Florentine is fine, he just has to give his opinion so much because Opie keeps tossing things to him and going "What do you think about that Jim? ahahaha".

It's funny now and then but just hang out and have a normal conversation with the guy. It's not Florentine that brings up fantasy football and ketchup every fucking time he's in studio.

Yeah, Opie just needs him to shit on stuff, I love Florentine, but that's not all he's about. He's a funny guy who can do his own thing, he doesn't have to be spoon fed topics by Opie.

Florentine has a podcast to which he complains, bitches, and gives his opinion on a new topic every week. He can take plenty of blame.

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What cracks me up about Florentine/Norton and Opie discussing what is "cool" and "not cool" is that these guys stopped keeping up to date with music and ANYTHING pop culture related that came out after they graduated middle school. "Its cool to like Judas Priest at any age." is something I might have said when I was 13....and then reconsidered when I was 28.

Jimmy apparently hasn't watched T.V. since like 1985. I don't get that at all.

Watch TV? What is he seven?

Ya know, I don't need to be sitting around watching Judge Judy talking about her cases and shit. I'm not 5. I'm a man.

Have you seen network TV lately? I can't really blame him.

Yeah, there's been a resurgence of great shows since 2008, 2009 (2000 if you had HBO, Showtime etc.), but you're 100% on the money.

Jimmy seems to be the only one who follows HBO/Showtime shows. Hes the only one who can ask a question related to the show when someone is on like Vincent Piazza from Boardwalk Empire.

To be fair to Opie, he's never been into anything cool or not cool even in middle school. The man has never had an interest or hobby.

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he's all in on documentaries too

It's like when Rolling Stone Magazine writes an article, "Best Conserts to attend in 201X" and the top three answers are like Madonna, Prince, and The Who. No, they were the artists to see 20-40 fucking years ago. How about throwing a bone to some newer artists?

That's the bit

Poor DeRosa.

whatever happened to him? Is he still alive even?

Yes, but by the sound of him, they should be taking away all of his belts.

He's grinding it out on the LA circuit, I see him every couple of weeks. (I do open mic's and shit) Joe's a super nice guy, not um...not the greatest stand up. I do love that he trashes LA on stage and doesn't give a fuck. He does it almost every set, and if I say hi to him he'll be like "Do you think they hated me, did I piss them off too bad?" Ha ha.

I am sure he is a nice guy in person, but I can't fucking stand him. Never understood how he could be a guest on O&A.

He's not for everyone, so it's understandable. "Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? FUCK YOU, go home and play with your kids."

Money's out there. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you.

It takes BRASS BALLS to do stand up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7iP1q7vdg

This is one of my favorite appearances of him. (given you do have Bobo and Patrice on the show and DeRosa kinda just sits and takes it for the most part). But I remember last year with the Montreal shows they were constantly making fun of him and he took it with stride. He seems like an okay guy

His interactions with Burr back on Uninformed were pretty great. He doesn't make me lose my shit laughing often but I at least find him compelling to listen to

I seriously feel like I'm the only Derosa fan out there, I think he's hilarious. I've seen him 3 times in a club in NJ, one of them when he recorded his album. I even bought the "Dangerous Joe" shirt they sold for the You Know What Dude podcast back in the day.

I'm with you. I LOVE derosa. I love him more on the radio. There, I said it.

Joe is a great standup! I think he's way better than Jimmy. I see how he's taken after a lot of the New York comics. He has Burr's anger, He has insight similar to Louie's, and his crowd work reminds me of Vos.

Me too he seems like a very friendly guy.

Nope I'm a fan. Hes a good stand up and I love his podcast.

I always thought he was good on the show.

You are the only DeRosa fan.

I LOVE Derosa,I don't get the hate either.I think he's very funny,throws good references and does a great job articulating his points .Also a lot of people bring up that he's a loser for taking a lot of beating but I never felt like he seems weak when it happens.As apposed to Bob kelly and Vos's beatings when I can feel their insecurities getting to them.

I do love him on the show, and I like him in general. He sounds exactly like most of my friends I grew up with, we're superfans of all the same random movies & shit. His stand up is alright, his podcast is awful. (In my opinion) I saw him do a set by myself one night, and the very next day ran into him on the WB lot outside the Pete Holmes stage. I was like "I swear to god, I'm not stalking you." Imgur

I felt super weird one time I saw him at a club, I had my 'Dangerous Joe' shirt on, said hi to him on the way in b/c he was walking around, then I saw him in the bathroom and it was just the two of us while the other comic was on. Slightly awkward wearing another man's face on your chest in a bathroom.

Ha ha, that's awesome. I love when shit like that happens. I wear my WTF shirt every time I see Maron. Which is often. Imgur

Are you in the industry? Haha

Peripherally, yes.

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Oh, gosh! (Blushes)

He was best when he had others on the show to antagonize him, e.g., Burr, Patrice, Troy, etc.

The show isn't about that anymore, I guess. It's too bad. That era has.... well, passed us by.

They ENTIIICED him...and ri-RIDICuled him. Throughout his LIFETIME.

Are his shoulders as terrible as they look on youtube?

Not really. His shoulders look normal in real life, ha ha. Maybe those dudes have seen him with his shirt off. I do notice he looks like he has this rotten look on his face, like he just smelled dog shit or something. I can't describe it.

Maybe he's trying to be Seinfeld? Ah what the hell, God bless and good riddance to Joey Roses.

Do you mean you attend these open mics?

Na, nigga. Imgur

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where do you see him out?

All over. Sometimes he's on shows Im already going to see, couple times went just to see him. A few weeks ago he & Bill did a show together, the Goddamn Comedy Jam. He did a weekend at Flappers in Burbank a while back, ran into him back by the open mic. He did one of those Comedy Living Room shows, where these dudes do a show inside their house. It's awesome. Lot of cool shit out here, as a comedy nerd, Im pretty spoiled.

Yeah, I need to get out more. I am such a lazy asshole I can find something wrong with every comedy venue in LA. Too far, too crowded, no parking, too expensive - I have an excuse for everything.

Follow Comedy Living Room on Twitter, that's where they announce shows. It's really cool, it's like a big house party with comics doing sets. Always a lot of hot chicks in there too, they have like a mini bar in the kitchen. It's over by Melrose and Highland, in one of those neighborhoods.

Fuck that i'll buy him a pallet of belts.

He has a podcast called Down With Joe DeRosa in which he discusses 1 topic for an hour. Sometimes there are guest, sometimes solo. It's very good if you like ranty humor. Burr esque.

Whyyy would I eat a cock meat sandwich. I don't like sandwiches sir, I'm a grown man. You know who likes sandwiches? My 4-year old son, that's who likes sandwiches OK?

"NO reason fer daaat."

"Deep down were all trying to be cool in front of Florentine"

Love it when Opie says "we" instead of "I" to take the heat off himself. "Look, being honest here, we're all just looking for a viral video. We're all just looking for some recognition."

His shtick was somewhat funny when he was doing it on his own podcast, but sadly, Opie has beaten the small amount of funny out of it.

Florentine needs to stop doing the show, its making me hate him.

Florentine is fine, but Opie's constant imitation of his opinions and his inflection is fucking insufferable.

Just another crutch for the Opster to lean on, Bonnie & Rich hold up the other side while Norton looks on waiting for October.

Florentine is hilarious but I can see how it can be too much. I hate how he always says the word "nerds" like he's the jock in some stupid 80s high school movie.

He's basically a gimmick. OK, you're a curmudgeon who hates everything, we get it. He hates stuff that's not real because he's such an adult, doesn't he hate movies?

there's a reason Florentine and Vos are the only two guys still desperately plugging shitty club gigs. their humor caters only to dumb Jersey meatheads.

they're the only two guys that don't make Jimmy feel like a complete failure, so we(you, I don't listen when they come in) have to put up with one of them once a week.

tell us again how cool Mulder was to work with.

This is so true and comes through on the radio. Jimmy is never more confident than when Vos/Bawby/Florentine are in. He knows those guys will always be 4th tier comedians while he rests comfortably at the top of tier 3. Yimmy's insecurities shine through when up and comers are on the show like Soder. He knows its only a matter of time before Soder is making more and doing bigger gigs and that kills him.

There were some nice cringe-worthy gaps between Opie comments and Florentine responses today.

DeRosa would be wasted on Opie.

Anyone else listen to Joe's podcast? It's pretty good stuff.

You couldn't pay me to listen to it.

I like it when he has other people on.

I could just listen to NPR. I hate his podcast.

Well Opie should keep you entertained with Ketchup and other exciting bits!

Florentine is the very manchild he purports to hate. the guy's so lame it's unlistenable sometimes. i dont know how anyone could like the guy...unless you're just as lame as he is.

I like Florentine.

Florentine has the charisma of a corpse.

"I don't do anything related to Halloween. I'm not fourrrr."

"Haha, that's great Jim. What's your thoughts on Halloween ketchup though?"

Better than fucking Rich and Bonnie yet again.

So true

He'll eat it, but it better not have any ketchup on it.

DeRosa is alright. Florentine is good but he's been on too much recently.

I like him when they are actually doing a show. When Florentine came in for Joe Piscopo bashing or telling old road stories with Norton, he fucking rules.

It's not his fault Opie just asks him, "Is this cool....do you like this food...?"

Opie is misusing Florentine and driving the "Jim hates things" bit into the ground

It's not that he's been on too much, it's like they are ramming the same bit down our throats. (ex: Studio bitching, Anthony's political/gun/race discussions, Apology Clock)

Opie needs to stop using Jim as his compass for what is "cool" and broadcast listenable radio

DeRosa stinks.

He doesn't have a strong personality but he's a solid stand-up.

Not from what I've seen. Very manufactured-angsty, too much confidence in audience agreement/sympathy with whatever he's railing about.

"CoOoOck mEeaAat! Nothing but...COOOCK meEaaAt!"

Papa

Hey now.

Well, there you have it folks:

Jeff Leppard ‏@Jeff__Leppard 2m @OpieRadio Hilarious show today. Some of the best since the departure are when @Mrjimflorentine is in studio.

opie radio ‏@OpieRadio 3m . @Jeff__Leppard @Mrjimflorentine agreed he's been killing it for us

https://twitter.com/OpieRadio/status/509137894301503488

What are they listening to?

The onset of dementia

And i‘m pretty sure its just panderwhoring for a retweet

Florentine on the radio means I'm turning it off. I understand that people find him funny, but I find him to be humorless and bitter. That and his voice is akin to white noise, which makes me sleepy.

I just plain don't like the guy.

He is Opie's man crush.

He's funny when he randomly doesn't like something or he tells stories. He's not funny when Opie constantly pushes him to say he doesn't like things, seriously, Opie plays that bit out so badly that it's not even close to being funny anymore, which is a shame because it actually is funny when Florentine randomly doesn't like some banal thing. The difference is, he used to not say it about everything, but now that Opie pushes it with literally everything that comes up, he's killed the bit.

I'd rather NOT have DeRosa and it has nothing to do with him. When Joe comes in, Opir puts on his "big boy alpha male" pants and his douchebaggery increases exponentially.

Jim's stories of pranks and unethical ways of getting laid are great.

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If anyone is to blame it is Opie. Florentine is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dy9lUJJGqI

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I'm so glad I stopped listening. I like Bonnie, Soder, Vos and Florentine but it sounds like Opies awfulness is beginning to infect them. If they know what's good for them they'll jump the sinking ship and swim for Anthony Island

Buckcherry had one hit and it was probably the worst song I've ever heard

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He's a 50 year old guy who wears Black Sabbath t-shirts like he's a rebellious 13 year old. Same goes for Jim

I love Florentine. If he was permanent 3rd mic, I'd almost think about listening to the show again.

Florentine is hilarious.

Jim Florentine is a national treasure..

Bullshit florentine is the best. You suck

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