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" Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I'd be a fool to sit there and go, 'Yeah, let's use the telephone to telemarket myself'... Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic. "
Myself
Media
Fool
" Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world. "
Seems
Time
Strange
" Every heckler is unique because they say something, and you react to what they say or what they're wearing or who they're with, so every response to a heckle is unique. "
You
Unique
They Say
" Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together. "
Brings
Together
Food
" Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message. "
Body
Used
Growing Up
" I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy. "
Funny
Family
Table
" I don't like a lot of clutter. "
Like
Lot
Clutter
" I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines. "
Than
Jokes
Like
" I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.' "
Going
Better
Reflect
" If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny. "
Joke
Funny
Going
" I give a facial expression in a moment of silence for audiences to react to what I just said and kind of let that marinate with the audience for a little bit. I enjoy the physical part of the comedy as much as the verbal content. People tend to gravitate to not only what they're hearing but also what they're seeing. "
Enjoy
People
Moment
" I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me. "
Me
Right
Vegas
" I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15. "
Who
Up
Italian
" I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country. "
Vegas
People
Chance
" I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh. "
Better
People
Laugh
" I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities. "
Very
Type
Comedian
" I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today. "
People
Know
You
" I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun. "
Fun
Once
Joke
" I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old. "
Business
Start
Remember
" I started working full time as a comedian in 2005, shortly after we did the Vince Vaughn 'Wild West Comedy Show.' I worked at the Four Seasons hotel from 1998 to 2005, so about seven years, just trying to put some food on the table and pay the rent while I went out to the open mics and got my feet wet with stand-up comedy. "
Comedy
Food
Hotel
" It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage. "
Good
Work
Me
" I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians. "
Comedians
Stand-Up Comedy
Comedy
" I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office. "
People
Rocks
Looks
" I was always taught how to dress for the occasion. "
How
Occasion
Taught
" My idea of fun would be to review the customers. I could give some customers one star, so that restaurateurs would know when they walked in not to serve them. "
Star
Fun
Give
" My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!' "
She
Comedy
Me
" One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it. "
Pet
Restaurant
Look
" People come to a show, then they go back to their neighborhood, and it has become like word-of-mouth. Everybody loves to turn somebody on to something. It kind of just snowballed. "
People
Kind
Back
" Sometimes it's cool to have banter with the audience. Occasionally, somebody will say something, and I'll say something right back, and everybody laughs, and it's funny. "
Say
Sometimes
Back
" That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories. "
Eating
How
Stories
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