NYC Radio: Joe Piscopo Embraces Morning Show At WNYM

Joe Piscopo (NY Daily News photo)

“Finally, an answer to the question: Whatever happened to Joe Piscopo? He’s proving there is life after Saturday Night Live. He knows everybody, and he has an opinion on everything.”

Across 40 years of show business, Joe Piscopo has never had an introduction like this. But, he’s never had a gig like this, either, writes David Hinckly at the NY Daily News.

It’s how his three-hour daily talk show begins on WNYM 970 AM The Answer.

Piscopo weighs in on everything from the Ebola outbreak to Mayor de Blasio’s plans to give undocumented immigrants city ID cards, mixing in interviews with pols and opinion-meisters along the way.

“I am embracing it, I am inspired by it, I love what I am doing.”

WNYM 970 AM (50Kw-Day, 5Kw-Night)

Piscopo, who studied broadcasting in college, got his shot when tis Sliwa abruptly left (for WABC) The Answer last winter.

After a meeting and essentially a one-day tryout, The Answer had its answer for filling a crucial hole in its lineup.

Occasionally, Piscopo, 63, flashes his comedic chops, as when Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Manhattan) called in, and they talked about President Obama’s game plan against the Islamic State.

“I don’t know how many Americans sleep at night and worry about whether we are going to get attacked by ISIS,” Rangel said.

“Congressman, if you send two Italian guys from Jersey, this will all be over tomorrow!” Piscopo said.

“Joe has great stories to tell, he has a great sense of what is funny. But that is the salt and pepper on the steak - it’s not the steak,” said radio guru Phil Boyce, a vice president at Salem Communications.