September 21, 2023 • 26 mins
Comedian Chris Distefano stopped by the show to talk about his 2 SOLD out shows this weekend at Radio City and MSG! Chis also talked about jumping from being a phyiscal therapist to comedian. Also does Chris know Matt Rife?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Danielle all right, Christs Stefano's here already, has Daniel laughing.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, what did he say?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I know he was talking about he's always moving and
why he's always moving, But the reasons are so stupid
that it's funny.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
So I just don't know how to build. I don't
know how to build stuff like I don't. I'm not handy.
My girlfriend, the mother and my children, she's the other
day I walked in and she was putting up sheet rock.
I swear I didn't, like really know what to do.
I felt like pretty like emasculated. I was like, how
do I help? And I went to the kitchen and
I made two lemonades. That's helpful, that's very housewife.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So Chris was saying during the song, he and his
family with the mother of his children, his girlfriend and
three children. By the way, yes they move every two years.
Would I would stick a fork in my eyeballified why
she's very mad at me for constantly moving. But then
you know what it is. I have a great place
on Staten Island. Love Staten Island. Shout out Staten Island.
(01:06):
I need to walk I need to be able to
walk to a store. Oh, I got to be able
to walk to a store.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I get to a coffee, get a bagel, start thinking,
get and I can't walk anywhere where my house is.
So I said, babe, we got to move to a
place where I can walk to a store.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well made you move the first the time before that, though,
I don't know you don't want to be near stores.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I didn't yet. I don't know. It was a pandemic.
And you know, I was just like, she wanted a backyard,
and I was like, all right, let's go get a backyard.
And she wanted a pool. So I was like, all right,
let's get a pool. But then I was like I
got to clean the pool. I don't want to cook
at the pool. So now you live nowhere near stores?
So right now you're ready to move to a place
near stores. Now I'm ready to move to a place
near stores. I'm moving back to Queen's where my mom,
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where I grew up. I'm moving back to Queens. My
mom is like ten minutes away, and I'll and I'll
just be able to walk to stores, and you know
it'll be fun. Are you get no? No, I don't
want to deal with. I don't want to deal with
a pool. I don't want to deal with the backyard.
I don't want to deal with any of this. I
can't I don't have It's so I felt like the
house owned me. I didn't own the house, and I
(02:06):
felt like I can't do it. And every day I'm
in the fetal position. And it's emascualating when your girlfriend
is like, I'm the one. She's mowing the lawn and
she's doing everything, and I'm like, I'm gonna do the
homework with the kids, you know what.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I hear you doing the emasculating thing. But I don't
think I'm not buying it. I think you love it.
I think you love that she's out there putting up
sheet rock and you're making lemonade.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think you're okay with that. Am I am? Am?
I calling you out? I am in the closet.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes' Stefan Stefano has been doing this for a while.
It's not like an overnight success and he wakes up
one morning like today learning he sold out his show
at Radio City tomorrow and of course you're at the
theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. Yes, is the
business of being a comedian a good thing?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Is it a great time to be a comedian? Because
being a comedian frightens a living hell out of me?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Thought of it.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Right now, I feel like being a comedian you have
to just not care about what anybody says at all,
because I think the thing that we've realized is like,
you're always gonna have somebody who gets offended by what
you say, who wants to take your livelihood away and
cancel you. And if you just continuously, just if you
just keep going and are not like a criminal, then
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everybody just shuts up. They realize like they don't have
the power that they think they have in cancel culture
or whatever. It's like, you just keep moving forward and
you'll just get more fans. But for me, what I
did is I got off the internet completely. Let's talk
about this. Yeah, listen to what he did. What about
a year ago?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, last August, totally unplugged from social of course, you'll
see you have a great post all over social Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But someone else is doing that for you. Someone else
is doing that for me. I have my eight year
old daughter. Someone else, someone else is doing it. I've
just delegated that responsibility to someone because I was like,
I'm on social media every day and I feel like
it's like making me sick. I'm comparing. Not only do
I compare myself to others, I was always comparing me
to me, and I would forget that I posted this
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pic sure of myself six months ago that was cropped lighting,
and it was the tenth picture and then I and
then I'm like, oh, look at how much happier I
was back then. But I'm forgetting that I wasn't happy
back then. I'm I was happy now, but I was
convincing myself that I wasn't. So I was like, let
me just get off this completely. Like I read this
quote by Teddy Roosevelt. He said comparison is the thief
of joy, and I was like, that's all I'm doing.
(04:21):
That's this is a comparison tool, or comparison comparing even
my to my peers. Like I would go to a city,
sell out a show or have a good show even
if it didn't sell out, and be like, oh, I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But then I would.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
See because the algorithm, someone else was coming next week
and they had five sold out shows or whatever, and
I'm like, then that would make me feel So I
was like, let me just get off this, and then
I did. And then next thing you know, I was like, hmm,
I eat too much, I eat too late. Why am
I always doing that? And then little by little I
started intermin fasting. And then a year later, I'm like, dropped,
like forty pounds change everything. I still can't screw in
(04:52):
a light bulb, but I got you have a girlfriend
that does that? Yes, yes, but I got much healthier
mentally and physically. See what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And he Chris and I were having a conversation where
I said, look, I'm almost sixty years old and I'm
to the point in my life where i don't know
where this is going because we have finite number of
breaths left.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He you, at an.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Earlier age have figured out being self aware is such
an important ingredient that you It's a gift you give yourself.
I feel like I could be eating better. I feel
like if I get off social media, I'm gonna go
ahead and squelch all that bult crap out and I'm
gonna live a better life.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
See a lot of us don't stop and make the connections.
But you did, and this is great, you're seeing a payoff.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well, I started to like talk to people who are older,
like in my business, and I the common theme that
I heard from them, moms and dads, like you know,
people who are on world tours and all that, you know,
other comedians. They're all like, yeah, you know, I would
have done I wish I would did less shows because
I missed so much of my kid's life. I kept
hearing that. I was like, man, I have little kids.
I don't want to miss their life, and even if
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it means less money, I'll I'll be able to like
spend time with them. But you know my kids, that's
the thing is like I do that for them, but
like they don't care like I have. You know, I'm
doing Radio City tomorrow my eight year old. They couldn't
care less. So she's mad at me because she's like,
I'm like, you excited about that just yesterday morning, I
was excited about this weekend. She's like, no, because I
had a playdate at Rob's Bowling Alley on Highland Boulevard
with Leila, and now I can't go because you have
(06:14):
stupid Radio City.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We love, oh, we love we love Rabs. We've been
there many times.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I was like, oh, I gave up thousands of dollars
for you to be here, and I guess, all right,
I guess don't come.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Then you get all ina wow. Yeah, well you know.
And uh.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
As a parent, I mean, if you're saying it's a
great time to be a comedian, right, I read you
say that something, right, But what about being a parent.
I assume being a parent you must be as aware
of them as you are of yourself when you try
to better yourself. I mean, if you're if I had
three kids in the kitchen, I would pull my hair
out and most of it's gone anyway, and I'd be
going a little crazy. But you have this unique way
(06:50):
of reading the room with your kids, right.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I kind of with kids, I kind of am like,
you know what, when we made the decision to have kids,
I was like, I've I've already in a positive way,
blown up my life anyway, I'm already made it crazy.
So it's like whatever they do is like I feel
like a kids communicate through behavior. They don't communicate really
through words. So when they're having like a rough day
or you know, they just won't do anything it's like
(07:15):
they're really just trying to say, like, Dad, I'm hungry,
I'm you know, I had a bad day at school.
So I just try to like talk to them as
much as I can and try to figure it out.
But if they're having a bad day, we just are.
I'm like, you know what, this is part of being
a parent. I always try to go into it, especially
like big days, like if you go to like Disney
or you're out at the mall with them, It's like
(07:36):
they're not gonna do what you want them to do.
What I've realized is like I try to only control
what I can control in life, and I really do
feel like I cannot control my kids. They are in charge,
not me. So but that doesn't mean like I let them, like,
you know, step on me. I'm like, they are dictating
how this day is going to go, not me. I
think the parents that think that they're in charge, you're not.
(07:56):
The kids are gonna do whatever they want to do,
and you just have to keep them safe. I'm hearing
something here, Am I wrong? No?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean to a point, you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Says the parent.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The other parent, Yeah, you know, you go through days
where they are going to do what they what they
want to do. But I think, you know, I'm sure
you set boundaries, of course, that's what.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, whatever they want to do. Yeah,
they shoot me with a paintball gun every time I
walk in. I think that it's just for frustration levels.
I feel like I would always find myself getting frustrated
with my kids when I'm trying to make them do
something that I want them to do and they're not
going to do it. So it's like, how do I
make it a game? How do I adjust things?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I mean the device is you know, trying to you know,
I try to get them off the tablets and devices,
but it's like it's a part of their world. So
now I just try to limit it. I try to
just mix it in with books.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You know what I'm hearing here? What's this comedy? This
comedy thing is like, you're done with it? You should
be a life coach me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know, I know not. Don't pooh poo it so
fast there?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Fine, Chris, you really are speaking with a heavy, heavy,
high amount of logic here.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, I'm on mushrooms. OK.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I just keep telling myself every time something bad happens
in the house, or I get frustrated, I'm going to
miss this one day. Yes, I'm going to miss this
one day.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yes, I always I try to. I try to remind
myself when I'm like, I just I wish my two
year old was out of diapers, or I wish my
eight year old was just you know, older, so we could, like,
you know, she'd want to go to like a baseball
game with me. And then I'm like, no, no, no, you
got to stay in the present, which each moment that day.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
This is way too, way too logical for us. Yeah, yeah,
but I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Okay, So you got into better eating, you gave up
social media, and you're finding that you're kind of you,
you're owning your world, and here you are selling it
radio City. And that's funny how these things happen. The
text message is so great. Listening to my favorite people
in the morning with my favorite comedian. I love Chris,
saw him last year. He's down to earth, hilarious. She'd
let Chris know there are companies on stet on them
that can clean that pool and put those chemicals in.
(09:54):
You sold that Radio City so you can afford it.
Radio City costs a lot of by the way to
rent out. You don't make as much funny as you think.
It's true my favorite comedian. I can't believe I'm on.
I can't believe Chris is my favorite. They love you?
Oh good if you're just turning us on, Chris Stephan.
I was here and uh, I remember when we first
met you. It was what twenty nineteen is when I
(10:17):
think I came in. I just a big fat, bloated pumpkinhead.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Look how sharp his mind was. He remembered a date,
just drinking every day. Just a big fat idiot. So
you're not into like like doing edibles and drinking, Yeah,
of course I do it. I just try to do it.
I just try to do it as much as I
can in like a window, you know, like the interment fasting,
Like I try not to go after six o'clock. I
(10:42):
try to just shut it down no matter what, except
like one day a week, like after these shows, like
I mean, I mean, listen after the shows on you know,
Radio City Friday and then theater at MSG Saturday, I'm
gonna feel such a pressure relief, Like you know, I
don't know what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I'll do heroin I don't know ghostly.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm just I'll be excited and I'll eat and
have fun. But I just try to stay like in
these framework if I can. But I you know, I
mess up a lot, but I just I just tried
to make like little changes.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Question, yeah, so what makes you so funny? A dumb question.
Let me ask it a different way. If you weren't
you and you went to see you, what would make
you laugh a lout? Is? What is it that you
do that's resonating with people and they say, hey, do
that bet again? Where you talk about the blah blah blah?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
What makes you so funny? I find you hilarious. I'll
tell you where they don't find me hilarious. Kansas City.
I am selling no tickets at the Uptown Theater in
Kansas City. Why how come they don't like you?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I don't know what I did to the good people
of Kansas City, but they just don't. They're not not
buying tickets. So I'm by the way. I'm coming. You're
not gonna make me cancer show.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm coming. I'm gonna character there's tendy there. I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll sit to one of your houses, all seven of you.
You're gonna love the show. I will not get room
to spread out. I don't know what makes I think.
You know what it is for me?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Comedy is a actually it's like a defense mechanism.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
My sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I remember where I even started thinking about, Like my
mom was the one who told me. I remember being
like eight years old, nine years old, and I was
playing basketball like a you know, cyo, like youth basketball,
and I asked her, I was like, what what is
my talent? What do you think my talent is? And
I wanted her so bad to say, like your jump shot,
you're a basketball player, You're gonna be in the NBA.
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But you know, I was sitting on the bench at
nine years old. It's like it's not gonna happen. And
she was like your sense of humor and I was
like what She was like, your sense of humor, that's
what I think it is. And then I didn't realize
that so many times like she made me remember, like
my parents were divorced and my dad would call me
like every night, a great father.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He would call me.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
He lived on Staten Island, we lived and we lived
in Queen's and he would call me and he would
call me Killer. I remember. He would always be like,
where's my Killer? And I would hear his voice from
my mom would say, honey, your dad's on the phone,
and I would start to cry immediately because I missed
him so much. But he was such an old school
tough guy that, like, I had it in my head
like you can't cry in front of a guy like this,
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So I would quickly just try to like and then
think of a joke, think of something funny to tell him.
More funny story I made up. But it was that
was just like my defense mechanism because I didn't want
him to think. I didn't want him know that I
was actually crying, and I probably had some little kid,
corny joke, but it was like my attempts always, and
my mother would listen. She'd be like, you've always did
You've always done that, but you have to have the
humor in there or you can't find it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But you did. Is your dad still around? Oh? Yeah,
he's still around. Yeah, I don't know how. But have
you cried still around? Have you cried in front of
your dad? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And he has both feet, which is like if you
would have told me what to fifteen years ago. My
father was not going to lose a foot from diabetes.
I'm like, I'll bet you one hundred grands he does.
That guy's got two healthy feet. Did you ever cry
in front of your dad?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Father?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Have I cried in front of my father? That is
a good question. No, I still haven't. I cried in
front of my mother many times, right, but I haven't.
I have not cried in front of my dad.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You don't have.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna do that on stage
six thousand people.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm gonna be like, you know what, Dad, Dad, this
is for you.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know I don't say that you're gonna get triggered. Hey, Froggy,
did you have a question for Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I know that he's a huge, giant Luke Combs fan.
I love that dude. I love Luke Combs. I love
country music. I'm I've christy country music. I just got
into it about six months ago. I'm laid on the
country train. Good in Froggy, Dude, I'm in Froggy. I'm
in Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, t Ratt, I'm in on
all of them. That one I don't know, but I
(14:27):
will just Thomas Rhett. Yeah, I listened to the same
couple of things, but I love it. I'm in and
uh yeah. Shout out Luke Combs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So Froggy's doing something interesting which I think we all
can learn a lesson from. He's sort of maneuvering into
a new lane where he's been on our show for
so many years, but now he's in Jacksonville. He's a
program director of the number one country station in Jacksonville.
He's like mister country music.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
All the stars love him. He's friends with all of
the above. Really yeah, absolutely, it's wild how you can
change lane. Changing lanes in life is such an amazing
gift you can give yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It really true.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
It's fun and it also re sharpens when you you
kind of get bored in what you're doing. It resharpens
you and kind of re energizes your mind to start
doing and learning other new things.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
There you go, shout out, Jacksonville. Isn't it the biggest
city geographically in the US?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It is. It is the largest land mass city in
the United States. What weird? I know? I feel like
that's do you care about that? Jeopardy A lot of
stuff is.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I don't know why I know that, but that's any
time I think of Jacksonville, I'm like, they have so
much land, But like that's it is.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Just drive for an hour and you're still in Jacksonville.
Ye the hell am I still in Jacksonville?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We're on there and they're texting and they want you
to come to Jacksonville. I came to Jacksonville last year.
Where the hell were you? Okay, so you're not doing
social media and everything anymore, right, You're off the internet.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Do you feel like that's taking a big chunk of
things to make fun of away from you?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Because that's the best.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I know it. Listen it is and I'll still like
the guy who runs my social media will still send
me stuff like, oh take a look at this whatever.
So it's still in my life. I'm just not constantly
on it all the time. But for me, my comedy
is all about my family and it's very autobiographical. So
I read a little bit about the news each morning.
I deleted the news apps too, because I felt like,
especially the national news apps, it's all negative, you know,
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kind of like fear porn stuff. So I watched the
local news shout out Zena Askato, I watched the local news.
I love Resona. That's who I watch in the morning
because I'm like, it's about you know, it's close to me.
It's like they'll probably just you know, do the stories
that matter. And yeah, I talk specifically usually about my family.
That's that's why I've my only goals in comedy have
ever been The only reason I because I was a
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physical therapist, so I liked being a physical therapist too.
I like, you know, working with the people I worked with.
But I only want to do do a show at
Madison Square Garden, like the arena, Like get to Madison
Square Garden and make a sitcom about my dad. So
those are my two goals. So if I can reach
those two, I'm very comfortable with. Like I don't have
to do that this thing forever. Like I'm all about
(16:54):
like you're only going to live once, so like, why
not experience everything. I might go the first fifty straight
to the last fifty. Gay, I don't know it's possible.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Smile, smile, this is going to Rosanna Scotto.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Someone sent a text and asked him about about Rosanna Scotta,
who happens to me my best friend in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I love Rose.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I was like, well, I don't know if I want
to ask him that blindly because what they're having this
big fight.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No kidding me, Rosanna Scotto, She's uh, She's had me
come in there a few times, and I'm just Rosanna Scott.
I swear I'm not just saying this because you guys here,
but people like you at the Elvis Durandasey Morning Zoo.
I would listen to like when I was just I
was a physical therapy student nineteen twenty years old, was like,
I would love to be a comedian. One day and
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we talked. I talked about this last time. I remember
listening to Dane Cook was on and I was like,
I was like listening to him. He was like sold
out Madison Square Garden. He was here, and I was like,
what is that guy's life, Like it must be amazing.
And I was like, if I ever got the opportunity
to do that one day, oh my god. And then
it came and I'm like, wow, I'm just sitting in
the green room with Garrett. But it was which is
it's sorry about that?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I'm just you know, we're just talking about house real
estate in New Jersey, so it's not as glamorous as
you think.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
But but but.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But I was like that and Rosanna Scatto listening. You know,
I would watch her. That's who my mom would have
on in the news in the morning, and I'm like, wow,
all these people like from my child to well or
whatever adolescent's early twenties when I was like, I had
this like vision and dream to do it. And even
if I don't hit like, you know, my biggest goals,
I'm like, just the simple fact to be with some
(18:27):
of you people, you know, in in my life, I'm like,
oh wow. Like I actually said I was gonna. I
remember making the choice on the elliptical at Force Fitness
and Ridgewald Queen's on Fresh Pond Road. I said, I'm
gonna do comedy tonight. I'm sick and tired of thinking
about it. I'm gonna get on stage and do it.
I'm just gonna go do an open mic and do it, okay,
and just remember that moment and then listen to.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This I'm telling you right now live Coach's where you're at.
Rosenna Scott, by the way, if you're listening in Kansas City,
and the reason why you don't want to go see
this guys because he's talking about someone you don't know about.
Rosanna Scatto. She's a huge, huge superstar here in New
York City. She has a Good to New York on Fox. Yes,
she's fabulous. So now, if you live in Kansas City,
you're listening to us, who's your local news star? Send
(19:07):
it to Chris. He will talk about them.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, I'll do heaving lunch with her tomorrow was on SCOTLD. Yes,
you spending the weekend with me in a couple of weeks.
Her restaurant's awesome. I'll be there tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Come see.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Ese on it. Yummy, yummy, and my tummy I love it. Hey,
you know, okay, so let's talk about comedy these days.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, you know, one of the one of the And
I knew we would get a text about this guy
for some reason.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Hey, I love this Chris guy. Does he know Matt Rife? Sure?
Sure of course, who doesn't know Matt Ryche?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean talk about this is one of the many
great comedy stories.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yes, so Matt Rife represents how comedy has evolved, Like
I started in twenty ten, right, and in twenty ten
there wasn't the internet, you know, there wasn't you know,
the ability to make clips and put clips out there.
Of course, there wasn't TikTok or anything like that. And
you know what it's evolved with comedy now is it
used to be long form. Everybody was going for their
(20:03):
hour comedy special. Now it's short form. It's completely changed.
Our sensibilities have changed, our tension spans have changed. It's
one one hundred percent change. And the people who are
still in the long form, if that's what they want
to do, that's what they want to do. But the
public is not consuming it this way anymore. They're consuming
it the way Matt Rife put it out, which is
short clips, crowd work. I think the beauty the genius
(20:25):
of Matt Rife to me is when I watch him,
as you know, fellow comedian, I'm like, what he's doing
is amazing because he's doing his comedy, which is great,
but he's making the audience they want to be. They
feel like they can be a part of his videos too,
So they're paying and be like, not only will I
get to go see him, but I might actually be
on his actual show, which is a clipstream on TikTok.
(20:47):
So you're like the people, don't they feel like I'm
taking a chance for myself to get fame, for myself,
to have my face in front of millions of people.
So it's smart and genius. And the thing with Matt
Rife is, like anything else, there are no overnight successes.
If you've just heard of Matt Rife, now great, good,
go to his shows. But we've known I mean I've
known Matt Riife for ten twelve years and that Chris
fifteen years old at the comedy clubs in LA Like
(21:10):
everybody knew about him. He was a fifteen year old
kid that was doing comedy and everybody's like, who is
and now you know? So he didn't come overnight, Like
there was no shortcuts with Matt. He'll never be on
our show. I wish I had his lips. I really
wish the show. What about his abs? Get his abs?
How about this to date me? You Versanna Scatto Matt Rife.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
If I tell you why Matt Rife will never be
on our show, I have I've got his phone number.
And one night Alex and I were drunk watching his
back then he had a YouTube special. I mean he
didn't have anything, you know, Yeah, and we're like, whoa.
I was texting him, you guys are you're great, You're
came on the show whatever. And then uh, I think
I think we sent him a d pic. I'm not
quite sure what happened.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Sure it happens.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I'm kidding. I did not do this morning Zoo. I
did not do that. No, I think we we irritated him.
Now he was now he doesn't need us. He so
he sells out, doesn't need to come on the show.
I'm calling ma, you don't see you don't need as
your selling out, but you show up, you're a friend.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Scary Jones. He was in Atlantic City the same time.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
He had a choice to see me at the Borgata
or Matt Rife at Oceans And he went saw Matt
Rife and.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I hope they stay a credit card. Oh my god,
you're scary.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They did. Yeah, you're scared. I got a bigger name
online too. You gotta go.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah. And then I saw him and that he was
at the Jonathan Peters Day party and I'm standing there,
you know, with general admission, he's in private drinking, having.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Fine and standing there with a hot dog and the water.
Scary idiot. Scary.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
His ultimate weekend is a w hotel with a phone
party at the pool.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah the hell do people say to you?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You're from Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Do you know Pete Davidson?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Of course, yeah, of course that's that's but Pete, you
know Pete Davidson, Salvolcano from the All the Impractical Jokers,
Vinie Guardanino, you know all those Joe gatt Island, Joe Gatto, Yeah, everybody, So,
Joe Ghetto is the nicest guy in the world, by
the best.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I received I used to get these texts. I don't
know where he sent me one yesterday. Hey man, by
the way, just thinking about you.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Guess who was at Guess who was sitting Who paid
for a ticket to come to my show at the
Borgato Joe Gotto literally scary ticket.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Scary wouldn't even use this free ticket? Scary want to
be in the background of Matt Right video? Bad dude,
it's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hey look, Chris, I'm just and I don't know if
I said this when I saw you for the first
moment today, but I just congratulations on everything. And you
have no idea And I'm not trying to like harp
on this, but just hear me out. You have no
idea about how maybe a good dozen things stories you
told us today are worth considering and life changing. And
(23:43):
I'm not kidding, I'm not full of crip here. I'm serious.
And how you handle your kids and how you handle
your body, your life, everything. You're really a positive, wonderful
guy and I'm hoping you're not like a sour bitch inside.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Do you throw plates behind her doors?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Throw? No? Do you throw plates?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
No? No? No, I really don't. I don't I get it.
What do I get angry? I'm I'm angry watching sports.
That's about everything else.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, all you country fans you get yelling at the
t Yeah, but no, in all sincerity, thank you so
much because you know you're doing what they say you.
You're leaving this room a much better place than you
entered into it as so thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So when Chris Stefano comes to Kansas City, yes.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
We expect you.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
And by the way, if you don't live in Casey
makes sure you call your friends that live there and
say you got to go see this guy.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, it's not a petty thing. It's something that they
need to see. What we got one? What do we got?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I live in Kansas City. I love to laugh. I
have tickets to his show. I cannot wait. And not
all people in Kansas City are duds. Love you guys.
We've had one dude here you go. Can you bring
a small school to the show. About nine hundred open seats?
They said, they said they would if you bring that variety,
if you if you bring Matt Rife, don't bring your friends.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's Matt Rife on stage.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, the name of your podcast is Who's Chrissy I got?
That's me, Chrissy. Chrissy.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Uh, I call myself, you know, for me, like my fans,
like I know, if they're a podcast, listen if they
call me Chrissy whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
The name of the podcast is Chrissy Chaos.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And then I have a podcast called Hey Babe with
Sal Volcano from The Impractical Jokers. But those are my
two podcasts. And then Chris Dcomedy dot com for all,
I'm on a whole stand up tour, a mini Matt Rife.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're a Maxi Matt.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, but Chris, thank you, for coming in here, and
after we sign off here, we're gonna go take pictures.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Don't take a picture. Was scary. I'll tell you why.
I tell you why. Well, for other reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Uh, anytime a celebrity passes away, he's the guy who
always has to post a photo of him with that celebrity. Okay,
So if God forbid, an air conditioner falls out a
window here in Manhattan when you walk out, it will
be published this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well, we'll take a picture together and I'll do It's scared,
but I'm gonna turn my back like I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
We love her too, all right, Chris de stefanel, thank
you for coming in and congratulations.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Speaker 4 (26:05):
Hi, Hi, how are you?
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Danielle all right, Christs Stefano's here already, has Daniel laughing.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, what did he say?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I know he was talking about he's always moving and
why he's always moving, But the reasons are so stupid
that it's funny.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
So I just don't know how to build. I don't
know how to build stuff like I don't. I'm not handy.
My girlfriend, the mother and my children, she's the other
day I walked in and she was putting up sheet rock.
I swear I didn't, like really know what to do.
I felt like pretty like emasculated. I was like, how
do I help? And I went to the kitchen and
I made two lemonades. That's helpful, that's very housewife.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So Chris was saying during the song, he and his
family with the mother of his children, his girlfriend and
three children. By the way, yes they move every two years.
Would I would stick a fork in my eyeballified why
she's very mad at me for constantly moving. But then
you know what it is. I have a great place
on Staten Island. Love Staten Island. Shout out Staten Island.
(01:06):
I need to walk I need to be able to
walk to a store. Oh, I got to be able
to walk to a store.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I get to a coffee, get a bagel, start thinking,
get and I can't walk anywhere where my house is.
So I said, babe, we got to move to a
place where I can walk to a store.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well made you move the first the time before that, though,
I don't know you don't want to be near stores.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I didn't yet. I don't know. It was a pandemic.
And you know, I was just like, she wanted a backyard,
and I was like, all right, let's go get a backyard.
And she wanted a pool. So I was like, all right,
let's get a pool. But then I was like I
got to clean the pool. I don't want to cook
at the pool. So now you live nowhere near stores?
So right now you're ready to move to a place
near stores. Now I'm ready to move to a place
near stores. I'm moving back to Queen's where my mom,
(01:45):
where I grew up. I'm moving back to Queens. My
mom is like ten minutes away, and I'll and I'll
just be able to walk to stores, and you know
it'll be fun. Are you get no? No, I don't
want to deal with. I don't want to deal with
a pool. I don't want to deal with the backyard.
I don't want to deal with any of this. I
can't I don't have It's so I felt like the
house owned me. I didn't own the house, and I
(02:06):
felt like I can't do it. And every day I'm
in the fetal position. And it's emascualating when your girlfriend
is like, I'm the one. She's mowing the lawn and
she's doing everything, and I'm like, I'm gonna do the
homework with the kids, you know what.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I hear you doing the emasculating thing. But I don't
think I'm not buying it. I think you love it.
I think you love that she's out there putting up
sheet rock and you're making lemonade.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think you're okay with that. Am I am? Am?
I calling you out? I am in the closet.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes' Stefan Stefano has been doing this for a while.
It's not like an overnight success and he wakes up
one morning like today learning he sold out his show
at Radio City tomorrow and of course you're at the
theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. Yes, is the
business of being a comedian a good thing?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Is it a great time to be a comedian? Because
being a comedian frightens a living hell out of me?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Thought of it.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Right now, I feel like being a comedian you have
to just not care about what anybody says at all,
because I think the thing that we've realized is like,
you're always gonna have somebody who gets offended by what
you say, who wants to take your livelihood away and
cancel you. And if you just continuously, just if you
just keep going and are not like a criminal, then
(03:14):
everybody just shuts up. They realize like they don't have
the power that they think they have in cancel culture
or whatever. It's like, you just keep moving forward and
you'll just get more fans. But for me, what I
did is I got off the internet completely. Let's talk
about this. Yeah, listen to what he did. What about
a year ago?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, last August, totally unplugged from social of course, you'll
see you have a great post all over social Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But someone else is doing that for you. Someone else
is doing that for me. I have my eight year
old daughter. Someone else, someone else is doing it. I've
just delegated that responsibility to someone because I was like,
I'm on social media every day and I feel like
it's like making me sick. I'm comparing. Not only do
I compare myself to others, I was always comparing me
to me, and I would forget that I posted this
(03:59):
pic sure of myself six months ago that was cropped lighting,
and it was the tenth picture and then I and
then I'm like, oh, look at how much happier I
was back then. But I'm forgetting that I wasn't happy
back then. I'm I was happy now, but I was
convincing myself that I wasn't. So I was like, let
me just get off this completely. Like I read this
quote by Teddy Roosevelt. He said comparison is the thief
of joy, and I was like, that's all I'm doing.
(04:21):
That's this is a comparison tool, or comparison comparing even
my to my peers. Like I would go to a city,
sell out a show or have a good show even
if it didn't sell out, and be like, oh, I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But then I would.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
See because the algorithm, someone else was coming next week
and they had five sold out shows or whatever, and
I'm like, then that would make me feel So I
was like, let me just get off this, and then
I did. And then next thing you know, I was like, hmm,
I eat too much, I eat too late. Why am
I always doing that? And then little by little I
started intermin fasting. And then a year later, I'm like, dropped,
like forty pounds change everything. I still can't screw in
(04:52):
a light bulb, but I got you have a girlfriend
that does that? Yes, yes, but I got much healthier
mentally and physically. See what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And he Chris and I were having a conversation where
I said, look, I'm almost sixty years old and I'm
to the point in my life where i don't know
where this is going because we have finite number of
breaths left.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He you, at an.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Earlier age have figured out being self aware is such
an important ingredient that you It's a gift you give yourself.
I feel like I could be eating better. I feel
like if I get off social media, I'm gonna go
ahead and squelch all that bult crap out and I'm
gonna live a better life.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
See a lot of us don't stop and make the connections.
But you did, and this is great, you're seeing a payoff.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well, I started to like talk to people who are older,
like in my business, and I the common theme that
I heard from them, moms and dads, like you know,
people who are on world tours and all that, you know,
other comedians. They're all like, yeah, you know, I would
have done I wish I would did less shows because
I missed so much of my kid's life. I kept
hearing that. I was like, man, I have little kids.
I don't want to miss their life, and even if
(05:52):
it means less money, I'll I'll be able to like
spend time with them. But you know my kids, that's
the thing is like I do that for them, but
like they don't care like I have. You know, I'm
doing Radio City tomorrow my eight year old. They couldn't
care less. So she's mad at me because she's like,
I'm like, you excited about that just yesterday morning, I
was excited about this weekend. She's like, no, because I
had a playdate at Rob's Bowling Alley on Highland Boulevard
with Leila, and now I can't go because you have
(06:14):
stupid Radio City.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We love, oh, we love we love Rabs. We've been
there many times.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I was like, oh, I gave up thousands of dollars
for you to be here, and I guess, all right,
I guess don't come.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Then you get all ina wow. Yeah, well you know.
And uh.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
As a parent, I mean, if you're saying it's a
great time to be a comedian, right, I read you
say that something, right, But what about being a parent.
I assume being a parent you must be as aware
of them as you are of yourself when you try
to better yourself. I mean, if you're if I had
three kids in the kitchen, I would pull my hair
out and most of it's gone anyway, and I'd be
going a little crazy. But you have this unique way
(06:50):
of reading the room with your kids, right.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I kind of with kids, I kind of am like,
you know what, when we made the decision to have kids,
I was like, I've I've already in a positive way,
blown up my life anyway, I'm already made it crazy.
So it's like whatever they do is like I feel
like a kids communicate through behavior. They don't communicate really
through words. So when they're having like a rough day
or you know, they just won't do anything it's like
(07:15):
they're really just trying to say, like, Dad, I'm hungry,
I'm you know, I had a bad day at school.
So I just try to like talk to them as
much as I can and try to figure it out.
But if they're having a bad day, we just are.
I'm like, you know what, this is part of being
a parent. I always try to go into it, especially
like big days, like if you go to like Disney
or you're out at the mall with them, It's like
(07:36):
they're not gonna do what you want them to do.
What I've realized is like I try to only control
what I can control in life, and I really do
feel like I cannot control my kids. They are in charge,
not me. So but that doesn't mean like I let them, like,
you know, step on me. I'm like, they are dictating
how this day is going to go, not me. I
think the parents that think that they're in charge, you're not.
(07:56):
The kids are gonna do whatever they want to do,
and you just have to keep them safe. I'm hearing
something here, Am I wrong? No?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean to a point, you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Says the parent.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The other parent, Yeah, you know, you go through days
where they are going to do what they what they
want to do. But I think, you know, I'm sure
you set boundaries, of course, that's what.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, whatever they want to do. Yeah,
they shoot me with a paintball gun every time I
walk in. I think that it's just for frustration levels.
I feel like I would always find myself getting frustrated
with my kids when I'm trying to make them do
something that I want them to do and they're not
going to do it. So it's like, how do I
make it a game? How do I adjust things?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I mean the device is you know, trying to you know,
I try to get them off the tablets and devices,
but it's like it's a part of their world. So
now I just try to limit it. I try to
just mix it in with books.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You know what I'm hearing here? What's this comedy? This
comedy thing is like, you're done with it? You should
be a life coach me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know, I know not. Don't pooh poo it so
fast there?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Fine, Chris, you really are speaking with a heavy, heavy,
high amount of logic here.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, I'm on mushrooms. OK.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I just keep telling myself every time something bad happens
in the house, or I get frustrated, I'm going to
miss this one day. Yes, I'm going to miss this
one day.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yes, I always I try to. I try to remind
myself when I'm like, I just I wish my two
year old was out of diapers, or I wish my
eight year old was just you know, older, so we could, like,
you know, she'd want to go to like a baseball
game with me. And then I'm like, no, no, no, you
got to stay in the present, which each moment that day.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
This is way too, way too logical for us. Yeah, yeah,
but I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Okay, So you got into better eating, you gave up
social media, and you're finding that you're kind of you,
you're owning your world, and here you are selling it
radio City. And that's funny how these things happen. The
text message is so great. Listening to my favorite people
in the morning with my favorite comedian. I love Chris,
saw him last year. He's down to earth, hilarious. She'd
let Chris know there are companies on stet on them
that can clean that pool and put those chemicals in.
(09:54):
You sold that Radio City so you can afford it.
Radio City costs a lot of by the way to
rent out. You don't make as much funny as you think.
It's true my favorite comedian. I can't believe I'm on.
I can't believe Chris is my favorite. They love you?
Oh good if you're just turning us on, Chris Stephan.
I was here and uh, I remember when we first
met you. It was what twenty nineteen is when I
(10:17):
think I came in. I just a big fat, bloated pumpkinhead.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Look how sharp his mind was. He remembered a date,
just drinking every day. Just a big fat idiot. So
you're not into like like doing edibles and drinking, Yeah,
of course I do it. I just try to do it.
I just try to do it as much as I
can in like a window, you know, like the interment fasting,
Like I try not to go after six o'clock. I
(10:42):
try to just shut it down no matter what, except
like one day a week, like after these shows, like
I mean, I mean, listen after the shows on you know,
Radio City Friday and then theater at MSG Saturday, I'm
gonna feel such a pressure relief, Like you know, I
don't know what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I'll do heroin I don't know ghostly.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm just I'll be excited and I'll eat and
have fun. But I just try to stay like in
these framework if I can. But I you know, I
mess up a lot, but I just I just tried
to make like little changes.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Question, yeah, so what makes you so funny? A dumb question.
Let me ask it a different way. If you weren't
you and you went to see you, what would make
you laugh a lout? Is? What is it that you
do that's resonating with people and they say, hey, do
that bet again? Where you talk about the blah blah blah?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
What makes you so funny? I find you hilarious. I'll
tell you where they don't find me hilarious. Kansas City.
I am selling no tickets at the Uptown Theater in
Kansas City. Why how come they don't like you?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I don't know what I did to the good people
of Kansas City, but they just don't. They're not not
buying tickets. So I'm by the way. I'm coming. You're
not gonna make me cancer show.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm coming. I'm gonna character there's tendy there. I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll sit to one of your houses, all seven of you.
You're gonna love the show. I will not get room
to spread out. I don't know what makes I think.
You know what it is for me?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Comedy is a actually it's like a defense mechanism.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
My sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I remember where I even started thinking about, Like my
mom was the one who told me. I remember being
like eight years old, nine years old, and I was
playing basketball like a you know, cyo, like youth basketball,
and I asked her, I was like, what what is
my talent? What do you think my talent is? And
I wanted her so bad to say, like your jump shot,
you're a basketball player, You're gonna be in the NBA.
(12:20):
But you know, I was sitting on the bench at
nine years old. It's like it's not gonna happen. And
she was like your sense of humor and I was
like what She was like, your sense of humor, that's
what I think it is. And then I didn't realize
that so many times like she made me remember, like
my parents were divorced and my dad would call me
like every night, a great father.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He would call me.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
He lived on Staten Island, we lived and we lived
in Queen's and he would call me and he would
call me Killer. I remember. He would always be like,
where's my Killer? And I would hear his voice from
my mom would say, honey, your dad's on the phone,
and I would start to cry immediately because I missed
him so much. But he was such an old school
tough guy that, like, I had it in my head
like you can't cry in front of a guy like this,
(12:58):
So I would quickly just try to like and then
think of a joke, think of something funny to tell him.
More funny story I made up. But it was that
was just like my defense mechanism because I didn't want
him to think. I didn't want him know that I
was actually crying, and I probably had some little kid,
corny joke, but it was like my attempts always, and
my mother would listen. She'd be like, you've always did
You've always done that, but you have to have the
humor in there or you can't find it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But you did. Is your dad still around? Oh? Yeah,
he's still around. Yeah, I don't know how. But have
you cried still around? Have you cried in front of
your dad? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And he has both feet, which is like if you
would have told me what to fifteen years ago. My
father was not going to lose a foot from diabetes.
I'm like, I'll bet you one hundred grands he does.
That guy's got two healthy feet. Did you ever cry
in front of your dad?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Father?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Have I cried in front of my father? That is
a good question. No, I still haven't. I cried in
front of my mother many times, right, but I haven't.
I have not cried in front of my dad.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You don't have.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna do that on stage
six thousand people.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm gonna be like, you know what, Dad, Dad, this
is for you.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know I don't say that you're gonna get triggered. Hey, Froggy,
did you have a question for Chris?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I know that he's a huge, giant Luke Combs fan.
I love that dude. I love Luke Combs. I love
country music. I'm I've christy country music. I just got
into it about six months ago. I'm laid on the
country train. Good in Froggy, Dude, I'm in Froggy. I'm
in Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, t Ratt, I'm in on
all of them. That one I don't know, but I
(14:27):
will just Thomas Rhett. Yeah, I listened to the same
couple of things, but I love it. I'm in and
uh yeah. Shout out Luke Combs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So Froggy's doing something interesting which I think we all
can learn a lesson from. He's sort of maneuvering into
a new lane where he's been on our show for
so many years, but now he's in Jacksonville. He's a
program director of the number one country station in Jacksonville.
He's like mister country music.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
All the stars love him. He's friends with all of
the above. Really yeah, absolutely, it's wild how you can
change lane. Changing lanes in life is such an amazing
gift you can give yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It really true.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
It's fun and it also re sharpens when you you
kind of get bored in what you're doing. It resharpens
you and kind of re energizes your mind to start
doing and learning other new things.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
There you go, shout out, Jacksonville. Isn't it the biggest
city geographically in the US?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It is. It is the largest land mass city in
the United States. What weird? I know? I feel like
that's do you care about that? Jeopardy A lot of
stuff is.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I don't know why I know that, but that's any
time I think of Jacksonville, I'm like, they have so
much land, But like that's it is.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Just drive for an hour and you're still in Jacksonville.
Ye the hell am I still in Jacksonville?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We're on there and they're texting and they want you
to come to Jacksonville. I came to Jacksonville last year.
Where the hell were you? Okay, so you're not doing
social media and everything anymore, right, You're off the internet.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Do you feel like that's taking a big chunk of
things to make fun of away from you?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Because that's the best.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I know it. Listen it is and I'll still like
the guy who runs my social media will still send
me stuff like, oh take a look at this whatever.
So it's still in my life. I'm just not constantly
on it all the time. But for me, my comedy
is all about my family and it's very autobiographical. So
I read a little bit about the news each morning.
I deleted the news apps too, because I felt like,
especially the national news apps, it's all negative, you know,
(16:12):
kind of like fear porn stuff. So I watched the
local news shout out Zena Askato, I watched the local news.
I love Resona. That's who I watch in the morning
because I'm like, it's about you know, it's close to me.
It's like they'll probably just you know, do the stories
that matter. And yeah, I talk specifically usually about my family.
That's that's why I've my only goals in comedy have
ever been The only reason I because I was a
(16:33):
physical therapist, so I liked being a physical therapist too.
I like, you know, working with the people I worked with.
But I only want to do do a show at
Madison Square Garden, like the arena, Like get to Madison
Square Garden and make a sitcom about my dad. So
those are my two goals. So if I can reach
those two, I'm very comfortable with. Like I don't have
to do that this thing forever. Like I'm all about
(16:54):
like you're only going to live once, so like, why
not experience everything. I might go the first fifty straight
to the last fifty. Gay, I don't know it's possible.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Smile, smile, this is going to Rosanna Scotto.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Someone sent a text and asked him about about Rosanna Scotta,
who happens to me my best friend in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I love Rose.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I was like, well, I don't know if I want
to ask him that blindly because what they're having this
big fight.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
No kidding me, Rosanna Scotto, She's uh, She's had me
come in there a few times, and I'm just Rosanna Scott.
I swear I'm not just saying this because you guys here,
but people like you at the Elvis Durandasey Morning Zoo.
I would listen to like when I was just I
was a physical therapy student nineteen twenty years old, was like,
I would love to be a comedian. One day and
(17:38):
we talked. I talked about this last time. I remember
listening to Dane Cook was on and I was like,
I was like listening to him. He was like sold
out Madison Square Garden. He was here, and I was like,
what is that guy's life, Like it must be amazing.
And I was like, if I ever got the opportunity
to do that one day, oh my god. And then
it came and I'm like, wow, I'm just sitting in
the green room with Garrett. But it was which is
it's sorry about that?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I'm just you know, we're just talking about house real
estate in New Jersey, so it's not as glamorous as
you think.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
But but but.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But I was like that and Rosanna Scatto listening. You know,
I would watch her. That's who my mom would have
on in the news in the morning, and I'm like, wow,
all these people like from my child to well or
whatever adolescent's early twenties when I was like, I had
this like vision and dream to do it. And even
if I don't hit like, you know, my biggest goals,
I'm like, just the simple fact to be with some
(18:27):
of you people, you know, in in my life, I'm like,
oh wow. Like I actually said I was gonna. I
remember making the choice on the elliptical at Force Fitness
and Ridgewald Queen's on Fresh Pond Road. I said, I'm
gonna do comedy tonight. I'm sick and tired of thinking
about it. I'm gonna get on stage and do it.
I'm just gonna go do an open mic and do it, okay,
and just remember that moment and then listen to.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This I'm telling you right now live Coach's where you're at.
Rosenna Scott, by the way, if you're listening in Kansas City,
and the reason why you don't want to go see
this guys because he's talking about someone you don't know about.
Rosanna Scatto. She's a huge, huge superstar here in New
York City. She has a Good to New York on Fox. Yes,
she's fabulous. So now, if you live in Kansas City,
you're listening to us, who's your local news star? Send
(19:07):
it to Chris. He will talk about them.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, I'll do heaving lunch with her tomorrow was on SCOTLD. Yes,
you spending the weekend with me in a couple of weeks.
Her restaurant's awesome. I'll be there tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Come see.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Ese on it. Yummy, yummy, and my tummy I love it. Hey,
you know, okay, so let's talk about comedy these days.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, you know, one of the one of the And
I knew we would get a text about this guy
for some reason.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Hey, I love this Chris guy. Does he know Matt Rife? Sure?
Sure of course, who doesn't know Matt Ryche?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean talk about this is one of the many
great comedy stories.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yes, so Matt Rife represents how comedy has evolved, Like
I started in twenty ten, right, and in twenty ten
there wasn't the internet, you know, there wasn't you know,
the ability to make clips and put clips out there.
Of course, there wasn't TikTok or anything like that. And
you know what it's evolved with comedy now is it
used to be long form. Everybody was going for their
(20:03):
hour comedy special. Now it's short form. It's completely changed.
Our sensibilities have changed, our tension spans have changed. It's
one one hundred percent change. And the people who are
still in the long form, if that's what they want
to do, that's what they want to do. But the
public is not consuming it this way anymore. They're consuming
it the way Matt Rife put it out, which is
short clips, crowd work. I think the beauty the genius
(20:25):
of Matt Rife to me is when I watch him,
as you know, fellow comedian, I'm like, what he's doing
is amazing because he's doing his comedy, which is great,
but he's making the audience they want to be. They
feel like they can be a part of his videos too,
So they're paying and be like, not only will I
get to go see him, but I might actually be
on his actual show, which is a clipstream on TikTok.
(20:47):
So you're like the people, don't they feel like I'm
taking a chance for myself to get fame, for myself,
to have my face in front of millions of people.
So it's smart and genius. And the thing with Matt
Rife is, like anything else, there are no overnight successes.
If you've just heard of Matt Rife, now great, good,
go to his shows. But we've known I mean I've
known Matt Riife for ten twelve years and that Chris
fifteen years old at the comedy clubs in LA Like
(21:10):
everybody knew about him. He was a fifteen year old
kid that was doing comedy and everybody's like, who is
and now you know? So he didn't come overnight, Like
there was no shortcuts with Matt. He'll never be on
our show. I wish I had his lips. I really
wish the show. What about his abs? Get his abs?
How about this to date me? You Versanna Scatto Matt Rife.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
If I tell you why Matt Rife will never be
on our show, I have I've got his phone number.
And one night Alex and I were drunk watching his
back then he had a YouTube special. I mean he
didn't have anything, you know, Yeah, and we're like, whoa.
I was texting him, you guys are you're great, You're
came on the show whatever. And then uh, I think
I think we sent him a d pic. I'm not
quite sure what happened.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Sure it happens.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I'm kidding. I did not do this morning Zoo. I
did not do that. No, I think we we irritated him.
Now he was now he doesn't need us. He so
he sells out, doesn't need to come on the show.
I'm calling ma, you don't see you don't need as
your selling out, but you show up, you're a friend.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Scary Jones. He was in Atlantic City the same time.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
He had a choice to see me at the Borgata
or Matt Rife at Oceans And he went saw Matt
Rife and.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I hope they stay a credit card. Oh my god,
you're scary.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
They did. Yeah, you're scared. I got a bigger name
online too. You gotta go.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah. And then I saw him and that he was
at the Jonathan Peters Day party and I'm standing there,
you know, with general admission, he's in private drinking, having.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Fine and standing there with a hot dog and the water.
Scary idiot. Scary.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
His ultimate weekend is a w hotel with a phone
party at the pool.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah the hell do people say to you?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You're from Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Do you know Pete Davidson?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Of course, yeah, of course that's that's but Pete, you
know Pete Davidson, Salvolcano from the All the Impractical Jokers,
Vinie Guardanino, you know all those Joe gatt Island, Joe Gatto, Yeah, everybody, So,
Joe Ghetto is the nicest guy in the world, by
the best.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I received I used to get these texts. I don't
know where he sent me one yesterday. Hey man, by
the way, just thinking about you.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Guess who was at Guess who was sitting Who paid
for a ticket to come to my show at the
Borgato Joe Gotto literally scary ticket.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Scary wouldn't even use this free ticket? Scary want to
be in the background of Matt Right video? Bad dude,
it's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hey look, Chris, I'm just and I don't know if
I said this when I saw you for the first
moment today, but I just congratulations on everything. And you
have no idea And I'm not trying to like harp
on this, but just hear me out. You have no
idea about how maybe a good dozen things stories you
told us today are worth considering and life changing. And
(23:43):
I'm not kidding, I'm not full of crip here. I'm serious.
And how you handle your kids and how you handle
your body, your life, everything. You're really a positive, wonderful
guy and I'm hoping you're not like a sour bitch inside.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Do you throw plates behind her doors?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Throw? No? Do you throw plates?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
No? No? No, I really don't. I don't I get it.
What do I get angry? I'm I'm angry watching sports.
That's about everything else.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, all you country fans you get yelling at the
t Yeah, but no, in all sincerity, thank you so
much because you know you're doing what they say you.
You're leaving this room a much better place than you
entered into it as so thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So when Chris Stefano comes to Kansas City, yes.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
We expect you.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
And by the way, if you don't live in Casey
makes sure you call your friends that live there and
say you got to go see this guy.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, it's not a petty thing. It's something that they
need to see. What we got one? What do we got?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I live in Kansas City. I love to laugh. I
have tickets to his show. I cannot wait. And not
all people in Kansas City are duds. Love you guys.
We've had one dude here you go. Can you bring
a small school to the show. About nine hundred open seats?
They said, they said they would if you bring that variety,
if you if you bring Matt Rife, don't bring your friends.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's Matt Rife on stage.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, the name of your podcast is Who's Chrissy I got?
That's me, Chrissy. Chrissy.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Uh, I call myself, you know, for me, like my fans,
like I know, if they're a podcast, listen if they
call me Chrissy whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
The name of the podcast is Chrissy Chaos.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And then I have a podcast called Hey Babe with
Sal Volcano from The Impractical Jokers. But those are my
two podcasts. And then Chris Dcomedy dot com for all,
I'm on a whole stand up tour, a mini Matt Rife.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're a Maxi Matt.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, but Chris, thank you, for coming in here, and
after we sign off here, we're gonna go take pictures.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Don't take a picture. Was scary. I'll tell you why.
I tell you why. Well, for other reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Uh, anytime a celebrity passes away, he's the guy who
always has to post a photo of him with that celebrity. Okay,
So if God forbid, an air conditioner falls out a
window here in Manhattan when you walk out, it will
be published this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well, we'll take a picture together and I'll do It's scared,
but I'm gonna turn my back like I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
We love her too, all right, Chris de stefanel, thank
you for coming in and congratulations.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
On every day.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Hi, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
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