Sebastian Maniscalco

Next door used to be a place called Dublin's.

It was a Irish bar.

And on Tuesday night, they used to have comedy upstairs.

And it was the hottest comedy scene in L.A.

at the time.

This is about 2000.

right next door, was like, you know, the Dane Cooks were born, the, I remember going, that's where I met Vince Vaughn next door, who I later became, was in a movie with him called The Vince Vaughn Wild West Comedy Show.

So,

Yeah, it's ironic that we're here today just because I spent a lot of time.

Across the street was a place called Miyagi's, which is a sushi bar that used to have comedy, I think, on Wednesday nights.

Used to perform on the bridge.

There's like a little bridge and used to perform on the bridge to people who were eating sushi, so...

Yeah, this was my gym, these places right here.

Going night in, night out, working out the material, dealing with hecklers.

You would go to the Comedy Store down the street and you'd be scheduled at 9.45 and then Eddie Griffin would walk in and perform for an hour and a half.

So the whole lineup would get bumped.

But I stayed.

A lot of people are going to say, I'm not going to stay.

I'm like, I got to stay because the way I looked at it was, I don't know who's going to be in the audience.

And number two, I got to work out my material.