1. Nick DiPaolo’s nic-fit
The highlight of my trip to New York City last weekend was getting to attack both a FRED PHELPS chick AND a 9/11 Troother (language warning) one block from the WTC. (It’s a sad commentary that I didn’t manage to be as calm and classy as, er, DANNY BONADUCE…)
But this is supposed to be my “showbiz” column, so instead, I’ll talk about NICK DIPAOLO.
When I heard he was playing the Gotham over the September 11 weekend, I grabbed two tickets online the day they went on sale.
This comic cosmic alignment would be like a nineteen-year-old serviceman showing up at the Hollywood Canteen on a night HEDY LAMARR was there.
(Why, yes Young People Today® — within living memory, such a thing existed! Today, we’ve got this instead.)
When he took the stage Saturday night, DiPaolo was cranky. He said he needed a cigarette but Mayor BLOOMBERG wouldn’t let him, or anybody else, smoke in New York City anymore.
DiPaolo proceeded to speculate upon Bloomberg’s sexual orientation, although not in those words.
“Oooooh! The room gets quiet now? You liberals are the ones wrecking this city,” DiPaolo declared, along with “big girl” Bloomberg.
Having singled out one side of the Gotham room as leftists, DiPaolo addressed most of his scorn to them, complaining about OBAMA (“The first black President? He makes BRYANT GUMBEL look like FLAVOR FLAV“) and other Democratic politicians.
DiPaolo noted too — just as he does in this revealing recent interview — that his politics have held him back, career-wise:
“It’s funny, when I did my first couple open mics, 20-something years ago, I remember somebody saying ‘You’re going to be popular because you’re politically incorrect and that’s going to be big.’ It’s still not true, each year since then, and that was in 1988, it’s getting more politically correct, and I’m still waiting for it to swing and it’s not going to.”
However, DiPaolo’s well-deserved cult following is about to get a lot bigger. His new sports radio show, co-hosted with troubled pal ARTIE LANGE, debuts September 26.
I may have to start caring about hockey again.
I suddenly find myself with a newly realized admiration and respect for Danny Bonaduce. I may even start watching “America’s Dumbest” again.
Danny Bonaduce… you at the 9/11 event, giving the finger to some horrible person… and finally, a truly great George Jones song I had never heard before. Thank you so much, Kathy!
DANNY BONADUCE! LOVE HIM! He is truly a real MAN!
Bonaduce is much smarter than I ever game him credit for before. He was ambushed while eating. Very rude. He respectfully disagreed. The interviewer became more aggressive instead of accepting that he was not going to get any kind of agreement. This makes it look like he was provoking Bonaduce, trying to get him to physically lash out. Looking at Bonaduce, that was what I expected. Maybe it was experience. Maybe it was brains. But Bonaduce was sharp as a tack. Way to go, Danny!
I thought Bonaduce was very gracious (language aside), you accosted him while he was eating his lunch. Ambush journalism is not attractive from either side.
I am so glad you started posting your very intelligent snark-infested tours of pop culture here. Your writing goes so well with my first cup of coffee of the morning.
Cheers!
As one who works with innovation and early-stage company formation I loved the George Jones part of the article. That song cuts to the bone each time I listen to it, which is often. Nashville might consider breaking out of the metro-sexual box it’s in today start looking for who is likely right in front of them.
I’ve a good friend who use to go see every George Jones show he could. He’d pay for the adventure by betting any take on the over-under on how long Jones would perform. Best I recall it was always right at 48 minutes – no more, no less. Regardless of the venue, size of the audience, or circumstance.
Thank you more making my day.
i didn’t pay much attention to danny on t.v., i’ll be sure to watch him from now on. thank you kathy, it was a pure pleasure to see, and hear him tell that self righteous, pompous twit, and his microphone, to bugger off in earthy, plain spoken language. i join him in his salute to deliberate, willful ignorance with finger upraised.
Some how I was hoping that Danny would demonstrate some of his other skills.
Despite snorting 1/2 of the bolivian Export crop for 15 years, Bondacuce rocking the common sense.
Excellent communicator, not unlike Chris Christie. Must be something in that Italian DNA.
I remember George Jones on the radio when that song first came out. I had no idea he was so messed up.
Yeah, I’m older than dirt…I remember when the Beatles first came out…
Alas, it is my sad duty to report that Bonaduce later voted for Obama. (The whole “first black president” thing was hard for millions of others to resist too; see, “Simmons, Gene”)
However, I stand by my earlier statements that for all his many faults, Bonaduce is a naturally talented radio guy, and while he just lost his latest gig due to a format change, I hope and expect he will land another job.
Have always said that George Jones song was THE saddest song I have ever heard. I wasnt a country fan at the time & I too,had that near physical reaction. 2nd saddest would be “Written in stone”
I can’t believe all these comments on Danny Bonaduce rather than your admirable link to my post on the mainstream media’s inability to read beyond genre signifiers in judging good guys from bad in Leave her to Heaven and Straw Dogs.
And thanks for linking to my post on the mainstream…etc!
AND… they fixed the poster now. the dangling glass chunk has gone, and they changed the lame tag – so I guess they heard us. Still, I aint seein’ it.
Keep up the swinging work! Wait… is Danny Bonaduce in this new Straw Dogs?? Count me in
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