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This is the Pete and Sebastian

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Show with

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Pete Correale and

2:11

Sebastian Maniscalco. Welcome

2:36

to the Pete Sebastian Show. We are here

2:38

with Carrot Top. This is a man that

2:40

I have watched.

2:43

I was watching you on Johnny Carson.

2:45

I think that's where I got introduced

2:47

to you. Old.

2:51

I saw him on Johnny Carson. He came out

2:53

and he had this box and

2:56

I was fascinated with the

2:58

speed at which he was doing

3:01

all these jokes. My

3:04

first question to you is, in

3:07

those days, do you know

3:12

just where you're going to go?

3:14

It looked like you were just like, oh, I got

3:16

this. That's how

3:19

it's supposed to come across. It's just kind of manic and

3:21

not really low, the next joke kind of thing. It's

3:24

definitely an organized outline mess. Although I

3:26

will say back on those shows, I

3:28

didn't have that kind of pattern

3:32

really because that was when you just put all

3:34

your greatest hits together and go into a spot.

3:36

When you take it all back to the show

3:38

show, it's all in a different order and a

3:40

different... The show we have here is

3:43

very organized and people say, well, it looks like

3:45

you just go... I said, well, I am. There's

3:47

sections where you can dance and get in and

3:50

out. You have to have the basics,

3:52

the beginning and the ending in somewhat of

3:54

a middle. But that is true. Those shows

3:57

were always a little bit more challenging because you

3:59

really did. and I was just doing

4:01

all the current events. You know, here's Bill Clinton's

4:03

podium and here's the thing and whatever, what happened

4:05

to be the joke. But it

4:07

was fast because I'm terrifying. I don't want time to get

4:09

out of there. So I do move,

4:12

I've slowed down. I do, the show has

4:14

a little more of a pace to it now

4:17

than it used to. Okay, so you're on

4:20

Johnny Carson. Is this for

4:22

you at the time your big splash into

4:24

kind of national recognition? Because I don't necessarily

4:26

know the story of how you got to

4:28

where you got to and what was your...

4:31

Yeah, that was the first year on Leno,

4:33

not Carson, but I wanted to keep it

4:35

going as long as we could. So

4:37

I didn't quite get on Carson. Oh, you did? But the

4:40

Carson people love me. The guy that booked a... McCullough,

4:44

whatever his name was, he loved me. It's weird, I'd

4:46

go down to the club and I would do a

4:48

satin hit and I'd kill him. He would say, you

4:50

know, every comic's like, dude, you know,

4:52

you are the Tonight Show. You're like, it's just

4:54

so perfectly for the TV. And they

4:56

would say, well, you know, Johnny hates, you

4:59

know, props and hates variety. And

5:01

I would say, but that's what's called television. It's

5:03

visually, that's what you want. And then I said,

5:05

well, his Karnak is props. Everything

5:08

he did before the, after the monologue

5:10

was a prop. Ed was

5:12

a fucking prop. I mean, everything was,

5:14

you know. Ha ha ha, he was.

5:16

Right, so I would say to them,

5:18

please, you know, like, this is great.

5:21

And they, and he said,

5:23

no offense to you. He probably would love you,

5:25

but I just know if I'd brought him this,

5:27

he would just, you know, blow up. So I

5:29

never ever, but every time he would say, he

5:31

said, dude, you're, and all of them. And

5:33

then I finally did, it was like, you

5:35

know, Johnny had just left and I was

5:37

on like the first week of, of J-Shows.

5:40

And, but everything was still there. The,

5:42

the same set, the same blue chairs,

5:45

the studio that you watched when you were a kid, the

5:48

gold star where Johnny stood. So it all

5:50

really, and Ed DeCordova was still there. Everyone,

5:52

except I think the band leader had

5:56

gone, except Ed was still there

5:58

and he's in his little booth. Like, all right, let's run. I

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could do so I would call the lady at the club and

34:02

say you know I've got two trunks Instead

34:05

of one okay, you get you

34:07

go up to three trunks. Oh like you feature

34:11

My kidding, yeah, yeah, that was the old joke in the

34:14

club you do five you do five you do a trunk

34:17

Before you were famous who's carrying the trunks are you making

34:20

three trips? I was making that I was carrying this and

34:22

and and there was so many comics that would again

34:24

Why they give me grief like you're not carrying my shit

34:26

Why would you care what I do like they would always

34:28

say that like you know be a prop

34:30

comic? And we're gonna carry this shit all around the country.

34:32

I said yeah like I said

34:34

eventually someone will You

34:37

know I mean since right someone's gonna carry the guitars

34:39

for the stones one day Vegas

34:43

and leave it all there baby carried my trunks.

34:45

I literally all the time just so so

34:49

You know you say that the leaf blower And

34:53

I'm sure this has happened. You know just

34:55

stand up straight stand up. You joke doesn't

34:57

go. It just doesn't go There

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is an element here. What you do is

35:02

there could be a malfunction Yeah, to one

35:04

of the so do you just call out

35:06

the malfunction? Yes? Absolutely

35:09

yeah, oh that didn't work or

35:12

no yeah, and it usually like people will say when they see the

35:14

show They said that was the funniest part that didn't work, and I'm

35:16

like well. It's supposed to work They said well

35:18

now you've saved it, and it's kind of like you know going

35:20

back to Carson

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I Think

35:25

every comic you know learned

35:29

From him and and kind of probably not

35:31

steals some of the things that he's always known

35:33

for But he would always save

35:35

a joke That was

35:37

just that was his fame as Thing

35:39

he could do yeah when he was up there and he goes turns

35:42

out that and then the thing he'd go So

35:45

yeah Whatever he did to

35:47

save it and it would save it just by him

35:49

making fun of the fact that it ate shit Yeah,

35:51

I thought that so I've always done that the show

35:53

is all if some eats it I'm the first to

35:55

say and what I do sometimes now like last night

35:57

I just did it three times in a row and

35:59

the crowd didn't Well,

38:00

you can get that way and get the fuck.

38:02

I said, supposed to shoot, be a lot funny

38:04

if it shot across. The tampon would shoot right

38:06

where Jay is. And Jay's like, I know, Carrot's

38:08

up on my head. So I bring it over,

38:10

put it down. We

38:12

go to commercial and I said, we come back to me,

38:14

it's gonna be fixed. So we can see, so yeah. So

38:16

we get it fixed and John came out and fucked with

38:18

it. It's all ready. And he says, yeah, I came back

38:20

to him. We're back with Carrot's up and I went, and

38:23

then it got a big laugh. And I said, ah, see,

38:27

Jay, you know, you dive live by the sword, you dive. I

38:29

said, yeah, I know. But it's

38:31

not how often that's happened. That was

38:33

one that I remember going, God damn

38:35

it, live television, fucking shit. Right, right.

38:38

So how do you get to Las Vegas? Is this

38:40

something that? You just take the 15. You

38:42

do. Well, how

38:44

long have you been here? You've been here for quite some time. I've

38:48

been full time at the Luxor

38:50

for 18 and a half years. Wow. Is

38:53

it change your man? It's changing. Does

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Vegas change a man? Yeah, oh, does

38:57

Vegas change a man? Yeah.

38:59

I mean, you did. I

39:02

think, is it changing, man? Is it changing?

39:04

How does it change a man? Yeah, well,

39:06

yeah, fuck it does. It does, right? I

39:09

mean, when I first started, and this is

39:11

20, well, I had like 10

39:13

years at the MGM Grand Prix, but it was

39:15

in a full time residency. It was just, when

39:17

you come in and go out, it

39:19

was that, but it still is a substantial amount of weeks.

39:21

So that's when I really got to know George Carlin

39:23

because he was working the same room that I'd work,

39:27

I think where Copperfield is now. So

39:29

it was 10 years

39:31

of that and then 18 and a

39:33

half years. So when I first started doing it, oh

39:36

man, I was terrified of Vegas and I mean terrified.

39:39

It was just something about it. I didn't know how

39:41

to do it. I go on the

39:43

road and do a theater and do a college and

39:46

5,000 people and I'm at Notre Dame if I kill.

39:49

And I get to Vegas and I would eat it. And

39:51

I'm like, how's this happening?

39:53

Literally the next day go kill, come

39:55

back to Vegas, bomb, go there, come

39:57

back, bomb. And I don't

39:59

know.