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I am a Brooklyn girl (as is Lorraine Bracco) and I have been living in Italy for many years. I think this is very funny and wish there were more of these skits around. No need for anyone to be offended. Just laugh and enjoy it.
There can be skits like this for all cultures and NY is a great place to go to as most Europeans landed there when immigrating. Italians, Poles, Micks, Jews... you name it. They all have a humorous culture if you don't get butt hurt.
Well if anyone gets offended by the language from the old country, we’ll just have them flushed straight down the pishadoo. MADON, they’ll sleep with the fish.
Heck, I'm not Italian but grew up in NJ with lots of Italian friends. I see the humor and appreciate for what it is! I love watching this when I need a laugh.
So refreshing to read comments that love this video. As a fellow "Italiano" I love this. Good God when we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves we have lost our damn humanity. I laugh at the truth of this every time I watch it. Proud to be American-Italian!!
Seems like I can't go a month without watchin' this video. Kinda makes me homesick for old Bay Ridge, Dyker Hgts and Bensonhurst. I'm talkin' in the 1950's/60's and 70's. It was a swell place to live and raise kids. I grew up in Bush Terminal but lived in Bay Ridge from 1973 till moving upstate in 1988. Wish I had a freakin' time machine. Fuhgeddaboudit!
Funny AF, thanks for the laugh... I'm American Italian from Northern NJ and would hear people speak like this all the time growing up. Some of the words are actually based on the Sicilian or Napolitano dialect. Thanks for posting, I'll definitely be sharing this around.
Madonna di San Benedetto! E' vero`~~Perfect and brilliant..can't stop laughing~~!! The cast were the best and so very genuine! AND, the kids all spelled the "woids" correctly! Such wonderful memories brought back to me ~~Keep em' coming~~Know what I mean? I was born in Brooklyn, family from Naples, they worked hard, bought a grocery store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, sold provolone and sausage, even MADE the sausage, bought a house, then a farm in Greenlawn, on Long 'Giland"~~And grandpa spoke only Italian...remember the final scene from the Godfather, when he sprayed the tomatoes ? My grandpa Angelo! At the farm, I was in charge of pumping the water from the well, while Grandma made Ziti and Sausages, and Great Grandma Anna carried baskets of potatoes on her head, at age 85, to bring to the garage! And the 3 uncles all played guitars and sang songs from the old country, and dancing under the grape arbor...Yes, times were special then...I am so blessed to come from this tribe! Carmel Rivello~~Gratzie a tutti ! Remember,Laughter is the shortest distance between two souls!~~ Mammacarm
Born and raised in Brooklyn. I normally speak with a strong code switch, especially at work, but when I am tired or upset sometimes my Brooklyn accent comes out... "Sangwitch" "Battroom" "Fi Dollars" "Tree" "Putz" (Yiddish word) "Schlep" (Yiddish word) The way I pronounce consanants and vowels changes too. My girlfriend loves it when my accent will switch to Brooklyn lol I have gradually gotten used to her fondness of it and have learned to be less insecure about it.
Full blooded Italian here, and this is HILARIOUS! (Although I DO wish us Italians didn't have such a "cartoony" stereotype) But yes, I sent it to everyone I know.
Bellissima Grazie Mia Bella . Un salute . If I may ask? Where in Italy are you from. My Great grandparents are from Napoli and Bari Italia. Im originally from the Bronx N.Y.C. Have a nice day. Ciao.
From Italy? This is a true story: my Italian teacher in high school spoke a classic northern Italian. We had a new student join the class straight from Pontelandolfo who spoke virtually no English. Our teacher spent about 10 minutes trying to speak to him in both Italian and English with no success. The teacher put his head in his hands and said (paraphrasing) "my God, you can't speak either English or Italian..." That was 50 years ago and I still laugh when I think of it.
I thought this was classic. I'm a 1/2 Italian 1/2 Irish Brooklyn girl who found this hysterical. Anyone who finds THIS offensive or thinks it's an insult to Italians should really consider moving into a bubble! If you say you're from Brooklyn (or any other borough) and weren't related to or knew someone who spoke like this, then you lived a sheltered life! This was perfection and good for a laugh! Mincchia...quit being "stoonad" or an overly sensitive "mamaluke" and allow yourself to laugh...quite possibly at yourself!
+Tricia Green I'm 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Polish, so I AM a walking ethnic joke! And I couldn't agree more - I had a good laugh at this (I'm from Revere, MA, so I grew up with similar words but a somewhat different accent, LOL) As for "madinad" - we're pretty split on either "gravy" or "sauce."
Tricia Greene; Since I moved away from Detroit and my family, I haven't heard anyone besides me, who knows what "mamaluke" means! I use it often when I'm cussing out crappy drivers! Stunad mamaluke!! Lol! 🇺🇲🇮🇹🇮🇲
I am 100% Italian and I find this hilarious. Our Italian sense of humor is based on making fun of everything and everybody, ourselves first. That's how we grow up tolerant and respectful of any culture, religion, lifestyle, sexual preference, and best soccer team, in this World of hypocrisy where everybody gets offended for nothing. As far as you don't put that f***ng pineapple on pizza or we break a your face! 😀
Unfortunately some snooty Italians became too white like Alito and Scalia. They don't realize the struggles that Italians went through just like African-Americans
Euro-Italians don't have the crazy culture, attitude and slang. I don't think they understand it unless younger. Same with most other European counties/cultures.
@@alwaysopen7970 We have our own regional jokes and stuff that an American of Italian descent would never understand. I was never offended by these representations, those peoples are not Italians to start with. And, tbh, Sopranos point that out explicitly. The whole episode in Naples was a testament to how they couldn't understand shit of the place they visited.
Kelly is hilarious!! I love this, so funny and I'm not offended at all!!!! In my home growing up in Connecticut, I heard all these words except for sang witch. Slang Italian from my grandparents that came over from Italy.
Same! Though I'm from Florida. My grandparents are from Connecticut though, and I've lived with them since forever. X) my grandmas mother and father were straight off the boat from Italy!
I also grew up in CT, full blooded Sicilian, and heard these words and more many times!! Both sets of Grandparents from Sicily! Hilarious video!! Live in Florida now for 24 years. :)
+MrTommypops i agree such a beautiful language is being butchered . .. the only thing to consider is that many italians in the states were actually jailed or got in legit trouble for speaking italian back in the 20s 30 and 40s. so the next generation spoke less of it as a direct result of this. in the end they only kept heavy slangs..
When Kelly referred to her husband as a 'stoonod' (stonnato) and gave him the bent elbow gesture, I nearly fell of my chair laughing! I'm an Italian-American and this does not offend me. You got to have a sense of humor and not be so uptight.
I only found this video today. I grew up in Da Bronix....and I laughed so hard, I have tears in my eyes. Kelly's Hubby is a real scootchamend. Now, I'm getting ready to make a nice pot of Pasta Fazoole (Fagioli, for you "true" Wops). :)
It's super classic and funny! I grew up in NJ with lots of Italian friends in the 1980's in high school. It's funny now but in the 1970's not so much. Watching NYC MOB funerals on TV - a bummer knowing my funeral would not be televised let alone attended like one of those. But what did I know, I was less than 10 years old. My funeral will probably be me, the undertaker and the lady taking the flowers!!
Love that Mark just throws in the random “Pasta fazool” (AKA pasta fagioli, AKA pasta bazoo, lol!) to appear that he’s “widdit” (with it) (did I put enough parentheses in this comment?)
Tony Sirico is hilarious as the tough guy spelling bee proctor . . . . And as one who is from Italian descent, and who was also born in Brooklyn, I find this 'stereotypical' humor hilarious. Too many in our society can't laugh at themselves and need to get a life. ....
I grew up in this neighborhood when it was still Italian …”Walyol” meant you’re a punk. And “shadrool” was used for the wild kids. And “earl” meant oil “Terlet” meant toilet All good stuff!
I grew up in Brooklyn near Bensonhurst and have Italian parents who were both born in Italy. The only thing I was really offended by here was the inaccuracy of the time it takes to simmer marinara sauce. Usually it only takes 15 min since it's more of a fresh tomatoey sauce. Ragu or what some call "gravy" is what cooks for a while. But my mom told me 2-3 hours max with the pork, meatballs, etc. Funny skit though!
Hahaha, been living in NJ pretty much most of my life and I don't think I have ever been in a deli nor a bagel shop and not heard these words pronounced this way EVERY time! 😂😂😂 That's how we do in Jerzee lol
@@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv I know that's what I meant...its disgusting seeing a bunch of Asian restaurants with ducks or whatever they are hanging in the window..they dump shit in the street...I avoid it as much as possible.
I'm not Italian, but I had relatives on my mother's side who were Italian-American. I would tease them about "You make-a da Sunday gravy, anh?". They took it all in fun, but they reminded me that it's sauce, not gravy. And they said that even when it's made with meat, it's sauce.
Iam of Italian descent and i cried the first time my mother showed this to me. and i still crack up when i watch it... My parents are from Bensonhurst and my mother talks like that. I dont find this offensive at all. I am proud of my culture and i will always be proud of it. Good job on the video! i Liked it alot! Its a good laugh
My mother was born in Italy. I have nine aunts and uncles just on my mother's side of the family and all the cousins that come along with a family that big. In my thirties I moved from the neighborhood and to another state for a job/career with a major airline. I am in my sixties now, but when I was in my forties I got called out on saying "sangwitch". I never really thought about the way I was saying it until then. I say it "sandwich" now, but I have to think it through every time before I say it.
Take it easy guys. My parents migrated to Switzerland and they speak German with that Italian twist to it. It is just humor relax and enjoy.....fuggheabout it.
Hi its John Merolla ,I played Paulie On the Bensonhurst spelling bee with my partner Carmine, Eddie Privitzer, We are happy to see the that the show is still going strong, Watch for Paulie and Carmine in there new web series MOBSTER'S ON THE RUN coming soon
