Month: March 2023

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. An AI podcast called DUDECI got a lot of attention. They created an hour long Tom Brady stand up special using whatever technology they used, and it’s not good. It’s really terrible.

It’s unlistenable. Again, I get what the technology is. It’s not like actual Tom Brady did stand up and you’re sourcing it. And I use AI voices sometimes here on this podcast. If I make a mistake, and I’ll tell you you can replace a word, you’ll never notice.

A phrase you probably won’t notice, but if I go any longer than that, you will definitely notice. For example, I can illustrate here in the next sentence, I never said the word purple. Ready, this color is purple. Now Here is the AI voicing that entire sentence his color is purple, so you can hear the difference there. So let’s listen to a brief snippet of this Tom Brady because I’m telling you I was gonna play more of it, but it’s so terrible you’re all going to tune out.

Dudze and thank you everyone for coming out tonight. Wow, it feels great to be back in front of a crowd. But I gotta say, even though this is a much much, much, much much much smaller crowd than I’m used to, this is far more nerve racking. On the football field, I got to wear shoulder pads, a helmet. Hell, I had five three hundred and fifty pound men that were paid millions of dollars to protect me.

But up here on this stage, I only got one thing. You know what, it is a midlife crisis. Actual Tom Brady has no intention of doing stand up at the Roast of Tom Brady. Oh well, that reminds me the roast of Bert Kreisher tomorrow on Only Fans April first. Yes, the Roast of Burt Kreisher features Trevor Wallace, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donal Rollingstony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Segura, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kesha Johnny mckew.

You forcing Joe Rogan into the podcast again so you can use him in the headlines to goose your download numbers. Maybe. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week said this trans athlete thing effing blows my mind. How many people go along with this? The topic at a hand was Leat Thomas the swimmer, Rogan said, swimming.

I’m I mean that Leah Thomas is still the number one swimmer in the world. And it’s a biological male quoting rogue in their period. End of discussion. It’s madness. And not only that hasn’t even gotten penis removed and has sex with women.

Apparently the whole thing is so crazy that you can call yourself a woman and then you’re a woman and like this has nothing to do with trans rights. It just has to do with humans. It’s just what they’ve done all those other girls that are competing against her is just an effing crime. It’s horrible. Imagine if you’re a biological woman, You’re working your ass off, You’re fully dedicated to being the best of the best.

You’re dotting all your eyes, crossing all your teas, you’re watching your diet, you’re watching your recovery, you are effing trying. And this person who just decides they’re a woman with testosterone flowing through their body their entire life just dominates you. It’s effing maddening.

Meanwhile, the debating society at Royal Holloway University of London have c…

Why the Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley retweeted a trans joke by Ricky Gervais. The Gervas joke reference the old fashioned woman, you know, the one with wombs, the new ones we’ve been seeing lately with beards and mail parts claiming up a little bit. Well, let’s turn to brighter things. It’s a great day to be alive. Why, Johnny Mack, there’s a new Adam Saidler movie on Netflix.

Murder Mystery two on Netflix today? Clear your calendars. I mean, what else you’re gonna do? So? What’s Murder Mystery too?

On Netflix? Starring Adam Sadler about well. The film is set four years after the first film and follows Nick played by Adam Sandler, and Audrey played by Jennifer Aniston, who are now full time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they’re invited to celebrate the wedding of their friend, the Maharajah on his private island. I mean, how could that not be great? Just listen to that plot.

That sounds amazing. Jennifer Anniston sold Jimmy fallon when you meet back up with us, We’re not doing that great. So we get invited to a wonderful wedding of someone wonderful. We say we need a break, we need a vacation, and that’s where our mistakes happen. Jennifer Anniston described a quote nice dinner with Adam Sandler and Missus Sandler, Jackie Sadler.

This happened in Italy when shooting the first Murder Mystery film. Jennifer said. He shows up in basketball shorts, sat in basketball shorts with white piping and Nike hid hops and a turquoise valore. Izod. Sandler says, Vogue says, I look amazing like this.

Anniston says, thanks Vogue, But what are you wearing? Johnny mac Well, I am wearing my blue Mets sweatshirt. I’m recording this on Thursday, opening day for Baseball. Gotta represent and some jeans and my Brooks running sneakers. I’m not George Clooney, but I’m also not Adam Sandler.

You know what I’m saying, Yeah, Jennifer Aniston said. Adam Saidler sometimes chimes in on her love life. If I get anything from him, it’s what are you doing? Usually based on someone I’m dating. You see, Adam is so concerned with taking care of everybody else, which she really does, and he doesn’t take care of himself.

Jen said she made Adam smoothies and provided Chinese herbs on the set to direct Adam Sandler to a healthier path. Jackie Saidler said the effort lasted about a minute. Spoiler from Mirroder Mystery Too. I know this could ruin the film for you. You’ve been warned, all right, ready?

Three two one? Well, Adam Sandler, what’s it like getting punched in the face by Mark Strong? Apparently during the film, there’s a moment where Jennifer Aniston and Mark Strong are at top the Eiffel Tower’s roombly because Adam Sandler wanted to film this in Paris, Anniston said, Adam does a lot of his own stunts, and he gets pretty beat up. I mean he actually got hit. Did he ever tell you this?

Mark Strong actually hit him in the face. You know who else is living the good life? Jim Gaffigan. Listen to this from the South China Morning Post to your home for Comedy News. They spoke to Jim Gaffigan via zoom.

Jim was on Borak. Maybe it’s Barakey anyway you know it. The resort island and the Philippines known for white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, and pretty good hotel breakfast buffets. Yes, Gavigan told the South China Morning Post, I truly love experiencing different cultures. He likes to research the culture in the history of the place I’m performing in.

It might translate to just a minute of jokes, but the audience appreciates the effort. It’s also interesting to understand the expat communities in these countries because they’re just weirdos. One way to support the show is go to Apple Podcasts. They’ll offer you the option to become a premium subscriber, so for five bucks a month. Then you can test drive this for a month for free.

You get the episodes ad free and early by early usually on the weekdays. You’ll get it the afternoon before the official release, and I tend to put the weekend episodes up on Friday morning because I almost always do those in advance. So go to Apple podcast Premium subscribe for five bucks a month. Thank you. The Age had a nice article suggesting some artists you might want to see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

One of those comedians Sarah Schaeffer. She’s from la but when she visited Melbourne in twenty seventeen, she said, I was introduced the entire world of the solo show and the festival system. American comedy does not have that. She compared it to a domestic festival. You’ve got two days to get in a network and party and get drunk off your ass and oh my god, the stakes are high, but with the longer ones, it’s more about living somewhere for a while and being part of that city.

She first experienced Melbourne when she was invited to appear as part of the annual Headliners showcase, in which experienced international stand ups do twenty minute sets. She was incidantly enamored with Melbourne, describing it as a clean New York. Melbourne is fantastic, she said, all the different types of cuisine and art, being very walkable, amen, and the public transportation. Yeah, in downtown Melbourne, in like the Central Business district, they have hop on, hop off trolleys if you stay within the central districts. So I compare that if it were New York City, and you might not be that familiar with New York City.

Would be like if between Third Avenue and eighth Avenue and say thirty fourth Street and fifty ninth Street, Like if everything in that rectangle was free public transportation. That’s how downtown Melbourne is. You just hop on the trolley and you hop off. Great way to get around. In her new show going Up, it’s Sarah Schaeffer conducting a fake seminar and how to make it in comedy, Dah says, if Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net deconstructed comedy’s in art form, this show does something similar to comedy as a business.

Sarah Schaeffer, going up at Melbourne Town Hall, April first through the twenty third. I’m taking a look at the Saturday schedule at Melbourne. Let me just scroll down and see what titles catch from my eye. Again, most of these shows run most days, so we’re going to start to see repeats here as I do this feature every day. Michael Chamberlain’s completely Incomplete History of Australia here right.

So let’s roll back to eighteen fifty eight. Tom Wills decided to get a bunch of people to kick a ball around in what is now the car park of the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. It was intended to be a game that kept cricketers fit during the winter. What Tom didn’t realize was that his name would have been lost to history if instead of inventing Australian football he’d invented indoor cricket. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining and intelligent.

This guy is funny. All right, This next one has caught my attention. Nick White’s grow up. It’s at the Theory bar. And what’s catching my attention Theory bar parentheses previously known as loop project space.

All right, let’s see what Nick White’s up to. A self described late bloomer, Nick White moved to New York City in his mid twenties to figure out who he was and where he fit in the world. Unfortunately he still doesn’t know, but his eager report his findings thus far. Nick White is a Brisbane born comedian who was met the past few years in New York City. All right, that could be interesting to me seeing Ozzie’s opinion of my home city.

Who I like this one? Brendan Wan yummy yummy chan chaw. That’s at the I see Swanston in the Nicholas building. That’s some pictures of Brendan eating some food. Here, let’s see performed by Australia’s only Chinese Australian comedian.

There’s an asterisk next to that. Yummy Yummy Cha Cha is an hour of solo sketch comedy designed to be very fun but very dumb. If you’re looking for political satsire cathartic comedy about the Chinese Australian experience or observations on modern life, this is not the show. Milk Bar magazine says, the comedic timing is undeniable. I love these little quotes they have.

All right, let’s do one more. Grace Jarvis’s show is called This is the Last Goldfish that I’m going to eat. Oh no, that’s a trades hall in the meeting room. Let’s see what Grace is up to. It’s a picture of Grace holding a poor goldfish in a bag.

Hopefully that was just you know, for the photo, and she gave the goldfish and nice home. The goldfish lived a decade or so, she said. I have collected for you my audience and anthology of all the weird things I’ve done in my life to try and make friends. Do not attempt these methods for yourself. The Age says it’s rare to see a comic making a festival debut land as many punch lines as effortlessly as Grace Jarvis.

All right, Joe Lysat has a new show on Channel four in the UK today or if you know how to use VPN technology, you know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge, say no more, ten pm Friday, UK Time, Joe hosts Late Night Lysat. He’s giving away his Lexus Hybrid as a prize. He’s also giving away other real life possessions, including all of his cutlery, his socks, and even one of his comedy awards. He said Channel four wouldn’t give us any money for prizes, and the production team have overreached and are trying to ruin me by giving away my possessions.

Genuinely, one of the things they tried to get me to give away it was my house, my actual house. I said no, but I appease them with the Alexis Hybrid. The production team are out of control. I’m essentially a hostage to this program and I want nothing to do with it. Please do not watch it, it will encourage them.

Lysat knows what it’s like to get a free car. Early in his career, Sarah Milliken gave Joe her old Nissan. She had this car and was like, do you want to have this car? And I was like yeah. But not only did she give me the car, she got its serviced and cleaned.

It was pristine. It was a real lifesaver. But then she went on the show I Lie to You and confessed she had Pete in the passenger seat. She hadn’t told Joe about that. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Aren’t you Dead? Hello, I’m Jenny McK with your Daily Comedy News. It is opening day for Major League Baseball. They’ve got some new rules, and they did an ad campaign featuring Sebastian Maniscalco joking about the new rules.

Come on, enough with the peanuts. Half the infield’s allergic and what is the shortstop doing in the outfield? See? This is the problem with the shift. Nobody’s in their positions anymore.

That’s why I’m excited about Major League Baseball. They’re putting limits on the ship. It’s gonna create more athleticism, more action. Dame’s gonna be amazing this year. Let’s go Mets.

There’s a lot of press about May Martin’s Netflix special. I have not seen it yet, and I’m unlikely to see it this weekend because a baseball season started b MLB the show came out, and Day one when that game and came out, I played it for six hours. So between those two, I don’t know how much Netflix comedy I’ll be watching. Maybe Sunday night. They tend to watch a lot of TV on Sunday Night.

May Specials called May Martin SAP. They talked about the rise of anti LGBTQ plus rhetoric within the comedy sphere. Martin explained, it’s always bitter sweet. I wish I didn’t have to talk about gender and identity and stuff, because it’s not the biggest or most interesting thing about me. But I did feel a responsibility because it’s super important.

Giving everything that’s going on and all the legislation. It’s mind boggling to me that people can look at what’s going on and go, oh, this is really a dangerous time. They have specifically called out Dave Chappelle. Rolling Stone said, you name drop comedians like Dave Chappelle in your special, May said, when you’re someone who’s part of the trans community, it can feel like a lose lose because as soon as I started talking about it, people are like, oh, those people are constantly whining. But it’s also a very crucial time to present a counter argument to the very loud people with huge platforms who are weighing in in bad faith about things that have real life consequences.

It’s a very difficult tone of hit because I do care about it so deeply and could so easily ran for hours about how annoying I am so if it’s in any way helpful for people to see someone speaking about their lived experience and cutting through the endless debate about whether trans people deserve to be happy, then hopefully it’s worth it. But also it’s not the most interesting thing about me, and I don’t want to feel like it because I’m being forced to constantly defend my identity. Rolling Stone asked, were you ever nervous that taking up time doing a special to name the comedians Dave Schappelle would paint a target on your back? Make said, When I was shoring the show, I tried not naming them. It just felt like I was trying to be coy.

I feel confident about what I’m saying, so I might as well just name them. The main thing is I wish the straight allies with bigger platforms would be brave enough to weigh in as well, because it’s easy to dismiss queer people as being constantly up in arms about something. But with the legislation, we’re seeing such terrifying real life consequences, and there are things that affect everybody. There’s such a parallel between trans rights and bodily autonomy for women and all kinds of things I think it’s time we all got involved with this a little bit. Everything will sound corny in print, but truly, comedy is meant to make people feel less alone.

It’s such unifying experience, makes you feel human and less isolated. So I hope people feel that. Dave Chappelle, I’ll continue to ask you why you choose to have the second paragrapher of your future obituary to be Dave Chappelle. Transgender jokes. Do something else, Dave, You’ve got a platform, use it for good.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival will come to Vancouver. Vancouver’s Park Board has approved a plan to bring a three day outdoor comedy festival to Stanley Park. I mentioned recently I’ve been to Stanley Park. I’ve been a Vancouver. I love it.

You can hear me talk about Vancouver on my travel podcast, Travel is Back. The Green Outdoors Comedy Festival September fifteenth to the seventeenth. No lineup has been yet released. Ticket prices sixty nine to three hundred ninety nine dollars, presumably Canadian dollars. Would keep an eye on that one.

Boy, If I could find a way to get to Vancouver in September. Boy, that would be pretty good. Dan Soder has kind of let it out that Billions is coming to its last season. Soder was on NBC Sports Chicago’s Football Nights in Chicago. That’s a complicated name.

Soder, who plays Mafi on the show, said season seven, the final season of Billion, is on its way. Then he paused and said, you know, I’m not supposed to say that. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. I think so, so it’s fine. The host said, doesn’t matter, you just said it, and Soder said, it’s the final season.

Chris McCarthy is one of the senior executives over at Paramount Television. He got a nice fluff job from the Hollywood Reporter. The part that interested me most was about The Daily Show. McCarthy says he’s been stunned by the linear tune in for the Daily Show. So linear is the term the industry uses for what you just consider TV.

Like if you put on Comedy Central on TV and whatever happens to me on now is on right now, that’s linear, right, so not on demand to get it old school TV’s linear. McCarthy’s been stunned by both the linear tune in up thirteen percent year over year. Wow, with all the guest hosts versus Trevor Noah, that’s interesting to me. And by the social excitement around the rotation of guest hosts, McCarthy says, it’s killing it, noting that on many weeks the social media footprint has been ten times bigger than the show a scene in years. Well, yeah, the nature of the guest host, he definitely going to get more of a splash.

And if the ratings are up thirteen percent, hey, what do I know? I think the plan is crazy, but I’m sitting in the basement and Chris McCarthy’s getting a fluff job from the hollerd reporter, So what do I know. McCarthy says he intends to wait until late spring to name a new host. He’s even consulted John Stewart about this. He’ll rely heavily on the input of showrunner Jen Flanz.

He has his own running shortlist, which features three guest hosts. He didn’t name names, but said two people came in and exceeded my expectations. But I had high expectations and then somebody else just blew me away. Very interesting. As for Trevor Noah himself.

He’s got a new gig. He’ll be hosting Amazon Primes l O L Last One Laughing. In this version of l OL, the six part half hour series will see Trevor Noah Pitt ten famous South African comedians and entertainers against each other in a competition and make each other laugh. Those who break get eliminated one by one until only one comedians left. The winner wins one million rand.

How much is one million rand? Fifty five thousand dollars? Amazon? Come on, really, fifty five thousand dollars prize? Seriously, come on, that’s pretty cheap.

One million rand that will go directly to the charity of their choice. So again, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime is donating fifty five thousand dollars to charity. Just want to make sure we get that out there. Thank you, Amazon, what a great contribution to the charity your fifty five thousand dollars donation. I’m sure everyone appreciates it.

I wonder how much Trevor is being paid for this, probably fifty four thousand dollars. Am I asking difficult questions? I’m sorry, Trevor Noah said, I’m excited to be back home to host Prime videos first South African original llol last one laughing. Let’s have a chance to connect with my home audience. I’m equally delighted for the opportunity to be working alongside my fellow homegrown comedy stars on a show that not only yantines, but gives back to the South African production and charity communities.

And I’ll add to the tune of fifty five thousand dollars. Hey, if you like what I do here, one of the ways to support the shows can go to Apple Podcasts and they’re gonna put the option under you to become a premium subscriber. So for five bucks a month, you’ve got the episodes ad free, and you got them early, usually the afternoon before official release. And here I will match Jeff Bezos and Amazon Prime. If eleven thousand of you sign up to become premium subscribers today for five dollars, that would be fifty five thousand dollars.

If that happens by Saturday morning midnight Eastern daylight time, I will donate the fifty five thousand dollars to charity. How about that? That’s an absurdly low number, guys, so you’ll hear me from time to time openly say that I talk about Joe Rogan to goose the numbers. Now, the last two days my lead stories were about oscu At Katsa and Adam Sandler, and the numbers were, you know, a little bit down. So today we’re going to talk about Joe Rogan.

So Joe Rogan could be in the episode title Yes. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week, said the media has lost its hold over the narrative. Now the media conveniently leads out anything it doesn’t want to be at the front and center in terms of things that people concentrate and talk about. Like one of the greatest examples that’s happening right now is this massive protest in France, nine million people on the street, literally up in arms. Mccron and France takes his effing eighty thousand dollars watch off under the table while he’s talking to people about tightening up and how you know this has to be done.

I guess Joe is saying there’s no media coverage of that. Maybe I follow different media, Joe. I’ve seen plenty of coverage. Joe also referenced the protests in Israel after citizens became unhappy with Benjamin Nett and yah Who’s plans for political reform? Rogan said, And you’re not hearing a peep about it.

You know again, I must follow different news sources than Joe Rogan. I saw plenty plenty about that one. Rogan said, all it is it’s like January sixth, January six, Did you see what they did? Trump’s coming back? But January six looms large.

How about the fact that the guy who’s president right now can’t form a bleeping sentence. He makes up words and stumbles their things, and no one says a bleeping thing about it. From The Courier, Rheese Nicholson describes the Milburn International Comedy Festival as hundreds of people having a very public mental breakdown with prizes at the end. With more than six hundred acts on the bill for twenty twenty three adding up to more than seven thousand side splitting performances, the winner of last year’s award for Most Outstanding Show is probably not wrong. The Courier covered the launch event for the Melbourne Comedy Festival and said UK comedian Jordan Gray got some big last with her song about internet misinformation, a tune that managed to also cover mister potato Heads, gender, lost dog posts, veer into a queen’s song.

Ends include an Elvis impression that came out as an impression of share Mel Budtle took on physical education teachers, revealing they’re actually angry people who like shorts and are unable to get into the police force, while up and coming performers Alexander Hudson and he Huang spoke about the impact of the festival’s Raw Comedy competition. Last year’s champion. Hudson, who has a disability, said her win had taken her from an audience of ten people at an open mic to one thousand at the town hall, a growing crowd she likes to make fun of.

All Right, let’s see who’s at the festival on Friday again.

I’m looking at Friday because burn is several time zones ahead of me and probably you. So if I do Thursday night, by the time that people in Melbourne here, the podcast might already beat Thursday night. So let’s take a look at Friday. And as I’ve been mentioning, there’s like one hundred shows every night, so I’m not going to read them all off. But let me just see what catches my eye here.

Just going by titles, the Fun Tone Show is at the Rubber Chicken joined Lisa, Shirley and Mark for lots of singing, dancing, laughs, and heaps of fun in the Fun Tone Show, featuring some comic skits, original and well known hit songs you and your children want to sing and dance along to, things like the Hokey Pokey. All right, we might be a little old for that one. Plus it’s eighteen to fifty dollars and it’s at twelve thirty in the afternoon. Bad click, Johnny Mac, keep going, Okay, how about basketball Man can Fly? That’s at kicks at three forty five.

I’m clicking on the very slow loading Melbourne International Comedy Festival website and we’ll see what basketball Man can fly if the page ever loads. It has finally loaded. Why didn’t you just do an edit there, John, Because I wanted you to know how long it takes the page to load. That’s why. For years basketball Man has been a world renowned basketball freestyler.

But now he’s out to prove he’s a real superhero. Witness the best basketball tricks you’ve never seen as basketball man spins, dribbles, juggles and performs stunts in this crime fighting, family friendly circus show suitable for all ages. That sounds strangely fun. Let’s keep scrolling. I like the title of Ann Edmunds show, which is why is my bag allwat?

Ann Edmunds floods her bag at least twice a week and becoming a mother hasn’t helped this. Where once there was water, now there’s milk. The Harold’s son gave it four stars, saying rolling with the confidence and energy of a prize fighter, Edmonds is touchingly engaging the age said still laughing the next day, simply a fantastic performer. Four stars. That shows ages fifteen plus random number there about at five o’clock crazy funny Asians.

Each show features an all star rotating lineup of three comedians. These are some of the fastest rising Asian comedy stars. All right, that sounds like a good time and we can see the show at five, six or seven. It’s a fifty minute show. Fifteen dollars and fifty cents to twenty five fifty.

Let’s do the Australian currency exchange right now. All right, one Australian dollar is sixty six cents in US dollars. So whatever number I read to you, you’re going to divide by two thirds in your own head. Okay, do you need a pen? There’s a Best of International Comedy show at five to thirty, Best of Melbourne at six Daniel Kitson.

I’ve only heard great things about Daniel Kitson. That show is called I Shall Have a Good Think. When Everybody’s gone home. Twenty one years after his first visit in four years since his last, Daniel Kitson waddles back into town with something less like work in progress and more like a person looking for ingredients without knowing what they want to cook or whether they’re even hungry. Twenty bucks again.

Divide that by two thirds. Shows at six pm and noon a ninety minute show. It is absolutely crazy, the amount of shows every single day. As I’m scrolling down the page here, I mean, if you can’t find something to do, I don’t even know how they’re even holding all these shows. Like how many rooms are there in Melbourne.

Here’s one called Comedy Pub Crawl. Trust the Scots to come up with the ultimate night of comedy and booze. Four bars five award winning comics always sells out fifty bucks again divide by two thirds shows at seven, seven oh five and six pm. The West Australian gave it five stars. The Sunday Times UK said left my face in pain from laughing so much throughout.

It’s a guaranteed night of belly aching laughter that sounds fun. I really only up to seven o’clock. I’ve been scrolling down this page for an hour.

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Now here’s one called s Faced Shakespeare.

Three shows six forty five, seven forty five, nine thirty. The hilarious sellout award winning smash It show has already sold half a million tickets worldwide. S Faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely faced actor. What could go wrong? College Adelaide gave it five stars, saying the most fun I’ve ever had at the festival.

I left with tears streaming down my face and a sore belly from laughing far, far, too hysterically hard. And let me find one more. There’s so much here. I mean, I could hand in a four hour podcast just reading these two.

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All right, let’s click on this and as a logo of the Statue of Liberty and say…

Let’s see who’s on this. The Lucas Brothers, Pattie Harrison, Shilouish Sharp, Shang Wang. You know I do like Shang Wang. Now I’m not sure these are the four biggest acts in American comedy. Maybe the Australians don’t know better.

Seventy minutes show twenty eight to thirty seven dollars again, divide by two thirds to convert into US currency. All right, enough of that, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Friends, it’s a great time to be alive. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Jenny Mack. Why is it a great time to be alive? Well, great question, here’s the answer.

Friday we get a new Adam Sandler movie. Isn’t that exciting? Yes? Now, as you know, there are only four good Adam Sandler movies. They are uncut Gems, Hustle, and the two with Drew Barrymore.

But luckily for everyone, Murder Mystery two is out on Netflix on Friday. Now. Jennifer Anniston wants to next level this thing. She plays Sadler’s wife and Murder Mystery and Murder Mystery too. But she recognizes that it’s Drew Barrymore that can make Adam Sandler films good, so she suggests the three of them do a film together.

Can you imagine? Anniston said, we thought it’d be funny because it was a Twitter thing a couple of years ago, and they’re always sort of comparing us. Yes, I’ll do that right now. Is Drew Barrymore in the movie, Yes, then it’s good. Is Drew Barrymore not in the Adam Sandler movie, It’s likely not good, unless it’s of course hustle or uncut gems.

Anyway, Annison said, they’re always sort of comparing us, who’s the better movie wife or movie love barrymore So, we just thought we’d do a little bit on that. Mark Twain Prize winner Adam Sandler said, Jennifer is going to write it. There’s no competition, just two great ladies that would be amazing doing a movie all together. She says Aniston made playing a married couple comfortable. She doesn’t miss she’s funny, We lock in together, we do love each other, and calls Anniston one of the funniest people I know.

Some of the other funny people that Adam Sandler knows her Rob Schneider and Kevin James and Maya Rudolph. Yeah. Bonnie McFarlane has a scripted series based on her memoir You’re Better Than Me. The project is inspired by McFarland’s times on high school or in Cold Lake, Alberta in the mid nineteen eighties. She was served as the creator and writer for the half hour series, which takes place on a farm two hundred ninety four kilometers outside the nearest pizza delivery zone.

There a sixteen year old Bonnie flexes her smart mouth, hangs out whether her bff bovine, and recognizes that she’s not the easiest person in the world to get along with, neither she nor her cow or part of the in crowd. Bonnie is desperate to escape her farm and see the world. There’s just one thing stopping her herself and a bunch of other stuff. She says, the project is a testament to the first person that believed in it. If not for Anthony Bourdaine, I would not have been forced to write about my past.

What a joy it’s been working with the amazing team at Cineplex, revisiting the most embarrassing period of my life. Very interesting. Sam Murel talked to Yahoo about being interviewed on David Letterman’s that that’s my time, and he said, somebody I’ve always looked up to. There are a few people that can do what he’s done in history. He’s an icon.

I feel fortunate to be able to be interviewed by him at this time in his career. It’s cool that he’s really uninteresting and that curious. A lot of interviewers aren’t like that. It was surreal to beyond Dave Letterman Show with him asking me about my rooftop parties. Sam says, it’s good to start coming to young because you’re too young to know how hard it is.

It’s different when you take your act beyond friends. It takes a minute. You have to learn how to be funny to strangers. But they’re advantages to doing it new York. You don’t know what you’re up against with other comedians.

You hope other comedians will give you the benefit of the doubt to get better, and it did get better. There’s a bluntness. New Yorkers have an energy that New York has have. New Yorkers are always ticked off. And I love this next part.

I was watching The Taking of Pelham one, two three. I assume he means the original recently, and I think I love that movie so much because everybody’s in a bad mood, all the blue collar workers, the mayor, everyone’s ticked off, and there’s something really innited about that feeling. But he also says, I love Boston. It’s a beautiful city. There are a lot of similarities between York and Boston.

The people in Boston are funny people. They’re funny. There’s a cynicism to Boston people. I really like they could be mean and warm at the same time. Mark Marrin made some headlines on music websites because he referenced the band Tool last week and said their music has to be planted, young dude.

If it wasn’t planted in my weird, angry adolescent head, that’s where it happens. But I missed all that, So there I was like in my forties listening to Tool. But they were comedy fans. They were Bill Hicks fans. There’s a painting of Hicks and one of their records.

But apparently he doesn’t like Tool because he got into them too late. Bill Maherr went in on the Hollywood Napo babies. These are the children of famous people that somehow get gigs in Hollywood. Oh there are a lot of them, Moore said, doesn’t make them bad people who are untalented. But let’s also admit they weren’t the only ones who could have done it.

So enjoy the good life, Nippos. Just don’t say you didn’t have a big advantage. This is show business, getting your foot in the doors eighty percent of it, he said. Yeah, there are difficult roles but since children, Vin Diesel, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Steven Seagal and even Bill Mark can act, it’s not nuclear physics. He says sports is different.

In sports, there are no Nepple babies. Leila Lee did and knock out twenty one opponents by smacking them with a birth certificate. Dana Dute said intermittent fasting is here to stay. It’s making me lose friends at a fast clip. I can’t stand the out food windows they give themselves.

Say Dan, let’s meet for lunch at three forty eight pm. I’m going to order on the drive over so the food is ready when we get there. Because I haven’t eaten since six thirty six pm last night. I have twelve minutes deep breakfast, lunch, of dinner. They show up all jintary from fifteen cups of uncut black coffee.

Could see it now. Don’t make any consent with me. Is I dislocate my jaw so I can shove a stack of pancakes or Ribby and twelfth Canolian and my gullet. If three minutes to talk to me before I go into a deep sleep for fourteen hours so my body can digest the ten thousand calories. I just savage, this is the key to living a longer life.

Who was a live like that? The trailer for My Name Is Monique is the special appear on Netflix April fourth. Some of the things in her trailer and I’m going to have to really really paraphrase and clean this up here. Use your own imagination, and what isn’t your imagination? I’ll leave that between you and your dirty brain friends.

And my name is Monique. We’ll get a greater understanding of her as a person. Okay, a story about being put in a straight jacket. Okay, the advice you received from her grandmother about hm hm doing things. Yeah, I’m making you wait, I’m drawing this out doing things with a mouth.

Oh, you dirty brain, Look look at what you’re thinking. Well, you’re right. That is the topic, her disdain for beliefs and a clear definition of what it means to be a white white person. She says, this is going to be some special If you like what I do here. One way to support the show is go to Apple Podcast and they’re gonna put this option in front of you to become a premium subscriber.

Watch a test drive it for free for a month, and then if you like it, you can sign up and for five dollars a month you got the episodes ad free and early most days. By early, I mean the afternoon before the official release, although if I’m working in advance, sometimes you’ll wake up like you’ll wake up yesterday and of today’s episode. I had a pretape today. I was having a little routine medical procedure yesterday. So either A, I’m fine and I’ll see tomorrow or B this is the last episode ever.

Tune in tomorrow to find out. From comedy dot co dot UK, Alfie Brown has apologized for a historic stand up routine in which he used racist language. Video of the routine from twenty fifteen, in which he says the N word has been circulating on social media, so he readdressed this and the two in eclip. Brown reflects upon the origin and use of the N word, the creation of racial slurs, in the nature of offense. In a statement on Twitter, he wrote, I agree with all the criticism of the video being circulated and apologized unreservedly for the abhorrent racial language I used.

It was recorded in twenty fifteen and years ago I realized my mistake made every attempt to remove it, not because I was scared of it being found, but because it was wrong and hurtful. I was ignorant. It was a young comedian’s arrogant to be transgressive, as the routine’s intention was to be anti racist, but it was stupid. I regret it, and have regretted it for a long time. It became clear to me that using the language wasn’t ever justified, even trying to undermine it.

I’ve never suffered racism, and now years later, this material is causing pain to the people who have I apologize deeply for it. Comedian Nabil Abdul Rashid appeared alongside Brown at the Forge Comedy Festival last week and tweeted, not gonna lie, It’s very fortunate for you that you weren’t doing this material when we gig together on Saturday. WTF. I genuinely am sick and tired of these guys thinking, because they can dress this stuff up in foe intellectualism, it’s okay to say this stuff. He knows very well he couldn’t do this in front of an audience when even a handful of black people orasions were present.

Brown had addressed the bit before saying I wanted to do a bit about modern slavery, and slavery is more offensive than the word. The fact that he were shocked by the use of the word. Everybody should be more shocked and more shocked by modern slavery, the myriad ways in which modern slavery takes place, but the fact that we all react to a word, and I have no about the individual pain that it caused. But I essentially, in terms of modern slavery, I just chose to offend people with the words too highlight the horror of something I felt was more important than just a reactional language. This week on the CW, it’s The Great American Joke Off.

They’ll say Sloane is your host. The panelists include Ed Gamble, Tom Allen, Milton Jones, Glenmore, and Rees Jeames on The Great American Joke Off, comics trade wise, cracks and one liners in a series of fast paced rounds. Some American comics in The Great American Joke Off include Mosha Kasher and Natasha La Jerro, Joe List and Mark Norman. That’s pretty good. Producers say the teams are tested on their skill and everything from crafting joke setups, creating punchlines and providing photo captions to performing solo spots, dropping risk ay innuendos, and ranting about life’s petty irritations.

All right, don’t I have to check that one out? Shmikadoon is coming back for season two. Season one often parody the golden age of musical theater. Season two is heading forward in time, and they wind up parodying things like Chicago, Sweeney Todd Cabaret, Sweet Charity, and Hair that Should be Fun. Your stars Cecily Strong and Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key.

The Milburne Comedy Festival continues. Steve Hill is bringing The Sexy Environmentalist to the festival. The Sexy Environmentalist is a high octane mix of environmentalism and sexiness. Will that makes sense at a last ditch effort to unite humanity and save the planet with a thing that’s kept humans in existence. Sex times running out.

But according to Steve, the green movement has its tactics all wrong. We’re not going to change the world by making people feel guilty about their life choices. Instead, we need to make it sexy now. Normally, at this point I would take a look at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and suggests some shows that we might see if we were there. But I’ve tried loading the Thursday’s schedule five times and no matter how many times that load it, it pops up one day’s schedule.

I even went in and manually changed the URL to put the right date, and it still took me to the wrong date. So I don’t know who’s playing tonight. So let’s not go. That’s your comedies for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jason Zinniman in The New York Times asks what if the Daily Show used guest hosts permanently? Me being me immediately overacted to that and went, what he’re insane? But Jason writes, fillins for Trevor Noah have shown, well, they’re not fill ins for Trevor Noah, they’re fillins for nobody.

There is no host. Jason Ziniman of The New York Times. They’re not filling in for Trevor, He’s gone, Jason writes. Fillins for Trevor Noah have shown how exciting the lack of a permanent replacement could be. It’s an option with an illustrious history in television.

The most impressive accomplishment is how everyone, with the benefit of a typical daily show video and script is at least fine. It’s evidence that this vehicle, more than a quarter century old, has become a smooth, running, user friendly machine, a strength and a weakness. You saw both sides and the Trevor Noah error, which was competent, charming, if a little dull. The current guest host shows are not that they display passion unpredictability and the looming possibility of disaster. Particularly in the interviews.

Jason reminds us that back in the day, Johnny Carson always had guest hosts, and then in the nineties when Letterman went over to CBS and Jay Lenos took over the Tonight Show, the whole guest host thing kind of stopped for the most part until Jimmy Kimmel brought it back. Although when Letterman had it was it a heart attack. He had a couple of guest hosts back in the day, and I forgot this happened, and I have shared the clip on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. In two thousand and three, the Late Show with David Letterman’s guest host was Jimmy Fallon. It was Jimmy Fallon’s first late night hosting gig, and Jason Zinneman writes, watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic, wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.

It’s clear he loved and was influenced by Letterman’s early comedy, and one of the fun aspects of guest hosts is seeing comics working out their personas. So I shared that clip and I watched it. I was mesmerized. I like Jimmy Fallon. I’ve got some Jimmy’s faun stories.

They’re good ones in the I’ll say them for a different day. But when you watch young Jimmy Fallon hosting Letterman Show doing the Letterman vibe, he even like walks up into the camera the way Dave Wood, it’s like, oh, you’ve got a different gear here that, for whatever reason, he’s not doing on the NBC Tonight Show. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. The Daily Show has announced some of the upcoming guest hosts. They include Finally Roy Wood, Junior, Desi, Lydick, Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa, and Dulce Sloan.

Roy Wood gets week of April third, check your calendar, Hey, that’s Monday. Then Jordan Klepper Desi on the twenty fourth, Sloan May first, Costa May eighth pick somebody already Comedy Central. Huh from ctv W five a weird, weird article with Russell Peters. I shared it on Sunday on the Daily Comedy News podcast group page, and the article gets kind of into the booking of Russell Peters and the waiting for Russell Peters, they wrote, W five went back and forth with Peter’s people. They were scheduling conflicts on both sides.

It took weeks of negotiations and finally we were given a day in time for an interview with Peters California home, although it was almost canceled at the last minute because the comic was juggling touring in downtime. That sounds like he really wanted to do it juggling downtime. The W five team arrived at Peter’s sprawling, contemporary, eight thousand square foot home in LA’s San Bernardino Valley. We set up on the main floor in a room and jampack with Peter’s memorabilia, next to an open tread, steel and wooden double staircase that ascends to the upper floor against a wall of glass. Several of his comedy buddies sat outside on the covered patio next to an a zoo colored pool.

Unfortunately, they didn’t mention who his comedy buddies are. I would love to know. Peter’s wife, Ali greeted us warmly. While waiting for her husband to show up. She casually sat on the staircase and chatted about the home’s architecture.

So time out, so Russell’s buddies are hanging pool side and Russell’s not even there all right, W five says. We also talked about the community we’re in. June of ninety four, residents had a front row seat to the famous O. J. Simpson high speed police chase.

A roar of a sports car pulling into the driveway signaled the arrival of the man of the hour, who entered the house and Breeze passed us to chat with friends and family. It was only when he recognized us that Peter’s laser focused humor and charm shifted in a high gear. He was excited to chat with a group of Canadians about all things Canada, excited to make me laugh. The interview was quintessential Peters, engaging, energetic, and unapologetic. He said, we’re free thinkers.

The minute you try to put reins on our brains, you ruin the game. Does he have any regrets, He says not really, but he tells us we made gay jokes freely, and we wouldn’t just say gay. We would say the F word, not that F word, the other F word. And that was perfectly normal back then and perfectly acceptable. But your job’s pushed the envelope.

Then you understand that the envelope keeps him moving away. So I was constantly chasing the envelope. Dave Chappelle will appear on Killer Mike’s upcoming album. During south By Southwest Killer Mike, he held a private listening session for the project inside a cathedral. One guest in attendance was Milwaukee radio host at DJ Kenny Perez, who told fans to run and embrace it when it drops.

He said, there are collabs with Andre three thousand, Lil Wayne, Dave Chappelle, and Moore. Samarell was on the Good One podcast back in October and I missed it, but there’s some really great stories in there with them. Shipping away at one of them, he said, Gary Goldman is great at getting laughs out of places he would never think to get laughs. I remember he had a joke where he just said, karrate, that shouldn’t be that funny, but it is because it’s very honest to his voice. He would just say, I don’t know why you guys are laughing.

That’s the proper pronunciation. You learn to get laughs in between the jokes, and the more you write, you need those because holy cow, storytellers, guys like Thomsigora, Jim Jeffreys, people who write these long stories, they have to find those little laughs. But joke riders need that too. You learn how to bring yourself to a joke so that it’s not just a joke, like a joke book joke. Patton Oswalt will speak at William and Mary’s commencement ceremony on May nineteenth.

I was on the William and Mary website and I loved how serious they took all of this, and they wrote some paragraphs and I’m going to share them with you. Oswalt, who was known for such roles as Spence on the TV show King of Queens and the voice of Remy in the movie Ratatui, will receive an honorary degree at the event scheduled for blah blah blah. When asked about giving the commencement keynote at his alma mater, the comedian quick to show is Williamsburg knowledge, stated I would like a bag of bread ends at a dip from the cheese shop from my services. Thank you. Then they had his official bio.

Patton Oswalt, ninety one. Oswalt started performing in comedy clubs as a student at William and Mary, where he wrote for The Flat Hat and was a member of Phi Capital and the Fencing Club. You didn’t know that? Did you? Did you know?

Patt? And Fedz? She didn’t Know That. After graduating with a degree in English, he embarked on a career in entertainment, earning accolades for his more than two hundred TV and film credits, as well as comedy specials and books. Oswalt has been prolific as an actor, appearing in such films as The Circle, What’s That, The Secret Life of Walter Middy, Zoolander, The Informant, Observe and Report, Magnolia, and Starsky and Hutch.

He received critical acclaim and a Gotham Award nomination for his part in Big Fan, and he was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award for his role in Young Adults. On TV, he could be seen in leading roles and shows ranging from The Heart, She Holler Huh to the United States of Tara Well Patton. Those are not the strongest of credits. He has also appeared on such series as Parks and Recreation, Veep, Justified, two and a Half Men, and Seinfeld, where he made his acting debut. He recently competed on Celebrity Jeopardy, finishing the tournament in second place and earning two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the nonprofit Alice’s Kids.

His voice can also be heard in many animated films and shows, including The Secret Life of Pets Too, Rick and Morty, and Archer. Are you watching Kunk on Earth? You should be. It’s on Netflix. Kunk on Earth is currently the number one thing on my Top Funny Things of twenty twenty three list.

It’s not stand up, so it’s not the top stand up special. So I have like a list within a list. It’s the top funniest things, and then a subset of that is the top stand ups. But the overall number one funniest thing is Kunk on Earth. I’m now watching it for the second time.

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Diane Morgan, who plays Filamina Kunk, and she says, as Philamina Kunk, I narrate the history of civilization and ask posh experts funny questions with a straight face. They took me seriously at first, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they play along. What’s her favorite? Kunk Line school is far easier in Shakespeare’s day because he didn’t have to study Shakespeare. She says she no longer watches as much comedy except Curb Your Enthusiasm, and adds if Larry David stops making those, I don’t know what I’ll do.

Ellie Eater caught up with Otsko at Kaza. She immigrated to the US at age ten and settled in West la at her uncle’s apartment with her mother and grandmother. She said it took a while to get used to the sprawl of la and the less than dependable public transit. She said, I was on Kolbe Avenue near Barrington. I did think, God, we’re walking a lot just to get to McDonald’s.

And then if we didn’t want to eat at McDonald’s, it was just Marie Calendars right next door. So in my head, it was either McDonald’s or fine dining. At home. Meals were mostly cooked by Grandma, who served simple, stir friyed vegetables, steamed white race and sweet slimy chicken. Osco said, as a kid, I didn’t really dabble in spices.

And things like that. It was very simple. I just went with whatever flavors of the adults are recommended. Japanese curry’s probably the most flavorable thing that I was eating back then. When I’m eating Japanese food now, simple flavors.

If I do get rolls, it’ll just be one fish in it. I won’t do the ones with three or four fishes, flakes of Temporea and drizzles of different things. I usually don’t go for the ones that are named the Obama roll. All right, when you want to celebrate, where do you go? She said, cheesecake factory, go big or go home.

I don’t really eat that typically day to day, so we’re like, where do people go or used to go before they got all cool, the olive gardens, cheesecake factories, red lobsters. I really like the jambal eye there. When it comes to America or Western food, I really get into the creamy, the ranch, the cheese. So that’s a sign for me to get gluttonous. You can barely make it out of there alive.

But I kind of like that, Hey it’s my birthday. It sounds like Paget Brewster is not in the community movie. She tweeted last week, I miss Frankie Dart too. I hope to get a call. I’ll be in the movie, even just one line or no line, standing behind someone.

That surprised me. I thought that the extended cast in there. I mean, if you can have Jonathan Banks in anything, you gotta ask him, right, Professor Hickey, I would have him in. The Milburn Comedy Festival kicks off doing the story today because I understand how time zones work, and it’s probably already Wednesday in Melbourne as you’re listening to this. More than six hundred shows.

Melbourne is an awesome city. Guys, invite me down there next year. I tell my wife, Hey, I gotta go down to Melbourne for a month and record podcasts. She’ll be happy with that. The fun kicks off with the famed opening night Comedy All Stars super Show, this year hosted by Hannah Gatsby Concrete Playground Rights.

Other big ticket highlights to follow include the National Grand Final of Esteem to open My Competition Raw Comedy and the Deadly Funny National Grand Final, set to spotlight the country’s funniest First Nations talent. Some US comedians heading down there, the Lucas Brothers, Patty Harrison, Shalouis Sharp and Shang Wang. Hey, if you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss Shang Whang. I’m looking at the lineup for Wednesday night Boy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven. So well, thirty forty five, I mean, wow, twenty twenty five.

Wow, this is a ton of shows tonight. All right, I’m not going to read them, ALTI let’s see what catches my ass. I scrolled down. Would be stupid to go all the way to Melbourne at six o’clock to see British Invasion when there are five different shows at six o’clock, probably right, same question at six fifteen for the full Irish same question for six fifteen, keep comeds British comedy. Boy, I am scrolling down here.

There’s a good fifty shows tonight. It’s insane. Joe Avante I’ve heard of that’s at eight fifteen. Let’s go see that and then nine to forty five Best of Milbourne Comedy. We’ve come all this way.

That sounds like a good parent, right boy. I’m scrolling down here. I can’t get to the bottom, and I keep checking weight. Am I on to the next day? No here, let me pause the recording and I’ll actually count.

All right, I’ve counted. There’s one hundred and fifteen shows on Wednesday night. That’s insane. One hundred fifteen and I’ve checked the website. I’m not looking at the whole festival.

That’s just Wednesday night. I also saw a show called Lord of the Zings, a Keywie comedy showcase. That could be fun too, and on Tuesday night. Now, if you’re in Milbourne by the time you’re hearing this, you’ve missed all this. But US Americans, if we have a time machine, we can show travel.

I don’t know how that works. But also, like one hundred shows on Tuesday night. What a big festival. So I’ll be keeping an eye on this for the next month or show. But wow, that’s your comedy needs for today.

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The Shark Deck Jinny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I have to go slowly and get this one right. Movie maker was recamping Bert Kreisher’s recent appearance on the Dana Carvey David Spade podcast Fly on the Wall. Burt starts telling a story about Will Smith, and I’ve done a little digging and I see he has told a Will Smith story as far back as twenty fourteen. Okay, so this is not Bert being opportunistic here, but the story caught my eyes because MovieMaker’s headline is Bert Kreisher mistakenly thought Will Smith and twelve other dudes wanted to have sex with him.

Okay, I’ll read. So it’s way back when Rolling Stone did the cover story about Bert Kreisher which launched his career. If you don’t know what that is, he was named the top partier at the number one party school in the country. Shall we stop off there? Sure?

Why not? April seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven, Rolling Stone the headline, Bert Kreisher the undergraduate. It’s taken the Florida State University students six years to become the man he is today, the top partier at the number one party school in the country back in ninety seven, they wrote the other day. On a Tuesday, shortly before the noon hour, Bert Crazier splashed a bit of peach tree schnops into a glass of orange juice, topped it off with zovadka, and thought he’d probably skipped class. He was a student at FSU.

Bert yawned and scratched at some of the stubble on his chin. He stuck a finger to his drink and tinkling the ice cubes floating around there. He thought about the day. If he didn’t go to class, he’d played frisbee instead in the early evening. He had always a few beers at home, then hit the bars until some o’clock in the morning.

Tomorrow, maybe he’d go to class, but without doubt he’d be drinking again by sundown. Hopefully he wouldn’t black out. Odds were against his blacking out because he hadn’t in a while. Then, looking forward in time, Burt saw Thursday evening a great big bash on his back deck with a live band and lots of beer. Friday evening getting sasas wherever.

Finally Saturday, he’d be super loaded before, during, and after the football game beyond that, into the further reaches of adulthood. He could not see why should he. He was deeply in the moment of now again. This from nineteen ninety seven fascinating right skipping ahead. He’d run twice for office at his fraternity Alfa Tau Omega.

The first time he made his big campaign speech in the nude and lost. The second time he dropped the idea of a speech. Instead, he appeared before his brothers in the nude and took a crap on a pizza box. General Bedlamon sued he won by a landslide. The rest of the story is Paywald.

All right, let’s get back to having sex with Will Smith, Gracier told David and Dana six months in Will Smith discovers me, I’m doing stand up. Six months I’m working the door at the Boston Comedy Club. I go to meet Will at the record studio or wherever, and he goes, you’re cool, man, we should go. We should hang out. And I’m like, yeah, thinking call me and we’ll hang out one day.

And he goes, what are you doing to night? And I’m like nothing, and he goes, let’s go to the movies. Gracier calls his dad, and Dad goes how to go, and I say, good, We’re going to the movies, and my Dad’s like on a date. Oh buddy, I think he wants to clean get up hook up with you. Gracher says, Dad, that’s impossible.

Dad says, what’s more likely the fact that you’re so talented in the six months of doing stand up that the biggest movie star in the world wants to do a sitcom with you, or that he’s tired of and I’m really cleaning this up women parts and he wants to hook up with you. I quite paraphrase there. Bert says, what do I wear? Following his father’s advice, Kreisher said he dressed as sloppily as possible and overalls at a sweater. He meets Will Smith at Planet Hollywood.

Someone tells him to go downstairs, quoting Bert here, Then there’s ten black dudes in this room waiting for me. I’m doing the math. I’m like, I’m sure he’s bringing Jazzy Jeff. That’s the thirteen dues I’m gonna hook up with tonight. He shows up with Jazzy Jeff.

I swear to God there was no sex involved, and he said it was a good movie, so it’s curious about this. And back in twenty fourteen, Bert Kreisher told the version of the story to the A V Club. In that version, he says, Will Smith’s boys discovered me in a club and they told me, I want to do a deal with you, but you have to get Will to like you. If Will likes you, it’s a deal. And I was like, done my head, this was my sweet spot.

I’m a huge hip hop fan. I’d have been a huge Will Smith fan since parents just don’t understand. I knew everything there was to know about Will Smith’s I was like, you just sent the stallion into the Kentucky derby. Anyway, I went to the music studio where he was working. They were like, mister Kreisher walking here, mister Smith will be in a second.

I walked in. It was a huge dance studio. I mean mirrors everywhere. There was a ballerina bar and two folding chairs in the center, and they said grab a seat. I grabbed a chair with my back towards the door, and Will Smith walks in two minutes later like a hurricane of personality, and I’m like, oh, oh my god, I love you.

I love hip hop, but I love Biggie. I love Tupac? Who killed Tupac? Who killed Biggie? Did you know he was on the cover of my Rolling Stone magazine?

I love Jada? Did she have sex with Tupac? I love black people. I literally rambled to him for an hour and he listened. When there’s a break, he would interject with a very poignant inside and I was like, this guy is amazing.

It was almost like a perfect date. Then all of a sudden, he was like I like you, and I was like I like you. And he said, what are you doing to night? And I said and I was like nothing. And he said, let’s go to the movies and I was like perfect.

He said, meet me at Planet in Hollywood at seven. I was like done, So I get up and walk out. Bert then tells a very similar version of what I just told you about the conversation with his dad. In the twenty fourteen version, Bert shows up wearing overalls on a sweater gets the Planet in Hollywood. He asked if Will Smith is there, and a woman says he’s in the back.

Bert goes to the back and there’s a mannequin of Will Smith and I go, no, I’m looking for the Will Smith to see Will Smith. And she was like Sun movie stars don’t hang out a planet in Hollywood. But I was like, do you mind if I wait for him? And she said sure, knock yourself out anyway. And I’m sitting there and all of a sudden there’s a six foot seven three and or fifty pound black dude named Charlie Mack who’s a real dude.

There’s a song about him. And he says, hey, are you Burt? And I go yeah, and he goes downstairs. I get downstairs. There’s nine black dude sitting in a room with a folding table in the middle, and I’m like, are you joshing me?

It’s one room with a velvet curtain on all walls. And he goes down here. I sit down. I don’t make eye contact with a soul. All I’m thinking about is the math of how much paraphrasing here sex?

I’m going to have this evening. Will Smith comes in with Jazzy Jeff and I’m like, how many guys is this? Will looks at me and he’s like, guys, this is the guy, and everybody starts walking right at me and I’m literally about to grab aty when the curtain’s open and a beautiful private movie theater shows up. Well, it looks at me and says, grab a seat. I’ll grab his drinks.

We watched American Pie. It was beautiful. I had the greatest time. He was awesome. At the end of the night, he goes, what’s you think?

And I go, it was great. He goes, no, what’d you think of the room? I go, it was beautiful and he said, what about the people at it? He said, you were a hip hop fan? Look around?

So I look around it. He goes, that’s bismark key. That’s cool mood. And I’m like, holy crap. And all I’m thinking to myself is I could have had sex with bizmur Key.

I quite cleaned that up. Cracked has some more about that. William Shatner’s story I’d Telled You. Shatner shared an anecdote where he did stand up as James T. Kirk.

Shatner’s idea was that he would perform as Captain Kirk. The arising would be really funny if the Starfleet captain wants to be a stand up comic but he doesn’t know how to do it. That meant delivering purposely hacky material, telling the worst jokes possible that take my wife please kind of humor. Shatner recounted the crowd stared at him with their mouths open and awe realizing they were in the middle of a complete disaster. Nobody laughed because they were too busy being stunned at this colossally bad idea.

Shatner said, it was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me. Nashville Seeing caught up with Sarah Silverman. They asked her, do you find your jokes hit differently in red states or blue states? Sarah said, I mean, yeah, sometimes I know about this drag bill had just passed. That’s gross, and obviously I have a lot of abortion material.

It’s why to go to states where it’s illegal, But I think all the more reason to be talking about it’s just so bizarre. Every state is both, really. I mean, people think of California is so blue, but there’s so much red in California if you go to Orange County and Sacramento and all those blazes. That’s why I love doing those days, because people are like to come out for it doesn’t represent everyone in every state. And I like to think I can be entertaining at anybody, but I’m not for everyone.

I’m far less political in my stand up, but I still am. I talk about abortion, gay rights, gay stuff, so yeah, it’s always interesting. But I feel like in red States it’s even more appreciated to be honest. But yeah, Tennessee, man, I love it, love hate. I mean, I’m from New Hampshire, which is the same kind of like blue and red, but lots of red, but loud, proud blue.

Two. Not to be so partisan, I’m as left as you can be, but I get annoyed with others on the left as well. Nashville Scene followed up and said, you mentioned the drag bill. Sarah said, yeah, like, are we gonna stop car shows because that would be fair as well. It’s just so bizarre to Sandison, Florida two.

This is kind of like anything this is anti WOGA doesn’t matter if it hurts people, helps people. It’s just vindictive. It’s purely ego based stuff, and they’re hurting people. Just gross. I mean, and this is the Party of Less Government telling us what shows we’ve been put on.

Fu Sarah adds, I bet Dolly Parton will speak out because she’s Tennessee Royalty and no one supports drag more than her. She considers herself as drag. She’s putting on a face, a mask, in a wig, and she puts on this outer shell that she thinks of his drag. And there are so many drag dollies and she loves them, she supports them. I hope she’s outspoken about this.

I bet she will be. I love her so much. She’s one of the few things that right and the left can agree on. The Delli parton is the stuff. If you enjoy what I do here, one way you can support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts or five dollars a month.

You’ll get the episodes ad free and a little bit early. By a little bit early, I mean usually the afternoon before official release, and you can test drive that for free for a month if you want to check that out. They’ve announced a sequel to to Ghostbusters Afterlife, and I don’t know. I get what they’re going for here, but I wonder if it’s two on the Nose added to the cast. Patton Oswalton, Camil nan Gianni and I’m really reacting to the patent casting.

I feel like it’s two meta. I can’t imagine watching that movie and not being like, that’s Batton Oswalt, that’s Batten Oswalt. James a Cast also in the cast, joining Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon. The movie slated to come out December of this year, so they’re gonna have to get moving. I don’t know.

Quick note, I’ve been on the various reddits about stand up comedy and I’m noticing a lot of negative reactions to Bert Kreisher that the latest special did not go over well, and people are discussing if Bert Kreisher is a hack. He apparently had a couple of bad podcast appearance as well, and people aren’t feeling the special and the buzzes off Burt right now, we’ll keep an eye on that. That’s surprising. Jimmy o Yang, he’s fantastic. He’s got another special coming to Amazon.

It’ll launch May second, in good Deal. Jimmy Oyang will poke fun at Love Languages, Loser Friends, and negotiating with his Asian parents and the Chief Comedy Festivals coming to Trinidad, Colorado May fifth and sixth. In the Big Boxes, Ron Lynch and Emma Arnold. Are your headliners Emma Arnold? You know where she’s from?

Canada? Nope? Ohio Nope, Idaho, Yes, Boise, Idaho, Idaho apparently the hotbed of comedy in twenty twenty three. Among the people performing at the festival a friend of the show, Dan Booblitz. If you missed the episode eight days ago, I spent an hour talking comedy with Dan, and he hinted about an unnamed festival at which he might be appearing.

Dan, looks like we’ve solved the mystery. Huh, can’t keep anything secret from Daily Comedy News. I’ve got sources everywhere. I found out about this from an insider. Sources close to Dan Booblitz told me he’d be at the Chief Comedy Fest again.

That’s coming up in May. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I haven’t even looked at this yet. From The Washington Post, your headline, Adam Sandler doesn’t need your respect. Well, he came to Alora. He plays Adam, but he’s getting in anyway.

In a rear sit down interview with The Washington Post, the former SNL star and comedy icon reflects on his career as he receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. I am in Baby, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, The Post writes, for Sandler, popularity and praise have really come hand in hand. That’s right. There are people in the world who think most of the Adam Sandler movies are really, really, really terrible, but the Post writes that’s changed in some recent years. Sandler’s dramatic acting performances in twenty seventeens The Myerwitz Stories, last year’s basketball film Hustle, which as you know, is probably the second best Adam Sandler movie of all time, and especially twenty nineteen’s Uncut Gems, which as you know, is the best of the Adam Sandler films.

Those brought unlikely and ultimately fruitless Oscar Buzz twenties throwback comedy Huby Halloween and we’ll put that one in the garbage pole. Confirmed why Adam Sandler has been packing movie theaters and arena since the Clinton administration. The Mark Twain Award puts Adam Sandler in a company of such figures as Eddie Murphy, Carol Burnett, and Steve Martin. Lauren Michael says the nature of comedy, as you get the audience, you get the money, respect is the last thing you get. Jimming ahead a few paragraphs until all the time when Adam Sandler had started.

Billy Madison debuted at number one of the box office. It also got terrible reviews, and then the Post writes for a second time terrible reviews with terrible and italics. Sandler said, when Billy Madison came out and I realized I’m going to be a newspaper, that was a big deal. When I was a kid. If I got a couple of hits in baseball and was in the Union leader, Adam Sandler, you know shortstop, I got a single into double, I got excited, and then I read a couple of reviews and I was like, woof that hurts.

I thought they were gonna a good sign with it like I did, and then Happy Gilmour was getting trash when my friends were getting all riled up, and I just said, nah, I don’t need to read that stuff. I decided I wanted to talk through what I like to do, to do my stand up, I’d like to do my movies. I was just happy doing that. Lauren Michael has talked about Adam’s SNL audition. Lauren said, most people audition in the style of things that have already been on the show.

But what I’m looking for is something that makes you laugh because you haven’t seen it yet. Both of them had that. Adam was truly funny, but in a style it was completely new and fresh. During Sandler’s SNL run from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety five, there were two factions emerging inside thirty Rock, those who got it and those who didn’t. I didn’t work at thirty Rock at nineteen ninety five, but you can count me in the those who didn’t.

Executives were known a lodge complaints about his work, and within the clicky cast and writer’s room there was also a split. Robert Smigel was a writer on the show for eight years and said it read through. Adam would do a weekend update piece like we was a travel guy, and the joke would be that he was just not doing what a travel guy is supposed to be doing, but he was delivering the information with a blissful idiot’s enthusiasm, and it was incredibly funny. I remember me and Conan and the nerds Greg Daniels and Bob Odenkirk giggling uncontrollably in one corner of the room, the room that otherwise had a black cloud hanging over it. Jim Downey, writer on the shows, that Sandler was the closest thing s and l ever had to Jerry Lewis wacky voices off Gilter characters he could also sing down.

He said. Ordinary people had no problem with Sandler, and really smart people had no problem, but there was this group in the middle who would just take great offense at this kind of thing. They thought it was self indulgent, in infantile. Hi, Jim, nice to meet you. That’s me I think about.

Adam was most performers, it’s very important that they’d be respected as intelligent and often more intelligent than they really are. Adam was a guy who did not care if he thought he was smart, and in fact, when out of the way to obscure the fact that he is, I dare say a lot more intelligent than ninety percent of the performers I’ve worked with. Dan Olmeier, a network president, targeted Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and David Spade. He would tell Lauren Michaels, these guys aren’t funny. Michael said, I think they are the exacts long for the past for Rosanna, Rosanna data where Chevy Chase’s prat falls.

They didn’t understand Sandler singing a turkey for me, a turkey for you, Let’s eat turkey and a big brown shoe. I like these executives. They sound like smart people, Lauren Michael said, whether it’s in painting, or in music or in writing, style changers are disruptive and their action to Adam on the show in the world was growing, but it wasn’t visible in the mainstream because they were all baby boomers in occasional gen xer with a podcast in his pastment, Sandler said, I don’t think I ever met Don all Meyer. I shook it off. It’s not what I heard when I walked down the street, and some kids talk to me about crazy pickle arm.

I was going by the response of my New Hampshire friends calling me up, my father telling me his buddy’s kid thoughts such and such was funny, or my brother what he liked. I didn’t take it personally. I didn’t sit there and go, maybe I should change. By nineteen ninety five, Adam had been on SNL for five seasons and Lorne Michael said, listen, I could protect him at the show at least for now, but they’re so adamant about his not being funny and not being good, so I think he can go. He can leave, and so Adam Sandler left Saturday Night Live.

He wondered if he would keep getting opportunity. Sandler said, maybe the other companies are gonna say don’t hire him because of this. They don’t like him over there, and maybe there’s a reason. And I was probably nervous about that, but I didn’t doubt myself. Billy Madison comes out.

Ticket sales keep increasing. The water Boy made one hundred and eighty six million dollars on a twenty three million dollar budget. Big Daddy from nineteen ninety nine made two hundred thirty million dollars. Queen Latifa It talked about one of the very few, rare, actually good Adam Sandler movies, fifty First Dates. That’s probably the third best Adam Sandler movie.

The queen said, I love fifty First Dates. Adam knows how to play the romantic comedy. And I think a lot of it is because this is a guy I’d like to meet. This is a guy that would make me laugh. This is a guy who’s sweet.

This is also a guy who has real feelings and gets ticked off. Josh Safty talked about Uncut Gems, which is of course the greatest of the Adam Sandler films, and there’s only like five good ones. Does the Basketball one, Uncut Gems and the ones with Drew Barrymore. Josh Safty said, there’s this rage and deep sweetness to him, and he’s the only person who could have expressed what made Howard lovable for us. Jennifer Anniston has made three movies with Sandler, including Murder Mystery two.

She remembers watching Adam Sandler Rhyme Delhi with Arthur Fonzarelli when he did the Hanakah song. Anniston said, and personally, I think you Don’t Mess with the Zohan is one of the funniest movies that he has the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Airs eight o’clock tonight. If you like what I do here, you’re probably not Adam Saidler. But the rest of you can go to Buy me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple of bucks in the tip jar.

I would take your money. I won’t go to an Adam Sailor movie. Nope, That’s not what I’m gonna do with your money. I’m going to go to the National Donuts chain and I’m gonna pick up my large ice coffee with caramel and almond milk that I ordered on the app Come Home. Probably won’t watch an Adam Sailer movie, but if I do, it would be uncut Jams, although I like the Basketball one a lot.

That was kind of fun. Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey, Jim Gaffagan, do you prefer doing stand up at arenas or theaters? Jim said, I think the technology has advanced so much that arenas aren’t a bad experience, but a smaller venue in a theater setting, I think that’s ideal because comedy clubs are great, but at a theater you’re not disrupted by waiter service or anything like that. There’s a focus.

The environment kind of makes people behave better. But yeah, I would say that theater is are probably the ideal thing. That’s why whenever I tape a special, I always do it in a theater setting. Yeah. Can you imagine, like Jim Gaffagan live at Giant Stadium.

That wouldn’t work. Jim, who would you cite to some of your influences other than David Letterman? Jim said, gosh, you know, since I started, it has changed so dramatically. But I would definitely say that Seinfeld and Brian Reagan were influences once I started. But I think that growing up listening to George Carlin was a big thing.

It’s ever evolving. I’ve been doing it for thirty years, so what inspired me before? I’ve gotten to this very much self assignment thing. So like, I really love the observational comedy when I started, but now very much in a storytelling. I also want to deal with different topics in an interesting way.

It’s a very strange thing because after you do stand up for so long, it’s really this evolution of this relationship you have with your audience. Like the big advantage is that know your sensibility. But then it’s like any good friendship, the conversation has to evolve. We’d like to think we have the same conversation with our friends, but we really don’t. It’s always kind of evolving, and that’s what makes some of our friendships so interesting.

So some of it is delivering the show, but also challenging myself and not just being repetitive with the type of comedy I’m doing. If that makes sense. That does make sense. Jim Gaffing, And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify YouTube wherever your shows.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack and something a little different today. I’ve wanted to revisit this topic. I did it originally back during the pandemic. It’s from Rolling Stone their fifty best stand up Comics of All Time list.

Now, a couple of caveats. This list is from February fourteenth, twenty seventeen, so obviously between then and now some things have changed. For example, it’s not as cool as it once was to say, yeah, I love Dave Chappelle. It’s definitely not as cool as it once was to say, yeah, Louis C.K. Is the new Carlin.

Right. So there’s that, and there’s also things like, was Tom Sagora any kind of name in twenty seventeen, I don’t think so Bert Kreischer, I don’t think so. Now the Cigar and Kreischer fans they were great, you know what I mean, They’re more popular now than they were in twenty seventeen. What got me started here is I was recently doing a story and I saw the tig Nataro was on the list, and I was curious. I’m like, okay, I like tig Nataro.

She’s probably like forty nine forty forty seven. She’s like in the mid thirties, and that made me want to revisit this list and see, all right, what’s up here? So I’m just going to read the list and comment as I go along. I have not prepped for this. Number.

Fifty is Wanda Sykes, Okay, kind of have to see who else is on the list or not before judge. Forty nine is A Z’s. I’m sorry, I’m not sure if you made this list today as Z’s would still be on the list. For one thing, he was comedy canceled, and two I don’t think the body of work is there. I think maybe back in twenty seventeen he was a bit of an IT comic and he’s not it at all right now.

Forty eight is Margaret Show Forty seven Elaine Boozler. Nice to see her on the list. She may not be a name, you know, Rolling Stone wrote, imagine the prototypical female comic of the nineteen eighties, big hair, suit jacket with shoulder pads and the sleeves rolled up the brick wall behind her. You’re imagining Elaine Boosler. I used to really enjoy her back in the day.

Forty six Reggie Watts. I just think that’s crazy. I like what Reggie Watts does, But is he one of the fifty best stand up comics of all time? I don’t think so. Forty five Freddie Prinns.

You maybe two youngs remember Freddie Prince, not Freddie Princes Junior. Freddie Prinns. He was a comet that big sitcom Chico on the Man. He died by suicide at age twenty two. He only had one album called Looking Good and one early HBO special.

He was a comedy monster for a very brief time. Forty four. Russell Peters good pick. He’s under the radar in the States, international superstar. Love it good name to have on the list.

Forty three, Amy Schumer forty two, Phyllis Diller forty one, Bernie Mack forty Gary Shandling. Yeah, he was a really good stand up starting to become forgotten, which is a shame. Probably more known for his sitcom work or television work. Now and You Forget. He was in the running to host The Tonight Show Johnny Carson had two rotating permanent guest host, Jay Leno and Gary Shandling.

Gary passed away in twenty sixteen. Wow, it’s been a minute. Thirty nine Mom’s mably interesting pick there. I’m not that familiar with her work. Thirty eight Roseanne Barr.

So there’s an example of someone who if we redid this list today, I bet Rolling Stone doesn’t put Rose and Board thirty eight. Who knows? Thirty seven Sam Kinison. I probably would have Sam Way higher on the list. Again, another shooting star, but for a few years they are Wow.

Sam was amazing and one of those acts that when you first saw him you were like, wow, this is different. Thirty six Daniel Kitson Are you like who? Am I like? Who? Let’s read the paragraph using stand up in theater into carefully structured silla ventures.

This British comic scrutinizes bits of his biography while contemplating bigger issues than a nature of time, memory and individual perception. Kitson’s incredible command of language and craft is apparent, whether mulling the death of an ant or a scathing review of his act as he swirls in and out of odd tangents. Interesting pick to put on the list here. I’ll be curious to see him any other British comedians make the list. I don’t know what to do with that.

That just that totally through me. Thirty five Tig Nazaro, I like, take a lot. Is she the thirty fifth best stand up comedian of all time? It seems a little high to me. I don’t know.

Thirty four Patton Oswalt thirty three Jeanine Garoffalo, all right, so right there, I would put ahead of Jeane Garoffalo. Thirty two Patrese O’Neil. The comedians love him. I never enjoyed my time with him. He just had this thing where he would go at everyone just to make uncomfortable and just made himself a person he didn’t want it being around.

I know the comics love him, but so I can’t judge him. Clearly didn’t enjoy my time with him. Thirty one Sarah Silverman. I would put Tick Nataro ahead of Sarah Silverman, no doubt. Thirty Woody Allen, didn’t we cancel him?

Twenty nine, Dick Gregory twenty eight, Robert Klein twenty seven, Red Fox twenty six, Rodney Dangerfield twenty five Eddie Murphy. So it’s interesting, right, Eddie in some ways was the Beatles, and in other ways there’s not much of that work there, and none of it in the last forty years. So yeah, I guess it is hard to put him in the top five. And yet for people of a certain age, being my age, Eddie Murphy was the man, partially because we were too young to realize he was just doing a cover actor Richard Pryor. Really, well, let’s take the break here and come back and do the top twenty five, twenty four Susie Eddie Izzard, twenty three Don Rickles love it.

Maybe he should be hard. We got to see as we get closer. Twenty two Jonathan Winters. I know people love him. I never got at twenty one.

Bob Newhart fantastic. Have you ever listened to Bob’s stand up work? I know you know him from the sitcoms. Have you ever listened to his stand up comedy? It’s all fifty check your calendar.

John sixty years old now, but it’s really fantastic. Number twenty Mitch Hedberg, all right, I love Mitch Hedberg. I don’t know if Mitch Hedberg should be ahead of Bob Newhart, and I love Mitch Heedburg. He’s in like the top five of my personal list. Who’s your personal list.

Johnny Mack. Maybe I’ll do that at the end. Nineteen Albert Brooks. M seems high to me. Maybe I’m just too young.

Eighteen Kevin Hart all right? Kevin Hart sells out arenas and he’s really famous, and he’s in movies and everybody who loves him. Is he really that good of a stand up? Though? I don’t know about this list at all?

Seventeen is Bill Burr all right? Sixteen Billy Connolly love it? Fifteen Stephen Wrights fourteen Andy Kaufman, interesting pick Andy, Andy’s like his own category. I don’t know. You could tell me any Kavian is the greatest of all time.

You could tell me he’s not really a statup. I don’t know. Fourteen Andy Kaufman Sure Thirteen Bill Hicks. That’s bad news for Dennis Leary twelve Robin Williams. Eleven Steve Martin, you’re ready for the top ten here?

Ten marked Saul rolling Stone. Writers just trying to prove they did some homework. Nine Dave Chappelle eight Bill Cosby. I told you that Sliss would probably be a little different if we did it now. Seven.

Jerry Seinfeld six, Joan Rivers five Chris Rock, four, Louis c. K He’ll be lower now. Three Lenny Bruce. Interesting to George Carlin. And can you figure out who number one is?

If I gave you all those other name James, Yes, of course number one. Richard Pryor. All right, nothing egregious there in the top ten Johnny Mack, what is your personal list? M I don’t know how to rank them, but off top of my head, I’m a big fan of Carlin. I’m a big fan of Headburg.

Being my age, I loved Eddie Murphy, but I can’t ignore that Eddie Murphy’s doing a really good cover actor Richard Pryors. I’d have to throw Pryor in the mix. Even though I’ve always enjoyed Eddie’s material more than Richard. It’s a little challenging there for me. I do like the kind of comic like Matt and Hospital Brian for saying I do like that style of comedy a lots.

I do like Bill Burr a lotts h. I don’t know if I’m ready to give you a definitive five Kennison. Kinnison was awesome. Don’t have to give you a top five. How about this?

It’s five hundred years from now, we’re alpen Heaving at the cool comedy club. Who’s playing? I want to see Hedberg, Kinnison, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, that’s for given, one more named John, and Shang Wang. I want to see Shang Wang. He can open.

I’m not your comedy news for today, John, there was no news today. You know what I mean. It’s how I lock out the show. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow,

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The Shark Deck. I’m Chenny Mack with you Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel had a great question. If Trump goes to prison, does the Secret Service go with him? Like do they have to be in?

Do they have to serve? It sounds like the premise for a Mark Wahlberg Kevin Hart movie Right Jail to the Chief, Love It. James Gordon said, tell you what, I bet Trump’s ready to fund the police. Now Cordon again, Milani is at Marlago, Like, please don’t put him under house arrest. Please don’t put him under house arrest.

Anything, but how’s arrest? Dave Chappelle, it’s all the story. On his podcast, he said the story took place when Twitter first started. Chappelle tried to sign up for Twitter, but he found out the name Dave Chappelle was already in use. He thought that was odden, checked out who was using his name.

Turned out to be somebody pretending to be him, who he calls fake Dave Chappelle, Fake Dave Chappelle at pictures and everything. At first, Dave was like, I need to put a stop to the page. Then he started reading the guy’s tweets and thought they were hilarious and figured, hey, I’ll get a good comedy reputation without having to pay this guy. Chapelle became so intrigued with Fake Chappelle that he would get coffee every morning and check Twitter just to see what Fake Dave was up to. Then Fake Dave Chappelle went rogue and started attacking celebrities and friends of Real Dave.

One of the celebrities that he attacked was Kat Williams. Fake Dave Chappelle and Kat Williams started going at it on Twitter. The problem for Real Dave was that Kat Williams was saying things to the fake Dave that we’re actually hurting Real Dave’s feelings. But wait, there’s more. The guest on the podcast, Cat Williams, Kat told Chappelle he never had a Twitter accounts.

Turns out, Fake Dave Chappelle and Fake Cat Williams we’re having a war. Real Dave and Real Cat find that very funny. So do I. I apparently missed back in October a really good interview by A Good One podcast with Sam Morrell, and I found this exchange really interesting as I went back and looked at it, A Good One asked Sam, hey, you filmed seven shows for your Netflix special same time tomorrow, but the running time is only forty five minutes. Sam said, the Netflix deal I got wasn’t incredible, so I’m like, why am I giving them a full hour for material?

I look at his at a teaser for the road. I cut a lot of stuff, so it’s kind of like I can self release that stuff. It’s like bonus crowd work. I could start the new hour with some of that material. I’ve also put out three specials in the last three years.

I’m tired. Follow up question, do you care about the sanctity of an hour as an idea? Sam said, I think it’s a backwards idea. They have all this data showing that people’s zone out after like minute fifteen, So why am I giving a full hour? I think it was Ari Shaffier who told me the Comedy Central demanded he gave them over an hour, So he gave them like an hour nine minutes, and the special aired forty two minutes long, and he’s thinking, did I just waste twenty seven minutes?

This is crazy. I don’t think they realize how hard it is to write jokes that you please with and also promote gigs all the time. Tim Hidecker is going on tour. It’ll be the two Tim’s Tour, where he does his serious musical stuff with his very good band, plus a set of comedy featuring his quote no More BS Persona. This kicks off in Monterey, California, July twenty eighth, heads back to the East co including Webster Hall in New York on August ninth, and then finishes up in Oklahoma City.

The one in Oklahoma. On August twenty fourth, the charges against Justin Royland were dropped. That’s the Rick and Morty co creator charges involving an ex girlfriend would dismiss to quote due to a lack of sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, said a spokesman for the Orange County District Attorney. Royland tweeted the word justice and set him. Still deeply shaken by the horrible lies reported about me, he wants to move forward.

His statement, I’ve always known these claims were false. Most of all, I’m disappointed that so many people were quick to judge without knowing the facts, based solely on the word of an embittered X trying to bypass due process and have me canceled. The into statement, saying he plans to move forward and focus both on my creative projects and restoring my good name. They’re making a biopic of Cheech and Chong. That sounds cool.

The Hollywood Reporter has some nice boiler plate here. Cheech and Chong came to prominence in the seventies and eighties, becoming You can’t come to prominence in the seventies and eighties. You come to prominence and then you’re prominent. Come on becoming synonymous with stone culture by riffing on and lifting up the counterculture of the time, from hippies to of course, cannabis. Their combined output included successful stand up shows, comedy albums, and low budget feature films, including Up in Smoke, Cheech and Chong’s next movie, and Nice Dreams.

In a joint statement, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong said jointly, and I don’t know how. I’d never understand how joint statements work. Are they like the borg? Do they just say this at the same time together? On three one two three, We are excited to show the world how two dudes from completely different backgrounds got together, change comedy and made cannabis mainstream.

Are you in Idaho, home of Ryan Hamilton. Well, gone on over to the Tree four to Comedy Festival. Eight o’clock tonight at the Boise Center East. It’s early show featuring one two three four six seven comedians. Shane Taurus will be the most famous on that list.

Meanwhile, at eight fifteen over at mad Sweedebrew Hall, one two three, four five six comedians, Matt Besser being the most famous there ten fifteen at the Boise Center one two three fo five six seven different comedians, And at ten thirty at matt Sweed six different comedians. Again, all right, plenty of comedy tonight, John, you always do that. What should we go see? We saw Matt Besser recently in our hypothetical travel so let’s go see the Shane to Horror show early. And since I won’t want to walk anywhere, since we’re already at the Boise Center, we’ll see the late show at the Boise Center this weekend.

For the first time in a long time, I have some weekend filler, which I’ll tell you about in a second. So I’ve already recorded and didn’t include what should we do on Saturday? So let’s just do this now. Five thirty Improv for Humans with Matt Besser podcast taping. All right, another reason not to see Matt Besser tonight eight o’clock.

Boyse Center has an early show. There’s also a late show and guess what, Matt Sweed also has an early show and a late show. But the headliner in town which shows at eight and ten thirty the Egyptian theater tig Nataro. Let’s try and see Matt Besser early at five thirty and then we’ll go see tig Nataro. How’s that sound.

HBO is bringing back A Black Lady Sketch Show for season four. All the main players will be back. A Black Lady’s Sketch Show returns April fourteenth. Remember a Broken Lizard? Yeah, they haven’t had a movie in a while, it’s been five years.

Well, they’ve dropped. The trailer for Quasi Quasi is a send up of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. A hapless hunchback yearns for love but finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France, when each orders the hunchback to kill the other. That’ll be on Hulu on April twenty eight, which is probably not accidentally four twenty and Johnny mag Ye ed said, you were going to get back to that thing from Vulture where they had the chat gept write some jokes in the style of comedians, and you never did. What’s with that?

I know? Anyway, Vulture had the chat cheept write some jokes in the style of Maria Bamford. I don’t even do a half, asked Maria Bamford. So I’ll just read this straight the chat gebt, as Maria wrote. And I’m not sure how to feel about getting older.

On the one hand, a more experienced than wiser. On the other hand, I can’t remember anything. I went to the grocery store the other day and forgot why I was there, so I just walked up and down the aisles until I found something that looked familiar. That’s how I ended up with a cart full of butternut squash and cat food. It’s like my brain is slowly turning into a random number generator, you know.

I kind of like that. Let’s see what Maria said. She said, I thought it was interesting that this says in the style of me, because it isn’t personal my stuff. It’s about mental health and personal experiences. And the way the chatbot did it was very observational and crowd pleasing, nothing that anybody would be uncomfortable with.

It felt more like a very popular club comic act, which can be great. One more from the chat GPT. As Maria Vanford wrote, you know what’s the worst thing about getting older? You can’t do anything without making weird noises. You stand up, you’ve grown, you sit down and grown you bend over your wheeze.

I feel like I’m auditioning for a sound effects library. And don’t even get me started on how long it takes me to get out of bed in the morning. It’s like watching a sloth trying to pull vault. Maria locked into the line I did too. She said, it’s like watching a sloth try to pull vault is a legitimate, excellent punchline.

It’s taking a low energy animal and then having them do something spectacular. If you read comedy books, they say the way to make something funny so to amp it up to the nth degree and say something unexpected. So in that way, it’s done a great job. All right, this weekend, So what do I have for you? On Saturday.

You remember a couple of weeks back, I said I wanted to revisit the fifty greatest and up comedians of all time, as listed by Rolling Stone back in like twenty sixteen or so. I revisited it. So that’s tomorrow’s episode. I just felt like doing that. And last week I had so much that I had recorded the whole weekend and still had stuff left over.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. More details from the Mark Twain Prize. The other night, Conan O’Brien sold the Kennedy Center, You’re making a terrible, terrible mistake. He talked about Adam Sandler and said a lot of amazing, amazing people have flown to DC to say nice things about Adam Sandler.

But if he asked yourself why so many of Adam’s friends were able to speak tonight, I’ll tell you why. Because when Adam isn’t working, they’re not working. Sandler was asked if he thought Chris Rock went too far during his recent comedy special. Sandler said, never thought that in my life. I thought it was unbelievably relaxed, funny, thoughtful, crushed it and was real to himself, and it was exciting to watch us when the super Bowl is on, I thought about it all weekend.

All right, Rock is doing this thing tonight. I agree with Adam Sandler on that it did feel like a really big event. Rob Schneider also commented about the Chris Rock special and he said he’s outrageous. He’s incredible. He really does set the bar.

He’s able to take really complex socidal ideas and make them hilarious and bring us on board to some place of sanity, some place of reason. He’s so hilariously reasonable. He’s subversed us to his point of view, and that’s his genius. And modern comedy changed after Chris Rock. Truthfully, twenty five years ago, I think David Spade had the line of the night.

He said, in these walktimes we live in, the one person who would not win the Mark Twain Prize was Mark Twain. He had some miffy material. Chris Rock himself was there. He discussed current events and said, are you guys are really going to wrest Trump? Do you know this is only going to make it more popular.

It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid? Trump banged a porn star and paide someone off so his wife couldn’t found out. That’s romantic.

We’ve all been cheated on. Don’t you wish the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn’t find out. Trump was so bad as a president. He was so bad that Joe Biden had a burst off a monument. Biden was dead for sixteen years.

Chris Rock also gave a shout out to Paul Pelosi, who was in the audience and said, Paul Pelosi got it. He knows how I felt staying political. From the Hollywood reporter, Jason Sadacus and members of the Ted Lasso Cast dropped in on the White House on Monday. They discuffed mental health awareness. Sadeka slash Lasso took one question.

It was from the actor who plays journalist Trent Krim on the series. Krim asked Sadeka slash Lasso how he felt about Kansas City being considered as a host city for the twenty twenty six World Cup. Again, I’ll remind you this was real life at the White House, and for some reason we’re doing this bit, sadekas Lasso said, I mean, I love this town. What I’m generally worried about is once we get all these folks from all over the world to come to Kansas City to see your food, eat our food, meet our people, You’re gonna have a lot of folks that want to move away. That’s what I’m worried about.

Bizarre from Radar Online. Tom Brady’s got one condition for the upcoming roast of Tom Brady the rule no jokes about Gazelle. Bunchin Radar Online quotes insiders who say Brady has no intention of performing his own material. At the Roast. Tom is fine being the butt of jokes.

Say whatever you want about him, but not about his family. It’s the one rule that’s non negotiable. A source says. The biggest obstacle between them which Gazelle’s complaints about Tom putting football before family. So he decided to show her he’s willing to focus on them before taking that TV job at Fox.

His only goal right now is to get his family back quick stop. At Gossip Corner, there were some rumors about her hanging out with her jiu jitsu instructor, and a report suggests Gazelle has begun dating Tom’s billionaire friend, Jeffrey Sofur. A source A lot of sources, it’s like a British press story. A source claim that Gazelle Tom lived near Jeffrey in Florida during their marriage. Sofur’s net worth is estimated to be two billion dollars, while Tom Brady has a fortune worth of reported five hundred twelve million.

Leon Morgan getting a Netflix special on April eleventh. What’s the title, Johnny Mack. It’s called Leon Morgan, I’m every Woman. The special will celebrate women in an observational and instructional way. Some of the experience that we talked about during the program will be Morgan’s experience while growing up in Tennessee and being married for over twenty years.

She’ll also joke about raising three children and the fact that she has become a grandmother. Philadelphia Weekly they have a great comedy section. Asked Brian was saying if there’s anything you want to do before retires. He said, Yeah, for sure, I have a horror movie or two in me that I want to get out there before I’m done. Not that I’ll ever fully retire, and yeah, it’ll definitely involve my comedic muscle, but more in the dialogue and crafting characters that deal with a brutal or scary situation, grounded and with a sense of humor intact.

He also talked about meeting Don Rickles. I’d shared that anecdote not too long ago. We got a little more here, he said. I got to be around Don Rickles a handful of times. He was such a fantastic post and one of the pure funniest people I’ve ever been in the room with, so quick, so quintessential.

Don Rickles. He busted my chops whenever I saw him, which is all I wanted from the situation. I still quote his put downs. A kid, next time I see you, can you at least put on a suit. I’d invite you to the house.

But the wife, I’ll think you’re the gardener. Cute kid? Where’s his rake? Zany’s comedy called a Nashville tweeted out that comedian and Zany’s favor, Brett Turhune’s new special, it’s called What on Flat Earth, is now available on Amazon Prime. I haven’t seen that yet, but that sounds cool.

Taylor Thomason she’ll get two new specials on Netflix, but she’s not going to make the Best of twenty twenty three list. Here’s why. The first special is not due out until twenty twenty four. Thompson’s psych She’s told Variety that’s a level of security you don’t get very often in this business. It’s a huge weight off your shoulders.

I feel incredible, grateful and lucky. The twenty twenty four special will be shot at the end of the current tour, which is currently dubbed the Have It All Tour. Taylor says, I’m a pretty personal comedian. I’m not super topical or political. I am generally writing about things happening in my own life and what I hope is a very relatable way.

And the question I think everybody around my age, which is almost thirty, grapples with, and my friends around me you’re grappling with, is comparing yourself to everybody else. She’s kicking around series ideas for Netflix. That’s interesting, but she is not looking to sacrifice stand up. She says, when it comes down to it, I love touring so much every week and I’m gone, and if you want to make a TV show or a movie, you have to take a significant amount of time off from touring. Touring is the most fun and the most lucrative thing for me to do, and for a lot of stand ups to do, you don’t really ever have to do with show or movies.

So all the projects I’m developing or I’m interested or thinks that I really love and think would be great, because I’m so happy with where I am with stand up, That’s all I ever wanted. I was working out this morning in the Apple Fitness Plus Spin program, and I wanted something to stare at, so I put on Kill Tony on the YouTube. Tim Dillon and Roseanne were the guests, and I loved Tim Dillon. I’m like, oh, this is gonna be really good. And at one point Roseanne was so annoying.

I’m in the basement by myself while the dog was there, but by myself, and I said out loud, Holy f she’s terrible. I said that out loud. That’s how annoying Roseanne was on this show. If you’re not familiar with Kill Tony, you should check out Kill Tony. They pull names out of a hat.

If you get picked, you come up and you do a minute of stand up. It’s mostly amateurs, most of them not good. Then Tony doesn’t banter with the guests. Roseanne kept talking to these civilians at length, and by at length, I mean eleven twelve minutes. I had to keep grabbing the remote and I’m like, Okay, they’re boring, you’re boring.

Can you stop. I was shocked that Tony didn’t try and take control of the show. He just let Roseanne go.

Meanwhile, Tim Dillon gets it.

He would speak once every ten minutes, assassinate and then get back out. That’s how you do it. It was one comedian on there. I was in the middle of a workout that I mentioned that humble Brax. I didn’t write down his name, but skim through the show.

The comedian who has cerebral palsy, which is central to what his material is and I don’t want to spoil it. Fantastic kill Tony is the name of that. Shrine Lover left a five star review on Apple Podcast. Thanks so much. Shrine Lover wrote a daily listen so great.

Thanks for the Dusty Slay five o’clock somewhere advice, Wow watch three times. Keep up the great work. Thanks shrine Lover. Yes, Dusty Slay hilarious comedian has a bit about the Jimmy Buffett song. It’s five o’clock somewhere.

I’m not going to even dance with the devil. I’ll let Dusty tell it. Just go on YouTube type in Dusty Slay five o’clock somewhere and enjoy the nine minute bit. It is fantastic, an all time bit, really great. Dusty will be coming to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center.

They announced a huge festival Chucktown Comedy Week, a weeklong rotation of top comedians. Listen to this lineup. May seventeenth, Jeff Foxworthy, Lean Morgan, Dusty Slay Killer, May nineteenth, Tim Dillon, Shane Gillis, Big Jayokrison, Nick Mullen Killer, May the twenty first, Nate Bergantcy Chucktown Comedy Week Chucktown Comedy dot Com. As we’ve learned, there are a lot of listeners to this show who are very hip to the comedy scene in Idaho. Idaho, of course the home of Ryan Hamilton.

Now Ryan is not performing in Idaho at the tree Fort Festival, and tree Fort has music and comedy. The comedy kicks off tonight with an open mic at ten o’clock. That’s in Boise. If you’re there, your headliner this weekend will be on Saturday, Tignazarrow two shows.

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Meanwhile, in Vancouver, some organizers are trying to host a Vancouver versi…

They want to do this September fifteenth through the seventeenth in Stanley Parks, Brockton Fields. I have been to Stanley Park and it is an awesome park. The promoter is Trickstar Live They already have locations in Halifax in August that’ll feature Jerry sign Felt in Bill Burr, right, so they’re not messing around here. Calgary and late August featuring Jonathan van Ness and Andrew Schultz, and Edmonton July fourteenth through the sixteenth, with lineup at TBA. The Parks People put out a statement said the vision for this festival is to create an inclusive and safe experience that celebrates and features all forms of performance comedy from local talents, a star attractions.

Past festival headliners have included Bill Bird, Tom Segura, Amy Schumer, Melissa Vias and York Chris red Donal Rawlings, Chelsea Handler, and David Spade. The capacity for the proposed Vancouver event would be ten thousand, It would run from five to eleven PM, and tickets to the gated event would range from sixty nine to three hundred and ninety nine dollars, presumably Canadian dollars. The Vancouver Son Ads. Given that most of the performances will be comedic monologues, organizers aren’t too worried about excess noise. Stanley Park is fantastic.

If this festival happens and you’ve never been of Vancouver. You might want to strongly consider that one. Let’s keep an eye on that and see who winds up performing there. Are you watching How I Met Your Father on Hulu? Well you can now watch it on Reform.

Will not yet, I lied you gotta wait till April twenty fifth. Variety says How I Met Your Father will premiere on Freeform April twenty fifth with the first two episodes of season one. They’ll then air two episodes every week on Tuesdays as if it’s nineteen ninety four until they’ve run through the whole first season. How I Met Your Father is currently in a twenty episode second season, and twenty episodes in the era of streaming is a lot of episodes. Andy Kaufman, he’s going to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty three.

Variety rights Andy Kaufman made his mark on the world of professional wrestling when he declared himself the inter gender Wrestling Champion of the World, offering money to any woman who could pin him as part of his act. That led to a feud with fellow Hall of Famer Jerry the King Lawler. Despite Lawler and Kaufman being friends, they successfully convinced the audience they were bitter enemies. Kaufmann claimed that Lawler broke his neck when Lawler performed a pile driver on him, with Kaufmann appearing in a neck brace. Thereafter, they made an appearance to get her on Letterman in nineteen eight two, during which they traded insults before Lawlor slapped Kaufman, knocking Kaufuman out of his chair.

Now, if you were too young for this, listen to me. This was a major bleeping deal. This was huge, and it was early enough that we didn’t quite know for sure that wrestling was fake. And Calfman was really good at this, and the whole thing on Letterman. I don’t know if it was as big as the slap, but it was slap esque.

This was well discussed. This was a big deal, and even Kaufman doing the things saying he could wrestle any woman, people lost their minds over that. Do a deep dive on YouTube. Just google like Kaufman Wrestling. You’ll find all kinds of clips.

It was a fantastic piece of work. The twenty twenty three WWE Hall of Ceremony March thirty first, ten thirty pm Eastern on Peacock. I guess none of us will see it, and that’s your comedy needs for today. Come on Peacock. Spent some and dollars, I’ll shill.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon points out the Biden administration is ordering the Chinese parent company of TikTok’s either sell the app or face a possible band and fallon ads. If he bands, TikTok, China will only be able to spy on us with literally everything else. Seth Meyers tags in, don’t mess with Biden.

He has no use for your addictive apps. Biden’s the kind of guy who can make it through a whole two week vacation with nothing but a deck of cards and a print edition of Sports Illustrated. I was listening to Rogan with Bert Kreischer. They were raving about adrian Iya Pollucci. I agree.

So here is an instance of Bert Kreischer, Joe Rogan, and Johnny Mack being on the same page. I say that like, we’re not often on the same page. I mean sometimes not exactly on Joe Rogan’s page, but today we’re all united. Adrian Aya Pellucci. Keep an eye on her, very very funny and if you want to hear her, let me cross promote.

I spotlighted her on this week’s Weekly Comedy Thing that’s the show I host on the free Live one app. Get out your phone download Live one. Look for something called the Weekly Comedy Thing. You’ll find me doing something like this, except I can play comedians including Adrian Iya Pellucci. I saw this story out of south By Southwest.

William Shatner was your panelist, but he said his worst role ever was one time when he attempted to give a stand up comedy performance as Captain Kirk. I’ve never heard of this. I have to deep dive and see if I can find this. So Shatner is doing stand up as Captain Kirk. The joke being that Kirk would say cliche one liner jokes and not understand why he wasn’t funny.

That’s awful. Captain Kirk is cool. He wouldn’t do that. Kirk should be able to get by on charisma alone. Shatner said the bomb spectacularly.

It was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me. Shorto reviewed Ricky Gervais or mcgeddon. Ricky’s been touring the show for some time, but Shorto went in because Ricky’s getting very close to recording it for Netflix. Let me give you the lead here. They gave it two and a half stars out of five.

Spoilers for the special Coming up, Shorta writes, how nice would it be to write about Ricky Gervais without going over the same old cancel culture talking points, which so consumes those who rarely actually see live comedy. But he’s the one leaning into it, setting himself up as the crusading defender of saying bad things in jest, whatever the wokeye snowflakes say, Quoting from Schorto. Too often, Jervais’s plan of attack is just to tell off color jokes about Now, this is the second time I’m reading the sentence, and the first time I got to the ind of it, and I was uncomfortable quoting as Shorto wrote it, off color jokes about pedophiles, aids are written, African babies, the Holocaust, rape, severely disabled kids, dwarves, and pedophiles. Again, sounds like a funny show, Rickie Shorto. Right.

Sometimes the sheer brutality of these lines is crushingly effective, but the effect is diminished by constant repetition. Any element of surprise is gone. Will all you ever do is voice the worst, most inappropriate things, like an excitable teenager testing boundaries. He sniggers away at how naughty he’s been, as the grown ups roll their eyes, hoping he’ll grow out of it. At sixty one, there’s a little sign of that.

They add that, unlike Dave Chappelle, Ricky now steers largely clear of the sort of material it attracted valid plaints of transphobia. On his last special, he laments about politicians getting applause breaks by just telling liberal crowds precisely what they want to hear, conveniently oblivious to the fact that he’s doing the exact same thing. They ended there two and a half star review with. Even though Ricky’s position on the free Spache debate is always clear, it’s also getting boring now Wow. From The Daily Mail, Joe Rogan’s podcast comments about Jewish people quotes controlling the media unquote leave spotifying Nervous.

Sources tell Radar Online that comments like those, plus Joe’s past use of racial slurs and COVID misinformation, have pushed Spotify bosses to the edge. However, chief executive Daniel Eck sat at a company town hall there are many things that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and find very offensive. But if we even want a shot at achieving our bold ambitions, it will mean having content on Spotify that many of us may not be proud to be associated with. That’s interesting. Bad news are Ronny Chieng.

His Hulu comedy pilot is not being picked up to series. In untitled pilots, Ronny Chieng would have started as the new hired general manager of the Brooklyn Nets. Not much was known about the pilot other than the announcement.

Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings spoke to Page six and said, I don’t have to tell …

It became super obvious that there were some issues in our society, which you know, it’s usually our job to comment on and confront, and all of a sudden, comedians started becoming like the enemy. Whitney said. Previously, comedians would tackle sensitive subjects to help everybody cope and laugh at horrible things. That all of a sudden, for a litany of reasons, people started saying comedians are bullies and they’re causing violence, and we’re like, wait what. She’s out promoting her upcoming roast.

She says the reasoning behind the show is she’d like to create a space where comedians don’t have to be scared anymore, so we can be the country that, at least we’ve been trying to be. She thinks it’s the perfect time to bring Roast back and adds, in my opinion, the roast Sun Comedy Central started getting racist, actually homophobic, which she partly blames on the decision to roast non comedians Pam Anderson being on a roast is like verbal mma. Her upcoming roast will be on Only Fans, and she said, my thing is always follow the sex workers. That’s what comedians have always done. We’ve always been hand in hand with sex workers.

Stand Up in America really started in strip club and you know, comics are kind of emotional sex workers. Whitney Cummings presents on Only Fans Saturday, April First stop me in the basement with the door closed and only fans watching a roast? What do you think I’m doing? Bert Kreischer was on the podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey. Bert said John Belushi wasn’t the comic that Bert Kreisher saw and Chris Farley he says, I was a Blushi slash Farley guy and says he was talking about some fellow comedians.

We were talking about Tommy Boy, and immediately you think Belushi is Farley and David Spade is Akroid. But when you look at the Blues Brothers, technically Akroid is Farley and Belushi is you David Spade because he’s more straight laced. Blushi’s the straight man the entire thing. Acroid’s the one who’s putting the superglue on the bettle. He’s the one doing all the tricks.

He’s the one driving crazy. It’s so fascinating. Greisher thinks we may misremember John Belushi as primarily anarchic, points out the only thing Belushi did was Animal House and he didn’t even speak. Then they got into the weeds with this and started comparing the Fourley Belushi thing to all sorts of things, including Wayne’s World. David Spade argued that he and Foley are total opposites, while Wynne and Garth are more complimentary.

Graisher pushed back on that notion, citing the times Mike Myers would turn to the camera and points a Curvey with a can you believe this guy? Reaction? Graisher says someone has to be off, and someone’s got to be on. And apparently Lauren Michaels has been quoted that Furley was the son that John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd never had. SNL’s Chloe Fyneman as part of a new scripted fiction podcast on Audible.

They keep making these things. I guess they do well because they keep making them. But I see press release and then it seems to have no cultural impacts. As the Guy in his Basement, mccornic podcast Excessive comes out on Thursday as stories Chloe Fyneman, Joshua Jackson, Kim Cattrall, Amy Sedaris, and a bunch of others. It’s a story about a woman whose behavior is described as too much, a trip to Las Vegas, a disappearing romantic interest, and a barrage of text messages she sends to her missing bow and short overparts.

Graham Lennon turned down two hundred thousand pounds to take his name off the Father Ted musical I’ve ever seen Father Ted a very very funny show. If you ever come across it on a streaming plot form, you should watch it. Graham was offered the two hundred thousand pounds to walk away from the musical so could be staged without toxic links to his gender wars fights, but he turned it down. Shorto says the producers offered him the money so the attachment of his name would not turn into box office poison. They remind us the writer has been effectively canceled over his vehement campaign over the trans lobby, and backers felt the show had no chance of success if Lenahan’s name was attached.

Graham apparently claimed that the producers wanted him off the project because they were quote terrified of their younger members of the staff. Shorto says that Lenahan had made a similar claim against the producers of Steve Martin and Martin Shortz Comedy Only Murders in the Building. The version of the story he tells is they asked him to direct an episode and then withdrew the offer. His telling is, I said yes, please, fantastic and they were like, yeah, we’ll get in touch with the Ragel, we’ll set it up. Maybe five minutes later the phone rings again.

I pick it up and they’re like, oh, sorry, someone else has taken it. Graham said, I know exactly what happened. They went out and said, hey, guess what, everyone, we got Graham Lennon and then some cookie intern is a lot of Liner said, oh, he’s a bigot. In an interview with The Times, he expresses anger at the lack of support he’s received from others in the industry. He said, I thought this would be over in a few months and someone would step in.

I really didn’t think as soon as people heard what’s been happening to my children, all my friends, satirist comedians, progressives people and marched against the Iraq War, lesbian’s, gay men that all come rushing to my aid. No one turned up, just no one turned up. All I got was dirty looks, people ghosting me. I’ve met people, people I’ve worked with, big names and begged them, have become involved, begged them please just say gran Lennum is right, or grand Lennon has some important contributions to make on this Anything that makes it sound as though I’m doing this for anything other than recreational cruelty. That’s how I’m portrayed, like a recreational sadist.

And none of them will stand up for me. This all started up in twenty twenty. He was permanently banned from Twitter. The Mirror says he reportedly tweeted men aren’t women, though after the Women’s Institute sent a happy Pride message to its transgender members. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, Lenahan was reinstated.

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