Sebastian Maniscalco DCU Center, Worcester, MA

1020 East University Boulevard,Tucson AZ 85721

08 December, 2022

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In 2005, he began performing regularly at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, California.[7] Maniscalco cites Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Brian Regan, John Ritter, Johnny Carson, Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Burr, and Don Rickles as comedic influences.[8] Since then, he has done a half-hour for Comedy Central Presents and five hour-long specials. His first special, Sebastian Live, was released on June 2, 2009. His next three specials were aired on Showtime, with What's Wrong with People? released on January 5, 2012, Aren't You Embarrassed?, taped in Chicago, released on November 14, 2014, and Why Would You Do That?, taped in New York City and released in 2016. Maniscalco was one of four comedians featured in Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, along with Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, and Bret Ernst. Maniscalco has been on Russell Peters' Best Night Ever, Comedy Central Presents, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Jay Leno Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Additionally, he appeared in several films, such as The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, The House, Tag, and Cruise, and he co-hosts a podcast titled The Pete and Sebastian Show with fellow comedian Pete Correale. As of January 2017, they have a show on Sirius XM satellite radio's Raw Dog Comedy channel 99. In 2016, Maniscalco appeared on the seventh season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. He published his memoir Stay Hungry on February 27, 2018.[9] A Netflix special also titled Stay Hungry was released on January 15, 2019. In 2018, Maniscalco made his feature film debut, as Johnny Venere in the Academy Award-winning film Green Book. Maniscalco hosted the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards on August 26. In November 2019, Maniscalco appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman playing "Crazy" Joe Gallo alongside Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. He also hosted the three-part companion podcast for the film, first published on December 2, 2019, titled Behind the Irishman. In June 2021, it was announced that Maniscalco will host a reality television show titled Well Done With Sebastian Maniscalco that premiered on August 12, 2021 on Discovery+ where he will be joined by friends and family to explore food culture and etiquette.[14] Four days after the premiere, the show was renewed for a six-episode second season that will premiere on November 16, 2021. In August 2021, during a podcast, he announced that he was a part of the cast of Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, playing the role of Spike from the game Wrecking Crew as Mario and Luigi's boss. Maniscalco has a unique style that sets him a part from typical comedians, which has put him on a launchpad to become the next big comedy star. His jokes require a three-prong approach: his words, his facial expressions and then accented by fully acted out body movements. “Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message,” Maniscalco says. “It’s not something I set out to do. It kind of just happened.” He is known for his “nostalgia” type of humour grounded in personal family experiences.[18] Most of his material riffs on being raised in an old-school environment with an immigrant father, or just expressing his amazement at people’s outlandish behavior. Maniscalco will be the first to say that comedy can’t be learned, it must be earned. It took him nearly 20 years to develop his “Can you believe this?” style of humour. “You don’t become a bodybuilder the first day you start lifting weights,” he explains. “Same thing with comedy. You gotta flesh out your joke, your bit. You add and subtract. You see what works.”