my next guest for the past two years he has been one of the stars of NBC's Saturday Night
Live a very talented actor impressionist stand-up comedian and sports commentator please welcome
Joe Piscopo
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really nice nobody sells a song quite the way you do Joe yeah I couldn't resist when
I get around Shaffer I just go crazy for you you must have got out of here have you have
you and Paul worked together we had we worked on Saturday Night Live he comes in and does
uh several things with us and we have such a guest we're big Frank Sinatra fans both
of us we ran across a very obscure album just the other day called uh Frank sings Pat Benatar
yeah oh my goodness because you are such a marvelous human being Hit Me With Your Best
Shot hit me with that shot to Hit Me With Your Best Shot fire away [Music] [Applause]
it's beautiful very nice now you're actually uh doing an album of uh Mr Sinatra or no that's
not right tell me explain why well we're just doing like a single uh Frank sings The Rock
Classics like uh Born to Run and uh Stairway to Heaven Columbia is doing it and it'll be
out about August so we're very excited about it as long as Frank doesn't mind how can you
do that because uh you're yeah you're just you're pretending to be frank oh yes well
how does that happen well I did I admire them and I think it's just like an impression right
nothing offensive legal clearance and so forth don't you I guess I'm leaving that up to the
record company David I'm not that involved former where I looked into it legally have
you ever heard from Frank because Frank phoned and said I enjoy the impression or no no watch
me be real diplomatic now okay uh no I I just heard through the great find that it really
doesn't mind that it it is you know I want to hear about the Grapevine tell me about
the grape of mine where you heard Frank didn't mind uh some guy named Julie came over and
said Frank does not mind you know and I'm only kidding uh David yeah
my question to be asking a performer but you do a lot of different things well so which
of these things no I don't know I never did an impression until I did uh Saturday Night
Live and they asked you want to do a couple Impressions I said sure and I get a real kick
out of doing it you do a lot of them yeah now for somebody who just started recently
yeah honestly I really do I don't know how I got thrown into it but I do have a lot of
fun it's weird too coming into the hallway over here I heard the Halls talk saying good
morning everybody [Laughter] [Applause]
he loved it okay and of course John Chancellor uh now there is one guy I wanted to ask you
about because we had him on this program uh Andy Rooney and I know you've done Andy Rooney
yeah you know I he was on the show and he made fun of my name or whatever well it was
very odd what he did we're not we're not certain this is a while back we just got on the air
and your name uh we brought it up about the impression and he I don't remember exactly
what he said but it was uh one of those Grapevine deals you were talking about earlier it was
so embarrassing because I was right up there you know because I just came down from the
17th floor to watch him and I heard him say that and I just kind of hid behind an exit
sign there and I caught him as he walked out and I just had to tell him you know I admire
his work and no hard feelings and he said you know Joe you're really good but your writing
stinks thanks Andy and um what the now that the show is not in production you're going
back on the air in the fall are you working on uh other uh Impressions uh yes would you
like to hear I'm trying to do you I think it'll be so funny if I did you I think that
no I mean uh I I by the way I admire you the show's great and I'm not saying I'm not saying
that for audience but isn't he terrific [Applause] baby brilliant wait can I do it can I I'm
trying it we're in the beginning stages oh I see your ears something to do with the teeth
already huh wait here we go this is very very quickly as long as it's not a cheap shot Joey
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kind of an interesting thing to witness um uh you're gonna you can hang around we're
gonna pause uh it's exciting to be here win a date night with Peter torque isn't it am
I eligible uh no it's all sewn up it's all sewn up we'll we'll pause here we'll uh carry
out the wounded and the dead and be right back with more of Joe Christopher welcome
back this of course is uh Mr Joe Piscopo and our big win a date with Peter torque has been
won and Aster Pollock from Florida and St Louis uh is the proud winner and they're a
busy having their date now and we'll be talking with both of them a little bit later uh one
of the characters you do on your program uh Saturday Night Live is that of a sportscaster
yeah and this this man is a uh one two three four thank you man the the guy that you do
is a uh compilation yeah I like conglomeration okay whatever yeah who is in there the the
writer that uh I I wrote it with this came up with a character with Barry blasting and
I sat down and we just took a little bits and pieces from everybody for more of Albert
across the hall uh maybe little Cosell I I noticed a lot of Keith Jackson in there it
doesn't stop for a second there and it's just just we just put them all together it must
be a sports fan yourself I love sports I I watch it all the time
I love baseball I love we play at the improvisation Club I used to work out at years ago and we
go down to the Central Park and we think we're good we walk around real cocky you know you
get the uniform on and something comes over you we're walking around a couple weeks ago
and we get challenged by a Puerto Rican baseball team and uh they were so good and so Fierce
the name of the team was lost that I think they said which means if you beat us we will
rip your face off great I like playing with the Puerto Ricans I couldn't get used to the
hubcaps as bases though that guy oh yeah
they had they don't listen they had Dugout they weren't actually dugouts there were Buick
electras on blocks
and we got beat real bad let me tell you yeah you know what I love about sports if you watch
the Saturday and Sunday afternoon Sports shows they have the the networks cover Sports brilliantly
they really do but boy some of the shows they just grabbed for I saw that they had on the
strongest guys in the world racing each other on foot with refrigerators on their back do
you remember that grown men would like like refrigerators on their backs I couldn't help
but think watching one of these guys going into an appliance store actually buying a
refrigerator all right yeah I'll take that Amana right there delivery hell no strap it
to my back I'll run it all funny surprise for going on a picnic honey don't forget the
cooler
a cooler
will the whole damn refrigerator that's my son over there the one with the toaster on
his back
typical Network thinking do get guys that look like gorillas put refrigerators on their
backs and have them race each other good idea JB next week we'll put food in the refrigerators
and have fat people try to catch them
but I enjoy watching my mom here in front of the television we had one uh tonight as
a matter of fact uh we had one on uh well it's difficult to explain Mr T was on a show
last night David if I can interrupt your second he was bumped from a show wasn't he remember
he was left with it who told him well that was that was a difficult moment but he was
he was originally in one of those shows that you were talking about he was yeah he was
in the uh the uh meanest bouncer competition I remember that that's right yeah they wouldn't
punched some things yeah they're trying to get us approved for the Olympics now but I
don't know um now you you have a son I didn't realize you had a family yeah a little Joey
three and a half years ago that's real nice and you live here in the vicinity New Jersey
yeah yeah um should I admit that yeah anybody from New Jersey here uh all right I'll make
you feel at home foreign
I couldn't resist I'm sorry I'm only kidding New Jersey he takes care of Puerto Rico and
New Jersey [Music] um we're gonna pause we'll be right back with more of Joe Christopher
[Music] hi I'm David Letterman host of NBC's late night during the commercial breaks why
not enjoy some delicious sandwiches just like we do here in the studio you'll be glad you
did thank you let me ask you about your biography here this is the official NBC as you can see
it's printed right here on the official high quality yeah there it is right here the uh
and it uh tells a little bit about you where you're from lives in New Jersey with your
wife Nancy and your young son Joy you mentioned birthplace Passaic so on and so forth down
here height Joe it says according to the NBC press Department Joe Piscopo is 5-1 ladies
and gentlemen there five one is that uh I couldn't believe when I saw that somebody
wrote an article about me and they put the diminutive Mr piscopala I said hey Dominion
did this all right
how is your uh what is it like to be a father I mean I came as a surprise woman because
I judged us to be relatively the same age and I don't don't have a son yeah it you don't
you don't expect to you don't expect it's so weird like uh he's three and a half now
so I'm getting used to it hey I'm a father but when he was first born it really throws
you back we went through the whole what's that French method you do the method of birth
no no no no that's a new one no that's a new one's called the Marcel Marceau method of
birth that's great it's where the baby delivers himself by the umbilical cord like this
very Advanced very very Advanced and it worked out wonderfully it's really exciting you know
what really really got to me people were telling me to this day they tell me you should have
taken pictures of the actual delivery go into the living room take pictures of the baby
being born now this to me is probably the most repulsive thing to do but my wife is
struggling to have this baby I'm supposed to be there with an instamatic saying hey
Doc get by the legs and wave okay foreign
[Applause] imagine getting a Christmas picture postcard like that that's disgusting is what
that is David you're uh the window thing started back up again for you on the program I don't
I don't know I think about September 25th September we go back at the end of August
and I think it's the same Choice good luck with your son and good luck with your album
and or you're single I guess yeah we'll do an album after that when and when will the
single come uh consumer I like the way this guy phrases things you know about August the
beginning of August terrific uh thank you very much for being a real pleasure meeting
yesterday
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ladies and gentlemen well let me get my papers sorted out here