Month: April 2023

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The Shark Deck. Let make attention getting headline. Bert Graisher thought Joe Rogan was gay. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s unpack this.

Graisher was on Logan Paul’s podcast, and I’ve pulled some audio here so you can hear Bert’s tune. But Bert said he didn’t intend to become friends with Joe Rogan. First, quoting Burt Graisher, I had a bad running with the dude. I didn’t want any friends. I was like, I’m good.

Grasher said he got a phone call from Rogan. Graisher was sitting down and watch Game of Thrones. Rogan calls and he goes, what are you doing. Bert says, I’m just hanging out, and Rogan says, come to the ice house. We do some of the podcast.

I’m getting ready to go on stage. And Rogan comes up with two shots of Jack Daniels and two beers and he goes, hey, man, we’re trying really hard to be your friend, but you’re not letting us. And he’s like, we like you and you’re a good guy, and we’re not gonna hurt you, like, we won’t let you down. We’ll always be here for you. But you gotta let us be your friend, and you gotta trust that we won’t hurt you.

It said. He was suspicious. It is horrible to say, but when Joe wanted to be friends with me, I was just like, oh, he must be gay, Like like, why would you want to be friends with another man?

And then he added Joe Rogan never tried to kiss him once.

Janelle James has called Dave Chappelle’s most recent special boring. She told Variety, the last I watched of his was when he came out with all the specials at once. Variety wasn’t sure what she meant there. They think it’s when he released four different specials over the course of twenty seventeen on Netflix. But Janelle James said, regardless of what he said, I thought it was boring.

I like silly Chappelle. He’s in his wisdom bag. Now. We’re clowns. Once we forget that we’re clowns, and then it becomes bad.

Your objective is to make people laugh and then sneak your thoughts in underneath the jokes. If your thoughts are on top, that’s not funny or entertaining to me. All right, Daily Show, it’s time to pick a host. Here’s what they’re doing the week of May twenty second, who’s hosting the Daily Show’s news team. They’ll all host quote as a collective, is how they’re spinning this in the press release.

So it’ll be roy Wood Junior, D’ll say, Sloane, Ronny Chieng and the others. They’re all hosting. However that works now to me, this sounds like they had somebody and somebody pulled out. And I say that because the week before, week of May fifteenth, they announce Charlotte Mean the God will host then May twenty second, and the two slot is you know, hey, let’s let everybody host because we don’t really have anyone. That’s a little weird to me.

They’ll be Dark of the week of Memorial Day than Michelle Wolf hosts week of June five, Ronny Chieng week of June twelfth, Lewis Black week of June twentieth, and Jesus Nice week of June twenty sixth. Just pick somebody, already, Just pick Hasan Minhaj already, Just pick Roywood Junior, already, Just pick Chelsea Handler already. Ray Romano has a new movie out today. It’s called Somewhere in Queens. In Somewhere in Queens, things go awry when Mary dad Leo, played by Ray Romano, becomes hell bent on making sure his teenage son Sticks gets a basketball scholarship.

How old is Ray Romano now? Ray sixty five, stretching there a little bit that his son is in high school. No yes. In real life, Ray has a son, Joseph, who’s twenty five, played high school hoops. Ray had nice things to say about his wife.

He said, I’ve been married to her for thirty five years and I’ve been in the business for just about that long, so she’s supportive, but she’s not on top of it as my kids are. He says he’s careful what he shares about his family and says I never do it at their expense. His kids have never pushed back on what to include. My wife on occasion when the TV show was on, would have an argument and she turned and say, I don’t want to see this on the show, and I would say, we already did that episode. That’s really funny.

Somewhere in Queens playing in theaters now. It also co stars Sebastian Maniscalco. Variety asked Brett Goldstein you know him from ted Lasso. Roy Kent, yes him, Yes. They asked him how he feels about becoming a sex symbol, and he said, this’s the first I’ve heard of it.

He adds up, flattered. You’re telling me this, and I’ll expect you to address me as sexy Brett Goldstein for now. On how I feel about becoming sex symbol, I don’t know you can say. He blushes, looks confused, his head explodes. If that’s a thing that has nothing to do with me, that has to do with the show, right because of the character.

Maybe it’s hairy men. I seem to be the only person in La in the last fifteen years to us body here. Maybe that’s a thing like whoa, what’s this? This is new? Brett says, I really love playing Roy Kent.

People always say you don’t see angry in real life, and I’m always like, but I’m effing angry, and maybe that’s part of me that gets to process it through Roy. He rejects the notion that ted Lasso should quit before it turns to garbage, and he says, no, it wouldn’t get garbage because it’s a really good effing group of people care about it. Jason’s an effing genius. No way would make something crap because why would we suddenly be crap, like, oh, maybe it would go downhill. Why have we suddenly all got crap at our jobs?

Case you didn’t pick it up there. He curses a lot in real life too, and I had to clean it up. Will Ferrell will have a new TV show eventually. It’s in development now. I believe he will star in it as a professional golfer who becomes the face of a controversial new league competing with the PGA.

If you are a premium subscriber to Daily Comedy News, you already have the weekend episodes. That’s one of the benefits for signing up as a premium subscriber at Apple podcast O. Put up your purple podcast app and they’ll be like, hey, premium subscription. You could be like, try it out for a month. It’s free for a month, and then if you like it, you get the episodes ad free and a little bit early.

By a little bit early, that’s usually around four pm Eastern, the day before official release, and the weekend episodes are usually up on Friday morning, and it’s five bucks a month, and it’s a nice frictionless way to support the show, because you’ll set it and forget it, and then I’ll get five dollars minus apples cut once a month, and I appreciate it. Tonight at the Moonsur Comedy Festival, Live Nude Girls, Wait, What’s this? Last fall, comedians Sarah Sherman, Meghan Statler, and Patty Harrison decided on a whim to do a Halloween theme show together. This story from My San Antonio. They didn’t really have time to write materials, so they grabbed a bunch of costumes and mostly winged it.

Statler said it went so well that we were like, if we actually plan to get cool things together, maybe we have to do it. So tonight the Live Nude Girls tour kicks off at the Paramount Theater.

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Also today, a ton of shows.

I won’t read them all, but here’s one at eleven am, The Sclar Brothers six o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. Jfl’s New Faces. I didn’t realize they were doing a New Faces at Moontower. Very very interesting. I had no idea about that.

Hmmm. I have clicked on the link. No news as to who the new Faces are very interesting. Maria Bamford’s a headliner at state Side at seven, the wonderfully titled We Are Having Gay Sex is the Creek in the Cave At eight, Ashley Gavin, Mattie Weener Eesa Medina and Monet x Change. Bobby Kelly’s your headliner at the state Side at nine thirty.

Break in the Cave ten o’clock. Big Jay Okerson hosts What’s Your Effing Deal? Justin Silver Ian Bag Joe List not a bad night there. Let’s see what’s happening at Nashville. Solid night there with Nick Schwartzon playing the War Memorial Auditorium at seven, Miss Pat at seven at Zani’s, David Spade at the Rhyman at eight, and Ali Sadiq at Zany’s at nine thirty.

And don’t forget the Milbourne International Comedy Festival. Nicky Britten show is called Getting Out in front of It. Let’s listen. I read an article recently that apparently living a is worse for your health than smoking. I thought I was being healthy my whole life abstaining from smoking.

What an idiot, because I’ve also lived by myself for the last ten years, and apparently on balance I’m worse off good. I should have been sucking on the sigies the whole time, honkin on the vipes. Should have run my mouth around a meth pope. At least i’d have a sense of community. I’d be adding years, losing teeth, but adding years.

So that was a little rough, and I let it go along looking for a laugh there. I’ll remind you, I’m not picking the clips. These are the clips that are being spotlighted on the website. So sorry, Nicky Britten, Yeah, move on from sixth Tone. A female Chinese comedian has received mixed reviews online after videos of her sharing her experience of a sexually transmitted infection during a set continue to attract attention.

She goes by the stage name Manga with two g’s in there, and she described as she was infected with HPV virus. Some have labeled her indecent for openly sharing about her sex life. Manga said, I’m scared to read comments from the audience because I know there will definitely be some slut shaming. But I won’t stop my stand up comedy because if all those malicious attacks, this is about me. This is what I want to talk about.

The Windsors. That’s a sitcom on Channel four in the UK. It’s returning for a fourth season. Harry Enfield or Prize’s role as King Charles. They haven’t started filming yet.

They were beginning to work on it and then Queen Elizabeth passed away and then they thought, hm, we should probably regroup here. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow Polace Intrigue wherever you get your shows. Follow Daily Comedy News wherever you get your shows in those places include Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Wherever you get your shows.

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The shark deck if you see dominion voting systems and Fox News settled for seven hundred and eighty seven and a half million dollars to avoid a trial. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I love Jimmy Fallon’s joke. You could tell Fox was stressed about the trial because they spent the day chugging bud Light. Jimmy Kimmel said, it’s gonna take a lot of reverse mortgage ads to pay that one off.

Kimbell again. Immediately after the settlement, Fox issued a statement that said, this settlement reflects Fox’s commitment to the highest journalistic standards. They’re already lying in their statement about lying. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, Netflix, April twenty five, That’s what Tuesday Johnny Mac checks his calendar technology. Yes, Tuesday Mullaney put out a very very short trailer.

Let’s listen and as you process and digest how obnoxious, wasteful, and unlikable that story is, just remember that’s one I’m willing to tell you. Using my calendar technology, I have divine that today is four twenty, so I have to do something about getting high, right. That’s what we do all right high time spoke to Adam Divine, you know him from Workaholics, and I asked, Adam Divine, what role does getting high lay for you creatively in your life and in general? Adam Divine said, I feel like of all the guys, I probably was the biggest owner. It’s a real battle of royale between me and Kyle for that title.

Nowadays, you could use marijuana as a creative tool, but you just have to know yourself. You have to know how much is too much and how it affects you as a person. It’s the kind of thing that is a tool in your two belt, but it won’t make an unfunny person funny or a non talented person talented. If you don’t have the goods to begin with, it won’t help you. But it can be used as a tool to freepe your mind.

Every once in a while, if you can’t crack a story, you’re working on a video that you can’t get just right, you’re able to tweak it by smoking a little bit you think about it. You’re free your mind. You’re not married to what you’ve already written and what you’ve already worked on, and you’re able to work on the problem from a different point of view. That’s how I viewed marijuana, and I think it’s helped me along the way. Gratulations to Nate Burgatsy.

He seld out the Bridgestone Arena set a new record. Nineteen thousand, three hundred and sixty five people attended his show on April fifteenth. Thank you, dr for putting this story under my nose, Nate said, My first visit to Bridgetone was to watch a Nashville Cats Arita football game. When I start a comedy, I’d find myself daydreaming about coming home to play Bridgetone, but never really think about it. Let’s take a while for me to wrap my head around this.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Did you watch Harry Konaboloo special on YouTube? Yet? I liked it a lot. The La Times caught up with Harry, and apparently Harry perhaps for every stand up performance the same way.

He drinks lots of water and then he peas and then he paces. He said, it’s the same thing over and over. And I think there’s a comfort in that I’ve been doing this twenty years and I’m still absolutely in mess until I go on, all right, why’d you put your special on YouTube. Hary said, I feel like it just got sick of a waiting with comedy specials. As a handful of people at a certain level who can say I want to make this a special, then one of the streamers and the networks makes it because it’s good business.

There was this era where corporations were really investing in stand up and it feels like we’re starting I see a decrease in that. Again, is maybe there are fewer streamers and things are consolidating as the industries and flux right now in a lot of ways, I’ll jump in I’m going to comment on about that. In the second half, the money was just ridiculous, all right, Just remember that point. Let’s get back to hurry. The idea of waiting some indefinite period of release material just didn’t sit well with me.

I do stand up because I like to record hours. That’s a fundamental part of the job for me. I don’t feel like I’m developing unless a new hour comes out and I clean the slate and start fresh with the next one. And I started seeing all these other comics start to release their specials on YouTube, which really initially didn’t sit well with me. Because it means you as a comic or taking the financial risk, you’re gambling and saying I’m betting on myself and stand up as a lot of that.

Already it’s a lot of risk, and now we have to make it ourselves as well. But at the same point, I’m like, ah, this is freedom. So instead of waiting on an industry stamp to say you can make this, it’s betting on yourself and saying I trust my instincts, I trust the people that like me, and I feel like more people will like me if they see this. Whether I’ll go for it again is dependent on how this does. But I’m definitely proud of this hour.

I think it’s smart. I think it’s unique. I think it’s a personal and creative progression. Alex Borstein apparently has a new special on Amazon Prime. It’s called Corsets and clown Suits.

I didn’t even know this was coming. It’s out if you want to watch it, I haven’t seen it yet. Primetime reviewed it and said, about half an hour into her Prime video comedy special Corsets and clown Suits, Alex Bornstein tells us exactly how to watch it, standing in front of a live audience. Wearing a glittery checkerboard skirt and shoes with red pomp poms on the toes, she goes off on a barely coherent tangent about the reason the word divorcee has too ease. At the end, catching herself, she strokes and says, I don’t know, I just made that up, you know, making all this up.

Then she takes it beat and laughs and says, be your tickets were free? Who gives a hoot? Flanked by a pair of musicians, a sign language interpreter, and occasionally a burlesque dancer, she talks about a recent divorce in her general frustration with the way women are expected to behave. She makes crewe jokes that are sometimes directed at her parents sitting a few feet away. She sings covers of David Bowie and Ricky Martin tunes, and she belts out original numbers, including one gleefully inappropriate ditty about Hitler’s maid.

It’s an enthusiastic, chaotic jumble. The messiness is part of the fun. That sounds like fun as he’sn’t sorry, remember he was canceled for a little bit. He is out of comedy jail. I think he has a new movie he will star in and direct, good Fortune.

It’s his second attempt to be a director. The first time he was directing Being Mortal, and Net production was suspended over complaints about Bill Murray’s inappropriate behavior on sets. We don’t know what Good Fortune is about, but it will co star Seth Rogan and Kanu Reeves. A variety reminds everyone, I’m sorry. A comedian who rose to fame on parks and recreation, took a break from Hollywood after sexual misconduct allegations were leveled against him in twenty eighteen.

Rory Scovel is at the Wilber Theater in Boston tonight. He spoke to Vanya Land and the name of his tour is the Last Tour. Rory says, There’s something I love about how dramatic that sounds. Whether this is truly the last tour or not, but even on the comedic side of it, calling my Netflix special, Rory Scovel dostand up for the first time, It’s pretty funny to have the very next full tour be the last tour, because it sounds like the shortest career ever. Look at me.

You can actually hear the ice today huh. You like how this sounds, Buy me another one, and buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. James Cordon, he’s got a week to go. I don’t know if there’s gonna be a big hoop to do about it. I’m sure the bigger trades like Variety in a Hollow Reporter will do big fluff job pieces about James Cordon, but I’m not sure the rank and file civilian cares all that much.

James Cordon has the guests for the final Late Late Show. Again, it’s not just Cordon’s finale, it’s the show’s finale because they’re not going forward with it. They’re gonna put on game shows or something. I don’t even know what the plan is for two weeks from now. What CBS is even putting on I guess reruns till they figure it out.

His final guests will be Harry Styles and Will Ferrell. Let’s stop off at gossip Corner now. Yesterday I mentioned the story about Bill Hayter, who’s out promoting Barry and Carol Burnet, who’s got a special next week. Well, why do you know from page six Bill Hayder is dating Ali Wong and she happens to be promoting beef. Isn’t that weird?

Now mentioned his quote girlfriend in an interview but didn’t name her. But luckily the publicist whose job is to publicize Bill Hayter, it’s ald the press that, yeah, the girlfriend is Ali Wong, who, by the way, is promoting a show on Netflix. Funny how that happens? All right. In the first half of the podcast, I commented about money Yahoo wrote about Ali Wang and said it’s not clear how much she made from each special, but in twenty nineteen, HBO Max and Netflix entered a bidding war for her latest two specials.

HBO Max reportedly offered an amount quote north of ten million dollars for the specials. That’s crazy money, Like, how do you make your money back on that? Now I’m familiar with how money works from explaining to people how to Howard sterndeal made sense for series XM. So Netflix is what fifteen bucks? So if a million people sign up for Ali Wong, that’s fifteen million dollars in a month.

I mean, I guess it makes sense. I don’t know if a million people are signing up, but we could divide that to one hundred thousand and hope they stick around for ten months. Maybe north of ten million makes sense, but boy, that’s a lot of money, huh. Chanting protesters have turned up at a gig of a comedian who joked about the Dalai Lama’s interaction with a child to buckle your seat belts. Sourcing here from the Daily Mail and seven News Australia.

So there was a crowd of about one hundred and fifty who surrounded the entrance of the Rubber Chicken comedy pub in Melbourne to protest Lewis Spears. Apparently mister Spears had performed what’s being described as a crude stand up routine making fun of the Dalai Lama. I’ll tell you why in a second. I’ve tried to find the actual jokes, not just the audio of it, even a transcript of it. I don’t know exactly what mister Spears said what led to the jokes was.

Apparently the Dalai Lama has issued an apology after footage went viral of him asking a young boy to quote, suck my tongue. All right, stay with me, Stay with me, Stay with me. A statement posted to the Dalai Lama’s Twitter account said a video clip has been circulating. The shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked his holiness, the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug. His Holiness off and teases people he meets in an innocent, playful way, even in public and before cameras.

He regrets the incident. All I know about spears set is he made multiple jokes about pedophilia. The Canberra Tibetan community said, while we fully appreciate what comedians do, we find mister spears take on the recent incident involving his holiness dishonest, purposely misrepsenting actual facts, disrespectful, and in port’s haste. We request mister Spears either not be featured at the festival, or at the very least be directed not to include defamatory and derogatory and material about his holiness in his set. Spears tweeted and said he would not be intimidated and would not cancel his show.

He said, the followers of the Dalai Lama know the consequences of restricted speech better than just about anybody else on earth. You’re free to worship you like in a free country, just as I’m allowed to joke about whoever for whatever reason. Sorry, but I walk through hell to do these shows. I won’t be stopping over a protest. I’m going to fly through a bunch of reviews here for the Milbourne International Comedy Festival.

These have been backing up the podcast have been a little longer than usual lately, and the festival is almost over, so I want to get these in Artsub gave Kitty Flanagan Live five stars and wrote Flanagan his back while the stand up show that is acute observational humor, superb timing and consummate stagecraft, brilliantly funny. She barely lets up for the entire run of the show, with only a few carefully orchestrated commerments to give the audience time to catch his breath. She really is that good and she could sing the age. Gave three stars to be Barbo Skirla’s show called a House. They write with the kind of content warnings that would make a cigarette pack wins.

That’s a great line. This isn’t the field good show of the fest. Right out of the gate, be Barbow Skirla lets us know she’ll be dragging us laughing and or screaming into the deep end. Of the comedy pool. Thankfully she has the chops to keep us afloat.

Her hour puts her family in a crosshairs, teasing out the ways in which intergenerational trauma and denial lets angst written teen years and serious adult therapy. Somehow she squeezes big glass from all this, getting nigged by your mom, growing up at a yelling household, the horrowing ordeal of reading your real diaries. It’s heavy stuff, but served up with a winningly light touch. Dan Smith’s shows called Nipples four Stars, The Age Rights. Dan Smith invites heckling, then handles it with grace and wit.

They joke about the trials of a Vegas wedding, staying friends with X’s, and pondering if therapy’s worth it, admissed hordes of relatable tales, talking about the show’s title, which is Nipples in case you forgot, and a random moment of brain crashing. There’s a fair whack of heckling, But is it heckling if the comedian urges the audience to get involved from the outset, sharp and funny, is this show better than therapy? Yep? The Age went and saw Sam C’s government approve sex. Did you know?

A few years back, Sam C was invited by the Singaporean government’s a host a series of public panels demystifying sex. I didn’t know that either. If you did, you win Today’s Daily Comedy News. My name is Sam C. I am a millennial comedian.

I know something, Oh millennials, if your avocados and your Instagram, I don’t really cab all those things follow me on Instagram. There’s a big stereotype, you say, like especially I am a millennial comedian. They say like, oh, you guys just want to make a lot of money and give nothing back to society. And I like to dispel that that falsehood. But I am a hot walking comedian seven years in the Singapore colmedy scene.

Not only do I do nothing for society, I also do not make any money. He says, it’s no surprise Sam C scored the gig. He boasts Jimmy Corus swagger and Jimminy cricket warmth. I love that you trust him, which is essential for a show roaming from romance to kink. The cultural differences in dirty Talk and the Worrying reason dres killed off its global sex survey four stars for that one.

Also four stars Blake Pavey. He may not live beyond the age of forty five, but he doesn’t want your pity. He just wants to make you laugh. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, which is a terminal respiratory illness that mostly affects the lungs and digestive system. He was diagnosed when he was just six weeks old.

Twenty one years later, he’s named his comedy tour literally Dying. I try to pull a clip, but he curses like twice a sentence, and it wasn’t going to be able to make it work. And Canila, it wasn’t that good. One more from The Age. They gave three stars to Larry Dean, skirting sheepistly around mental health.

His therapist says, feel your feelings and the Age rights. You can’t help wishing it. Follow her advice instead of always distracting with something silly. Hung on an over long and not very interesting airport search drama. At least the constant interjections allow a breather.

But when Dean finally coalesces on an emotional tribute to those who lift us up when we need it most, you can feel a much stronger show waiting in the wings. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow a show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A? But good News left the salad behind.

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The Shark Deck Johnny mack with your Daily Comedy News. Scott Ackerman. You know him. He’s the host of Comedy Bang Bang. He told The Wall Street Journal.

I always truly thought podcasting is the future of the comedy industry. Podcasting can be transformative in terms of an audience discovering your work. It’s all very surprising that it’s worked out financially. That was never the point. He’s out pushing Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast of the book, a coffee table book with introductions and forwards by Linmannuel, Miranda weird Al, and Patton Oswalt.

Nearly forty comedians, including Andy Sandberg and Paul F. Tompkins, have bits in the book. One of the topics simple exercises you can do at home with machetes. Joe Rogan was on Instagram. He showed off the latest addition to his comedy club.

It’s a coffee table with a three D an a conduct carved into it. Sure why not? In the caption, Rogan said, one of the coolest things about the Internet is being able to discover amazing artists. Scott Dao created this insane coffee table for us for the Comedy Mothership. Green room.

I effing love it. The laugh button caught up with Big Jay Okerson the topic writing his latest special, and he said, Quarantine happened.

And then what happened was I never really write any jokes down.

I never watched myself or film it or anything. But I worked so much that I always have it ready to go and how it goes. I didn’t even think about how those three months of nothing, no stand up would affect that. So when I came back, I kind of had to learn it all over again, which was its own interesting process.

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And then the temperature of everything changed.

Quarantine me two stuff and Black Lives Matter happened, and essentially Netflix and all those companies were like, oh, an unknown, straight white guy, good luck with that. The door wasn’t really open anymore, at least anytime soon. So I got dejected by that, and I thought, damn, nobody wants to do this at all. Then Ari Shaffier suggests that I do it myself. I was going to do it in Philly at the TLA, but they priced me out.

It was too expensive. It would have added almost six figures on the special cost already, which is all mine. So then I was dejected and thinking, oh, I can’t even do it in Philly the way I want to do it. Then David Tell suggested doing it at Skankfest. One of the interesting things is we did it in the afternoon.

It was two shows in the afternoon. We shot versus the night time for a lot of reasons, scheduling and all kinds of things like that. If I was doing it it just for laughs or moontower or something like that, I don’t know if we would feel the same festival energy from our festival because it was just diehards. All right, Big Jay Okerson, what’s the reaction so far about your special? And he says, you know what’s funny anything else I’ve ever done, whether it’s Comedy Central and Netflix or somewhere else.

Your only feedback of how many people are seeing it’s through a loose idea of how many Instagram followers should pick up and comments from people you already have. You kind of get a gauge that it’s doing well or people are watching it for a while. YouTube is interesting because it tells you every single person that watches it it’s doing well. Right now, over half a million and a day and a half. I think that’s a good trajectory.

Yeah, man, congrats, Jay said, I’ve done all the press I can to support it. I’ve had a big hand in editing it and all that stuff. It was so difficult to keep watching and enjoying and hoping it’s good. So it’s great now that it’s out there and you see the good feedback, because at the time I was done, I was like, this thing is a piece of stuff because I had seen it seven thousand times. Next week, Carol Burnett turns ninety.

We’re gonna start seeing a lot of Carol Burnett press. Related to that, Bill Hayder told a story. So before I tell you the story, Bill Hayter is motivated to promote Barry season four. Carol Burnett, who’s turning ninety, is motivated to promote the Carol Burnett’s special on I think it’s on NBC next week. So when I read this story and it happens to come out now, I’m like, uh huh, yep, right, yup, uh huh.

Right. As the story goes, Carol Burnett was on that PBS show Finding Your Roots, and Bill Hayter said, Carol Burnett emailed me. She emailed me and said, hey, we’re related, and I went what And Johnny Max said, wow. Carol Burnett, who’s promoting a new special, is related to Bill Hayter, who’s promoting season fourth Barry. That’s weird.

Bill Hayter said, I tell my kids, I’m like, we’re related to miss Hannigan. They were like, ah. Hayter said, We’ve been texting and emailing and stuff, so that’s been really exciting. I hope I can like have dinner with her. Pete Davidson also making the rounds.

He’s got a new sitcom, so suddenly he’s answering big good questions. You can listen to yesterday’s episode for that answer. Vulture says buck Gis seems like Pete Davidson’s version of a Zach Braff movie, a little artsy, a lot self reflective, people shouting at the heavens, crying, hugging, and sticking their heads out of a sunroof. The trailer opens with Pete David’s saying I googled myself and scrolling through some real, not so nice things that have been said on the Internet about him. He tries to get wisdom from older people he respects, like Joe Peshi and Bobby kind of alley.

He gets roasted by other older people he respects David tell says Davidson, I’ve got a weekend update for you. You suck. A girl in a card tells him you run away from people who love you and rain falls outside. Pete said he picked up up guests because it’s Yiddish for goose egg zilchnada, and he says the word looks cool like on a T shirt. Bup giests will be out on Peacock May fourth.

The cast Pete Davidson, Edi Falco plays his mom. Joe Peshi plays his dad. Guest stars include Charlie Day, Chase Sweet Wonders, Simon rex Keenan Thompson and Ray Romano and Brad Garrett. Going to be talking about them a lot in the upcoming days. The Guardian caught up with Ben Schwartz.

He started out as a dog’s body at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, paying with his labor for access to the work of Amy Pollard and company. I am unfamiliar with the term dog’s body. Apparently it is a British term for a person news given boring menial tasks to do. That makes sense Originally, in the British Royal Navy, a dog’s body was a semi sarcastic colloquialism for a junior officer or a midshipman. Ben Schwartz told The Guardian, since the beginning, I’m always like, I’m gonna find a way to do this.

I tried everything. I freelanced writing for David Letterman, I freelanced for SNL, I did commercials, I tried stand up. I tried everything, hoping something would stick and I could be in the industry I loved. At age twenty nine, he got Parks and Wreck, but that did not break his bond with improv. He says, anytime you tell people I do improv, their only reference is their friends class shows at college, and my class shows were horrific.

I didn’t know what I was doing. So I think people’s perception is based on watching performers starting out who haven’t put the hours in. They have nothing to point to, like a special from anybody, to say, look, how good this could be. Fortune Feamster talked to al dot com al As in Alabama. No, it’s not my friend Alic’s website, it’s an Alabama news site.

Fortune says, I’m in that weird exact space between millennial and gen x. I don’t even know what the word is. I feel like everything has a word. I’m not like a full gen xer, and I’m definitely not a full millennial. So we have a little bit to draw from.

In her youth, she was a misfit Southern tomboy. She came out as a lesbian at age twenty five. She said, be quite a few years before I realized I was gay, which is bunkers because I’ve had this haircut since I was five years old. My hair knew I was gay. I didn’t.

She’s got an upcoming project with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who did you think I was gonna say? It’s called foo Bar. That’ll be on Netflix May twenty fifth. It’s an eight episode TV series.

Fortune plays a CIA agent that’s unexpected, And hey, Bill Lawrence, why don’t you reboot Scrubs? Come on, man, let’s do it. Haven’t you come close to rebooting Scrubs? Bill Lawrence said, yeah, bunch, here’s the thing. Everybody on that show was killing it today.

Now send him out. Isn’t that true? Because JD and Turk are doing a podcast the podcast does well and they’re in like one commercial with John Travolta. Are they killing it? What’s Sarah Chawk up to?

We’re not making any Rick and Mortis anytime soon. Judy Rais did three seasons on Devious Maids. Neil Flynn the Janitor, Well, he’s probably got crazy sitcom money now, but I’m sure he would do it. He likes to work, and you would need doctor cox on see McGinley. What’s McGinley up to?

While I’m googling him? And his biggest credit is Scrubs, so he hasn’t done too much since twenty ten. Bill Lawrence, I respectfully disagree they’re not killing it. I think they’ll take your call. Bill said, here’s the thing.

Everybody on the show’s killing it well discussed, so I think we’d all have to have the excuse to spend time with each other. But no one’s in dire need of work, and we see each other anyway. If we ever come up without idea that would be fun to revisit, we’ll do it just for the hang of it. But I reached a point on that show and maybe I stayed too long. But by the sixty year, the writers would be like, what should doctor Cox’s rerunt be?

And I’m like, why does he have to be mad every week? Who cares what he’s mad at? My God? So nostalgically it’d be fun to revisit. The idea of doing it as a series is a bit of a bummer to me.

Dudes, get that thing on the air now. If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Coming to News because you hear this coffee. This coffee is now twenty eight hours old, John, Dad, you record Wednesday’s podcast early because you had to actually work on Tuesday. No, what makes you think that? I just have had this coffee sitting around for a day and a half and it’s it’s not really cold anymore.

So if you’d like to buy me a coffee, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Throw five bucks on the tip jar, I’ll take your money. I will go to the National Donuts chain. I’ll use the app. I won’t even talk to any humans, and I’ll just grab my cup and get back in my car.

No forget, if we get two hundred dollars, I’ll say nice things about Adam Sandler details that buy mec Coffee dot Com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s see who’s at the festivals? Got my bookmarks open. It’s like I recorded two episodes back to back. You know.

Today, of course, is Wednesday at Nashville, Dusty Slay’s Grand Old Comedy Show Zany’s six o’clock. I would absolutely be there for Dusty though, because it’s six thirty. It’s the Zany’s fortieth Anniversary Comedy All Stars, but that’s at the Rheman. So all the all Stars went over to the Rheman and you’ll left Dusty Slay there. I would go see Dusty Slay.

Who’s on the All Stars? John? I don’t know. The website won’t tell me. Seven o’clock Gigli Squad with Hannah Burner and Paige Desorbos at the War Memorial Auditorium, Leanne Morgan, seven thirty at the Opery House, Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly Zany’s nine fifteen.

All right, that’s pretty easy. We go to Zany’s, we see Dusty Slay, we grab a beer or whatever, and we just stay at Zeni’s and see Big Jay and Bobby Kelly. All right, that works.

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Meanwhile on a Wednesday night in Austin.

Six o’clock show, The Creek and the Cave is called Cheers Queer as Brandy Davis, Guy Brenham, Ashley Gavin, Molly Kearney, Alex English, Lias A. Trigger and some others. That sounds fun. Seven o’clock at the Stateside Theater, Maria Bamford, seven o’clock at the Paramount, Howie Mandel, seven o’clock stores in Bars at Antonesd’ll say Sloane, Adam Ray, Jeremiah Watkins, Tone Bell, Brad Williams and some others. That’s a good show.

Moontower has kicked in big time. Huh. Parker Jazz Club seven o’clock to Hill Liist, Mike Veckione, Molly Kearney again, Devin Walker, John Rudnitsky. He’s really funny. Remember he was on Saturday Night Live for about eight minutes.

But he’s funny. Home Base at the home Base at seven thirty, bunch in they don’t recognize. Let’s skip down a bunch Stateside Theater, nine thirty. Brad Williams. Yeah, all right.

If we were in Austin tonight, I would say we’d do hm. I feel like you could see Bamford all the time. Let’s do how he meant Deel at seven, Brad Williams at nine thirty has that sound. And let’s see what’s going on at Melbourne. Jeff Green’s show is called Back to My Roots.

The Herald’s son says, one of the greats of pure laugh out loud comedy.

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Lovely to be in the beautiful city of Melbourne with the trams and your bipolar weather, because I love the anonymies are anomalies of Australia, because austral is a dichotomy. Yeah. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds impressive when you say it. Australia is a dichotomy. What do you mean, I’m leaving now, No tell us what you mean.

Because your lovely, warm hearted, kind people. Then you get into your cars you become fire breathing, psychopathic maniacs. I’m terrified driving in Australia. My friend says, in Germany they drive as fast as they want on the Autobahn. We should have that in Australia, said no, no, I shouldn’t.

You see the Germans drive very expensive cars with robotic precision. That’s how it works in Australia. You descended from manglows and celts, with a few Asians and Mediterraneans thrown in the consequences which the roads are a cauldron of chaos. No bad, right, solid enough, nothing remarkable there, but that’s fun. Alex Ward’s show is called Saving for a jet Pack.

The description no children, no house, no problems. The age, said Wards, trajectory is spiraling vertically. That’s a fascinating description. Okay, alex Ward, what do you got for us? I was walking down the street the other day and this lady passed me.

She was wearing a rainbow badge and on it it said Ally. I had two thoughts. The first was well, that’s nice, But then I had a second, way louder thought, which was, Wold, she really wants everyone to know she’s not the gay one, because if she wanted to be supportive, she could have just had the rainbow and said she’s made sure she’s got the one that says Ally, So she could be like, yeah, good on him, but not me. I’m not one of them, friend of no, but I’m part of the queer community. We need the support, so please get a badge, get one, although I’ve never seen that badge for sale, Like, I think she made that batch and you’re going to have to make one too.

Just buy the rainbow one and get a marker and you can just ride on it ally or something else more fun. That means the same thing like no homo will also work. All right? So was that the funniest minute you’ve ever heard? No?

I loved her though. I was totally in on that story, and I want to watch the rest of the clip. I was really entertained. So that’s eight. I’m a bit of a comedy snab here, and this is when you get into the people who come out and just knock down pins within five seconds with something a little shocking.

I found her to be a good storyteller. It’s Alex Ward. I’m very interested there. That was I’d like that first minute a lot. That’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m sure you heard that the FBI arrested a twenty one year old Massachusetts Air National guardsman in connection with leaking classified documents. Enough set up there, John, get to it, James Gordon said. The leaguer is described as a lonely young man who is part of a chat room group that shares a love of guns and military gear.

You know how sometimes you find yourself going it’s always who you least suspect. This isn’t one of those times, Colbert said. The suspect was taken into custody in Massachusetts, where just moments before, he was seen from a helicopter reading a book on his porch. That book Solitary Confinement for Dummies. Colbert again, Now, for those taking classified documents home, you could face chargers under the Espionage Act and get up to ten years in prison per document.

So he’s in trouble unless he declassified them with his mind. Gordon, as a twenty one year old, he’s devastated that this mistake may cost him his future, but he’s also a thrilled that he’s posted something online and it’s totally went viral. Cordon again crushing it as he wraps up is Late night show soon. Oh and we’re going to talk about that at the end of the podcast Stick Around Gordon. He posted some of the documents in a chat room for gamers.

Gordon said, I don’t know how this works. Did somebody write like, hey, guys, how do I went at fortnite? And you respond with I don’t know, but here’s some satellite ima juice of Yukrean. Pete Davidson is making the rounds. He was on with Charlotta Magne the God.

And I know you’ve had some big questions about Pete Davidson. He has answered your big question. Let’s listen. I don’t understand. It’s really not that special.

It’s a very normal size penis. It’s like, you know, not too big or too small. It’s just like you know now, I don’t understand that it’s just like big enough to enjoy and not big enough for it to hurt. So there you have it. I’m not gonna come it.

Horry Kunnabully, Who’s new specials out today? It is called Vacation Baby. It’s on YouTube. I have seen it. I had a screener a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you, Team Hurry. Really enjoyed this one, especially the first two thirds, and I never realized Harry’s really got I’m Mark Marin in him, which I think you’ll hear as you listen to that special. Would you like to hear a clip? Okay, I’m a Hindu or as it’s pronounced in America. Muslim people have called my child a COVID baby, which is inaccurate because he was not conceived during COVID.

If you must know, he’s a Honolulu Ritz Carlton vacation baby. There’s a big debate amongst parents how long is too long to breastfeed your child? Right? And I think that if your child is able to say, mother, can I have some of your sweet sweet breast milk in a text message, it’s probably too long. It’s probably too long.

Are Konnabulu Vacation Baby on YouTube? You should watch it?

Speaking of Mark Marin, I didn’t even do that on purpose.

That’s a nice accident. Mark spoke to a live audience at New York City’s Town Hall about his recent special from Bleak to Dark, and he said, it’s really tricky to make that stuff work. It’s the most full piece of work I’ve ever done, and the most grounded despite the topic matter. It’s the funniest I’ve ever been. I’m talking about losing someone.

It wasn’t funny. It became a sport group situation. I’d get choked up. How do you balance a joke about visiting her body the night she’d passed when working on some of the stuff was still very emotional. I had to find that balance, he added.

I’m not an arena act. There’s no way I’ll be that guy. I’m not even sure I got into it to be an entertainer. I use it to get to your own personal truth. It was about being seen and making people think about things even differently.

It’s a noble profession. I’m not sure I like this idea. They’re trying to remake Peep Show for the US again. The Peep Show is a wonderful brick com I thought it was still on Hulu. I want to watch it, and it’s not on there anymore.

So I don’t know if you could see it in the States right now. Any original David Mitchell and Robert Webb, you may know them as Mitchell and Webb you’ve probably seen the sketch where they’re dressed as Nazis and they ask, are we the Batties? Mitchell and Webb played Mark and Jazz, two dysfunctional friends and flatmates with opposing personalities. It ran nine seasons between two thousand and three and twenty fifteen. Well, in the American version it’s Mini Driver and a Mandela Jahava.

They are women, so one big difference there. For the new series. They’ve tried to remake this for the Americans a few times. There is an American pilot out there on YouTube, and I haven’t seen this thing nailed yet. Who knows.

Speaking of television, over the weekend, I watched the first three episodes of season three of FX’s Dave That’s the Little Dickie sitcom. Very very good. Enjoyed that a lot. You should watch that. Page six spoke to Kathy Griffin.

Kathy Griffin says she’s been diagnosed with quote complex PTSD. After getting an MRII Kathy posted a video saying, let’s talk about PTSD. Never talked about it publicly. You can laugh or whatever, but I’ve been diagnosed with complex PTSD and it’s called an extreme case. Kathy Griffin explained where the wink though her issues began about five and a half years ago.

She got held up a picture of a very famous person’s severed head, and I don’t want to go there. Artie Lange, he’s selling his longtime New Jersey home and his website has been shut down. What’s going on? Aready? The New York Post says Already, Lang, who’s fifty five now, had purchased his New Jersey Town home back in two thousand and three for four hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.

It’s two bedrooms, three bats. In twenty twenty one, while he was completing a drug court program, he transferred the deed of the house to his mother, Judith and his sister Stacy. Sources tell the Post the home is no longer a suitable residence for his mom, who’s dealing with health issues. It’s currently less than at six hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars.

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Congratulations to Henry Yen, the winner of twenty twenty three’s Raw Comedy Talent Hunt at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. Shortol writes them olver and local, seemed at ease in front of the fourteen hundred strong crowd, fully using the stage and exuding a genuine delight to be there, yet happy to muck around on his biggest gig yet giving a shout out to his parents. They write, he has a winningly odd energy, slightly awkward and nerdy, but owning it with confidence, while being apparently entertained by his own gags, chuckling infectiously along with the rest of us. He committed half a set to routine about towels and his ability to ring no pun intend at every angle. From the premise, it felt as if he could have easily done twice as a lot of time slot.

I tried to find a clip, but I could not. Sorry about that, I did. Look now, sadly, we’re into the final week of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. I’m going to miss this segment a lot. I’ve been enjoying it.

Let’s take a look at Wednesday shows. David Quirk’s show is called Cobra. The description do you remember back in the eighties when everyone called each other cobra? I don’t either, but I met a bloke once who swore that’s what we did. The age came in with yikes, listen to this doesn’t quite live up to the lofty expectations created by his previous work.

That’s what they’re putting on the website as the review. Wow, Melbourne. First of all, did anybody scrub the website? I’m not sure that you wanted that up there. Okay, I’m curious.

Now let’s listen to the work that doesn’t quite measure up. Thank you for that shit. Thank you. Wow. I am a very good comedian.

So I’m lucky to be standing here before you, folks, because I’ve spent most of my time a decade ten years working in retail is what I’ve done. I don’t know if anyone does someone openly laughing at that as you should really maybe he knows retail retail the art of standing uprights, not moving around enough, hardening the arteries, ensuring an early death. That’s retailed. But I was very good at it. I want you to know.

I was actually very because I’m very friendly to the customers. But I noticed, after about nine years of doing that job, every time I smiled at a customer, a little bit of the soul just flew away. Hey, how are you, folks? Hire folks have and that’s not healthy, is it? That’s bad?

Something bad? He’s happening in Slide of You. That was good. I like David Quirk. I also like his look.

He could play KNICKI in Grease. He’s wearing a white T shirt with a denim jacket that’s a little shorter than the T shirt, and he’s got like knicky hair. It’s better than that Rise of the pink ladies thing on Paramount Plus. I’ll tell you that all right. One more.

Fanny Kasab’s show is called Fireworks. He was a child in war torn Lebanon, but he found a very unlikely source to make his own fireworks. The near death experience made him tough, resilient, adaptable. Now he’s a single dad raising two children in safe, optimistic Australia. He had a late advertiser said, hilarious leaves the audience in stitches.

Okay, let’s listen, and I hate Itani meant, so many Italians here to them? Are you cowards? I know you’re always the same, always walk up the girls and say stuff like hey, his time, did you have a good day? And the Ausie girl is looking at him. Swanny goes, women aren’t truman to get literacy.

He’s fun. I mean maybe if you’re Italian you don’t find that funny. But I thought he was fun. Oh, we’ve got more festivals, don’t worry. Let’s see who’s at Moontower tonight.

Busy weed for the festivals. Huh Tuesday night at moon Tower, Matt Rife. I’m seeing a lot of buzz on him. He’s at the Stateside Theater at seven o’clock. I saw he’s got a special up on YouTube.

I need to check out Leslie Jones at seven and Matt Rife again at nine thirty. All right, if we were at Moontower, I guess we’ll see Leslie at seven, Matt Rife at nine thirty. And let’s see who’s at Nashville tonight, Kid Rock at the Rheman, William Montgomery at Zenies, and that’s it. I guess we’ll check out Kid Rock. Lindsay Glazer has a new album out on Comedy Dynamics.

All their releases are good. This one is called Thanks Dad. The press release says powerhouse attorney and comedian Lindsay Glazer is ready to make her mark. In hilarious stand up comedy album Thanks Dad, recorded downtown Las Vegas in December of twenty two, Lindsay shares stories about her neurotic condition, the joys of one a home, and being sued by an NBA player. It says she is the second most famous comedian out of Peoria, Illinois.

Who’s number one? Do you know? I think I know, but I’m googling the answer. Richard Pryor more famous than Lindsay Glazer. At this point, let’s not sell her short.

You never know, all right, John, You said you had a James Cordon story. Yeah, This one from movie Web director Craig Duncan says he won’t be wanting to work with James Cordon. He worked with Cordon as a director on a League of their Own, and he says, the most difficult and obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with is James Cordon. That’s interesting because some people would say Joey Diaz is the most obnoxious presenter they’ve ever worked with, But that’s not what Duncan said. He said, James Cordon is right.

So if you asked Duncan, hey, who’s the worst human being you’ve ever met, he would not say Joey Diaz. That’s not what he would say. He would say the most difficult, obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with James Cordon. He says even before meeting Cordon, he was warned about the TV stars but behavior with producers. Asking Duncan how well he did working with difficult presenters, he said Cordon was braiding him, saying, what the f is going on here?

It’s obvious what you do? You put a camera there, you put a camera there. You put a camera there so obvious, You’re stupid, Duncan said. He tried to satisfy Cordon by saying the TV host was absolutely right about a change they wanted that they had already done anyway. Duncan recalls another experience of waiting for James.

Cordon arrived, only for him to show up forty five minutes late to film a brief segment. Holding everybody else up, Duncan said, cheers, James, you got your way. Well done for treading all over my toes. I don’t care. I’ll get paid at the end of the day, and I hope I never ever work with you again.

That you’re comining news for today. Wow. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat?

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m pretty open about this, so I tracked the stats on the podcast. Do you know what episode did really well last week? The one I titled Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher something something Joe Rogan Lazy name dropped in that one.

You gotta do that. Then later in the week I did one with Dave Bird and the title didn’t do as well. So, hey, guess what, guys, Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher. I had a conversation about Bert being one of the biggest arena comics in the world. Tim was like, you’re what number three?

Number four? Bert’s at four? Tim? Who were the first? Bert Sebastian Fluffy and Joe Koy Fluffy meaning Gabriel Iglesias.

Bert said, I’m going after Joe Koy. He has the nation of the Philippines, the whole nation. If I could just isolate a minority to fall in love with me. Yeah, we’re going head to head. The SmartLess guys are taking their podcast on the road.

SmartLess another thing to drop in your podcast title for SEO in case you’re playing at home. Yes, Jason Bateman on Hayes and Will Arnette are taking their podcast on the road. I don’t love their podcast. Am I allowed to say that out loud or I’ll be shunned from the entertainment industry. I really don’t think it’s that good.

They’re pretty famous. I get it, they’re good, good guests, but I want to actually listen. I don’t think it’s actually that good. The trio will have their journey documented for HBO Max as they share the experience and their friendship. What’s it called smart list?

Colin on the Road? If you’ve never listened? Is smart list? Well? Each episode features a mystery guest that one of the hosts know about and the other two did not.

Once the mystery guests makes themself known, the three interview them in their own comedic way. The show was described as a podcast The Connecting unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hill larity. People Magazine talk to Dna Gottfried. She was looking back on husband Gilbert Godfried. It was the one year anniversary of Gilbert’s passing.

Dana said, before I reflect, I want to take a moment to thank my incredible friends, family, The Gilbert podcast community and Gilberts fans for all their support. You guys carried me. I’d also like to give a special thanks to the most brilliant magician and my superhuman friend, Penjalette, who texted and asked how he was doing every single day all caps since Gilbert passed. He did not miss one day. Thank you.

Dana told the story. He was February twenty six, nineteen ninety seven. I had just turned twenty seven. Gilbert was turning forty two. We met at a Grammy party at the Tavern on the Green.

I was there because I worked in the music business. He was there for free food. I accidentally dropped food off my plate. He picked it up and put it on his plate. I thought it was a bit odd, but I guess I’ve always been attracted to a bit odd.

He looked incredibly sweet and a little lost. I felt sorry for him, so I was nice. He asked my phone number. The rest was history. I don’t know how to explain the uniqueness of our relationship.

I was young, outgoing, and social. Gilbert was shy and introverted. Time out. I love when people talk about off air or behind the scenes Gilbert. He was not his public persona at all.

A very introverted, quiet spoken man. He was not the ah that you know from his public He’d be like him, very nice to meet you anyway, she said. Gilbert was shy and introverted. We were opposites, but like two pieces of a puzzle, we fit together perfectly. For the next ten years we dated.

He’d come over to my house every night to watch TV since I actually paid for cable. We were in love. Gilbert used to say he was like a McDonald’s happy meal. You can’t replace the French fries for onion rings. He knew who he was and he wasn’t going to change.

I told him I would never want him to change. I embraced who he was. Eventually he took the plunge and trusted me. We decided to move in together and start a family. While packing, I asked Gilbert to try and get rid of some of his hotel soaps since they filled up the entire second bedroom of his apartment.

Yeah, Gilbert apparently would take every soap home from every hotel. He asked his sisters if they needed any soap, and they said only big bars. Gilbert, being Gilbert, stayed up all night, opening the little rappers, running the soaps under the water in the sink, mashing them together to make big bars. The next day he delivered a garbage bag full of custom made big bars of soap. I thought it was so sweet.

I couldn’t help but love him. Great stories there. Vulture pointed out that two recent stand up specials, those being Chris Rocks and Kyle Cananes, both talked about filthy pillowcases. And Chris Rocks he said, you don’t even realize all the amazing little things a woman does for you until you don’t have one. The other night, I’m trying to get some sleep, trying to sleep, couldn’t sleep.

Suddenly dawned at me. I was like, this pillowcase is filthy. Are we supposed to change these? Kyle Knaane’s joke. If you’re a single man in here, leave now, go buy new pillows.

I encheathed what I assumed to be a pillow one day in the daylight, and what I extracted from that pillow case. It had the same texture and patina as a Wild West wanting poster. Was cold and slick, the edges were crumbling and curled. At one side was burnt. How did that even happen?

It looked like a map to the New World. That’s what it looked like. Whatever fluids come out on my face at night. The liquid had expanded and created rudimentary coastlines of the Americas. Over here.

You could say, oll, this is Hollywood from the Mediterranean to hear. Ultra says the differences in these bits speak to the comedian’s contrasting sensibilities. Chris Rock uses brevity to sell his material, while Kyle Canaan achieves the same results with extended soliloquies. Rock takes great pains to appear in control. Canaane deliberately engineers chaos.

Arizona Bigamedia dot Com caught up with Jim Brewer. Let me see if I can get my half ass Brewer impression. Actually, back in the day when I worked with Jim at Series XM, I could do a really good Jim. I would write a lot of copy for Jim, so I really how to capture his voice.

And then you’re around him enough and I could capture it.

So the way I always get into this and I’m doing this for real and real time. Here the first time I met Jim, somebody had said, hey, do you want to take a meeting with Jim Brewer? And you know, it was Jim, and I’d think Jim would open this if you listed everybody on Saturday Night Live. Jim’s not in the top ten. But I was like sure.

So I had a meeting with Jim and he pitched his radio show and he goes, as I can already tell I’ve got my good Jim today, all right, so the show it’s it’s me my friend Pete. Pete was Pete CORRELLI I would tell stories. So I sat there with Jim for like an hour and he might have been high, you can ask him. And I wasn’t really sure what I was pitching because I would have how to go back to my boss and said, hey, you know Jim Brewer, Yeah, he was on SNL. He’s like one hundred and fourteenth best guy that was ever on.

Anyway, he wants to do a show where he tells stories with his friend Pete. And again this is fifteen years ago. Be worn. At this point, nobody knows who Pete Corley is at that point, so I can’t walk back through and be like, yes, Jim Brewer, and Pete tells stories. So I asked Jim to do a demo.

The demo he did was the best demo I ever got in my entire radio career. I took a CD of it. You remember CDs. That’s all the story is. I left the army and Boss’s chair with no note, so, knowing my boss, he played the CD.

That pilot sold itself. Greatest demo I’ve ever heard. Jim talked about his current show and he said, it’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. I’ve got my good Jim today.

It’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. He usually hits whatever was going on first ten to fifteen miss and from there every curl too. I don’t curse on stage. I don’t swear.

It’s helping that I’ve recorded three straight podcasts. I’m a little gravelly anyway. I like the people can bring teenagers and those twelve and over. Jim explains back in two thousand and eight he made the decision to keep his comedy clean in part because he had kids. He said a woman approached him and said, oh, you’re the guy from TV and stuff.

You’re really blue when you’re live right, you’re like really dirty. You’re the drug guy. Jim said, I know, w what maybe mad? And they also made me realize she thinks that way? Who else thinks that way?

Why do you think that way? If you grew up watching Saturday Night Live or Half Baked, you just know a screen persona you no know the son, father, husband, the married, moral faith guy. Jim’s kids they’re grown now. Yeah, I’m thinking about that. Jim’s kids are a little older than mine.

Yeah. Yeah, they’re not little kids anymore. They are a constant source of materials for his routines. Jim said, never ends so long as they’re in the house. Even after I’ll never run out of material.

I’ll never run out of material being married. Jim says he has left TV in movies. In his rear view mirror, I’ll jump in. Yeah, he was like over show business when I was working with him. He just wanted to be a family guy.

He’s a good guy. Jim said, I left that world back in two thousand. I didn’t want to be in that world anymore. I want to be in at WHORL I could control my destiny. Would stand up starting to put out what I want to put out and have a desire for that grind.

I’m not a big fan of that world. There’s not a lot of good morals go along in that industry. Jim Brewer is at Farnsworth Hall Fry and Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. Those are somewhere in Arizona. Whyt You go on Jim Brewer dot com and figure out where.

All right, I’m going to be in trouble with Kara Wood again. Caraman. You know Karash, she is the power of the streak. Look, I was doing great last week. I ran Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

I played volleyball. Wednesday night. At the volleyball game, I’m not doing a bit here. Four balls in my buddy crashing into my other buddy, and first buddy broke his leg. We’re not as young as we used to be.

Then when I got home, my name was throbbing a little, and I said, all right, I’m taking Thursday off.

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And then Friday.

It was a summer Friday in April. It was eighty six degrees, so I didn’t run on Friday either, Kara. But I had a really good street going and I’ve been eating salad, So leave me alone. Willya. Kara Wood.

She wrote The Power of the Streak. It’s an easy to read book. And if you struggle with working out regularly and you have excuses like, oh, my friend broke your leg or was nice out, you know that kind of stuff, you need to say start exercising. You need to check out the book. You see.

Kara had no motivation for years, and then she started a streak of twelve years. I get four days in and I’m like, hey, look at me. I work out all the time. Twelve years. She had a career, two kids.

She’s got the secret to having the drive to exercise no matter what. So like, you know, you can’t be like oh, but it was eighty six and it was a Friday, and I had prerecorded Monday’s podcast on Thursday afternoon, so I could just goof off, fright. You can’t do that. You got it? You gotta do it.

Kara’s story is funny, relatable, and inspiring. She’ll give you a step by step guide of how you can do the same thing with any exercise. It does not have to be running. It’s the Power of the Streak. But Kara Wood available in all fomats, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble’s an audiobook on iTunes Audible.

Check her out on the social’s insta is at the Power of the Streak a Twitter at Power of Streak. Kara’s also got her free newsletter if you want to check that out. That one is called knock It Off. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. You can go to substack and sign up for free knock it Off dot substack dot com.

I’ll save it the trouble. All this is in the show notes care I think for supporting. Today is a Daily Comedy News I actually wish I had wore Jim Brewer stuff since I have the gym voice down today Jim, he tells, who’s aunt Moontower Tonight? Nothing not a not a show Monday Dark? All right?

Jim, who’s at Nashville Kid Rock, Kid Rocks Comedy Jam? Yeah, I get luck with that Kid Rocks Comedy jam rym an Auditorium seven o’clock. But hold on, Jim, who’s on the show? I mean, I get that you don’t want to see kid Rock? But who’s performing?

All right? It’s Donnell, Shane Gillis, Big Jay, Chris Porter, Eleanor Carrigan and whoever chance, Willie is that’s actually a good show, Jim. Seven o’clock, Leslie Jones. May we’ll go over and talk about Lauren matt Rife at nine thirty. All right, Jim, do you want to do Milbourne?

Now? Can’t you hear? We’re losing the impression? Stop get out on top? All right, that’s good advice.

Who’s at Melbourne today? Andrew Silverwood show is called I Really really want a Zigga Zigga and a nap. Fourth Wall gave it five stares at a stone cold Legend Weekend Notes four and a half stars said want to watch you out for the Adelaide Advertiser four stars, a must see, explosively quick wit. All right, that’s high breeze there, let’s listen. I really should have finished my last show and gone home sober.

But I’ve cocked to Dexie, had a beard, had no dinner and had just enough acid to think that this chair with grass on is real nice. I really shouldn’t be finishing my fringe. I’d really really gone up Version of the House from Friends. This is love. I love this spot.

It’s delightful to where I come from. We tend to take Christmas decorations down by March, but no, not in Adelaide. Oh lord, it’s a risk for me. It’s a real risk for you because you’re about to close out a show with a guy who looks a little bit like a Disney Pixar character went out to rescue buzz like you and got lost at a Mardi Grass. All right, that’s the Andrews silver Wind.

Let’s do one more. Jeff Perkins is almost sold an said caught low avails. Jeff Perkins was your teenager? Are the kind of weird where former classmates would appear on the news and saying, yeah, I think I always knew you should start a cold. She was just a little different.

She watched Door the Explorer. It’s too four into her teens. Let’s listen. Stand up comedy obviously is a very fun job, very stupid job, but I think it’s also very important to use these times when you do get to stand in front of an audience or on TV to spread a message and to educate. And that’s what I would like to do tonight, if you’ll indulge me.

I found a list online that I think we can all really learn from. And this list is entitled forty four Basic things women want that really aren’t too much to ask for, good of them to narrow it down just a tight top forty four. So, so let’s go on a learning journey together. It starts off with someone that holds open doors for her and walks her to a front stoop after a date. Anyone in the audience got a stoop?

It stoops up the back. No, okay, we’re all gonna dialogne rush someone that kisses her with the same passion after three years of dating as he did after three days of dating. Relationships don’t last three years, all right. I think the materials there, I think the pacing is off. I think she could move a little more quickly.

But again, I’m in my basement doing a half ass Jim Brewer impression. So what do I know? Jim wants you to take us home? All right? That’s your comment news for Today File The show Free.

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It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories, like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue, Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh, by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five good news stories. Nice easy way to start your morning.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Brian Baumgartner, you know him Kevin from the Office. He says the Office is now bigger than it ever was. That led to the launch of his podcast on oral History of the Office. Ed Helms said that podcast gave us a chance to talk about the show itself, which was a vibrant part of our lives for almost ten years.

In the aftermath of the show, we were all excited and stunned and surprised by how the show lived on after it ended. I really loved the opportunity to go in a safe space with Brian and think about it and talk about it. These days, Brian hosts Off the Beat, a weekly conversation with TV’s favorite actors. Ed Helms did a podcast called Snaffoo, which got into the story of a nineteen eighty three military exercise of a lot of people claim was the closest we ever came to nuclear at confrontation. Thanks for the laughs on a Sunday Sehn ed Helms paid the bills for many years doing voice acting.

He said, I was doing stand up in the trenches making five dollars per spot, but I was actually making more as a commercial voiceover guy, recording multiple sessions a week for years. That really credit that experience for giving me a weird comfort level with my time in a booth doing the podcast. He dropped the g there, John Yeah, the Queen’s coming out doing of a podcast. Brian said, what I love and what I’m trying to capture is a conversation between two people that can’t happen when a member of the press, the Queens came out there again, we can’t keep it in today you’re getting Queen’s accent, Johnny Mack. On This Sunday, Brian told a story about Nick Offerman.

He said, as many of you know, Nick Offerman works well with wood. Brian said he had the most beautiful Chinese elm tree in his yard. One day it unexpectedly fell. Brian said that the tree was so meaningful to me and my children. I have a connection with my child to this tree.

So Nick came, got the tree trunk, and right before he left, in his very nick way, he goes, it’ll be about five or six years before it’s ready. It’s been about five years and it’s on my to do list, and I keep thinking I should ask him. I want Nick Kaferman’s making. Barry is back tonight. One of the stars of Barry is, of course, Macpacker Henry Winkler.

Henry said, my growing to a more mature self allowed me to become Gene. I wouldn’t have done him earlier in my career. I wouldn’t be able to taste the juicy to sales. I’m grateful was an acting gift given to me. I was twenty seven when I was The Fawns and Happy Days.

I was seventy two when I got Jeane. What a journey. I’ll miss him, but it’s the right time to end the series. Honestly, Barry can’t get away with much more. As an actor.

You try to find a colonel of humanity and a character, no matter how much of an a hole he or she is. Every great piece of literature character is in you already. That’s why they last five hundred years. That’s why Shakespeare’s been around forever. Forget about poetry.

Those characters have been sitting around your table when you grow up. You know them in your village, every one of them. That’s a sign of great characters and the gift of being able to play one like Jean. I had the same feeling when I finished ten Years of Happy Days. I was sitting in my office at Paramount.

I had a production company. I didn’t know what to do with myself. Plan A was to live it to the nth degree, and my brain hurt because I didn’t know. I had no plan. What do I do?

What do I pick? Will it be as meaningful as the character I just played. I’m having that same feeling now with Barry, but with less pain because I’m a little older now. Well, every do anything is impactful? Again?

Is this show? What I’ve learned is you don’t know? Forbes sucked to Sam Morrell and said, hey, when you riff with audience members during your show, you usually start with what someone’s drinking. Sam said, it’s their night off, they’re loose. What they’re drinking tells you about the person.

If someone’s having a fruity drink, I’m assuming it’s been an easier day. If someone’s drinking a Long Island nice tea, I’m like, what are you running from? Then Sam usually buys them a drink after roasting them. Sam said, that’s my way of saying thanks for playing along. They’re drinking a really bad beer.

I’m like, get them a real beer. Sometimes they’ll want me to do a shot with them and they’ll ask for kamikaze. I don’t want to do something sugary. If I’m doing a shot, I want to feel it. Let’s take a look at what’s happening at the various comedy festivals today.

Let’s start with Nashville, which I bookmarked. Good Job John five o’clock, Eddie B. Teacher’s Only Comedy Tour five thirty, Jeames Gregory eight thirty, Josh Wolf’s Extravaganza Bonanza. That’s it, m all right? If you and I are there in Nashville, we’re hanging and we’ll go see Josh Wolf at eight thirty, and then we’ll go hang some more.

Moon Tower, What you got? One show only, Samantha B Seven o’clock. If we were in Austin, guess we’re doing and that Melbourne? What do you got? The Age reviewed to Claire Hooper’s Sweet Charity and said when soft plastic recycling systems collapse, how many folks breathe a sigh of relief?

Picking up the scabs of parental and existential anxiety? She asked, if it’s really gonna make you feel better if you graciously pay for forty five dollars of someone else’s chicken nuggets while stuck in a drive through que when all you want is a coffee. Is generosity to humanity and our future. Foolish sounds like a slog, but the chuckles keep coming, and Hooper leaves us with hope three and a half stars. The Age reviewed Lizzie.

Who’s woo who? She’s at Melbourne town Hall? And they said, Lizzie who’s on the cusp of turning forty and she’s feeling fine. Her set is decorated with bright flowers, her outlook of sunny. She likes who she is.

Let’s take a listen. A few years ago, I found out that I was a POC. Yeah, that’s a person of color. Before that, I was just the Asian chick. And before that, people didn’t see color because HR said we didn’t legally have to.

I’m a POC. Yeah. I feel like I’ve joined the FBI or something like I’ve watched a recruitment video online. Do you have at least one parent with colored skin? Will your childhood friends surprised by the smells coming from your home kitchen?

Tell me, are you interested in taking advantage of white guilt? They gave her three stars. How about Anthony Locasio? So the headline I saw from NEOs Cosmos was the Greek Italian comedian storming the nation. I was like, who what?

And then I found out, Oh, in this case, the nation is Australia. Anthony says. The idea that jokes and stories I wrote in my boxer shorts of My Kitchen Counter and Roseberry gets to be heard in multiple cities by hundreds of relative strangers is something that will never not be cool. In my new show, I tell a collection of stories about some of the most morally questionable things I’ve done in my life and juxtaposed that with material about my current loving relationship to raise the question of whether our sins and transgressions preclude us from deserving of He added, I’m currently so cold in Melbourne. I want to vomit, and I’m gonna have to go shopping to rectify it or I won’t survive until May.

Is interesting. Comedy started when he saw Eddie Murphy raw at eleven years old. His other inspirations include American comedians Dave’s Chappelle, Bill Burr, Louis C.K. And Australians Joevatti he’s real good and Carl Baron. Don’t know Carl, but it was George Carlin that made him want to try comedy, said.

The way Carlin was able to infuse social and political commentary into his jokes or vice versa, depending on your perspective, was simply revolutionary. Let’s take a clip. I had to make some edits here. There’s a bunch of f bombs, but you’ll get the gist. But other than speaking the language, is the only element of my cultural background that existed in my life when I was a kid was the big Sunday lunches.

The big rule of thumb in ethnic households, I think is the smaller, the more trivial, the celebration, the bigger than lunch. We have to Christmas, big Asta bigger. One of my cousins Wants cracked the top two hundred and fifty globally ranked FIFA players. We called the neighbors for lunch. It’s the best.

It’s heaven for me. It’s every part of the kitchen is covered by every yellow food you’ve ever seen in your life, waiting to be pillaged by conveyor belts of fat wogs queuing up with paper plates. They’ve got to be paper plates, guys, and not ethnic people. They’ve got to be paper plates because these people are just salivating and sweating so much. Paper plates are the only things enough grip for these to hang onto.

What them making. It’s amazing, it’s it was the time of my life. But I never realized how special, how unique these lunches were to my culture until the first time I ate at my white friend’s house. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan said, comedians are a serious bunch. They’re much more philosophical and introspective, and maybe it’s narcissism, but they’re more thoughtful than one would imagine. For me, I’m always relearning basic truths.

It’s almost embarrassing. I remember a big goal of mine was to appear on Late Night with David Letterman. I want to do that that everything would be solved. So then I remember after performing on Late Show. It was great, but I was like, all right, what do I do now?

And I realized, well, not in a romantic relationship. I shared that with friends and family stuff like that, and that was great, but it was a moment of realization, what’s the important thing? He joked about his comedy saying would stand up. Essentially, I’m complaining about my family, right. But there’s this understanding that if people are complaining about being a parent, that means they’re participating.

If they’re not complaining, either they’re the most well adjusted Buddhists of the world. Or if you’re not affected by this experience of being a parent, then you’re not involved enough. Some of the things I say about being a dad. They’re not earth shattering. The reason work is because they’re universal, and it’s a dismantling of a mids surrounding bearoning and I guess behind it, it’s their whole curmudget thing.

WC. Fields wasn’t really going to eat kids, but it was pretty funny that it was like they should be cooked. I feel guilty saying this. My dad he was very engaging, people really liked him, but he wasn’t incredibly funny. He was a good hang, but he was more unintentionally funny.

And I should also say that’s from my son’s perspective. My kids don’t think I’m funny. Well, I think they think I’m funny. But could he make a career at this certainly not. My father had a joke, why does Jimmy Carter carry around a turkey for spear ports?

That was the joke my dad would tell. And you’re like, are you kidding me? It’s funny. I’ll meet people who know my brother Joe, or know my brother Mitch, and Joe and Mitchell tell these people that they’re funnier than me, and these people will be like, yeah, I know your brother. He says he’s funnier than you.

Jim’s retort, I have more comedy specials than them. Joe Rogan had Mike Veckione on his podcast and Vicky One asked Joe about his techniques were staying common confident before every show? Rogan said, Arenas. One of the things that I do is I have index cards, so I right out before, I’ll get there early and I’ll write like just bullet points of all the sets or the bits, and I’ll put them on cards like this is on this subject, that’s on that subject. I lay them out on a coffee table, and writing them out just cements it all in my head.

It solidifies it in my head, and then it’s just about getting fired up. My set is rock solid. That means I’ve done the clubs and then I went on theaters and start feeling it. You can’t just go up in front of sixteen thousand people not knowing whether or not it’s gonna work. You have to be tuned in and ready to go.

And yeah, you gotta go out there with a lot of energy because you know this person’s like they got an effing babysitter. They bought the tickets a long time ago, and it’s a big deal for them. The Good One Podcast asked Kathleen Madigan if there’s anything she still wants to do. She says, no, that’s such a Kathleen answer, because the weird thing is, if you’re anywhere near my age, we didn’t even know those things were going to exist, so you couldn’t dream of them. What’s HBO?

And it shows up and it’s like, well, I gotta get a special on HBO? But that could have been a goal because it didn’t exist. Serious radio didn’t exist. Netflix didn’t exist, Amazon Prime didn’t exist. Nothing.

It’s all been a winged thing. I think actors could say the ultimate things an Academy award, a SAG Award. We don’t even have any of that. So it’s just like the joy of being and guy, there’s no problems. There’s just happy accidents.

If you just want to tell jokes, and that’s what you care about. You’ve done all the specials that you think you’re done with. Is there anything I’m forgetting about it? I am smiling reading this because I’m thinking about my several times I hung out with Kathleen, And in case you’re curious, she’s exactly who you think she is, like exactly, she really does have that. Yeah, none, nothing’s gonna phase me.

Vibe love her. Hey, Kathleen, you were able to do both Leno and Letterman, which is not of things a lot of comedians did. And she said, yeah, it’s pretty proud of that because my act was just bounce enough that I had stuff weird enough for Letterman but mainstream enough for Leno. The sets were very different. It’s already even picture both in one but even now I could take that hour on Amazon and go, okay, this is what I had to do to be on Leno.

I do all the jokes about my mom and dad because that’s Middle America, and then I’d do the weirder Bigfoot thing for Letterman. She says she’s loving doing theaters. I don’t care. I don’t even want to do an arena. The more I talk about things like this, I think I treat this like a job.

Johnny Corson retired and nobody said, hey, what’s wrong with you. You’d occasionally see him at Wimbledon. He was showing he loved tennis. He’d seem as a fan. He did what normal Midwest people do when they’re sixty five they retire.

I’m good now. Who made me think about it? Because I haven’t thought about is there anything left? No, because the place is that I want to go. I can go on my own.

I don’t need to book a show there. Love her. The Daily Cardinals spoke to Drew Lynch. Ay Drew Lynch, how do you feel about hecklers? Drew Lynch said, I don’t discourage or encourage anything during shows within certain limitations.

On both ends, I love if there’s a show that feels specific to that audience. So if there’s something that happens unprompted, I love to play with that as long as it’s good fun and it’s not malicious. I love that the audience can leave feeling like, ah, that was something unique, it was specific to our show that can’t be recreated. On the other hand, if someone does call out on and becomes so much of a distraction and it becomes clear that in the show the other people are not having a good time because of it, that’s where I have to kind of step in and draw the line. Some people love interactive components to show because that’s the advantage of going to see a live comedy show.

But At the same time, there’s some people who just want to hear the performer. A certain joke is monopolized by one audience member, then it’s up to the performer to try to mitigate that. Something I had to develop because I used to think a lot of people would be heckling me out of a hurtful place. I used to get heckled because of my speech and people feeling impatient. So it was a defense mechanism that is shaped into a tool that allowed me to funnel little bits and spontaneous moments into my comedy.

Something happening from nothing is one of the most beautiful moments in a stand up show. Amen, as long as it’s on the performer’s terms and it’s not becoming so disruptive that other people aren’t enjoying themselves. One way you could support the show become a premium subscriber on Apple podcast click on that purple app that says podcasts on your phone in their search out Daily Comedy News, and they’ll be like, hey, premium subscription. You’re gonna click it, and then you’re gonna go yeah, and then what’s gonna happen? I got to warn yet, I don’t want you to be mad at me a month from now, they’ll charge you five dollars a month.

That’s what being a premium subscriber is. So what do I get for that? Johnny Mac? You got the episodes early. For example this Saturday episode, you could add Friday morning.

Any episodes are ad free. So premium subscriptions and Apple Podcast five bucks a month. First month is free if you want to test drive it. Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Mark Watson’s show was called Search. He’s at Melbourne Town Hall till April twenty third.

The age reviewed and said with a foul beginning, Mark Watson delivers the audience four lies in a single truth to detect, dressing up as a gigantic plastic phallic thing, speaking multiple languages, sleeping with an Australian, a lister, etc. He leaves the stage and returns two minutes later and leaps in with show and slowly dissects the fiction that sounds fun. He details the repercussions of his failed marriage, the bewilderment of his teenage son’s first Google searches since acquiring a smartphone, and zoom meetings with teachers gone awry. A side note this is not a show you want to be laid for. Apparently some people were late and he gave it to them.

They wrote nothing groundbreaking but thoroughly enjoyable. Four stars. Let’s see who’s playing on Sunday. Wow, for all my complaining about this website, it loaded in like one second. Today Gerard McGowan show is called The Hardest Way to Make an Easy living.

This is a show about construction, trauma, demolishing and rebuilding yourself.

All right, let’s listen.

I have a new comedy ten years. This is how good it’s going. I don’t have a bed frame. What’s up? Okay, here we go, Look I go.

Oh, I didn’t know his marriage was trying to get a high five Jesus Christ the wife pipe and then he’s married. He’s married. Don’t hi five him even on a Friday and night. Well check this out, No it wouldn’t. I’m gonna do the joke now, if that’s all right, missus high five wife?

That okay? Thanks? Yeah? Oh yes, it’s not all fun and games. No bed frames caused me a few issues lately.

Not gonna lie. I was. I was on a date with the girl recently, going pretty good, right, going pretty good. She ended up coming home to Cassadel mcgogan and then getting there she walked into my bedroom, saw it another bedframe and just went, I’m sorry, but I can’t do this and left. Don’t like Chase.

After I was like, heyy hey, hey, hey, hey hey, can I go with you? I don’t want to be here either. He’s fine, very charismatic. I had to scope out some CrowdWork there that we had some f bombs in it, but good clip there. Whois Gornham’s show was called It Hit a Pigeon with his bike.

Let show about interactions with strangers, serendipitous moments, and the different ways we show each other who we are. Let’s listen. I love having a dog. My favorite thing about having a dog is walking her to the park. That’s my favorite activity in the world.

I love walking my dog to the park so much as long as I don’t have to speak to any other humans at the park. I hate that I reckon. Nothing illustrates the awkwardness that human consciousness has created better than the difference between dog to dog interaction and human to human interaction. Because the dogs, they can straight away you’re a dog on the dog. Let’s have a wrestle while the humans.

You start off by asking each other how old your dogs are, and people are very specific about that. Four years seven months, which is weird. Lots of difference between a four year old dog and an eight year old dog. Like I reckon dogs, I only have three ages. Really Poppy, not a poppy anymore Gonna Dawson.

Other than that, he’s fun, very charismatic. I would like to see more from him. All right. Closer to home, the Moontower Festival continues in Austin. Let’s see who’s playing on Saturday night and we’ll play the Hey, if you and I were there, what would we go?

See? Game? All right? At seven o’clock. Our options Seth Meyers headliner, event, Chad and j T, Jared Freed at seven thirty.

Let’s see then at nine thirty, Seth Meyers again, Randy Field face, Jared Freed at ten. Okay, pretty easy for me to pick there. Seth Meyers early, Randy Field face at nine thirty. Let’s do. 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. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat. No, all right, Hi, I’m Johnny Mack, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue.

Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh, by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five Good News Stories, a nice easy way to start your morning. Five Good News Stories the number five Good News Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Shark deck busy one again. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yesterday I did the whole thing with Is the chat che pet actually funnier than the late night writers? Let’s take another look of that, the chatbot said, Joe Biden is planning to visit his ancestral at home while in Ireland. He’s open to find some long lost relatives, but if he doesn’t, he’s prepared to start hugging random strangers and calling them cousin.

That’s really good there, chatbot Colbert. The trip is part diplomacy and part homecoming because Biden’s ancestors came to the US from Ireland the mid eighteen hundreds when Biden was just a teen.

Also a great joke, chatbot, Hey, I heard that Biden is planning to visit a Pu…

He’s open to try some traditional Irish food like fish and chips, or a play the Lucky charm cereal. Not bad. One more from the chatbot. I don’t know why it went here with this ice cream joke, but I kind of like it, chatbot. Biden is known for his love of ice cream, and he’s already scoped out the best places to get a cone in Ireland.

Okay, interesting premise. He’s even hoping to convince some local shops to start selling his favorite flavor, Rocky Road to the White House. See these these are good writers Guild. You might want to actually be worried all right, Hank Azaria has apologized to Horry Kondabolu. You may recall that Hurry put out a documentary called The Problem with Apoo.

In it, Knabolu argued that the Simpsons character Apoo had been harmful to South Asians in the West, citing Apoo’s outsized cultural footprint and im media landscape that otherwise featured a lack of Salthasian representation. Let’s hear from Hank Gazaria. Hi, I’m actor Hank Zaria. You might know me from my television show Brockmeyer, or from many TV and film roles over the years, and of course the voices that I do on the Simpsons TV show, like Moti Bartender. Please Chief Wagon, I’m here to day though, to urge you, please watch Hurry Kndibola’s new stand up comedy special called Vacation Baby on YouTube.

It’s honestly one of the greatest pieces of stand up but I have ever seen in my life. It’s filled with so many hilarious and poignant anecdotes about what it’s like to have a child during a global pandemic, and just the kind of thoughtful and biting social commentary that will come to love Forlory. So please do yourself a favor. I watch Vacation Baby on YouTube for free. Thank you.

You nailed it. That’s exactly what I wanted. Thank you. I pretty much had to do that. I didn’t absolutely no choice, not really no, okay, fair enough, Vacation Baby on YouTube.

Really looking forward to seen it. Horry. Condubulus special is out on Tuesday. I have seen it. Remember recently I hinted that I had seen a special and it was I think I haven’t.

Let me check fifth the best of the year. Yes, I have it at five. I have seen this one. It’s out Tuesday on YouTube. It’s really really good.

So my current listings number one Kyle Canaan two Nate Berghatsy three, Jay McBride for Jim Jeffreys five, Hurry, Condubuloo six Chris Rock So don’t look at me putting it fifth and being like, oh no, it’s ahead of Chris Rock’s Big Deal special. Okay. Number seven, of course is the Roast of mister Peanut. I know you think I’m all insane. Go on YouTube type in Roast of Mister Peanut and watch the long form version of it.

It’s pretty good. We should have a big week of Gossip Corner coming up. Pete Davidson is going to host Saturday Night Live on May sixth. That same week, he’s expected to attend the met Gala, and he’ll also have his Peacocks show Buck GISs Out on May fourth, So around that first week of May should be a lot of Pete Davidson, which is always great for Gossip Corner and cross promo. That’s also the week of the King’s Coronation, so it will be a big week for Palace Intrigue.

That’s the daily podcast on the Rady four about the British royal family. Now, weather, gods, could you make it rain a lot that week because this week here it’s in the high eighties in northern New Jersey in April and all I want to do is sit outside and not record podcasts in my basement. So a week of May first, if you could make the weather like really awful so I can get all this work done. That would be great. Spa of Nate Brigatti.

Two minutes ago, he is headlining the Nashville Comedy Festival kicks off. Nate’s playing Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. That’s the Hockey Areno for by the cool bars, downtown, cool place. This show’s called up from Old Hickory to Broadway, Nate told the Tennessee and whenever I let myself daydream about success, it was playing Bridgestone. Back in two thousand two, Nate enrolled in classes at the Second City.

After an eight week course, he traded improv for stand up, tacking a comedy class, and performing an open mics in Chicago for the next two years. He moved to New York in two thousand and four, partly inspired by Jerry Seinfeld’s two thousand and two documentary Comedian. He and the family moved to la in twenty twelve, but two years later they very very quietly moved back to Nashville. Nate kept it a secret from everyone in the business. He said, my biggest fear was they’re gonna think I quit, So I didn’t say anything when I travel to LA my manager knew, but I didn’t want somebody to not meet with me because I didn’t live there.

In twenty seventeen, Netflix launched a series called The stand Ups. Each episode featured a thirty minute said from a different comedian. Nate was on the first episode. At his next gig the following week, he said, I remember I did some jokes and they didn’t hit as much as they usually do. The reason the audience hadn’t heard them.

Nate said, I was like, wait, are you all here like because of me? And they’re like yeah. He said, it was the first sign of panic. We’re like, oh, I gotta write new material. People are coming.

Nate met a caddy at the Pebble Beach pro am and the guy said he’s been to twenty shows. You write an hour for the tour and then you kind of change it up. You don’t change every show. When the new tour started this year, I had people fly to Jonesboro, Arkansas to watch the beginning of the tour, and you know, I was having a great day.

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And then Nate had to throw this in.

He takes a queue in his career from Adam Sandler. Yeah, Adam Sandler invited Nate backstage at a Sandler show. Nate said, I’m a giant, giant fan of what Adam Sandler does. I want to create the world he created with his movies. No, don’t do that, Nate.

No, Nate Brigatsy and Jack and Jill. No no, no, no, no no no no no no no no no. I want to create the world he created with his movies. That’s what we’re trying to do with Nateland. He’s a huge inspiration to me.

No no, don’t go the Adam Sandler out, because then you’ll ruin Dusty Slay. He’ll be your Rob Schneider and you guys will do garbage movies. No, no, no, don’t do that. The Nashville Comedy Festival does kick off. The lineup includes Ricky Smiley, Carlos Miller, David Spade, and twenty six other acts from around the country.

Carlos Miller said, every time I come to Nashville, I feel like I’m visiting family. The music, the food, the people all love this city. I’ve never met a stranger in Nashville. Everybody shows so much love. It is a Greek ten.

If you’ve never been in Nashville. You should go. Why don’t you get on a plane right now, hit some hit the comedy festival. Go do it, Miller said, man I got my picture up on the wall at Zany’s. I love going back there every few months at seeing who and what they’ve added that place.

All right, So Nates at Bridgetown tomorrow, Carlos Miller’s at the War Memorial Auditorium tomorrow, Jason Banks at Zany’s Tonight’s, and tomorrow Little Sasquatch at Zany’s. Then I guess we can talk about the rest on Sunday? Did you already record Saturday’s episode? Chenny Mack? Is that while you’re slipping the Saturday nights in?

Maybe you tell me? I promised you, just for laughs, would announce some things and announce some things. They did. Comedian Ali Wong, she’s having a moment. Jonathan van Ness and Anthony Chelsea Nick.

Those are the first three names announced just for laughs. It’s July fourteenth through the twenty ninth. If you’re in the northeast and you can get to Montreal pretty easily. It’s a seven hour drive from northern New Jersey, not too bad from New York City. Boston not too bad.

Cleveland. If you’re in Cleveland, I don’t know how long it is from Cleveland and Montreal, but you should go and go the second week. And if you’ve got to pick shows, I’m telling you go see New Faces one and New Faces two, back to back shows, same theater. You gotta pay for an entrance twice. It’s not a lot of money, but that’s a great thing to do.

And then while you’re up there, if you’re not as deep into the comedy world to say I am, go see some of the bigger names. But the Montreal Comedy Festival is great. In the daytime. You can hang out up at Mount Royal. Give you oldtown look.

If you want to hear about Montreal. My other podcast is called Travel Is Back, and the Montreal episodes are actually the most popular episodes. There’s probably four of them altogether, So Travel is Back is that podcast. If you want to hear me go on about Montreal. But you should go go the second week and go see Faces.

Some other names, Daniel Slas Mexican stand up comic, Carlos Baiarda and Tom Poppa will be there. Ali Wong show will be joined by special guest Shang Wang. He of course had the best comedy special of twenty twenty two. That’s a good show. Why don’t you come up to Montreal and hit Ali and Shang and maybe hang out with me.

We can have a beverage. Come on, let’s do it. The host of the Galas and time out, I noticed yesterday when doing Melbourne stuff, the Australians say gala. John from Queens says gala. But anytime I’m involved with the Montreal Comedy Festival they always say gala, which is correct.

Let’s see. I have found a website dictionary dot Cambridge dot org slash US slash pronunciation, and it says how to pronounce gala nown in British English and how to pronounce gala nown in American English. Should we listen, Let’s figure this out. Gala. There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet’s Gala Night Gala the American Ballet Theaters Spring Gala raises money for community outreach programs.

Okay, two points here point number one for somebody who wants to sit outside because it’s in the high eighties today. I’m doing a terrible job of hitting in a short podcast like stop going off on distractions, Johnny Mack, you’re just costing yourself editing time later point number two. All right, somebody out there, if you’re from Canada, hit me up contacts. In the show notes, the Canadians say Gala Why just for laughs? Announced as Gala host comedy star Russell Peters.

He’ll EMC four shows. Another Gala host, Jack Whitehall. The Nasty Show will feature performances by Donnel Rawling Steptlev and adrian Ia Pallucci Keeping eyeing Her She’s Fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda Cool Club will have Alonzo Boden, Jean Marcos Serresi, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasai. Sounds great.

Absolutely do Montreal if you can. Jenny Zigrino’s album is out today. Yes, an album, an actual album. It’s called jen z Love the title, Jenny told Rebellious magazine. And I’m not going to sit around and wait for people to find me and big me do a special.

I’m just gonna do it myself. Obviously, you don’t do it yourself, you do it with the help of a lot of people. In August of twenty twenty one, I contacted my friend Whoe’s a production company in New York. I was like, let’s make a special By November of twenty one, it was funded gen Z, g E, N dash Z, and Gage. She didn’t get the joke, has funny takes on baby boomers, gen Z and everyone in between.

Zagreino, herself a millennial, thinks gen Z maybe a little different than previous generations and that’s a good thing, she says. I think they’re gonna be a little weirder because we had two years inside. They’re just gonna be a little weird, and that’s okay. I feel like gen Z are gonna be the ones that are really going to change things. The millennials were like the tester group.

Let’s test it out, see how it goes, and then it gets refined by gen Z. My hope is they can stand up to what’s happening again. Fellow gen xers were like the middle child. Everybody talks about the boomers, and then the millennials came in and like just were like, didn’t want to work on Saturday. Those guys gen Z, I don’t know what they’re up to.

They’re on TikTok all day. Nobody talks about gen x Zagreino has a take on Steve Bashimmy, and she said, first of all, Steve Bishemy’s not ugly. He can totally get it. He’s diverse in his acting. He’s talented.

Who else went back now one, citing the fact that Bishemy, previously New York City firefighter, rushed to the scene on September eleventh. He’s a great actor and he sounds like a really stand up dude. He has a very normal life. He’s in it because he loves the art. If you enjoy what I do here.

Became a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Open up that Purple podcast app. They’ll be like, hey, premium subscriber deal and you go, yeah, all right, fine, I’m tired of John talking about it every day. Five bucks a month. You get the episodes ad free and early.

You could have had this one on Thursday afternoon. You could have been sitting in your backyard and joining the sunny, eighty something degree day. I’m gonna be like, hey, Friday’s podcast is pretty good. I feel a lad here. Those other people how to wait till Friday morning three oh five am Eastern time and look at me roll in large premium subscriptions on Apple podcasts.

Hey, my former co worker Jamie FOXX apparently had a little medical thing. His daughter Krinn released a statement on Instagram saying, Jamie on Tuesday had a quote medical complication. We wanted to share that my father, Jamie fox experienced the medical complication. Luckily, due to quick action and great care, He’s right down his way to recovery. We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers.

The family asked for privacy during this time. Leanne Morgan special I’m every Woman is out on Netflix. I have not yet seen it, but Decider did and they said, we’ve seen rural TV families who make nice like the Waltons, and hillbillies who make mayhem like Mama’s family. The Morgans seem like they might be somewhere in the middle, all thanks to their mom as the central figure and creator of disruption. She says.

Her mom and other relatives also dexetrim dietary supplements. When Leanne was only seventeen. She said, it was speed. We took speed as a family. Should you watch it?

Decider says, if you’re looking for funny, family friendly stories about having to put up with a spouse and children, or if you’re a woman seeking some inspiration about how to age with grace and humor, then definitely all caps stream. It’s this next comedy show. I might have to check out myself personally. Get out of the basement, because I want to make sure you have the best coverage of The Naked Benefit Comedy Show joined New York City’s best comedians as they stripped down for a great cause. Each comedian we’ll perform their hilarious ten minute set naked.

Proceeds from the Naked Comedy Benefit Show will benefit a word winning nonprofit organization, Broadway Sings for Pride. So if you want to see them naked, this is your chance today.

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All right, let’s take a look at the festivals.

I want to go outside. It’s so nice out, all right, Friday at the Moon Tower Comedy Festival. Seven o’clock Vier DAWs seven o’clock Randy Felt Face seven thirty, Jared Freed eight o’clock, Perfect Cult, nine thirty Jay Farrow ten o’clock Jared Freed again, ten thirty Perfect Cults. All right, if I remember correctly, we’ve seen Jared Freed and Perfect Cult already. Have we gotten a Randy felt face.

Maybe we did that the first night. I know I wanted to see Vier DAWs. I think we’ve seen everybody. Should we just drink. We haven’t seen Jay Faro yet.

All right, we’ll drink and then we’ll do jayfarre at nine thirty.

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Now let’s do Saturday.

Some people might think John recorded Saturday’s podcast earlier the week and kind of forgot to do the moon Tower segment. I’m not sure that that’s true, but you know, just for your naysayers, Saturday’s event, Seth Myers is your headliner at seven o’clock, Chad and Jat at seven, Jared Freed again, seven thirty, Joe Firestone eight o’clock, Seth at nine thirty Randy felt Face, Jared Freed, Joe Firestone. Okay, so we should probably go see h Jadd and Shade’s he It’s seven and Seth Meyers late. How does that sound. Let’s take a look at Melbourne.

Nick Schuller’s show is called Firebrand. In twenty nineteen, the Schuller family home burned down in the black summer bush fires. Like all good comedians, Nick has monetized his trauma turned his family’s tragedy into an hour of light entertainment.

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All right, let’s listen.

Enjoyed watching the lockdown protests. Don’t really understand why people were getting angry about the protests. It’s one of the few times we get to witness natural selection occurring in real time. No other time does the shallow end of the Jane pool congregating a single location to wipe itself out. There were lockdown protests in Queensland despite Queensland not being in lockdown, which begs the question can you complain about oppression while not being oppressed?

The answer to which is yes. That’s Sky News is business model. In the Queensland protests, a man rode a horse across the Queensland New South Wales border. The news story had a video of the man riding a horse across the border. Then the story said man allegedly rides horse across border.

I was like, all reckon, he did it, all right? I don’t pick these clips. These are the clips on the Milburn site. There’s also some Claptor in there. In case you caught it, Nick Schiller, I’m I’m sorry you didn’t really enjoy that awkward to in the podcast.

Now, John, you just say goodbye, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. I heard tomorrow is a ready record it, so come back. This seems to be an episode for tomorrow. See then, Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat?

No? All right? Hi. I’m Johnny Mack, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue.

Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles, or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five Good News Stories. Nice easy way to start your morning.

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The Shark Deck Johnny meg who with your Daily Comedy News A busy day again? Did you say the writers might go on strike out in Hollywood? Yahoo has an interesting piece with an anonymous member of the Writer’s Guild. The topic here Late night and I thought it was interesting. Yahoo quotes w G A anonymous as saying, there’s a lot of uneasiness in general.

People aren’t sure of what’s going to happen in this negotiation. You combine that with the shifting quote unquote Late night world. That’s harder to define these days because almost nobody watches Late Night Live. It’s become a different thing, the uneasiness of this business and economy, and there’s more writers than ever looking for a finite amount of jobs, so of course becomes stuff or to find work. Anonymous continues, Late night ratings have been dwindling by the day, and for a decade, late night shows have been writing and producing for an eventual online audience, stuff that will be consume the next day and beyond.

Whether it’s carpool karaoke or foul in playing toy instruments to a pop song, it’s all either on youtubeer social media. Most of that stuff is put out as promotional, so we never see a residual that has a lot to do with what’s going on this negotiation. There’s a general changing of what the comedy and variety definition is. We all have stories. You get the residual check for four cents or something like that.

I got to check the other day for twenty nine cents, two payments, three cents and twenty six cents. It would take me months to track down where that came from. It’s just so hard to find out what you’re even being paid for. If you get five hundred bucks in the mail, you just put it in the bank. You’re not going to spend two weeks trying to figure out where it came from.

It’s hard for writers to keep up with what their actual contract says, and I think that’s by designed by the powers that be. This negotiation it’ll reveal a lot. There’s so much transition going on the studios they’re investors the bottom line, and then the way they view the future of quote unquote content and whether they value writers or if they think they can move on with fewer writers and use artificial intelligence to write scripts. All right, So I’m going to jump in there because that intrigued me, and what it inspired me to do is look at some actual late night jokes, which again will have been hold much better by the professional late night host than they will buy some idiot and his basement. So I took the actual jokes and I had the chat CHEPT write some jokes the topic.

President Biden ending the COVID emergency. Okay, you tell me my performance aside, if the chat GPT jokes aren’t as good as the late night jokes, I’m serious here, ready, chat GBT. In a bold move, President Biden has declared an end to the COVID emergency. It’s like when your mom announces the end of dinner but you’re still not done eating. We’re all like, wait, are you sure it’s over all right, Colbert, I’m not sure what it means for health, but it means that we can finally get back to some of our favorite pre pandemic elite show segments like Subway Blind Taste Test.

Chat GBT, Biden says, the COVID emergency is over, which means we can finally go back to our normal lives, you know, like arguing with relatives at Thanksgiving and pretending to enjoy the small talk at the office. Jimmy Kimmel, The end of the COVID era is surprisingly kind of bitter sweet. This morning I did something. I wiped down my groceries just for old times sake. I actually bought a bottle of purel and wiped it down with pul CHATCHBT.

Joe Biden has declared into the COVID emergency, which means we can finally see each other’s faces again, unless you’re holding it on that pandemic beard, which case it’s time for that to go. I think the chat GBT jokes were better. Hannah Gatsby, She’s got a new special coming out. This one is titled Someone Special, was taped at the Sydney Opera House. It features Hannah Gatsby discussing their twenty twenty one wedding to their producer, Jinny Shamash, More than one traumatic encounter with a Bunny and more Someone Special Netflix, May ninth.

No trailer yet, but hopefully they will do it to ton of press and the press will say the words schappell to them and we can stir that up again. That’s always fun. And people over at Hannah Gasby Inc. Are not coordinating because before I saw that they announced the special. I had this story for you.

This from ARTnews dot com. You’re home for art news. Hannah Gatsby is organizing an exhibition about Pablo Picasso for the Brooklyn Museum. It’ll open this summer. The title It’s Pablo Matic Picasso.

According to Hannah Gasby, it’ll feature nearly one hundred works, many of them done by women artists. It’s description promises a look at Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary and feminist lens, even as it acknowledges his works transformative power and lasting influence. The Guardian ran an article last week asking if we should cancel Pablo Picasso. I don’t want to bog down on that. Just google cancel Pablo Picasso.

Educate yourself. In that article, one of the co curators of the Brooklyn Museum show said, Hannah Gasby says, there’s a lot that’s easy to hate about Picasso. But if the goal was to cancel Picasso, we wouldn’t be doing this show and Hannah wouldn’t be participating. I got an email from JFL Montreal. It said, we’re excited to reveal the first wave of comedians on April thirteenth.

So I guess we know what tomorrow’s podcast will be. I’m recording this on the twelfth. I don’t live in the future. I don’t have the information yet tell you about that tomorrow. Just for last Montreal, you should go.

We could have a beer.

Meanwhile, the lineup for the Calgary Great Outdoors how Many Festival has an…

He’ll be the headliner on Friday, August twenty fifth. He joins previously announced Saturday headliner at Jonathan van Ness of Queer Eye fame, and Sunday Andrew Schultz is your headliner. There’s a mix. Let’s see. I’m getting along here.

I have to bump the stories. Should I bump Sam Morrell or Jay Farrow? They’re both good. Let’s see. I know I’ve got some Sam next week.

Let’s bump Jay Farrow. Sorry, Jay Forbes s Sam Morrell, Hey, what was your first drink? Sam said? Probably wine. The good thing about being a New Yorkers when you first start drinking, it’s either house parties, where the real first move is to go to a Chinese restaurant because they don’t care what age you are.

Again, my information may be very different. But that’s not really how we started. Back in the eighties, you’d go to the bar. They didn’t prove so much, but who knows. It’s a new century.

Things may have changed. What was your first drink of choice? Sam, He said, I definitely liked whiskey early on. That’s aggressive, buddy, because I felt that’s what you should drink as a man. That’s what Bogard drag, and that’s what they drank at the Old West.

They’re not ordering two spritters in a John Wayne movie. All right, Sam, why just start your own whiskey bodega cat? And he said, Mark Norman and I have a podcast called We Might Be Drunk, And it quickly became evident that whiskey was our drink. All these celebrities of their own alcohols, and I was like, why can’t we do it. I put it out there on the podcast.

We got so many emails. We just went with who felt the most legit. Forbes asked him to explain for people not from New York what a bodiga cat is. Sam said, late at night, you go to the bodega, maybe you’ve had a few drinks and you’re looking for a snack. That is exactly why you’re in the bodega.

That’s it. That’s why you’re there. And a little cat we’ll pop out of nowhere. You just pet the cat. It’s this weird bonding moment.

You’re always happy to see a bodega cat. That’s how we want people to feel about our whiskey. It is some cross promo here for Palace Intrigue. That’s the show on the writer on we talking about the British royal family to see yesterday Harry finally said he’s going to go to the coronation. Megan Markel’s not going.

This is good for Palace Intrigue. It’s like an ongoing soap opera that’s this week’s storyline, controversies, whatever. So if you want to keep up on all that Palace Intrigue, if you get your podcast. I did wind up watching Jury Duty like I promised. I liked it a lot, watched all four available episodes.

Is it hilarious no? Is it entertaining? Yes? Is it addicting yes? First episode I was like, all right, this is pretty good.

It’s basically office doing jury duty. But once it got rolling, I was like, I’m hooked. I love these characters, the acting is so good. Perfect show. Watch Jury Duty.

It’s on free V. Nobody knows what that is, just so open up Amazon Prime. They’ll put it under your nose. You’ve got to sit through like ninety seconds of commercials. It wasn’t too bad.

I just picked up my phone and played on Twitter and before I knew what the break was over Jury Duty. Strong recommend watch it. I’m not going to watch it weekly because the episodes go by so quickly, so like, I don’t want to sit down Friday night and watch twenty minutes and be like, oh, I want more. So I’m gonna wait until the other four episodes are released and then I’ll watch the rest of it.

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Also, watch some more of Beef on Netflix.

I think I’m up to episode seven now. I hate when shows dropped ten episodes at once. It’s just too much. I liked the weekly cadence of things, so we’re all on the same page. We’re all talking about the same thing.

For example, succession, we’re all up to the same thing. We’re all looking forward to the same thing on Sunday. But these things Netflix, like hey, here’s ten episodes, and things like Netflix. I’m busy man, anyway, I’m on like episode six or seven, really enjoying beef. You know who?

Shut up, Andrew Santino. That’s right, he’s on it. Another show you should watch is on FX or FX on Hulu these days, and that is Dave and the Hollywood Reporter did one of those fluff job pieces with Dave Bird. Dave said, I feel like I’m the comedic voice of my generation. All the reporter rights.

Then he hesitates, realizing how a declaration so seemingly hyperbolic might be interpreted. Dave says, you’ll read it and be like, this guy’s out of his mind, and really, I don’t mean it arrogantly. Dave Bird aka Little Dicky, then tries to describe the difference between confidence and arrogance, and he said, I’m not like, oh, I’m the best effing rapper line or I’m the funniest guy in the world. No, I’m more like, I’m a passenger of this talent. And it’s funny to me that I happen to be born with these skill sets and all I could do is be relentlessly responsible with them.

You go much, really are you serious? Dat? At the same time, he acknowledges there are plenty people who still have no idea who little Dickie, your Dave Bird is. I’m gonna guess, listener, that’s you. Maybe not you, but you know, I don’t think he’s the most famous person.

It’s a really good show. I used to watch it. He’s certainly not so famous that he can’t go and enjoy himself at a bowling alley, which it turns out is where he met Kristin, his girlfriend. So they went bowling, and he announced he’d be bowling a one hundred and thirty game this evening, which seems preposterously exact. On April twenty third, twenty thirteen, writes the Hollyer Reporter, Dave dropped his first single, Ex Boyfriend in less than twenty four hours.

The song and comedic take on the anxiety of learning about a girlfriend’s exceedingly attractive ex boyfriend had racked up more than one million views on YouTube. It was and forever will be the best day of Dave Bird’s life, the day he says, where I realized I am who I always thought I was. By day two, he was doling out interviews with TMZ from his cubical. Within six months, he’d quit his job pursuing music full time. Jeff Schaeffer, who had written for Seinfeld the show, was asked by a friend Attica meeting with Little Dickie.

He said it really have the band with for more work, but sure said yes. Even in early twenty seventeen, Shaefer knew exactly who Little Dickie was. He said, back then the Internet was like seventy percent born, ten percent clickbait, and twenty percent Little Dickie videos. Bird told him he was going to be the biggest entertainer in the history of entertainment. You go much and I’m looking at this guy and he looks like a piece of broccoli had a bar mitzvah, and I’m like, this is hilarious.

It’s like a cartoon level delusion.

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And then I start thinking, like, what a great engine for a TV show, Because w…

They’d go pitch the show. Dave Bird would go in and start talking about how he’d always wanted to be a big comedy star, but then he’d started rapping and realized he was a gifted rapper. He would literally say, it’s like if Batman all of a sudden realized he was also a superman and would He’d say it, that’ll look at me and I’d go yeah, HBO heard the pitch, so did Hulu Netflix Comedy Sexual. The fxu’d said very quickly, your radar goes up and you’re like, oh, this guy’s interesting. They got a note though, the show shouldn’t start on the day Little Dickie releases his viral video.

The suit said, Argin’s stories a sort of boring because we know what’s going to happen, so we moved it six weeks later because six weeks later, you’re just a guy who had a viral video six weeks ago, and you’re not legitimate, You’re not anything. It’s a much more interesting place to start watch Dave. It’s a good show, all right. Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wow, the website is loading much more quickly today and they change the way that it looks fascinating.

Maybe they’ve been listening to my podcast. Greg Larson show is called slurps Up. There’s a picture of him with a dog. That’s what got me to click on you, glig Larson. It’s a nominee for twenty twenty two is Melbourne International Comedy Festival for Most Outstanding Show.

Jordan said, not a pedophile. All right, I’m intrigued. I’m glad you’re not a pedophile. Let’s take a listen. I am a dad.

I am a dad, and I think when you become a dad, dad’s all look alike. You know, father’s, dad’s we all look the same. You can tell a dad from behind, just the sort of broken down man and you look at him and you’re like, there’s a man who’s had a gatful. You know, you can just tell. We’ve all had a gatful.

We’ve all had it up to here, Jason. You know it’s you can just tell by look. That’s what dads are so conservative. I think dads are often very conservative. They’re always voting conservative.

You know the lockout laws in Sydney. That’s a perfect example of a dad being in charge. That’s a dad who’s just gonna watch all this noise blared in my ears. I can’t earn myself fake. That’s it, na lights out the lotty is no days are beg Sydney.

No, No, I’m more knocking about and go to bed. I’m trying to watch the bill. All right, he’s Greg Lawson. That was a lot of fun. I had to clip out a couple f words in there, but I enjoyed him.

When I click on these, It’s the first time I’m hearing any of these people, so I’m reacting as you are. I hope it’s as much fun for you as I am.

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All Right, here’s Gay Montgomery.

My brain is blowing me crazy. Interesting title. Holy here. Thank you. If you like the way I walk, wait till you hear these jokes back home.

There’s just a normal walk. I got here today. I flew on a plane. They offered fish. It was fish for lunch, but I couldn’t.

I couldn’t have it, so no, me just felt so respectful about having fish in the sky. It’s too far out of their element, not having a bit of chicken under the water. So I had to eat at my accommodation because I had to do a test, and I just had to make food with what was in the place. And they had oats, you know oats, Yeah, they had them, and also molk. Then they’re beef milk.

But let’s okay, I need but so here I am making my lunch and I’m pouring my oat milk on my oats, and I’m looking down. I think there’s actually something really, I’m settling about what’s going on here covering these little oats in their own blood. Wow. I loved him, wasn’t he great? Guy Montgomery?

And let’s take a look at moontower here on Thursday six o’clock, ten on ten with er Das seven o’clock, Jenny Slate seven o’clock, Jay Farrow, whose story got bumped from today’s Daily Comedy News maybe made the wrongest sits in there. Let’s see Jared Freed at eight o’clock. Perfect Cults. I talked about that yesterday at eight thirty. No late shows interesting, all right, So let’s see what could you and I do when go see Vier DAWs at six o’clock do something different in and if we saw a perfect cult yesterday, I guess we’re going to see Jared Freed at eight o’clock at cap City and then we’ll do a late dinner and grab some bruise.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Al Jaffey passed away. You know him from Mad Magazine’s fold ins. He was one hundred and two from his New York Times oh Bit. It was in nineteen sixty four that Al Jaffey created the Mad fold in and illustrated with Tech’s feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first glance to deliver a straightforward message.

When the page was folded in thirds, both the illustration and texts were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal leaning or authority defining message. The first fold in April nineteen sixty four, issue eighty six, that one mocked Elizabeth Taylor’s marital record unfolded, you saw Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton. When you folded it in, she had traded in Burton for another guy. In nineteen ninety three, Jaffey told The k C Star it was supposed to be a one shot, but because of the overwhelming demand of three or four of my relatives, it went on to a second time, and on and on. Here’s a good listen for you.

Tim Dillon’s podcast with Bert Kreisher. It’s like two hours long, and they really got into the business of comedy. A very interesting discussion. Serious. I don’t mean like serious with a capitalist, but they were talking about the business of comedy.

Really. I couldn’t get enough of it, and for a two hour listen, it went by really quickly. Now I’m going to share here. They made fun of Joe Rogan and I pulled the clip. I’ve cut the clip down a little bit for pacing, but I thought this was kind of funny.

I remember watching Joe and going, I’m in there’s so much meat left on that bone. Yeah, I mean with all the all the things he does, and look, Joe wants privacy and he’s a bad example. But I remember going, if I was Joe, if I could have that outreach, I’ll tell you what I do if you had like his level of power. First of all, i’d be I’d been doing more movies. Well, he’s got a bunch of jobs, right, he’s got the UFC, he’s dad, he’s a comedian, he does the podcast.

So but but it’s for sure there’s maybe more. Yeah, I would do he could do. He is lazy. I think Joe he’s a little lazy. I think that’s kind of what we’re getting at.

I think what we’re getting at is Rogan’s kind of like a little bit lazy. Is that where we’re going? I think he is. I mean I think he is. You look what it is, Okay, work out more.

What does he do? Talk someone for three hours? That’s it, I know, and then smoke, sweed and drinks and this whole spending time with my family. I’m not buying it enough. I asked him his daughter’s name the other day and he stumbled, the world should know their name.

Yeah, they should be monetized some of the topics. Bert Craisher’s advice for his opener, He said, stop opening for me. It’s the worst thing you can do. But here’s why for It said. The thing is, you don’t ever want to be viewed as someone’s opener, so you say to them, stop opening for me.

One guy, I thought I had to. He needs to do his own thing because people are seeing him as my guy. Because you go out to clubs and people don’t respect you. They go, oh, he’s only dot dot dot because of dot dot dot or it said. His last opener is Marcello Hernandez who’s now On Saturday Night Live more career stuff, Tim Millan said, he can go out now and make your career what you wanted to be.

There’s nobody really holding anybody back anywhere. There’s no gatekeepers. That energy has got to go away, like all that energy, and any bitterness or any resentment or any anger that you have can’t be justified or rational right now in this moment in the world. You can be resentful of the government. You can be resentful at your parents.

I’m resentful at both of those, but you can’t be resentful on anyone in this business. So I remember if somebody would get the Montreal Comedy Festival and I wouldn’t get it, and I had a great audition, I’d sit there and I’d be outside a New York comedy club or whatever, smoking a cigarette, New York City, and I’d be like, m effort, but it is what it is. Bert Craisier said, I remember being resentful for people that didn’t even know existed, and I’d be like, I hate you. I hate these people for not knowing, and then I’d run to them. I’d be like, hey, what’s up, and they’d be like, Hi, I’ve never met you before, and I’d be like, oh, for real, right, but you didn’t get my submission tape.

I’d do submission tapes, so I’d put cool music on the front that I felt the guy would like. Bert said, my stand up was so bad when I was young. It’s the other thing I would say, I got really lucky. This is a big statement. This could get me in trouble.

What’s happening now with comedy is what happened with hot chicks in comedy. So hot chicks in comedy they get scooped up the second they step on the scene. If you’re beautiful, you’re in. You’re pretty good, right, even pretty competent, you’re in. You get scooped up.

You get spots, you want, you want a headline, We’ll take your headline. Managers you in, you get in the theaters. Let’s go get you going now. There are some exceptions to this rule. I say, Chelsea Handler is a big exception.

She’s beautiful, and man, when I first saw her, she was a gangster on stage. But I will say that the problem is that a pretty woman sometimes and Eliza is an exception, they get scooped up and they get put in positions they’re maybe not ready for I got lucky. That was just a dude who got to be good or mediocre for a very long time, and then I got pretty good.

And then I got that hot chick moment where they go, hey, you’re ready for som…

I know do this. I’m doing this for twenty two years. That’s what’s gonna happen with comics. They’re gonna get a video that goes big online. Then everyone’s gonna be like, oh, we gotta go see them, and they’re not gonna be ready.

It’s like Last Comics Standing, where guys could do five minutes, ten minutes, and then they blow it. During an hour they blow it. Yeah, I remember it, Last Comics Standing. I remember I would show up at work it’s serious and people are like, hey, did just he’s so and so last night, And I’m like, you understand they pulled a twenty second joke. Anybody can be funny for twenty seconds.

Can you do it for an hour? Can you do it for eight minutes? Can you do it half an hour? Anyway? Tim Dylan and Burke Craish are very very good.

Listen there. I also checked out as promised ots go At Katsa on NPR’s Bullseye, and I couldn’t do it. Man, it was just so NPR has this vibe. The conversation was just like serious. It was like, oh, I have a comedian here, let me do a serious interview there, and there are ways to do it.

Rogan could do it, or Tim Dylan apparently just did it. But this was like, I don’t know, just not fun at all. So I bailed on it and I deleted the Mark Marin one without even listening to it. John Early is getting an HBO special. It’s called Now More Than Ever, a stand up comedy hour and the style of a gritty seventies rockymentary.

It’ll be out in June. No trailer yet. It will feature a stand up and explosive song covers from Brittany to Neil Young, intercut with spinal tap asque backstage sketches. In a statement generally said, I’m so excited to finally come out to the world as the lead singer of my band, John Early in the Lemon Squares. I at the time my life singing some of my favorite songs and sweating my brains out of the taping, and I can’t wait for more people to finally see the sacred show I’ve been doing some version of for the past ten years in New York.

I cannot feel any cooler to have the sport if all comedy legends app Soluteley Productions and for this airing on the Crown Jewel at his HBO Bob Odenkirk, who talked about his heart attack. He spoke to The Independent. He said, I had a strangely upbeat energy in the time after the heart attack. I was chipper and clueless about the enormity of what had happened to me and what other people had felt being around it. It was only over time that what happened slowly sank in My brain was completely hiding this thing for me.

I was trying to make it disappear, and it did. He thinks it changed him for the better. He said, I feel kind of great, like a blank slate, but in a good way. I feel like I’ve cleaned my palette. It made me think about how you spend the time you have in the bottom line is I don’t want my days to be as packed.

I want to be able to enjoy the good things in my life, and I want to enjoy the problems too. When you’re racing around trying to fix things, you don’t enjoy anything. That’s been my life for a little while. I’m trying to cut back on it, and I’m doing a good job. I’m really trying to get some space in my life.

I saw a quick note on offbeat dot com Lewis Black apparently has a special coming out May second, and I was like, did I miss this? Did I erase this from my brain? And I googled Lewis Black Tragically I Need You and the only reference I see to it is from the article I’m quoting. So apparently, according on offbeat dot com, Lewis Black has a highly anticipated stand up special called Lewis Black Tragically I Need You set to release a May second. May second is curious too, because that’s a Monday.

A lot of time specials come out on Tuesday. I don’t know where it’s landing here. Let me google it again. It’s been a couple of hours since I wrote this. Yeah, not really seeing anything.

There’s an IMDb with note details. All Right, we’re gonna go Lewis Black Special. If you enjoy what I do here, one way the sports the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast. So you got a phone there, an iPhone? I want you click on that purple podcast app, or maybe you’re using it right now.

You’re listening to a podcast. Wait, John, that doesn’t make sense. I’m already listening to you. Okay, okay, next time you do it. If you go to Daily Comedy News, they’ll put under your nose.

Hey, premium episode. So you become a premium subscriber for five dollars a month. You’ll get the episodes add free in a little early You could add this one sometime on Tuesday afternoon. Huh, first month’s free five bucks a month, thanks in advance. And you can’t say I haven’t covered Australian comedy lately.

Let’s talk about Anti Donna. Remember those guys. They had a sketch show on Netflix right when the Pandemic starter was pretty good. That’s how I got turned onto them. They’ve got a new show down in Australia.

It’s called Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe. The Guardian reviewed it and the review’s not so good. Sketch comedy trio scramble for laughs and new show Oh The premise of running a Milburne cafe as heaps of potential, But while there’s always trying to be found in the zaniness, this series isn’t their best, down three stars out of five. The Guardian rights Australian comedy troupe Anti Donna’s previous series, Big Old House of Fun, was set in a shared house, providing an easy means to launch various random encounters. Those could come from strangers knocking on the door or the antics of the housemates themselves.

The group’s new showcase of dippy absurdist humor almost literalizes that revolving door of comedic potential. It’s based in a newly opened Milburne cafe, where the three owners endeavor to find a marketable point of difference to distinguished their business from all the others. A video played early in the first episode of Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe reveals what other trendy cafes are doing, from selling vinyl to stocking over one hundred types of cereal. One cafe serves popcorn and plays a movie in front of the customer. The joke is that’s a movie theater.

Another gets you free books for a bit. That joke is that it’s a library. The bumbling entrepreneurs experiment with adding acts throwing to their menu. Customers don’t want to do that. The show begins with sixteen year old employees Stephanie on her first day.

The camera at one point morphing into a first person perspective to show the wacky trio pelting her with wild banter and nonsensical jokes. Three stars out of five rats. The Age has been viewing shows at the International Comedy Festival. Joshua Ladgrove is at town Hall until April twenty third part comedy show, part history, lesson and Philly and homage So the profound love he felt for his ninety seven year old grandmother before her passing, Baba is a sensational hour. Laughs are abundant.

His historial like knowledge of Slavic political warfare and international relationship is immacularly articulated, as is his deep hatred of communism. You’ll evel his stomach, aching of laughs, tears in your eyes, and the urge to call your releves and let them know you’ll love them. Four and a half stars. Let’s see who’s at the festival on Thursday. Will Anderson’s show is called Will Illuminate the Sidney Morning.

Harold give four and a half star is lightning in a bottle chord? I’ll also give it four and a half stars goodwill and good jukes and go see him at seven o’clock. What do you think, Let’s listen. I live Overseas half of the year, right, I live in America half of the year. And I was there just after the election and this guy came up to me in a show and he was like, oh, I never moved to Australia.

Too many dangerous animals. Oh, look around your country mates. At least the dingos don’t have guns. I’m fine, We’ve made our choices. Right.

He’s like, oh, what about the sharks? What about the sharks? I mean yeah, I mean they’re dangerous, but mostly in the water. I’d let you have your gun if you were like, I’m keeping it off the coast. That’s fine.

A shark really bothers you at any other time of the day, right, You’re really getting money out of an atm at three o’clock in the morning and you just feel a little fin in your back. Turn around as a shark and a balaclava like I’m a dolphin. All I’m saying is we have dangerous animals, but they’re not as dangerous guns. Right, You’re never hear in Australia of some psycho walking into a school and chucking redbacks everywhere. You don’t have our version of the NRA.

The RSPCA is coming out going. Well, the aren’t your way to prevent that? As if the teachers are arm we’re following finders. I enjoyed that a lot. I’m just randomly clicking on these based on the titles.

There’s so many of them, and then I scroll down. I just see what’s going on. How about Daniel Karnell. His show was called I’m Always Sore. The age said, fifty five minutes of exquisitely judged middle brown Australian humor.

That’s a six fifteen show. If you want to go, let’s listen. A bit upset at the moment, guys are gonna get some off my chest. I’m a bit upset with the local service station attendance down on my local server. Huh, don’t if you’re getting this as well, but I can’t go get fuel it anymore without them offer me some sort of deal.

You’re getting that as well. When you go get your fuel, which you like some two for one chockey bars? Mate? Do you want some energy drinks? Would you like some sex in the toilet?

All these eat offers, it’s disgusting of also, don’t want any energy drinks. They are gross. Debrah and Graham they’re the worst at my local server. They’re absolute pests. I was in the other day.

Graham offered me this twoth one deal, goes, do you want to try the new deal? Daniel said, what is it made? He goes, it’s a two for one deal on three letters of milk? So what’s it? Mate?

He goes, you want six letters of milk for the price of three? Who’s drinking that much? Milk? Goes off in three days? I think I’m drinking two laters of milk a day for next three days of gron pull your head in, mate.

Do you think I’m bathing in milk grams? You think you think I’m aout milk baths? I think I’m hand raising three tiger cups? Mate? What would I need six liters of milk?

I’ve got two cents worth that I you would as well? And he got all upset. He’s like oh look, Daniel just came down. Put the knife down, mate, So just say another reason we offer two for one deals because their boss makes us dood. We don’t do it.

We don’t get shifts at the servers. There you go, that’s why you get off two for one deal. So obviously I felt horrible for having a go at him. So if anybody nights any milk, nice nice good job there brought that around. If you can’t make it to Melbourne, maybe you can make it to the Dubai Comedy Festival.

They’ve announced some more comedians coming. They are Otsko at Katza, Bet Stelling and Rachel Feinstein. They’ve all been added the Dubai Comedy Festival May twelve through the twenty first. Pretty good lineup those three and Jimmy Carr is playing there can’t wait and you know it starts tonight Moontower. Yeah, just for laughs, Austin Moontower Comedy Festival.

Let’s take a look at tonight’s line up. Chris to Stephano, it’s seven o’clock, Kenny Sebastian at seven, Kenny has a second show at nine thirty, and something called Perfect Cults at eight. This is comedian Moses Storm The Perfect Cult is a unique interactive comedy special that invites audience members to participate in the formation of a one night only cults. Each night. After opening up about his own hilarious and heartbreaking cult experience, Moses interviews a guest comedian or audience member about their religious background.

He asked them about the parts of their religions they identify with, don’t identify with, parts of helped them, and the ports they find just weird. All right, what do you want to do? Christy Stephano’s seven and Perfect Cult to date? Something like that? Sure?

Why not? And the final item today or spoilers for last Sunday’s Succession if you care at all about Succession, I imagine you know what I’m going to talk about by now, But I’ll give you a chance to bail here. You’ve got three to one, alright, is spoiler’s time? This from Vulture. Executive producer Georgia Pritchett revealed on Twitter that the writers of Succession decided in January of twenty twenty two that Logan Roy would die, and they gave the event a code word on the office whiteboards so no one would find out.

The code word was Larry David. They explained, Larry David means logan dies. So episode four or three said Connor’s wedding Larry David. Vulture adds, my new that would have also been a great episode. That’s your comedy needs for today.

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