Jimmy Failla

Here I am in Maxim.

You may know Jimmy Failla from his awesome standup on AXS Television. You may know him from his recent brouhaha with the producers of America’s Got Talent. You may know him from his talks at one of Gotham Comedy Club’s legendary standup comedy seminars (you can see him there for free this weekend!). Or you may know him from that time you laughed hysterically through your entire cab ride to LaGuardia. However you know him, you’ll know he’s brutally honest and funny as hell. We got the cabbie-turned-comic to give us his guide to being a better passenger. And if you’ve never done something you’re not proud of in a cab? Well, you’re clearly a better person than us.

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Here’s me in the New York Post.

Most performers are dying to get on “America’s Got Talent,” but New York cabby-turned-comic Jimmy Failla is begging NBC to edit him out of the upcoming July 23 episode.

Failla said on a podcast that his loved ones were taken for a ride after the show asked him to promote a potential appearance this week with family and friends, including a pal on his deathbed who died a day after searching the airwaves in vain for the comic’s act.

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