please welcome sebastian maniscalco!how long have you been in stand-up? >> 20 years. >> stephen: 20 years okay. and now you're a pretty big deal. you've hit in a big way in the last couple of years, but i imagine there have to have been some lean years there in the beginning. >> very lean. took a lot of jobs. i was a telemarketer for olin mills portrait studio. ( laughter ). >> stephen: wow. >> yeah. >> stephen: how do you sell that? >> well, with this voice it's really hard to make people at ease on the phone. imagine getting a cold call: "hi, would you leak a portrait package?" so i did that. i was captain morgan. i used to dress up as captain morgan. ( laughter ) >> stephen: for pay? ( laughter ) or was this just an enthusiasm of yours? >> no, this was an actual job, 12 buckans hour. you used to go into a bar, and they were, like, seedy bars, beer and peanut type ofused to y costume in my hand and i used to ask the manager where could i set snup. >> stephen: so you wouldn't come in the door with, like, a saber and a h