November 11, 2024 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
For what would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine show all I So.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We're so excited. The podcast is a little bit different
today because we have a special guest. You guys know,
I'm doing Down for laughs. Uh, it is happening tomorrow
night and November twelfth. So if you're listening to this
after November twelfth, obviously that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You miss everything. You missed it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But all of the proceeds go to Hearts of Joy International.
Hearts of Joy gives life saving heart surgeries to children
and people with Down syndrome, because a lot of times
when you're born with Down syndrome, you don't you know,
you have a lot of heart problems, and so in
other countries they don't even realize they have Down syndrome sometimes,
and they definitely don't realize they have heart issues, and
(00:54):
if they do, they can't afford the surgeries and so
the children die, which.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Is really sad.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And so that's what Hearts of Joining to National come from.
If you can come tomorrow is he went out to
dot com slash laughs, or you can donate if you
can't make it. We have a lot of great comedians
that are going to be there, including our friend Eric
d'ella sandro from Startin And even though Eck is wearing
a Mets hat, I still love him.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I always come on, do you not agree if someone's
a Met fan, like it just makes them a little
bit better of like a.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, we're a human.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We've been like you've been humbled by the Mets existence
and their failures over the years.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, I just come on, Yeah, I got so.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Many Yeah, I instantly feel bad.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
For you exactly. This guy's been through something.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, sometimes the year goes bad and we say, oh,
that's so Mets, what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sometimes most of the time it's so mes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's like a parent passed away. So you approach somebody differently, like,
you know, this guy's been through a lot, you know
what I mean. Yankee fans, it's like they got their
whole fan Emily, and they got the Trust Fund and
they have Like I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
People could be upset that they lost. You've seen them win.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, I've never seen any of my teams win and
I never will.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Who is the other team other than that?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So really Nicks.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Obviously, I'm not a big football guy, but my family's
Jets too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I mean a little bit of the Rangers. My sister.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You should throw out the T shirts at Ranger games.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, off with the T shirt cannon both nice.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She actually worked for iHeart too. I don't know. You
gotta find out where so you've grown.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You grew up on Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Born and raised, that's what we say, right, born and raised. Yeah,
even though.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Do I sound like I'm from, feel like you don't.
I'm trying. I mean, that's very I tried hard the
New York in there. Yeah, I mean, I say, water
with the best at them. But you know, yeah, but
I got here fast. You know. I thought that it
would be take me at least four hours, but it
was very fast. It was today, that's right. I forgot
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about that government buildings.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's right. And thank you so much for being part
of our show tomorrow, My god.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Hearing your voice is very surreal for me because I mean,
no offense, just like the Mets thing. I hear your voice.
I just going to school, and I kind of want
to hurt you a little bit because.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think we're doing you know what I'm saying. I
would go to school.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We always listen to you one hundred in the morning,
and I would just be like, listen to you and Elvis,
and I'd just be like, man, I just I don't
want to go to school.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Right now because you don't want to go to school. Yeah, OK,
that's not for you, okay.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
PTSD.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, I think I feel like I have like a
project due I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I can also tell you thanks for making me feel old.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But that's okay. I mean, we're all older, We're not.
We're all gonna you know, we're approaching like twenty nine
thirty years doing this. I know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I mean, I'm the things I'm talking about twenty five
years ago. I can't even believe I can say that.
I mean, hey, I'm there too. I'm not next year.
I'm out of the eighteen to thirty four demographic.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's it. No, advertisers are targeting me.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The new dad too.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's got a little one.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes I do.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He's three months old and he doesn't know who I
am or care. It's just all about my wife's breastfeeding.
And then I just sit there. I'm like, I'm up
to Does anybody care?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Does he cry when he sees you?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Ever? No? Actually I was actually where was I was?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I had to show Niagara Falls or somewhere and my
wife FaceTime.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Then he started to go crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I started to cry because he started to talk to me,
and I was like he actually, of course, yeah, Unfortunately
he has to be humbled some way.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You know, Daniel's services.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Question, how did you choose to be a comedian? Because
this was a choice, This was a cod joy choice.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's not really a choice. I mean, I've been doing
this stuff like forever.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm just I'm I'm old enough and young enough to
have messed up my life a pretty good amount, because,
like you too, was exploding when I was in high school,
but it was still too new to feel like it
was a safe route to really put all your eggs
in this basket. And then the industry was still kind
of alive, like film and TV. So I was like
kind of going back and forth, and I just wasted
(05:13):
ten years trying to figure out what that was. And
then so I had like some success on YouTube and stuff,
and then I moved to LA in twenty eighteen to like,
all right, I'm going for it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I have to like restart everything.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And then I was I did stand up a little
bit before that, but stand up comedy was something that
I just felt was necessary because it's the only thing
that if you succeed at that, it seems to open
the most doors.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And everything else is like, what are your credits? What
have you done? Who have you worked with?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But stand up comedians, if they find you funny, they
just they let you do Daniel's show and nobody asked
any questions like.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Your first five minutes set.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh oh, do you remember them?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Or did you What's funny about that is I have
my specials on Hulu and I close it with this Drake.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I made this beat that sounds like Drake, and.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I do an impression of him if he did the
safety speech on airlines, like he comes out and he
does the whole like, because I think Drake raps about
really cheesy stuff, but he can make it sound. We
all love him, even though people act like he's sound
a billion records. Somebody listened to this guy so like
And that was actually my first, one of my first
things I ever did. I just thought like, what could
he do? And it bombed atrociously, Like that was.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The It's way worse than booing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's just dead silence.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Silence.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Oh yeah, so as an audience member, I should boo
people out of consideration instead of not laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Ah, do your bit now and will boo or what was?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
What was even worse is like it's it's funny when
your your perception changes, Like when I first started it
with acting classes and I did uc B improv with all.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Due respect, but theater people.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You can't talk about them about the mets can't talk
about they're just kind of weird and the references they
make a lot of Pokemon, and I'm just like, these
aren't my people. So when I started stand up, I
felt like that was still there, and I was like,
you guys know Drake right, And people would be like no,
oh boy, and I'd be like, where am.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I twenty fourteen?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He's the biggest star in music, So then I would
do it and then he's like weird old, like just
nerdy white kids.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Just be like it sounds good. I don't know what
that is, so it would just be death.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And then my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time,
would just sit there like, oh boy, I hope this
guy has a backup plan. No, she's the greatest my
wife is absolutely the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
How do you feel about comedians who rely on crowd
work for their success and are you one of them?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, i'm gonna say I'm I'm gonna sayn unpopular opinion,
go for it. But the truth is, I think because
it's so like interesting to people, and people are so
afraid of talking on stage with a microphone, it's almost
I'm not gonna say it's easier, but it's almost like
I've said things to people that weren't even that funny,
but because you could tell it was in the moment
I'm commenting on.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Her jacket, people laughed harder.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's like he just thought of that right now, And
it does kind of feel. But having said that, there
are people who are masters at it and I can't
do that. But I've always been about the bits, like
I want to hear what you wrote, I want to
hear the performance, I want to know your take on
X y Z.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't really care if you are, like, what do
you got a black shirt there?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Speaking of black shirts, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't love it, but that's not trying to I'm
not trying to. I don't want any smoke from people
who are good at it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
But for me personally, like I just watched Ellen's last
stand up and I was telling my wife, I'm like,
she doesn't there's.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Not a syllable wasted. She's just so good at this this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Art of stand up, and that's what I would like
to be. So it's no shade. It's just like for me.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Personally, I don't if you had to pick who like
you look up to as a comedian, like like an
Ellen type person, who would you pick.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I love Ellen, like I know that she's gotten in
some trouble, I swear, but as a comedian, her early
stand ups like the Beginning and here and now. Just
talking to my friend Matteolane about this, we both were
just gushing over her about like it's hard to meet
people who talk about it because I coulday, Dave Chappelle
could say Bill Bird's like all right. It's like saying,
you know, I like the Beatles. It's like, all right, yeah,
(09:16):
you like the Beatles. Who does like the Beatles?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So like, obviously I love those guys.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But Ellen is a little bit different of her style
is just if you if you've never seen here and
now in the beginning, I'm not sure which one is which,
but I just kind of combined them. But they want
HBO constantly. When I was like ten years old and
I was just they were so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
My mom would walk by like.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
She doesn't see she doesn't curse, and she would just
look at me like you don't have to curse because
she didn't say it. She drops one F bomb and
I'm trying so hard to not curse and almost, I
mean my special curseal logs, I was nervous, but yeah,
she's just I mean, if you've never watched her stand up,
it's people know, where's the Talk to You hosts? I
know her as the stand up, just making jokes about
trying on clothes that we all go through that are
(09:55):
just brilliant and uh, I wish I could write like her.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Jerry Seinfeld said something SIMI like, he's talking about writing
a joke a bit right, and he'll go He'll think
for hours, trying to get the pacing right and changing
one word in that sentence yep, and then all of
a sudden, you change that one word and the joke
is fun crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's amazing at what can HALT come to a screeching halt.
One extra one extra word, two extra words. You know,
it's crazy impression.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Other than that it works. I should have sent the beat.
I should have said, if I would have sent you
guys to beat, you done it. You could have done it.
But do you feel.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There's like certain comedy that works better than others, Like
you know, I mean, you probably take from a lot
of personal experience and stuff, but is there something that
you know is going to I've been having a.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Lot of fun lately, Like I for a little while
because politics was just everywhere. I wasn't talking about politics.
It was just like peop the people who are into
politics kind of poking fun at how both of my
friends who are really on this side really this. I'd
kind of just like a little insane. And I felt
like sometimes people just didn't know how to, like they
don't know what they were supposed to do. And in
this new hour that I'm working on, I don't talk
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about that at all, and I've noticed that it just
it feels refreshing because it's just everyday things, becoming a
dad experiencing like I have a few jokes about my
wife's the firstborn girl. I'm the last born boy, and
how are we look at life so differently? And it's like,
it's not about politics, it's not about anything controversial. Everybody
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everybody comes from like a family with with with the
birth order dynamics.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
She she probably ate off the floor.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You have no idea? Oh man, no, it's everything you think.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And I'm the youngest of an Italian family too, so like,
I mean, my wife would roll a rise at how
my mom treated me, and I'm like, look how she
treats you. Look at your mom treats your brothers. You
really wanted to speak and it would be that whole thing.
And so yes, sometimes when I write something, I'm like,
I know this will work because it's just it's not
saying anything like that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's gonna divide anybody. It's just good old feshioned.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What's your take on cancel culture as it pertains to comedians.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I think.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's there's a happy medium, like there's if you if
you're if you're saying. I think a lot of people
get mad because they don't understand the joke, like I had,
I would do the I do some bits about how
like I am a progressive guy. But when you get
progressive and you it starts to turn on you where
it's like women like we want to hear, we want
to hear your opinions. My growing up the nineties was communicate,
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get your man to communicate. And then I'm like, I
don't like this couch. Well that's too bad, and it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Doesn't really did you want me to communicate or not?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Like so it was like, I have jokes like that,
and I've noticed that if you say something that people
don't really know what the joke is, like a lot
of comedians will will go extreme the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're laughing at his stupid opinion.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So he's basically saying, I'm on your side, but I'm
I'm speaking as the character you hate, and lot of
people don't understand that. But you know, I don't think
anybody should lose their job for, you know, saying something
messed up, especially if there's and it was a joke
and if they didn't. But there are people who say things.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That aren't really jokes and they're like, it was a.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Joke, but it's like, well you kind of kind of
just said something there that I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
If the city is text message ever followed the yeah,
exactly guilty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That happens too.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Kind of crazy because we used to have the Queen
of Mean Time, right, and people would call up and
were insulted if she didn't make fun of you and
your culture. They were like, she forgot about Italians. Why
isn't she make in fun of it?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, now she can't just to revamp everything, and she
can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So we've gone soft as a society.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right or no, of course, I know, of course I
agree with that because I think, look.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
At you're all from around this area? Are you from
this that were? But I've been here for six years, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Mean especially the Burrows, like we know, yeah Boston chops. Yeah,
I mean I don't know they made. I don't even
know people came from the Bronx anymore we do.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My mother is like you.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
My mother is constantly telling me, I cannot believe the
words that come out of your mouth. And I'm like what,
And I'm like, it's not a big deal. It is
a big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But if you look, if you if you work around
New York City and you're not busting each other's chops,
like you're not really that close. You know what I mean,
Like my friends from the closest with I'm the meanest
to yeah, and the ones I'm not that close with
and probably wouldn't run into a burning building for them,
I'm polite and like standale. It's like, so, I don't
know why that had to happen, because I think you
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know the intent in someone's heart. Like Lisa Lampinelli was
a great example because her jokes were so obviously laughing
at how dumb being racist is, but she was saying
it from the perspective of the racist, and we were laughing.
It was a perfect art form. And I don't know
how people don't understand that. It's very strange to me.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
People want to be offended, but I we say this
all the time. Our love language a lot of us,
maybe more so me than others, is like bullying. Here,
I promise you at some point I will say something
mean to you, and that is how I say I
love you. I'm the youngest also, so I just grew
up always needling people and playing with people. Then I
run into like, let's say, an only child.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They don't like that. They also it is tough to
to like, how do you? How do you? I don't know.
How do you how do you get people to not
be sensitive? And I don't. I feel bad like some
people don't.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Need to bully and grow up up with that and
they're like this, this guy is just And then if
they cry, I'm like, I'm a monster.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So you should see my group text with my friends.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We all break each other's balls.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I can't if I show that to a stranger, they'd
be like, what the hell?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, you guys are friends. You call each other friends.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, but you call your friends dumbess like friends.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
People who are offended don't have friends. I don't know.
I think that's amazing what we're saying here.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Where else can people check you out if they're not
going to get to come to the comedy show.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Eric delas Sandro and everything E R I C D
A L E S, S and R. Especially the apostrophe.
I can't even go to that. I can't even go
to the DMV. The computer freeze is when you see
an apostrophe. So it's real good.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh my gosh. But thank you again for being there tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
November twelve, Keith Alberstad, Parth bat Eric de Alessandro, who's
here Guma, Johnny Macaffe, DJ Joe is going to be
spinning the music. We're gonna have a great time and
it's all four Hearts of Joy International. It's down for
Laughs tomorrow, New York City, part of the New York
City Comedy Festival because he went unto dot com slash
Laughs for your tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And we love you, Eric, I love you, I love you.
Let's go back baby.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
The fifteen Minute Morning Show
For what would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine show all I So.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We're so excited. The podcast is a little bit different
today because we have a special guest. You guys know,
I'm doing Down for laughs. Uh, it is happening tomorrow
night and November twelfth. So if you're listening to this
after November twelfth, obviously that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You miss everything. You missed it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But all of the proceeds go to Hearts of Joy International.
Hearts of Joy gives life saving heart surgeries to children
and people with Down syndrome, because a lot of times
when you're born with Down syndrome, you don't you know,
you have a lot of heart problems, and so in
other countries they don't even realize they have Down syndrome sometimes,
and they definitely don't realize they have heart issues, and
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if they do, they can't afford the surgeries and so
the children die, which.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Is really sad.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And so that's what Hearts of Joining to National come from.
If you can come tomorrow is he went out to
dot com slash laughs, or you can donate if you
can't make it. We have a lot of great comedians
that are going to be there, including our friend Eric
d'ella sandro from Startin And even though Eck is wearing
a Mets hat, I still love him.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I always come on, do you not agree if someone's
a Met fan, like it just makes them a little
bit better of like a.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, we're a human.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We've been like you've been humbled by the Mets existence
and their failures over the years.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, I just come on, Yeah, I got so.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Many Yeah, I instantly feel bad.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
For you exactly. This guy's been through something.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, sometimes the year goes bad and we say, oh,
that's so Mets, what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sometimes most of the time it's so mes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's like a parent passed away. So you approach somebody differently, like,
you know, this guy's been through a lot, you know
what I mean. Yankee fans, it's like they got their
whole fan Emily, and they got the Trust Fund and
they have Like I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
People could be upset that they lost. You've seen them win.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, I've never seen any of my teams win and
I never will.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Who is the other team other than that?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So really Nicks.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Obviously, I'm not a big football guy, but my family's
Jets too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I mean a little bit of the Rangers. My sister.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You should throw out the T shirts at Ranger games.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, off with the T shirt cannon both nice.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She actually worked for iHeart too. I don't know. You
gotta find out where so you've grown.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You grew up on Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Born and raised, that's what we say, right, born and raised. Yeah,
even though.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Do I sound like I'm from, feel like you don't.
I'm trying. I mean, that's very I tried hard the
New York in there. Yeah, I mean, I say, water
with the best at them. But you know, yeah, but
I got here fast. You know. I thought that it
would be take me at least four hours, but it
was very fast. It was today, that's right. I forgot
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about that government buildings.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's right. And thank you so much for being part
of our show tomorrow, My god.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Hearing your voice is very surreal for me because I mean,
no offense, just like the Mets thing. I hear your voice.
I just going to school, and I kind of want
to hurt you a little bit because.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think we're doing you know what I'm saying. I
would go to school.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We always listen to you one hundred in the morning,
and I would just be like, listen to you and Elvis,
and I'd just be like, man, I just I don't
want to go to school.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Right now because you don't want to go to school. Yeah, OK,
that's not for you, okay.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
PTSD.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, I think I feel like I have like a
project due I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I can also tell you thanks for making me feel old.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But that's okay. I mean, we're all older, We're not.
We're all gonna you know, we're approaching like twenty nine
thirty years doing this. I know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I mean, I'm the things I'm talking about twenty five
years ago. I can't even believe I can say that.
I mean, hey, I'm there too. I'm not next year.
I'm out of the eighteen to thirty four demographic.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's it. No, advertisers are targeting me.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The new dad too.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's got a little one.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes I do.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
He's three months old and he doesn't know who I
am or care. It's just all about my wife's breastfeeding.
And then I just sit there. I'm like, I'm up
to Does anybody care?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Does he cry when he sees you?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Ever? No? Actually I was actually where was I was?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I had to show Niagara Falls or somewhere and my
wife FaceTime.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Then he started to go crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I started to cry because he started to talk to me,
and I was like he actually, of course, yeah, Unfortunately
he has to be humbled some way.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You know, Daniel's services.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Question, how did you choose to be a comedian? Because
this was a choice, This was a cod joy choice.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's not really a choice. I mean, I've been doing
this stuff like forever.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm just I'm I'm old enough and young enough to
have messed up my life a pretty good amount, because,
like you too, was exploding when I was in high school,
but it was still too new to feel like it
was a safe route to really put all your eggs
in this basket. And then the industry was still kind
of alive, like film and TV. So I was like
kind of going back and forth, and I just wasted
(05:13):
ten years trying to figure out what that was. And
then so I had like some success on YouTube and stuff,
and then I moved to LA in twenty eighteen to like,
all right, I'm going for it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I have to like restart everything.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And then I was I did stand up a little
bit before that, but stand up comedy was something that
I just felt was necessary because it's the only thing
that if you succeed at that, it seems to open
the most doors.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And everything else is like, what are your credits? What
have you done? Who have you worked with?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But stand up comedians, if they find you funny, they
just they let you do Daniel's show and nobody asked
any questions like.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Your first five minutes set.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh oh, do you remember them?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Or did you What's funny about that is I have
my specials on Hulu and I close it with this Drake.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I made this beat that sounds like Drake, and.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I do an impression of him if he did the
safety speech on airlines, like he comes out and he
does the whole like, because I think Drake raps about
really cheesy stuff, but he can make it sound. We
all love him, even though people act like he's sound
a billion records. Somebody listened to this guy so like
And that was actually my first, one of my first
things I ever did. I just thought like, what could
he do? And it bombed atrociously, Like that was.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The It's way worse than booing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's just dead silence.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Silence.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Oh yeah, so as an audience member, I should boo
people out of consideration instead of not laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Ah, do your bit now and will boo or what was?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
What was even worse is like it's it's funny when
your your perception changes, Like when I first started it
with acting classes and I did uc B improv with all.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Due respect, but theater people.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You can't talk about them about the mets can't talk
about they're just kind of weird and the references they
make a lot of Pokemon, and I'm just like, these
aren't my people. So when I started stand up, I
felt like that was still there, and I was like,
you guys know Drake right, And people would be like no,
oh boy, and I'd be like, where am.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I twenty fourteen?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He's the biggest star in music, So then I would
do it and then he's like weird old, like just
nerdy white kids.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Just be like it sounds good. I don't know what
that is, so it would just be death.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And then my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time,
would just sit there like, oh boy, I hope this
guy has a backup plan. No, she's the greatest my
wife is absolutely the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
How do you feel about comedians who rely on crowd
work for their success and are you one of them?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, i'm gonna say I'm I'm gonna sayn unpopular opinion,
go for it. But the truth is, I think because
it's so like interesting to people, and people are so
afraid of talking on stage with a microphone, it's almost
I'm not gonna say it's easier, but it's almost like
I've said things to people that weren't even that funny,
but because you could tell it was in the moment
I'm commenting on.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Her jacket, people laughed harder.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's like he just thought of that right now, And
it does kind of feel. But having said that, there
are people who are masters at it and I can't
do that. But I've always been about the bits, like
I want to hear what you wrote, I want to
hear the performance, I want to know your take on
X y Z.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't really care if you are, like, what do
you got a black shirt there?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Speaking of black shirts, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't love it, but that's not trying to I'm
not trying to. I don't want any smoke from people
who are good at it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
But for me personally, like I just watched Ellen's last
stand up and I was telling my wife, I'm like,
she doesn't there's.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Not a syllable wasted. She's just so good at this this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Art of stand up, and that's what I would like
to be. So it's no shade. It's just like for me.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Personally, I don't if you had to pick who like
you look up to as a comedian, like like an
Ellen type person, who would you pick.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I love Ellen, like I know that she's gotten in
some trouble, I swear, but as a comedian, her early
stand ups like the Beginning and here and now. Just
talking to my friend Matteolane about this, we both were
just gushing over her about like it's hard to meet
people who talk about it because I coulday, Dave Chappelle
could say Bill Bird's like all right. It's like saying,
you know, I like the Beatles. It's like, all right, yeah,
(09:16):
you like the Beatles. Who does like the Beatles?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So like, obviously I love those guys.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But Ellen is a little bit different of her style
is just if you if you've never seen here and
now in the beginning, I'm not sure which one is which,
but I just kind of combined them. But they want
HBO constantly. When I was like ten years old and
I was just they were so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
My mom would walk by like.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
She doesn't see she doesn't curse, and she would just
look at me like you don't have to curse because
she didn't say it. She drops one F bomb and
I'm trying so hard to not curse and almost, I
mean my special curseal logs, I was nervous, but yeah,
she's just I mean, if you've never watched her stand up,
it's people know, where's the Talk to You hosts? I
know her as the stand up, just making jokes about
trying on clothes that we all go through that are
(09:55):
just brilliant and uh, I wish I could write like her.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Jerry Seinfeld said something SIMI like, he's talking about writing
a joke a bit right, and he'll go He'll think
for hours, trying to get the pacing right and changing
one word in that sentence yep, and then all of
a sudden, you change that one word and the joke
is fun crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's amazing at what can HALT come to a screeching halt.
One extra one extra word, two extra words. You know,
it's crazy impression.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Other than that it works. I should have sent the beat.
I should have said, if I would have sent you
guys to beat, you done it. You could have done it.
But do you feel.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There's like certain comedy that works better than others, Like
you know, I mean, you probably take from a lot
of personal experience and stuff, but is there something that
you know is going to I've been having a.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Lot of fun lately, Like I for a little while
because politics was just everywhere. I wasn't talking about politics.
It was just like peop the people who are into
politics kind of poking fun at how both of my
friends who are really on this side really this. I'd
kind of just like a little insane. And I felt
like sometimes people just didn't know how to, like they
don't know what they were supposed to do. And in
this new hour that I'm working on, I don't talk
(11:09):
about that at all, and I've noticed that it just
it feels refreshing because it's just everyday things, becoming a
dad experiencing like I have a few jokes about my
wife's the firstborn girl. I'm the last born boy, and
how are we look at life so differently? And it's like,
it's not about politics, it's not about anything controversial. Everybody
(11:30):
everybody comes from like a family with with with the
birth order dynamics.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
She she probably ate off the floor.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You have no idea? Oh man, no, it's everything you think.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And I'm the youngest of an Italian family too, so like,
I mean, my wife would roll a rise at how
my mom treated me, and I'm like, look how she
treats you. Look at your mom treats your brothers. You
really wanted to speak and it would be that whole thing.
And so yes, sometimes when I write something, I'm like,
I know this will work because it's just it's not
saying anything like that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's gonna divide anybody. It's just good old feshioned.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What's your take on cancel culture as it pertains to comedians.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I think.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's there's a happy medium, like there's if you if
you're if you're saying. I think a lot of people
get mad because they don't understand the joke, like I had,
I would do the I do some bits about how
like I am a progressive guy. But when you get
progressive and you it starts to turn on you where
it's like women like we want to hear, we want
to hear your opinions. My growing up the nineties was communicate,
(12:30):
get your man to communicate. And then I'm like, I
don't like this couch. Well that's too bad, and it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Doesn't really did you want me to communicate or not?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Like so it was like, I have jokes like that,
and I've noticed that if you say something that people
don't really know what the joke is, like a lot
of comedians will will go extreme the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're laughing at his stupid opinion.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So he's basically saying, I'm on your side, but I'm
I'm speaking as the character you hate, and lot of
people don't understand that. But you know, I don't think
anybody should lose their job for, you know, saying something
messed up, especially if there's and it was a joke
and if they didn't. But there are people who say things.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That aren't really jokes and they're like, it was a.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Joke, but it's like, well you kind of kind of
just said something there that I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
If the city is text message ever followed the yeah,
exactly guilty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That happens too.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Kind of crazy because we used to have the Queen
of Mean Time, right, and people would call up and
were insulted if she didn't make fun of you and
your culture. They were like, she forgot about Italians. Why
isn't she make in fun of it?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, now she can't just to revamp everything, and she
can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So we've gone soft as a society.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right or no, of course, I know, of course I
agree with that because I think, look.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
At you're all from around this area? Are you from
this that were? But I've been here for six years, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Mean especially the Burrows, like we know, yeah Boston chops. Yeah,
I mean I don't know they made. I don't even
know people came from the Bronx anymore we do.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My mother is like you.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
My mother is constantly telling me, I cannot believe the
words that come out of your mouth. And I'm like what,
And I'm like, it's not a big deal. It is
a big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But if you look, if you if you work around
New York City and you're not busting each other's chops,
like you're not really that close. You know what I mean,
Like my friends from the closest with I'm the meanest
to yeah, and the ones I'm not that close with
and probably wouldn't run into a burning building for them,
I'm polite and like standale. It's like, so, I don't
know why that had to happen, because I think you
(14:36):
know the intent in someone's heart. Like Lisa Lampinelli was
a great example because her jokes were so obviously laughing
at how dumb being racist is, but she was saying
it from the perspective of the racist, and we were laughing.
It was a perfect art form. And I don't know
how people don't understand that. It's very strange to me.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
People want to be offended, but I we say this
all the time. Our love language a lot of us,
maybe more so me than others, is like bullying. Here,
I promise you at some point I will say something
mean to you, and that is how I say I
love you. I'm the youngest also, so I just grew
up always needling people and playing with people. Then I
run into like, let's say, an only child.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They don't like that. They also it is tough to
to like, how do you? How do you? I don't know.
How do you how do you get people to not
be sensitive? And I don't. I feel bad like some
people don't.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Need to bully and grow up up with that and
they're like this, this guy is just And then if
they cry, I'm like, I'm a monster.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So you should see my group text with my friends.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We all break each other's balls.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I can't if I show that to a stranger, they'd
be like, what the hell?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, you guys are friends. You call each other friends.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, but you call your friends dumbess like friends.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
People who are offended don't have friends. I don't know.
I think that's amazing what we're saying here.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Where else can people check you out if they're not
going to get to come to the comedy show.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Eric delas Sandro and everything E R I C D
A L E S, S and R. Especially the apostrophe.
I can't even go to that. I can't even go
to the DMV. The computer freeze is when you see
an apostrophe. So it's real good.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh my gosh. But thank you again for being there tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
November twelve, Keith Alberstad, Parth bat Eric de Alessandro, who's
here Guma, Johnny Macaffe, DJ Joe is going to be
spinning the music. We're gonna have a great time and
it's all four Hearts of Joy International. It's down for
Laughs tomorrow, New York City, part of the New York
City Comedy Festival because he went unto dot com slash
Laughs for your tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And we love you, Eric, I love you, I love you.
Let's go back baby.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
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