Sebastian Maniscalco

Yeah, I mean, I'm hard on myself.

It's like you want to be the best.

You want to be the best you can be.

Sometimes when you get off stage, you're like, I don't know if that was the best I could have been.

Okay, but fine.

Yeah, I mean, I think you have to put the bar extremely high to meet people's expectations and to meet my own expectations.

So that's where that...

Yeah, yeah.

Although I think having the standard, I mean, I look around, a lot of the standard in comedy is extremely low, and there's people making a living doing it.

So I'm like...

but that's not your standard your standard isn't just making a living doing it i i know what i'm saying is i want when you come to see my show i want you to leave going it's the best comedy i've ever seen in my life that's the goal for me now do people do that maybe do people say oh you know but that's the expectation when you leave is like that's the best comedian i've

Okay, so that, what you just said is what I love to hear because...

And you hit it on the head the stumble of the word I have stumbled and I've like fuck fuck that whole run up Because as soon as you stumble on a word the timings gone the momentum's gone The next word is not gonna be as funny because people are thinking about you just said so for you to walk away and think that that was off the top of my head that is because of

I worked that material out back and forth, and it sounds like it's just... Oh, I know you manipulated me.

Yeah, I know.

But that's the way I want you to feel.

That's the way I want you to feel.

And if you don't feel that way, I feel like I've let you down as a paying customer.

I feel like you went out for a dinner, and the filet wasn't cooked to your liking.

So that's it.