October 25, 2024 • 10 mins
The hilarious comedian Sebastian Maniscalco joins the show to promote his tour stop in Seattle this week!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right. The tour is hitting Climate
(00:02):
Pledge Arena Friday night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster dot
com and I am super excited joining the show now
is Sebastian Maniscalco. Welcome?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you so much. Can't wait to get to Seattle.
And there's one thing I have on my to do list,
and I don't know if you guys could make a
phone call for me, but I'd like to throw or
catch a fish. I don't even know what what what
is it throwing or catching the fish?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh? I think you can do both. So we've got
some pull here at Casey. Okay, I think we can
make that happen. Sebastian, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Perfect, So I'm bringing Also, I'm bringing a cooler and
I'm going to buy some fresh fish there and bring
it back with me to Los Angeles. I'm a huge
fish guy, and we don't really have a market like
you guys have in Seattle of fish to choose from.
So I'm not even coming for the comedy. I'm coming
(00:54):
for the fish.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I mean, it's got to be something that you
see and you tour around all these different cities that
there is something special about each one, or maybe not
so much. If you're like a fish guy going out
to I don't know, Nebraska is probably not going to
be the hotbed for you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well the Nebraska I go meet all day long. So
for example, not a lot, not a lot to do
in Winnipeg, Canada. I just came back from Winnipeg, so
there was a lot of staring at the wall in
the hotel room. But with Seattle, I got two comedians
that I bring with me, Pete Corielli and Pat mcganhn
their headlining comedians, and they're on the show with me.
(01:33):
So we kind of go out and and because I
like to I like to see the flavor of the
city before I go on stage. There's always material to
be mined locally, uh and I and I and I
know the audience appreciates when you kind of bring some
you know, funny stuff about their city to the stage.
They really kind of gravitate towards that. So yeah, looking
(01:56):
forward to getting to Seattle. This is the first time
I'm doing the arena there, and the show is just outstanding.
I mean, from soup to nuts, it's a great show.
I put the stage in the center of the arena
and I lowered it. It's a triangle stage, it's not
a circle, so I get to go out into the
audience a little bit more and so more of an
intimate feeling, I mean as intimate as you can make
(02:18):
it in a twenty thousand seet arena, but looking forward
to it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So Climate Plague Arena is where Sebastian Manuscalko will be
on Friday night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster dot com.
It is a very special place and it's brand new.
They took the roof off of the old building and
then like worked underneath the roof and redid the whole thing.
So you're going to be, I think, really pleasantly surprised
how nice this arena is. And it sounds like your
show is going to be amazing. What would you say
(02:44):
is like something maybe your friends and family say, is
there is the favorite thing that you do?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well? You know, I've always been kind of known from
my physical humor. I was a huge John Ritter fan
growing up in threes Company, and I watched a threes
Company it was game tape, just watching this guy fall
around and do these kind of like movements and facial expressions.
So I think that people really gravitate towards that, And
(03:13):
you know, I'm an observational type of guy, so a
lot of my comedy comes from everyday life. I don't
talk about politics or anything like that. I know we're
in the heat of the politics season. I leave that
at the front door. I'm not passionate about it. And
the way I always look at it is whatever Harris
or Trump doing, it's not as funny as what my
(03:36):
father said to me last night. So I bring up
a lot of you know, growing up with my dad
and being a family man. I'm doing some kind of
pop culture stuff which I haven't really tapped into before,
but there's some funny things that I'm seeing in the
world today around pop culture. So yeah, I mean it's
it's one of these shows where you come in and
(03:58):
you laugh for two hours and and hopefully on your
way back to the car, you're reciting some of the
jokes or the stories or what have you. So that's
what we've kind of seen in the first half of
the tour. The people I really really enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you've mentioned your dad and that you're a family man.
Would your wife or your dad ever tell you, yes?
Sebastian that that doesn't work or that wasn't funny, Like
do they ever give you any kind of like critical
stuff about what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
My father more so than my wife. My wife is
a great sport. I mean I've made fun of her
family for years on stage and they've always you know,
looked at it as you know, just as long as
it's paying the mortgage. Talk about us all you want.
So yeah, but my father will be you know, I'll
know my father. If he comes to the show and
(04:47):
he doesn't say anything after the show, I know he
hated it. If he says great job, I know it's
he enjoyed it. But my father, you know immigrant father,
he's the type of guy that comes to the show
with a notepad and he's writing down what I could
have done better. Now, you know, there's no getting a
big ego over here. It's always been you know, what
(05:07):
are you doing up there? You look tired? You know,
it's always negative. There's no like, hey, great job. It's
always leaning on wake up and make these people laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you've got kids, and what would you say if
your kids, like you probably had this conversation with your dad,
Like I'm going into comedy. I'm going to be a comedian.
Would you be supportive of your kids getting into comedy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean the way my parents treated me, it's
not your typical immigrant upbringing. I mean, you know, if
you tell your immigrant parents that you're going into the arts,
generally speaking, it's an argument. But for me, they were
one hundred percent behind me. They're like, go out, go
pursue your dream, if you want to do this. I
(05:53):
wanted to quit college and actually do this, but my
parents convinced me stay, get your degree, and whatever you
want to do after that, go go go do it.
So I probably follow the same advice to give my
kids of you know, get a degree and then if
you want to go out and do whatever you want
to do, just just as long as you have something
to fall back on. Although I I, you know, I
(06:14):
graduated with corporate organizational Communications. I have no idea I
would get with that. So I have the degree, but
I haven't used it yet, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I haven't heard of that one. Sabashian Maniscalco. You
mentioned that when you were younger you watched Threes Company.
What is something that you're into watching now? Like, is
it does it have to star you a Are you
okay watching some other some other shows?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, I don't watch any of the stuff I do.
I love documentaries. I'm into The Menandez Brothers right now
on Netflix. Are they going to get out? I think so.
I think so. I watched that whole series and then
I watched the documentary, so really into Like in sports documentaries,
I watched Starting Five on Netflix kind of chronicled five
(07:08):
NBA players. Although there's no better documentary than the Last
Dance of the Chicago Bulls. I'm a Chicago guy and
I'll watch that if I'm born on an airplane, I'll
pop in Last Dance and takes me back to the
nineties and Jordan and Pitpin Robin, the whole thing. So yeah,
that's kind of where I'm at with my TV watching
(07:29):
right on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, and that's a clectic because you wouldn't really
think for a comedian that you're watching sports documentary. So
you're pretty well rounded. Sebastian man Scalco.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh yeah, I'm telling you. I'm just I'm fluid in
seven languages, and I have a corporate organization of communications degree.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Now, when you were starting out, you know, I'm sure
it was a struggle, like it is for every comedian.
But did you ever envision yourself one day being in
these movies with some of the biggest named actors and directors.
I mean, you've taken quite a leap in your career,
moving from just doing stand up and comedy shows to
major movies.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, I listen, I had big dreams. I'm not gonna
lie to you, but I mean, if you would have
told me when I moved out to Los Angeles in
nineteen ninety eight that Robert de Niro is going to
be playing my father in a movie that I co wrote,
I would have told you you're nuts. But yeah, I
was fortunate enough to be in The Irishman and The
Green Book. Both both movies back to back were nominated
for Oscars, and The Green Book actually won the Oscar,
(08:33):
which I tell a funny story on stage about my
experience at the Oscars. So yeah, the fact that I'm
working with these amazing actors, it was something that I
never really had in the cards. I just wanted to
be a comedian. I just wanted to pay the bills
doing stand up and the next thing you know, you know,
(08:54):
they're yelling action, and I'm looking at the near I
was looking at the Niro was saying, I watched this
guy in Casino growing up, and and now it's hard
not to kind of be a fan while you're while
you're you know, acting with this guy. So it's been
it's been an amazing ride. And I have my father
on set with the Narrow, teaching him how to be
(09:18):
My father's so nuts that he was like, how much
am I getting paid for being a consultant. He's doing
me a favor. He goes, I'm losing clients at my salon.
I need to be paid here. So I had to
throw him some scratch.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What does your father do?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
He's a he's a he's a hairstylist.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
He's still cutting you know, he's seventy nine, he's still
cutting hair. I go, Dad, it's over. I mean, he's
he's falling apart. He's got shoulder issues, he's got knee issues,
but he's still behind the chair doing blowouts. I go, Dad,
and have a have a plint apasta and be done
with it. But it's it's his lifeline. He loves the salon,
(09:59):
he loves hanging out with the women at the salon,
the gossip, this, that and the other. So he's enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's awesome. Well, and I can see from all of
the stuff i've seen you do, you've got a great
head of hair. So dad's doing something right with you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, I got a two kids, five and seven. The
hair is slowly falling.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Out, Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right. The tour is hitting
Climate Pledge Arena tomorrow night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster
dot com. It's been an absolute pleasure, Sebastian Maniscalco. Thank
you for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, thanks for sharing the audience with me. And I
will see you and Seeattle'll go go Fish
Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right. The tour is hitting Climate
(00:02):
Pledge Arena Friday night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster dot
com and I am super excited joining the show now
is Sebastian Maniscalco. Welcome?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you so much. Can't wait to get to Seattle.
And there's one thing I have on my to do list,
and I don't know if you guys could make a
phone call for me, but I'd like to throw or
catch a fish. I don't even know what what what
is it throwing or catching the fish?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh? I think you can do both. So we've got
some pull here at Casey. Okay, I think we can
make that happen. Sebastian, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Perfect, So I'm bringing Also, I'm bringing a cooler and
I'm going to buy some fresh fish there and bring
it back with me to Los Angeles. I'm a huge
fish guy, and we don't really have a market like
you guys have in Seattle of fish to choose from.
So I'm not even coming for the comedy. I'm coming
(00:54):
for the fish.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I mean, it's got to be something that you
see and you tour around all these different cities that
there is something special about each one, or maybe not
so much. If you're like a fish guy going out
to I don't know, Nebraska is probably not going to
be the hotbed for you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well the Nebraska I go meet all day long. So
for example, not a lot, not a lot to do
in Winnipeg, Canada. I just came back from Winnipeg, so
there was a lot of staring at the wall in
the hotel room. But with Seattle, I got two comedians
that I bring with me, Pete Corielli and Pat mcganhn
their headlining comedians, and they're on the show with me.
(01:33):
So we kind of go out and and because I
like to I like to see the flavor of the
city before I go on stage. There's always material to
be mined locally, uh and I and I and I
know the audience appreciates when you kind of bring some
you know, funny stuff about their city to the stage.
They really kind of gravitate towards that. So yeah, looking
(01:56):
forward to getting to Seattle. This is the first time
I'm doing the arena there, and the show is just outstanding.
I mean, from soup to nuts, it's a great show.
I put the stage in the center of the arena
and I lowered it. It's a triangle stage, it's not
a circle, so I get to go out into the
audience a little bit more and so more of an
intimate feeling, I mean as intimate as you can make
(02:18):
it in a twenty thousand seet arena, but looking forward
to it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So Climate Plague Arena is where Sebastian Manuscalko will be
on Friday night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster dot com.
It is a very special place and it's brand new.
They took the roof off of the old building and
then like worked underneath the roof and redid the whole thing.
So you're going to be, I think, really pleasantly surprised
how nice this arena is. And it sounds like your
show is going to be amazing. What would you say
(02:44):
is like something maybe your friends and family say, is
there is the favorite thing that you do?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well? You know, I've always been kind of known from
my physical humor. I was a huge John Ritter fan
growing up in threes Company, and I watched a threes
Company it was game tape, just watching this guy fall
around and do these kind of like movements and facial expressions.
So I think that people really gravitate towards that, And
(03:13):
you know, I'm an observational type of guy, so a
lot of my comedy comes from everyday life. I don't
talk about politics or anything like that. I know we're
in the heat of the politics season. I leave that
at the front door. I'm not passionate about it. And
the way I always look at it is whatever Harris
or Trump doing, it's not as funny as what my
(03:36):
father said to me last night. So I bring up
a lot of you know, growing up with my dad
and being a family man. I'm doing some kind of
pop culture stuff which I haven't really tapped into before,
but there's some funny things that I'm seeing in the
world today around pop culture. So yeah, I mean it's
it's one of these shows where you come in and
(03:58):
you laugh for two hours and and hopefully on your
way back to the car, you're reciting some of the
jokes or the stories or what have you. So that's
what we've kind of seen in the first half of
the tour. The people I really really enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you've mentioned your dad and that you're a family man.
Would your wife or your dad ever tell you, yes?
Sebastian that that doesn't work or that wasn't funny, Like
do they ever give you any kind of like critical
stuff about what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
My father more so than my wife. My wife is
a great sport. I mean I've made fun of her
family for years on stage and they've always you know,
looked at it as you know, just as long as
it's paying the mortgage. Talk about us all you want.
So yeah, but my father will be you know, I'll
know my father. If he comes to the show and
(04:47):
he doesn't say anything after the show, I know he
hated it. If he says great job, I know it's
he enjoyed it. But my father, you know immigrant father,
he's the type of guy that comes to the show
with a notepad and he's writing down what I could
have done better. Now, you know, there's no getting a
big ego over here. It's always been you know, what
(05:07):
are you doing up there? You look tired? You know,
it's always negative. There's no like, hey, great job. It's
always leaning on wake up and make these people laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you've got kids, and what would you say if
your kids, like you probably had this conversation with your dad,
Like I'm going into comedy. I'm going to be a comedian.
Would you be supportive of your kids getting into comedy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean the way my parents treated me, it's
not your typical immigrant upbringing. I mean, you know, if
you tell your immigrant parents that you're going into the arts,
generally speaking, it's an argument. But for me, they were
one hundred percent behind me. They're like, go out, go
pursue your dream, if you want to do this. I
(05:53):
wanted to quit college and actually do this, but my
parents convinced me stay, get your degree, and whatever you
want to do after that, go go go do it.
So I probably follow the same advice to give my
kids of you know, get a degree and then if
you want to go out and do whatever you want
to do, just just as long as you have something
to fall back on. Although I I, you know, I
(06:14):
graduated with corporate organizational Communications. I have no idea I
would get with that. So I have the degree, but
I haven't used it yet, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I haven't heard of that one. Sabashian Maniscalco. You
mentioned that when you were younger you watched Threes Company.
What is something that you're into watching now? Like, is
it does it have to star you a Are you
okay watching some other some other shows?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, I don't watch any of the stuff I do.
I love documentaries. I'm into The Menandez Brothers right now
on Netflix. Are they going to get out? I think so.
I think so. I watched that whole series and then
I watched the documentary, so really into Like in sports documentaries,
I watched Starting Five on Netflix kind of chronicled five
(07:08):
NBA players. Although there's no better documentary than the Last
Dance of the Chicago Bulls. I'm a Chicago guy and
I'll watch that if I'm born on an airplane, I'll
pop in Last Dance and takes me back to the
nineties and Jordan and Pitpin Robin, the whole thing. So yeah,
that's kind of where I'm at with my TV watching
(07:29):
right on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, and that's a clectic because you wouldn't really
think for a comedian that you're watching sports documentary. So
you're pretty well rounded. Sebastian man Scalco.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh yeah, I'm telling you. I'm just I'm fluid in
seven languages, and I have a corporate organization of communications degree.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Now, when you were starting out, you know, I'm sure
it was a struggle, like it is for every comedian.
But did you ever envision yourself one day being in
these movies with some of the biggest named actors and directors.
I mean, you've taken quite a leap in your career,
moving from just doing stand up and comedy shows to
major movies.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, I listen, I had big dreams. I'm not gonna
lie to you, but I mean, if you would have
told me when I moved out to Los Angeles in
nineteen ninety eight that Robert de Niro is going to
be playing my father in a movie that I co wrote,
I would have told you you're nuts. But yeah, I
was fortunate enough to be in The Irishman and The
Green Book. Both both movies back to back were nominated
for Oscars, and The Green Book actually won the Oscar,
(08:33):
which I tell a funny story on stage about my
experience at the Oscars. So yeah, the fact that I'm
working with these amazing actors, it was something that I
never really had in the cards. I just wanted to
be a comedian. I just wanted to pay the bills
doing stand up and the next thing you know, you know,
(08:54):
they're yelling action, and I'm looking at the near I
was looking at the Niro was saying, I watched this
guy in Casino growing up, and and now it's hard
not to kind of be a fan while you're while
you're you know, acting with this guy. So it's been
it's been an amazing ride. And I have my father
on set with the Narrow, teaching him how to be
(09:18):
My father's so nuts that he was like, how much
am I getting paid for being a consultant. He's doing
me a favor. He goes, I'm losing clients at my salon.
I need to be paid here. So I had to
throw him some scratch.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What does your father do?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
He's a he's a he's a hairstylist.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
He's still cutting you know, he's seventy nine, he's still
cutting hair. I go, Dad, it's over. I mean, he's
he's falling apart. He's got shoulder issues, he's got knee issues,
but he's still behind the chair doing blowouts. I go, Dad,
and have a have a plint apasta and be done
with it. But it's it's his lifeline. He loves the salon,
(09:59):
he loves hanging out with the women at the salon,
the gossip, this, that and the other. So he's enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's awesome. Well, and I can see from all of
the stuff i've seen you do, you've got a great
head of hair. So dad's doing something right with you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, I got a two kids, five and seven. The
hair is slowly falling.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Out, Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right. The tour is hitting
Climate Pledge Arena tomorrow night. Tickets are available at ticketmaster
dot com. It's been an absolute pleasure, Sebastian Maniscalco. Thank
you for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, thanks for sharing the audience with me. And I
will see you and Seeattle'll go go Fish
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