# Joe Piscopo, now mummified, may run for Governor of New Jersey **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 12, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634 "2017-02-12T05:44:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/1 "2017-02-12T05:44:54Z")
Believe it or don’t, my friends: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/joe-piscopo-new-jersey-governor-run/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/joe-piscopo-new-jersey-governor-run/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/2 "2017-02-12T05:51:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Believe it or don’t, my friends: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/joe-piscopo-new-jersey-governor-run/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/joe-piscopo-new-jersey-governor-run/index.html) And it sounds like he’s running as a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/3 "2017-02-12T06:19:15Z")
“_Piscapo !_” the Bundys shout. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/4 "2017-02-12T07:13:18Z")
Given the number of actors/performers who have successfully run for political office (Schwarzenegger, Eastwood, Bono, Frankin, and Reagan just to name some off the top of my head) was is anyone still surprised when another one pops up? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/5 "2017-02-12T07:48:12Z")
Perhaps the least talented or funny cast member in the history of SNL, and he’s a Trump fan. Perfect. Whose next? Pauly Shore? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/6 "2017-02-12T11:10:12Z")
I was watching CNN International yesterday and they were interviewing Piscapo for his take on Trump’s reaction to the current SNL skits and all I could think was “I guess Rob Schneider wasn’t available.” ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/7 "2017-02-12T15:04:45Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Given the number of actors/performers who have successfully run for political office (Schwarzenegger, Eastwood, Bono, Frankin, and Reagan just to name some off the top of my head) was is anyone still surprised when another one pops up? You forgot Gopher from Love Boat and Cooter from Dukes of Hazard. Both Democrats I might add.😉 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/8 "2017-02-12T15:16:50Z")
Piscopo is jammin’ me. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/9 "2017-02-12T15:46:29Z")
Gopher was a Republican. > **[Fred Grandy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy)** > > Fredrick Lawrence Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is an American actor who played "Gopher" on the sitcom The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently the host of The Grandy Group, a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C. > Grandy was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the youngest of three sons of William Grandy, who worked in his father's insurance business, and his wife Bonnie. When Grand... ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/10 "2017-02-12T17:11:32Z")
Struggling comedian and actor is a life-long Democrat and largely apolitical; successful actor with an estate to protect and Republican friends decides to run for governor on conservative platform. Nothin’ new there. I know a whole town of Republican hippies who marched in the sixties and now vote straight-ticket conservatives to protect their seven-figures houses, built on the lots of the rooming houses they lived in during college… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/11 "2017-02-12T17:36:04Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/12 "2017-02-12T19:06:49Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Given the number of actors/performers who have successfully run for political office (Schwarzenegger, Eastwood, **Bono** , Frankin, and Reagan just to name some off the top of my head) was is anyone still surprised when another one pops up? I thought that U2 gig was still working out OK for him. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/13 "2017-02-12T19:08:38Z")
Sony Bono, the other half of Sony and Cher. You know, Cher’s ex-husband? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/14 "2017-02-13T03:25:27Z")
Sony Bonno? (I actually do remember a little of his political career, as he was responsible for an expansion of ‘intellectual property.’) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/15 "2017-02-13T04:07:55Z")
I remember when bill maher did a bit about Sonny Bono’s death and how his wife wanted to run for his congressional seat after he died. He was upset that unqualified people were running for office. He said Mary Bono’s qualification to become a representative was that ‘her husband skied into a tree’. And now Trump is president. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/16 "2017-02-13T05:34:43Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Sony Bono, the other half of Sony and Cher. You know, Cher’s ex-husband? :: whoosh :: ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/17 "2017-02-13T06:19:04Z")
fool’sguinea wrote: “(I actually do remember a little of his political career, as he was responsible for an expansion of ‘intellectual property.’)” Kinda Eye-ronic, eh? Originally Posted by Broomstick View Post Sony Bono, the other half of Sony and Cher. You know, Cher’s ex-husband? The less talented one. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/18 "2017-02-13T13:01:41Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Struggling comedian and actor is a life-long Democrat and largely apolitical; successful actor with an estate to protect and Republican friends decides to run for governor on conservative platform. Are both of these referring to Piscopo? The last thing I remember him acting in was _Wise Guys_ over 30 years ago, and I had forgotten the name of that movie until I looked it up. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/19 "2017-02-13T14:05:53Z")
I will be very disappointed if his campaign slogan is anything other than… _ **I’m from Jersey!** _ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634/20 "2017-02-13T14:11:29Z")
What about his ties to organized crime? [singing] “Johnny DaNono, I can’t believe that’s your name…” [/s] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-piscopo-now-mummified-may-run-for-governor-of-new-jersey/779634.md?page=2)