Sebastian Maniscalco: ‘Is It Me?’

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sebastian Maniscalco is consistently one of the highest-grossing stand-up comedians in the country. And now, with a new Netflix special ‘Is It Me?’ and upcoming autobiographical movie ‘About My Father’ co-starring Robert De Niro, he’s about to finally become a household name. In this episode, Maniscalco opens up about doubling down on nostalgia and (mostly) avoiding controversy in his new special. He also talks about how the comedy world has changed for better and worse since he got his start in the late ‘90s, shares stories from the sets of ‘Green Book’ and ‘The Irishman’ and explains how he decided to embrace the most embarrassing moment of his career on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show.’

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0:00.0	My guest on this week's show has always felt out of step with modern times.
0:05.4	It's an attitude that manifests in lots of different ways, like, say, when one of his kids
0:10.9	comes home with a flat tire on their bike.
0:13.4	Now, my immediate reaction is to yell.
0:16.3	That's how I grew up.
0:18.2	High volume.
0:25.4	Come home with a flat tire on my bicycle my father would be like,
0:26.2	what the fuck is this?
0:28.7	I don't know
0:30.1	I didn't see the nail
0:33.7	I didn't see the nail. Yeah My wife grew up with a mother that was more forgiving.
0:49.3	This accidents happen.
0:58.0	Just as long as you were not injured, we could always replace it.
1:04.0	My father was like, guess who's walking this summer?
1:13.6	This is the last laugh.
1:15.9	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
1:18.1	and that was Sebastian Manascalco from his 2019 Netflix special, Stay Hungry.
1:24.0	And like most clips from his act, it gets even funnier when you can see what he's doing with his face and body.
1:29.7	For the past several years, Sebastian has been one of the highest grossing stand-up comics in the game,
1:36.3	selling out huge venues like Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden.
1:41.3	Now, as of today, his latest special, Is It Me, is streaming on Netflix.
1:46.7	And yet, still, somehow, the 49-year-old comedian has not reached the stratospheric levels of
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