Sebastian Maniscalco

It took 10 years to figure it out.

One of the things, it's not like I saw it and then the next day I went out and was some completely different comedian, but starting to chip away at being a little bit more comfortable on stage, laughing at myself,

being self-deprecating which i i found people really gravitate towards you know you could be up there and have a general disgust about human behavior and what you're seeing but then also on the flip side to kind of poke fun at yourself there's a whole run that i do in this new special it's about 11 minutes of me talking about my

health issues from my bicep rupturing to watching my son go to the bathroom and comparing him going to the bathroom and then comparing myself going to the bathroom.

A bit of a racehorse.

Yeah, mine is just mist.

You're just a mist.

Yeah, I mean, and then you do that, and you kind of let the audience in on the joke that, you know, you don't take yourself too seriously.

So I found, actually, I have the most fun making fun of myself.

And what a lot of people don't know is a lot of the times, I used to do a joke about...

people going to Starbucks and eating the muffin out of the bag.

It bothered me the way they went in and they just ate it, but I do that.

So I was actually making fun of myself for doing that, but I wasn't letting the crowd know I was doing that.

So there's a lot of things that I make fun of in my act.

I do, but unbeknownst to the audience, they just think that I'm observing people.

they think i'm funny they don't necessarily think i'm as funny as people think i am so they laugh they get it that daddy is kind of a goofball but uh not you know they're not sitting around daddy make me laugh you know they're not they're not doing that it's just they know i'm a fun dad and uh and and they've been to a show my son is falling asleep at the show it's not like they're sitting there going my god we gotta see daddy tonight

I think it's definitely because, I mean, that's how we kind of get through everything.

Like I told you in the beginning, we had an argument.

Yesterday and today we're laughing about it.

It takes some time for me to poke fun at either her or me when we're having a disagreement.