He’s co-starring with Robert De Niro. He’s selling out arenas across America. The joke’s on us.
at sports arenas across America . By any objective measure, Sebastian Maniscalco is one of the most successful comedians of his generation—and somehow he had completely escaped my notice until last month.He’s got a recurring residency at the Wynn Las Vegas and has set earnings records at sports arenas acrossI wanted to see what I’d been missing, so on the Tuesday after Memorial Day I bought a ticket for a matinee showing of.
. Maniscalco wouldn’t be the first standup whose act just doesn’t translate to the big screen, of course, and the fact that his movie was less funny thandidn’t necessarily mean that he himself was an unfunny comic. On the other hand, our current era is one in which lots of Americans, generally for reactionary reasons, take great joy in elevating to cultural prominence people who objectively stink. Which one of these is Maniscalco? I spent a week digging into his oeuvre in order to find out.
, Maniscalco comes in hot and leads off by ripping on some woman he saw eating a Starbucks scone straight out of the bag. “Get a plate!” he exclaims as he embodies her voracity, hunching over and shoveling invisible crumbs into his mouth like a greedy hobbit.A story about a woman eating a scone isn’t a joke, of course, and “Get a plate!” isn’t a punchline. But the audience loved it anyway, as well as the countless other analogous bits in his other specials.
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