Name: Bill Burr on Sebastian Mansicalco
Uploaded: 2023-06-15T15:00:29.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr on Sebastian Mansicalco' from Fans of Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr on Sebastian Mansicalco' from Fans of Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-15. Transcript available.

did sebastian really live below you meet you lived on the same floor as me and
that's how he
got into comedy he asked me how to he did the hardest thing in company he came
to la and started
at the store in the late 90s what wait what year were you and was this when you
were shooting uh
yeah well no that was over but i i can't it was like it's got to be 98 98 you
came back in 99 99
99 you came up to me i was on uh that's when patrice told me like wow at least
i feel like i'm moving
forward 99 i was walking down third street and you said uh west third and you
said hey uh i heard
you're funny um i heard you got a deal listen you should go don't be
embarrassed to tell sd that you
got a deal they don't know about hollywood stuff and if you got something going
on it's okay to say
that and i went really and you're like yeah yeah you know it's whatever you can
do to get you to
say that you said whatever you can do to get spots and then did that work uh no
and then i know yeah
i didn't think that's bad advice not work and then my heart was in the right
place i was listening to
that advice i'm like that doesn't work yeah and then gerald gerald i said to gerald
i said uh i said so
bill said bill said this and gerald was like if i were you i'd just keep
getting on stage just get
on stage as much as you can buddy and i was like what did you learn listen to greg
don't listen to
bill sweet sebastian came up to you live on the same floor and he was like it
was so funny
he came up to me he goes uh yeah so you're a uh by the way he was still sebastian
then he's still
sebastian he's like um you're you're a comedian right you're a comedian and i
was all excited
oh my god somebody knows uh you know what i do i'm like yeah yeah i do come
here
and he goes yeah i've uh been uh been thinking about trying it you know i felt
like we're doing
like a drug deal or something and i was like he goes how do you get it and i
was going like yeah
you go down to the store and i was and as i was telling him what to do he was
just going to go like
like i was boring i felt like i was boring him with it and we just became
friends and he had some
crazy neighbor that was living across from him that used to walk around naked
it was i'm not i'm spared the details it was some dude that was getting off on
other people seeing him naked i think other guys seeing him naked i've been
that guy keep going so
i became friends with him because we were hanging out and we were spitballing
trying to figure out
because he was calling the cops and like unless you got like video we can't get
you so i was spitballing
how he could entice this guy to get naked okay you got to walk around the
apartment just be a little
frilly and we were just laughing and then i moved back to new york and then
like five years later i was
out and i'm like i'm never going to l.a again they're all so phony but you know
just stupid
shit because i couldn't get stage time i was blaming a city stupidest thing you
can do right
so five years later i come out and i see this guy on stage i'm like how the
do i know this guy because i knew him very briefly i knew him for about six
seven months and then five
years went by you know and i was back out there doing some showcase probably
bombed right and i saw
this guy on stage i'm going like how the do i know the outro you know when he
was just going by sebastian
and i was just like oh my god that's that guy down the hall look at him he's
getting spots and i
wanted to say hello but like i you know i had to you know go somewhere and then
the next time i came
out he was like one of the guys yeah and i walked up to him we both hey do you
remember i got yeah i remember
you right and then last year he was getting comedian of the year and he had
just sold out
madison square garden four times it's one of the coolest stories i have as far
as like
i lived down the hall from a guy who asked how do you start and now here i am
presenting him with
this award and he you presented the award to him yeah i almost got choked up it
was crazy but you he
said i want yeah to present it because i almost got i was like i was worried
how i'm not good in
those moments and i was like so proud of him and i was just like and it was
such a cool story
it was a it was really amazing what did you say i don't remember i kind of told
this story and i was
trying to be funny and all cool whatever but i it really like was it was a big
thing that he asked me to
do it i felt it's a perfect yeah like full circle kind of thing and i kept
saying to nia going i got
this he was right then his wife was there i was like he was down the hall and
she was laughing i was
doing the impression like yeah yeah yeah he made me feel like i was asking him
how to start because
he's like cool guy you know what i mean i'm like this orange-headed shithead
you know