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Keep your pizza-grease-stained hands off of Mario Cantone's lampshade

When we mentioned earlier today, that Mario Cantone (recently the subject of a Six Degrees of Gay Separation challenge) would be showing up on The View, we had a feeling he would bring the funny to "All My Bitches" (as Mario suggested they rename the show; any more split-screen moments and he'll be right.) In discussing his role in animated film Surf's Up, he hysterically talked about his desire never to have children and frustration with friends who bring children over:
Mario: Most stars (perform in animated movies) for their kids, 'Oh, it's something to show my kids.' First off, I don't have kids, I don't want kids, I do not care. I do not want them in my life. So I did this for me... for me!
Joy Behar: But Mario, if gay guys don't have kids who's going...
Mario: Look, I don't want children. Let me tell you something, I... the gays might turn on me... if you're a man, adopt a child -- there are so many children and if you have a best friend that's a woman, have a child with her. But when it's two guys who mix the sperm up and shoot it into some strange woman and then then have the baby and it's like 'We don't know who the father is because we...' That's crazy! Crazy! I would want to know who my father is, 'Is it you daddy? Is it you daddy? Is it you daddy? Is it you daddy? Which daddy is it?'
Barbara Walters: But that could be a heterosexual couple.
Mario: No, it couldn't be, because that's a man and a woman. No, it's too weird. It's too weird.... A lot of my friends are having children now. My friend, Pam, has a beautiful little daughter, Tess and she brought her over and I'm hung over that day on tequila. I was just like 'Ugh!' and she had pizza grease on her hand and she was going for the lampshade. I was like 'That's not oil proof!' and this vase, 'That's Versace!' I was horrified. I was so horrified. And then, at one point, she was playing peekaboo under the glass coffee table -- I have a glass coffee table. She was like 'Peekaboo.' I was like 'I can see you... it's glass.' I was like, 'Call me when your peekaboo technique gets a little better.'
Loraine Bracco: Call me when you're 21 and we can go and have a drink.
Mario: Yeah, call me when we can have a conversation.

Am I the only one dying to know how Joy was going to end her sentence? Surely she wasn't going to ask "But Mario, if gay guys don't have kids who's going to have them?"

Mario had a great chemistry with the View ladies, though Barbara's calm and considered style was a stark contrast to the animated (pun intended) Mario. Another great moment when Mario talked about what it would be like if he were one of her ten most interesting people... something I'm sure we'd all like to see.

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