it never gets any easier sorry no you don't have to apologize sorry has anybody ever taken their clothes off on this [Music] thing hey what's going on and Happy Thanksgiving everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and
today we're joined by Sebastian Maniscalco he's one of stand-up comedy's biggest acts with six specials to his name his latest is it m is currently streaming on Netflix check out the Pete and as show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast and he also stars in a brand new comedy series coming to HBO
Max it's called bookie and it premieres on November 30th Sebastian Maniscalco welcome to the show oh thanks for having me on what's going through your head as you prepare to take on The Gauntlet are you someone who naturally reaches for the hot sauce I like hot sauce uh on my eggs actually in the morning but uh
nothing quite like these look threatening right um but I'm I'm a little nervous to be honest with you um I have stuff to do after this today and I'm hoping I make those [Music] commitments okay to [Music] handle I tell [Music] you first one is like um something that you would get at your um your bar you're
watching your game and this is what comes out exactly that's what this is equivalent [Music] to no problem so in your new show bookie you play the role of a bookmaker chasing down unpaid debts from dubious characters and Reckoning with an uncertain future as sports betting becomes legalized what if any anything
of you picked up on the insights Inside the Mind of a bookie or a gambler spending so much time performing in cities like Atlantic City and Las Vegas I used to gamble uh myself um this is when I was waiting tables at the Four Seasons Hotel I would go to Vegas maybe once a month to see if I could beat the
casino my my whole mindset was hey if I win $1,000 this weekend I could take a week off from waiting tables and do what I want to do which was comedy that never worked so um yeah I could have won more money that I was making but now it brings me absolutely no joy and the only way you could walk out of a casino with
money is performing at it so that's the route I [Music] took oh yeah shashido no I noticed Matt Dam when you had him on was chucking his wings into this garbage can yeah what's the etiquette on an eaten Wing do we leave it on the on the table or you know I do because you know we roll out the red
carpet treatment for our guest but over here I'm blind oh I actually do have a garbage can maybe I just never noticed it until now but I kind of leave them on the board you leave them on the board okay I'm leaving mine on the board I don't know I don't know if you're picking this up on the camera here the
the eaten ones but if it's looking awful let me know I'll start discarding so like you I'm a product of Chicago's northwest suburbs growing up did you have a favorite Regional TV commercial when we had Bob Odenkirk on the show he shout out Scher Ford but I'm kind of like a RoR and Bob rorman guy or I like the Empire jingle a lot I'm with
you with the Empire 5 58300 Empire still remember that from 8 years old uh there's also a commercial I forget the the actual I think it was for auto insurance they had a guy to go and get in a car and the door fell off the car I don't remember what commercial that was for that was like a some some
auto insurance company uh back in the day I'm trying to wrap my brain around is that Eagleman like must call eag another one Eagle Eagle man too yeah like a hawk that flew on the woman's shoulder um came in kind of a mascot uh pillo for is it this is regional humor people I don't know if anybody else is getting this but
we're having a bowl uh but yeah those are probably my favorites growing up I think you guys forgot to Sauce that up I'm not feeling nothing on that by the way have to point out I know on a lot of your shows it's just a black uh tablecloth yeah who's ever doing a set design here has to be commended not only
for the beautiful fringe yes pumpkin glass it's in the details over here D it's in the details with dom thanks D so Melissa McCarthy was on the show she told me that one of her comedy cheat codes is people watching the aisles of Big Lot stores as you become successful do you still purposefully do everyday
things like go to the grocery store to get new material yeah I try to put myself in a lot of these moments to extract material obviously it's a little bit more difficult now than it was when I had nothing to do I literally had nothing to do between 1998 and 2005 not busy I would go to Target I would just walk around a
bookstore looking for self-help books you know just you know lost right uh and I would run into material but now that I'm doing uh you know popular shows like hot ones who's got the time uh but yeah I uh I like humor from everyday situations I think people could relate to that type of humor I've
concentrated a lot of my humor now on family and parenting and being a father so that's kind of serving me well but I always love those moments where I'm like oh this is like an everyday [Music] occurrence so you guys are producing your own but if you don't like it you can let us know it's not a matter of liking or
disliking with the hot it's like am I going to have a problem with this later on or is it manageable throughout the interview right and you know what knocking down the fourth wall here this is a 10: a.m. shoot very early hot one shoot and it's Brave of you Sebastian you know what I'm I'm actually some
something's happening as I'm talking I I'm out of breath breath and uh I don't know if that's a side effect the show the show or I'm passing away it could be either either so where was I I I I literally felt like lightheaded but go ahead yeah yeah how do you know if an hour of Comedy is hitting like is it uh feel in
the room is it critics is it a trusted Inner Circle like what is the focus group testing of it it takes a while to get your set to be funny from front to back you know you don't like to have lulls you don't like to lose the attention of the audience so what I like to do is have the next joke be as good
or better than the last one uh and it's difficult it's difficult to do and and in this day and age where everything's out there it's on the internet people have seen it and if they go to a show God forbid they see a joke that they saw on the internet you know they're like what what are we paying for you know so
you really got to like shurn the wheels and crank out material faster than you would have in you know the 1980s that makes sense to me are you ready to move on here to Sauce number five halfway mark yeah this is the uh jablo Power jab and this is kind of a step up okay not to lead the witness all [Music]
right yeah that's a step up oh great I'm sweating so much the microphone fell off my chest you kidding relax oh my god oh okay so prior to your breakthrough in Hollywood I understand that you worked as a waiter at the Four Seasons for seven years which is a more Savage Group Comedy Club hecklers or
disgruntled diners wow man no one's ever asked me that question and it really uh is a good one I would perform in front of hecklers any day of the week rather than people that waiting on people waiting on people if you're ever in the hospitality business you well know that people's requests are obscene and absurd
and I imagine at the Four Seasons That's like another level to that just the way people we used to give them a free nut caddy right you put a nut caddy and it had wasabi peas almonds people were eating this like an appetizer right and they would they would uh one woman I remember would flag me down she goes
could could we get a little bit more of the poo tray oh God I had a rash down the back of my spine the rest of the shift uh so I would get extremely irritated with these requests one woman didn't like the wine glass she felt the the the the brim of the wine glass was too thick to place on our lips did we
have a thinner wine glass so after hearing these requests for seven years I'll take a Heckler any day of the week H sauce is that yeah yeah yeah it's a whiskey smoked ghost here in the six [Music] SP by the way I don't like that you call this a gauntlet if we could change the name that would how about like a lineup great
little softer around the Ed gaet just sounds like death I'll soften the edges for you over here okay yeah it's uh that's um it's good it's good I like it but um but kind of some late life on this one late life you know yeah a little time release and then it hits is it true that someone once
took off their shirt and wanted to fight you yeah during a show is that the most hostile reaction to your standup that you ever experienced yeah that was at The Comedy Store early on there was a guy sorry it's not no need to apologize it's not the fact that I don't know where the story is going it's the fact
that I don't know how loud the belch was going to be uh yeah I was doing some crowd work I was kind of making light of the their relationship or I don't know exactly what I said but this guy took his shirt off wanted to fight me and then he was escorted out uh so that was the only thing that I was like oh wow this this
could get weird up here uh other than that though knock on wood haven't had really any any issues on stage that's good and been doing it for a long time it's good to just have that one all right Sebastian you ready to move on here to Sauce number seven oh this is the goat this is the goat is your goat
Tropic star mhm here we go by the way when you had Foley on that guy did not seem phased at all I mean I don't know what the hell that guy's made out of but he was eating this like it was cereal it's hot $10 left chug this whole bot well I guess when you get body slammed on thumb tacks this is not that
yeah like what's what's the hot ones Gauntlet there you go again there you go what do you think is your dad's favorite part of being famous you know hearing some of your stories it seems like you know he's maybe more into the trappings of success than you are yeah so my dad will go out to a um a restaurant and try and get noticed right
he'll like throw the last name around like it's that's going to like hold some weight uh you know he says I went to a restaurant last night and made a reservation on a Mana scalco no free dessert I why I don't even get free dessert what you know so he he's uh he's my biggest fan he's my biggest critic I
I don't get a big head at all with him in my life actually with everybody in my life you know there's no way they're afraid if they say that's a good job I'm going to just rest on that and not come up with any new material so they're always on my ass to you know keep creating these people are spending a lot
of money to come and see you you know you know they paid for parking babysitter you know this is my father I'm 50 this is what he's telling me that they paid for parking what so yeah I always uh I always try to give my best up there because I know you know people coming out to see me it's not you know
people coming all the way from whatever New York to Atlantic City tonight to come and see me so I want to make sure they get a great [Music] show this Wing is very very hot okay [Music] great I tell already it's going to be a problem it's immediate yeah give me him it's [ __ ] awful and never get easier
I'm sorry no you don't have to apologize sorry has anybody ever taken their clothes off on this thing why do you think you might be breaking new ground here no this is um I know know C it's a natural reaction on the show and then this is where I'll just say be careful around the eyes you
know like naturally you'll want to swipe but you've been eating you don't want to mace yourself all right all right and don't worry while you absorb that this has a nice long wind up so I reached out to a mutual friend of ours jool Puma yeah one second I don't know if you guys are feeling this in the room but I feel
the room is nervous are you feeling that okay sorry auma yeah well reached out to jol lauma to see if he had any dirt on you while preparing for this interview he was very tight lipped did not want to violate the trust but did let it slip that he'll sometimes work as a DJ Khaled interpreter for you yeah so
on this Wing what I want to do is Bounce a few DJ khed quotes off of you just to see if you can maybe try to explain the greater meaning as best you can does that sound good all right let's do it all right first things first to my fans I promise you if I quit it doesn't mean I gave up what do you think that means
this is why I need an interpreter I'm like half in this half out of it to be honest with you I'm listening to the question but then I'm wondering what am I when is there a tear going to drop yeah no I get it and that is a total that is a totally normal reaction to be I get a little weightless
around this time you know I get a little floaty how about this one the key to more success is cocoa butter agree or disagree you know what it is cocoa butter for me I put some on this morning and uh feel great and uh feel like my career is going to take off how about this you got to water your plants nobody can water them for
you you got to water your plants cuz no one's going to water them for you you know what someone Waters my plants it's a hole in the logic on that one I got one more for you I got one more for you them doors that was always closed I ripped the doors off took the hinges off and when I took the hinges
off I put the hinges in the [ __ ] boy's hands wow wow he said that on this show oh he did yeah and what was your response to that in the fog it's like you know uh a door being closed that we all know you know like I'm going for opportunity I'm grabbing door knobs none of them are open for me you know like
the door doesn't open for I get I get yeah he opened the door he ripped he ripped the door off my question is who's [ __ ] boy so I think [ __ ] boy is the guy who kept the door closed on you right so it's like they're going to close the door on me they're going to lock the door on me you know what I'm going to do I'm going to rip
open the door but I'm not even going to stop there I'm going to take the hinges off of the frame and then I'm going to give the hinges to the person who was closing the door in my face but that's just me kind of freestyling I don't really that was a good freestyle God dud whatever that means Austin's Hot
[Music] Sauce kind of sweet up front I don't know what to tell you after you get through the last one nothing's that much of a block you know it was so bad the I got to say the the bomb yeah was so bad that didn't feel at all bad I I don't know if it's just adding or just kind of the same yeah well I think the
bomb kicks open that door rips the hinges off puts in the [ __ ] boy's hands you can walk through anything after that I got to tell you what a great call back what a great call back from boxing rings to fine dining restaurants to dry cleaners what's the most bizarre venue you've ever performed comedy in and what if anything do you
remember about how the show went there was a boxing ring in oh God was it mentia California is the heroin capital of the world I believe and I'm in a boxing ring with a bowling alley behind me so this is when someone said hey we got a gig for you in Mantika for a 100 bucks you want it you know where's
Mantika you you just got into the boxing ring people were watching sports and you go hey everybody and then people are like oh what's going on and and and you start doing comedy right but in the background someone's picking up a spare right so you had bowling pins going down you had drunk people at the
bar watching sports and then like comedy in a boxing ring and with like fresh blood from the night before underneath your feet so yeah that was probably the worst but you got to do those gigs this is the problem with comedy today is I think with the internet with the Tik toks and the Instagram maybe people
aren't getting out there that experience that kind of experience you got to go through that you got to go through that in order to handle the guy that's going to take his shirt off and wants to fight you two years L uh later you know what I'm saying like you need that experience and sometimes today I think that a lot
of this experience happens in their your living room and you're with with a ring light and you're doing whatever you're doing and I'm not knocking it I'm just saying live performance there's no substitute you got to put the hours and to be a seasoned comedian and at the end of the
day 100 bucks is 100 bucks smashion Mas shaking it up okay this is going to be just a that are you getting that just just a just a there you goaz perfect okay Cheers [Music] Cheers I know not B it's not bad the the bomb killed me right killed me and then after that everything we got we got a there's an
after effect here on this yeah yeah I thought it was I thought it I thought I made it what it's like uh sauces when you talk about it it's almost like they hear you sometimes you know yeah this definitely heard me and to close things out I think it's only right to celebrate the holiday with the Sebastian Maniscalco guide to
Thanksgiving Straight From the Source what are your thoughts on guests bringing pre-prepared casseroles and side dishes like is that a gesture of Goodwill or just kind of gross if I'm hosting let me handle it all right from front to back I got the food therez a lot of times people bring food in and
the presentation of it is terrible right it gets a little lost in transit there yeah it's in some weird Tupperware or some weird uh I don't like to see other people's dish wear in my I think that's a good I think that's a good rule to live by yeah I mean like cookies on a paper plate uh-huh keep it
just keep it eat it in the car ride home I don't want to see it if I'm having you over just let me do it bring a little wine or what have you that that's all I ask but the food just keep it keep it at home what do you think is the greatest of all time Thanksgiving dessert that Thanksgiving you know what
I like I like a nice pumpkin pie classic classic pumpkin pie never used to eat pumpkin pie as a kid about 10 years ago I start getting into pumpkin pies and that's that seems to be my favorite and then finally Seattle plus 82 against the 49ers on Thanksgiving night do you like the Seahawks to cover uh yeah I'll take Seahawks to
cover well that's straight that's straight from the bookie right there and look at you Sebastian Manis scalo taking on the wings of death living to tell the tale and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in
your life well besides the fact that I'm taking home a beautiful Acorn from this from this show want everybody to tune in to bookie on Max November 30th and uh other than that have a wonderful Thanksgiving and keep your [ __ ] food at [Applause] home oh man thanks for having [Music] me [Music] hot ones fans it's been years in the
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