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Could former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s next act be stand-up comedy?
has learned that the politico was planning to do a set at Upper West Side comedy club Stand Up NY to help celebrate its reopening following COVID in April 2021, but backed out for unknown reasons.
Owner Dani Zoldan tells that once de Blasio had signed on, he set the former mayor up with a professional. In the end, the pol couldn’t do the performance for reasons that aren’t clear.
But we hear the pol had a recent chat with Zoldan and said he is intrigued by the idea of yukking it up on stage and is considering giving it another shot.
Maddie Smith of MTV’s “Wild’n Out” wrote the 2021 comedy set de Blasio was supposed to give, seen by .
The routine opened, “A lot of you know who I am, but for those who don’t, I’m not Bill de Blasio. In fact, if this goes terribly, I’m Andrew Cuomo.”
It added: “I’m actually really afraid to drop the mic in case it’s a groundhog.”
De Blasio dropped poor Charlotte, the late Staten Island groundhog, during a gruesome Groundhog Day ceremony in 2014. The marmot later died from internal injuries.
De Blasio has since said he regrets the incident.
“I’m like, ‘Don’t make me hold a f–king groundhog.’ I mean, what the hell?,” he told New York Magazine. “It was idiocy. Why would you want an elected official to hold a groundhog? I don’t know anything about holding groundhogs. So the whole thing is just insane. There’s an original sin here. Don’t hand someone a groundhog, right?”
He also asked, “Do you squeeze it really tight? I mean, what do you do?”
The de Blasio comedy club appearance that never happened also had several shout-outs to the New York Post.
“I’m really happy to be here — I actually just ate breakfast since, according to the New York Post, I woke up two hours ago,” was one joke written…
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