Sebastian Maniscalco describes how comedians operate with a heightened sensitivity to everyday life, like an involuntary allergy. They constantly absorb and react to societal cues without effort, noticing details others miss. This hypersensitivity fuels their material but can also be a burden.
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All day, you're looking for those moments for material. It's not that I'm looking, it just hits me. Yeah, always a hypersensitivity of what's going on around me, which could be great when it comes to being a comedian, but also could act as a, something as a negative because you see things maybe that other people are not seeing. I relate it to an allergy. If you are allergic to peanuts and I brought peanuts in here, you are either going to, start coughing, sneezing, whatever. You don't have any control of that. That's the way I look at comedians. Interesting. It's like an allergy. We react to the environment around us and we're unconscious about it. It's just, it's happening. It's like we're constantly having an allergic reaction to society.