Politics is definitely kissing babies. When Scott Stringer won as official contender for Comptroller, his youngest son was along. It was nighttime.
Bedtime. Feeding time. Miles’ age? Three months. The missus, Elyse, was holding him — Miles, not Scott — when defeated candidate Spitzer in a short phone call said: “Congratulations. You won.”
Trooping toward the cameras, Scott handed the baby to his wife, who handed the baby to her mother.
Sunday over delicious Sicilian dinner at Joanne’s Trattoria, a crowded West Side place owned by Lady Gaga’s dad, Elyse said: “I never doubted we’d win.
“I was never afraid. Scott’s been in politics all his life. He’s good and he’s honest. Goodness always wins out.”
From ‘D-list’ to Carnegie
Forget Waldo, where’s Kathy Griffin? Calling from “on the road” in LA, off to Tucson, following a quickie gig in Sydney, just did a Bravo show and set to work Carnegie Hall.
“I’ll make the Guinness Book for the most comedy specials. I live all over.
“I love doing stand-up. As everybody yelled, ‘The George Zimmerman verdict’s in,’ I was onstage in Florida. The only way to handle that was to go out on a dirty joke, then run for the car.
“I don’t understand not doing your own material. I have a talking disorder. I can stand onstage two hours without batting an eyelash. I’ll talk about run-ins with people. Like presenting together with Miley Cyrus and she a bit of a pest. Like with Kris Jenner when Baby North was born and she ran for hair and makeup before talking about the birth.”
Time for love life?
“I don’t want marriage and kids. I’m no shame-based comic. I’m 52. My guy’s 34. My mom I’m close to is 93 but won’t fly because she fears irregularity.
“She wouldn’t want to down a glass of wine then have the pilot hear she pooped.”
Let’s segue from incontinence to Carnegie:
“Carnegie Hall’s daunting. Patrons come to hear a soprano and they get me. The irony of this magnificent stage is my vulgarity and where does one stick the cello?”
Wherever she’s sticking it, it’s Nov. 8.
Odds & Ends
Question: How often is it appropriate to say, “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still don’t understand a word some bore said. . . . Traffic congestion filming “Annie” has upset Woodside residents and businesses . . . Gabriel Byrne: “I don’t want to spend my life on movie sets and wake up at 70 saying, ‘Where’s my life gone?’ I know people like that. It’s the horror of being somebody the movies sucked dry.” . . . You must try Kilian, a new parfum out of France. Scents are labeled “Playing With the Devil,” “Cruel Intentions” and “Liaisons Dangereuses.” Bottles are labeled “Tempt Me.”
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A pro se plaintiff, acting as his own lawyer in a federal lawsuit in Manhattan, is suing “in connection with his hospitalization and over-medication based on false allegations.” Co-defendants named in the 26-page complaint: Obama; Biden; McCain; Boehner; Romney; Bill, Hill and Chelsea; George, Barbara and Jeb Bush.
Also: Stallone; Longoria; Schwarzenegger; Pacino; Sting; Hilary Swank; Jennifer Love Hewitt; Katy Perry; Claire Danes; Heidi Klum. Also Clooney and Bullock who, I guess, he thinks haven’t enough trouble drifting through black holes in “Gravity.”
The citizen litigator — initials J.M. — (I won’t mention the name lest I become a co-defendant) alleges they’ve figured out how to upset him. One reason being “they can’t get together to solve the federal budget shutdown.”
Sounds to me like an open and shut case.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.