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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'DREA DE MATTEO | Sopranos, The Mob' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-02. Transcript available.

DREA DE MATTEO | Sopranos, The Mob

Quiet on set!
Are we going? Should I go?
Okay. Guys, it's Adam.
We're here at the studio, the Adam Friedland Show.
We are working on some things that are pretty exciting right now.
I'm not yet at liberty to divulge.
I've made a lot of promises over the years,
and I think these are going to be the first...
It's like, I feel like a deadbeat dad to you guys,
saying that I'm going to go to your baseball game.
I'm your father.
Some shit is happening, okay?
But in the meantime, we have four episodes that we hadn't released yet
from the talk show,
and we're going to be starting a series called The Lost Episodes,
The Lost Tapes.
I don't know.
Didn't Chappelle did like a...
The Lost Sketches or something?
Yes. We'll call them The Lost Tapes.
Well, kind of like Dave Chappelle.
Kind of like comedy legend Dave Chappelle.
We're going to be doing The Lost Episodes.
Some are good.
Some are atrocious.
You'll enjoy them, I think.
This one's good.
We had Drea DiMatteo from Sopranos,
who played Adriana LaServa famously in the show.
He was also in The Joey Show,
the Joey Tribbiani spin-off of Friends.
In the meantime,
as we reorganize a lot of things around here in the office,
we're installing some new things.
Whatever.
I'm going on too long.
I can do this, guys.
I can do this.
Okay, guys.
So this episode was actually recorded a couple months before we shot the short
film,
and so we held off on releasing it because, I don't know,
Nick said it would be confusing if it was ready again.
It doesn't matter, okay?
So this is me, Andrea DiMatteo.
There's something that,
there's something happening in the interview.
I'll let you be the judge.
So, also, it is technically the first girl to be on the show.
So, guys, enjoy it.
We'll be back next week
and with our series, The Lost Tapes, The Lost Episodes.
I can do this, actually.
We've wanted a girl for a long time.
Everyone said no until, I can't believe it,
American actress, most notably from the television show, The Sopranos.
Everyone, please put your hands together for Drea DiMatteo.
Girl, I'm a man.
I am the first male guest you've had.
Don't do, no, you're doing the gender, no, don't.
Come on.
Stop it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam fucking Friedman.
Shut up.
I'm going to talk in my accent for you.
I'm going to be Adriana the whole time.
Don't stop it.
You stop.
Just be yourself.
And Adam, I'm going to be okay.
Full disclosure, while the show was coming out contemporaneously,
I watched Sunday nights with my family,
and the tennis scene was a seminal moment.
You had to run to your bedroom?
I got an erection.
I did get an erection.
And my mom was sitting there.
You were like, I hope a Jewish child gets an erection?
Yes, I only dated Jewish boys back then.
You grew up in the city, you said 1972 you were born?
I was born in 72.
I'm the oldest person in this room right now.
Do you study theater growing up?
Your mother was a playwright?
Yeah, my mom was a playwright, so I had no choice but to be stuck in the
theater
watching all these fucking indulgent people roll around.
You don't like theater?
Feel their emotions all day.
It was 70s theater.
That's nasty.
It all had their **** out, right?
What was it called?
Was it the Living Theater?
The Living Theater.
The Living Theater.
Disgusting.
Baby boomer are ****ing themselves, honestly.
They're revolting people.
Yeah, my mom was an Italian, and she was, you know,
that was a little more conservative.
It was very Italian plays.
If you love The Sopranos, you would love the way my mom wrote.
What is Italian style?
What does that mean?
A lot of mafia stuff.
A lot of mafia.
Her father was Joe Babes.
He was a mafioso.
Joe Babes is your grandfather.
Yeah, she was a mafia princess, my mom.
Really?
And Joe Babes was like kind of a, because babe is a little girl.
Well, they say Joe Babes because he was a womanizer,
but then I looked it up in the Google,
and the Google says he shot a baby by accident.
Your grandfather?
How you doing?
He shot a baby by accident.
I was like, fuck, is this the reason?
Really?
He also was known for bringing heroin, bringing morphine, heroin to the United
States back in
those days.
So he was kind of like...
That's what pussy was doing to send his kid to Villanova.
Oh my God, what an idiot.
But it's a big no-no.
You're not allowed to do that in the mafia.
They don't like when you...
They don't like pushing it.
You can say whatever the fuck you want.
So you're kind of a film head.
I found an interview with you in 2006, where you're talking about Abel.
It was when you were doing Assault in Precinct 13.
It seems like you wanted to be a filmmaker.
I did.
Because I grew up in the theater, I absolutely hated watching all these fucking
actors rolling
around and acting like assholes.
And I was forced to sit in the theater every night.
So when I went to school, I wanted to do the anti-theater, which was film.
I don't know.
I was just being rebellious, but at the same time, I was like, I know I'm going
to end
up in this fucking industry.
Why?
Because it would make your mom happy?
No.
Well, she would write me plays when I started acting and stuff.
What kind of plays?
Italian stuff?
Well, she wrote something that was about our lives, actually, because it was
called The
Heart Transplant, and it was my 25th birthday.
But she gave me a play about my relationship to her and my nanny.
I was raised by my nanny.
Oh, okay.
I was raised by my nanny.
Was she West Indian?
Nope, Nicaraguan.
Nicaraguan.
My Nicaraguan bat.
Uh-huh.
We call her monkey.
She was a bat.
I don't think you should say that.
We called her a bat.
Why a bat?
Because she was a nicaraguan.
I don't know.
It's a nice lady.
She was a bat.
I fucking loved her.
I love her.
I mean, she's dead.
She's dead now?
Yeah.
Do you speak Espanol?
Si.
It's my first language.
When I was a little kid, my babysitter was from Mexico.
I lived in Los Angeles, and I spoke fluent.
Me too.
Yeah, I watched Univision.
Oh, me too.
It was my favorite.
Sabado Gigante.
Sabado Gigante is the best I could have seen you.
That was when I fell in love with boobs, really.
I would have been in love with you at all.
Because those shows had such big boobs.
Dude.
I was like three, and I would be like, I need a motorboat them shits.
Oh, yeah.
The best hits in the biz.
Yeah, yeah.
They really do have incredible ones down there.
They're not even real, half of them.
What?
But they're like the soft fake ones.
The ones you just...
Do they have better ones now?
They have squeezies?
I mean, we just had to do a photo shoot for OnlyFans.
Yeah?
And this girl had the best fake boobs I have ever felt in my life.
Squeezies.
They make those now?
They're incredible.
When I was 18, I went to a strip club.
They call them gummies.
Gummies?
Is that...
The doctor calls that?
I don't know.
All the girls with the fake boobs were talking about their fake boobs.
And they were like, may I?
And they look great.
And they're all feeling each other's boobs.
I'm like, Robbie, you want to come in?
You let him?
Robbie.
Did you grab their boobs?
No.
I didn't get to do that.
All the girls.
You're a good man.
You're a good man.
You didn't get to.
She lied.
Yeah, she lied.
She said, I'll kill you.
I'll cut your dick off.
I was like, you want to see this.
If you touch these gummies, I'll...
What?
I would have gone in there.
I was doing my duty.
You were taking a duty?
It would have been my duty.
Oh, it would have been your duty.
Yeah, he was the sloppy...
He was in the sloppy duke position.
When I was growing up, I grew up in Vegas.
There were so many big...
Oh, yeah.
So many of the roundies.
And then as a kid, you think double D fake, best kind.
And when I was 18, I went to a strip club and I touched one.
And I was like, these are...
They're so hard and scary.
Yeah, no, no, no.
They must be uncomfortable for them.
Some girls have these really incredible fake boobs.
I always wanted fake boobs.
You wanted them?
I always wanted some fake boobs.
But you're beautiful.
Yeah, just to keep them up.
Really?
These things are rolled up now.
I got them rolled up in my bra.
Oh, my God.
You're perfect the way you are.
You're amazing.
Oh, you're good singer.
Did you learn how to do that in Vegas?
Brutal Mars.
Oh, he's your Vegas showboy.
No, I'm not Vegas.
I'm a song and dance man.
But I want to get into The Sopranos.
Is that annoying for you?
No.
Or you love talking about it?
No, I'll talk about it all the time.
When I read that interview with you from 2006, I was like, oh, you know, actors
can be 65 IQ, especially the guys.
Like, some of them are golden retrievers, right?
But like, if someone, if David Chase was like telling someone in The Sopranos
what it's like, that it's a meditation on the concept of family.
And they're like, yeah, whatever the fuck you're talking about, you know, but
like, he's still amazing in the scene.
It doesn't matter, right?
But what I get a sense of when I was reading that interview with you is you
fully grasp the gravity of what you were taking part of even before the pilot.
Well, I think that comes from growing up with a writer and she's a teacher.
She taught playwriting, too.
Yeah.
And I would sit through her classes a lot.
I learned how to act listening to her teach the writers because the whole thing,
and you would know this, too, just be doing what you do.
It's like if you're in a constant state of doing something all the time, then
you're not going to bore anybody.
If you're just sitting there stagnant and, you know, everything kind of falls
apart.
So with that show, when I first read the pilot, I read it.
I read her pieces of it over the phone and then I sent her the script.
She read it.
I was like, this will never get made.
You were the hostess at first and then you became a...
Yeah, I wasn't even meant to be a show.
And then you became a regular.
Yeah.
And f***ing Brendan Fallone was playing around with trucks.
Brendan Fallone.
He's such a...
Do you know that I don't really know that much about the show?
You've never seen it.
I watched it.
You've got to watch Sopranos, bro.
You've got to watch it.
The kids never saw it.
How many times have you seen it?
Your kids, they're babies.
No, the kids that were on the show never watched it.
When I had my podcast, I was interviewing them.
Yeah.
And they had never watched it.
Jamie and AJ.
What's a 65-year-old dude?
But now they watched it.
AJ hasn't f***ing seen the show.
What a kill.
It's so funny.
That is so AJ.
Yeah.
I'm going to the Puddle of Mud concert.
I can't watch.
How many times have you seen it?
Just once through.
No.
You watched it while it was coming out?
I was a psycho fan.
I am still a psycho fan of the show.
Me too.
I don't even relate to having been on it.
Really?
I wouldn't read the scripts when we were shooting.
I mean, in the beginning I did because I couldn't believe I was even being
added to the show.
But in those days, being on TV wasn't cool.
I was like there.
I'm kissing my frigging movie career away.
I'm not going to do this.
But when I was getting those scripts, I was like I don't even care that I'm not
going to be doing films.
And I would keep sending them to my mom.
I was like this is amazing.
And your mom said as a playwright.
She was floored.
My expert opinion.
She was floored.
Plus my family is like steeped in the mafia.
I know.
You c*** and stuff.
I know.
It's f***ed up.
Why does a mafia have to kill a f***er?
How much money do you get for that?
It was an accident.
Oh, there was no envelope under the baby or something?
That baby's a f***ing threat.
The baby was in the envelope.
That baby's a threat.
Your story arc on that show is one of the most tragic.
Was it like a Hollywood decision or were they like you're just you're getting
popped this week?
Oh, no.
That was the story.
That was the story.
That was the story arc.
Yeah.
And I was never meant to be on the show anyway from the beginning.
So I was like all right.
And I was done, man.
I was done crying.
Back in those days like when I was acting, I was really invested in it.
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