Sebastian Maniscalco
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Netflix
This past weekend, just a few days after the release of his fourth hour special, Stay Hungry, on Netflix, Sebastian Maniscalco played Madison Square Garden. Now of course, Maniscalco is not the first stand-up to play the World’s Most Famous Arena over the past decade, but he undoubtedly got there differently. Maniscalco, without a breakout TV or film role, built a tremendous fan base the old-fashioned way: one joke at a time, one audience at the time.
One of those jokes, “Doorbell,” is the subject of this week’s episode of Good One, Vulture Comedy’s podcast about jokes and the people who tell them. Easily one of the most well-known jokes of the 21st century, after appearing on Maniscalco’s 2012 special, What’s Wrong With People?, and later clipped on Facebook, it was the joke…
