He found fame in the 1980s impersonating Frank Sinatra, President Ronald Reagan and countless others on “Saturday Night Live,’’ followed by numerous Hollywood gigs, stand-up routines and a drive-time radio show.
So for Joe Piscopo,
the weeknight scene at a high-dollar fund-raising gala in the
tuxedo-packed Starlight Roof room at the Waldorf Astoria hotel seemed
perfect for a little Ol’ Blue Eyes.
But
Mr. Piscopo pocketed his “New York, New York” for the night —
literally, as he travels with an instrumental version of the song on his
iPhone for just such occasions — opting instead to trade a
Jersey-centric joke or two with Stephen Baldwin, encourage guests to
donate, offer praise to the hosts and scoot offstage.
“I
could have rocked that room, I really could have rocked it,” he said.
“But then all of the sudden I’m the court jester and the credibility of
someone who is representing the people of a state goes away.”
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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