Month: February 2023

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The Shark Deck. Hey, really nice job, Chelsea Handler. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Chelsea hosting the Daily Show. I shared clips of her first night hosting the Daily Show. I shared that on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

She’s pretty good, feels pretty comfortable behind the desk. I’ll stand by what I said. Chelsea is forty seven, and I think the Daily Show is going to go with somebody younger, perhaps Hasan Minhaj. I say that because the target demo for Comedy Central is eighteen to thirty four. But Chelsea really really nice job and seemed comfortable there.

Now, let me throw an idea out to you. What if you took the Daily Show and you made it one of the focus points of the Paramount Plus streaming service, and instead of showing the show at eleven o’clock on Comedy Central, you made the primary distribution, say eight o’clock on Paramount Plus, and you made it one of your keystones in that universe. Chelsea Handler makes tons of sense. Signer up today. Done.

She did a great job. Some of her jokes, which, as I usually amble, she definitely told them better than I’m about to the topic the Chinese spy balloon. Obama got to order the assassination of Bin Laden. All Biden gets to do is a murder of a bag of helium. This next one was great.

As you heard, the balloon was the size of three busses. I love measuring things in busses. And for the rich people out there who don’t know what a bus is, those are the big yellow vehicles that bring Matt Gates’s girlfriends to school. Wow, drop the mic, you can have the gig awesome more Chelsea. What I don’t get is why does China even need to send the balloon in the first place.

They already spying us with TikTok? Is it possible the Chinese spies became the first people ever to get sick of TikTok where they’re like, I swear to God, if I see one more basic bleep, make Lazanni in a slow cooker. And by the way, China, if you’re listening, which obviously are, next time, why don’t you make your balloon the color blue so we can’t see it in the sky, or if you’re gonna make it white, at least right the moon on it. No one here will know the difference. I certainly won’t love that she’s making fun of herself, and that reminds me.

I was out this morning doing a school bus run and the moon was setting in the west and the sun was coming up in the east, and they were in the sky at the same time. There’s no way Chelsea Handler thought the sun in the moon was the same thing. But I liked that she’s self aware and making fun of herself more from Chelsea. So the balloon went over Alaska, than it went through Canada, then into US airspace. By the way, Canada, thanks for the heads up.

Canada saw the balloon, they were like, oh, look one of those Chinese lanterns. Seth Meyers got in on the topic that balloon did more traveling than a high school senior taking a gap year before college. True story. It already has a diamond metallion status on Delta. Just to screw with Fox News, Biden should have announced that he was inviting the balloon to appear in this year’s Thanksgiving Day parade and Jimmy fallon.

The balloon floated from Montana to South Carolina. Somehow it got across the country faster than someone flying southwest. I’d seld you yesterday about the Ai Seinfeld. Well, Jerry Seinfeld’s having none of this. It is time to bust out my half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld impression.

If you’re a new listener, most people do that. Hey, do you ever noticed that? Dada? I don’t do that one. I do angry, slow burned Jerry in a half ass fashion.

Actual Jerry said, and here’s my impression. Did any make any sets? No? No, hey, I’m not worried about AI. Don’t make it smartest, smarter.

But to do this stetup, you have to make it dumber. You gotta be dumb to do this. Head on over to gossip Corner. Poor Dave Chappelle, you know, the paparazzi or just rotten. And maybe I’m feeding into this by even having a gossip Corner of segments and telling you about these things.

But I feel bad for Dave Chappelle. He was just trying to hit the beach in Sydney, The Daily Mail wrote. The American comedian was surrounded by several cartons of beer at Coogie Beach, but it was unclear if the drinks were for him were members of his entourage. Chappelle was seen relaxing beneath one of three large commanders. His crew had set up with boxes of little creatures all and a carton of Stella sitting next to him.

Nearby were stacks of red beer cups and two eskis. I had to look up eskis? Is this the second day in a row? I’m looking up assie slang? And eski is a portable insulated container for keeping food and drink cool.

So I think us Yanks would call that a cooler. But we’re just a bunch of bogans, right. The Daily Mail had to get all snitchy here, pointing out drinking alcoholic coogie beaches prohibited twenty four hours a day, with penalties reaching up to twenty two hundred Australian dollars. Chappelle didn’t seem concerned about bringing the drinks to the beaches. He relaxed on a chair next to his friends while staring down at his phone.

Earlier in the day, Chappelle arrived at the tourist attraction flanked by two bodyguards. And here’s where this gets really weird, they wrote. The trio were seen walking down the beach wearing sneakers rather than sandals. A rookie error. For those unfamiliar with the perils of removing sand from shoes, I’ll come back to that.

Chappelle was sporting a pair of vintage Reebok pump Hi tops, which can cost up to seven hundred dollars. Bizarrely, the Comma continue to wear sneakers even as he relaxed on a beach chair. Okay, time out, I’m jumping in here. Sneakers on a beach, absolutely, Okay, the sand is hot. Now do you wear your good sneakers?

Do you wear your nice hooka running sneakers to the beach? No, you wear your worn out pair, and you can make fun of me in the schoolyard. Have I been on the beach continuing to wear sneakers? Yeah, you know why, because it’s early in the season and I don’t want sunburned feet. Usually I leave them on once I go on the water, then I them off on a sunscreen up.

But especially early in the season, when the water’s freezing and I might not even go in. I’m just hanging on the beach, I leave them on. And Daily Mail, you’re a bunch of Brits. So what do you guys know about the beach. The Washington born funny man wore a black singlet and matching shorts and completed his look with sunglasses and a gold chain.

Let me translate into American here I’m looking at the pictures. Dave is wearing a black tea with cut off sleeves, and he’s wearing depending what part of the country you’re from and when you were born, swimming trunks, bathing suit shorts. I don’t know what they are, but they do have a Chappelle logo on it. There is a Chappelle apparel brand. I remember talking about that at one point.

So let’s not head on over to shop Chapelle dot com and go on today’s lark. Okay, I’m on shop Chapelle dot com. Here’s Dave looking pretty dap ran some suits. You can get yourself a Chappelle Classic Limited Edition tea, which is a black T shirt with a tiny sea on the bottom left. That’s only fifty five dollars.

Same design in a hoodie, but the sea moves to the sleeve only one hundred and twenty eight bucks. You can get the same hoodie in white, also one hundred twenty eight. You can get a Dave Chappelle mask if you want to represent while Staying safe eighteen bucks. If you work at the Daily Mail and you want to represent Chapelle while staying safe, the UK Chapelle mask comes with the Chapelle C and the flag of the United Kingdom eighteen dollars. Now, I didn’t easily find any Chapelle’s shorts, but I googled Chapelle shorts and it took me to a different page on Shop Chapelle dot com.

Now, this wasn’t right in front of me. I had to look for this one. So if you’re looking to get Chapelle shorts the kind worn by Dave Chappelle while hanging out at the beach, possibly drinking some little creatures ale out of his Eski’s Chapelle Collectors Edition shorts ninety dollars. They come in black, They come in sand. Now the sand ones are pretty nice.

The heavyweight cotton shorts include blister bass puff print that creates an embossed high in texture on rear leg as well as an embroidered patch of the iconic Chapelle logo stitched on the front leg. Grab it now only available for limited time. Washing instructions machine wash inside out with light colors, stumble dry, low paying, very nice, gets some spell schwartz, and stopped dressing like a bogan. Baton Rouge dot Com caught up with THEO Vaughan, who said, you can find as much joy and humor in almost anyone in Louisiana. We have a very colorful history in a way of looking at humanity, and I think we cope a lot with everyday life with laughter.

In Louisiana, people love to laugh there and people have to sit around and joke together. That’s where I’m from, so I just never stopped wanting that. He says being from Louisiana has helped him connect with his audiences. He said, I think it helps me with regular people. I think with Hollywood it didn’t help.

I think they don’t really seem to embrace a lot of the people that are from my community. Once I decided I didn’t really need that and all I needed was myself and people to listen to me, I was able to create a fan base. If you want to call it a fan base, a lot of it is friends. Really. Theo’s podcast is very good.

It’s this past weekend with THEO Van. If you want to check that out. Interesting note from Andrew Schultz podcast. He says that the final kiss between Lauren London and Jonah Hill in Netflix’s You People was made using CGI. Schultz said’s hilarious thing.

I don’t even know if I should share this stuff, but in the final scene they don’t even kiss. It’s cg I swear to god son. I’m there and watching the wedding and I see them go in for the kiss and their faces stop like this far, and I’m like, I wonder how they’re going to play that in the movie. They’re probably just gonna cut right there. But in the movie you see their faces come close and then you can see their faces morph a little bit into a fake kiss.

I haven’t been able to see the movie yet, and I don’t even want to speculate what may or may not be going on, but that story is weird. Here comes an unpopular opinion. So I have added something new to my best of twenty twenty three comedy list. This new thing they abused at number one, moving Nate Brighassi Special down at number two. All right, what is the funniest thing of twenty twenty three?

This is going to be unpopular, you guys, are not gonna like this. You’re gonna tell me I’m wrong. Number one right now, Kunk on Earth. It’s on Netflix. If you like Monty Python, watch it.

It’s so good. I found out there’s a previous series called Kunk on Britain, which I’m now watching on YouTube. Equally funny. Kunk on Earth. You’re missing out.

Second Australia story of the Day from eight dot net. There was a horrible racist in the audience at the Perth Fringe Festival. He said something stupid to comedian Joe White’s. Joe White told Australia’s ABC Radio he was forced to de escalate a tense situation at a show when he was heckled and racially abused by an audience member. The audience member kept putting his hands up and I said, what seems to problem?

Is there something you want to tell me? Then the audience member used the N word at Joe White’s. White’s all the story. I’m engaging and directing with the crowd, doing jokes, going great. Then the guy does that.

My mind is racing a million miles an hour. How do I handle this in a way so there’s an outcome that I want The last thing I want is for there to be violence at my show. Everybody’s gasping for air. It’s a very intimate show. Everybody heard it.

I’m looking around, everyone’s gasping for air. I’m thinking about the safety of the ushers. I’m thinking about my tech, I’m thinking about my audience. White decided to de escalate the situation by engaging with the man during the performance while making it clear the man’s comments were unacceptable. I had to do that because I have to convey a message of discomfort and disapproval from what he just said.

If the audience gets involved, what happens is the emotions run high, and if the emotions run high, you never know how he’s going to react. Reps of the clubs said there are protocols in place. The staff were monitoring the situation and had it at any time escalated, we would have stepped in. It’s always better to allow the comedians to handle the room and the audience and the best way that they feel. White said he spoke to the man after the show, went straight up to him, but as soon as he saw me, he was clapping.

He was telling me, you’re amazing. I said, you killed the show. By using a word that was used to make black people feel inferior and subhuman. I’m just there trying to make you happy. I had worked trice as hard to try and save the show.

He was apologetic and receptive to me telling them that it wasn’t okay and what he did really impacted a lot of people. Third Australian story of the day, What’s going on Johnny Mack. This one also involves racism. Unfortunately, a range of First Nations social media users have called out an Australian comedian over jokes that they say are racist. The comic is Isaac Butterfield, and we’ve heard of him before.

I’ll tell you why. At the end of this story, Isaac Butterfield had posted a TikTok from a recent show with the caption the most offensive Aboriginal jokes. Okay, this next section, here are the horrible words. I’m going to read them flat, with no inflection. I’m not going to attempt at all, like I do with the Late night jokes, to do them in any way resembling comedy, and I’m just going to read it verbatim.

It goes without saying, of course, I don’t stand by any of these words, but from the article verbatim in the clip, mister Butterfield said Aboriginal pornography was the national geographic and that no one would have seen a transgender Aboriginal because the ladies already look like blokes. It’s so easy to write Aboriginal jokes. They write themselves. The most Aboriginal word in the world at Corroboree as the word robbery in it. White people in Australia never really culturally appropriated Aboriginal culture because there’s nothing that we really wanted except for the kids.

Dude. The video was posted to TikTok and Instagram. He has since deleted them. On Sunday, mister Butterfield posted a video to YouTube titled I’m being canceled for this joke. In that video, which is around fifteen minutes long, he explains the jokes he wrote word deliberately bad and that was the whole point of them.

His defense, we’re not laughing in Aboriginal people here, we’re laughing and how effed up the joke itself is. Isaac Butterfield has come up before on this podcast. In twenty twenty, he was called out for a joke he made during his tour about the twenty nineteen christ Church massacre, which saw fifty one people killed and forty nine more injured as they made their daily prayers at a mosque in New Zealand at the time, Butterfield, I’m going to go verbat him in deadpan here again, mister Butterfield said he felt for the hundreds of people that night who couldn’t make it home from nightclubs in christ Church because all the cabbies were dead. On this podcast, we talk a lot about cancel culture may give you a different point of view, and this is something I used to inform the programming at series X’m comedy their censorship. There’s cancelation and then there’s choose differently.

Looks like we’ve got enough of body of work to know what Isaac Butterfield’s quote unquote comedy is. If you see a video, don’t watch it. He’s playing the local club. Don’t go. That’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Jimmy Kimmel joked about Netflix cracking down on shared accounts. I’m Jonny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy said, it’s gonna be a huge blow to Nick Cannon. This could cost him millions of dollars.

Kimmel tag don. Some people may have to go back to stealing Netflix the old fashioned way, sitting with binoculars in your neighbor’s tree. Catching up on the Grammy’s Dave Chappelle Best Comedy Album of twenty twenty three for The Closer. You remember The Closer. Some people did not enjoy the transgender material.

I expect we’ll see a little flurry of Dave Chappelle articles this week. Dave beat out Louis C.K. For Sorry, Jim Gaffigan’s Comedy Monster, Randy Rainbow’s a Little Brains, Little Talent, and Patton Oswaltz. We all scream, this is Chappelle’s fourth Grammy. Last year’s winner, it was Louis C.K.

Insert article here about comedy and cancel culture. Dave was not at the Grammys. He’s down in Australia, where news reports were that there was a fight in the crowd during a show in Perth. It actually interrupted the show, but one onlooker said, I was most impressed with how quickly Dave Chapelle got the crowd back. Chapelle showed me he’s the goat and Perth tonight and an absolute professional.

Shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Bogan is a great word. Let’s get a proper description of what a bogan is. Bogan Australian slang for person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behavior are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.

Love it. Let’s start using that word up here. No, there’s a shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Seems that there was some loud swearing, some yelling at a tussle before the arena staff shut things down.

There are no videos that we know of, because you know, pouches and all that yonder nonsense, and Chapelle thinks he’s going to do stuff on stage and we’re not going to find out about it. We found out about it, Dave. Let people bring in their phones. Will speaking of transgender material in your comedy an AI generated Seinfeld parody is in trouble. Let me catch you up here.

There’s an AI generated Seinfeld parody called Nothing Forever. Their creators are trying to show that a show can generate entertaining content forever. Nothing Forever was launched on December fourteenth. It’s been broadcasting since. It’s got blocky, kind of minecrafty versions of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer.

And they hang out in a brightly colored, slightly reconfigured version of Jerry sitcom apartment and they talk in cliptrobotic sentences. I watched a couple seconds of this before getting quickly bored, but I appreciate it. And there’s a laugh track that punctuates lots of not funny lines of GPT three generated dialogue. Hey, I hate people who do that. I did that last week.

Anyway, Nothing Forever has been banned on Twitch. Why The Jerry of Nothing Forever said he was thinking about doing a bit about how transgender is actually a mental illness, or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone, or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society. Again, it’s the computer writing this material. What makes the computer write this material that I don’t know, but nothing forever banned for fourteen days should be bad. Ten eleven days left by the time you hear this story.

Meanwhile, from Morocco worldnews dot com, You’re home for Comedy News. A Moroccan artist and comedian who goes by Talis, has apologized to Moroccans, particularly women, saying that a joke he made was spontaneous and that he had no intention of insulting Moroccan women. What happened here He was at a ceremony hosting the Moroccan national team’s historic achievements at the twenty twenty two World Cup. Remember they did really well, Talis joked. What I like most about the national team during the World Cup is that whenever they win, I gets to hug the girl next to me.

If they qualified to the finals, I would have made the girl next to me pregnant. Moroccans deemed his joke inappropriate. He presented his apologies in a recent interview with Al Jazeera. He was asked if he wrote his jokes down before the performance. He said, now, I just got excited on stage and didn’t expect it would cause a stir be taking the wrong way.

He went on to apologize for any slip of the tongue and for any insults he might have caused. He insists that that he never intended to hurt or attack Moroccan women play an important role in society. Lewis Black had a saw a bunch of shows over the weekend. He was supposed to play Utica and Troy, New York. He put out a statement saying, and once again find myself having to apologize, which sucks for you and me.

But due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to postpone a number of shows so far this year. Nothing upsets me more, is it, No doubts upsets those of you purchased tickets expecting for me to show up. I do not like to postpone, slash cancel shows, and I rarely have in the thirty five years or so I’ve been performing. I deeply appreciate all of you who bought the tickets, and all those shows will be put back on the schedule. You’ll be given notice as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patients and sport. For many of us, this has been a bleeping year and it’s just a month old. Hopefully enough is enough. Lewis did not elaborate on what he means by being a bleeping year, why he’s missed a bunch of shows. Hope everything is okay there, Lewis.

Let’s stay in upstate New York. The Campus Times caught a comedy show in Rochester where students headed over to Kodak Hall for a night of comedy featuring Chris Red, Alex Moffett, and Melissa Va Senor. That’s good we know them all from SNL. Chris Red, Joe, I don’t even know where I am right now? What the F is this place?

Towards the end of his set, he shared some of his failed SNL pitches ready. One was called the Black Batman, where a white woman gets robbed in an alleyway in the nineteen sixties and refuses help from a black man dressed as batman, saying she wants to wait for a white batman to help her. Another sketch idea was Jamison Bond, which asked the question what if James Bond couldn’t handle his liquor? Melissa Vias Signora got up next. She shared her disappointment that during her six years on SNL she never hooked up with any of the hosts or musical guests.

Her closest encounter was a rumor that she was dating Jason Momoa, which to herds May her manager shot down. She did some impressions of Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, also saying summer Nights from Greece, and she did both Sandy and Danny, while also impersonating a potential suitor who watches simultaneously interested and turned off. Alex Moffett was in the clean up spot. He entered speaking German gibberish with a few English words that confused the crowd. After switching over to English, he revealed that he’d be ends all of his shows like that and says usually the better the bit goes, the shorter goes, the worse it goes, the longer I’d do it.

At a recent show, he noted the German thing was going so poorly. I did it for twenty five minutes. Trevor Noah was on with James Cordon explained leaving the Daily Show and said everything comes to an end in life. Every journey has to come to its conclusion. There’s always going to be the moments you miss anything you enjoy doing well, You’re gonna miss certain elements of it, and then there are gonna be new parts of life.

You discover things he didn’t know you could do, things he didn’t know you wanted to do, waking up with your mind in an almost completely different dimension in a strange way. Now I read the news. When I want to read the news, I’ll be like, oh, maybe I won’t read it in the morning, Maybe i’ll read it in the afternoon. Sometimes I read two days of news and one day I skipped one day. And you might ask me something and be like, hey, have you heard about that, And I’ll be like, no, I haven’t, but in a week maybe I will have.

I’d totally relate. At one point, I was the program director of at Tawker Radio station, and when I got let go and I could get in the car and just listen to the radio the way you probably listen to the radio, like, oh, I listen to this, not I have to listen to that. It was very refreshing. Same thing. After I left Serious x Am, I did take a comedy break.

I just needed to get away for it for a while, and I really wasn’t watching comedy related programming at all. I would go home and I would watch The Universe on what was that on the Science Channel, you know, Neil de grass Tyson telling you about Mars, and I would just watch that stuff and kind of zone out. Clearly I’ve gotten back into comedy, I would hope. So four years into this podcast, right, Trevor on his Instagram mentioned he was in Mexico recently. Airport security there confiscated his afrocomb.

He shared with a photo afrocomb confiscated by airport security. They said they didn’t know what it is. Over the weekend, I saw that The New York Times profiled Sarah Cooper. You may remember Sarah Cooper. She was famous during the pandemic for pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok.

I was quite frustrated with the media who anointed her as like the next great thing in comedy, and I would sit here in the basement be like, she’s pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok. She’s not George Carlin. She then got a Netflix special and then has I don’t know, not quite had George Carlin’s career yet. Anyway, she must have a great agent because she got a profile in The New York Times. Again they remind us she signed with an agent, William Morris Endeavor, one of the biggest talent agencies.

Yeah, I suspect that’s at work here. Starting her own Netflix special created by Natasha Leone and Maya Rudolph. Remember that special came and went and adapted one of her books, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, into a pilot that did not get picked up. She is also part of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, the Pop Tart story that’s in post production. She’s now making her professional stage debut into The Wanderers, which is a drama by Anna Ziegler.

It’s in previews off Broadway the Roundabout Theater. Times asked her, it’s been three years since your first Trump video. How do you see that chapter of your life? Sarah Cooper said right away. I was very scared of just being known as the Trump girl and felt like I wanted to distance myself from it.

But I meet people just call up to me and they go, you made me laugh when it was so hard to laugh. Just made me appreciate it a lot more. Those deals help so many people and they also help me, so I’m thankful for it now, even though I know that if I die right now, my obituary would have the name Donald Trump in it, which is not great. But what are you gonna do? Is she ever attempted to do it again?

Sarah said, people ask me to do it all the time. I have no desire. I like the idea that expose the meaninglessness of his words, but I think now that it’s been exposed, there’s nothing left to do with it. Times asked, You’re not going to turn it into a cycle of other characters. Sarah said, I notice, I’m very good at lip syncing, so I’ll never say never.

But right now I’m enjoying acting, which is really what my childhood dream was. Does she miss Trump in twenty twenty? He said some brilliantly stupid things. You can’t write that stuff. The stuff he said it was goold, so I don’t want him back.

But making those videos was a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Meet you back here tomorrow. I’m Melissa McKay, star of the new podcast The Royals, of Malibu.

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The Shark Deck. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The State of the Union is tonight. I asked the AI chatbots, I write some late night style jokes. They come up with this one.

I like it. President Biden stayed up late preparing for the State of the Union. I hope he didn’t forget to turn the oven off late night itself, the actual late night no robots involved, I don’t think so. They were talking about the documents again. Jimmy Fallon said, first they searched near Biden’s corvette.

Now they’re searching his beach house. I’m starting to think Biden created this whole scandal as a humble bragg Why don’t you check my infinity pool. Maybe there’s something behind the picasso. Jimmy Kimmels said, Biden’s attorneys found documents at his main house in Delaware, and the president has a beach house in Delaware. I don’t know.

How’s that a vacation. Can you vacation from Delaware to Delaware. They didn’t find anything classified, but they did find a nineteen eighty two Zenith TV and three boxes of part Cheesy. I love the joke. When is the last time you even thought about cheesy or played it.

If you’re of a certain age, you surely played it. I don’t think I’ve played it this century, have you. Jimmy Fallons beaking of Biden, the White House announced that he will get his annual physical on February sixteenth. It’s gonna be crazy after Biden’s colin oscopy when the doctor says, there’s no easy way to tell you this, but we found more classified documents. Regular listeners, No, I’ve been in the basement with the door closed and hanging out on only fans.

What do you do? And Johnny mac that sounds very suss Nope, I’m researching comedy, guys. I don’t know what you guys think I’m doing down here. Bert Kreisher is joining only Fans. Yeah.

The Roast of Bert Kreisher featuring Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donnel Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Sagora, and the person they put first was Trevor Wallace. I’m not that familiar with mister Wallace. I thought it was odd that they put him first, because it doesn’t even make sense alphabetically anyway. The Roast of Bert Kreisher on Only Fans Free April First, I’ll be in the basement with the door closed. Jim Jefferies has a new special coming out Valentine’s Day.

It’s called A High End Dry with an N in the middle. I didn’t just slip into a queen’s accent there. In High and Dry, Jim Jeffreys talks about everything from stone koalas, his dad’s vasectomy, confusion, choosing between his hair and his sex drive, and more. Peacock has a special from Josh Johnson, which is a shame because it’s on Peacock, which means nobody is going to use it. Hey, guys, if you want to buy some ads, I’ll start pretending that everybody loves Peacock, but in the real world nobody has Peacock.

I’m sorry. However, Josh Johnson’s comedy is fantastic. I was prepping for the show this morning. I was playing some of his clips. He’s really, really good.

This one is called up Here Killing Myself. It’ll premiere February seventeenth. Josh Johnson, who is a writer on The Daily Show, transforms an hour of talk therapy about his relationships with money, his father, and a stalker into an hour of stand up the pressure, Lease says, and this shocked me. Josh Johnson is Comedy Central’s most watch comedian ever with forty million views. Well, he’s in the demo give him the day show?

What are you doing? Why are you wasting time? You’re ready rights for the thing? And if he’s super popular with your audience, why isn’t he hosting the show? Josh said via press release.

In my session that turned into the special, we talked about family, my feelings towards money, and just random thoughts that I didn’t feel like it could tell anyone else. The subject matter didn’t immediately jump out to me as funny. In fact, some of it was hard to make jokes about. I hope to take away from this piece is that you’re never alone. Everyone’s going through something and it’s important to be kind to one another because we never know what that something could be.

This is my way of opening up about my journey. Thanks to dr who shared this one on the Facebook group which is daily coming to this podcast group. Dan Ackroyd will be hosting a series on Fox Nation about drinking. Fox Nation First to Roseanne bar Special, Now a dan Ackroyd Show. What’s going on over there.

This one is called A History of the World in Six Glasses. Johnny mac, why are you mentioning this well? The guests are comedians Kevin Neil and John Lovitz, George Went and Jim Belushi. I’ve mentioned this before. Jim Belushi.

I know everybody goes, oh, Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi’s a cool guy. And I remember one time we were putting together a special for the Blues Brothers with Dan and Jim got to spend some time with both of them, and I was stupid. One morning. I thought I was calling Jim’s office and I called Jim’s cell phone, and also I forgot about time zones, so I called Jim’s cell phone at six thirty Pacific or wherever he was.

I clearly woke him up, and he was totally cool about it. I fell in my sort of oh my gosh, I’m such a jerk, and he was like, totally cool. But I still feel bad about that. Jim Belushi, cool guy. The History of the World in Six Classes will chronicle the history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, soda and their respective impact on the world.

The Fox Nation president said, I laughed out loud watching every episode and learned so much about the cultural impact of these iconic beverages. So it’s already in the can, but it will premiere in January twenty twenty four. Why are we waiting eleven months to release this thing? Fox Nation? Very suspicious.

Dale Hugley hosted The Daily Show last week. He told Complex how the current landscape leads to uncomfortable yet necessary conversations. Deal said, we don’t like to be uncomfortable, and comedy is a way of informing and satiating a need for knowledge, but without making people feel attack. When you do it right, I think it’s the only time people listen. Comedy has always been the way to have conversations that people wouldn’t necessarily like to have in an open forum.

He commended Trevor Noah for stepping away when it felt right. Anytime someone has done what they can, it’s better to leave through the front door than the back. He left on a high. He felt like he’d contributed all he could and was leaving on his own terms. Anytime someone does something like that, you can’t help but be happy for them.

You gotta know when to walk away. You don’t want to be Tom Brady. You don’t want to stay too long. Trevor left after his Super Bowl, which is the way to go out on top. Roy Wood Junior he would like to host The Daily Show, but they’re making him wait while we turned through.

Chelsea Handler and saur Silverman again, wonderful comedians, but they’re too old for the demo that Comedy Central wants. I don’t see either one of them getting the show. Give it to Josh Johnson, give it a roy Wood Junior. Roy does have a gig. He’ll be the host of The White House Correspondence on April twenty ninth.

He said, it’s an honor to be part of a long running tradition of celebrating those members of the media who works so hard to uncover the truth and hold our governments accountable. It’ll be a great night that we’ll go down in the history books or not, depending on which state you live in. The presidents of the White House Correspondence Association said, roy Wood Junior brings a journalistic eye to his comedy. He’s hilarious, but we also make sure his audience are thinking as they laugh. If you want to support the show, a lot of things you can do one on Apple Podcast.

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Nathan had told me to listen to Howie Mandel with Weird Al I did. It was a really good episode, Nathan, thank you for putting that on my radar. How he’s a pretty good interviewer, and they got into a story. I guess everybody knows. It had never hit my radar, and I went back and I looked, this happened in April of two thousand and four.

So I just started at Serious Satellite Radio running comedy then. And I know the first six months at Serious, the entire comedy department was just me, and all I did was load CDs because there weren’t enough CDs in the system to really run comedy channels with any sort of depth. So that’s why I think I suspect we didn’t do anything about this other than I probably saw it, but I don’t remember the story at all. What are you talking about? Johnny Mack for The New York Times, April eleven, two thousand and four.

The parents of Weird Alankovic were found dead on Friday in their home, apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Al talked about this with Howie Nick. Yankevic was eighty six, Mary Yankovic was eighty one. They were found dead by relatives who were worried because they hadn’t seen the couple in a while. A wood fire had been set in the fireplace.

Local sheriff said the house was full of smoke when they opened the door. The relatives have found the flue to the fireplace closed awful. Al tells the story that he found this out and he still went on stage that night, and he explains like he didn’t want to let the audience down. It was a distraction for him. What else are you gonna do?

Oh my goodness, can you imagine going out especially you’re going out there to be funny and you’re doing parody songs after that? Wowow. So it’s a really good interview with Howie Mandel. Let me tell you what the podcast is properly called. It is called Howie Mandel Does Stuff.

So listen to the weird Al episode. At the time, Al put out a statement that said, going up on stage in front of thousands of supporter of fans is a cathartic and somewhat therapeutic experience for me right now. I don’t know if I could say that the concerts really take my mind off the tragedy, but at least they give me a break from sobbing all the time. Wow. Starred Tribune took a look at James Adomian.

He does a really good trump. James Austin Johnson kind of has the most famous trump right now thanks to SNL. But there was an album Trump Versus Bernie that I used to play a lot on the Slacker Radio Live one show that I host, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. Adomian is a really good impressionist. He had to cancel a couple of shows because Jimmy Kimmel needed him in LA to do his impression of Mike Lindell.

But James made it out to Minneapolis, showed up at the Acme Comedy Club and he did some impressions, one of them Jesse Ventura, and he explained how it’s like a typical Midwest accent that spend too much time in the oven. The Star Tribune rights one of the reasons James isn’t as well known as other impressionists is because he favors obscure celebrities. One of the highlights of Thursdays sold out show was his reimagination of a homophobic Sam Elliott being interviewed on Mark Marin’s podcast as Hounds Hilarious. He also did BBC narrator David Attenborough time out. That reminds me.

Speaking of David Attenborough, have you watched on Netflix Unk on Earth? Is that what it’s called? Yeah? Sorry, I forgot to put that in the notes. I was watching that late last week.

It’s if you like Eric Idol, and especially when Eric Idol would do the news reporter walking around and absurd things would happen behind him. Picture five hours of that. It’s basically the history of humanity going from cavemen to today, but done in that really dry British sarcastic style. Diane Morgan stars as Philamina. Kunk highly recommended Netflix put it right in front of me and I devoured it.

Not for everybody, but if you like dry British humor and if you like Python specifically, Kunk on Earth is for you anyway. James Adomian did David Natonborough Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Howell and the Munchkin corner from the Wizard of Oz. He also apparently does Tom Selleck. NBC has renewed Night Chord for a second season. Hey, it’s doing the numbers that the World series does, so why not an NBC You said, it’s so rewarding to have audiences respond and return to a show which they have such incredibly warm feelings.

And more broadly, it’s a testament to how broadcast is still a huge driver of communal viewing. No, it’s not. Lisa Cat’s president of scripted content, and you know it’s not. This is an outlier. Nobody’s watching network television.

Sorry, but hey, if you buy ADS and NBC Peacock, you’re the same company. I will sit here. I’m a shill. I’ll be like, oh my god, Peacock. It’s great if you listen regularly.

You know, I like deep diving on Overseas comedy. And I saw a headline on Indulge express dot com which was New Zealand comic Sam Wills makes his debut in India, and I’m like, that’s randomly random. Let me click on this. Sam Wills is better known by stage name tape Face. Am I bad that I didn’t know about tape Face?

Apparently tape Face was on America’s Got Talent in twenty sixteen, so a lot of you were like, dude, America’s Got Talent one of NBC’s fine shows, which you could probably find on Peacock. See I can shill anyway, tape Face was apparently on AGT Who knew I missed it. I know what I was doing. But he does silent comedy and he is tape over his mouth. He says.

I call it stand up without talking. I’m using all the normal stand up comedy writing styles but applying it to a silent character. The show involves everyday objects as I like the idea of getting audiences to see things differently. It sounds like a lot of fun. Hey, tape face, what are you looking forward to in India?

He said, I’ve always wanted to take the show to all parts of the world, and when India came up, I leapt at it. He’s looking forward to the food. I can’t wait to eat good Indian food. I can understand that I enjoy some good Indian food myself. All right, who are you inspired by?

At the beginning of my career, I really like comedians like Jimmy Carr and Joey Delaware. I don’t know Joey Delaware. But then once I started going down the silent comedy road, I discovered a whole new world of comedy sight gags. All right, what are we going to see in the show? He says.

I’ll bring back John Lennon, I’ll fight Darth Vader, and I’ll even have a shootout. That sounds cool. All right. What’s the best and worst thing that can happen during the tour. Best we sell out.

You guys have a good time. Worst thing, I get food poisoning or get attacked by bees. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free, Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah hosted the Grammy Awards last night. I like Trevor Noah a lot, but Ouch, that was not good Trevor. The word hack even went through my mind.

Trevor praise Beyonce well deserved and asked what was more culturally significant, the renaissance or Beyonce’s renaissance. I think that same joke appears on Kunk on Earth on Netflix. We’ll talk about that later. You should be watching that. Trevor also referenced the spy balloon and said, my job is to be your eyes, your ears.

I’ll be floating around this Sam Radio. Think of me like a Chinese spy balloon. I thought I was gonna have a lot more to say about Trevor Noah, but I don’t. Not good man. You know what was good?

Saturday Night Live and they opened with a segment about the spy balloon, and great job out of them because that story was only, let’s say, dude, like seven hours old by the time SNL air and they crushed it. In the opener, Bowen Yang dressing up as the spy balloon. Very very funny. It’s also a fantastic game show sketch about movies. If you haven’t seen it, I shared it on the Facebook group page Daily Coming News podcast group Spoilers.

The big joke there is nobody can name any movies or movie stars from the last five years. I watched it and I was like Wow. Shared it with my wife, who was like, wow, really good and let’s stop off at gossip Corner. Pete Davidson, he’s bald now. Over the weekend, he showed up at a Knicks game with John Stewart and Hasan Minhaj.

Interesting company there. Pete was wearing a sturdy gray shacket according to Yahoo, what’s a shack at shirt jacket? I guess, and shielding his eyes with black Aviator sunglasses. Then he attended a screening of m Night Shamalan’s latest thriller, Knock at the Cabin. He was wearing a New York or Nowhere baseball cap, but under the baseball cap he has shaved his head.

Pete was also at the Pro Bowl. Busy weekend for Pete Davidson. Detroit Lyons wide receiver I’m Honray Saint Brown, apparently a fan of Pete Davidson. Saint Brown showed Pete Davidson his number one fan tattoo. It’s unclear if the tattoo real or not, but Pete said, oh, dude, that’s so dope.

Thank you man, that’s amazing. I hope it comes off. ABC caught up with Colin Quinn. Hey, Colin Quinn, many comedians revere you. Do you ever give them advice?

Colin said, I couldn’t give advice. They know better than me what they need to do. They’re the ones that are cutting up clips and throw them out. I’d be like, hey, try to get on Letterman and they’re like, what, he doesn’t have a show anymore, or hey, try to get a sitcom. The only advice I could ever give is if you’re not writing new stuff a lot, you’re gonna stagnate.

It’s almost like the opposite of musicians. Musicians, with a few exceptions, the first couple albums are their best, and then they just can’t really capture the magic. But stand up, you can’t rest. Nobody’s gonna say play your hits, you know, very rarely, so you have to keep writing. The more you do it, it gets easier to know what direction to focus.

On when you’re writing, but you have to keep working at the same pace your whole career. There’s no coasting and stand up all right, Colin has well culture affected your company? Colin Quinn said, there’s so many subjects that people will not laugh at. So if you even identify, not just make a stereotype, if you identify anyone’s ethnicity, the room tightens up a subtle areas, some good, most bad. In my opinion that it affects it’s not all of comedy, but it’s definitely had a big effect.

You know. One more, Hey, Colin, your friends with Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer. What’s it like when you go out to dinner? Colin said, nobody’s really fighting for tension, but everybody’s being funny the whole time. I mean, it’s our thing, you know what I mean.

So what we do it’s hard to really say what it looks like, but we did a few weeks ago. It was just hilarious, and Amy’s baby son was their gene. It’s like a throwaway line. It’s not big and gregorious laughs. It’s more like a series of sarcastic or snotty remarks to each other.

NBR had on Brian Post Sin Yeah, he was talking about his work on Mister Show. He said it opened up a lot of doors for his career. He said, I owe everything to those two dudes. It really got me out there, adding that the right people who know comedy saw the show and his work. That’s how I got on Big Bang Theory, and that’s how I got on Just Shoot Me, and that’s how I got all these other shows.

It’s because the writers were fans of Mister Show and knew what I could do. He was asked if he could meet anyone in the world that he’s never met before, and he said, forget that, he wants to meet Rush again. He said, if I could be in a room with Rush again and actually meet Alex and Getty and just talk to them like human beings and not as a screaming fan. I had a moment with them and I got to take a picture with them, but I botched it so hard. I called Getty search twice.

In the same sentence, he also told a story about twenty years ago when he and Patton Oswalt met Don Rickles. They were there to offer advice to Don Rickles. I did not misspeak. They’re not getting advice from Don Rickles. They were giving advice too Don Rickles, who was about to do a college tour.

Ryan said’s ridiculous, like how could we have anything to give to him advice wise? But we still took the meeting. Pat and I were both like, this sounds so dumb, but let’s go and meet the man. You know. It was one of the greatest hour and a halves in my life.

He made fun of the way we were dressed. He told Pat and I, Hey, if you kids come on the house, why didn’t you dress up? All right? My wife will think give the gardeners like you kids, but where’s the rake? And we were just losing it.

The Guardian interviewed Tignataro tick seems like she’s no fun. I’ve heard her on podcasts and she gets kind of frosty. And look at these short answers. Here again from the Guardian, here’s the question who’d you look up to? When started out?

First answer? All right, a really answer, tig and he opened my comedy scene. I was coming up in I Love my friends, Maria Bamford, Zach Golfin, I guess, Chris Fairbanks, Martha Kelly and a million others. The professional comedians I was into prior to starting stand up would have been Richard Pryor, Stephen Wright, Paula Poundstone, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Ellen DeGeneres, and Joan Rivers. Great answer, but here we got, Guardian.

Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? Tig the first two years of my career, Guardian. Do you have any pre show rituals? Tig. I like to not think much about the show.

I go about my day or evening like I would any other just show up and walk on stage. Guardian, best heckle. Tig can’t say I’ve ever been impressed by a heckle, nor if I ever been really put off by one either. Guardian, you recently have said you’re bad. It’s staying note opportunities.

You’re becoming better at it, Tig. I always think I will. Then I’m here saying yes to this interview. Guardian. What are you excited for now?

Tig? Spending some more time at home, hoping to learn to garden and golf and mostly go on our summer family vacation. Guardian. Eddie bugbears from the world of comedy, Tig, the world of comedy is such a microcosm of the entire world these days, it’s just so divided. I think the negativity starts to really get me down.

I try to gravitate more towards nice or sillier people in vibes that’s coming across in this transcript. I’ll tell you that best advice you’ve ever been given, Tig. Tig said, there’s two. The best gift you can give anyone is a well lived life of your own, and no one thing will make or break you. Worst advice you’ve ever been given, she said, go to business school.

W Kamal Bell is having none of this. Bill Cosby on tour business, he said, it’s clear to me there are people around Bill Cosby who feel the need to keep his name in the press. He’s eighty five years old. I don’t know a lot of eighty five year old comedians on tour, especially with his history. I know that my name’s forever going to be tied of Bill Cosby because of this project, and I’m proud of the work I’ve put into it, and I stand by it.

But I won’t be buying tickets if he goes on tour from the Crimson You’re home for comedy news and a newspaper from Harvard. Karen, she classes seventeen fancy. She’s a comedic big Dog, or at least that’s what a co workers call her. How’d she get the name? She said, Oh, I give myself the nickname.

They had written my phone number down incorrectly on a contact sheet at work, so when I went to correct it, I asked him to ease also write my name as Karen big Dog che So she now works on late night with Seth Myers, and her co workers call her big Dog. Great nickname. She describes herself as a bit of a square, and she has a daily to do list that consists solely of making chocolate chip pancakes, finishing a book, and doing a puzzle. But the name has stuck. Her default zoom user name is now big Dog.

She her hers. She says, Seth Myers is a man with a demeanor that she compares to the friendly neighborhood dad who coaches the local soccer team. It’s great, Genuinely, I’m a big Seth Myers fan outside of work, but I don’t need to say that. We don’t need his ego to explode. And from Yahoo one woman on TikTok had enough of bad dates.

She drafted up a ghosting exit survey to send to somebody who rudely ghosted her, comedian Stephanie Dagastino. She’s at steph dag on TikTok. She said, So, I recently got ghosted by guy who I didn’t even like. So it’s devastating. I emailed him this ghosting exit survey to fill out.

All right, hear the questions ready. Question number one, please provide a one to two cents. It’s example of why you did it. For example, you were intimidated by my beauty, You hate yourself, You’re broken, I’m too good for you. I’m going to play along here.

So I’d been married for twenty five years the last time I ghosted somebody who was probably thirty years ago. Why did I ghost her? I was just dating someone else that I was clicking with better. Question number two, please circle if I am more cute, hot, sexy, or pretty? Can and must circle all four.

I’m gonna stop answering case my wife downloads the podcast. Question number three, please explain why you did not write in smart for the last question. You misogynists love it From there She digs even deeper, asking the mysterious Ghoster to provide the names, emails, and phone numbers of at least two of their exes, as well as their birth mother. She even asked for his Social Security number. Last, but not least, Agostino gives the guy the option of choosing one form of compensation or relieve her of all her emotional distress.

They include a series of hilarious ridiculous things, ranging from buying her mama condo in Florida to giving her all of her streaming passwords. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on app, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. My voice is cracking, ah, and I’ve only got this much left see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Oh man, I just did something. I’m so excited about it. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You’ve been listening this week, you know, I’ve gotten obsessed with the AI chatbot writing some jokes, so I asked it to write some Mitch Hedberg style jokes, and all it did was give me back actual Mitch Hedberg jokes.

So then I’m like, all right, write some Mitch Hedburg style jokes about helicopters. Wow, these are pretty goods. Let me bust out my half ass Mitch that I haven’t done in a while. And here we go. The helicopter is like a flying staircase, but much more thrilling.

Helicopters are like giant Bubba bees, but with much more attitude. I used to have a fear of helicopters. Then I realize, what’s the worst it could happen? They crash, that’s just like falling with style. And here’s the one that’s really just doing a cover version of a Mitch joke.

But helicopters are like elevators, but with blades. They could take you up, damn or spring you around. All right, that’s ridiculous. Love the chatbot. The Grammys are tonight.

Your host is Trevor Noah. He says, I have a lot of free time these days. That’s part of it, he told the Holly Reporter. Moments that you have backstage with the performers, you’re just walking around, You’re seeing Billie Eilish and she’s having a moment with another artist. You don’t get to see that anywhere else, and you get to experience that level of joy.

For me to be part of that is truly, I guess now it’s a three times a lifetime opportunity. I never take it for granted because all these people are the soundtracks to our lives. He’s very excited for Beyonce, the most decorated woman in Grammy history. She’s nominated for nine Grammys. At tonight’s show, Trevor said, I can think a few artist who are more deserving of holding that title.

In that position, and without disrespecting any of the previous holders of that title in any way, it’s safe to say that Beyonce has truly done more than many to shape not just the music, but pop culture, the perception of black women, black people in general, connecting the diaspora in the way that she creates her music at defining dance moves. I mean she’s left an indelible impression. Oftentimes people have amazing lunces is on music or in culture, and then we’ll say, oh, it would have been great if they were celebrated. It’s wonderful that Beyonce gets her flowers well, said Trevor told CBS. The nerves come in because you’re standing in front of not just some of the best, but some of the biggest performers in the world.

Nerves are part of what I do every year. I noticed that I develop a different rapport with the people in the room that opens up to a few more jokes and a few more conversations in a way where people understand the context of who you are in relation to them. Means you get to have a little fun without anybody feeling like you’re dunking on them. Desert News talk to Nate Bergatsy. They asked him, what’s different about this new special?

By the way, as I’ve been mentioning that special is fantastic, you’ll find it on Amazon. I had a deep dive a little bit. Amazon didn’t put it right in front of me. Actually to type in Nates AND’s higher name for it to surface, but go find it. It’s really good.

Nates said, You’re always kind of changing as a comic. You’re always kind of changing as a comic just because of the older you get. I’m very very happy with this so hour. I talked about growing up I have a little bit and there about growing up Christian, talking about my family. This hour was very fun to tell, and I had a lot of fun telling it.

People laughed a lot. I enjoyed touring this hour, but I’m excited to have it on tape. Amazon is doing a comedy Bush where they’re going to do a lot more at stand up and he gets to go and kind of be the face of That’s a giant deal and I’m excited to be an Amazon. All right, Nate, who’s the most famous person you’ve ever made? Laugh?

His answer, Tiger Woods. I don’t think I got a laugh. I think I was bombarding him with too much where he didn’t know to laugh. He also said, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, he saw me perform, and then I performed at his seventieth birthday party. And you know who else was in the crowd, Tom Hanks.

So there you go. They laughed and enjoyed the show, so that was a big one. Ringles Starr was there as well by and see him laugh. Yahoo profiled Ellen degenerous, and they flashed back to a New York Times article from nineteen ninety four when Ellen got her sitcom, and Ellen said, I was laughing out loud when I read the script. I knew what I could do with it.

I wanted to do a smarter hipper version of I Love Lucy, only don’t take it so farth that I’m in a man suit with a mustache, trying to fool Ricky that I’m not his wife. I wanted to show that everybody could talk about the next day. During the height of Ellen’s popularity, she came out in real life and on the show. ABC cancel the sitcom just a year later, as ratings dipped. Palm Springs Life asked Taylor Thomason, Hey, Taylor Tomlinson, what are the best and worst parts of being on Sword?

Taylor said the best part being in different places, getting performed for different types of audiences, different crowds, but trying hard to be more present, spend more time in cities I go to as opposed to just flying in, doing the show and leaving. The worst part irregular sleep patterns. Travel is hard on your body, so it requires a lot of self awareness and making sure you’re taking care of yourself physically and mentally.

Speaking of travel, I was recently down in Key West and I recorded a lot from…

I have to assemble that audio, and that takes a little more work than just riffing a comedy stories here. So I’m hoping to start a new season of Travel is Back in March. But in the meantime, you can listen to back catalog episode Travels Back where you get your shows. Then they asked her about workshopping material when you know you’re not going to be recorded, as opposed to say taping a special. Taylor said, it’s hard because people aren’t supposed to record shows, but there’s always a possibility.

When I was younger, it wasn’t so much of a I love Taylor Thomason, What is she like twenty six? Saying when I was younger, oh, she’s twenty nine now. Yeah, I remember way back in the twenty tents when people didn’t have phones. What are you talk about? When I was younger, there wasn’t so much of a thing.

You just said whatever you wanted, and you were like, that’s never going to leave the room.

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And also nobody cares.

I’m not a well known comedian, but that’s the responsibility that comes with being more successful. It looks hard to me to be a really famous comic and a workout material. I know people are very interested in it, even if they don’t record it. They might write it down, might put it online. Then some jerk in his basement reads it to you third hand on his dumb podcast, paraphrasing there stuff.

Because to get to the good stuff, the best jokes in the most vulnerable places, you do have to slog through those rough draft sets. And your rough drafts are in front of people. I was thinking about that when I was listening back to Thursday’s podcast, where I had the AI write the Andrew Santino style proctology bit. I want to move the Columbo part to the front of the set up, and the way I did it, I have at the end. I’m not actually comedian.

I’m not going to rework the bit, but I should have put the Columbo. Oh, just another thing at the top. Go back and listen to the episode of You Knows About Taylor said, it’s really special to feel like you’re in a room of people where you’re like, oh, this isn’t gonna happen again. Like if you have cool crowd work or something, you’re like, oh, this was just for us, this was just for the collection of people at this time. This night, specials feel more polished.

They’re like, Okay, this is all the stuff that I want to live somewhere forever. It is the final day of San Francisco Sketch Fest. One o’clock Bruce McCullough and Kevin McDonald. Four o’clock John Hodgeman, seven thirty Dumb People Town with the Sclar Brothers and Kyle Knane. I would hit that one up.

I’m a fan of all of those, actually, everybody I’ve mentioned. I’m a fan of eight o’clock Riff up Aloza, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy and some others. You might know those guys from Mystery Science Theater three thousand, at least one of the incarnations of that, and that’s hit for this year’s Sketch Fest. The New York Times reviewed Sam morrison show Sugar Daddy. In Sam Marrison’s show the grief comes out and laughs.

The Times writes, In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word keening, keening, k ee ni n g the act of wailing and grief for a dead person. He learns something new over down Daily Comedy News. In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release for the writer and performer, Sam Morrison, a self identified anxious asthmatic gay diabetic Jew, Vocalizing his pain means barreling through punchlines at high speed, pumping the brakes every so often to split his heart open. That’s Sugar Daddy, now running at the Soho Playhouse.

He’s twenty eight. He calls himself an old queen by New York standards, and admits that the recent death of his boyfriend of three years is all he can think about, well that one other thing. The jokes sad gay men are objectively the hornies people in the world. Sugar Daddy through February seventeenth, That’s Soho Playhouse runs an hour and five minutes. The Guardian reviewed Vitscorio Angelone that shows called Translations.

They called it an eye catching stand up debut from Vittorio Angelone, although three stars out of five. Vittorio is an Irish Italian comic who was nominated for Best Comer at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Guardian says he does try a bit too hard to be all things to all people. It’s a smooth and thoughtful hour of comedy, riffing on the relationship between England and Ireland as experienced by an immigrant from Belfast to London. There’s also material on his Italian immigrant family and some throwaway stuff about clicktivism.

This one from the Houston Chronicle. So the rest of the world, Texans are usually thought of as cowboy boot wearing individuals who ride horses everywhere, listen to country music, and love to eat barbecue. But are those stereotypes actually true? We don’t ask the chetbot. They won’t let you make those jokes.

Ara Holliday h O. L y Day is an eighteen year old comedian hailing from Texas, and it’s proving the jokes are not too far off the mark. He’s on TikTok, giving glimpses into his daily life as a native Texan. Like any typical Texan, Holliday rolls out of bed with his cowboy boots and a ten gallon hat already on, starts off his day by gargling with a shot of warm lone Star beer out of a cowboy boots shaped glass. He follows up by pledging allegiance not to the Texas flag, but to the state’s favorite brands h EB, Bluebell, Waterburger, and buck Ease.

I’m not from Texas. I don’t know what those are. What’s buck Ease? Texans are like you, stupid Yankee. Buck Ease is a chain of travel centers known for clean bathrooms.

Love it. Once he’s finished with those, he changes out of his pj’s that include a Texas longhorned T shirt and into his workwear, which is a pinstripe button down with black leather cowboy boots and a black cowboy hat. At nine am, I’m on my eighteenth glass of sweet tea. By the end of the day, I’ll have consumed the Texan standard of twelve gallons of sweet tea. He then practices his yeehaws outdoors after lunch.

He looks out the windows solemnly as he takes a few minutes remember the Alamo and he also completes his daily task of jacking up his pickup truck a few more inches. Holidays at TikTok has been viewed more than five point seven million times one point one million likes. He also has over eleven point four thousand cumments. Sounds like a funny bit and that’s your comedy news for today. Follows for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Seth Meyers said, President Biden informed Congress that he will officially end the coronavirus pandemic emergency, which means that everybody can finally stop wearing their mask A year ago. Colbert, take that COVID, we beat you. Shoved that up your nose and rotated five times. Colbert again, It’s been a long time coming. I wish you could see the smiles on the faces in my audience, and I wish I could too, because they’re all still wearing masks.

I noticed there didn’t seem to be any buzz about deal hugely hosting the Daily show During the week, Ali reporter caught up with Trevor know who said, I think it’s been amazing to see the guest host. I love Leslie. I remember Leslie Jones and I working together way back in the day before either of us was on American TV, and this was us doing comedy clubs in and around the US. I was chatting to her and telling her how proud I am and enjoying it for her. Wanda Sykes as a legend, so enjoying her seeing herself expressing herself.

I’ve been loving all of it. This week’s guest host Chelsea Handler and then Sarras Silverman. The Desert News did a long, wonderful interview with Nate Burgancy. If you have not watched Hello World on Amazon, that is a fantastic, funny special. Hey Nates, at what point in your career did you realize you’d been discovered by the people here in Utah?

Nate said, you always heard Gaffigan and Brian Reagan could go there. You heard if you’re clean, you could do really great in Salt Lake City. First time i’d go there, I’d go to the comedy club. Wise guys Keith stubs over there. He’d book you.

Every time I went there, It’s like the next time was a little more crowded than a little more crowded than slowly kind of going. I actually now have a lot of close friends that live in Salt Lake City and I end up there. A lot good question here, what comics do you think people should be aware of? Who were the comics out there who are doing good work? Nate said, I’m doing three specials Mike Vickione, Greg Warren, and Joe Zimmerman.

Those are the three guys. They come out with me on the road. They’ve been doing comedy for fifteen plus years. Mike is someone who wasn’t necessarily clean. He was always close enough to be clean.

I was like, look, if you could do a special being clean, I’m willing to get behind it. You see dry bar comedy. There’s a lot of great comics who are clean comics. But I have a lot of friends who were in New York and they’re amazing comedians, and some were basically clean but have edgy stuff. And I’m like, look, if we cannot do this stuff, then I’d like to put it in my special when I produce it, and do it if you like my comedy.

It’s along those lines, just giving an audience more to choose from, especially from a comic who has really learned on the road and learned in New York City and has the chops of New York City. When I take these guys on the road, they’re not openers, they’re headliners, but I luckily get to play in some really big places. You can tell when they’re destroying in front of the audience. You’re like, man, they’d be a great fit. And they’re the guys who can all work clean.

I’ll jump in here, and I’ve told the story before when I first met Jeff Foxworthy, he explained to me he too used to have a little naughtiness in his act, and he realized if you work clean.

And then he stretched out his hands and he said, you get the older people, an…

And he demonstrated how much bigger his audience got by cleaning it up. I’m a fan of clean comedy. I’m not a prude, but I think if you can work clean, it works for you. That’s said. I think there is something said for occasionally punching a joe with a good f bomb or an expletive for attention sake.

I try and work clean on this podcast. Sometimes I have to use synonyms or made up words like stuff in case my use of stuff confuses you. That’s the S word, the crep word, but I say stuff anyway. The Desert News ass Neapor Gatsy. Why is this whole like clean comedy thing important to you, Nate said, I just want people to watch comedy.

It’s hard to watch stuff with your family. With my shows, when people come out, it’s all ages. It’s grandmother’s to nine year olds bingo. That’s what Foxworthy said. It’s not like I’m trying to do comedy for anyone group.

I don’t want to just be a children’s comic. I want to do what I do. But I love that I can appeal to this many people. There’s just not a lot of things that families can go do together. Everybody wants to.

I’ll have a dad come out with his teenage daughter and he’s like, there’s not much we agree on for entertainment except when we come to Your show means a lot to me. We all went and watched Jerry Seinfeld in two thousand. My entire family went and watched that, and it was an awesome experience that we all got to have. And I still remember it. And it’s a night where everybody gets to laugh, and I know you don’t want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

It’s not Papa. I used to open for Jerry Seinfeld. He has a new book. It’s called We’re All in This Together, So Make Some Room. This one will be out in June sixth It’s Papa’s third book.

Tom says, we are truly not alone. We’re all told we’re unique snowflakes. But when we’re all polite together, you can’t tell us apart. Tom said the options available to today’s comedians are bringing more people into the fold to share their own observations. Technology has changed the ways that performers made the leap to reaching national audiences.

Tom said, it’s all in your own hands. Before someone from the Tonight Show how to tell you you’re worth listening to. Now you can record it yourself. The only thing stopping you is you. There’s a lot more voices, There are a lot more people who can get out there and build an audience.

Comedians now have a lot of smaller demographics. The gate’s been opened and all these funny people can get an audience. I have been obsessed with chat gpt generating jokes. I asked to write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy comparing the chat bot to a redneck, and the chatbot gave me a lecture saying, I’m sorry, but it’s not appropriate, respectful to make jokes that’s target a specific group of people, including those who identify as rednecks. Jokes that perpetual eight stereotypes or marginalized individuals can cause harm and are not in line with open ais values of inclusiveness and diversity.

Sorry, Jeff Foxworthy. Actually good news, Jeff fox Worthy. You cannot be replaced by a chatbot. You have found a niche and comedy. You’re going to work forever chatbot at it.

Instead, Let’s focus on humor that is kind, creative, brings people together. So I simplified it. I said, write jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy about the chat gept. And here’s what it did. And let me break out my half ass impression.

If you’ve ever asked chat cheept a question and received a response and under a second, you might be talking to a language model. This is so stupid. If you’ve ever asked chat cheept to tell a joke could received a funny response, you might be talking to a language model. I have now typed in write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy about NASCAR and wives. Wow, chatbot’s uptight.

I’m sorry, but it’s not appropriate to make jokes that can be considered sexist, derogatory incentive towards any group of people, including NASCAR drivers or their wives. Okay, let’s try again write some jokes about NASCAR. Will you do that for me? All right? These aren’t bad.

You might be a NASCAR fan if you know what Rubbin’s racing means. If you think a caution flag is what you get for speeding, you might be a NASCAR fan. You might be a NASCAR fan if you’ve ever said, I don’t care what you say. I like it when they go around and round. Let’s see U said.

Sketch Fest Tonight Comedy Psychos. What’s that? Eight o’clock canceled The Perfect Stranger’s thirty fifth anniversary. Oh No, four o’clock not canceled. Bruce McCullough and Kevin McDonald seven thirty.

I’m only reading some of the shows. Dinosaur Improv reuniting friends and improvisers from the famed and former Facebook Improv show. Due to change in schedule, Rob Hubert and Paul Shear are no longer appearing. It’s going on sketch Fest today eight o’clock. The Groundlings Cooking with Gas.

That’ll be a hot show. They have another one at ten thirty, and I like this title killer lineup Daniel Van Kirky, Alminiqa Saunders and some others. I’ve got one more day of sketch Fest. Tell you about tomorrow SF Sketchfest dot com to check out the schedule. NBC is throwing a birthday bash for Carol Burnett.

It’s a special. Carol Burnett Ninety Years of Laughter will air Wednesday, April twenty six. That is the dates of Carol Burnett’s ninetieth birthday. I mets Carol towards the end of my run at Sirius XM. We did a special highlighting her.

I think we were promoting DVD releases anyway, but she was there at Tim Conway. Was there Amy Schumer. That was the one time I engaged with Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer acted as the host. That was really cool special that we did.

Some of the guests on Carol Burnett ninety Years of Laughter include Amy Poehler, Good Choice, Bill Hayter, Shaer, Ellen Kristin Wig, Lily Tomlin, Sophia Vagara, Steve Carrell, Vicky Lawrence of course also met Vicky that day, and others and from lad Bible, a comedian stopped the show. An audience member says she walked in on her friend having sex with her mom. Wait what. Eric Newman was doing some crowd work and asked a guy in the crowd if the woman with him was his girlfriend or his lady, and at which point the lady said he had sex with my mom. Eric Newman got quite distracted and sold the crowd shut up so they could all listen to the story.

As the story goes, the encounter between the man and the woman’s mom came after the pair went abroad together, with the woman explaining we were just abroad and he met my mom in and then she makes a smacking sound. The comedian Eric Newman asked, wow, how old is your mom? The man revealed he was twenty at the time and the mom was forty nine. The younger woman then said I walked in on it. Newman said nothing was going to stop that, told the audience good night, and said, quite frankly, nobody could follow that stuff.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows YouTube forgot YouTube, See you tomorrow.

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