Sebastian Maniscalco: Stay Hungry

Sebastian hits the nail on the head on all accounts. His realistic stories, energy, and way of describing incidents that happen in our lives everyday is fabulous! I laughed start to finish, as usual!

I saw Sebastian on the Stay Hungry tour in Las Vegas and literally laughed nonstop for 90 minutes. This special was way too edited. It cut so many of the bits short and a lot of the big laughs were lost because of it. The special was a bit disappointing but it was more because of how it was chopped up rather than the material not being funny. Gave it an 8 because of how much I laughed seeing this show live.

I am a huge fan of Sebastian! Coming from Greece which is not that far from Sicily, I always find many similarities in my family and his stories and the way he tells them always is funny to me. I watched this three times. In this one, I laughed the least in comparison to his other specials. Maybe the repetition of the same issues of his material (family and annoying behaviours of people, which is not that bad really), lack of very entertaining new jokes or a little of nervousness he felt more in that, doing a special in front of New Yorkers in probably the mecca of entertainment. I don't know. But it surely feels it lacks the freshness and delivery of his first specials. Despite that, as a huge fan I enjoyed it quite a lot, for example the part with his wife scratching his car and the body shop...actors.

The first half or so was excellent for the most part, but it runs out of steam towards the end. Still worth watching, though.

After reading the other reviews I was hesitant to watch. Luckily this was one of the funniest specials I've seen since his other one "Aren't You Embarrassed?". I definitely recommend it if you enjoy his humor. His faces and movements compliment the jokes perfectly. I laughed until it hurt!