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AYG Comedy Podcast: Anthony DeVito - Jersey Boy

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Back there, working the ones and twos.
But gang, that's all neither here nor there.
We got a hot one.
Let's get to the fucking business we are to do at 2-4 here today.
And that is, we could not be more excited to have our incredibly, incredibly
special guest
here with us this afternoon.
This man is a very successful, very funny stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.
As an actor, he has appeared in Hardest Job in Sports, Vanilla, and the Chris
Gethard
Presents.
As a writer, he's written on The Break with Michelle Wolfe.
And he was also the co-host and writer for People Talking Sports and Other
Stuff with
Sam Murrell.
As a welder.
What are you giving up the reveal for, you dummy?
What's the matter with you?
He has an amazing one-man show that he can't wait to get back up and doing once
the pandemic's
over, called My Dad Isn't Danny DeVito.
He has an album out called Dream Occupation.
And as a stand-up comedian.
He's got a quite a resume.
This young man has performed on Gotham Comedy Live, Comedians in Public, Adam
Devine's House
Party, Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
He has his own Comedy Central Presents.
And he just did the stand-up show with John Doerr.
But the big question in everybody's mind today, does he work for the Imperial
Senate on Star Wars?
You're right.
I do.
One of the fine senators of Naboo.
This guy's a big Mandalorian fan.
He came in full and bus guard.
Gang, do me a favor.
Give it up for the precautious, the very funny, the very talented, the
absolutely amazing
Mr. Anthony DeVito.
Yay.
Oh, thank you so much, man.
What an intro.
Thanks for coming, buddy.
That mask.
I love it.
I get it.
If you're not aware, New York, we got a little spike going on over here.
So we're all taking extra precautions.
Everything's been sanitized down.
We wore masks up until now, and Anthony's going one step further, protecting us
and protecting
you, the viewers, with his face shield.
Yeah.
It's for you guys at home.
That's really who's in it.
We don't know how far this virus can travel.
And it could get into the wires.
And you could find it in your kitchen.
The headphones is what does it, man.
It's got to look crazy.
There's so many things happening around my face right now.
But here's the thing.
If this was like 19...
He's got so many accessories on.
No, man, I feel like a guy at the Met Gala.
If this was like 1983, and you were at a college party, you'd be crushing
everything.
What kind of fucking college did you go to?
I mean, like, you know, like the whole nerd wave of the early 80s.
What do you mean?
I don't know.
He looks like he's in...
What's it called?
If he walked into a college party, he'd get a fucking wedge.
What are you talking about?
I don't know if you'd wedge this kind of guy.
I'd argue with you, you wouldn't.
I think you'd be sort of afraid.
What's the band that sings Whippin?
He's got plutonium on him or something.
Doc!
Doc!
The Libyans!
Run, Monty!
Oh, man.
That might be Gaddafi from the future.
That's what I would say.
I think time travel was so prevalent in the 80s.
It was a hot button.
I think you would be like, we got ourselves a time travel.
I'm talking about like Devo and stuff like that.
Oh, I see.
Oh, yeah, sure.
That was very niche.
I could definitely be in a German pop band.
I think for sure.
You'd be spinning records in Ibiza right now.
Killing it.
Anthony, thank you so much for sitting in with us.
Thank you so much for being here.
Of course.
Give us the origin story.
I know it's a little interesting.
You're a Jersey kid.
I am.
I grew up in North Jersey in Essex County.
I grew up in the same town where the last scene of The Sopranos was shot there.
Very, very Italian area.
I found out.
Very, very big Italian family.
I was raised.
My household was my mom, my grandma, my great-grandmother, one of my aunts, and
myself.
All in the same household?
Same house.
Was it like broken up into apartments?
No.
Or like one whole house?
We lived in one leather shoe.
Holy shit.
No, yeah.
No, my mom and my grandma slept in my grandma's bedroom on the first floor.
Together?
Same bed, yeah.
Wait, your mom and your grandmother slept in the same bed?
Same bed.
Just like they were.
Just like other kids.
So they slept in the same bed.
Then my great-grandmother and my aunt lived in separate rooms upstairs.
I slept in the basement downstairs.
And then there was a man in our living room who I just, my whole family would
joke around and call him the tenant.
That's who I thought he was.
You know, I thought he was a renter.
And then I had a friend come over in first grade.
First time I ever had somebody over.
And you know, like when you have somebody over and you're like.
That kid went home like, what the fuck?
Yes.
He's like, yo, mom, no more of the DeVitos, okay?
Wait, hold on, hold on.
They're all wearing face shields.
They're from the future, I tell you.
2020, you watch.
It's coming.
Wait a minute.
When you say in the living room, was it set up like a living room or was it
made to look like a bedroom?
No, no, it was very much just ordinary living room.
And he just slept on the floor.
There was just a guy who slept on the floor.
Like a pillow?
Like, did he have like a sleeping bag or anything?
He might have had a pillow.
And there was just, I didn't even think he had his own pillow.
I think it was a pillow, like a throw pillow from the couch.
Oh, man, that's a tough one.
So there was him in the living room.
And then there's that moment where you're like, oh, you know, you don't see any
other families.
All your life, this is your normal.
Pretty much.
From when you became self-aware.
When I gained consciousness, this is my life.
And then a friend comes over, first grade, looks around, gets to the living
room.
He's like, who's the man in your living room?
I was like, that's our tenant.
And he was, then later that night, I was like, he was like, what's a tenant?
I was like, I don't really know what that is.
He's a guy who's on the couch.
Yeah.
That's what a fucking tenant is.
So I've been told.
So then I asked my mom about it that night.
And she goes, I never thought we would have to tell you this.
That's not the tenant.
You never thought you'd have to explain the dude sleeping on a throw pillow?
Man.
I was trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons.
Talk about short-sighted.
You know, that goes, that also goes to show you how much of a non-inquisitive
kid I was.
She was like, you can throw anything in this kid's face.
He won't say anything.
This kid's fucking kid's never going to ask me.
All right, this fucking dumbass.
I didn't think you'd ever figure it the fuck out.
I am, man.
He's happy with life as it is at all times.
So who is he?
So I asked my mom about that.
My mom goes, that's your grandfather.
So what happened, he cheated.
This is a real thing.
He was an old guy?
Yeah, he was a pretty old guy.
What do you mean?
Wait, hold on.
Oh, please don't.
And I'll tend to speed through.
So stop along the way and ask as many questions as you want.
I pictured a younger guy.
Younger.
Well, if you were sick, say, what's he like, 50s?
Probably.
I mean, you know, when you're real young, you're like, someone who's 30 is 105
years old.
So yeah, he was probably like 50s, 60s.
I would say somewhere in there.
And then, yeah, it turned out that he was my grandfather.
He cheated on my grandmother in the 50s.
She never forgave him.
You know, Italian couple, they didn't get a divorce.
Oh, man.
The house was in his name, and she wasn't going to spend any more money, she
said, on him,
even to get a divorce.
So she just banished him to the living room, exiled there.
All the food in the fridge was marked, not for John.
He couldn't eat anything except the waffles.
And yeah, that's just one.
That's a fucking grudge right there.
That's a bad Airbnb if you're not me.
Oh, man.
I was scared out of my grandmother.
It's like, you know what I mean?
This went beyond threatening me with a wooden spoon.
I was like, she could.
Psychological warfare.
Oh, yeah.
That's nuts.
Holy shit.
Well, okay.
Here's the thing that I'm curious about.
How would you not, even if he did cheat, and there was a strange relationship
between
him and his grandmother, why they never introduced him to you as, this is the
guy you've been
living with.
It's fucking cold-blooded.
He's your grandfather.
No, I think.
He didn't pick you up and hold you and give you hugs and kisses?
Well, he did.
He would try those things.
As a tenant.
I just thought he was an affectionate rector.
I really did.
Oh, my God.
And then, yeah, it turned out to be that.
And I think my mom didn't want to see an example of what marriage could turn
into or whatever.
And I think at some point they thought he'd move out or whatever.
He lived in the fucking living room.
They didn't know she was-
That's, that's, you're even more fucked up because of that.
Probably.
There's got to be so many things in this jar.
Not that a guy gets a hankering every once in a while after a couple of Schlitzes.
Jesus, we're fucking human beings.
What did that do to you?
I don't know.
There was-
I just made him become a welder.
Yeah.
That's when I first-
Picked up a train.
Join the union.
Yeah.
Get some good bennies.
Let's do it.
He's sitting there with a mask on.
How do you think it did?
I went the next day.
I went to my first union meeting.
Join the local.
Yeah.
What if it was like, wait, there's a pandemic going on?
It's been a fashion choice for years.
Finally, the world's caught up.
Dude, that's nuts.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, it probably did things to me later on in life.
When you're a kid, there's just so much nonsense-
That's just what it is.
Did the relationship change after that?
Not really, because he didn't-
You didn't say, hey, you're my-
Hey, you're my fucking grandfather?
Why didn't he tell you?
Well, I think he was under the a