A comedy bit poking fun at philandering pretty boy John Edwards should go over well at a Republican banquet — except when disgraced former Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella is one of the main speakers.
Fossella — whose career imploded after his arrest for drunken driving led to revelations that he’d fathered a secret love child — “looked uncomfortable” when a comic ripped into Edwards for fathering a child outside of his marriage, said one source who attended the borough’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
“His face was red.”
Meanwhile, many of the 300 or so guests kept peeking over at Fossella’s table, where he sat last Thursday with gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio.
“It was all everyone talked about after,” said the source.
Comedian Ellen Karis told The Post yesterday that she didn’t mean to offend anyone, that the jokes were just part of her routine.
“I didn’t even want to look over at that table,” she said.
At one point, Karis, who is Greek-American, joked that Edwards was lucky his wife wasn’t Greek or Italian.
“If she was, she would’ve stabbed him in the neck and had a cup of coffee or a cannoli afterward,” Karis said.
The night wasn’t all bad for Fossella, though. He got a standing ovation when he introduced Lazio.
Fossella did not return a call for comment.