November 11, 2025 • 27 mins
They call him the “Italian Hurricane,” but Vic DiBitetto is more than just the man behind the legendary Bread & Milk rant. In this episode of Michelle Barone RED, Vic joins Michelle and Ashleigh for an unfiltered, laugh-out-loud conversation about comedy, family, and fighting for your dreams even when the world says no.
From growing up in Brooklyn to selling out theaters across the country, Vic opens up about the grind behind his overnight success, the pressures of going viral, and the heart that keeps him grounded. With stories that are as heartfelt as they are hilarious, this episode proves that persistence—and a sense of humor—really can change everything. Tune in for a mix of laughs, life lessons, and that unmistakable Vic DiBitetto energy that will leave you feeling inspired and smiling long after the episode ends.
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From growing up in Brooklyn to selling out theaters across the country, Vic opens up about the grind behind his overnight success, the pressures of going viral, and the heart that keeps him grounded. With stories that are as heartfelt as they are hilarious, this episode proves that persistence—and a sense of humor—really can change everything. Tune in for a mix of laughs, life lessons, and that unmistakable Vic DiBitetto energy that will leave you feeling inspired and smiling long after the episode ends.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to arid Red. It's Michelle Baron alongside my co host,
the Glamour Girl, Ashley McPherson.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh my god, I'm the Glamour Girl today. Guys, can
you believe this? I'm the chosen one today?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are you? You look so cute? I'm like obsessed
with your entire outfit.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, I got to give a shout out to Dominique
Banks because he's the one who created this shout out.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I love him. He's the best, and I love your
blue turtle Mack.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you, dummy. Is so funny.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
We were texting in the group chat a few weeks ago.
If you don't know, he's like our team stylist. Yes,
and I sent a video of some dress and I
was like, I want this. He's sent me a zoomed
in picture and showed me five things wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He was like, no, you don't. He's the best.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
He is the best, the best of the best.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And we have someone here today who is a staple
in the Italian community.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He's the funniest guy on the planet. I've seen him live.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I love him every time I look in on my
left because I see him on my for you page
and all I do is crack up at his content.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's vict bottetto welcome to Red Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 5 (01:28):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing seeing how mental health actually affects people.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean the guests that we've had on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
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it's a serious topic.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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Speaker 4 (02:35):
Just looking at me, I remember I make you laugh.
I'm a clown, my.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Got Well, You're like a real life clown. Every time
I see them, I'm like, I crack up.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Well, first, I gotta say about the turtleneck. I love
the turtleneck, beautiful. I love your routfit, but I want
the cost I'm not making this up. I went the
Costco last week look at for turtlenecks. They had them,
but they're not called turtlenecks anymore bunnalnecks.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I ask lady, I hate that.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The lady said it's offensive to turtles. I'm go in
the sports section, get a bat and just hit me
right here as hard as you. Just take me out
right here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's you know what ticks me off?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But too fine away Like I love that song.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I got a sound. Guy's going, what the hell's he doing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Vic? Seriously, why do you get so ticked off all
the time?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Of course I'm just getting up and going out into
the world. Ticks you off? See tiktoff Vic. There's a
tick too, a thick in all of us.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
When if I do a TikTok, people relate to it.
And I have to do it in my car because
the acoustics is perfect, and if it did in the house,
my wife would throw a dish at me. But after
the tiktof VIX, if you see them, I spit in
my scream. I have to wipe down the dashboard with
with armor role because I spit and I get into it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You get ticked off.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
TikTok thick, all right?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I feel it's a great little skit you have it's
funny as hell, and you do get pissed.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I do. I mean, look, it's it's on YouTube, face Book, Instagram.
Your sisters asked, the pony is Press. It's on every
you know, people say when you do your introt, this
is how fucking stuked? Can I courage?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah? Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
How fucking stupid people are because in my intro I go, hey,
what do you hear what they say? My Facebook? YouTube,
twit an, Instagram, Google Plus. Your sisters asked the pony
is Press. People say, there's no there's no more Google
Google Plus. Well there's no more pony Express either. You
a fucking idiot. That's the fat sunce. You understand it's fast,
it's a joke.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh my god. That really they come at you for that. Yes,
then you get tato this.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Thing I did a video or I'm out one another
one that won viral. I'm outside pouring rain and I'm
eating soup. I don't say a word, I'm just eating
soup and it's pouring rain. And it went viral in
this country, in the UK and in the background I
have trees and some person rites, I don't understand it's
raining in front of you. But not behind you. It's
(04:55):
a fucking video. I had a fucking garden holes duct
taped to an umbrella. That's why I made the dude
that it's raining.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh my god. They don't get it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Look, the social media got me my following, yep, but
now it's turned into a shit show. It's like people
get they just fucking nice, lol, would be.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Nice, Yeah, just a little fun fuck exactly, you're just
about copy.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They'll have a laugh.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's like just too short, exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm exhausted already.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You're tired. It's only been two minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'm doing all the talking here.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh my well, listen, there's me some questions, all.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Right, all right, So I want to know how'd you
get started. I know the bread and milk video was
a big one for you, but were you like that before?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, let me explain about bread and milk. That was
the first video that happened to go viral. That was
twenty thirteen. I've been doing these videos since two thousand
and nine. Wow, the beauty of bread and milk. It
comes back every winter. I was telling you before we
were filming. It comes back every winter. It's like Christmas carols. Yeah,
every year. It's right now, it's up to forty million views.
Amazing just on Facebook. Wow, every winter it goes up
(05:55):
a few million.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Twenty six seconds from my house to the car. Yeah,
I am was deleted. I thought it was stupid.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Are you glad you didn't?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Absolutely? I monetized it, and you know, I got a
following and I saw, wow, this is pretty cool. I
can make money and now I do them every day.
I do the Giants, the Yankees, yep, TikTok vic. I
have the nosy neighbor. Have my mother in law, may
she rest in peace. I have Eddie, my cat, my
wife once in a while when she's in the mood
because she hates the camera. But I have a huge following,
(06:23):
and it's it's just gratifying. I'm doing stand up forty
two years and the social media is just an extra supplement.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Did you ever think you'd get this far?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, did you think Tony Gaga, one of your characters,
the two dollars and would get you here?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Well, that character wasn't over the top character. Look, because
I lived in Staten Island most of my life. Yeah,
I have a lot of memories here. I bought my
first house here. I bought my kids were born here.
I drove a school bus for Pioneer, right up the road,
on off the kill road.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I did that for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We had a neighbor who had the guinea t He
had the black sox and the slippers, and he, you know,
whatever you did, he had to do better. Hey, Vic,
I sure you got Pavis for the fool. Yeah, what's
your pay? Two hundred dollars. I know a guy. You're
a guy. Fucker for two hundred dollars. You gotta go
to the guy. So I called the character Tony Gaga,
(07:18):
and that stupid character got me in a movie. Kevin
James called me. He says, I saw that thing. Call
Tony got God. He gave me an idea. And he
even uses the line in more Cop two. I got
a guy, I know, never know who sees and who's watching.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I got a guy is so relatable to the Italian culture,
to the Staten Island culture, New York culture.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
We all got a guy.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The Italians we have a knack for turning one sentence
into one word. The best example is Robert de Niro
More Cop No Raging Bull raiging bull. They're in the kitchen,
him and Peschi. They're in the kitchen. So instead of
saying how long do I have to wait? He goes, oh,
I know, wait, oh wait.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
One word, beauty.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's the genius of battalions. I got a guy's one word.
I got a guy, not I have a guy, or
I got a guy.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's right, that's gee.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So the two dollars, where did you come up with that?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How did you?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Was it him? That was.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Made a stupid thing because everybody's paying four hundred dollars
for payment. I know a guy, everything's two dollars. I
got fans that bringing two dollar bills at my meet
and greets, and they asked me to sign.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We need two dollars. Yeah, we need two dollars. We
got to get them decided this is funny ship. Come on,
I don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We got this something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All I know is I said that line forever. And
then I saw you live in person in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You came to my comedy comedy club. Give it up
up for them.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They're actually a part of mahoney Now Yeah, right, guy, great,
great guy? And you were hysterical. I mean we could
not stop laughing the whole night. And I swear like
that's become a thing in my relationship with my husband.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Everything's two dollars. We still joke about it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And when my husband found out I was coming here today,
he's like, oh my god, that is crazy because we've
been following you forever.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So gratifying to hear that. I mean, now in a
social media how about the bit I did that who
wants coffee?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Who wants coffee? Another huge one.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
People are using that audio all over TikTok and like
there'll be a guy in a balcony with a cup
of coffee over and look in the ocean and you
hear my audio. Anybody want coffee? I don't mind, but
can you give me a little credit like a low
a hand corner audio depato?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, but give me something?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But you know what it's on the audio right, Yeah,
but at least you get that. But I hear you, like,
come on, I mean, I made this thing so wild,
you know, so big a bone.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well you know what, afterwards, we'll do that TikTok. We'll
throw you the bone. We got nice.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So what's been your most iconic moment. I mean, you've
had so many viral videos, so many people do skits
with your audios.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Right, iconic video moments or yeah, let's.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do a video moment and then we'll do reality, you know,
real life.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Well, obviously bread and Milk. That was the first one
on viral. But then when the COVID hit during the pandemic,
I did one called message to the government, a TikTok
vic about how about twelve hundred dollars stimulus check isn't
gonna do shit the American That one viral. Yeah, that
one really hit a nerve because people were down and out. Yeah,
and that one really hit a nerve, and all my
(10:38):
shows were canceled. I was home doing the videos and
I get that all the time because now people are
staying home. Yeah, and they would tell me, Vic, I
just want to thank you. You got me through COVID.
You got me to the pandemic. Is that you know,
when you hit stuff like that, it doesn't compare to
any standing ovation or sold out show. No, people tell
you you got me to my chemo therapy. Yeah, I
(10:59):
had a soldier and I've got this. Dan emails me.
He says, dude, your videos got me from putting a
gun in my mouth. I mean, come on, how fucking great?
You know the point. I'm not saying the gun in
the mouth that fucking it's just gratifying.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Look, I'm not There's different levels of success. You got
this man of Scalco's, you got the Bill Burrs, you
got the Chippel's people always. How come you're not doing
Madis Square Garden? How come you're not in this sitcom?
Have a nice life, you know. I make people laugh,
I got a beautiful family. I'm booked at the end
of twenty twenty six. I have the most loyal, supportive
(11:36):
fans that still buy tickets. Yep. I'm in a nice position.
I can't complain. Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And you're great at what you do.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think you're so creative to come up with these characters.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I wish I was that creative. You'd see it all
of my social media if I could do that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
My favorite content the videos is a whole nother animal
from the stand up, because you got to come up.
I'm not blowing smoke up my own ass, but you go,
my I have over twenty thousand videos. You know my
YouTube channel. Like you just said, there's different characters. I
even imitate Stallone, I imitate a scar face and Rodney.
(12:13):
I got my mother in law, I got Eddie, my cat,
I got the Giants, the Yankees, the nosy neighbor, Michelle,
the produce girl at Wegman's, and Manalopin is just endless.
It's not the same thing all the time. It's and it's.
Facebook is different than YouTube. It's like a chess game.
YouTube is different than Facebook. Facebook's different than Instagram. But
(12:35):
you know what the beauty of it is here. I
am the sixty four year old chutch using the social media,
which is mostly good for the younger generation, and it's
pretty gratify. I got kids, people of all ages that
come to I had a show one night, a ninety
one year old woman and a twelve year old kid
at the meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So now I'm getting second and third generation seeing my shows.
I'm doing this forty two years.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's amazing. Forty Did you ever think you'd hit like this?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Honestly, I thought I'd be driving a school bus the
rest of my life at a pioneer. I never thought,
you know what it was around twenty sixteen, that's it
was the perfect storm. Kevin James puts me in a movie,
Bread of Milk went viral. I signed with a manager
and me my wife also worked in the bus with me.
She was a matron because we had special ed kids,
(13:23):
and you have somebody watched the kids. So me and
my wife we sacrificed both of our salaries because my
manager said, you don't need to have two jobs. You
could do comedy full time. And I just handed him
my calendar and he doubled and tripled my He's got
a big a lot to do with the success. Russell,
my manager, he's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He saw the town.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Who you know and who knows who knows you?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's right, that's right, that's so sure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, she's gonna use that forever.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah it's a brutal business. Yeah, yeah, it's a brutal business.
I'm doing you know how I look at it, I'm
doing better than most, not as good as some. Yep,
and that's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
No, it's excellent.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And how if you had the perfect world, how far
do you want to take it?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
If everything has stayed away. It is right now. I'm happy,
but I like to be in another movie.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Two.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Absolutely, I'd love to be in a sitcom. Of course,
I don't want to be the main star. Make me
the uncle.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Crazy uncle could be so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Everything else is gravy. Right now, I'm happy. I'm paying
my bills, I gotta. I own a flat in Scotland.
I got a beautiful house. I drive a Lexus. My
kids are happy and healthy. I got a beautiful wife.
Come on, you look at the news. You know what.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Fuck.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I might have.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Complained for real, but you know what, it's that attitude
that gets you far because you're still after it and
you're you're so grateful. I think too, another thing. Maybe
you could be in a sitcom as a school bus driver.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Want me to do?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You got to do something with the school bus driver character,
because that's some funny stuff right there.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I was thinking of doing a one man play. Yes,
that's come out like a bus, like a card boar
and cut out of lush. And before that, I drove
a garbage truck. Do you want to hear a great story?
I drove my garbage truck the danger fields of Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
One o'clock in the morning. I told the manager, if
I pick up your garbage, can you give me stage time.
That's how I broke into Dangerfields picking up their fucking garbage. Stop,
went on stage, did the show on my uniform. As
I'm pulling away, I'm honking the horn. The audience is
waving out no way. That was nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That's amazing. So do you do all your own social media?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I have my manager who helps me and I have
we no pun in time. Then I got a guy
that does the editing and the special effects, but it's
basically just me and my manager.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, when you look back at all the things
you've done, all the videos and characters you've created, what's
your favorite.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
My favorite character is Rocky, and my manager plays Mickey.
And right now there's a video of me and him.
It's over a million views. We're not even making sentences,
he's just doing Mickey ah and I'm like fucking thirty
seconds and it's over a million views right now. It's
(16:11):
just the stupidest things. It's a crap shoot. You don't
know what's gonna go viral.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's just yeah, and you saying that it really is
because he's had so many viral videos.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So if we could do a video right here, right now,
what should we do.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Right here, right now?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
What would we do?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
God?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I know he's looking around. Hold on, yeah, you gotta
see what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Well, you got the what I call that thing from
Star Wars over here?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, I call that there?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
You go?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Who does it come off?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Let's see? I'm sure, but you gotta see.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Well, it will come off, and it's gonna be it's wired, okay, gentle, right,
are we having a late a labor?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Star? What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Labor? It's a we.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Can't Does it come off? But we'll the light go off?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Stay on?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Are we having a davy? You gotta film this? Are
we having a war?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, this is fall on my lead? Okay, all right, No,
this is a TikTok right here.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Come on, gah, just do your thing?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
All right, all right, let's do this? What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You ready? Here?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We are right now?
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Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
That was fucking hysterical. I don't know where you come
up with this shit me neither.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
My mind is always moving, my mother used to say,
an idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And when I'm home, when I have no show, I
mean I did a video once. I'm in a suit,
driving my ride on MOA up my block and my
neighbors are used to she's on the phone. Hey, Vic
didn't even acknowledge I'm gonna ride on Moah, I'm in
a suit.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That is so funny. What is your neighborhood think to
very support you?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Especially Alan, the nosy neighbor. Yeah, that is a guy,
my neighbor. I just decided to put him in one
of my videos. And he's actually a nosy neighbor. But
he's such a character. He's lovable. And now when I'm
in my shows, people go, hey, how's Alan, how's your
mother in law? How's Eddie? To cut this daring my
act I'm getting I'm getting heckled by my own material
(19:51):
now that I love it, they really are.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh absolutely. Where's your favorite city to perform in?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Of course the trit New York, New Jersey. Look that's
where I'm from, Trit. When I say Tri, date New York,
even New England, even Florida, because wherever I go, it's
all the New York New Jersey transplants. Yeah. Yeah, So
you never see me in Boise, Idaho. Let's put it
that way.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I have a friend out there. She might be she'd
come to your show.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, you can always come back to Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, when you're from.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Gypsy, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's on the.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, we have account, So tell us about your calendar.
Where can people find it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Videbitteto dot net. You gotta spell my name right. It's
deep potato, not the benedetto, not diabetes, not geppetto, not
the potato. I can I plug some dates?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Plug everything? He's digging over here.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Let's see sitting on my dates when I had him
here somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Hold on, are you move to mic? Oh? He might.
He's falling out of his chair here.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Oh little here it is a professional assist, pulled up
post it with fucking crayon.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
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Speaker 3 (21:06):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Look at this? Okay? September twenty seventh, Tarrytown Music Hall.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yes we can go to all right.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Let me know. I'll get your tickets right September. What's eleven?
What month is that? November?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
With this November first, the count Base Theater at Red Bank,
New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I love that Bank.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
November fifteenth the Westbury Music Fair and Long Got Island
and the Big One. December fifth, hard Rock Casino in
Atlantic City.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I always go to the venue. Yeah, I always deal
with the venue. Don't go I'm not. I don't mean
you guys are getting tickets. I mean my friends, honey,
go directly to the venue, go to a third party,
and I get ripped off.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, and then they yell at.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Me why you're so expensive? Why you're a fucking idiot?
Go to the venue?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why why are they allowed to do that like these
other third party sites?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
How is that allowed?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
How was anything allowed in this world?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, it's not right. You do get ripped off.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It's wrong, Nikki, it's wrong. You know, mark it out. Okay,
all right, that was Rodney Rodney.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
How's he doing?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
He passed away?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I know he did.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It's like, you know Rodney Rodney danger.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh god, yeah I know him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Good, you both know the same Rodney Rodney.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't know, I had a friend. Listen. That's all right,
that's all right. So I have one more questions.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's all. Just one more.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, no, no, we talk more. But we talked.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
We talked about your most psiconic moment on video. I
want to talk about your most iconic moment in real life.
Your shows, press conferences, red carpets, give it to.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Me, Grand Marshall of the San Gennaro Festival.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He was our contact to get a float right before COVID.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Oh no, it was amazing. My wife was there, my
kids were there on our own float with my name.
I actually spelt the name right and it was packed
and they said I was the only Grand Marshal. I
literally jumped off the float and shook hands. They said,
no Grand Marshal ever did that. You know, being an
Italian American, that's a pretty nice honor.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It is, but.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I guess Roasting the Sopranos, Yeah, I did that at
the Brownstone and Pattison, which was in the bed area,
and that was my opening joke. Welcome to the Pattison,
the only place you get your car valet and carjacked
within one block. Roasted James Gandolfini, who was a sweetheart
Tony Cirrico. Because we did a show called Comedy You
(23:48):
Can't Refuse. It was a variety show. Steve Shirrippa and
Michael Iperryoli Day were the host. They would, you know,
talk about the sopranos that I was the comedian portion.
It was pretty comedy you can't refuse. We did that
a few times.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not really starstruck. I
met I'm kind of friends with Chads Palmon Theory. He
was a sweetheart. Yeah, I want to see his play.
He got me backstage. It was you know, I just
I don't know, and just so many.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You've done so much in your life, and it's crazy because,
like you said, I thought it was going to be
a bus driver my whole life. Yeah, but you took
a risk and you've believed in yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And you know, we talk a lot about mental health
on this show. Mental Health America of Dutchess County is
a partner of ours. Have you ever faced any challenges
that you know you could tell people about that would
inspire them to overcome whatever they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I do it all the time. I get messages all
the time. Vicky. You're an inspiration because I have this
thing I say, never give up, never surrender. Yep, you know,
keep on fighting no matter what happens. You never because
you never know what tomorrow brings. You know. There's been
times I've been in the hotel rooms depressed, you know,
wondering where my career is going, and you know, I
was driving the school bus during the day and doing
(25:02):
the shows at night. I was like a zombie by
the end of the week. And but you know, and
lo and behold the manager comes along, Kevin James, Bread
of Milk, And you know, the career was going like this.
COVID came. It kind of leveled off. But now it's
it's back on a little upswing. Now. You know, COVID
(25:23):
was horrible. All my shows are canceled. I'm doing virtual
shows on my computer. Was horrible. You need a live audience.
Do you need that instant feedback? I can't do the
shit on a zoom No.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But you know what, a lot of the videos took
off at that time.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The videos is different. That's the beauty. Yeah, I have
the videos and the stand up to. All my personal
shows are canceled. I was making money from the videos,
so I was monetizing them.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And I think a lot of people in entertainment didn't
capitalize on that, like you did, right, you know, So.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I did it just at the right time. Yep, I
said before I'm sixty four, you know, you know, you
know now it's it's just everybody on it. Now everybody's
have you seen this kid that as like he's a horse.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
No, what what I got to see her for you?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Page goes with the stores and he starts. You know,
it's all he does. But see, that's my kind of humor.
I grew up with the Three Stooges having a costello.
I like Stupid Yuma, Aunty Python, you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Know, the three they were the best, the best. There's
nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I got videos right, put in the sound effects one
the Three Stooges. I have a phony bat and a
phony of Annville and we did a couple of os
and it's just I love comedy. You need it, No
world needs it more than ever we do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And uh listen, if you're on vixed page, make sure
you drop a kind comments. That's what the world's all about,
a funny one. We want some good stuff out there.
VIC drop one more line of inspiration here for all
those listening.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
One more line of inspiration. Surround yourself with positive people.
That's very important. So once you give into that negativity,
it's going to rub off on you. Just look at
them in your rearview mirror and surround yourself with positive
people and keep your circle small.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I love it, amazing, Victi Botello, everybody on Red.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Will see you next week. Bye,
Welcome to arid Red. It's Michelle Baron alongside my co host,
the Glamour Girl, Ashley McPherson.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh my god, I'm the Glamour Girl today. Guys, can
you believe this? I'm the chosen one today?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are you? You look so cute? I'm like obsessed
with your entire outfit.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, I got to give a shout out to Dominique
Banks because he's the one who created this shout out.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I love him. He's the best, and I love your
blue turtle Mack.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you, dummy. Is so funny.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
We were texting in the group chat a few weeks ago.
If you don't know, he's like our team stylist. Yes,
and I sent a video of some dress and I
was like, I want this. He's sent me a zoomed
in picture and showed me five things wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He was like, no, you don't. He's the best.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
He is the best, the best of the best.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And we have someone here today who is a staple
in the Italian community.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He's the funniest guy on the planet. I've seen him live.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I love him every time I look in on my
left because I see him on my for you page
and all I do is crack up at his content.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's vict bottetto welcome to Red Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
What an intro.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hey, guys, before today's episode, I want to talk to
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mental health.
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Speaker 5 (01:28):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing seeing how mental health actually affects people.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean the guests that we've had on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
We've talked about mental health in almost every episode, and
it's a serious topic.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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Speaker 4 (02:35):
Just looking at me, I remember I make you laugh.
I'm a clown, my.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Got Well, You're like a real life clown. Every time
I see them, I'm like, I crack up.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Well, first, I gotta say about the turtleneck. I love
the turtleneck, beautiful. I love your routfit, but I want
the cost I'm not making this up. I went the
Costco last week look at for turtlenecks. They had them,
but they're not called turtlenecks anymore bunnalnecks.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I ask lady, I hate that.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The lady said it's offensive to turtles. I'm go in
the sports section, get a bat and just hit me
right here as hard as you. Just take me out
right here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's you know what ticks me off?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But too fine away Like I love that song.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I got a sound. Guy's going, what the hell's he doing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Vic? Seriously, why do you get so ticked off all
the time?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Of course I'm just getting up and going out into
the world. Ticks you off? See tiktoff Vic. There's a
tick too, a thick in all of us.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
When if I do a TikTok, people relate to it.
And I have to do it in my car because
the acoustics is perfect, and if it did in the house,
my wife would throw a dish at me. But after
the tiktof VIX, if you see them, I spit in
my scream. I have to wipe down the dashboard with
with armor role because I spit and I get into it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You get ticked off.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
TikTok thick, all right?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I feel it's a great little skit you have it's
funny as hell, and you do get pissed.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I do. I mean, look, it's it's on YouTube, face Book, Instagram.
Your sisters asked, the pony is Press. It's on every
you know, people say when you do your introt, this
is how fucking stuked? Can I courage?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah? Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
How fucking stupid people are because in my intro I go, hey,
what do you hear what they say? My Facebook? YouTube,
twit an, Instagram, Google Plus. Your sisters asked the pony
is Press. People say, there's no there's no more Google
Google Plus. Well there's no more pony Express either. You
a fucking idiot. That's the fat sunce. You understand it's fast,
it's a joke.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh my god. That really they come at you for that. Yes,
then you get tato this.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Thing I did a video or I'm out one another
one that won viral. I'm outside pouring rain and I'm
eating soup. I don't say a word, I'm just eating
soup and it's pouring rain. And it went viral in
this country, in the UK and in the background I
have trees and some person rites, I don't understand it's
raining in front of you. But not behind you. It's
(04:55):
a fucking video. I had a fucking garden holes duct
taped to an umbrella. That's why I made the dude
that it's raining.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh my god. They don't get it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Look, the social media got me my following, yep, but
now it's turned into a shit show. It's like people
get they just fucking nice, lol, would be.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Nice, Yeah, just a little fun fuck exactly, you're just
about copy.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They'll have a laugh.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's like just too short, exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm exhausted already.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You're tired. It's only been two minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'm doing all the talking here.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh my well, listen, there's me some questions, all.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Right, all right, So I want to know how'd you
get started. I know the bread and milk video was
a big one for you, but were you like that before?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, let me explain about bread and milk. That was
the first video that happened to go viral. That was
twenty thirteen. I've been doing these videos since two thousand
and nine. Wow, the beauty of bread and milk. It
comes back every winter. I was telling you before we
were filming. It comes back every winter. It's like Christmas carols. Yeah,
every year. It's right now, it's up to forty million views.
Amazing just on Facebook. Wow, every winter it goes up
(05:55):
a few million.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Twenty six seconds from my house to the car. Yeah,
I am was deleted. I thought it was stupid.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Are you glad you didn't?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Absolutely? I monetized it, and you know, I got a
following and I saw, wow, this is pretty cool. I
can make money and now I do them every day.
I do the Giants, the Yankees, yep, TikTok vic. I
have the nosy neighbor. Have my mother in law, may
she rest in peace. I have Eddie, my cat, my
wife once in a while when she's in the mood
because she hates the camera. But I have a huge following,
(06:23):
and it's it's just gratifying. I'm doing stand up forty
two years and the social media is just an extra supplement.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Did you ever think you'd get this far?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, did you think Tony Gaga, one of your characters,
the two dollars and would get you here?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Well, that character wasn't over the top character. Look, because
I lived in Staten Island most of my life. Yeah,
I have a lot of memories here. I bought my
first house here. I bought my kids were born here.
I drove a school bus for Pioneer, right up the road,
on off the kill road.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I did that for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We had a neighbor who had the guinea t He
had the black sox and the slippers, and he, you know,
whatever you did, he had to do better. Hey, Vic,
I sure you got Pavis for the fool. Yeah, what's
your pay? Two hundred dollars. I know a guy. You're
a guy. Fucker for two hundred dollars. You gotta go
to the guy. So I called the character Tony Gaga,
(07:18):
and that stupid character got me in a movie. Kevin
James called me. He says, I saw that thing. Call
Tony got God. He gave me an idea. And he
even uses the line in more Cop two. I got
a guy, I know, never know who sees and who's watching.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I got a guy is so relatable to the Italian culture,
to the Staten Island culture, New York culture.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
We all got a guy.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The Italians we have a knack for turning one sentence
into one word. The best example is Robert de Niro
More Cop No Raging Bull raiging bull. They're in the kitchen,
him and Peschi. They're in the kitchen. So instead of
saying how long do I have to wait? He goes, oh,
I know, wait, oh wait.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
One word, beauty.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's the genius of battalions. I got a guy's one word.
I got a guy, not I have a guy, or
I got a guy.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's right, that's gee.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So the two dollars, where did you come up with that?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How did you?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Was it him? That was.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Made a stupid thing because everybody's paying four hundred dollars
for payment. I know a guy, everything's two dollars. I
got fans that bringing two dollar bills at my meet
and greets, and they asked me to sign.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We need two dollars. Yeah, we need two dollars. We
got to get them decided this is funny ship. Come on,
I don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We got this something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All I know is I said that line forever. And
then I saw you live in person in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You came to my comedy comedy club. Give it up
up for them.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They're actually a part of mahoney Now Yeah, right, guy, great,
great guy? And you were hysterical. I mean we could
not stop laughing the whole night. And I swear like
that's become a thing in my relationship with my husband.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Everything's two dollars. We still joke about it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And when my husband found out I was coming here today,
he's like, oh my god, that is crazy because we've
been following you forever.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So gratifying to hear that. I mean, now in a
social media how about the bit I did that who
wants coffee?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Who wants coffee? Another huge one.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
People are using that audio all over TikTok and like
there'll be a guy in a balcony with a cup
of coffee over and look in the ocean and you
hear my audio. Anybody want coffee? I don't mind, but
can you give me a little credit like a low
a hand corner audio depato?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, but give me something?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But you know what it's on the audio right, Yeah,
but at least you get that. But I hear you, like,
come on, I mean, I made this thing so wild,
you know, so big a bone.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well you know what, afterwards, we'll do that TikTok. We'll
throw you the bone. We got nice.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So what's been your most iconic moment. I mean, you've
had so many viral videos, so many people do skits
with your audios.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Right, iconic video moments or yeah, let's.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do a video moment and then we'll do reality, you know,
real life.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Well, obviously bread and Milk. That was the first one
on viral. But then when the COVID hit during the pandemic,
I did one called message to the government, a TikTok
vic about how about twelve hundred dollars stimulus check isn't
gonna do shit the American That one viral. Yeah, that
one really hit a nerve because people were down and out. Yeah,
and that one really hit a nerve, and all my
(10:38):
shows were canceled. I was home doing the videos and
I get that all the time because now people are
staying home. Yeah, and they would tell me, Vic, I
just want to thank you. You got me through COVID.
You got me to the pandemic. Is that you know,
when you hit stuff like that, it doesn't compare to
any standing ovation or sold out show. No, people tell
you you got me to my chemo therapy. Yeah, I
(10:59):
had a soldier and I've got this. Dan emails me.
He says, dude, your videos got me from putting a
gun in my mouth. I mean, come on, how fucking great?
You know the point. I'm not saying the gun in
the mouth that fucking it's just gratifying.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Look, I'm not There's different levels of success. You got
this man of Scalco's, you got the Bill Burrs, you
got the Chippel's people always. How come you're not doing
Madis Square Garden? How come you're not in this sitcom?
Have a nice life, you know. I make people laugh,
I got a beautiful family. I'm booked at the end
of twenty twenty six. I have the most loyal, supportive
(11:36):
fans that still buy tickets. Yep. I'm in a nice position.
I can't complain. Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And you're great at what you do.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think you're so creative to come up with these characters.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I wish I was that creative. You'd see it all
of my social media if I could do that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
My favorite content the videos is a whole nother animal
from the stand up, because you got to come up.
I'm not blowing smoke up my own ass, but you go,
my I have over twenty thousand videos. You know my
YouTube channel. Like you just said, there's different characters. I
even imitate Stallone, I imitate a scar face and Rodney.
(12:13):
I got my mother in law, I got Eddie, my cat,
I got the Giants, the Yankees, the nosy neighbor, Michelle,
the produce girl at Wegman's, and Manalopin is just endless.
It's not the same thing all the time. It's and it's.
Facebook is different than YouTube. It's like a chess game.
YouTube is different than Facebook. Facebook's different than Instagram. But
(12:35):
you know what the beauty of it is here. I
am the sixty four year old chutch using the social media,
which is mostly good for the younger generation, and it's
pretty gratify. I got kids, people of all ages that
come to I had a show one night, a ninety
one year old woman and a twelve year old kid
at the meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
So now I'm getting second and third generation seeing my shows.
I'm doing this forty two years.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's amazing. Forty Did you ever think you'd hit like this?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Honestly, I thought I'd be driving a school bus the
rest of my life at a pioneer. I never thought,
you know what it was around twenty sixteen, that's it
was the perfect storm. Kevin James puts me in a movie,
Bread of Milk went viral. I signed with a manager
and me my wife also worked in the bus with me.
She was a matron because we had special ed kids,
(13:23):
and you have somebody watched the kids. So me and
my wife we sacrificed both of our salaries because my
manager said, you don't need to have two jobs. You
could do comedy full time. And I just handed him
my calendar and he doubled and tripled my He's got
a big a lot to do with the success. Russell,
my manager, he's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He saw the town.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Who you know and who knows who knows you?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's right, that's right, that's so sure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, she's gonna use that forever.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah it's a brutal business. Yeah, yeah, it's a brutal business.
I'm doing you know how I look at it, I'm
doing better than most, not as good as some. Yep,
and that's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
No, it's excellent.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And how if you had the perfect world, how far
do you want to take it?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
If everything has stayed away. It is right now. I'm happy,
but I like to be in another movie.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Two.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Absolutely, I'd love to be in a sitcom. Of course,
I don't want to be the main star. Make me
the uncle.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Crazy uncle could be so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Everything else is gravy. Right now, I'm happy. I'm paying
my bills, I gotta. I own a flat in Scotland.
I got a beautiful house. I drive a Lexus. My
kids are happy and healthy. I got a beautiful wife.
Come on, you look at the news. You know what.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Fuck.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I might have.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Complained for real, but you know what, it's that attitude
that gets you far because you're still after it and
you're you're so grateful. I think too, another thing. Maybe
you could be in a sitcom as a school bus driver.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Want me to do?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You got to do something with the school bus driver character,
because that's some funny stuff right there.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I was thinking of doing a one man play. Yes,
that's come out like a bus, like a card boar
and cut out of lush. And before that, I drove
a garbage truck. Do you want to hear a great story?
I drove my garbage truck the danger fields of Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
One o'clock in the morning. I told the manager, if
I pick up your garbage, can you give me stage time.
That's how I broke into Dangerfields picking up their fucking garbage. Stop,
went on stage, did the show on my uniform. As
I'm pulling away, I'm honking the horn. The audience is
waving out no way. That was nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That's amazing. So do you do all your own social media?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I have my manager who helps me and I have
we no pun in time. Then I got a guy
that does the editing and the special effects, but it's
basically just me and my manager.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, when you look back at all the things
you've done, all the videos and characters you've created, what's
your favorite.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
My favorite character is Rocky, and my manager plays Mickey.
And right now there's a video of me and him.
It's over a million views. We're not even making sentences,
he's just doing Mickey ah and I'm like fucking thirty
seconds and it's over a million views right now. It's
(16:11):
just the stupidest things. It's a crap shoot. You don't
know what's gonna go viral.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's just yeah, and you saying that it really is
because he's had so many viral videos.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So if we could do a video right here, right now,
what should we do.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Right here, right now?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
What would we do?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
God?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I know he's looking around. Hold on, yeah, you gotta
see what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Well, you got the what I call that thing from
Star Wars over here?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, I call that there?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
You go?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Who does it come off?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Let's see? I'm sure, but you gotta see.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Well, it will come off, and it's gonna be it's wired, okay, gentle, right,
are we having a late a labor?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Star? What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Labor? It's a we.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Can't Does it come off? But we'll the light go off?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Stay on?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Are we having a davy? You gotta film this? Are
we having a war?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, this is fall on my lead? Okay, all right, No,
this is a TikTok right here.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Come on, gah, just do your thing?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
All right, all right, let's do this? What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You ready? Here?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We are right now?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
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I use it every day before I do my skincare,
and honestly, it's like Braden's my face. I want to say.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
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looked and that you were dewey and glowy, and it's
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Speaker 5 (17:57):
Honestly, Pixie products just know how to make you feel
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
That was fucking hysterical. I don't know where you come
up with this shit me neither.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
My mind is always moving, my mother used to say,
an idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And when I'm home, when I have no show, I
mean I did a video once. I'm in a suit,
driving my ride on MOA up my block and my
neighbors are used to she's on the phone. Hey, Vic
didn't even acknowledge I'm gonna ride on Moah, I'm in
a suit.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That is so funny. What is your neighborhood think to
very support you?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Especially Alan, the nosy neighbor. Yeah, that is a guy,
my neighbor. I just decided to put him in one
of my videos. And he's actually a nosy neighbor. But
he's such a character. He's lovable. And now when I'm
in my shows, people go, hey, how's Alan, how's your
mother in law? How's Eddie? To cut this daring my
act I'm getting I'm getting heckled by my own material
(19:51):
now that I love it, they really are.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh absolutely. Where's your favorite city to perform in?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Of course the trit New York, New Jersey. Look that's
where I'm from, Trit. When I say Tri, date New York,
even New England, even Florida, because wherever I go, it's
all the New York New Jersey transplants. Yeah. Yeah, So
you never see me in Boise, Idaho. Let's put it
that way.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I have a friend out there. She might be she'd
come to your show.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, you can always come back to Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, when you're from.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Gypsy, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's on the.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, we have account, So tell us about your calendar.
Where can people find it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Videbitteto dot net. You gotta spell my name right. It's
deep potato, not the benedetto, not diabetes, not geppetto, not
the potato. I can I plug some dates?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Plug everything? He's digging over here.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Let's see sitting on my dates when I had him
here somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Hold on, are you move to mic? Oh? He might.
He's falling out of his chair here.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Oh little here it is a professional assist, pulled up
post it with fucking crayon.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
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Speaker 3 (21:06):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Look at this? Okay? September twenty seventh, Tarrytown Music Hall.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yes we can go to all right.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Let me know. I'll get your tickets right September. What's eleven?
What month is that? November?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
With this November first, the count Base Theater at Red Bank,
New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I love that Bank.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
November fifteenth the Westbury Music Fair and Long Got Island
and the Big One. December fifth, hard Rock Casino in
Atlantic City.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I always go to the venue. Yeah, I always deal
with the venue. Don't go I'm not. I don't mean
you guys are getting tickets. I mean my friends, honey,
go directly to the venue, go to a third party,
and I get ripped off.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, and then they yell at.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Me why you're so expensive? Why you're a fucking idiot?
Go to the venue?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why why are they allowed to do that like these
other third party sites?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
How is that allowed?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
How was anything allowed in this world?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, it's not right. You do get ripped off.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It's wrong, Nikki, it's wrong. You know, mark it out. Okay,
all right, that was Rodney Rodney.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
How's he doing?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
He passed away?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I know he did.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It's like, you know Rodney Rodney danger.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh god, yeah I know him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Good, you both know the same Rodney Rodney.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't know, I had a friend. Listen. That's all right,
that's all right. So I have one more questions.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's all. Just one more.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, no, no, we talk more. But we talked.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
We talked about your most psiconic moment on video. I
want to talk about your most iconic moment in real life.
Your shows, press conferences, red carpets, give it to.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Me, Grand Marshall of the San Gennaro Festival.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He was our contact to get a float right before COVID.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Oh no, it was amazing. My wife was there, my
kids were there on our own float with my name.
I actually spelt the name right and it was packed
and they said I was the only Grand Marshal. I
literally jumped off the float and shook hands. They said,
no Grand Marshal ever did that. You know, being an
Italian American, that's a pretty nice honor.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It is, but.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I guess Roasting the Sopranos, Yeah, I did that at
the Brownstone and Pattison, which was in the bed area,
and that was my opening joke. Welcome to the Pattison,
the only place you get your car valet and carjacked
within one block. Roasted James Gandolfini, who was a sweetheart
Tony Cirrico. Because we did a show called Comedy You
(23:48):
Can't Refuse. It was a variety show. Steve Shirrippa and
Michael Iperryoli Day were the host. They would, you know,
talk about the sopranos that I was the comedian portion.
It was pretty comedy you can't refuse. We did that
a few times.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not really starstruck. I
met I'm kind of friends with Chads Palmon Theory. He
was a sweetheart. Yeah, I want to see his play.
He got me backstage. It was you know, I just
I don't know, and just so many.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You've done so much in your life, and it's crazy because,
like you said, I thought it was going to be
a bus driver my whole life. Yeah, but you took
a risk and you've believed in yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And you know, we talk a lot about mental health
on this show. Mental Health America of Dutchess County is
a partner of ours. Have you ever faced any challenges
that you know you could tell people about that would
inspire them to overcome whatever they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I do it all the time. I get messages all
the time. Vicky. You're an inspiration because I have this
thing I say, never give up, never surrender. Yep, you know,
keep on fighting no matter what happens. You never because
you never know what tomorrow brings. You know. There's been
times I've been in the hotel rooms depressed, you know,
wondering where my career is going, and you know, I
was driving the school bus during the day and doing
(25:02):
the shows at night. I was like a zombie by
the end of the week. And but you know, and
lo and behold the manager comes along, Kevin James, Bread
of Milk, And you know, the career was going like this.
COVID came. It kind of leveled off. But now it's
it's back on a little upswing. Now. You know, COVID
(25:23):
was horrible. All my shows are canceled. I'm doing virtual
shows on my computer. Was horrible. You need a live audience.
Do you need that instant feedback? I can't do the
shit on a zoom No.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But you know what, a lot of the videos took
off at that time.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The videos is different. That's the beauty. Yeah, I have
the videos and the stand up to. All my personal
shows are canceled. I was making money from the videos,
so I was monetizing them.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And I think a lot of people in entertainment didn't
capitalize on that, like you did, right, you know, So.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I did it just at the right time. Yep, I
said before I'm sixty four, you know, you know, you
know now it's it's just everybody on it. Now everybody's
have you seen this kid that as like he's a horse.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
No, what what I got to see her for you?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Page goes with the stores and he starts. You know,
it's all he does. But see, that's my kind of humor.
I grew up with the Three Stooges having a costello.
I like Stupid Yuma, Aunty Python, you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Know, the three they were the best, the best. There's
nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I got videos right, put in the sound effects one
the Three Stooges. I have a phony bat and a
phony of Annville and we did a couple of os
and it's just I love comedy. You need it, No
world needs it more than ever we do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And uh listen, if you're on vixed page, make sure
you drop a kind comments. That's what the world's all about,
a funny one. We want some good stuff out there.
VIC drop one more line of inspiration here for all
those listening.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
One more line of inspiration. Surround yourself with positive people.
That's very important. So once you give into that negativity,
it's going to rub off on you. Just look at
them in your rearview mirror and surround yourself with positive
people and keep your circle small.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I love it, amazing, Victi Botello, everybody on Red.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Will see you next week. Bye,
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