Introducing: We Got Company with Sebastian Maniscalco

0:00Hi folks, the day we're doing something a little special by bringing you a sneak peek into the debut episode for Sebastian Manus Calcos' new interview series We Got Company, with special guest Jerry Seinfeld. In the episode Jerry and Sebastian unpack a whole lot, including how to be a good house guest. Whether Jerry thought his series Seinfeld was going to be a hit, and even why we happen to thank for the coveted American Express Black Card. Take a listen to this clip where the two discuss how Jerry feels about life as a stand-up comedian now decades into his successful career. So you've been doing this, what? 50 years? 50 years, right? Yeah, last year, 50, 51. I was 20. I'm 72. So do you still have the same, is it still the same joy you feel now going on stage? Exactly, exactly. Maybe more. More now.

1:01Well, look, Sebastian, how many people, how many years you in? 28, 28, 30 was a good guess. In 28 years, how long is the list of common goals that you have seen of people that have fallen off of the branch hanging on with white knuckles? So I feel so grateful that I have this, that I can still, that I love it, that people still like when I do it, that we have this relationship, that we've gone through life together doing this. I can't, I just can't even describe how appreciative I am of it. When you go out, everybody knows you, right? Everybody knows Jerry Seinfeld. Do you feel like coming up when nobody knew who you were? Did you get the same joy out of making strangers laugh, then like say you are fans?

2:05It's a little bit more fun. This is a part of comedy that's gone that is a sad, sad loss. Opening from music acts in Vegas or Atlanta, a lot of places like that, and they don't even want to see a comedian and you go out there and make them like you. That is a great experience. And you get good and it's fun. I miss doing that. That's why I still do corporate gigs, because they don't really, they're not in a show mood. You've done them. Don't you think those are great experiences? I love those because it brings a challenge there that you don't have when you do a show in Las Vegas or a normal show because the people just got out of a meeting or a dinner or then you get up there and there's a bit of like a, okay, I got to make these people laugh. There's a lot of dynamics going on in a corporate event that you don't just see in a normal public event. So yes, I like that. But like for me, I enjoyed like going into a comedy club with 35 people on a Wednesday night.

3:12No one knows who you are and kind of getting them on my side. Sometimes when you go out, people know what to expect. Yeah, it's it's fun. Don't get me wrong. But I'm just saying I enjoyed the kind of challenge of making a group like like, did you play a lot of black rooms growing in a few? Yeah, like those in Chicago? No, I didn't do a lot of comedy in Chicago. I did more of the comedy up here like Fat Tuesday used to be at the comedy store. Oh, yeah, and enjoyed going up there. Oh, yeah, I knew a lot of those people didn't know kind of my act or whatnot and making a good one. That must have been fun. Oh, I loved it. I loved it. It's something that I thought was a challenge and and I often I was telling line again. I was enjoying more. I think stand up when I was on the come up that I am now because I feel a little bit more pressure to deliver. And back then I didn't really feel that pressure. I just felt like a little bit more free.

4:14Interesting. Well, you do, you know, if you look at some of the numbers of ticket prices that people are paying, you can feel a little boy. This I've really got a deliver with special show here. I don't even like to know. I think you have you have some idea of what's going on. I have no idea. I like the no idea. I don't care if we're sold out what they paid. Don't care. You don't look at the no. My job is the front of the stage to the curtain. That's it. I don't care. What can I do about it? I don't know. I just like I like why I have to ticket selling in X place. You don't you don't have any of that. No, because there's no rhyme a reason to it. It's never going to make any sense. You're always going to have off nights. There's always going to be shows that don't sell. Who cares? God. I do. I mean, yeah, I care. I don't want to go in the toilet, you know. That was just a preview of Sebastian's full episode with Jerry Seinfeld. Not a bad first guest if I do say so myself to hear more about the early days of their careers. Check out that episode of We Got Company over on the Sebastian Maniscalco show feed. Wherever you get your podcasts.