Her acting professors told comedian Candice Guardino to ditch the Staten Island accent, and she did — only to later build her act around it. In an appearance with Jamie Giovinazzo and Troy Sears on The Bro Show NJ podcast, Guardino, a comedian, writer, actor and producer who was raised on Staten Island, talks abut her career, built around finding humor in family, culture and the sometimes chaotic experience of growing up Italian American in the borough.
During the Bro Show NJ interview, she reflected on her acting classes and time at Wagner College, where she was told that if she wanted to be an actress, the accent that was symbolic of her Staten Island upbringing had to go. So the Brooklyn-born entertainer spent years trying to eliminate something that would later become central to her identity as a performer whose comedy remains rooted in the Staten Island household where she grew up.
