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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sebastian Maniscalco ont Hosting the MTV VMAS' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-14. Transcript available.

I worry a lot, a lot of fear in taking some of the projects I take.
Really?
Yeah, well, I'm doing this VMAs in two weeks, right?
Oh, yeah, I heard about that.
And honestly, my first thought was like, what the fuck, dude, that's crazy.
Well, it's a challenge for me because, A, it's not my audience.
I mean, it skews younger.
My audience is typically, you know, 30 to 60.
Yeah, jag-offs, dude, you know what I'm saying, bro?
Jag-offs with cufflinks.
I know who your audience is, man.
It's getting hot in Popcastville, bro.
It's getting hot.
I'm joking, man.
You have a huge audience that gets good entertainment, so that's who you have.
Yeah.
So you're worried that?
Well, I mean, it's first of all, I mean, you all know as a comedian when you do
comedy at
a musical event that, you know, sometimes it could be difficult to connect with
the crowd
just because, you know, they're listening to music and then you come on and you
have to
kind of segue in, do a joke here or there.
But you're hosting it, right?
Yeah, I'm hosting it.
So I'm crazy.
Now, you never saw, you never would have thought that you'd be hosting the VMS.
No, it wasn't on my vision board.
Yeah, dude, yeah.
So do you have a vision board?
Bro, that's crazy.
Do you write shit down?
I do have a vision board, actually.
And I want a black son one day.
I have two black kids on my vision board.
You got two black kids?
Yeah.
Okay.
So people always, I don't tell people that often because they don't see it the
way I
see it, you know?
How do you see it?
I see it as these are going to be my sons one day.
And I think other people see like, oh, a guy from the south has a couple of
black guys
on a vision board.
You know, I think they kind of get a, you know, they're looking at it different.
So if I went to your house and looked at the vision board, you got two black
kids up there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do.
Look, they're happy.
And one of them has a school book under his arm.
Those are my sons, man.
And no matter who my sons are or what, you know, what color, you know, what
tent they
come in, they're going to be, you know, hopefully they're going to be reading
decently and doing
good stuff, you know, but dude, that's crazy.
You're going to be hosting the VMAs.
You have to be a little nervous, huh?
I'm a lot nervous.
I wouldn't be living if I'm not really feeling this stuff.
So, you know, music skewing younger, never hosted anything before.
Damn, that's crazy.
And, you know, like, you know, you got to write the comedy for the night, you
know, and
my comedy generally is tested at the comedy store and whatnot.
So the monologue that I'm opening up with, you know, I've been working on, but
haven't
really tested it in front of a live audience, which I will, you know, moving
forward this
week and next.
But yeah, it's a daunting task.
So you're going to talk about celebrities and stuff and you have to kind of, I
mean, MTV
turned it, it's basically just Rob Dyrdek, 24 hours a day, I think.
I feel like it's just that show ridiculousness.
Yeah, there's a lot of that, but I'm not, my style's not ripping people to
shreds.
My style's a little bit more.
I'm going to tailor the comedy to what I do on stage and kind of fit it into
the environment
rather than go on stage and go, well, Drake's here tonight.
It's not really what I do, so.
Right.
Oh, wow.
That's cool, though.
Because that's, I think when I heard about it, I was like, oh, man, is
Sebastian going
to do that?
It's just different.
It's just different than him.
That would just, to me, it would seem so scary, you know?
It's frightening.
But.
But it's good.
It's a good frightening.
You know, like I believe that if you don't challenge yourself in this business,
and we've
talked offline about this, like, you know, getting a little, maybe your
momentum
is not there, or your passion is not there, maybe in certain different things,
I feel
that, you know, the challenge is where you kind of get the passion back and or
putting
yourself in situations that you typically wouldn't put yourself in to, you know,
overcome and
succeed.
So, you know, doing that, yeah, doing one, this is definitely one of those.
That's wild.
So, yeah, it's been good, though.
What are you going to wear, dude?
How?
Like, I am getting up.
The outfits are next, next, next week.
I mean, I'm not going to come out there in a see-through leopard nipple shirt,
but.
How many gross of sequins are in the mail right now?
Headed to Los Angeles to make your costume, brother.
There might be a sequined jacket or two.
Bro, you better fucking come out looking like a 60-year-old Italian doc who's
trying to
fucking get one last run at some cock over at the VFW, you know?
I want a real, I want you to come out just shining, bro.
There's going to be a lot of, yeah.
I think I'm maybe one of the oldest hosts they've ever had.
At least the, maybe the only host they've ever had with gray hair.
That's good.
Definitely.
So.
And you might be one of the only hosts who's being honest about their age as
well.
Yeah.
So, who knows?
46 years old.
Damn.
Doing the VMAs.
So, yeah.
That's going to be exciting.
Who are you, who's somebody that you are kind of low-key excited about seeing
at the VMAs?
Like, just to see.
Do you already know everybody's going to be there and stuff?
Yes, they've given me a list.
Who am I excited to see?
This is, this is why they picked me to do this, is I don't really know a lot
about music.
Yeah.
And this is kind of what they liked about it, that I don't really have a button
on what's
going on with me, with the music industry.
Although I do, I know the Khalids and From Afar and Her and Halsey and all
these, all these
artists.
I know, but I don't know, like, the ins and outs of, like, who's throwing shade.
Right.
Yeah.
Whatever that means.
I don't.
Where I'm from, that doesn't mean, my aunt got a new awning on their camper.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's totally different.
But Missy Elliott, who I grew up kind of listening to, she's going to be there.
You have a similar body type, too, I feel like.
Yeah, I feel like we're similar in shape.
So she's going to be there?
She's going to be there.
And yeah, there's a couple of surprise guests that I can't really mention that
I'm looking
forward to meeting.
That's crazy, man.
What a wild night that's going to be.
My mom just told me she's coming.
My father's coming.
My in-laws are coming.
Obviously, my wife, my whole family's coming.
My kids.
I want to bring my kids there and get some photos with them.
Oh, yeah, that'd be cool.
At the Prudential Center, where they're going to have it.
So yeah, just elaborate.
Even on a production end of it, just looking at this, because I know a lot
about production
and putting on a show.
What they have going into this, as far as the technology, is just sick.
It's amazing.
And this is in New York, right?
This is in New Jersey, Prudential Center in New Jersey.
Oh, is that where they usually have it, or they usually have it?
Last year, I think it was at Radio City.
They've had it at Radio City.
They've had it here at the Staples Center.
They've had it-
Madison Square Garden, Microsoft Theater, The Forum, Barclays.
Because I went to one, because I did an MTV show when I was young, right?
And so we went to-
What was that, 20 years ago?
The VMAs.
Yep, 20 years ago.
So you went to the VMAs?
Went to the VMAs.
We got a ticket somehow.
I don't even know, right?
I get out at the place.
I didn't know what it was going to be like.
I mean, I'd seen it on television, but I get out, get dropped off there.
Bono is walking on the red carpet at the same time.
I think everybody's excited for me, right, dude?
Because I have no clue who Bono is.
No clue.
I never really listened to music.
I listened to Alice in Chains.
I'd recognize them are Guns N' Roses, maybe.
But so people are going nuts, dude.
I have no idea.
Go into the place, sitting.
I sat behind Chris Farley's brothers.
He had just died.
And I sat behind his brothers, sat next to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.
Wow.
And NSYNC performed.
At some point in the evening, bro, it was long.
I remember urinating in the bathroom between Kid Rock and Montel Williams.
Wow.
You know?
That's a good best friend.
And fucking bringing those guys together, you know?
And at one point in the evening, I fell asleep in my seat, bro.
I was just-
Wow.
I guess it was like a long night and I just got kind of tired and I just
remember falling asleep.