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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Joe Rogan had Punky Johnson on his February seventh episode. They started talking music and the subject turned to Kanye West. Joe Rogan said, Kanye create some bangers, but he’s also said some crazy stuff about Hitler. Rogan added, I don’t think he’s a bad person.

I’m assuming he meant Kanye there, and I think Kanye the mistakes he’s made, he’s pretty honest about it. He’s mentally ill, and that mental illness allows him to have insane productivity with music. You can call it an illness or you can say instead, he’s got this gift. And this gift sometimes effing shoots off live rounds and all sorts of different directions. But what a Candy was produced some of the best effing music ever.

His mind is like a runaway train. The eddeas are coming in way fast. He’ll go from one idea of the next idea, and people say he’s rambling, But I’m like, buddy, is he or is he diffused with way more ideas than we are? You may or may not recall Kanye was on Alex Jones Info Wars on December first, Kanye said that he, Titler and Nazis had invented microphones and highways, quoting Kanye here, they did good things too. We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time, all right, Yeah, no, No, Daily Comedy News is officially anti Nazi.

EYSM. Sagora. There’s a segue, Johnny Mack, How have things changed food and workout wise since you first started comedy? This was a question asked to Tom Sigora by GQ. Sagoora said, It’s been a journey.

I’ve been a comic for twenty years now, and I think I’ve done everything wrong you can do, but I’ve kind of morphed into doing everything right you can do. You learn that a heavy touring schedule could break you down in many ways, and if you don’t take care of yourself physically, everything else kind of goes with it. When I was starting as a club act, I’d fly in and stay up in the hotel or the comedy condo until four am, and then wake up at like noon, eat some bs like fries and a burger, then try to nap and go the club and eat like crappy mozzarella sticks or something. Been there, done that, You’re in the cycle of doing that, And of course I was gaining weight. Been there, done that, and I was feeling worse physically and mentally.

I didn’t really start to prioritize health again until my first son was born at the end of twenty fifteen. Took a little while, but I started a tour and I would go to cardio and I’d feel better if I did elliptical or something. What I realized is between twenty seventeen and twenty nineteen, I’d gained twenty bands. Again, I didn’t feel like I was living that mindlessly. I didn’t think I was being reckless, but it was really because I was just not dialing in onto tails.

So this time, when I saw what tour is coming up and now heavy and daunting, the whole schedule was I just needed to go through it physically in a healthy way. Tom now brings a trainer on tour. He said, there was a trainer I’ve known for a few years and work with Sean Nicks, and I was like, I want you to come with me. I’m lucky because he’s actually a legit professional photographer, so he’s my photographer on Tour two. That’s awesome.

It’s great to have somebody like him. We’re similar in age, similar in build, and I have this living example of how to do it right. We kind of like the same foods and we like the same types of workouts. Like I got up by a yogurt with mixed berries. We also do omelets with tomatoes and mushrooms, a little bacon, no cheese.

We make protein shakes orl of meal bars. Sometimes we basically eat the same thing. I’m weighing the lowest I’ve weighed in almost twenty years. And it’s not even because I’m like, ah, I gotta weigh this much. It’s literally happening because I’m just living like this.

My portions have started to decrease, and I’m not hungry. It’s just that I realized how much I was overeating. I must have been overeating just every day. Sometimes now I’ll order a seven or eight ounce filet and I won’t finish it, and it’s because I’m not hungry. I will jump in there.

So last year, when I was training for the marathon, I eventually pulled out. Long story short, but I’m planning on doing it this year. We’ll talk about this some other time, and I want to block down on that. But I was telling people, like, you’re losing weight, and I’m like, I’m just not hungry from the running. I just was less hungry, and I was having salads and smoothies and I was just good.

I wasn’t on a food crusade. I wasn’t dieting. I wasn’t like I must eat salads and smoothies. That was just all I wanted. And when I wasn’t hungry, I didn’t eat.

Dropped twenty pounds. Was great. You know what happens when he stopped training? You put ten pounds back on? Oh, well, net minus ten.

But I am planning and doing the race in November. We’ll talk about that some other time. Tom Segura, what kind of workouts are you doing? He said, When we’re on the road, we work out every day. Yesterday we did a boxing workout.

He brought mits. We have gloves on the bus. We lift probably four or five days a week. If we don’t lift, we try to do heavier cardio. A lot of the things are contingent upon the type of gym we encounter.

This hotel right now has some dumbbells, a couple of machines, and some cardio stuff. So our workout cater state equipment that exists. That’s interesting. We were in a place a few weeks ago they had one of these elaborate gyms that had squat racks and full gym equipment. Whenever we encounter those, we incorporate heavier lifting.

We do squats, deadlifts, bench presses, and inclines, but when we do with barbells, you realize the difference between lifting with barbells as opposed to just cables and dumbells. One more question, do you cook on the bus? Tom? We don’t really cook on the bus. Sometimes we’ll do oatmeal with banana and we’ll put protein powder into it, or we’ll do protein shakes on the bus.

We have a blender. A lot of it is eating out, but we also got Piedmontese steaks. I don’t know what that is. Those really go to the house, but they make these really great beefsticks that are high quality. So we have a bunch of those.

Two with a lot of food. We just try to find the best place for dinner. And you’re basically on a rotation of chicken, salmon, and Steak Johnny Mack. You never mentioned Mark Maron. Hey, I think on Friday’s podcast, I actually did not mention Mark Maron.

So there, but today Mark Marin mentioned. Friday asked him, did you miss performing during Lockdown? Marin said, I didn’t miss comedy at all. I didn’t do any of those weird outdoor drive in zoom shows. I reel felt like maybe I’m over it, maybe I’m all better and I don’t need this anymore.

But as soon as other people started working their race was on. Friday asked him, after Rovie Wade was overturned, did you feel like you wanted to weigh in? Mark said, I needed to talk about abortion without sounding over the top lefty crazy. What I’m saying is practical. I don’t think it’s political.

It comes from personalizing the mail experience. You can make a joke about anything, But should you That’s up to you. Are there consequences to doing certain jokes? Yes? Is it worth the risk?

Again up to you. Should you respect other people? Of course? Does that mean you can’t do a joke about them? Not necessarily.

There are a lot of people who are ANTSI woken who believed that making jokes about marginalized people and using slang that is outdated just for effect. Is Sam and now pushing the line comedically that’s a cop out. Do you think he means Dave should hell there, I’m gonna go first, I do. They asked him about global warming and he said, what makes me optimistic is I still might be out of this world before he gets really horrible. Wow.

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You’ve heard the deal. I’m gonna take your money in the donus chain and all that. You’ve heard that rep before. Joel McHale, he’s got that new show Animal Control. Stop calling it animal cops, Johnny MC animal controls that right.

I don’t have notes in front of me. I think that’s right. He was doing some press for the show, spoke to the News Daily and he said, this is definitely a weird group. I was drawn to it because the characters are so darn well drawn, and it’s something we don’t really see, similar to how we never saw Community Colleges on TV. H Are you telling me the new show is Community esque?

I haven’t seen it yet. I’m recording this on Thursday. It is on my list of things to watch Friday nights. Plant watching that card. There’s two new shows on Apple.

I want to watch Big TV Night planned for Friday night. Joel, have you ever called animal control yourself? Joel said, honest truth, I’ve never called animal control, but I have captured two baby rattlesnakes, one of my old house and one of my neighbors across the street. I like snakes. My cousin grew up in Calabasas, California, would go in the desert and catch snakes, so all fear of snakes left.

They’re totally docile if they’re not hungry. He was asked if there were any real animals on set, and he said there was a real kangaroo, and we were obviously with the ostriches. Right. I did learn about ostriches teenage. Ostriches are like golden retrievers.

They’re very happy and really interested and they’ll just walk up to you and be like, hey, what are you doing. Let’s take a look at who’s playing the Vancouver Comedy Festival today. Let’s see seven o’clock, Pat Reagan, Ryan Hamilton at seven, JFL Showcase at seven. Sunday Nights, Stand Up Comedy seven thirty. Let’s see who’s there.

It’s a special edition of the weekly Sunday Showcase of the funniest comedians in Canada. No names that you are likely to know. Pete Holmes eight o’clock, Becky Robinson nine thirty, Ali Mkofski at nine thirty, another Showcase at nine thirty, and a second version of the stand Up Comedy Showcase at ten.

All right, let’s play this out for the early show.

Well, I’m gonna want to see Pete Holmes at eight. What do you say we hit the JFL Showcase at seven, we’ll leave early, we’ll walk on over to Pete Holmes at eight. Then for the late show we can do Sunday Night Stand up comedy. It’s local people and I always think that’s good to see when you go to these festivals. And with eight comedians on the bill, do to make for a nice night show and a serious topic here to end today’s show.

Comedian Ramesh Raganathan has admitted he has regularly thought about taking his own life due to a horrific voice in his head. He was on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Ramesha’s forty four, and he opened up and he said, I was thinking about taking my own life regularly, and I’d fantasize about it. I think that all comedians are wired slightly differently. They’ve had something happen to them that has made them an outsider in some way. We lived in a nice house, we had a nice car, all the stereotypical things that work success with then in a period of six months, it was a complete one eighty.

I’m addicted to doing stand up and it makes me better at everything. But I’ve got this inner voice that is horrific. It’ll say you’re not a very good dad, You’re not a very good husband. I had a run of about six panel shows. It was in a really bad place.

I turned up to each one of them with the steadfast belief that I was crappy at this. He was asked what happens when things go wrong on stage? He says, it’s horrible. The silence that never gets easier. Man, we learned from those gigs.

I just need to do the best I possibly can at this gig, not in control of anything that happens after that. Don’t think about this goal down the line and trying to get to do this thing brilliantly. And if you love what you do and you do that, you’re on a good path. If you need someone to talk to, The nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is the United States based suicide prevention network of over two hundred plus crisis centers. They provide twenty four seventh service via it’s whole free hotline just down nine eight eight nine eight eight, available to anyone in crisis or emotional distress.

That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You’ve been listening lately, you know, I’ve been obsessed with artificial intelligence. Well, Whitney Cummings she had a robot made to her likeness in twenty nineteen for her Netflix special Remember that. Yeah.

Well, Wired caught up with her and Whitney’s not surprised that ais tell awful jokes. She said, why are people shocked that robots aren’t funny? Most humans aren’t funny. The only funny robots are rumbas when they get stuck under the couch. She’s pro robot in general.

She still has the robot version of herself in her house. She hasn’t expected to make her laugh. Comedy is one of the few things that’s so specific to the essence of a human being. Comedy is about the trauma that comes from a humans lived experience and how they cope with it. Robots can’t be traumatized.

Wired asked Spike Ferriston, he wrote for Jerry Seinfeld back in the nineties. They asked, Spike, why the nothing Forever? That’s the Ai Seinfeld thing I’ve told you about. Why isn’t it hilarious? Spike said, it’s like asking why Spock isn’t funny.

Spock is hilarious. Do you not watch Star Trek the original series? Spok is very very funny. He’s also very very funny in Star Trek three. What are you guys talking about?

Spok is hilarious? Pay attention, gang, Johnny Mack. You ever talk about Mark Marin? I know, right? Collider asked Mark Marin what was the process like of taking a raw show and then tightening up for a filmed TV special.

Marin said, that’s the biggest trick of all, and that’s the hardest thing. Usually comes up to literally the week before when I’m in a panic and I’ve got to get that down to an hour, So I really have to decide what stays and what goes, and it has to be big pieces. So I knew that the fifteen minutes of COVID riffing could go, because every comics do in their take on that stuff, and it’s not necessary. You also have to come through and find through lines and find a couple of callbacks and sort of tighten up things that already there. It’s tricky, man.

There’s a lot aloof stuff, and some of it was really pretty good. But I think when I ended up with was as tight as it could be, and some of the stuff that it took out was distracting from the emotional and comedic power of some of the stuff. The La Times asked Roseanne, Hey, you once ran for president in the United States of America. Any thoughts about running look offs again? Roseanne said, some people are saying, why don’t you run for president again?

That made me really happy. I did run in twenty twelve, and everything I was saying in my speeches then is exactly what’s happening now. I’ve ready declared myself president for life of the Republic of the United States of America. I don’t really need to run again since I’m president for life of the working people. I ran as a socialist and I’m still a socialist.

I do not remember this at all. Vulture from twenty eighteen in the headline, remember when Rosanne ran for president? Vulture? The answer is no, Vulture, what if I told you? She did?

Okay, Bar stage in national campaign back at twenty twelve, which was the focus of the twenty fifteen documentary Roseanne for President. The doc follows bar as she attempts to secure place in the national ballot versus the Green Party candidate. Later is the ostensible face of the Peace and Freedom Party. She came in sixth place in the popular vote, behind the Constitution Party. It’s a very long article anyway, you’ll find that on Vulture.

The New Yorker caught up with Kate Berlant. How did she went up in New York. My senior year of high school, the SNL Oral history book came out and I remember clutching it, crying to my English teacher, being like, I have to go to New York. The New Yorkers like, so the idea of S and L brought it in New York. Kate said, I never auditioned for S and L.

That being said, I was asked to test once. I was obsessed with Chris Forley, but really I was more focused on the alternative comedy scene. In my senior or of high school, we could do an independent study, and I chose to do one on comedy. That’s when I started writing stand up for the first time. That’s the last time I was sitting down and writing out stand up.

She says, I have footage of the first time. They were curious about it. She said, Ah, I came out in a wheelchair. Then I stood up. That’s kind of the first joke.

I’d be instantly canceled for it, and I was wearing a kimono. All the jokes were quite abstract. I told. Jokes about the Pope was bizarre. I was like, if the Pope sleeps on his side, does the word of God get in?

It was really borsch belt and totally psycho in my mind. It was half an hour, but there’s no way it was. It was probably like fifteen minutes. At the end, I remember I got kind of soulful. I talked about here, I was on the custom of going to college.

I was really obsessed with Sarah Silverman’s Jesus’s Magic, and I think one of the last jokes I told was sort of something talking about my fear of going to college or growing up. In the end, I was like, mostly I’m just scared that some of you think I’m fat. Just kind of a classic Silverman joke. I was just trying to find out what the hell to do, which takes forever. It’s Saturday in Vancouver.

Just for last, Vancouver must be rocking. Let’s take a look at the shows seven o’clock Jordan Carlos seven o’clock JFL Showcase Love the Show details the comedy industry big shots are in town for Just for Last Vancouver and they’re looking for the next big thing. That would be a show to go see. Sugar Sammy pretty popular in Canada. He’s playing at seven.

Ryan Hamilton also Canadian at seven, Margaret Show at seven, Mufaro Mudsy’s schedule Meditation at seven thirty. Let’s see what this is. Scheduled Meditation is the comedy, meditation and fashion brand Slash Agency founded by stand up comedian and fashion designer Ufaro and Budsy. Six comics on the bill That’s different eight o’clock. Citizen Hurricane David and Ken or Citizen Hurricane.

Citizen Hurricane is a one of a kind improvised comedy show and rock concert. Real stories, ridiculous characters, spontaneous songs. It’s whose line meets Tenacious d That would be something I would be interested in. Cutie Pie Comedy at nine o’clock, a bunch of locals, Another JFL showcase at nine thirty, Sugar Sammy at nine thirty, Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Broone at nine thirty, Hannah Burner at nine thirty, and Joe to Rosa at nine thirty. Okay, let’s reverse engineer this.

None of the late shows really did it for me, So let’s do the showcase at nine thirty. That leaves the front of the evening free. Ryan Hamilton’s really good, He’s at seven. Want to go see Ryan Hamilton’s. Maybe we’ll try and catch the end of Citizen Hurricane at eight, and then we’ll leisurely make our way to JFL Showcase at nine thirty.

Then we can be back in the hotel room at eleven thirty. Hey, you get your own room. We are not staying together. What do you think’s going on here?

Speaking of improv sort of kind of, Vulture talked to Colin Mockery.

He said, when I first started improv, nobody knew what it was. That’s true. I remember dating a girl in college right after college who’s really an improv and like really wanted me to go. And I always look back and I had no interest in it at the time, and I’m like, huh, I probably would have liked that. She was pretty cool too.

Stupid me. When I first started improv, nobody knew what it was the theater we were at. We were running into the McDonald’s next door begging people to come see our show. They said, what’s it about? And we said, we don’t know.

We have to yell at us and then we’ll make something up. There are times I still think, how did they pitch the show to a network and have it get picked up. There’s four guys who’ve never seen before, and we don’t have a show until the end of the taping, and it’s twenty two episodes of that. I’ll answer Colin because the UK did it, and you guys brought it to the States and swapped out hosts and put Drew carry on it. You’re on the British version.

You know this anyway. I’m proud. Then I got improv in the public mindset. I know there are a lot of people who looked down on Whose Line, which I understand. We never said it was the end all be all of improv.

I was always like, here, it’s the gateway and all these different forms of comedy there are. But I got the word out and there was a show that families could watch together. I watched the heck out of that back in the day. Whose Line once it became popular. Kids really seemed to be drawn to it, so there were improv club starting in college.

In high school. It’s not like any other kind of art form. People kind of played around with it to see what formats could be done, everything from an improvised one act play to improvise dungeons and dragons. I think the surface is still kind of being scratched. I always say the guys on Whose Line are pretty good.

They are fantastic improvisers hauling around the world who just haven’t had a series showcase them, and they’re constantly finding ways to play with the format and do different things. Well, Whose Line comes back? Some of this, he says. The short answer is, if it comes back, it probably won’t be with this cast. There is a complicated relationship with the show.

The cast love each other, and the actual shooting is always fun. The downside is we’ve never received fair compensation for the success of the show. We provide the content but don’t get paid as quote unquote writers. We’ve never received residuals for a show that’s been shown around the world since its inception. Seeing announcedence about the sale of the show overseas or to HBO, Max can get irritating.

I hope I don’t sound bitter, but I learned long ago that this business is not fair, and being bitter about it gets you nowhere. The longer, more vague answer is it’s like the mafia keeps pulling us back in. So who knows and Seattle King five they stop by the Disabled List Comedy Fest to tell me about this a couple weeks ago. One of the sacred rules of that festival is don’t hate yourself for laughing. Comedian Dan Hurwitz has a hand missing most of its fingers.

He gestures and says, I know there are certain things I’ll never be able to do, like use chopsticks and play chopsticks. Both got a laugh. Hurwitz and friend at Caleb Brown, who has muscular distrophee, have spent their entire lives using humor to put people at ease. Brown said, I truly believe comedy is a way to get to know people. On stage, she tells the story of a woman trying to be helpful by opening a door for her.

That door led to a staircase, and she said, is this at the rats? Comedian Greta Gimp said, anybody else in this room gets tired? Of being told they’re inspirational because they have a disability. They sit on my butt eighteen hours a day. I’m supposed to be able to inspire able bodied people to get off their butts.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Chenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I thought i’d do something a little different this morning. I woke up check the email. Aaron had gone to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and hit the ten dollar donation, So let’s go get a nice coffee.

In the meantime, I watched Jim Jeffrey’s new special on What’s that one on? See I’m not in front of the laptop, I have to use my actual brain Netflix. It’s on Netflix. It’s called High End Dry. Liked it a lot.

I’m going to spoil the content in a second, but let me babble on about the title. I thought I was going crazy because I had made a point that the name of the special was high end Dry with an end in the middle, and then I hit play on it and it’s high ampersand dry, and I’m like, am I crazy? But I did some googling and I went back to the trailer and it used to be called high End Dry. I also noticed, as I was putting together the show on Tuesday that there were no articles about the new special. I thought about a little bit in retrospect for the spoilers I’ll tell you about in another few seconds.

Here, I was thinking, how that’s a little odd because usually there’s a bunch of articles on Vulture or the Comics Comic where people have gotten screeners at these things. And I’m wondering if Netflix did not put screeners out because and here come the spoilers. Jim does a lengthy section, a very funny section, but a lengthy section about the LGBTQ community. He follows a similar path that Chappelle did two specials ago, where he breaks the community up into the individual letters and starts analyzing the individual letters. Get some good belly laughs out of that.

Jim even addresses whether or not it will be controversial and makes the joke that he likes press. I’m curious to see if this will start a firestorm or not. And this makes me wonder did Netflix deliberately not send out screeners because you know, it’s Netflix and that topic and they’ve been in hot water about that topic before. Is that going to happen again? We’ll see regardless.

Jim Jeffery’s high end dry on ampersand in the middle, very very funny special. It’s not better than Nate Burgatzy special, but it’s definitely going to make the end of the year list, so I recommend that you checked it out. So from memory, the list right now is number one, Nate Burgatzy, number two, Jim Jefferies number three, the Roast of Mister Peanut not qualifying for the End of the Year list, Mark Marin Nor Andrew Santino. Netflix also put under me a special by somebody named doctor Ken Leong. I think it was Ken.

This one was filmed in Singapore, seemed to be targeted at the Malaysian community, a lot of local references, so I wasn’t really feeling it. I’m not saying it’s bad. I was just like, all right, I don’t understand the local humor here, so I bailed on that pretty quickly. All right, I’ve now reached the National Donuts chain again. Aaron, who support of the show, she went to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and she hit the ten dollar donation.

So I’m going to use half of that donation right now and get myself a large ice coffee with caramel and milk, and here we go. Have a good day. Alrighty, Aaron, I got my ice coffee here.

Also picked up some stuff from my mom.

Gonna jump back in the car and let me hand you off to future me, who’s back in the studio on a proper microphone. Thanks eron, So that’s buying meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m seeing a lot of good reactions to the Jim Jeffrey Special, although Vulture pointed out that Jim’s joke about balding spoilers wasn’t the most original thing in the special. Jim jokes take a tablet every day to keep my hair looking this effing crappy. But I can’t take it every day anymore because if I take it every day, my penis doesn’t work.

So I have a couple of options in life. Either I have hair, or I can’t have sex with people anymore, or I’m bald and no one wants to have sex with me. I clean that up, obviously, but Vulture says comedians have been making a version of that joke for years. In twenty twenty one, Dry Bar Comedy put out a thirty one minute compilation about the subject titled Losing Hair Isn’t Fair. Some examples.

Ornie Adams in two thousand and six, he joked, you lose your erections. That’s what I need my hair for. What a great solution. Sorry about my penis, honey, but did you see my hair? Twenty thirteen, Master Browny, what’s the point a full head of hair?

But nothing’s working down there? Pete Davidson twenty sixteen. He says, I have all my hair and girls still want to get with me. But I’m infinite, so I could care less. Mark Normand at twenty seventeen I got paranoid.

I was losing my hair. I started taking prophetia, could not get a direction. This girl I was dating at the time was like, hey, gotta get off those pills. I’d rather you have an direction than hair, which is nice to hear, but only makes sense when you’re dating somebody that doesn’t work in the beginning, Like if I was a ball guy that hit on her at a bar, Hey, can I buy you a drink? She’s like I’m good.

I’m like, ah, I have a boner. Charles Gould in twenty nineteen, in his joke he speaking with a therapist. I could take a pill, but what’s the point of having hair if he can’t get a boner? Boy? Everybody has done this joke.

Huh is there a side effect that would stop you from taking it? What if you lost a two? Matthew Brossard twenty two two. He joked about the side effects, saying, that’s like if adderall made you dyslexic. Nice job, drybar, Nice job of Vulture.

Dave Chappelle put out a new episode of The Midnight Miracle that’s his podcast. Dave said, I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. There’s two things I think about, what does that feel like? And of course the greatest cultural impact? Right.

He then applied his logic to awards, saying Michael Jackson swept for Thriller. He won every Grammy he was up for, except for one, which was Best Song. What beat Thriller for Best Song? Anybody? Does anybody know every breath you’d take by the police take it easy, my boy?

Is what difference does it make? The best song is a completely subjective metric. He discussed Kevin Hart and said he’s very impressed with Kevin Hart as a comedian. He’s like, actually incredibly good at it. But Kevin from early on had a very specific notion about who and what he wanted to be, and it was big.

You know, he plays stadiums. Everything in his mind is big. It was a choice him being big, was a skilled shot, was a hole in one. I want this, he said, exactly what he had to say the way he had to say it to be exactly what he wants to be. One of his co host said, everything is not for sale.

Everybody pays a price. Chapelle said, that’s why I quit Chappelle’s show. If I finished the show one of the circumstances at that time, I don’t think I would have ever been the same. He said he grew uncomfortable with the socially irresponsible sketches he was doing at the time something inside of me that I needed. I would have had to let go of it for that, and I couldn’t let go of it to keep going.

Very interesting there, Ella Magazine in the headline, Remember Roseanne Barr, not for her Fox special, but for who she once was. Interesting. Take let’s take a closer look, Elle mag writes. Early viewers of the special, I have not seen it, have said the thing is like fingernails on a blackboard. But Roseanne sold Fox News the stand up stage is a great place to discuss cancel culture itself and how horrible it is.

It was made in response to being fired. LGBTQ Nation says, Roseanne Barr’s fresh comedy routine is addressed a Fox’s target demographic, old people whose kids don’t talk to them anymore. Clips of the seventy year old jokes Wow, She’s seventy released online so far have also drawn ire, whether it’s for digs about gender or just generally sounding out of such with jokes that land with a thud. But La mag points out Roseanne broke ground with her portrayal of money’s major role in the American family. Talking about her sitcom.

In towns that sit between the working class in the middle class, most of the men labored in the local plants, the women, mostly mothers, stayed home work part time, found a side hustle like running a daycare out of their house. This was basically the background of Roseanne. Her various part time jobs, combined with her husband Dan’s ins and outs with financial insecurity. Money was always a necessary through line and one that hadn’t been shown realistically on TV before either. They add since it aired.

Roseanne has been sighted several times over the decades since its bizarre ninth and final season as having been far ahead of its time in terms of the inclusion of everyday folks who happened to be gay or bisexual. Sandra Bernhard’s Nancy, a regular character on the show, came out in season five, and Barr’s character at one point shares an on screen kiss with Nancy’s girlfriend, played by guest star Meryl Hemingway. Later depicted the wedding of Rosanne’s boss, Martin Maule’s Leon to his boyfriend Scott. Back in twenty ten, Joshua Kirpet wrote in Vulture, Rosanne did more for the ways homosexuals are portrayed on television than any single gay character a couple has done in the years following. In twenty twenty three, Fox Nation may have been willing to give her a chance, but there may not be more to see hear of her late period still pro maga comedy stick.

Yet no one’s ready to get the hook and pull her off stage either, as long as it’s profitable for that, We’ll have to wait and see.

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Speaking of Fox News, some comedians are upset at Tucker Carlson.

He has a new documentary called The Death of Comedy. Overreact Much Tucker. In the trailer, Tucker Carlson says, comedy’s the hallmark of a free society. The one thing that people currently in power can’t stand is being made fun of. Is that comedy it is now, Come on, man, give me a break with that.

The trailer features quotes from a number of comedians, including Jimmy Doer, Adam Carolla, and Louis c. K. A clip of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is also included. Nimish Patel is featured in the trailer. He said, this is non sens comedy is thriving.

There was a reason I didn’t due Sucker Carlson back in twenty eighteen. No one hears a martyr for comedy. Everybody featured in the trailers selling out theaters and making money. Myself included stop this fake victim bs from my San Antonio. George Lopez has privately apologized to Ralph Barbosa till the other day about this one.

This version of the article cleans it up a little and just says, you know. On the podcast, George said he didn’t know who Barbosa was it didn’t understand how he’s blowing up. The actual quote was, nobody knows who that mother effer is while you’re saying his name. The Only Times reported that a representative for Barbosa confirmed that Lopez called Ralph personally and they spoke about what happened. Barbosa’s manager said, George apologized and acknowledged the hard work that Ralph has been putting in on the road.

It was a very amical conversation that Ralph appreciated. Apparently there’s an anecdote going around how comedian Eric Estrada blew off George Lopez when Lopez was seventeen years old. Lopez said Estrada refused to shake his hand, and from that moment, Lopez publicly said he would never treat someone like that at the start of their career. After seeing the comments from Lopez, Borbosa went on Instagram and rope It’s all good, baby. The future is now old Man quick Kid from Gossip Corner.

Eric Andre and Emily Radikowski they went Instagram official on Valentine’s Day? How did they do it? There’s a photo eric Andre is laid out fully newte on a couch. He’s hold on a glass of wine. There’s a hard emoji block in the good parts.

He did not tag Radikowski in the post. However, she can be seen in the mirror only wearing a bra. He post is captioned Happy Valentine’s Day. Did you see South Park? Oh my goodness, I gotta see my face right now.

I’m trying to describe the face I’m making. I guess it’s like the John Stewart popcorn gift or jiff if you’re one of those people, Oh, this is so juicy. Now you know. I’m the writer on Palace Intrigue at Daily podcast about the British royal family. Follow show wherever you get your podcast.

South Park destroyed Prince Harry and Megan Markle. Of course, they weren’t making fun of the actual Prince Harry and Megan Markle. Oh no, they’re making fun of the Prince of Canada and his wife. Spoilers for the episode, but you gotta see at least the clips. Oh my goodness, it’s so funny.

So the Prince of Canada and his wife, they’re on the Worldwide Privacy Tour. They go on Good Morning Canada. They’re holding picket signs that say we want our privacy. The host of Good Morning Canada says to the Prince of Canada, some people might say that your Instagram loving bitch wife actually doesn’t want her privacy, And another scene, Kyle says, I’m sick of hearing about them. I can’t get away from them.

They’re everywhere in my effing face. An he mentions they keep trying to sell them a book. The book, by the Way is called when Eric Cartman says, we don’t care about some dumb prints and his stupid wife. The Prince of Canada meets with a branding manager and the Prince gets described as royal prince, millionaire, world traveler, victim, his wife sorority girl actress, influencer victim. Wow, check that out South Park destroying them and let’s you follow Palace Intrigue where you get your shows.

Romy Yuseff will be hosting two shows today at Lester Square. The press of both shows would be going to the Karam Foundation, helping thousands of displaced Syrian refugees. In Tricky the US and Jordan, Johnny Mack, did you just segue from like ripping the British Royals and giggling to like a serious story about Ramy Yusef. I did, and I probably could edit the podcast, but I’m leaving it in. You know.

One of the tricks of editing is you don’t want to make the show too perfect, right, You got to leave some stumbles in and a couple of mistakes, and like, yeah, I could have cleaned it up, but I’m trying to have a relationship with you and let you see that. You know, I’m an actual human being that hopefully alike, especially if you’re this farm in the podcast, I guess you kind of liked me, so yeah, I probably shouldn’t have put those two stories back to back. It’s a Friday night in Vancouver. Seven o’clock, an intimate evening with Adam Pali seven o’clock, Sugar Sammy seven o’clock, Dersey and Jarre Irl parteses that means in real life, please don’t touch us. Sarah Sherman at seven Puff The Magic Improv Show at eight Millennial Line at eight thirty, Let’s See what That is, a live comedy and poetry series that’s different.

Baron Vaughan at nine thirty Festival of Kicks nine thirty, Hannah Burner nine thirty.

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All right, let’s play the what should we go see?

Game? Now? I probably should have planned our nights better. We didn’t need to see Sarah Sherman last night. We could have seen her tonight.

All right, Let’s look at the early shows. Adam Palley, Sugar Sammy, Darcy and Jarre Irl, Sarah Sherman, who we’ve already seen hypothetically. Hm, nothing grabbing me. Adam Palley’s show, song, stories and jokes come together, just like Mom used to make enjoy the stories. Sing along to the songs.

Let’s taking it closer. Look at Darcy and jare Irl jumping off your phone and into your hearts and relive. Join comedian Accidental TikTok stars. All right, I’m out, you know me? Hmm?

All right. I wish we hadn’t seen Sarah Sherman last night. We could have done that early. I kind of don’t want to see Sugar Sammy. Let’s go see Adam Palley at seven.

You know what, we’ll leave early and at eight o’clock, let’s go see Puff the Magic improv show. First half the comedy stone called second half is Lava Hot. Come get baked with some of Vancouver’s best improv comedians and watch them fly. All right, we’ll go see Adam Halley for a wild around seven forty five. I’ll give you the should we face and then you can go yes or no, and if you say yes, then we’ll head over to Puff the Magic Improv and that’s our eight o’clock show, and then at nine thirty Hannah Burner, kick Ass Asian Comedy or Baron Vaughan.

I kind of want to do kick Ass Asian Comedy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine comics on the bill, Yeah, let’s do that one kind of I don’t know when to use the words subpar, but there’s no real headliner tonight, right, Sarah Sherman would be the biggest name on tonight’s bill, all right, And I do have a sad story to end the show with. Today. San Antonio based stand up comedian and comedia A Go Go Kill founder at Larry Garza has passed away at age forty one. All Larry ever wanted to do with his life was make people laugh. He did that until the very end.

He passed away Tuesday after a nearly seven year battle with cancer. He was forty one. Leaves behind his wife and two children, seventeen and two. Well. Larry was first diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in twenty sixteen.

He didn’t want to let the disease stop him from doing what he loved. A month after doctors removed his right kidney, in less than two weeks after the removed a portion of his lung, he went on stage to a packed house and told the audience and it might sound cliche, but I didn’t want it to beat me. I didn’t want to go dark. This is how every true comedian copes with the bad stuff. We joke about it, make a joke about it, so it’s not heavy.

It’s a true example of he’s in comedy to lighten the load and let everyone know we’re okay. Nothing’s going to take our sense of humor away. He was asked what he wanted his comedy legacy to be, and he said he wanted to be remembered as that hilarious San Antonio. Comic life’s an ass kicker for everybody. You have to laugh about it and celebrate it while you’re here.

That’s your comedy news for today. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue. The podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family. These short daily episodes covered the latest news and scandals involving the likes of Prince Harry, Mega, Michael, Kate, Middleton, King Charles and the rest. From back room sources to public controversies, We’ve got you covered.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I loved Brian Possain’s special Possana non Grata. I’d love to put it on the Best of twenty twenty three list, but it did come out at the end of twenty twenty two. He released it as not a pay per view, but you know, it was like one of those specials you could buy for a limited time for like fourteen days. But it is up on YouTube now with commercials now.

Note to Brian and all other comedians who post your special on YouTube. I get that you want to make a couple of bucks. I get that you want to monetize, no problem, I’m with you, meet too, but can you or someone on your team take one minute and place the markers that tell the commercials where to go? Could you just place them so they’re not mid sentence. Maybe find when you’re segueing from topic to topic, maybe put them there.

That said, Brian special was so good that I fought through the various commercial breaks. Absolutely loved it. Now, maybe it’s because I’m also a star wars nerd who likes the rock music, but it immediately drew me in. It’s filmed in a room, I guess I would call it. So Usually a comedy special is at like a big theater, right, you’re picturing like the big wide stage and there’s a balcon and all that.

Now this is a room picture, something more like the shape of a shoebox, so not that wide, but deep and not that deep, and it’s just Brian at the other end of the room. And I felt like I was in a club in Montreal or perhaps Chicago where this one was filmed. This was filmed at the Beat Kitchen. I think it’s a little bit over an hour. I really really liked it.

So check out Brian Possein, Posena Non Grata, Tina Fe and Amy Pohler. They’re going on swore together. It’s the Restless Legged Store. A limited run four shows so far. I bet they wind up adding more.

It is described as a celebration of thirty years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories, and conversational entertainment. This will start April twenty nine in Washington, DC. They’re us playing Chicago, Boston, and Atlantic City. Maria Bamford is trying to get a web series started. This one is called no CD.

It’s built as a comedy series about intrusive description. At the age of ten years old, Maria Bamford began getting unwanted intrusive thoughts, a type of OCD. By the age of fifty one, she was unable to leave her home. She made the following internet content as a cry for help. She says she wants to tackle this specific type of OCD because it’s really kind of really creepy, sometimes stigmatized.

That the therapy is really funny, it’s really quite scary. In the first episode, she struggles to go to her friend’s house for simple meal. Her intrusive thoughts are played by Maria Bamford in a clown wig, and they keep butting in with violent fantasies and unwelcome commentary, which she tries to ward off and weighs both silly and dark. She has launched a Kickstarter to try and produce two more episodes and in the future up to twelves soor so far there’s only one, and that’s depending on audience interest. On her Kickstarter page, Memford breaks down the cost of shooting a web series while paying a crew fairly and making a living for herself as well.

Let’s check that out on her Kickstarter, it says, what is intrusive thoughts? Ocd Well, have you ever had extremely creepy, unwanted thoughts something grandam that weirded you outline my guinea pig looks sexy? Or I wonder if I’m a serial killer despite the fact that I’m a vegetarian, agrophobic with a master’s degree in library science and I haven’t left my reclusive yurt in a decade. Or I always say the words bless this Jesus Mohammed Yahwei Oprah thirty four times while squeezing my buttocks to prevent myself from driving my Harley into a grunt of senior citizens. Or do you avoid looking into your mother’s eyes when you high five her for fear of poisoning her liver?

Or do you have your spouse get the ice cubes for your drinks so you want stuff hundreds of ice cubes down your throat being the first person a self suicide by drowning upright on land. Or do you never drink ice tea because tea stands for boobs and you’re a concerned you’re going to reach out and touch the server with boobs who brought you tea, which stands for boobs. She then gets serious. Instead of had several versions of the stabilitating mental health symptoms since the age of ten. After googling the symptoms online when I was thirty five, discovered it was a type of OCD and finally got helped to change my life.

I was finally able to participate in important activities such as friendship and being at parties thanks to exposure response prevention therapy. I wanted to share my own experience so others who are too scared to ask for help might have a few laughs and get the courage to be free of suffering from something that is absolutely ridiculous. She writes, Why doesn’t Maria pay for this herself? I sort of have. I fronted the cost of one episode, but I only want to make the series if there’s enough interest to fund it.

Kickstarter budgeting and feedback from showbiz professionals have told me how to budget this. It’s a ton of money, but it’s not that much here in Holly Weird, and I need to pay artists. Rent runs two thousand dollars a month for a shared a beanbagged chair. I will also pay myself so I don’t have to travel on the road every week as a comic. Taxes and ten percent fee from Kickstarter.

Here are the real numbers per episode budget director slash camera fifteen hundred second ad slash camera fifteen hundred, production supplies five hundred, editing twenty hours three grand, acting a thousand, writing a thousand, producing a thousand, Social media management thirty five hundred. I think we can find a better deal than that, Maria. Total thirteen thousand dollars for one episode. Three episodes makes it thirty nine thousand, forty percent estimated tax rate on funds received as only six thousand Kickstarter fee processing fee, so she’s looking to make seventy two thousand, three hundred. Then it says, wait, who are you again?

I’m right? So I’m a person who Stephen Colbert called the funniest person on Earth and Judd appetaw was called the funniest person in the world. Is that something? As I record this looks like she’s well on her way with two weeks to go. My san Antonio asked Joe Koy, Hey, you haven’t done your podcast The Koi Pond since late twenty twenty one.

A you’re taking a break or is it over Joe KOI said, I really just stopped doing it, even though the name is so great. I found myself doing it only because it was this trending thing that people were doing. In my heart, I don’t want to be known for a podcast. I want to be known for stand up. I only want that to be touching my name.

That’s my passion, that’s my love. Just for Last Vancouver starts tonight, runs through February twenty fifth. Let’s take a look at who’s playing tonight. I’ve done this in a while. I like doing these.

Seven o’clock John Marcos SERRESI. I saw him up at Montreal and he was fantastic at seven thirty Maestro, which is an elimination style improv show that brings z mixed bag of improvisers from around the city. Elimination. I like it. Eight o’clock Vancouver Special looks like that’s a bunch of locals.

Eight o’clock New Moon Comedy also Locals. Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy. This show features authentic Caribbean food and drinks with a view of the beach. Camilla Clease you know her from the Faulty Towers reboot. She’s on the bill with a bunch of other comedians.

Very nice. Eight o’clock. Ola Data’s Blackout Comedy.

Also locals a thirty comedy Bucket.

Your favorite comedians lead their act at the door and do a set based on audience suggestions. Love it. Dave Man Hedge plays at nine thirty. Sarah Sherman also at nine thirty.

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All right, let’s play the game where you and I are in Vancouver and we’re gon…

Hmm. John Marco’s really good. I do want to see the locals. Let’s do John Marco at seven o’clock. Figure that goes an hour or so, and I think at the back end we want to see Sarah Sherman at nine thirty.

So we’re gonna have to find like an eight thirty show. So let’s do Comedy Bucket at eight thirty, and we’ll know that we have to leave early. Sorry performers, but that’s the way the schedule dropped. Just for last Vancouver, Looking forward to that one. Starting from brew Bound, You’re home for comedy news the legendary Zini’s Comedy Club in Nashville.

They’ve teamed up with Kraft Brewery Tennessee brew works. They’re going to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Zeni’s with a beer named Laughing Guy Lagger, brewed with Tennessee source greens. Laughing Guy Lagger’s a light body blogger with subtle maall sweetness, bounce by honeydew and a floral hop aromas and flavors. The finishes crisp, refreshing. It’ll satisfy any beer drinkers thirst four point two percent ABV.

Ted Lasso is back baby March fifteenth. Apple TV still not saying that it’s the final season. Don’t you think of over the final season, they’d be like, hey, final season of ted Lasso. There’s some speculation at the show will continue one way or another. Vambred Goldstein.

I am riding this thing for fifteen years, then buying a house next to Kelsey Grammer. Know what I’m saying, Don’t walk away from a hit show. People keep going. Joel mccale understands that logic. He’s waiting for Community to come back in the meantime.

Animal Control, you know the show that I’ve been calling what was I calling it? Animal cops? Pet Cops? I forget what I was calling it. Animal Control is the name of the show on Fox tonight.

The av club saw it and they said Joel mccale in Jeff Winger Mode plays veteran Seattle animal control officer Frank Shaw, a lone wolf stuck with an open hearted rookie and former Olympic snowboarder nicknamed Shred. They look at act like TV cops, wearing about donuts, budgets, and drugs, except the shows about animals. Animal Control makes a case for cop shows without cops. They say Animal Control is a perfectly enjoyable sitcom and one that’s destined improved the further gets into its run. All right, I might have to set the DVR for that one.

I also I gotta watch Pocard tonight. I’m going out to dinner Busy Night for Johnny mac Amber Ruffin She’s getting a sitcom from NBC. This one’s called a Non Evil Twin. It follows a woman played by Amber Ruffin, good guest there, who’s forced to step into her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune five hundred company. Spoilers, wasn’t that the plot knives out too?

She steps in her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister’s been running the corporation. Are you in Salt Lake City? Former Utah Jazz All star Donovan Mitchell Comedy Night. Yeah you didn’t expect that right. All the proceeds will be donated to Kern’s High School.

On the bill de Ray Davis, Chris Spencer an earthquake. That is a good list. Let’s finish up. On gossip Corner, Will Farrell was pictured having a pint of beer with soccer fans. He was at Wrexham you know the soccer team Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcleanny own Will Farrell will spot it and joining a drink at the Turf pub.

Who’s also seen pitch side at the race Course ground to watch the team’s three to one victory in the National League match against Wildstone FC. I suspect we’ll see all this on an episode of Welcome to Wrexham in the Future and a video posted on the club’s official Twitter account. Before kickoff, Will Farrell asked are we recording as he combs his hair with his fingers. After long pause, he says, Hi, this is Will Farrell. It’s my first time here.

Where are we again Wrexham. I’m really excited to see the match, and I’ll be honest with I’m a little nervous. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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The shark deck. I’m trying to mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle did a show in Melburne. He’s got some new material at the top, and I’m trying to figure out how to share it with you without offending anyone. He used the R word.

I guess I’ll go with that. Dave said, I’ve received complaints about making fun of LGBTQ people, so I won’t do that tonight. Instead, I’ll be making fun of our words. He added, our words make easier targets than the trans community is. They don’t send a fight back.

Chapelle also told the crowd about a craze fan and was once bothering him, and said he was worried that his Filipino American wife, Elaine might run him over his jokes. She’s not violent, she’s just Asians, so she’s a really bad driver. Dave got serious at one point. He joked about Chris Rock being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars, and then he turned it back into comedy. Said Chris Rock told him I’m not a victim.

Dave said, you’re not a victim, please, I’ve seen the tape. Dave also joke he hates buying Australian cigarettes because they have photos of diseases on the packets. I’m like, I’ll take the packet with the disease lungs on it. During the show, Chappelle and announcer DJ Trauma reminded the audience at regular intervals that anyone caught using any electronic device would be immediately evicted from the venue. That’s right, Dave, because you don’t want people to find out that you opened up with an R word joke.

Because how would they find out if we don’t have our phones. They’re recording your whole special right, It’ll never get out. DJ Trauma warned. Infrared cameras will be used to identify any attempts of recording the show. We’ve already kicked out seven or eight people.

Also on the bill, Marshall Brandon, Jeff Ross, and Donnel Rawlings. Ross had the audience howling with laughter. He did a raunchy routine about the sex life of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The New York Post wonders will Joe Rogan leave Spotify when his contract expires. The new site Semaphore says Rogan’s relationship with Spotify management has quote unquote freed.

The Post reached out to Spotify. They disputed Semaphore’s reporting, insisting that Rogan’s contract does not expire this year. That’s interesting. Most people in the industry think Rogan expire at the end of the year. A Semaphore spokesperson told The Post that they have updated the original story with a link to a New York Times article from last year.

A lot of game of telephone here right. The Times had claimed the contract rand for three and a half years, with the possibility of more. Rogan signed with Spotify in twenty twenty, so all right, you’ve got twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two. That’s three years, and then another half would be sometime this year. Who knows.

Also, there’s a fake ad making the rounds where it looks like and sounds like Joe Rogan endorsing a product. All of that is fake. And the use of AI the point of the article pointing out how dangerous AI is about to get. There is really good voice faking technology. I use it on this very podcast.

I’ll even tell you what it is. It’s called descript and I have thrown a lot of episodes of this podcast into the script to create a sampling of my own voice. And how I use it is sometimes if I misspeak, instead of going back into the studio to clean up a sentence, I will type the words and descript, consume, mulate my voice and you probably don’t notice. I’m me and I usually can’t notice it’s not perfect. Get The longer you go, it becomes more obvious that it’s a computer speaking.

But I can replace a word here and there and you’ll never know. From TMZ, George Lopez getting dragged through the coals. Some say he’s acting like a gate keeping elitist for stand up comedy. Wow, all right, what’s going on? He was on a podcast with the All Things Comedy Network.

George was chatting with Steve Trevino. They were talking about George’s legacy, especially as it pertains to paving the path for other Hispanic comedians. Travino said it was incumbent on the ogs of the biz like George Lopez to pass down the knowledge and assist up and comers in breaking through. Lopez disagreed on the way to go about that. He acknowledged he hadn’t always been the most helpful, but noted he had shown the way argument was on others to chart their own path.

Travino pushed back, invoking a young comedian named Ralph Barbosa. George asked why Travinia was bringing up Barbosas, suggesting that Barbosa is not famous or worthy enough of getting roped into the conversation. He asked the room if it was messed up that he said that, but in the end he stood his ground, writing Barbosa off as a relative nobody. I’m also unfamiliar with Ralph Barbosa. Lopez said his point was look out for yourself, and that means not talking about other comics or giving them a plug of any kind, something Paul Rodriguez has alluded to when it comes to what he says is George’s track record on that sort of thing.

A resurface clip of Paul Rodriguez has him telling a story about George Lopez, and it seems that even among George’s contemporaries, he’s got a bad rep for not extending and helping hand to Latinos. Barbosa has posted a clip on social media. It’s a scene from the movie Blood in Blood Out, where Benjamin Bratt is getting grilled by his relative for turning his back on his own people. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Mark Marin. I know, right.

Mark Marin said he was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to do HBO because he’s been doing it a long time and he told us to Collider it was always the dream. Just came circuitously and at an odd point in my career and at an odd moment in history. But I’m thrilled. It was weird because net Flix said, first look, I had to deal with them for the other specials. Support of that was they got to choose if they wanted the new one, and Robbie prow Robbie is the Netflix VP of stand up in comedy, Robbie prow Over there was like nah, and I’m like great, and then HBO said we want it.

Having seen the special, Robbie, I think Robbie nailed it. I love Marin the special. It’s just kind of like, all right, doctor Meren, he said. HBO said we want it, And this couldn’t have been a better thing because in some ways, to stand up you don’t really want to be on Netflix, do you? I think you do?

No, you don’t want to be on Netflix, Mark, what’s going on here? Mark said, it’s such a gamble and they don’t get behind anything. You’re just there to see what the algorithm dictates, whereas HBO is still like a curated network where they’re going to support it, They’re going to make sure it’s great and they have good taste in content. And Netflix specials now sort of like, yeah, who doesn’t have a Netflix special? That is true.

Netflix has watered down their comedy brand. I agree with you there, Mark Marin. I was definitely aware that I was going to be on HBO and it did make a difference to me. I think I’m moving around more than I have in years. Is on this special the first third of it, I’m up and at it.

I do end up working intimately in the middle of the special, and I’m very aware of all these elements. But I think because I keep evolving as a comic, and I do think I’m doing the best work that I’ve done, all these things that I’ve become conscious of over the years doing specials, all the corrections they’ve been made for this. Mark Marin had starred on Glow with Alison Bree. You remember that show about the Women’s Wrestling League that was a good show on Netflix. Alison Bree was asked what would the final season of Glow look like, and she said, well, I’ll tell you that.

My husband recently on Mark Marin’s podcast, and Marin was like, me and your wife were going to hook up in the final season. You know we’re gonna get together, Alison said, I mean, unofficially, I do think that Sam and Ruth were going to have some kind of hookup. It’s hard for me to speculate because I actually know everything that was going to happen. Before we started shooting the fourth season. Our show runners told me the whole story for the season.

We’re already going into it thinking it was our final season, and I was in tears by the end of their season long synopsis. And I don’t know why I feel nervous sharing it. The show’s dead and I’ve heard no rumors about people ling behind that to bring it back. But for some reason, I’m like, should I just tell you everything? I do think there was a spinoff Network had at season three end where at the airport, I’m like, okay, it opens on Ruth.

I think that Ruthy was going to go back to her hometown for a little while. If she was going to maybe quit wrestling and then got sucked back in, I’ll neither confirm nor deny that that’s the plot of the first episode that we shot that no one will ever see.

And then later in the season, I think Marin and I were gonna have sex and we …

Let’s say the interviews over. She also spoke to Vulture and discussed the community movie. What’s the deal? Alison Brede said, Well, it’s happening. We’re doing it for Peacock.

We’re allegedly shooting it this summer, and that’s the most I know. I saw Joel and Danny last weekend. I was like, Joel, where’s the script, what’s the plan? He was just kind of bouncing around. I think right now, it’s just a matter of everybody’s schedule.

Most of us have signed on to do it. That’s interesting, most of us have all signed on to do it. Everybody who’s in is in, and how everyone is kind of assessing their schedules and hoping that we can make it work to shoot this summer. But she adds, I will say this with a hint of and then she sighs. I don’t trust it.

I’m not a skeptic. I do believe the community movie will get made, so it’s sold to Peacock, But because of everything we went through on that show, I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s not until I’m on set that will be like we’re making it. The meantime, I’ve just been having that anticipatory excitement feeling. This is the most hopeful any of us have been in a long time.

I feel like what I do here, go to buy meacoffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Through a couple of bucks at the tip jar. I’ll take your money and I’ll go to the National Donuts chain. I will buy a large ice coffee with caramel and milk. Buy meacoffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News.

Craig Ferguson has a new podcast. It is called Joy. He says joy is an essential human coping mechanism, and I’m interested in how different individuals manifest it, particularly when circumstances make it difficult, whether it be a demanding or harrowing job, a challenging existential problem, or just watching the news. I’ve worked with Craig I think twice. Really cool guy and one of the treats of my career to spend time with him in the studio.

He was doing some improv stuff. I was just standing there like an awkward suit boss type, but it was fantastic. Ted Danson is teaming up once again with Michael Scher. If you follow sitcoms, you know that name sure is the mastermind behind NBC’s The Good Life. On this new one, Ted Danson will start in The Mole Agents.

This is based on a twenty twenty Oscar nominated Chilean documentary of the same name. The Mole Agent features Ted Danson as an elderly man, How that makes me feel so old? Recruited by a private investigator to go undercover in a nursing home. How old is Ted Danson? Is Ted Danson seventy?

He probably is, right, Ted Danson is seventy five. You look pretty good, Ted. Ted Danson plays an elderly man recruited by a private investigator to go undercover in a nursing home. Do you like Avenue five on HBO canceled. I just had to pull off the band aid on you.

We’re gonna You’re gonna feel it. I just had to rip that off for you. It’s canceled. Sorry. The official cancelation comes eight months after Deadline revealed that the series likely was going to end because everybody’s contract had expired.

What happened was there was this pandemic, A long story I don’t enough time for here. Google the phrase COVID hyphen one nine. You’ll find out about it. It’s mind blowing. But because they were so late filming season two and then that pushed everything back, the cast options expired and everybody went off and got out of their work.

Series star Hugh Laurie’s working on season three of Apple TV’s Tehran. Camilla Clees, daughter of John Clees, talk to the UK’s The Sun newspaper about this Faulty Towers reboot. A lot of press about this. Camilla said, John won’t be doing as much crazy physical comedic things as before, but you never know what you might see him do. She says.

The revival will honor the tone of the original and ads. They’ll be jokes that will be a little edgy, but we’re not out to get anyone. We don’t dislike any people. That’s not the basis of it. People are a little sensitive nowadays.

Put it lightly. If anything, we’re making fun of the show’s characters and they’re idiosyncrasies. When will it debut? She said? The timeline is anywhere between three months and three years.

That’s not really helpful, Camilla. And you may have noticed that around the holidays, I started a podcast called five Good News Stories, So twice a week I tell you five stories. They’re all goods or like smile stories or laugh stories. And here’s an example. I used this on the other podcast, but it really cracks me up, so I thought i’d use it here.

From The Guardian, McDonald’s has pledged to remove an ad for its new mccrispy chicken sandwich. Well, why what’s wrong with the ad for the mccrispy chicken sandwich Johnny Mack was placed across the street from a crematorium. One woman, whose mother in law was cremated at the crematorium last year said, although I could see the funny side of the ad, it’s a little tasteless and I’m sure some family members won’t want to see that when visiting a crematorium. One Facebook user disagree and said, hey, my parents are in the crematorium. My old man had a brilliant as a humor.

I’m sure he would chuckle to that. Another user said, thank god it wasn’t advertising burger king and being flame grilled. That’s your comedy. It is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube.

You can also follow five Number five five Good News Stories where if you get your shows see you here tomorrow. Did you know you can name a cockroach after your ex lover and have it fed to the animals at the zoo? Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with five Good News Stories. It’s a podcast twice a week where I tell you five good news stories, five fluffy stories. I just want to make you smile to start your day.

I can tell you about a cat and a rabbit that fell in love, or I can tell you how Porto potties are about to be a lot less horrible. What kind of show is this? It’s called five Good News Stories, the number five Good News Stories. Follow it Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Five number five five Good News Stories

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon was joking about the spy balloon. He said, yeah, they were treking all our communications, including phone calls and text messages. The balloon was like, based on what we’ve gathered, we should invest in eggplants.

That’s really funny. Think about it. Fallon.

Meanwhile, AC and Seeds all their customers relax.

They can’t spy on you if you can’t get a signal. You know what I’m saying. Pretty good super Bowl? Huh did you see the ad for the roast of mister Peanut? Well, I went and watched the entire roast of Mister Peanut and I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

Can I tell you it’s eleven minutes long. It’s pretty funny. I actually have added it to my Top Funny Things of twenty twenty three list, and as I’ll tell you later on the pod and a Mark Marin’s new special, it’s pretty good. Nice job Jeff Ross and the team. Some YouTube commenters disagree with Johnny Mack.

One wrote, get waiting to laugh and then didn’t we have some world class comedians basic on themselves for g rated jokes. Another set a studio with thirty bad actors hysterically laughing at unfunny non jokes. Take it from a children’s book. I thought it was pretty good. There’s one joke in there that takes a shot at Jeff Ross that genuinely made me laugh.

Now, who’s on the roast of mister Peanut? Jeff Ross, Natasha Lajero, Otsko, Akatska who crushes trust me, Frank Castello, Yamanikasano’s David Lucas and Sarah Tiana. She was not good, but she’s last. They put this thing in the proper order. Jeff Ross comes up in the strong, Natasha strong, Otsko is strong, and then it starts to peter off a little bit.

But you’re roasting at Peanut. But I’ll tell you they captured the pacing. The laugh track that they added in worked. It’s paste right. The animation looks pretty good.

The Roast of Mister Peanut will make the End of the Year list. It’ll probably be the last thing on the list, but it made it. And did you notice Pete Davidson’s Super Bowl ad? No, not the one about the fridge, the one for Transformers, Rise of the Beasts. Yeah, Pete plays a transformer named Mirage who was a silver blue portion of nine sixty four with a very laid back Pete Davidson kind of attitude.

I bet he gets all the cars. Moon Tower. That’s a comedy Festival April twelfth through the twenty third. They have announced even more people coming to the show. The new headliners include Leslie Jones, Jenny Slate, Sam b Megan Statler, Patty Harrison, and Sarah Sherman.

Additional acts Jay Farrell, Randy Felt Face, He’s Fantastic, Matt Rife, Mikey Winfield, Mark Small, Judy Gold, Ashley Gavin Tonebell, Lisa Ann Walter, Dane Baptiste, Shalouis Sharp. I’m looking at the updated cover arts for the Moon Tower Comedy Festival. So in the Big Print Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, Ben Schwartz and friends. Chelsea Lynn Google tells me. Chelsea Lynn is an American YouTuber, actress, and stand up comedian who began her internet career on the video sharing platform Vine as her character trailer trash Tammy.

She’s in the Big Prince.

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Meanwhile, not in the Big Print.

This is smaller print, the likes of Brian Poissain and Joe List and Dana Goulden, the Sclar Brothers and a bunch of others. Anyway, there’s a lot of people on this poster and it’s a really fantastic festival. It’s getting bigger and bigger. It’s starting to feel a little bigger than Montreal. And I don’t say that lightly.

There’s a lot of people at this thing anyway, the Moon Tower Comedy Festival, and it is part of Just for Laughs with the same people to do Montreal. April twelfth through the twenty third. There was a kerfluffle at Sarah Silverman’s show the other night. This from TMZ. Sarah Silverman’s show in New Jersey got ugly before it even started.

An elderly black man was kicked out of the venue for protesting an infamous skit Sarah did more than fifteen years ago in blackface. The demonstrator is seventy one year old Michael B. Jackson. He bought a front row ticket to Sarah’s show on February four that the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City. He showed up in blackface.

He said his intent was a peaceful protest, but it created a big stir. According to Jackson, about twenty minutes into Sarah’s opener, Rory Albany’s Roy decided to address him. He claims that Rory incited the crowd, insulted and bullied him, and as security It’s Awesome out of the show, despite him saying he didn’t want to be part of the routine and sitting silently. Another source who was at the show claims that Jackson was heckling and was given a warning. Then a bunch of guards told Jackson a move into a balcony seat and he refused to move, and he pulled out his phone to record the interaction.

The video cuts out things that allegedly got physical. Jackson claims he ended up in the hospital after being attacked by several security guards, who he says forcibly removed him from his seat, carried him into a back hallway, dropped him down face down on the floor, and handcuffed him. A rep for the casino told TMZ Jackson only requested medical attention for anxiety after being evicted from the show, walking to his hotel room and coming back down the lobby. The casino says Jackson presented himself as offensive, and they have the right to remove or relocate anyone from the property and any time, the statement added. Ocean prides itself with both a diverse workplace and customer base.

According to Michael B. Jackson says to MZ, Sarah Silverman was behind it all. He said she had the security goons at the Ocean Resort casino and ac attacked me and rough me up. Bottom line for Jackson, Sarah Silverman feels it’s okay for her to wear black face, but no one else. TMZ ads.

Fans that were there say Sarah addressed the incident when she got on stage, explaining that he was protesting a skit from two thousand and seven and lin the audience now, she’d never do something like that today. We’re also told that if Jackson was still in the crowd, she would have apologized to him for the skit. Larry the Cable Guy upsets some people. He made a joke about Marjorie Taylor Green. He got some backlash on Twitter.

Cable Guy tweeted four photographs of Green heckling President Joe Biden. Larry tweeted, this pick reminds me of every comedian’s ex girlfriend coming the other show and sitting in the back six days after the breakup. That’s a funny joke. Some commenters thought Larry was attacking Green. Larry clarified he didn’t vote for Biden and it was not a political joke.

He added a fuller response via Twitter, This wasn’t a political joke. Unbelievable, lightening up. Some of you shesh. It was about a comedian get heckled by his ex at the club. She had all the gestures.

Some of you definitely don’t follow me, or you’d think twice on your dumb comments. Some more information about that Faulty Towers reboot. This one’s gonna be set on an elite Caribbean island, according to John Clees. He said, Basil Faulty will now be running a small bijou hotel which welcomes very rich guests. Much more fun and much more different if it’s say a Caribbean island or something like that, with a small bijou hotel with a few very rich people coming to stay.

If you put it in the Caribbean, it becomes very multi racial. People in the hotel business come from everywhere, so he can bring lots of different people together. The characteristic of Fawlty Towers was the pressure cooker atmosphere created in the hotel. In the reboot, Basil Faulty will be running the establishment hotel with the daughter he’s just discovered he had that daughter, played by his real life daughter Camilla, who’s also writing the show with him. I have tweeted at John Clees and tried to ask the universe.

I’m still not clear. Is this a complete reboot like the first one didn’t happen in this universe? Or has Basil Faulty sold the original hot Tell and now he lives in the Caribbean with this daughter. I don’t know if we’re in the same continuity or if this is a redo. Hopefully John Cleese himself will get back to me, I tagged him on the tweets.

GB News host Dan Wooden showed Klees a headline from The Guardian describing the reboot as quote an anti woke nightmare. John said, they obviously know better than I do what’s going to be in it. Maybe they should write an episode for me that they would find acceptable. Might not be very funny, but I’m sure it would really please some of their readers. The idea that it’s going to be all about wokery hadn’t particularly occurred to me.

They’re assuming, with no evidence at all, that they know what the show is going to be like and condemning it for that. Klice is also working on a new discussion show for gb News, which will tackle subjects that get people upset. Klie said, there’s a huge argument about wolkery, and some of its stems from a very good idea, which is, let’s try to be kind of people. But I believe it’s become far too dominated by people who are frightened of offending people. I think you have to allow offense.

Let me jump in there. I saw an article that I love. The basis of the article is actually about star Trek Picard, but this is from Engadget, and I think it’s summed up like what’s kind of broken with everything? Right now? This isn’t really about comedy.

If you want to skip ahead two minutes, Dana Cooper writes fring Gadget, it’s twenty thirty four and Warner Brothers decides it needs to ring more cash out of friends. Unfortunately, the hot shot creator of the Age decided they want to go in a different direction this time. This needs to be a dark and gritty misery core grief orgy that better reflects are more rough and tumble times. In the sequel, Rachel’s famous for her wellness TikTok that often makes allusions to reclaiming the US as a white ethno state. Joey lost an arm while filming a movie and is now in prison after failed heist to pay off his life ruining medical debt.

Monica’s got a crippling adderall addiction and slips away most nights to murder the neighborhood, cats and dogs. Everything’s shot in an ultra gloomy vision and there’s no laugh track, jokes or studio audience, just unrelenting misery. The revival is dense with the references to the Friends backstory as well as the broader Friends universe. Remember that Lisa Kudrow played Phoebe’s twins sister Ursulan man about you, right? If not, you better get yourself to Wikipedia.

Study up. I mean it won’t be relevant to the plot, but it’s something you remember, So clapcop clap. I think that’s totally nails it, Like all these things that keep coming back, but not coming back the way we like them. I digress. Jim Jefferies has a new special out today.

It’s about Stone Kolalaz, his dad’s vasectomy, choosing between his hair and a sex drive, and more. Jim Jeffrey’s High End Dry with an end in the middle there on Netflix today. It’s an hour and eight minutes. Lavell Crawford, He’s going to have a special on Showtime February twenty fourth. If you don’t know who that is, did you watch Breaking Bad?

He plays he will Lavelle is very funny. This one is filmed at the Joy Theater in New Orleans. Lavell Crawford delves into the issues of getting older without the shame and with all the sarcasm, from experiencing his first bid day to paying h OA fees. Lavell Crawford brings playfulness to life’s per carrious situations that arises where you become more domesticated. In season’s February twenty fourth on Showtime.

All right, let’s head on over to gossip Corner. I know you’re wondering. Is Dion Warwick dating Pete Davidson. Deon. Warwick has provided an update on her relationship status with Pete Davidson after jokingly tweeted she was interested in Pete Davidson.

Several months ago. She was walking the red carpet at the Music Cares Persons of the Year event. Somebody asked the eighty two year old Warwick did she ever get a date with Pete Davidson News twenty nine. She said, no. Tigna Sorrow is making fun of herself after screwing up on celebrity Wheel of Fortune.

Jimmy Fallon had her on and started making fun of her. She was trying to solve a puzzle that read crashing my blank x blank r C I s new word b I blank blank No. I know it’s hard to follow that. I’ll read it to you the way it reads with the blanks. Crashing my ex ersis by okay, Crashing my ex ersis by Tig solved the puzzle and said crashing my exorcist bill.

That was not correct. The correct answer crashing my exercise bike, which is actually not a thing. Wheel of Fortune gets annoying like that, She asked Bat, say Jack, can we edit my guess out? Jack said no. Then Tig dug in and said that is the answer I’m not going to be humiliated on national TV and say Jack said, too late for that.

Fallon asked Tig what was going through her head, and she said, first of all, I was thinking that I never imagine I’d be in a Wheel of Fortune. Second of all, I was thinking I don’t imagine I’ll be very good at this. And third I was like, well, I’m correct. I wasn’t nervous. You know I was wrong.

I was just wrong. If you enjoy what I do. Here a couple of ways support the show. One to become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Go to Apple Podcasts and they’ll put the option under your nose for five dollars.

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You can join the two dollars club and then every month send the show two dollars. Or you can do a one time thing if you want five dollars as a common amount, I will take your money. I will get in my car, i will go to the National Donuts chain. I’ll walk in and over on the shelf, it’ll say John M. Because I’ll have already ordered on the apple.

I’ve a large ice coffee with caramel and milk, and I will drink it. I’ll even shout you out on the show Buy mea Coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, Mark Marin Million, Mark Marin Stories. This week on his own podcast, he said, I’m just saying that anti woke comics are hacks, and it’s an angle that’s really a big unseid thing, is that anti woke is the new hack. You’ve got like minded people who fill these rooms because they don’t know how to sess funny unless it’s bullying, unless it’s in bad taste, there’s no nuance to it.

A lot of people who are not innately that funny become comics, and they become good comics if they can figure it out. But this is an excuse to ride the momentum of an audience that’s been built on these premises for a bunch of freethinkers. They all make the same thing, and it’s like three things that they poke at and it’s hackneyed. They are the hacks and they are the group thing victims. It’s really kind of profound.

I do believe there are lines now in terms of comedy, and they do function somewhat on political lines. Many of these comics do not see themselves as right wing people. They see themselves as libertarian, but they’re so easily appropriated by right wing thought. There’s these weird tribal lines being drawn, and the old school kind of progressive nature of sensitivity but also taking shots at everybody is sort of falling the wayside of people going fu, I’m entitled to do this because of this and that, or free speech and anti censorship. So that ideological piece is affront and it’s enabling a lot of really uninspired, untalented people to perform.

It’s possible. Mark Marin did not enjoy Rosanne’s new special that showed up on Fox Nation yesterday. The Daily Mail has some of the jokes spoilers coming up. Rosanne said, these people they have no concept of reality. They’ve been living in a bubble forever, asking questions which have nothing to do with the real world.

What’s my gender? Mom? What’s my gender? Your gender is get a job, that’s your gender. Bar then pauses for the crowd to cheer, and then continues, what are they thinking?

Ask what is a woman? They don’t know that the one they’re asking you all the time. What is a woman? I’ll tell you what a woman is. A woman is me.

That’s what a woman is. Okay. A woman is someone who cleans up everybody else’s stuff. That’s what a woman is. A woman is somebody who’s boobs hang down or knees with a pro laps uterus from giving births of five ungrateful, little privileged bastards that have never had to work for anything their whole damn life.

My pronouns are kiss, my rs ah, the old my pronouns are. You might be right there, Mark Marin. So before the Super Bowl I had an hour and I decided to watch Mark Marin’s new special. I actually wanted to watch it Saturday night at like nine something, but they didn’t post it to ten o’clock. I was like, come on, man.

So I didn’t watch it Saturday, but I did watch it on Sunday and it’s not funny. I was entertained. I like Marin a lot. I like the guy, but this reminded me of a monologue from his podcast, A compelling monologue. I listened to the whole thing, but it wasn’t a funny monologue.

I have left this off my list of top funny things on twenty twenty three, So, out of the Roast of Mister Peanut and Mark Marin’s new special, which one should you watch? The Roast of Mister Peanut? Grand Lenahan is making his stand up debut tonight. Gran is the writer of Father Ted, which is a fantastic sitcom, and also the creator of The It Crowd, also a fantastic sitcom. Graham was banned from Twitter in twenty twenty for repeated violations of the site’s rules on hateful conduct.

He was recently reinstated. When he was reinstated, he decided to tweet there’s no such thing as non binary, There’s no such thing as CIS people, and retweet at a post saying that not only does transgenderism force homosexuality on straight people, it also forces heterosexuality on gay people. Well, he’s doing comedy tonight, he told the British Comedy Guide. I just wanted to try out a quick ten minutes without publicity or expectations, but I forgot to send out the memo when it was publicized. I have no real plans beyond seeing how it goes.

He’ll be at Comedy Unleashed tonight. Happy Valentine’s Day. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’ll discuss the super Bowl tomorrow. Hi, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may have seen a promo for roseanne Bars new special that’s on Fox Nation today. She spoke to The La Times, I’ll have a couple of minor spoilers for the special.

Here sounds like she’s not too happy with the world. The La Times covered the beginning of the special, saying Roseanne is dressed in Western flavored attire and ripped jeans. She wastes a little time in the special before visiting the firestorm now time out. As I was putting together today’s podcast, I was trying to remember why we had canceled Rosanne, and I couldn’t remember. With the La Times reminded me there was a firestorm that erupted following Roseanne’s tweet referring to former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett as offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film franchise.

All right, now, I remember, the Times writes ignoring Roseanne’s please to go on the view or another show to apologize. Executives abruptly axed the top rated reboot of Roseanne and fired her. In these specials, she makes snarky references to Hillary donors and allusions to conspiracy theories about the baby blood drinking Democrat Committee. She says, I’m not going to let rich, privileged a holes win, quoting Roseanne. They denied me the right to apologize.

Oh my god, they hated me so badly. I’d never known they hated me like that. They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion. Even though Rosanne became their number one show, they’d rather not have a number one show. During the initial call, I told them I thought Jarrett was white.

I said I’d go on my show and explain it. They wouldn’t let me. They decided I was a liar in my apology. Now, this next part’s interesting to me and probably to you as a listener of the podcast. They didn’t do it to anyone else in Hollywood, although they always through when Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K.

Well, Louis C.K. Did lose everything, but he committed an actual offense. The light times they’re in an editor’s note. Ck admit in twenty seventeen that he repeatedly did stuff in front of women, Associates, and his FX show Louis was canceled back to Roseanne and Dave Chappelle was protected by Netflix. Another editorial note to Chapelle’s park criticism and protest for his jokes aimed to transgender people.

Most recently, in a special to closer, Roseanne, I’m the only person who’s lost everything, whose life’s work was stolen, stolen by people who I thought love me. And there was silence. There was no one in Hollywood really defendingly publicly except for Monique, who’s a brave, close, dear friend. All right, roseannde ever watched the Connors, No, I just can’t bear it, so I don’t. When they killed my character off, that was a message to me, knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues, that they did want me to commit suicide.

They killed my character, and that was all to say, thank you for bringing twenty eight million viewers, which they’ve never had before, and we’ll never see again because they can kiss my butt. Roseanne is excited to be back doing comedy. She said, I already want to do another special. I want to go further in depth than the first one. Once I started back writing comedy.

I couldn’t stop it. I wrote about four hours of material. Now I’ve got so much material it’s hard to carve down. I want to talk about what it’s like to work in the creative arts in Hollywood and how crazy it is. Her new specials on Fox Nation, Mark Marin’s special debut over the weekend on HBO Max Out of Mark Marin Press out there.

I’ll probably have a Marin story every single day this week. This one from Indy Wire. Maren revealed that he had been offered a job by failed of streaming service CNN Plus. Remember that one lasted about three weeks. Maybe not exaggerating.

Maren was talking about during the pandemic after the death of his girlfriend Lynn Shelton, he started doing Instagram lives on a daily basis as part of the grieving process. Maren said, it was just me kind of mumbling around doing stuff around my house, Randy or raving about this experienced grief. People were watching it and a lot of people got a lot out of it. I got a lot of peculiar fans from that, but it did engage me with an audience on a daily basis, to the point where CNN offered me on their defunct streaming service a lot of money to do it on the air, and I was like, I’m not going to do it. Thank god I didn’t, but I knew that I need to engage my voice that was performative, and that’s how I did it.

Brian posin as a new special. This one came out on YouTube on Friday. Distractify. I caught up with Brian and this one is called Posina non grata Lovett. Brian wrote the entire special except for one joke during COVID, but he had little chance to test it out before filming it.

He’d all Distractify. I used to have this great room and it was shut down before COVID. It was called Meltdown. It was a room in the back of this comic book shop, which was already my favorite comic book shop in LA and they started doing stand up and that became my favorite place to go to try material because they were mine people, and even if they weren’t paying to see me that night, it would fit and I could kind of judge the material better than I would at the comedy store. He talked about punching up and punching down.

He said, I was just punched myself. I’m a total self deprecating comic, and that’s just what I’m comfortable with. He says he can tell where you recognize him from before you even walk up to him. Comedy guys that look like me know me from comedy. I have fans that are bearded and bespectables, and they’ll come up and go, dude, you wrote Deadpool.

Metal heads know me for the metal stuff.

And then people covered in tattoos are Devil’s Rejects fans Devil’s Rejects, …

Brian Possein played at Jimmy Prosein and Non Grata on YouTube. Vulture has a list of the upcoming Daily Show guest hosts. Still a Weird lest Sarah Silverman this week Hassan Minhas, who I have a dollar on to be the winner at the end of this. He’ll do the week of February twenty seventh, Marlon Wayne’s March sixth, Cal Penn March thirteenth, Al Franken, who has less of a chance of getting the gig than I do. He’ll host week of March twentieth.

John Leguizamo March twenty seventh, Really Weird and as Vulture points out, when does Roy Wood Junior get his chance? Oh, this next story is so much fun. Saturday Night Live has been trying to get Prince Harry to host the show, as the writer on the daily Royal family podcast Palace Intrigue, Please have Prince Harry host Saturday Night Live. He apparently was in serious talks to host the show before the release of his book Spare. A source said, I know that Harry was all in.

He was really serious about doing it, and it would have been great fun as promo for the book. S and L producers have been after Harry for a while. Everyone on the show was really into the idea and people would have definitely tuned in amen to that. Another insider said, there’s always lots of names in the mix, but Harry was definitely a name being discussed. I was curious what a Harry hosted SNL would sound like.

I went to the chat bot, the GPT chat thing, and I asked it to type in a Prince Harry SNL monologue. I don’t do any sort of Prince Harry impression, but here’s what the chatbot’s bit out. Hello New York, how are you guys doing tonight. It’s great to be here on Saturday Night Live, I mentioned. At that point, the crowd cheers, right, So my first time hosting.

So I’m a bit nervous, but I think I’m ready for the challenge. So I heard that in America people are obsessed with the royal family. Is that true? The script says, pause for laughter. Well, I hope you don’t expect me to waive at you or anything.

I’m here to do comedy, not royalty duties.

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Speaking of my family, have you heard about the new royal baby.

Yeah, it’s me. I’m the new royal baby. You know what they say. Once a prince, always a prince. But my case, I’m also a duke, a son, a husband and dad, a philanthropist, and a fellow with a great sense of humor.

I mean, just look at my outfit tonight, and let me tell you it’s not easy being a prince. People always expect you to be perfect, to have the right answer, to be the life of the party. I’m human too, I have bad days. I even have a dad bod. And at that point he would go, you know, and enjoy our musical guest whoever, and then we’d go to commercial I thought the chat bot did a good job there.

If you enjoy Royal Family Stuff followed the podcast Palace Intrigue, where if you get your shows, The Advocate caught up with Jeff Foxworthy. He said he struck a deal with his relatives years ago concerning them being part of the jokes. Jeff said, did come back and go. I heard you were talking about us last weekend, and I said, I can’t help it. I’m gonna talk about you, but in return for talking about you, I’m going to take you on a fabulous vacation.

Then you take him on vacation, and you get fifteen more minutes of material, and so it became an endless loop I could never get out of. I’ve noticed in a lot of recent Foxworthy interviews he points out that you might be a redneck. Stuff was only a five minutes out of his act, even at the height of that particular bits popularity. That is correct. As for doing new material versus old material, he said, the audience is kind of split, like some people just want to see new stuff, but some people but want to hear you do certain things that are their favorites.

Foxworthy said the new stuff is always the fun stuff for me to work on. My brain only holds about an hour and a half to two hours, so if I start working on new stuff, I have to flush the old stuff, which is a really sad moment, knowing you’ve got a twenty minute bit that gets giant laughs and you let it go. But there’s only so much room in the attic. Will Jeff Foxworthy they retire because Ron White and Bill Angvall are recently retired, and Foxworthy said, I think about that because I watched Tom Brady the other night and I’m like, oh, buddy, you should have retired. Even in the early days of it, I used to tell my wife, don’t let me be the old guy.

That’s not funny anymore. That’s up there doing it. And if you’re in Cleveland, see if you could track down the Secret Society Comedy Show. It’s a weekly late night show. There’s a twist.

The venue changes every week. The event’s co founder, David Hornings, said that lends itself to the air of secrecy and in the easier commitment for the venues. The loose aftershow nature of the Society’s weekly meeting provides local comedians the chance to work out new material kind of like the comedy seller or the comedy store. Warning said, it’s not original to those cities, but it’s original to Cleveland. We wanted to bring big city comedy to Cleveland.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Man and it’s Super Bowl Sunday. Hi, if your comedy news for you, Kevin Hart is supporting the Eagles. Today he went on TikTok and make it how clear he is supporting the Eagles. Here’s Kevin.

All right, people, the big game is coming up, so you already know how I’m celebrating correctly with that Mino Lino grand cormno on debt. But before I get into how I’m celebrating, I want to tell you why. Because I work hard, and I believe when you work hard, you should treat yourself. And that’s exactly what I did.

And then Jail I spourged a little bit.

I would have brought an eagle show it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I bought that sixteen point five mil cash. I’m the only black man with an eagle doing Black history money. And because it’s the wild animal, he came with it, that’s right. So he lives here for two months till he get used to me.

I name the eagle Jailing Hurts. Jailing got a big game coming up? Baby, you’re ready? Hey? When I say fly, eagles fly, can he take a lap on a house?

Hopefully, it’s a bit and he hasn’t actually bought an Eagle.

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Meanwhile, on the chief side, Jason Sadikis is a known Chiefs super fan.

He said, Kansas City is part of my soul. It’s where I’m from, It’s where I was raised, It’s where my folks live, where a lot of good and bad things have happened to me and many other people. His advice for the Chiefs more ice baths. Some other notable fans, Rob Riggle is a Chiefs fan. He grew up in Kansas, graduated from University of Kansas ninety two, and said, I’m a huge Kansas City Chiefs fan.

These are the greatest days of my life. Everybody’s excited, right, I know the Eagles fans are excited. Philly fans have really embraced their underdogs status. You’ve all seen the dog masks that these guys are wearing. Kind of intimidating, but you know it’s scarier than barking dogs.

Regular Eagles fans Macpacker and Henry Winkler is a big fan of Patrick Mahomes. Winkler says he roots for the Chiefs even though I’ve never lived there, but specifically because of Patrick Mahomes. He even got starstruck. He said he was thrilled out of his mind and meet Patrick Mahomes for the first time ahead of game in November. Let’s take a look at the commercials Jeff Ross will be roasting at mister Peanut.

This is Planter’s Super Bowl ad today. When Jeff Ross was asked to do it, he said, I immediately started reading all the research I could find on mister Peanut. I went to his Wikipedia, I went to the Planter side. I watched all his older Super Bowl commercials. I had some conversations with him and learned everything I could so that could roast him as an expert, not just as a fan of his peanuts, but also somebody who I admire.

Time out, didn’t mister Peanut die like two, three, five years ago and the person that is now alive is the baby mister Peanut all growing up? So is Jeff Ross roasting a toddler here that I lose the continuity? Does it matter? Johnny McK and you just watch a commercial and go with the joke that Jeff Ross is roasting a peanut. Why do you have to over analyze everything?

Great question, listener, Jeff Ross said, mister Peanut is an American legend. He got us through the Great Depression. No he didn’t. That was the original mister Peanut. This is a new mister Peanut.

I saw the commercial. The guy died. In twenty twenty. Mister Pet, iconic Planter’s mascot dies at one hundred and four. Peanut, who lived out the entirety of his years as the mascot of the Planters Snack Food Company, has died.

The iconic brand ambassador died heroically sacrificing himself to save his friends, Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh. The trio were driving down a desert road and mister peanuts signature vehicle, the Nutmobile, when mister Peanuts swerves to avoid an armazillo sent them off, flying from the car and they ended up dangling from a branch. Mister Peanut chose to let go of the branch, plummeting into the canyon below to let his companions live. Mister Peanut full name Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald Smith, was born in nineteen sixteen when schoolboy and Tonio Ginzilly submitted his design for an anthropomorphic peanut mascot to planters. But wait, there’s more.

In a different commercial, Wesley Snipes is speaking at mister Peanut’s funeral, which is attended by the likes of Mister Clean and the kool aid Man. The kool aid Man sheds a tear which causes a plant to immediately sprout and a baby, Mister Peanut is born. The baby says, just kidding, I’m back, where’s my monocle? So? Is this like a search for a spock thing?

Is this the original mister Peanut reborn? Johnny Mack, Why can’t you just accept that Jeff Ross is roasting mister Peanut and that’s the joke. Why do you have to do this? I don’t know. Jeff Ross said, mister Peanut is an American legend.

He got us through the Great Depression. He’s a cheap snack during tough times. Wait, so is mister Peanut like one hundred and six years old? Jeff Ross said, I had some conversations with him and learned everything I could so I could roast him as an expert, not just a fan of his peanuts, but also somebody admire he got us do the Great Depression. He’s a cheap snack during tough times, and I wanted to honor him in the best way I could with well crafted, roasted jokes.

When you roast someone like mister Peanut, who’s been around a hundred six years, I think the best way to do it is backhanded compliments. You don’t want it to be mean spirited. You want to kind of make them feel good. He’s a hundred and six years old, almost old enough to run for Congress. I wanted to feel like the jokes are the kind of thing where him, his family, and his friends could repeat them after the roast.

I didn’t want them to feel hurt by the jokes, but lifted up by the jokes. Jeff Ross spoke about the current state of comedy with Fox News, and he said I thought people might get more sensitive over the years. During the pandemic, I was honestly worried is roasting over? Are people too sensitive?

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And then as things open back up, I got in the clubs that are realized Nope.

People still love seeing their idols get taken down a notch. They love to see people they admire or laugh at themselves. Nobody wants the roast water down. They want their roast potent. They want their comedy rights to the gut, and I think roasting speaks of that.

Specifically. We all evolve as human beings. No one kind of talks about the world the way we did ten twenty years ago. So I evolve like everyone else, and my comedy evolves like everyone else. But to be honest with you, comedy is almost like a vaccine for your brain.

It protects you from mental health worries. It’s a real medicine. It sounds corny, but it really can’t lift people up. Another commercial will start the aforementioned Kevin Hart, who said, we got to tap into some relationships, big cameos and hit the button on the head with messaging while giving an air stream amount of personality and fun to what I think is going to be a truly unique spot during the super Bowl. The commercial includes some folks like Tony Hawk, David Orts, He’s Doctor Jay, the Undertaker, Emmitt Smith, Ludacris.

How do you get all these people? He said, It’s a business of relationships and how you nurture and carry and treat them throughout the years. I prioritize them and when I call, they respond. That’s something that I’d take an extreme amount of pride end Johnny Mack will speculate and somebody got paid to be in a Super Bowl ad. That’s also entirely possible.

It’s equally possible that, you know, doctor Jay is just doing it because he’s cool like that. But maybe he got paid to be in the ad. Who knows, really, Kevin Art said, I think people are going to be blown away. They’re great cameos. There’s a great reason for those cameos to be in the spot.

My fingers are crossed, all superstition is kicked in. I would love to come home with another win. Kevin Art seems to think he’s on the Eagles, and he said that would put me on cloud nine. Yet a different commercial star Will Ferrell. He drives different electric vehicles through different Netflix shows, including Bridgerton and Stranger Things.

This to announce Netflix will feature electric vehicles and its original shows. The Will Ferrell spots in the past have bombed and reading that description, I don’t know, well, but you know, maybe we’ll got paid or maybe just did a Super Bowl commercial because he’s cool like that. Who knows. Hellman’s Mayonnaise is back for the third consecutive year. This one make Taste not Waste any commercial.

Pete Davidson looks into his refrigerator and he finds ham and Brie. That’s John Hamm and Alison Bree. In case you don’t get the joke, ham and Brie is a play on meats and cheese. Anyway, Hammon Brie are next to some mayonnaise, which is referred to as food’s best friend. The viewers then encouraged to make taste not waste by using mayonnaise to bring leftovers to life.

I’m not a big Mail fan, and if I have to put mayo on something to eat it us is not working for me, but I like Pete Davidson and John Hamm and Alison Bree. Sure. Amy Schumer will be in an ad for the Google Phone that adds spotlights the phones impressive AI imaging eraser technology. In the commercial, Amy Schumer magic erases her exes. Dan McBride will do a spot for Downey where he wants to go by Downey McBride and Greg Gutfeld declares he’s the new King of Late Night.

YEP. Fox is using one of their in house spots to promote Guttfeld during the Big Game fifteen second spot winning eleven o’clock show, That’s tagline to Clara’s Gutfeld, The New King of Late Nights and from the Athletic You’re Home for Comedy News Dean Blandino’s fascinating rise from stand up comedy to rulebook guru. You know this guy. When there’s a penalty, they bring them on. They’re like, hey, Dean, what’s going on there?

And he explains what the rules are. You’ve seen this, You’ve watched football, you know what I’m talking about here. He used to be a comedian during the nineteen nineties. He had a bit about Monopoly, said that was one of my comedy bits about growing up in the family would get together and play Monopoly, five hour long games. Monopoly controversy.

My grandmother was charging too much rent, trying to steal money from the bank. Mike Pereira, another one of those NFL officiating TV personalities, said the routine was hilarious. I must say I had a different opinion of his grandmother after I watched his routine. Blendino said, would play from the beginning when you have to buy the properties, and after about an hour I was done. Most of my family loved it and I’d just be sitting there right this vision of just losing and at some point freaking out, knocking the board off the table, screaming up my grandmother.

They didn’t want to play anymore. His comedic influences where Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy and Red Fox. He said, there are comics and go out and not curse and be really entertaining. That wasn’t me necessarily, but I wasn’t like F this, F that. Obviously with some of the influences that I have, they were more the adult style humor.

I don’t know what kind of style that was, but those are just some of the people that influenced me. Moose Johnston said, can you imagine Dean dropping a little George Carlin and Red Fox during a rules description? That’d be tremendous. I agree, go for it. Do it during the super Bowl.

People will love you. Being on TV. He has to be quick on his feet, much like stand up, Dean said, especially if you get interaction with the crowd, maybe it’s a heckler. You got to be quick thinking. But also it’s the delivery, the timing.

With TV, it’s the same thing. You gotta be in and out. You have to deliver it well. You gotta be able to articulate a lot of leads to success in stand up. It also leads to success on TV.

And this final. As I was putting together the show, I googled Comedy super Bowl. I found this thing on the TCM Turner Classic Movies website. This from nineteen seventy one Super Comedy Bowl. Lucille Ball is your host.

Among the cast Carol Burnett, all Right, Charlton Heston, Artie Johnson, and Jack Lemon. I couldn’t find anything else about it, and I looked. All I have for you is a description a comedy special poking fun at the Super Bowl. It’s fans and it’s players, and there was a sequel the following year. Not your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck, Jimmy Kimmel was joking about Donald Trump returning to campaigning. Hi, I’m trying to mac with your Daily Comedy News. Kimmel called it the political equivalent of when Michael Jordan went to play for the Wizards. Tampa Bay Date Night dot Com asked Jim gaff again, Hey, what inspired you to want to do comedy for a living? Jim said, you know, I didn’t even know it was an option.

I mean, I’ve been doing it for thirty years. Thirty years ago. It was not a realistic occupation. Let’s see nineteen ninety two, Jerry Seinfeld might differ. I mean there were people that could do it and make a living.

Would be hardest sport a family. You know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube, Oh do math Johnny Mac nineteen ninety three. You know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio. You’re welcome, Jim, You were welcome. You kind of call this back when we asked you to do more specials.

Jim, you know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio. Hi are you new listener? Hi? I program the comedy channels at Serious x SIM When Jim was less famous, he would come up a lot. When Jim was famous, didn’t return calls.

You know, most comedians, with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio, it’s transformed it to where now performing in theaters, which makes it so much more. You can afford a family of five kids, you know, which is amazing. You’re welcome, Jim, You’re very welcome. I’m not there anymore. Don’t call those guys back.

Hey, Jim, how do you bounds being as successful and busy as you are with a family life, Gaffigan said, I think anyone doing a lot of parenting is always juggling. It’s always reevaluating the situation and adjusting, you know. I mean, Luckily for me, I’ve been able to travel out with my kids. Saw strategically plan tours around summer or Christmas or spring break, so that some of it is being very tactical on how you do shows and bringing everyone with you. When they were really a little weeds to be on bus tours, it was chaos.

But it’s definitely, like any parent will tell you, it’s definitely a constant adjustment. Right, this works this month, but next month, I don’t know. Philadelphia Weekly, which has a really strong comedy section. They’ve been crushing it here. In twenty twenty three, Don l Rawlings was asked, how do you maintain in the funny when you have to deal with things like COVID or social justice issues or ukraine.

Zonel said, some of the best comedy comes from a dark place. Some of the best things a comedian can create come from an argument with your spouse. It’s all based on emotion. When the world’s going the way it is now, that’s when a comedian is truly tested. This is where we stand up.

This is where we fight when things are the roughest. Who can rally and make people feel good about themselves. We’re like therapists, and it’s as if we are getting therapy because talking about all this helps us with our problems. We’re laughing with you, We’re engaged with you. It takes real engagements to make the negative into a positive.

Many times, when people go through issues, they believe they’re doing it alone. Part of the show talks about me being an older dad having my first kid later in life. I used to feel embarrassed to talk about that. Talking about it comedically helps stop that because I’m not the only one being out there doing your jokes and connecting with someone who can relate. That’s awesome.

Someone is always going through what you’re going through. Julia Louis Dreyfuss told Variety there needs to be multiple years of normalcy in Washington before she would revisit VEEP. She’s asked how VEEP would have dealt with something like the January sixth insurrection. She said, I don’t know how we could. I don’t know how to make that funny, especially when people lost their lives.

Eddie Murphy was out doing press for you people, and he told a great story about meeting Rodney Dangerfield. Eddie said, so I met Rodney. I’m sixteen, seventeen years old, and I’m getting ready to go up on stage and Rodney comes and he bumps me, and he goes say, hey, you can’t go up. Rodney’s going on. So Rodney goes on and he kills and I’m like, I’m going to go up after Rodney.

So no one wanted to go up, so I want up after him, and I do my stuff and afterward Rodney’s like, hey, good, where are you going with all that stuff? While that cursing using that language, Basically, he told me, I wasn’t crap, so I was like, ah, I was crestfalled. My mind was blown. I was like Rodney didn’t like me, thought it was too dirty. Long story short, Maybe two three years later I blew up.

I’d become Eddie Hotshot. I was in the bathroom of Caesar’s Palace at the urinal Dangerfield comes and stands right next to me. I look over, and he looks, and he says, hey, who knew. DJ Demmers finds comedic inspiration in everything, including poking fun at himself. He is deaf and said, I’m inspired by my day to day life, whether it’s a big idea or a small observation.

I write it down on my notes and try to a coherent narrative over time. I definitely eased into my death material. I didn’t want it to be some sort of crutch or gimmick when I started. It took about six months or a year before I started making jokes about my hearing aids on stage all the way. After seeing this article, I checked out his stand up.

He is really really funny. DJ Demmers as who were talking about here, He joked, I never felt deafer than I did during the pandemic for real, man, everybody had a mask on. He never realized how much he relied on lip reading until the pandemic. Yet you can always expect good vibes at my show first and foremost his hour long shows, also featuring an ASL interpreter. Dakota ray Aber is a DNA comedian I hope I got that right, ze and e comedian from Meadow Lake, Saskatoon.

She has released her special entitled I’ll Give You An Indian Act. She said the album was born out of anger at the government last summer. I was just very angry at the government. It happens a lot. I don’t go to law schools, so I can’t change the laws that way.

I’m not a big activist. I can’t do anything that way. But you know what I can do is roast the ever loving crap out of the government. So I got to work on compiling the jokes I’d already written, but then also going through the dry research that have ever done for any comedy and put together this album. And so it’s kind of like a big FU to the government.

The Indian Act is a book of laws that dictates the lives of indigenous peoples in Canada and it’s still in place. Some of the comments I would get was like, oh, we’re still on this. She said, We’re a first world country. I think that has an entire book of laws dictating a race of people. From time to time, Variety will do I’ll call it a fluff job.

They’ll do these real puff pieces about people in the industry, and there’s usually like some other reason that they do them. This one focused on Mike Berkowitz, he coheads WMME Agency’s comedy group. He was talking about how things have changed. Mike said he used to be would invite executives to see a set or arrange a blind pitch meeting. Now, thanks to social media, comics can be able to following on their own.

We’re inviting executives to sold out three thousand seat venues where people are chanting your name. Variety pointed out some WMME clients, Sam Mail and Christa Stephano also spotlighted Theo Vaughan, who has slowly become a touring and podcasting force over the past decade. He’s now ready to go to market with his first feature film as a writer and star, and from Mix online dot Com they caught up with Anthony Leo. He runs Guerrilla Media, which is an av production company specializing in the recording of comedy specials. That’s cool, Leo says.

We do albums, shoot comedy specials. We aim to be a supportive service for every stage of a comedian’s career. Comedy recording isn’t like capturing a room for music, he says. You want to grab stereo pockets around the room where the crowd mikes don’t pick up too much of the comics voice through the PA. If there’s too much of the comic and the crowd mikes, you can’t raise the crowd level without also raising the comics echo.

That’s why some comedy albums sound like they were recorded in a tunnel. The PA is almost dear enemy. Amen Comics gets a selected where their specials are shot because they know the venue when they know their audience. We have to find places to mount mike’s for good capture without showing up on camera. At a recent taping of Lean Morgan This at the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky, one set of mikes was placed above the highest balcony, angled down sixty degrees to pick up the seats clearly to capture a wide crowd sound on the main floor.

His team had a mount mics on the theaters ornamental columns that this guy knows what he’s doing. Once placed, the mikes had to be ready to go, and stopping the show to replace batteries was not an option. I get. There are two lithium batteries in the Lectro Sonics Hma plug on transmitter. It’ll run Fantom power for almost five hours.

That’s fantastic because we have to turn them on, make sure everything’s good, and then they open the doors, seat the crowd, run the opening comics due announcements deal with various delays. I don’t have to worry about losing a mike towards the end of the Headliners act when the crescendo’s happening. Yeah. I remember back in the days at Series XHM. I would get some albums that would just mixed terribly, and if you don’t have the laughter there, it sounds like you’re bombing.

I don’t care how good the material is, it just sounds bad. If you’ve ever heard a comedian do an audio book, including George Carlind without the laughs there, it just falls flat. It’s kind of like me doing the late night jokes at the top of the podcast sucks. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival next month in Melbourne, Australia. A great city.

Been there, love it, would love to get back. It’s often ranked number one of best cities in the world and I can see why. Six hundred plus show starts March twenty ninth, runs till April twenty third. There’s a list of comedians here. I’m going to guess that I could read them all, but I’m going to guess that ninety nine point nine percent of you won’t recognize them, including me.

Some of the international performers let’s see here. You may know Tim Key from the UK, Sarah Schaefer will be there, Danny Boy, Stephen k Amos’s great Daniel Kitson. Some of the shows include Best of Comedy’s Own Asia featuring Malaysia’s Douglas Limb with comedy friends from India and Indonesia, Love Shows Like That, Aboriginal Comedy All Stars features a deadly lineup of First Nations comedians. Love Shows Like That, Neighborhood Sessions four weekends of local comedians. Theme nights include ten comedians for ten dollars, improv throwdown and cab original.

That’s funny. Come on, Melbourne people, won’t you hope to be able to free trip? We’ll run around with the portable record for three weeks. My wife will kill me, but I’ll go. That’s your comedies for today.

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The Shark deck. Can you watch the State of the Union? Of the night him Johnny Mac with Your Daily Coming and hews Bono was there, and it’s still unclear why Bono was there. I asked the AI to write some late night style jokes and the AI did pretty good. Zoe Bono was at the State of the Union.

I guess the President really needed someone to sing his praises. This next one is falonesque. Heard Bono was at the State of the Union. He looked a little soft. I guess he left his edge at home.

Yea, I wrote the core this one. I punched it up at times Biden lost his place. Looks like Bono wasn’t the only one who got stuck in a moment. And this next one is all me. Bono was never called on, although Biden did say I can do this with or without you.

The AI added, note these jokes are meant to be lighthearted and not intended to cause offense. I agree, AI. From actual Late night seth Meyers, President Biden delivered his State of the Union address, So you mean his balloon assassination victory lap Falon. There was wall to wall coverage of the State of the Union on all the major networks.

Meanwhile, Netflix is like Kitsching Gordon.

Speaker McCarthy asked Biden not to call George Santos an extremely delusional Republican, but instead referred to him by his correct title, seven time Grand Slam winner, George Santos. I like this next one from Fallon. It was a tough night for Biden staffers watching from the White House. Every time people clap, the lights went on and off. That’s great Fallon.

Biden also talked about his achievements. He said, we passed an infrastructure bill, were reduced inflation, and we finally convinced Don Brady to retire.

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Speaking of Late Night, this one is a little shockings, a little strong, surp…

We know that that’s coming to an end. So who’s going to be the next host of The Late Late Show. Nobody. They’re ending the show after twenty eight years, and they’re going to replace it with at Midnight. Remember At Midnight that was the Chris Hardwick hosted game show on Comedy Central.

That was a lot of fun, but I guess it didn’t rate that well because they ended it an insider tells Variety that using at Midnight would trim some of the frills and CBS post late show slot and eliminate tens of millions of dollars in production costs. CBS had been considering as many as five different concepts to replace Cordon Show. Chris Hardwick, the original host of at Midnight, is not believed to be in the running to host the new edition. You may recall Chris had some colorful details in his personal life. CBS is said to prefer a female host and is also pushing to make sure that the talent in front end behind the cameras is diverse and hails from a range of backgrounds.

That’ll be good to have that show on. A lot of comedians will be the guests on the show, give me something to talk about.

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Also ending on late Night, Sam J’s HBO show Pause, she told the Last Laugh po…

It wasn’t my decision. It’s kind of disappointing. But I was also drained. It was a dreaming show because it was very personal, so I was feeling a little spent from it. To be honest, Glad I got to do it.

Feel really good and proud of the thing I made, and I’m very proud of everybody that worked on the show. But they’re blood and sweat and tears, and I’m making something blah blah blah. I think it was a little ahead of its time. People look back on it and be like, Wow, that was a really cool thing that was happening. Promo for me, don’t skips day’s episode.

I’m putting together a Super Bowl episode and it’s pretty strong. Said don’t skip it. Okay, listen on Sunday. Got some Kevin Hart stuff. I’ll tell you what comedians are going to show up in the commercials.

I got a couple of comedy stories related to the Super Bowl, So don’t skip that one. You can skip tomorrow Tomorro’s left orser during the week, How’s that all right, ikey? Story of the day Number one your headline from Newsweek. Joe Rogan slam for saying Jews are into money Joe Newsic Rights. Joe Rogan has been slam for saying that Jewish people are quote into money unquote during a discussion on the most recent episode of his podcast.

Rogan was talking to Breaking Points podcasters Crystal Ball and Cigar and Jetty Hope, I got your name right there. They discussed Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement of Representative Adam Schiff for California Senate. Rogan said, quoting here from the Newsweek transcript, it’s crazy. Did you see him sitting next to ilhan Omar where she’s apologizing for talking about it’s all about the Benjamin’s, which is just about money. She’s talking about money.

That’s not an anti Semitic comment. I don’t think that it is Benjamin’s her money, he continued. The idea that Jewish people are not in the money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians are an into pizza. It’s fffing stupid.

Rogan’s comment caught the attention of comedian David Battiel. David is the author of Jews Don’t Count and wrote, I actually want to stop banging of the Jews don’t Count drump at some point. But hard to do when a racist myth about Jews is just said Breezeley on one of the biggest podcasts in the world, and no one gives an f for the heart of understanding Jews are into money is not like Italians or into pizza. Because unless my history lessons really miss something out. No one has exterminated a large section of the entire Italian community because of their love of Pepper Moroney.

I’m recording this one on Wednesday to accommodate my personal schedule. We’ll see what fallout happens from here. Ian Carmel is the head writer for The Late Late Show with James Cordon. He found a way to find some humor in it. He suggested that Rogan might go the way of NBA star Kyrie Irving, who had come under criticism for what some felt were anti Semitic tweets.

Irving was traded to the Mavericks last week. Carmel tweeted, Joe Rogan to the Mavericks confirmed, here’s a terrible idea. Before I tell you what the terrible idea is, let me do an open letter to John Clees. Dear mister Clees, don’t do this. This is a terrible mistake.

You must have enough money, surely you understand your legacy, and there’s no way that this will live up to your legacy. Please don’t do it. Signed Johnny Mack. All right, what’s the deal here? Faulty Towers?

You know the iconic British series. There’s like two seasons of six episodes each. It’s often considered the pinnacle of British comedy. Well, John Clees is bringing it back. John Clees will write and star alongside daughter Camilla Clees in the new version of Faulty Towers.

The new series will explore how Clees is over the top, cynical and missanthro pick basil Faulty navigates the modern world. The plot will focus on his relationship with his daughter as they manage a Batique hotel together. I’m underfamiliar with Camilla Clees, but you know the she’s related to John, and that makes me wonder was she the best possible person for the role. I guess John feels that she is. The Cleases are working with Rob Reiner and his team at Castle Rock.

John Clees called a first meeting there one of the best creative sessions I can remember. Ryner, who’s also working on a sequel to this is Spinal Tap, said John Clees is a comedy legend. Just the idea of working with him makes me laugh. The original series ran two six episode seasons, viewed as one of the most defining TV comedies of all time. In twenty nineteen, a Radio Times poll named it the greatest British sitcom ever.

It’s been remade in the US three times. Do you remember any of these? Nineteen seventy nine Chateau Snavely, nineteen eighty three as a manda is I remember that one because it was b Arthur and nineteen ninety nine s Payne pay Any. I don’t remember that at all. All failed.

In two thousand nine, John Clees said there would never be another episode of the show. John Clees said, and I hope twenty twenty three is John Clees reads this quote. Two thousand nine, John said, the is when you do do something that is generally accepted as being very good, a horrible problem arises, which is how do it to hop it? The expectation of what you will do is so high, Yes, eighty two year old John Clees again, please don’t do this. Mark Marin’s specials out on HBO Maxitude Morrow.

Vanity Fair caught up with Mark, who explained that the title from Bleak to Dark is something somebody said to me and it was such a great thing. He tells the story of working on another project and one of the suits over at FX said, look, guys, I love the story, it’s great, love the writing, it’s great. I have no specific notes, but is there any way we can get it from bleak to dark? Marin says, and I thought like, oh my god, that’s what I do. But they ultimately didn’t buy the show.

But nonetheless it’s stuck with me as a great moment. So I should write him an email and thank him. All right, Mark Marin, what’s the through line for this special? Mark said, well, I knew that part of my responsibility is a comic that I’ve decided to do these cultural satiric and cutting and aggressive assessments of what I see happening in the world. And I realized that we had to do that upfront because we had to get this stuff about grief and about Lynn’s passing further down into it.

Mark’s girlfriend Lyn passed away during the pandemic. I moved this stuff around a lot over the years. A year and a half I was working it, so I just entered into the Roe v. Wade and the fascism element and these stupid people and the culture of tribalism and this woke and unwoke business. But then I’m very aware of the tone change where I literally sit down and I start speaking from my experiencing about aging and my father.

That kind of shifts in a personal It made sense to move from aging and my father’s dementia into the grief. There are separate themes there, but they do seem to be about mortality and the way the world is going. They asked, Mark, how do you keep in mind that these TV specials whill live online forever versus when you’re doing a regular show and it’s not recorded. Marin said, I’m very aware that despite any of these self proclaimed victims of cancel culture and woke culture talk and the big problem of not being him to speak their mind. And I know what I’m doing, and there’s some things that I’m speaking to that could attract a type of anger that is dangerous.

So I also have to deal with that, and knowing they’re lunatics out there, and I’m talking frankly and darkly comedically about a religion and also points of view of people that are fundamentally known to be violent. I’ve got to live with that, and that’s a risk. It’s calculated risk, not totally unlike the idea if you say something that’s inappropriate and you get pushed back or get marginalized. You can go find a group of people that enjoy that kind of stuff. Keep going.

Also about what I say about my family members, It’s like, all right, well, how’s my mother’s boyfriend going to feel about this? And I think that was warmhearted enough that maybe he’ll be okay with it. We’ll see. And my dad, fortunately, it’s not going to really remember it too long. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Common News.

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So what’s that You sign up and then once a month you’ll send me two bucks and I’ll shut you out on the show. There are other price points you can do it. One time donation five dollars. I’ll take your five dollars. I go to the National Donus chain.

I will order on the app. I will select iced beverage, coffee, milk caramel. Order now, then I’ll drive there while listening to myself. No, that’s not an ego thing. That’s how I QC the show.

Sometimes I blow an edit if you want to hear me below edits a sit over my shoulder while I record this thing. Oh my goodness, the amount of blown sentences that I clean up or you know, listen between three h five am and six thirty am before I listen back to the show for the final time. You might catch a mistake here and there. Anyway, buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News mac Packer, Andy Samberg and Jean Smart have teamed up for a unique May December romantic comedy. It’s titled forty two point six Years.

In forty two point six years, a young man played by Andy Samberg who, in order to save his life, undergoes an experimental procedure in which he’s cryogenically frozen. He wakes up forty two points sixty years later. He’s on change. Thanks to being frozen. He finds himself alone in the future, with no one to turn to but his ex girlfriend, who’s played by Jean Smart.

Great cas, that’s a winner. Here’s a question for myself. Hey, Johnny mack if Adam Sandler handed in that exact thing. If you were sitting in your basement, going, hey, Adam Sandler plays a guy and he’s frozen for forty three years and he comes out and now he’s dating Katherine O’Hara. Would you hate on that idea, Johnny Mack?

I probably would, wouldn’t I? Now, what is that? Is it that Samberg has a track record of being funny and Sadler has three good movies? Discuss Daily Comedy News Facebook group from Yahoo Finance, your home for comedy news. Taco Bell’s breakfast category got a boost last quarter.

Do you remember why? Do you? Do you remember why? Thanks to Pete Davidson. That’s right, the CEO of the Bell says Taco Bell brought in Pete Davidson help drive consumer buzz for breakfast.

This led to nine percent transaction growth for the day. Part our second Ikey story of the Day from The Hollywood Reporter. Thanks to Scott, who is one of the friends of the show. He shared this on the Daily comed News podcast group facebook page. Justin Royland.

He is the voice of Rick. He is the voice of Morty. He is one of the co creators of Rick and Morty. He is one of the co creators of Solar Opposites. He is the voice of Corvo on Solar Opposites.

Multiple sources to all the Holly Reporter and the multiple sources would only speak on the condition of anonymity. Apparently, Royland wasn’t the easiest person to work with. They shared some ikey texts that I don’t even want to get into. One time, Royland paraded a high profile porn star through the Rick and Morty writer’s room, openingly discussed threesomes and was involved in at least one instance of alleged sexual harassment during the show’s third season, which was notably the first season where there were female writers. The article also gets into butting heads with Dan Herman.

Dan Harmon, also the creator of Community. Harmon wanted season two of Rick and Morty to be even better than season one, and insider says, and when Harmon wants something going to be even better, it means later nights, it means being more careful, means saying yes to few were silly ideas, and Justin is the king of silly ideas. Harmon brought in a few community writers, and the insider says those community writers didn’t treat Royland with the same kind of reverence that the season one group had. The writer’s room became clubbier and not nearly as much fun. There were now Dan’s Guys a more cerebral, structured set, and Justin’s guys any collection of art, and they just weren’t going to mix.

As the source, Dan is all on the page and mathematical about story breaking, and the guys that Justin hired were like, look, I drew a third with eyes, Let’s do a story about that. Hollyard Porter says it’s been years since anyone can remember Royland stepping foot in the show’s writer’s room, even when it was virtual. Recently, a similar situation has occurred on both Solar Opposites and Kuala Man, according to multiple sources. A source says Justa knew the power of being the voices, noting how Royland had revealed early on that he believed securing key voice rolls would safeguard him from being fired one day. On Koala Man, he’s an executive producer, but he was given a character to voice in the show’s third episode, but per two sources, the writers almost blew their deadline waiting for him.

The character was killed off at the end of the episode. Tonight, at the University of Maryland, it’s the spring comedy show All Nighter Events. Otsko at Kanska will be performing. Otsco will take the stage at eight thirty. She will follow UMD punch Bowl Comedy after at six pm.

Performance also included the All Nighter, a roller rink, cosmic bowling, t shirt giveaway, karaoke movies, tote bag decorating games, and more. Five to midnight, which I don’t know, that’s not really an all nighter, college kids five to midnight, Johnny Mack can do five to midnight? What are you talking about? Shouldn’t it be five to five? The theme tonight is candy Land and I’ve been enjoying the word bogan all week.

Then I thought, hmm, I should make sure that that word isn’t like, somehow offensive and I’m being a jerk. So I googled is the word bogan offensive? Google tells me the word bogan is derogatory and carries with a variety of stereotypes. So it’s like, oh, who am I in trouble with? Now?

I hope I wasn’t being accidentally jerky to a particular group of people than I were. The next sentence, Bogan’s typically wear ug boots were thongs in summer. All right, I’m okay with offending that crowd. ABC dot Net The Australian ABC had a big article of late the word bogan has been enjoying and renewed airing. First, too high profile media and business personalities were involved in an episode of temporarily physical aggression which the Melbourne or Harald’s Sun labeled as Bogan air behavior.

Love It. Then there was the Tasmanian mayor who referred to some of his constituents as the most Bogan of bogans. The oranges of the word bogan are, if not sure out in the missive history, least reasonably unknown. It is certainly Australian and is no older than the twentieth century. There’s a Bogan River and a Bogan Shire in central New South Wales, if there’s no reason to finger them as the arch of the word or the behavior.

The term bogan for people originated probably in Melbourne around nineteen eighty and is now understood in most parts of Australia. Bogans have been rebadged in various parts of Australia, Queensland has Beavans, Sydney has west Ease. Those are the people that live in the western suburbs. Tasmania has Chigs that comes from Chigwell, a suburb of Hobarts where the local Bogans were alleged have come. Canberra has its own term Booners or boons.

Bogans typically wear ug boots or thongsince summer. A special piece of alleged Bogan lore is the practice of keeping thongs going once the toe strap is pulled out of the soul by using plastic closures from packets of bread from the supermarket. Bogans come in different varieties. Once upon a time, their hair favored the mullet mohawks. The younger ones are more prone to standardization, torn jeans and sloppy sweaters or flanny shirts where a wife beater singlet.

Bogans could be of any age. Bogans can be actual folk heroes. Watch an episode of Bogan Hunters. What is Bogan Hunters. Bogan Hunters is an Australian comedy reality TV series.

The series provides an in depth looking to Australians Bogan’s sub culture. Here’s the plot summary. Of season one episode Fine, which aired June twenty fourteen. The crew head to South Australia, where they attend a Cold Chiseled tribute concert in Darwin. They meet the city’s thong throwing champion and keV gets friendly with a crocodile.

Now it’s just hoping I could have the Ai writes some Jeff Foxworthy style bogan jokes. But the but since his lunchtime as a record, the chat gept website is overloaded, so I’ll just have to make one up on the floor. Let’s see if you meet the city’s thumb throwing champion, you who might be a bogan. I’ll have to see if I could do that in Australia accent. I can’t write now.

When I was down in Australia, I’ve told the story before, but I will tell it again. So I remember seeing a T shirt that taught me how to reset my vowels, and what the T shirt said was bananas are for peranas. And that’s how I remember to flatten out my a’s no true story. I was out driving. We had one of those old garment devices that we’re using as a map, and the menu would be like, what would you like, would you like you know, Option A, Option B, directions, whatever.

And I kept saying address, and the GPS would be like, I don’t understand what you’re saying. Can you try again? I kept cycling through the menu, and the fifth time around I finally went address, and then it knew what I was saying. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free unless you’re a bogan on Apple Podcast, Spotify YouTube, where you get your shows.

See you tomorrow again. If you want to skip one of the weekend episodes, you could skip Tomorrow. I don’t know why you would. Don’t be a bogan, but Sunday you definitely want to check out Sunday. All right?

See there. I’m Melissa McKay starved the new podcast The Royals of Malibu. I play Ella, a sex worker just trying to survive. When I get swept away to the wealth and the drama of Malibu, you know you can like something without touching it. You’ve made the biggest mistake of your life.

Ellie Sinclair, you are a total psycho. Will Ella find it happily ever after ending or will these rich kids destroy her? Fall in love with the Royals of Malibu on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.