EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Nick Di Paolo fires off a few rounds, also shoots machine gun

July

Yesterday, I had the chance to interview one of my all-time favorite stand-up comedians, Nick Di Paolo.

The northern Westchester resident spent about a week with the USO touring with other regulars from Howard Stern’s radio show: comedians Artie Lange, Dave Attell and Jim Florentine and producer Gary “Baba Booey” Dell’Abate. And just minutes after performing a set at in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the military base came under attack and they were shuttled to a bunker for protection.

More about that later. Right now, I want to share with you a clip of Nick talking about his experience firing a machine gun and nearly starting an “international incident” while flying in a Blackhawk:

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Just as amusing? Attell’s e-mailed response to Di Paolo’s Rambo impersonation:

I don’t think I have ever seen him more excited and happy (than) when he got a chance to shoot machine guns out the door of a Blackhawk helicopter. Thank God he’s on our side.

More clips from my exclusive interview with Di Paolo will be posted next week. Have a great weekend, everyone!

(Photo by Carucha Meuse/The Journal News.)

This entry was posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 6:24 pm by Chris Serico.
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3 Responses to “EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Nick Di Paolo fires off a few rounds, also shoots machine gun”

Aman Ali July 25th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Being a standup comic myself, something tells me the military probably wouldn’t give me the same opportunity to fire one of their machine guns. For some odd inexplicable reason that is.
Ted Mann July 28th, 2008 at 10:03 am
The only thing better than Nick Di Paolo advocating drunk driving (see Robert’s radio conversation with him a year or so ago) is Nick blasting away at a village with a machine gun. Somebody get this guy on a reality show with Gary Busey.
Martin from Washington July 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I’d give 5 bucks to be a fly on the wall while Aman Ali tries to negotiate shooting the .50 cal…

That’d be high-larious.

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