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" I was always taught how to dress for the occasion. "
Sebastian Maniscalco
How
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" I started working full time as a comedian in 2005, shortly after we did the Vince Vaughn 'Wild West Comedy Show.' I worked at the Four Seasons hotel from 1998 to 2005, so about seven years, just trying to put some food on the table and pay the rent while I went out to the open mics and got my feet wet with stand-up comedy. "
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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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" I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old. "
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" 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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" I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines. "
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" 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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" I don't like a lot of clutter. "
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" If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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