Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

Sebastian Maniscalco has a little more pepper in his hair these days. Amy hangs with the comedian for a live taping of 'Good Hang' and talks about Robert De Niro playing his dad in a movie, his bedtime cologne routine, and how he feels about shoeless households. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Pete Correale and Sebastian ManiscalcoExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy MilesLive show production by: Elizabeth Fierman, Charlie Finan, Tessa Herrick, Belle Roman, Ronak Nair, Darren Joe, Francis X Bernal Jr., and Mike Wargon Walmart.com/shop/giftsWalmart.com/shop/deals/black-Friday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And we're very excited to introduce our guest today. We have Sebastian Manascalco. Sebastian is one of my favorite comedians. I find him to be deeply funny, deeply physical. he seems super nice even though I don't really know him and we talked a little bit backstage but then I said let's stop talking if the cameras aren't rolling then this ain't worth shit

is what I said so we're going to have Sebastian on but we always like to start these podcasts by talking to somebody who knows our guest so we can talk well behind their back it's a little different because Sebastian will hear everything now but but so we are very excited

to introduce a friend of Sebastian's, a fellow stand-up performer who also is the co-host of the Pete and Sebastian podcast which has been running now for 12 years and is an amazing podcast. Give it up everybody for Pete

Cori Alley. Pete. Hey, Pete. Oh, thank you. My goodness. Thank you. Pete, we got a play on. This is phenomenal.

We've been doing it in 12 years. We've never had to set up this good. I know. You're already so good at, I can tell you're a good performer because as soon as you came in, you were like, here we go, everybody. Amy, I've been a performer for 30 years. Sitting here with you is one of the most exciting things

I've got to do with my career. I'm not kidding. I appreciate that. Amy was a little nervous backstage. She's never done a live cast before. I go, you're the best host of the Golden Gloves. that ever lived. This is a hiccup.

Come on. Pete, if the people in the audience aren't famous, then I don't know what to do. It's weird. I just don't recognize any faces, and it throws me off. That's hilarious. Okay. So, Pete, how did you and Sebastian first meet?

We met doing stand-up. We met literally about 14 years ago. In Canada, Montreal Festival put together this thing where we all stayed in Toronto in a hotel, and every night we would meet in a van. It was me, Sebastian, and like four of the comics from other countries, a guy from Australia, I remember a guy from, you know, Ireland,

but then we would shoot out to little theaters each night. And the first night I met him, the first time I met him, we were online to go through customs into Canada, and he introduced himself. I never met him before. Then when we get to the hotel, I say, see you later tonight. We had our first show that night. And when we all get in the van, and Sebastian is the last one to get in the van,

and I'm in the back of the van and he gets in the van and he's got a shirt on a hanger and I'm in the back of the van nobody knows anyone so we're all quiet and I go oh what is that

your performance shirt and he goes yeah I get sweaty I go holy shit guy so I'm making fun of him because he gets sweaty meanwhile it's because he's physical and then he goes on

to make 10 million gazillion and I'm standing straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall yeah you gotta have a you gotta have a performance Former shirt. You've got to have a shirt. No, but that's what we first met.

Dress for the job you want, Pete. Dress for the job. Exactly. But we hit it off. And, you know, like you said, we've been doing it for 12 years. Yeah. And I bet it's similar to you and Tina in that, like, it's just sometimes, you know, we get together to do the cast and maybe you're not in the mood.

So you call it the cast. We call it the cast. Yeah. Yeah. Even though we don't have quite as many viewers as you do, ours is still a cast. There's a zillion podcast, but we call on. I don't pay attention to the number. Pete, I just do it for the fun.

No, but you guys are so funny on it together. Thank you. And I love watching you too. And I mean, you guys know each other really well. And can I just ask you, like, you've done it now for 12 years? This is my first year doing a podcast. How do you keep it fresh? Well, for us, it's because we just talk about our lives.

When we first started to do it, neither one of the ones. us knew much about cast and I said we both kind of agreed let's keep it consistent that was number one number two do you want guests and he goes well I'm not really getting them and I go I'm I'm not getting them either so if we want to keep it consistent we figure no no get and then we don't do anything topical like you could listen to anyone of our cast and you wouldn't know what year it's from you know it's about you know it's about anything from going to someone's house and they make you take your shoes off too so it never there's always something new to It's very, very smart.

It's life. Yeah, you want to be able to catch up. Right. I unfortunately hold the newspaper up to the camera on every one of my. Well, that's why yours is also more popular. Okay, now you're a basketball player in college? Oh, well, Division III, so let's pump the brakes on that. Hey, it counts.

What college? I just said Division III. Once someone says Division III, you don't care anymore. You never mentioned? You never mentioned the college? No, Ferdonia State is the college. Okay, and what was the name of your team? What were the Ferdonia, what?

We were called the Ferdonia Blue Devils. Interesting. I was, at my high school was the Red Devils. Really? Yeah. I want to ask you opinion about something. Please. Where I live now, I live in a small town.

I'm actually in the process of moving to Rochester, but I live in a small town called Ferdonia. Okay. By the time this comes out, I'll be gone. I already bought a new house. But I've been there 12 years. My daughter is 12 years old, and their, our slogan, our high school logo, is the hillbillies. Oh, that's not going to last. And it's a guy, it's not going to last.

It's been there for like 50 years. It's a guy with a beard and a jug of wine and a gun. I swear to God. And they don't get rid of it because it's too expensive to have to change the basketball court and the uniforms. So we're just the hillbillies. That'll get you in the Harvard. By the way, we got to get into that.

Yeah, we got to get into Harvard. It's important. We got to get into Harvard or we got to get to talk about Harvard. When you want to talk about things with Sebastian. Talk about Harvard? Sebastian didn't go to Harvard. I know that. No, but when we went, when we played Boston,

when Sebastian played the Boston Garden, I was open from on the tour. Incredible. We went to Harvard, and that whole thing that you and Tina went through. Oh, I'll talk to him about that. And he's helpful. We could never talk about that. And I said, Amy and Tina talked about it.

I think you can. A bunch of aggressive nerds shouting jokes at you. But I mean A bunch of valedictorians But you take it because it's Hobbit right If it was Jamestown Community College You'd have been out of there in 10 minutes

Right Because it's all of it You just take the punches Okay So let's start this I'm going to start this podcast With Sebastian But I need to know

Pete Do you have a question You think I should ask Yes One question I think is Sebastian loves to entertain However he also he also loves for people to leave when he's done entertaining.

Yes. It's a very bizarre thing. It's like, I love to entertain and now go home. Yeah. And, you know, you might want to ask him, what is it about, you know, why is there an end to when people come over? Why does that bother you so much? And the other thing, Amy, I love this guy so much for so many different reasons.

He's a warm-hearted guy, good guy. But one big hang-up he has is noises. It's called he self-diagnosed misophonial. How do you pronounce that? Misophonia. Misophonia. Yeah. Self-diagnosed.

He's never done anything about it. But, like, you know, you could chew gum around them, and then, like, a half hour later, he'll tell me, yeah, yeah, you gotta stop it to go. So, but he has not gone and done anything about it. He always just likes to say self-diagnosed. So perhaps you might want to ask him, why don't you take it any further and find out?

I think it's because his comedy lives in irritation. Yes, yes. I know what you mean. These are great questions because I know a little bit about misophonia and I have a really hard time with mouth sounds in general.

Like on the microphone, I'm looking at you NPR. A lot of water has, a lot of people have to drink water. It's very stressful. So I'm going to talk to Sebastian about that. Yeah, very, very good.

Okay, well, we're going to get started. Pete, you've been amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. Have a wonderful time. Everybody, check out the Pete Sebastian show.

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I had a t-shirt. I was like, I wanted to be like, hey, who cares? You know, like we're all just, I just walked off the street. And then I said, you know what? You're a professional, Amy, and you need to treat this show like, you're a professional. Well, this is the first live show. So I'm like, all right, this is like a big deal. Let me dress it up.

I have another outfit just in case. But I felt like this was appropriate to wear a suit. Apparently you thought you were going to go to a T-ball game. Well, I would much rather be underdressed than overdressed, but I bet you'd rather be overdressed. Yeah, I am typically overdressed for occasions. I don't know. I always, growing up, my mother always used to tell me we're going to church, put your nice slacks on, we're going out to dinner. So I always thought when we were leaving the house, you should look presentable.

But nowadays, if you take around, particularly in this city, It's you roll out of bed And then you're at the At the Walgreens So I don't know I just feel like you should have it So you're trying to tell me that you don't wear sweatpants And bring your own pillow on the plane

That's what I'm here No I don't I never understood the whole pillow thing I don't like that pillow thing That's no offense Gen Z But there's a lot of you guys are dragging around A lot of pillows It's intense Okay we have a lot to talk about Sebastian

Because you and I were both in Chicago You grew up in Chicago. Where exactly did you grow up? I grew up in northwest suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois. So I wasn't in the city of Chicago. Right. And then you were, what years were you there? So I was there in 1973 to 1998. Okay. Yeah, I was there the same time. Okay.

I mean, just for a few years. So when were you there? Well, I went to, I did Second City. yeah yeah and yeah and um and like you know a lot of people wanted to take class there and moved to chicago and i remember like i just the weather the weather in chicago is the thing you remember because it just it's punishing yes when is when is the coldest you've ever been in chicago the coldest temperature god um i don't know there's always like a wind chill so i don't know minus i think it was like minus 15 uh one year so yeah what do you have

Why, do you have a, do you have a record low 10? No, I was just curious, like Chicago, people that live in that area, you're doing this, you're proving my point, which is they don't really talk about the weather that, they don't care that much about the weather. They don't make it a big deal. Yeah, it's not a big deal. When you're living in it, it's just like the way of life. So we're not like, you know, we're not sitting there going, oh, it's really cold today.

How you think this is our record? I don't know. We just, it's, it's brutal. And do you remember a restaurant in Chicago, in the Chicago area? Did you go, did you like to go into the city? Did you go into the city a lot? So we went into the city early on in my teenage years, 17 years old. I had a fake idea.

We'd love to dance. We used to go to this place called Acapulco Bar. Alumni clubs. So, yeah, we were big dancers growing up. There was a lot of good clubs in Chicago at that time. Really, it was a good club scene. Do you ever go to Baja Beach Club? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, maybe I saw you were. Yeah. Hey, you go to bar? Did you ever go to a restaurant called Carlucci's? I have, yeah.

Okay, I used to be a waiter there. Oh, really? Yeah, and I was thinking about our prep for today, and for people that don't know, Sebastian's dad was a Sicilian immigrant, is a Sicilian immigrant, and Carlucci's was the first time I learned about Italian fine dining in any way. Like, I didn't know anything about it, Antipasti and Semi-Fredo and bread. sticks. That's a course. Were you waiting tables when you were living there? Were you working in a restaurant there or only after you came to L.A.?

It's funny you say fine dining. I started my waiting career at Olive Garden. Oh, yeah. Great place to start. Great place to break in. And, hey, did you ever go to a place in Schaumburg called the Living Room? Oh, yes. I worked there.

That was a very hot club, like bar. I'm surprised we didn't cross paths. What kind of famous people came through the living room? Do you remember? Not really. Not a lot of fame walking through the living room. But I remember it being kind of a cool club. It was a cool club.

Not a lot of celebrities came through there. Maybe Dennis Rodman, because this is the year where the Bulls were hot. But, yeah. What did you do there? I worked as a waiter in the fine dining. By the way, this is the best lip balm. Are you kidding me? No, are you joking?

I have to tell you. Because this is a sponsor. Oh, it is? Villenege. And they're not sponsoring this, so we'll probably have to cut this out. But I use that all the time. It's the best. Okay.

You like your products. Well, it's my wife likes products. And while I'm in bed one night, she's like, here, you got to put this on. I don't want to bet. She put it on, hello, new lips. Incredible. In fact, you're reminding me, everybody who has lip balm,

let's take a lip balm break while we, just for a second. Because it's too much, right? It's so dry out. It's too much. Okay. So, but you worked, you've talked a lot on stage about how people should act in restaurants,

and I really relate, because as an ex-server, as we like to call ourselves, you learn how to treat people in restaurants. You have strong opinions about how people should act in restaurants. Yeah, I mean, if you go to a restaurant, you should have some manners and be kind and not like, I don't know, I put a napkin on my lap. I don't know if that's out of style or if anybody's doing that anymore.

But, you know, just, you know, you should be polite. to the server and vice versa. But I got a problem with servers nowadays. Tell me why. Just the way they come up. They come up, you know, and you're like, excuse me, you think, and already the eyes are rolling. You know, it's like nobody wants to be there.

I don't know. It just seems like people are detached, they're disconnected. Do you like when a server, this happens a lot in L.A. where we both live, where we both live, where someone will duck down and get the same level as you? Oh. I don't like that. You know what I'm talking about?

Like they're right here. Yeah, they get right there. They get in real close. I don't like that. I don't like that move. I'd just rather have them above, in and out. Maybe a little talk here and there, but nothing like, you know, I don't want to know.

Like sometimes the waiter will go, oh, you know, I don't normally have that because I'm lactose. Hey, gay, gay. We don't need to know your medical history. Just bring out. Bring out the burger. Okay, and you talked also about, which I loved, and I should point out, like, you know,

as well as you being the most successful, having the most successful touring year of your career, would you say, this year? Yeah, probably, yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. And you've got a new special coming on in November, and you made a beautiful film about your dad

with Robert De Niro playing your dad, Yeah, crazy. Well, crazy. And you're on the show, Booky, and you've got all these things going on. When you talk to your audience, I still feel, Sebastian, like you're living a regular, normal life. Yeah. That's not always the case. Sometimes when you see people on stage, they feel like they're talking about their coy pond or something.

But it does feel like you are still in it. You have little kids. Yes. And one could argue, you're a little old for that. You're a little old for that. You've got little kids. I do. I'm 52, and I have a six-year-old son.

So that's a... Yeah. Okay, don't relax. No, I'm only kidding because I love you on Instagram when you talk about how tired you are. I'm exhausted. And it's exhausting. Yeah.

No, I waited a little. little, you know, I waited to have kids, and now I'm paying the price. Must be nice, yeah. I'm just, come on. No claptor, no claptor. But your wife seems amazing, Lana. And you talk about her a lot. And she's, I've seen her on the gram.

She's a hot piece, Lana. She's 10 years younger. So, yeah. So I'm trying to keep up with her. and she's an ex-g gymnast, so she's always doing flips. She's always doing flips? She walks down the stairs on her hands.

No way. I've never seen that before, but that's what I'm dealing with. Does she do that when she's angry, when she's upset? No, she's never really upset. She's one of these, like, always got a smile on her face walking around. I'm the one that's constantly upset.

but no she's a ray of sunshine and she's a doll and yeah she's very athletic very strong and i am almost has i almost have my arp card i'm the same age we're the same age yeah we're are you enjoying about your 50s so i'm glad i had kids this late in life just because you know i'm stable i have a we could provide them with uh you know a life that uh i'm not one of these guys. Oh, I want to get my kids a life that I never had. I had a good, you know, middle class upbringing and whatnot. But as an entertainer, a performer, you want to get to a place where you're stable financially before you start bringing people into the world. And, you know, it's, you know, this is just business, you know, it could be here one day, gone the next. So, you know,

I got to a place where I'm like, all right, let's start a family. And I like being in my 50s. I just wish I was a little bit more, I don't know, I feel like I want to go play basketball. the other day. I'm like, you know, I haven't played basketball in a while. And I'm like, I don't remember the rim being this high. So, but it's nice.

That's an ACL nightmare, though. Be very careful. There's nothing worse than a bunch of guys in their 50s going back to play basketball. It is just tear after tear. I'm taking a little offense to this. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Just because if you didn't know how old I was, could you just, wouldn't you look at me and go, yeah, no, he probably runs. You're in terrific shape, by the way. I'm not. I'm really not. I'm hiding a lot with the suit,

but I just don't feel like I'm 52. Well, I get it, but I have to say, I remember having younger kids, my kids are teenagers now, and the amount of play they have to do with kids is exhausting. It's exhausting. Yes, it is.

Play is a night. And when your kid, the worst things to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play? Did you have a favorite play? Did you have like a, oh, this is, I could do this. I remember having existential moments of true despair when I would come home from like shooting a long day. And my kids would come up to me with, um, with Star Wars lightsabers and be like, yay now we can play and I was just like go

oh fuck like oh no I have to play Star Wars just like it was it was the worst and I and I miss every second of it but Lana did she come to your shows

yeah I mean she comes but I mean it's Is she here tonight? No no no she's playing with the kids Yeah. You've played huge stadiums. You sold out, was it Madison Square Garden? Like, how many nights in a row? Five? Six. Incredible. Thank you. Thank you. And what's it like playing a space that big? My act is kind of tailor-made for a large space. Obviously, comedy is better enjoyed in a room like this, I believe. But once you start getting into arenas and whatnot, you know, I like to fill the room. I like to get up there and be physical and kind of prowl. the stage. I'm not one of these guys that stands behind the microphone and tells jokes, nothing wrong with that. But for me, especially nowadays, you know, you've got to light

yourself on fire up there for people to, like, pay attention. That's so true. You know, if they just, if you're not funny for, you know, an hour and 15 minutes, you could lose a, you know, someone could just go back into their phone or slip out of consciousness or what have you. But I like to keep the people entertained not only by telling the story, but also maybe acting out the story. It's not all physical, but, you know, I'm such a funny, physical performer. You're so, I love watching you. And I read something that was really cool, is you designed your stage a certain way

in your last special. Can you talk about that? Yeah, so normally, I do it in the round, and I had a round stage previously, and then this time I designed a triangular stage, which I could hit the points a little bit more. When you're doing a round stage, you kind of don't know where you're at sometimes in relation to, like, have I been here for a while? Yeah. But with the points, you kind of like, no.

hey, you know, I'm at this point, I'm at that point. I feel like I could service the room better just by using the triangle stage. Plus, you know, I made the screen above me triangle. I like production, too, when I do stand-ups, so I like to, like, pay attention to lighting is big. How is this lighting? I think this is beautifully done, all right? Do you like the people over? We get people kind of on the side.

I do. I noticed that, too. It's a little disconcerting because you guys are the same height as us. Yeah. So it looks like they're on a ride. And then we got people in the back that are all, we can't see you, but we know that you're the real fans back there. Oh, yeah, all right.

It goes deep. It goes deep. It does go deep. By the way, and I don't know if you know this, little trivia here, and I don't know if anybody in the audience knows, we did a movie together. Okay, we did a movie together. And you know when it came out, you know what percentage of it was on Rotten Tomatoes? No, I didn't check the percentage.

Was it bad? Is 7% bad? That's right. That was the first time I met you. In 2014, there was a movie called The House with just a young and up-and-coming guy named Will Ferrell, you know? And I picked the one fucking bomb that he made. I was like, sign me up for that one.

No, him and I were in. a movie that was so fun to make because he's the best called the house and there was a scene where... Yeah, I was by the way, I shouldn't say we were in a movie together. She was in the movie and I came in for a day.

So I think we made the house like it was like Vegas and I was one of the performers in the living room performing to one, I think it was Rory Scoval. Yes, that's right Lori. Yeah, it was just a day of work and that was early on. It was like one of my first

movies I've ever done yeah yeah what was your memory of it did you have it was it a good experience or do you know it was a day I came in I never met you or Will or any of those people so it was nice yeah it was a lot of fun I mean I I I feel like like I remember that time and also it it you have been you had been performing for a while like you're not a an overnight success. You've been putting the time in for a very, very long time, and you've been working very, very hard. What is it in the same way we talk about fatherhood at an age

where you feel like you were ready and mature for it. Do you feel that same way about your fame and success? Same. Yeah, in 1998, I started doing stand-up. So for me, you know, I worked at four seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy, and I didn't have a movie or a TV show or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream.

I feel even now, too, you know, I have a great fan base and what have you, but I still feel like there's room for growth, but it didn't, it took a while. I mean, what is this? About 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%. I got to say, I just looked it up before, and it's up to 20%. Oh, okay. We're moving up. With inflation and everything.

Yeah. But no, it's a slow burn for me. Nothing, nothing comes easy in my life. So, yeah. Why doesn't think, what do you mean? It's just, you know, my father and I often discuss this, like the Manuscal family always has to take the long road to get there, right? There's no shortcuts, which I'm not looking for shortcuts, but, you know, every once in a while, it'd be nice to, you know, get a pop. How does your dad feel like he's taking the long road? How would he say he's taking it? I mean, he immigrated here when he was 15 years old and, you know, he had to learn a new language. He's still learning the language. It's fun hanging around with like an immigrant father who just doesn't know, like, the words. Is there a word still that you, that really makes you giggle that he...

Oh, he goes, oh, you know your cousin? He's going to only men. What? Oldness then, not only miss. So there's a lot of that. That one feels okay. No, that's fine. Yeah, that feels okay.

That's like the hillbillies or something. But he is an amazing story, and you wrote a film based on his story. And can you tell everybody how, I mean, I'm sure you've answered this question before, but it's pretty awesome to work with Robert De Niro, I imagine. I was very nervous. I basically wrote a movie, never thought it would get, you know, you write these things, you never think they're going to do anything. But this one got picked up in De Niro's hands, he loved it, wanted to read it out loud here

in New York City with a bunch of actors. So we read it out loud at a table. And after the table read, I went up to him, and I said, so. And he's like, oh, well, way, blah, blah. And he left. So I'm like, all right, that's the end of that. And two weeks later, got a call that he's interested in, you know, playing your father. And I'm like, you know, this is a guy that I had, you know, good fellows,

casino posters on my wall. And now he's going to play my dad in a movie. And then subsequently called my father down to Oklahoma where he was shooting in the movie because he wanted to get to know my dad. No way. So my dad. So you're like, dad, he wants to hang out with you? And my dad's like, how much am I getting for this?

So, like, no, you're going to go for three days. He goes, yeah, well, you know, he still cuts hair. He's still cutting hair at 79 years old. He's like, well, I got to readjust my clients, and I'm going to lose money if I go down there for three days. And I said, just don't worry about it. I just go. So he went. He spent three days with De Niro, and De Niro was like, you know, taking notes.

How do you wear your hat? How do you hold your cigar? And, you know, tell me how to... say this in Sicilian so then he came back and then De Niro wanted him to come to the set and my dad said I ain't going at a set you know this is like you know a movie right with De Niro we grew up watching and my dad's like I ain't so I said just come to the set and hang out so my dad was on set teaching De Niro how to do blowouts and die jobs so we should make it clear

that Sebastian's father does hair and and was a hairdresser for your whole life, right? Yeah, so he cut my hair until I left the house at, I think, 23. Does he still want to cut your hair now? He cut my hair about four years ago

and I said that's it. No, he's falling apart. I mean, he's fall apart and his shoulders falling off and it's not easy getting old

it is not easy yet especially at that age now every time I talk to my parents it's like you know I'm not being right okay is it true that

Sicilians have great hair I don't know I'm losing a lot of my hair it's a lot of dust up there it's a lot of I use a pepper yeah So it's called a fiber.

I do a lot of pepper before I come up there. I got someone back there with a pepper milk. With like the parmesan greater and just like a little bit more? But, you know, I do want to talk about you on stage because I do, I love watching you perform because, as we talked about earlier, you are physical. And a lot of people, you know, on stage, kind of like neck down or disconnected from their body when they're telling jokes. They're, like, telling it from their head. And you really do tell it from your bodies, your whole body when you perform. Did you always like to move as a kid?

Like, were you, like, are you a physical guy? Like, do you like, I know you like to dance. I've seen you dance a lot. Like, do you, I mean, not to get to, you know. You don't know what I'm talking about. Well, I do know what you're talking. I feel like you shake it out. I, I, I, come on, everybody knows you shake it out.

I shake it out, but it's not, I don't think it's because I have like an anxiety for anything. My shaking out is a little bit more just, just for the performance. I do like to move my hands and be physical and have facial expressions when I'm talking. Yes. I just, it took that and just made it a little bit more grand when I'm on stage. Do you have any people that when you were growing up, like physical comedians that you loved? John Ritter. is my

I was just saying Are you kidding me? I just said backstage We were talking about physical Because I was talking about you And I was like I love how physical Sebastian is And I said to me John Ritter was

He was my favorite Right Threys Company for you Young people Go watch Thre's Company And you're going to see Yeah unbelievable Unbelievable like a master

of physical comedy Even though John wasn't a stand-up But I took a lot of what he was I used to watch Three's company, like game tape growing up, over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get on the hammock when he fell off. So all those little movements, and then he would hit himself and come up and have this daze looked on. So all that stuff I really incorporated. So he was a big inspiration for me.

But yeah, the physicality for me is it's just, it's fun to do. It's like a fun thing for me to do. And I got to keep myself entertained up there as well. Yeah, I bet, because you did, what, 80, whatever shows this year? Yeah, it was a lot. Eighty-four shows, I think I did. Dang. Do you ever do two a days?

I used to, but no more. No more. No more. Just too tired at the end. I'm old. Yeah. Well, Tina and I were on tour, and we would do, you know what our favorite thing was? A 4 o'clock show.

Oh, man. Incredible. You never do a 4. No, I didn't know comedy during the day. You got to do a four. It'll change your life. Four o'clock show? You're done by 6.30?

No, I like the concept. I just, I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go, wait, four o'clock, we ain't going to. I got to tell you, every single person at that four o'clock show was pumped. Am I wrong? They wanted to, they wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep. Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and you get a white snack.

How do you feel about sleep? I always like to talk to people about sleep on Good Hang. What is your sleep routine when you're on the road? And is it different than when you're home? Yes. It's difficult on the road just because I just came, like last night, I had the worst sleep because three hours and a plane and I got to adjust and whatnot.

But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed sadly after I tuck my kids in. I love this. Talk to me about the time. So I'm in bed about, I'd say about 9 o'clock. Incredible. Sebastian, this is my audience. We love bedtime. We love bedtime.

All we think about is bedtime. We love bedtime. 9 p.m. is a winner move. It is. I try to be consistent with the sleep, just because if it starts to vary and then it gets screwed up on the other end because generally speaking,

I get up around 6 o'clock regardless of what time I go to sleep, right? Are you doing any sleep, 8-sleep mattress, ring? No, I have a CPAP machine because I have... You're wearing a breather, whatever the hell that is? A breather? Whatever the hell it is? I thought only, like, typically speaking...

Exactly. I know it's usually... I thought there's like a man thing. Right. No, lucky for me, it's not just a man thing. You're right. It usually is a man thing. Have you ever heard a woman going, I got to travel with this thing?

I never heard of that, right? I never heard of, I'm sorry. Not a lot of women are doing that. Well, I've always. I've always been ahead of my field. No, yeah, it's pretty sexy stuff. It's pretty sexy stuff. But yeah, I have, I am a sleeve apnea, so I wear a steamp machine.

And I got to tell you, I love it. It's changed my life. I love it. Okay. I would never change it for the world. I love it so much. It's totally changed my life. anybody who's thinking about it

just for fun anybody who wants to try it for fun do it it's great I've heard it it's very beneficial incredible do you do it consistently every night

course gotta do it every night and it puts you right to sleep it's it's like the sound and it has air like water so it's like

hydrated, so you never, ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff, because you're always hydrated. You put your lip balm on, your creams, you hydrate, and then you go. And then you look like a fighter pilot and you go to sleep.

But what's your bedroom, bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions, because I bet you have a skincare routine. I do. I do. I do have a skin care. A little toner, little face cream. And, and, and, you're And I put a little cologne on before. I got a little nighttime cologne. Different than daytime cologne?

Yeah, I shower prior to bed. Of course. Do a full load. I say the last two years I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe. Oh, very good. All right. What kind of brand you got going there? We'll cut it out, don't worry.

It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall because, again, my wife is just giving me stuff like that. Here, use this lotion. Oh, okay. Smart. You don't want to give them free stuff. I get it. There's one.

A lot of them I can't pronounce. Some of them are French. Okay. So, and then I've been doing this cologne routine, where I do five sprays in my palm. I get it hot, and I neck it. And I go to bed. And then in the morning, what I've been doing,

and this is something maybe you guys should try tomorrow. I've been doing two different colognes one on the front and one on the back so you get one cent coming and one cent going it's a beautiful technique wow

are you in the men cologne I mean sure and also the the front and back is genius because it's like beautiful I thought I knew him. He's still a mystery to me.

I mean, you're on tour all the time. Who's making you laugh right now? Like, do you watch comedy? Do you like to go? No. No, I know. I don't either. It's just a busman's holiday.

But, like, do you, what do you, what do you, how do you, do you watch stuff to make you laugh? Do you watch videos? Do you watch other comics? I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it. I look like at documentaries. I like drama. If I want to laugh, I got a friend back in Chicago's name is George. I'll call him.

Tell us about George. He's one of these guys that just, he's funny. He's like we can talk about daily life and he just makes me laugh. So George is kind of my go-to for comedy. But as far as stand-up comedy, I don't like. watching it generally just because I don't know I mean I like to laugh I like to see what people doing maybe a special come on I'll see five minutes of somebody and then I'll and I'll just turn it off if I really like it the last one I watched from

from front the back was Janice Pappas yes a couple couple special ago I thought was really really funny and he caught me on a night where you know I was so like giddy and laughing so yeah generally speaking though I'm like documentary serious I love it serious I love serious I love serious yeah um do you watch anything like do you watch reality TV do you care about that my wife got me into love is blind um so now and then what are you laughing at I guess the question is do you believe it is this show I mean come on the concept of it is cute oh I'm gonna fall in love with somebody and then on the inside and then you know but that's half you know you know you're gonna eventually

come out and look at the person. If they got no teeth, you know, it's a problem. They got to walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their assault. I mean, love is blind is, for me, like, for people who are listening who might not know, you know, they talk, and then they finally see each other after they meet each other just from talking.

And my mirror neurons, like, I get so codependently stressed when those doors open. And the body language, show was so stressful. When they're like, hey. When they go from like arms open to just like pat, pat, pat. Oh, yoy, yoy. And the way that, like the body never lies.

Like the way when they go in for the kiss and it's just like, they just turn. They just turn, they turn their mouth away and give them the cheek. Oh, it's brutal. Or she could be that too, but it's brutal. No, I can't handle that. All right. So you like dark stuff? Well, I mean, dark.

It's just like, I don't know. Serious moments I tend to laugh at and find funny. Like, my wife will be telling me a serious story. And I'll just bust out laughing. She's, what the, what's wrong with you? I don't know. I'm thinking about something that's funny pertaining to what you're saying. Yeah.

I know what you mean. Okay, so you've got a new special coming out. Yeah. Another hour plus the material. It takes you how long to get new. material? I don't know. It's been averaging like three, three years. Every three years I come up with an hour. It's difficult because what you want to do going into these specials is you want it to be equal to or greater than the last one, right? Yeah. And it's difficult because, you know,

a lot of comedians have a lot of their best material coming out at a gate because they've been working so long and now they're going to, you know, and then, you know, people expect a certain level from you. So I'll take it very serious to make these specials kind of special because I felt like my last one I was going through injury. I had sciatic pain on my right leg. No way. And it was very hard for me to move around. Too much play. Too much play. A lot of play. And I felt like I couldn't perform like I normally would perform just because I was in pain. I couldn't move. Plus I dressed in a tuxedo. I'm like, I'm going to try something different, right? Yeah. I'm going to bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra.

So I wanted the audience to dress up and this, 20 people dressed up. And I felt very hampered in a tuxedo. I couldn't move in a tuxedo. So I wanted to like kind of correct that with this special and I have no more

sciatica and no more tuxedo. Do you do a good, do you have a good sciatica stretch? Do you keep up on that? I do. I take a ball. Yeah. Tennis ball, a cross ball. What kind of ball?

It is a, it's like a ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay. And I put it right here in my soaz. Yes. And I roll. You guys know what that is, right? Yeah, I feel like this is like a health related section. We're doing sleep.

Now we're doing sciatica. We got to sleep. We got to keep. We got to get all the tips. Okay. Put it in your soas. And roll it. Like, so you get on the floor and then you,

You basically lay on it and roll. A lot of the, I believe from my research, which is Instagram, a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body, particularly in the soaz. And I have a very tight soaz region. Not to brag. I got a big soas. Okay.

So what I've learned, you and Pete have been doing your podcast. podcast for 12 years. What do you like about doing it? What have you learned? Like, what's the best thing about having a podcast? Like, what do you like about it? What I use it for is long form storytelling. So Pete and I are like, you know, he's a beer and peanut guy. I'm a wine and cheese guy. We're very opposites in the way we kind of conduct our life. And he's so funny and so quickwitted. And he's a great listener. And like a lot of times when you're telling a story, you know this. You know, like story has beats to it.

And, you know, if somebody tells me, Amy, tell that story about that, that, that, that, I'll look at the crowd. And I don't know if you do. It's not a crowd, but like a group of people. And I go, I'm not telling that story because I know the attention span of where we're at, right? I know the story needs to breathe and whatnot. But Pete allows me to really kind of go off on a tangent with a lot of the stories. And he adds great commentary. So we're not guest-driven.

We don't really have a lot of guests just because we have so much fun talking to one another. But we've been doing this for 12 years. We basically, it's like a recorded phone call. Yeah. And we have a ball. And that's kind of what I get out of the podcast. As Pete was saying, we don't really have. I mean, we have a loyal fan base.

I mean, nothing like this, this army you have that comes out to see you. But it is, I mean, if you're looking for, like, really just storytelling and comedic storytelling, that's what I believe, podcast. podcasting has done for us is just give us an opportunity. Because, you know, when you do stand up, you need it to be tight. Yeah. You need it to be hitting it all cylinders with the podcast. You know, you guys or whoever's listening to it could be in, you know, your bathroom

getting ready, you're working out and whatnot. So, yeah, you chuckle here and there. It's funny. But, yeah, it's been a pleasure working with him and we plan on doing it. I mean, you know, it's like a, it's a labor of love for us. Yeah, that's great because, and the best thing about it, did I feel like is, you know, with these like longer extended conversations, you can figure out your, like you can figure out how you feel about things in real time. Like you, you can hear

people kind of sort through their like value system in a way, but also just like they like figure out life in real time with someone else. Like it's kind of cool to hear that. And, um, and because of that, I want to throw out some things and I just want to get your take about how you feel about them. Okay, so we're going to do a little speed round. Oh, good. Okay. Shoeless households. Okay. It's a big debate. Yeah. Because I do a joke about going over to somebody's house and they ask, could you please remove your shoes? And I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man. I don't, I don't feel like I should be walking around somebody else's house in my socks. I just don't feel confident.

Once a man loses his shoes, you can't really debate any other man. It's like you're in your socks, guy. Come on. But, you know, there's people out there that are very adamant. How dare you, you know, come in with shoes on? You know how much stuff is on the bottom of your shoes. You're going to traips that into the house.

Yeah, okay, fine. I get it. It hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years. No one's ever got sick. I'm like, did somebody come in there with their shoes in? So if you come by the house, people will be kind and go, oh, do you want me to take my shoes off? And I feel so good when I go, nah.

Leave them on. Especially women, man. They love shoes. They come over with a nice heel. And they go, okay, let me take them. I know they're going to walk around barefoot. Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet? What's on, what's on, what kind of bacteria?

That might be even worse than a shoe. Now Pete was talking what's about misophonia. Yeah. Are you a germaphobe? I'm not a germaphobe. I wouldn't say. I'm not wiping down the plane seat when I walk on the plane. But I'm like, I often look at people in how they kind of conduct

their lives and go, how to hell could you be doing that here? You know? I just feel like there's no, like, you know, you go on an airplane and people will take their shoes off and their bare foot and then they walk into the bathroom. Oh. Not okay. Wow. Not okay.

So, with this misophonia, if you don't know what it is, and it's, again, Pete said I was not diagnosed with it. Yeah, his question I think was, when are you going to get properly diagnosed. Well, I don't think I need to. I just feel like if you were opening up a bag of chips right now and eating Doritos, my window of tolerance for that is very small. It could be anything. People want to, you know, a typing, heavy typers.

You don't like a heavy type. Oh, God. I mean, like, if you're, like, banging on the keyboard and you're at Starbucks and I'm waiting in line, I will just hear the keyboard and nothing else. I get drowned out all other sounds. Like a tom. crew's a movie like it's amazing it really is amazing and I don't want to get rid of this because I feel like not only do I have a sensitivity to sound but also just people in general their behavior and I feel if I if I lose the misophonia I'm going to lose the ability or my radar to detect that that guy hasn't laughed at all right so that's why I keep the disease Yeah.

Wedding registries. Wedding registries. Oh, that's a good one. We had a registry when we got married. I have no problem with it. I don't pay attention to it because, again, growing up in Italian family, we often brought money to the wedding.

So you put some cash in an envelope, and then, you know, you don't bring a toaster or a blender, whatever. I just, you know, nice cash envelope. I think everybody likes, especially when you're getting started. It used to be, you know, people got married kind of young and they needed a start, right? Oh, here's $500. You know, go buy something to get your life started. But now it's like, I don't know, man. It's like the parents are bankrolling a lot of these kids today. I mean, It's amazing.

And it got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in there. Yeah, this is New York City, yeah. Look at how quiet it got. Yeah. Your mother paid for the tickets tonight. Yeah, everybody turned to their mother who they're with and said, I don't know what he's talking about. Is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts?

I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture. They'll go to the service. sweet table. Italians have a sweet table and they'll take a styrophone to-go thing that they hand out. Okay. And they'll take the cookies and the soietel. They'll take it all

home. I'm like, come I have this for breakfast tomorrow. I just think it's a tacky move. I don't like to go at a wedding. I've never seen that. No, come to one of my weddings. You'll see it. Pets. Should people have

them? Should people have pets? I have to tell you I've never had a pet up until a year ago I got a dog we've got two dogs now so we got them for the kids

I'm not a huge animal lover it's I like animals but like I'm not you know coming home and I don't take it out to get coffee or you know

I'm taking it out an airplane I just felt like we had a pet in the neighborhood growing up. His name was Edelow. It's the male version of Italy. That's the name the dog, Eatalo. And it lived in the garage year round. I mean, it would be 13 below it. And the dog would be in the garage.

I don't know. It was just kind of like there, the dog. It wasn't like the focal point of the home. Right. It was just like, yeah, you're all right. Okay. But now the dogs are up here, and it's the petting. It bothers me.

I'm sorry. It's just... What kind of dog did you get? Cats, forget it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm allergic to cats. That's why I don't like them, but God, I don't even go to people.

I got a good friend. He's got a cat. He's got two cats. I go, I can't come to the house. until they can't stay. I can't. Yeah. Amy Miles has cats,

and she had a cat that really tried to almost, like, become your lover. Like, the cat would... And I was saying, I feel the same way about cats. Like, I feel fine with them, and I think they're great. But I don't really want...

I'm a tiny bit allergic, like, just a little bit, so I try not to touch them, and because of it, they're obsessed with me. Oh, God. That's terrible. I just ignore them.

them and they just come up and crawl and they get in your clothes and Amy used to have a cat named Nosferatu who would try to suck your spirit out of your mouth. So I understand. Yelling. How do you feel about yelling? I mean, I don't know. A good yell every now and then is healthy. Do you yell at your kids? Yeah. I know at my kids. Again, I'm not one of these parents that gets on the same level as their kids and go, just tell me what you're going through. It's not that. I think a good dose of a yell, not a lot because with raising kids, you have to act sometimes like you're psychotic. And if you lose your composure, the kids will go, wow, we don't want to see that again. Right? So a good yell, I think every now and

And sets the family straight. I agree. Oh, you're getting some applause. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be here. Santa Claus.

We had a problem with Santa Claus. Again, this is another thing I'm not into. My daughter accused my wife and I of being Santa Claus. This is when she was five years old. And I wasn't ready for it. I thought Santa Claus discussions normally happen maybe around 8 to 10 to 11. So I'm like, what the five?

That's a little young. So I came out of the room. I asked my wife, I go, get on this text story that you're with the moms and find out what's going on at school. We found out that a lot of parents tell their kids there's no Santa because they don't want to lie to their kids. right now I'm thinking that's all I do is lie to my kids right eat your carrots

you're gonna see better yeah so I got so upset yeah I was at a Christmas party there was a Santa Claus there so I'm telling Santa generally speaking when I go to these parties you dance I talked to like the waiters and the people that are working in the party I got it got it I get so I'm talking to Santa back of the house. Yeah, go back to the house. Yeah, we're back to the house. So I talked to the Santa, and I said,

you know, a kid don't believe. And he goes, well, I offer a service where I could come to the house. So what I got? This is in Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I'll come to the house on Christmas Eve. And I'll put the presents down.

Right? So 12.30 at night, this guy comes. I put my robe in the driveway Come, come this right, the tree's over here, Santa. She comes in, I wake up the kids. I go, Santa's here. We come, we look at Santa. And then the kids go back to bed.

I peel off three hunge for this drunk Santa in my house. And now the kids, you know, they believe again. So I highly recommend it. You get a Santa to come to your house. It's incredible. Incredible. Wow.

And I guess the last question I want to ask you, Sebastian. And thank you so much for your time. And again, check out Sebastian's new special on Hulu and all of the good work that he's doing. It's so great to have you. Thank you so much for doing this. It's been so fun. Can you just talk me through how you cook your steak?

Okay. Because it feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear, and I want to talk about it. Okay. I like these questions. So I found this video, this was about 10 years ago online about the reverse sear. Basically what it is is you take the steak out of a refrigerator, you leave it set for about 30 minutes, get at the room temperature. I like to do mine about 45 feet. 50 minutes, just let it get used to the atmosphere.

And what kind of cut are we talking about? You used to like a ribbi. Now I'm on to New York strip because the ribby got a lot of fat on it. And at this age, you know, I could go at any minute. So I'm doing New York strip steak and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it right from the hair. And then I set the oven to $2.75. I put it in there for about 45 minutes. After the 45 minutes, I take it out.

I let it rest for 15. All the while, I got a cast iron skillet white hot. I do a sear for about a minute, each side cut and serve with a little rosemary. lining the serving plate. I like garnish on a plate when it comes to the table because a lot of times when you have steak, there might be a little, you know,

blood or whatever kind of moving throughout the plate. And I like the stems of rosemary. It kind of adds a nice touch. So... Anything else in the pan? Like, no butter? No. I know a lot of people do a little oil, maybe, garlic, and then they kind of baste it.

Do the spoon. No, this is a... You don't need it. You You want a shout-out and a sponsor for this? Snake River Farm meat is probably the best meat that you can give. You've got to order it online, though. I've been promoting this meat company for a while. For real? And not one free filet. I'm the guy that gets nothing.

Like, Amy probably has a bunch of stuff coming to the house, right? Swag. Here's this. Here's that. We understand you've got a band. Here's a guitar. Right? I give nothing.

Nothing is sent to me. No, here, try this, try that. I got no boxes. DJ Callet is constantly opening up a watch or shoes. I got nothing. And what's your sides? Before you go, I need to know what are you serving with your steak? So we like to do a fingerling potato.

Whoa, not what I expected. What did you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed. Funny you say that. I started doing mashed because my kitchen is being remodeled right now. I can't cook. But I started doing mashed potatoes prior to the kitchen remodel. And, you know, it's a little bit labor intensive.

Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed. Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mash. But the fingerling is sufficing for now, and then I'll put a green in there. I'll put a broccoli, and I'll put a little asparagus. I'm trying to get the kids to eat healthy with this kind of grab-and-go stuff that I'm not into the processed foods, although, you know, I'm not saying that I'm eating so well. But, you know, you want to give the kids a nice. No, here's a little tip I tell people with young kids that I'll share with you too.

I learned it from my brother who lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife and family. They do this. I don't know if it's sweet. It's probably not Swedish. Just what they do. But like when dinner time is almost ready, like that hungry time and like you're 536 when the kids are about to eat and food is cooking, they just put a big plate of vegetables with like ranch or hummus on the table.

And your kid is hungry. And they eat a bunch of carrots and celery just as a snack because it's not part of their dinner, like, but the minute you put it on the plate with anything like pizza or pasta or anything, they're not going to eat it. But if you slide it in there before dinner, when they're hungry, they'll have a few

carrot sticks. They don't even know they're eating it. You know, that does sound good in theory. Okay. But how prone are you to, you know, cut some carrot radishes? We've got this beautiful tray

of vegetables, and one, One carrot, and then who's eating the rest of the vegetables, right? I know. Are you going to knock them out? No, they're going into garbage. You're right. Cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare. But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day.

What's your vegetable? Favorite. Well, I love anything in the pea family. So I love a pee. I love a, you know, what do you call it, a, Snap pea, thank you. I love a pea. I love an asparagus.

I love a potato. Does I count as a vegetable? Yeah, it doesn't? I don't know. Mushroom, I love a mushroom. Okay, a mushroom. So, what's your favorite fruit? I feel like some kind of like savory,

like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice. No, no, no, no, I had food. Did you hear fruit? Oh, you said fruit? Yeah, food. You said it like this. Food. What's your favorite food?

What's your favorite food? What's your favorite food? What's your favorite fruit? My favorite fruits? Food, yeah. Food. is, um, I don't know, a plum. A plum?

Oh, wow. What's your favorite fruit? What's your favorite fruit? Fruit is a banana or a strawberry. It's a toss-up. Yeah. And a vegetable, I like an asparagus. I really...

I love an asparagus. I'd really dig in the asparagus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or a banana over a vegetable any day a week. You'd go fruit over vegating. I go fruit. Food. Wow. And you've got this audience.

As we wrap up, I guess, raise your hand. Raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg. Wow. Look at that. I can't even see the people up the top. That's impressive. The people on the side on the park ride are all veg. Nobody's voting fruit.

Unbelievable. Well, you found your audience, Sebastian. I did. That's my group of people. Give it up, everybody. For Sebastian, Manus Golfo. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me here.

I really appreciate it. Thank you. Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Burman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Katz-Belaine, Kaya McMullen, and Alea Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.