NYC comic Chris Distefano laughs off woke culture in Netflix special
30.04.2022 - 18:13
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returns next month to the network with a new special that may get him “cancelled” again. “Speshy Weshy”, filmed at the Gramercy Theatre and airing May 3, includes the 37-year-old funnyman riffing on woke topics and recounting the backlash he gets on social media for “being part of the grey-zone silent majority.”Distefano didn’t start standup until he was 26, quitting his job as a pediatric physical therapist to take the plunge.
Four years later, he met his now-girlfriend Jasmin Canuelas — who is of Puerto Rican descent and from Sunset Park — at the now-shuttered watering hole Place to Beach on Coney Island. The two have two daughters Delilah, 6, and Violette, 10 months, and live on Staten Island.
Being on stage is where he has the least amount of agita — but he’d never try to break into the industry today.“Doing comedy now … things get so PC,” he said. “There has to be one group of people that can step up to the line or cross it.”We asked the comic to give his take on these topics:Legal weedI never really was into weed until recently. On my “Chrissy Chaos” podcast on Patreon, I do a segment every Friday called the “Chris and Eddy Show” ’cause I call edibles “eddys,’ so I take an eddy and I do a show.
It’s a different version of myself because I just get high and talk about God knows what. So I’m actually happy that I can buy edibles in New York soon so I don’t have to smuggle them onto airplanes and worry about being locked up abroad. Removal of the Teddy Roosevelt statue Once you have children, you realize it’s exhausting to try to pull down a statue of Teddy Roosevelt.
I’d rather just teach my kids the good things he did and the bad things he did and we could just go and take a walk in Central Park. I feel like people
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