Because he's from Bensonhurst Brooklyn and knew this life

He was an associate of the one of the 5 five families. Gambinos, I believe.

He wasn't acting

@@elbronco80 I think he was involved with the mafia but he was not a made man.

@@tommyhaynes9157 Sammy The Bull was from Bensonhurst as well.

Damnnnn that would of been way better

A bummer because the audience reaction to each character's appearance was great fun.

I just speculated that was the reason in my comment above.

that is wack

Thanks for giving that context. It was really annoying.

That’s how he talks… he was a real mobster prior to going into acting

Paulie can't break character because he was himself in Sopranos

He was a real life "collector" back in the day.

"break character? howboutibreakyakneecaps?"

@@themusic6808 Do you know which episode they talked about Paulie?

I liked him too, but he was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, and just plain heavy. He was pretty much asking to be taken sooner than later, Mike.

@@chiefscheider First I'll say that I loved Roy Scheider in Jaws, Marathon Man, All That Jazz, etc, and now I'll say don't post stupid, generic, and smug comments like that. I didn't know James, but went to school with and was very good friends with the girl he dated and was engaged to be married with (back in the early 2000's), and there was way more to it than that. Us mortals really have no idea what it's like to reach that level of fame, so until if and when you have that experience, you shouldn't throw your critique on it. Do you post "he deserved what he got" on John Belushi vids as well?

James had a lot of great performances still left to give us. But at least he was able to give us one of the best TV characters of all time before so ,

Like it’s crazy I’m 23 years old and got to see the whole series last year and rewatching it again but man I swear every time I see a certain movie I would think dang he would of been perfect for that role or even a side character in this other movie like not going to lie I would of love to see him play a general in a Star Wars film

@@a.i.videosandcryptoworld9025 Gandolfini was great in his small role in True Romance.

All legends! TV was so much better back then in every way

@@mikey-domagala not true, TV is at a golden age now, arguably more so than back then.

@@sillygoose635 Stevie was trolling on the net one day.....

I’m pretty sure Carson could have gotten them to all show up, if he still had a show at the time.

Although this looks like the Sopranos cast members were appearing on the Letterman show stage in New York (at the corner of Broadway and 53rd Street in uptown Manhattan), this bit was likely recorded at one of the Sopranos locations where the cast was already located. They then did the bit in front of a green screen, so they could later, in post-production, appear to be delivering their lines "on stage." There was no audience and sound and applause were added later. It was nicely done, though.

He wasn't playing a character he was playing himself.

@@ascendant95 His experience in the mob made Paulie more realistic. I doubt he was as aggressive and flamboyant.

@@shrekdaddy6912 You can tell when James Gandolfini is being James and not Tony. You can tell when Michael Imperioli is being Michael and not Christopher. You literally cannot tell the difference between Tony Sirico and Paulie Walnuts lol. May he rest in peace. Buon anima.

@@ascendant95 Good Point, Commendatori

@@shrekdaddy6912 I like that. Like a commander. That's respect!

Who wouldn't?

@@youtert It was refreshing to see her in real down to earth clothes instead of that other junk Adriana wore.

That’s another thing you’d never hear on the Sopranos: „arse”😂

@@AlexDanston Unless you get the British English subtitles?

He already sniffed her panties lol

I sure as hell did.

Same here.

Well said

@@coffeehigh420 agreed , that is a great question , , ,👽👍

@@coffeehigh420 yes it's like a quality loss of once TV greatness both for late night TV and for action crime drama shows , , they give us middle fingers like reboot of Magnum or should it be "tiny Hector Sanchez Magnum and the other insult to fanbase Hawaii 5-O reboot , how low is their standards that James Corden got to host established talk show , , they have made NO attempt to restore quality just brainless offerings like the "Masked Singer", and, the trash fire reboot of "Quantum-Leap" , , did enjoy ""NCIS New Orleans"" but for the majority it's only a few crumbs of quality left on Broadcast Television and that's a complete shame , , , reliable Conan O'Brien ruined his own format cut his loyal band loose ,and is wasting people's time dorking around as a Cable TV Podcast more or less , how the big have fallen indeed , so I get it , , I "feel" the emptiness of current TV entertainment , , , ,the "streaming services" don't wow me enough to keep paying for them either , , ,👽👍

huge is a good descriptor

@@triborn217people struggle with weigh issues. It’s not that easy for everyone. Amazes me people are so ignorant to the fact or worse don’t care.

Pretty much any family member of anyone has ever died with Toyota huge loss. Great observation.

I get a little emotional watching Tony and AJ moments

Yes but at the same time such a big smile on my face as well. It was really mixed feelings specially James and Tony are not among us anymore 😢

Oh, yeah!! Absolutely!! It was beautiful!🥺💖

Best show ever!!!!!

It’s a fun and fabulous bit! Thank goodness it was filmed while the cast was intact, which is no longer the case, I’m sorry to say. And thank goodness we can watch it over and over on KZfaq.

And I have an unpopular theory: The role killed him.

@@thereisnosanctuary6184 Why do you say that?

He looked kinda like him

@@thereisnosanctuary6184 That might be an unpopular theory but I'm sure that a lot of people think it. Clearly the role took its toll on the man and he gave it his all.

@@thereisnosanctuary6184not unpopular. It’s true. To depict the despicable takes its toll.

Would you like to buy your soul back?

Easy, Chrissy.

oooooooooh!

He's like "watch it, Chrissy" hehehe

bro hes literally paulie in real life too😂

How much more betrayal can I take!?

That response would have been a good one! 👍

Which we know would be a false statement because Tony worshipped gabagool.

He should of said “Im a big “capiacola” fan” instead of gabagool because it wasn’t said it the sopranos

Silvio loved it too.

Would have been way funnier than what they came up with. "What's with all the gabagool in this fridge? Don't we have any salad?"

Totally ruined the flow of the bit.

@@EdKazO-Vision A little. You would think with the thousands of hours of footage they have, they could have dubbed the intros over with just applause alone.

When Paul Shaffer playing a song for 5 seconds has to be replaced due to a copyright. It's clear the system is broken.

Crazy. Found another video without it and it's barley audible.

They got a thumbs down from me for that idiotic editing.

You pretty much just reworded Uncle Junior's one and Janice's one

@@absurdrhinoit sounds nothing like what Janice said. They’re both pertaining to food. That’s all they have in common. The other one also has nothing to do with what uncle June said. I don’t know what you’re smoking

Those are both really good actually. Maybe Drea could have had a different line, hers was the worst.

I would've liked to see Frank Vincent saying: I did 20 years in the can, but that can't stop me from enjoying my golden years. 😂😂😂

A woman I loved to hate and loved! She played her character masterfully!

Janice was the real psychopath on this show. She was great!

@@macwyll Yeah she was good in that role, i could not stand her, i have a cousin who is a mirror image of her down to the same mannerisms, i cant stand her either,lol

@@cherrybarb4651 Well....CERTAINLY One amongst MANY Cherry!!👼/👹

She and AJ looked like they were related

That's a little too inside baseball for the average Late Night audience, though I think it would've been awesome.

@@I_Love_That_Movie small (comedic) brains, that's their problem

@@Johnnywiseify I think that was said in Season 6 and that hadn't aired yet.

@@macadoodle1237 that was from 5.3 "Where's Johnny". This was from either after Ade was killed off or after the finale for season 5. The former is why Drea said what she did.

Aka the "Spider Walk".

In the modern mob, knowing Excel in order to keep track of cash flow, rackets and pivot tables of who owes point on what can actually be very valuable.

@@JinghisKhan Why do I need PowerPoint, though?

@@RideAcrossTheRivereasier to put into perspective with the presentations?

@@Cassxowary "Say hallo to my lil friend! Which is a new logo, as you see ... we hired a consultant and let's just say he gladly did it for free, if ya take my meanin' ..."

Who wouldn't like to add to the cream on her mouth?

@@Chilliam13 like I done yer mom

He's such a cool guy, and good singer, as well.

I kept thinking they over-dubbed it into this video because they couldn't get rights to use whatever original music was on the Letterman broadcast. It seems odd that you can;t hear the audience applauding until the music cue ends each time.

Anything know where I can download or stream "Dum...dum...dum...da da da dum"? My grandma used to sing it to me before bed every night, that song is the only thing I have left of her

He was good in anything, like True Romance.

Still can’t believe it

AMEN

He was a Saint 🤧😭

He is amazing

He did act like an uncle to them. Any problems for Jamie or Robert they would go to Tony Sirico or James Gandolfini

I read about him in that role but didn't get to see it. It's nice to know how it turned out, Thanks.

Gandolfini wasn't bad, the plot was just rubbish

It was terrible. He looks like a woman and has nothing to do with acting.

​@@FCSD1936lol. His looks and hair are indeed a joke.

@@FCSD1936if you watch The Sopranos, Tony has a flashback to when he and Tony Blundetto were kids growing up together, and they both had long hair like that. So David Chase was just trying to stay consistent in that regard, even if a lot of the movie was a disappointment

feel free to watch reactions to the episodes and series (:

or the episodes

Exactly my thoughts

Have you been listening to the Talking Sopranos podcast at all? If not, you really should find it and enjoy the interviews.

Also get the book "Woke up this Morning". Got it for Christmas as a gift. Had it finished in 2 days!

I'm watching The Sopranos for the 5th time as well.

I watched it twice

I'm watching it now for the third time, it's so perfect you can rewatch it every year.

He was a superb actor,I'm just glad they gave him the opportunity to really flex his muscles (no pun intended,lol) as a actor and he got to enjoy at least a bit of the good life before he died,some people are like that and i can relate,you get a check in the mail you weren't expecting and 3 days later you car engine blows up, never fails.

Wouldn't it be house left?

was *aired. That's why Drea made that comment.

That would be "varsity", Chuckles. Variety is something completely different.

@@chiefscheider whadda getting cute with me now? Autocorrect, anyways 4 dollars a pound.

@@chiefscheider now gogetchashinebox!

@@chiefscheider They were all meat eaters

A week? There´s 86, 1-hour long episodes! Good luck watching it all in a week - try three months.

also, you’re not from the US/canada, are you? good luck taking a day off if you’re actually deathly sick, let alone…

​@@Cassxowarytrue man, this show is for unemployed people or privileged employed people that work 6 or 4 hours a day maybe other than that maybe students but their attention span won't handle a show like better call Saul or the sopranos

It's actually number 2 after The Wire but close enough

@@gavinbrando8255 Too many Knickkers on The Wire.

@@orionsentry all Sopranos had was them 2 black guys that ran that way 👉

@@gavinbrando8255 the wire is not number 1 just grow up a bit

@@gavinbrando8255Breaking Bad recently passed the wire on a lot of lists for #2…. Behind the Sopranos!

You ever have any issues wit the DVDs? man i did,specially season 6, several were bad, a buddy of mine, his mom had died and she had the series so he just gave me season 6 as a gift since he wasn't interested in this show,it was also bad, then i bought ANOTHER copy on ebay, bad also,just gave up on it,lol. I have probably 500 DVDs and that series was the worst in quality,maybe i just had bad luck.

I know right.

SAD Really....ONLY Show Tolerable & REFRESHING is Gutfeld now!!....

you mean Paulie lol but yah

Silvio was a barracuda and ruthlessly whacked her in the woods. She was down on her knees crawling too. " Ohhhh barracuda...."

That was great acting by Drea and Steven in that scene. Drea really captured the look and terror of someone realizing her time is up in that scene.

Nah, it's a Monty Python reference

you stutter a bit when you owe Paulie money.

thanks for saying it for me

her ass had the makings of a varsity athlete. seriously, i got excited when i saw the Super Bowl commercial thinking they were rebooting the series, but they wouldnt without Gandolfini.

​@Mark Mac Why would you even want one? They told a perfect story. Nothing more needed. The Mant Saints of Newark proved that

I think his was the best line.

Never forget Pearl Harbor…

I miss him too. The Castle was an excellent display of his range. Seeing them all together again like that this many years later was an uplifting moment. I miss them all.

The Last Castle, that is.

I bet his wife loved him being on that show wearing proper duds most of the time,lol

He was the best,that voice cannot be duplicated,lol

Would you like to buy your soul back?

Oh man! 😹

Greed.