WFAN’s Gregg Giannotti fires back at ‘insecure bully’ Mike Francesa

WFAN morning show co-host Gregg Giannotti fired back at Mike Francesa on Thursday after the big guy lambasted him, his on-air schtick and the “Boomer and Gio” program on Wednesday.

The impersonations will not cease.

WFAN morning show co-host Gregg Giannotti fired back at Mike Francesa on Thursday after the big guy lambasted him, his on-air schtick and the “Boomer and Gio” program on Wednesday.

“He’s an insecure bully who thinks those things are going to affect me, affect us, and it just doesn’t,” Giannotti said, adding that “it’s radio,” he doesn’t care when he’s mocked because he and co-host Boomer Esiason do it too and that he was “laughing at it, more than anything else” when informed of Francesa’s ripjob. 

Francesa blindsided Giannotti, saying he was “short on ability” and that his show “stinks” after, Francesa claimed, he listened to the show for an hour Wednesday morning while driving to LaGuardia Airport to pick up his wife.

While listening, Francesa was not impressed by the program’s hypothetical discussion on the morning show about WFAN midday voice and former Jets star Bart Scott being in a fight with former professional wrestler Tazz, who hosts a national CBS morning sports show.

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“Who would care?” Francesa asked rhetorically. “I thought it was more interesting when Giannotti and (WFAN midday host Chris) Carlin were beating each other out in the street and I heard about that. … Stop with the impersonations of me. Enough already. Get some new material, please. No wonder your show stinks. Geez. Play that tape tomorrow morning.”

Well, they did!

“This is a guy who says he never talks about any other shows, and he never listens to us, but (Francesa impersonation begins) ‘Let me take three minutes here to talk about another show that I listened to for an hour,'” Giannotti said.

“We are in Bizarro World,” Esiason chimed in. “It’s never a dull day at the ‘FAN.”

Giannotti also echoed Carlin’s on-the-record denial to NJ Advance Media that the two had a recent physical altercation. 

“We told it on the air, we were honest about it. Carlin approached me in the street and he was angry about a line in that song that I wrote for James Dolan about no one listening to ‘CMB.’ We talked it out and hugged at the end,” Giannotti said, then transitioning back into his Francesa voice.

“And it turned into ‘those two morons rolling around in the street, UFC fight, OK, the morons out there punching each other, OK … your show stinks.'” 

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