September 12, 2024 • 22 mins
Goumba Johnny has a show in Avenel this weekend and stops by to promote that and what makes a good comedian!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Johnny is here. We have so much to talk about,
you know, Gumba. I'll just let you know. Our friend
Felipe's visiting from Italy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I don't know how to turn his mind of Italy.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well hold on, hold on, yeah, hold on, we got
to push a button.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hold on, hold on. This is the worst. Did the
Italians make this born? It's all there, we are.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning, guys, good morning, welcome, Thank you so much.
It's so nice to be here. I'm from the North.
I was born in a city that you probably don't know,
which is called Genova.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Is that near luc It's I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Pretty close to Toscana, to Tuscany, but yeah, it's in
the north. But now I live in Milan, that you know.
And you dress like you're from Milan, don't you think so?
It's so funny, how you know, Gumba, Johnny is an
Italian American. Scary as an Italian American. They think they're Italian. Yeah,
and so Philippa likes to come to town once a
year to remind them they're not Italian. We've got lots
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to talk about about your trip to New York.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And everything.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So Gumba Johnny, we was in radio here for us
for many years. Now he's he's a comedian, he's on
the road, he's doing shows, and we're gonna talk about that.
Now we're about to do a segment called ask a
Comedian excellent music?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
All right, I got music, I get my own.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
If ever you wanted to, if every of you you've
wanted to ask a comedian a question about their craft,
about what motivates them, About how much you get paid
Texas now at fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
One, how about my social Security numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You need?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And uh so Filippa likes to come in and just
kind of hang out with us. But this is your segment,
not Filippo's.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Watch. Pretend he's not.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Your English is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Thanks man. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You were expecting like a strong Italian accent, like ay
everybody something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's kind of what we want. Yeah, yeah, exactly deliver it.
That'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whenever I speak to American people are pretty disappointed because
this is not the English they're expecting. But comedy clubs
and yes, but unfortunately they're not cool as they are.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Here in the States.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No why not, because you know here, I feel here
in the States, if you are like a stand up comedian,
you can become like you're the main character. You can
host like the Academy Awards or the Grammys. In Italy,
if you're like a stand up comedian, you're like the
weird guy. It's much more like a niche.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, that's what I like, more like a jester.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, you we like comedy like this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, you like you go into the piazza, you tell
the joke, people throw coins.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
At That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I do not like that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Here, kid, I tell you, Johnny is doing a show
Avenue Performing Arts Center Saturday, September fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's a Saturday this Saturday at eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm gonna be there. I have a great line up too, uh,
Laura high H and Ethan Corgano And it's hosted by
Mike Scaley and I'm gonna be obviously the headline. And
it's an Avenue in New Jersey, which is a beautiful theater.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
By the way, you know who it manages telling her
who manages Anthony Wilkinson, Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
From Staten Island. You know what they call Staten Island.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Like the New York City. Itlyt Italy.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
See, this is why Italians can't be comedians. They screw
up the punchline.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It takes him so long to get the joke. I
mean there is no I mean there's a language barrier here.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, of course not really, not with Felipo.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, you don't know what's going on in his head.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Just stays so focused understanding. Even if you were saying
like a simple thing like how are you to be like.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yes, all right, if you know, like if you were
speaking Italian to me.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm not. I'm not way with English. I can't even
speak English.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So also, you're gonna play Palm be Kemel Club in
Palm Beach, Florida, September twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The day before my birthday. That's my birthday show. And
the pomp Beach Kettle Club in Palm Beach is a
great venue. I performed there before. I love it. The
people are fantastic and you'd be shocked how many New
Yorkers are in that area.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That retire there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I mean, it's so funny to go into Florida and
I performed there and people you know, wait to talk
to you after the show, and they go, I grew
up with you. I used to listen to you on
the radio. They're all there, yeah, all Ran, it's crazy.
I'm gonna give those dates and places again in a
few minutes. So you had a Danielle story. My Danielle
story is a little embarrassing to the both of us. Okay,
(04:42):
So Danielle and I, as you know, we're friends. Well
you know, we're friends. We love each other, and we said,
let's get together with our spouses, you know, Sheldon and
my wife, Danielle. So we arrange this date. You know,
it's very hard to schedule anything with us because she
has children and she's very busy. So we get a
date and we decide to go to Houston's in Paramuse. Yeah, okay,
(05:05):
I love Houston right, we love it too. It's one
of our favorite restaurants. So we get a beautiful table
and the place is packed. That's not it's not empty
at all. There's not one seat available. We're in the
on the left, in the corner. Halfway through the dinner,
the manager of the restaurant comes to our table. Now
keep in mind we're the furthest point, if it's possible,
(05:28):
we're getting some complaints. You people are too loud? Yeah people,
how loud are we? Because we are so far away
from everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We'll see you're loud and telling the story. Were you
this loud?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
We had no idea that place is loud restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But you're both.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I tell you why it's loud, because a restaurant will
become louder as loud, people become more loud.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You understand them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So with you two, and you just said what I'm saying, ganis.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Like, how did they hear outside of the soundof room
in the bathroom? Everybody, You guys are loud.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Therefore when you speak, the whole room gets loud, and
therefore you're the elvis.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I've been in restaurants with bachelor parties. I've never got
thrown out. I mean, I'm I'm here with my wife
and another couple and and we're they want us to leave.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Were you drinking?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are very very Italian? Very Italian? So what part of Italy?
This is Sicily right here? This is probably the south.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, my last name is Siciliana.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, people from Cicilia very loud. So the reason why
they complained is you were the cause of the volume
in the room than me.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I thought they were coming over to like offer us
a free desert something like that. We'd love to see
you one hundred We like to buy you.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Then what we do, David, offer you a dessert to go.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's one restaurant I'm taking him to next.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Almah, you can be very loud.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I think we could be loud there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now. The people who owner are from Naples, They're from Napolis.
You're gonna be loud.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Okay, So what was the they walked away after asking
you to shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, so you must you must have giggled a little.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, it was so embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I was like, oh my gosh, we out.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Did you look around to try to figure out who
in the room was the a hole that told you
to shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, we didn't get quiet. We continued our conversation. So
let's hear Houston to what town is in a premise?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Parmise a Hackensack side?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What's that mall?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So whoever manages Houston's at Riverside Square Mall in Hackensack? Yeah,
you had, you had two of the loudest wonderful Italians
in your restaurant and you shut them down.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Wow, you can't. You know. It's like I just look
at Danielle sometimes when we're talking and I'm like, wow,
you just can't get rid of the Bronx forever talking
hard well, hardcore Bronx to the end. And daniel where
we grew up in the same neighborhood you're doing that.
There was a loud neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Should we do? Ask a comedian where's it? I hate
this music. I hate that. Ask a comedian do they
want to flip flippo? You have to ask you whenever
you're ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready. I guess from Italy
has a question? You know.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What's funny that I spent three weeks here in the
States and I tried to do stand up in English?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And this is true?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, this is true.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So my question is, how do you deal with when
you're like in a small comedy club and basically the
crowd is other comedians that are not so how can
I say they don't want to laugh?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
How do you deal with that? Like a tough audience.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Having a little trouble with your English under can you
bring that back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
In Italian's right, though you know it's scripted.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I cannot say I'm only teasing.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Standing up for me, standing up in front of comedians
are just normal people who want to laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's frightening. It's frightening.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Then you do it, yes and no, I mean it
comes with experience, all right. So when you start, obviously
you're a young comedian and you've experienced, you know, performing
in front of four people and four hundred people and
maybe four thousand. Once you go through all those cycles
and you have all those experiences with the small crowds,
the medium crowds, the large crowds, you come out and
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you become one thing that nobody could teach you as
a comedian is seasoning. So in other words, over a
period of time, you'll experience every situation, every type of crowd.
So when you come out, you'll get a sense of
what the audience is like. And the audience decides very
quickly whether they like you or not. But if they
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if they're not feeling you, and I've been there, you
have to you have to feel the vibration of the
audience and look for the underbelly and and and make
them like you. Wow, you'll understand what I'm saying and
you can. And and also if you're feeling uncomfortable and
it's really overwhelming, address it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Really you should show your vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We'll show your vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You total allience, you fighting me?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well yeah, all right, Look, I'll give you give you
a line that wait, four people.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
To me, four thousand people is easier to entertain than
four people.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I'll give you a line that I heard a comedian
came out and the and the audience was not feeling
him okay, and it was starting to get uncomfortable okay,
and he flipped it like this. He looked at the
audience and he said, you know what I feel like
the band on the Titanic, and everybody got it, you
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know what I mean. And people, if you're up there
and you're honest, and like Elvis says, you'd display a
little vulnerability. You know, they'll feel you, they'll give they'll
give audiences will give you a second chance. Now that
being said, the times that you don't get second chance
is if you get very very political and the audience
(11:28):
is is like, let's say you know, one on one side,
like you could do certain jokes in Manhattan and you
can't do those jokes on Long Island and vice versa.
You know what I mean. Yeah, so political jokes are different. Well,
they're different, and they're they're a little bit dangerous, and
you have to remember where you are. You have to
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have a you know, a grip of the area.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That's a great answer. It's very long, but it's a
great answer. I got one.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Why where is your crappy background?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh god, let's no more questions.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I love that you asked that question. What is your
I know you've been heckled a lot. Has a heckler
ever made you cry?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, nobody. I've never
seen the you don't cry? And softball have you ever had?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Have you ever been heckled? And then you go home
and it it kind of sits with you for a
couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, I haven't been. I was heckled once and I'm
a I'm pretty big for a comedian. His comedian go,
you know, I'm an ex athlete and some guy heckled
me and I said, dude, I said save it. The
next comedian's five six, one hundred and forty pounds, he's
gonna take it. I said, I'm just going to come
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out and smash your head off the table.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, it's as comedian, Yes, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I would like to know if there's any subject that's
off limits or do you tackle every subject out there?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
What's your name? Little girl?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Pretty much? Itand comedians? Okay? Who and what do you
find funny.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Comedically? I admire and love Colin Quinny. He's just a
brilliant man, his body of work. He gets mad at
me because I call him the Vincent Van Goe of comedy.
I'm like, when you're gone, people are gonna look at
your body of work and say you are a genius.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Not until he's gone.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Until he's gone, I tease him on that. I love
Colin Quinn. I like Bill Burr a lot, and I
also liked as a comedian that you guys, Ryan Hamilton is.
I really enjoy him a lot. But I've worked with
so many different comedians.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
But what type of comedy makes you?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What? What really makes you lose it?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
People? I like Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, not names of people.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But old people falling of someone formed down the flight
of stairs. Yes, they're hard, they're not well, you know.
She likes slapstick. I like, you know, I like the
the like the normic, not the surprised junk, you know,
punchlines like in other words, you don't see it coming.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I love that too, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And as those those things are like very hard to write,
you know what I mean, Like you can't like, I'll
give you a joke I wrote recently. Right. I got
married at fifty, right, so we decided not to have children,
and I was too old. Right, So we sat down
and we wanted to adopt. So we ran into an
unexpected hurdle. We couldn't agree on a child, and you
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know we didn't. My wife wanted a boy seven or
eight Asian or Latino. I wanted a girl Russian about
thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And all right, Froggy ask the comedian, all right, gumba,
do you ever see somebody do a bit and you think, man,
that could have been way better.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They suck and then you kind of change it around
to make it your own.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
No, but I will go up to comedians. I mean, well,
look there, I'm gonna be honest with you. There's many
comedians that do different versions of the same bit. I mean, look,
I'm Italian, you know I do Italian stuff. I do
stuff on Italian wedding. Sebastian does Italian weddings, you know.
You know Anthony Rodilla does something on it.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Everybody does their own version of this. But I will
say you this when I do work with comedians, and
this happens often a lot of people don't see it backstage.
A comedian will get off stage and come backstage and
another comedian will grab them and go, hey, that bit
that you did about your mother, I got I gotta tag.
They call them tags the punchlines. He goes, I got
a tag for you that And the one thing that
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I could pass on to you is from a comedian. Uh,
your jokes the way you do them now, they're never over.
You can always add to them. I have jokes that
I did ten years ago that I've expanded recently. They're
never done. You can always update and remind it. But
it's very common for comedians to go up to other
comedians and tell them, hey, that bit you do is fantastic,
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but did you ever think of this?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And you're stolen joke though. I think that's another part
of Troggy's questioning me. If you were reconstructed someone else's
joke and made.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
It better, and this concepts and there's jokes. Ok okay,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I mean, no, I writ people off every day. I
don't care well. It always says if you steal from him,
you've stolen twice.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You know who said that too. Scott Shannon said that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, I stole it from him.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's scary. Our last question for asking me, how is your.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Act changed over the years in dealing with sensitive times
and snowflakes.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I feel like I straddle the fence. I try, and
you know, I'll feel the audience and you know, whichever
direction the audience tells me to go, I go. I mean,
I try not to be too offensive or hurt anybody,
but I definitely try to raise a few eyebrows during
my act. And you know, you just do the best
you can. Some comedians make a living living on the edge.
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I make a committing living standing on the fence.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
All right, if you call on that fence, you're both
are gonna hurt. Just saying that was very nice, Thank you,
very nice.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Can I have the music please?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I'm not really satisfied with this asking comedians. I want
to ask a question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, why not, because I'm done with you. You're funnier than me.
I tell you, you brought the funny.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Back to our show today, and I want to thank
you for letting me have that opportunity to bring funny
and to me. I'm sure I.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Forgot you, Philippo, but you can call me phil phil
But I don't think you're You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You're on an aspiring comedian? Are you? Is just something
I'm trying to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I spent three weeks in the States and I did
a couple of mics I tried to do. I did
stand up in Chicago, and I did it in la
and I did it here. I mean, I'm just starting out.
But it's frightening and it's crazy because it's trying to
be funny in a language that is in yours. Is
tough because you think you've got you've got great jokes,
but people are just laughing.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And how you talk so well?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
How long? How long is your visa? How long will
you be here for?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I'm leaving today, Oh God, And when.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You come back, I'll bring you to one of my shows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I would love to be back very soon. Actually, my
dream is to move to New York, so one day
it will happen.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Come host this show whenever you want, like starting in
in one out music, please.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Hold.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
We had people calling in hello, kay, is that you
ok from Beautiful Day and Ohio listening your channel early nine?
I'm hoping, so I what is your question for? Ask
a comedian goomba Johnny.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I just wanted to know when people come up and say, hey,
tell me a joke, do you look at them and say, oh,
so you're a surgeon? Can you go ahead and take
my appendix out right now?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Exactly? Tell me be funny? Yeah, you gotta be funny.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Well that you know that does happen a lot. And
when they say that, I give them the location of
my next appearance. I tell them I'll be more than
happy to tell you a few jokes.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Okay, they do that to us, they do the laugh.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
To me, do the laugh, say that to say something funny,
and I will do the laft.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm even deeply more deeply insulted. Oh you do the
show right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's today's forecast? I don't know what the weather is.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh my god, he's got it wrong every time you
did it today. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, you don't do that too, Chimiams. Do you do
you ask comedians to be funny? Put them on the spot.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, what do you do for what do you do
for him?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Nurse?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Then can you come in and shave my ball? Oh
my god, it happen? Music, Please listen, Thank you, Kay,
thank you for listening to us. And you have a
great day. Okay, And but I know that nurses are
much more important than ball shaving.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I know it's not the only thing they do.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Now you do a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, No, thank god for nurses doctors who failed to exist.
Thank you, k thank you so much. O.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Can't wait till you go to the emergency room the
next time.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, No, nurses and teachers, we got him.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Look, Goomba Johnny is going to be at Avenel Performing
Arts Center this Saturday. For tickets and all the info,
head to Avenel Arts dot com or if you want
to see him at Palm Beach Kennel Club in Palm Beach, Florida,
which is such an interesting concept of a venue.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, well, it's an old dog track exactly. Yeah, it's
a comedy club. Yeah no, it's an old dog track.
It's owned by the Runeys. And to Pittsburgh Steelers. So
they closed the dog Track. They made half of it
into this beautiful poker room and the other half into
an entertainment center where they have comedy and uh and
and music. No old dogs are gonna show. No, but
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the dog track is still there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And I'm gonna take my snalogies. It's funny. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We love you, Johnny, I love you Man, I love
all you guys, even uh, Filipo, even the real Italian today.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's nice. Absolutely, it is nice. You got a new
best friend.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, do you have Instagram in Italy?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah? You know what, who just arrived? We have water,
we do just like we do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe you could turn it into wine.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Is that funny?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's like a Jesus joke.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Music. Thank you, thank you, Elvis Duran in the Morning
Show
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Johnny is here. We have so much to talk about,
you know, Gumba. I'll just let you know. Our friend
Felipe's visiting from Italy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I don't know how to turn his mind of Italy.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well hold on, hold on, yeah, hold on, we got
to push a button.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hold on, hold on. This is the worst. Did the
Italians make this born? It's all there, we are.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning, guys, good morning, welcome, Thank you so much.
It's so nice to be here. I'm from the North.
I was born in a city that you probably don't know,
which is called Genova.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Is that near luc It's I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Pretty close to Toscana, to Tuscany, but yeah, it's in
the north. But now I live in Milan, that you know.
And you dress like you're from Milan, don't you think so?
It's so funny, how you know, Gumba, Johnny is an
Italian American. Scary as an Italian American. They think they're Italian. Yeah,
and so Philippa likes to come to town once a
year to remind them they're not Italian. We've got lots
(00:55):
to talk about about your trip to New York.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And everything.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So Gumba Johnny, we was in radio here for us
for many years. Now he's he's a comedian, he's on
the road, he's doing shows, and we're gonna talk about that.
Now we're about to do a segment called ask a
Comedian excellent music?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
All right, I got music, I get my own.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
If ever you wanted to, if every of you you've
wanted to ask a comedian a question about their craft,
about what motivates them, About how much you get paid
Texas now at fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
One, how about my social Security numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You need?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And uh so Filippa likes to come in and just
kind of hang out with us. But this is your segment,
not Filippo's.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Watch. Pretend he's not.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Your English is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Thanks man. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You were expecting like a strong Italian accent, like ay
everybody something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's kind of what we want. Yeah, yeah, exactly deliver it.
That'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whenever I speak to American people are pretty disappointed because
this is not the English they're expecting. But comedy clubs
and yes, but unfortunately they're not cool as they are.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Here in the States.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No why not, because you know here, I feel here
in the States, if you are like a stand up comedian,
you can become like you're the main character. You can
host like the Academy Awards or the Grammys. In Italy,
if you're like a stand up comedian, you're like the
weird guy. It's much more like a niche.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, that's what I like, more like a jester.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, you we like comedy like this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, you like you go into the piazza, you tell
the joke, people throw coins.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
At That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I do not like that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Here, kid, I tell you, Johnny is doing a show
Avenue Performing Arts Center Saturday, September fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's a Saturday this Saturday at eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm gonna be there. I have a great line up too, uh,
Laura high H and Ethan Corgano And it's hosted by
Mike Scaley and I'm gonna be obviously the headline. And
it's an Avenue in New Jersey, which is a beautiful theater.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
By the way, you know who it manages telling her
who manages Anthony Wilkinson, Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
From Staten Island. You know what they call Staten Island.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Like the New York City. Itlyt Italy.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
See, this is why Italians can't be comedians. They screw
up the punchline.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It takes him so long to get the joke. I
mean there is no I mean there's a language barrier here.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, of course not really, not with Felipo.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, you don't know what's going on in his head.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Just stays so focused understanding. Even if you were saying
like a simple thing like how are you to be like.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yes, all right, if you know, like if you were
speaking Italian to me.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm not. I'm not way with English. I can't even
speak English.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So also, you're gonna play Palm be Kemel Club in
Palm Beach, Florida, September twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The day before my birthday. That's my birthday show. And
the pomp Beach Kettle Club in Palm Beach is a
great venue. I performed there before. I love it. The
people are fantastic and you'd be shocked how many New
Yorkers are in that area.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That retire there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I mean, it's so funny to go into Florida and
I performed there and people you know, wait to talk
to you after the show, and they go, I grew
up with you. I used to listen to you on
the radio. They're all there, yeah, all Ran, it's crazy.
I'm gonna give those dates and places again in a
few minutes. So you had a Danielle story. My Danielle
story is a little embarrassing to the both of us. Okay,
(04:42):
So Danielle and I, as you know, we're friends. Well
you know, we're friends. We love each other, and we said,
let's get together with our spouses, you know, Sheldon and
my wife, Danielle. So we arrange this date. You know,
it's very hard to schedule anything with us because she
has children and she's very busy. So we get a
date and we decide to go to Houston's in Paramuse. Yeah, okay,
(05:05):
I love Houston right, we love it too. It's one
of our favorite restaurants. So we get a beautiful table
and the place is packed. That's not it's not empty
at all. There's not one seat available. We're in the
on the left, in the corner. Halfway through the dinner,
the manager of the restaurant comes to our table. Now
keep in mind we're the furthest point, if it's possible,
(05:28):
we're getting some complaints. You people are too loud? Yeah people,
how loud are we? Because we are so far away
from everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We'll see you're loud and telling the story. Were you
this loud?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
We had no idea that place is loud restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But you're both.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I tell you why it's loud, because a restaurant will
become louder as loud, people become more loud.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You understand them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So with you two, and you just said what I'm saying, ganis.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Like, how did they hear outside of the soundof room
in the bathroom? Everybody, You guys are loud.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Therefore when you speak, the whole room gets loud, and
therefore you're the elvis.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I've been in restaurants with bachelor parties. I've never got
thrown out. I mean, I'm I'm here with my wife
and another couple and and we're they want us to leave.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Were you drinking?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are very very Italian? Very Italian? So what part of Italy?
This is Sicily right here? This is probably the south.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, my last name is Siciliana.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, people from Cicilia very loud. So the reason why
they complained is you were the cause of the volume
in the room than me.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I thought they were coming over to like offer us
a free desert something like that. We'd love to see
you one hundred We like to buy you.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Then what we do, David, offer you a dessert to go.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's one restaurant I'm taking him to next.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Almah, you can be very loud.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I think we could be loud there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now. The people who owner are from Naples, They're from Napolis.
You're gonna be loud.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Okay, So what was the they walked away after asking
you to shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, so you must you must have giggled a little.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, it was so embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I was like, oh my gosh, we out.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Did you look around to try to figure out who
in the room was the a hole that told you
to shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, we didn't get quiet. We continued our conversation. So
let's hear Houston to what town is in a premise?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Parmise a Hackensack side?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What's that mall?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So whoever manages Houston's at Riverside Square Mall in Hackensack? Yeah,
you had, you had two of the loudest wonderful Italians
in your restaurant and you shut them down.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Wow, you can't. You know. It's like I just look
at Danielle sometimes when we're talking and I'm like, wow,
you just can't get rid of the Bronx forever talking
hard well, hardcore Bronx to the end. And daniel where
we grew up in the same neighborhood you're doing that.
There was a loud neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Should we do? Ask a comedian where's it? I hate
this music. I hate that. Ask a comedian do they
want to flip flippo? You have to ask you whenever
you're ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready. I guess from Italy
has a question? You know.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What's funny that I spent three weeks here in the
States and I tried to do stand up in English?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And this is true?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, this is true.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So my question is, how do you deal with when
you're like in a small comedy club and basically the
crowd is other comedians that are not so how can
I say they don't want to laugh?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
How do you deal with that? Like a tough audience.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Having a little trouble with your English under can you
bring that back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
In Italian's right, though you know it's scripted.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I cannot say I'm only teasing.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Standing up for me, standing up in front of comedians
are just normal people who want to laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's frightening. It's frightening.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Then you do it, yes and no, I mean it
comes with experience, all right. So when you start, obviously
you're a young comedian and you've experienced, you know, performing
in front of four people and four hundred people and
maybe four thousand. Once you go through all those cycles
and you have all those experiences with the small crowds,
the medium crowds, the large crowds, you come out and
(09:43):
you become one thing that nobody could teach you as
a comedian is seasoning. So in other words, over a
period of time, you'll experience every situation, every type of crowd.
So when you come out, you'll get a sense of
what the audience is like. And the audience decides very
quickly whether they like you or not. But if they
(10:04):
if they're not feeling you, and I've been there, you
have to you have to feel the vibration of the
audience and look for the underbelly and and and make
them like you. Wow, you'll understand what I'm saying and
you can. And and also if you're feeling uncomfortable and
it's really overwhelming, address it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Really you should show your vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We'll show your vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You total allience, you fighting me?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well yeah, all right, Look, I'll give you give you
a line that wait, four people.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
To me, four thousand people is easier to entertain than
four people.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I'll give you a line that I heard a comedian
came out and the and the audience was not feeling
him okay, and it was starting to get uncomfortable okay,
and he flipped it like this. He looked at the
audience and he said, you know what I feel like
the band on the Titanic, and everybody got it, you
(11:06):
know what I mean. And people, if you're up there
and you're honest, and like Elvis says, you'd display a
little vulnerability. You know, they'll feel you, they'll give they'll
give audiences will give you a second chance. Now that
being said, the times that you don't get second chance
is if you get very very political and the audience
(11:28):
is is like, let's say you know, one on one side,
like you could do certain jokes in Manhattan and you
can't do those jokes on Long Island and vice versa.
You know what I mean. Yeah, so political jokes are different. Well,
they're different, and they're they're a little bit dangerous, and
you have to remember where you are. You have to
(11:48):
have a you know, a grip of the area.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That's a great answer. It's very long, but it's a
great answer. I got one.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Why where is your crappy background?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh god, let's no more questions.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I love that you asked that question. What is your
I know you've been heckled a lot. Has a heckler
ever made you cry?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, nobody. I've never
seen the you don't cry? And softball have you ever had?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Have you ever been heckled? And then you go home
and it it kind of sits with you for a
couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, I haven't been. I was heckled once and I'm
a I'm pretty big for a comedian. His comedian go,
you know, I'm an ex athlete and some guy heckled
me and I said, dude, I said save it. The
next comedian's five six, one hundred and forty pounds, he's
gonna take it. I said, I'm just going to come
(12:50):
out and smash your head off the table.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, it's as comedian, Yes, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I would like to know if there's any subject that's
off limits or do you tackle every subject out there?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
What's your name? Little girl?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Pretty much? Itand comedians? Okay? Who and what do you
find funny.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Comedically? I admire and love Colin Quinny. He's just a
brilliant man, his body of work. He gets mad at
me because I call him the Vincent Van Goe of comedy.
I'm like, when you're gone, people are gonna look at
your body of work and say you are a genius.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Not until he's gone.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Until he's gone, I tease him on that. I love
Colin Quinn. I like Bill Burr a lot, and I
also liked as a comedian that you guys, Ryan Hamilton is.
I really enjoy him a lot. But I've worked with
so many different comedians.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
But what type of comedy makes you?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What? What really makes you lose it?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
People? I like Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, not names of people.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But old people falling of someone formed down the flight
of stairs. Yes, they're hard, they're not well, you know.
She likes slapstick. I like, you know, I like the
the like the normic, not the surprised junk, you know,
punchlines like in other words, you don't see it coming.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I love that too, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And as those those things are like very hard to write,
you know what I mean, Like you can't like, I'll
give you a joke I wrote recently. Right. I got
married at fifty, right, so we decided not to have children,
and I was too old. Right, So we sat down
and we wanted to adopt. So we ran into an
unexpected hurdle. We couldn't agree on a child, and you
(14:52):
know we didn't. My wife wanted a boy seven or
eight Asian or Latino. I wanted a girl Russian about
thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And all right, Froggy ask the comedian, all right, gumba,
do you ever see somebody do a bit and you think, man,
that could have been way better.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They suck and then you kind of change it around
to make it your own.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
No, but I will go up to comedians. I mean, well,
look there, I'm gonna be honest with you. There's many
comedians that do different versions of the same bit. I mean, look,
I'm Italian, you know I do Italian stuff. I do
stuff on Italian wedding. Sebastian does Italian weddings, you know.
You know Anthony Rodilla does something on it.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Everybody does their own version of this. But I will
say you this when I do work with comedians, and
this happens often a lot of people don't see it backstage.
A comedian will get off stage and come backstage and
another comedian will grab them and go, hey, that bit
that you did about your mother, I got I gotta tag.
They call them tags the punchlines. He goes, I got
a tag for you that And the one thing that
(16:00):
I could pass on to you is from a comedian. Uh,
your jokes the way you do them now, they're never over.
You can always add to them. I have jokes that
I did ten years ago that I've expanded recently. They're
never done. You can always update and remind it. But
it's very common for comedians to go up to other
comedians and tell them, hey, that bit you do is fantastic,
(16:24):
but did you ever think of this?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And you're stolen joke though. I think that's another part
of Troggy's questioning me. If you were reconstructed someone else's
joke and made.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
It better, and this concepts and there's jokes. Ok okay,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I mean, no, I writ people off every day. I
don't care well. It always says if you steal from him,
you've stolen twice.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You know who said that too. Scott Shannon said that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, I stole it from him.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's scary. Our last question for asking me, how is your.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Act changed over the years in dealing with sensitive times
and snowflakes.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I feel like I straddle the fence. I try, and
you know, I'll feel the audience and you know, whichever
direction the audience tells me to go, I go. I mean,
I try not to be too offensive or hurt anybody,
but I definitely try to raise a few eyebrows during
my act. And you know, you just do the best
you can. Some comedians make a living living on the edge.
(17:25):
I make a committing living standing on the fence.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
All right, if you call on that fence, you're both
are gonna hurt. Just saying that was very nice, Thank you,
very nice.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Can I have the music please?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I'm not really satisfied with this asking comedians. I want
to ask a question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, why not, because I'm done with you. You're funnier than me.
I tell you, you brought the funny.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Back to our show today, and I want to thank
you for letting me have that opportunity to bring funny
and to me. I'm sure I.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Forgot you, Philippo, but you can call me phil phil
But I don't think you're You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You're on an aspiring comedian? Are you? Is just something
I'm trying to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I spent three weeks in the States and I did
a couple of mics I tried to do. I did
stand up in Chicago, and I did it in la
and I did it here. I mean, I'm just starting out.
But it's frightening and it's crazy because it's trying to
be funny in a language that is in yours. Is
tough because you think you've got you've got great jokes,
but people are just laughing.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And how you talk so well?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
How long? How long is your visa? How long will
you be here for?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I'm leaving today, Oh God, And when.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You come back, I'll bring you to one of my shows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I would love to be back very soon. Actually, my
dream is to move to New York, so one day
it will happen.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Come host this show whenever you want, like starting in
in one out music, please.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Hold.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
We had people calling in hello, kay, is that you
ok from Beautiful Day and Ohio listening your channel early nine?
I'm hoping, so I what is your question for? Ask
a comedian goomba Johnny.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I just wanted to know when people come up and say, hey,
tell me a joke, do you look at them and say, oh,
so you're a surgeon? Can you go ahead and take
my appendix out right now?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Exactly? Tell me be funny? Yeah, you gotta be funny.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Well that you know that does happen a lot. And
when they say that, I give them the location of
my next appearance. I tell them I'll be more than
happy to tell you a few jokes.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Okay, they do that to us, they do the laugh.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
To me, do the laugh, say that to say something funny,
and I will do the laft.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm even deeply more deeply insulted. Oh you do the
show right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's today's forecast? I don't know what the weather is.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh my god, he's got it wrong every time you
did it today. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, you don't do that too, Chimiams. Do you do
you ask comedians to be funny? Put them on the spot.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, what do you do for what do you do
for him?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Nurse?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Then can you come in and shave my ball? Oh
my god, it happen? Music, Please listen, Thank you, Kay,
thank you for listening to us. And you have a
great day. Okay, And but I know that nurses are
much more important than ball shaving.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I know it's not the only thing they do.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Now you do a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, No, thank god for nurses doctors who failed to exist.
Thank you, k thank you so much. O.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Can't wait till you go to the emergency room the
next time.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, No, nurses and teachers, we got him.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Look, Goomba Johnny is going to be at Avenel Performing
Arts Center this Saturday. For tickets and all the info,
head to Avenel Arts dot com or if you want
to see him at Palm Beach Kennel Club in Palm Beach, Florida,
which is such an interesting concept of a venue.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, well, it's an old dog track exactly. Yeah, it's
a comedy club. Yeah no, it's an old dog track.
It's owned by the Runeys. And to Pittsburgh Steelers. So
they closed the dog Track. They made half of it
into this beautiful poker room and the other half into
an entertainment center where they have comedy and uh and
and music. No old dogs are gonna show. No, but
(21:06):
the dog track is still there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And I'm gonna take my snalogies. It's funny. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We love you, Johnny, I love you Man, I love
all you guys, even uh, Filipo, even the real Italian today.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's nice. Absolutely, it is nice. You got a new
best friend.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, do you have Instagram in Italy?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah? You know what, who just arrived? We have water,
we do just like we do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe you could turn it into wine.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Is that funny?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's like a Jesus joke.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Music. Thank you, thank you, Elvis Duran in the Morning
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