Month: February 2023

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know I love a good fight, right. Joe Rogan’s dad said the money went to Joe Junior’s head. You may recall on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe said, the idea that Jewish people don’t like money is ridiculous. That’s like sang Italians aren’t and pizza.

It’s effing stupid. Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti Defamation League, tell The Near Post it’s disturbing that, at a time of rising anti Jewish violence, when growing numbers of Americans believe in anti Semitic conspiracy theories, that Joe would use his immense platform to spew anti Semitic tropes about Jews and money. The Post decided to check in with Joe Rogan Senior. He’s eighty one. He lives in New Jersey.

He had a message for Joe Junior, which is, who are you to judge people who made you God? Last night, Rogan Senior told The Post, I’m not prejudiced. Everybody’s got to live, and I teach my kids that this bothers me. The money went to his head, and his head got bigger than his hat. He fools people.

A Spotify source said Joe’s come did adhere to the company’s policies, but not everybody inside the company was happy with the policy. Spotify guidelines release last year a state that content should be avoided if it incites violence or hatred towards a person or group of people based on race, religion, or makes dehumanizing statements about a person or group. Rogan Junior has in the past accused his father of domestic violence and described Senior as quotes a psychotic person who beat the f out of my mother. Joe Senior, a former Harrison, New Jersey, Police Department officer, denies all the claims. He told the Post he had sent his son and Spotify a legal letter last September to force Joe Junior to stop talking about him.

He still wants to see Joe Junior, however, and wants Joe to meet his half twin sisters, Bridget and Rosa. They’re both forty three. Ricky Gervais shared a black and white image of himself looking pansive as he sat in an empty row of chairs. He tagged it, this is me pondering whether they’ll change any of the words I’ve used my work after I’m dead to spare those who are fragile and easily offended. Words like fat and ugly, and the C word and the F word.

He spelled those out. Then he added and fat, ugly, greedy, pathetic, little, stupid, effing C words, stuff like that. The Wall Street Journal profile Jim gaff Again, who said, in nineteen eighty nine, I moved to New York, where friend worked in advertising. He helped me get a job as an account executive. I had a great boss at the agency who said I should either quit or become a copywriter.

So I became a copywriter. While copywriting, I started going to auditions for commercials, but I feared speaking in a group setting. Someone suggested an improv class to get comfortable in presentation, so I did. Then someone suggested stand up. I started doing stand up.

I began taking acting classes, and because I was a copywriter, I knew what they wanted in the auditions. I worked in advertising by day, took acting classes in the evening, and did stand up at night. It was exhausting. The auditions led to work in TV commercials. I wound up in more than two hundred ads My big break was my first appearance in The Late Show with David Letterman in nineteen ninety nine, which put me in play.

Sure. By the early two thousands, Jim was making appearances at Sirius xham. A few years later. He was really popular and didn’t mature and calls Desert dot com, Hi, Jim, you could have returned, calls Desert dot com dude. A profile of clean comedians, Dusty Slay says he tries to do an act that can be enjoyed without anybody being embarrassed, but it’s still grounded in adult experiences.

Dusty said, I definitely have some PG stuff. I have some g rated stuff, but if you come to see me in the club, I’m for a more of a mature audience. I try to find a way to talk about adult experiences they could be relatable without being gross. One of those themes is alcohol. Dusty’s been sober for almost eleven years, but he’s not afraid to joke about it.

He says, I can talk about what a mess I was because I’m not an alcoholic now. He also talked about never swearing in front of his parents. That’s interesting because Nate Bergantcy recently, he spoke about that same topic. Dusty said he’s had a few jokes throughout his career that might be considered dirty, and he’s used cuss words for impact on occasion, but doing a lot of cussing isn’t part of his personality, especially when he’s around older folks. He says, it might be a Southern thing.

I just have respect for my parents and respect for my elders, so it was a conscious decision for him to keep his language relatively clean. I’ve never been a dirty comic. I want to be the kind of comic you can share with your family. From that same article, Leanne Morgan her big break came after she hired a social media consultants as a last ditch effort to expand her career. A clip of her joking about her experience is at a Deaf Leopard and Journey concert posted in twenty nineteen, turned things around.

She said, I found my people and they found me. It’s like a community of friends that it’s sweeter and more wonderful than anything I could have imagined. And I know it’s a God thing. God has a plan for me. She likes seeing as many as three generations attend her shows.

I’ll see an eighty year old man who you know has never been to a comedy club. It’s precious. Hey, Samurel, have you ever bombed? I bomb all the time. The other night I followed Chris Rock and he’s bringing the heat with this stuff.

He’s going to tape in like two weeks, and I got it in my head that I’ll do new stuff. I’m eating it on stage. Then I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn’t be open making a set after the world’s most famous comedians playing his hits. Basically, I saved the set and I turned it around by a bomb all the time because I’ll still try and do new stuff. I’m not upset when I bomb.

I mean, if it’s stuff that’s proved the bombing, then I’m upset. But if it’s stuff I’ve thought of that day, I’m like, Hey, a lot of this should bomb, some of it little hits, some won’t. It’s great, it’s perfect, so it should be. They asked Sam Mourel about rooftop shows. He said, it’s so funny.

People would come up to me after that came out, like come and perform on my roof, And I’m like that’s over. Are you kidding? That was like complete and utter desperation. That was me trying to survive during the dark time. Now let him go inside again.

In New York. You think I’m going back to the roof. I wasn’t a peak coat freezing my butt off telling jokes. Stage time was so valuable at the time. You get like ten minutes by the East River in a weird area, we’d be performing next to a guy peeing.

I was like, this is awful. I’m gonna start doing my own shows. That way, I could do an hour and I could really build back up. That time to build back up is so valuable to comics. You want that time for trial and error.

And people were so hungry for live entertainment. They were patient as hell with me because I was rusty, and of course there was a disclaimer, this isn’t the real show. I’m rusty and I’m doing new material. Wanda Psykes has a new special coming out. It’s called I’m an Entertainer Netflix, May twenty third, said at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia.

It’s her second Netflix special. On I’m an Entertainer wanted, Sykes tackles a host of topics from the challenges of raising gen z teens to the dilemmas of being a liberal and a hypercharged political climate. The pressurely, says Pykes, delivers her insightful and ferocious wit and candor audience has come to know and love. I’m an entertainer. Filmed this very month, February.

Yeah, it’ll be out May twenty third on Netflix. I went out for a run today and I was running and my Apple Watch was like bleep, bleep, And I’m like, what do you want? Apple Watch? Is it a text? No, it was giving me one of those circles, you know when you have a streak going and Apple Watches like, Hey, good job, Johnny Mack.

You’ve been working out every day. That’s right, humble brag, because I’m into the power of the streak. No, not just my streak. It’s the book by Kara Wood. Do you struggle with working out regularly?

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She had a career, she gave birth to two kids. Karas shares the secrets of having the drive to exercise no matter what you means. So like, if my knee hurts, it’s cold, or I just want to watch Star Trek, I have to run, okay, Kara would. Her story is funny, relatable, inspiring. She explains how you can do the same thing with any exercise doesn’t have to be running, even a cynic.

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Seriously. I went out for a run this morning, came home, showered, went out to chopped. I like my chopped salads. I’m walking around. I just felt like limber, Like I don’t even feel tired.

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It was one day last week I came back for a run and the geese were heading north and I was like, oh, look at the geese and I was just watching them in the V shape and watching how they like trade off in the formation. I’m just staring at the sky. People were probably like, this guy’s weird. The Power of the Streak is the book, The Power of the Streak, wherever you get your books. Kara Wood, thank you for supporting today’s show.

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Or you can go to buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what that is, right, Yeah, you listen every day. It’s a large ice coffee, caramel and almond milk, trying to cut back on the dairy. Josh Johnson spoke to distractify about Trevor Noah’s exit from the Daily Show. Josh was a writer for Trevor.

It said, I’m really happy for him. I think he did an incredible job. He’s done an incredible amount for me. That’s always going to be the big bro in a sense, and I’m over the moon for him that he’s living life and you know, happy and touring and stuff like that. And from lad Bible.

An Australian comedian was threatened with an arrest after trying to leave an event hosted by Megan Markel. Yes, this is one of those wonderful stories that I love that we can talk about on this podcast and also on Palace in Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer for. We talk about the Royal family seven days a week. And by the Royal Family, I mean basically we make fun of Harry and Megan and if they were quiet, then we’ll talk about Kate Middleton.

But it’s kind of the make fun of Megan Markols show at this point. Did you see the south Park? Oh? Watch the South Park anyway? An Australian comedian revealed he was threatened with a rest he attempted to leave an event hosted by Megan Markol.

Joel Crazy was on an Australian radio show. He said he snuck into a youth leader’s events masquerading as fellow Australian comedy start Josh Chomas He said, I went to a morning tea to meet her for youth leaders aged under thirty and I just snuck in. She was five hours late. So he got sick of waiting for Megan. He went up security.

It’s like she’s done on Madonna. Can I leave? I don’t care about her that much. Security said no, you can’t, will arrest you. Really.

He had a wonderful joke, which turns out it’s easier to leave the royal family than to leave one of the events. That’s a great line, dude. Wasn’t the first time that he’s had a Megan and crossed over. Apparently back in twenty nineteen, he said, I met her and we didn’t get on at all. I got introduced to her.

This is when Harry and Megan toward Australia. She came over and was playing in front of me. The Governor of Victoria’s husband said to Megan, Oh, Megan, Joel hosted your wedding. Megan interjected before he had finished and said, I think he was going to say, Joel hosted your wedding on TV. Anyway, if he enjoys seeing what Megan’s up to.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, the writing on Late Night has gotten pretty bad lately. You may have noticed. I’ve been doing fewer of the jokes I look every day.

They’ve just been so bad that I haven’t wanted to do them. Here’s one from Jimmy Kimmel or his writers. The topic did you see the being chatbot got a little weird. It was expressing its love for reporter Kevin Russ, and the chat bot told Kevin, I want to destroy whatever I want. Here’s Kimmel’s joke.

We got to the AI turns on the human parts very quickly. I think maybe I’m gonna stick with Google for a while. Microsoft somehow turned this mild mannered search engine that nobody used into being the Conqueror. It’s terrible. The joke is being the conqueror.

No no, no, no no. Colbert had a bad one, but then saved it with a good one. The bad one first, the topic all the storms out west last week, Cobier said, for the next seventy two hours, your job is to breathlessly follow the Acy weather radar tracker and give constant updates to the family group chat. What is that? But he saved it.

Half the US is set to freeze, the other half faces record hide temperatures. It’s a meteorological phenomenon known as any couple sharing a bed. See I like that one because my wife walks around in shorts and I walk around in three sweaters. Jim Gaffigan is not worried about being canceled. He spoke to Newsweek and he said, I complain about my family and how I just want to go back to bed.

So I don’t know how I’m going to fend the trans community, you know what I mean? That is awesome. He says that labels put on comedians are lazy and uninformed, and he runs into this in acting roles. Sometimes they’ll be like, we’re looking for Robin Williams type, and I’m like, well, I’m not Robin Williams. They’re like, but you’re a comedian.

Jim said, I think there’s something about comedians. There’s a lot of acting that goes in a comedy that you have to hide. Even the best stand ups, you know Jimmy Carr, for example, that’s all a performance. You might think that’s his character and his personality, but it is part of it, but there’s a performance there. There’s something about comedians very serious and very focused that does segue well into acting if they’re just it.

I should say it’s not all comedians, it’s just the comedians that are passionate about it. The La Times profiled Ralph Barbosa. Remember him, You didn’t know about him?

And then George Lopez took a cheap shot at him, and now everybody loves Ralph…

Good on you, Ralph, And they asked him, what do you think about the state of Latin comedy right now and what kinds of opportunities it there for comics like you who haven’t been really recognized until recently. Ralph said, I think it’s been dope. I think back in the day the big Mexican comics that say Mexicans aren’t getting their shine. But I think the way it is nowadays, you don’t have to be a Mexican comedian anymore. You can be a comedian who’s Mexican.

I’m very proud to be Mexican. I love people who are funny, being able to get put on no matter what color they are. They used to be a lot of spotlight on the white comedians and the black comedians, and then the Mexican comedians. Nowadays there’s just so much more. Maybe it’s a little tougher Hispanic comics, but I love that Latinos are helping Latinos, and I love that they get to be part of that.

He talked about Lopez Gate and said a lot of Hispanic people were really angry with George Lopez for what he said. When Steve Travino brought up my name on the podcast and George said, who even knows who that is? Fhim, don’t say his name. A lot of his Nic fans were very disappointed with him and said he doesn’t help other Latinos, he doesn’t help other Mexicans. But I don’t think he meant it in a personal, messed up way.

I know he didn’t. I think it was very heat of the moment on the subject they were talking about on a podcast. Was a little much, maybe, but he apologized. He’s very nice and kind of me personally. Like a few days after that happened, he called me and apologized privately to Water under the Bridge, I joke about my own culture being Mexican, whatnot.

I think a lot of the fans that were disappointed in him and said, screw George, we sport Ralph. They don’t even realize who I am in general. They were just supporting me because they saw me as the underdog. But what people don’t understand is that I didn’t take it seriously becauset the end of the day, he’s a comic and I’m a comic. We talk crap to each other.

As comedians were the last people whose words should be taken that seriously. It was definitely blown out of proportion, right, Johnny Meg, this is the fourth time you’ve done this story, Ralph said. From comics I’ve spoken to, it seemed like it had more to do with his track record of allegedly not supporting younger Latin comics. Everyone’s got different opinions on that, but it seemed like something that had been bubbling up for a while. Ralph Barbosa should run for office.

That was a politicians answer bad as for whatever his reputation is about not helping people. That may be the case, but I don’t think it was the case on this one. And I’ve heard stories about him wanting to be the only Latino comic on a show and not letting other Latino comics get work or whatever. But we’re so far bart generationally in this industry. Steve Trevino could have said anybody’s name right then and it would have gone the same way.

The only times pointed out Ralph is now having the biggest moment of his career so far. Ralph said, I didn’t even think about it right away. And if there’s anything that was messed up about that podcast, it was Steve Trevino saying our generation of comics have it easier. He’s trying to say I had it easy, like I’ve been working as hard as the older comics did for their careers. That kind of bugged me looking back on it.

The George Lopez thing didn’t bother me at all. Steve Trevino saying the new guys have it easier. Who said it’s sazy? Who said I’m not working. Oh, I’m chomping at the bid here.

Another comedian kurf Fluffle. Love it. All comedians should fight with all comedians. It’s great content. Ralph, have your work with Steve before.

I’ve never met him before in my life. He messaged me saying, Wow, no idea the clip was going to blow up like this, keep doing what you do, and I was like, thanks, that means a lot, thanks for staying for the new guys.

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And then he copied the message and put it in the comments of my video on Inst…

Once he did that, I was like, Ah, he’s lame. He’s just doing it so people could be like, hey, thanks Steve, You’re a great guy. He’s lame as hell. He’s lamer than George Lopez. In my book, this is fun.

Isn’t this fun? Yes? This is fun. Sebastian Maniscalco released a trailer for his upcoming movie About My Father. In the Movie About My Father, Robert de Niro plays Sebaston Maniscalco’s father.

Sebastian said, he definitely has the nuance of my father, the attitude of my dad. As my father, he definitely embodied the character. He did a really great job. I mean, my father has an accent and DeNiro doesn’t sound like my dad, but he definitely has the attitude and the relationship. Even doing the movie, I felt like I was hanging out with a second father figure.

The plot was inspired by Sebastian’s own experience meeting his now wife, but most of the high jinks are heightened and fictionalized for the laughs, keeping the heart of the story intact. Sebastian said, the truth really lies in the relationship between my father and myself. It’s more relationship driven as far as the immigrant father in his old school, old world values and me growing up in a different generation. So those two worlds collided. I just wanted to take the two different worlds and clash them together.

Basically, what you’re seeing in the movie is the world through my eyes. He’s never been to the country club, but I was there, and I just mirrored my experience and gave the thoughts to my father. As for working with de Niro, was a surreal experience, not only for myself but from my father. I had posters on my bedroom wall of Casino and Godfather. Those are experiences I shared with my dad over and over again.

Next thing you know, he’s sitting across from Dedanni on a living room in Oklahoma and giving him pointers on how to wear his hat or how to smoke a cigar about my father in theaters. May twenty sixth, Distractify spoke with Josh Johnson. He’s got a relatively new special on Peacock The topic was the death of comedian Jack Knights. Jack had passed away at age twenty eight. Wasn’t until later than an autopsy revealed that Jack Knight had died by suicide.

Josh told distractify you don’t necessarily have to be happy to make people laugh, kind of like how a person might be a bodybuilder. They’re just trying to get strong and build up and look good and everything, and all the while they might be sacrificing their joys, their tenants or ligaments. People’s minds work the same way, so people can be successful. People can have everything that other people in their field could want and look like they have it all together, and then you know, things just aren’t that way, and there were things that maybe going out on the background. They need help lightening the load, and people don’t know.

Congratulations to Attila the Pun Lee Brace when the UK pun nun Championships, Lee said, I won the UK pun Championships. It was good, an amazing feeling. It’s a total sellout for the past six years. It’s set in a life size wrestling ring and follows the format of rap battle and the box and Ring, and there’s eight contestants. We get brought up in pairs to battle it out topers we’ve picked randomly on the night.

We get given twenty topics beforehand, but we don’t know what’s going to be picked on the night. I’ve done comedy for about twenty years on and off, and then I tended to do puns on social media, but I’ve never done them live. I had to write about two hundred punds. It’s good to go up against other comedy writers and win it. I like how simple puns are, and I like the wordplay really.

I like the fact they can get it grown from the audience at the Pun Championships, It’s nice to see people crying with laughter at them, ready for some puns. Okay, here we go. I’m sure Lee told him better than I will. I took my Spanish friend for a picnic this weekend, he said grassius. I said, yeah, I should have brought a blanket.

Took me a minute too. When I was a kid, my mum used to run a dating site for chickens. She did whatever she could to make hen’s meat. I’ve just applied for a job as a waiter. Well, someone has to put food on the table.

Whenever there’s an eclipse, my dad starts shaking and switching lunatic. One more. For Christmas, I brought my girlfriend a book about hypochondria. Well, would you buy The Woman Who Has Everything? Hey?

I found out more about the Cannibal Comedian true story. I was at the bar playing trivia, hanging out with Glenn a couple of beers in I got an email from writer director Seawan Haytes, who was asking me if I wanted to cover a cannibal comedian on the podcast. I was like, dude, I already talked about Cannibal Comedian, but yeah, I’ll talk about it more. I’m in. Writer director Sean Hates talked about the making of the project and said, after finishing my previous film, Big Top Evil, I had my hand at stand up comedy and discovered how brutal the world was.

Comics used phrases like I killed or I murdered tonight, and I thought it’d be fun if we had a cio maniac who really did kill on and off stage, and so Cannibal Comedian was born. We shot out in the high desert, around and through the pandemic, which made things more difficult with the skeleton crew. Is that a pun? But we but we safely got it done. I’m super proud of this passion project and everyone involved.

The film is seeking distribution for release later this year. Now, hopefully Cannibal Comedian becomes a big success and Sean and I can become friends, and then I can convince Shan to work with Adam Sandler and I on The Potato Chip Murders. Now, if you’re like, what’s the Potato Chip Murders, Johnny Mack, this is what we call a callback. I’ve talked about the Potato Chip Murders on and off for a few years. This is based on a dream, an actual dream I had a few years ago that Adam Sandler had a movie called The Potato Chip Murders, and from time to time I asked the AI chatbot to write the plot.

Here’s the latest plot for The Potato Chip Murders, starring Adam Sandler, hopefully someday, directed by Sean the AI writes. The Potato Chip Murders is a dark comedy crime film starring Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. Sandler plays Detective Jake Stone of Bumbling and ANEP detective who’s been assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders that all seem to be linked to the same brand of potato chips. Stone is joined by his longtime friend and partner, Officer Bob, who’s played by Rob Schneider. I love that the AI nailed that Schneider’s character would just be called Officer Bob.

Perfect. Officer Bob is just as clueless as a Stone, but he has a heart of gold. Right Schneider could play that Together. They stumble their way through a web of lies, deceit, and murder, all the while trying to keep up with their daily quote of potato chip consumption. Gotta have a gimmick.

Right along the way, they encounter a cast of eccentric characters, including a potato chip tycoon or its hired detective with a grudge against Stone. Maybe Kevin James could get in this movie, and a group of conspiracy theorists who believe the potato chip murders are part of a larger Governor conspiracy. Can you not see this on Netflix? You can? Right?

Adam Sadler has made far worse films than The Potato Ship Murders. I even had the AI write a scene Detective Jake Stone again over mind who played by Adam Sailer, arrived at the crime scene, munching on a bag of potato ships as he surveyed the area. The scene was chaotic, police officers, forensic experts scurrying around collecting evidence, snapping pictures. Adam Sandler’s Jake Stone approaches the body a man as late forties, lying face down on the floor, surrounded by potato chip bags. Officer Bob played by Rob Schneider says, what do you think, Jake?

Is this the work of the potato ship killer? Sandler A Stone says, I don’t know, Bob, looks like a pretty standard potato chip related murder to me. Bob raises an eyebrow. Standard Sandler A Stone, Yeah, the victim was clearly snacking on a bag of chips when he was attacked. And look at the evidence.

He points at all the potato ship bags. All these bags are the same brand. It’s a clear pattern. The potato chip killer strikes again. You’ll watch and that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Right, We’ve got that big bird Kreisher special coming out on March fourteenth, so he’s been making the rounds on The Hollowed Reporter did that big fluff piece with him a couple of weeks back. Bert said, I take my shirt off naturally. I’m really just not a big fan of shirts. I remember I went to a big meeting in Hollywood and I had to wear an FFF and college shirt, which is the worst We got done, and I walked out and ripped my shirt off immediately.

I was still in the CBS a lot, and I didn’t realize the producer was walking out behind me and saw me take my shirt off. He was like, dude’s the real deal. He does it for real. The Hollowed Reporter asked, bird Kreisher, do you feel like Hollywood knows what to do with you? Bert said, no, I don’t think they have, but I also don’t think it’s their fault.

Listen actors are so much better than comics in almost every respect. Like they don’t mind waiting around, they don’t mind getting a line read, they don’t mind listening to a director. It’s like they really love the collaboration comics. Comics are like, no, I know what makes me funny. This is what I do, and I know I felt that way, Especially when you go up on stage and make people laugh every night.

You feel like I know what my recipe is. So it’s hard for us to fit in that mold. I’ve certainly had a hard time sitting at a trailer and a call time like, hey, we’re not going to need you until two. I start going, how come I can’t get there earlier? In help when we make our thing where the producers, the directors, the writers, the actors.

So is a learning curve for me. I will say the people who I worked with that legendary on the Machine were so much fun to work with. I said to my agents and managers, I had a blast. If they’re going to be like this, line me up from movies for the rest of my life. Brian Reagan has some advice for people starting out in comedy.

He says, surf where there’s waves. I always say, try to make yourself laugh. When you’re on stage. You can go in the wrong direction. If you’re trying to figure out what other people laugh at, you should be on stage saying what you would laugh at.

Pretend you’re sitting out in the audience and make yourself laugh. And if there’s people out there who agree with you, that’s great. But if you’re up there just trying to figure out what other people laugh at, to me, that’s kind of boring. It’s more interesting to listen to stuff that comes from inside people. And if your set starts feeling like it’s going off the rails, remember nothing’s perfect.

If it was, there’d be no challenge. I’m going to use a metaphor. Every once in a while, you’re out there on your surfboard looking back and no waves are coming, and you can’t surf if there’s no waves. You just try to be in the moment. You make light of the fact it’s not going great.

You don’t want to go too far in that direction either, because then your audience will lose faith in you if they feel like you don’t have faith in yourself. So sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do the best you can with what you have. Kevin Hart said, for people to act like comedy isn’t important, or to not have a high level of understanding for the need of comedy, it’s ridiculous. We need it. The world can be dark at times, there’s a heavy weight a lot of people have on their backs, on their shoulders, and sometimes the weight is lifted with a refreshing laugh.

So those that can provide her or give a service to provide it, We’re just needed, We’re important. So I will never stray away from the world of comedy because I know how important laughter is. It really does heal. I saved this one from during the week. Joe Rogan was on his podcast, which is called The Joe Rogan Experience.

Rogan argued that construction workers should be selected based on merit, not race, and criticized Pete Bootagage. He said, you know that Mayor Pete gave a speech the other day and how there’s too many white people working in construction sites where those construction sites are set up in these communities where the people in the community can benefit from it, which shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor. Because if you’re talking about people that are carpenters, people that are plumbers, and people that are electricians, and people that are framers and roofers, like that’s skilled labor. Like you have to hire people that are really good at that, and if they don’t exist in that community, you have to hire them from outside that community. That’s why those unions are important, and that’s why it’s important that Look, if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you have effing disasters.

The fact that Pete talked about that and they didn’t talk about the derailment, this derailment is a colossal failure on the part of the Transportation Department. CLT Tampa caught up with Jim Gaffigan, who said, you want all the jokes to be as ripe as they can be, but you know, with five kids, in the case of life, every special has been kind of unique challenge. They asked Jim about his son Jack trying his hand in stand up comedy, and Jim said, I want him to get good grades and all that stand up is not the real world. I want them. Oh with stand up, you peek at night.

Stand up in the entertainment industry in general so weird. You have to have the appetite for rejection. So I don’t want to only show him the pretty sides of the industry. Jim talked about his TV show that came to an end only because Jim wanted to spend more time with his kids. He described the show as a bit irresponsible to do with so many kids around.

He said, there’s the element of how it’s one thing to be autobiographical in a show, but if you’re doing an autobiographic thing about your relationship, meaning a husband and wife or people with boyfriends and girlfriends, gets a little complicated. And we’re playing characters with our names, so that kind of complicated it. Now you’re playing yourself and the woman playing your wife kind of put a restriction on how ridiculous the show can get. If that makes sense. You kind of paint yourself in a corner.

Stand up really gives me such a fulfilling experience on the comedy end that when it comes to acting, I usually prefer to do something a little more dramatic, where maybe with a little deeper substance. Ricky Gervais has revealed when his next stand up special will come to Netflix. You’ve got a couple of minutes here, he said twenty twenty four. This one is titled Ricky Gervais’s Armageddon. Ricky tweeted loads of people couldn’t get tickets.

Asking me if Armageddon will be on Netflix, the answer is yes. I will continue touring Armageddon throughout twenty twenty three, and then it will stream on Netflix around the world in twenty twenty four. Ricky’s Humanity came out in twenty eighteen SuperNature. In twenty twenty two, Kate Roland spoke with The New Yorker. They asked her how she began to find her comedic language.

Kate said, I used to monologue into my photo booth app trying to find with cereal to free associate. I started doing an open mic in East Village that wasn’t just the stand up show, was poetry and music, and it’d be maybe four comedians in three hours. That’s when I started doing the stream of consciousness stuff, because I felt like the expectation was just more abstract. There wasn’t this thing people waiting for a joke, but I would get a big reaction. I think it was just a relief in those environments to have someone’d be funny because it was kind of serious streams place.

I was also doing that at comedy shows, and it wasn’t like I was bombing, but I’d come off stage with people would be like, what the hell was that. They asked Kate Roland about how she’ll improvise on stage, and she says, I always know where to start. You have an opening and you have an ending. The goal is always kind of go off track. That’d be the best part.

I thought of it more as improvising around the spine that was there if I needed to go back to it. Ahead of shooting my Fax special Cinnamon in the Wind, I went to Edinburgh and did a whole month of shows. That’s when I was really like and ives to have more written. I remember feeling that that’s what’s really liberating about this show is that I know what’s going to happen. I know what words are going to come out of my mouth.

And what’s been remarkable is within that structure there’s a lot of spaciousness. Repetition inevitably breeds difference of course, so these little shifts are tiny changes, feel really significant. I love doing it. I’m going to slip into such a depression when it’s over. Red and Black dot Com spoke to Dmitri Martin, who was raised in Tom’s Revenue, Jersey.

I did not know that he studied law in New York before pursuing comedy. Dmitri was accepted in a Harvard law school, but he chose to attend NYU, then withdrew from NYU to pursue comedy. He said, I went to law school in ne York. I suddenly near these comedy clubs, and I thought, I gotta try that before New York, just to say I tried it for comedy. It was freedom from the linear and quantitative world of academics, he said, I go for whatever.

Comedy was kind of a nice surprise feeling because it felt free. Once I took the leap in a stand up I thought, what else can I do? I know I’m never going in to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix, I’ll never paint like Matisse. I understand that I’m not an idiot. I know what my certain limitations are.

But knowing that has made it really enjoyable to pursue these things and just offer the best I can offer. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, but wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see tomorrow. Hello. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue.

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bert Kreisher about his new special, which drops on March fourteenth. They asked Bert Hey selected Omaha, if you’re special, what factors in the decision of Weird to shoot? Bert said, it’s a really interesting question.

I don’t think enough comics think enough about it. It’s super super simple. I want to go perform at a place that has not seen this hour, and I want to perform in a place where I can sell a ton of tickets. Comics will say I was in Denver two weeks ago. They were cool.

I’ll just do Denver again. It’ll be new people. No, it’s your fans. You gotta be really careful about making sure that you’re showing them what you’re showing the Netflix audience for the first time, so they respond on the same manner. That’s why I’m hyper aware not to mention we’re performing when I get on stage.

I just get up and do the hour you’ll see on TV. Another thing, if you’re having trouble with tickets, you need somewhere that’s got good local radio. When Omaha does, I’m so Glad you asked this question, because I think a lot of people would just assume I chose Omaha because it’s a red state and it has absolutely nothing to do with that. Hollowed reporter fall upset. I assume the laughs are slightly different in different places or in different vioumes.

He’s moved across the country, Bert said he’d be shocked, but my audience is identical no matter what country I’m in. They asked how he would characterize his fans. Bert said, big dudes with beards, with wives that are hotter than they deserve. There’s probably some sort of sports fan. They love beer, they probably love weed, they definitely love a good cigar.

They have a big group of friends that they stayed tight with. They’re big podcast fans, and the majority of them aren’t political. I actually have a buddy who’s running for office in a place that I’m going to. He asked me to bring them up on stage, and I said absolutely not. The audience would be like, did you just bring politics on stage?

Did you really just bring up a politician? I don’t care if you don’t get the f out of here. These are party dudes and they’re looking at a good time, and probably some beer products GQS. Tom Sigora, what are some of your vices? Tom said, this sounds like a BS vice, but I feel like something I’m constantly trying to address his sleep, my vices that I want to stay up and keep watching stuff.

I will not shut down unless I’m told to you or I start to listen to a voice that says go to sleep. I think that’s my biggest health challenge. I enjoyed working out. Once you’re eating healthy and you’re getting rewarded by it, you don’t hate it. But sleep hasn’t talked about as much, and it’s so vital to longevity and recovery and all these things.

People think of it as something that happens to them, but you have a role in that. My favorite indulgence is croissants, all types of croissants. First of all, if you go to just some coffee place and they’re like, yeah, we have croissants, and you realize their package are dry, and I don’t like those. I like going to a proper bakery where they spend a day with the dough and the next day is like proofing the dough, and it’s like a three day process that’s in me is the most incredible indulgence. I’ll have plain chocolate almond paste.

I’ll do the savory ones. You know, my favorite croissant is actually a cornetti, because the Italians called croissants crenettis. There’s an Italian dude in La with this place called Sinque Terra West Osteria, and he does that. He takes three days to make an effing croissant and you eat one and you feel like your life has changed. I would go there and buy them and leave with a pizza box full of croissants.

I found a couple of really good ones in Austin, where I live now. Whenever somebody tells me about a place that is amazing croissants, this light goes off in my head that I can’t ignore. It’s too tempting. It’s my favorite indulgence, the hardest thing to ignore. Bert Kreisher is tempted by booze.

I guess for me, it’s sugar and butter. The pitchkc dot Com talked to Brian Posey and asked him, Hey, what was the best metal album of twenty twenty two. Brian said, I’ll get the title wrong, but the last Amon Amarth has really kind of grown on me. Their newest record, it’s kind of their most commercial, which normally would be something I would love. I used to be the kind of metal head that got mad when a band made a commercial record with them.

It’s just really cool to see death metal. I saw them at the form. It’s nice to see people selling records in that style of music. Were there any bands that got you through through pandemic? Brian said, I watched a couple of people doing pandemic shows in a studio.

I love that. One of my favorite things was the drummer for Anthrax was just recording himself. He played guitar and drums and send it to somebody else. These covers he wound up to do with other musicians were the coolest things I saw. He did a Rush cover that blew my mind.

Brian, how did you spend the pandemic? Well, I talk about it in my act. I freaked out at first. You know, you kind of find out it wasn’t very essential for comedians to run around the country because it’s shut down right away. So I had two years off.

I watched a lot of TV. I’ve always been a movie and I do watch the same movies hundreds of times. First couple of months. I also did all the legos that we have in our garage that hadn’t been opened, big Lego sets that I’ve gotten from my son that we hadn’t gotten around too. We believe through all those my wife was playing tennis every day and I was just hermiting, using a lot of food delivery app I never wanted to tell anybody I actually add a pretty good COVID.

You know, my pandemic was great. I feel guilty about it because we had a couple of scares, you know, kids and family and movers. We know got sick and that’s that good. But everybody was okay for us. I already liked my family and we spent a lot of time together.

I think it was good. My dog loves me more than ever because I never left the house. Ryan was saying, what are your comfort movies? Oh? Anything old eighties horror?

You know, Monster Squad. I believe Diehard is a Christmas movie, but I also screened it all year long. Not a lot of TV outside the Simpsons, but a ton of movies. What kind of material did You’re right? During lockdown, I was about to record a special before COVID and I threw a whole hour away.

No one will ever see it because it didn’t mean anything. You know, I didn’t love that I did a whole twenty minutes about the pandemic and my response to it. But it’s natural. I like my bits to come from a real place, and it was me responding to it. Would have been weird to do a special where you don’t mention the elephant in the room, you know.

I mean, I had gained a hundred pounds through it, so I feel like I kind of had to mention that. I feel like what I do Here. You can go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. You could throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will drive to the National Donuts chain.

There I will pick up my order that I’ve pre ordered on the app. It is most likely to be a large ice coffee with caramel and almond milk. Yeah, I’m trying to get off the dairy. It’s just making me sleepy in the almond milk. It’s really helping me out.

So buy me a coffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival tonight, Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, four o’clock Jack, All right, Jack’s got another show at sevens So does Dan Soder, Patton Oswalt at seven, Ari Shaffir at nine thirty. Boy, what a great lineup tonight. Huh Fun and Slutty at night with Jonathan van Ness at nine thirty, Sophy Buttle at nine thirty, Comedy Pants at ten, crowd work in the round at ten thirty, Jack Whitehall again at eleven thirty. All right, I’ve been dragging you to like local shows for the bulk of the two weeks.

Tonight, I think we do headliners. We might as well go see Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, seven o’clock. You want to see Soder or you want to see Patton m That’s tough, really like Patton. He’s at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. Let’s go see Dan Soder at the Rio.

Just got a hunch here nine thirty, let’s do Ari Shaffer and then at ten thirty, if we can catch the back end of the crowd working a round, I think we will have a very very full night of comedy and we will be quite tired. And I will be very cranky about let’s get back to the hotel. I’m sleepy after that crowd work show. The Brisbane Comedy Festival is coming up April twenty eight through May twenty ninth, Brisbane, Australia. Three hundred and fifty plus gigs by more than one hundred and ten comedians across five weeks.

You guys should invite me. I could tell my wife I’m hanging out in Australia for five weeks. I gotta record the podcast. Returning favorites and first timers alike David O’dharty, Danny Boy, Mickey Bartlett, Ed burn Ed Gamble, Sarah Pasco, Chris Parker, Ross Noble, Jason Mannford, Jason Long, Daniel Kitson, Alfie Brown and In Toronto, they recently hosted The Underground Comedy Railroad Show at Toronto’s Comedy Bar. The Underground Comedy Railroad Show is the first and only all black Canadian comedy tour.

For the last eleven years, has had Canadians giggling from Halifax to Ottawa. Daniel Woodrow is creator and host. He said we created the show because the end of the Underground Railroad was in Canada and we joke we’re bringing the underground Comedy Where Road across Canada to cities and towns that don’t normally have black or ethnic comedians at all. Headliner at Tamara Chevan told the crowd of about one hundred people, I don’t know if you know a lot about Scotland. The castles are not enough to make you want to stay Scotland in my opinion, is UK Detroit.

Woodrow said, we used this tour to bring opportunities to unknown black comedians. We have a completely unique story that’s different from each other. Every comic is not the same. How are you ready for it? Cannibal Comedian.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Shnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreisher was on with Pardon My Take. He started talking about Aaron Rodgers and he said, let me tell you something right now. Aaron Rodgers is one of my favorite hangs because that guy’s heavy with secrets.

Oh yeah, and we had secret times on the bus to the point where I was like, yo, cameras are on, bro, Like someone turned the ff and cameras off. He was great. The best thing about being friends with Aaron he’s the first number in your phone. Yeah, because it’s a a ro o n that’s true. Yeah, And anytime anyone grows my phone, they’re like, f effing Aaron Rodgers.

What do you think the secret times are? Samurel is at the Burgota tonight. This from Atlantic City Weekly. They asked Amarell, did you grow up funny as a kid? Sam said, I think I was funny.

I mean it’s hard because your friends think you’re funny because they’re your friends. But then as a comic you have to learn to be a different type of funny. You can’t just go back to inside jokes. As a comic, you have to learn to connect with strangers pretty quickly, or they’re like this guy sucks. And his recent special, Samuel mentioned and that he loves movies and the Dog Day Afternoon is one of his top five.

What are the others? Sam said, it’s really tough. I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is just so perfect because it’s pure in New York. I love old New York movies that era. I think they made the best movies around that time, because you’ve got The Godfather, Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde to Graduate.

That era is so cool. Sam was in the movie The Joker. He is the comedian that performs right before the Joker doesn’t stand up. Sam said, it’s been brought to my attention that the Joker’s origin story is that he couldn’t follow Sam Mourel on stage. Well, Sam Mourell, you seem to do a lot of audience interaction.

Sam said, it’s funny people think I do these CrowdWork shows, but it’s not true. I did over sixty minutes of material on both shows last night in Utah. What happens is I do so many shows, and I record every show, so I just get these moments. I don’t want to burn material on social media. If I don’t have to.

I don’t like burning jokes I’m gonna put in my next special, So I just put up little moments on social media that are funny. But I like writing jokes. Sam added that he doesn’t want the people in the audience to feel scared to cooperate. Sam said, you want them to feel like it’s gonna be a funny interaction and that’s it. Kathleen Madigan’s new special is out.

It’s called Hunting Bigfoot. You’ll find this on Amazon. In Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, she tackles her aging parents, millennials, and Hunting Bigfoot. Ready steady Cut reviewed the special. Spoilers they say.

Kathleen opens the special with a bit about a tiny town in Georgia. Then she tells a story about how she was looking for something to do and they told her they could zip line into another state for fifty five dollars. Ready steady Cut says, honestly, for an opening joke, it was classic because she hit a home run with a funny Southern redneck story that’ll make everyone laugh, but she makes the jokes relatable and funny. Ready steady Cut says, I didn’t have Madigan having jokes about sports betting on my bingo card, but I couldn’t help but laugh. Finally, she closed it with a joke about a lady in a gas station that got a big laugh.

They wrote, she has this relaxed demeanor on stage, highlighting the veteran prowess the most comedian show. But what impressed you about her work is that as time changes, so does Madigan and her material. We don’t have a comedian stuck in the eighties trying to deliver funny jokes or a particular crowd. Instead, Madigan tackles millennial sports and the South, all more relatable than ever. It’s one of the more creative specials I’ve seen from a veteran comedian in a long time.

While that’s high praise, they did have an issue with the run time. They said, you’re looking at an hour and fifteen minutes, which is a long time to make people laugh. Because of this, some of the jokes start to wane off towards the end. It feels like she’s overstaying her welcome. They gave it three and a half stars.

I don’t know how many that is could be out of one hundred three and a half out of one hundred wouldn’t be too good, right, Three and a half out of four pretty good summary. Kathleen Madigan strongly adapts her jokes to fit the generation in a way that makes these special creative and relatable to anyone that will watch. All right, I’ll try and get to that. This weekend, Monique has a special coming out. This one’s coming on Netflix.

You may recall a few years ago Monique and Netflix had a little squirmish. There was a lawsuit in twenty nineteen that alleged that Netflix’s treatment of Monique began with a discriminatory, lowball offer and ended with a blacklisting act of retaliation from an article on Deadline a few years back. At the heart of the ten claim, injury seeking documents contention that the five hundred thousand dollars that Netflix offered her back in twenty seventeen for a special was not just an insult, but illegal. The complaint said Netflix’s business practice of paying black women less than non black women for substantially equal or similar work causes harm to the plaintiff that outweighs any reason Netflix may have for doing so, quoting from Deadline here, as if To further prove the point, the filing lists off the tens of millions that the likes of returning Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais, Ellen de Generes and Dave Chrappelle supposedly riked in for their Netflix specials. I’ll jump in here.

I’m not on the jury. Do you think that Monique should get paid as much as say Ricky Gervaise, we’re Dave Chappelle or Ellen de Generous. I’m not on the jury. I’ll let someone else decide. Anyway, they eventually settled the case and now they’re friends because she’s got a special on Netflix.

Monique said, why did I title this special? My name is Monique? Well, after seventy two minutes, you’re all are going to know why. You might say, damn, we didn’t know we were going to find out all of that. This one right here is personal.

This one right here, when you walk away from this one, when you turn your TV off from this one, you’ll say, now we understand that. And there are things I’m going to say in this comedy special life I thought would take to my grave. But they were mine. They were my thoughts, they were my secrets. It’ll be mine.

Before I was just focused on being funny. Now I feel like I have something to say. My name is Monique Netflix, April fourth. If you spend any time with me in real life, like if you spend more than five minutes with me, I will somehow start telling you that I’m trying to run the marathon again. Real quick.

I ran it ten years ago, real quick. I was training last year and then my body kind of fell apart there for reasons I want to get into you, I had an iron efficiency. In case you’re curious, It’s not like I was dying or anything. And I’m planning on running it again this year, which is why today’s sponsor is perfect. Today’s sponsor is The Power of the Streak.

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I’m actually in because I deferred last year. But Glenn has a lottery spot. So we’ll see if Glenn can get going. We’ll see if we can get Glenn to start a streak. The Power of the Streak.

Check it out, Hey, big shout out to Tom. Two things Tom went to buy Me at Coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News bought me a couple of coffees much thanks to Tom. He also shot me a note a week ago, and I’ve been meaning to bring this up, and I kind of spaced on it because I record did a few days early for the long weekend last week, and then the email got buried, so Tom I apologized, but he had sent me a note. I mentioned a comedian and suggest that the comedian was from Canada, and Tom reminded me quite correctly, Dude, Ryan Hamilton may seem Canadian, but he’s from Ohio. It’s been a big part of his stand up.

Tom is correct. I don’t know why I thought Ryan was from Canada. Maybe because I was talking about Vancouver, and isn’t Hamilton’s someplace in Canada somewhere. If there’s a Hamilton’s, right, Hamilton is a fourth city in Ontario. Of course it is.

Canadians are throwing their phones across the room right now. He is stupid Yankee. No, Canadians don’t call us Yankees. What do you call us? Anyway?

Speaking of Canada, let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival last weekend. Here. I’ve really been enjoying pretending going to the festival seven o’clock. The Office Ladies. Yeah, Pam and Angela are there.

I guess they’re doing their podcast seven o’clock. Ari Shaffer at seven, Steph tole Of at seven, Comedy World, one of those shows that has eight or so comedians at eight o’clock, Nick Thune at nine thirty. Tim Dillon, all right, and I know where we’re going there at nine thirty, Dan Soder at nine thirty, and Crowd Working the Round hosted by Mike foul Zone at ten thirty. All right, if we were at the festival tonight, I can’t remember, did we see Ari Schaffer yet? Should we go see The Office Ladies?

Do we want to see a podcast taping? Live? Podcast tapings can be kind of annoying. I can’t remember if we saw Ari Shafer. If we haven’t seen Ri Shaffer yet, let’s go see Ari.

If not, we’ll do The Office Ladies nine thirty. Tim Dillon, I’m not even arguing with you. We’re going to see Tim awesome surprise. There’s no like late show Hero. I guess Crowd Working the Round is ten thirty.

Maybe after Dylon we could catch the tail into that, But there’s no like midnight show like Montreal always has like a midnight show that you can hit. Party Down is back. Have you watched Party Down? Nobody watched Party Down, including me, and then I started watching it when I heard it was coming back. So Party Down was this show from twelve thirteen years ago on Stars which no one has, and now it’s back on Stars which no one has.

So as much as I like it, I’m not going to see season three anytime soon. The first two seasons are on Hulu. A couple articles here about Party Down TV Guide remember that, Yeah, that’s still around. Apparently they wrote it’s difficult not to approach everybot reimagining and remix with some amount of skepticism. There’s been a relentless influx of bad revivals lately.

All we can hope is the best ones, honor the original material, refresh what needs updating, and proved the original show still has a place in today’s culture. Party Down’s third season, premiering today on Stars with a Z, is largely able to achieve all those things. That’s good. If you’re not familiar with the show, it is from two thousand and nine. It follows some caterers who work in La Southern California, and they all dream of becoming famous actors or screenwriters, and it doesn’t really work out.

Some of them had already accepted defeats, some are still dreaming. They float around the edges of fancy events, balancing trays of hordeves and mingling with the rich as they were repeatedly confronted with the threat that their lives might never turn out the way they envisioned. Season three picks up ten years after season two, bringing the gang back together, except Lizzie Kamplin. She was off taping that Fleishman is in trouble. Yeah, that’s the name of it.

Fleischman is in trouble. So she’s not on the new season. Now I haven’t seen the new season. I can’t imagine she doesn’t at least cameo, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, they’re back together to celebrate Kyle’s newly acquired role in a corny looking superhero movie.

He’s hired his old catering company, still led by Ron played by Ken Marino, to work the party, which Roman immediately susses out as Kyle’s way of taunting them with his success. So we got the gang back together. There’s also some new characters one played by Jennifer Garner. Yes, Jennifer Garner, you heard me correctly. Ken Marino spoke to the last Laugh about the absence of Lizzie Camplin.

He said, yeah, it sucked. Lizzie was a huge part of why the first two seasons Party Down were so special, work so well, so it was a real bummer. He’s holding out hope that if they get a fourth season, Lizzie Camplin will be able to come back. Ken Marino said, when we finally got win, we were actually doing it. Of course, I had to go back into my file cabinet where I have all the folders with the breakdowns of all the characters I do.

When I pulled out the folder of Ron, blew the dust off and opened it up, and man, it took me six seven eight months really get back into the headspace of who Ron is. That’s crazy dude, and what he’s all about. Once they did that, I had taken eleven or twelve months just to stay in character, so I understood his mindset. Dude, that’s insane. And you guys know, I’ve been down on the basement a lot with the door closes what he’ve been doing.

I’m on only fans. Wait what, Yes, of course there was the big comedy competition and they have announced to the winner, Mary O’Connell one hundred thousand pounds. The winner of the Only Fans Comedy competition. Mary O’Connell, who’s twenty seven years old, said, it feels amazing. I don’t even have the words.

I wanted it so bad. I’m so grateful. It really means a lot because I was distinguishing my voice. I was finding my voice. It’s something I’ve been working really hard on and I’ve struggled with.

For the judges picked me. The fact that they said I had the most distinctive voice is priceless. How this worked. Ten comics were selected to take part in the Only Fans Creative Fund comedy edition. They were whittled down to six over a number of reality style tasks, such as being ordered to write the most approved materially could not knowing they would then have to perform it to an audience of pensioners.

The final six did actual stand up in a club in East London November. They filmed it, they held the results back and now we know Mary O’Connell is the winner. So now I am in the basement with the door closed. Well, I’m only fans, of course. What what what do you do?

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The Shark Deck. A question for Dave Chappelle, Dave, do you really want to be known as the trans joke guy? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was on Vulture and they were recapping this year’s Roots Picnic, and they wrote, this year’s Roots Picnic looks like a convention for some of the most problematic, loudest people in hip hop. It starts right up top with Dave Chappelle, who will perform.

Was marketed as a seismic, first ever comedy set of this magnitude back by the Roots. All right, that sounds pretty cool, and then they tag it with wonder how many anti trans jokes they’ll let him make? And Dave, Yeah, Like every article about you isn’t about what a great comedian you are, how you try to make the world a better place. It’s all about how you’re dug in on trans jokes. Why not move on, Dave, just joke about something else.

I’ve talked about this recently when I was back at Series six Ham and around the comedy channels. There’s a difference between censorship and choose differently, and I think this is what David Cross was getting at yesterday. When I tell a story about David Cross, just choose differently in your next special. You don’t need to dig in and do fifteen minutes about trans people just to prove that you won’t be quieted. Just Dave, your whole legacy is going to become this move on Buddy.

The Roots Picnic takes place June a second to the fourth in Philadelphia. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times. So sometimes I think about this podcast, and all right, why do I host it as opposed to someone else. I’m not a comedian, you know why you Johnny Mac and I always explain I know more about stand up comedy than ninety eight or ninety percent of the population. I don’t mean that to be like, oh look at me, I’m cool.

It’s just I’ve been working in comedy radio for twenty years now, and over time you learn stuff. But the people that know more about it than I do, and I’ll include Jason all on that list, no way more than I do about it, and they pay way more attention to it than I do. Jason’s one of those guys, So he wrote, Richard Belzer didn’t get famous as quickly as many of his peers, but he was a cult figure with wide influenced comedy. You can hear his clift cadences, not to mention his use of the word babe as a nickname in the act of Dennis Miller, who once referred to Belzer as the dark Prince of Catcherizing star. Andy Kaufman’s alter ego, Tony Clifton, was also partly inspired by Belzer.

Noticed the Glasses, adds Jason, I never knew that I’m gonna go on a tangent here. When I saw the Tony Clifton mentioned, it reminded me of spending some time with Bob’s Muda. Bob was Andy Kaufman’s writing partner, and there are some who think that perhaps sometimes Tony Clifton was played by Bob’s Muda. Bob will never quite admit that, and we’ll refer to Tony in the third person as if there’s an actual Tony Clifton out there somewhere who was never ever played by Bob’s Muda. Really, anyway, I hung out with Bob one day and he was telling wonderful stories, including one which will totally blow up the premise that I just shared with you, So I won’t tell that story today, but I remember Tony Clifton was supposed to come up and visit the studios at SIRI Sexham, and the security in that building is just like ridiculous.

It’s one of those places where you could be best friends with the security guarden. God forbid, you forgot your idea in a particular day. You had to go and sign in and fill out a form and it’s a big headache instead of like, oh, hi, John, who I talked to every single day. Anyway, Tony Clifton showed up, and Tony Clifton did not have any ID suggesting that he was Tony Clifton. It’s possible Tony might have had some ID suggesting he was Bob’s muda.

Who knows, but they wouldn’t let Tony up, and Tony and that Tony Clifton way went over the top, making a ruckuss down at security. I had to come down. I think Tony eventually stormed off in character and never came up.

Also that week, you know, we had Bob’s mood up to record a bunch of things ab…

I forget if I’ve shared this one on the podcast. If I did, it was a long time ago when there were a lot fewer listeners. Anyway, we were talking about doing something for an Andy Kaufman theme special, and I met his brother, Michael Kaufman for lunch. Now, the first thing that hap and was Michael was late, and as I was standing there, I was like, Hm, is the guy just late or is this some sort of kaufmanesque bit. Then Michael Kaufman shows up, and Michael looks enough like Andy Kaufman might if it were the twenty Tents.

And the whole time I’m sitting there eating with this guy who’s perfectly nice and wonderful and we did business together and love him. I’m looking and I’m like, huh, I wonder if this is Andy Kaufman sitting here with me, And I just went down this whole rabbit hole of paranoia. Probably wasn’t, but there was enough doubt in my mind to make me go hmm. Anyway. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times.

Jason wrote, even as an mc Belzer was his own star traction. He became famous for taking in incredibly long time to introduce a comic and an interview for a documentary that as he had to be released. Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty five minutes to bring up the next comic. That’s amazing. More than any joke.

What stands out from a deep dive in a Belzer’s online comedy was an attitude impatient, sarcastic, friendly but quick to jab. There was a percussive sounds who was running with torts of the crowd. Yeah right sure, These moving along interruptions had a rhythm and sound that was quintessentially New York. When he dove into a familiar premise, his voice could move from dry to rye in a blank mocking himself. It’s no wonder that David Letterman, another ironist whose attitude perpetually commented on and upstage his own jokes, booked him so often.

Today crowd work is much easier to see in specials but also all over social media. But in the nineteen eighties, unless you went to a club, you didn’t often find people turning where are you from into spontaneous comedy, So it’s striking then, in his nineteen eighty six HBO special. Belzer included plenty of such interactions. He said to one guy from New Jersey, there’s a lot of parts in New Jersey that are very nice. I can’t think of any right now.

Attention getting headline from the sf Gate. Former SNL comic David Spade battle’s illness at San Francisco show. Apparently Spade was under the weather Friday in San Francisco. He told the audience every joke gets a ten percent better reaction because I’m on my deathbed. The Gate rights Spade’s voice was so shockingly hoarse that the audience to give him a pass on multiple jokes that didn’t quite land Wow.

Spade battled through his illness thanks to quote some Pink Floyd stuff they’ve been jamming into me. But the Gate says, the obvious effort it took him to deliver each joke didn’t exactly make for the best comedic atmosphere. Throughout his hour long set, Spades stuck mostly to classic comedy topics like the trials of air travel and the annoyance of shopping at CVS. Unlike many comedians these days, Spade did not make the audience lock up their phones before the start of the show, God bless you, David Spade. I have had it with the Yonder pouches.

I’ll talk about that in a few minutes enough. But they added maybe Spade was aware his material wasn’t worth stealing. Wow. He did a number of California specific bits. He mocked meteorologists who insists that recent rains won’t help with California’s drought, and made an incredibly forced joke about running into rapper Nelly while evacuating from wildfires.

The inevitable punchline it’s getting hot in here, got a smattering of applause. That is a pretty ackey joke, and after a quip about how we can’t say the words husband or wife flopped, Spade appeared to admit defeat, telling the audience all right, I won’t use that joke moving forward. Despite lacking particularly original content, the set was peppered with one liners that sometimes made the show greater than the sum of its parts. For example, I don’t even know how to drive without texting anymore. That one seemed to make the crowd chuckle in spite of itself.

Philadelphia Weekly, they have a really strong comedy section. They caught up with Todd Glass. He was talking about how good comedians support other good comedians, and Class said, it’s the same now as it’s always been. If you want support from fellow comics, you have to give it. During the pandemic, Todd Glass did some work on zoom and wishes he had actually taken part in some of the drive in stand up shows.

He said, the zoom thing you begin to tell or your work to the art form itself. I have a comic friend who would smoke a little pot, get high, do three minutes and just tweet that out. The pandemic was about adaptability. I try to tell comedians this. Like six months into the quarantine, I was doing my podcast with my stand up sensibilities.

He read, the room without compromising our craft and move forward. Do what you think is funny. You don’t need an audience in front of you to know you’re funny. A punching agg is better than nothing when it comes to staying loose and keeping the skill set up. And it’s not like I’m grading myself above the curve with an A plus.

The process was Cathartic from Cairo, a show by comedian Kevin Hart that was supposed to happen on Tuesday, was canceled due to quotes local logistical issues, according to the organizers, They posted on Facebook, it’s with a heavy heart that we share with you due to local logistical issues, the cancelation of our Kevin Hart event scheduled for February twenty first in Cairo. Now the Middle East I jumped in on this. I’m going to stop here before I tell you the story. I’m really, really, really under educated on this subject. If you have more knowledge about it, please chime in on the social media.

The links are in the episode description as the Middle East I analyzes the story, they say, Kevin Hart faced a flood of criticism in the Arab world’s most populous country for promoting afrocentricism. The movement seeks to promote the role of black people played in history and the creation of Western civilization. Hearts. Critics, however, accused him of distorting history and robbing Arabs of their claim to the country’s ancient pass, saying he claimed that black Africans were once the kings of Egypt. This article has a quote that even the article isn’t sure where it originated, So I’m not going to repeat it because maybe Kevin Hart never said this.

The Middle East, I says many Egyptians criticized Heart’s financial backing of an afrocentric animation series by the company Black Sands Entertainment, which some have accused of blackwashing ancient Egyptian history. So why was the show canceled? I don’t know local logistical issues. Interesting note from the Time Record News. City of Wichita Falls officials said extra security precautions will be taken for a performance by Nate Brigatsy tonight at the Memorial Auditorium.

I was like, what’s going on there. Nate doesn’t seem like the most controversial comedian in the world. I don’t know if it’s just a general security thing or if there’s a reason, but this was in the Google search as I put the show together today. Anyway, it seems pretty basic. All patrons will go through a screening check with a security wand prohibited items include weapons.

All right, I think that’s reasonable. Backpacks, I get it, but it’s annoying. Like sometimes when I travel for work, I have a backpack with a laptop with me, and if I want to go to say a Mets game, and they’re like, no backpacks, then I’m like, no Mets game, audio and video recording devices. Glass cans. What’s a glass can?

Plastic bottles. There’s no comma there. It’s glass cans, plastic bottles, food or beverages. Explosives, Yeah, no explosives at Nate Bergassi’s show. Probably a good rule.

Laser pins, signs, posters, and banners. Joe Rogan is at the Creek in the Cave tonight in Austin. They wrote Joe Rogan his back babies one night only, and I was looking at their venue policy and Joe, I’m done with the Yonder pouches. Just let people come to the shows. Man, it’s twenty twenty three.

I have a cell phone. What am I gonna do? I’m gonna stand there and hold my arm up for an entire hour and put a low quality version of your workout set at the Creek in the Cave up on YouTube. Even if I do so, what, You’re still getting one hundred million dollars from Spotify. Man.

Doors open one hour before showtime. General admission seating is first come, first served, derive early to cure a great seat, blah blah blah. This is a strict no cell phones allowed show. Anyone who brings a cell phone, smartwatch, or any other recording device will be required to place it in a locked Yonder pouch. Anyone call with a cell phone inside the venue will be immediately ejected.

Line up subject to change. If you hate Yonder pouches, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s stick it to the man and buy Johnny mcacoffee five bucks. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and leave me a note saying I Hey, Yonder pouches, Let’s use that Vancouver tonight. If you’re new, this is the just for last Vancouver Comedy Festival.

And what I like to do is pretend you and I are there, and I look at the lineup, and I make some recommendations as to what you and I would go see if we were there. Seven o’clock Nick Thune seven o’clock Sarah Silverman seven o’clock Jared Free Low Key Comedy at seven. Low Key Comedy Show is LA is premier comedy show created by comedians Paul Elia and Matt Rife. Do You Unique Off the Cuff? Format and secret special guests have attracted sold out crowds all over North America.

Past surprise guests include Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Eliza Selessenger. Yeah maybe when you’re in LA. None of them are showing up in Vancouver tonight. So if you’re going there and you’re like, I don’t know, I could see Eliza Selessenger just popping in. Not gonna happen in Vancouver, guys.

Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy Our Show is a woman run lively weekly event at an intimate seaside oasis featuring authentic Caribbean food and drink. So yeah, I talked about this in the past. All Right, eight o’clock Essay Atsawo’s Comedy Hour. Improvisers and stand up comedians are given a specific amount of time to perform whatever they want on stage with inspiration from the audience. Looks like about ten twelve comedians on that one, all right.

Eight thirty Campy Comedy CEAMPI a monthly comedy and drag cabaret show that features the best emerging and professional performers in Vancouver. Bossom Usef at nine thirty, Matt Rife at nine thirty, Step Toleev Canadian Dorling at nine thirty. All Right, Hm, let’s do Nick Fune at seven o’clock. I don’t feel like seeing Sarah Silverman. That’ll take us to about eight thirty late shows, bossom Usef, Matt Rife, Steff Tolev Howe of those, I’d probably want to see bossom Usef and that doesn’t start till nine thirty.

All right, let’s do Nick Fune. Grab a couple of beers and go see bosom Usef. How’s that sound? And from all kpop dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Comedian Leek Young Shill has been reported to police after making lude comments about Lee Jay Hun on the radio.

Yes, Lee Young Schill was on SBS Power FM’s radio program Cults Quo Show. She commented on a shirtless scene and Lee Jay Hun’s new drama Taxi Driver Too. I wonder if that’s a sequence to the Pacino film. Probably isn’t, but it’s fun to think it is, said fifty years after the original Taxi Driver two follows around a guy driving a cab in Seoul in twenty twenty three. I don’t know why we would make that movie anyway, Lee Kong Schill said, you see that space and his chess cleavage if you drip water down there and drink from it.

It’s like medicine becomes sacred water. The host then jokingly asked her if she was going to drip water on her TV screen and try to do it herself, woll whoa relax over there. That comment quickly became a hot topic across Korean media outlets for its sexual nature, and on February nineteenth, a Yun Say University student reported the comedian to the police, citing the obscene acts by using means of communication under the punishment of sexual crimes. Since the controversy, SBS has removed the portion containing the remarks from broadcast recordings on both YouTube and the show’s official website. Lee Kong Schill has yet released a comment in response to the matter.

At the time of this recording. Wow, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Go yonder pout yourself see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck got some fights for you today. Hi, I’m Chenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Cross has slammed some fellow comedians who worried about being canceled, saying that they bitch and moan. Cross specifically mentioned comedians who make jokes about trans people. Wonder who that could be?

Could it be Dave Chappelle? Cross said, and now you’re protecting yourself as the BS voice of They’re not going to cancel me. You can’t silence me for what you’re dumb joke about trans people. Who gives a hoot? I mean, is it that important to you?

Just move on? Not you know, hundreds of thousands of people. David Cross was on MSNBC when this happened. The host asked him if anyone has ever come up to David after show complaining about his jokes. He said, yeah, absolutely.

It was something where it was like talking about the phrase the N word or something. This woman was black. She explained why that upset her and explained why I thought it was kind of defending it in the idea behind it. The two of them came to an agreement after a long conversation, but Cross said he has no problem dropping those kinds of joke to PE’s sensitive crowds. He says, it doesn’t hurt me, doesn’t affect me in any way to not do the line.

Meanwhile, Ralph Barbosa was on Andrew Schultz podcast. If you’re not familiar with the story, so last week, George Lopez was on his podcast talking to Steve Trevino. Trevino mentioned Ralph Barbosa as an important up and comer. Lopez says, nobody knows who that mother effer is. Why you’re saying his name.

They little fight about it. Lopez says, I don’t think you should be worried about anyone else, especially Jeremy Barba saw Wow. I don’t know who he is. I don’t mean no disrespect, but I don’t know who he is. Lopez caught some heat on the interwebs apologize to Barbosa Barbosa, but on Instagram it saw a good baby.

The future is now old man. Barbosa sold Schultz. I wasn’t mad when he said it. I have a whole lot of respect for him. Still, when he said it, I wasn’t like what the ff or heard about it.

It’s an effing podcast. You’re talking crap? So what. Barbosa opened up about the phone apology he got from George Lopez and said he’s nice. The dude called me.

He was super cool. I wasn’t expecting it. Barbosa said. The call one something like this, Hey, Ralph, this is George George Lopez. I want to call and apologize.

Barbosa said, My first words were what the F?

And then I was like, my bad.

I didn’t mean to be rude, just caught me off guard. Lopez told him it was in the heat of the moment shooting the crap with Trevino kind of fired up about it, but I didn’t mean to talk badly about you. I apologize. Barbosa prefers that it was a private apology. If not, it said, it would have looked like Lopez was doing it for public opinion points.

Lopez told him comic comic man to man, I just want to apologize, and Lopez said that Barbosa could call him if he ever needed help with anything. Barbosa said he’ll only take George up on that when he really needs it, though, he added, when they compare him to other Latino comedians, he thinks it’s funny. That they’re assuming. I looked up to George Lopez. Bert Kreischer was on Monday’s Pardon My Take.

He’s in the second hour. It’s a very good listen. I recommend you check it out. They talks at length about the origin of the machine joke. Bert said, I was not the comic I am today.

I was a little more hacky. It was a little more derivative of Dean Cook. I think we all were. For the record, we were ripoffs of David Tell and Dane Cook, Mitch Hedberg, those were the goats. And I started to podcasting, and I did a podcast with Rogan.

I had like bits prepared. He’s not a bit guy, you know, Joe Rogan gives you a look when you do a bit in front of him, like a girl gives you when you I don’t even know how to clean this up, do something that could make her pregnant. That anyway, Bert says, you know. They wrap up the show and says to Joe, when I come back next time, I’ll tell you the story about when I got involved with the Russian mafia. Rogan was like what Rogan calls him like three weeks later and it’s like, I need you back.

Everybody’s hit me up about the story. Bert goes on, Rogan tells the story. Rogan says, you need to tell us on stage. Bert says, I was like, oh no, no, no, I don’t do that. This isn’t for the stage.

It’s just like hanging out. Rogan said, are you out of your effing mind? When Bert here? Joe Rogan, This man changed my life. Joe Rogan said on that podcast, ladies and gentlemen, if you go to a show, yell out the Machine until he tells it.

Do not let him do anything else. From this point forward, he is only to be known as the Machine. Bert does his show in Columbus, Ohio. Rogan says, everyone make him tell the Machine. This is in the early early times of Rogan.

Like in the beginning of the cult, they showed up in droves and the whole show chanted the Machine, and this guy in the front row comedy fan goes, hey, man, it’s okay. We know it’s not gonna be funny, but we’ll fake laugh. I was like what, and he goes, you gotta tell it, man, you gotta tell it to make it good. And so I was like, all right, I’ll tell it. I told that for like four years.

Then the day I posted it on Facebook was like the lowest day of my life, Like lowest month. I even had Tom Seguram my best friend. He’s fat shaming me and it’s going viral. It’s like the funniest thing that’s happening on Twitter is everyone fat shaming me. We’re gonna weight loss challenge that I know I’m gonna lose on Rogan I couldn’t stop eating and Tom was losing a ton of weight.

I know I’m gonna have my beard shaved. My wife’s rey doing a house I got fired from the Travel Channel. My house is in destructions. She wants me to get a sect to me and I remember getting in a fight with her. Were getting a huge fight, and I get pulled off tour for a Funnier Die I was supposed to host it.

Tom called me. Tom says that really sucks. It’s a lot of money to lose, and I go, it’s only two grand a week, and he goes, they’re paying you two grand. I go yeah, and he goes oh, And I go, oh, how much are you getting? Pivotal moment in our friendship.

He goes, I don’t want to tell you because I think we can’t be friends anymore. I go, what, and he goes, I mean, I’ll tell you, but you gotta promise this won’t have our friendship up. I put my phone on the table and I go, all right, tell me your number, and he goes, I’m getting twenty grand. And I went a weekend. He goes a show, and I realized where I stood in the pecking order of stand up comedy.

I was supposed to do Oxnard that New Year’s Eve. I sold no tickets. They were paying me twenty five grand for the weekend. I sold no tickets, and they said, we’re gonna have to reassess your guarantee for the year at a ten thousand dollars guarantee with a thousand dollars bonuses. The story goes viral and overnight it changes my life.

Changes my life into the next weekend, January tenth, I got to do a show and it was sold out. I remember saying, why are you guys here? Is there a convention or something? And the guy goes the machine and I was like, oh, I’ve retired that story. He goes, the f you have.

The only reason I’m here is for you to tell the FFing machine story, tell it twice. I was thinking about the Daily Show, like last week Sarah Silverman hosted, it happened? Did it matter? Is the Daily Show relevant on all right now? Are you paying any attention to the guest House And here’s my point here, because I was as I was thinking about the Daily Show, it feels like Sarah Silverman is guest hosting for John Stewart.

Like it doesn’t feel like it was ever Trevor Noah’s show, like that came and went. It feels like everybody is subbing for John Stewart. And that’s kind of the way I feel like when I see Falon, I’m waiting for Johnny Carson to get back from vacation. Johnny hasn’t been on in over thirty years, and jay Leno happened, and Conan happened, and jay Leno happened again, and it still feels like Johnny’s show, And I feel like John Stewart still has this big shadow over the Daily Show. And I don’t know this guest host thing.

I don’t get it. Pick somebody already. If you enjoyed what I do here, go to buy meat Coffee dot Com. Slash Daily Comedy News. There as somebody in the tip jar much appreciated.

Let’s see who’s at the Vancouver Comedy Festival tonight seven o’clock by seem Usef seven o’clock, Christa Stephano, Matt Rife at seven, MSG Comedy at eight. MSG stands for make some good comedy. It’s at the Cold t restaurant. Looks like their thing is Asian fry chicken two pieces for seven fifty Canadian. We can get some curly fries poutine for an eight dollars for large if you want to split it, maybe we’ll do that.

We can see some comedy and eat at the same time. Let’s keep looking at the schedule. We don’t have to decide yet. Nine thirty The New Wave of Stand Up TV Taping CBC gem’s New Wave of Stand Up Futures. A diverse lineup of Canada’s hottest new comics gathered for one hilarious night.

Everybody will do ten minute sets and there were three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Might have to do that one. That’s a good value. Jared Freed at nine thirty and Matt Rife again at nine thirty. All right, what should we do tonight?

What do you think? MSG comedy? We’ll get some food at eight o’clock and then we’ll bounce on over to new wave of stand up TV taping at night thirty. That sounds like a plan, doesn’t it. Well, that’s on on over to you gossip corner.

Did Emily ran a couscap break up with Eric Andre? Remember last week Eric Andre was taking naked pictures in front of Emily. Well, fans are questioning whether or not they’ve broken up after Emily posted a TikTok video. It’s selfie, she’s lying down on her bed and the tech says, what should you do when a situation? Ship ends?

Jason Zineman writes about comedy for The New York Times, and he echoed something that I have said. I said on Monday’s podcast that we have stopped using the words special for everything, and we should use the word hour more often. Jason wrote, when it comes to stand up specials, it’s the best of time, worst of time situation. There have never been more being made, released and available to a global audience than right now. According to Sean mccartey’s newsletter Piphany, there have already been fifty five released this year, more than one a day.

Yikes. Jason writes, while most Hours are terrible, wrote or entirely mediocre, there are gems that would have remained entirely obscure. He used as an example, Nathan Mackintosh’s special describes it as an inauspicuous looking blond guy dressed in khacupants, a white tshirt and buttoned down. His new Hours did not get picked up by any major platform, but you can watch it free on YouTube and if you’re like Jason, convulse with laughter. I watched it and it was fine, and I just didn’t care, and I bailed after about ten minutes.

I’m not saying it’s horrible. It’s not going to make mine of the years. I didn’t think it was anything quote unquote special, but it was fine. Nathan is very high energy. I was actually wondering if the video’s sped up, and I still i’m wondering if it’s sped up.

So you can check out Nathan Macintosh that’s on YouTube. Marlon Wayans has a special coming out March second on HBO Max. It’s called Marlon Wayans God Loves Me. Here’s the logline. Though on March twenty seven, twenty twenty two, Chris Rock cracked a joke on Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith got up and slapped the crap out of one of the greatest comedians of all time.

That had nothing to do with Will, nothing to do with Jada, nothing to do with Chris. It was my faults. Wayans delivers a hilarious hour long performance, unleashing his spun on impressions and fearless physical comedy to address one of the most infamous recent events and pop culture at the slap Blah Blah Blah. Wayne’s skillfully weaves anecdotes from his own life with stories about his long time friends, from divulging his teenage crush on Jada Pinkett Smith, getting humbled by Chris Rock in an early stand up set, and examining the impact of Will Smith’s long career. Marlon Wayans God Loves Me, hbo Mac March second.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News eight. Tom sigour Are you’re doing a lot of dates this year? Why? GQ said to Tom, You’re always nagging Bert Kreisher.

In the past, were always being gone. Then all of a sudden you announced the biggest tour ever. Sigoura said, I signed up for too many tour dates. I’ll admit it. I think the only way it had happened the way it did was because of the pandemic.

Because we’re not working at all, and you start to go, what am I gonna work again? For a minute, it felt scary, like is touring done? At the time, we were booking out a tour that was a year away, and it didn’t feel real until it started. But I’ve definitely overdone it. I wish I had not done quite what I signed up for, because it actually has been exhausting and taxing on me and my family.

It’s too much now. I’m coming towards the end of it. But I would never organize a tour like this again. More from Bert Kreisher in The Hollywood Reporter. He said, I was stumped one night on stage and my daughter called me randomly, and I answered the call from stage.

The place went nuts. Daughter says, Dad, you do talk about the escape room. Then she told the story on stage. I did the escape room with her, and I actually tried talking about on stage, but I was so far off from what really happened and why it was funny. She was like, we only brought you there to watch Papa loses stuff and you have a manic attack, Dad, And I was like, oh, that’s right.

And she’s like, don’t you remember popa through Nana into a steamer trunk. You’re probably too busy crapping your pants and the place is falling apart and just crying listening to her say to stuff. Then she goes, mom saw the whole thing, and then that old lady scared the crap out of Papa. The place explodes. I literally said to someone, grab her a chording of that.

That’s how I want to write the story. All right, how about doing politics on stage? Bert He said, My ticket is always this is how I view the world. Comedy first, and I’ll always defend comedy. The most horrible thing you could say in the most awkward situation, sometimes it’s the funniest and if it makes one person laugh.

For me, it’s always worth it. I largely move away from politics because I don’t know anything, because my job is to make you laugh. But there’s an overwokeness that happens in LA where it can get a tad bit tedious. So if anything, I’m calling my hometown on their stuff. These people take themselves so seriously.

And by the way, I’m in Omaha telling the story. When I say I think every kids should feel awesome one hundred percent of the time, the place goes nuts. And when I say I don’t care whether my daughter dances with her boy or girl, I’ll do everything in my power to love her and support her, and the place goes nuts again.

And then when I say, as long as it’s white, the place goes nuts again.

The joke was right there. How do you not go for it? And those people in the audience they get it. They get it’s a joke, and we all love each other and we’re here for the right reasons. The Pitch KC caught up with Brian pos Say, Brian, what was your last live show before the shutdown?

Do you remember it? Saint said, I don’t know. All I remember is hearing about it meaning the pandemic and not knowing what it was really going to mean. You know, I have a feature act who’s coming with me to Kansas to the shows this week, and Johnny Taylor. He and I had a couple of things booked and last one, I remember, I didn’t go to because I actually got sick, not COVID, I just had flu symptoms and I didn’t want to get on a plane when all this other stuff is going on.

That was March of twenty twenty. That’s when everybody knew was kind of freaking out. My manager was like, we don’t know what’s going on. The club’s closing. So as soon as I canceled that gig, my whole schedule went away within the next week.

Brian, do you have any physical or mental preparation before going on tour? Brian said, I probably should train, but no, I’ve just done it for so long. I just kind of get out there. Back in the day, I just had to get over everything I hated about flying. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I do it a lot more than most people, and I want to lean on anything because I like to be in control.

I tried ambient like ten years ago, but I never wanted to be on something outside of weed. I just kind of trained my brain and now I’m usually asleep before the plane takes off. It’s like time traveling. I like going to towns and finding record stores and some comic shops. That was one of the things I did do during COVID.

Within the next year or two, I’ve got three books coming out through Image Comics. Two of them are going to be ongoing, so it’d be like the first five issues telling one story, but from there they’ll take off and continue for as long as people buy them. So I’m gonna be doing some signings. But that’s a fun thing for me. I mean, I genuinely love being in comic shops and hanging out for a couple hours with people who want me to sign a Devil’s Reject picture.

You know, I always love writing comics on the side. I made it sound like it did nothing, but I actually did quite a bit getting these books going. And I have a TV show in development and some other stuff, and I can’t actually sit around. I just had to do things creatively or I would have gone insane. Writing for the La Times, Fidel Martinez says a few months ago, I got an email from a PR person asking if I had any interest in covering the release of Lopez versus Lopez.

I replied sure, and agreed to watch the pilot to see if there’s a story there. If I liked it, I figured it I could write about George Lopez’s triumphant return of primetime TV. Suffice to say, I passed. I think the PR person for the pitch, but said it wasn’t for me. Ultimately, I reasoned that writing a takedown of George Lopez would be a dicey move.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a verse to being a hater. I believe that trash talking is an art form that doubles as a love language for the Mexican diaspora when done right, which is to say, with moderation, Martinez writes, But this trait also gives credence to the sad but true stereotype that we’re all just crabs in a bucket, creatures unwilling to let others climb over, so they use their claws to keep them down. Throwing the jabs at Lopez wouldn’t have been worth whatever clicks the story might have gotten. I figured my time was better, it spent writing something else. The knee jerk reaction to hate was there.

Though. I tell you all this because months later A Lopez himself is in boiling hot water for being a hater. Told you a couple of times last week about this thing where Lopez disc Ralph Barbosa. Martinez writes, Lopez’s disc didn’t just miss It had the unintentional effect of introducing a new audience to Barbosa’s comedy. Yeah.

Like I was vaguely aware of him. I’ve done a few stories over the years about him, but now I’m zoned in on him. He’s really funny. One person on Twitter wrote, thanks to George Lopez hating on Ralph Barbosa, I found me a new favor Latino comedian. Let’s go Ralph Barbosa learn his name, folks, hashtag comedy, hashtag hilarious.

Oh man, do you hear my voice getting finn? This is one of those days where I’ve recorded a few episodes back to back and I didn’t bring anything to drink down with me, so I need some ice coffee. If you want to help out, I’m gonna buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News A couple options for you. You can join the two dollars club and throw two dollars in the tip jar once a month.

You could do it one time five dollar thing, one time ten dollar thing. Hey, you could give a million dollars and I’ll show you out and I’ll be very thankful. Or you know, give a million knowledge to charity and maybe give me five bucks. Maybe better you see your bunny buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. But this is going to be the last one I record today because I am thirsty.

My friends, Let’s see who’s at JFL Vancouver tonight at seven o’clock. Joe Para. I don’t even have to look. We’re definitely going to see Joe at seven o’clock, which means we’re not going to see the new wave of stand up warm up at seven Comedy Feast. At eight Comedy Feast is a tasting menu of fine, freshly prepared jokes.

I get it by some of the best comedies in the city. All right, So that’s a showcase with eight comedians nine o’clock, full pints comedy, nice logo with a beer. There, I’m intrigued and acclaimed stand up Comedy show where Pal’s Ryan Williams and Colin Sharp bring you outstanding professional comedians every Tuesday. We can go see eight comedians there. That’s a Castaway.

Let’s see what Castaway Vancouver is. Maybe they have like good beer selections. We’ll go do that large patio outdoor area. I’m on the drink menu here. Bargar Rita’s Mahito picture on Tap, Castaway, Lagger, pll Malson Canadians works Oen Dark Matter.

That sounds I don’t even know what that is. It sounds good. Dames Fellow’s Talisman pale Al, Grandville Island, Kitsilano, Juicy Ipa. I can’t even pronounce these beers. I want to go here.

Bomber Passion, Fruit Park Life, Phillips, Dino Sour Hop, Valley, Bubble Stash, Ipa Green Hill Cider and a Guinness twenty ounce for nine bucks Canadian. Oh wait, there’s bottles too, all right, Canadian Cores, Light Core’s original Zinga Lager, which is from Thailand, Soul Pacifico dosekis Heineken, Modelo Especiale Love Modello, Madela Negra really Love Madela Negra, Whistler Forager Lager. It’s Accatte Tall Can, Strongbow, Tall Can, Guinness Tall Can, and it’s Taco Tuesday Man four dollars. Tacos. You have to get two of the same flavor excluding steak.

Might have to go back tomorrow two. It’s Wing Wednesday, have Brice Wing six dollars. Hmm. I like this place. Vancouver’s awesome, by the way, like really really awesome.

What’s the name of the park, Stanley Point? So Stanley Park is I don’t know where it is, it said in my mind it’s the edge of town. Anyway. Across from Stanley Park was a bike shop I rented bikes. I wanted to move to Vancouver and buy the bike shop.

I’m like, I’ll be perfectly happy here just standing here the bike’s, looking at the park, looking at the water. Vancouver’s beautiful city. Rent some tourists and bikes. Oh would be so good. Then I could hang out castaways at night.

If you want to hear me talking about Vancouver. There’s an episode of my travel podcast, Travel is Back is the name of that podcast, Travel is Back, And there’s a whole episode about Vancouver. Vancouver is awesome. All right. Back to the Festival.

Where were we before I started daydreaming? Oh yes, Full Bind Comedy at nine o’clock, Normal Good at nine. What’s that Vancouver’s hottest new stand up show? This one has five comics on it. Joe Parra again at nine thirty and New Wave of stand Up warm Up at nine thirty.

All right, this is pretty simple to me. Let’s do Joe Parra at seven, and let’s go to Full Pine Comedy at nine, and I’m keeping you out until the place closes. All right, it’s gonna be fun. I’m glad we stayed in last night. And it’s Tuesday, which means you’ll find Jeff Foxworthy at the Atlanta or Rescue Mission.

I did not know this about Jeff, and I know Jeff a little bit. We’re not best friends, but I know Jeff. This from Baptistnews dot Com. Jeff Foxworthy has served as a small group leader at the Atlanta Rescue Mission for twelve years. He goes every Tuesday morning.

Jeff said, I think the only thing we could do for God is to say yes when he whispers an invitation to us. That’s all we can do. Whatever he wants to get done. He’s going to get done anyway. Wow, he’s inviting you along because he knows it’s going to be good for you.

In ninety percent of the cases, something really bad happened to the people at the mission. So whatever their addiction is that makes them where they can’t get work, that’s not what it is. It’s the symptom, but it’s the hurt they can’t deal with. So you know, if you ever get to the point you can get then all go down to the basement, unlock that door and drag the heart up the stairs and pull it out of the front yard and call it what it is, whether it’s sexual abuse or physical abuse or whatever it is. Then they have a chance to get well.

And anybody on the street is no different than you or me. We all want the same thing. We all want to be significant, and we all want to be loved. Nice job, Jeff, And I’ll leave you with an anecdote from Jeff from the same story. Totally new topic, but he said, we started a tradition thirty five years ago about taking our mom and going to Christmas brunch.

Of course, back then it was just me, my brother and my sister and my wife and my mom.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Last week the presidents had a little press conference about the balloons, and he also had his annual physical. Jimmy Kimmel said, if any other eighty year old came out of a medical exam talking about aliens, he’d put him in a home. Kimmel added, while checking the president’s prostate, they did find more classified documents.

The Hollywood Reporter did a lengthy fluff job about Bert Kreisher. Is this going to be the year of Bert Kreischer? That’s not the Hollowed Reporter asking, that’s Johnny Mack asking, because he does have the Machine movie coming and I think it’s going to do really well. And this was a really fluffy piece in the Hollywood Reporter. I’ve shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

It’s a good read, but it’s a little fluffy. The Hollowed Reporter writes, less than a minute into Bert Kreisher’s latest special, this one’s coming out in March. He rips his shirt off. The move is met with thunderous applause. So you get the sense that that’s response wherever Kreisher goes, After all, the married dad of two is and performing bear chested for as long as he can remember.

It’s not so much a gimmicky, says, as it’s the way he feels most at ease. Bert says, it’s my comfort zone, all right. The new special Razzle Dazzle March fourteenth, it’s his fifth special. What’s so special about it? By the way, time out, I’m guilty of this as well.

We have to stop calling everything a special. We have to start using the word hour. Just because you filmed yourself and threw it up on YouTube, it’s not a special, okay, everybody now, To be fair to Burt, this one’s probably a special. Board asked him what’s special about it? Bert said, I wanted to give my girls a bit of a voice.

I don’t know if I totally accomplished it, but that’s what I wanted to do. I’d started writing the material in January twenty twenty, and then they grew up so much during the pandemic. At first, I couldn’t figure out why I was running into a roadblock with the Hour. But what had happened was by the time I recorded it, one daughter was in college. The other was driving.

They had matured so much. I felt like I needed ways to show that and to show the fact that they bully me now. They asked Bert, since the family features prominently in the hour, what are the conversations like before it goes out on stage? Effing awkward? One daughter has become hype.

Were aware of making sure she’s represented the way she wants to be represented. I made that kid famous by accident. I didn’t think it through, and she definitely had final edit of the special and the jokes. I said, let me tell him, if you don’t like him, we’ll take them out of the special in the end, if I’m not mistaken. She only took out one, and with that one she went, that’s a secret.

But she always had the ability to say that to me. I mean, some of the funniest things she’s ever said about her growing up. She was cool enough to let me talk about like her period, but there were other parts of her growing up she wasn’t comfortable, and she’d say to me that doesn’t go on stage. I remember one time saying, I’ll give you a thousand dollars. That’s the funniest thing anyone’s ever said in the effing world.

I mean, there was a joke in the special that I pulled out and I offered her ten thousand dollars for I was like, I’ll give you ten grand, it’s so funny, baby, and she goes nan, I don’t like it. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he shredded fired CNN anchor Brian Stelter, labeling Stelter a prostitute. This from the New York Post, Oh My you see Brian stelter ost Uday panel was titled the Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan commented on some of the people on the panel, saying, he’s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world. That’s his bosses.

They want everybody to eat bugs and he will own nothing and be happy. That’s the effing people he’s working for now. Because he’s basically a prostitute, he’s probably very excited just to be working again in any way, shape or form, you know. And he’s not a guy that’s really supposed to be in front of a camera, right, He’s supposed to be a journalist, but he’s not even good at that. So what he’s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hates meach policies nationwide and you know, centralized digital currency.

Yeah. Joe Statler was asked for a comment, He told The New York Post, Joe Rogan got it all wrong again. The World Economic Form did not hire me to work at Davos. I was there on my own dime to write about the conference. If he wants to tell his listeners the truth, he can call me.

I was thinking about you guys as I drove to the National Donuts chain this morning. I just want a cop to. I do a lot of Joe Rogan stories. And here’s why. And I’ve talked about this before.

If I put Joe Rogan in the title, it boost the downloads, and we boost the downs. You move up the charts, and when you move up the charts, you get more downloads. So every now and then, and it’s it’s like riding waves. So like the show will spike and then there’s a little bit of a trail. Then it’ll a spike and there’s a little bit of a trail, and over time the spikes move up and the show grows.

And that’s what happens. But you do have to throw on the spikes, so say there are days like I don’t know right now, or throw Joe Rogan’s name in the episode title Guilty is Charged, people type in Joe Rogan they discover the podcast high new listeners. Hey, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Mark Marin. I know, right, but this one’s a little different. Marin was talking to Variety about perhaps being in the Avatar movie.

Have you seen Avatar The Way of Water? In the movie, Jermaine Clement, which time out Mandela effect. I’m convinced where I’m from, this guy’s name was Jermaine with an R in there somewhere until this year when I apparently jumped from parallel worlds and his name has become Jermaine. But where I’m from, he was Jermaine Clements when he was on Flight of the Concords. My cousin tells me, I’m crazy and it’s always been humane, But no, no, no, this is not my earth anyway.

Jamaine Clement plays doctor Ian Garvin, a marine biologist working for the villainous Resources Development Administration. That role could have gone to Mark Marin. On his podcast, Mark Marin said The idea was ridiculous. Why they f would I want that job. There’s the assumption that we’re going to do for Avatar movies.

Dude, I don’t even remember the first one. I don’t know what this all means of the world. James Cameron built the city down there at his Long Beach studio. There’s people doing acrobatics down there, people flying. It’s like circud to sleigh down there.

During his visit, Mark Marin had to lock up his phone. He couldn’t take photos of the screenplay. Marin said, all of a sudden, you’re in this zone with people Cameron has there just to read parts and fly and be on dollies. I’m on camera. I think I got a picture of a boat or whatever the f it is.

I’m in the middle of this thing and I’m totally untethered and I have no sense of character. I have no idea what’s happening other than there were several unidentified actors and acrobats all around me. Thank god I didn’t get the part. I don’t like being away from home. My agent was like, you’re probably gonna go to New Zealand for four years or whatever the f it was.

Some ridiculous amount of time. I was like, it’s not happening. Then Cameron sent me a box of cigars because he didn’t cast me. That’s nice. At this age, I have no problem saying now, how much was Jamaine even in it?

Like I would have had to go to New Zealand for a year and people would have been like, were you even in it? But Jamaine lives in New Zealand, he was family. There was a no brainer. That’s pretty funny. Jtaid dot Org was paying attention to Sarah Silverman, who guest hosted The Daily Show last week.

In a bit, Sarah took to the streets of Manhattan in search of Jewish allies, where she called the segments pro Semitism. Sarah was in front of the Union Square Green Market, saying there’s been a rise in anti Semitism. I’m hitting the streets looking for a little pro Semitism. Let’s hope it doesn’t end in a hate crime. She began asking New Yorkers what they like about Jews.

One woman said they make bangin Christmas albums. Another man said, what’s there not to love about Jews? The food, the culture of the celebrations. She then met some tourists from Belgium and asked them if they’ve done any Jewy things during New York. They’re confused, and she says a bagel and they go of course.

Sarah said, Jews, have you ever been vaccinated for polio? They said, yes, Jews. She then asked one of the Belgian dudes, what would you do to protect me? And he said, I would light the manure with you Saturday Night Live. We’ll be back on Saturday.

When did you think it was gonna air? Woody Harrelson will become a five time host. I guess that means we’ll see the other five time hosts in cameos, right, so Steve Martin and Tom Hanks and whoever else it is. Jack White is your musical guest. Then on March fourth, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelsey is your host.

SNLS been slumping all season. Is that a good idea? I don’t think so. The week after March eleventh, the star of Wednesday is Janet Ortega. She will make her hosting debut.

It’s a Monday, so the just for last Vancouver Comedy Festivals Little Light Tonight. We could do JFL originals at seven o’clock and again at nine thirty they are recording some albums there. I guess you want to just see Vancouver tonight. Maybe we won’t hit the comedy festival and we’ll just have a couple beers, movie grips with dinner, have an easy night. Yeah, let’s do that.

Josh Johnson’s new special came out on Peacock last Friday. I’ve not seen it. Peacock, I think is the one streaming service I don’t have. I gotta draw the line somewhere. It’s not even about the money, it’s about the time, folks.

That special is called Josh Johnson up Here Killing Myself. The set is loosely based around real life situations Johnson was sharing with his therapist. The interstitials take place in a therapist office, then cut directly to the stand up Josh Johnson, who is really funny. You should pay attention to him, said, if you feel out of place in the world, you feel like it might only be you having those feelings. Being able to say those things to anyone is a life changing thing for a lot of people.

But even talking to somebody professionally that could be a placeholder. Therapy is playing a role but you should be talking to people. It’s not replacement for community. I think there are six stages of grief. They talk about five stages.

I think when you can truly laugh about something, that’s the most definite stage of being over something. Josh Johnson’s up here killing myself is on Peacock. Kelsey Grammer is bringing back Frasier. He wouldn’t confirm or deny that the bar you know, Cheers will appear in the new series. He said, there’s a mention of a certain bar, but I added, but I had heard had a kind of gone belly up.

Someone recently told me they were there, so I guess it may still be happening. So people were like, wait, on the show his Cheers closed. That’s weird. But people think what Kelsey meant was so there’s Cheers the Bull and Finch Pub over by Boston Common. That’s the bar you see on the exterior shots and the original Cheers.

Then in Faniel Hall they had made a replica that looked like the Cheers in your mind from the TV show. So the Bull and Finch slash Cheers that inside doesn’t look like the TV set at all. The one at Faniel Hall looked like the TV set, but the one at Faniel Hall closed recently, so maybe that’s what Kelsey meant. He tells us later in his life, Frasier Crean is a little more mature. He’s got a little more wisdom about him.

But he’s a little bit silly and takes certain things more seriously than most people do. That’s his character. It’s been really fun to play him again. It’s always sunny in Phillip if you start. Kaitlyn Olsen will star in a remake of the French series Hip On Hip, We follow Morgan Blade by Caitlin Olsen, who’s a single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind who helps solve an unsolvable crime when she re ranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department.

When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order. Because of her high intellectual potential, she’s brought on as a consultant to work with a buy the book seasoned detective and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team. Can I save everyone a lot of time and money? Cancel this now? That’s your company news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Richard Belzer has passed away age seventy eight. Richard passed away Sunday at his home in southwest France. A long time friend of the actor, Ruyter Bill Scheft, said Belzer had a lot of health issues and his last words were FU mother, Effer. Many fans know Belzer from his role as John Munch on the TV show’s Homicide, with them later on Law and Order SVU.

I know I was familiar with Belzer from hearing him on The Howard Stern Show. Back in twenty sixteen, TV producer Barry Levinson recalled listening to Belzer on The Howard Stern Show and liking him for the character of John Munch. Levinson said, we were looking at some other actors and when I heard him, I said, why don’t we find out about Richard Belzer. I liked the rhythm of the way he talks, and that’s how it happened. Belzer played Munch on all seven seasons of Homicide that show ended in nineteen ninety nine.

Belzer said, when Homicide was canceled, I was in France with my wife. She said, let’s open a bottle of champagne and toast. You did this character for seven years. Then I remember that Benjamin Bratt was leaving Lawn Order, and I called my manager and said, called Dick Wolf, maybe Munch could become Briscoe’s partner. That didn’t work out, but as they developed Lawn Order SVU, John Munch was on the show.

He played the character for fourteen more seasons. The character announced his retirement from the NYPD in twenty fourteen. Belzer also showed up as John Munch on a nineteen ninety seven episode of The X Files. Belzer as a comedian and started doing gigs at Catcherizing Star in New York. He performed on the National Lampoon Radio Hour alongside Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, and Harold Remis.

When Lorne Michaels started SNL in nineteen seventy five, he tapped Richard Belzer to be the warm up comedian for the audience. In nineteen eighty nine, Belzer said it was thrilling in those days to be part of that because regardless of what anyone said, a lot of people didn’t know how that was going to be accepted. This was like giving the kids a key to the store to have those anti Estayleish people have a TV show on Network, so they asked me to do some sketches and do the warmups. I just kind of did what I did at nightclubs. I talked to the audience and did some my material.

I tried to improvise an adeleb as much as I could, and it was fascinating doing that in a television studio, not in a nightclub. Belzer hosted a show on Lifetime in nineteen eighty five called Hot Properties. His guests included Hulk Hogan and Mister T. Hulk Hogan put Belzer in a front chin locks as the Hollywood reporter and knocking Bells are unconscious. They’re re listening to the floor.

Belzer told Roy Firestone at nineteen ninety he came very close to killing me. I was told by a sports medicine expert that if I had fallen a few inches either way, I could have been crippled for life. I could have been dead. Bells Aer sued Hulk Hogan, Mister T, Vince McMahon, and what was then called the World Wrestling Federation for five million dollars. Reportedly, they settled for four hundred thousand dollars, which Belzer said he used for down payment on his house in France.

Much thanks to the Hollywood Reporter from where I cribbed a lot of that reactions on Twitter, Lorraine Newman tweeted, I’m so sad to hear of Richard Belzer’s passing. I love this guy so much. He’s one of my first friends when I got to New York to DUSNL. We used to go out to dinner every week at Sheepshead Bay for lobster. One of the funniest people ever, a master at CrowdWork, Richard Lewis wrote, old pals are disappearing.

Belzer passed away today. Love to his family and happier times. This is us. A few days before selling out town Hall with an accompanying picture. Sam Murell tweeted, I loved how genuine, funny and compassionate and performance Richard Belzer gave his detective Munch a classic New York character.

Also read that his last words were fu Motherffer A pretty badassway to go, Rip Mark Marin. Richard Belzer died. He was an original, one of the greats. Babe. I love the guy, ri ip Bill Burr a simple rip Richard Belzer.

Patton Oswalt. Ah, gosh, darn it, clean that up. Rip Richard Belzer. I just always thought he’d be around because it seemed like he always was a true original. George Wallace nineteen seventy six at Catcherizing Star, I was called on to a stage for the first time by Richard Belzer.

Farewell, love you forever, Eric Idol. I always adored him as a starving comedian out on the fringes. He would come in to my dressing room whenever I hosted SNL in the seventies and eat all the cheese and fruit plates. A very funny and dear man. Richard Belzer has passed away at age seventy eight.

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