- [British Accent] Hello, we're from New York City.
- [British Accent] All right, then.
[laughing]
My name is Adeem Sandleer. [laughing]
And yours is? - Anita Manzana.
[laughing]
- Anita and I are gonna teach you New York slang.
I don't know how good we're gonna do.
Do you feel like you know New York slang at all?
- Yeah, I do.
- Oh, wow, la dee do. - Okay.
[upbeat music]
- First one up is, oh.
- A badiga.
- A badiga. [laughing]
Like, Adam, Adam, you got a heck of a badiga,
but I'll tell you what.
- Badiga. - Badiga, that's good.
But this is a store, like a little grocery store, right?
We call it a bodega and you love it.
I gotta tell you, that wasn't around when I was a kid.
- No.
- This just happened the past few years.
- And not on Long Island, just in the city.
- Yeah, in the city.
- And it's a bodega. - But I didn't say that,
because it really doesn't feel
like a total old-school New York thing,
this is like a newer New York thing.
My grandmother never said bodega in her life.
- [Idina] She didn't?
Yeah, you're right.
- Are you good at reading?
Here we go.
Oh, you know what that is.
- A schmear.
- A schmear, go ahead, hit 'em with it.
- It's a schmear of cream cheese.
It's not Yiddish, is it?
It's a real word? - It sounds like it should be.
- But it's just a real word in the dictionary?
- [Adam] I think it's a little Jewish.
- It's like a pap schmear.
[laughing] - We all love those!
- With a little bit of lox!
- [Adam] Bridge and tunnel, which is what you are.
- I think that's a little bit derogatory.
- I think it's fine. - You do?
- Do you take a bridge to get to the city?
There's nothing wrong with it,
nothing to be embarrassed of it.
- I used to take the tunnel, the Midtown Tunnel.
- You took the Midtown Tunnel?
- But I feel like they sometimes refer
to bridge and tunnel people a little bit.
- It can be little cocky attitude
towards the bridge and tunnel people
that come in on a Friday night.
- The people that aren't from New York City, yeah.
- Yeah, no, but you gotta respect
the bridge and tunnel people, everybody.
- Definitely.
- [Adam] Oh, we're going to the city.
- Oh, yeah, the city.
Doesn't Seinfeld do a whole thing on this?
- Does he? I don't know.
- You don't care about other comedian's jokes.
- I don't even know they exist.
[laughing]
- If you're on Long Island,
we're going to the city. - We're going to the city.
- You don't say New York City.
- Or how 'bout this?
You gotta say on Long Island, if someone says--
- That's what he does, that's his joke, sorry!
- Oh, okay. - That's the joke,
I messed it up.
- I'm really stealing his stuff today, all right.
This, I don't know what that means.
- You do, you silly!
- I've never heard that in my life.
- Oy vey! - [Adam] Oy vey.
- It's like, oh, God.
- That's what it is, oh, God.
- Oy veys mir is oh God in Heaven, maybe.
- [Idina] Is it? - I think so.
- Oy gevalt.
- Oh gevalt, maybe that's oh God in Heaven.
- Is that Yiddish?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Certainly doesn't sound Irish.
[laughing] All right.
Pie? - Pie?
A slice would have been more.
- Yeah, but that's if you grew up with a lot of money.
We could only get,
let's split a slice. - One slice.
- My family said, "Let's split a slice,"
and that's all we got.
I'll see ya out on the stoop.
We'll play stoop ball.
- I didn't say stoop that much.
I mean, I know what it is, a stoop.
- No, maybe you said, I'll do a movie with Adam Sandler,
I'll stoop down to that level.
[laughing]
- Yeah, that's good.
- Hey, yooz!
How yooz doin'?
- How yooz doin'?
- It's just throwing a z onto a thing.
If there's a couple a guys around and you don't wanna say--
- It's yooz, not youths, not what Joe Pesci, the youths.
- Soho, we've been there.
That's south of Houston.
I lived there on Thompson and Prince for awhile.
- You did?
That was where all the models always were.
- Oh, not when I was in there. - When I was in college.
- Really? - No?
- They ran for the year and a half I lived there,
they were like, "Let's get out of here, quick."
Oh, Bed-Stuy, that's Bedford-Stuyvesant.
And I haven't been there in a long time.
I know that my friend Chris Rock used to live there
as a child, yeah. - Did he?
- The Village, I lived there, you lived there.
- The Village is Greenwich Village.
- Downtown, 14th Street,
anything below 14th Street is Downtown.
[scatting]
- B.Q.E. is like a--
- [Adam] Get on the B.Q.E. - Bacon, bacon, something.
- Queens. - [laughs] Sandwich.
- The Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
- That always had so much traffic.
Whenever I had to take the B.Q.E. to get to gigs,
I always got lost.
- Yeah, that's a tough. - [Idina] It's hard.
I broke down on the B.Q.E. in my old Thunderbird.
Gotham. - Gotham.
- Yeah, the city, New York City.
- Gotham Bar and Grill, I worked at that restaurant.
- Did ya?
- Yeah, I took reservations.
- Let's hear how you answer the phone.
- Good evening, Gotham Bar and Grill, may I help you?
And then you just put them on hold. [laughs]
- Schvitz is sweating or you could sit and take a schvitz.
- No! - Yeah, it's like a steam.
- That's your own interpretation.
- No it isn't, it's old Jews, Sandy, tell 'em!
- [Sandy] Yes!
- Really?
- That's the oldest Jew in the building right now.
- You go in the steam room and you take a schvitz?
- [Sandy] A wet steam.
- A wet steam is a schvitz? - A wet steam.
- And what is it when you sit on the toilet
and you take a what?
That's not a schvitz.
- [Sandy] Schvitz.
Shits if you have the lisp.
[laughing]
- You like to say it.
- Oh, fuhgedaboudit.
- That's right.
- It's forget about it. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Idina] Oh, yeah, you're buggin'.
- What's buggin'?
- You're buggin' out.
Like bug eyes, you're just freaking out.
- [Idina] B? - What's up, b?
- That's before my time. - Yeah, I don't know.
- But you're cool with all the rappers.
- I certainly am.
Ice, we have to know what that is.
- Oh, ice. - The jewelry and stuff.
- It's the bling, it's the diamonds.
Let me just admit this to the world
that until recently, I thought bumper to bumper traffic,
which is like bumper to bumper,
was bumpada bumpada traffic.
Spelled B-U-M-P-A-D-A, bumpada.
- I totally get that.
This was New York City slang,
we know we did not do too well at this.
But we hope somehow-- - We didn't represent.
- We were terrible, but I know deep in your heart--
- While you're sitting in bumpada bumpada traffic,
you can think about these. [laughing]
- That's good.