Sebastian Maniscalco

Maniscalco married painter Lana Gomez on August 24, 2013. The couple have two children, daughter Serafina Simone Maniscalco, born in 2017, and son Caruso Jack Maniscalco, born in 2019.

Together with Lana, Maniscalco supports charitable work through the Tag You’re It! Foundation. The foundation supports U.S. veterans, Alzheimer’s disease research, and educational access for children in underserved communities.

Maniscalco moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and began performing at open mics in bars and bowling alleys while working as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. He remained at the hotel from 1998 to 2005, sometimes performing at The Comedy Store during breaks from work.

In 2005, he began performing regularly at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. His early stand-up career led to appearances on Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He was also one of four comedians featured in Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights: Hollywood to the Heartland.

Maniscalco released his first comedy special, Sebastian Live, in 2009. His subsequent specials included What’s Wrong with People? in 2012, Aren’t You Embarrassed? in 2014, Why Would You Do That? in 2016, Stay Hungry in 2019, Is It Me? in 2022, and It Ain’t Right in 2025. He also published the memoir Stay Hungry in 2018.

His comedy draws on Italian-American culture, family experiences, marriage, everyday life, and pop culture. His performances combine observational, satirical, black, and insult comedy with pronounced physical and verbal variations. Maniscalco has described his approach as a “Can you believe this?” style built over nearly two decades of developing and refining material.

Maniscalco made his feature-film debut as a stand-up comic in The House in 2017. He later played Johnny Venere in Green Book and “Crazy” Joe Gallo in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. His other film roles include Cruise, Tag, Somewhere in Queens, Spinning Gold, Unfrosted, and IF.

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, he voiced Foreman Spike. He co-wrote and starred in About My Father, a comedy loosely based on his Italian family experience, with Robert De Niro playing his father. On television, Maniscalco hosted Well Done with Sebastian Maniscalco and stars as Danny in Bookie, which he also executive produces.

Maniscalco co-hosts The Pete and Sebastian Show with comedian Pete Correale. The program has also been carried on SiriusXM’s Raw Dog Comedy channel.

His live performances have included sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, where he set four venue records during the It Ain’t Right tour. He became the first comedian to headline Los Angeles’s Intuit Dome and holds ongoing residencies at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City and the Encore Theatre at the Wynn in Las Vegas.