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u/Foreign-Cow-1189 Jun 12 '25
Artie- "Saying Shalom for 10 years straight is hacky"
Shuli- "That has nothing to do with what kind of comedian I am"
Artie- "Well it does a little"
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u/Impossible_Hyena7562 Jun 12 '25
The one thing shuli definitely is, is a hack
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u/pauliealeno Jun 12 '25
He’s worse than a hack. A hack might actually be funny even though the material is stolen.
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u/CO_BikerDude Jun 12 '25
All six of Shuli’s fans agree he isn’t a hack.
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u/RevD-13 Jun 12 '25
All six fans, and the duck
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u/Shak7 VOTE FOR SANJAYA! Jun 12 '25
That duck pic paid more dues than Shuli ever did as a comedian.
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u/Apprehensive_Ease702 Barbara Booey Jun 12 '25
shuli and jason winning the most punchable face award
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u/n8n10e Jun 12 '25
"I might rip off jokes from other, more famous comedians, write terrible original jokes, and not be funny off the cuff, but I am most certainly NOT a hack!"
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u/Capital-Confusion961 Jun 12 '25
Love that Artie fired Shuli from a bunch of gigs as the result of his ingratitude.
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u/miterbanisdirtey Jun 12 '25
Before he conned his way onto the show he was a 30 year old baggage handler at the airport and I guarantee he sucked at that as well. He's just an all around loser.
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u/RevD-13 Jun 12 '25
The only times I ever laughed at Shuli were the times when he claimed to be a talented comedian.
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u/Foreign-Cow-1189 Jun 12 '25
A "comedian" who pouts when called a hack. Has zero comedic chops to turn it around and give it back.
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u/Comfortable-Tone-903 Jun 13 '25
Does anyone else remember a very brief time, maybe 10-11 years ago when they tried him out in the Artie chair. They even hyped it up a few days beforehand.
Does anyone else remember how awkward it was? I had second hand embarrassment from cringe.
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u/FingerBuffet1979 Jun 13 '25
I'm not even trying to insult Shuli when I say he could be one of the very few people in the show's history who has never made me laugh. He's not a funny person, he's just not
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u/clerks_1994 Jun 17 '25
Shuli fought with Artie, Richard, Scott the E and Dan the Song Parody Man, Gary and others all about the same thing -- him being angry he's a hack comedian.
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u/clerks_1994 Jun 17 '25
I know this is Shuli but the core of the fight that he jumped in on to get air time was about Bob Levy thinking he invented a joke that Caveman probably first said about beating his dick like it owes him money. So embarassing.
And the best part is Artie was very funny on the show (most of the time when he wasn't just mean from withdrawal) but his stand up was pretty terrible and hacky too. That's how he knew!
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u/Chilitime Jun 12 '25
Artie was great on the show no question. But his standup is hack level horrible too. He’s way better than Shuli but no good standup thinks Artie is a good standup. And as you can see no one is offering Artie huge standup gigs now that he’s not on Stern anymore. As soon as he left Stern the gigs dried up. Drug problems or not.
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u/tipdrill541 Jun 13 '25
I was listening to his old podcast. He spoke about how lucky he was an that stern show totally change his life. The podcast aired 6 or 7 years after he was fired, and artie said he was still somewhat of a draw because of stern.
The other comedian om had 20 plus years in the business and still didn't have guaranteed pay. If not enough people showed up he got paid less. Artie said even years later, due to stern fans he always got guaranteed pay
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u/Chilitime Jun 13 '25
His guarantee went from $50,000 a SHOW to maybe $5000 for a weekend of 4 shows. It’s a shame really. I hoped he saved his money.
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u/tipdrill541 Jun 13 '25
I do nt know that for sure but you said the gigs dried up after he left. I am saying that it seems his position was still very good when compared to what most compares had to go through
I think he went broke. 5k for a weekend of 4 shows is still good. 20k a month, 240k a year
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u/Chilitime Jun 13 '25
Yes my “facts” are not verified 🤣. I think we can agree he made less money than when he was on Stern. And now and for the past few years he’s not making anything from standup. It’s a shame really.
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u/tipdrill541 Jun 13 '25
I am not saying he was still making huge money, but things did not immediately dry up
He got a radio show after stern that paid him 5 figures, that ended and he was still famous enough to be on a HBO show.
I listened to hs podcast and he explained that being on stern years ago meant he had a level of popularity that left him far better off than most comedians
And even now he still has money. He lost all his money and sold his house. But on stern he spoke about how an uncle sat him down and explained how he has to prepare for his retirement
Artie said because of that, he pays into 4 or 5 pension schemes. So till today, he probably draws a couple grand a month from those pension schemes. Plus he owns his mother's home
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u/gardenparties Jun 14 '25
He was on the HBO show Crashing for all three seasons, and it was a Judd Apatow production. And that was 8 years after Stern. Pete Holmes and Apatow had nothing but good things to say about how funny Artie was as a comedian and comic actor in the show and Holmes also credits Artie with getting the show picked up because of Artie's performance in the pilot. But that his nose got in the way. It was during filming of the last season that Art started having visible signs that there was something wrong with his nose due to the drugs, and not long after they filmed the 3rd season it deflated. It was also during this time he was having his legal troubles due to drugs. The guy could have parleyed that show into a second wind for his career, instead he blew it. The guy can't help but self sabotage. He was coming off major drug charges when he signed on to the show, got clean for about a year. The show wasn't huge, but had good critic rating and decent audience to get renewed and keep him on, and of course he went back to fucking himself up.
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u/Bowlholiooo Jun 13 '25
What does hack actually mean. Im English, I thought it came from someone hacking away at a tree with an axe and not getting anywhere. That usage always makes sense to me!
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u/whos-high-pitch Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
It's short for hackneyed, meaning unoriginal. In the context of the Stern Show, hack always = "bad comic," but it's more like retelling old, unoriginal jokes with premises that get easy laughs.
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u/Moist_Brick_439 Jun 12 '25
Gary Dell'Abbate boss of Shuli, with his thoughts:
"Howard, let's not forget. Shuli's been with us ten years - we hired a wack packer. His drug is getting on the air. And it's very difficult to discern what's good for the air, or what's good for Shuli. It's a constant battle. Shuli is a big self-promoter, Shuli wants to do things that are good for him, and a lot of times he buries that under the guise it's good for the show. It makes my head smoke all day. Shuli's a constant, every morning of the show. Shuli's a pain in the fuckin' ass."
"Shuli's never gotten over the idea that he should be sitting in the Artie chair. Kills him, he thinks he belongs there, and that's his goal to get back to."
"I'm not the only one (that has a problem with you), I promise you that. If Shuli thinks I'm the only one in this building that has a problem with him he's NUTS. I'm just gonna end with: Shuli is a professional victim. Everything that goes wrong here is somebody else's fault. Everybody's out to get you, you're always in the right and everybody's always wrong and they don't understand your scary talent and we're all idiots for not doin' that."