Shabooty Interview Series: Shabooty! — Yours Truly Answers A Fan’s Questions

Shabooty Interview Series: Shabooty! — Yours Truly Answers A Fan’s Questions

Jenna Sangria: As a HUGE fan of Shabooty.com & @Shabooty on Twitter, Shabooty thank you for allowing me this interview. I think this is the first time you have allowed a “fan” to flip the script and interview you is that true?
SHABOOTY: I think one time before, like five years ago I did a short questionnaire, but I don’t even remember jack-schitt about it. So this will be the DE FACTO!

I have to admit you bring the lolz on Twitter. As Jillian Barberie said when you interviewed her “your tweets on their own are very funny. I love reading them, they’re just funny and it’s stuff that everybody thinks and nobody says.” Is there anything that is off topic that you will NOT say? Is there a place you will not go?
I think you mean off limits, because if it’s not topical, it’s not as fun to goof on. Sometimes I am TOO topical (news that happened hours ago) and I worry that most people won’t understand a joke about a 30 minute old headline. Yeah, I didn’t make any Japan jokes when that was too soon. Though, I had one joke that I had to share in one form or another. I told folks if you want to hear it, reply to this tweet and I will DM the joke to you. 9/10 thought it was hilarious, but it was way too soon. I think the joke was: Well, at least on the bright side, the Japanese don’t have to worry about what to wear for St. Patties Day, since they’re already wearing algae. #toosoon! (No Gilbert Gottfried).

I have to admit I have been reading you for a long time now and it seems your style of comedy attracts a certain type of fan. For example your fans would typically listen to someone like Howard Stern. From what I have read you are like a Howard Stern super fan. Where did that come from?
Yes, it’s fair to say I have that Howard Stern male demographic. Which is cool, but it also sucks. I’ve read some pro-broad (women) articles on the internets that say women rule the internet. As in — they are the lion’s share of people using social media, reading blogs, facebooking, etc. The reason Perez Hilton has a name, is off the backs of women. When a chick likes a blog she makes it go viral. That’s why on youtube, half of the most trending videos are absolutely atrocious from a comedian’s standpoint. They’re cutesy and effeminate and Bieber-esque. So it’s a lot harder building a male fan-base is my point.

When did you start listening to Howard Stern?
I don’t even remember how many years ago it was, but it was when Howard Stern was in New York and was syndicated to WJKF (DC). I just spent a whole paragraph shitting on “cutesy,” but the way I was introduced to the Stern Show was in that vein. I was a tweenager on the weekend and we had just experienced the hugest ice storm I’ve even to this day yet to have experienced. There was no power, and I was lying down in bed in the morning with nothing to do, so I started playing with the… (no brokeback)… the dials on my Walkman and I stumbled upon the Howard Stern Show. After listening and cracking up during that first show, I was forever hooked.

Is it safe to say that Howard would be your ultimate interview? I heard you were mentioned a couple of weeks ago on his show? That must have been a big moment for you, right?
Yes, that’s a “just” statement. It was the second time “Shabooty” was mentioned on his show. The first time it was by Steve Langford and this time it was by Howard and Robin. It was big… though I always feel, if you’re a true hard-core Howard Stern fan, you already know about me and my blog. A mention on the show should just solidify that, instead of introduce that.

My favorite interview of yours aside from the Jillian Barberie interview was your interview with Vinny Guadagino from Jersey Shore. I’d say if I am a super fan to something other than you it would be to Jersey Shore. You interviewed him after the second season and you claim to know some of the cast personally, is that true?
It seems like as time goes by, I become tighter with Vinny. He’s the guy I champion. I am friends with the former MTV exec. (Tony DiSanto) that greenlit Jersey Shore. After the first episode of the first season aired, (not to start name dropping but why not), my new buddy at that time, Mark McGrath (Celebrity Apprentice), told me during my interview with him to check out this show called Jersey Shore. Long story short, Tony gave the cast an introduction to yours truly at the end of season one, but I wasn’t really up their ass. I told the cast to check out my blog, feel free to follow me on Twitter (Pauly, Sammy, and Vinny do), and after season 2 wrapped I pinged them again to see if anyone would be down with a Shabooty Interview. Vinny is the guy who I interviewed and he is the most receptive (BRIGHT) of the bunch as far as I’m concerned. I have been championing him and have been a part of his movement from the beginning and he’s the one guy from the show I most want to see succeed in showbiz after the show ultimately ends.

Speaking of interviews out of the many that you have done does one stick out in particular as a personal favorite?
My funniest video interview is NECRO — hands down. I went into that interview as a ‘Cage’ fanboy and Necro and Cage have a beef, so it was interesting to say the least. He’s a character.
You know, I’ve interviewed around 80 celebrities in only a few years and some of them escape me. For example last night, I tweeted [the verified] Trishelle Cannatella from the original Real World Las Vegas, and she immediately followed me back without me being up her snatch about it. That’s because I interviewed her back in I think 2005.
The one I am most proud of though is my Vinny Guadagnino interview, because as far as I am concerned he’s got that HEATROCK. Right now he’s super famous and he’s not a dickhead. And I can call him a friend. So that’s good enough for me.
Often, I base how much I like a past interview on my present day friendship with that person…  so another personal favorite is Jesse Jane. She’s angelic, yet she’s not a c*nt. She’s the most media savvy person I’ve interviewed.
Jillian Barberie deserves some credit here too because she’s the only person I have interviewed that made it to a three part interview! We talked for nearly 45 minutes. That was/is a proud moment as well.

I have to ask do you have an obsession with p0rnstars? I will admit you have interviewed the cream of the crop when it comes to porn though no pun intended.
This is all I’ll cop to… I have an obsession with porn stars that have been on the Howard Stern Show. I love interviewing people after they’ve been on the show, to get their two-cents on the experience. And yeah, often times that’s pr0nstars, and ever since Twitter blew up, it seems like pr0nstars are pretty much the most popular group of “entertainers” on there. I think their ‘follow’ numbers speak for themselves.

This brings me to my next question is it true you have a “no fat chicks policy” pretty much in place? While that I am sure pisses a lot of women off on your Facebook & Twitter it personally makes me laugh.
I’ll answer that with a question… ‘Is it true that most fat chicks have a “no fish smell” policy in place, yet they never abide by it?’

What exactly is your “ideal” woman?
Petite, not an angry person that sounds like their mother when they get mad (or Tracy Millman), someone with reading comprehension (doesn’t read my blog and take it the wrong way), and with a good sense of humor. Irish with freckles doesn’t hurt either. My standards aren’t that high. The last chick I dated was a cougar, but she didn’t fancy it when I made fun of celebrities being “pulled back”. Sigh.

Before I let you go Urban dictionary defines the name “Shabooty” as follows:

• A sexually ambiguous, African-American intern common to satellite radio.
• Horribly flamboyant homosexual oral sex between two women.
• Used when a person is extremely happy and joyous, similar to WOOHOO,

What do you think the correct definition of Shabooty is?
Lolz, that obvs isn’t me. I think I need to update that and have my readers give it a ‘thumbs up’ so it supplants that definition. I also need a Wikipedia page, but who needs my real 411 out there. Nothing worst than being poor + lack privacy. Lol.
The correct definition is — a humorist / blogger / comedian from D.C., that could charm the pants off of a panting bitch in heat.

And what exactly is the Shabooty Dynasty?
The Shabooty Dynasty is my inner circle of real life friends. Everyone says, “hey I have a friend that deserves a reality show,” etc, but these 4 or 5 guys are the funniest people I’ve ever met and they also happen to be my BFFs. I think every comedian has a fantasy of having a show one day and I think a part of that fantasy is having all of their friends there working with them on comedy. In that sense I am more of the Silent Bob type than the Jay Mewes type, but three out of those four close friends are the extroverted Jay type. The point is, they’re cool/great guys… now if only they weren’t all cunt-struck to the teeth.

Thanks again Shabooty for giving me this interview and everyone make sure to check him out at www.shabooty.com & @Shabooty on Twitter.
Thank you, and follow –>  ‘@jenna_sangria’ on the twatter!

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