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 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.

It was decent but there was quite a few bits about the pregnancy that I didn't care for about halfway through. The bits about exercising, the gas station, and Home Depot were his best parts. These occurred at the beginning and end so it wasn't a very consistent experience for me. He seemed to really start getting into it at the end, but then it justseems to end because of the time limit. I recommend watching it with lower expectations.

I love Sebastian and have seen all his comedy specials, but this one is my least favorite. It didn't really take off, kept waiting for a comedic crescendo like Sebastian is capable of but never happened. Hope it's better next time.

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