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" I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15. "
Sebastian Maniscalco
Who
Up
Italian
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" 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. "
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Childhood
" I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office. "
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Looks
" One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it. "
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" I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun. "
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Joke
" Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message. "
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Used
Growing Up
" 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. "
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Stand-Up Comedy
Comedy
" I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy. "
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Family
Table
" I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me. "
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Right
Vegas
" I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh. "
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People
Laugh
" 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. "
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People
Moment
" I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today. "
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People
Know
You
" I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines. "
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Than
Jokes
Like
" I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.' "
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Going
Better
Reflect
" Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together. "
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Brings
Together
Food
" I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country. "
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Vegas
People
Chance
" I don't like a lot of clutter. "
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Like
Lot
Clutter
" That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories. "
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Eating
How
Stories
" People come to a show, then they go back to their neighborhood, and it has become like word-of-mouth. Everybody loves to turn somebody on to something. It kind of just snowballed. "
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People
Kind
Back
" The more comfortable I got onstage, the more comfortable I got expressing myself in a physical manner. And it almost shocked people - 'Oh, is there something happening?' "
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People
Myself
" When I was growing up, we dressed up for church. "
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Church
Up
Growing
" 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. "
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Father
Vacation
Family
" Every heckler is unique because they say something, and you react to what they say or what they're wearing or who they're with, so every response to a heckle is unique. "
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You
Unique
They Say
" Sometimes it's cool to have banter with the audience. Occasionally, somebody will say something, and I'll say something right back, and everybody laughs, and it's funny. "
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Sometimes
Back
" 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. "
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Star
Fun
Give
" My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!' "
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She
Comedy
Me
" If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny. "
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Joke
Funny
Going
" I was always taught how to dress for the occasion. "
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How
Occasion
Taught
" 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. "
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Media
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" Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world. "
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Time
Strange
" You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn't see anywhere else. "
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You
Wal-Mart