Name: Stavvy's World #115 - Will Sasso | Full Episode
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stavvy's World #115 - Will Sasso | Full Episode' from Stavvy's World on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-10. Transcript available.

Stavvy's World #115 - Will Sasso | Full Episode

Opa! Welcome everybody to Stavi's World. 904-800-STAV. Call in, we'll solve all
your problems.
We're in Los Angeles, part of the Stavi's World Takes LA Hollywood Halkia
series,
where we get some of our favorites that live over here, and we are pumped to
have Will Sasso on the
couch. Will, thanks for being here. You don't understand, Eldis is so starship.
We both are,
but he doesn't give a fuck about anyone. We were huge Mad TV guys. Oh, cheers.
Huge Mad TV guys as fat
little children, you know what I mean? Just fucking, I remember being very
small and being like, I caught
the tail end of Farley, and then they took my fat guy on TV away. Yeah. Very
soon after, who's coming
around the bend. Mad TV always had a fat guy. Artie Lang and me, like literally
Artie leaves the show
and it's like, we need a new warm body. No. Must be a fat guy. That's to be fat
as shit. Yeah. And you
were fat as shit back in the day. Oh, I was good and fat. Good and comedy. Not
just comedy, fat. No, no, no. Like fucking, oh no,
early 20s gonna fall over fat. Yeah, no, seeing you alive really helps me.
Because I don't got many. I don't got many of the guys I looked up to that were
fat as shit.
I'm like, alright, if Sasso's still kicking, maybe I can turn it around.
That's fucking great. No, I, you know, it's interesting. Look, I'm a fan. I'm
happy to be here. Oh, thanks, man. I'm stoked. Appreciate you. We've been going
back and forth a little bit on IG. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I haven't been through
New York and, and it was in a while. So it's been one of those things where I'm
like, you know, had I been there, I've been, I would have hit you up. But I'm,
I'm so happy to be sitting with you. And I feel like there's so many things
that we kind of just, you know, have in common.
Yeah. Have in common. Not just because the business, but also, you know, I don't
know. We'll get into it. But your background and you're, you're, you're, you're,
you're being immigrant parents.
Being Mediterranean. Yeah. That was another thing that shocked me because I was
obviously just a, like a fan growing up. But then like, like becoming friends
on Instagram and seeing your stories where you're in Italy and you're not doing
the typical, I'm going to eat from all my, all the East Coast Italians I know.
They're like, I'm Italian. And they might have an, a vowel at the end.
They're not, they're like, they don't speak of, they say they're Italian.
Sure. You know what I mean? They're eating chicken par. They're eating like
deep fried chicken par.
And then I see you who just. There's no fucking, you don't put chicken with
pasta in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. I see you and you just seem like a white guy. No
disrespect.
Sure, yeah. I don't know. You know, I just, you know, Canadian, I suppose. But
still, I'm like, that's.
Which makes you way whiter. Which makes you way whiter. And then you're
speaking fucking Italian.
You're like really speaking Italian. You're like, I'm with my nonna. And it's
like some little Italian lady.
I'm like, what the fuck? Sasso's truly ethnic and he's been hiding it the whole
time? It's awesome.
My parents were this big and brown. It's true. And they, yeah, they immigrated
from Napoli in the, in 66.
Okay, nice. My brother and sister, my sister was a toddler. My brother was a
newborn.
And then I came out, you know, 10 years later or whatever. The mistake.
And then, and, and, and, but yeah, the old man brought aunts and uncles. He was
the only one who spoke English.
He was in restaurants all over Europe and blah, blah, blah. That's awesome.
Waiter, maitre d'. And, and so, yeah, it, it, the most, the bulk of the family
is back there.
Wow.
So I do have this Napolitan, like, thing where my upbringing was extremely,
yeah, Napolitan.
Truly, like, old world shit. Like, nobody spoke English in the house type of
stuff.
I mean, you know.
And you were, you were at least the youngest one. So they were probably a
little.
That's right.
By the time you came around, they'd, like, been in the, in Canada for, like,
you know, a decade, it sounds like.
Yeah. My mom was, you know, my mom, like, a lot of, a lot of women, really, you
know, the, you know, the, the housewives and mothers that stayed home while
their husbands went out and worked in the 60s and 70s.
They watched Sesame Street. They watched Soap Offers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they learned how to speak, you know.
Yeah.
So, yeah, my mom had the most adorable little broken English accent.
Love that.
And, yeah, the old man prided himself on being able to speak better English.
Right, wow.
Just talking like this.
That I'm not familiar with. Every Greek person I grew up with actively hated
America.
They hated being here. My dad still, like, we, we, like, I hung out with my dad.
I put real FaceTime with him in for a while. We, we were kind of on the rocks
for a while.
And, and I'm like, surely I've imagined how bad his English is.
And then we fucking, he's just trying to order something at a restaurant. It's
not even, like, a conversation. It's like, he's, it was, to be fair, Korean
barbecue.
Okay.
So, it's like a double language barrier.
Bulgogi is a hard word for anybody.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he still couldn't even, like, make pleasantries with the waiter.
But I respect that. Your, your, your dad was like, look, we're here.
Yeah.
This is a better place.
Sure.
Than Italy.
Like, we're, we're having a better life here.
Yeah.
You know?
He, he'd always romanticized coming out to the States or Canada. My, my, no, no,
my, my father's father was a chef. And so he used to go over to Chicago and New
York and cook.
Oh, wow.
But he didn't have papers. It was always, you know, under the table or whatever,
you know, under the table.
Maybe a little, you should spice that story up. You could for Al Capone.
Yeah, yeah.
The timing's right, right?
Cooked for your old, your grandfather, you know what I mean?
Yeah, cooked for Al Capone. And, uh, it was my, yeah, it was my grandfather was
like, hey, this untreated syphilis is gonna make your balls melt off the side
of your leg.
Wow. Use a condom.
Yeah.
And he's like, what is this fucking off the boat WAP know?
Yeah.
Fuck you.
And then if he'd only listen to you, we'd still have Al Capone around today.
Yeah, we'd still have Al Capone.
And, uh, yeah, so they sent, so Capone sent my grandfather back and, um, he
told my dad, like, uh, check out the, uh, the immigration to Canada because
they really relaxed it in the sixties.
We had a massive influx of, you know, a lot of Greeks, Italians, Portuguese
coming into, uh, into Canada, a lot in Toronto.
But the old man had sort of the, uh, sort of loose promise of a job at the
Hotel Vancouver.
Okay.
In Vancouver.
Because he had this, you know, resume that had been all over Europe.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And it was a real hotelier kind of.
So your dad and your grandfather.
No, my, my grandfather was there, stayed, you know, back and they, they were
all over there.
But they were both chefs?
No, uh, the old, my granddad was a chef.
Gotcha.
My father fancies himself a chef, but was waiter and maitre d'.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
And so, yeah, so he came over and, and yeah, like I said, I had cousins and
uncles and aunts.
So it was this thing like, you know, I mean, there's whatever, you know, and
the, the immigrant
experience, like being the, the children of immigrants, the fucking shit, the,
the gnarly
sort of stuff that's still, you know, their world, they grew up during World
War II.
They do things like, you know, you know, whatever, there's hundreds of stories,
but, you know,
we were at the beach every weekend in, in Vancouver and not like the good beach.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, you have to pay for parking.
Of course not.
Like off the, the rock jetty that the ferry terminal is out at the end of, you
know, you
know, you just park the cars along the freeway.
And, uh, shit like, again, so many things, but like stuff that, going back to
Napoli, I'm
like, oh, this is great.
Cause we're doing shit like, you know, my, Zionino, my uncle John would take
like a chicken
wire fence and like bring it and what, what's that for?
Then pile up rocks and then we're all going clam digging and picking mushrooms.
Oh, that's so sick.
And then just, they're all over the, you know, the chicken wire with the fire
underneath and
just lemon and beautiful dude.
That's so sick.
And you're there until midnight.
Yeah.
Just hanging out.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
So was there any, like, you're the baby of this Italian family, right?
Um, was there any like pressure on you to be, did they want you to, what, like,
what
did your siblings do?
Did they have that traditional immigrant?
You got to fucking succeed, got to be a lawyer type shit or do they want you?
No, they, I mean, my parents were really like, do whatever the fuck you want,
but love it.
Yeah.
So my brother and sister both, uh, yeah, no one's in show business and, uh, you
know, my
brother's in real estate, my sister is in interpreter services and, um, uh,
sort of, you know, a
really big, you know, inspiration for the immigrant story and finding
interpreter services of which
there's so many in canada because the government gives a about that yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah figure
it out in america yeah yeah i don't really care yeah you mean an interpreter
will come to the dmv
and help me that's hilarious maybe not dude i didn't even consider that being
possible yeah
because the whole thing especially in america it's like that you all the oldest
kid is the
interpreter like i i truly like would like trans i would like fill out
paperwork from this time i was
like 12 years old you were the oldest i was the oldest okay yeah and you have
brothers right two
younger brothers okay wow that's wild yeah yeah so for me it was definitely the
like and and again i
guess you it sounds like a very it sounds like a cheerier immigration with your
family you know what
i mean when did your folks come over in the 80s okay so they came what happened
was my my mom's
side of the family they had moved in the 70s uh when my mom was younger and she
hated it she like
uh she her dad just took a job and this is like this is how greek men behaved
back then he just like
got offered a job in america he was in greece some guy at a coffee house like
got a sick job in america
for you he's like i'll take it no like let me see what my wife and 20 and 17
year old daughters think
about this just like gals were moving to america amazing yeah and so she came
back she went back to
greece the second she could i guess actually maybe they moved when she was
maybe 19 and she came back
when she was like 21 met my dad in athens they decided to come visit in 1981
like they're like
we're gonna go for a year save some money in america come back to greece just
never came back so it was like
this weird that's yeah it was like this weird there was no like prompt there
was no like the american
dream there was like wow and the way my dad looked at it was like we're stuck
in america truly my dad
was like not only that i mean obviously he wanted to do it but as soon as she
started going bad he was
like my fucking in-laws trapped me in america like that's that's my dad has
completely rewritten
history where it's like it was never his idea to come to america meanwhile he's
still like we would
have been better off fine everyone in my generation does not have a job in the
financial collapse it's
like everyone had 10 years of the worst like it was just it is you cannot argue
that we would have
been better off but he still is like i up so bad he like apologizes to me that
we didn't grow up in
greece i'm like my life's awesome dude if we were in greece i would be
struggling to find big and tall
clothing i would be i would be doing like the level of comedy in greece is like
sub telemundo sure sure
i would be fucking yeah i would be like putting blackface on and chasing a midget
around on
television that's what i that's what i'd be 