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Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Melissa Gorga drags husband Joe off stage during awkward comedy set
Joe Gorga’s comedy performance didn’t quite go to plan (Picture: WireImage)
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga was forced to drag husband Joe off stage during a comedy performance.
The RHONJ star, and brother of Teresa Giudice, was performing his stand-up routine at Governor’s Comedy Club, in Long Island recently.
However, it didn’t quite go to plan for the 42-year-old, as his routine wasn’t quite up to scratch.
According to TMZ, he began telling a joke about a friend and, although it didn’t make sense, the crowd were initially encouraging.
However, they soon turned when he kept asking, ‘Are you guys ready?’ and swearing into the microphone.
At one point, he said: ‘Listen you motherf**kers,’ with the audience heard jeering in a clip obtained by the publication.
Melissa Gorga came to her husband’s rescue on stage (Picture: Getty)
Melissa – who is currently appearing on Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip – later joined Joe on stage in a bid to bring him down.
Grabbing the microphone, she joked: ‘I don’t know what they gave you backstage, babe…,’ before she stopped him from taking a swig from a drink.
‘I swear to you, usually he cracks us up. He has a routine that makes us all laugh in tears every night. That I promise you.’
‘Come on, let’s go,’ she added, ushering him away from the spotlight.
His manager later told TMZ that the reason for his poor performance was due to illness.
‘Joe was sick that day,’ they said. ‘He had a cold. He took Sudafed and then had a couple of scotches. It just hit him when he went on stage.
‘We came back the next night and he made a joke about it.’
Melissa recently shared her pride at seeing Joe performing his comedy routine on Broadway, posting a loved-up snap of the pair on the streets of New York.
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‘If someone told me 10 years ago that @joeygorga would be performing comedy live on Broadway one day I would never believe them,’ she captioned the upload.
‘Proud wifey!! Reach for the stars everyone.’
Something tells us that we’ll be seeing more of Joe’s jokes on the upcoming season of Real Housewives of New Jersey…
Metro.co.uk has contacted Joe’s reps for a comment.
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