Sebastian Maniscalco's Italian Grandpa Wouldn't Sign Permission Slips | Netflix Is A Joke

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[@cards0486]

Look at the size of that theater! Three levels and it’s packed. I’m so glad he didn’t give up, and kept at it. He’s the funniest comic there is these days.

[@mikedoyle1780]

No bad language or sexual overtones = a winner!

[@danielleon5074]

@@mikedoyle1780 he’s a class a act !

[@ottocardona9952]

Him and bill burr. Can watch their specials over and over and still crack up

[@Machria23]

Give up?? He’s selling out in 30 minutes for 7 shows in 3 days at Carnegie Hall in NYC!!

[@DJMixxwell]

@@Machria23 yeah you also don’t sell that amount tickets over night. He has a come up story

[@tonyboots2958]

As a first generation Italian American, I can confirm this is true about the grandparents. My grandparents were here for half their life and they never learned to speak English outside of a random word here and there that they threw in when they spoke Italian. Luckily for me, it helped me learn to speak Italian. My parents speak English but in the house they still speak Italian most of the time, but my grandparents were Italian all the way. Great memories.

[@claudiam2474]

Che bello

[@ariel.l.borrero]

I understand why they didn't bother learning English though. There wasn't much gentrification at the time so they kept to Italian communities.

[@brownskinladyiam]

Lol I commend them in their commitment to not learn English

[@AM-ry8is]

learn fucking english if you're going to live here.

[@joeb2860]

Good memories Tony

[@lorettaobrien1047]

My grandfather (Umberto) at 14 years old came to this country alone on a boat from Italy. Thank you for helping me understand that I was not alone growing up living with immigrant grandparents! It’s so great to look back at my childhood and smile.😁

[@BriRog68]

His expressions and physical comedy are perfect...flawless timing and delivery!

[@reginaubas8441]

That's what I luv about him! Hilarious!!

[@annarchy665]

He even managed to fit in a "putana" from nona. 🤌

[@muhuradedan]

"You, Javier and Athinos will be in the library writing a paper about how immigrants parents don't sign permission slips" Only Sebastian Maniscalco can craft a punchline like that lol 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@jesseperales1391]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@BeautifulSpirit-kf5ld]

I know it's a comedy routine--- but that bit was very sad. Field trips are such a special moment when you're little. I still remember many of my favorite field trips. 😪

[@rembertoviramontes1283]

As a son of Mexican immigrants I would have been kicking it with sebastian in the cafeteria also.

[@anthonypanteleimon9351]

Yes, an Italian, a Spaniard, and a Greek. Lol!

[@EduardoSilva-xe3gp]

Lunch room for three days hahsha

[@xxbioklismxx1850]

Im Italian and im not joking when I say this is completely accurate.

[@reginaubas8441]

Totally agree ✌😁

[@jeannierobinson8975]

True story

[@ag6981]

Extremely close to the Lebanese culture as well. I relate to everything he says, it’s hilarious.

[@lisaconnor3075]

@@ag6981 It may seem funny to you now, but it must have affected you psychologically as a young kid. Humor is often used to mask pain.

[@B_Chasnika]

Everybody says this

[@theresacrockett8559]

I never learned to swim either. My Italian parents were too afraid I would drown. Every time I would be at the beach with friends, my mother would put a big orange canvas life jacket on me and I would watch all the kids swimming while I sat on a rock with my orange life jacket. So funny now!

[@phyld6491]

And just to think here in Italy everybody or almost swims in indoor pools in the winter and outdoor pools in the summer.

[@melinda6921]

@@phyld6491 It is not true. I am Italian from Italy and I also can't swim because my parents feared that I would drown. But swimming has never been necessary for me because I have never been to the sea or to the pool, my family has always loved the mountains and long walks. Viva il Trentino e le Dolomiti!

[@tinam2696]

"Come si chiama...aspetta" and another word I can't repeat 😉 He knows SOME Italian 🤣

[@haydeejohnson8290]

"ATHENOS"🤣🤣🤣🤣!!! I'm done❣

[@angelasantucci7483]

His humor is freaking hilarious. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@marlene-rr2ih]

I didn't understand my grandparents' broken English any better than I understood their Italian.

[@en1254]

So true...being Lebanese and growing up in a neighborhood which was mostly Lebanese, Italian and Portuguese, this is so accurate...LOL

[@phichi5488]

I was that one kid sitting by himself in class while everyone else was on a field trip. I guess Trinidadian parents didn't know how to sign permission slips either 😂

[@nowaynottoday]

haha

[@jocey777]

I have Caribbean parents, and this is so relatable 😂

[@888alp]

You don’t have to be Italian to relate

[@lindafrommiami1506]

My grandparents were exactly the same. They watched me after school everyday mostly sign language and the little I knew. Grandma baked her own cookies from scratch with some real weird tools. She cooked for me every day though and her cooking was delicious. Thank goodness she taught all her children her famously wonderful sauce. I loved them all.

[@vickymitselos4515]

Love this...so many similarities in the Greek culture and I grew up in a similar way in Belgium...Greek immigrant parents.....they were tough strict parents but really did the best they could. The grandparents were everything too!

[@GiancarloFloyd]

I am at work dying while listening to this because this was my childhood, my parents go to work and I would have to stay with my Sicilian grandparents as well and I remember the game of charades you had to play just to get a cup of juice.

[@swillou2]

My mother in law is Persian. She’s been here on and off for 25years but still plays charades with me to get a cup of tea. Only learnt how to say thankyou in English last yr.

[@innertubez]

“You, Javier, and Athenos” lmaooo

[@Jinok76]

😂😂😂😂

Sebastian, Javier and Athenos...in the lunchroom for 3 days. THATS the Chicago way....

[@Broadwayshowgirl]

Funniest line in the whole routine.

[@CarlosOrtiz-ss6xz]

@@Broadwayshowgirl bbking

[@DJsaima]

That was sooooo funny it happened to me too and I am in the UK 🇬🇧 🤣🤣🤣

[@gamma8562]

I’ve seen this clip so many times and every time I can’t breathe 😂😂😂

[@40KoopasWereHere]

"... so now, I don't know how to swim!" Best... digression... ever. This guy just keeps getting better and better!

[@callmeishmael4659]

every time he goes into the italian for his grandpa I start crying, I can't. It's so funny. And when he does the grandma, is it just me or is he saying, "who could do this shit ah" lmao

[@Berlinbear58]

I’m not Italian, I’m German, but I get it. Hilarious as s#*t. He’s so talented, I have tears when I laugh.

[@Anthony-re8xl]

Im 100% Italian and laugh so freakin hard because its all so true🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@angelasantucci7483]

He's one of my favorite comedians.

[@redram5150]

I can’t imagine why

[@iggystardust9236]

@@redram5150 Now you watch your Gott Damned mouth, punk!! Show some respect to the great Maniscalco!

[@mneugent7658]

It sounds like a sweet mix of Japanese Italian.

[@patserrao2347]

His Italian is pretty good!!!!

[@fenecofeneco19]

sicilian dialect

[@StefaniaOlla]

"Minchia" by now should be international. And I'm not even sicilian.😂

[@Babykilla76]

Minchia is a sicilian dialet

[@joerosa2532]

@@Babykilla76 It's Italian. In Sicilian dialect, the pronunciation would be more like "mingghia".

[@donnacocozza6966]

Lol. I am all Italian. I grew up like this. I wish I could relive those days. Proud to be Italian.

[@MDR-hn2yz]

“You, Javier and Athenos will be in the lunch room, writing a paper about how immigrant parents don’t sign permission slips”. 🤣 My mother was an immigrant and I appreciate that!

[@SLASHzoneYEAH]

2:24 BUTTANA 😂😂😂 didn't expect that

[@dominic6283]

My Sicilian grandmother didn’t speak English either. I was a bit of a mischievous kid. The only thing she ever said to me was “stay nice a”

[@joerosa2532]

😝😝😝😝😝😝

[@KimS-MK]

That's how I imitate my Italian grandparents, add an 'a' to the end of every word. My grandmother would say shutup-a!! 😂

[@lede1810]

"You, Javier and Athenos" 😂

[@genericusername1365]

How can anyone be sooooo freaking funny like this? He's amazing.

[@MicheleB4506]

I can’t swim either, you’re not alone. I’m a Calabrese/Sicilian-Irish/Scots woman! Now, there’s a combo for ya! A Taurus ♉️ NYer 🗽as well! 🙄😆 You make me laugh so hard! Thank you for all that you do, sir. 💋♥️🗽

[@Alkatraz581]

White people have like 1/16 irish and they always want to claim it lmao No bitch you’re probably just american

[@kfjn0450]

@AbraRf I wouldn't claim it not even if they paid me. I'm 100 italian and that's it.

[@treasure2behold282]

You , Javier and Athenos 😅

[@tonyginnetti5828]

Absolutely hysterical and soooooo accurate!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@contessa5434]

When I was in 5th grade, my class had gone camping at a nature park. My parents who are Italian immigrants wouldn't give me permission to go on this camping trip. My teacher called my parents and them that it would not do my education any good if I didn't go. My parents argued with the teacher that it is not beneficial for me to go camping. As a result, my parents caved in to my teacher's demands and mom and dad had to buy me a sleeping bag. My dad knowing what a tightwad he was didn't want to buy the sleeping bag. It is a cultural thing that non Italians do not understand.

[@swoopes7777]

Thanks for the clarification for us Non-Italians!!! Stay Blessed.

[@contessa5434]

@City Nat Yep.

[@geoculus5606]

But is the actual issue with letting their kids go? Is it just economics or is it because the activity isn't something normally done in the home country?

[@Babykilla76]

Because the italian parents are very, but very protective...ahhaha

[@alexhook9151]

@@Babykilla76 Accurate. I am an adult whos nearly 28 , with a kid and I pay my own bills, but if my elderly italian mother had it her way, I'd be made to live with her forever and would have to ask for permission just to leave the house.

[@Chios82100]

Greeks and Italians totally get this 🤣

[@llg3pe]

Yep! Ha ha

[@Hugo-py2ce]

And Mexicans! So relatable it's insane! Hahaha

[@kathy2trips]

I came home from my first day in high school and told my Italian grandmother I signed up for French. I thought she was going to shoot me. Turns out, Napoleon invaded her little village in the early 1800s. She wasn't even born but the story got passed down through the generations. "I never forget." She said. Forget? It was 100 years before she was born. Then she smacked me upside the head and gave me some pizzale cookies and coffee to eat while I did my homework. :-)

[@NguepNang]

"People never forget, nothing gets forgiven" John Marston

[@BenReillySpydr1962]

Comic's definitely got the makings of a varsity athlete!

[@user-qm3xs9eb6m]

Underrated comment

[@l01j99]

My parents didn't see my permission slips from the time I learned how to sign my mom's name in the fifth grade until I graduated. I'd just tell them about later for lunch money.

[@francescadi5676]

He says he doesn't speak Italian but he actually does pretty good! lol

[@888alp]

When he was young he meant. I speak sicilian the dialect both my parents are sicilian I speak it. Thank god. ✝️🙏🏻I am from down under.

[@francescadi5676]

@@888alp Sicilian is a very nice dialect, I have read an entire book in Sicilian. The author is Camilleri!

[@julianreggler323]

@@888alp you're Sicilian Australian that's pretty rare to learn about I thought all Australian Italians were calabrian

[@RainsWorldVegasSlots]

Just saw Sebastian at my local casino wow what a great show immense talent! My stomach still hurts from laughing BRAVO👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Nariethelle]

Love this so much! I am not Italian but I can so relate to this with my Grandparents and the language barrier

[@kodiak138]

Just the small details are hysterical, I don't think enough people realize that him using the names of Athenos and Javier is what put the ending to the story over the top.

[@abroadlife5501]

Well, now I'm an immigrant parent and I don't sign permission slips... 🤔

[@Mamulel]

This is hilarious 🤣 Do Italian grandparents really act like that? I c-can't breathe!

[@angelacasale3193]

I am a 61 years younge grandmother and I never act like that maybe in my 80 I will ? 😂😂

[@luislizard2626]

@@angelacasale3193you are the same gen of Seba that’s why you don’t act like that our gen gran parents were from second world time grew up in poverty and a school were bitten and mad knee on dry chickpeas …..

[@sarameiragootblatt1819]

I’m a mother of a “Javier” 😆

[@carinadipalermo7641]

He surely speaks Sicilian pretty well...I don't believe for a minute he didn't grow up speaking Sicilian.

[@jodiisaacs22]

Omg the grandma bit lmao. I act just like that !!!😂😂😂

[@AC-qo8oq]

I always signed them all myself. It was hell getting them to sign anything.

[@danielbrown1724]

I didn’t know his grandparents were Japanese 😳😳😳 Love this bloke!!!

[@guaromiami]

Sebastian's grandmother sounded more Japanese than Italian based on his impression.

[@Orion227]

I thought she was doing the New Zealand Huka

[@madame_milky]

an angry nonna can definitely have that cadence sometimes lmao

[@squalodombor99]

that's almost Sicilian (dialect) and is so good! (im from Rome)

[@lisaannluis]

100 % accurate. Also if the grandparents were feeling ok, they still gave you the guilt trip of what they didnt have.

[@Kasou01]

He looks like Ben Stiller mixed with Warwick Davis! I just found out about him yesterday. Can't stop binging his videos now!

[@ffr3813]

ROTFLMAO OMG! IM LAUGHING HISTORICALLY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THE BEST! OH YAY, EXACTLY SPOT ON!!!

[@angelee1674]

I can't tell you how many times my teachers thought I was lying because I wrote my own permission slips. Or in trouble for forged signatures when I told them my mother actually told me to sign on her behalf. Or the countless government documents and bank papers I had to translate or fill out.

[@juliamihajlovich]

Hahaha! Makes me miss my grandfather even more❤️. This is accurate!

[@dariobowl]

Literally all my Italian greats aunts and uncles who came to the states as adults speak just like that. I’m dying watching it the second time

[@ttjj6477]

I've watched this at least 5 times. I love his grandmother!

[@lillyess385]

My grandparents didn't speak English either but my parents made sure my sister and I were bilingual. I don't understand why his parents didn't teach him Italian. My close friend was taught 4 languages growing up (English, Dutch Turkish and French), so it's possible to teach your kids multiple languages. Also my immigrant mother not only signed permission slips, she was one of the parents who help supervise the trip. Thanks mom!

[@joerosa2532]

Honestly, his pronunciation of Sicilian dialect is very good. Sebastian is being a bit too modest, I think.

[@d.schrute8345]

I’m from Colombia , it’s amazing how the Italian culture and Colombian culture is so similar .. when he talks about his family I can totally relate 😂

[@NewbeYAHtheVFG]

So true...my parents never signed one permission slip. They are immigrants 😂🥰

[@webguy943]

I’m not even italian and it still had me laughing me A off.

[@FaithyandOtis..Massachusetts]

lol charades! My grandparents taught me Italian but I forgot it as I grew up; my son who is now 50 speaks really good Italian! How I miss those days. My grandfather was a hunter and fisherman every time I walked in the back door of the house there was something hanging there, but they ate everything he brought home. They came from Sicily and my father’s parents came from Abruzzi. Lots of fun, I miss those days.

[@parispoet]

Addicted to him everyday!!! He is the best!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bikerboy3k]

I'm in fucking tears haha figghiu meu, santa Madonna puttana 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@888alp]

😆😂😂🤣

[@anthonyisgro6728]

*I died and then was brought back to life @ the pizzeria napkin* 🤣😂

[@emikira6041]

Awwww...the part with school kids without permission slips is so sad though :) funny but sad 😞

[@Et-206]

This man is a godsend

[@joannperrotta7964]

Same here he's on point about the Italian experience

[@PLOttawa]

This is hilarious. Lol. Italian so definitely can relate. In some ways Maniscalco is like the counterpart to Lopez.

[@josephtylerdc9830]

I never understood a word my grandparents said ever lol😂 omg so true

[@victoriajohnston4118]

Omg... I love this man... makes me laugh so hard... 🤣😂😆

[@recyclespinning9839]

If you want through this and you Italian , it makes you laugh 😆 and 😢

[@v.s.9731]

You speak good sicilian , you got in your DNA 😂love from Italy

[@akmd114379]

This guy absolutely amazing, no bad words, no R rated stuff just great story telling.

[@liaalbo9108]

It's all true. Every word. My grandparents from Calabria raised me. I miss them so much. I love when I hear the dialect. Brings me back.

[@ranger9347]

You.....Javier.....and Athenos.......Brilliant!

[@moedeluca2318]

All so true!! He's the best!!

[@AugustRush2023]

He tells the true story..that's what I like about him..brutally honest ❤

[@siciliangypsy4758]

First generations, Sicilian in this country. True, true. Nothing but true lol❤

[@georgebrown7906]

So funny, and so true...

[@saxenas]

Literally gasped when I saw how big the audience was at 1:45. The balls on this guy making his jokes and whatnot.

[@lizarrington3636]

Everything that he said in Italian sounds similar to Spanish. I understood what he was saying. My grandparents are the same way. My abuela and abuelo can't speak English.

[@ajpasa]

This is great comedy, well done!

[@juice12222]

Yep, my Mexican parents were busy working two jobs each... they didn't have time to sign a dam slip hahaha...

[@gardy4390]

If I have a bad day l just have to watch Sebastian ,everything is okay, the day is saved.

[@Keighron34]

You, Javier and Athenos.... Lmfao

[@suecosta6984]

OMG...this is my story too! Still can't swim either!!!

[@purselmer5931]

My mom was a single mom of 5 over 50 years ago now. She taught us to imitate her signature perfectly by the time we were 8 or so. Everyone spoke English no problem, she just couldn't be bothered, lol.

[@samuelreyes4855]

It's true it happened to me. I'm a TexMex or Mexican American ( Chicano or Poncho)couple times my parents didn't know what they were signing or they didn't want to sign nothing.... They thought it was a paper so we were going to be deported....L.O.L

[@samanthab1923]

How do you grow up with grandparents that don’t speak English & you never learn? Both my nephews & niece have grandparents that only spoke Spanish. They learned. So well that in Kindergarten one of them helped translate for a kid who spoke no English. The teachers were grateful & surprised 😊

[@genehogan6430]

My grandparents on my mom's side came from Italy. No English. This is 💯 accurate. I always had a blank look on my face when she was talking to mom or my aunts. And lots of high volume yelling. Hahaha.

[@blackie8083]

That was hilarious about his grandmother walking with arthritis.

[@sandrazed6089]

lol, in his jibberish Italian, I think he said 'puttana catzo' imitating his nonna when she was walking to the sink! lol

[@phyld6491]

Bravo!

[@tomgio1]

Love this guy. Is it just me, or do some of his impressions of his grandparents’ Italian utterances sound like they’re in a Japanese accent?

[@annamariayannetta242]

I learned Italian as a baby growing up, still speak today, nonna did not speak english, but a few words, my grandfather died in Italy, never got to meet him, when everyone came from America ♥️🇮🇹🐴 3:06

[@joyricci2211]

He's the best....love him!