Comedian Vicki Barbolak on The John DeBella Show

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00:00Vicki Barbalak is here. Good morning to you.

00:16Good morning, Philadelphia. I always wanted to say that.

00:20Usually you have to like stand there.

00:23It's too early for all that.

00:25But it's great to be here. What a beautiful day.

00:27Okay. Now, where are you from?

00:30I was born in Illinois, but left there when I was one because I didn't like it.

00:33And I've lived in California ever since.

00:36Really?

00:36I live in Oceanside by Camp Pendleton Marine Base.

00:38That's why I'm so happy to be here at the birthplace of the MC.

00:42Okay.

00:43Nice.

00:44And probably a lot of people know you from America's Got Talent.

00:48Yeah, that's it.

00:48How long did you last on the show?

00:51I got it to like six in the finals.

00:53Okay.

00:53What happened?

00:54And then I put on my bathing suit.

00:56and then I was asked to leave.

00:59I thought that was a good idea.

01:01You took a risk.

01:02It was a risk and it was a bad one.

01:03I appreciate it.

01:04But, you know, it doesn't matter because like getting to the sixth, I mean, like still 40 million eyes are on you.

01:09Yeah.

01:10Yeah.

01:10And I was like sitting in my trailer, you know, doing nothing.

01:13And then all of a sudden, boom, you know, after 20 years and doing stand-up now, you know, it's just a whole different game.

01:19So everyone knows you.

01:20Now, who was like your support?

01:23Was Howie your support?

01:24Howie was great, but truly Simon was the man.

01:27I mean, he...

01:27Really?

01:28Yeah.

01:28He just, he really was supportive from the very beginning.

01:30And now, I mean, and now I'm like on Simon's team now.

01:34I mean, so he's doing some stuff for me that I can't believe.

01:37I mean, that's private.

01:39But anyway, but also, I don't want to, his wife is so touchy.

01:47So it's great, but he's come through.

01:49Now, this is your first time on the show.

01:51We know really very little about you other than you were on American's Got Talent.

01:56Are you married?

01:56I'm currently married to my favorite husband so far.

01:59Yeah.

02:00He's a piano player at the comedy store.

02:02Oh, really?

02:03So he's a real fun guy.

02:04So it's nice that you broke out of your own realm and found somebody who does something different.

02:09Yeah.

02:10A piano player at a comedy store.

02:11Yeah.

02:12Because you could have gone with waiter.

02:13Yeah, I'm still, yeah, and I did that before.

02:15And a Walmart greeter.

02:16And he had me at hello.

02:17He was one of my favorite husbands as well.

02:19I just couldn't hold on.

02:20You can't hold on to a Walmart man.

02:22Why not?

02:22It's like the rock and roll song.

02:24You know, they meet a lot of people.

02:27Hello, hello.

02:28Oh, I like her.

02:29And then he was gone.

02:33Children?

02:34I got two daughters, and one of them is married to this Marine over here.

02:38Okay.

02:38It's why we're here.

02:39I thought he was your bodyguard.

02:40I know.

02:41He looks like security.

02:42He's a large man.

02:42He's like, I need security, but yeah.

02:45And let me get this straight.

02:46He came on this trip with you because he wants to see a house.

02:50Basically.

02:51Exactly.

02:51The house where the Marines were born and the tavern, a certain tavern.

02:54Oh, yeah, there's a tavern as well.

02:56Super cool.

02:57I love Philadelphia.

02:58I was here once.

02:59Really?

03:00Yeah, my daughter was touring Penn.

03:01This is how trailer we are.

03:02We're on a tour of Penn because the one is real smart at math.

03:06So she took me with her, and we went to these East Coast fancy colleges.

03:11We're at Penn.

03:12We're walking around.

03:12Lily goes, what's all the ivy on the buildings for, Mom?

03:15I go, I don't know.

03:16She goes, you think it's an ivy school?

03:17I go, maybe it is ivy league school.

03:20That's how trailer we are.

03:21I just realized.

03:25Are you wearing wine quirks as earrings?

03:26Yes, I am.

03:27That's awesome.

03:28How did you see underneath that?

03:29That's awesome.

03:29They're on my website, vickibarbleatcomedy.com.

03:32My neighbor, Carol, who is on this show in the curlers, she makes these hand paints,

03:36and she certainly can use the money.

03:38That's intense.

03:40Was she in a trailer also?

03:41She lives around the corner from me in my trailer park, yeah.

03:43Do you really live in a trailer park?

03:45John, do I not look like I live in a trailer park?

03:47She's wearing pink camo, John.

03:49She's wearing pink camo.

03:50That does say trailer park.

03:51It was on my house, on the show America's Got Talent, they came out and filmed at my

03:56house a few times, with my neighbors and everything, and my friends, and people go,

04:00is that really, you're a trailer park?

04:02I'm like, do you think they built a trailer park to be on America's Got Talent?

04:06Of course it's my trailer park.

04:07I'm very proud of it.

04:08I'll give you an idea what an idiot I am.

04:10Down at the Jersey Shore, if you're going to get a house at the Jersey Shore, you go down

04:14there in the winter, looking for some place to rent or buy, whatever.

04:17You're going to do.

04:18And this is, in Strathmore, there's this big trailer park, right?

04:22Well, in the winter, nobody's there.

04:24It's for people who are literally traveling with trailers, and they'll park there.

04:28And as I'm going by, I turn to my wife, and I go, oh, look, they tore down the trailer

04:32park.

04:35They tore it down.

04:36You idiot.

04:38America's Got Talent, they're British producers, so they kept telling me to bring my house to

04:42Hollywood.

04:42Would you bring your house to Hollywood?

04:44I'm like, it's a double one.

04:45I sent him a photograph.

04:47Oh, okay.

04:48And the next week, I swear to God, could you bring your house?

04:51I'm like, I sent you the picture.

04:53I have sewage connected.

04:57Could you bring a small version of your house then?

05:03Half of your house.

05:04It's on bricks right now.

05:05I could bring you a tire.

05:07I really, that would be all right.

05:09Could you bring some tires?

05:11So what do you like, what do you like doing beyond comedy?

05:14What else is like a major thing in your life?

05:17Drinking.

05:18Okay.

05:19Hence the cork earrings.

05:21Drinking, I like, I kayak.

05:23I'm a kayaker.

05:23You're a kayaker.

05:24Yeah.

05:24All right.

05:25Yeah.

05:25All right.

05:26In, in, in.

05:27I kayak anywhere I can go.

05:29Really?

05:29Now, in the tour, I'll get to kayak other places here, like rivers, but at home, I kayak

05:34in the ocean.

05:34Okay.

05:35We're in the harbor, and I just kayak.

05:36You're serious?

05:37Yeah.

05:37You scream kayaker.

05:38I have a big kayak.

05:39Can you imagine the draw?

05:43My kayak is a big old kayak.

05:46Pardon me for saying this, but I have to just explain this to people.

05:49If you've never seen Vicky on TV, she's a woman of size.

05:52I'm a woman of stature.

05:53All right.

05:54That's, I'd say more curvy, though.

05:56Curvy.

05:56That's right.

05:57Oh, yeah.

05:57You like that?

05:58Oh, yeah.

05:58That's right.

05:58It's not Bruce, Bruce in here.

05:59I'm bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.

06:00What's that?

06:00It's not Bruce, Bruce in here.

06:01No, it's not Bruce, Bruce.

06:02No.

06:03I can still fit in the airline seat without extension.

06:06All right.

06:06Okay.

06:07That is my limit, actually.

06:09That's it?

06:10That's my only thing.

06:12Do you ever get crap from people when they see you coming into the aisle and they're just

06:15going like, oh, no, not center.

06:16Not center seat.

06:17What I do is, I just, and I recommend this to everyone, but just your listeners and don't

06:23tell anyone else.

06:24When you're on Southwest, you sit there with the plane seat next to you, right?

06:27First of all, you can wear the masks.

06:29Okay, that's an easy one.

06:31But the other one is, you just bang on the seat next to you like, sit here!

06:34Sit here!

06:35Sit here!

06:36Sit here!

06:38That's what I do.

06:40If being fat isn't enough, come on!

06:42Sit here!

06:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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