Crypto comic Elyse DeLucci puts the New York funny in finance

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This crypto trader is bullish on her career in comedy.Brooklyn-born Staten Island raised Elyse DeLucci is a digital marketing officer by day and a standup comedian at night, and will be headlining at Caroline’s on Broadway on Sept.

29.“I don’t go on and talk about bosses. I do talk about how at my last job, I was going for drinks, and next thing I know I’m at a little hole-in-the-wall bikini bar in the Financial District with a bunch of coked-out traders,” said the 38-year-old.When she started working on Wall Street in 2010, the Italian-American wasn’t taken seriously with her big hair and outer-borough accent thicker than Sunday sauce.“I think Hollywood loves Italian New Yorkers … but is Marisa Tomei gonna get hired as the CEO of a company, even though she knows everything about cars?” she said.Her former company, a global stock exchange, where she worked as head of digital revenue, even suggested she get an accent-neutralization coach. “I had a voice coach … a Shakespearean actor.

He basically was like, ‘The only jobs you’re gonna get in life is if you want to be the spokesperson for Ragu,’” she recalled.The firm also set her up with a personal shopper at Brooks Brothers “because apparently leopard isn’t a color.” But’s she’s laughing all the way to the bank: “I bought my wall-to-wall leopard carpet with Ethereum.”Raised in a “blue collar” household in Brooklyn and Staten Island, DeLucci’s mother is a nurse practitioner and her late father, an import-export trucking company owner.