Sebastian Maniscalco
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Nov
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But, you know, we go to Virginia, and I find out, oh, there's a USS Wisconsin that's docked there. Let's take a tour of the Navy ship. Or, you know, you go to Naples, Florida. You know, let's go visit an old people's home. So whatever the city has...
to uh to enjoy i'm trying to definitely uh see some of the sights i took my kids to the empire state building they never been there when we were in new york and uh you know chicago going for pizza with my family my family's been with me more on this tour than ever before just because my kids are five and seven and these moments are fleeting you never know when you're gonna do the madison square garden again you know you know i
Listen, I'm one of these guys that lives in the negative. I'm not Mr. Positivity here where I'm like, oh, yeah, it's going to be greater the next time I go on tour. I look at this and going, I hope to God people come back the next time. So Madison Square Garden, I brought my kids on stage because I don't know if that's ever going to happen again. And I brought my mother and my father on stage.
I'm happy that they're alive to even see what's happening. So we're all kind of enjoying the success and it's been fun.
No, I never I never even thought that when I was just doing a show and there was someone ahead of me that was good. I never even thought like, oh, you know, I wish he was bad. I've always loved going on stage after somebody who killed it. It was like a challenge. I go, I got to keep the room going, you know. So I've always brought guys on the road with me who I felt that were, you
extremely funny, set me up great, got the audience in the cadence of laughing. People that kind of bring an opener who is, you know, subpar to me, it just feels like you're cheating the audience out of a great experience. I want I want the show to be great from minute one to the last minute.
So for two hours, I want people to come in there and say, wow, we saw a really, really great night of entertainment, whether it be myself or the two openers. So, yeah, no, I don't fear that at all. I think if you're fearing people better than you or funnier than you before, to me, I look at it as a challenge. Weird question, Cody. Season two of Bookie premieres on Max, December 12th.
I tried everything from epidural shots to cupping, to massage, to yoga. I started doing this thing called Legree Pilates. And within two months, I almost heard my body kind of readjust into place. It was almost like there was a bunch of cracking. I was like, oh, wow. And then after that, the sciatica gone. And if you're living with sciatica, there's no pain.
I can't even explain the pain because it's so sudden and so sharp. and debilitating. Every morning I would get out of bed going, okay, is it gonna be gone by some type of miracle? And sure enough, walk into the bathroom, boom, it would just kind of collapse on the floor. So yeah, I would recommend Pilates to anybody dealing with any type of back pain.
I mean, the amount of core strength it takes to do Pilates is unbelievable. My core to this day still is very weak, but definitely strengthening it by doing Pilates. So I hope you guys get a sponsor after this show from Legree Pilates along with DraftKings.
So I had a guy walk on me with a walker before. Not the actual walker. I'm telling you, I've been everywhere. This guy would come over with a walker and put the walker kind of on top of me. And this guy wasn't, you know, a small guy. We're talking like six, one, two, 10. And he would take his big toe and like drive it right into my scapula.
And it was, it was painstaking, but it didn't do really anything for the sciatica. He even went into the lower back and the legs and whatnot. So, yeah, I mean, I've, I've tried it all. I,
Oh, matinee, we do a noon show.
Well, I mean, listen, I, I, my, my, my father was teaching Robert De Niro how to be him because the movie is about my father and never in my life would I think my dad would be in Mobile, Alabama, on a movie set teaching Robert De Niro how to do a dye job. So for me,
watching my father interact with de niro was was was something and i and the reason the bookie appealed to me opposite about my father because about my father i kind of played myself i did a pilot with tony danza about eight years ago where he played my dad i was just sick of playing myself and when chuck came to to me with this idea of me playing this character i was intrigued by it because i was like you know i'd like to play somebody other than just me and and challenge myself in that way i also
I love that we're filming in Los Angeles. I get to see my family and sleep in my own bed. And I get to see Los Angeles in a way that I've never seen it before. You know, it's kind of a trip to be shooting at some of the places that I used to kind of go for a drink. We shot this Mexican restaurant and I remember going there in 1998 when I first moved to L.A. just to hang out and have a burrito.
And, you know, fast forward 26 years later, doing a TV show scene at the near the same booth where I had dinner when I when I first came there. So, yeah, it's and it's quick. You know, the way Chuck moves, the way he does the show, it's like we don't sit there and do a scene, you know, 12 times. It's like he knows what he wants.
As soon as he sees what what you know, what he likes, we move on to the next scene. So it's not a lot of repetition. And the days are short. You know, they're nine, 10 hour days. It's not like we're sitting there 16, 18 hours. So it's it moves that comedy has a pace. So I think Chuck being Chuck kind of knows that pace. And it's been a joy to do the show.
Yeah, those moments where I get to bring my family up on stage or if I'm in the crowd and my wife is taking pictures of my kids watch me on stage, for me, that's definitely sentimental. I started this career in 1998 with just me. It was no wife. There was no kids. It was just me in Los Angeles. I drove out there with my sister. I knew nobody.
I started working as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel. And, you know, to see it get to this point and then to share it with the people that I love the most is is really cool. So we could be in Madison Square Garden. We could be in Kansas City or Arizona, wherever it might be.
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