placed Maniscalco No. 10<\/a> <\/span>on the \u201cWorld’s Highest Paid Comedians\u201d with a yearly average of about $15 million.<\/i><\/p>\nMeanwhile, he’s driven around in a car and drank coffee with Jerry Seinfeld and was seen in the recent Will Ferrell \/ Amy Poehler vehicle \u201cThe House\u201d as well as did voice-over work for the animated feature \u201cNut Job 2.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Even better, he’s starring in this year’s \u201cGreen Book\u201d alongside Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini and Viggo Mortensen, \u201cTag\u201d with Jon Hamm, Ed Helms and Jeremy Renner and \u2013 get this \u2013 next year alongside Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and back-from-retirement Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s \u201cThe Irishman.\u201d Oh, also some players named Harvey Keitel and Ray Romano. Ain’t no way we weren’t going to ask about that one.<\/i><\/p>\n
But this is a quick conversation about his latest achievement: this week’s upcoming five-sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall, April 19-21 for his \u201cStay Hungry\u201d tour, culminating in a Netflix special.<\/i><\/p>\n
Hi, Sebastian.<\/b><\/p>\n
Hey, how you been? Congratulations on your new position.<\/p>\n
Thanks. You’ve sold out runs of shows before, especially at the Chicago Theatre. How do you place five sold-out five shows at Radio City in all of this?<\/strong><\/p>\nNew York was one of those markets I had a late start on. I didn’t really do a lot of New York shows early on and it kind of started to happen later on in my career. I think I did my first show in New York City I think, maybe, 2011? It was at Gotham Comedy Club. I knew I had an audience base there, and I knew the people would gravitate toward my material.<\/p>\n
I started selling out more and more shows at the comedy club level and then we jumped into the Beacon Theatre and a variety of different shows there. Now we’re doing Radio City, which is funny. I was taking photos of Radio City on a trip three or four years ago. My wife and I were kind of just playing around and I had just done Jimmy Fallon and I came out of there \u2013 it’s right across from Radio City \u2013 and I said, \u201cSomeday I want to do Radio City Music Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
To do five sold-out shows there, and to have a Netflix special on the last night is great. I mean, New York City has always been great to me as far as stand-up comedy and it’s really showing the love at Radio City.<\/p>\n