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 is visiting from Italy. I don't know how to
turn his mind part of Italy. Well hold on, hold on, yeah,
hold on, we got to push a button. 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. Is that near luc It's I mean,
it's 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
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so Philippa likes to come to town once a
year to remind them they're not Italian. We've got lots
to talk about about your trip to New York.
Speaker 4 (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,
all right, I got music, I get my own if
ever you wanted to, if ever you've wanted to ask
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a comedian a question about their craft, about what motivates them,
About how much you get paid textas now at fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
One, How about my social Security number? We 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. Pretend he's not.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Your English is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thanks man. I really appreciate that. You were expecting like
a strong Italian accent, like ay everybody something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's kind of what we want. Yeah, yeah, exactly delivery
it'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whenever I speak to American people are pretty disappointed because
this is not the English, not expecting.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But comedy clubs and Italy.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, but unfortunately they're not cool as they are here
in the States. 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 you are, Like a jester.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, you we like comedy like this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, you're like you go into the piazza, you tell
the joke, people throw coins.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
At That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It's not like that here, kid, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Johnny is doing a show Avenue Performing Arts Center Saturday,
September fourteenth, that's Saturday, this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
At eight o'clock. I'm gonna be there. I have a
great line up to uh Laura High uh and Ethan
Corgano and it's hosted by Mike Scaley and I'm gonna
be obviously the head. And it's an Avenue, New Jersey,
which is a beautiful theater. By the way.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know who it manages telling her who manages Anthony Wilkinson,
Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony from Staten Island, Island.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You know what they call Staten Island like the New
York City its last Italy. 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 there's no I mean there's a language
barrier here.
Speaker 2 (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're saying like
a simple thing like how are you to be.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Like, yes, all right, if you know, like if you
were speaking Italian to me, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm not way with English. I can't even speak English.
So also, you're gonna play Palm Each Kennel Club in
Palm Beach, Florida, September twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The day before my birthday. That's my birthday show. And
the Pompeach Kettle Club in pomp 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 they're in
that area.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That I 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.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
They're all there, Yeah, it all ran.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm gonna give those dates and places again in a
few minutes. So you had a Danielle story.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
My Danielle story is a little embarrassing to the both
of us. Okay, So Danielle and I, as you know,
we're friend 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 arranged this date.
You know, it's very hard to schedule anything with us
because she has children and she's very busy. So we
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get a date and we decide to go to Houston's
in Paramus. Yeah, okay, 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
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our table. Now keep in mind we're the furthest point
if it's possible. 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 2 (05:41):
We'll see you're loud and telling the story. Were you
this loud?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We didn't. We had no idea.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The thing that place is loud restaurant. But you're both like,
I tell you why it's loud, because a restaurant will
become louder as loud, people become more loud. You understand
them saying. So with you two, and you just said
what I'm saying, ganis like, how did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They hear.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Aside of the room in the bathroom, you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Guys are loud. 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 1 (06:29):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Were you drinking?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Very very Italian?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Very Italian?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So what part of Italy? This is Sicily? Right here?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
This is probably the south?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, my last name is Siciliana.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, people from Sicilia very loud. So the reason why
they complained is you were the cause of the volume in.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The room, I think than me.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I thought they were coming over to like offer us
a free desert something like that. Would we'd love to
see one hundred we'd like to buy you?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Then what they would do, David, offer you a dessert
to go?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's one restaurant I'm taking him to next.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Almah, you can be very loud.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I think we could be loud there.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The people who own there are from Naples, they're from Napolis.
You're gonna be loud. Okay, So what was the they
walked away after asking you to shut up? Yeah, so
you must you must have giggled a little.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, it was so embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It was like, oh my gosh, we.
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.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So let's hear Houston to what town is in a premise?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Parmise or Hackensack Eside?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What's that mall? All right?
Speaker 3 (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 Danielson times when we're talking and I'm like, wow,
you just can't get rid of the Bronx forever. We're
talking hard we're hardcore Bronx to the end. And Daniel,
where we grew up in the same neighborhood. I don't
know if you're doing that. There was a loud neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Should we do? Ask a comedian, where's I hate this music?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I hate that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Ask a comedian do they want to flip? Flip? You
have to ask you whenever you're ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
I guess from Italy has a question?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
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 stand up in English 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? How do you
deal with that like a tough audience.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Having a little trouble with your English. Can you bring
that back in Italian's right?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Though you know scripted, 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. That's frightening.
It's frightening.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Then you do it, yes and no, okay, 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 audio it's decides
very quickly whether they like you or not. But if
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they 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
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 2 (10:27):
Really you should show your vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We'll show your vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You total audience, you fighting me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well yeah, all right, Look, I'll.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Give you give.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You a line that wait, four people. 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, uh, 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
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audience 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.
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You have to have a you know, a grip of
the area. That's a great answer. It's very long, but
it's a great answer. I got one. Why where is
your crappy background?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh god, no more questions. 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 (12:17):
Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, nobody. I've never
seen that. You don't crying? Softball?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Have you ever had? Have you ever been heckled? And
then you go home and it kind of sits with
you for a couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, I haven't been. I was heckled once, and I'm
a I'm pretty big for a comedian. Nice 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 2 (12:57):
It's as comedian, yes, Danielle.
Speaker 1 (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? There? You go?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Pretty much got it? Comedians? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
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 3 (13:39):
Not till he's gone, Til he's gone.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I tease him on that. I love Colin Quinn. I
like Bill Burr a lot, and I also liked there
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 2 (13:58):
But what type of comedy makes you left? What really makes.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You lose it? People? I like Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
No, not names of people, but old people falling.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Someone formed down the flight of stairs.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, she had well.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You know she likes slapstick. I like, uh, 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. I love that too, you know. 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
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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
know we didn't. My wife wanted a boy seven or
eight Asian or Latino. I wanted a girl Russian about
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thirty years old. And all right, Froggy ask the comedian Kumba.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Do you ever see somebody do a bit and you think, man,
that could have been way better. 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. You know.
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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 got
a tag. They call them tags the punchlines. He goes,
I got a tag for you that and the one
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thing that 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
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you do is fantastic, but did you ever think of this?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And you're stolen a joke though, I think that's another
part of Troggy's question. You're taking me if you were
reconstructed someone else's joke and made it better.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
The concepts and there's jokes. Okay, okay, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I mean no, I writ people off every day. I
don't care.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Always says if you steal from him, you've stolen twice.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You know. You know who said that to Scott Shannon
said that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well, I stole it from him. It's scary. Our last
question for asking me, how is your act.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
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. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
If you fall on that fence, your bulls are gonna hurt.
Just saying that was very nice, Thank.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You, very nice.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Can I have the music please?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm not really satisfied with this ask a comedians I
want to ask you ask a question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Come on, No, why not?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Because I'm done with you. You're funnier than me. I
tell you, you brought the funny back to our show today.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I don't want to thank you for letting me have
that opportunity to the funny and to me. I'm sure
I forgot.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You Philippo, but you can call me phil.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Phil But I don't think you're You're not. You're on
an aspiring comedian, are you. It's just something I'm trying
to Yeah. 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.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But it's frightening and it's crazy because it's trying to
be funny. A language that is in yours is tough
because you think you've got you've got great jokes, but
people are just laughing. And how you talk so well?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
How long? How long did your visa? How long will
you be here for? No, I'm leaving today, so when
you come back, I'll bring you to one of my shows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I would love to be back very soon.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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 like starting
in one out music.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Please hold on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
We have people calling in. Hello, Okay, is that you
okay from Beautiful Day and Ohio listening to your Channel
nine nine. I'm hoping. So what is your question for
ask a comedian gumba 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 kick
my appendix out right now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Tell me be funny. Yeah, you gotta go to kus
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, and I tell them I'll be more
than happy to tell you a few jokes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Okay, they do that to us, they do the laugh.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
To me, do the laugh. Say that to you say
something funny and I will do the laugh.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I'm even deeply more deeply insulted. Oh you do
the show right?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's today's forecast? I don't know what the weather is.
Oh my god, it's got it wrong every time you
did it today. So there you go. Okay, you don't
do that too, chamremians? Do you do you ask comedians
to be funny? Put them on the spot. No, what
do you do for today?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I do love them?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
What do you do for him?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Nurse? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Then can you come in and shave my ball?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Oh my god, I didn't have a music Please.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, thank you for listening to us, and you have
a great day. Okay, but I know that nurses are
much more important than ball shaving. I know it's not
the only thing they do. Now you do a lot. No, No,
thank god for nurses doctors who failed to exist. Thank you,
k thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I can't wait till you go to the emergency room
the next time.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No. No, nurses and teachers, we got them, I said, 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. Yeah, well,
it's an old dog track exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It comedy club.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah no, it's an old dog track. It's owned by
the Runey's and the 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.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No old dogs are gonna show.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, but the dog track is still there.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And I'm gonna take my snalogies.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I don't know. We love you, Johnny, I love you man,
I love all you guys, even uh, Filipo, even the
real Italian.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The only nice today.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Absolutely, it is nice. You got a new best friend? Yeah?
Do you have Instagram in Italy?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah? You know what, just arrived.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We have water, we do just like we do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe you could turn it into wine.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Is that funny?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's like a Jesus jokes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Good Bye, Johnny, 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 is visiting from Italy. I don't know how to
turn his mind part of Italy. Well hold on, hold on, yeah,
hold on, we got to push a button. 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. Is that near luc It's I mean,
it's 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
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so Philippa likes to come to town once a
year to remind them they're not Italian. We've got lots
to talk about about your trip to New York.
Speaker 4 (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,
all right, I got music, I get my own if
ever you wanted to, if ever you've wanted to ask
(01:18):
a comedian a question about their craft, about what motivates them,
About how much you get paid textas now at fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
One, How about my social Security number? We 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. Pretend he's not.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Your English is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thanks man. I really appreciate that. You were expecting like
a strong Italian accent, like ay everybody something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's kind of what we want. Yeah, yeah, exactly delivery
it'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whenever I speak to American people are pretty disappointed because
this is not the English, not expecting.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But comedy clubs and Italy.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, but unfortunately they're not cool as they are here
in the States. 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 you are, Like a jester.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, you we like comedy like this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, you're like you go into the piazza, you tell
the joke, people throw coins.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
At That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It's not like that here, kid, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Johnny is doing a show Avenue Performing Arts Center Saturday,
September fourteenth, that's Saturday, this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
At eight o'clock. I'm gonna be there. I have a
great line up to uh Laura High uh and Ethan
Corgano and it's hosted by Mike Scaley and I'm gonna
be obviously the head. And it's an Avenue, New Jersey,
which is a beautiful theater. By the way.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know who it manages telling her who manages Anthony Wilkinson,
Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony from Staten Island, Island.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You know what they call Staten Island like the New
York City its last Italy. 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 there's no I mean there's a language
barrier here.
Speaker 2 (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're saying like
a simple thing like how are you to be.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Like, yes, all right, if you know, like if you
were speaking Italian to me, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm not way with English. I can't even speak English.
So also, you're gonna play Palm Each Kennel Club in
Palm Beach, Florida, September twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The day before my birthday. That's my birthday show. And
the Pompeach Kettle Club in pomp 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 they're in
that area.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That I 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.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
They're all there, Yeah, it all ran.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm gonna give those dates and places again in a
few minutes. So you had a Danielle story.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
My Danielle story is a little embarrassing to the both
of us. Okay, So Danielle and I, as you know,
we're friend 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 arranged this date.
You know, it's very hard to schedule anything with us
because she has children and she's very busy. So we
(05:01):
get a date and we decide to go to Houston's
in Paramus. Yeah, okay, 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
(05:22):
our table. Now keep in mind we're the furthest point
if it's possible. 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 2 (05:41):
We'll see you're loud and telling the story. Were you
this loud?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We didn't. We had no idea.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The thing that place is loud restaurant. But you're both like,
I tell you why it's loud, because a restaurant will
become louder as loud, people become more loud. You understand
them saying. So with you two, and you just said
what I'm saying, ganis like, how did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They hear.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Aside of the room in the bathroom, you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Guys are loud. 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 1 (06:29):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Were you drinking?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Very very Italian?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Very Italian?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So what part of Italy? This is Sicily? Right here?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
This is probably the south?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, my last name is Siciliana.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, people from Sicilia very loud. So the reason why
they complained is you were the cause of the volume in.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The room, I think than me.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I thought they were coming over to like offer us
a free desert something like that. Would we'd love to
see one hundred we'd like to buy you?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Then what they would do, David, offer you a dessert
to go?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's one restaurant I'm taking him to next.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Almah, you can be very loud.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I think we could be loud there.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The people who own there are from Naples, they're from Napolis.
You're gonna be loud. Okay, So what was the they
walked away after asking you to shut up? Yeah, so
you must you must have giggled a little.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, it was so embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It was like, oh my gosh, we.
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.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So let's hear Houston to what town is in a premise?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Parmise or Hackensack Eside?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What's that mall? All right?
Speaker 3 (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 Danielson times when we're talking and I'm like, wow,
you just can't get rid of the Bronx forever. We're
talking hard we're hardcore Bronx to the end. And Daniel,
where we grew up in the same neighborhood. I don't
know if you're doing that. There was a loud neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Should we do? Ask a comedian, where's I hate this music?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I hate that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Ask a comedian do they want to flip? Flip? You
have to ask you whenever you're ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
I guess from Italy has a question?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
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 stand up in English 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? How do you
deal with that like a tough audience.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Having a little trouble with your English. Can you bring
that back in Italian's right?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Though you know scripted, 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. That's frightening.
It's frightening.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Then you do it, yes and no, okay, 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
(09:44):
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 audio it's decides
very quickly whether they like you or not. But if
(10:04):
they 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
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 2 (10:27):
Really you should show your vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We'll show your vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You total audience, you fighting me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well yeah, all right, Look, I'll.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Give you give.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You a line that wait, four people. 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, uh, 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
(11:27):
audience 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.
(11:48):
You have to have a you know, a grip of
the area. That's a great answer. It's very long, but
it's a great answer. I got one. Why where is
your crappy background?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh god, no more questions. 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 (12:17):
Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, nobody. I've never
seen that. You don't crying? Softball?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Have you ever had? Have you ever been heckled? And
then you go home and it kind of sits with
you for a couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, I haven't been. I was heckled once, and I'm
a I'm pretty big for a comedian. Nice 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
(12:51):
out and smash your head off the table.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's as comedian, yes, Danielle.
Speaker 1 (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? There? You go?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Pretty much got it? Comedians? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
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 3 (13:39):
Not till he's gone, Til he's gone.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I tease him on that. I love Colin Quinn. I
like Bill Burr a lot, and I also liked there
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 2 (13:58):
But what type of comedy makes you left? What really makes.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You lose it? People? I like Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
No, not names of people, but old people falling.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Someone formed down the flight of stairs.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, she had well.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You know she likes slapstick. I like, uh, 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. I love that too, you know. 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
(14:39):
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
know we didn't. My wife wanted a boy seven or
eight Asian or Latino. I wanted a girl Russian about
(14:59):
thirty years old. And all right, Froggy ask the comedian Kumba.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Do you ever see somebody do a bit and you think, man,
that could have been way better. 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. You know.
(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 got
a tag. They call them tags the punchlines. He goes,
I got a tag for you that and the one
(16:00):
thing that 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
(16:23):
you do is fantastic, but did you ever think of this?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And you're stolen a joke though, I think that's another
part of Troggy's question. You're taking me if you were
reconstructed someone else's joke and made it better.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
The concepts and there's jokes. Okay, okay, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I mean no, I writ people off every day. I
don't care.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Always says if you steal from him, you've stolen twice.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You know. You know who said that to Scott Shannon
said that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well, I stole it from him. It's scary. Our last
question for asking me, how is your act.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
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. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
If you fall on that fence, your bulls are gonna hurt.
Just saying that was very nice, Thank.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You, very nice.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Can I have the music please?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm not really satisfied with this ask a comedians I
want to ask you ask a question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Come on, No, why not?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Because I'm done with you. You're funnier than me. I
tell you, you brought the funny back to our show today.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I don't want to thank you for letting me have
that opportunity to the funny and to me. I'm sure
I forgot.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You Philippo, but you can call me phil.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Phil But I don't think you're You're not. You're on
an aspiring comedian, are you. It's just something I'm trying
to Yeah. 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.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But it's frightening and it's crazy because it's trying to
be funny. A language that is in yours is tough
because you think you've got you've got great jokes, but
people are just laughing. And how you talk so well?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
How long? How long did your visa? How long will
you be here for? No, I'm leaving today, so when
you come back, I'll bring you to one of my shows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I would love to be back very soon.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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 like starting
in one out music.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Please hold on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
We have people calling in. Hello, Okay, is that you
okay from Beautiful Day and Ohio listening to your Channel
nine nine. I'm hoping. So what is your question for
ask a comedian gumba 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 kick
my appendix out right now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Tell me be funny. Yeah, you gotta go to kus
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, and I tell them I'll be more
than happy to tell you a few jokes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Okay, they do that to us, they do the laugh.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
To me, do the laugh. Say that to you say
something funny and I will do the laugh.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I'm even deeply more deeply insulted. Oh you do
the show right?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's today's forecast? I don't know what the weather is.
Oh my god, it's got it wrong every time you
did it today. So there you go. Okay, you don't
do that too, chamremians? Do you do you ask comedians
to be funny? Put them on the spot. No, what
do you do for today?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I do love them?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
What do you do for him?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Nurse? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Then can you come in and shave my ball?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Oh my god, I didn't have a music Please.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, thank you for listening to us, and you have
a great day. Okay, but I know that nurses are
much more important than ball shaving. I know it's not
the only thing they do. Now you do a lot. No, No,
thank god for nurses doctors who failed to exist. Thank you,
k thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I can't wait till you go to the emergency room
the next time.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No. No, nurses and teachers, we got them, I said, 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. Yeah, well,
it's an old dog track exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It comedy club.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah no, it's an old dog track. It's owned by
the Runey's and the 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.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No old dogs are gonna show.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, but the dog track is still there.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And I'm gonna take my snalogies.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I don't know. We love you, Johnny, I love you man,
I love all you guys, even uh, Filipo, even the
real Italian.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The only nice today.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Absolutely, it is nice. You got a new best friend? Yeah?
Do you have Instagram in Italy?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah? You know what, just arrived.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We have water, we do just like we do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe you could turn it into wine.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Is that funny?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It's like a Jesus jokes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Good Bye, Johnny, thank you, thank you. Elvis Duran in
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