Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1237 - Sebastian Maniscalco
Uploaded: 2019-02-05T02:18:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1237 - Sebastian Maniscalco' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1237 - Sebastian Maniscalco' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1237 - Sebastian Maniscalco

there we go four three two one and we're live you fucking handsome bastard look
at you oh yeah
look at you stunning what's going on man what's going on um every well i've
done this once before
and i've watched you you know throughout the years and when i come in here i
get a little um
nervous why you're a guy who knows a lot about everything and i don't know a
lot of i don't
know a lot about everything i know enough to make it seem like i know a lot
about everything whatever
you're doing it's you know more than i do right like like we were on your
treadmill out there
right and you go it's 13 percent uh what did you say 13 more difficult than
regular running okay
like i forgot the fact what you just said from the time we walked in i i lost
it so i don't i don't
have the retention that i wish i had i gotta get you some alpha brain i need
something do we have
is that what i'm missing in my my diet alpha brain i mean uh it's uh what's
interesting though is that
people will come up to me with shit that happened just a few years ago and i'm
like i don't remember
that at all like i think you have a certain amount of room in your brain and uh
my brain is always
deleting stuff that it doesn't think it needs anymore and then shoving in new
things like sometimes
someone will tell me about something i'm like what are you talking about and
they're like you don't
remember there was the guy with no arms who drove us around i went what and
then i have to go oh yeah
it's like i find the folder in my head and like oh there it is yeah yeah yeah
yeah and then we went
to the pool hall and then i'll remember gotcha but if yeah it's just uh for
whatever reason this uh
i can only i only keep things that i'm interested in gotcha yeah i just wish i
could retain a lot of the
things i either see or hear to then recall it in a conversation you can but you
got to write things
down you got to like want to recall things yeah that's a problem i don't do a
lot of writing as far
as like a notepad or anything to just take notes do when you write your act do
you write it in your head
or do you write it on paper or it's audio just audio go to the comedy store i
record it and i listen to
it on the way home and then i'll like oh maybe i'll do this next time maybe i'll
do that i'll take that
out this out and then uh so there's no writing my act is more recalling stories
than sitting in a room
going oh i think this is funny right right so that's kind of how i work but uh
yeah the reason i say that
to start off is just like i i see you go down a lot of different paths on the
podcast and i often go
man if i was sitting in that chair could i add to the conversation and a lot of
times it's no
i can't just because for whatever the reason i uh i just feel like i need to be
a little bit more
um well read how often do you read uh like i read the goggins book yeah and
that fucking book yeah
and sad life that dude had huh it's sad life but then on the flip side
inspiring to you know a guy like
myself where you know i'm running i'm running say i'm working out and i i
thought of this guy i go you
know what let's let's put another mile into this yeah so uh yeah i mean i'm
just now starting to get
into a little bit more books than i have in the past because in the past to be
honest with you i
haven't really i haven't really read much i i try to read uh one new thing a
week and the way i try to
do it is uh i have uh uh i use a lot of audio books but i also read books i go
back and forth in
between them between reading and audio books but i find for whatever reason i
retain more with
audio books than i do with reading maybe it's my add or something like that
because when i'm reading
i kind of have to back up sometimes like i'll go through a whole paragraph
where i'm thinking about
some other while i'm reading yeah and then i gotta go okay back up reread that
go over it again you know
that's what i find my mind wanders like yeah like you're saying uh the audio
book definitely is better
option yeah i think all stand-up comedians uh have scattered brains at least in
some in some way yeah
all of us are a little up i think we have to be i think i think the the mind
works in a weird way
in a comedian's head uh i think it has to be a little bit fragmented and uh
thinking a lot of
different things at once in order to operate uh i mean you're doing it on stage
i think you know you're
doing you're doing your comedy and i'm self-evaluating going is this working
right now should i go off into
another bit should i talk about my family i see they're liking family stuff so
i think yeah that's
what we're doing uh when we're performing and then sometimes i think that bleeds
to everyday life yeah
for sure yeah when you're doing a bit are you thinking about what you're like
are you like do you
have a bit on deck like while you're in the middle of the bit do you like go
from there i'm gonna talk
about you know the gym or the you know the this or that uh it's funny uh and i
don't know if you go
through this do you ever go through um well first of all when you're doing
comedy do you have a
beginning middle and end and you know where you're going throughout that whole
set or do you in the
moment go you know what i'm gonna do the bit about that or is it set it's not
it's both it depends when
like right now uh i don't have a lot of material because uh my netflix special
came out in uh october so
november december january i've basically three months worth of new which is
about 40 minutes of
all told material and then i have 20 other minutes that are in the they're in
like the baking stage
like i'm not ready to take them out of the oven they're i around with them i'll
shove them in the
middle a bit some sometimes but they're not they're not 100 legit they need to
be fleshed out but one of
those became like one of my best bits now it's weird how that works like
sometimes you'll just find this
one part of it that makes it work and boom all of a sudden the bits turbocharged
um so because of that
i usually i decide that day usually what i'm gonna open with and then um i
leave the middle part up to
my imagination and then i'll decide what i'm gonna close with but when i'm
ready to do a netflix special
i basically have it all mapped out i basically have a starting point and i have
an end point yeah but even
like when i'm filming i still around and ad lib because i don't think because
every show i do i
don't i don't have like i'm gonna say it verbatim this way every time i always
around because i always
feel like i could find a new way that's better if i just stay loose and so even
when i'm filming i do it
that way because i feel i want this to be like a real show if it's a real show
and i always film four
shows so i'm like if it's a real show i'll around and and i've been filming
before i around i
go down a dark road and there's no one there i'm like all right turn around
thank god for editing
yeah i think i think that's the way to do it though to be kind of in the moment
and go with how you're feeling when you're filming something just because that's
the way you would be
anyway yeah right but sometimes i've i've learned in the past when i'm filming
something i feel like
man i'd like to get everything that i want out on this special and i don't want
to forget anything
because there'll be nights where i'm performing and i i i forgot a bit i'm like
i'll be searching in my
head for the bit and i'm like i know there's another something that goes along
this but then i i just
jump off it and go into a another routine so for me i don't know i like to keep
it different every
night just try and play around and uh it's weird now that a netflix special uh
i just uh one came out
and i don't really subscribe to um if if i have a netflix special out and you
come to a live show
you're going to see some of those bits that i did in the netflix special i don't
like retire the the
act i know some guys go okay it's out there i'm not doing this on my live show
myself i
still like to do some of that material because i enjoy doing it and uh i also
have some new stuff
so i kind of and i don't know how long that lasts i don't know like i i know
some some people were like
oh i saw that on the netflix why am i gonna pay to see it live if i could see
it at home but there's
something about going out i believe to a live show and seeing a live
performance there's different
nuances that you might see in a bit or an add-on like sometimes i add on to the
joke that i my jokes
are sometimes never finished so i keep adding on so um that's the way i've kind
of worked at my entire
career yeah um gaffigan does it that way um uh a lot brian reagan does it that
way where guys will
call out bits like they will they like if you go to see gaffigan he doesn't do
hot pockets you're
gonna get mad that's there's a lot of people like that i retire my material but
i have brought stuff
out before if people asked like someone asked me to bring up uh explaining kim
kardashians to the
aliens the other night and i i was amazed that i could remember it but i
remembered it
uh but for the most part i retire because i feel like in my mind if i don't
retire things i'm not
going to work on new things as much and let it limit myself and then i always
feel like my newest bits
are better than my older bits because even though i've been doing stand-up for
30 years i i still
think i get better at it i think it's a constant state of self-evaluation and
self analysis and going
over the material and then realize you know you have enough good sets and bad
sets and great sets you
have enough the kind of recognize the characteristics of each one where they go
wrong and then you get
better at having less bad sets and even less good sets and more great sets yeah
and you know and i
think that for me one big part of that is constantly writing i write right i
sit down and write right and
uh i write one hour every night after shows that's one big one i write during
the day but the big one
for me seems to be at night when i come home from the store and i'm jazzed up
and also it's great too
because everyone's asleep it's just me and the dog and i just sit at that desk
and i'll just work until
my eyes start blinking and i start getting really tired and some of my best
shit i've ever come up
with is that way wow after shows because i'm all i'm juiced up and then i also
have a process of
listening to the show um in the car because you know it's one of the coolest
things about um bluetooth
audio that you get your phone you record it on your phone and then in the car
home you can listen
and then go ah i fucked that up or oh i should have done it this way or maybe
if i do that or you
have an idea like i'll pause it i'll go oh i got another idea yeah and then i'll
make a new voice
note and then i'll go home and i'll listen to it again i'll listen to my set
again and i'll pause it
and then start working on stuff and that's how i've been able to expand all
these bits pretty quickly
that's interesting i uh i find my best bits come out of just living my life and
uh you know i have
a daughter we went to the zoo and the nuances at the zoo that i uh picked up on
and i just go either
tell i i'll call my mother and i'll tell her a story and that's kind of my barometer
of whether or not
this thing is going to work on stage and then i'll go to the comedy store and
kind of flush it out there
but uh yeah i mean i just never been the guy who writes um i i just i don't
know well you don't
have to no obviously it's working for you there's a lot of guys who don't do it
that way bill burr
doesn't do it that way he's one of the best ever yeah a lot of guys who just
don't write um for me i
feel like it's all about how much time and energy i put on things and if i put
more time and energy
you know just working on my act because i'm writing then it's going to be
better that's just
how i look at it yeah um yeah everybody's got their own process and i'm
fascinated to h