87: Joe Piscopo (with Will Sloan) (Patreon)

Will Sloan returns to the podcast for an in-depth discussion of the strange career path of comedian and impressionist Joe Piscopo: from his origins on Saturday Night Live and stardom as their second banana to superstar Eddie Murphy, his short-lived movie career, his bodybuilding phase, his various network tv specials, most notably 2012’s A Night at Club Piscopo for Showtime, to his current life as a conservative talk radio guy in New Jersey.

All of Piscopo’s eighties tv specials discussed on this episode are available to watch on YouTube, and A Night at Club Piscopo is currently streaming on Tubi.

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From The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Joe Piscopo doing his Letterman imitation in front of Letterman, October 23, 1987

Trailer for Wise Guys (Brian De Palma, 1986)

Trailer for Dead Heat (Mark Goldblatt, 1988)

“Zombies”, Joe Piscopo Miller Lite commercial, 1988

“Kimberly” - Joe Piscopo, 1997

The Vulture Transcript: Joe Piscopo Dissects His Career, From SNL to the Buff Era and Beyond - by Steve Marsh, August 2011