Name: Joe Rogan Experience #791 - Steve Schirripa
Uploaded: 2016-04-27T02:05:52.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #791 - Steve Schirripa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #791 - Steve Schirripa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #791 - Steve Schirripa

boom we're live shutting the laptop i don't need that you got a flip phone i
got a flip phone i
don't need a fucking lap no no electronics today no i got a flip phone a simple
guy you know me a
long time what do i need i take i get texts and uh make a call do you do is it
like at least give
you a full keyboard for text are you doing like four presses to get an
absolutely that's it so
that way if you text me i'll give you an answer but it's going to take a while
and and just give
you a quick answer i can't have a conversation like people do some people get
ridiculous what are
you up to what do i up to what am i up to exactly that's what i say you want to
talk like a 12 year
old girl and you call me man what are we doing i mean i'm not a teenager call
me you want to talk
that's what i'm saying it's good to see you brother yeah it's been a long time
it's been a long time
really long time i've known you for a long time dude it's it's interesting to
see a friend who was in um
i mean you were always in show business because you ran the riviera but to go
from that to being
on the sopranos i remember hearing about it and then seeing it and the sopranos
was my favorite show
at the time yeah yeah i mean i ran it to you i think in little italy way back
when when i was living
down there so it had to be early 2000 like that 99 yeah i just couldn't believe
it it was just it was so
weird watching a guy like you all of a sudden was just a friend all of a sudden
you're on my favorite
show it's a strange thing to watch someone who you like who's on a show playing
somebody else yeah
no you know what the thing is i can't even say like you know joe like i couldn't
even say well you know
it was a dream man i always wanted to do it because i never wanted to do it you
know i was like screwing
around you know and uh i think pollock put me in one of his things and bruce baum
and you know i was
running the the club you know you used to work the club right the extreme
comedy remember i got bummed
down when i heard they were tearing down the riviera yeah yeah a lot of people
a lot of people i really
got sad i wish i could have went back because it was it was at one time it was
good it was really good
is it gone now is it no they're not gonna down i think they start this summer i
think they start
soon you know knocking the thing now i saw dice in the upstairs room yeah um
like a year and a half
ago or so i went down there they were doing uh they started doing shows up
there i think amy schumer and
they did dice and gilbert and a bunch of people and that they used to be the
female impersonator show
yes yeah that guy's still around frank marino just keep on going he keeps on 30
years pictures of him
they should be arrested for fraud for the pictures they're using the guy's got
to be in his 70s
and they no he's it is 85 years old 50 he's at least 100 he's got a house he's
got a house like uh
uh i had to film something at his house once and it's like a mini liberaci
house like that kind of
thing he does what you think it is oh yeah that's what it is i'm sure you know
he also would be crazy
like he had a housekeeper and he would like leave things around on purpose to
see if they were cleaning
you know oh god that cat one of those guys yeah but he's still going i think he's
at the i don't
know the imperial what's one of them one of those strange casinos he's one of
those but they're still
going and the guy's still playing the the guy that does tina turn is older than
tina turn
well i remember watching that show once that show i watched once and crazy
girls yeah i watched that
right you know there was comics used to come in and out of there stand-ups over
the years i remember
years ago they needed a fill-in i put sinbad in there really in crazy girls
because it was upstairs
you know the shows were around for years and it they all ran simultaneously it
was the three yeah you
know hey we had the the comedy club we had uh the college crazy girls so it was
all you know yeah
no i remember it was it was it was the first place i ever worked in vegas yeah
yeah yeah we i did that
extreme comedy xxx right you came in for the weekend which was great put you in
the suite do the thing
i took a photo of my name on the marquee because i was like look at that it's
my name i had one of those
those cameras that you buy the little disposable ones yeah yeah yeah look a lot
of a lot of stuff
i started at the rib 1986 whoa you know way back when it was still like you
know one of the top you
know still a good hotel you mean mob run that's what you're trying to say well
not really that that
kind of was gone but then you had rickless who was kind of just a different
kind of mobster you
know he was in israeli he started the junk bonds he was nice who is he mishul
and rickless he was
married to pia zadora he owned it when i was there so they just found a
different way to skim the money
you know through construction or whatever they weren't bag man it was just a
different different deal like
the air conditioners he bought for the new building they were from israel like
they didn't have parts in
the united states so like all the air can you know you know what i'm saying it
was there was they found
different ways but he was good to me you know he was good to me reckless and he
owned the hotel when
i first got there in 86 and sinatra was you know played there in 88 89 90. sinatra
was there you still
had eliza minnelli playing there you had uh milton burl sid caesar they i mean
it was still guys playing
you know wow yeah yeah there was a lot of stuff came to it so you got to see
all those people
i saw sinatra night after night after night wow and i just after i was done
work i'd go sit in the
back of the room you know sometimes my wife would come you know wow and it was
you know it was like
no big deal after a while that's crazy i got a tape of him i got a tape of him
on new year's eve
i think it's new year's eve 89 or 90. the guys the sound man took it it was
closed circuit remember the
closed circuit in the room in the just in the room and they put a vh uh vhs and
you know beta max whatever
the hell it was and uh he's drunk his toupee is kind of crooked and joey villa
remember joey villa no
he was a comic like a real you know like real hacky thiefy guy he was in splash
that show okay so you
had joey villa open for pia zodora and then dreeson opened for uh tom dreeson
opened for uh sinatra and
he did a show upstairs and downstairs he was drunk on his ass sinatra and i
have a tape of it somewhere
i still have it somewhere and uh he plays he says i don't care i play upstairs
i play downstairs if they
pay me i'll sing in a phone booth he didn't care you know at that point you
know wow how old was
he back then i don't know he just turned on it was a night it was like 1990 so
that was probably
the beginning of the end right before he started losing a little he had a teleprompter
on stage
you know he was uh reading the you know you know he wasn't completely out of it
but you know i think
he died in 99 if i'm not mistaken so uh he would forget his lyrics yeah oh yeah
oh wow oh yeah
absolutely because he was so hammered it was just no no i just think he was
getting older and i think
to be honest my opinion they kept him out there too long you know oh yeah you
know i think whoever
the powers may be i don't know who that was i think he stayed a little too long
there you know but
hey to see him i saw him in 82 when i first i got to town in 80. i saw him 1981
82 83 in those
days at caesars i mean that was something i saw sammy davis you know wow yeah i
saw all those you know
johnny matt all those guys that were there i saw a lot of stuff that people
were gone you know yeah
you like caught the bridge for the last of the exactly vegas absolutely when i
moved in it was 350
000 people well i was friendly with the uh casino the joe pesci character tony
spalacho that was his
character i was friendly with that guy i was a bouncer he would come in the
club all the time you know
i ain't go on the club he always give me a 20. you know give me he was giving
me 20 hours for years
well if i was a bartender you send up a 20. he was always a good guy to me now
i don't know what
he did what he didn't do he was good to me i didn't know the the uh i didn't
know the deniro character
him i never knew he was around but i didn't know him but the pesci character uh
tony spalacho and he had
a guy fat herbie and i was there his son got married i was the bouncer at the
wedding to make
sure fbi didn't get into the into the wedding swear to god they had a bouncer
at the wedding
i was about to do anything make sure nobody that's not on that list doesn't
come in but
they're worried about the fbi at the wedding they were worried because at the
time there was you know
a lot of you know it was a small town it was easy i mean you know they were
doing whatever they were
doing i mean i don't know you know i mean i was never privy to any of that but
they were around
how close was he to the character that joe pesci played you know i didn't see
the nastiness he
pesci caught the the voice and the accent he has that uh chicago thing you know
and uh i only saw
him being like a gentleman you know to be honest he had kids and i mean that's
all i saw he was you
know you have some drinks he's in the club but i didn't do anything crazy well
they always exaggerate
things for shows and movies yeah of course i mean i would assume i don't know
where they got it from
but yeah i mean uh you know he was around he was kind of the boss in town you
know in the movie he
got beat to death with a baseball bat is that what happened yeah and i think
that did happen i didn't
get a cornfield him and his brother oh back in chicago yeah but you know there
was a small town
there was everybody knew everybody there was two clubs no clubs no clubs at all
in the casinos
that was there was no nightclubs really no nightclubs that started in the 90s i
think at the rio
wow no nightclubs they had two clubs in town paul anchor on one and then there
was another one like
i would go to work at one in the morning to nine in the morning and i would
leave and the dance floor
was packed at nine o'clock nine a.m wow and then people would go out from there
it was just a
completely different thing you know and and all the entertainers would come out
you know like i mean i
saw oj and cosby was out all the time and rich little and whoever was bob hope
man bob hope came
into the to a club he left the uh the the bathroom attended 30 cents 30 cents i
swear they got a quarter
that's hilarious that you remember that though yeah well you know there's
certain things i remember uh
what's his name copperfield gave me two dollars he said hey if there's any
girls bring them over two
bucks i swear to swear to my hand to god oh my god two dollars and uh he he was
you know he was
headlining but not that famous yet but right he gave me like two bucks three
bucks he said hey you
know any girls any single girls bring them this way and the meantime i had guys
giving me hundreds you
know right it was all dope dealers you know back then it was all crazy you know
did cosby have the
reputation back then he didn't have a reputation of doing anything to the girls
but always chasing girls
always what yeah always always always but he didn't have the reputation of drug
no no i didn't know
anything about any of that i also knew that uh there was a time he didn't tip
you know there's a lot
of these guys don't want to you know yeah you know scotty pippen's famous no
tipping pippen that was his
nickname yeah i heard that you know horton michael jordan you know and the
worst of all is tiger woods
he's the absolute but worst tipper and you could ask anyone that's there was a
girl that i knew
she managed a restaurant and she was friendly with him and they would go out
you know not just her and
him you know like a group whatever she said i couldn't afford to go out with