a bunch of people and that they used to be the female impersonators show. Yes. Yeah, that guy's still around. Right, Marina. Yeah. Keep on going. Keeps at 30 years.

He's at least a hundred years ago. He's got a house. He's got a house like, I had a film summit in his house once. And it's like a mini liberal arch. It does what you think it is. That's what it is. I'm sure. You know, he also would be crazy like he had a housekeeper and he would like leave things around. I'm purpose to see if they were cleaning, you know, that cat wanted those guys. Yeah, but he's still going. I think he's at the, I don't know, the Imperial, what's one of them? One of those strange casinos. He's one of those, but they've still gone. And if the guy's still playing, the guy that does Tina Turner's older than Tina Turner,

I watched that. There was comics used to come in and out of the stands over the years. I remember years ago, they needed a filling. I put Sinbad in that. In crazy girls. Because there was upstairs, the shows were around for years. And they all ran simultaneously. It was the three. You know, hey, we had the comedy club, we had the college, crazy girls. So it was all, you know.

Yeah, yeah, we did that extreme comedy xxx, right? You came for the weekend. Yeah, which is great. Put you into sweet. Do the thing.

Yeah, yeah. Look, a lot of stuff, I started at the rip 1986, you know, way back when it was still like, you know, one of the top, you know, still a good hotel.

Well, not really. That kind of was gone, but then you had Nicholas, who was kind of just a different kind of mobster. You know, he was in his rarely, he started the junk bonds. He was nice. Who is he? And Michelle and Rickler. He was married to Peter Zodora. He owned it when I was there. So they just found a different way to skim the money, you know, through construction or whatever. They weren't bad man. It was just a different, different deal. Like the air condition as he bought for the new building. They were from Israel, like they didn't have parts in the United States, so like all the air can, you know what I'm saying? They found different ways, but he was good to me, you know? He was good to me, Rick was in. He owned a hotel when I first got there in 86, and Sinatra was, you know, played there in 88, 89, 90. Sinatra was there, you still had. Lysom and Nellie playing there, you had Milton Burrell, Sid Caesar. They, I mean, it was still guys playing, you know. Wow. Yeah, yeah, there was a lot of stuff came to it. So you got to see all those people out there. So it's not your night after night after night. And I just, if I was done work, I'll go sit in the back of the room, you know, sometimes my wife would come. You know? Wow. And there was, you know, it was like no big deal if the wild. That's crazy. I got a tape of him. I got a tape of him on New Year's Eve. I think it's New Year's Eve 89 or 90. The guy's just, the sound man took it. It was close circuit. Memory, close circuit. He had the room in the, just in the room. And they put a VHS and, you know, beta max whatever the hell it was. And he's drunk. his two pay is kind of crooked. And Joey Villa, remember Joey Villa? No. He was a comic like a real, you know, like real hacky thief he guy. He was in splash, that show. Okay. So you had Joey Villa, open for Piazador, and then Dresden opened for Tom Dresden, open for Sonatra. And he did a show upstairs. And now says he was drunk on his ass, Sonatra. And I have a tape of it somewhere. I still have some And he says, I don't care. I play upstairs. I play downstairs. If they pay me, I'll sing in the phone booth. He didn't care. Well, you know, at that point, you know.

No, he just turned on. It was like 1990. that was probably the beginning of the end right before he started losing a little he had a teleprompter on stage you know he was we didn't know you know he wasn't completely out of it but you know I think he died in 99 if I'm not mistaken so he would forget his lyrics yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah absolutely because he was so hammered it was just no no I just think he was getting older and I think to be honest my opinion they kept him out there too long you know you know I think whoever the power was maybe I don't know who that was I think he stayed a little too long there you know but to see him. I saw him in 82. When I first got to town in 80, I saw him in 1981, 1982, 83, and those days, it's Jesus. I mean, that was something. I saw Sammy Davis, you know. Wow. Yeah. I saw all those, you know, Johnny Matt, all those guys that were there. I saw a lot of stuff that people were gone, you know.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. When I moved there, it was 350,000 people. Well, I was friendly with the Because, you know, the Joe Peshie character, Tony Spalacho, that was his character. I was friendly with that guy. I was about to, he would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. He would come in the club all the time. Tony Spalacho and he had a guy fat Hobi and I was there his son got married. I was the bouncer at the wedding to make sure FBI didn't get into the into the wedding. They had a balancer at the world. There was a balancer at the back seat, though. I was about to do it and make sure nobody that's not on that list doesn't come in.

They were worried because at the time, there was a small town. They were easy. They were doing whatever they were doing. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I was never privy to any of that, but they were around.

You know, I didn't see the nastiness. Peshie caught the voice and the accent. He asked that Chicago thing, you know. And I only saw him being like a gentleman, you know, to be honest, he had kids. And I mean, that's all I saw. He was, you know, he had some drinks. He's in the club, but I didn't do anything crazy.

I mean, I would assume, I don't know where they got it from, but, you know, he was around. He was kind of the boss in town.

Yeah, and I think that did happen. I didn't get a corn field him and his brother. Oh, it's back in Chicago. Yeah. But, you know, there was a small town. Everybody knew everybody was two clubs. No clubs at all in the casinos. That was, there was no night clubs. Really? No night clubs. That started in the 90s. I think at the Rio. No night clubs at two clubs in town, Paul Lanker on one. and then there was another one like I would go to work at one in the morning to nine in the morning and I would leave in the dance floor was packed. at nine o'clock, nine a.m. Wow. And then people would go out from there, it was just a completely different thing, you know. And all the entertainers would come out, you know, like, I mean, I saw O.J., and cause me was out all the time, and rich little, and it was ever was Bob Holtman. Bob Holtman came into the club, he left the bathroom at 10 to 30 cents. 30 cents. 30 cents. 30 cents. I got a quarter in an nickel. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you know, there's certain things. I remember what's this name. Copperfield gave me $2. He said, if there's any girls bring them over. $2. I swear, it sweated my hand to God. $2. And he was headline and but not. That famous, yeah, but he gave me like two bucks to be boxy today. You know any girls any two girls bring them this way and at me time I had guys giving me hundreds, you know, this old dope deal is, you know, back then it was all crazy, you know, did cost me have the reputation back then? He didn't have a reputation of doing anything to the girls, but always chasing girls. Always always always always always. But he didn't have the reputation of drug and no. I didn't know anything about any of that. I also knew that there was a time when he didn't tip. There's a lot of these guys don't want to, you know. You know, Scotty Pippin's famous, no tip in Pippin. That was his nickname. I heard that, you know. Hought in Michael Jordan. You know, and the worst of all this Tiger Woods, please the absolute worst tip of, and you could ask anyone. That's it. There was a girl that I knew she managed your restaurant and she was friendly with them. and they would go out, you know, not just her and him, you know, like a group or whatever. She said, I couldn't afford to go out with him anymore because I was leaving tips because he would, you know, I was, it's costing me $300 just from cleaning up his mess like, you know.

Because I think sometimes, Joe, I think guys think it's a privilege for you to have me in your place. I think it gets to that point. That's what it's worth raising. You know? At least when I started making more money, I started taking better care of people. I mean, I was of course a good tip of it. Come on, man. You're lucky enough to You know, you've done well. I'm not gonna what I've done well. I mean, but to help pay a fold a little bit. He don't feel it. That's the thing. And of course not.

And you made that night. Yeah. You know, they go home and they Joe Rogan, you know, he gave me took a care of me. You made this guy's night. This guy's probably got two kids or whatever, you know what I mean?

I agree with you. Yeah, you know, I mean, you know, some people I think and it happens a lot. You hear it all the time. A lot of athletes, especially, you know.

I agree with you.

But there's framing, like if you go like, deal is in Vegas, especially because everybody comes through there. There's like, I think it was an Affleck when he was dating Jaylo, my buddy was a crap deal. And he left him five grand and she picked up forty five, you know, in chips and she picked it all up a five hundred and left five hundred. He left the five thousand tip. She picked it up and like, what a kind. Yeah. Absolutely.

Well, you know, he knew she did it, but she went, you don't even have much. Oh fuck yeah, but you know, you see it all the time all the time. I remember guys that tip me years ago want like way back when and Tony Dancer who I'm French and I gave me 20. Like in 1981, it gave me a 20.

Absolutely. You know, it's has been. And the thing is, if you want to get treated right, you need to tip. Yeah, that's it. Because it doesn't even take that much. No, guys don't understand that waiting online for three hours like at the buffet. I mean, I want you to just give the guy 20 and I always $10 and you could get in the line right now.

That won't, but that's a character flow, man. That's a character flow that you just don't want to share. I mean, that's it. You don't, they don't deserve it. Yeah.

Plus if I want to get treated good, it doesn't matter who you are. You could be a plumber from in Sino and throw a few bucks around and you're going to get treated like a king for you know.

That's what it was built on. They kind of took that away because a lot of people and it started with Steve Win, a lot of people. He was a big one. He thought they would make it too much money. The deal is the waitresses, the captains in the showroom. I got a 90 year old friend was a captain in the showroom during Elvis at the Hilton. He was making 800 and night cash in the 70s. A lot of money. That's probably like 8,000. And Vegas at the time, of course, it still doesn't cost much to live in Vegas. But then, of course, nothing. So these guys were buying land and they were invested and going out at night and it was trickling down by me. Well, when stopped all that, so he's the first guy to do the numbered seating. What did I understand? Well, he did the sum, he got rid of all those captains, made for these waitresses, you know. He got rid of these. Well, he got, they, they no longer, when you have a show in Vegas, you have a number ticket to get in. Right? Those people know where they're going. Okay. All right. And then used to be that way. You used to buy, you know, you're going to go in. And then you're tip to make you do $20, $30, $40, and you get a good seat. That's where Vegas was built on for years and years and years. He stopped all that. Same thing with a dealer. He didn't want them to make as much, so they put it on the check now. They all pool, no matter whether you work hard or not. So when you go to a blackjack game, when you go to a blackjack game and you got a deal that's a prick and you said this bitch, I'm not going to give her anything. You know, Tipper. And this is a nice guy. And you say, you know what? He's a lot of fun. I'm going to give him a hundred hours. Well, at the end of the night, that all goes into a big pool. 24 hours a day. Every deal is splits them up.

Every deal is splits them up. That sounds ridiculous. Every deal is splits them up. So some guys are slackers and they go, hey man, I ain't got this going to go be a McCall. You know, I'm just going to be a robot and do what I do and no personality and who's all the flair. That's exactly what that's. That's so crazy. Yeah.

Because I think he thought people tipping big, making too much money. Money that could have been instead of tipping, he'll make the money. You know, instead of me giving a matrix D, $100 for a good seat. I'm just going to charge them $100 for seat. And I'm going to get the money. And that's how it is now. You know, expensive tickets are on Vegas. Oh, that's awful. A comedy club in Vegas costs like $60.

Yeah, I think it's like $60. That's a nice little club. Yeah, it's done well. It's him and the left factory now. Mm-hmm. All the big ones. The river went away. The improv I just read is going away in May. They've been there a long time.

He'll do well. He's doing well. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. He had called me. He wanted me to refer for a role there, which I really love because he's, I think he's funny and he's good. You'd been great on that. He's a good actor. He's always thought he was a really good actor from way back from crime story.

Yeah.

He's a good actor. He's done the other stuff too, you know, before that. You know, I mean, it just finally, after all the other stuff, they recognized it. Yeah. And I think he shows funny.

Yeah. She's fucking like that. He's so Kevin Corrigan the other night in New York. Oh, yeah. Kevin, the police side kicked it. Yeah. Yeah, I saw him there and I ran it to him.

Yeah, I guess why didn't went so bad in the first place, I don't know.

Yeah, but who should get the thing to do, which you're a comedian? Who's to say who could say what on stage and what's funny and what's funny and we could go around and round and yeah, I can't make a joke about this. Well, that's what the whole thing's about. Do you know a guy like Buddy Hackett and those old comics that used to do Polish jokes and Chinese jokes and Japanese jokes? They couldn't even work now.

You know those guys you should do the accents and all that nonsense and you know, you can still make fun of white people.

That's totally acceptable. And you can't you can't make fun of black people.

Yeah, I don't get all that, but that's swung so far. Joe sometimes and I'm not a political guy. I think that it's so broken in the country. It can't be fixed.

Yeah, but it's easy to do that stuff anonymous. A lot of people don't want to.

But they don't, they do it anonymous. There's that too. I mean, is it people that could just, you know, motherfuck you from now until forever? And you don't even know who the guy is?

I mean, it happens over and over and over and over and over. They're keeping these guys from working. Yeah. Keeping these guys from working for what? Well, because they're discussing the curchilling, the announced for ESPN. And they just get fired because he doesn't believe the trains joins a bathroom thing. Was that what he got fired? I think I fired for that. And he kept talking about it.

So you get fired for that?

How do you do that?

Yeah. Maybe we need to have three problems. That's probably the easy way.

Do you remember, uh, and crazy girls, I don't know if you remember the girl that was the MC? Excuse me. John, a steal. She was a, uh, I don't know. She's not a girl. She got a buzz at shop, though, whatever that is. I do remember because we met her.

Oh, that's hilarious. That's hilarious. But she was, you know, I was friendly with her. She was great. She had the mind of a guy. Yeah. You know what I mean? She went with a lot of different guys and she was very funny. She was very funny. And she looked a lot like a woman. Absolutely. If I don't know if I would have known, if I would have known, you know what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. I think it's so everything's so broken Joe. It's crazy. It's a can't be fixed. I think calling a George calling.

I mean, the whole place, the surgery world now. Right. True. True. The whole world, the whole place, etc. At some point, a lot of these girls are going to look exactly the same, because you see some of them now, just regular girls don't you see this?

The thing is this, you know, how do you look in you, you look yourself in the mirror and you go, you know, it's disposed of you. It's pretty good. Hey, let's see how many actresses have run there, run their careers because they change their face.

People are crazy. I don't have to worry about that.

And they get it. It is. Here we go.

Well, that's how it looked. When I was younger, I was in bed of shape. You know, I played ball. I was an athlete in college. I gained weight. You know, I got laid as much as I wanted for, for when I was young and in Vegas and all that. And then I gained weight. I tried to watch, but I'm not going to change the way I look like I'm going to be a leading man. It is what it is. It's a girl says you want makeup. They want to show it. It doesn't really matter.

You know, it's always been bizarre. It is what it is. I'm not an anchorman. They do a lot of makeup, you know. Yeah, we do a talk show. You look at them at the guy. You're going to can't believe how much makeup this guy is.

Absolutely. There are a lot of people. I mean, even myself, I can't. I don't like to watch myself. I'm doing blue bloods now. I'm looking at myself and going, my head, I got a just kind of big screen 65 inch at my head's fucking giant. It's filling up the whole 65 inch. What is blue bloods? Blue bloods is CBS. It's a one hour drama, Tom Seleck. I mean, we're done in Wallberg.

Yeah, I saw it in October. It's a really good show. It's out next to this two shows left Friday night. I got a big one. I joined in October. It's a really good show and I play a DA investigator. So I'm on the other side of the law, you know. Nice. It's really good. The writing's really good. You'll be surprised. It's a network show and it's really really good. It's been, uh, they just got picked up for seven seasons. What's Tom Selichler? You know, I met him twice. I didn't work with him because I'm working with Bridget more than a hand mostly. It's very nice. It's a great feeling. She's great. Great. She, uh, he came into the trailer. He said, you're doing great work. Thanks for being here. I'm just shook my hand a few times and I haven't seen him. So you can have everybody come together? No, because it's kind of the way it's worked so far is, you know, I work with Donnie Walberg once it was a great guy. And then I work with all the time. I haven't worked with anyone else, you know. The other guest stars, but it's been good, you know. It's really shooting New York all over the city. So it's like the cities like another character, you know, it's shooting every barrel. So you live in New York now? I live in New York. I live downtown. Yeah, I've been there. I saw my house in Vegas a few years ago, but I've been there with my family since about 2002. Do you like it?

Well, it's a little crazy. It's got the Blasio's a piece of garbage. You know, he's a bad guy. Just a bad guy. Yeah, and he put the city in the toilet and there's a lot of homeless. But if I were to pick up. that's to the other extreme now this guy's a jackass I mean this guy wanted a separate to city between the cops and and he did it his bad guy to sky you know just and now he's on the investigation for what campaign fraud and all kinds of shit the FBI came in so I like it. It's crazy, but it's great. There's always something going on. It's vibrant. I like Southern California. You know, I'm looking, you know, went to place here too. Also, but I like it. I like Neil. You know, I got my friends around from there. You know, it's not, it's insane. You know, you've been spending time there. Yeah. It's crazy people.

Because it's in my kids with born there. You know, both of my daughters grew up there. I mean, my kids were born in Vegas, but they grew up there in New York, and my wife was born in Vegas, and she loves us there.

You've got to have interesting. You've got to have money because it's ridiculously expensive.

It's in 20 years, one like the rent control shit expires and people's you're gonna have to be wealthy to live in Manhattan. You're gonna have to be literally wealthy. So all the kids that want to become comics and artists and actors and dancers and they get out of high school and college can afford to live there unless they have rich parents or parents that could help them. They can't afford so they're living in bed, style and other neighborhoods, which it's good for the neighborhoods because they're changing, but they're living four and five to a two bedroom apartment.

So you got to go further out to Queens further out to Brooklyn. You know, it's still affordable, but you know, it's an hour into the city. Fuck that, you know, by train. But if you could look, I live in that and I bought a condo years ago with three bedroom, you know, got a nice place. If you could afford it, it's great. But at some point, if it doesn't stop, places are out of business stores, the guys you had a business for 30 years, the lease is up, he's gone. Everyone's a greedy pig.

I, you know, I don't know that, you know, I mean, you got to have like Caroline and Gotham.

And you've got Gotham.

Oh, right in Times Square. Yeah, exactly. You know, I haven't, you know, I'm not privy to that, you know, but it's you can't those kids that want, you want to be an actor, you better have a rich mother or father.

Probably that apartment support does. double now.

You know, because it's just gotten way out of control and these landlords and I tell you that the boys are really split the city. I mean, I'm not just saying, I'm not, I don't get into politics and I don't know that. I think that was his intention. You know, he's big friends, but I'll shopped and I'll shopped and sometimes I wonder if this guy's running this city.

Absolutely. And let me tell you another thing, a guy like I'll shopped and he makes his money by shaking people down. I mean, I have a friend of mine who's a builder there who I could tell you flat out over the years he's giving them envelopes because you know what they do is they come they'll say you know what we got the coalition here we're gonna shut down you know gonna shut your job down unless you hire ten guys and I'm not even saying black white smash I'm not even saying what it is this is what these guys do and Either you hire the ten guys or they get an envelope. And this is what goes on. This is what goes on.

Hey, they're Jesse Jackson. And this is a fact, uh, uh, the, uh, in Vegas in the 80s, the frontier was on strike for like six or seven years from the food and beverage, you know, or the waiters and the potters. They paid him 25 grand to maltrate them down the strip. They closed the strip down 25 grand. Wow. People are coming up to Jesse Jackson going, hey, you know, that's great. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. You know, and in the meantime, you got paid.

This is, well, what's out shopping done?

Go get that money. I mean, he's been in the White House how many times this guy. I'll be the case in the White House.

He's never admitted to that. No, you know. Well, it was proven. I mean, it was absolutely, absolutely. And he ruined the guys life up there. And the guys sued. Yeah. Well, he still keeps, I mean, he's in the White House. Yeah. He's in the White House. So, you know, we go on and on and on and on. I mean, how does that happen?

That's why I'm telling you, it's so broken. Can't be fixed. You got to drop out of the site, Joe. What do we got to do? I don't know. Alaska. I don't think that can allow it.

I don't know where you're going anymore.

They don't give a fuck. They're not there's not many people. They don't give a fuck. Who's it? We're trawled as they are. Does it? Yeah.

It's a strange place. Yeah, I mean that not a bad place just not that for me. I'm not one of them. I'm not an outdoor guy. I can't You know, and I can't do anything. I'm like, I can't change the light. I'm like, can you move your hands around the light bulb? I've got to call the guy downstairs. Could you change the bulb? Yeah. I've got to live in a dormant building. I don't know.

I had my buddy, my buddy Joe, right? Uh, my mother had passed away a few years ago. He said, let's do something for your mother. Come on, let's do something. You know, he's an entrepreneur kind of guy, you know, and uh, so we got the recipe. And on my wife runs marathon, she's healthy, she's organic, blah, blah, blah. We made it organic. It took a while. We had to throw out a lot of sauce and give it to shelters and stuff like that because it was too loose and it was, you know, not bad. It just wasn't what we wanted. We got it. It's organic gluten free non GMO Uncle Steve. You got Uncle Steve's NY.com. We sell it. It's just, we just got here in Albertson's vans, pavilion. We're in Whole Foods, Fairway all over the country. We're in 3,000 stores.

You just said it. I'm not lying. I don't eat Jossos. You know, that's that whole Italian thing. And I never did. Just because I never did my wife would cook, you know, when I was a kid my mother, my grandmother, and the sauce is that good. It's very good. My wife has a mate sauce and a long time.

We got three kinds. I got six cases. We sent me six cases. Martin, to me the basil, did you try to hour be out of here?

Yeah, the hour be out is very spicy. Very like it. That's the biggest seller, but it's hot. Keep it away from the kids. Yeah, no, no, no, no. It's that spicy. It's spicy. Wow. I mean, it's good. People like it, my kids, they're all my kids are 20, 24. They like it. They can handle it. But not for me. It's a tough one for me.

I mean, fuck. That's amazing. You know, that we don't have to go sit and I don't have to sit in a waiting room in audition for bullshit. Yeah.

I think you know, you don't remember this. Well, you audition for something. It was a movie. Not the same role, but it was a movie. The guy Dave Sheridan. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were there and I said to you, oh, who's that fucking guy? And you were not a lot of fucking. He was the star of the movie.

And he was doing okay.

I did his movie before that. I did the movie where I was trying to put a hit on the dog. She's fine, Ron. I mean, Paul Savino. Oh, that's hilarious. And then I made you, you just happened to be then. I was there. Yeah. And he was across the way from us saying, who's this fucking Dave Sheridan? I think so. He was the star. And I didn't know who he was. I didn't get it. I went for an attorney, I think, at the bottom of the attorney.

You told me about somebody with common sense. I mean, what would you? Well, they just have so much money.

I've been seeing, I don't know if he's working. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But it's just, I happened with it. It was a nice guy though.

You know, it's just like comics years ago. The guy manages of the club used to tell them what to do their act with the fuck I'd never told the guy ever Yeah, you know, never told the guy, you know, the solution no, there's certain things I got to arrive You couldn't do like just don't knock the whole town right, you know, you don't don't knock the whole town don't He said, oh, it's a shit hole in this and that. Like I hired a guy. He went on the radio. He was saying, what a shit hole. And I, and I, you know, my boss called me and he said, this guy, who's this fucking guy in the radio? And I went, he said, he's gone. Don't bring him back. So I called the guy. So why did you do that? I gave you a job. Now why the fuck did you do that? And how you don't get it so you can't you can't come back, you know, but I never would tell someone they drove that joke you did, you know, that's not funny, don't do that joke, you know, don't do that. Guys are giving, they were working as a fucking bus boy three weeks ago and now they were in the comedy club and they're telling you what to do.

I understand that, but you know, you because you got the job at the club or whatever, now suddenly you're in show business.

I mean, you know, you're in show business. I mean, you know, how suddenly, you know,

It's nice when you don't have to, uh, you know. when you don't have to, you know, you're not struggling and you know, and it's okay and you can tell a guy to fuck off and I'm not going to do that and you know what fuck you man. I'm not working for that money and that thing and you know, you know, fuck off. I'm not working for that money and that thing and you know, fuck off. Fortunately not everybody. I don't have fuck you money. I have fuck money, but you know, The fuck you money is nice in a way you don't have to but it's hard. It's hard to get to that point.

No, of course, of course, but you know, listen, I got the job on this house. I did everything like opposite, because I had been dabble in here and here, right? So then I got the job and then I worked with a coach. And I still work with a coach now. When I got a big episode on Blue Blood, she comes over the house. It's a, a don, you know, don's friend join a bexon, you know, no. She didn't work with a lot of cops. She could come over the house, I'd go over the lines, we'd talk about it, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, what I'll do is, you know, what I'll do is I started learning the lines, then we'll talk about it. What do you think? I have my ideas already, you know? She'll give me some notes. That's a good idea. It's good to get. Even again, the Fini had two different acting coaches. He worked with this girl Susan for years that helped you get a different perspective. Oh, you know what, I didn't think of that. I didn't think that way. Yeah, you're right. So that kind of shit. Now look, ultimately you get on the set, you're going to do what you do and the director's going to. Hey, Steve, you know, you shouldn't be so angry there. Whatever, you know, he thinks and the guy that wrote it, you know what I mean. But I worked very hard at it and I worked for years now. Now don't forget I'm making a living for 16 years as an actor. I left the river here in 2000. Is that crazy? Yeah, 16 years. So, and I've done a lot of shit.

Is that right? I started on the soprano's in 1999. I went back and forth for a year. I didn't quit. I did six episodes. I was still at the river.

I was still at the river and then I booked it for 10 years. You know, I booked it with it till 2010. Chris Rock said you're still dipping your toe in that shit. I said why not? They're paying me what the fuck? How hard is it? How hard is it to fuck a book three comics a week? I could do it in three days. Book up six months. That's hilarious. You know, the book I book guys that, you know, that didn't work much, you know.

Yeah, that's he did and you saw a lot of different colors. But he would work 16 hours. Okay, 16 hours a day is on the sopranos. He's there. So I mean, the guy gets up whatever time he got up. Then he's got to go home and learn tomorrow stuff. So sometimes he told me he'd be sitting in the chair. He fall asleep for two hours. He wakes up. She's still there. Just wait for him to wake up and they're going to work on the stuff for tomorrow. Whoa. Yeah. And then, and nine months of that, don't forget, you know, the soprano's drill. They were when I got on the show was like eight days. I came on the second season. So it was like eight days for an episode, then nine, then ten. At the last season, it was We that we shot nine shows in nine months. Holy shit. Yeah. You know, it was like shooting a movie. There's no commercial. So it's a full hour. But, you know, that's what it was, man. It was long. It was like shooting a movie.

The first episode was 17, 18 working days. The rain broke. I said, I mean, you're gonna work more in this episode than I will the whole season because she only worked one day in episode. You know, she had the greatest job in show business. Wow. They shot that in one day.

Yeah, that was great. You know, but I think the coaching wise, and I think a lot of it is, you know, your focus, your concentrate, know your stuff, know your lines. I mean, you're an actor, you know? Know your shit. Don't come in and be like a smart ass. Yeah, maybe I paraphrase. Know your stuff. Respect what's on the page. You know, that's, I'm a big believer in that. Yeah. On the sopranos, you didn't add the live the word, thuh. And I'm not joking. You, there was a time that I had to say, uh, I got to go and the line was I have to go and they kept correcting me and correcting me correctly because they just, you know, I got to go. I have to go. I don't know why, why and I didn't question it. Right. I mean, you know, but

Yeah, now listen, Jim was one of my closest friends, couldn't find the better guy. He worked at Harley's service kids, you know, his kid, you know, his daughter wasn't born. You know, while he was on a sopranos, but there was like no life. You couldn't completely gave up your life. It's not the rest of us because there was so many characters. You know, I didn't. I had a couple episodes where I worked a real app.

Well, there was a, you know, a lot of guys. I mean, I've over at, uh, I think Jimmy Smith's over a few years ago in YPD. He said he couldn't take it. He was 18, 18 hour days. Yeah. And yeah, he was making a fortune. He said I couldn't do it anymore.

Yeah. I mean, you know, it's a point with the money. Now, you know, the thing, what I love about blue blood is there's a lot of characteristics of this different story. So it's not like that. It's, you know, it's nice. It's a beautiful show. And, you know, like I said, the writing's good, you know, in that work show. You know, with Jim, but he worked with, you know, a lot of, that's like a dirty secret work on what an acting coach. Isn't it? That's a dirty little secret. People don't want it. Some people don't want it mid. I think if you're a big, I think Pacino works with somebody.

Not all, but I think like guys don't want to admit that I'm asking for him right now, guys. If I can act as a, you know.

But you write all your own stuff, obviously, because your stuff is very personal. Yeah. But they were all guys that are too impossible for them to keep writing them too.

I don't think there's any to work with that, but then there's guys like say Leno or Rodney, who I was a big Rodney danger for you. Sure. Everybody, there was comics, facts, and stuff into him all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Leno. I mean, he was doing the show. He's busy. They're writing his monologue. They're writing the stuff.

I think, but you probably hope, hope, hope had five, six, seven, eight. He had a staff of artists. I know one of them, he would pay $50 a joke.

30 cents, but he was. He's one of the richest guys ever in a fuck above all. It was, but he was he would ask for, you know, I need whatever whatever the event was, you know, I need jokes about Trump or mother and Lord. You know, I guess comics don't want to admit to it. Yeah, there are comics that buy, you know? There's something else.

I think it's also hard. It's not easy for someone else to find your voice. So you have to find those guys, and it's not easy because you have to say, hey man, you know, right me, you know, sometimes like when I have to hold something, like I hosted this thing on TV, I'm not gonna, I'm not making believe I'm a stand up, I'm not a stand up comic, nor would I even attempt, but it's more like a monologue, you know, even if I have to host a charity event, I have a guy who likes me jokes, but it's like in my voice shit that I would say, you know what I mean? And you know, immediately, you know,

I agree. And I think if you're doing a live show, if you're hosting something, whether being a wardrobe or whatever, to have a couple guys there, Spare it a moment thing. Give you a shot. Hey, Joe. It's a good line.

Do you do you like doing talk shows? No, you don't like it.

Well, just when you do a talk show, it's all set. I feel like the pressure of you and they're going to, I'm going to say this, you're going to say that. And then a lot of time. I don't want to do it. A talk show host has the joke right? The joke on top of your joke. He's already got the retort. Exactly.

Now you have to sing and dance. I don't believe it. I appreciate it.

But I think it is, which is why you see this guy on CBS, James, whatever his name is, he's in karaoke in the car. Who? This guy James caught a court in this is name James caught in they think Harry Oki has makes it up is doing different. Yeah, he's got the different artists. He had a deli at this one. They're trying to do different stuff and I think it's become more like that than just to sit down all fashion, you know, right because first of all you know and I know most actors whatever celebrities they don't have a whole lot to say right some of people like the nero if it ain't on the page just guy is stuck at hello you say a lot of them he's stuck for a fucking answer how is that possible because he's got to have it on the page and then he's a wonderful actor and he could forgive you all this but if he you think he's gonna come in and talk to you like this I don't know shit no no You never spoke to him.

Yeah, you tell him to move you with him.

Absolutely, but a top five. But I don't think he's you ever seen him to try to do a talk show with you. And they're boring. Look at some clips.

I think he's done a lot of crappy stuff. And I don't know. Yeah. I don't understand how much money do you need that you just I know you want to work and this is what you do for a living and I get it, but, you know,

Like really shitty movies.

Yeah, you know, I don't know. He owns the restaurant. He's got the whole town in Vegas, Noble. He's got a million restaurants. He's got the world worth. He's old too. He owns the tobacco film festival.

Well, I don't think enjoy shitty movies. I think he enjoys doing movies. I thought to say that there's a whole lot of great roles. Right. Cause they can say that he's 70 something. Right. You know, Puccino seems to navigate them better.

No, doesn't. And as you said, then as you I think as you get older too, and physically, you know, you change, you know, just like, just like a guy that was his wonderful leading man in his 30s, you know, and now he's a fucking bloated guy in his 50s, you know, and I mean, he can't be the same guy, you know, bloated.

He was nice, but out there. He's out there? I did a movie in Detroit, where don't he be swayed out there? I don't know if you remember.

maybe he was on that day because we shot a movie out there and he was way out there he was heavy then yeah he did something in Africa with somebody and they said he got wiped out on mushrooms always there running around the campfire fucking lions in the background oh yeah I didn't see that but he was in Detroit he was in you know nice enough but

That really sounds really 90s. It's prime though. Yeah.

I don't know.

I did fucking move. That's when he played, uh, uh, talking to Jim Morrison, too. Oh, yeah.

You should have him on this. I would love to. I'm sure he loves to. I would imagine he wouldn't. Why wouldn't he come?

What do you think he did when it was over? He did one of those autograph shows autograph shows. You know the autograph shows they have like, like, like, chill a theater in the Hollywood show where you sell your autographs. I think, and I think he did one and he made like a hundred of my tell me, he made like a hundred grand. Like he had the line was, you know.

That's it. You know, you've heard of these things. Yeah. I'm sure you've been offered that.

You know, all the probably gets deflected, but they just had one that had one in Jersey, you know, when they had like, Erica strata, the other guy from chips, the other guy, you know, all good times, you know, they have the cast. And you know, this guy's from my show have done it. I don't want to do it. I've never done it. I personally feel it takes a little piece of your soul. When they walked by and go, do I want to buy Eddie Munst's picture? Oh, Bobby, back a lot. All right, I'll go with Eddie. I think that takes your fucking soul, Joe.

That's not a fan. Yeah, they're selling them. They're selling them or they're wholesaling to another guy. You know, they just up the ladder, like maybe maybe he's just All right. Rogan's gonna be there. I'll give you $10 for you.

I didn't ask you the only thing is for me. Sometimes it's easy. It just signed the phone. Yeah, thanks. I don't even have a conversation. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying and move on.

I see pictures and I go, wait, you get that. I don't even have that.

Well, glove with your signature, that would be worth something, my guess. Probably five bucks.

Yeah, I saw one. We did this a poster from Chicago, Michigan, I don't magazine. That was flowing around. We all signed them. You know, we signed a lot of stuff. At the end of the re-thrues for the sprannels, they would have a stack of stuff for charity and whatever design. And it's hanging in the restaurant in New York on 50. on sixth avenue, it's not my signature. Wow. It's hanging up, it's, you know, like seven of us, but it's not my signature.

Someone's going to fake the signature, hanging up on a nice restaurant. It's from the days when I wore the fat stone.

No, no, one day Chase said, you know, when I first got the role, I was seeing all these jokes, like you have cows on with legs and you're fat-fucking, you're thinking I'm going, I'm not that much fat at again, the Fini, I was starting to think that maybe they kissed the wrong guy. I'm not joking, I'm saying that could be, I mean, these jokes don't make sense and then they call all you got to come in for a fat suit. I want this ridiculous thing. Then the second year they made it like a really nice one. They had a costume shop. It had like tits and a costume shop in like a Broadway costume thing. And then one year I was going back and I was at a fitting for the fourth year, you know, worked in the next year. And he looked at me and he meant, hey, you don't have to wait at anymore. I said, all right, so I'll be silly. It was pretty embarrassing. I first I was praying to the round that they had an ass on me too, like a big ass. Yeah, and he was going out to big. And I was like, oh, I'm walking back and forth like crazy. It's fucking humiliating. Steve Landisburg, remember the comment he said to me, today actually a permission to do that and I said no, Steve, he's I want the fucking there that I want. Well, I want to got the job, you know.

Just sell around. I call it gig, getting the act is guilt.

They started, they used to hang around, whatever we were. They were around, they were extras, they were still around. But they were, you know, we did a appearance in it, because you know, we just do a lot of that stuff, you know. They were everywhere. They were everywhere. They were hoping to get on the show and come out. You did the show. How could I do the show? I remember Michael and period only one time. We were up in Reno and there was one of them guys and he was playing blackjack and he said, come out, put me on the show. I could do what you do. I might just want all fun. I've been fucking trying for 20 years. You know, Bob, I've been acting. You know, I mean, He hit Michael and Michael was right. He got really pissed off. This is just one of those fucking grumbas, you know, and I could do what you do. Oh, they're the worst. Exactly.

Oh, there's a handful of these. Oh, yeah, there's plenty. And the thing here, they kind of regate together.

I kind of tried to navigate away from you. Oh, the brutal. Well, even in New York, I kind of... That's not my thing.

I think you're right about that, because you know what, unless and I get a lot of scripts, you know, of that crap, you know, they make these, I call them back yard movies, you know, you're never going to sing them, you know, whatever they're getting paid. I'm not interested because it's that same thing. I'll fuck you or break your fucking energy. You know what, you know, I am, you know, my uncle is like a Domararis guy. Absolutely. But it's true, but they write this and I say how Just people give them the money. How do you get the money to make these movies?

But now, unless you're going to beat sopranos, good fellows, you know, what's the great mob movies? You know, Sean sopranos, good fellows, casino, raging bull had mob children, right? Great movie. One of my missing. It was, it's got to be a few of them. You know, some great, you know, great great mob movies. And now, after the sopranos, I mean, you don't see the godfather, godfather. Right, too. No, there was some, but you're gonna have to beat that. Then they tried. They tried to do some mobby stuff. I read Donovan's work and that's a good show. That's a good show.

you had a movie every week exactly so like every subject was covered betrayal gambling was funny funny funny elements it was very smart that was something you know I would go I would be around the people go I don't like that show you on number time Have you ever seen the show? Have you ever seen the show? No, I haven't seen it. It's like it's somebody. I don't watch porn. I hate porn. Have you ever seen it? No, well, then how do you know you don't like it? Or did you see it? Or do you watch it? You know what I mean? But they could hear that holding signs of it without porn.

I about this story. I wrote a kid's book, Nicky Doos. Okay, it took place in Brooklyn and we turned it into a movie for Nickelodeon, you know, which I we did and it's wanted to get the Phoenix less movies and I had Michael and period only in it and so we go and and Nickelodeon made the movie but when I was when I wrote the book I was doing book signings and you know it's about a kid fish out of water who goes back to Brooklyn and grew up in the suburbs and he winds up with a kid in tag-in-a-nabwood, Bensoners and Brooklyn, and then he gets into some mischief. I don't even call it trouble, but so his guy kept writing letters and shit, and killing me on the internet, and writing letters to the book stores had him be getting there, you know, like saying that he's, you know, throwing a toy against a tie-ins, and he's, now he's bringing kids into it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So finally, I get the guy's number, and I call the guy. I swear to you, I say to him, listen, I think his name is Anthony. I said, listen, Anthony, blah, blah, blah. This is the world I know. Like, rap is rap about what they know. This is what I know, you know. And he said to me, I said, You know, what can I do? Tell me what I can do. Let's fix this. I mean, because you know, you know, you, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, True stuff. You tried to shake me down. And there's a whole bunch of one. The movie came out. We got some heat for the Nikki Duce movie. Really. And it's not really about mob. It's just one tension. I mean, exactly. And they did that with the Department of People would say all the time. You know, Joe, I don't watch the thing. I'm going to tie in you guys, talk bad about the times. No, they didn't. They showed what really was. I thought it was very authentic.

Absolutely.

Exactly. And I think it was a story that need to be told. I don't think we're putting the tines down. This is what it is.

But he was your guy. He was I think the first I think that could be wrong. The first like anti-hero that people were the foreteller.

Before that, it was, you know, your roof for the guy, you know.

They didn't just do it to people in the mob. They did it to people. You know, like on the show, there wasn't just within each other. They went outside. They were robbing people and then bushing up, you know, businesses and doing all the stuff that they do. Yeah. It was great. Show was good. It was a very small show. And if they put it back on now, they would get higher ratings than some of their shows now.

Well, they shot the the show aired in 99 right? I think they shot that like in 98 from not mistaken. Really? If I'm not mistaken in 98, I believe in 97 even. They go back and then it took six months and then they started shooting them. How they would chase did it? He didn't do it like a regular show where you shoot it and then in three weeks it's on the air. He put them all on the can. They were finished and locked and You know, you know, you finished your whatever it took nine months, and then he edited them, and then they aired, you know, it was done a completely different way. You know, also they would They would, you know, if they didn't like what you did, I mean, he replaced you and you never even knew it. Really. He replaced you, you know, like I had a scene with a guy and they called back, you know, a month or so later and so you got a shooting scene together with a different actor. For whatever reason, whether, you know, the guy didn't do a good job or He looked to young, to old, or just didn't fit. He had the capacity to just shoot it again. If it's seen didn't work, he would write the scene. You should just see it again three months later.

Well, that's, of course, I mean, and that's part of the only one that's okay. I had no career before that, so it's not really.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in the, you know, you got people all over the world watching. I mean, I've been stopped with people literally off from all over the world that have watched this show. It was like a cold hit, like nothing that ever hit before.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But Vinnie's also, he embraces that too, you know what I mean, embraces that for him and it works. Right. He's okay. He works. He does his things. No.

He's got his music. He's a musician and stuff. But I hear you. Especially the name, Big Pussy. That was a big thing. People like to say that.

Well, that was the big thing. Spoilerly. It was the first time two of regular cast members gets killed. I mean, they're not killing the, you know, the guy from friends. Right. Exactly. They've a trimmer and getting killed. You know, all one, you know, one Friday night. Oh my god, they killed David Trimba. There's five friends now, you know. So that was a big character that gets killed and then big characters kept getting killed, which is why guys were worried. I mean, it was a real concern that you were going to get killed off the show. The more material they gave you, the more of the shot you're getting killed.

I mean, you know, and let's not kid ourselves. It's not just, you know, you're out of work. They just put you out of work in the biggest show.

I was like, whoa, holy shit. Pinch his nose there. Like, what? Once you made it into the last season. It was like A. Listen, you know, we're done, we're paid, however the story ends. It's probably better. If I were to get killed early on, I would have felt really shitty. I'll tell you here. And so all the stuff that happened because, you know, right. You know what I mean? I guess, you know, we started making money towards the middle in the end. You know, not the guys at the beginning won't make it all money.

I think like HBO is... No, they don't worry, get an HBO pace. And they pay now even better than the shows off the end nine years. Wow. You know, we wanted to, you know, and then there was other money coming in because you had opportunities to do other shit, you know.

And shows that you see and sold his show time. Yep. I mean, you know, they're all kind of canoeing the soprano. It's the first time they're hiring, you know, a fat bald guy. you know, Jim wasn't a leading man. Right. I mean, they they wanted, you know, your figure, the good look of my guy, you know, but he was intense and charismatic and what a perfect actor. The girls loved him. Yeah. We used to joke, you know, they say TV puts 10 pounds on you. I say it takes 50 off. well he was just it was such an interesting character he was so intense and like when he got into that murderous rage like you fucking bought it hook line essentially when you acted with him you didn't have to uh you know you didn't have to act scared like if it was a scene I got to be scared you got to yell at me you know he was fucking you know he gave you the whole thing you know we had that fight You know, me and him had that fight in the first episode of that last season. I mean, you know, what did we shot that for a day and a half? Well, that was tough. He was choking me. He said, listen, you know, let's try to take this as far as we can. And we fucking turned it. I was pulling his hair. He was fucking choking me. I was getting cut from the, I was wearing a, you know, necklace, you know, I was getting cut from that. I mean, we were banged up, banged up for real. And that's why it looked real. It was like too fat out of shape, guys. fight in a fuck I mean they don't you know guys it's not Steven Saga all right I mean you know we look you you know what the hell this was like a fight like a so when you do something like that like how hard you hit each other you know as hard as you know you could without really hurt and he had said that let's go as far as we could and we would you know by the same pull my hair pull my hair You know, if you do it with a stranger, you could get a little funky, you know what I mean? Like, hey, well, you know, you know,

Like that's the time. You know, and look, I think it's, I know there was, listen, the guys on the show smack me. Really smack me, Jesus. You know, they want to, you know, hit me, you know, you know, you know, I've seen that on a lot of stuff that I've done. And then some guys don't want no part of it in a way, know how, but, God, smack me, you know, get to make up girl and cover it and smack me again, you know. You want that real reaction? Yeah. It's like eating, eating on. I'm a big believer in eating, you know, I know you get sick of eating, but that's the elite that fucking, you know, and a show with a movie, you know.

Yeah, bring it out, I'll just keep eating. And not that because I'm a glove because I think it looks real. Yes. I mean, if you know to stop, I'm a little cookie. So I know to shit like that. Look, they didn't really eat that.

You know, it's the worst thing. I don't smoke and I've never smoked cigarettes. You see people smoking on TV and they can't smoke.

I know exactly. I wouldn't know. I don't know.

You, you, you, you don't speak.

I don't know. There's your thing.

I know, but you see people that aren't, you know, like, I've been asked. I said, I smoke a cigar, which I don't even do that, but I could, you know, I guess.

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just sitting with you, see people you've got this guy's now smoking.

Yeah, don't even show his fingers you fuck stop it. Oh, guys trying to cook something. You know this thing's a you got a you got a homework.

When you think about the Rocky movies.

The fight scenes are terrible.

Well, the raging ball, that was good. That was good. That was that was Corey, Corey Graft down to this.

No, it's spring break.

Although he does that kind of stuff.

I don't see that. But it's called the boxer.

That's good. Very good. Very good. My body of mine was in the Lincoln movie. And he stayed at Lincoln as Lincoln for all that time. Yeah. And he was whittling. I swear that he somebody said that he cut his He sliced his thumb, and somebody let there be blood. And he got annoyed at that. I'm sure he does. He stays in character the whole time. I guess I must have had a X for cutting. That's what he is above and beyond. He's a guy that loses him. Him, Christian Bell, they lose themselves in the characters. A lot of people play at myself included. You know, I'm not going to play an English professor. You know what I mean, Joe. I play a book on a guy, you know, whatever that is. But some guys, and those are two of them. They just completely disappear. Gary Oldman in the Gary Oldman. Especially in the day. Kevin Spacey used to a little.

Completely. But those are the four that I really You know, you know what I mean? The four guys that you say it's a craft, you know, I mean to hit that level.

And then you see successful actors play literally the same person. over and over. Can I raise? What did you say? Yeah, but he's good at it. I'll tell you. I'll say you're just in your pocket. I'll say you'd post the same thing. Yeah, you know, that and that and that. Yeah. And that's okay. She's successful, whatever.

I work for them. I work for them.

I want him to be that guy. But it's got, sometimes it's almost a character. It is a character. You know, I did, uh, I've worked with him twice. He's a good guy.

I mean, it's never been scripted. There was an old letterman clip that I saw. They just saw it like yesterday they were Kevin Spacey doing Pachino, two Pachino. Really, look for that. It's really funny. He does the thing. Oh, that's amazing. It's really funny.

Have you seen that Netflix show? No, I don't. He is very good. It's very exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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He doesn't speak. Talks low sometimes. Does he ever jump in? He'll jump in if he wants to.

Listen, it's it's the way it's calling.

No, but I, you know, I hosted a thing at the God in last year, God on the dreams, uh, 5500 people, it's a kids charity, it's a good one. And it was Bill Burs, John Oliver, Louis Black, Dane Cook, and Billy Goddell. And I met Bill. He's a funny guy.

He's a really funny guy. I mean, and you know what I see them on another charity, the comedy central that thing. And that's the first thing I had seen them. But he's been around, right? Yeah. Yeah. Makes me laugh a lot. There's not that many comics that make me laugh left.

Yeah. Yeah. There's not too many guys.

I ran it. It was great seeing you. Please. Anytime. Wherever you're in town. So it's going to be a good thing. Are you here often? No, I haven't been because I've been working. I've been doing the Blue Bloods.

It's been a bar. That's a close to a year any time.

That would be good.

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