Robert DeNiro Didn't Wanna Be Friends w/ Sebastian Maniscalco

Tom Segura (0:00)

Texas, listen up, I've got some live shows coming up. November 1st in Amarillo at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex. Then November 2nd in Lubbock at Buddy Holly Hall and El Paso at the Abraham Chavez Theatre on November 6th. Get your tickets at tomsegura.com/tour.

Bert Kreischer (0:19)

100%.

Your new special is not coming out till November. It's so good. I had to stop it. I had to stop watching it. That's how good it is. Shot beautifully. Shot gorgeous. Really covered top to bottom. I'd say in the round, but it's in the triangle.

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:40)

It's in the triangle.

Bert Kreischer (0:41)

It's in the triangle. At the United Center. How many did you shoot? And this is inside baseball stuff for comics, but how many did you shoot?

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:47)

Two. We did two.

Bert Kreischer (0:48)

God. So good.

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:50)

It's expensive.

Bert Kreischer (0:55)

That's it. You're done. Do you need to do anything else?

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:58)

I asked that to my, what are we doing? Are we, how long is this going to go on? I'm sure you guys are all asking, you're like, how long do we have to come to this house?

Bert Kreischer (1:12)

How long does this go on?

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:16)

I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know.

Bert Kreischer (1:18)

Were you friends with Seinfeld?

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:20)

Yeah.

Bert Kreischer (1:21)

Like, does he still love it?

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:23)

Yeah, he loves doing stand-up comedy. For me, it's like, what else do you have to do on top of the stand-up comedy? I mean, you're a guy who's dabbling in a lot of facets of entertainment. Is this because you absolutely love doing all this stuff, or is this the fact that just it's feeding the stand-up? What's the, where are we going?

Bert Kreischer (1:45)

I mean, that's a great question. I think Segura's done doing stand-up.

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:49)

He's done.

Bert Kreischer (1:50)

I think so. This is his last tour, this is his last special. I mean that for real. I think his kids are young, he doesn't want to travel. He loves making movies. He really got into this to make movies and television. Like that's when he moved to Hollywood, his interest wasn't stand-up. It was actor, writer, director. And so I think he's getting the opportunity to do that. And it's interesting because I remember when I did the movie, he told me, he goes, do good now. And it sets up the next 20 years of your life. And I was like, so that's crazy. And it, I mean, it has, I've been working, doing TV and film. I like it. There's nothing better than like, for me though, watching your special, you have such an ability. You have such an ability to make me giggle that I can't figure out. You and Napar got to the two people who can make me laugh and I can't figure out how to replicate what you do. And so the math of standup for me is fascinating. And I love it. And it makes me question myself. I get into, literally, I was on the toilet today going like, cause I watched it all last night in bed and I was woke up and I said, so wait, what do I do?

Like, do I just share secrets? But like, but I love standup. I love standup. I do, television does not feed standup. I don't think.

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:06)

No, I don't think so either. I think, I thought at least going into like movies and film, I thought, oh, okay, if you do good here, maybe this will translate into hard ticket sales. But I don't think that generally is the case. Although I think the podcasting does, if you have a big enough podcast.

Bert Kreischer (3:24)

You and Pete are awesome together.

Lana Gomez (3:26)

Well, thank you.

Bert Kreischer (3:26)

It's real synergy.

Lana Gomez (3:27)

Thank you.

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:28)

We enjoy doing the podcast for us. It's not a large moneymaker. It's what I use it for is almost to populate some of my bits. I'm like, oh, this is a good story. I'll tell it here and maybe percolate that on stage. But other than that, yeah, I mean, I love standup comedy. Other than that, everything else is kind of just gravy. You know, I'm not like seeking out like a big movie career TV. I'm almost in the Segura bucket where I got small kids. They're eight and six and I really enjoy hanging out. Like my son came up to me the other day and he's like, Daddy, can you coach my soccer team? That's it, I'm balling.