Nick DiPaolo and Artie Lange trade Chris Rock stories (audio)

“Let’s go to the Yankees game!”

BONUS:

I was doing a gig in Pittsburgh at The Funny Bone. It was the second show on a Friday night, and five minutes into my set, the owner passes me a note and it says, “Bring up Chris Rock.” I was like, “What the f*ck?” And there’s Chris Rock waiting on the side of the stage.

He was shooting a film at the time in Pittsburgh. So we went to a strip club afterwards, and we hit it off. (…)

Another one of my favorites was for a cold opening for the show. It was a play on the X-Games called the Malcolm X Games. We had these black guys in Nation of Islam outfits jumping out of planes, on skateboards. We ended up showing that sketch before the taping of every show to warm the audiences up.

We also did one where we made fun of the “12 Days Of Christmas.” We brought in an all-black choir and changed lyrics to “My boo gave to me a Glock 17…”