The Bensonhurst Spelling Bee with Kelly Ripa

Actor

Kelly Ripa

Actor

Mark Consuelos

Actor

Lorraine Bracco

Actor

Tony Sirico

Writer/Director

lauren

Executive Producer

Funny Or Die

Editor

Andy Maxwell

Producer

LOOSEWORLD

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WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.000 [Music Playing] 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 <v Tony Sirico> We've reached the final round of the Bensonhurst Italian Spelling Bee. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:14.000 <v Tony Sirico> In just a few minutes, one of these little Scungio's will be king of the neighborhood. Or queen. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:22.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> [inaudible] If you should be so lucky to win, your prize is gonna be a beautiful meatball Parmesan from the Spumoni Gardens. 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.000 <v Tony Sirico> [kissing sound] Michael, you're up. 00:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Why is he wearing a track suit, and he's wearin' a big chain. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:28.000 <v Kelly Ripa> Shh! 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.000 <v Tony Sirico> Your word is mutzadel. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 <v Michael Consuelos> Mutzadel. Can you use it in a sentence, please? 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Jimmy, can you put some more mutzadel on my pizza before I smack ya? 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:46.000 <v Michael Consuelos> Mutzadel. M-U-T-Z-A-D-E-L, mutzadel. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:47.000 [Applause] 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:48.000 <v Tony Sirico> That's correct! 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Woo! 00:00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 <v Mark Consuelos> That was wrong. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 <v Kelly Ripa> What? That's how Italians spell mutzadel. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.000 <v Mark Consuelos> That's not even how Italians say it. It's mozzarella. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Anthony, please step forward. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.000 <v Tony Sirico> Your word is brahjzoot. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.000 <v Mark Consuelos> What? 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.000 <v Robert Crystal> Can I have the origin of the word? 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> The origin of the word is from Borough Park in Brooklyn. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.000 <v Robert Crystal> Brahjzoot. B-R 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.000 <v Mark Consuelos> I think that man's trying to say prosciutto. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.000 <v Robert Crystal> A-H 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.000 <v Kelly Ripa> Shh! 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:15.000 <v Robert Crystal> J-Z-O-O-T. Brahjzoot. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:16.000 <v Tony Sirico> That's correct! 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.000 [Applause] 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Woo! 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.000 <v Mark Consuelos> That wasn't even close. 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.000 <v Kelly Ripa> This is their culture! 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:25.000 <v Tony Sirico> Antoinette, you're next. Your word, little Snooki, is madanad. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:27.000 <v Alexa Barino> Can I have the definition, please? 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Madanad is the stuff your mother cooks for five hours every Sunday. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.000 <v Alexa Barino> Madanad. M-A-D-A 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.000 <v Mark Consuelos> All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say something. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.000 <v Kelly Ripa> Please, don't. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.000 <v Alexa Barino> N-A-D. Madanad. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.000 <v Tony Sirico> That's right! 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:42.000 [Applause] 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.000 <v Mark Consuelos> There is no "D" in marinara. 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.000 <v Kelly Ripa> You know, as sexy as you are, when you say marinara it makes my skin crawl. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:50.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Excuse me! 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.000 <v Kelly Ripa> [Gasp] I don't know you. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.000 <v Mark Consuelos> I'm sorry, but this is all wrong. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> What? 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.000 <v Tony Sirico> You got a problem? 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:01.000 <v Mark Consuelos> No! No, I, I'm Michael's father, the, the kid with the headband and the tracksuit. You're spelling all these words they're just, they're just wrong. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:10.000 <v Tony Sirico> Oh? See, this guy sittin' in the audience, who doesn't look an ounce Italian, has got a problem with the way we spell the words that my grandfather brought here from Sicily?! 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.000 <v Mark Consuelos> No, no, it's just that my son... 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Nobody asked you your opinion! What's wrong with you?! 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Look, I don't, I don't want any problems. We, we, we just wanna... 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> We?! 'Scuse me, lady, you wit' him? 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.000 <v Kelly Ripa> No. I don't know this stunad. [smacks arm] 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Okay, look, it's just that it's... 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:36.000 <v Tony Sirico> I got an idea. If you don't like what you see, I can get my friends Pauly and Carmine over here to take you outside and, uh, see if they can change your mind. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down! 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:44.000 <v Michael Consuelos> Dad! Stop messin' around! He's really cool you guys. He's got some big stugas talkin' to you guys that way, huh? 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:48.000 <v Tony Sirico> You was kiddin'? 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Oh, yeah! Are you kiddin' me? 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.000 <v Tony Sirico> [Laughs] 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Yeah! 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:56.000 [Laughter] 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:57.000 <v Mark Consuelos> Pasta fazul! 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> Good for you! You was real funny! 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.000 <v Tony Sirico> Like Ray Ramano. I like you! 00:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.000 <v Lorraine Bracco> [Laughs] Okay, where were we? 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.000 <v Tony Sirico> The next word is sangwitch. 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.000 [Music Playing]