Comedian Pete Correale: "Biden is old" jokes are not political

A lot of dissension in this country right now. Don't worry, I don't get political, we don't have to worry about that. But whatever's going on in this country, it's our deal, you know? I just don't like when foreigners start interjecting.

I was doing a gig in Toronto, I got a couple buddies in a Canadian, we're doing a few shows together, having a couple drinks afterwards. One of my buddies goes, yeah, you're President Trump, I wouldn't want to have him run in our country. Oh, I couldn't even bite my tongue. I'm like, bro, I don't even know who your guy is. I want to put this in perspective, all right? I'm in your country, and I don't even know who the guy is. By the way, my guy is in charge of your country, too. Don't kid yourself. Don't kid yourself. Canada. Are you kidding me? I love the Canadians, but let's be honest, 80% of the entire Canadian population lives within 50 miles of the American border. You understand what I'm saying?

They're hovering over the velvet ropes, dying to get in. That is so funny. And of course, there's Pete Coryell, who also thinks that's very funny. Pete has also got a great podcast with Sebastian Maniscalco, and he used to live on LaMellon. He did not tell me the town, but he doesn't live there anymore. That's all you'll... Oakdale, baby. I grew up in Oakdale.

Oakdale. What did you do? You left and Dallin collapsed.

Is there a relation? I know. I used to grow up playing in hide-and-seek in Dallin College.

What do they have there? Do you ever go back? I haven't been back.

I went back. I was writing on a show for Kevin James, the comedian. We were filming on Long Island.

They had a studio. With Mike Loftus? Yes, my boy Mikey.

Yeah, a dear friend of mine. And one weekend, I didn't go back. I lived outside of Buffalo now, so I usually fly home, but I didn't go back home. I stayed on Long Island, and I'm like, I'm going to go back to where I grew up and drive around like Oakdale. I even went to my elementary school. It was Sunday, and I'm looking through the window, and I lived on a dead-end street called Pepperidge Road.

I don't care. I'll say it, right? And I drive down my dead-end street. There's only like five houses on each side of it.

It's south of Montauk, right by Great South Bay. This guy comes out, and he looks at me. He goes, Corielli? I said, yeah. I go, yeah, I'm sorry I grew up here. He goes, no, I know.

I'm the guy who bought the house, so if you're family, years and years ago. Wow. And he goes, want to come inside?

Take a look? And he let me go back in my house and walk around. I go in my bedroom. His son's in there. His son's like 18.

He's watching TV with his girlfriend. I'm walking in in my late 40s. How you doing, fella? I grew up in here.

He keeps looking at me like, get the hell out of my house. Right. Who invited you in? So Pete, you used to live there, but now you live in a remote location. I've never been there, but Fredonia is in the SUNY system, isn't it?

Yes, it is. Fredonia College. I actually, ironically enough, went to college there years ago. How do you handle the winter? Isn't it brutal?

It's not as bad as you think. Do you use a moisturizer constantly? No.

You know what's annoying? We get like three inches every day. You know, just enough that you got to pull out the shovel. Every day. Every day.

Every day. But like, the snow is like a non-issue in Buffalo. I mean, last year they had more snow because I did a show for the guys that clear the snow. Yeah. They had a big convention for all the guys that clear snow at airports, and they had it in Buffalo.

And they had an awards show, and I did a show for all these guys at Corporate Gate, and they said that Buffalo had more snow than anywhere, including Anchorage, Alaska, and all the states last year. But they get it off, Bri. I'm telling you, man. Within a half hour. They're done. Yeah, my parents were visiting with snow, and my father was like, we're never going to get out of here tomorrow. I go, Dad, it's going to be like butter.

They're going to scrape this stuff up before you know it. And they did. Oh, it's beautiful. See, it's amazing because I was at the Super Bowl when Dallas had to get snow for the first time.

Yeah. It was like the biggest calamity ever. It was worse than the tidal wave that hit Indonesia. You would never see it. The place was falling apart, the ice was coming down, people were getting hit by icicles.

If you're not ready for it... Yeah, it's all what you're used to. Like, I used to go vacation in Maine, and there was this lake that was freezing, and I could barely go in. I'd just dip a toe and come out and hang out. It drove me nuts.

It was out by Bar Harbor. Canadians would come down. I was looking at my wife going, look at them. They're acting like it's Miami. They're like playing Marco Polo in there. That's just what you're used to, you know? So how do you handle this politically correct climate that we're in right now? Oh, I knew you were going to ask that, bro.

You ask everybody that. That's what you do. I listen to you every morning, bro. I get up at about 6.20. My wife's already making breakfast for my kid. I pop you on Sirius XM, start back at 6 a.m.

Okay. Take you right in all morning, you know? Love the 8 o'clock recap, because then we go hard on the Biden stuff again.

We come back with more of that. So you know the whole Fox & Friends format? Oh, God, no, the whole thing.

You could produce the show. Oh, absolutely. I'm dying. I was hoping to run into Ainsley in the hallway just so she could tell me she's happy that I was born.

You know what I mean? I'm glad that I was born. Here it is. We're so glad you were born. I know!

I want it face to face. We're so glad you were born. Ducey gets a little CNN on us, just a tad. You ever hear when he gets a little, well, we don't know. Get him out of there. Get him out of the room. He's getting too soft to grandpa. Get him out.

So you put him back in check. You're like, oh, okay, really? Really? Was they talking about the weather? Is that what?

Please, please. Well, we don't know, Brian. Well, you do watch. But I will say this.

I mean, there are certain things that, you know, you could say one would say or some people say. But let's be obvious. I mean, when you talk to the Hunter Biden situation, most of the country knew nothing about it in 2020. Now, the polls are overwhelming. Like, 65 percent said Joe is doing something illegally with his son.

From 2020, they go, what laptop? I don't know what you mean. He doesn't even have a son, Hunter. Things have certainly changed about that story.

Is he worthy of the stage yet? I mean, can you do you feel as though if you're traveling the country doing something, you're going to be in Irvine, California, right? Yeah. Can you do that in Irvine and say, do you have any Hunter material? Do I have any Hunter Hunter crack hookers? I mean, is that well, actually, I got to say I was filming with me and a comedian buddy of mine were filming in Florida recently. I don't have any like per se Hunter Biden stuff, but the camera guy, he kept sniffing and I was just about to drive the ball. And I look up, I go guy with the sniffer. Are you serious? Like I'm playing with Hunter Biden over here.

And boom, everybody laughs because like that's already a thing now. You know what I mean? Got it. Yes.

But overall, no, I don't really have any Hunter. I do stuff about the president being old because that's kind of like it's not really political. Is he old? Because yesterday he told two story the same story about why he ran for president. Evidently Charlottesville. He has some fiction about what actually took place there. He said, that's what I realized. Had to run a minute went by.

He told the same exact story verbatim, according to the Politico reporter, not me or anybody else. Tell me that's not a problem. Is that a problem? It is a problem. But sometimes, Brian, it's not even his age. It's like he was doing it's almost I almost wish he wasn't old sometimes just so he could be called on. And what's the bigger problem is that just flip flop in the changing?

I mean, looking in the camera saying you get caught with a little bit of drugs, you're going to jail forever, that much, whatever it was, that much, that much in the 90s. And yet and now you can't you can't get the guy to look in a camera and just say, Mr. President, don't you think then your own son should be in jail? Like, just answer it. Even the debates, people lie in the debates and then they move on to the next question.

What is the point of the debate? You know, you can say, why are you wearing a white shirt? I'm not wearing a white shirt.

It's black. Next question. We're going to stay on this. It's ridiculous. Well, that's what happened.

I mean, if you look back, we use this a few times on The Saturday Night Show, which you also like. Yeah. Nine o'clock, One Nation.

We played back. Joe Biden basically lied his way through the entire debate with help from moderators. Right.

And now two years later, we all know it's all it's all fiction. Number one is I don't know anything about my son's overseas business dealings. It matters. Fifty one Intel experts said this was this was classic Russian disinformation. Right. Can you imagine knowing that it's your son's laptop with the Beau Biden sticker on it? The Beau Biden Foundation. Right.

And then going, yeah. Fifty one Intel experts said it's classic Russian disinformation. I know.

Well, no. I mean, we all know. But we're literally going to have to think about the White House is going to have to be putting money in a sack, like literally money in a sack. And we're looking at him and the money has to be marked from the countries it came from for anyone to remotely think what he did is being involved. It's like he's getting the free pass and there's nothing you can do about it. Do you think on some level MSNBC and CNN and ABC and CBS all want Trump to win?

Because did you see when when Trump gets indicted, when he gives a press call, whatever he does, has a town hall, they have something to talk about wall to wall. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's true. I mean, from a business standpoint, that's probably true.

What I want to ask you, though, is do you think like like let's say hypothetically, you know, your wife crashes the car, it's costing a lot of money and you forgive her. But then every time another bill comes in, you're getting mad and you're trying to bite your tongue. Do you think there's ever times Biden says to hunt through all this? The president looks at his son and says, you forget laptop. What the hell are you thinking? You're killing me. I mean, how stupid are you? Could you be that stupid? Or like like how could you that Jill separates has to pull him off him. Yeah, right.

Absolutely. I thought, you know what? You are the me and you are probably the only ones to say that.

I always say that to me. Can you imagine the moment when he realized, right, that the laptop was left there and it was his and they have everything. They probably thought they were finished.

They had no idea that Zuckerberg, everybody else was going to rally to make sure this this unbelievably true story was labeled as false. I know. Think about it. I know. And they said that one moment when he realized you did what I know. And then as Jon Stewart, I think, or Jimmy Kimmel said, how about Apple Care next time?

I think about that. And they were the guy did a book tour, which is the most in your face thing you could do. I got away with it. Now I'm going to write a book about it. I'm going to go do all the networks. I know who sees all of it, man.

All of it. It drives me nuts. I mean, at least even now they're making him go into court. He wanted to do it from home and never ends.

It's unbelievable. Right. So he was supposed to go into court.

They are making him go in. Yeah. No, I saw that finally. Right. Yeah. By the way, you're going to be at the Irvine Improv, whether you want to or not, on the 25th.

Yes. I got a whole big tour coming up on the 28th. You're going to go from there over to Rochester.

Who booked this? Well, I live only two hours away, so I figured I know. But you got to go from California all the way back.

Yes. Well, yeah, I got to do some stuff out in Cali. Then I come back.

All right. A quick show there. And then you're going to be in the bald batter TV, your name and all the comedy clubs later.

Who's your other name? Well, no, I'm doing some comedy clubs before the tour gets going. And then I have Pete Corielli, the authentic tour. I'm doing a bunch of theaters.

I'm playing the Paramount out on Long Island. You get out of here. You got to come out to that if you're not doing a show at nine o'clock on a Saturday night. Lord knows with you, you're probably doing something from your garage.

Hardest working man in show biz. Unbelievable. It sounds a little bit of an attack rather than a salute. No, bro, it's a compliment. That's not how I'm taking it.

No, you're kidding. You're one of my favorite people. Every morning I listen, baby. So you don't want me to read this. You go ahead. You want me to read this.

OK, go ahead. No, I love to do your tour, too. But I'm just saying you do want people October. You do want people October 13th at the Comedy Vault in Illinois. Yes, that would be great.

You do want people on the. So that's the 14th. The other two shows.

Same Comedy Vault. And then you're going to be at the City Winery over in Boston on the 27th and on the 28th at Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Absolutely.

But you have something bigger. It's this tour. Tell me about this tour.

Well, now you get into those shows, a part of the tour. You sure? Yes. OK. Yes.

Yes. How do you feel about that? You're going to be away a long time. No, I come home during the week.

So, you know, it's all right. You got to do what you got to do. I was home all summer, which is fun. But then you got married. You have children. I got a six year old.

I mean, a 10 year old daughter and I've been married for like years now. Yes. So. Right.

We didn't. She's OK with this comedy thing. Did she know she was married a comedian?

Yes. I was just starting out when we got together. And did you have another job? Yeah, I worked front desk at a hotel in New York City, you know, so I did that. And then I remember I was at the point where I got a chance to be the front desk supervisor at night at the hotel, which would could eventually lead to a GM job. And I would see a hotel. We own six of them. See these young hotel GMs.

They got a place in the hotel, bopping around the lobby in beautiful suits. I'm like, maybe this is the life. I like this, you know. But then when I was going to start this job, I was going to have to work nights and I wouldn't be able to do stand up comedy. I wasn't getting paid to do stand up comedy. I was even mopping and sweeping at a comedy club in New York City for free and a college education. And here I am mopping and sweeping so I could get on last night. So I remember I was the night before I was going to take the job. And then my wife, of all people, goes, what are you going to do?

Is that what you want to do? You're going to be miserable. And I never looked back, man. I'm so glad I didn't. So that is so much better than the I know you thought you married a hotel general manager, but you're actually married a struggling comedian. Right.

She's the one who pushed you. I know. And you know how I know I did the right thing, Brian, because I have never heard you interview a hotel GM.

So I never would have been here, baby. So hard to book. And they are always busy.

And our hours just don't line up. All right. So I should say that Pete is going to be on the show this this weekend. Saturday night, we follow Mark Levin, nine o'clock on One Nation. Pete Corielli, stand up comedian, also your podcast with Sebastian going on over 300 episodes, right? Yeah.

Yeah. We usually do about one a week every hour. Me and Sebastian Mascalco. We started out, geez, about 10 years ago. I don't know how familiar you are with him, but like he sells out Madison Square Garden. You know, he used to used to come in here. I was right. I was he comes in house. He goes, this guy, Sebastian, is amazing.

You'll come in and you got him in and he's on my bananas and hacking. Chris Mazzoli is his manager. Yeah. So I've known Chris for a long time from soccer days. Oh, OK. And he used to come in and and before he was just great, but not super stardom yet. Right. And those things struck me.

You're probably the same way. I go to see him at Governor's and he gets to the door and shakes everybody's hand at the end. Yes. I'm sure he can't do that now. But how great is that? He kills it, sells it out probably twice. Right.

And then shakes everybody's hand. Yeah. That's the attitude you need. I know. I know. I actually started doing that more and more when I met him because he would do it.

And then now when I do it all the time, as much as I can as well, like Paramount gets a little tricky. But then, you know, you meet somebody that like came a long way, you know, because in my head, you know, you don't travel far unless it's Billy Joel. I mean, come on.

What are you doing for me? You came far. But they do. They do. You know, and you're like, gosh, imagine I didn't come out here.

That would have been terrible. So you're so glad you did. And they love it.

Right. Does that mean you're going to come out of the Fox News building and shake hands out on the sidewalk? I just try to I try to duck the protesters. I'm in hostile territory.

Pete Corielli, thanks so much. Don't move. Got a couple more minutes in a moment. And then, of course, we're going to go downstairs and rehearse. We have big rehearsal for the nine o'clock show on Saturday.

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So go to GetLiverHelp.com slash Jimmy now. How does that even play out, man? Like you're on your couch at home and your wife's like, I'd love a snack. You're like, get the Delta Pretzels, baby. Pete, the hardest part was Joey was going through all your material to produce you for One Nation Saturday.

Yeah. He's like, I can't pick it. It was just hysterical.

He just had the best. I mean, you've been obviously you enjoy yourself when you're on stage when you're doing that. I try to be conversational, but like well-written crafted stuff, but I don't like to be someone who's like seemingly performing for you. But that bit right there about like you fly. So when you guys get frustrated in the news about people thinking differently than us, which drives me nuts, how could they?

All you got to do is walk into a Wal-Mart or a flight. Like, are we even all the same species? I saw a dude sitting Indian style in the airport the other day right in front of the gate, Indian style. He's dressed nice, eating his salad, chairs everywhere. I mean, what is going on?

In some sub rights itself. I said to my wife, I go, yeah, we were in Wal-Mart the other day. I go, God, have a look around Wal-Mart and just think, I can't believe some of these people's vote counts as much as mine. I'd say it on stage, I'm sorry.

Well, you feel it's just so therapeutic for you, too, because you're thinking it real quick. David Brooks, a known writer in The New York Times, best selling author, he's been on here before, went to Newark Airport and he orders a meal. It cost him $78. He has a burger and fries, cost me $78. Took a picture and tweeted it out. They followed up.

It doesn't make any sense. They actually looked at the cut of the fry and figured out where he got it from, found some crazy person, found out what he spent it on, and they posted it. It was $78 because he had two whiskeys. So now they're killing him online because he had two whiskeys. Inflation was the story, but he kind of blew that up. He kind of blew that up. Not only did he blow it up, it almost defended the inflation because you're like, wow, a burger, fries, and two whiskeys for $78? That's not bad. I can't think I'm going to bring my family. Where is that place?

And it must be top-shelf whiskey because he forgot he even ordered it. Hey, to get tickets to a show, where do we find it? Do you have one site we go to?

Pecorielli.com is the best place to get all your tickets for my shows. Really? Do you get additional revenue from that? No, not at all. Or just make it easy? You make it easy.

Or you can work out where it costs more to go to your website. We've got to make sure you can retire soon. Well, I don't have time for that yet. Absolutely. Pete, we'll see you Saturday night at 9 o'clock. Thanks, Brian.