Sebastian Maniscalco

Summary

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade Episode: Sebastian Maniscalco Release Date: December 18, 2024

Presented by Audacy

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1. Introduction to Sebastian Maniscalco’s Journey

After a brief hiatus filled with sponsorship messages, Dana Carvey and David Spade welcome stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco to the podcast. They express surprise and admiration for Sebastian’s dedication, noting that he hasn't financially profited from his podcast over its 12-year run, emphasizing the genuine passion behind his efforts.

Dana Carvey [03:27]: "You do this. You. I was shocked that you guys. You and Pete have done 628 episodes."

Sebastian Maniscalco [03:45]: "I actually didn't. We just started doing basically, a phone call... We did it once a week for now, going on 12 years. And we just have fun doing it."

2. Origins of Sebastian’s Podcast and Relationship with His Wife

Sebastian discusses the humble beginnings of his podcast with his wife, Addison, highlighting their shared love for comedy and mutual support in the entertainment industry.

Sebastian Maniscalco [05:12]: "I was just waiting tables at the Four Seasons Hotel right here in Beverly Hills... I was doing comedy during my break. I would run to the Comedy Store, do a set, and come back, pick up my table."

3. Evolution of Comedy Styles and Industry Observations

The trio delves into the transformation of comedy over the years, contrasting traditional stand-up methods with modern approaches influenced by social media and short-form content.

Dana Carvey [14:02]: "It's so demoralizing for the young people because I talked to some talent managers... There's a kid who opens... he does seven figures. So what do you do with that?"

Sebastian Maniscalco [13:12]: "I feel like we're kind of the Last of the Mohicans... where we actually had to work, Going to the club, working on the act..."

4. Personal Struggles: Health and Performance

Sebastian opens up about his battle with sciatica, detailing how it affected his performances and the steps he took to overcome the pain through Pilates.

Dana Carvey [46:34]: "You're in shape as a standup. If you're up there and you have a bit and it's killing and you just in the back of your head you go..."

Sebastian Maniscalco [46:55]: "I couldn't move. I had sciatica for two years, and it really, really screwed with my... I did Pilates to correct that."

5. Navigating Audience Dynamics and Comedic Delivery

The conversation shifts to the intricacies of performing live, discussing how comedians gauge audience reactions and adjust their sets in real-time to maintain engagement.

Sandra Carvey [42:01]: "If you're up there and you have a bit and it's killing and you just in the back of your head you go..."

David Spade [43:15]: "You get off it. Get off it. It's such a psychological beating up there."

6. The Challenge of Recording Specials in the Digital Age

Sebastian and the hosts explore the difficulties of producing comedy specials today, where content is easily accessible online, making it harder to offer audiences a unique experience.

Sebastian Maniscalco [25:07]: "I’d like to give the crowd a new experience if I'm going to go on tour again."

Dana Carvey [31:55]: "Do you have to stretch before you go out? I mean, do you kind of..."

7. Reflections on Fame, Hard Work, and Personal Growth

The trio reflects on their personal journeys in comedy, discussing the balance between seeking fame and the intrinsic joy of making people laugh. They also touch upon the evolving standards and expectations within the entertainment industry.

Sebastian Maniscalco [09:10]: "We always kinda had to be patient, put our time in."

Dana Carvey [14:42]: "I have a movie on there. That's 0.5%, I think. I'm not kidding."

8. Mutual Appreciation and Closing Remarks

As the episode winds down, Dana and David express their admiration for Sebastian’s comedic talents and his authentic approach to entertainment. Sebastian reciprocates, acknowledging the influence Dana and David have had on his career.

Dana Carvey [61:31]: "It's a good stock and trade to do, so. All right."

Sebastian Maniscalco [62:14]: "It's going to be at the dinner table tonight. Do you know what they said about Daddy?"

Dana Carvey [62:38]: "Just keep on keeping on. If we run into Each other somewhere, sometime... It’s a good thing to. It's a good stock and trade to do."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Sebastian Maniscalco [05:12]: "I was just waiting tables at the Four Seasons Hotel right here in Beverly Hills... I was doing comedy during my break."

• Dana Carvey [14:02]: "It's so demoralizing for the young people because... there's a kid who opens... he does seven figures. So what do you do with that?"

• Sebastian Maniscalco [25:07]: "I’d like to give the crowd a new experience if I'm going to go on tour again."

• Dana Carvey [31:55]: "Do you have to stretch before you go out? I mean, do you kind of..."

• Sebastian Maniscalco [46:55]: "I couldn't move. I had sciatica for two years, and it really, really screwed with my..."

• Dana Carvey [61:31]: "It's a good stock and trade to do, so. All right."

Conclusion

This episode of "Fly on the Wall" offers an in-depth look into Sebastian Maniscalco’s life, his dedication to comedy, and the challenges he faces both personally and professionally. Dana Carvey and David Spade provide a warm and engaging environment, allowing Sebastian to share his experiences and insights into the evolving landscape of stand-up comedy.

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Transcript

[Dana Carvey]

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[Dana Carvey]

I. You know, we have guests. You do this. You. I was shocked that you guys. You and Pete have done 628 episodes. Just the fortitude of that.

[David Spade]

Is that true? Not many.

[Dana Carvey]

That's what it said. Episode 628.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Haven't. Haven't made a dime.

[David Spade]

It's coming. Our guys tell us it's coming right around the corner.

[Dana Carvey]

Just patience, man. I mean, you know.

[David Spade]

Oh, you got into this for money.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I actually didn't. We just started doing basically, a phone call. He lives in Fredonia, I live in Los Angeles. And we're like, you know what? We have such a great time talking to one another. Let's just record it and we'll put it out there as a podcast. And we did it once a week for now, going on 12 years. And we just have fun doing it. It's not obvious.

[Dana Carvey]

Wait a minute. Do you read ads? Do you read ads and still make it nothing? I mean, you got masterclass. What do you. You got Zach?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Do you guys got Zack back?

[David Spade]

We've been there.

[Dana Carvey]

We dated for a while, then we broke up. No, we got.

[David Spade]

Yeah, we sort of just.

[Dana Carvey]

They go, blue Nile, right? Blue Nile, our biggest one.

[David Spade]

Yeah, Blue Nile is good. That's a big one.

[Dana Carvey]

Diamonds. Yeah. So you got the original wife. Original wife meaning pre.

[David Spade]

I never even heard of this situation.

[Dana Carvey]

I. My wife's so attractive that people thought she'd be the second wife. After I got some fame and money, I go, no original wife. Like, oh, okay. But you had done one special, but you weren't Sebastian at that point, right? You met 2009.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, we went in 2009. I had. I was just coming off, actually. Yeah, I was just coming off a special two years earlier and then, yeah, just, you know, knocking around comedy clubs. She would come with me, Addison Beltline Road and improv. And, you know, it was. We kind of came up together in the comedy world. Obviously, I was doing comedy prior to meeting her, but, like, you know, when I started making a living doing it, she was kind of right there with me.

[Dana Carvey]

Let me ask You. This. This is usually the evolution of a girlfriend who might become a wife. But, okay, early on, she's up close. Maybe not the first row, but right up there. A little. Few weeks later, she's heard a lot. She's in the middle of the crowd, kind of hanging out. Then she's sort of standing in the back. Eventually, she's in the dressing room for Moses show and asking you how it went. And then she stops coming.

[David Spade]

That's everyone I know.

[Dana Carvey]

That's every single. They're really excited. And then they see how the rabbit gets out of the hat and they're going, oh, I see all these. But anyway.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, you're right. It's just. It's a basic evolution out of the building.

[David Spade]

Yeah, call me after. What about. Did you say Addison improv? Is that Dallas?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, that's Dallas.

[David Spade]

And it's right by a freeway. Is that what you're talking about?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it's right. It's. It's the populated restaurants per square mile, I think, in the country on Beltline Road. And.

[David Spade]

Yep, I played that Dallas. I played the old Dallas improv that was on Central and Walnut. And then they opened Addison. That's how old I am. And then I started playing that one. And.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay, wait a minute.

[David Spade]

I love Dana. Go ahead.

[Dana Carvey]

Spellbinders in Houston, anyone? Bill Hicks was my dandy little opener. No, I was temperamental in those days. I got a hold of his caller and said, you ain't going nowhere.

[David Spade]

Oh, good, I lost it.

[Dana Carvey]

No, he was brilliant. Brilliant then, all to the way. So there's another stat of yours. I just have to ask you, because it's extraordinary from where you are now. The math that I did on your Wikipedia page says you were still waitering, potentially at age 32.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Okay.

[Dana Carvey]

That's extraordinary.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I was waiting tables. Yeah. Around 31. I quit the Four Seasons Hotel right here in Beverly Hills. So I was there for seven years in the Windows Lounge delivering chicken satays to every celebrity in town.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, I love it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I would do comedy during my break. I would run to the Comedy Store, do a set, and come back, pick up my table. So, yeah, I was early 30s. Schlepping drinks, don't you think?

[Dana Carvey]

I mean, you know, when you make it and then you went on and then you. You're at this apex. I mean, it's extraordinary. Well deserved, too. So you. Don't you think it's better to make it later? I mean, are you still kind of used to it? It's only been about 12 years since you went super supernova. I guess in the context of your life, it's still kind of new in a way. Or are you kind of acclimatized to the numbers?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

What, what arena? What. How big is the arena? It's arena side. Come on, Sebastiano, go ahead.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, you know, I'm glad it kind of all happened the way it happened. I just, you know, I had a slow burn. You know, I didn't get a TV show or a movie or anything like that. That kind of catapulted me into stand up comedy in a way where I could draw a crowd. So I just did it, you know, kind of slow burn. And. Yeah, I mean, listen, I grew up in a working class, middle. Middle class. F. Family. And, you know, we've always kind of had a work. You know, my, my dad always says the Manisco family, nothing comes easy. We always got to kind of be patient, put our time in.

[Dana Carvey]

Did he actually say the Manisco? Because I can't imagine my dad saying the coffees will always. I mean, that's just very Italian or Sicilian or something, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it's, it's very, it's very. It's very Sicilian. Like we always gotta, you know, wait our turn. Basically. No one bumps us to the head of the line. You know, we're. I, I still have that type of care, though. I mean, I have a fan base. Obviously they come and see me, but like, for example, I went to the Bulls game in my hometown of Chicago last week, right? Simone Bile sitting there with her husband, Jonathan Owens. And you know, they put you up on the, on the jumbotron. So they tell me we're putting Simone Biles up, right? She goes up there. You would have thought Michael Jordan walked in.

[David Spade]

Oh, my God, you got to follow her.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And then me, who I just, I'm doing two sellout shows the Friday and Saturday, right after. I didn't even know they announced my name. It was almost as if a guy came out to shoot free throws during the. That's the response I got in my hometown. So it's like I'm still like just on the fringe of like, quote, unquote, celebrity or fame.

[David Spade]

Yeah, you know, there's fun things, there's. There's interesting facts that like Dana's probably been more famous in his life than he hasn't been. So that's, that's probably a weird feeling because you always remember more that you weren't. But he said, such a run. And then Artie Lang, who I think you guys all know, Artie Lang told Me. The weirdest he felt was when he made more than his dad. It was such a weird feeling for him that what he does, which is so. Feeling so trivial. And then he goes, wow, my dad's such a fucking hard worker. And he goes, I honestly had to go to therapy. I didn't know how to deal with that. Isn't that crazy? But I get it.

[Dana Carvey]

My dad was a high school teacher. So Sebastian, your dad, was he somebody making six figures or 50k or.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, he's a, he's a hair. He owned hair salon. So he was a hairdresser. But, you know, never, you know, never had a franchise of hair salons. Just a few throughout his career. Not making a fantastic living. But not, you know, we went on one vacation, we had two cars, we lived in a nice home, never struggled for money. But yeah, I think it is kind of weird to get used to. I never really even thought about making more than my father. That never really even crossed my mind as far as like, it's, it's never been like you're making more money. The relationship is such as, like that, that he's the star.

[Dana Carvey]

Right?

[David Spade]

Sure.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And. And I'm, I'm. I'm hanging on to his co.

[David Spade]

But also I grew up not knowing, you know, my dad was kind of in and out of my life, but never even knew how much anybody made it. Didn't even cross your mind? You just, you know, you had a place to live, hopefully and some food and. But I didn't know numbers. I didn't know who knew.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

You know, so you just. That's your dad and he's the main guy in your life because he's your dad. But it's a weird feeling to get. I mean, I, there's times I feel obviously overpaid for things and you go, just a weird feeling.

[Dana Carvey]

You never get used to it. I don't care. I mean, because I had the same kind of thing. Five kids, high school, you know, two day old baked goods. Not one day, but two day. My mom would go old county road. Never had a new car, but we were super happy, man. We got a colored TV in 1965. We had an antenna. We couldn't really see anything, but it was colorful antenna. But I think I asked my wife and I don't know who you would ask, but I always. Once in a while I'll ask her. In 1979, when I met her, I was in college just trying to do open mics. Robin Williams was creeping around, making everyone feel like, why am I Even doing this. And I said, did I ever say I wanted to be rich and famous ever? Nope. No, that was never the goal. It was to become a middle act.

[David Spade]

Me, too.

[Dana Carvey]

And then to become a headliner.

[David Spade]

I was just middle.

[Dana Carvey]

So. Yeah, David. Yeah, go ahead. Speak to that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, I don't think that. I don't think the people that have talent and are in this just for the sheer joy of making people laugh are ever looking for fame and fortune in that way. I mean, obviously there's some outliers, but, you know, in a day and age now where everybody wants to be famous for. I don't know what I mean. You know, I feel like we're kind of like the Last of the Mohicans in the sense of where we actually had to work, Going to the club, working on the act, the timing, the nuance, the heckling or whatever it is. But now, apparently, you turned your camera on and you eat a meatball and you'd say, you tell people how good it is, and all of a sudden, you know, you're. You're just as famous as the guy.

[Dana Carvey]

It's so demoralizing for the young people because I talked to some talent managers a while back, and I asked them, does talent matter? And they said, no, no. They think in a long career it does. But no, no, no, no. There's a kid who opens. He's handsome. He opens up jars of pickles. He does seven figures. So what do you do with that?

[David Spade]

The impressive. If your kid goes, oh, my God. The guy that drinks pickle juice follows you. That's like the biggest victory of your life.

[Dana Carvey]

You're like, oh, everyone was good when I grew up. Don Rickles was good. Carson was good. Frank Sinatra. I mean, all great. But, yeah, that's so distortive. So I don't want to go too much. Go ahead.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

One second. Since you've been around entertainment for quite some time, have you guys ever run across a Sinatra? Do you have, like, a Sinatra story? Did he ever come in?

[Dana Carvey]

I have a. I have a weird one. It's a little dark, but. So it's night. This is a cigar. No, it's. You're not going to see what's coming. So it's 1998, and I'm getting a stent in my artery at Cedar Sinai, which, you know, it happens. I'm fine. Don't worry. So I'm there. I'm just in the. You know, I'm on the ward in my room reading a magazine, and there's this hub and, hey, what's going on out there? He goes, sinatra just checked in, you know, and they put him in the room next to me. And so I was just listening. I heard under my breath, no, he didn't win. But anyway, he passed away that night. It was May 8th or 10th, 1998. Not in my arms, but yeah, in my arms.

[David Spade]

So did you go in there and cuddle him?

[Dana Carvey]

I wanted to, man. I became an army issue hyper fan at age 40. Before that, I didn't get it. And then when I got it, I really got it, you know. But I did ask the cardiologist there, world class, like, what was. What was Frank Sinatra like as a patient? And they were Indian. They're brilliant. They're still friends of mine. They go, oh, it was. It was. It was very tough, you know, because you'd give them the thing to blow in and see what your lungs are. Hey, get back, Doc. You're gonna. I'm gonna blow this further than anybody's ever blown these bubbles in their fucking life, you know? So I don't know. Do you have a Sinatra story, David? Are you Sebastian?

[David Spade]

That's mine.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, no, I never. I never ran across him.

[Dana Carvey]

Was your dad a super fan? Because Italian.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I mean. I mean, we listened to him, but it wasn't like, you know, you know, we didn't have a picture of him on the wall at the house. It was. He was. He was, you know, played on Saturday mornings while I was doing vacuuming. I remember I had to do chores on Saturday. My mother would play them around the house. But, yeah, I don't know, I just find them fascinating. Like, I just, I don't know, like the old school type.

[David Spade]

Old school guy. It's fun.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, the Rat Pack at the Sands, the live album is magical, you know, And Jon Lovitz told me. John Lovitz plays it in before he goes on every night when he does clubs. He plays that to get that vibe of Sinatra and Dean Martin and the coolness of that. But. Can I ask you a question? Because I'm just sort of curious just to put a picture on your childhood, you know, working class. How many siblings did you have?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I have a sister younger, about five years.

[Dana Carvey]

And so what were I like, asking people these questions. TV show or movie that floated your boat? As you know, in the formative years, 8, 10, 11, 12. Toy or bicycle you had that you'll never forget, or musical act that you blew your mind. Coming up, you have five seconds.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It was Three's Company was my.

[Dana Carvey]

John Ritter is magic. Did you ever meet John Ritter?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Ever met John Ritter. But heavily influenced by my physical comedy with John Ritter. A bike. Or did you say a toy? Toy. He Men. I grew up in the He Men.

[Dana Carvey]

Era.

[David Spade]

Not Stretch Armstrong.

[Dana Carvey]

He man was a big. A big he man doll.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I used to play football, like, with my he man dolls. So it was like, you know, like.

[David Spade]

We might have gone too far.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He man for five yards. And then an entertainer would be Michael Jackson. Growing up was my vibe.

[Dana Carvey]

Can I tell you my Michael Jackson story?

[David Spade]

Is it the Holiday Inn?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. I worked at the Holiday Inn and I was a busboy waiter. And the Jackson Fives came in and I would go and wait on them. You know, there was Tito and Marlon. And I went in Michael's room before the show. He ordered raw carrots. And Janet, I believe, as a little girl, was jumping up and down on the bed, and he would sit and look at the mirror in the room. I give him the raw carrots. And I felt bad later on because I know I said, you're a good looking kid, but you could maybe do a little something. And I just backed off and left.

[David Spade]

Dana, that set off a whole thing with him.

[Dana Carvey]

I know. But I did wait on because we were near the Circle Star Theater up in the Bay Area. It was at 3,000 in the round. So I waited on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Rich Little. I did room service to Little Richard. He answers this door completely naked. Anyway, that's that part. That's another podcast. Can I ask you a little bit about your process?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Because once in a while I'd sit down on Netflix and I'd watch specials. Okay. And I usually last 15 minutes with David. Why? Like I said, I last about 15 minutes. David. I go longer. But so I'm going through. I didn't know a thing about you. Never saw you. And it was the one with the subway sandwich in the Cinnabon. And I watched it all the way through and I said, holy shit, this is new. This is familiar, but completely brand new. I must have gotten this from people over the years, right when they first. Because the physicality and the musicality together was so potent to me. And the physicality is. It's not just all this. It's also just your head. I mean, it's like. And then the rhythms, you know, the way you say people. Like, you're so exasperated. The guy's over by the pool, clip in his toenails. I mean, it's so hypnotic. And I love it. And I recommended that special and others to our Business manager loves you. And two things. One, so then I went, I said, I showed you to my kids. I said, oh, this guy, you know, Sebastian. Then I said, let's find out where he was. So I watched you on Craig Ferguson doing standup and it was all there, but it wasn't 2.0. It wasn't extrapolated, but everything was there. So the confidence leap was huge. So you have people tell you this, right? I mean, it's so potent. No one else is doing that even to this day. Your style, I just really appreciate it. And do you pull muscles? Do you get hurt on stage? Because Jim Brewer does. Okay. That's all I gotta say.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, it was very, very sweet of you. I appreciate the cut. I like the way you put it, describing kind of what happens up there, physicality and musicality. Yeah, I never really heard it put that way, but yeah, for me, as far as I did comedy so much just to. Just to get good at it and familiar and talk about the confidence. You know, I noticed when I started moving a lot, people enjoyed that. And it was a bit of a surprise because maybe you wouldn't suspect it coming from a guy. Like, I was just kind of up there, I was kind of dressed nice, and then I would. To whatever. And then I'm like, oh, wow, I'm getting some response here with the movement. And then I guess what happens in standup comedy, you just become. You try to get as comfortable as you are just talking, like with your family. So that's kind of how I equated it too, because they would look at me on stage and go, you're much funny when you talk to us, you know, And I was like, well, you know, I got to get used to this. It's something that. It's very new to me. And. And yeah, for me, it's just basically storytelling. And the act outs are kind of just. They're not practiced. It's just like, I'm going to go to the comic store tonight and I'm going to tell a story that happened to me and how I tell the story happens to come with a head.

[Dana Carvey]

Bob or just being shocked. The one, I don't know which special it was, but people just randomly ringing the doorbell. The act out on that was just huge. I mean, you're going in different rooms lying down. It was like a whole military operation. So I call it funny with the sound off. And there's nothing more potent than if you look at I Love Lucy or Peter Sellers where there's. First of all, there's not one joke in your act verbally, but also that the act outs allow the audience to laugh crazy hard because they're not. They don't have to listen right at that moment. So then they're free. And so I just. It's a style that I just love.

[David Spade]

I think it's kind of a style that when I saw it at the store, I think I first saw Sebastian just leaving. You know, you do a set and you're leaving, and I go, he was next. So I just sat in the back or I just walked in one night and before I went on, just. Who's on? I don't know everybody here and. Same thing. Dana. I just thought it was very different. And I think it's kind of like maybe you're saying his stand up in the old days was sort of, in a weird way, acapella, and now you're adding strings and different things to it because movements and different things are taking like a bit that's funny. And it's getting funnier. There's little layers to it now. So you're not. So you have a bit that's already funny and now you're putting different stuff to it. Now it's elevating. And now that's your whole style. There's more going on in each bit than a regular standup. I would say that's what I've drawn to. The same stuff. It was already funny. And then he surprised us with some moves. I think it was the uber bit. And there was one about that was just funny to me. And then when I see it got into this other thing that we can get into where I just did a special. And this is more what this podcast is about. I did a special.

[Dana Carvey]

What's the name of it? When is it?

[David Spade]

We don't know yet. But the thing about it is, and Sebastian's done a lot of these and the idea of do you start from scratch and do a whole new hour or do you do a mixed bag?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So for me, I just shot my special last week and I'm still on tour, so that will come out after I. After I'm done with the tour. So I'd like to give the crowd a new experience if I'm going to go on tour again. I mean, I think there's some. Some material that people enjoy that they want to hear.

[Dana Carvey]

Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And I might throw a few of the older ones in, but I like to, you know, I don't know. It's hard with comedians. I mean, I'm sure you guys Run into it. The impressions that you do. People want to see the impressions or people want to see the.

[Dana Carvey]

Totally. They. Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And you're like, all right, you know, I'll give you that.

[David Spade]

But, like, the hits. Here's what. What do you got? Where's the brides, groomsmen or whatever. That one where they come down and rehearse. That one I always thought was funny because when I see you, sometimes I go, oh, I don't know what's coming out, you know, And I. If I told my buddy, oh, there's an Uber bit. There's this bit. So those kind of things happen with me, too. They go, oh, I came to see you, and you didn't do. And I'm like, I know. I actually like to mix in some of my favorites and then, of course, do new stuff. And then there's that feeling of. That was in the special. Do I do it when I go out again? I don't know. It's back and forth.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, here you guys, a little bit older than me, you didn't have, like, when you did something on TV or you did that just lived on tv. It's not like you went and go and, like, pulled that clip back up again of the SNL sketch that you guys did. It's like, if you missed it, you missed it.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And now it's all out there for everybody to see. So you do a special. And it's like, I didn't even. I didn't have cable going up, so I didn't even see the damn HBO specials. It was like catching a unicorn. But now it's like, you do. You do a special, they cut it up. It's all on clips on. And then people come out and go, all right, well, yeah, we saw that. What are we paying, you know, $55 tickets.

[David Spade]

That's a big thing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

When I saw that already on YouTube. So it's a challenge, I think, for comedians to kind of come up with equal to or greater than material that they have done previously. That's the challenge.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

Dana.

[David Spade]

I don't have to tell you about Blue Nile. I do not. They're the one guy I don't have to tell about. But I will. Yeah, Blue Nile.

[Dana Carvey]

You will.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

I actually recall that. But do you know, Dana, the only time we say each other's names is during these.

[Dana Carvey]

Right. That's what's funny.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. The thing about Blue Nile, David, they're committed to ensuring that the highest ethical standards are observed when sourcing diamonds and jewelry. So you can feel great about that, too.

[David Spade]

Yeah, there's. Jewelry is a tough word. I don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

It is. Yeah.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. And you know, you're going to want to hear things. There's things you want to hear in life after your other significant other opens up their incredible Blue Nile gift. Oh, honey, you shouldn't have. Oh, I love you, honey. This is beautiful, honey. Where did you get it? Bob's jewelry store? No, Blue Nile.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, this is. Come on.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

Polestar spent the time designing and refining every aspect of Polestar 3. So the time you spend driving it is the best time of your day. Visit polestar.com to book a test drive today. Ticket prices are a trip, Right. Because I was said, oh, you know, I'm just trying to warm up. So I'll play this casino in Auroville and then I see the tickets are like $195. I got notes on stage. I'm working my old characters. It's a little bit like, guys, I'd rather take a little less and not feel that fucking pressure. Am I going to give you 195 bucks worth of comedy? But I will observe one thing about you, because you don't have any punchlines. It's a little bit like with me chopping broccoli. People still. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's this goofy song, and there was no joke in it. And so your bits have no joke. So it's like Monty Python or something. The rhythms and the physicality. You. You probably would enjoy some of your stuff more the second time. So I can see why you go, okay, I'm going to do this bit, maybe do an encore. You know, Bill Regan, Brian Regan had to do that because he had some bits that were just so the people just wanted to hear him.

[David Spade]

And even before Twitter and TikTok, it's.

[Dana Carvey]

Not jokes with surprise punchlines. Those kind of burn out those guys who do that style. That's hard. But anyway, you go ahead.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, I think you're right. Sometimes it's just the way people do it. Like the chopping broccoli. Everybody could watch that over and over again. I did have a question on the chopping broccoli. When you watch you did a chopping broccoli, was that all in the moment there, or was that, like, planned?

[Dana Carvey]

I done it in the clubs. I think the first time I did it was at the Improv on Melrose, and that piano at Midnight started it there. So I was doing in the clubs for probably a couple years. So that was just a. A good representation. But there's no way I'm knowing when I'm gonna go, you know? But I knew that I was gonna escalate it, but I didn't know it would happen right at that moment. You know, it's probably the way you work, you know, you and me, you know? Well, no, but it's. Yeah, you. You. You kind of have an outline, but you're not totally sure. I know it's cold as ice. Paradise. And the feeling was so nice. He's a lady I know. If I didn't know her, she'd be the lady I didn't know, you know? And then we get in. My lady went downtown, she bought some broccoli, and then there. There I'm off. Once I get to chop broccoli, then anything could Happen chop in the clubs. I'll do it for 10 minutes with a guitar.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Or you did an SNL. I've seen it, but I watched it.

[Dana Carvey]

For the first time a week ago.

[David Spade]

Did it kill, or was it one of those ones that, like, cone heads? It doesn't do that well. And then they do it again. Then it kills because they. They're onto it. You know what I mean? They're like, oh, it takes them. Because sometimes those are just like, weird bits. And then they stick with everybody and everyone's like, oh, that's great. And you go, you know what? Never killed because it's so new. They haven't. They don't even get it right away.

[Dana Carvey]

It did build. I mean, the character. I had to call it a character. I used to do it just as myself. I'd set it up as rock stars losing inspiration. But Derek Stevens. And then it sort of built after time, but it did well. It was at the end of my first show, but then I wrote a sketch later where Derek Stevens goes to his record company and they tell him that he has to die because they look at the record sales of Hendrix and Jim Morrison. That kind of killed the character, you know. But anyway. But back to our guests.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Did you guys. On snl, I mean, do you look at other casts after you guys have left and say, oh, you know, like, do you compare. Like, oh, when we were there, it was the heyday. Or how do you guys, like, judge the show after you've been on it? Something that you.

[Dana Carvey]

David.

[David Spade]

I start with thinking they're all bad. And then I go from there. No, I don't. No, it's.

[Dana Carvey]

It's.

[David Spade]

We've. We've talked about this because we. We've talked to different generations, Garrett Morris and Lorraine Newman. And then we go newer cast, and it's always about the same situation where some of them are. Some sketches are good and some don't work as well, and then there's some cast members that kind of pop out and some flatline, and that's just the way it's always been. I think I was lucky to have good people around me, but that wasn't for sure known at the time. It was five years later, 10 years later, that everyone kind of held up.

[Dana Carvey]

I always think, you know what I mean, I could have some memories of the seven years I had in there. That was. Really went well and everything. But when I see other people, like, later on, like Sherry Oteri or if I see Will Ferrell and stuff, like, okay, they're better than I was. That's how I go. I go, bill Hader, Fred Armors. Okay, I'm not as good as Kristen Wiig.

[David Spade]

I couldn't do that. I couldn't do that.

[Dana Carvey]

I always look at the cast beyond my time lovingly and with a lot of admiration, you know, because, like, oh, I didn't do that. You know, because it's kind of unlimited. You do what you do and then you leave the show. But, you know, it keeps being reinvented. I mean, how do you. I'm just gonna ask you, because you didn't have cable and you're in the clubs, like, who were you. Who were you looking at? And you didn't have telephone. You didn't have a landline. But who are you?

[David Spade]

Like, George Carlin. George Carlin.

[Dana Carvey]

Who are you looking at to?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It was anybody on Johnny Carson. So we would stay up and watch Johnny Carson, and I would be fascinated when the comedian would come on back then. I think he got like seven or eight minutes, and I was like, just like, oh, wow, this is. This is unbelievable. Plus, back then, we would listen to records of Arlin or I would see cable on Saturday morning, I went over to my uncle's house to visit, and he would tape all the comedians for me to watch. So that's kind of how I was introduced to standup was, I think, first through the Tonight Show.

[Dana Carvey]

So how old were you when you went to your uncle's house to look at.

[David Spade]

To stand up, to watch the Playboy channel?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is eight. I was like seven. Eight years old.

[Dana Carvey]

So you got the bug early. You kind of.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, I was. I. I was really, really fascinated with standup comedy from a young age. I just always thought it was. I used to go to comedy clubs when I was 15. Not to perform, just to watch. I had a fake id. Me and my girlfriend would go, and there's a little comedy club in Rosemont at the time. I even forget the name of it. And we used to sit in the back, and I used to sit there and marvel at the comedian going, gee, how does he remember all this?

[David Spade]

Exactly. I did the same thing.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, like.

[David Spade]

And I'm like, are they just making this up? Like, right now?

[Dana Carvey]

They seem so confident.

[David Spade]

They're so smart. Yeah. Did you see Seinfeld on there? I remember seeing Seinfeld. I saw Leno on Carson. I saw Jeff Altman. There's just some that stuck out. George Miller, remember that was. Is that on Letterman? Letterman's friend, George Miller. But that's funny because you see him and that's really it. And then you wait and see someone else on there.

[Dana Carvey]

Rickles was always, as a kid, was the one who just made me laugh the hardest because he over there chewing on a piss jokes. Ed, the show started a half hour ago. Put him in the corner, give him a cookie. Hey, Ed, give him the program. I mean, and he had his tricks, but still he made it feel so spontaneous. And.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, so I really enjoyed him and the Johnny Carson banter and the back. Also, I liked when the. The talk shows had people on the couch and you would come out and they would goof around with the girl next to you, next to you. Everybody would be like, having fun. And now it's like you go out there and it's just you and the host. It'd be nice to have the first guest sitting next to you.

[Dana Carvey]

It's promotion and corporate greed. And, you know, that was just like. I mean, there's one online, there's so many online where Rickles is just next to Sinatra. You know, Vinnie Babongo called, you know, he just doing all these fake Italian names. And Sinatra was dying, but yeah, that bygone era. Can I ask you this? Were you introverted, extroverted in the middle, going through grade school, or do you have years where you were kind of the king of the hill?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Other years you were dormant, shy, just shy kid. Never class clown, Just quiet polite. Just observe the class clown. I never liked the class clown. I always thought funny.

[David Spade]

Sorry, Dana.

[Dana Carvey]

No, I was introverted as well. But when I was in fourth grade, I had a good year. I got kind of cocky. But fifth grade, I went, I went. I went dormant. No, fourth grade, some about. I was a shoplifter. I smoked cigarettes and I fought a lot of kids. I fought.

[David Spade]

I was like, what happened? Your stock went down the next year?

[Dana Carvey]

I don't know. You know, that's what I was going to say about confidence is there's 99% and then that last 1% is as big as the. As the previous 99. And I think that's where you got to. At a given point. And so the audience, when they sense that kind of confidence, like Dave Chappelle when he's up there, you know, it's just like, that's at that high high.

[David Spade]

And you're there 22 minutes to light a cigarette. Everyone's like, I know.

[Dana Carvey]

And it smells right. You're actually.

[David Spade]

It's funny. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

You're waiting. You're actually. When you watch him, you know, you hold that. He likes you as an audience member that's how he looks at me, how powerful he is. But when you get to that level of confidence, that next, next wound down level, the audience is so comfortable, they're so relaxed that you have command up there. And you got there. I don't know what year it was, but you got there. And it's fun to watch. I've. I've seen recent specials. I won't give names of big comics and I was one of them a few years back, but their eyes are kind of big and they're, they're dancing for their dollars. They're a little sweaty and it' not their best set. And you know, you want to feel like the guy's not shooting a special, you know?

[David Spade]

You know, Sebastian's eyes get big.

[Dana Carvey]

A beat of sweat and it ain't funny all of a sudden. Go ahead, David.

[David Spade]

He's not afraid. Not afraid to keep, keep it silent for a second, you know, like, I think, I think I'm right. When you.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh yeah.

[David Spade]

There's silence in mind. I'm scared they're going to yell. I'm scared it's hard to sit there and be quiet and think of the next thing. I think Nate Bergazzi has good crowds where they wait, you know what I mean? They're well behaved. And to get a crowd, it's so much more fun to do throwaway jokes or to take a pause and then they go, but if you. I get rowdy sometimes and so I can't leave that much. And I think I like when someone like Sebastian just stops for a second, then he goes on the next thing and you're like, I'm in this. So if you're good, if you get a good crowd, you can do it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. That's the biggest fear that I love the silence. It's just you don't know what people are going to say or do. Or someone could yell out something because the audience feels sometimes maybe uncomfortable going, are we supposed to talk now?

[David Spade]

Do you forget something? Yeah, they want you to keep fucking going. They get uncomfortable. They're like, maybe this is the time he wants me to yell something stupid. And they're right on cue.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, you're in shape as a standup. If you're up there and you have a bit and it's killing and you just in the back of your head you go, oh my God, if this is killing, I got three stacked right behind this. You know, I can really relax now. Yeah, you know, that's a good place to be.

[David Spade]

Crowd is great.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to be. I mean, even. Even sometimes you feel like. I don't know. If you guys feel like you're doing a bit, maybe it's one of your favorite bits to do, but it doesn't come. It comes in the middle. You put it in the middle. Right. And then you feel like after that, you're like, the stuff that I got after this not going to be as good as what they just saw right now. But you get. At least for me, I get so excited to do that, I got to move it up in the act. That keeps me kind of engaged. And then after that, for me, I feel like, oh, man, it's a little bit of a letdown just to tell them these jokes, because I know they're not as good as what I just did, so.

[David Spade]

Or, you know, or you get a weird crowd. Not to interrupt you. I had this the other night. They're. They weren't. They're either really biting on everything, or you go, oh, they're not biting on this. This is dirty. And they're not biting. And I'm like, oh, I'm looking at my list going, we got some dirty ones coming up toward the end. How do I get around these? Because why it's so hard on your feet to go, I got to move that up. I got to lose that. But I still got to do enough time because they are. If they're not biting on this one, they're not going to like the next. I. You can just tell.

[Dana Carvey]

I know.

[David Spade]

Get off it. Get off it. It's such a psychological beating up there.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You're like, don't you find it fascinating that you're saying they're not biting on this? Meaning as an audience, collect a whole group.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Like. Like they all got together and go, listen, dirty. We're not laughing at the dirty stuff tonight. But it's fascinating for me is, like, how is it, like, everybody in the audience is not on board with this one particular thing.

[David Spade]

Yep. Or they don't like the super dry stuff. Like, you can just come have little musings that work. Like, I think the other night, I go on and I go, hey, don't tell me what happened in the election. I taped it. Don't tell me who won. I taped. And then I got a big laugh. Next night, I do it. They're just staring at me. I'm like, what happened? What happened between last night and tonight? At certain points, too late to do that, but for their two, three days there. And then I go. And then I go, there's some throwaways in my act. They weren't. And they're like, we're not the throwaway crowd. Give us the. Give us the fastballs. I'm like, fuck. And that's what you realize early on. And I go, I got an hour of this. I got to.

[Dana Carvey]

My problem is if I too early, get too jumpy and I just go out and I go, not going to do it. I'm fucked. Because that's it. Some people leave after that, or if I go party on some half the crowd goes, we got it, we got it.

[David Spade]

We heard it. If I don't do anything else and then you do something else, they go, why are you doing something else?

[Dana Carvey]

Why are you talking about anything but the church lady right now? I don't understand why. So you're ruining it. It's a good problem to have, but it's basically a greatest hits review. I might as well be at, you know, the Tropicana and Laughlin. You know, little Dennis Miller slipped in. Oh, you got.

[David Spade]

By the way, I'll be at the Tropicana in Laughlin on 11-18-19.

[Dana Carvey]

You got the Sebastian cat on the PO today, huh? That's a toddling cat. You know, out there with the physicality.

[David Spade]

Works.

[Dana Carvey]

It works. So another question beside. But we're going to get to your all your credits, movies, TV shows in a sec.

[David Spade]

He's like, please get to my credits.

[Dana Carvey]

PR person's going nuts. When is he going to mention the book?

[David Spade]

When is he going to do it?

[Dana Carvey]

He going to mention the book? We got a two hour pod. I can't do it. Do you have to stretch before you go out? I mean, do you kind of.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I do early on, no. But now I pop my calf a couple of times on stage.

[David Spade]

Of all things.

[Dana Carvey]

Which bit was it? Or what?

[David Spade]

I can't do the stealing.

[Dana Carvey]

It was just pivot move. We were squatting.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I went to go sprint from one side to the other. As I went off my right leg, it kind of. Wow, did I just break my leg?

[David Spade]

It doesn't take much. You have to be at least 30. So after that, it doesn't take a lot. You're like, what happened was I turned to grab the computer mouse and everyone's like. And I go, that was it.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm old enough that my toes will spasm during a set. Like they just start going out and getting all rigid. I gotta go. I go, what the fuck? That's painful. I can't put any weight on it. So I just go, not gonna Step over. I'm trying to stir up ticket sales on this.

[David Spade]

I want to see you collapse. I'm going to your show.

[Dana Carvey]

So did you have to. I said rested. Massage it. It was okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. I had to mention it to the crowd because it definitely hampered my movement. I had sciatica for two years, and it really, really screwed with my.

[Dana Carvey]

That's wicked. Wicked.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't know if you guys have dealt with that.

[David Spade]

Go down your back, your leg or something.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it goes that side of your leg into your calf. Some people get it into their ankle and foot, but debilitating. I couldn't. I couldn't move. I. You know, it's hard to be funny when you're in, like, a lot of pain. So I had to really work through that, and it's. It's gone now. I did Pilates to correct that. I tried everything. No shots. I was getting. I was doing cupping, massage, whatever that was out there, I was doing. And then I fell upon this legree Pilates, and all of a sudden, two months in. Wow.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, my wife had it. Same, same thing. Pilates, all that kind of stuff. Could I ask you, what special when you were in massive pain, did you record? Just that. What was the name of that special when you were in pain?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That was the last one. Is it new in the tuxedo?

[Dana Carvey]

Really? He probably decided not to record.

[David Spade]

What is your last one called?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Is it Me?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Or I thought It Ain't Right. No, it Ain't Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Is the tour.

[Dana Carvey]

The tour? Yeah. Yeah. And then Is it Me? Yeah. Yeah. And how would you.

[David Spade]

What time is it?

[Dana Carvey]

What time is it?

[David Spade]

I'm running out of special names.

[Dana Carvey]

Sebastian, you have one called Give It a Rest. Give It a Rest.

[David Spade]

Mine's called Beep Bop Boop. I mean, I think they go, is this a real one? I'm like, I don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

He had a special that even he had a special. He named it. The name was so non. A script that for two years in this podcast, neither of us could remember.

[David Spade]

Couldn't remember the name of his current special.

[Dana Carvey]

What was the name of it?

[David Spade]

Always, like, either two words or just something kind of cutesy. But question.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Aren't you embarrassed? What's wrong with people?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Get your facts straight.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, yeah, I got sciatica. It's.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

It will shorten the cold or reduce the symptoms so that the second you start feeling. Because sometimes you go, oh, man, am I getting a cold? And that's when you hit a Zeit cam.

[David Spade]

Boom, boom, nail it. And it's kind of fun. Yeah. They have rapid melts, medicated food drops, a lot of flavors. You know, nasal, nasal swabs. Those are fun sprays.

[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

It's almost lunchtime. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Do you have any.

[David Spade]

What are you going to do?

[Dana Carvey]

What do you do? You know, sometimes I really just want to have fun. I would get like a really good turkey sandwich with avocado or if I.

[David Spade]

Really want to say the same thing, really, Turkey? I just had it yesterday.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. And maybe a few baked chips. And then you'd want an ice cold Pepsi, which I don't. What I like to do with Pepsi is I fill the whole glass to the brim with ice and then I slowly pour the Pepsi in and I make what I call a super Pepsi.

[David Spade]

You know, because the cold, it's not that super, but. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, I think if I say it's super, then it's kind of, it's, it's closer to super.

[David Spade]

Well, in your head, super.

[Dana Carvey]

Because it's, it's a super Pepsi. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not a regular situation.

[David Spade]

Yeah, yeah. You know, I was flying this week and Pepsi on the plane, all Pepsi products, the casino. I just played every restaurant, everything. You throw one in with lunch, dinner and get, you get a little caffeine going, you get the fizzy bubbles and it's fun.

[Dana Carvey]

And you know, you share it with people. An Austrian friend of mine wants them to be quote. And you know what enhances those flavors and really makes them pop. It's an ice cold Pepsi. I said, thank you.

[David Spade]

I'll give it a pop.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it gives you a pop with A Pepsi pop. It's better than a regular pop.

[David Spade]

Get a fizzy Pepsi in you and a pepperoni piece of pizza. You know, I've done that so many times.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, yeah, I would say pizza and a Pepsi, they sound alike. They go together. You will lose your mind with pizza and Pepsi every time. Grab a Pepsi. Zero sugar for your next meal as food deserves. Pepsi.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Dana Carvey]

That's the whole thing. It's called intuitive process, David. Pick up the language naturally, not like when you were born in third grade. First with words, then phrases.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

If you name a special, do you have to say the name in the act?

[David Spade]

That's a great question. I, you know, people go, I'll watch your special and give you a name. I'm like, you won't. Because there's not some running theme of like, I was abused by my father. The whole special. They're like, oh, I got one. You're like, no, it's just all goofy, dumb jokes and it makes no sense. So I'm gonna have a special name. Like when I heard Rock named his tambourine, and I didn't get it at all, but I just liked that it.

[Dana Carvey]

Was different and spelled different than.

[David Spade]

And then he said, when you're married, sometimes you're the lead. Sometimes you play the tambourine and let them shine. And I was like, oh, okay. So it has some thought to it, you know, So I like that. But I liked it anyway. Cause it was just weird. And it's always fun to think of a name and then no one really cares.

[Dana Carvey]

I had one good one and one terrible one. The good One was the 90s. I called it Critics Choice with four stars. And I never talked about it on cable TV. It would come up on Comedy Central. Dana Carvey, critics choice, four stars. My sister would call me and says, you got Critics Choice again. Then in 2016, I had an Irish nephew from Dublin at Stella Adler in Hollywood. And it was right when Wokeness was coming in and they said this and this and this, but straight white males need not apply for some class. So he goes, man, you should name it that, you know? So I named him a stripe. Straight white male, 60. I don't know why, because some people said, that's going to catch you. I would click on that, you know, and then I'm on the great late Norm McDonald's podcast and goes, so I sounded special. I mean, what was that title about? And he kind of has nothing to do with straight white male. Right? And I go, no, it. Nothing. There's no bit in there about it. It's completely just slap.

[David Spade]

I like that you confuse Norm with that one.

[Dana Carvey]

I did.

[David Spade]

I know that. Me.

[Dana Carvey]

What does it mean? Where's the bit about that? You know, so we. I love Norm. Of course. I just threw that in case people don't understand that.

[David Spade]

So we make fun of Norm all the time.

[Dana Carvey]

We love Norm. I mean, I love to do him because I'm visiting with him, but. So the bookie is what, your prp? Is that why you're on right now? Besides.

[David Spade]

Besides, he's on because he likes.

[Dana Carvey]

He's a big fan. No, it's. I watched one of the. The first episode today. It was. It's very cool. I mean, you had Ray Romano on. On it, you know, and you were in that movie with him somewhere in Queens. Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. So it's coming out in December, our second season. Yeah. I mean, the whole acting thing for me has been a struggle to Kind of wrap my head around coming off, you know, stand up comedy and getting that immediate gratification on stage. And then all of a sudden you're acting. And now it's gonna do that again. We're gonna move the cameras and this and that. Just for me, it's like, like I get, like, I get impatient. It's like, all right, come on, let's.

[Dana Carvey]

It's not really fun, is it? Unless it's documentary style. But if it's like, we're coming around, you know, we're moving, we're moving in. Oh, really?

[David Spade]

Do you hate yourself when you start repeating the way you did a joke over and over on different takes? It makes me sick, to be honest. Oh, you know, because I said, you know, I keep doing it. And they go, do it again. I'm like, it's just, it's not funny. And they go, now do it again. This is the one we're probably going to use. I'm like, now it's 48 takes in. I've been giving it my all.

[Dana Carvey]

Hi. Yeah, hey.

[David Spade]

And then I got to do it again. And the people across me are like, oh, so all that, that was all planned? That little throwaway ad lib? I'm like, yes, you get it now. Sorry. But in your act, you do it once and you keep moving.

[Dana Carvey]

Everyone's like, oh, hey, they do the master shot at 8am Right, David? They do the best shot, then a second or third master shot. But the time to get to the money shot on you, it's like eight, nine hours later. You've actually said the words over 200 times. It doesn't even sound like English at that point. Then the reviews, the comedian, the impressionist struggles with his acting skills. No fucking put. Do Larry David with me. Just shoot everything every second one time.

[David Spade]

To just bring it back to us type Sebastian. We were on a. When we did Tommy Boy, Brian Dennehy came in to play, to play Farley's dad. We all love him from fucking True First Blood or whatever. And so we were all excited. So we didn't realize because it was our first big movie or any movie, that we were Pete, the director, who's a great guy, we love him. But to make sure, because we were new, I think Paramount told him, just make sure you get it. So we're doing 15 masters, you know, forget about the over the shoulder and then a two shot and then over the wide shot and then loose two close up. So we're doing. That's what we're taking all day. And then Brian Dennehy, after three takes of the Masters, they go, all right, going in, he goes, what the fuck? What are we doing? What are we doing here? We got it. Go, move on. Move on.

[Dana Carvey]

I love it, too.

[David Spade]

We just did three. How many we're going to be on this at a second at the beginning and a second at the end of the scene. What are we doing? And I was like, are you allowed to say this? What's going on? And then. And because, you know, Farley gives it 10, 10%. I give it about 64. And so at the. He's just so burned out and drinking coffee, and we're like, we haven't even pushed in for the stuff we're going to use. So he was sort of trying to protect us a little bit in a very loud voice.

[Dana Carvey]

I had Robert Low do that on a movie.

[David Spade]

Oh, that's another.

[Dana Carvey]

He goes up, the director gets in his face. You're wearing out the actors. You're wearing them the out. And the director's like, shriveling down. I did Road House. Yeah, I played a piano with Tom Hanks, you fuckface.

[David Spade]

We shot Roadhouse in a day and a half.

[Dana Carvey]

That's Patrick Swayze. Was it? Brian? Was Robert Loscha in Roadhouse?

[David Spade]

I think he was a bad guy. Lived across the lake.

[Dana Carvey]

Anyway, back to Sebastian. Sebastian, the bookie on max comes out December, what, 1212. Second season. I'm sorry. 92% on rotten tomatoes. Excuse me.

[David Spade]

I've never gotten that much combined.

[Dana Carvey]

Farewell. 88%. Well, 72. No, that is a. That's a very loving amount to get. I have. I have a movie on there. That's 0.5%, I think. I'm not kidding.

[David Spade]

This one's. They go, it's good. Your movie's almost fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I go, am I buying something that's almost fresh? I mean, I think there's a problem.

[Dana Carvey]

It sucks if that means you're in the 40s.

[David Spade]

I think they tricked me. I go, I that's. They go, that's good. I'm like, is it good for me or is it good?

[Dana Carvey]

Is it good for society?

[David Spade]

Yeah. Jesus. All right, well, Sebastian, thank you, bud. What else can we do? Thank you.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I. I appreciate.

[David Spade]

He's a good guy.

[Dana Carvey]

I will see what the story is a brilliant. Stand up. I think you're an excellent actor, by the way. I like watching you act. And you wrote a book. I don't know what you haven't done, but, you know, just keep on keeping on. If we run into each Other somewhere, sometime. What would you want me to say to you? I have a backstage of Comedy Store. What would you like me to say?

[David Spade]

Hey, Sebastian, we'll just pick it up.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right before we left off right here. We just. Just go into the next question and.

[David Spade]

Start, start about the bookie and then just go from there.

[Dana Carvey]

Are you going to run and tell your wife and kids? They said I was really physical and musical.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it's going to be at the dinner table tonight. Do you know what they said about Daddy?

[David Spade]

You know what they said?

[Dana Carvey]

And you're picking them up, holding them. Anyway, it was so much fun to have you on here. And yeah, thanks for letting us blab. But, yeah, keep on doing and just have fun, I guess. Enjoy yourself. I mean, it's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I myself and it was a pleasure talking to both of you, the two guys that I kind of grew up watching on tv. And, you know, sometimes it's like, you know, you got to wrap your head around these things. It's like watching you as a kid. Now we're doing a podcast together. Sometimes it's, you know, plays with your head a little bit going.

[Dana Carvey]

I had it with Martin Short and Steve Martin, you know, like, really? You consider me a peer or what? Is this where we're at now? Are you crazy? You know, but, yeah, I totally get that. Don't ever lose that, you know, and you're making a lot of people happy. I know that sounds really corny, but from where I'm at, people need to laugh in life, and so it's a good thing to. It's a good stock and trade to do, so. All right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right, guys, enjoy your holidays. And thank you.

[Dana Carvey]

You too.

[David Spade]

This has been a presentation of Odyssey. See Please Follow Subscribe Leave a Like a review all this stuff. Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtz.