It was a full circle moment for Sebastian Maniscalco when he sat down at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills to talk to Us about his upcoming Hulu special, It Ain’t Right (airing November 21), in mid-October. The 52-year-old comedian was a waiter at the famed establishment between 1998 and 2005. “I would take off during my breaks to do comedy up the street at the Comedy Store, and then come back and pick up my table,” says Maniscalco, noting that he served a lot of celebrities during his seven years on the job. Two decades later, he’s the famous one getting the five-star treatment. “It’s nice to be on the other side,” he says with a laugh.

The Chicago native owes much of his success to his relatable, everyman humor — most of his jokes center around his childhood growing up in the 1970

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