Saturday Night Live's
PISCOPO
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an asshole in this case. First of all, for him to
say that I'm envious of Eddie is just, it’s so
ludicrous.”
Piscopo is getting worked up. "I don't
know' how to say this so it doesn’t sound ri
diculous, but all I ever want to do is work. All
I ever wanted to do was be a television actor
and just be — I’m perfectly content doing that.
Just give me some bucks, man, and let me get
my little farm and I'll be fine. My family, the
dog and everything — that's all 1 ask in life.
And to say that stuff about me and Eddie — it
just really hurt.
Rolling Stone is a sleaze magazine, and
that’s for the record. Rolling Stone is a hip
National Enquirer, it really is."
Little Joey, his girlfriend from next door
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A close look at this man does not
fail to produce his serious side, as
it would seem here. Below, with his
half-and-half All-Star.
and All-Star, whom Piscopo sometimes calls
Neuro-Brain, shamble into the garden. The
performer is getting hot in the sun, motions
to move inside.
“You know what I really want to do?” asks
Piscopo, a man who’s about to make a movie,
signed to do a comedy album and does a
weekly syndicated radio show called Joe Pis
copo at Large.
"Ultimately, I’d like to produce. I've got my
whole career pretty much planned out ... 1
want to hire the talent. 1 hate being judged, 1
want to be able to go out and say to the talent,
'Now this is what we re going to do. This is
funny.' But I'll tell you what, from writing on
the show and performing on the show, I think
I'll become a better producer one day, be
cause I'll understand all those facets of it. And
that's what I want to do.”
Piscopo steps into his house, closes the
sliding glass door behind him. He looks
around and moves to the kitchen, grabs a
beer from the refrigerator.
"Show business,” he says, nodding happily.
"Show business is my life. Show business and
New Jersey.”
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