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Stavvy's World #63 - Paul Virzi | Full Episode

Opa! Welcome everybody to Stavi's World. 904-800-STOP. Call in, we'll solve all
your problems.
We got our pal, my buddy Paul Verzi in the studio. Thanks for coming, Paul.
Thank you for having me.
Of course, thanks for making the drive from the burbs to beautiful Astoria,
Queens.
Yes, sir.
Yep, yep. Yeah, we go back, Aldous, you don't know, me and Paul, I mean, I
think I was,
one time I hosted a show that you featured at, that's how far back we go,
remember?
Magoobies.
Magoobies, I believe.
Magoobies, way back in the day, this was like 10 years ago.
10 years ago, I believe.
Joe Mattarese.
I was featuring for Joe Mattarese, Joe was like, watch this kid Stavi, because
the joke that we love,
the joke that we talk about, and I've told every one of my friends, every one
of my friends from
every level of comic, and it's just, it's the joke you had when you were like,
this chick
was breaking up with me, and while she's breaking up with me, I'm just thinking
to myself, you
know, good for her.
Good for her, yeah, yeah.
And that was when I was like, all right, dude, this kid gets it.
Thanks, man.
And then we went to, then you were cool, because you were like this young comic,
and you were
just like, yeah, I'll go smoke a cigar.
Yeah, yeah, we went to a cigar bar.
And we smoked cigars, and then we walked through that shoe mall.
That was fun.
The owner was pissed, because I was, you know, I'm the shitty local opener, who
needs to be
there on time, and he's like, where the hell are you?
He's like, we need to start the show, the feature and the headliner on here.
And I was like, yeah, I'm actually, I'm in a car with, they're in my car.
I'm the one who's late.
I'm bringing the whole show.
He hated me that weekend.
I just, I just come strolling in, do my 10 minutes of dick jokes poorly.
And he's like, you know, he's, oh, what was he going to do, dock my $50 a show
that he
was paying me?
It's really ridiculous.
Have you been back or no?
I've been back, I did, I did a Halloween, this is, the last time I was there, I
did a
Halloween show during the pandemic.
One of the worst shows I've ever done in my life.
It wasn't McGooby's fault.
I don't know, in my head, I was like, well, no one's going to go out and party.
Maybe they'll go to a comedy show.
I don't know why the fuck I thought that.
Because remember, there was that weird time where we were sort of doing shows
in 2020.
It was like October 2020.
Yeah, there was like, it was a little lull in the COVID.
So you could go.
Because you could go.
Because everyone was doing outdoor shows.
Yeah.
And then people started booking like weird.
But yeah, dude, a weird COVID half filled room in Halloween.
On Halloween is like.
You probably had weirdos dressed up.
Dude, if you could, if you could combine the worst scenario for a comedy show,
it might,
that might literally be it.
Sometimes.
It was horrendous.
And you know what's funny is.
But I love the club.
I want to go back when I'm going to spend some time in Baltimore.
You know, sorry, Andrew.
You need a place to work when you're home.
Andrew, I feel like an asshole.
He keeps texting me.
He's like, I was at the, I'm like doing a theater there.
And he's like, dude, you should tack on McGooby's to the, to the lyric theater.
It's like, I'm not doing that.
I'm not, I'm going, I'm not going to fucking do that.
I will do.
I'll come back.
Because I do.
McGooby's is a special place in my heart because I really started there.
I won a like, you know, I won like new comedian of the year that helped me.
They got me a lot of spots.
I met a lot of, I would go hang out.
Like that's how we became friends.
That's how I became friends with Bobby.
So, you know, I will come to your club, Andrew.
I'm sorry for saying the show was horrendous on Halloween 2020.
But it is funny where you could even be like a comedian on the way up a name
and just pick
the wrong day.
Like you could be like, no, I think it'll be Christmas.
Dude, they love me.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, no, they're going to see you when it's not Christmas.
Whoa.
Paul, quiet down.
It's me from the future in a different shirt.
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And I've had it work, I've had it work the other way where it was like, we did
Easter Sunday
in Atlanta and it was actually great.
Really?
It was great.
Yeah.
Cause like my fucking, my fans aren't, they're heathens.
And it's also Greek, it's also Greek Easter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not Greek Easter.
Yeah, it's not Greek Easter.
Yeah, and it's not, you know.
How big, how much of your fan base is Greek?
It's not.
Would you say is there a big percentage or not really?
We get a nice, we get a, I think there's like, every city we go to, some Greeks
will
turn up and I think it's kind of growing.
Greeks are front runners.
When they see you doing well, they're like, oh, this guy's awesome, you know.
Greeks, yeah.
I love, when they see a Greek out there, cause all they're looking for is, is
like ammo when
they're having a, like a minor race war with, like a verbal race war with their,
with their
friends.
Yes.
Like they just want to tick off the boxes.
Yeah.
And if I can be, if I get famous enough where I'm a bullet point, where it's
like, you know,
where they bring me up in a conversation against Italians.
Name a Greek comic.
You're like, dude, stop it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what they want.
Yeah.
They're not, cause like my material isn't really, there's comics who do Greek
shit and I don't,
I do some.
Right.
But I just do it in a way that comes up naturally, not in like a, there's
people who literally
would like tour Greek festivals.
You're not a Greek comic.
Yes.
Like you're not a touring Greek material.
I say that during this.
Yeah, I feel like I'm a fucking Santorini.
I don't make it all about my ethnicity where it's a bit, I know what I'm doing
folks.
Yeah.
He's got statues and pillars.
Podcast theme, yes.
My act, no.
My act is much more about how little my penis is.
You know what's funny though, is the first time, another comedian that I'm
close with
is Giannis Papas, one of my closest friends.
Yeah, he's the man.
And Giannis and I, when we first started talking at a Christmas party at
Caroline's, and we're
having this nice talk, when he found out my mother was 100% Greek, I saw in his
eyes,
he instantly liked me better.
Yes, absolutely.
He instantly liked me better.
Yes, yes, yes.
All of a sudden he goes, wait, wait, your mother's, I go, my mother's 100%.
He was 100% Greek.
And he just like, all of a sudden it was like, Greeks love it.
They do love it.
Even though you're pretty Italian coded, Paul.
Well, yeah.
You're pretty like, you know what I mean?
It's like your dad was, and it's, it's such a, we're similar like people.
So if you really like one or the other, you could have gone either way.
Well, you know what?
But you went Italian.
I wanted to know why.
Because Giannis and everybody be like, Paul, why did you go?
So my father just embedded in me and my brother's head that Sicilians were the
greatest people
on earth.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
What did I say about Greeks?
The same thing with Italians.
But.
Everything is a verbal race war.
But see, here's the thing.
My mother was the oldest daughter of two.
Mm-hmm.
And my Greek grandmother, my yaya, was very hard on her.
Right.
So my mother rebelled against it.
Right, right.
So when my Greek.
Wow, all the way to Italy.
She really, she really.
Yeah, and when my, and when my Sicilian grandparents went to my Greek
grandparents for the first time.
Yeah.
My Greek grandmother, my yaya, she went into a room and they couldn't find her.
And my mother found her crying.
Wow.
Because she saw the Italian and she just was like, because it was like a
heartbreaking thing.
They've massacred my, my grandchildren are WAPs.
She started crying.
Dude, they should be eating tzatziki, not marinara sauce.
That's exactly right.
My mom was like, why are you crying?
That's how racist Greek people are.
Greeks are racist.
That's how racist Greek people are.
Italian was too foreign for your grandmother.
Oh my God.
They went 20 miles by boat to Sicily.
That's insane.
I mean, pull up a fucking map, Elvis.
Dude, it is so close.
Let's look at Sicily to Greece.
Yeah, you would have thought that it was a whole other culture.
It's so close.
It is right there.
Look up, look up distance, you fucking dunce.
Greek Sicily on map.
What a, what a great producer you are, Elvis.
What do we have?
It's, you know, well, that's the middle of Greece.
Whatever.
You get it, folks.
It's close.
All right.
Whatever.
Fuck, fuck the bit.
We get it.
But it's right there.
It is right there.
Right there.
Right there.
You can take a boat ride.
It's on the same itinerary of a cruise.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Oh, absolutely.
So it's like, you could go on.
It's a stop on the cruise.
You go to Sicily and Greece on the same cruise within a day.
You're there.
Yeah.
That's so funny.
And my Greek grandparents were devastated.
My mom was like, why are you in here crying?
Like, they're in the living room.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're ready to eat.
Just imagine what, I mean, look, we don't even have to say black guy.
We know what would have, she would have hung herself.
But just imagine if it was even like a Swedish, or like, I don't even know,
like a quarter
Mexican guy, what she would have done.
A fucking Italian was too foreign for her.
Did just an ambulance come?
She's taking out a stretcher.
They love it.
They're very dramatic people.
I don't know if you experienced that, but it's like, my grandparents would talk
about
dying all the time, talk about killing themselves.
They would talk about how, well, one day when I'm not here, they love, my dad
would do that
shit too, where he would kind of allude to killing himself.
And it's like, oh, nice.
That's cool, dude.
I'm nine.
But that's a lot to deal with right now.
There's also a neuroticness.
Greeks are neurotic.
Yeah, very anxious.
And anything that my grandmother, my Greek grandmother would see bad on the
news, like
a baby falling down the stairs, getting killed, that's going to happen.
You can't, you can't go outside.
And it was just like the worst of the worst, you know, and my mom starting to a
little bit
have that.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
It'll happen.
It'll definitely happen.
So wait, so you, where were your parents, where were your parents from?
They were, was it the Bronx?
Right outside the Bronx.
Yeah.
So yeah, right.
Yeah.
The Bronx and then Yonkers, which is basically the same neighborhood.
They grew up in the same neighborhood.
Bronx and Yonkers is like right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's, that's where they, they went to Lincoln High School and yeah, two
years older,
like I guess high school sweethearts got married.
But like, you know, did it back when it was like my mother had my brother when
she was
22.
Right.
She had me when she was 27.
Like that's unheard of now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Totally.
27 for, yeah, absolutely.
27 now is like, I'm like, you're a baby.
What are you getting married for?
Yeah.
I remember, dude, when I was young, I remember we went to my dad's, I mean, we
went to my
best friend's dad's 40th birthday.
Yeah.
And I was like, this fuck is old.
Yeah.
This fuck is going to die.
I know.
You know what I mean?
Now 40 is like, somebody says they're 40.
You're like, oh dude, you're still.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, even in comedy, like you see some of the comics that are like, a