Nick DiPaolo I don’t see how he gets away with it.
The veteran comic has pretty much everything to say these days, even as the woke left has strangled comedy.
Of course, there are pitfalls.
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Di Paolo’s credits include “Tough Crowds with Colin Quinn,” “Inside Amy Schumer” and “The Chris Rock Show,” but he can no longer be heard on so-called mainstream platforms. .
Are you disappointed? not much.
“I turned my back on legitimate show business, and not anymore,” DiPaolo told Align. “I think I’m in real show business… there’s no real traditional Hollywood anymore. I just haven’t had any interest in that in the last few years.”
Listening to “The Nick Di Paolo Show” is like traveling back in time to New York circa 1995 and hearing Howard Stern’s voice through the woofers and tweeters. It’s raw, uncompromising, and full of gags that you wouldn’t say in a polite company.
Of course, those are just jokes. It’s like the kind Joan Rivers and Don Rickles once said with a wink and a laugh.
“I just say what I want to say,” the 62-year-old explains.
That often means downplaying President Joe Biden, woke regulation, or other progressive goals that the late-night cartoon didn’t touch. While some conservatives in Hollywood are now loud and proud, DiPaolo never hid his conservative views.
“I was always on the right, but I never did anything political,” he says of his stand-up work. Things have changed in recent years, especially since he started his signature podcast.
Longtime friend and colleague Colin Quinn once spoke of Di Paolo’s ideological leanings.
“If you make a joke about McDonald’s, people will know how you voted,” Quinn quipped about DiPaolo’s onstage antics.
He once praised conservative firebrand Ann Coulter by name during a Comedy Central roast performance, but to no avail, he says with a laugh.
He was helpless. Both then and now.
The Massachusetts native has changed to some degree over time. After years on the East Coast, he now calls Savannah, Georgia his home. The southern city lacked a comedy scene where he could hone his skills, but he wanted a break from the road.
“Some people need that kind of consideration,” he says, speaking of his life as a touring comic. “I also enjoy writing for other people.” In between podcasts, he “crafts material” for Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” Late night showcase.
DiPaolo may be leaning on podcasting and alternative platforms today, but he’s still vague about other aspects of modern comedy. He takes pride in honing the perfect set in an age where “crowd piece” stand-up comedy clips are endlessly clicked on social media.
“I was known for eviscerating people.” [in clubs]” he recalls of his early stand-up days. “He’s a guy who’s having a mediocre comeback right now…not even an edgy one.”
He’s still pleased with the new wave of comedians, like Joe List and Mark Normand, who are leveraging social media to build their fan bases. He is also professionally close to “canceled” comedian Louis CK, who was unofficially banned from Hollywood in 2017 after admitting to pleasuring himself in front of multiple women.
DiPaolo will appear in CK’s 2022 indie film Independence Day and previously co-starred in the FX sitcom Louie.
Di Paolo, who will perform at Saul Joel’s Comedy Club & Lounge in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on May 10th and at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, on May 11th said, “All media He doesn’t say very kind words to the King. ”
He remembers Stern treating him well when he visited a shock jock show in the past. Since then, Di Paolo has watched the radio legend change…and never for the better.
“This is what happens when you go to a shrink every day of your life,” says Stern, speaking of decades of chronic therapy sessions. “They take your life.”
Stern laments, “I’ve become the people I used to make fun of.”
“Even if you’re a millionaire, you’ll do anything to make money. You reinvent yourself. [expletive] You used to hate it,” he continues. “He gave in to this whole woke thing,” his fellow comedian added. Written by Joe Rogan, 2023.
DiPaolo doesn’t regret his approach to comedy, even if he doesn’t rely on social media as much as professional comics these days.
“I chose my own way of life, both on stage and off,” he says of his career, recalling his first open mic night performance in 1988. Nowadays, audiences are craving more authenticity than established comics that push the mainstream route. .
“I didn’t know I would have to wait 40 years for my time.”
