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The Magic Man w/ Sebastian Maniscalco

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54:00

I was shooting for a week. He wants to meet

54:02

you right now. I don't know why. They urgently drive

54:04

me there. And I walk onto

54:06

set and they're all there. Like, Kay,

54:08

Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, everybody.

54:10

And then Eli comes out. He goes,

54:12

hey, I just wanted to meet you, man. Dude, thanks

54:14

for doing it. He gave me a hug. Everyone

54:16

was super nice. Like, hey, we're gonna have dinner tonight.

54:19

You know what I mean? And then in my mind,

54:21

I'm like, oh, they're just regular people. But

54:23

in our minds, we build it up to this thing where

54:25

it's like, don't lock eyes with them, or you might go,

54:27

you know what I mean? You might be out, you know?

54:30

And you hear some of these nightmarish stories. You know, you've

54:32

heard that before. But it's like, that hasn't

54:34

really been my experience. I just, you know, you too,

54:36

right? When you're with Zac Efron and John

54:38

Cena, I mean. Those guys never talk to me. Not

54:42

one word. The whole filming is. Yes, they did.

54:44

You went to Russell Crowe's house? Yeah, we did.

54:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so are you

54:48

on set, the comic relief?

54:51

Are people coming to you? Are you Mr.

54:53

Like, personality? With that movie was a comedy.

54:55

And so, yeah, and Pete Fairley and I

54:57

were like, you know, I would stand around

54:59

him and just, we would pitch

55:01

each other jokes. I mean, that was like a, I've

55:04

never done a serious film in my life. So I

55:06

don't know. I don't know what that would feel like

55:08

to do like a real, for me,

55:10

it's everything I've touched is like a goofball. It's

55:13

wacky. So it doesn't, there is no pressure in that

55:15

regard. But. That's

55:18

an interesting point because Scorsese, it's

55:20

out of our, it's

55:22

not in our world, right? It's like,

55:24

you have, you're playing with the

55:26

greatest actors ever to live. You

55:29

know what I mean? I mean, and

55:31

I know you, you're a comedy star

55:34

comic. I saw you the

55:36

first time you ever went up. Remember

55:38

that? Remember that one time you came over with that

55:40

one line for that HBO show was I had somebody

55:42

with a plane or something and we

55:44

rehearsed it over. It wasn't even in that condo on

55:46

Beechwood, right? And I'm like, you're gonna get this

55:48

sad. And you didn't get it. And I remember you

55:51

being kind of bummed you didn't get it, right? But my point is, is

55:53

that, so this is the world you come

55:55

from. So I guess, you know, in many ways, it's a

55:57

little different what dealing with

55:59

Scorsese disadvantage.

58:00

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I mean,

58:03

when I did that movie, Hungry, Remember the

58:05

Shoes and what I said? So

58:07

I was, I show up to Budapest.

58:09

I don't know anybody and my agents were like, no

58:12

one's gonna hang out with you. You have a month there alone.

58:14

You're gonna be alone. So I show

58:16

up to my fucking hotel room and work the Four

58:18

Seasons in Budapest and I, there's a letter on my,

58:21

on my bed. Dear Bobby, you know,

58:23

I don't know you but

58:27

can you one have lunch tomorrow at noon. It

58:29

was by Jamie Lee Curtis, a huge

58:31

fan, right? I couldn't sleep

58:33

that night. I was like, what am I gonna say?

58:35

I gotta do something. You know, I think I rewatch Halloween or so I

58:37

don't know what the fuck I got. Right.

58:40

And I show up, pleasant lunch, then

58:42

some of the other actors show up and Jamie goes,

58:45

I want to show you guys something that's

58:47

very important here in Budapest. So we

58:49

walk over to the river. You know,

58:52

along this river, there's these bronze shoes that

58:54

are kind of like cemented into the fucking

58:57

ground and it's, you know, she explains

58:59

during Nazi Germany, the Germans came in

59:01

here and they killed a lot of

59:03

Jews and they threw them over

59:06

the, into the river. So one of the actors,

59:08

Cheyenne Jackson goes, oh

59:10

no, these are

59:12

baby shoes. Right. And like a fucking

59:14

moron, I go, it

59:16

could have been a... Well,

59:19

this is, this is reminiscent of Travolta.

59:21

Yeah, you're right. And then the whole

59:24

group walked away from it. Yeah. And

59:26

I went and they didn't get a laugh. And

59:28

I went, oh yeah, you're not at the store.

59:31

Right. You know what I mean? So I have

59:33

to literally like go, this is

59:35

Bobby, you know what I mean? In a movie,

59:37

this is Bobby amongst comics. And it's that kind

59:39

of stuff that keeps you out of Mitzi's office

59:42

at the end of the day. That's

59:44

kind of an alarm. I think that's what it is. That's really, yeah.

59:46

Yeah, I think that's what it is. That kind of stuff. So I

59:48

did read that wrong. It's a bad joke. It's a bad joke. It's

59:50

a bad joke, but also you were trying to lighten the mood. I

59:52

was trying to be funny. Give it some levity. Even

59:55

if I was at the comedy store. It

1:00:00

wouldn't have landed. It wouldn't have landed. No. But

1:00:03

that's because you're nervous. Yeah. I'm

1:00:05

nervous. I'm like, I want people to like

1:00:07

me. You know what I mean? I told you, I've said

1:00:09

this on here, but we've told this story, but same thing.

1:00:11

I had when Jim Carrey was my boss and I'm dying

1:00:13

up here and we were eating and

1:00:16

conversation was going great. It

1:00:18

was about comedy. So we're in our zone. You

1:00:20

know what I mean? Like it was perfect. It was like,

1:00:22

we're ping pong. And I was like, holy shit. He's telling

1:00:24

me guys he loved. I'm saying bits that I love from

1:00:27

guys from back in the day. And we're going back and

1:00:29

forth, back and forth. And then there was

1:00:31

like a little lull. And I was like, so where are you

1:00:33

like, where are you living these days? And he

1:00:35

was like, everywhere,

1:00:38

man. Where is everybody living? And

1:00:41

I was like, fuck. Fuck.

1:00:45

And it was an inescapable. I

1:00:47

don't get what he's saying though. He's trying to say dumb

1:00:49

question. I don't want to talk about it. Oh.

1:00:52

I'm going to tell you where I fucking live. Yeah.

1:00:54

It was like a none of your business.

1:00:56

A nice way of being like none of your business, a

1:00:58

little bit. Not that he wasn't so gracious.

1:01:01

I think it was a way of being like, I

1:01:03

don't really talk about where I live to people. Do you know

1:01:05

what I mean? In his mind, it's like. He could have done

1:01:08

like a Brentwood kind of a thing. I think he was just

1:01:10

goofing around a little bit, but it was a little like, hey,

1:01:12

come on. Yeah. We're

1:01:14

not going to get close. You know what I mean? He

1:01:17

was kind of like saying like, this is the one that's dinner.

1:01:21

Like do you text Robert De Niro or no?

1:01:23

No. So after you did two movies

1:01:25

with him. He played your

1:01:27

dad in, what's the family? About my father.

1:01:29

About my father? Right. And

1:01:32

after the premiere, after all that, you never talked to him

1:01:34

again. There might've

1:01:37

been one exchange of a text message,

1:01:39

but no, we didn't have that type

1:01:41

of relationship. You know, we did the scene.

1:01:43

He sat down at his chair

1:01:45

and I don't know, opened up a

1:01:48

noble and I was learning my life.

1:01:50

Well. So

1:01:52

there was never like, hey, you want to grab a bite after this? No.

1:01:56

Wow. No. Those guys also

1:01:58

are the age gap. They're seven. They've been

1:02:00

doing this for so long. They probably like a system.

1:02:02

A lot of those guys, they like it their way.

1:02:04

They kind of want to... Yeah,

1:02:07

but I'm doing the pitch today, right? I was like, they're

1:02:09

like, what actors do you think? And I'm low ball, like

1:02:11

people I can get. How

1:02:13

about the guy that's on NCIS or whatever it might be,

1:02:15

right? The eighth lead, right? I

1:02:18

mean, for him to go De Niro

1:02:20

is insane. Yeah, it's wacky. Did

1:02:22

you ask him personally or you went through agents and

1:02:24

stuff? No. We,

1:02:27

the producer of our film, had worked with

1:02:29

Robert before and they reached out to him

1:02:31

and said, hey, I got a script you

1:02:33

might well like. He read it. We got

1:02:36

wind from his team that he really enjoyed

1:02:38

it and he wanted to read it out

1:02:40

loud, get it up on its feet around

1:02:43

with a bunch of actors. So the

1:02:45

studio hired a bunch of actors in New York.

1:02:47

We all sat around the tables. You flew to

1:02:49

New York? Yeah. For a table room. No, he

1:02:51

walked. He walked in here. I

1:02:53

flew to New York. To fly to a city for a

1:02:55

table room, you would do that? If Robert fucked De Niro...

1:02:57

Yeah, you're right. You're right. Goes, hey,

1:02:59

kid, I need you in the Maldives in

1:03:01

an hour and a half on your own

1:03:04

dime. I'd be like, I will

1:03:06

fucking rent a private jet, Robert De Niro.

1:03:08

What level would you not do it? Let

1:03:10

me throw some actors. Kerry

1:03:12

Elway's. From

1:03:15

a Prince's bride. I

1:03:17

do love him. He's great. I need you

1:03:19

in New York right now. And

1:03:21

I would say, my sweet Wesley, I'm on my way. You

1:03:24

would say, yes, Kerry Elway's. I

1:03:26

don't know, man. What's the project? It's

1:03:28

a great movie. What is it? It's

1:03:30

a movie about... Do it in a

1:03:33

British accent. Hello. It's a movie about...

1:03:35

He's English. Kerry

1:03:39

Elway's is English? I

1:03:41

thought... His name's Kerry? I thought

1:03:43

it was a woman. You

1:03:46

don't know who Kerry Elway's is? No. He's Brita.

1:03:48

You've never heard of... He didn't

1:03:50

have one in the Prince's bride. Oh,

1:03:52

interesting. So his accent was different in a movie than it

1:03:54

is in real life. I didn't never seen an interview room,

1:03:56

so I don't know. So what about... What

1:03:58

have Seb called? 31

1:12:00

o'clock spot. So that terrible, terrible spots.

1:12:03

I did a corporate for five adult.

1:12:05

Five people, was it planned for five or

1:12:08

five showed up? No, he had a,

1:12:10

there was a day, I can't mention the

1:12:12

names, but I'll tell you afterwards, but he

1:12:14

had a tough day, canceled the party, and

1:12:16

decided to keep just the three,

1:12:18

four other confidants with him, and I still

1:12:21

had to perform. And I couldn't

1:12:23

say no because the check cleared, so I was like,

1:12:25

okay. Good money? Huh? Pretty

1:12:27

good money? Yeah, well I fucking did it. Was

1:12:30

this at a home or a banquet hall? It was at

1:12:32

a resort. Wow. But

1:12:35

in a banquet room? In a restaurant

1:12:37

at the resort that they had. This

1:12:39

man owns the resort, which is even more, it's like

1:12:41

all his. Wow. So he sent everyone home, and I

1:12:44

was like, okay. And

1:12:46

I grabbed the arm of the girl who

1:12:48

was like liaisoning me. Like they gave me

1:12:50

like a house, and I was in the

1:12:52

house hanging, watching TV, eating a great meal.

1:12:54

I was just so excited. I think I

1:12:56

called my dad. I was like, I'm

1:12:59

having a fucking weekend, man. This is amazing. Then

1:13:01

we get in a golf cart, we go to

1:13:03

the restaurant, and I grab her elbow like a

1:13:06

scene out of a sitcom. I go, what's going

1:13:08

on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I

1:13:10

was like, how is this? And she goes, change

1:13:13

of plans. It was a tough day. I

1:13:15

think he just wants to keep it intimate, and it's just

1:13:17

gonna be the boys. They just ate, they wanna drink and

1:13:19

laugh, and then they're gonna smoke cigars around the fire

1:13:22

pit if that's okay. I was like, well it's

1:13:24

not okay. But

1:13:26

it's over. Like what could

1:13:28

I have done? And so then

1:13:30

I had to, I mean, I

1:13:33

worked out, because I just talked to

1:13:35

them. I mean, I just was goofing with them. You're

1:13:37

just basically having conversation, but you're standing up. Yeah,

1:13:39

and his friend was a fan. It was his birthday, so it

1:13:41

was kind of like a, the other guys had

1:13:44

no clue who I was. I mean, the other guys were like, what the fuck is this? Who

1:13:46

was this guy? It didn't matter. I was

1:13:49

just, but that was the most uncomfortable I felt

1:13:52

in all my years. You did the full time? I

1:13:55

think I probably was up there for 30 or 40, I

1:13:57

was just goofing. I would do 12. At

1:14:00

12, I'm like, hey, you usually

1:14:02

do 12. Yeah. That's

1:14:05

not a big shift. I'm

1:14:07

sorry, that's funny. That's funny, come on. It's

1:14:10

good, it's a slam. I've had people at clubs, when I

1:14:12

go to clubs sometimes, go, Bobby was here a couple years

1:14:15

ago. You know, he did 17 minutes.

1:14:19

I'll tell you why. Can I tell you what?

1:14:21

Let me defend myself. Can I defend myself? If

1:14:24

I'm not feeling it, I'm not doing it.

1:14:26

Okay. But there's a sign. Stop. Let

1:14:29

me finish, okay? Somebody, and I

1:14:31

don't know who, came up with

1:14:33

these rules. The feature, MC

1:14:36

does this now, feature does this, right? And this

1:14:38

and that. And my thing is, is

1:14:40

like, fuck the rules, all right? If I'm not feeling

1:14:43

it, and it's not going well,

1:14:45

I don't wanna make everyone suffer through an

1:14:48

abomination. It's not, never gonna be

1:14:50

fun. I know, but in my mind it is. So I'm like,

1:14:52

you know, at 17 minutes, and that only happened

1:14:54

like twice in my life. Right, you know what

1:14:57

guys? You win. I'm out. Wait

1:15:00

a minute, you're headlining and you do

1:15:02

17 minutes? Yeah. And

1:15:04

what are the people? There's a riot? No, there's a riot.

1:15:06

They just kinda, it's weird. They just get up slowly like,

1:15:09

is it over? You're right. And

1:15:11

then the waitresses freak out because they haven't put the checks down. So

1:15:14

I think one time I went out and go, hey guys, wait

1:15:17

for your checks. Just talk amongst yourselves. Fuck

1:15:20

you, I'm out. You know what I mean? And that

1:15:22

was it. Wow. It's true, that's unbelievable. And then the

1:15:24

manager comes back there and they go, 17

1:15:26

minutes, huh? I go, yeah. And

1:15:29

that's it? And they go, it doesn't matter. They're gonna pay you

1:15:31

anyway because no one got the refund. Right,

1:15:34

and it's a door deal, so fuck it. Only

1:15:36

a couple times that happens, okay? Couple. Yeah,

1:15:39

yeah. McCone, do yourself a favor right now since you've been

1:15:41

so quiet and polite. Why don't you say something nice to

1:15:43

our guest because I know you're a fan. So you can

1:15:45

go say something nice and that's it. I

1:15:48

mean, it's just. That'll be it, thank you so much. I appreciate

1:15:50

it. Yeah, that's it. You give them a

1:15:52

little bit, you don't want them to run too far. And we

1:15:55

know what you meant by that. We

1:15:57

do, we do. That's

1:16:00

good I'm

1:16:02

I will say can we go to the plug now

1:16:04

because he has it out and I don't okay. Okay.

1:16:06

Okay. Okay. Okay We'll make sure you

1:16:08

get gone. Let's get the plug Well,

1:16:11

don't say it like that. Oh, let's do it in an organic

1:16:14

way then We

1:16:24

can edit it so we get off of my cone I Said

1:16:29

it's so good to see you man. What's what's

1:16:31

what you got coming up? Well,

1:16:36

okay, you can keep that but then when we're going

1:16:38

to the tape, let's see how this works You

1:16:41

want two versions? Yeah to all right. Yeah, show

1:16:43

them both. Okay. Okay. Go ahead Well,

1:16:48

I'm gonna do my version yeah, go that's what I'm saying

1:16:50

go ahead with the fuck so, you

1:16:52

know I Being

1:16:54

on one of the top podcasts

1:16:57

in the world, right? I just

1:16:59

see it fitting Since

1:17:01

you have a podcast listening audience to

1:17:04

let them know that I have a podcast as well

1:17:06

It's called the Pete Sebastian show which we refer to

1:17:08

earlier. It's myself and Pete Correale Sometimes

1:17:11

we do the guests sometimes we have a fun

1:17:14

banter like you guys are doing right now He's

1:17:18

kind of like a beer and peanut guy I'm a wine

1:17:20

and cheese guy so kind of an odd couple vibe on

1:17:23

top of that I just got

1:17:25

done of filming a Show

1:17:28

called bookie, which is on max season

1:17:30

two season two is so if you

1:17:32

guys like gambling and and comedy,

1:17:35

it's kind of marries the two and Last

1:17:38

but not least I have a tour

1:17:41

that starts in Norfolk, Virginia July

1:17:45

11th, which is 94

1:17:48

shows over eight months it

1:17:50

is it ain't right and Pete's

1:17:53

going with me Pat McGann's going with me

1:17:55

and we're gonna rip through the

1:17:57

United States and And

1:17:59

have a beer So that's kind of what's going

1:18:02

on in my life. But I

1:18:04

couldn't be more grateful that you guys

1:18:06

asked me to come here and do

1:18:08

your show. And it's

1:18:11

just a pleasure to see all your success and

1:18:14

hard work paying off. One

1:18:16

last thing. Class. One last thing, though. And

1:18:19

I have to tell you, something distracted me. I

1:18:21

didn't do the I thing. I didn't do the I thing. No, no, something

1:18:23

else you did. Is

1:18:25

it me? What the fuck? I thought, yeah. What

1:18:28

was throwing me off a little bit was the

1:18:30

white fingernail polish. I

1:18:32

don't know if it's polish or

1:18:35

paste or what the hell you

1:18:37

got. But I was

1:18:39

thrown off many a times with

1:18:42

the white fingernails. Is that

1:18:44

your new look? What is that? I haven't seen

1:18:47

that from you. Yeah, yeah. You haven't seen

1:18:49

a lot of things. Do

1:18:51

you get those? From where I'm

1:18:53

sitting, that looks like a satin finish. It's

1:18:56

it's gels. Right.

1:19:00

No, no, I'm talking about the others. You

1:19:02

get them buffed out. I got them buffed

1:19:04

out. Yeah. And it's so funny that you

1:19:06

bring it up, Sam, because I

1:19:09

learned to do manicures from

1:19:11

you. Thank

1:19:13

you. Yeah. Yeah. So it's

1:19:15

very interesting that something that

1:19:17

I learned from you, it's like, you know,

1:19:19

that commercial son. You know

1:19:22

what I mean? What is this marijuana? Where'd

1:19:24

you learn it from you, Dad? Right. Right.

1:19:26

So I learned that this behavior from you. And

1:19:28

yet you try to use it against me in

1:19:31

a weird way. Don't lean back.

1:19:33

Lean back. No, please lean back. It's

1:19:35

aggressive and lean back a little bit. Okay. Thank

1:19:37

you. All right. What's up, dude? I'm

1:19:41

flattered that you started taking care of

1:19:43

your hands. How about your feet? He's

1:19:47

going to show you their polish as well. They're

1:19:49

polished as well, Sebastian. You asked for it.

1:19:51

Yeah. Look at that. Yeah.

1:19:55

Listen, I

1:19:57

did. I did. Might have had some influence.

1:20:00

on you getting manicures and pedicures, but

1:20:04

for the record, I never had

1:20:07

anything other than a clear coat or a

1:20:09

buff. But you can't buy your kid a

1:20:11

guitar and be shocked when he becomes a

1:20:13

rock star. You're showing him

1:20:15

the ropes, the kid's gotta fly through. Right,

1:20:18

it gave me like a book. You gave yourself a ukulele and you

1:20:20

learned how to play the electric guitar and now that's what he's doing.

1:20:22

That's what he's doing. I thought it

1:20:24

was tape at first, almost like Michael

1:20:26

Jackson. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, it's not that.

1:20:29

It's shell, okay, I don't know what

1:20:31

the fuck that is, right? But anyway,

1:20:34

dude. You know I've never had one. Yeah, man don't do

1:20:36

that. Okay, I also wanna, let's

1:20:38

just throw this out. You wanna get fucking

1:20:40

beat up after the show? Anyway, thank

1:20:43

you for being a bad friend, thank you. Woo,

1:21:00

yeah.

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