These New York comedians hope to be household names one day — but Vic DiBitetto and Eric D’Alessandro can’t even get emcees to pronounce them correctly.
“The apostrophe in Eric’s name screws them all up,” said Brooklyn native DiBitetto, 61, who adds that they also trip over his “DiBi.”The next stop on the duo’s “Funny How? Tour” is City Winery in Chelsea on Nov. 18, and the co-headliners — both Italian Americans from the boroughs — have a lot in common.
“He’s like a young me and I’m like an old him,” said DiBitetto , of Staten Island native D’Alessandro , 32.Vic DiBitetto and Eric D’Alessandro are on the road for their “Funny How? Tour.”“He’s complaining about me and I’m complaining about him kind of,” explained D’Alessandro.Bread & Milk ” video that poked fun at people’s panic when it begins to snow — which has 19 million views on his YouTube channel alone.
“I opened the door, saw a snowflake, and right away, I thought of all the idiots that … flip out,” he said. “I just whipped the camera out and I walked from my house to the car in a panic. Twenty-six seconds. That got me more recognition than … 30 years of standup. I almost deleted it … I thought it was stupid.”
In 2013, DiBitetto first went viral for his “Bread & Milk” video that poked fun at people’s panic when it begins to snow.
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