You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn’t see anywhere else. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
My idea of fun would be to review the customers. I could give some customers one star, so that restaurateurs would know when they walked in not to serve them. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
I don’t like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
I give a facial expression in a moment of silence for audiences to react to what I just said and kind of let that marinate with the audience for a little bit. I enjoy the physical part of the comedy as much as the verbal content. People tend to gravitate to not only what they’re hearing but also what they’re seeing. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn’t a really fun time, because my father didn’t want to spend any money when we got there. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything – that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it’s in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I’d be a fool to sit there and go, ‘Yeah, let’s use the telephone to telemarket myself’… Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin’s basement. He had cable and I didn’t, so I went there and saw all the comedians. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage. Sebastian Maniscalco Read Quote
