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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

'Total trainwreck for the defense': Trump's legal team rests on a sour note

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Plus, James Comey: Trump is coming for the FBI, DOJ

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0:00.0

Okay, do you remember the 1980s mobster comedy, Wise Guys?

0:05.6

A jacket for me, Mr. Kustello.

0:09.6

Fights!

0:10.6

A gangster's life is a brutal calling, until one day...

0:14.0

It's a part of the grand design.

0:16.0

Harry turned a simple errand.

0:18.0

Because the whole source ain't never gonna win.

0:20.0

Into a date with destiny.

0:22.0

The mob is willing to forgive them

0:25.8

Let me waste them mr. Kostello if they'll just do one simple thing like killing

0:30.8

wise guys I can't believe how things keep going on way.

0:35.0

Wise.

0:36.0

Wise.

0:37.0

A buddy comedy about two low-level gangsters,

0:41.0

played by Danny DeVito and Joe Piskapo, who work and It was, you know, probably not the highlight of Danny DeVito's long and successful career, but it was sort of the high point for his co-star Joe Piscopo.

0:58.0

Joe Piscopo had a run as a cast member on Saturday Night Live where he was known for playing gangster adjacent

1:04.8

characters like his half decent Frank Sinatra.

1:09.1

Piscopo went on to play a hapless mobster from the 1930s alongside Michael Keaton in the movie

1:14.4

Johnny Dangerously. Two years later he played a more modern version of the same

1:19.7

character in Wise Guys. After that Joe P Piscopo did not get a lot of other leading roles.

1:26.0

Until today, when Joe Piscopo got a late career break as a different kind of lackey.

1:34.2

Today, Joe Piscopoe was among the retinue of odd characters

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