WEBVTT
1
00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:12.240
Callaroga Shark Media, Hello, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy
2
00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.160
news man. You can see just how much damage performing
3
00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.000
at the Riog Comedy Festival did to people's careers. Like take,
4
00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.600
for example, Sebastian Maniscalco. He was interviewed by Forbes down
5
00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.640
in Atlantic City at the Ocean Casino Resort. Forbes I
6
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.719
met out with Sebastian at the Italian restaurant at the
7
00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.520
Ocean Casino Resort with the classic name Linguini by the Sea.
8
00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.719
Forbes tells us they shared some Manhattans, some homemade meatballs,
9
00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:41.280
eggplant rolatini, and chicken Marsella. And in this purbing interview,
10
00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:43.039
they asked, hey, when you play the riod come. No,
11
00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:44.880
they didn't ask him that at all. They said, hey,
12
00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:46.880
was wine a regular part of dinner growing up in
13
00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:52.240
an Italian family? Because this is the hacky Sebastian Maniscalgo interview,
14
00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.759
you do, Oh yeah, you're Italian? Right, yeah, Okay, let
15
00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.280
me ask you about food. Sebastian said, it's not like
16
00:00:58.320 --> 00:00:59.679
I was knocking back your glass of wine when his
17
00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:01.880
ten years old, but it was here's the knife, here's
18
00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:03.200
the glass. I have a little sip, so it wasn't
19
00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.599
taboo growing up. I remember my grandfather having a large
20
00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:07.640
jug of wine, not Opu's Winter or anything like that.
21
00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.719
I think it was Ernest and Julio Gallo. But yeah,
22
00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:11.719
food and wine were pretty much a staple growing up
23
00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.640
these days. Sebastian says, I really enjoy red wine. My
24
00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.040
wife and I got married in Napa. My father in
25
00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:18.719
law introduced me to the world of wine. When I
26
00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.560
met my wife fifteen years ago. I met. Up to
27
00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:22.040
that point, I was drinking wine, but I didn't really
28
00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.959
know anything. I'm not a wine connoisseur where I could
29
00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.359
taste anything and say, oh, that's a cinnamon whatever. It's
30
00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.200
more of an appreciation for a nice bottle of wine
31
00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.760
as opposed to just grabbing whatever at the store. Sebastian,
32
00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.239
Do you remember your first drink? He said, Amaretto stone sour.
33
00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:36.760
This was back in the early nineties. Growing up in Chicago.
34
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.400
The Amearetto stone sour was the drink along with doers.
35
00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.560
My father used to drink Doers on the rocks. I
36
00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.000
was a Scotts drinker for a little bit, all right, Sebastian,
37
00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.840
what's your favorite cocktail now? He says, I'm recently falling
38
00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:49.760
in love with the Manhattan. I dabbled with the Manhattan
39
00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:51.799
about twenty years ago and then kind of forgot about it.
40
00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.519
I became strictly tequila. I I was gonna do cocktail,
41
00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.519
but the Manhattan now seems to be the one. If
42
00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:58.400
I'm out at a bar, I'll just get a Maker's
43
00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.400
Mark Manhattan. They talked to me about comedy, and theysked Sebastian, Hey,
44
00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.760
when you were performing at the Saudi Comedy festal did you? Oh? No.
45
00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.760
They didn't ask him that at all. They asked him
46
00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.360
if he bases his comedy in real life, and Sebastian said,
47
00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.639
a lot of my comedy is based in nostalgia. That's
48
00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:12.039
how it used to be, this is how it is now.
49
00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:13.520
I often look back at how I grew up Now,
50
00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.159
being a father, I want to take those kind of
51
00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.599
core values and traditions and implement them into my kids.
52
00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:20.120
I'm not saying I had the perfect parents, but I
53
00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.800
like the way they taught me manners, they taught me respect,
54
00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.680
and you know, I see the parents of today not
55
00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.199
parenting their kids. It's a little disheartening to see how
56
00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.639
things have changed over the years. Well, Sebastian do you
57
00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.240
like to cook? Do you like movies about gladi eaters?
58
00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.039
Sebastian said, first and foremost, I love meat. I love steak.
59
00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.319
I'm not a astronomist by any means. No one's saying,
60
00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.039
oh my god, he came up with this beautiful, puret.
61
00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:41.879
Mainly I cook for my kids and try to introduce
62
00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.960
them to food I was introduced to. I mean, I
63
00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.159
was eating fish at nine and my grandfather was sucking
64
00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.400
the eyeballs out of its head. So I'm not doing that.
65
00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:50.360
But if somebody eats something that I cook and they enjoyed,
66
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.000
it's almost like telling a joke. You get enjoyment from
67
00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.080
other people's enjoyment. Sebastian, do you enjoy travel? Do you
68
00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.599
ever go to warm blazes in the middle of the
69
00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:59.240
desert or anything like that? He said. We went to
70
00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.680
Italy this summer, took the kids. I have an eight
71
00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:02.960
year old and a six year old. We went to
72
00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.000
France first. Then we met mother and took her to
73
00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.680
the Amalfi Coast for her eightieth birthday, where she's always
74
00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.159
wanted to go. I took my dad to Sicily, where
75
00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:12.000
he was born and raised about twelve years ago. He
76
00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:13.840
hadn't been back since he had left for fifty years,
77
00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.520
so we made the pilgrimage and now he's been back
78
00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.159
every year since. Then. Of course, Sebastian played THERIODD Comedy Festival.
79
00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.560
Now I've been quoting George Carlin a lot that there's
80
00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.000
a big club and you ain't in it. Sebastian said,
81
00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.120
I went out to dinner with Jerry Seinfel. That was
82
00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:27.759
a moment for me. Had seen me do comedy at
83
00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:29.639
the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. Then the
84
00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:31.879
next night his wife came to see me and then
85
00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.960
subsequently invited me on comedians and cars getting coffee, Then
86
00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.199
we went out to dinner. I followed his career since
87
00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:38.680
I was a young kid, and then breaking bread with
88
00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.599
him at dinner. You just don't think any of those
89
00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.639
things are going to happen. Well, do you talk to
90
00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:44.560
Jerry about comedy or what else? When we get together,
91
00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.479
it's normally about comedy. There was one thing he did
92
00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:48.240
at the restaurant I found fascinating. I've never seen it
93
00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.240
before prior to going out with him. At the end
94
00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.639
of the meal, there was no bill, there's nothing. As
95
00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:54.400
we got up, I go where's the bill? He goes, huh,
96
00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.439
just take care of later. I asked him, Jerry, what's
97
00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.879
your method of taking care of a bill? He says, well,
98
00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.680
I make a reservation. I just give the credit card
99
00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.080
events down to put a thirty percent tip on it.
100
00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.560
I don't want to see the bill. It eliminates the no,
101
00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.680
I'm gonna get it. It's just all done. I just
102
00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.039
love getting up. Nothing's on the table and we're done.
103
00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.879
It's a good pro tip from Jerry Seinfeld. Keenan Thompson
104
00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.800
spoke to Thrillist about travel. Keenan said, we do a
105
00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.319
lot of flying, especially coming from Atlanta, Big Delta kids,
106
00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.360
so I've traveled a lot. My favorite memories are usually
107
00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.879
with my family. I think any time we take our
108
00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:25.759
kids to Europe is a good journey. We're exposing our
109
00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.399
kids to so much history, so many scenes, eateies, all
110
00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.759
that kind of stuff. Those are really really fun memories.
111
00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.879
For sure. He's so positive. You gotta like Keenan Thompson right.
112
00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.279
One thing I always do when every place is eat
113
00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.079
for sure, I try to get his free and open
114
00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.959
to trying whatever kinds of things are possible. I've been
115
00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.040
pretty adventurous yeah. Boy. My kids they would get so
116
00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.439
mad at dad growing up because I remember we were
117
00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.519
in Australia and they wanted to go to McDonald's and
118
00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.040
I was like, please, can you not go to McDonald's.
119
00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.519
Can you just eat something else? And one of my
120
00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.600
favorite food travel stories, I remember where we were in
121
00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:59.480
Iceland and food in Iceland is expensive. So we found
122
00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.199
like a pub, you know. I had a beverage and
123
00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.480
a cheeseburger and my son was kind of full and
124
00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:05.680
he looks at me and he goes, do I have
125
00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:07.480
to finish the cheeseburger? And I looked him in the
126
00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.160
eye and I said, do you have to finish the
127
00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:13.519
thirty dollars cheeseburger? He finished it. I digress. Keenan says,
128
00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:14.920
one thing I try to do every place is eat
129
00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:16.160
For sure. I can try to be free and open
130
00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:17.839
to trying whatever kind of things is possible. Have been
131
00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.720
pretty venturous, but there's certain places that I won't necessarily
132
00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.480
do that insects and stuff like that. That one's tougher
133
00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:25.959
for me. See, I want to go on amazing race
134
00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.639
with probably either my son or my daughter. Now I
135
00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.079
am afraid of heights, bungee jumps, all that I'm not
136
00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:32.800
doing any of that. They can do that. But when
137
00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.480
they show up with a plate of grasshoppers and they
138
00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.199
want me to eat them, no problem, I'll eat it. Keenan,
139
00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.959
do you pack light or overpack now? Johnny Max Pro tip,
140
00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.079
pack light unless you're like on a business trip or something.
141
00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:45.160
Pack light. You can rerun a pair of socks, dude,
142
00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.680
you're fine and stuff them in your shoes and stuff
143
00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.319
you're underwear in your other It saves a lot of room,
144
00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.360
and if you get cold, you buy a soup in
145
00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.920
your sweatshirt. Keene says, I overpack every time I come back.
146
00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:57.879
I'm like, why I wore the same shoes the whole time? Yep.
147
00:05:58.120 --> 00:05:59.439
I used to have this fear that my shoes are
148
00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.759
gonna get wet. What am I gonna do if that happens?
149
00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.240
You buy a pair of sneakers. Keenan says, I always
150
00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.240
leave something behind that I need, even if I prep
151
00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.560
the night before. It's always one little thing and it
152
00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.480
irks me so much when I forget something. So yeah,
153
00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.600
I tend to overpack. They have stores unless you go
154
00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.879
to Antarctica. I went to Antarctica for Antarctica three suitcases
155
00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.199
I did overpack for Antardica, because you know, it's not
156
00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:21.480
like Kean run out to the wah wah. Keenan, what
157
00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:23.399
are your must haves? He said, I need my clippers,
158
00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.199
I got a shave, I need fresh undies. Then my
159
00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.079
toiletry is Bond number Nine's my favorite Colonne old Spice
160
00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.399
hair brush, curl jail. How does he pass time on
161
00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:34.680
a plane sleeping? I sleep well. I watch a lot
162
00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.800
of TV when I'm at home anyway, so on plane rides,
163
00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.680
I sleep window or aisle. Keenan said, I like window seats.
164
00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:42.800
I like being able to control the window number one. Yeah,
165
00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.040
oh boy, These you people that close the shades. Do
166
00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.920
you not understand the views you're having? All the billions
167
00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:50.720
of people who lived on Earth, and here you are
168
00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.519
flying over the United States, all these gorgeous views, especially
169
00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.480
when you get out west, you're thirty thousand feet you
170
00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:56.720
can look at all the stuff, and you guys have
171
00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.160
the shades down. What are you doing? Keenan says he's
172
00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:00.680
considered it, and I grew with this. He says, there
173
00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.879
are some inconsiderate window people that will ignore the fact
174
00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.399
that everybody's got their windows closed. You know, night flight
175
00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.480
or early morning something, and I'll open theirs for the
176
00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.160
whole flight and it keeps everybody wake. So I'm not
177
00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.519
that person. You want me on the window, you do.
178
00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.560
Kathy Griffin kicks off her tour today. It's called New Face.
179
00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.079
She's in Las Vegas. Her tour starts today runs through
180
00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.360
May twenty twenty six. She tells People magazine the gloves
181
00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.120
are off. It's an evening with Kathy Griffin. I've been
182
00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.800
touring so long, I think if you buy a ticket
183
00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.199
on my show, you can't. Actually, you don't know that.
184
00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:28.839
I'm going to curse like crazy. I'm going to say
185
00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.160
inappropriate things. I'm gonna go off on celebrities and talk
186
00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.920
about whatever's on the pop culture zeitgeist. I would say
187
00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.199
that folks coming in my show they know what they're
188
00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.959
in for. I could tell my audience they're very unshockable
189
00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:40.959
because they've heard me say it all. I'll be saying
190
00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.240
even worse things this time. She promises it'll be a
191
00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.879
different act every night of the tour. I start with
192
00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.560
local material. If I'm in Tampa, talk about what celebrities
193
00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:51.560
are from Tampa. One time I had a run out
194
00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.040
of theater after my show because I thought it'd be
195
00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.839
funny to read aloud the names and addresses of the
196
00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.839
sex offender list in that town. Wow. She said, I
197
00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:00.360
got a facelift, which people seem to be fascinating to buy.
198
00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:01.879
And I just want to say, I don't know why,
199
00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.279
but it cracks me up. I'm laughing because I've done
200
00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.720
some political interviews that I did all this research for
201
00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:08.800
and then they're like, Kathy Griffin gets a facelift. So
202
00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:10.279
I know it's part of the story, and I'm fine
203
00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.720
with it. I thought naming it New Face New Tour
204
00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:14.360
was funny enough. I got to tell you, I'm still
205
00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:15.959
in shock that was able to do my last tour
206
00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.560
and do seventy five cities, including Carnegie Hall in Boston,
207
00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:21.279
Symphony Hall. And look, I'm not going to sell it
208
00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.240
every show. I wish I were Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock,
209
00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:24.639
and I wish I could say I'm going to sell
210
00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:26.639
it every show, but I'm kind of flabbergasted that these
211
00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.519
offers are coming in. My answer was, are you sure
212
00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:31.319
it means so much to me? Because prior to the
213
00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.679
Trump Halloween mask with ketchup on it photo, you know
214
00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.799
that one? Yeah, I played the Deep South all the time.
215
00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.159
To be welcome back to these markets is a pleasant surprise.
216
00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.480
I feel a real responsibility to just give one hundred
217
00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:44.240
ten percent every time. It is Saturday night in the
218
00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.440
Big Apple and the New York Comedy Festival is underway.
219
00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.080
Won't read every show, but let me scroll down here
220
00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.080
see what catches my eye. Four o'clock Facebook Marketplace Live,
221
00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.600
the game show New York City's Funniest improvisers battle each
222
00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.399
other for the title of King of Stuff. Think Who's
223
00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.320
line is it? Anyway? Meets Stooping NYC. Audience members play
224
00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.039
to win free prizes, like really good prizes. Pass prizes
225
00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.559
include a mannequin head, a VHS of FANTATIONA two thousand,
226
00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.559
and a rice cooker. Good to see they're mixing in
227
00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.480
some different names. Near Comedy Club at five as Richard Villa.
228
00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:19.600
Five o'clock Vittorio Angeloni. He's the Irish Italian guy. I
229
00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.639
saw him up in Montreal. He's really good. You could
230
00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.320
do a lot worse than going to Union Hall today
231
00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.159
at five o'clock, five thirty Bragging Rights with Joey Bragg,
232
00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.200
six o'clock at the Stand West and evening with Bassam
233
00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.639
Shawl high Line Comedy Club eight o'clock, Eric Walshin, Max
234
00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.360
fine Co Headline getting a little more famous here six
235
00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.320
thirty Todd Glass is its second city, the one in
236
00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.600
New York Brooklyn. The Big Shiny Show at seven o'clock,
237
00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.440
a celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the cancelation
238
00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.840
of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert, Paul Denillo, and
239
00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.480
Amy Sedaris. Trevor Wallace is at the Beacon at seven,