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" That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories. "

Sebastian Maniscalco

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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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" It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage. "

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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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" I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When I was growing up, we dressed up for church. "

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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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" I was always taught how to dress for the occasion. "

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" 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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" 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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" Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15. "

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" You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn't see anywhere else. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together. "

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" I don't like a lot of clutter. "

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