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Sebastian Maniscalco's Rough Night Hosting the VMAs
from 163 - How To Be Popular · #163
7 min
Tim and Devin Kosta discuss Sebastian Maniscalco awkwardly hosting the MTV VMAs for a young, hostile crowd, then riff extensively on how a comedian like Bobby Kelly should have torched the celebrities in attendance (Queen Latifah, Cardi B, Shawn Mendes, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lil Nas X) with brutal insults instead of playing it safe, comparing it to a Michael Richards-style meltdown.
- Sebastian Maniscalco hosted the Video Music Awards on MTV, an impossible gig for any comedian.
- Maniscalco acknowledged on CBS that hosting the VMAs wasn't his demographic, saying he was nervous about it.
- The VMA audience wanted someone young like Pete Davidson, not an older comedian.
- Tim imagines what it would have looked like if Maniscalco had gotten confrontational instead of playing it safe on stage.
- Tim riffs on what a truly unhinged, no-filter VMA hosting set would sound like, going after celebrities in the audience.
- If Maniscalco had torched the entire room and refused to leave the stage, it would have been the greatest moment in entertainment history.
- Michael Richards' meltdown was probably about a guy who had been pushed to his limits and wanted to make the audience feel something after bombing.
- Tim called Andrew Schultz to ask what you do in that situation, and Schultz suggested maybe musical comedy works like Jimmy Fallon's approach.
- Tim predicted last week on the podcast that music will just become ass-shaking with no substance.
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