For a guy who works in Hollywood, it seems like it might be a bit of a shock to the system to be playing the Toledo area right as some of the most bitterly cold days of the year begin. But for comedian Paul Mecurio — who will appear at the Funny Bone at Fat Fish Blue in Perrysburg from Thursday, December 12 through Saturday, December 14 — such cold temperatures are nothing new.

"I grew up in Rhode Island, in New England, so I'm used to the cold," Mecurio said in a radio interview for 'Eye on Your Weekend.' "Very Italian family that I grew up with in Rhode Island. You know, you think Italian, you think of one of two stereotypes — you think of the plastic on the furniture, very neat house, and the picture of the Pope, Jesus and Frank Sinatra. That part is not true in my family, because my mother — still — has a furniture store, and that was always the focus of our lives. So the house was a pig sty growing up.

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