Explain to me how Mario Cantone gets work...

I just don't get it...

He comes off live as a cross between Joan Rivers and Lanie Kazan (shrill, shrill)...

Average looks....

Below Average singing voice..

Average acting skills..

and the personality of a sledgehammer..

Every time I see him I want to get a cross and douse him with holy water..

When?

Voiceanth...

I gotta agree with you on that one. I can't stand Mario Cantone. Once, years ago, I was at the Duplex on Grove (remember those days, guys? Karen Miller at the piano...), and Cantone came in with a bunch of folks. At the time, he was the host of STEAMPIPE ALLEY, some kid's show in Jersey. Anyway, if you think he's obnoxious sober, you should see him drunk. My Gawd. He proceeded to completely take over the place, walk around drinking from a bottle of champagne, and regaled us with his rendition of "Cruella DeVille". What a boor. I had to leave, and it was pretty obvious when I did. As I was going up the steps, he shouted out something rude to me. I don't even know what he said, nor did I care.

Since that night, I've used him to be the measure of obnoxiousity...and when compared to Cantone, most people fall short.

Shorter than him...now that's a feat...

And I also don't find him funny. But that's just my opinion. :)

Updated On: 9/23/03 at 10:11 AM

I must dis-agree, I think he is funny in Sex and The City and can be funny on The View.

I never really hung out at the Duplex..

About 7 years ago, I was doing some cabaret and I knew these cabaret people who knew Mario..One was a very good friend of his...

....they kept telling me "Oh, Mario, would love the way you sing"...

I was like "Oh, the guy from "Steampipe Alley"..."

and they would get offended that I did'nt know he had PROGRESSED..(LOL)...

Then I was up one night and caught him on some standup show...it was like watching a man do old Joan Rivers jokes..

Very, very, very loud and not really funny..or original...

ANYONE could play his part on Sex and the City and quite frankly, be better than he is...

Kneepads kids.

I think he's funny. I love his Liza impression. It always cracks me up. He does seem like he might be a little obnoxious but I don't plan on hanging out with him anytime soon so that doesn't really bother me. And what do his looks have to do with anything?

Maybe he wears dentures...then takes them out.

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Al..I think you hit it...soemone in the Cantone camp is hungry and working overtime....

I have hot-cold feelings about Mr. Cantone. Being in the 8th grade and watching that screaming queen on STEAMPIPE ALLEY was trippy and, in some ways, hope-inspiring. But he does, at times, make my teeth sweat. It's just too much. I get exhausted from just watching him.

All I know is if I had his agent, I wouldn't be sitting here at my soul-deadening job.

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He has nice hair.

(And that's not meant to be a slam to anyone that doesn't, it's just an observation.)

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When I did meet him that was the exact impression I got:

I also got that if your not, male, 6'1 and, how shall we say, non-white...

He won't give you the time of day!

Updated On: 9/24/03 at 12:25 PM

I think he's hysterical on Sex and the City. And I was right at the table during the flea market by him he was very generous and spent a lot of extra time at the table and doing the photos and just entertaining people so you have to give him some credit there.

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