Sebastian Maniscalco

So it was a different kind of trauma for me later on in life rather than growing up.

But I felt like I had a normal childhood.

I went to school.

You know, they told me get good grades and grow up in a middle class family and nothing that would suggest that I was going to get into the entertainment business.

although I knew at a young age I loved stand-up comedy.

In school, when they asked, what do you want to be in second grade, I said a comedian.

You told your grandparents that in second grade, right?

It wasn't flippant, right?

No, no, I was serious, because I used to watch Johnny Carson with my parents, and I was fascinated with...

comedians when they come out oh my god how do you remember i usually like get excited i don't know why i just got excited when they came on and used to love to laugh i was going to comedy clubs when i was 16 years old not to perform just to watch like a lot of kids were going to high school basketball games i was going to the local comedy club with the girlfriend i had at the time and we sat in the back and and laughed so it was always kind of in the fabric of growing up

But, you know, growing up in a house I did, I didn't know how to get into this business.

I had nobody in the entertainment world.

I went to college.

I wanted to quit my first year of college.

And I told my father, you know, this is not for me.

I want to go to Los Angeles and be a comedian.

And he right away said, just settle down, get your degree, and then you could do whatever you want after you graduate.

So I did.

And I came out here when I was 24 years old.

It's funny that we're even here.