Episode Transcript: #355 - Dom Irrera
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and cue the music jamie the great dom motherfucking irera is here experience
my long time friend one of my longest timeest friends in the history of my life
dom and i have been friends for shit it's been at least 20 years now yeah it's crazy
it was 20 years right i brought you up in montreal that's the first time i remember i think it was
93 yeah i think that was 93 and then we met in uh amsterdam billiards uh and uh you know we talked
for a little bit i didn't know you played pool and i was all excited there's only a few of us
that play pool like uh ferrara adam ferrara plays really good pool you know fitz simmons fitz simmons
plays really good pool ari plays good pool yeah this is like i get so excited i remember bringing
you up thinking this is a new-braided comedian this kid looks like a fucking tough kid even when i
didn't know you were into martial arts i was thinking i mean you were funny you were always
funny i'm not just stroking you but uh i remember bringing up thinking this ain't the fucking kid
who had problems with his mother that talks about this you know what i mean because it was a different
and i told you this before your group of comedians were like more tougher men i grew up with a lot of
like nebbishy kind of well i i grew well doing comedy i started out in boston and those guys
were particularly manly ground yeah they were particularly manly yeah you know who made me
think that i could do it honestly like who it didn't make me think that the way i looked
would be an impediment it was nick de paulo oh okay because nick de paulo was a great head of hair
he's a fucking devastatingly handsome guy he was way better looking than me and he was bigger than me
he's a big like a football player yeah you know but he was hilarious yeah and i was like
like it was a weight off my shoulders because i remember thinking that i looked like like an