Transcript of Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

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Amy Miles. Amy Miles, Give it up one more time. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the first official live recording of Good Hang. This is the first time we've done it, and we're really, really happy that you could be here. Thank you so much. Don't worry, I have my lip bomb, and we're going to be okay. We're going to record our podcast, and I think there's a few people here tonight that don't know who our guest is. Raise your hand if you don't. Excited. It's so great that you came without even knowing. That's a real fan. Thank you so much. Well, we're going to record our part. What if I just never told you? No, but we're very, very grateful that you are here tonight. And thank you to the Gramercy, and thank you to Walmart for sponsoring us, and thank you to Amy and Chris for their incredible music. And we're very, very excited because our guest tonight who is going to be on stage who we're going to dig deep and laugh well with is the one, the only, Sebastian Manescalco is here. Only the number one grossing comic in the world, I think. I don't know if it's the world.

I'll check with him. But we're so excited to have Sebastian here. I'm going to go sit over there. Are you ready to get started? All We practiced that transition many times. We didn't get it right. Okay, so welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Very excited to be doing this live with a band. And thrilled to be here in the Gramercy Theater. And like I said, thank you to Walmart and everybody who sponsored this. And we're very excited to introduce our guest today. We have Sebastian Manescalco. Sebastian is one of my favorite comedians. I find him to be deeply funny, deeply physical. He seems super nice, even though I don't really know him. And we talked a little bit backstage, but then I said, Let's stop talking. If the cameras aren't rolling, then this ain't worth shit is what I said. We're going to have Sebastian on, but we always like to start these podcasts by talking to somebody who knows our guest so we can talk well behind their back. It's a little different because Sebastian will hear everything now. But we are very excited to introduce a friend of Sebastian's, a fellow stand-up performer who also is the co-host of the Pete and Sebastian podcast.

Which has been running now for 12 years and is an amazing podcast. Give it up, everybody, for Pete Correale. Pete. Hi, Pete.

Oh, thank you. My goodness. Thank you. Pete, we got to play on.

This is phenomenal. We've been doing it in 12 years. We've never had a set up this good.

I know. You're already so good at... I can tell you're a good performer because as soon as you came in, you were like, Here we go, everybody.

Amy, I've been a performer for 30 years. Sitting here with you is one of the most exciting things I've got to do in my career. Thank you. I'm not kidding. I appreciate that. I am not. Amy was a little nervous backstage. She's never done a live cast before.

I go, You're the best host of the Golden Gloves that ever lived. This is a hiccup.

Come on. Pete, if the people in the audience aren't famous, then I don't know what to It's weird. I just don't recognize any faces, and it throws me off. That's hilarious. Okay. So, Pete, how did you and Sebastian first meet?

We met doing stand-up. We met literally about 14 years ago in Canada, Montreal Festival put together this thing where we all stayed in Toronto in a hotel, and every night we would meet in a van. It was me, Sebastian, and four of the comics from other countries, a guy from Australia. I remember a guy from Ireland. But then we would shoot out to little theaters each night. The first time I met him, we were online to go through customs into Canada, and he introduced himself. I never met him before. Then when we get to the hotel, I say, See you later tonight. We had our first show that night. When we all get in the van, and Sebastian is the last one to get in the van, and I'm in the back of the van, and he gets in the van, and he's got a shirt on a hangar. I'm in the back of the van. Nobody knows anyone, so we're all quiet, and I go, What is that? Your performance shirt? And he goes, Yeah, I get sweaty. I go, Holy shit. So I'm making fun of him because he gets sweaty. Meanwhile, it's because he's physical.

And then he goes on to make 10 million gazillion. And I'm staying the straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall.

Yeah, you got to have a performer shirt. You got to have a shirt.

No, but that's what we first meant.

Dress for the job you want, Pete. Dress for the job you want. Exactly.

But we hit it off. And like you said, we've been doing it for 12 years. I bet it's similar to you and Tina in that. It's just sometimes we get together to do the cast, and maybe you're not in the mood.

So you call it the cast? We call it the cast. Interesting. Yeah.

Even though we don't have quite as many viewers as you do, ours is still a cast.

There's a zillion podcast. I don't pay attention to the numbers, Pete. I just do it for the fun. No, but you guys are so funny on it together. Thank you. And I love watching you, too. I mean, you guys know each other really well. Can I just ask you, you've done it now for 12 years. This is my first year doing a podcast. How do you keep it fresh?

Well, for us, it's because we just talk about our lives. When we first started to do it, neither one of us knew much about cast, and I said, We both agreed. Let's keep it consistent. That was number one. Number two, do you want guests? And he goes, Well, I'm not really getting them. And I I'm not getting them either. If we want to keep it consistent, we figured no get. Then we don't do anything topical. You could listen to any one of our cast, and you would know what year it's from because it's about from anything from going to someone's house and they make you take your shoes off. So there's always something new to discuss because it's life.

That's very smart. It's life. Yeah, you want to be able to catch up? I unfortunately hold the newspaper up to the camera on every one of my-That's why yours is also more popular. Okay, now you're a basketball player in college?

Well, Division 3, Amy, so let's pump the brakes on that. Hey, it counts.

What college?

I just said Division 3. When someone says Division 3, you don't care anymore.

You never mentioned the college?

No, Ferdonia State is the college.

Okay, and what was the name of your team? The Ferdonia what?

We were called the Ferdonia Blue Devils.

Interesting. At my high school, it was the Red Devils. Really? Yeah.

I want to ask you an opinion about something that you that up. Where I live now, I live in a small town. I'm actually in the process of moving to Rochester, but I live in a small town called Fredonia. Okay. By the time this comes out, I'll be gone. I already bought a new house. But I've been there 12 years. My daughter is 12 years old, and our slogan, our high school logo is the Hillbillies.

Oh, that's not going to last.

And it's a guy. It's not going to last. It's been there for 50 years. It's a guy with a beard and a jug of wine and a gun.

I swear to God.

And they don't get rid of it because it's too expensive to have to change the basketball court and the uniforms.

So we're just the Hillbillies.

That'll get you in the Harvard.

By the way, we got to get into that. Yeah, we got to get into Harvard. It's important. When So we got to get into Harvard or we got to talk about Harvard?

When you want to talk about things with Sebastian.

Talk about Harvard? Sebastian didn't go to Harvard. I know that.

No, but when we went, when we played Boston, when Sebastian the Boston Garden I was open from on the tour. Incredible.

We went to Harvard, and that whole thing that you and Tina went through. Oh, you went into Lampoon. Oh, I'll talk to him about that. That's helpful.

And he's like, We can never talk about that. I said, Amy and Tina talked about it. I think you can.

A bunch of aggressive nerds shouting jokes at you. But I mean- A bunch of valedictorians.

But you take it because it's Harvard, right? If it was Jamestown Community College, you'd have been out of there in 10 minutes, right? Because it's Harvard, you just take the punches.

Okay, so let's start this. I'm going to start this podcast with Sebastian, but I need to know, Pete, do you have a question you think I should ask?

Yes. One question I think is, Sebastian loves to entertain. However, he also loves for people to leave when he's done entertaining. Yes. It's a very bizarre thing. It's like, I love to entertain and now go home. You might want to ask him, what is it about? Why is there an end to when people come over? Why does that bother you so much? The other thing, Amy, I love this guy so much for so many different reasons. He's a warm-hearted guy, good guy. But one big hangup he has is noises. It's called, he's self-diagnoseddiagnosed misovenial...

How do you pronounce that? Misophonia.

Misophonia. Yeah. Self-diagnosed. He's never done anything about it. But you could chew gum around them, and then a half hour later, he'll tell me, You got to stop with the But he has not gone and done anything about it. He always just likes to say self-diagnosed. Perhaps you might want to ask him, why don't you take it any further and find out? I think it's because his comedy lives in irritation.

Yes, I know what you mean. These are great questions because I know a little bit about misophonia, and I have a really hard time with mouth sounds in general. On the microphone, I'm looking at you, NPR. A lot of people have to drink water. It's very stressful. So I'm going to talk to Sebastian about that. Yeah, very, very good. Okay, well, we're going to get started. Pete, you've been amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming.

Thank you, Amy. Thank you all. Have a wonderful time. Pete Corioli, everybody. Check out the Pete Sebastian show.

Thank you, Pete.

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They told me backstage that-I had a T-shirt.

I wanted to be like, Hey, who cares? I just walked off the street. And then I said, You know what? You're a professional, Amy, and you need to treat this show like you're a professional.

Well, this is the first live show, so I'm like, All right, this is a big deal. Let me dress it up. I have another outfit just in case, but I felt like this was appropriate to wear a suit. Apparently, you thought you were going to go to a T-ball game.

Well, I would much rather be underdressed than overdressed, but I bet you'd rather be overdressed.

Yeah, I am typically overdressed for occasions. I don't know. I always... Growing up, my mother always used to tell me, We're going to church. Put your nice slacks on, we're going out to dinner. So I always thought when we were leaving the house, you should look presentable. But nowadays, if you take around, particularly in this city, it's you roll out of bed and then you're at the Walgreens. So I don't know. I just feel like you should have it.

You're trying to tell me that you don't wear sweat pants and bring your own pillow on the plane. That's what I'm hearing.

No, I don't.

I never understood the whole The little thing on the plane. I don't like that pillow thing. No offense, Gen Z, but there's a lot of... You guys are dragging around a lot of pillows. It's intense. Okay, we have a lot to talk about, Sebastian, because you and I were both in Chicago. You grew up in Chicago. Where exactly did you grow up?

I grew up in the northwest suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois, so I wasn't in the city of Chicago. Right.

And then what years were you there?

I was there in 1973 to 1998. Okay.

Yeah, I was there the same time. Okay. I mean, just for a few years.

When were you there?

Well, I went to... I did Second City. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people wanted to take class there, moved to Chicago. And the weather, the weather in Chicago is the thing you remember because it's punishing. Yes. When When is the coldest you've ever been in Chicago?

The coldest temperature? God, I don't know. There's always a wind chill. I don't know, I think it was minus 15 one year. Why? Do you have a record, low 10?

No, I was just curious. People that live in that area, you're proving my point, which is they don't really talk about the weather. They don't care that much about the weather. They don't make it a big deal.

Yeah, it's not a big deal. When you're living in it, it's just the way of life. So we're not sitting there going, Oh, it's really cold today. I think this is our record. I don't know. It's brutal.

And do you remember a restaurant in the Chicago area? Did you like Did you go into the city? Did you go into the city a lot?

So we went into the city early on in my teenage years, 17 years old. I had a fake ID. We'd love to dance. We used to go to this place called Acapulco Bar. So Alumni Club. So, yeah, we were big dancers growing up.

There was a lot of good clubs in Chicago at that time. Really, it was a good club scene.

Did you ever go to Baja Beach Club? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, you were.

Yeah, maybe I saw you. Did you ever go to a restaurant called Carlucci's?

I have, yeah. Okay. Carluchis.

I used to be a waiter there. Oh, really? Yeah. I was thinking about our prep for today, and for people that don't know, Sebastian's dad was a Sicilian immigrant, is a Sicilian immigrant. Carlucci's was the first time I learned about Italian fine dining in any way. I didn't know anything about it. Antipasti, and semifredo, and breadsticks. Those kinds of things.

That's a course.

Were you waiting tables when you were living there? Were you working in a restaurant there or only after you came to LA?

Funny you say fine dining. I started my waiting career at Olive Garden. Oh, yeah. Great place to start. Great place to break in. Hey, did you ever go to a place in Schaumberg called the Living Room? Oh, yes.

I worked there. That was a very hot club, bar.

I'm surprised we didn't cross paths.

What famous people came through the living room?

Do you remember? Not really. Not a lot of Fame walking through the living room.

But I remember it being a cool club.

It was a cool club. Not a lot of celebrities came through there. Maybe Dennis Rodman, because this is the year where the Bulls were hot. But yeah. What did you do there? I worked as a waiter in The Fine Dining. By the way, this is the best lip balmer.

Are you kidding me? No, are you joking? I have to tell you. Because this is a sponsor. Oh, it is? Ilanej. They're not sponsoring this, so we'll probably have to cut this out, but I use that all the time. It's the best. Okay. You like your products.

Well, my wife likes products, and while I'm in bed one night, she's like, Here, you got to put this on. I'm going to bed. She put it on. Hello, new lips.

Incredible. In fact, you're reminding me, everybody who has lip bomb, let's take a lip bomb break while we... Just for a second. Because it's too much, right? It's so dry out. It's too much. Okay. But you've talked a lot on stage about how people should act in restaurants, and I really relate because as an ex-server, as we like to call ourselves, Yes. You learn how to treat people in restaurants. You have strong opinions about how people should act in restaurants.

Yeah. I mean, if you go to a restaurant, you should have some manners and be kind mind and not like... I don't know. I put a napkin on my lap. I don't know if that's out of style or if anybody's doing that anymore. But you should be polite to the server and vice versa. But I got a problem with servers nowadays. Tell me why. Just the way they come up. They come up and you're like, Excuse me, can you think? And already the eyes are rolling. It's like, Nobody wants to be there. I don't know. It just seems like people are detached, they're disconnected.

Do you like when a server, this happens a lot in LA where you live, where we both live, where someone will duck down and get the same level as you? I don't like that. You know what I'm talking about?

Like they're right here?

Yeah, they get right there. They get in real quick.

I don't like that. I don't like that move. I just rather have them above, in and out. Maybe a little talk here and there, but nothing like... I don't want to... Sometimes the waiter will go, Oh, I don't normally have that because I'm lactose. Hey, guy, guy. We don't need to know your medical history. Just bring out the burger. Okay.

And you talked also about, which I loved, and I should point out, as well as you having the most successful touring year of your career, would you say this year? Yeah, probably. Congratulations.

Yeah, thank you.

And you've got a new special coming on in November, and you made a beautiful film about your dad with Robert De Niro playing your dad. Yeah, crazy. Well, crazy. And you were on the show Bookie, and you've got all these things going on. When you talk to your audience, I still feel, Sebastian, like you're living a regular normal life. Yeah. That's not always the case. Sometimes when you see people on stage, they feel like they're talking about their koi pond or something. But it does feel like you are still in it. You have little kids. Yes. One could argue you're a little old for that. You got little kids.

I do. I'm 52, and I have a six-year-old son, so that's it. Okay, don't relax.

No, I'm only kidding because I love you on Instagram when you talk about how tired you are. I'm exhausted. I'm exhausting. It's exhausting.

No, I waited a little. I waited to have kids, and now I'm paying the price.

It must be nice. Must be nice, yeah. I'm just, come on. No clafter, no clafter. But your wife seems amazing, Lana. Oh, thank you. And you talk about her a lot, and she's I've seen her on the Gram. She's a hot piece, Lana.

She's 10 years younger. Yeah? Yeah, so I'm trying to keep up with her. She's an ex-gymnast, so she's always doing flips.

She's always doing flips?

She walks down the stairs on her hands. No way. I've never seen that before, but that's what I'm dealing with.

Does she do that when she's angry, when she's upset?

No, she's never, rarely upset. She's one of these, like always got a smile on her face walking around. I'm the one that's constantly upset. But no, she's a ray of sunshine, and she's a doll. And yeah, she's very athletic, very strong. And I almost have my ARP card.

We're the same age. We're the same age. Yeah, we're getting up there. What are you enjoying about your 50s?

So I'm glad I had kids this late in life just because I'm stable. I could provide them with a life that... I'm not one of these guys. I only want to give my kids a life that I never had. I had a good middle class upbringing and whatnot. But as an entertainer or performer, you want to get to a place where you're stable financially before you start bringing people into the world. And this is just business. It could be here one day, gone the next. So I got to a place where I'm like, All right, let's start a family. And I like being in my 50s. I just wish I was a little bit more... I don't know. I wanted to go play basketball the other day. I'm like,Don't do that. I haven't played basketball in a while? Don't do that. That's sick. I don't remember the rim being this high. But it's nice.

That's an ACL nightmare, though. Be very careful. There's nothing worse than a bunch of guys in their 50s going back to play basketball. It is just tear after tear.

I'm taking a little offense to this.

I'm sorry.

Just because if you didn't know how old I was, could you just Why don't you look at me and go, Yeah, no, he probably runs.

You're in terrific shape, by the way.

I'm not. I'm really not. I'm hiding a lot with the suit, but I just don't feel like I'm 52.

I get it, but I have to say, I remember having younger kids. My kids are teenagers now, and the amount of play they have to do with kids is exhausting. It's exhausting. Yes, it is. Play is a nightmare. When you're a kid, the worst thing to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play? Yeah.

Did you have a favorite play? Did you have like a, Oh, I could do this.

I remember having existential moments of true despair when I would come from shooting a long day. My kids would come up to me with a Star Wars lightsavers and be like, Yay, now we can play. I was just like, Oh, fuck. Oh, no, I have to play Star Wars. It was the worst. I miss every second of it. But Lana, does she come to your shows?

Yeah, I mean, she comes, but I mean, it's-Is she here tonight? No, no, no. She's playing with the kids.

You've played huge stadiums. You sold out, was it Madison Square Garden? How many nights in a row? Five, six? Five, yeah. Incredible. Yes. Thank you. And what's it like playing a space that big?

My act is tailor-made for a large space. Obviously, comedy is better enjoyed in a room this, I believe. But once you start getting into arenas and whatnot, I like to fill the room. I like to get up there and be physical and praul the stage. I'm not one of these guys that stands behind the microphone and tells jokes. Nothing wrong with that. But for me, especially nowadays, you got to light yourself on fire up there for people to pay attention. That's so true. If you're not funny for an hour and 15 minutes, someone could just go back into their phone or slip out of consciousness or what have you. But But I like to keep the people entertained, not only by telling the story, but also maybe acting out the story. It's not all physical.

You're such a funny physical performer. I love watching you. And I read something that was really cool is you designed your stage a certain way in your last special. Can you talk about that?

Yeah. So normally I do it in the round, and I had a round stage previously. And then this time I designed a triangular stage, which I could hit the points a little bit more. When you're doing a round stage, you don't know where you're at sometimes in relation to, Have I been here for a while? But with the points, you know, Okay, I'm at this point, I'm at that point. I feel like I could service the room better just by using the triangle stage. Plus, I made the screen above me triangle. I like production, too, when I do standup, so I like to pay attention to lighting is big. How is this lighting? I think this is beautifully done.

Do you like the people over? We get people on the side. I do.

I noticed that, too.

I don't mind that. It's a little disconcerting because you guys are the same height as us. It looks like they're on a ride. Then we got people in the back that are all, We can't see you, but we know that you're the real fans back there. Oh, yeah. All right.

It goes deep. It goes deep.

It does go deep.

By the way, and I don't know if you know this, a little trivia here, and I don't know if anybody in the audience knows, We did a movie together.

Okay, we did a movie together, and you know when it came out, you know what the percentage of it was on Rotten Tomat.

No, I didn't check the percentage. Was it bad?

Is 7% I had. That's right. That was the first time I met you. In 2014, there was a movie called The House with just a young and up and coming guy named Will Farrell. And I picked the one fucking bomb that he made. I was like, Sign me up for that one. No, him and I were in a movie that was so fun to make because he's the best, called The House. And there was a scene Where?

Yeah, I was... By the way, I shouldn't say we were in a movie together. She was in the movie, and I came in for a day. So I think we made the house like it was like a Vegas, and I was one of the performers in the living room performing to one, I think it was Rory Scoville. Yes, that's right, Rory. Yeah, it was just a day of work, and that was early on. It was like one of my first movies I've ever done.

Oh, really? Yeah. What was your memory of it? Was it a good experience?

Yeah, I know. It was a day. I came in. I've never met you or Will or any of those people. It was nice.

Yeah. That was a lot of fun. I remember that time. And also, you have been performing for a while. You're not an overnight success. You've been putting the time in for a very, very long time, and you've been working very, very hard. What is it in the same way we talk about fatherhood at an age where you feel like you were ready and mature for it, do you feel that same way about your Fame and success?

Same, yeah. In 1998, I started doing stand-up. So for me, I worked at Four Seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy. I didn't have a movie or a TV show or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream. I feel even now, too, I have a great fan base and what have you, but I still feel like there's room for growth, but it took a while. I mean, what is this? About 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%.

I got to say, I just looked it up before, and it's up to 20%. Oh, okay.

We're moving up.

With inflation and everything.

Yeah, but no, it's a slow burn for me. Nothing comes easy in my life.

Why doesn't think... What do you mean?

It's just my father and I often discuss this, the Manesconco family always has to take the long road to get there. There's no shortcuts, which I'm I'm not looking for shortcuts, but every once in a while, it'll be nice to get a pop.

How does your dad feel like he's taken the long road? How would he say he's taken it?

I mean, he immigrated here when he was 15 years old, and he had to learn a new language. He's still learning the language. It's fun hanging around with an immigrant father who just doesn't know the words.

Is there a word still that you that really makes you giggle that he...

Oh, he goes, Oh, your cousin, he's going to Oly miss. What? Oly Miss then, not Oly Miss. So there's a lot of that.

That one feels okay. No, that's fine. Yeah, that feels okay. That's like the Hillbillies or something. But he is an amazing story, and you wrote a film based on his story. Can you tell everybody how... I mean, I'm sure you've answered this before, but it's pretty awesome to work with Robert De Niro, I imagine.

I was veryWhat was that like? Nervous. Basically, wrote a movie, never thought it would get... You write these things, you never think they're going to do anything. But this one got picked up in De Niro's hands. He loved it, wanted to read it out loud here in New York City with a bunch of actors. So we read it out loud at a table. And after the table read, I went up to him and I said, So, and he's like, And he left. So I'm like, All right, that's the end of that. And two weeks later, got a call that he's interested in playing your father. And I'm like, This is a guy that had good fellows, good casino posters on my wall, and now he's going to play my dad in a movie. And then subsequently called my father down to Oklahoma, where he was shooting the movie because he wanted to get to know my dad. No way. So my dad.

So you're like, Dad, he wants to hang out with you?

And my dad's like, How much am I getting for this? So I'm like, No, you're going to go for three days? He goes, Yeah, well, he still cuts hair. He's still cutting hair at 79 years old. He's like, Well, I got to readjust my clients, and I'm going to lose money if I go down there for three days. And I said, Just don't worry about it. Just go.

So he went.

He spent three days with De Niro, and De Niro was taking notes. How do you wear your hat? How do you hold your cigar? Tell me how to say this in Sicilian. So then he came back, and then De Niro wanted him to come to the set. And my dad said, I ain't going to the set.

He did it?

This is like a movie, right? With De Niro, we grew up watching, and my dad's like, I ain't…

I said, Just come to the set and hang out.

So my dad was on set teaching De Niro how to do blowouts and dye jobs.

We should make it clear that Sebastian's father does hair. And was a hairdresser for your whole life, right?

Yeah. So he cut my hair until I left the house at, I think, 23.

Does he still want to cut your hair now?

He cut my hair about four years ago, and I said That's it. No, he's falling apart. He's falling apart. His shoulder's falling off. It's not easy getting old. It is not easy getting old. No, especially at that age. Now, every time I talk to my parents, it's like, I'm not being right. Okay.

Is it true that Sicilians have great hair?

I don't know. I'm losing a lot of my hair. It's a lot of dust up there. It's a lot of... I use a pepper. Oh, yeah. That's what it's called, a fiber. I do a lot of pepper before I come up there. I got someone back there with a pepper milk.

With the Parmesan greater and just like, a little bit more. But I do want to talk about you on stage because I love watching you perform because as we talked about earlier, you are physical. And a lot of people on stage neck down or disconnected from their body when they're telling jokes. They're telling it from their head. And you really do tell it from your body, your whole body, when you perform. Did you always like to move as a kid? Are you a physical guy? I know you like to dance. I've seen you dance a lot. I mean, not to get too… You don't know what I'm talking about.

I do know what you're talking.

I feel like you shake it out.

Come on, everybody knows you shake it out. I shake it out, but it's not... I don't think it's because I have an anxiety for anything. My shaking out is a little bit more just for the performance. I do like to move my hands and be physical and have facial expressions when I'm talking. I just took that and just made it a little bit more grand when I'm on stage.

Do you have any people that when you were growing up, like physical comedians that you loved?

John Ritter is mine.

Dude, I was just saying... Are you kidding me? I just said backstage, we were talking about physical because I was talking about you and I was like, I love how physical Sebastian is. And I said, to me, John Ritter was... He was my favorite. Of the best.

Threes Company. For you young people, go watch Threes CompanyIncredible. And you're going to see. Incredible. Yeah, unbelievable, like a master of physical comedy, even though John wasn't a stand-up, but I took a lot of what he was doing. I used to watch Three's Company like game tape growing up over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get on the hammock when he fell off. So all those little movements in the And then he would hit himself and come up and have this days looked on. So all that stuff I really incorporated. So he was a big inspiration for me. But yeah, the physicality for me, it's fun to do. It's like a fun thing for me to do, and I got to keep myself entertained up there as well.

Yeah, I bet. Because you did what?

Eighty whatever shows this year? Yeah, it was a lot. Eighty-four shows, I think I did. Dang. But yeah.

Do you ever do two a days?

I used to, but no more. No more. No more. Just too tired at the end.

I'm old. Yeah. Well, Tina and I were on tour, and we would do, you know what our favorite thing was? A four o'clock show. In that, right? Incredible. You never do a four?

No, I didn't do a four. Oh, you got to do a four. Commy during the day?

You got to do a four. It'll change your life. Four o'clock show, you're done by 6: 30? No, I like the concept.

I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go, Wait, four o'clock?

We ain't going to. I got to tell you, every single person at that four o'clock show was pumped. Am I wrong? They wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep.

Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and you get a white snack.

How do you feel about sleep? I always like to talk to people about sleep on good hang. What is your sleep routine when you're on the road? And is it different than when you're home?

Yes, it's difficult on the road just because I just came. Like last night, I had the worst sleep because three hours and a plane and I got to adjust and whatnot. But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed, sadly, after I tuck my kids in.

It's embarrassing. I love this. Talk to me about the time.

I'm in bed, I'd say, about nine o'clock. Incredible.

All right?

Sebastian, this is my audience.

We love bedtime. We love bedtime. All we think about is bedtime. We love bedtime. 9: 00 PM is a winner move.

It is. I try to be consistent with the sleep just because if it starts to vary and then it gets screwed up on the other end, because generally speaking, I get up around 6: 00 regardless of what time I go to sleep. Exactly. Are you doing any eight sleep mattress, ring?

No, I have a CPAP machine because I have...

You're wearing a breather or whatever the hell that is?

A breather?

Whatever the hell it is?

I thought only...

Typically speaking, I thought that's a... Exactly. I know it's usually Exactly.

I thought it was a man thing.

Right. No. Lucky for me, it's not just a man thing. You're right. It usually is a man thing.

Have you ever heard a woman going, I got to travel with this thing? I never heard of that.

I'm sorry.

Not a lot of women are doing that.

Well, I'm always I've always been ahead of my field. No, yeah, it's pretty sexy stuff. It's pretty sexy stuff. But yeah, I am a sleeve apnea, so I wear a sleeve app machine. I got to tell you, I love it. It's changed my life. I love it. Okay. I would never change it for the world. I love it so much. It's totally changed my life. Anybody who's thinking about it, just for fun? Anybody who wants to try it for fun, do it. It's great.

I've heard it. It's very beneficial. Incredible. Do you do it consistently every night? Of course.

Okay, Got to do it every night, and it puts you right to sleep. It's like the sound, and it has air, excuse me, water, so it's hydrating, so you You never, ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff, because you're always hydrated. You put your lip balm on, your creams, you hydrate, and then you go, and then you look like a fighter pilot, and you go to sleep. But what's your bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions, because I bet you have a skincare routine.

I do have a skincare. A little toner, a little face cream, and I put a little cologne on before. I got a little nighttime cologne.

Different than daytime cologne?

Yeah. I shower prior to bed. Of course. Do a full... I'd say the last two years, I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe. Oh, very good. All right.

What brand you got going there? We'll cut it out. Don't worry. What is the brand?

It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall because, again, my wife is just giving me stuff like, Here, use this. Lotion.

Smart. You don't want to give them free stuff. I get it.

There's a lot of them I can't pronounce.

Some of them are French. Then I've been doing this cologne routine where I do five sprays in my palm, I get it hot, and I neck it, and I go to bed. And then in the morning, what I've been doing, and this is something maybe you guys should try tomorrow, I've been doing two different cologs, one on the front and one on the back. So you get one cent coming and one cent going. It's a beautiful technique. Wow. Are you in a men cologne? Yeah, I love it. Sure.

And also the front and back is genius because it's like... It's beautiful. I thought I knew him. He's still a mystery to me. I mean, you're on tour all the time. Who's making you laugh right now? Do you watch comedy? Do you like to go? No. No, I know. I don't either. It's just a busman's holiday. But how do you... Do you watch stuff to make you laugh? Do you watch videos? Do you watch other comics?

I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it. I look at documentaries, I like drama. If I want to laugh, I got a friend back in Chicago. His name is George. I'll call him.

Tell us about George.

He's one of these guys that just... He's funny. He's like, we can talk about daily life, and he just makes me laugh. So George is my go-to for comedy. But as far as stand-up, comedy, I don't like watching it, generally, just because Because I don't know. I like to laugh. I like to see what people do. And maybe a special, come on, I'll see five minutes of somebody, and then I'll just turn it off if I really like it. The last one I watched from front to back was Yannis Pappas. Yes. A couple of specials that I thought was really funny, and he caught me on a night where I was so gitty and laughing. So, generally speaking, though, I'm like, documentary, I love it serious moments.

I love serious. Do you watch anything like Do you watch reality TV? Do you care about that?

My wife got me into Love is Blind. So every now and then, what are you laughing at?

I guess the question is, do you believe it is?

This show, I mean, come on, the concept of it is cute. Oh, I'm going to fall in love with somebody on the inside. But that's half. You're going to eventually come out and look at the person. If they got no teeth, it's a problem.

They got to walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their salt. I mean, Love is Blind is, for me, for people who are listening who might not know, they talk and then they finally see each other after they meet each other just from talking. My mirror neurons, I get so codependently stressed when those doors open. Oh, God. The body language was so stressful. I know. When they're like, Hey. When they go from arms open to just pat, pat, pat. The body never lies. The way when they go in for the kiss and it's just like, they just turn. Oh, you look at all that. They just turn. They turn their mouth away and give them the cheek. It's brutal. Or she. It could be that, too. But it's brutal. No, I can't handle that. All right. So you like dark stuff?

Well, I mean, dark. I don't know. Seriously. Serious moments I tend to laugh at and find funny. My wife will be telling me a serious story, and I'll just bust out laughing. She'll be like, What's wrong with you? I don't know. I'm thinking about something that's funny pertaining to what you're saying. Yeah, I know what you mean.

Okay, so you've got a new special coming out. Yeah. Another hour plus the material. It takes you how long to get new material?

I don't know. It's been averaging three years. Every three years, I come up with an hour. It's difficult because what you want to do going into these specials is you want it to be equal to or greater than the last one, right? Yeah. And it's difficult because a lot of comedians have a lot of their best material coming out of the gate because they've been working so long and now they're going to... And then people expect a certain level from you. So take it very serious to make these specials special because I felt like my last one, I was going through injury. I had sciatic pain on my right leg. No way. And it was very hard for me to move around.

Too much play.

Too much play. A lot of play. I felt like I couldn't perform like I normally would perform just because I was in pain. I couldn't move. Plus, I dressed in a tuxedo. I'm like, I'm going to try something different, right? I'm going to bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra. I wanted the audience to dress up, and this and this, 20 people dressed up. I felt I'm very hampered in a tuxedo. I couldn't move in a tuxedo.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I wanted to correct that with this special, and I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedo.

Do you have a good sciatica stretch? Do you keep up on that?

I do. I take a ball.

Tennis ball, a cross ball? What ball?

It's like a ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay. And I put it right here and my sew Soez. Yes.

You guys know what that is, right?

Yeah, I feel like this is a health-related section. We're doing sleep, now we're doing sciatica. It's sleep apnea. We've touched.

We got to get all the tips. Okay, put it in your Soez.

And roll it. So you get on the floor and then you basically... On your stomach. Yeah, you lay on it and roll. I believe from my research, which is Instagram, A lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body, particularly in the soas, and I have a very tight soas region.

Not to brag. Yeah.

I got a big soas.

Okay, so what I've learned, you and Pete have been doing your podcast for 12 years. What do you like about doing it? What have you learned? What's the best thing about having a podcast? What do you like about it?

What I use it for is long-form storytelling. So Pete and I are like, he's a beer and peanut guy. I'm a wine and cheese guy. We're very opposites in the way we conduct our life. And he's so funny and so quick-witted, and He's a great listener. And a lot of times when you're telling a story, you know this story has beats to it. And if somebody tells me, Amy, tell that story about that, I'll look at the crowd, and I don't know if you do. It's not a crowd, but a group of people. And I go, I'm not telling that story because I know the attention span of where we're at. I know the story needs to breathe and whatnot. But Pete allows me to really go off on a tangent with a lot of the stories, and he adds great commentary. So we're not guest-driven. We don't really have a lot of guests just because we have so much fun talking to one another. But we've been doing this for 12 years. It's like a recorded phone call, and we have a ball, and that's what I get out of the podcast. As Pete was saying, we don't really have...

We have a loyal fan base. I mean, nothing like this, this army you have that comes out to see you. But it is... I mean, if you're looking for really just storytelling and comedic storytelling, that's what I believe podcasting has done for us is just give us an opportunity. Because when you do stand up, you need it to be tight. You need it to be hitting it all cylinders with the podcast. You guys or whoever's listening to it. It could be in your bathroom getting ready or working out and whatnot. So you chuckle here and there. It's funny. But yeah, it's been a pleasure working with him, and we plan on doing it. It's a labor of love for us.

Yeah, that's great. And the best thing about it, I feel like, is with these longer extended conversations, you can figure out how you feel about things in real-time. You can hear people sort through their value system in a way, but also just they figure out life in real-time with someone else. It's cool to hear that. Because of that, I want to throw out some things, and I just want to get your take about how you feel about them. Okay, so we're going to do a little speed round.

Oh, good. Okay.

Shoeless households.

Okay. It's a big debate because I do a joke about going over to somebody's house and they ask, Could you please remove your shoes? I'm like, I'm a grown man. I don't feel like I should be walking around somebody else's house in my socks. I just don't feel confident. Once a man loses his shoes, you can't really debate any other man. It's like, You're in your socks, guy. Come on. But there's people out there that are very adamant. How dare you come in with shoes on? You know how much stuff is on the bottom of your shoes. You're going to traips that into the house. Yeah, okay, fine. I get it. It hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years. No one's ever got sick. I'm like, What? Did somebody come in there with their shoes on? If you come by the house, people will be kind and go, Oh, do you want me to take my shoes off, and I feel so good when I go, No. Leave them on. Especially women, man, they love shoes. They come over with a nice heel and they go, Okay, let me take this.

Then they're going to walk around barefoot. Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet?

What's on?

What's on? What bacteria? That might be even worse than a shoe.

Now, Pete was talking to us about misophonia. Are you a germaphobe?

I'm not a germaphobe. I wouldn't say I'm not wiping down the plane seat when I walk on the plane, but I often look at people and how they conduct their lives and go, How the hell could you be doing that here? I just feel like you go on an airplane and people will take their shoes off and they're barefoot, and then they walk into the bathroom. Not okay. So With this misophonia, if you don't know what it is, and it's... Again, Pete said I was not diagnosed with it.

Yeah. His question, I think, was, when are you going to get properly diagnosed?

I don't think I need to. I I always feel like if you were opening up a bag of chips right now and eating Doritos, my window of tolerance for that is very small. It could be anything. People want a typing, heavy typers.

You don't like a heavy typer?

Oh, God. I mean, if you're banging on the keyboard and you're at Starbucks and I'm waiting in line, I will just hear the keyboard and nothing else. I could drown out all other sounds.

Like a Tom Cruise movie. It's amazing.

It really That's amazing. I don't want to get rid of this because I feel like not only do I have a sensitivity to sound, but also just people in general, their behavior. I feel like if I lose the misophonia, I'm going to lose the ability or my radar to detect that that guy hasn't laughed at all. Right? So that's why I keep the disease.

Wedding registries.

Wedding registries. Oh, that's a good one. We had a registry when we got married. I have no problem with it. I don't pay attention to it because, again, growing up in an Italian family, we often brought money to the wedding. So you put some cash in an envelope, and then you don't bring a toaster or a blender, whatever. Nice cash envelope. I think everybody likes, especially when you're getting started They're married. It used to be people got married young, and they needed a start. Oh, here's $500. Go buy something to get your life started. But now it's like, I don't know, man. It's like the parents are We're bankrolling a lot of these kids today. I mean, it's amazing. It got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in.

Yeah, this is New York City.

Look at how quiet it got. Your mother paid for the tickets tonight.

Yeah, everybody turned to their mother who they're with, and said, I don't know what he's talking about. Is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts?

I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture. They'll go to the sweet table. Italians have a sweet table, and they'll take a styrofoam to go thing that they hand out. Okay. And they'll take the cookies and the soya tell. They'll take it all home. I'm like, Come on. Have this for breakfast tomorrow? I just think it's a tacky move. I don't like to go at a wedding.

I've never seen that.

No, come to one of my weddings.

You'll see it. Pets. Should people have them?

Should people have pets? I have to tell you, I've never had a pet up until a year ago. I got a dog. We got two dogs now.

We got them for the kids.

I'm not a huge animal lover. I like animals, but I'm not coming home and, I don't take it out to get coffee. I'm taking it on an airplane. I just felt like we had a pet in the neighborhood growing up. His name was Italo. It's the male version of Italy. Italo? That's the name the dog, Italo. It lived in the garage year round.

It would be 13 below, and the dog would be in the garage.

I No, it was just there, the dog. It wasn't like the focal point of the home. It was just like, Yeah, you're all right? Okay. But now the dog's up here and it's the petting. It bothers me. I'm sorry. It's just...

What dog did you get?

Cats? Forget it. I'm sorry. I'm allergic to cats. That's why I don't like them. But God, I don't even go to people. I He's got a good friend. He's got a cat. He's got two cats. I go, I can't come to the house until the cats die.

I can't.

Yeah. Amy Miles has cats, and she had a cat that really tried to almost become your lover. The cat I was saying, I feel the same way about cats. I feel fine with them, and I think they're great. But I don't really want... I'm a tiny bit allergic, just a little bit, so I try not to touch them. Because of it, they're obsessed with me. Oh, God. That's terrible. I just ignore them, and they just come up and crawl, and they get in your clothes. Amy used to have a cat named Nosferatu. Who would try to suck your spirit out of your mouth. So I understand. Yelling.

Yelling.

How do you feel about yelling?

I mean, I don't know. A good yell every now and then is healthy.

Do Can you yell at your kids?

Yeah, I yell at my kids. Again, I'm not one of these parents that gets on the same level as their kids and go, Just tell me what you're going through. It's not that. I think a good dose of a yell, not a lot, Because with raising kids, you have to act sometimes like you're psychotic. If you lose your composure, the kids will go, Wow, we don't want to see that again. A good yell, I think every now and then, sets the family straight.

I agree. Oh, you're getting some applause.

I'm surprised.

I'm surprised. I'm surprised. You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be here. Santa Claus.

We had a problem with Santa Claus. Again, this is another thing I'm not into. My My daughter accused my wife and I of being Santa Claus. This is when she was five years old, and I wasn't ready for it. I thought Santa Claus discussions normally happen maybe around 8: 00 to 10: 00 to 11: 00. So I'm like, What? The five? That's a little young. So I came out of the room, I asked my wife, I go, Get on this text with the moms and find out what's going on at school. We found out that a lot of parents tell their kids there's no Santa because they don't want to lie to their kids. Now, I'm thinking, That's all I do is lie to my kids. Eat your carrots. You're going to see better. But yeah, I got so upset. I was at a Christmas party. There was a Santa Claus there. So I'm telling Santa, generally speaking, when I go to these parties, you dance. I talk to the waiters and the that are working in the party.

Got it, I get it.

So I'm talking to Santa.

You're going to the back of the house. Yeah, go back to the house. Yeah, go back to the house.

I talked to the Santa and I said, Kid, don't believe. And he goes, Well, I offer a service where I could come to the house Swear to God, this is in Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I'll come to the house on Christmas Eve, and I'll put the presents down. 12: 30 at night, this guy comes. I have my robe in the driveway. Come this way. The tree's over here, Santa. She comes in. I wake up the kids. I go, Santa's here. We come, we look at Santa, and then the kids go back to bed. I peel off three hunch for this drunk Santa in my house. Now the kids, they believe again. I highly recommend if you get a Santa to come to your house. It's incredible.

Incredible. Wow. I guess the last question I want to ask you, Sebastian, and thank you so much for your time. Again, check out Sebastian's new special on Hulu and all the good work that he's doing. It's so great to have you. Thank you so much for doing this. It's been so fun. Can you just talk me through how you cook your steak. Okay. Because it feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear, and I want to talk about it.

Okay, I like these questions. I I found this video, it was about 10 years ago online about the reverse sear. Basically, what it is, is you take the steak out of refrigerator, you leave it set for about 30 minutes, get it to room temperature. I like to do mine about 45, 50 minutes. Just let it get used to the atmosphere.

And what cut are we talking about?

I used to like a rib eye. Now I'm on to New York's strip because the rib eye got a lot of fat on it. And at this age, I could go at any minute. So I'm doing New York strip steak, and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it right from the hair. And then I set the oven to 275. I put it in there for about 45 minutes. After the 45 minutes, I take it out. I let it rest for 15. All the while, I got a cast iron skillet, white hot. I do a sear for about a minute each side, cut and serve with a little rosemary, lining the serving plate. I I like garnish on a plate when it comes to the table, because a lot of times when you have steak, there might be a little blood or whatever moving throughout the plate. And I like the stems of rosemary. It gets a nice touch.

Anything else in the pan? No. No butter? No.

I know a lot of people do a little oil, maybe garlic, and then they basted with the spoon. Do the spoon over yet. No, you don't need it. You want a A shout out and a sponsor for this? Snake River Farm. Meat is probably the best meat that you can get. You got to order it online, though. I've been promoting this meat company for a while. For real? And not One free filet. I'm the guy that gets nothing. Amy probably has a bunch of stuff coming to the house, right? Swag. Here's this, here's that. We understand you got Here's a band. Here's a guitar. I give nothing. Nothing is sent to me. No, here, try this, try that. I got no boxes. Dj Khaled is constantly opening up a watch or shoes. I got nothing.

What's your sides? Before you go, I need to know, what are you serving with your steak?

We like to do a fingerling potato.

Not what I expected. What did you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed.

It's funny you say that. I started doing mashed because my kitchen is being remodeled right now. I can't cook. But I started doing mashed potatoes prior to the kitchen remodel. It's a little bit labor-intensive.

Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed.

Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed, but the fingerling is sufficing for now, and then I'll put a green in I'll put a broccoli, I'll put a little aspargis. I'm trying to get the kids to eat healthy with this grab and go stuff that I'm not into the processed foods, although I'm not saying that I'm eating so well, but you want to give the kids a nice-No, here's a little tip I tell people with young kids, that I'll share with you, too.

I learned it from my brother who lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife and family. They do this, I don't know if it's Swedish. It's probably not Swedish, just what they do. But when dinner time is almost ready, that hungry time, 5: 36, when the kids are about to eat and food is cooking, they just put a big plate of vegetables with ranch or hummus on the table, and your kid is hungry, and they eat a bunch of carrots and celery just as a snack because it's not part of their dinner. But the minute you put it on the plate with anything like pizza or pasta or anything, they're not going to eat it. But if you slide it there before dinner, when they're hungry, they'll have a few carrot sticks. They don't even know they're eating it.

That does sound good in theory, but how prone are you to cut some carrot radishes? You got this beautiful tray of vegetables and one carrot, and then who's eating the rest of the vegetables, right? I know. Are you? Are you going to knock them out? No, they're going in the garbage.

You're right. Cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare. But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day.

What's your vegetable? Favorite.

Well, I love anything in the pea family. So I love a pea. I love a... What do you call it? Snap pea. Thank you. I love a pea. I love an Asparius. I love a potato. Does that count as a vegetable?

Yeah, it does. I don't know.

Mushroom. I love a mushroom.

Okay, a mushroom. What's your favorite fruit?

I feel like some savory, like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice.

No, no, no. That's fruit. Did you hear fruit?

Oh, you said fruit? Yeah, fruit. You said it like What's your favorite fruit?

What's your favorite fruit? She got it.

What's your favorite fruit?

My favorite fruit? Fruit.

Fruit.

Is, I don't know, a plum.

A plum? Oh, wow.

What's your favorite fruit? What's your favorite fruit?

Fruit is a banana or a strawberry. It's a toss up. And vegetable, I like an Aspergus. I really love an Aspergus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or banana or a vegetable any day of the week.

You'd go fruit over veg. I'd go fruit. Wow. You got this audience. As we wrap up, I guess, raise your hand. Raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg. Wow. Look at that. I can't You can see the people at the top.

That's impressive.

The people on the side on the park ride are all veg. Nobody's voting fruit. Unbelievable. Well, you found your audience, Sebastian. I did. That's my group of people. Give it up, everybody. For Sebasia Menescalco. Thank you so much. That was amazing.

Thanks for having me here. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Very much.

Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you.

Sebastian Menescalco, everybody.

You've been listening to Good Hang.

The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weis-Burman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paperkite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane, Kaya MacMullen, and Elea Zanaris. For Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovelle, and Jenna Weis-Burman. Original music by Amy Miles. All I ever wanted was a really good hang.