Sebastian Maniscalco

It's a disease.

I'm telling you.

Me and my father talk about this all the time.

It's a disease.

Yeah, and I still think the opportunities that have come my way, I'm like, if this all ended tomorrow, I'd be happy that those opportunities happened and I felt like I had succeeded in my profession.

Absolutely.

It's just, you know, I think, and I told my wife this, I was happier

doing comedy clubs and going in and winning over a room of people that didn't know who i was because it was like there was something thrilling about that coming in and the expectations were nothing and you'd go up there and it'd be 35 people and then i would stand outside shake everybody's hand people go oh my god we never heard of you so funny oh thank you very much took a picture with them

Those to me were like the fun years.

Not that not having fun, but I just think back then as I as I as I look back, those were like I really enjoyed that because I could feel the ascension.

I feel I felt like the next time I came to the club, there's more people there.

You started to feel like you were breaking through.

And there was a joy in that that generally I don't feel so much now, even though the rooms are larger and, you know, Madison Square Garden, it's great and all.

But there's something that switched where in my head I was like, okay, what's next?

What are we doing now?

Madison Square Garden, how many?

Five?

Okay.

Next time we'll do 12.

You know, it's like...