On Display with Melissa Gorga - The Jersey Boyz (w/ Joe Gorga and Mike Marino)

Episode Date: October 5, 2023

Melissa is joined by two special guests, Joe Gorga and comedian Mike Marino, to talk about Joe's start in standup comedy, why true life is always funnier than something you can make up, and who a comedian's toughest critics usually are. We also get the backstory on Joe's infamous comedy club incident that made the front page of TMZ.  This week's sponsor: Progressive Insurance - "Name Your Price Tool": Progressive.com

In stand up, the truth is always funny. If you make something up, it won't get any laughs. You gotta tell the truth. Yeah! What's up, everyone? It's Melissa. Welcome to another episode of On Display. I think I have actually a really funny one for you today.

I have some funny people in the room. I have a couple funny people in the room today. Although I want to say that I think I'm probably the funniest because when it just comes like natural, then... She's been hanging out with me for 18 years. Alright, well, so I'm going to just start introducing First and foremost, I'm going to say I have Joe Gorgah with me because he won't shut the hell up until I Finally finally I should be the first that comes out of your mouth

We're being polite to our guests. I have a super super funny Comedium with me today You guys want me to wait in a garage for this Yeah, we know it's is a family argument, all of a sudden. Unbelievable. If Joe allows me to introduce him to you guys, it's actually Joe's sidekick in comedy. Ha ha ha.

Actually, I feel like Joe's the sidekick. Let's be real. We have a real comedian with us today. He has an amazing podcast called Live From My Mother's Basement, Every Tuesday Night, exclusively on his YouTube channel. Ladies and gentlemen, I have very funny comedian Mike Marina with us. That is the greatest introduction I've gotten today. Thank you so much.

Just nice to be part of the family. You're welcome. You're Italian. You're in, bro. I know. I am Italian. I forgot Italian. You're in, bro. I know. I am Italian. I forgot that. We're all Italians down here.

I really like that you say your podcast name is live from my mother's basement. Like that is such a thing. Like every Italian hung out in their mother's basement. They cooked. They cleaned. They party. That's where Easter's done. Did the laundry every holiday.

We grew up in the basement. I never even knew there was an upstairs until I turned 12. You know, why is that? We don't want to we don't want to make it dirty upstairs. I don't know. Upstairs was the nice, shared rug with that plastic stuff with needles on the bottom. All the chairs and couches were covered with plastic. It's true to life. Italians, that's the way we want. My parents are from Italy and they kept you from going upstairs. So downstairs and now unfortunately since nobody's around anymore, because we got older, hence live from my mother's basement, it's almost like a throwback to the way things were. But you got to see his mother, you got to see the basement. It's like vintage, like

when I grew up, same way to fidurate as nine from the 1800s. Wait, it's like a nice show. Looks like our grandmother's basement. Yeah yeah, identical. Yeah, really? Identical. No sheet rock and a ceiling, but real nice. Got a nice bar down there. Just like a typical Italian basement. Wait, do you have the chairs that have like, you know what I'm talking about?

Like they're, they look like wood. And the backs look like wood. And you can put your fingers through the holes. Like those old. Oh, yeah, you got the yellow ones, right? Yeah, the yellow ones. But no, he got the metal ones, the metal with the yellow one.

What happened was a long time ago, maybe 20, somewhat years ago, I bought the house I grew up in from my mom and dad. I let them stay there while I was touring the country and living in Los Angeles. And so when I came back to New Jersey, I took the house and said, I'm gonna remodel it and make it look like 1950.

So the basement actually looks like it's between 1945 and 1955. And all the antiques and all the furniture is from my grandmother, my great grandmother and great, great grandma. It's actually there. Oh, wow. So it looks like I built it to make it look like a set, but I didn't. I actually inherited all this stuff from my family and that's the way we do it.

Oh wow, I love that. And then that's where you do your podcast. We do the podcast. We decided to make it just on YouTube. My YouTube channel is Mike Moreno live because you know, a lot of comedians, we got some great bits on there. We got some funny stuff on there. I got some behind the scenes of me and Joe on tour on my YouTube channel. And it's a the scenes of me and Joe on tour on my YouTube channel and it's a little bit more easier and fun. I can't wait to talk about the behind the scenes. What I had to travel, he got his panties in a knot, but when he wants to be a comedian, he can just travel all around. He's going to stay at this mario, this fairfield then, this thing overfield then this thing over here this thing over here with you and what do you guys do after the

Comedy stripers in hook What goes on at these like comedy tours Mike marino will be right back after this commercial break Okay, you know, do I not want to know? We're going to the Latin countries next to do a comedy. I'm shocked. We're shocked. If you can answer the question in a serious answer, I think some people think God knows what's going on backstage and there's really not that much going on at all, then when the

show's over, depending on how you did becomes those conversations and maybe a diner about whether you crushed it and did a great show, or I don't think we did what we were supposed to do. We need to rejuvenate what we did. We need to make a comeback or something like that. But then it also depends on where did you go. We actually did a lot of cities. You did, we were doing a lot of cities.

You guys went on like, you had like a year straight, they were everywhere. Like you guys were all over the place. I feel like you were in, you were everywhere. And I was like, bye Joe, bye Joe, bye Joe. I was, he was left me every weekend. That were me, Mike Marino. Let me just tell him.

There we go. She's a let me ask. She didn't go. She left you. Yeah, okay. I was in New York at a like a weekly party with paparazzi. Paparazzi.

So, might Marino tell me how you and Joe ended up. So like you're a comedian, that's like your profession. That's the same like a living, right? Joe Gorga is a construction guy. Is it fair to say that? No. Yeah, it's my way of. I am a comedian. No, you are a construction guy. Is it fair to say that? No. It's my review. I am a comedian. No, you are a construction guy.

So, so my, you know. I'm going into construction. How does Joe Gorga get in touch with a real comedian and say, I just want to like hang with you and, and tour with you and be a comedian? Well, it's a great conversation. I think I remember I got a phone call from a particular manager who said there's this guy.

His name is Joe Gorgher. He's on a reality show and he wants to do stand-up comedy. And I remember going, what reality show is he on? And he said, the real housewives of New Jersey. And I go, which girl is he? I don't remember seeing this guy. What are you talking about? I only remember girls being on the show. Oh, he's Saur of New Jersey. And I go, which girl is he? I don't remember seeing this guy. What are you talking about? I only remember girls being on the show. Oh, watch it now. Watch it now. And so we met at a restaurant and it's on Route 22 and

Union, New Jersey. And it's called Marinos. But I'm actually not related to those people. I just thought it was a fair place to meet. And I do remember going there. If you remember Joe and somebody comes over to me and goes, can I get an autograph when I sign an autograph? And then I get what I can get an autograph. I sign an autograph and I look at him and I go, so what did you want to do? What's going on? And then all of a sudden, many people came up to him and said, can I get an autograph? And I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Who are you? Wait, what do you do? Well, you're an Italian. Have you? Wait, what's on do you do? What do you do? Well you're an Italian, have you ever watched the Real Housewives of New Jersey?

I have in the beginning, in the early years because I remember I did a couple of performances for the what would it be called the original cast. I had a place near in Wayne, is it in Wayne? Like Caroline Manzo, you're saying? Yes, yes, didn't their family own that particular place that we did some shows? I'm in the brownstone.

The brownstone. Yes. So I entertained that the brownstone, I do remember meeting Joe's sister and that particular bunch of cast members. There was a long time ago. So the early season won the early days. And then I would watch the show from time to time

because my friends in California would say, hey, you're Italian. From New Jersey, do you know these people? Do would watch the show from time to time because my friends in California would say, hey, you're Italian from New Jersey. Do you know these people? Do you watch this show? I'm like, yeah, we all live on the same street. It's not that big New Jersey. We're all in the same block. And then you get the same thing, too.

Do you watch Jersey? Sure. I'm like, well, yeah, I'm kind of from the area. They watch the cake boss. Yeah, they cake. It was the cake boss that introduced us. Is that right? Yes, yes because the cake boss was friends with a guy's

Michael just these the final the stuff on he said would you guys like to meet so when we went to meet and we sat down We had this conversation and I'm doing stand-up 30 years mind you. I never set out to be a comedian I just want to be an actor when I was a little kid. I comedian. I just want to be an actor when I was a little kid. I grew up doing TV commercials. I was on a soap for a while. I never thought I'd do stand up. I didn't start doing stand up until I was 30 years old. Wow. And I started doing stand up because I was in California and at that time at 30 I actually had real thick blonde hair and blue eyes and people would be like, so where you from? I'm like, I was born and raised in New Jersey. How you doing? And they would look at me like, wow, you don't look like you sound.

Right. We thought you were from the beach. Yeah, sure. I'm like, well, I- Yeah, sure, blonde, blue eye guy. Yes, and both my parents have blonde, taren blue eyes and they're both from Italy. So it's actually no joke.

I didn't want to do it, but I got coaxed into it. And so like Joe, I had that type of personality where I actually said, well, you know what, give me the microphone, I'll go on stage, get out of my way, I'll do it. So when I went on stage, I just started talking about my day, my mother, my father, my family, and people like, wow, you're a great comedian.

I'm like, this is it. This is what I gotta do. So actually, now when I meet Joe and he says, I can it. This is all I have. This is what I got to do. So actually, now when I meet Joe and he says, I can do it, give me the microphone. I'm like, you probably could. Here's the microphone. Let's go to work. It's almost identical. Well, because there's something about Italian families where it's like a special thing that you can talk about and you could do that accent and you could do the little things and it works. And I feel like it's for Italians because we can relate,

but even for non-Italians because they think we're so funny, of the way that the way our family's function. So it's like a skit without even trying to be a skit. Exactly 100% and that's why Joe has that stand up personality. Well, not just only that. Come we could put we could put thousands of Tines up on stage. Oh, yeah, okay. Good point. Good point. I mean, let's go I mean you think that's I don't know what is one of the hardest things you could possibly do It is because you're live. It's do a die. There's no such thing as cut try it again

Tell me about how many I'm sorry good finish I forgot what I was saying There's no such thing as cut try it again. Tell me about how many. I'm sorry. Okay, finish. Okay, finished. I forgot what I was saying. You want to cut. I cut you off. Yeah, well, we go on stage. You will not have a choice. Tell me about it.

That's it. So as you get on, you're on. That's it. You got basically in theory, seven seconds to convince the audience, you're going to carry this. Oh, the first seven seconds. Seven seconds. That's what they, that's what I've learned.

In the first seven seconds, you need to be your funniest. No, you have to have, yes, it's a confidence. It's in your walk, it's in your look, it's in the style. It's in the way you say, good evening. Hello, people just, you could see their body posture. Oh, he's going to do this. Oh, watch it. Yeah, watch it.

Yeah, because there's a lot of comedians who actually will take their time. Maybe they'll do a joke, get a laugh, and then wait a little bit. I'm not that way. And neither is Joe. He's never gonna be that way. Because we hear a little bit of silence. You go into a panic. I know I do. Do you go into a panic? I go into a little bit of a panic. But you don't stress out. Like, so I've seen you on the stage before, and you're like, did you hear me, people? So just like you stay chill if like you need to reiterate or something, my favorite line you have

is when you say the Walmart. Oh, well, it became a training thing. I started to repeat it 24 hours a day. We would be on, on, on just going out to dinner with our friends and we would all be like, hey, are you a doctor at the Walmart? I swear to God, we would just be driving somewhere and I'd be like, Hey, Chris, are you a doctor at the Walmart? You buddy Chris pulls me every once in a while. He leaves me messages. I'm at the Walmart.

That's very flattering. And it very flattering and it's contagious. It's all done, it's contagious. You made us laugh. I think you're awesome on stage and you're super funny. And I love that you kind of, you show Joe the way. But like I mean, let me tell you some. My wife, when we first hooked up, she loved you because you showed that you cared.

Yes. And you know, she, our first show. I am very familiar with people, Mike Murray now. Oh yeah. Ask Joe. He brings strangers around me all the time. He's a lot friendlier than I am with strangers. I keep my circle very tight.

And this is true stories. Like he'll be more like, I met so and so, Harry, Nick and Sally, and they're all great. And I'm gonna bring them over. And I'm like, who's coming over? Like, who's coming to my house? And then I'll sit, and I'm gonna bring them over. And I'm like, who's coming over? Like, who's coming to my house? And then I'll sit there and I'm like, does never bring Sally or Nick back again.

I swear to God. And guess what, I'm always freaking, I am always right. And but you, Mike Marino, you were stranger to me, but I liked you from the beginning. I was like, he has a good heart. He has your best interest. He wants to see you succeed. He wants to see you but I liked you from the beginning. Thank you very much. I was like, he has a good heart. He has your best interest. He wants to see you succeed. He wants to see you do good.

You know, like listen, Joe obviously has like a following right from this show, a huge following. You have a comedy following, but he has a different following right. So you always think someone's like, ah, what could he do for you? It's what you could do for him and back and forth. But I said, not Mike Murno, he really wants you to learn and teach you and you've been a great mentor to him. So thank you.

Well, hey, that's very true because maybe it's the way we were brought up. Maybe. I'm not affected in show business. I've been in show business since I'm a little kid. I've had fame. I had to get a part-time job. I had fame.

I had to get a part-time job. This is fame, I had to get a part-time job. This is a brutal business. You never know what's gonna happen. And just this weekend, I was in San Francisco, I was telling Joe, I got to fly out to just do one show with two beautiful tenors from Italy. And I'm looking at my career going, what would you look at this?

I'm performing with them. And they're big time opera stars, but they want to be in the show. And then you ask them, how did you find me? And you find out they got my name from Joe Montana and some other big movie stars. Wow. And then I'm like, oh, thanks. And then as I told Joe on the way over here, Joe Piscopo calls me and he goes, Hey, I heard you were a jada because they all know each other. And they all see what's going on. And it's like, right?

And they love each other and they like each other. They want to be around each other. So they're a team. And nobody wants to break up that team. They want you to do good. If you're the opening act and you're going on stage in front of a singer, they want you to do great and introduce them in a very, very pleasant and gorgeous way, like you're in the family,

because if you don't, they're gonna have a hard time. So now when I started working with Joe, I'm like, okay, if this is what we're gonna do, this is the baseball team. I'll be the catcher, you be the pitcher, make sure we're all good. I'll show you how to be as great as you can so that we are the greater good, no matter

where we go or what we do. Because I mean, I do have a following and they're going to come and see Joe. They might not know he's from a reality show. They might not know anything about him. I'm going to be back there going, come on man, you got to bring it. You got to bring it like the first show. Well, I love your introduction to him. Whenever you introduce him, like, there's this guy.

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I always say show me a perfect family. I'll show you a family with secrets. So it was so funny right off the bat or did you have to like, like give me a little behind the scenes of like the first day that you're like all right come on over to my house and show me what you got I want to hear that too I'm gonna hear what was your thoughts on that right when we were down on that basement yeah all right well in in stand-up the truth is always funny if you make something up it won't get any laughs you got to tell the truth because whatever's going on in

your life is going on in somebody else's life and it makes them react. You end up being able to, I could read body posture. I know who's going to go to the bathroom. I know who's going to try to heckle me. I can tell who's happy. Who's not happy. Who's going to look at their watch. You can see it. You just get so trained and you have a belt on and a belt's got so many tools on who you're going to look at their watch, you can see it, you just get so trained and I, you have a belt on and a belt's got so many tools on who you're going to, what joke you're going to use, what you're going to go back to, what you're going to make up. So when Joe came over the house and he said, this is my idea, I kind of knew right away somebody wrote him jokes very quickly. I'm like, yeah, you got to lose that, that's not you. And then he wanted to talk about some things about when he was younger, going on vacations

and stuff like that. And I said, you know, that's really funny when you get together with your friends and the basement and you have a couple of beers. But if you talk about that in front of an audience that doesn't know who you are, they're not going to take the trip. And then you're going to start to bomb and that's going to make you really really nervous and you're going to dig yourself a grave and you're not going to be able to come out. Oh my God I'm already stressed out just thinking

about it. It's easy. Yes but down. It's really not easy. When I when I would have conversations with Joe about his life I basically was saying here's where you're coming he's going to come from. I'll ask you questions and your answers are going to become you stand up routine. Then I'm going to show you how to do a beginning, a middle and end, how you start a show, how you hit them in the middle and beat the living shit out of them in the last five minutes. Get off the stage and disappear. And that's that's that's the big thing.

Less five minutes. Yes, you have to make everybody. Cause I know, he just wants to keep on going. He's a run on sentin. He is one big run on. We talk about this all the time, not just here on my podcast, on his Instagram, on his cameo. He has a lot of shit to say. His cameos are so long when did he's like, hey, Susie happy birthday, but happy birthday again. But how you tell your friend I said happy, but we heard you say happy birthday. I gotta give them their money's work. I know. You give them their money's worth. That's for sure. He's a long when did guy. Can you get it? He just added me to your cameos and like what are we doing I'm why am I

happened like a bunny I'm a bunny all of a sudden I'm hoppin like a bunny I said hop like a bunny come on he was hoppin like a bunny I mean look there's truly like there's a really a science right to stand up comedy it's just like hey I'm a funny guy I'm gonna get on stage and make you laugh like There's a routine. There's a beginning. There's a middle. There's an end. There's a story There's a like I know that I see you guys do this little hook, right? Sometimes where it's like you talked about one thing and then you came back to it later on and that I like it I'm like oh the call back the call back but but Mike just did a couple shows with some TikTok guys and back but but Mike just did a couple shows with some TikTok guys and they're funny on TikTok but when it came to stand up right they're not they're not

it's because it's difficult it's where the world changed there's a lot of people on social media and they do something like a bite of sandwich and the mayonnaise falls on their lap and before you know it they're selling out theaters and then they get to the theater and they can't actually do a show and that's gonna be the kiss of death because you only got one shot. You don't you're not coming back. I tell Joe all the time we're gonna go to certain places man you got to pull it off because if you don't we're not coming back. People spend the certain amount of money but if they don't like that show, you know, I'm gonna do it again So I was doing a show in

Chicago where we're gonna go we're going to Chicago on December 2nd and we're playing this really big theater And we have to pull this off and I went out there and they hired an Influencer or whatever they call it and he was hired to do 20 minutes of stand-up comedy But he hasn't been doing stand-up comedy He just is an's an influencer, and when the boss man backstage said, here's the way we run it down. Because you have to understand, too. These are union theaters.

Everybody's getting paid big money. The guy working the light. The guy taking tickets at the door. The guy fixing the sound. It's a union theater. And everything's done by time. Yes, the people work in the doors. So you figure if the show starts at 8 o'clock,

a standard 90 minute standup show is what we do. If you go over that, they might charge you by the half hour, they might charge you by 20 minutes because you went over the time. So the guy was supposed to walk out and do 20 minutes and I was supposed to do an hour. The guy walked off to stage in seven minutes and the guy who owned the theater just looked at me and says, come on Marino, do me a favor, add another half hour. And I just looked at him and said, okay,

pay me his money. Is that right? They won't. They're not going to because they have a contract. But in essence, you feel like saying, well, why wouldn't you pay me? I have to do more for less money. It's what stand up is one of the hardest things you can possibly do. Everybody says, like, you came out here and said, it's easy when you started. It's really, if you have the knack for it,

and you have, but if not, it is so difficult. You know, people, you're sitting in front of 500,000 people, and they're just looking at you, and they're just staring at you. You're the whole show. It's like being on a reality show or being on a make me laugh. And you have to entertain them. It's one of the hardest things you're possibly can do.

Even acting, right? Acting, you can turn around, you act a script, you make a mistake, do it again. Well, cut one, cut two, three, four, right? You keep doing it, not, not, and stand up. Stand up is one of the greatest highs, though, people ask me all the time, why do you do it? Sometimes I want to ask you,

why do you want to be a standup comic? You've got this unbelievable life. But then I kind of almost know the answer to the question. Please answer it for me as well. I'm not sure. Please, I'd love to freaking know why we're busy now on Saturdays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a bunch of strangers in a theater. Please tell me.

I like it. Yes, I have the answer. I can't answer that. I don't know his answer, but I can assume. Okay. Because if you go on stage as an entertainer, I use the word entertainer because I'm not just a stand-up. You're not just a stand-up. You're an entertainer. You entertain the word entertainer because I'm not just a standup. You're not just a standup, you're an entertainer,

you entertain in many different ways. You walk out on stage and let's suppose and there is a thousand people, that's a good number, that's a big number for a standup. That's huge. And you have these people hanging on every word you say. And when they're done, they give you that standing ovation. And like the Walmart joke or any of these jokes, they give you that standing ovation. And like the Walmart

joke or any of these jokes, they repeat it constantly for so long, maybe until the next time they come and see you and mind you, if you don't do it again, then they hate you. Why didn't you do my favorite joke? Oh, I got new jokes. No, I want the old joke. It could drive you crazy. I want to hear the. Yeah, the Walmart. But the adrenaline rush that you get, the high that you get. Is that why you're doing a joke for the adrenaline and the high? Well, I do for the challenge.

It's my challenge and it's a challenge because I like to be challenged and I wanna do it and I wanna win it. I wanna beat it and it is fun. It really is. You also look like you're completely stressed out for the three days before. You come home from work. You're pacing. You look, I got to call my burr. You know, I got to study. I got to look at my thing. I don't look at my thing. And then the night of in the day, he comes home from work. He's like, he's so hot. Why do I do this again? Why am I doing it? And it's like he just looks stressed. Yeah, but you forget that I am a father

that I'm running around to their sport things nonstop. I'm a husband that I run around for my wife. I film a reality show. I get up at five o'clock in the morning. I run a real estate development company. I'm busy as can be. And then I do this. Sometimes I am stressed of just life and business,

and then I'm so busy and I've been stressed that a week, then I'm trying to think of my routine, and I forget about it. I completely forget, and I can't even think about it, and I'm, but when I get on that stage, it comes alive. I know, right? 30 years, I'd say the identical thing. See, he's got to stress myself out.

Why am I doing this? I can't keep doing this. This is ridiculous. I deal with this guy and that guy in this show and this guy and the opening act he bombed and he went on too long. And then I get on the stage and I finish and I go, that's why I do this. I really enjoy it.

When I'm done, well, when you're on, when you're having a good time, you're killing people laughing and joking, and then you say, good night, then you go, this is why I do what I do. But I do stress out just like that. You guys just said everything, oh my God, it does.

Try it. Try it. Now, and the whole thing. But see, but this is more of your life. This guy's trying it, like he's running, like you, I feel like you're focused on comedy, right? And stand up. That's what he does.

And entertainment. That's not really all his focuses. So it's kind of like a side thingy for Jeff. A little side thingy. That's a little side thingy. Yeah, it's a side thing. Well, it's true. It's a side thing.

This is his, he's booking shows year round three times a week, sometimes, right? So it's like, you're jumping in here and there. I feel like getting on the stage. That's what I'm saying. Oh, he does a lot of open mics. Any other question? I have a question for both of you. I really know the answer.

We'll save your answer for last. What is the worst experience Mike, you've ever had? Like what's your worst comedy experience that you were ever like, wow, this was bad? Like, is there something that sticks out in your mind that you were like, this was a bad situation, a heckler? Whatever it may be that it just went wrong. I don't know what that is, too. I've never asked that.

In the beginning of stand-up when you were going to open mics, I haven't done an open mic in years. When I ask you if you wanna come with me, they're actually pro shows. I do stand up at least four nights a week, somewhere, somehow, they're paid gigs, but the gigs I'm telling you about, I just wanna go because there'll be other headliners

performing, but we have the power to say, okay, we need Joe to get on stage and rehearse. Step side, step side, I'm gonna put Joe on right now. Yeah, oh yes. Oh yes. And it's not a mean thing. It's actually a nice thing to be able to say that some other comedians let my buddy hook up. Like when Joe came over last week, Joe Bartonick, he gave you some pointers. This is a big name comic. He's working with big people. Yeah, but you know, major people. Yeah, so he came over a favor.

Everybody's doing each other favors. Tell my wife what he said about me when he's when he watched my special He had the natural ability to go on stage and tell a story and that's what this is we're telling stories Which was which was what to me I was sitting in a room would You have 30 years he had 20 six years. That's 56 years of experience He had 26 years, that's 56 years of experience. These are all these guys do. This is their living and they were watching my show. Mike Moreno's like, listen, because I'm like, Mike, I don't want to just hear from you.

You know, because you care about me, you love me, I want to hear from somebody else. He brings this guy over, they sit there, and he just, they sat there and watch. And he goes, you're, you were great. You're amazing. And he goes, and he's like, what can I say? He's just, just tighten up some stuff, but you're good, right?

He goes. I have a couple of things here and there, babe. This. What's the whole thing? Ha ha ha. But then you talk to your wife and you, hold on. I'm still in the parking lot. And then, but see, then you talk to your wife and your wife's like,

what are you doing? You're terrible. Don't talk about that. Don't talk about that. Well, you know, I talk about my sons and my vagina and my No, I'm not talking about the vagina itself about but talking about just real life See when people He's talking about his family you talk about your family So I feel like sometimes I sit in the audience and I'm like everyone looks at me because I like he's talking about her

Yeah, but who cares you should sit in the audience, being proud. When you were out there singing, you might not be. When you were singing, when you were, she's my wife sang, you know what, she sang. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she wrote four of her own songs and five songs. And I think they're amazing. And they were good and they really did well and

And and everybody wants to keep her wanted to keep her singing right she she stopped I don't know She wasn't but I was her biggest cheerleader. I sat in front of her. Listen. She might not have Whitney Houston's voice But she was she did great You agreed agreed, but you're not getting people don't have Whitney Houston. I'm giving an example. I'm giving an example. You might not have that voice, but you're good, you know? So I was proud of you. So it's like you can't be worried about the first,

the very first time where you with Mike Marina, the very, very first time, I remember it was like an upstate New York or writer that was in a levities or something that was your very first. I thought you actually like I was shaking in my boots because I'm like, is this real life is Joe really gonna get on stage and like try to do comedy and I'm like, does he understand it's a routine?

Like, he's always funny at the dinner table, right? And like with couples. But I'm like, this is a whole, this is a whole nother ballgame. Like this is, this is beginning of middle and end and like, this joke capable and I was pleasantly surprised. The first night, the first night, I'm ready to go on. There's 500 people there, sold out house.

I've never done comedy. So you go in the back and there's a long stage. Right behind the stage, it's a long, narrow walkway. The stage was long. It was probably like a couple hundred feet long, right? It was a hundred feet long. And there's five foot of a walkway behind. So I start doing like, you know what?

Fuck this. And I start taking this walk, like this struck down the back of the stage. And I'm talking to myself. I'm like, you know what, fucka, you got this. You got this. Come on man, I'm like, I'm gonna kill this. I turn around, I start walking back

and I see Mike Morenoino hunched over on his knees Hyperventilating like really like not making a joke out of he's sitting here I'm like and I grab him like I mean you're right. He's oh my god. He's holding his heart He's I don't know what just happened to me. I'm just so nervous. I just I just want you to kill it, you know Oh, oh my god, it was such a joke hyperventilating his friends like you know He has a couple best friends Bobby and Chris who have you met a couple times my brother-in-law's we all our hearts were like What second you know we were scared of all the second hand embarrassment and everything else It was just like and we love them. We worry about them. We know he's got these balls, right? You talk about his balls. He's got these balls that like yeah, and he's not scared, but like it's scary

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I've had some bad nights, you know, when you're starting and things could go wrong, but I do remember, usually we get heckled by drunk women. It's usually a woman who starts something. And when you get older and in years, I usually don't let none of that bother me. And in fact, you'd be pretty stupid to try to heckle me. I will verbally assault anybody in lightning speed I will make the biggest dude going to go home and cry But sometimes when you do that those guys will be waiting for you So one time I was doing a show and some guy got ripped and asked because he wouldn't stop talking and his girlfriend kept going on and on and on So what was she saying and like things like that they say stupid they just interrupt the show which makes the other people not be able to

Hear your jokes and throws you off track it could throw you off track I mean if you're a skilled comic you could just fuck somebody up I mean you really don't want to talk to me because I will turn into a line. Oh, I want to see this a lot of people Dude, I want to see it, but I like I said I read body posture so I know why somebody wants to talk to me You could see their body posture Recently, I was just on a cruise ship entertaining and it was about a thousand people They got these big gorgeous theaters and we have to be careful because every once in a while a kid might come walking in So the show has to be kind of clean. So some girl gets

up and she was gorgeous and she started walking out. So I had to acknowledge it because I know what she's doing. She's going to the bathroom but the audience can see her leaving and you could see that she's really a knockout and everybody's dressed in scantily closed because they're on vacation. They're on vacation. So I said, hey, where you going? She goes, I got to go to the bathroom. I'm like, hurry up. I don't want you to miss my next joke.

So then some guy got up and he went behind there and he goes, that's my girl. We're going to the room to have sex. He did. So they came back in three minutes, which is the kiss of death. Right. He walked right back into it. And I go, sweetheart, you ever want to go to the bathroom

and have sex with a real man, you go with me because we wouldn't come back until the cruise is over. Let me tell you something about your boyfriend and then I just fuck him up. Oh really? Because he messed with you. No, he didn't mess with me. He just didn't know what to say.

And him and his friends were waiting for me outside. And I just go up to the guy and go like this, you're in my house and this is the way I operate in my house. You want to talk to me, I'm talking to you. Unclench your hands, you're not my house. And this is the way I operate in my house. You wanna talk to me, I'm talking to you. Unclench your hands, you're not gonna hit me. Come on. And he opened up his hands and he was like, oh, okay, cool.

And then within seconds, you're like, can I get you a drink? I don't want to drink from you. I knew what you were thinking. Really? Now, God forbid he ever took a swing at me because I can only talk tough. I'd get my ass kicked.

Yeah. But there was this one other time. Some girl, I have merchandise and I sell the merchandise and she kept saying, please sign my boobs. Sign my boobs. I'm like, look, I don't want to sign your boobs. Not what I do. Just go away, go away. But if she didn't walk away, I would never sell any more products. I signed the boob. As soon as the boobs would dump me and sign, here comes the husband. And he comes back and he comes back in and go oh fuck you up I'm a knock you out. I don't kick you a fucking ass. I'm just like this. Let me just ask you one question

Do you think I'm the guy who pushed your wife against the wall and said this is something I have to do? Or do you think this is something your wife insisted got done? All right, because I didn't do anything. She did. Wow your beef ain't with me. Your beef is with your wife See that's what happens. They come to the shows. And you have to like explain yourself. Even when you really shouldn't, because think about it. Right, I mean, come on.

And everybody's listening. At comedy shows, everyone's having a cocktail, everyone's having a drink a lot of the times. People are a little wasted, they're giggling, they get a little loud, they get obnoxious. So is it best, would you say it's best to ignore or to engage? Like, if you're on the stage and you see them starting, are you ignoring or do you engage?

I would rather ignore, but I engage. You end up being angry. You have to. Yeah. Because their movement, their body posture, I mean, I've had kids heckle me, but when the kids heckle, you can bring joy to their life and then their families go crazy. They look at you like, wow, he's a genius. He just made my little eight-year-old laugh.

I have a thing on my website called family came up to me and they were from Guadalajara or something like this and this tiny little kid is dressed in a soccer uniform and she said oh my son he loves you he's your biggest fan can we get a picture with you so I kneel down and I go you understand me you get what I'm doing and he impersonated me and he took a cigarette and he goes like this I want to be the president and I'm like oh he impersonated me. Come on. And he took a cigarette and he goes like this, I want to be the president. And I'm like, oh, I love this little boy. How cute.

So you're also training for any age range. And that's what I'm doing with Joe. Any age range, any people, any ethnic background, it's all about the family. So if we're going to talk about the first time he went on stage, in NIAC was Levitye Live, which is a major comedy club. And for that many people to come and see the show, was incredible.

And I remember saying to Tammy Pasquitelli, who's the other comedian in the show, because we were supposed to have Joe be the host. Tammy would go in the middle, and I would come up last. But after I was working with Joe, I called Tammy and I said, listen, we have to go first. I'll host the show. I'll bring you up. Just do 20 minutes and let him go. And I remember Hussein and me, are you out of your mind?

You mean this is his first performance? You're going to let him close the show. That's our technical term. He's the headline and he's closing the show. And I go, yeah, he goes, Mike, Mike, uh, do you, does he even know what we could actually do? And I go, yeah, yeah, he knows. So what we're going to do is I'm going to go out and work the crowd, make them really nice and nice and hot. Right. Then I'm going to bring you up just to a tight 20 minutes, make them nice and nice and hot. Then I'm gonna introduce Joe and you and I are gonna go in the back and say get him of the fucker. Get him. And she was like, she was even like, why? Why are we doing that? I think

I'll go because he's not gonna stop. So if he went first, when would he stop and introduce us? I even said to tell Tammy like this, I go, Tammy, you have to understand something. I don't know if you watched the show, but I watched the show. All he needs to do is take his shirt off and the place is gonna go wild. How are we gonna follow that?

No, no, no, no, no. I'm so sorry. She goes, are you serious? Don't you remember when she was in the green room and she's looking at us, too, and angry? But I didn't think the way you guys set it up with you introducing and that giving all the backstory and it was perfect.

It was like a very good idea. It worked. We have to be smart about what we do. Right. And I told Joe that night and I'm telling you the truth. He did great. All he had to do was stop 10 minutes earlier. Always 10 minutes too long.

10 minutes. Everything is 10 minutes. So when we filmed the scene, I'm like, you should have stopped talking. You should have stopped talking 10 minutes ago, Joe. And we were good, but then you over did your stay, Joe. Always, it's always 10 minutes too long. Even in the bedroom. It's all long.

You're too long. Joe, okay, so we're going to tell you guys about a night that Joe had, which I'm sure you read about in TMZ and everywhere else. Joe had a long island comedy night. This was definitely your worst comedy night. I'm sure you guys are ready read about it when he was on the stage and he started to curse

and say the same thing over and over and over and you just kept looking at the crowd. And what were you saying to the crowd? Just hold on, it's coming. Just give me a fucking minute. Give me a minute like you were, be ligerent. You weren't even making sense. I was literally crying at the table.

Mike, what was going on in your head backstage? Well, believe it or not, that was Governor's Comedy Club in Levittown, Long Island. And it's a famous place. That's been around for a long, long time. So for us to get in there and do the show was an honor. And when Joe came out on stage, I think he just went into me. He overemphasized what he was about to do, and you can scare yourself into forgetting your act.

We actually all forget our acts before you walk in. Most people, I forget. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm like, how do I start again? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That wasn't that. I blacked out the suit of February. Oh, okay, that too.

But you were also, no, you weren't just... I didn't scare, no. This was not like a sober drunk, I mean, a sober guy standing on a stage for getting his lines. It was way beyond it. He was hands, were his hands. Your head was in your hands. You were lost.

I'm going to tell you what happened. I was in, I was, we were backstage. We did a couple of pictures with those, uh, those guys. Yes. Right. Right. Right. Hang in there. Everybody came back. They're taking pictures.

I had one drink, one drink. But I, I took that suit if I was sick. So I took suit effects throughout the day. I'm not realizing. And I was fine backstage. Mike, Marino, you went up, you did your 20 minutes, half hour, whatever you did. And then I said, Joe, you're up.

I remember, as clear as day, I got up, I walked up the stairs to go on that little stage, right? That stage. And I went to put my drink on the stool, the bench, and I dropped it. Drop the drink. And that's all I remember. I remember nothing else.

So it wasn't like I forgot. I was black to hell out. And I was throwing up in the back. Yeah, I saw. Yeah, that I saw. I saw you puke it out by your car. And I'm like, wow, OK. I was texting from the stage.

We didn't know what to do to get them off the stage. He was not listening. First we sent your friend up there. I start texting Mike and another agent that you were working with or a manager at the time from my table going, what the fuck is going on? I'm like, send Mike Marino out. Send Mike Marino out. Where the fuck is going on? Like, send Mike Marino out. Send Mike Marino out.

Where the fuck is Mike Marino? Like someone needs to save him. And you did, you came out, but he wouldn't listen to you. I'm like, get the hell out of here. I got this shit. But listen, what are you gonna do? This is, it's all about, you open up a business, you go through hard times, up and down.

That's how you learn. You know, I, you go through hard times, up and down, that's how you learn. You know, I, now I know, never to take any medication or drink ever again, I know that. See, drinking to me does nothing. Yes, I might, no, it does stop it. I'm not the sloppy drunk, I'm never that kind of guy. I can drink and, you know, and I just get happy.

I really, I'm not not I could drink an entire almost a bottle nothing happens to me when I'm done a party and a drink and that's it I'm fine I sit down I'm conversation I'll do anything so I'm not that guy so that happened that happened that I'm glad that happened when we went on tour and we went on our little one. Yeah, she was, she cried. Oh my God, I can't believe it. I didn't, I was like, wow, I was kind of upset. I'm like, all right. I feel like bad for you.

I felt upset. I was like, you don't know what it was like being in the crowd. Like everyone like, are you gonna go get your husband? I did. I got on the stage and got my husband. I walked right up there. I took the mic right out of his hands and I was like, Joe, guys, everyone, obviously, he's not in his right mind tonight. I'm sorry, but we're gonna have to thank you.

The whole, they all clap. They were happy I saved my husband. Which was fine. But there was a time I also got heck old and Florida. Remember when we went to those four states in Florida? There was a woman that heckled me. She kept on, she wasn't shot up. You remember?

And then I was like, this, you know, I was like, I'm gonna go to the hospital and I'm gonna go to the hospital. four states in Florida. There was a woman that heckled me. She kept on, she wouldn't shut up. You remember? And then I was like this, you know, I'm an experience. I'm doing my thing and she's like, Ciao, she starts talking about the show. She just wouldn't. She was the front row. She paid for VIP. She wouldn't, but she was yelling and she was so sloppy. And then I just turned around I was ignoring her and they're gonna keep going then I turn around I said what I go what do you want? I turned around and go what tell me what you want and we start talking back and forth

She's like why didn't you go to this party? I'm like, okay Because I wasn't invited, you know, and then I'm just having a conversation with her on stage, but I didn't rip her because I'm I Yeah, she was and I said to her. I said you're being rude. I know you're drunk and it was like Half my routine went talking to her all night and everybody was booing her to like boo Oh, yeah, and then I was done I really wasn't in remember remember in that whole thing I'm like all right guys. There's that I go anybody else got any questions. Let's just talk That's what I did and you did that was the improv in Orlando. Yes, uh-huh. Yeah I remember exactly where they they were sitting with two girls and she kept on talking and her friend got up and walked out

Because her friend got embarrassed. Yes She was so annoying and then I just started talking and walked out because her friend got embarrassed. Yes, yeah. Oh my God. She was so annoying. And then I just started talking to everybody. So come on, I got questions and that's it. Hey, listen, a lot of the shows that we were doing, of course, were in different states. That's when you're really testing what you can do as a comic because you're not in your home area.

You're in an area where the people know you from television and then they're gonna want you to stand up for the first time in This type of atmosphere and quite honestly there were shows where Joe was actually killing it really really well Me and the other people we won't mention their names was sitting in the room going holy shit He's doing it and then one guy kept you know kept on going like this He goes he did that thing you said he did that thing you said I know I'm like come on Joe stick a move stick a move Come on man. Throw the right throw the right to hit the mark. Okay, just say good night Joe say good night Joe so say good night Joe say gonna ten more minutes. Oh, please say good night. Oh my god

Okay, it's 20 more minutes. Good off the stage. I got more to say He kills it. We I've been to a couple shows with his friends and we're like there we go and get there Another 20 minutes. I was like so hey Zeus. I'm like. Oh my god Hey, Zeus, we know what's his name? Hey, Zeus and the paint. No, no, no, Jesus, what's his name? Hey, Zeus. It's the callback. Javier. Javier.

Javier. Javier. So are you going to cut your comedy show? We're getting everybody really excited about this new comedy show. Good. No, you know, this is, it is exciting to go. Come on. Anybody who's in the Princeton area is definitely going to want to go see Joe. Now that you're hearing all of this behind the scenes.

I'm going to go on my wife's podcast. Show this barrier. Ha ha ha ha. All right. So I need to know a little bit more. Are we changing routines for Princeton? Are we doing something different? Is it, do we have like, what are we talking about? Well, we're working on stuff right now that is sharp and exactly what he was doing on tour the first time because it's really good material. Material comes from your family. Originally, when we were rehearsing and Joe was doing a specific joke, so I was like, I don't think it's going to work, but I got this idea. Why don't you just tell me what you days like? What do you do? I mean, how in the world do you get up in the morning? Have a construction company. Come home with all these kids be on a reality show all at the same time.

Joe, tell me that. And when he started telling me I was writing it down going this is fucking hilarious. Who's gonna believe this shit? This is just out of control. So all I really did was say, okay, this is the first, this is the second, this is the third, these are the callbacks, this is the way it's gonna go. As soon as you get to this mark, say, I'm Joe Gorgger Gennight and you're gonna crush it and it's gonna be amazing. I've definitely seen him do that a couple times. He definitely went through the routine, came back and was like, thank you guys, we'll learn Gera. And then there's nights where,

that's what's, to me, that's what's interesting about comedy, especially for like a new comedian. You can see that he's learning and you can see that like, he watches you and he learns from you. I mean, but we also learn live. That's the best, that's the way you're right. There's no audience really to perform in front of

besides you. I got to say this when we were in some of these shows, I don't know, when we go somewhere like in the South somewhere, and I started sitting there going like this, he's adding to all these bits, and then I started getting entertained myself. I'm sitting there going, I wonder what he's going to do now. So when he does his little animation thing about the mermaid, I can't stop laughing. I was sitting there, right? He was sitting there the other guy, geez, I wonder who's going to be in the water now. Because he kept changing and adding and it was hilarious. This, this joke. And I think one of the funniest things is he actually impanamimes it. And he does it when you lay across those stools,

I can't stop laughing. That's stand up brother. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's that's how you know, you get better and better as you go. You got to do the more you do, you get better.

So what can we expect, Joe? Is there going to be more and more comedy shows coming or are you loving the comedy world? Talk to the people? Yeah, it's all good man. We love it. We're gonna keep doing it. We got we got Chicago We got Princeton Chicago. We actually got a phone call on the way over here about Canada Canada? Our own.

Canada is great. Really? Yeah, I love going to Canada Toronto's great Montreal's great and I did get a Callback to go to do another show in Dubai and they asked me like you doing shows with Joe Gorgher and I did get a call back to go to do another show in Dubai and They ask me they're like you doing shows with Joe Gorgher and I go yeah, and they're like you want to come to Dubai I'm gonna let me ask them see if he wants to go because it's a trip man Oh, is it like there's 200 cultures in this room. They're not from New Jersey at all and they're not Italian But they watch you guys on television. They watch Italian people on television

They see what I do on my YouTube channel So when you walk out on stage, well you have to do is go, hey everybody how you's doing and they flip out Just because you're talking like the Jersey guy. Yes So I know if we get Joe to go to Dubai as soon as as he walks out on a stage, people are gonna lose their minds. And then from stage, you can see people in sheets, people in hats, people with burkas, people from Ireland, England, everywhere, 200 cultures in one room.

And they all speak English. It's not like you have to change anything. And everybody they come there, and they love the show, and the show is amazing. Your worst critic is your family. Oh, you wanna bring that up? Cause I will. Every comedian says, don't ever practice in front of your wife

or anybody, your brothers, cause they're their worst critic. And now I'm never, no, cause I never, I got that stuck in my head. And every time I do something with you if I do something I tell now you can't do you know Okay, then you go on stage and people are cheering or stepping up standing ovation You know you just and you told me that the other comedians always told me that too. They said listen

Don't you ever do anything in front of you? Friends and family of the toughest audience because they look at you like it's you, whereas the audience looks at you like you're just some an entertainer. An entertainer, your family's like, oh, don't do that. Why do my mother was alive? She said, you curse too much.

Why don't you stop cursing? And I go, but mom, I was brought up at home with you. Well, stop fucking cursing. You curse way too much. I'm like, mom, you're your cursing. No, I'm not. But that becomes an endearing joke because everybody experienced. So when you talk about your family, especially when you were talking about the kids, it's such a lovable thing when you talk about your

kids. Oh, yeah, it puts me on the floor. Right. And you don't have kids. No, you don't even have kids. And I talked about one story with my son. I was like, I gotta take that out. Oh, my God. But it's, if you really, it's what kids do. It's what these boys do. We grow up in it.

We're in this town. And these kids with the parents, the parents, we know. It's amazing. The parents come up to me and football. I'll just see what they're doing. Oh my God. This is what these teenagers do now. It's what we did then.

But what do you got in your pocket that you think I'm going to get mad at? Give me one of the things that pisses me up. No, the porn story with my son. Oh, stop. I mean, big deal. You see, that's no big deal. We all watch porn at that age and now hold on I used to go into my father's room and steal the VCR's tapes

Look at his laugh. No, no, they were VCR and you popped them in the VCR and he had old stack And that's how I used to watch porn if I may interject here Because this is one of my favorite jokes that he does. Okay. But when I, he said to me, you know, my wife doesn't want me to do that. And then there was another joke and he goes, well, well, my wife doesn't want me to do that. And then there was a joke, well, my wife doesn't want me to do that. And I go, can we please keep that as a catchphrase? All you have to do is say, I was going to do this joke, but I can't because my wife doesn't want me to do it. That will kill that will kill. And if I come up later on and says I had a couple of jokes

I wanted to do but Melissa told me flat out don't you dare do that joke so good night everybody we'll see which is such a true thing because there's three things minimum that I do not want you to do. That's correct. Well I'm doing them now. No, no, no, nothing that has stood my children. Leave them at home. Big deal.

And how about my vagina? Can we leave that out of the way? I don't know. Talk about your vagina. That's like ridiculous. I don't remember any of those jokes. You don't. No, it's just blank, blank, blank.

You remember the mermaid, though, right? You know, I'm turning red. I think it was talking about somebody else. It wasn't the When you say that all the women have Fake this fake that fake this and then the cookie that is a hilarious joke Oh the cookie. Oh my god. Yeah, the fake every comedy comedies every comedy's great I just I just officiated a wedding. And my wife's like,

say, I was writing stuff down. I wrote everything down. I did my thing. She's like, let me hear you. Let me hear it. Read it to me. I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. I said, stay out of it because she would have screwed

my whole head up. And I'm not doing it. So I put this whole thing down. I officiated this wedding and it was amazing. Wasn't your typical wedding? Was not it was funny. I made people cry. Oh Wow, I think you would be very proud. I am proud. I can't believe it I watched some of it on Instagram. You see everybody dressed up so nice and you know, you're officiating Everybody dressed up so nice and you know you're officiating a

Wedding and it's two men marrying each other. Yeah, I mean who even gets to officiate anything and here you are and it's two men It's just unbelievable. I wrote something in there and I said something about the time of the month Right, and it was the funniest thing because I knew I was going to hit. And the one guy goes, we have nothing to worry about that. You know, but it was great. The whole crowd starts laughing. It was great. The way the way it hit. But if I would have showed my wife that she's like, you can't put that in. But even a father-in-law, he loved it. He loved it, you know? I felt like that felt to me like you were about to go do comedy. You were stressing like that with your little script in your hand And like going back and forth and I have a question for you before we let you guys go

Do you remember every is there like do you guys put little things on the stage that you like where's your cue like if you forget where's your cue? By now I actually what I do is I write down what I want to do. And it's usually just a word or a few words, maybe a sentence. And that'll cue you in. It cues me. And but I put it in my pocket. I would never put it on stage because to me, that's almost extremely unprofessional.

Shouldn't let the audience know that you have to go to your notes unless you're extremely brand new and you want to put some notes on the floor like a singer would say okay let's go to that song let's go to that song but for a stand-up comic it actually could throw you off because you're gonna go looking for it it becomes a crutch whereas if it's not there you can just you're just gonna go right Joe's not gonna lose his place because his story, it's a story. If he tells the story, we get from the beginning to the middle to the end.

Each one of those things is gonna have a great catchphrase. Each one of those things is gonna have a callback. By the end of the show, people are going, oh my God, I wonder what happened to Javier? Or your family, that's what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to make people think that. And at worst, we do wonder what happened to Javier all the time. It worked like a charm.

It did. You don't get it. She doesn't get it. I do get it. By the way, guys, I tease Joilop. But I actually think he's very, very good at this. I think the crowd has such a fun time. It's an amazing show. The way that Mike, you always come in and give us,

you give, because we have a lot of Italians out there coming to these shows. You give them that Italian flair. The two of you guys together are super funny. It's a super awesome night out. And I think Joe, you do shock a lot of people with being able to tell the story this way and make people laugh.

So I think you guys are onto something. I think it's super fun. It's great night out. So if anyone is around, when is this October 14th? I'm gonna be there. We have a lot of friends that are gonna be there. So make sure you guys all try to get these tickets

at catcharisingstar.com. That's where you go to for tickets for October 14th. It's in Princeton, New Jersey. And if you guys are looking for any free tickets for the show, there are some being given away. Basically, you're just gonna go over and start following on Instagram. It's at 10XLaw, com, okay?

Like the post, comment with your email address, and then you're entered to win 20 tickets, and you can also win an iPad. So make sure you guys head over there and do that as well. For the rest of you, go to catchurisingstar.com, grab tickets for October 14th to see these two funny guys. They're actually hilarious together and do not forget to listen to live from my mother's basement

with Mike Moreno every Tuesday night exclusively on Mike's YouTube channel, Mike Moreno Live. Love you guys, thank you so much Joe and Mike. Thanks for being here Mike. I have Joe all the time. Thank you Mike. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye guys. No! Yeah!