Josh Mancuso Actor & Comedian Appeared on ESPN, Joins the Alan & Aaron Sports Talk Radio Show!!!

foreign welcome everybody to another great episode of the Allen and Aaron sports radio show I'm Alan Alfred today we're gonna have a fantastic show for you before we get started we thank Chef G's order barbecue sauce so delicious and addicting you may need a support group I want to thank our great sponsor Jeff jeans or the barbecue sauce please feel free to pick up a full pack at FL evq sauce Dot that's FL bbqsource.com we're in for a great time and a great show thank you for joining us let's get started welcome to another great episode of the Allen and Aaron sports radio show we got a real treat for you we're joined by The One and Only Sports comedian actor Josh Mancuso how you been so far today man I'm doing great how you doing thanks for having me oh you're very welcome thank you so much for joining us in it's a real pleasure and we'll start right there how did you get started in you know Sports comedy yeah thank you well I've been doing a little bit of Comedy uh some other topics and things like that and then um I just sort of came up with an idea for a college mascot video I I just thought it was so funny that Auburn specifically was uh the Tigers to the Tigers but then they have this Eagle as well this war eagle and so um I thought what are they what are they doing there I think that'd be great to just kind of do a like a a skit of the committee that came up with their mascot and uh I didn't necessarily plan on doing that much Sports content but it just kind of worked out people really liked it and um you know you just kind of go with what's working so I just kind of kept going with the sports stuff and uh I'm in Tennessee so obviously I started doing more Tennessee stuff and NFL a little bit of everything but uh yeah that first Auburn video was the one that really got me going man it's it's been a cool journey to see these doors open that I kind of didn't expect um and just here for the ride man yeah you're doing a fantastic job got a huge following and you like you said you got to go where things take you and and you're doing fantastic with it do you feel as if in sports people take things a little too seriously or they they seem to respond to you well no that's a good question because you know people love their teams man uh but overall most people have really enjoyed it even even the teams I'm I'm making fun of it's all in good fun right like you know I'm a Tennessee guy but spent plenty of time making fun of Tennessee um just for fun so yeah everybody I think has enjoyed it because even if your team is doing well or they're not doing well it's like hey you could watch one of Josh's videos and just laugh about it you know so hopefully I'm adding you know some some not too serious pieces of sports to the equation for the most part everybody's been really really cool there's all there's a few fans that get hyped up and and uh you know it will say a few things but you know I love sports sometimes I see these videos of of people fighting in the stands at a game or something I'm like oh man like that's not we don't want that so I think sports are awesome there's a lot more to life than sports but it's just a great Avenue to just have some fun and be funny and let's all just have a good time and let's all just uh enjoy our teams and our Sports and have fun in the process yeah that's right it's all about good fun no reason to get into fights I mean I know it's good to be passionate when you see stuff like that fights does it really like oh this is Ben need to see more of my stuff that's right I'm like y'all need a dose of some uh of some comedy videos to uh get to kind of ground you yeah I think anybody can get caught up in the moment you know you get caught up in the moment and I I understand that for sure but I think we just always got to have that perspective of like hey it's just sports like it's supposed to be fun and losing is part of that you know losing is part of it and I played Sports in high school I used to get fired up at myself usually it was like oh I messed up or I dropped a pass or whatever like that was what I got mad about um but uh you know your team it's your team but uh you know there's always next year as they say that's right and you even you do a lot of great stuff you even did a skit with the XFL what are your thoughts about the XFL man you know I'm still learning about the XFL thanks for I'm glad you saw that one because you could give me a grade because I don't know how um how good it was but XFL is cool I think it's great the more football the better is my opinion I love football it's great to have an alternative when the NFL is not playing and I think it's also good to have the XFL as sort of this minor league system type you know process we have going for the guys that can't make it in the NFL they can still play football because they're still really good and it gives them a place to play heck yeah man I'm all for it I mean The Rock owns the XFL so uh there's it's bound to be fun and and entertaining you know moving forward so yeah I'm all in that's it's cool what about you do you love you like XFL I love XFL you know I cover a lot of their games and it's been a real pleasure it's something that it's a great experience and as you mentioned it's different than what you see in the NFL nothing is wrong with the NFL but there is such a great amount of talent that a lot of people don't know about and it's great that that people get a chance to see that through the XFL I'm glad you did that skid I really am hey guys thanks for coming you know what we need more of in this country those Payday Loan places football yes we are starting a new football league awesome wait how much is this gonna cost I'd say about 150 million whoa okay you can't just find that kind of money under a rock that's exactly where we're getting it from the rock is giving us money let's name every team after a movie The Rock starred in Jacksonville jumanji's Seattle scorpion Kings Philadelphia Fast and Furious 14. are there that many at least okay well we need a name for this league well we could go with like the out XFL that's awesome yes what's the X stand for extreme no extraordinary no x-ray I'm running out of options here nothing actually it's just there to look cool and sound cool XFL I don't know sounds kind of inappropriate to me maybe like that one League where the girls play with Skippy lingerie oh I know I never watched that before do you smell it but the Rock's cooking not smelling nothing well thanks I uh I honestly I had to educate myself a little bit about the XFL because I knew about it but I didn't know a lot that probably shows in the skit I don't know but um and I'd like to do some more I just haven't gotten around to it but I think XFL is is really cool uh and also what's the other one usfl usfl that's starting up next month that's right yeah that's cool I love it man the more football the better that's right and is Tennessee your team I'm assuming Tennessee's my team yeah I've uh I was born in California Los Angeles so I've kind of got this West Coast you know history but I've spent most of my life in Tennessee huge Tennessee volunteer fan yeah I kind of grew up with the orange blood and uh well I guess keep it till the day I die I love the balls man that's right there you go and your NFL team is is the Titans yeah if I had to pick one it would be the Titans I really enjoy watching almost every team play I just like watching the NFL football so I usually just pick a team to root for you know in the game I'm watching sometimes I do like the Titans you know they're our home our home team I guess but I enjoy watching some of the more like historical programs they're the Packers and the Bears and you know even the Patriots like I just like watching football so I'll take just about any team I think do you got what about you do you have a favorite team yeah you know right here being in near the Tampa area it's the bucks for the NFL yeah that's what I figured man the Bucks are I like watching the Bucks as well and you always got good weather too so yeah you can't beat that that's for sure and it's always a blessing and so do you enjoy doing comedy more or acting I know you do both yeah yeah you know I feel like the difference for me between being a comedian and being an actor is like being a comedian is really just me being me most the time uh so all the characters I play are just pieces of me probably that I'm I'm pulling out you know in fact as an actor most a lot of people think that when you when you're an actor that you know you put on a mask to become this actor and it really acting is taking off a mask and revealing parts of yourself and and bringing honest acting to to the role and that's even true with comedy it's just me being me different parts of me you know uh coming out when I wear the mullet it's like that's not really me but I can go there pretty easily because you know I live in Tennessee but I love acting I think that's for me the ultimate goal is to is to continue down that path and and be in movies and be able to explore that much further so but comedy is just if all I did was just make people laugh the rest of my life making comedy videos man that's a life well lived I would love it there's always every comedic actor wants that dramatic role right you know look at Steve Carell Jim Carrey the guys that are comedians they are doing serious roles too now so I think that's definitely in me and so yeah I'm excited to kind of go down that road and see what what comes out of it hey we need to get you in the next uh you know movie that rock is doing so that's right that's right if you listen right now listen Dwayne watching the Allen and Aaron Sports Talk Radio Show You Gotta cast me in your next movie all right I'll keep promoting XFL you just cast me and we'll be we'll be good there you go that's awesome and it's back you got the studio in the background tell us a little bit about it that's it man this is right here in my homes we have like a couple drive under garage spaces and there's this room when we bought the house in the back of the garage it had some Carpeting and it was just sort of this utility room that the people before us had and we just transformed it into kind of a studio you know ripped out the ceiling and you know redid a lot of stuff and so now yeah I've got a green screen just painted a wall green um I've got you know I end up wearing tons of different clothes and hats for all my skits and so uh for those that are watching you can see the wall of hats and clothes over here um just every team imaginable uh hanging out and uh yeah so it's been cool to just have this space man and be able to to make content and create videos for people without having to even leave my my front door so uh makes me a little bit lazy and the kitchen is upstairs so I end up in the kitchen quite often getting snacks but I try to refrain and stay down here and do do my job yeah that that's incredible and one of the characters you do is coach Lance you do a fantastic job with that thank you coach Lance was born the day that Tennessee fired Jeremy Pruitt I just thought you know as a Tennessee fan I was like here we go again here we go again and uh so I thought I should make a funny video and went up with this fake Coach just wrote it in like an hour and then recorded it and just put it out and didn't think that it would be you know that big of a hit but it was and people have really latched on to the coach Lance character I've kept him going and kept him alive and I haven't done as much with him recently but uh he's he's still got some things in the works he's a he's a funny character I don't know people have have referenced Ted lasso uh as a similar type of character which I've never seen Ted lasso so I don't know but it's been fun creating this character uh that's this Middle School football coach he's 150 no he's never lost a game in his life I don't know that it's because he's that good of a coach or if he just magically wins because the people around him are so good and and he ends up you know taking the credit but yeah it's been fun right in an actual character I mean coach Lance on Twitter has more followers than I have so I'm like well this is backwards but okay that's you know coach Lance is a big deal apparently he is and he's grown to such a a big following you know you actually appeared on ESPN talk about that that experience man that was cool yes when they hit me up and said hey we want to have you on our show it was a bit of a pinch me moment uh ESPN and I was like this is this is it man if you told me you know six months prior that I would be on ESPN talking about my sports comedy I would have said really I'm not even doing sports comedy yet and then I just jumped into it and then here I was it was it was really cool it was really nice I'm really grateful for that opportunity to to be with those guys and talk about what I'm doing and you know it's just a great meshing of Two Worlds that I love and I think most people love which is sports and laughing so it was it was cool and hopefully not my last time on ESPN no definitely not you got a lot of things to offer and a lot of great content and it's very unique and you you're growing and growing you over you have over a hundred thousand subscribers so tell people how you get even more oh man yeah thank you yes it was cool hitting that 100 000 mark on Instagram uh you know it was like there's definitely moments I wake up and I'm like do people really think I'm funny like am I really you know there's that uh what they call imposter syndrome where you just think you know every time I put a video out I'm like oh my gosh that's not going to be funny you know and some of them aren't that funny you just kind of you just roll with it but it was cool to hit that 100 000 mark and it was sort of you know some validation of okay there are some people out there that think I'm remotely funny not just my kids and my wife so that's been nice and Instagram has been kind of my main spot so people can can follow me there uh it's just my name at Josh Mancuso that's my main spot and then Facebook as well it's at the Josh Mancuso and uh YouTube of course again it's just my name at Josh Mancuso and and uh would love for people to subscribe there and and follow me and and uh I always take feedback from people too when they say hey what about this school or what if you did this video or I want to see this and I try to work that in there as much as I can so yeah I would love for people to check me out man I appreciate you giving me the platform today it's been awesome yeah I definitely appreciate you coming on the island an hour sports like radio show and we're gonna make sure we follow you so you're you're gonna have even more follow I was there and they'll tell the audience to follow you too and you got the the coach Lance on Twitter you said and also Twitter is it just your name yeah Twitter is just my name as well it's just at Josh Mancuso and the coach Lance is at coach Lance UT and uh but don't you know you can follow him but make sure you follow me I gotta beat coach Lance I can't let him beat me in the Twitter verse uh you know I'm like because I have a real person like I should be winning this battle but uh yeah that'd be great to do that and uh your show is great I can't wait to keep checking it out and uh I love your logo and stuff man you guys are you guys have got it going on I'm excited about what you're doing I really appreciate that Josh thank you so much and you have a continued success have a blessed day thank you so much again for joining us on the island of what's a great show that's Josh Mancuso and you take care for now thanks Alan appreciate it take care bye foreign