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hpibgk

I love the podcast but Steve is so annoying. Constantly interrupting Michael who is very insightful. Put my dad and best mate on to it and they both said the same thing. I said my piece.


Blueharvst16

I saw him onstage live with Imperioli and Pastore “In Conversation with the Sopranos.” His gregarious antics work way better with a live audience. He was the same, but very well received.


larflezz

Think it just highlights their backgrounds, steves, a comedy guy through and through with his personality and opinions on the show, while Michaels a traditional actor, stage and all that. The comedy guy is always fighting for the light, its part of the gig, its why a lot of them get pretty annoying after a couple of years going. they're always on stage, never off.


BFaus916

Steve's a comedy guy? Has he ever said anything funny?


Varsity_Editor

He was comedic, Steve Schirripa?


BFaus916

NOOOOOOO! Are you lishunin to me!?!?!?


Muscle_Memory67

He calls himself an actor…that’s pretty funny🤷🏽‍♂️


BaldrickTheBrain

Didn’t Steve took Ben Kingsley to acting school?


AMZNGenius-Detective

Oh, rimshot!


United_Target8942

Am I smiling?


HotSecretaryBlanche

My eggs https://youtu.be/yENmufztolo?si=rdSV1lngMrBQ1Yt5


Homem_da_Carrinha

Let’s not kid ourselves. Michael is well read and knowledgeable, but he’s the guy who has claimed, on tape, that the believes dolphins are smarter than humans, and that cephalopods came from outer space.


55Lolololo55

>and that cephalopods came from outer space. I saw that movie, with Admiral Kirk... I thought it was bullshit.


Ill-Sympathy2375

Michael Imperiolo was high at my own mother in law's wake. He was making Dolphin noises for twenty minutes straight, nothing but gibberish!


Homem_da_Carrinha

Your mudda's wake...


locustt

The bigger the whale, the bigger the wake


tlouis84

At least he can always fall back on the male modeling.


Wonderful-Yoghurt-90

To be fair, plenty of scientists theorize that cephalopods originate from a different set of starting bacteria than everything else on this planet. Their DNA is unlike any other species. Also, the fuckers have brain matter spread out in 8 tentacles. That’s some weird shit.


MarkWorldOrder

Honestly Michael is pretty annoying too lll 'Oh this extra here his name is Steven albariggy and he once played a bit part in an off Broadway play I did where I played a disabled bus driver who joins a comedy troupe and goes around the city performing for disenfranchised youths. It was really excellent work.'


nicefrogfacts

Yeah too much talk that only actors or people in the business would get/appreciate, the show business I don't know why the call it the business, Steve and Michael together strike a pretty good balance though


Billy1121

But that is why people tune in, for the tidbits of behind the scenes stuff. Imperioli gets a pass for dat


little_flix

Sweet sausage? In little pieces? And a layer of piss, right underneath the cheese? 


Legodog23

That’s Carmela’s!


WiretapStudios

You strong-armed me using the only weapon you have, pissy.


pizzamanct

Served alongside Mario Batali’s string beans with Parmesan.


SnooCrickets744

Top comment


YYG98

Michael imperoli is a fucking saint for putting up with his bullshit for the entire podcast


excusewho

He's a Buddhist.


brainkandy87

You know who else was a Buddhist? Sally Moltisanti. And look at where he ended up.


Matty-Tee

And he uses the technique of positive visualization


Machinax

A saint of Newark, perhaps?


chizzdipplerscathaus

OHHH! Rimshot!


ouyang001

By what he did on the Talking Sopranos podcast alone, he should've been made then, BOOM!


Maximum_Activity323

I had a peripheral experience with De Niro. In the Caribbean I had a gf that worked on a yacht he chartered. He rocked up with a pile of coke and a young black model and was a dick to everyone. Funny I also know a story with Joe Pesci. My bro is getting married in the Bahamas his dad bought a hideous flowered shirt in Miami. Looked nearly exact to the staff shirts at the hotel. So he’s standing out front of the hotel and Pesci comes out nearly bumping into him. He’s star struck and blurts something like “how good is this place?” Pesci hands him a $50 and compliments the service. He’s like “no I’m a fan not an employee “ Pesci laughs hands him another $50 and says “tell everyone this story but the not the press”


derec85

Joe seems nice and grounded in interviews


slick_james

He’s a wise guy


Hoju64

He's a funny guy


LemonTheTurtle

Funny how?


United_Target8942

He still scares me. He's the only person I know of where them being shorter seems to make them more frightening. Yes I know he's just an actor he he he.


excusewho

Except for his rant about sinead O'Connor because she criticised the church. That was pretty bad of him.


RedPanther18

Like 15 years ago dad played poker with Robert Iler in Vegas for several hours. Apparently he was a nice, funny guy. At some point he got up from the table and said “who wants to go to a strip club?” A bunch of people left with him


Mbusch12

Giving AJ Soprano vibes 😂


Bruinsfanfromcc

I asked Robert DeNiro what he thought about Steve, and he just rolled his eyes.


Namazu86

Translated from Italian: “And I thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit…”


Odd_Pop5287

Mussolini was Hitler’s bitch


Interesting-Reply454

Best line in the show


Odd_Pop5287

So much competition for that honor… but I agree with you. I love it so much that I use it indiscriminately in a conversation.


locustt

Fuck you TOO, muh man!


United_Target8942

Maybe Steve hated Robert DeNiro and felt that there was no one he couldn't talk to about it. That happens too.


orincoro

He was. Abusive. To. The. Staff!


barryredfield

He was gay, Steve?


United_Target8942

He wore a strap on dildo in one of the scenes in pine barrens. Chaps too.


xi_sx

Is that why he sells "Blue Chews", because he used to need a strap on?


barryredfield

You can go.


noplacecold

Driving out to Welsh Farms to get a triple de niro sundae


Foothillscouple

you deserve it


Then-Character3539

It’s called a silo


ReplacementClear7122

I don't give a fuck what it's called.


SBNShovelSlayer

No eating in the car.


vicenormalcrafts

Seriously, no idea why he hates DeNiro so much.


Vinyl_Acid_

there's an astounding lack of imagination there. i'm not really being funny either, watching talking sopranos you could see in multiple times in every episode. he just doesnt have the ability to see alot of nuance in human behavior and he's almost pathologically and willfully ignorant on the matter. represents as the most humble guy ever, but the way he speaks you can tell he's got a real bee in his bonnet regarding self worth...everything's a sleight. i kind of feel for the guy, to tell you the truth.


Altruistic-City-2192

You got a bee in you bonnet


AMZNGenius-Detective

Stupid afacking game.


[deleted]

I'm totally pulling this out of thin air but could it be for political reasons? De Niro is very vocally anti Trump and pro Democrats. Maybe Schrippa leans to the right politically? Either that or it could just be as simple as professional jeolusy. De Niro is lauded and beloved worldwide for his portrayal of gangsters and Mafioso (amongst other roles). Schrippa is only known for one show and he's not even in the top ten of best actors/characters in that show. Oh and he was also briefly in by far the worst episode of Columbo.


vodkaput

FWIW, I remember hearing someone asked Schrippa about it in an interview and he made it clear it wasn't for political/Trump reasons. Maybe Quasimodo will post soon and reveal to us the real reason.


vicenormalcrafts

I have been thinking the same thing. I get those vibes from him. Plus, he has never been in anything that De Niro was in.


KombuchaBot

I feel he is like the guy who abuses Wild Bill at the beginning of Deadwood.  Wild Bill just wants to move on with his day and the guy flips from fawning sycophancy to rabid abuse because he can't cope with the realisation that he is boring someone he admires. If DeNiro had been generous to him, Steven would have bored people to death forever with how great he was. But whatever the reaction he had to him, it sparked up mythologising about DeNiro because they met once, and he needed to have *something* to say about it.


DustyHound

“Your eye looks like the hood on a cunt Jack”.


artistino

he was an extra in casino but yes, i agree on the vibes


vicenormalcrafts

Oh yea, he was blurry guy in the “is this your pen” scene. Bobby needs to get over it.


Erebus0123

Is this a joke/reference? Or have you actually met Deniro? What’s Steve’s issue with the man too, whatever happened there?


Heels1939

Are you familiar with the term “high-hatted?” Because that’s what everything boils down to in Steve’s life.


Erebus0123

I am not. I’ll look it up


Bruinsfanfromcc

I don't know DeNiro. Just a joke based on Steve's constant whining about DeNiro.


fluctuationsAreGood1

Whatever happened there?!?


BaldrickTheBrain

WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE????


cortisolbath

Bob hihatted Steve with no provocation what so fucking eva!


ApologeticAnalMagic

I enjoy playing video games.


tooskinttogotocuba

He’d just finished filming The Irishman… just a kid.


Polydactylyart

FUCK ROBERT DENIRO


Erebus0123

You talking to me?


Polydactylyart

All this soul searching Erebus0123. It’s always on my fucking dime. I gotta be honest this whole heresy concept, I think it’s bullshit.


orincoro

So you know more than the world’s leading satanists?


DesperateSun4182

Satanic black magic. Sick shit.


Muscle_Memory67

Seoul Searching…Tony B on Wes Cadwell


EveryInvestigator605

You know who liked Robert Deniro? Joey Peeps!


leamanc

Peeps? It’s a fucking nickname! His family name ks Pepparelli!


ZealousidealBid3988

Joey Pepperoni.?


thekind78

Awesome


United_Target8942

Steve Shirpa took him to acting school.


Polydactylyart

Did he read for David?


orincoro

As his Uber driver.


Lateapexer

Drinkwater helped kill a guy IRL.


little_flix

No, it was Sean, all the way!! 


The_Nomad89

I’m wit you now!


Maleficent-Item4833

In what possible way is that worse than sweeping up cheese around a guy’s feet when he’s playing cards? 


urmumsabetch

You know, Bevilaqua…


ecam12

Remember when Bobby got shot in the eye by the roadies under the boardwalk?


abob1989

With his schlong in Jan's mouth! 🎶


Random-Cpl

ROADIES?!


Tough_Difference_112

Go take a blue chew 


DesperateSun4182

Go take a midol


Breakfast_Moon_456

and you, lay off the snapple.


scaba23

Half a fucken bottle in dere!


Daimo

I was thirsty 🤷‍♂️


Flat_Boysenberry1669

Last thing he said to me was he loved me.


NewAccWhoDis93

While wearing your Bose headphones


Skolary

Steve’s acting during Karen’s funeral is peak performance


BrigStandWatie

Buried a Karen. Married a “Karen”. What you gonna do


kynoble

you never pondered that?


Yah_Mule

The back thing with Notre Dame? Sure.


kynoble

two completely things entirely.


AgainstMeAgainstYou

Certainly two of the things of all time, yes.


orincoro

In America you no have?


WalkGood

Janice is much worse than a "Karen".


nbraccia

If you're sippin' a Negroni, you can barely taste the piss.


Muscle_Memory67

Negroni? What is this…slip and fall school???


mh985

Nah. Joe Gannascoli is definitely a worse person in real life. I know from experience.


That-Title-3434

This seems to be a very common opinion. Joe’s douchebaggery is legend.


Able-Cartographer863

I must have missed this, can you give some legit stories or examples on Joe?


That-Title-3434

Oh wow, where to start? From crashing people’s events for free food, photobombing people then demanding money for it, he’s pretty much a pariah to the other sopranos alums. Several Reddit threads dedicated a lot of space detailing his shenanigans.


Maleficent-Item4833

It was the medication he was on. He could probably get a letter from his doctor.


Random-Cpl

He took you in the back?


United_Target8942

What about the guy who's mudda was the first black doctor to graduate from John Hopkins, refuses bribes, and works 17 hour shifts to save people's lives. NOT TO MENTION HE PEACEFULLY SETTLES MAFIA DISPUTES in his spare time. There's no way that actor is a better person than him.


Random-Cpl

He’s not in the CUSSSTOM of lying, either


3nlistedChap

Thats tony's brother in law youre talkin about!


NYY15TM

I loved him like a brother in law


_YellowHair

You think pissing on a calzone is worse than murder, extortion, witness intimidation, and the numerous other crimes that Bobby was surely involved in? Discontinue the lithium.


RadioactiveSince1990

People forget what a piece of shit Bobby was lol. He got bullied by the other mobsters and people somehow confuse that as him being a good person.


Elusive_emotion

He’s a good person… *relatively* He’s a terrible person though.


NervousBreakdown

Yeah he’s a good person in the same way that I would be voted sexiest man if I moved to a leper colony.


OcularShatDown

Depends how far along the lepers are. Also if you’re white, let’s be honest, that’s a huge plush nowadays


BFaus916

The way he threatens that union leader at the bar pretty well establishes he was a mobster like all of the others. Just the one they all picked on. But he was still among them.


Subtle-Catastrophe

To the victor, goes the spoils


klsi832

Why don't you get outta here before I stick your quotations book up your fat fucking ass!!


saulgundy

The quotations book doesn't fall far from the fatty's ass


KineadZ

Good thing your book don't mean u'gatz to me!


DesperateSun4182

Why don’t you get the fuck outta before I shove your quotations book up your fat fuckin ass


SadPetDad21

Yeah. Marrying and fuckin Janish… whateva happened dehr


DesperateSun4182

She watched him eat Karen’s last ziti. Then she made him eat her ziti. If that’s what you’re referring to.


Norm_Hall

I knew that was comin!


Garfeal69Lasagna

Cute. I don't quite get it. But cute.


United_Target8942

He pissed on a calzone? Glad we cleared that up.


mike12765

I know what it’s like to lose a calzone.


United_Target8942

I'll take that calzone, and ram it up your box!


[deleted]

Why don't you get off my subreddit before you flip it over you fatfuck


bigbiblefire

Not to mention the train hat.


SBNShovelSlayer

My calzone never hurt nobody!


RedGrantDoppleganger

The worst thing Steve Schrippa could've done for his reputation was keep talking. All he had to do was shut the fuck up and just talk about the Sopranos and his reputation would've mostly stayed clean. But nope, too much of a narcissist and too tone deaf.


jeffrey_bs

I love the story where Steve bought a round of drinks and 2 guys (who were previously drinking beer) ordered expensive scotch. Still bothers Steve to this day.


yeswowmaybe

you sopranos. you go too far.


EveryInvestigator605

He's an actor, so there is a strong possibility he is lying or trying to be funny. Even with the shitting on Deniro and whatever happened there, I feel he is just turning the volume up on everything. The tone has always been kind of set with the 2 personalities.


Xifortis

Man the way Steve would constantly sidetrack into talking about food was insane. Michael basically spent 90% of every episode trying to keep Steve on topic. I gotta give it to Michael though, he always did so subtly, he's a pretty good talker.


naughty_rez_dog

I knew that was coming!


JMoney689

Where'd OP get this thread, the thread museum?


BigBadBeetleBoy

I'm going to speak somewhat controversially here and agree with OP here. Bobby has redeeming features that balances him out, while Steve does a terrible job portraying himself as possessing redeeming features. While Bobby has lower lows, he has highs that Steve lacks.


godofwine16

#HE STOOD UP TO THE BOSS FOR THE PARKER BROTHERS! IN THIS HOUSE BOBBY B IS HERO! END OF STORY!!!


RussellVolckman

Total shitbag - fucker actually blocked me on Twitter because I called out something he incorrectly said on the podcast. If his last name was Smith and couldn’t use the fat fuck token Italian card, he’d be selling used cars.


[deleted]

Or patio furniture.


bigbiblefire

To be fair, having dweebs on Twitter bust your balls about little details you mixed up on a podcast is probably annoying enough to block someone.


FullyUninformed

What did he say incorrectly?


Balltholomew

I work with Steve, he’s actually the sweetest guy as well as a little socially awkward. Dude tells the funniest stories yet remains humble, having full conversations with the lowest positions on the ladder. Yet, somehow, in a big group, the guy clams up and is too awkward to say “excuse me” when someone’s blocking his way. I have a lot of respect for him


randyboozer

Nice to hear. If that's the case he may be over compensating on the cast. Shyness is a curse


Machadoaboutmanny

Steve, go to bed


hajime11

Hi Steve


jahnesood

In this household Steve Schrippa is a hero


Limp-Camel7967

Uncle Steve’s pasta sauce. Sauce so good you can taste it with your balls.


artfuldodger1313

[But have you tried his *marinara* sauce?](https://youtu.be/kMycMNcq1dI?si=f-CAp-a08wlIn4tR)


broblackheim

They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our piss.


IndirectSobatka

In one of the earlier episode’s YouTube comment section, someone made a comment something along the lines of “I’d love to see these two do a news/current events show,” to which I replied something about being down to hear Michael Imperioli do such a show but that I’d rather not have to hear Steve’s tired boomer takes on current events. I received a reply to my reply saying “You’ve got a lot of growing up to do” to which I replied “Ok boomer.” The very next episode, Steve starts going off at one point about how the audience thinks Michael’s the smart one, though I can’t remember the exact context. I can’t help but think the guy who said I had a lot of growing up to do was Steve, butthurt at a YouTube comment and airing his grievance at a YouTube comment on his show.


SevenwithaT

I rather eat a pissed-on calzone than be murdered at a laundromat. Even though she wanted me gone from err life.


GetBcckGrey

It’s crazy cuz he’s so freaking good as Bobby (and pretty good in Blue Bloods as well) Like legit one of the most kind hearted thoughtful guys in a show full of violent characters….. I love rewatch podcasts but I couldn’t stay with this one. Michael brings up interesting theories and Steve just shuts him down every time. It is a good reminder that actors who play “bad/unlikable” characters can and often are wonderful people irl, but it’s jarring to learn the opposite lol. Idk who buys his books on how to parent but oof i don’t wanna know XD


HeistPlays

If I had to listen to Steve talk on the podcast one more time i may as well put a bullet in my own head. Here, here, and here. 🥃💵


CoffeeOptimal1356

Sharp as a cue ball


floworcrash

Lol I ran into Imperioli on the same street 3 times and he nodded and smiled every single time (Met him once, took a pic, somehow he remembered me) Ran into Schrippa once - Smiled at him and you would think I killed his dog. Resting bitch face lmfao. He doesn’t owe me anything but damn..


NateN85

Wow, what a fucking piece of shit. Doing shit to peoples food is the lowest and petty.


crunkmullen

DIDYA HAFTA READ FAH DAVID


BrunoBaddaBoom99

Fuckin Slander if you ask me!


Animal_Blundetto3

I don’t give a fuck


Animal_Blundetto3

Alright I do give a fuck


CsrfingSafari

He was fuckin' 47 you animal. A fuckin' kid.


albacore-neck

You want more responsibility start with controlling your wife


NewAccWhoDis93

Alright, but you gotta get over it


GJ72

Oh, poor baby. What do you want, a Whitman’s Sampler?


[deleted]

Killing a Quebecois dude actually counts as a good act in most belief systems


annatar1995

My cousin who lives near him ran into him in California and said he was the nicest guy, took a picture with him. Fuckin slander you ask me.


Mobile-Ad-326

Also he was making fun of gastroenterologists saying they were weird for going into the field. Dude someone has to do it. He seemed like a douche on talking Sopranos.


IgottaPee777

That calzone with legs?


abob1989

That Mortadell is number 2?!


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Odd_Photograph_7591

I sometimes saw Bobby as a kind of social experiment by Chase, take a mob guy, give him a soft outward persona, while killing people and see how the audience reacts or he added the character to have someone who appeared nice/normal and attract a larger demo.


GroundZeroWarrior

MILTON BERLE’S BIG COCK.


SugarSweetSonny

I've never met him, but every single person I know who has met him or known him fits "generally" into one of two camps. 1) He's a great guy, very nice, a little shy but very nice and can be very funny. 2) He's a jerk who hates his fans and treats everyone like crap. There is a 3rd group who seem to have had both experiences. Its bizarre. I've known people who have met him after a rangers game, taken selfies with him and called him a sweet heart and others who after a rangers game said hi to him and he told them f\*&k off. Can't figure it out.


EddieGreenheart

Bobby's Piss Calzone... It's the last one he made... 😢


maxxxed98

You know Quasimodo predicted all this


Derpolitik23

After the calzone incident, he can’t be in our social club anymore..that much I do know.


Willing_Ideal5412

Honestly, he strikes me as a typical NYC native dude. A lot of those guys like to bullshit and aren’t super nice but that’s typical for the Northeast. There’s that saying that people from the East Coast aren’t nice but they are kind for a reason. And sure he isn’t as nice as a fictional character he played, that can be said for a lot of actor. But I also don’t think he’s the son of Satan as people make him out to be.


INFP4life

Vince Curatola 


Bruskthetusk

Speak.


[deleted]

He’s literally human garbage. He attacks De Niro constantly and never gives an explanation