Sebastian Maniscalco

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.

Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message.

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.

I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.

Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I'd be a fool to sit there and go, 'Yeah, let's use the telephone to telemarket myself'... Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.