Comedian Mike Albanese on The John DeBella Show

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00:00welcome to the show thank you for coming in this morning thanks for having me and and you're

00:17originally from here i am yeah i was i lived here when i was a little baby boy i got out

00:23that's what my dad likes to say we escaped to atlanta yeah well listen he did he wasn't the

00:30smartest guy on the block he took us from philly and to the middle of nowhere he's like hey you

00:34guys deal with it like all right i guess i'm here with rednecks now perfect that's it why is that

00:39guy crawling into the hood of his car because he knows how to build one he's eight why are we doing

00:44this it was a fun transition so so what part of town are you from mayfair northeast yeah we're

00:55old friends okay well probably i knew him before he moved i was maybe one if i stayed we probably

01:02would have been the people fist fighting on the street now now you are you're you're a big man

01:08i'm a big boy yeah yeah i was six five you're not gullman height six six no i'm six five two hundred

01:13pounds yeah all right my my goal my goal weight is a lot of people's heaviest

01:18people talk a lot about how they want like i wish i weighed what i did in high school like i want to

01:23go the other way i'm i'm my goal is death weight that's what i'm like six years after i die that's

01:28what that's the way i want to be right now because i feel like that's my deep when i decompose that's

01:33when i'll be like at my skinniest i'm jacked up for that is this the reason why you're addicted to

01:38my 600 pound life yeah and because i love horrible tv great show i and i don't have i don't have it i

01:44just got a tv recently and so the only exposure i have the television is when i'm on the road

01:48performing so in hotels i'm immediately like what's the next baking show and my 600 pound life

01:53where's tlc yeah exactly yeah and whatever makes me feel the best and the worst i want to like get

01:59hungry and like who is chopped on chop junior perfect how many 600 pound people can they find

02:05to stock that show is it a new episode every week it's a new episode every week and it's all filmed

02:09in houston by the way they never leave houston so what you could say a lot about texas uh add too fat

02:15to that list because it is 24 episodes a season uh new person every episode uh if you remember if you

02:21if you remember 2017 houston flooded real bad right maybe it tipped into the ocean

02:28did anybody think about that forget fema send jenny craig maybe she's the one

02:35that can fix the levees or whatever i didn't study i don't know how they do that

02:39it's a tough tough town to be from and and now you're living in the neighborhood i grew up in

02:48you live in the story i do yeah yeah we uh so how's your greek well the food's good

02:53the greek i know is two how many do you want two lemon potatoes obviously throw it at my face

03:00i hate when people ask me what do you want a side with that and i'm like have you seen do you see me

03:06i want all this i want the side on both i want both sides covered in food that's what i want to do i

03:12want to be i want to be buried death weight covered in lemon potatoes from taverna conclades

03:19i'll do local references in the wrong city that's fine i'm a big fan of it

03:23but what what is it like you know you're you're you're born here in philadelphia you move to

03:30atlanta and then a lot of time in the woods right and then like living in new york yeah all right and

03:39you're only like you know you might as well be in manhattan when you're in astoria yeah three

03:42stops just you know swim the river or three stops exactly yeah but it's easier it's cheaper out there

03:47and as you know comedians as you all know we're all millionaires right so i have i have a lot of

03:52roommates so that's what makes it easier my rent is very cheap because i live with three comics

03:56and a 65 year old indian guy what who uh he works at the airport and that is a surprise and

04:03that's all i know about him it's been four years he's in the house of four years and all you know

04:08is that i could say his first name i'm not going to give the last name a shot but it's jay something

04:13yeah nice guy he's been there for 20 years in that apartment wow a lot of comedians have come in and

04:18out of that house he's got an incubator well yeah he's the funniest guy in the whole place

04:23because we can't understand what he's saying well no he's a nice guy but he uh he's honestly

04:28the funnier than any comedians ever been there we asked him one time we were having a party and the

04:32next day we're like oh so sorry we didn't it was too loud right he's like oh no it's fine i can

04:36barely hear anything we're like what's the worst the loudest you've ever heard like the worst in

04:40this house with all the comics you've had he goes uh well you know it's not normally the comics it's

04:44there it's when they bring girls over that's when it starts to become a problem but with you guys

04:48i don't have to worry about that you know what jay you got you got a point and i don't like that point

04:55but i'd like to fix it if i could please come back again yeah thanks for having me this is a good time

05:00and next time we'll talk about things in philadelphia that people don't understand and

05:03next time we'll talk about how you have a mustache that matches the tattoo on my arm say what i have

05:08a i have a curly mustache stop stop i want to see that i'll tell you i want to see right now yeah

05:12yeah yeah i want to see great for radio okay no no we got you all we got cameras wrong we got cameras

05:16yeah don't put it on the facebook i told them i was gonna take my shirt oh look it's bern chrysher

05:20i'll take his money does he have his money oh my god what would make you do that what would make

05:28you do that yeah it's a great question you've had that you yeah you can get rid of that i can

05:34it's john de bella there's no easy way to say this you're here oh yeah that john de bella

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