{"id":4891,"date":"2025-09-06T00:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:41:04","slug":"no-one-knows-how-to-pronounce-steve-buscemis-name-not-even-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4891\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Knows How To Pronounce Steve Buscemi’s Name, Not Even Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

You say tomato…<\/p>\n

PublishedSeptember 5, 2025 5:51 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 5, 2025 5:51 PM EDT<\/p>\n

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How would you say the last name of the guy who played Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Carl Showalter in Fargo (my personal favorite movie<\/a> role of his), and voiced Randall, the purple lizard-looking thing in Monsters Inc.?<\/p>\n

Because, for as long as I can remember, I have said “Boo-shemi,” but it turns out that I have been saying it incorrectly. Fortunately, no one is really sure how to say it, not even Steve Buscemi himself.<\/p>\n

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There’s a long and storied history of the public mispronouncing of a celebrity’s<\/a> surname. You, of course, have the late-Rush drummer Neil Peart, who people erroneously pronounced as “Pert” from pretty much the second he joined the band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then who could\u2026 well, Neil Peart is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are plenty of others.<\/p>\n

Plus, I think you get the point.<\/p>\n

Buscemi was a guest on The Tonight Show this week, when host Jimmy Fallon asked him about the fact that nobody seems to know the proper way to pronounce his name.<\/p>\n

Fallon said that some people say “Brusch-kemi.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve never heard anyone say that. It might be the only possible wrong answer to this conundrum. I mean, where the hell did that “R” come from? You can’t just add letters that aren’t there!<\/p>\n

Well, Buscemi himself wasn’t a fan of that pronunciation (because, again, only an insane person would think that was right) but admitted that “Boo-shemi” \u2014 used by smart people who are good at book-readin’ \u2014 is a version he likes.<\/p>\n

However, while it’s the correct Italian version, it’s not the one he and his family used when he was a kid or the one he uses now.<\/p>\n

Because \u2014 no, your eyes did not deceive you \u2014 it has changed in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

“Growing up, we said Bue-semi, which I can\u2019t even do that anymore,” Buscemi said, before saying that he now says “Boo-Semi.”<\/p>\n

So as far as which is correct, I think we should defer to the guy whose name is\u2026 but I still think my way is right.
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