NYC comic Chris Distefano laughs off woke culture in Netflix special

Ridgewood, Queens-born comedian Chris Distefano — who was as soon as fired from Netflix for making an insensitive joke — returns subsequent month to the community with a brand new particular that will get him “cancelled” once more.

“Speshy Weshy”, filmed on the Gramercy Theatre and airing Could 3, consists of the 37-year-old funnyman riffing on woke matters and recounting the backlash he will get on social media for “being a part of the grey-zone silent majority.”

Distefano didn’t begin standup till he was 26, quitting his job as a pediatric bodily therapist to make the leap.

4 years later, he met his now-girlfriend Jasmin Canuelas — who's of Puerto Rican descent and from Sundown Park — on the now-shuttered watering gap Place to Seaside on Coney Island. The 2 have two daughters Delilah, 6, and Violette, 10 months, and reside on Staten Island.

Being on stage is the place he has the least quantity of agita — however he’d by no means attempt to break into the business as we speak.

“Doing comedy now … issues get so PC,” he stated. “There must be one group of individuals that may step as much as the road or cross it.”

We requested the comedian to present his tackle these matters:

Authorized weed

I by no means actually was into weed till just lately. On my “Chrissy Chaos” podcast on Patreon, I do a phase each Friday known as the “Chris and Eddy Present” ’trigger I name edibles “eddys,’ so I take an eddy and I do a present. It’s a unique model of myself as a result of I simply get excessive and speak about God is aware of what. So I’m truly pleased that I can purchase edibles in New York quickly so I don’t must smuggle them onto airplanes and fear about being locked up overseas. 

Chris Distefano
Distefano stated that issues in comedy “get so PC.”
J.C .Rice

Removing of the Teddy Roosevelt statue 

After getting youngsters, you understand it’s exhausting to attempt to pull down a statue of Teddy Roosevelt. I’d fairly simply educate my children the nice issues he did and the dangerous issues he did and we might simply go and take a stroll in Central Park. I really feel like individuals want to begin having intercourse once more and … begin having extra children. As a result of I’m exhausted as a father or mother, so I don’t have the power to make a distinction. Now individuals wish to delay having children ‘til they’re 50 … that’s your proper, however the byproduct of that's now you wanna rip down statues. Like cease, dude, go feed your child. One in every of my mates who’s like woke, he was like, ‘I can’t imagine you’re not coming to the protest.’ I used to be like, ‘Dude, you’re going Wednesdays at 3 o’clock.’ At that time I used to be doing Zoom swim courses with my daughter; we had been filling up a tub. I help the trigger however I can’t go, dude. You possibly can go trigger all you do is have three cats. 

AOC

I had tweeted, ‘Biden ought to simply make AOC the pinnacle of the CIA as a result of no person’s trying by means of telephones like Puerto Rican girls.’ You gotta see the ladies in my household, they’re all up in my telephone. And a few white man, Ryan, I feel he’s from Idaho, was like, ‘That tweet is so offensive.’ I used to be like, ‘Dude, shut up. Go eat a potato.’ 

AndrewCuomo blaming being overly affectionate on his Italian heritage

To begin with I’ve by no means seen somebody go from hero to zero faster than f–king Cuomo … Hear, do Italian individuals get handsy and kiss lots, positive. My father would possibly attempt to kiss Derek Jeter on the lips, however he’s not gonna attempt to kiss some random woman who works for him. 

Comedian Chris Distefano
Distefano didn’t begin standup till he was 26.
J.C. Rice

Lifting the masks mandate

I believed from day one mandating something was a mistake … If you wish to put on 10 masks, a face defend, a helmet, do what you gotta do, babe. No issues for me. However simply enable me to make my very own determination. Even probably the most left-leaning mates I've are like, ‘Yeah, we’re achieved with the masks.’ As a result of the one people who find themselves afraid are the people who find themselves probably the most protected. They've 19 vaccines, 17 boosters … It’s like, ‘Effectively that’s your individual psychological well being difficulty. Don’t put that s—t on me.’

Instructing gender in faculties

What I would like, being a father or mother now, is like educate my children studying, writing and arithmetic and let me do all the opposite stuff. Let me inform them about sexuality and gender. I don’t want some instructor who I don’t know, who I didn’t handpick, to be educating my children about deep-rooted points like that. That’s a job of a father or mother.

Individuals with New York sports activities workforce tattoos

Should you’re over 40 and you've got a New York sports activities emblem tattooed in your physique, I do know one factor and one factor solely — you’re divorced … as a result of there’s no manner your spouse was gonna allow you to do it and it's grounds for divorce for those who do do it. Now, with that being stated, I used to be on the Yankee sport the opposite day they usually put me up on the Jumbotron and I bombed, no person clapped, however no matter, that’s moreover the purpose … I stated if Anthony Rizzo and Aaron Decide show to me that they watched my comedy particular, I'll get the New York Yankees’ emblem tattooed on my decrease again and I’m a person of my phrase.

Cancel tradition

Should you exit and cancel somebody, you’d higher be squeaky f–king clear as a result of when that gentle will get proven again on you, you’re gonna see some dust.

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