Jim Florentine: Working Crappy Jobs 

working crappy jobs, early in life is a badge of honor. It makes you appreciate things in life much more

“The least I could do and not get fired”. Truer words have never been said.

Met Jim many times in NJ. Dude is hysterical! At the time I was married to a Hispanic girl. This was before everyone became so sensitive & before his Special Ed days. So I asked him to do some hispanic jokes during his set... He didn't disappoint. Will always be a fan of his.

Used to cut grass and paint under the table for cash at a waste water treatment plant- we’d strap the lawnmowers or weedwackers up to a go cart and cut the grass at about 15-20 mph, and then find a hiding spot in the 55 miles of piping tunnels there were underground at the plant and take regular 3 hour naps. Best week was when we snuck the go cart piece by piece down into the tunnels, reassembled it, and painted the pipes without even having to stand up. Best job I ever had. Most sleep I’ve ever gotten in my life.

I honestly respect Cumia a lot more knowing that he did the 'regular guy' bit for a while. Sounds like he knows an honest day's work and deserves to be where he is these days.

i hate my job so much, it's insane

The HVAC industry lost a great talent when Anthony decided to switch careers. We need more people with this kind of commitment and work ethic, LOL.

Human suffering makes for good comedy

These construction job stories are nothing compared to caddying in high school

Jim Florentine is a bear, and anywhere he is, is the woods.

My first "adult" job out of college was working the morning shift at a news station at 4:30am. I would seriously have to wake up so early that I could still see people partying from the night before. At 22, it was brutal.

I can’t stop hearing Fred doing Jim’s impression every time Jim talks . Hahaha

As a plumber who does mostly new construction and renovations, the stories I've got from on the job could fill a book. Just the people you run into and meet on a daily basis, everybody is a character. It's one of the last gigs on earth where the people working it are actual individuals with personality and uniqueness still like how everybody used to be. I don't know people work in offices their whole life with boring people with no personalities and not kill themselves. I tried it for a brief period and I thought for a hot minute in my early 20's that I wanted to be an engineer, got my degree, landed an internship at this engineering firm where it was literally a bunch of nerds who've never used a power tool in their life but yet are designing houses sitting at a computer all day in their cubicles not talking to each other playing with AutoCAD. I lasted a month, quit, went to work for my uncle instead who is also a plumber and the rest is history.

I knew a guy once hated his landlord so much that when he finally moved he cut about four holes in random walls in the apartment. Bought a bunch of meat, put them in the holes and then plastered them up and painted it over. 😂 Not only is that dedication, but it’s playing the long game.

After working construction for years I believe every detail of this story. Florentine's unusually ,gravel voice makes him funnier.

My father had Alzheimer's and then my mother was diagnosed soon after he went to be with the Lord and I'm a full-time caregiver and not able to work and it's crazy but I really miss being on job sites. I know this is the plan that the Lord had for me though and I love my parents very sweet people

It makes me wildly happy that this video's length is 2112

So you have a miserable, soul-sucking job and, on top of that, you have someone like Jim Florentine as a coworker...

This episode brought back flashbacks of being a mud man on a masonry crew

Can't wait to see Jim back on Gutfeld!👍

When I worked construction and had protein farts from my diet I would aim the exhaust of the shop vac at painters or the sheetrockers and fart into the end that sucks it turbo charges and blows the fart directly at whoever you point the shop vac exhaust at. If you catch somebody while they're coughing you can make them throw up I've done it a few times.

Imagine if Opie had to get a real job before he got into radio, maybe he'd have appreciated it enough not to sabotage the whole thing over his petty feelings...

This is great. Im a plumber and the literal same stuff happens on my job sights. I work with a bunch of animals. Probably the funniest job I've ever had in my life. For over 20 years I just sit back and stuff starts happening. I have a million stories😄😅👍🤘👏👏👏

We have to get up and go to work because most of us are talentless hacks. It's either that, or crime.

Growing up in Long Island I literally had the same fkn exact memory of killing Time at grangier, that is fkn hilarious.

Every day is 4 hours of sleep, at this point its been like 5 years of 4-5 hours of sleep and im starting to look forward to that ol' eternal slumber....

Worst part of morning radio....waking up and having to deal with Opie.

Jim Florentine said stuttering John is a good comic. Never forget

Love that Jim has a mic flag from The Gavin McInnes Show

Fucking hilarious how true this shit is😂 cause I'm still in the construction business. I always thought someone should have written a script for a TV show or movie about a construction crew or crews showing a day in the life or something. Kinda like the movie "waiting" showing the restaurant industry. It would be gold ✨

These construction stories were BRUTAL. So glad I chose a white collar (programming) job early on. I may may be a nerd, but I'm a comfortable nerd.

could listen to these all day.

Hard to believe how funny Anthony's radio show was while everyone is eating breakfast

At least construction and plumbing are respectable jobs. I was A dishwasher bitch for years. That drove me to drink.

.....Jim has always been one of my favorite comics 👍..... I used to refer to him as a poor mans Dax Shepard haha!!!... Most guys can relate 100% to everything he says.....

Seeing a rammstein shirt....awesome.

Oh what a great combo these two are.

One of the many jobs I had in high school was groundskeeper at a very large, historic cemetery. The old timers took- and kept all the "riding" jobs. So the stupid kids (including me) got to run Electric Trimmers - These were attached to long cords and then plugged into a diesel generator. Four kids go in four directions and start "week whacking" - but the trimmers have metal blades instead of nylon line. They "ting" and KICK if you hit a rock or stump. They're HEAVY and the drop-cords are nicked and dinged and chipped and cracked from years of kids like me abusing them. So... Every now and when, you'd get a JOLT from the dewy grass. We used to PRAY for someone to DIE so we could stop trimming for just a little while to bury them.

Once I was working in a cops house and the plumber left me to do some work while he went to the supply house. I had to shit and there was no working bathroom. I had to shit in a bucket with a home depot bag inside of it. I still wonder about that bag that I put underneath the insulation in the attic and how horrible it must have smelled.

Love you guys! Treat Yourself!

oh i remember when he was a part of the stern universe back in the good old days

I like hearing him talk about that classic radio show

I work construction. All through out my twenties I would average 3 hrs of sleep a night. I'm lucky I survived 😂.

This is just great. Love it!

This is so Long Island construction worker humor.

When does Cumia plan on stand up?! For years even famous comedians tell him... just a naturally funny talented guy

Jim deserves all his success. So funny and the original.

I used to cut tumbleweeds in the summer in the oilfields of Bakersfield. 110 degrees, and the excitement of wondering if the next weed had a rattlesnake in it. Five bucks an hour though. I felt like a millionaire in the 80s

ah, construction site memories. just made some today.

Funny, I did the same exact shit except I was working in a warehouse with giant machines made in the 50s with retro upgrades that could catch you and press you into a paper thin sheet. Listened to fuckton of O&A

Yall should post more on here. This was interesting.

The worst thing about a crappy job are the co-workers and managers who get really into it and are super focused on it. All while you could give a crap. It really is awful.

"suit up" god dammit this is the worst part of shitty jobs, the work itself is whatever who cares I can zone out and get it done, but it's all the peripheral bullshit of management, hr, timeoff, etc, UGH

I love Florentine’s voice!! Awesome!

They're so relatable. Making fun out of people with normal jobs. No wonder I'd never heard of them.

This is a great duo

16:23 This whole conversation reminds me of the SNL bit with the characters Willie and Frankie. "You ever drive a drill bit right under your fingernail?" "Aw jeez, that smarts." "Yeah, I hate when that happens."

Damn this was a good conversation lol.

Jim's prank calls are hilarious. The one where he say no no no to that lady and she loses her mind and when he is talking to someone and he is performing and enema on someone is gut busting hilarious.

Jesus these guys work ethics sound like my mother's approach to raising me. God bless her. Hense my sence of joy 😜. And yes the crazy violinist is alive, and I thank God for her. P.s. 🤣🤣🤣 this show.

I did landscaping one summer early college days - i.e. taking rocks out of a new development/lawn. Rocks when it's August 101 degrees. Rocks, not small ones. With an iron rake. My lifeguard friends thought I was nuts.

GREAT video by two awesome comics.

Jim and Ant have the best dam stories. Although,I’ve had some hard hat humor myself.

Florentine is an unsung hero

God bless jim florentine. With the Rammstein shirt.

I worked on a processing vessel in the middle of the Bering Sea and that's probably the worst job I've had next to working at a call center

I'm recovering from Covid and I'm laughing so hard I'm passing out 😂😂😂

I worked for a window company, 4 stories up on scaffolding the boss got from a scrap yard. Repairing leaky hospital windows...

I just worked a job with Jim’s buddy vinny. Wish I knew that story when I was working with him

Rammstein T-Shirt. Nice

Not to pull stereotypes, but I used to work in the fields. At an apple tree nursery, working on mile long rows of pulling tree shrubbery from last season & readjusting the trees to grow full for harvesting months later. It’d be icy cold in the morning, & by the end of the day; it’s either been pouring rain for 4 hours straight in spring or bolstering hot in summer. Plus carrying these heavy rubber boots & plastic pants/coat.

This is so damn funny! The crap construction jobs of my 80s. Character and misery. Lol

More Jim Florentine!!

These stories are all the reasons I love guys! Most women don’t joke around. They can make a job you hate soooo much worse! I would always rather work with a bunch of guys than be stuck in an office full of women. Ironically the only women that I ever worked with who were tolerable were strippers! Lol 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

It's like working the graveyard shift. It was always hard to sleep.

The way Jim says Su Su-Sudio is hilarious to me

jim Florentine is a lovely man 5:51

The hardest I've ever laughed in my life was busting it up on physically demanding job sites. Something about the brutal environment and human psyche adds a special element to the humor. We were driving the work truck and saw this fat woman selling hot dogs outside a park. I said it would be funny if we bought her a XXXL Dallas Cowboys jersey No. 69 that said HOTDOGSLUT. That was like 5 or 6 years ago and I still get tears having laughing fits about it.

Oi Oi Oi Anthony! I love this love him

Love Florentine

Listening to this as a jannie 🧹

its Jammin' Jim

great stories! 😂🤘

Always enjoyed a little "Arrow Smith".

The timed out breaks is the reason why I quit TV. The stupid station I was working for was treating our internet content like it was a TV tease and it's like guys, we don't have to make the same damn video 4 times every day for the INTERNET!

Based Florentine with the Rammstein shirt. Neue Deutsche Hart is the way

When is Cumia going to be on Gutfeld!

My Gosh. Brought back a bunch of horrible memories doin commercial refrigeration in Chicago area. Freezing on roofs,-40 wind chill,dragging 40-50# motors across a gravel roof,in 100 degree heat. Fuck it

Just some of the funniest dude’s out there 🤓

We had good program directors here on 97x back in the day. Shark and joel. Nice guys. More lax than most and very knowlegable about music.

Construction is good work, hard work. I think everyone should have the experience of working their ass off, getting up painfully early to sacrifice their time/bodies for the shit -- if you have a career in construction that’s cool but it woke me up to the fact that I cant do this forever

👍🏻 for wearing a Rammstein shirt

does anyone miss having to catch something live tho?

yeah but did you let Robin Quiver sit on your face? Did you see on hers?

What they are saying is 100% real shit.

Say what ya want, but Jim Florentine is GOLD. I guess it’s that voice with his jokes, but we love his brand of comedy.🤣

When u start talking about coke u always start sniffing lololol

florentine's voice sounds like he should be leading a cast of bank robbers whose names include Mr Pink and Mr Blue

I'm so depressed , this is my life .

FLO IS A GREAT DAD!