Who is this Joe Piscopo my gramma has dirty dreams about?
Joseph Charles John “Joe” Piscopo (born June 17, 1951) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. Early life Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo attended West Essex High School[1] and was a member of the drama club “the Masquers”. He developed a reputation for never playing a part the way it was written. Although his father wanted Joe to become a lawyer like himself, Joe ultimately went into stand-up comedy in the late 1970s, becoming a cast member of the short-lived sketch-comedy series Madhouse Brigade in 1978. After which he went on to play Danny Vermin in the 1984 movie, Johnny Dangerously. [edit] Saturday Night Live In the summer of 1980 he was hired as a contract player for Saturday Night Live. The show had gone through major upheaval when all the writers, major producers, and cast members had left that spring. The all-new cast bombed with critics and fans with the exception of Piscopo and Eddie Murphy; they were also the only two cast memb
In the summer of 1980 he was hired as a contract player for Saturday Night Live. The show had gone through major upheaval when all the writers, major producers, and cast members had left that spring. The all-new cast bombed with critics and fans with the exception of Piscopo and Eddie Murphy; they were also the only two cast members to be kept when Dick Ebersol took over the show the following spring. Piscopo was best known for his boorish impressions of celebrities such as Frank Sinatra (he wrote Sinatra a letter asking his permission; Sinatra agreed and jokingly dubbed him “vice-chairman of the board”). Piscopo left SNL in 1984, but unlike Murphy he did not find major success. He appeared in a few successful films such as Johnny Dangerously and in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he also had his own HBO comedy special, but was regarded more as a punch line to a bad joke about the doomed careers of most SNL alumni. Sources:
