186. Sebastian Maniscalco: What Is He Even Doing Here?

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week the one and only Sebastian Maniscalco sits down with Mike for a wide ranging conversation on their parenting strengths and weaknesses, the difference in what makes them cry, and Sebastian’s early days waiting on his future co-star Robert DeNiro. Plus, Sebastian reveals if he ever acts like Sebastian offstage.

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0:00.0	What are you doing? What's the trick?
0:02.3	What's the trick to what?
0:03.7	Do you look fit?
0:05.2	First of all, it's very deceiving.
0:08.6	My biceps might look larger than normal because I detached my biceps.
0:14.0	Do you see this hole right here?
0:15.0	What that?
0:15.6	So the one part of my biceps snapped off.
0:20.2	So when I have a sleeve on, it looks like, man, this guy's really fit.
0:24.7	It's not.
0:25.6	My biceps are detaching.
0:27.5	Why did you have to do that?
0:30.2	I didn't have to do it.
0:31.6	It happened.
0:32.9	They snapped off.
0:34.7	It's not like I snapped off my biceps.
0:38.3	I go sit around the house and go, babe,
0:40.3	I just snap my biceps.
0:41.8	No.
0:43.2	You thought it was like a cosmetic thing?
0:45.0	Yeah, I thought.
0:46.5	I'm...
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