Month: July 2023

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. You trust me, right, Okay, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to pause the podcast and go see oppenheim Er. Hit pause.

Okay, now that you’re back. Wasn’t that movie awesome? I know what it’s not to do with comedy, but I loved it. The other people are going to see the Barbie movie. I asked the late bots or write some jokes about it.

Late Botts says in the new movie, Barbie’s bff Skipper is the voice of reason in the movie, saying things like Barbie maybe don’t wear high heels to climb Mount Everest. Barbie’s echo friendly corn. The movie runs on dreams and the shattered expectations of unrealistic beauty standards. In the movie, Ken tries to impress Barbie with his cooking skills, but his signature dishes microwave macaroni with a side of plastic pas. Tom Segura and THEO Vaughan are keeping it fresh.

Sigora was on THEO Van’s podcast and said, you know, the great thing is you have the ability to recognize that things are getting stale and what happens is you think you’re going out there doing show after show and you go what is it? And you realize, oh, I’m stale on board and I do the same show beat by beat. I turned my face here a gesture like this, it’s hitting the mark and it’s bad for you. So the first thing I try to do is open the next show differently, whether it’s a joke from the act I have to move to the front, or if I’m gonna rif it the front, or I’m gonna write like a whole new thing. It gives you his energy for the rest of the show, because there’s like something inside you that changes.

Jim Gaffigan writes for the CBS website, and Jim wrote, Summer’s here, and so are those summer expectations. First and foremost, there’s an overwhelming pressure to enjoy summer. I feel this every morning when I look out my window and go, oh, it’s nice out there. I guess I should go out there and be uncomfortable. I wouldn’t want summer to feel unappreciated.

I’m feeling that right now. It’s sunny and dry out for the first time in like a month, and I want to be outside, but I have podcast to record. Jim writes, Of course, it’s not enough to just enjoy the summer. We’re supposed to have well mapped out summer plans every spring, and the question start, Hey, you got any plans for the summer? When you can do the summer?

Why do we need a plan? I thought summer was about relaxing. Are we supposed to schedule when we relax? That sounds stressful. I relax by not having plans.

Good by Jim. Why does summer mean we have to travel? It makes no sense. Well, the weather it’s finally nice here. I guess we should go somewhere else.

We live here, All our stuff is here. Why would we go somewhere or our stuff isn’t Jim Man’s. If you’ve been to the beach, it’s all sand, sand and bugs. I never understood the appeal of the beach. Sometimes you have to pay to park at the beach.

You pay to park, and if you want to sit down, you have to bring your own chair. Yeah, I’ll pass on the beach. Jimmy Kimmelli spoke to the Las Vegas Weekly about Las Vegas and said, I think comics love coming here. Now it used to be that the audiences here were weird. With downtown blossoming the way it has and with the locals really coming out to the comedy clubs.

It wasn’t the case when I grew up here. You’d have to drive to the Improv in La if you wanted to go to a comedy club. It’s fun to see the various levels of comedy, and I love meeting a comedian who tells me they’re from Vegas. It’s getting less rare. This is a very weird town.

It’s a big town and small towns simultaneously. And I didn’t realize how weird the city was until I moved and people shocked here. I grew up in Las Vegas. They don’t imagine that there are Little League teams here. They think of a Little League team.

They imagine the kids being chased around by one of the Sigfried and Roy Tigers. I think a lot of interesting stuff growing up. I had access to real show business. And my best friend is now my band leader. His dad was the room service butler for Bill Cosby time out.

Jimmy, I’m not sure you want to brag about somebody being the room service butler for Bill Cosby. Google words like Cosby in hotel and get back to me, But I digress. Kimmel says it’s very important to support local comedians. People sometimes ask me if I feel competitive with the other clubs. Jimmy owns a club in Vegas, and I don’t.

I think the more comedy clubs there are, the more funny people there are, the more stars that will come out of Las Vegas. We didn’t have anything like this when I was a kid. It was pretty much limited to making print calls and calling jokes into a radio station. Now you see people on social media and they’re much more inclined to get up on stage. They have fallings when they’re teenagers.

They take a lot of interest and pride, and performers are coming up out at Las Vegas. I’m rooting for as many comedy clubs as we can possibly handle. The Las Vegas Weekly asked kim all Hey, after main relevance become the longest standing late night talk show host, has that come with the responsibility of always having to be on Jimmy says that worked very hard. They are comics who work really hard, and there are comics who don’t. Some of the comics who don’t are just naturally funny enough to make it work.

Any of people. At Jerry Seinfeld, who’s naturally funny and works very hard as a result. He’s Jerry Seinfeld. Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major league soccer experience, the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. The Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival continues taking a look at tonight’s line up. Seven o’clock Britannic seven o’clock, Just for the Culture, eight thirty, Lucas Brothers, nine thirty, The Nasty Show, ten o’clock Ursula Carlson, It’s Personal, eleven fifty nine, The Nasty Show, eleven fifty nine, Midnight Surprise now, if we’ve been playing my little game of what would we do if we went to the festival, we have checked all these boxes already. We’ve seen all of these, So I guess let’s just drink.

Festival kicks in a full gear. Next week, Genie is Sheer is touring Detroit. She’ll be at the Majestic Theater seven o’clock tonight and says, my audience is anybody with a sense of humor. There’s a vast mix of people, old, young, black, white, gay, straight, war non binary. I am like your funny, crazy, next door neighbor.

Comedy combined some of the best things I love in life. Meeting people and traveling people who want to come and hear me talk is the icing on the cake. Her new tour is called Women King of Comedy. It’s based on the movie Women King, which focuses on an African tribe that is protected by a unit of female warriors that is not far from where her own parents were born and raised. Gina said the show encompasses everything from my birth to how I made it in America, how I got a sitcom on TV coming from London, just the stories of what my life is up to this point, but with jokes.

Whenever I go to a different city, say Troit, I just don’t do the same set. I try to walk around the cities, do a little research, pick up local slang and incorporate that into the show. I’m not focusing on anything in particular. I walk around just let the ambience soak in. She created and acted in the show Bob Heart’s Appashola and said, I based it in Detroit because I was there a year before doing the show.

I met a bunch of Nigerians and I found there were a lot of Nigerians in Detroit, so there’s a rich history and it’s a great place to base the show. In last weekend, San Francisco supervisor shem And Walton tried his hand at stand up comedy. He’s not trying to be re elected or anything, so I guess he was like, let’s go for it, The San Francisco Standard said. Dressed in jeans, two tone nikes, and a flat brim SF baseball cap, Walton looked relaxed before a pat crowd of folks would pay thirty dollars a pop to get in. He signed copies of his book and then he paced the stage riffing on topics from the media’s treatment of him to white people’s fondness for bragging about their black friends.

During a ten minutes set, he poked fun at environmentally conscious virtual signalers who think everything needs to be green. Walton said, someone and asked him if his job was green, and he said, mfer, I don’t know the money green. He added, he doesn’t care what the media says about him. However, he couldn’t resist in firing back to allegations in the press from last February that he had single handedly delayed a much anticipated hearing on reparations for San Francico’s black community by taking a week long vacation in Colombia that included a stop at a Hooters and medine sentence I didn’t expect to say, Walton said, How the f did I set reparations back? What about the three hundred other years and less?

Do you think TikTok is stupid? After the sphere grabbed the world’s attention with its fourth of July show That’s the big round thing that looks like a screen in Las Vegas, the internet has been buzzing with memes multiple Instagram and TikTok’s Sphere filters have emerged to allow people to put their face, can’t or favorite TV show clip on the Sphere’s screen. Comedian Zachary Barker took the filter and he started thinking what would a giant, ominous sphere talk and sound like? So he started the ORB series. It started as this authoritarian ally watching all seeing eyes.

I figured if the ORB was a giant, ever watching police state thing, what would it be looking out for. The ORB series depicts the sphere accosting Las Vegas visitors for illegal and debaschrous behavior. He posted his first video on July tenth, which got seven hundred thousand views on TikTok. He’s posted ten Sphere videos so far and they’ve accumulated three point seven million views. I’m just gonna sit here in the basement and talk to you guys.

That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free at Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, even TikTok. I guess I throw some clips on TikTok’s sure, I’m just spars everybody else. That’s where hi. I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride is Messy Miami and Major League Soccer. Experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Man here Daily Comedy News. I am missing the late night jokes. I had late Bot spit out something about Barbenheimer. You know about this.

You go see the Barbie movie and Oppenheimer. Back to Beck, late Bott says, who’s excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer and open on the same day. It’s like Kennon Einstein duking it out in the Ultimate Showdown.

Let’s talk about a double feature night.

Watch Barbie first for some fashion inspiration, and then Oppenheimer to feel incredibly unaccomplished. Not bad. One’s about hot trends. The other is about nuclear meltdown, and I think the best one is I heard Barbie’s getting a bit too real. In this one, she faces existential dilemmas like should I go with the pink convertible or destroy two cities to end the war.

I’m seeing Oppenheimer in about two hours after I record this. I will let you know how it goes. Jim Gaffigan got the A friend used to use a phrase, wax your car. Jim got a wax job from Variety. Oh boy, what a flowing article.

Jim’s gonna be up in Montreal picking up Awards, and he’s got his new special Dark Pale hitting Amazon Prime on July twenty fifth, that’s Tuesday, a Savior calendar run there part of the Watch Job, Mike Berbiglia cold called Gaffigan after searching for any other comedians who attended Georgetown. Gaffigan not only answered his landline, but met Berbiglia for lunch and gave the aspiring comic advice. For Biglia said it was not only some of the best advice he ever received, but he still seeks Gaffgan’s counsel to this day now. So that’s interesting to me because you know, I’ve heard if he helped Jim early in his career, he doesn’t return calls when he gets a little more famous. I’ve heard that from people who worked at Serious Satellite Radio circor twenty four to twenty fourteen.

I’ve heard people say that that you asked him to come back on and he’s never heard of you all of a sudden. That’s weird Forbiglias said, I think he’s a real master and student of artistic and entertainment autonomy, which is to say, he creates his own special, it creates his own material, He creates his own tours, the artwork for the tours, all this stuff. Yeah, Jim’s creating their artwork for the tours. There’s not like a graphics department. Is Jim home on Microsoft sketch drawing these things.

Yeah. A lot of times it’s someone’s not that great at it. They can end up with a really watered down marketing of themselves. Hello that’s me, or cover arter material, Hello that’s me. But he is extraordinarily focused on his great taste and is a very wise and generous guy.

Gaffigan said in high school, the closest thing to the entertainment industry was the marching Band. He consumed SNL and adored David Letterman, didn’t we all. He secretly wanted to be a performer, he said, it just wasn’t realistic pursuits. My father was the first one in the family to go to college. My grandfather made dentures.

My great grandfather worked in a coal mine. It took my family one hundred and fifty years to get to the middle class. One of the big influences on Jim’s life was the death of his mother, Marcia, at age fifty three. Jim said, I think the injustice of it because she was only fifty three. Had me rethinking this whole idea of following the rules.

I’d grown up believing a thing to do is where it’s hie and get a job and retire at sixty and play golf for five years until you die. After I lost her started reevaluating my entire life. Six months later, he attempted stand up for the first time. Said it went well, but he was surrounded by friends. It was a safe environment.

I don’t think I realized just how safe an environment it was because then I went on to eat it on stage for a long long time. Hannibal Burris is opening for Hannibal Burris. You see, Hannibal Burris dabbled in hip Hopson’s College, and he did battle rap. During the pandemic, he got into a little bit more. He’d quit drinking after twenty seventeen running with the police, and in twenty twenty one he was expecting his first child.

He told The New Yorker, it was me realizing I wasn’t excited about trying to do a lot of stand up comedy the way I used to. I didn’t want to be out there, just didn’t feel good. Music refocused him. He hired a band, music publicist, a vocal and performance coach, and he committed he was routinely turning down six figure stand up gigs. He made fun of himself, going f that, I’m doing music, bass, I’m not doing your stand up crap.

Let me rap. Eventually he realized that stand up gigs could subsidize his music career. At a recent set, a drunk woman in the audience kept interrupting, you’re so Hollywood. Hannibal said, I’m Hollywood. Really, Oh man, we’ll talk later.

Annibal said, no, we won’t, not at all, absolutely not. The heckler kept going, and The New Yorker writes Burris paste searching for the right response. I love this. The pause is not like, oh, I’m stuck gonna can’t come up with a joke. He turned to the drunk woman and said, I’m genuinely baffled while you won’t shut the f up, what are you talking about?

The audience roared, and he returned to his bit, and then he said that would have landed way better if you would have shut the f up. He told the crowd, that’s actually why I don’t do that much stand up for real. There’s a level of white entilement. My audience would promise you, hmm. Interesting.

Kamand on Gianni is an anxious duck in the upcoming animated Family Duck’s franchise Pick Migracitions. This from the people that made Minions. Migracian will be in theaters in December. And in the trailer we see kamand on Gianni’s Max say WHOA, We’re not flying through this crazy death trap as they dodge busses, scooters, and people while crossing New York City on their way south. Forbes asked severed Us if he has a favorite country’s performed in Vivers said, my favorite show might have been Stavenger, Norway.

I did Oslo and God was kind and we had a thousand people show up. Then they said there’s this fishing village called Stavanger. Do you want to go into a show. There were only thirty two people, out of which I think twenty were comps, so nobody knew me, no safety net. It was a good test on a first world tour to see if my material really did translate.

Forbes said, hey, you’ve moved around quite a bit growing up. What effect did that have on your comedy bed as said, it took me a while to figure that out, and the minute you say I’m an outsider, I didn’t realize how broad that made my perspective. I didn’t have to pick a camp in America. I didn’t have to fit into woke audiences. I don’t have to fit into alpha male audiences.

I don’t have to cater to those microcosms. That’s the big positive finding depth with any outsider perspective, I find something deeper that isn’t just hey, I landed in New York three weeks ago and your taxis are aggressive. A new comedy award in honor of late comedian Shawn Locke has been commissioned by Channel four in the UK. Shawn Locke was best known for appearing on Eight out of Ten Cats and some other shows. He passed away in August of twenty one.

The Shawn Locke Comedy Award will honor the late TV stars legacy and showcase quote talented new writers and performer who embodied the alternative comedic spirit of Shawn An Channel four winners will will see five thousand pounds to support their live work and a one thousand dollars script commission from the comedy team, along with mentoring and support from the broadcaster for newer writers and performers. Bill Bailey helps set up the award and said it’s a way to honor Seawan’s memory and to inspire others to pursue their own unique comic brilliance. Only Murders in the Building. Why you mentioned that, John Steve Martin Martin Short they were comedians at some point, right, yeah, and Selena Gomez. Only Murders is back on Hulu April eighth.

Some of the guest stars this time Paul Rudd, Meryl Street, Amy Ryan, Jane Lynch, Andrea Morton, Tina Fey, and others.

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Meanwhile, Craig Robinson’s Killing It returns to Peacock on August seventeen…

Killing It is a comedy about class, capitalism and one man’s quest to achieve the American dream, but first he has to overcome vicious criminals, nature, unwild, and worst of all, corporate America. Guest stars this season include Tim Heidecker, Beck Bennett, and Kyle Mooney. Craig Robinson says it’s the same wild roller Coasters last year, an ambitious, complex exploration of life in pursuit of the America Dream mixed in with some of the stupidest jokes on television. We got so many amazing guest stars this season while we’re turning all our old favorites except for the snakes. Indiana Jones will be pleased.

Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. If you like what I do here, you can buy me a coffee at Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

What you do is you go to that url. I’ll say it again, you throw some money in the tip jar. I take your money and I go to the National Donuts chain and I pick up a large iced coffee with caramel and milk that I have already ordered on my app. So I drive there and I listen to Daily Comedy News for some quality control to mature. I didn’t blow an edit usually don’t.

And then I get my coffee and I drive home and I listened to the rest of the episode. Works out pretty well. Buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s take a look at the just for last Montreal Comedy Festival. The off JFL shows have the gun I promised you yesterday I’ll tell you about Britannic right now.

I will deliver on my promise. Britannic is the sketch comedy duo of Brian mclenny and Nick Kosher. Together they’ve written for SNL It’s always Sunny, and they were working on some new projects and I love this copy. Here it says, or at least they were until the writer strike happened parentheses. If the writer strike has been resolved, please disregard, but we bet it hasn’t.

Also off JFL, the Lucas brother is Keith and Kenny Lucas are two of the freshest, most dynamic talents in entertainment. Says the copy. The bros are also working on some upcoming projects between strikes, including a reboot of Revenge of the Nerds. Interesting. The next show is called It’s Personal.

Like this description, welcome to the days of mind your own business. Don’t comment another business, not the gender, sexuality, body, hair, education, or career.

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Also welcome to the days of total oversharing on social media, but still mind…

We want to talk about things and want everyone to know it’s personal.

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All right, let’s play the if we were at Montreal, what would we go see?

Game? I should just share because it keeps coming up. I’m not going this year. My mom has been pretty sick and I want to stay close to home. So I reach out to the just for Laughs people and I’m like, hey, I can’t go this year, don’t take me off the list.

Sorry, here’s why. And that’s why they’ve been hooking me up with all the interviews. I’ll have some more interviews next week. So thank you just for last press team. I appreciate you letting me be part of it from AFAR, But yeah, I can’t go this year, but if I did.

Here it’s a night show seven o’clock Britannic seven o’clock, just for the culture. Now, theoretically we want to see that last night, the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty, the Nasty Show at nine thirty. It’s personal with the Razilla Carlson. I just teld you about that. Another Nasty Show at midnight, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

Now, why is midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine? Jetty Mack Airlines do this the same way because nobody knows, like, is midnight twelve am? Twelve pm? It’s twelve am. I know that, you know that, but people get confused.

You never schedule anything right at midnight. Either do eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. That way people can handle it. So if you do it at eleven fifty nine, people understand Friday at eleven fifty nine is Friday at eleven fifty nine. If I say midnight, technically it’s Saturday at midnight, But then you would think that’s Saturday turning into Sunday.

So it gets very confusing. Long expedition to tell you what a midnight surprise at eleven fifty nine is. Shut up, John, Okay, let’s see what should we see in my fantasy. If we saw Just for the Culture last night, well we haven’t seen Britannic yet, so that’ll be our seven o’clock show. That’ll walk us right up to the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty.

That’ll walk us right up to It’s Personal at ten. This is working out great, and that’ll walk us up to eleven fifty nine pm. Surprise perfect and listen to this news from the Edinburgh Fringe. We’ve heard how expensive it is for performers to at the Fringe. Someone is paying more than eleven hundred pounds for a parking space for the month.

Brian made over four hundred pounds during the festival of the last year. He said the extra income which came in during the festival period was great. It does help in these challenging times. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your stuff see tomorrow.

Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a Podcasts

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The Shark Deck. Steve Harvey is not dead, and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the hashtag that was trending riip Harvey? Comedian Steve Harvey reacted to it. He tweeted an image of himself holding a phone while scrolling through social media posts and captured it me seeing that ri ip Harvey is trending.

His followers said the caption was the best response to a hoax they’d ever seen. Two big articles in Variety, the first zernagorg Lean Morgan, Brian Simpson among Varieties Ten comics to watch or twenty twenty three.

All right, let’s see who the ten comics to watch our This is always a great l…

Some of the past names Tiffany Hattish, kamand On Gianni, Patton Oswalt, Taylor Thomason, and Quinta Brunson. You’ve heard of them right. This year, Hannah Burner, a nationally ranked junior tennis player, Berner switched her attention to entertainment. She exudes an affable yet direct style, and the comedian thrives on stage. Discussing her womanhood, she says, it’s almost therapeutic for me.

Let girls know I’m not perfect. I love the tension of having men in the room. They need to hear some of these things that normalize and actually become educated. While she’s trying to offer commentary, she’s determined that each punch line lands for the entire crowd. I’m speaking for the girls, but I also want everyone to be in on the joke.

Bridy writes. With her work, Burner creates a female locker room where people can hear things and feel less alone. Anyone’s welcome in the locker room. Next up Curtis Connor, a Toronto based performer, podcaster, and YouTube sensation I’m not familiar with Curtis. Curtis found an audience on Vine, later migrated to YouTube.

He’s a massed over four point three million subscribers and more than seven hundred million total views. Curtis says humor is born out of people and in the ways we interact with each other and process the minute details in our relationships. That’s the stuff that has always made me laugh. The human experience is hilarious. He hosts the podcast Very Really Good, influences Both Burnham, John Mulaney, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, Zerna Garg says, I remember being told my whole life that I was really funny, and I used to dread it because I was thinking, my parents didn’t get the scientists, they didn’t get the mathematician, they didn’t get the doctor.

What are you supposed to do with that? Varidy, says Garg has taken her refreshingly observational, family friendly style and spun it into a popular TikTok account. I see a theme here. Her One in a Billion special is on Amazon Prime. Influences Virdas add Matzal, Russell Peters, Hasan Minhaj.

Next up, Ian Lara, a first generation Dominican American emerging as one of New York City’s hottest stand up comedians, with material touching on themes of growing up with immigrant parents, being unsure about his race, and his relationship with his born again Christian father. He said, I’ve been doing stand up for twelve years. You have to do work to become good at it, but also need to draw from your life experiences because that’s what audiences relates you. Most. Influences Kevin Hart, Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Not Bad.

Next Up, Joanne McNally The Dublin Natives says, I want to be buried in a theater. I love the feel of them, I love the box office, I love everything. She found touring and performing to be a vital source of motivation as she pivoted to comedy and sought recovery for her eating disorder. She said, for Wallas Bolimia and now it’s stand up, it was something that basically gave me a reason to recover. Before I got a stand up, I knew I had to recover it because it’s not conducive to a happy life.

I did see recovery as failure. Really, I didn’t see the point of getting better. I thought I’d just hate my body and always be really sad. Then comedy gave me a really healthy, productive sense of purpose. She had a podcast, My Therapist ghosted Me.

Influences Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Michelle Wolf, Tommy Tiernan. Next up, Leanne Morgan, Who’s having a great ear. The article tells her journey of selling jewelry door to door. I’ve told you that stories a few time on the podcasts. Her influences Jay Leno, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, Nimish Ma Till been talking about him a lot lately.

He said, if there’s something I feel liss taboo, I’m always tempted by that third rail. I’m usually on the right side of history, at least on the right side of the joke. I became a comedian more from circumstance than chasing dreams. I graduated from NYU in two thousand and eight with a degree in finance, which is about the funniest thing you could do. At the time, when I was unemployed, I was seeking an outlet for some subconscious, existential dread I was experiencing.

It’s not an easy sentence to say I saved you the Three Edits. I like making people laugh, and I’m good at writing and making people laugh. His influences Russell Peters, Chris Rock, Patris O’Neil, Mitch Hedberg, Sarah Sherman, Well, yeah, we know Sarah Sherman. She’s on Saturday Night Live. By her own admission, her stand up act could be vulgar and descriptive.

Her influences The Nanny, Larry David Peewee’s Playhouse, and rend and Stippy. That’s great Brian Simpson next up. He’s having a good year. Brian says, over time, I’ve been able to get more concise, with less fear of silence, and I’ve probably gotten better at getting deeper into things. There are things that I couldn’t make work ten years ago, but I kept them in my notebook, and now there’s some of my best jokes.

Simpson grew up in foster care and served in the Marine Corps, both of which help inform his comedic perspective and made him good at reading people in situations. His influences George Carlin, Red Fox, Eddie Murphy, Toom Sagora, Whoopi Goldberg. Sabrina Woo says, I think something that makes a good stand up and a good actor is updating her performance, really living in the moment of it, never reading the same lines the same way, feel the crowd, feel the space. Sabrina adds, Yes, I’m non by in my life is absolutely perfect. I mean, hear it all and I live comfortably in that truth.

Their influences Tik Nataro Alley Wang, Mike Berbiglia nick Nameerrov. The fantastic Canadian comedian that passed away last year, is that ten. Wow, I went quick. I went back and checked that’s ten. The other big article is Natasha Leone, Hasan Minhaj, Jean Smart among Honorees and Varieties twenty twenty three Compact Comedy Impact Report.

M let’s skim this one because this has a lot of like industry suit types and you and I are less interested in that the premise of varieties article from stage to screen behind the scenes. Here’s a look at the most impactful comedic voices over the past year on the list. Abbott elementary talent agent, Kara Albert, the Bear, Daniel Brooks, you know her from Peacemaker Max Burgos, who’s the co head of comedy touring for IgA, Gerrod Carmichael, Oh yeah, Rathaniel. People still buzzing about that one. Michael Cox is the booker for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Jim Donnelly is the Executive VP for Comedy Development for Universal. Again, all the suit stuff doesn’t interest me as much. Jillian Doyle works in the music and Comedy touring department at ce AA. Nathan Fielder, creator of the rehearsal Hannah Gatsby. You know about Hannah Amy Gravitt is an Executive VP at HBO Programming.

Bill Hayter, You’ve heard of him. Kevin Hart and thy Randolph. Thy Randolph is the CEO of Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat. You know who Kevin Hart is. Ryan Johnson, you know him from Star Wars Movies and glass Onion and poker Face.

Kathleen Lewis is an agent Natasha Leone. We know her from poker Face. Mark Maron Hope. You’ve heard of Mark Marin if you’re this foreign of this podcast. James Morriston, who had a good year on jury duty, Comedian May Martin, Hasan Minhaj the program, Moe and Crediting, Moa Mayer and Rammie Yusef, John Mulaney Otsko at KOSCA.

You’ve heard me go on and on about her. Trevor Noah. It’s a long list. Tracy Pacosta, who’s the VP of Comedy Series for Netflix. Robbie Pro VP Stand Up in Comedy Formats for Netflix.

Dwayne Perkins, actor on The Blackening, Billy Rosenberg, Senior VP Head of Comedy and Hulu. Jason Siegal, the actor, and Brett Goltzie and Bill Lawrence, the co creators of Nope. Shrinking. You thought I was gonna say some other show. Jean Smart we know her from Hacks, Sadegas, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence for ted Lasso.

There’s a long list. Come on, guys, Aaron Wehenberg up to the W’s Hopefully we’re almost done. Senior, VP Network, Comedy, ABC Entertainment, Roy Wood Junior. And that’s the end of the list. Boy, that was long.

All right, Let’s do something more fun. More from Rolling Stone’s interview with Tom Sagora, the conspiracy theory about Garth Brooks. Rolling Stone says it’s particularly wild given his Chris Gan’s sex addict alter ego. Segura said, it’s so creepy, and there are so many people have no idea about that, and when you show it to them, they think it’s photoshop. They’re like, what the F is that?

And you’re like, no, this is real. Did you hear he announce he’s gonna do five more Chris Gain’s albums. Five That means he’s gonna be doing Chris Gaines when he’s seventy. It’s crazy, dude. Sagora said, the whole thing with Garth Brooks started from legit place his announcement that he was joining Facebook is and will forever be one of the most bizarre, cringey, creepiest videos I’ve ever seen.

He’s in his hotel room and he’s like, well, I guess it’s fisial. I’m on Facebook now. I didn’t think it was gonna be like this, And You’re like what, And then he’s like, I don’t know if this is gonna be like And then I talked to one of my people and they were like, think of this as a conversation.

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And then he takes his voice down a register and he goes, I like that.

It’s wiping out the walls between you and me.

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And then he takes it down again and goes, I really like that.

There are famous people, but he is out of the stratosphere famous, and I know he puts on great shows. When you get to that level of fame, On convinced you of an inability to see the world objectively and interact with people, because people don’t interact with you normally. I can’t imagine what Court’s real life is like, but it’s got to be weird as stuff. Gore says, I don’t want to sell out who told me? But there’s one hundred percent confirmation that he is extremely well aware of what’s going on.

He knows who I am, and he hates my guts. My friends said that when people bring me up to him, he pulls the video of me breaking my arm and he goes karma. New topic. During Bird Chreisher’s show at the Gorge Amphitheater on Saturday, there was a metal emergency shortly before at ten o’clock. Davros Halkias was on stage.

He was interrupted by crew to be informed that he needed to stop. EMTs and paramedics made their way through the crowd near the front of the stage where a person was experiencing a medical episode. Comedian and show mc cipher Sounds told the crowd make some way to let the responders do their thing. The patient was placed onto a gurnean was carted off to safety. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis, a host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz the glamor of the star studded events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts Just for Asked.

Montreal announced new show hosted by Mark Norman. It is the Improv’s sixtieth anniversary show and enjoy NonStop comedy from Mastovo lineup of performers, all while supporting a great cause. Comedy gives back. That one’s coming up next week tonight at the Festival seven o’clock Britannic. I’ll tell you about that one tomorrow, just for the Culture at seven o’clock, The Lucas Brothers at seven o’clock, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, Burzela Carlson at ten o’clock and Midnight Surprise at midnight.

All right, if we were playing the what would we do at Montreal tonight? Let’s see, I’d probably just go see just for the culture, for the guest I’m gonna tell you about in a second, I’d do that at seven man, I’d stick around do the Nasty Show at nine thirty and I would do Midnight Surprise at twelve on the Just for the Culture show. It’s hosted by Alonzo Bowed and you heard from him on this podcast. Zarna garg is one of the performers we just learned Zorn as a comedian to watch.

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I love New Faces. It’s like my favorite thing to go up for. You know, my whole thing is at the top of mind. You know, I don’t I don’t go there to see Chris Rock because I’ve seen Chris Rock luckily, and I can watch Chris Rock on Netflix. I’d like to see who’s out there.

Was that New Faces last year? You rushed like crushed and so let me just start with your slot. I’m doing it from memory. I think you went eighth or ninth in the second groups. I would last best night could tap the am, but I was last.

So is that a tough draw? Because if you’re me, you know I’m sitting I’ve been there for three hours. They did both shows. You’re the twentieth person I’ve seen is that bad draw worked. Yes, look it works at the end of the night.

I if I’d had gone bad and I would have blamed the spot for sure. But Pete Holmes was hosting and he gave I was part of the Celtic group. The second show, and he kind of pulled us aside and he said, hey, just so you guys know, the second show is always even better. First shows good. Second shows is even better.

The audience drape’s having a good time. So so then he goes out. We hear the first show, it’s tough, great, he goes out to hit the second show. He comes back and he goes then they are tired. They are really tired.

I think a lot of them the first show too. And we were like, oh my god. And so we we could tell because we have ears that the second audience was a little bit tired, a little bit more, and I honestly think I was able to let go of ever adiety I was feeling, and I went, well, you know what, look at that. I came all the way to Montreal and the audience is tired, and this is the big said screw it. And I think, like that energy is why that went so well.

So it worked out for me. It helped me be chill and go screw it, and I felt really good about that chance. Was that your planned of material for the night or did you add lib last second? No? No, no, no, no.

I’m I tried to be brave, but I’m not that breake. That was prepared. It was prepared and rehearsed. So I’d like to know about the process. I’m going to deliberately start with a question that I could just google, but for the listeners, how long have you been a comedian, mister new face?

I would say like eight years. I think there’s always a comedian, there’s always like you know, I was an actor first. I took a stand up comedy class when I wasn’t really a comedian, you know, I would do one or two shows a year at they’re easy, braver shows where the comedians brought the audience and they were very favorable. But after failing it acting for a number of years, at twenty six, I pivoted into stand up comedy. So you’re you’re a new face eight years in?

What’s the process? How do you get selected? Did your agent get it? Just just for last just know you’re out there? No, my, my, agent.

I had an agent, so it’s unwrapped and it’s repped, and my agent got me an audition for repped. It was actually my first audition. I was surprised. I wanted to get it the years before, but I just didn’t get a slot. So I had I had a new I had at the time, and they got me a slot.

I auditioned I think three weeks later, maybe I had a club back, and you know I did. I mean most of them are. Then I ended up doing at CHRFL and then they give it to you and then they announce it until like three days before the festival, and it was really exciting. And to come back this year I was told, I said I then so in the year after New Faces debut, But I was like, okay, but I would love to be back. I would love more time than Montreal.

So I ended up working out Real nice. That’s awesome. What’s the environment there? Is it competitive or is it camaraderie. We’re all on the same boat, Like you don’t like win the night, but you know it’s probably nice to be the shining star.

Sure, sure, I think especially New Faces, everyone is so we’re all hey, we’re all very happy. To be there. There’s a thing you’re telling yourself to combat your anxiety about the actual second go. You know what, even if I bomb, people will back home. They’ll be like it was a new face, and you get to use that credit for the next five years before it becomes sad when they start seeing the wrinkles and you’re still going the host say this guy was a new face.

That’s what it’s pressed. But we’re all very happy to be there. Of course there’s competition, but the nice thing about stand up and the painful thing is you can’t really affect each other. You go out there and the audience determining how everyone’s going to do, so you don’t have to be like mean about it. No, it was me.

I think Pete really was who as a new Pacings many years in a row, was really like gave us a pep talk, a reel as quotes as I’ve ever been yet to a locker room pep talk from a coach. Was Pete Holmes with one of his big leggy legs on the cuts, telling us that it’s gonna be okay, that’s awesome. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time with Pete and he’s exactly who you would hope that he is based on his persona. It’s not like there’s stage Pete and then a different guy backstage. I was talking to Alonso yesterday about I felt like Pete was throwing, and Alonso explained to me why I felt like Pete, if I used the sports analogy, was throwing like seventy eighty miles an hour and didn’t go to his top.

And Alonso was explaining, as the host, you know, he doesn’t want to go out and crush and then have somebody who’s earlier on the food chain come out and have to match, you know, at a list or at his top. Yeah, you know, I think’s terry nice. I think there’s plenty of comedians that would not be able to resist the urge to crush. But no, I think he knew. I think he was very cogniss I’m like making not show up gun for everybody.

He sat at the side of the stage and watched everyone set and laughed. All my god, I can’t even imagine, but he did that, and he never you know, you bring up all these comedians, you could give them a weak prow. You could say something that’s just a little off of the audience is diffused, but he sent it up, he set it up clean. He’s a pro. So hopefully if I ever hosts something like that, I can resist the urge, or if I do badly, be like, well, you know, I was trying to do badly to keep keep the things nice for everyone else.

It’s a good excuse, too hilarious, all right, So you crush, you walk off? Are you the sexy object? Everybody trying to sign you up for stuff? Or it’s another day in the neighbor. You know, I got to meet a lot of people, a lot of people.

They want to people of the TV show, and you’re like, oh, I want to talk about the sand duct. That’s what I’m focused on. But yeah, you end up taking a lot of like meetings. It’s kind of overwhelming how many people in the comedy industry show up the JFL. I think as I was like walking around the fifth party on the night, I was like, oh, how how did I how did I even participate in this business without being here?

And it’s just like one of those central events where so many people are are there and I met bookers, I met agents, I met managers, like but I’m most excited to meet comedy club bookers because at the time, I was like, just give me on the road, and it certainly did that. And that environment seems a little cooler than I was talking about. When you’re out in la as I’m talking and instead of making eye contact with you, I’m looking over you to see who’s a bigger star than maybe I could. I’m looking I’m already having my next conversation. Oh there’s Pete Holmes.

Thanks, let me go. Uh, you know Montreal, everybody seems a little more chill. Yeah, I think there wasn’t time. I mean everything’s also become more chill. Like, listen, you could do great at JNFL, It’s it’s not gonna give you more success than having five million TikTok followers.

There used to be a day, I think, where someone could be like, you’re gonna be a movie star. Stephen Sgal became a movie star because he was a famous agents tight she instructor. There’s no one has that time anymore, and I think because of that, we get to be a little bit more human. We don’t have to be terrified. I still think there’s a couple of people that have they walked in the room I’d be like, so good to talk to you, booker of Dallas Comedy Club.

Ari Emmanuel’s over there. I’m gonna go seehah. But for the most part, I think jfl uh, my my girlfriends would be in the industry side, and I think it’s a nice opportunity for all those guys to get a couple of drinks and have a good time. Yeah, and that makes it fun. Perfect buddy.

So in preparation for having you or any guest on, you know, I jump on the Google machine to see if there’s the latest article whatever, And I was just laughing at the descriptions attached to you. Observational comedian. Okay, fair, you’re not a pro comic. Sometimes you’re a Jewish comedian. Sometimes you’re Jewish Italian comedian.

Sometimes you’re an Italian comedian, which brings us to just for their culture. And I also was laughing with this with Alonso yesterday. And they always put parentheses formally the ethnic show, and I get why you don’t want it to be the ethnic show anymore. They always put it the reminder, formally the ethnic show. So what team are you playing for?

Does it matter? You’re going up and going on I’m the Italian guy. Tonight, I’m playing for it call at the Ethnic show again. I’m gonna be complaining about that for the whole set. I’m gonna say, what app when this cancel culture?

That’s it? So that’s my team, all right. I listen, Dad, Italian. Mom’s Jewish. Well, my girlfriend is super Jewish.

He’s robe commad, which is a branch of considered them. So I’m being told in that direction. I got a lot of Jewish material. It’s really girlfriend material, but I disguised them as Jewish material. And and uh, you could expect a lot of Jewish jokes, a lot of a lot of you know, I’m very interested in Jewish the way people viewer the Jews right now.

You got you got people saying we run Hollywood. You got you got some people saying we’re we’re all in this power. But then other people who don’t think, who don’t like this at all. It’s a very rich comedic identity. And I wasn’t raised very Jewish, but modern society has imposed the fact that I am a Jew into my life and I want to explore that.

That’s where I get my comedic juices flowing. And I’m very excited to uh that a little bit talently. But you know, the Italian supply proved my gesture. I think that’s where my Italian side really comes to shine. And as I scrolled down a page two of Google the Texas newspapers, it was like three in a row, Jeff Goldblum impressionist.

That is the other thing that we’re apparently tagging you with yours. You know, the Jeff Goldblum guy. You know, I I sported at I did it in the movie. Bl Crystal did a movie called Here Today and I played like an SNL cast member type guy at it. And in the movie I did the impression and I said, you know what, I’m going to retire this impression.

I used to do cameos as Jeff Goldblum.

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And then I was like, no, no, you don’t want to be the Jeff Goldblum guy.

And no matter where I go though, that’s that’s the people put that in the bio and and then they asked, and I go, okay, then move on, move on with my life. But you know, if if if someone buys a piece of merge from me and as I’ll give it to him nice. You mentioned you’re a theater kid. My daughter just graduated Northwestern as a theater kid, and I congratulation. Very good college, very nice.

I’m mad at her. I just saw they announced a new Chicago comedy festival. I sent her a text an hour ago, why aren’t you still in Chicago? Because I could have crashed her place. I was on her for the whole four years, and she didn’t want to hear anymore.

I kept going second city, second city, Second city, second city. What I’m like, because you’re the pretty girl who can sing, and you’re fun. You’re like gold. So I’d love to know more about your musical theater experience. Of course, that’s so sweet to have a parent that involved.

I can’t even imagine. I don’t even know if my parents knew what I went to COGS for all right, so it’s very sweet that you are that that involved. I mean, I wanted to be a music computer kid. I believed in the system back then. I thought I would go to college.

From college, I get an agent and start working steadily. I think I didn’t have the chops to be a real professional singer. And that’s hard to realize until you moved somewhere like New York and I remember auditioning to be a non huge member of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and we waited for three or four hours to see sixteen bars in a room and a crappy rehearsal space, and I remember, and the walls are portent, so I had to listen to everyone’s audition and by the time I got up to me, I said, you know what, there’s zero chance I am getting this. And I decided so each Wow, it’s because I knew. I just you don’t know that when you’re younger, do you think maybe I’ll be a great singer?

And I think college is here are pretty scammy. I don’t think they could give you your money’s worth, but they don’t. They don’t prepare you for the world. And it’s hard to predict the world. TikTok would determine who gets cast as leads and movies.

Right now, I mean that that’s a new world. But I ultimately I pursued singing. I pursued acting. I had a little bit of success here and there, but it didn’t really feel like it clicked until I wrote a straight play for myself where I talked to the audience a lot, and I had a friend who was like, that’s you should do that part. And I always dreamed about stand up and I ended up getting into this very horrible, horrible copy called LLL, which which I swore I never work again.

And then I found myself there last night and Mike did not work, of course, but it was doing every check spot there for like a year and a half that I fell in love. And I said, you know what this is when I like, I like to be able to perform. I don’t like to be fully scripted. I like to be in the moment. I like to make decisions myself, and I like that cotstick feedback to let me know how I’m doing beat by beat.

So you’re like one of these guys that’s going to have the big Netflix special and then Lauren’s going to take a liking to you when you’re going to go on SNL and destroy because you can do the other things. I mean, look, I hope so because I’m a debt so let’s hope that plan goes exactly as you said. That is that is planned a DNC. All right, I’ll call Lauren after this. Young what young guys are out there that might be off my radar?

As I sit here in the basement not attending Montreal. Who are you in too? I mean people that I would consider like in my class. Jeffrey Asmus, who’s going to be doing the Dirty Show on JFL, is one of my favorite comets to watch as an amazing writer. Jay shred it.

Good buddy, he’s doing j Carrozzo. He’s fantastic. You know he’s not a young guy. But Jessel Nick will always be my favorite personally. And oh I just my girlfriend’s client, full disclogner.

But Tita Fribble very good comedian, just a comedy cecil sets a. Tina Fribble is fantastic, good plug and very smart. Is that good, honey? Is that enough for you to do three more clients? Okay, she’s good.

John Marco also headlines Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five. John Marco is awesome. Love that guy. I saw him at New Faces last year. He crushed it and I really enjoyed speaking with him.

He’ll do his own headlining show at Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five, and another one at the I Always dumb it down Place des Arts. There’s probably a French way to say that, but that’s on July twenty eighth. John Marcos Serresi one of last year’s new faces and on my list a comedian to watch. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows, and hey, support the shark Deck Network.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jokeman, the documentary with Jackie the Jokeman is out today on iTunes and Amazon. Go to chokemanmovie dot com for more information and if you missed it on the July eleventh episode of this podcast, Jackie and I spoke for about forty minutes on today’s podcast an interview with Alonzo Bowden and I really really enjoyed, so we’ll do that in the second half. If you came for Alonso because you saw him in the episode Tunnel, that’ll be at the end of today’s podcast. Maria Bamford’s got a new album.

It’s called Crowd Pleaser. Light spoilers here cracked it tells us. The album kicks off with Maria ingratiating herself to her Chicago comedy club audience, rattling off local references designed into her to the crowd. Hot dog wind, pizza, architecture, improv. Come on, everybody.

It’s a third away bit of goofy meta comedy that deconstructs hackey crowd work, somehow poking fund at both herself in America’s second city. Before she even gets started, A lot of The material likely echo what we’ll find in Sure I’ll Join Your Cult. It’s one of her other albums. There are bits about the rigidity and sometimes ridiculousness of twelve Step programs, several of which she’s been a not so great member. The group’s insistence on anonymity and privacy doesn’t come easily to Bamford.

She jokes, nothing says safety more than secrets. Rain Wilson was on with Bill Maher on his pod and an interesting answer from Rain. He said, when I was in the office, I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough. I’m realizing now, like I’m on a show, I mean nominated every year, making lots of money, working with Steve Carell and Jenni Fisher and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors. I’m on one of the great TV shows.

People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it. I was thinking about why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or next Will Ferrell? How Come I can’t have a movie career.

Why don’t I have a development deal. When I was on the office, I was clutching and grasping at her. I mean I was making a hundred thousands, I wanted millions, and I was a TV star, but I wanted to be a movie star. Was never enough. Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and never enough has helped us as a species.

Friday asked Mark Norman if there are any topics that he stays away from. Mark said, not really. I just stay away from being totally mean to a group. It’s still got to be a joke. It’s still gotta be a punchline.

I think you can make jokes with any group, but if it’s just totally negative and hurtful, I don’t think it’s well crafted. It’s not really about the topic. To me, it’s about the way you go about it. Ride asked him about clean material, and Mark Norman said, I think clean material is important because it’s good for work. Some people won’t listen to dirty comics the same way they won’t watch dark R rated movies.

It’s good to have and people say, oh, I’m so funny, and I’m like, are you funny enough to write a clean joke about dogs or Thanksgiving? Because it’s actually really challenging. So even if you don’t like clean material. I’d recommend challenging yourself to try, and it’s really hard and it’s a good exercise. Anybody can make a million Penish jokes, but if you can really get a clean one out there, then that’s just another feather in your cap.

Seinfeld was a really good lesson because he’s a huge hero of mine. He is a certain way he wants a show, and it’s his show and I’m happy to be on it, so you have to adapt to his rules. Friday asked Mark how he connect with Netflix for a Soup to Nuts That’s coming special, and Mark said, ten years of grinding. Then I got a Comedy Central special, and I got a half hour special and an hour then Comedy Central fills it out as technology changes and here comes as Netflix thing, and then it’s the new HBO. So you go, well, I’d love to get to Netflix, but I’m nobody, so you gotta do the YouTube route just to prove yourself.

And then through that I did well. So then Netflix was like, hey, we’ll give you a half hour just to test you again. I did a half hour, which was tough because in the middle of a pandemic, was hard to put it together, but we pulled it off. Then I got the hour. Eventually that half hour did well enough, it helped ticket sales.

So I hit the road like a psycho, like a wild man. I was doing all these weird cities in the middle of the country. Just going out there with nothing in an hour was always like the carrot on the stick, like I don’t want to write today. Well, you might get an hour one day on Netflix, so keep going and suck it up. So there are a bunch of stuff together and pulled it off.

And then when I heard I was getting an hour, I really doubled down. I had to owne it, tweak it, and pull it out. He said, when you get a Netflix show, it’s a little disbelief. It’s one of those weird things, like when you’re seventeen you’re into a girl and your friend goes, hey, she actually likes you back, and you’re like, get out of here. I couldn’t believe it.

The Las Vegas Weekly did a puff piece about Las Vegas comedy. They’d talked to a couple names here, and Jimmy Kimmel, who grew up in Las Vegas, said, you think back to the olden days with Teen Martin and Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Junior and Joey Bishop. This was the place he wanted to be if you wore a comic. Now it is again. Coincidentally, Jimmy Kimmel has his own club in Las Vegas.

Jimmy said, I think there was a stigma attached to performing in Vegas. I don’t know what the reason was, but it doesn’t exist anymore. Comics realize it’s a way to be on the road. When you’re not on the road, you could have an entirely different audience every night Las Vega. And Lindsay Glazier is a stand up comic, and Lindsay agrees, saying, some nights you’ve got twenty cowboys from Montana and the audience with fifty people from New York, a bachelorette party, a wedding party, and four Michael Jackson impersonators.

Apparently Vegas comedies leveled up weekly. Late night’s show The Dirty happened at twelve thirty at the South Point Showroom that just celebrated its tenth anniversary. Don’t Tell Comedy delivers pop up shows around town. Glazier says in Vegas because of the level of comedy here, you have to pretty much do your a material all the time in the clubs. She likes the club Wise guys.

It’s one of the only places that has open mics on Tuesday and Wednesday where you can develop new material in front of real audiences. Glazier says, people are like comics, only have to work one hour day. Says No. We actually write our bits, then we do with social media, and then we send out fifty million booking emails. We do all that and then we go on stage for an hour.

Jeff Sevillico as a new special out on Dry Bar. It’s called Comedy in Action. Speaking in Vegas. He was named Best of Las Vegas by the Las Vegas Review Journal three years in a row, Entertainer of the Year by Vegas Inc. And the Totals Vegas Guide had him on top ten things to Do in Vegas, which is fascinating because think of some of the other nine things you might do.

Comedy in Action is a delightful blend of physical comedy, action, pack stunts, and world class juggling slash balancing. If you want to check it out, go to Dry Bar Comedy Plus Use the promo code to Jeff Sevillico civ I lll I c O and you get a month three. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new volde of Agentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming on for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience, the journey of a lifetime.

Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you A podcast Just for Last Montreal starts to kick off tonight two shows Just for the Culture at seven o’clock and The Nasty Show at nine thirty. Just for the Culture features a diverse lineup of comedians from various cultural backgrounds and experiences. Your host is Alonso Boden. You’re gonna hear my interview with him in just a second. Just for the Culture an all killer, no filler night of comedy from some of the biggest multi cultural acts in North America.

Here’s Alonso. I wanted to talk to you about Queens. I’m from Jackson Heights. You lived at Saint Alban’s and you went to Aviation High School. Yes, I want to guess on that commute.

Is that a bus to Jamaica, F trainee train transferred seventy fourth or what did you do? That’s a long haul. Yeah, you take the ear DF. You transfer at Roosevelt I think it was Roosevelt Heights where you transferred to the seven. Yeah, seventy four yea, yeah, then you take the seven to thirty third.

So yeah, I was a commuter. Actually, in my senior year a lot of times I rode my bicycle. I rode up up Queens Boulevard from Saint Albans to That’s a hike. I mean the part was an hour fifteen. I’m sure I was one of those bicycle nuts back in the day in New York.

You know, we used to ride through Manhattan with our whistles and stuff like that. Yeah, I was one of those guys. So it would take about I’m trying to remember it. I’ve been a long time ago, but about forty forty five minutes to ride to school. So that’s not a bad ride down Queens Boulevard.

I mean, I mean, now you’ve got proper bike lanes and be a breeze. Yeah, now it would be uh well, I don’t know it was. It was fun. Then you know, you have bike lanes now, but then you have people hating the bike lanes and trying to keep you in the bike lane. So I don’t know which is more dangerous, not having a bike lane and being aware of it or having a bike lane and people want to kill you.

So I like the bike lane. The issue with the bike lane is it pushed the curbside parking out further. So if you’re driving a car, you could pull up to a corner and you have to like stick your neck out and look, you know, way deep. But Montreal they’ve got their bike game together. They’ve got proper bike lanes.

Yeah, because they’re used to it. You know. It’s like, I don’t know, if you ever been to Portland. You have been to Portland, No better watch out when they have green bike lanes. Those bikes don’t stop.

Those bikes will take you out. Because you know, there’s a lot of bike commuters and bike riders and Montreal is the same way. Plus Montreal, they’re they’re Canadians. They’re just nicer. You know.

They don’t wake up saying who can I run over today? In New York, it’s like, all right, I’m gonna get somebody. You know, it’s a different since we jumped over to Montreal. I saw some interview somewhere you quoting on and I agree with you the nice looking ladies in Montreal. The first time I went up there, I noticed that women who were more mature were really taking care of themselves.

There are some nice looking women up if you go walking around Mount Royal, they take care of themselves up there. It’s they are beautiful. The women of Montreal are absolutely beautiful. I used to joke that, you know, everybody wanted to go to strip clubs. I’m like, it’s redundant.

Just walk around, just walk around. There are stunningly beautiful women wearing you know, sexy outfits, and this is that. It’s no, it’s really great. And a friend who lives there, he told me, he said, listen, they’re wearing a coat nine months out of the year, so when they get to take that coat off, they’re going for it. And I like, thank you, Thank you, Montreal.

You’re a beautiful city. That makes sense because I only go there in July. I used to say the same thing. People would tell me how cold Chicago was, and I’d be out there when JFL had the Chicago Fest, which I think was June. I’m like Chicago and June’s pretty great.

Yeah, I’ve been to Chicago in January. I’ve been to Montreal in the winter, but by far the winner is Winnipeg. Winnipeg is so cold that Canadians don’t go to Winnipeg. Canadians like, the hell’s wrong with you? Why would you go there?

The thing I find fascinating with Montreal is it’s this mix of pseudo Europe nineteen seventy six is version of the future, like that’s a good place to shoot your sci fi movie by some of those projects, and then the I don’t care, we’re going to have a porn shop next to a four star restaurant. Well, I always say that, you know, Montreal is a combination of European style, right, nice Canadian people who they’re nice to us. Apparently the French Canadians are not nice to other Canadians, but they’re very nice to us. As visitors and the convenience of the United States. So it’s really just a great city.

Yeah, it does have different parts that look different ways. I love Old Montreal. I could walk around Old Montreal all day, every day and just soak it up. It just feels like you’re in Europe. Yeah, it’s a great city, all right.

So you’re doing Montreal. You’re hosting just for the culture. We’re calling it formally known as the Ethnic Show, and that’s been in the press release for maybe ten fifteen years now, formally known as the Ethnic Show. So like, I get why they wanted to change the name, but then they keep bringing up formally known as the Ethnic Show, and I don’t understand it. I don’t know what just for the culture is.

I get why they’re moving away from it, but what is just for the culture. So, you know, this is what’s really funny, and this is how old time I am. At the festival, Damarera and I were joking about when each culture had its own show. Okay, there was a time at the festival where you had like the Uptown Show was culture and the Wise Guys Show was Italian, and I forget the name, but they had a Jewish we used to each have our own and then they put them all together and they called it the Ethnic Show. And from what I understand, there was some politician that was using the term ethnic derogatory.

He was like, I didn’t get elected because the ethnics voted for this or the ethnic that. And that’s when they said, Okay, we got to change it to for the culture. So now instead of each making fun of each ethnicity, we make fun of each culture, which is much more proper formerly known as but that was always a thing chocolates Sundays or Asian invasions. Yeah, I guess you don’t see as much of that now, but that was always a thing. Yeah, you don’t see it as much, but it still exists and it’s still you know, here’s the thing I love about comics with different cultures.

They make fun of their own culture. That’s what’s great about it. And listen, I’ve learned more about the Jewish culture from Jewish comedians then I ever could any other way, because they make fun of every Jewish holiday and every you know, custom and this and that. It’s apparently now you’re gonna be surprised here this John, but apparently Asian parents did not want their kids to be comics, because Asian comics always remind me of that, you know, And yeah, it’s it’s great though, It’s it’s really fun because everyone has fun with their own culture, and as you know, comedians, we have a ball with it. We laugh at each other, we laugh at ours.

If a comedian’s ever not laughing at you, if we’re not picking on you, then you get nervous. Then you’re like, wow, they really don’t like they didn’t insult me at all. You know. So when you’re up there this year, you’re hosting, it’s a pretty big room, real event. I’m trying to figure out how to phrase this.

I’ll try and use an athlete’s terms. So last year when I was up in New Faces watching Pete Holmes seen Pete a million times, and I felt like he was and I don’t mean this in a negative way, I felt like he was throwing seventy eighty percent, like it was the All Star Game, Like, you know, i could fire back and go one hundred and five, but I’m just gonna hang out a little bit and feel the crowd and use my anus material. Again, I don’t mean that as a dig I just felt like he’s deliberately, deliberately not going to his top. Oh no, I’ll swing for the fences. But when you’re the host, it’s not all about material, like I’m When I do material, I’m gonna do my great material, but I’m gonna welcome them.

I’m gonna joke with people in the crowd. I’m going to try to keep the show moving. So that’s the kind of thing. Where As a host. Jay Leno, who you know, has hosted a show or two for a little while, he told me he said, always remember your guests the star.

That was good advice to me. Your guest is a star. So my part of my job is to set up the comics so that they look good and make it about them. Make it about each comic that I introduce. It’s not all about me.

But when i’m when i’m joking, I’m gonna joke. Not a funny thing. With new faces. Now I’ve hosted it and I’ve been a new face, they’re almost worried that you’ll be too funny. They’re like, wait a minute, I’m a rookie, You’re Pete Holmes.

If you pull out your a material, I’m gonna so you know, so so when you when you host new faces, you’re really trying to be encouraging because they are, you know, various points in their career, but relatively new. Just for the culture. It’s like, ah, you’re good enough, I can make fun of you, all right, Yeah, thanks, that that makes that makes a lot of sense to me. You’re doing I’m trying to keep my eye on you. Nuts scrowed down on my notes.

Here are you doing any of the galas? And I’m a New Yorker I always want to see gala. No, this year, I’m not doing a gala. You know. I’m always on the bench if somebody, you know, breaks a leg, I’m ready to jump in.

But no, this this year is about for the culture.

And then I always pick up a few guest spots on shows while I’m there.

You know, they tell me I’m part of the furniture of Montreal. Now I guess i am. I’ve been to the festival a few times. I was listening to some of your other interviews. I think you were on with George Lopez when this came up, but might have been Papa.

Maybe it was Papa, but the point was, and your interview was from a few months back, but it related to you. I recently watched a special by I’m Not Here to Tear Anyone down, and I was watching it and I’m like, I think the comedian’s body language is pulling the material up a little bit. And I heard you. I can’t remember it was Tom or with George, and you talked about wanting to just strip it down and have a microphone and a stool and let the work speak for itself rather than mugging for the camera using the body work. Can you can you talk to that a little bit?

Yeah, so well that’s Tom style. Actually it’s George. We’re the monologists, right, we stand it to microphone and talk. Other comics have huge energy. They’re jumping around on stage, they’re doing this and that, and the physicality brings more to their material.

There are some comics that without the physicality, the material would be a recital. And I mean Tom. If Tom moves through feet in a one hour show, that’s a long walk for him. Tom would literally just stand at the mic and talk. And I love that.

I love that, And yeah, that’s how that’s kind of how I came up, you know. And the other thing is I’m a big guy, all right, sixty three over two fifty. If I’m jumping around on the stage, the front rows pretty nervous. The front rows like, can you just take it down to not we don’t need you stage diving, you know. So there’s that, but it’s just different styles.

And I came up in the monologist style where you stood there and talk. I mean, Steven Wright. Now you talk about someone who didn’t move, whose words, you know, commanded the room. I mean that was it. So yeah, I’m a big Bob Hope fan, and I know the last twenty five years of Hope’s career get dragged through the mud for some of the NBC specials.

But I go back and listen to that older stuff where he’s just quick and ratitat’s hat and it could be sixty year old material, be like, hey, we’re at the Cleveland Air Force Base. You know, General Johnson is really cheap and they’ll mug a little bit and don’t get a laugh at me. I don’t know who the general was, but it’s just that art of comedy and knowing how to perform and do it. I think it was great. Well, I think you every comic learns their own material and their own style.

You know what I mean, Like if I’m trying to do if I’m trying to do Bobby Lee and ain’t gonna work, ain’t gonna work. Bobby Lee does Bobby Lee. I can’t do Bobby Lee and Bobby Lee’s not gonna do me. You know, it’s so you develop that And yeah, bugging after the joke was part of Bob Hope’s thing, you know. And listen, I love the old Pros.

You know, when people talk about one of the Old Pros not being funny, it’s like, well, you’re judging him or her like they walked out on stage today. I mean you got to understand at that time, that’s what they were doing. That’s what they were talking about. And these people were brilliantly funny.

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And then you have the other thing, the cancel culture, which, by the way, if …

So if it’s in any way you can help me get canceled doing this interview, I would appreciate it. But if you’re gonna judge a joke from from you know, nineteen eighty three, like Eddie Murphy said, you know, if he did raw. Today, it wouldn’t be the same language. But in nineteen eighty two, eighty three, whenever that came out, it was brilliant and it was funny. And here’s the thing, everyone knew he didn’t mean it, you know.

It’s it’s like, yeah, oh, Eddie Murphy hates gay people. No he doesn’t. No, Eddie Murphy doesn’t hate anybody. There were jokes jokes at the time, so I don’t buy into all of that judgment on old comics and old pros. And was there some mugging and hamming it up with Jack Benny every joke, Right after every joke, he just stopped and gave you that sarcastic look.

You know, that was part of the joke. Rodney Dangerfield, he never tightened his tie, right, it was always at It was always with the tie. It’s it’s what they do. It’s mannerisms. It’s great.

Any young guys out there these days that might be off my radar sitting here in the basement, that you’re a man, it’s uh. You know, I see a lot of young comics. I don’t remember all the names of everybody. I love Mal Hall, Liz Merely, Liz is fantastic young woman out of New York. But there’s honestly, I couldn’t do justice because I don’t remember names.

But there there’s a lot of young comics and I like what they’re doing. And it’s a different, different generation, right, different vibes. So they’re doing a lot of social media and sketches and stuff like that beyond these besides stand up, so you know, good for them. I mean it’s it’s again, different generation, different vibe. As a veteran, do you lose your mind when you see somebody who’s been doing it for three minutes has three hundred seventy five trillion TikTok views for one joke?

There is you know, you know what it’s become. And you’re old enough to remember the eight John remember one hit wonders, Yeah, there are now there are now one bit wonders that you can do. But it’s one bit one. They have a joke and or a bit or something on YouTube or TikTok or whatever, and you know, a billion people see it and a billion people love it, and then they get on stage and it’s like, okay, there’s a lot of filler until they get to that joke. I don’t really have time to get mad about it, you know, even with me like my I have a social person who helps with social media, and she’ll si, wow, you got two million views on that bit, and I’m like, okay, now get me in an arena and have all two million people show up here.

Right. But you talk about the one hit wonders. You know, somebody like yourself or Georgia Pop or a lot of these people we’ve talked about. I could wake up out of bed and go, hey, don’t worry about why I did you do forty minutes? Right now?

You got it. One of the things on your resume’s last comics standing that was that show came along when I used to run series XM comedy, and you know, people would come up to me and be like, hey, you ought to play so and so they killed on TV last night, and I’d be like, that person has five seconds of material and that’s what they put in the special. And you know, a lot of yourself one of them. You know, people came out of that show and have had really great careers, but there were a lot of people that had one joke two jokes. I teach a college class and I’m not a comedian at all, case you can’t tell, I will illustrate to the students that, you know, I can say something really vulgar about punching someone in a body part, and I’ll get a laugh out of the class.

And I’m like, I didn’t even set that up. I just said something shocking, you know, So I made you laugh for three seconds. But I’m not a comic. Yeah, well, last comic was interested. So the first year, the first season, they had a rule like, you couldn’t have done a comedy special, and I don’t think you couldn’t have done it Tonight Show.

And they had a lot of beginners, and what they found out was, you know, if you’ve been doing comedy too three years, you’re not ready for TV yet. You’re certainly not ready for a sustained act.

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And then some of the winners or you know, they went on tour and it was like, …

So when we did it, we were all headliners. We were all veterans. I think the newest comic we had had been doing it for like eight years, so we were ready, you know. And the other thing I learned was you’re always writing. You know, George Wallace was one of my mentors and heroes.

You will never see him without that yellow pad. I explained to him. We use computers and tablets now, but you know, you got he’s an old man. But no, he always had the yellow pad. He was always writing.

The guys who taught me this, they were like, man, you gotta be writing all the time because you want to stay relevant. You don’t want to be you know, it’s twenty twenty three. If you still have a VCR joke, you’re probably not going to get much work. Yeah, yet we know the light flashes twelve. That’s very funny.

So what do you actually use yourself? No pad on a phone. Yeah. I shifted over from notebooks to using notes on my phone and on my tablet, my mini tablet, which I carry all the time. And the reason is writing it out.

Physically writing it imprints it on the memory. So that was always great because it trained my mind to remember the joke. But the nice thing about the digital notes is it’s easy to file, categorize, and find stuff because all you got to do is put in a word, you know, like if I put in jfl and just for last all of my just for last sets come up, so I’m like, oh, okay, I can’t do this. I did that joke or you know, blah blah blah. So that kind of stuff.

That’s why the digital stuff makes it easier for me, because I was never one to listen. Some comics would have index cards and they would file them and they would have their you know, these are my jokes about travel, these are my jokes about being married. These are my And I was like, man, I’m not that I’m not that organized. I’ll just write some new ones. If I got to I can’t be looking at up.

I’ll just write some new ones and let’s hope this works. So do the new ones. They’re in a documents and then you know, at some point, I guess what, you’re pretty sticking together in new set? Are you looking at that and going okay, let me sequence this? This this call back go working now.

I date the sets and then I’ll have like new jokes. I’ll have a thing I call random ideas and stuff like that, and I’ll pull from that.

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And then sometimes I’ll be going through sets and I’ll see it a joke from you…

Let me bring that one back, and then I’ll start doing it again, and then it’ll change some doing it now just you know, because it’s running through my mind differently. The funniest thing to me is when a fan remembers a bit that I have no idea what they’re talking about. Wow, I’ll never forget. Somebody said, man, I love your tank bit, and I was like, I have no idea what the tank bit is. If you start it, I’ll remember it.

But now I’m you know, my favorite joke is always the newest one I’m working on. So it’s funny with fans even. You know, in a radio career, you’ll meet a listener and they’ll be like, hey, how’s your cat Fluffy? And you’re like, how do you know what cat’s name is? Fluffy?

And the answer is because you mentioned the cat once in nineteen ninety eight at six in the morning. And fans just latch on the stuff it is. It’s amazing and it’s fantastic. But I do it too. You know, a lot of comics we know each other by material.

We you know, it’s like do you know blah blah blah, And it’s like who and he does the thing about the cat drive in a car and you’re like, oh, yeah, I know that guy. You know, we remember that.

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And then the guys who I watched coming up Damarea, George Wallace, George Lop…

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News that the SPS. The other night, Chief star Travis Kelsey was up there with Heidi Gartner, you know her from Saturday Night Live, and Gardner made the following joke, I got kicked out of Chris Paul’s birthday party because I wasn’t invited. Camera cuts to Chris Paul. He has no idea what she’s talking about. That was a little weird.

Last week, a clip from the nineteen ninety eight SPS circulated on Twitter. The clip featured the Heisman Trophy winner that year, Charles Woodson. Nor McDonald gave the monologue and he said, there’s Charles Woodson. How about that he became the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. Congratulations Charles.

That’s something no one ever can take away from you, unless you kill your wife and waiter. The New York Times had profiled Matt Rife. Matt talked about a recent career highlight that was performing in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with Dave Chappelle and said, we just smoked and talked for like four hours, and he gave me thirty years worth of advice. Chappelle emphasized the important staying true to yourself and not adhere to industry your network standards. Even today, fighting cancel culture with every show he does.

I’d just admire him for that so much. Jim Gaffigan put out a YouTube short joking about the origins of Mount Rushmore. He said, last spring break, we went to Mount Rushmore. That’s the most applause. Mount Rushmore’s gun And I feel sorry for Mount Rushmore.

People used to go there on their honeymoon. Now I bring up Mount Rushmore and people look at me like I’m talking about a TV show that was canceled ten years ago. Is it’s still going on? Yeah, it’s a mountain. It’s still going on.

You know what. It’s beautiful. Jim continued, And the Black Hills of South Dakota are sacred to the Lakota Indians, and out of respect, our government car four white guys in one of the mountains. Another gift you guys. These guys were all about freedom, especially the two guys that own sleeves.

Gabriel Iglesias has canceled his show at SRP Park in Augusta that was scheduled for August sixteenth. The reason given scheduling conflict. That’s always interesting to me. John Marco Serezi. I’ll have an interview with him on the podcast this week.

He’s up at JFL, which kicks off tomorrow. Jamarco said, I was always at theater kid. I went to college from musical theater. I do a lot of clubs in New York. That’s kind of where I grew up as a comic.

And you’re at these stages that are a couple of bricks thrown together and you’re elevated half an inch off the stage. And being at JFL and being at these big, massive theaters, Suddenly all these dance classes that I took in, all the thousands of dollars that amounted to nothing in my acting career, suddenly, oh, I finally for him to move. When I got on the stage at JFL, I thought, oh, this is where I can shine. This is where I can’t be too much. And I plan to really test that theory this year.

He’ll be on the for the Culture Show, and given his heritage listed as Jewish Italian, bad Feeling asked him who he’s representing. Trenmarco said, I’ve yet to hear from JFL on which side. They want me to talk up more, but I’ll do whatever they want. I probably have more Jewish materially because right now it’s a contentious time. I was in Houston and I said I’m Jewish.

Someone in the audience went yuck, wow. But the joke’s on him because that’s Hebrew for a great job. I think that’s probably the side that’s going to come out the most. Trenmarco talked about incorporating more crowd work into his sets, and he said, I think originally I leaned and because you know, it’s a very weird time to be a comedian. You have to have constant output because you don’t necessarily want to put out all your material.

And I think I saw one or two shows where I saw an audience member whisper a punchline to their friend, and I said, all right, that’s it. No more posting my current material online. I’m just leaving in the crowd work. And it was hard at first because the reason I became a stand up comedian was because in conversations I like to be the only one talking. But I found it just keeps me in the moment, you know, I get bored doing the same joke every time when you’re talking to some when you feel alive, because it could go south.

You know, I might say to someone, oh, your parents are divorced, and they’ll go my dad killed my mom. Then I have to think, how do I make this funny? How do I stay on the edge. And that keeps you feeling alive, that keeps you feeling scared in a good way. So I really do enjoy mixing it in when I feel like I’m ready to take the risk just for laughs announced a bunch of new shows.

Just In Rin Wilson added as an award recipient. He’ll win the Comedy Impact Award. Some of the other recipients, Quentin Brunson is the Comedy Person of the Year, presented by romy Yusef. Bert Kreisher is the Stand Up Comedian of the Year, presented by Neil Brennan. Ronny Chieng is the Breakout Comedy Star of the Year, presented by Rashid Baduri.

May Martin is your Rising Comedy Star of the Year, presented by Carolyn Taylor. JFL also announced Surrounded an electrifying comedy show where the audience is the material. Today’s best comedians take the stage with nothing more than the Mike and their wit, turning everyday interactions into memorable punch lines. With no script or pre planned jokes, we guarantee a night of hilarious improvisation, one of a kind of moments, and a various laughter and a new Chicago comedy festival got announced. It’s the inaugural three twelve Comedy Festival.

The initial lineup includes Napri Gatzy, Nicole Bayer, Jeff Ross, Russell Peters, Ari Shaffier, Dan Cummins, John Christ, Craig Robinson, Chad Daniels, and Jamie Lizzau. The festival will run November first through the fourth, so that somewhat overlaps with the New York Comedy Festival. That is interesting. Nate Brigatzy’s at the Chicago Theater November third through the fifth, Russell Peters at the Rosemont on November fourth, John Christ at rialto Square on the third, Ari’s at the VIC on November fourth, Nicole Bayer on the third at Riviera, Jeff Ross Park West November first, Craig Robinson November fourth, Park West, dand Commins at the VIC November third. Chad Daniels November two through the four at the improv and Jamie Lizzau at Zenie Chicago and Zenie’s Rosemond.

On the third and the fourth, Harrison Ford was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and gave Conan the Business a little bit. They were playfully arguing about Harrison Ford’s ancestry, which led Conan to consult some info he had jotted down prior to the interview. Conan said, I refer to you to this piece of paper right here says born and raised in Chicago to an Irish German father. Harrison leaned over to take a look at Conan’s notes and then interrupted Conan and Harrison pointed out the notes included a reminder that Ford played Han Solo in Indiana Jones. Harrison said, well, if that’s the quality of your research, and I imagine it is, because right there it says Harrison Ford, and you had to write Han Solo.

You can’t remember that. Conan said, no, I can’t. I can’t remember Han Solo. I wrote it down because I heard you were in some of the Star Wars films, and this was news to me because I’ve seen those films and I don’t exactly think that you pop. I’m sorry, I mean, I remember Chewbacca, I remember the bad guy with the black helmet, and then there’s some people.

Harrison then said, how come you’re still not on TV? Conan shot back. He came on my show many times on the late night show, and over the years, people would say, who’s one of your favorite guests, and I would say Harrison Ford because he’s so funny. You’re so hilariously funny, and you toss me around like a rag doll on those shows, and there’s some of my favorite segments of all time. You are hilarious man, and I always love being around you.

Nocturnal caught up with Otsko at Katza nast her If you were not a comedian, why did I almost lip in a Mitch headbook there? If you are not a comedian, is there not fashion? I think it’d be well suited for Otsco said, ah, I have no other skills. I’ve been notoriously fired from every other job I’ve had. What’s the closest thing new comedian?

I did study psychology a little bit too, but that’s scary. Like imagine you show up to your session and the chair turns around and it’s me, Hi, I’m your therapist and that your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, smash the light button. Huh see you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. The New York Times did a long profile of Matt Rife, and they wrote, after eleven years and clubs, Matt Rife was selling around seventy tickets per show. He wasn’t even a big enough name last summer to get an invitation to just for laughs in Montreal. He decided to go anyway.

He said, last July, I was in Montreal for a festival I wasn’t invited to. I had to fly myself out, put myself up for no pay. I was sitting there at dinner with my friend and my manager, and I was going to post a video of crowd work. I was watching it and I was like, this is so stupid. What am I even doing this?

The video in question was Matt in Phoenix going back and forth with a female audience member who said she had broken up with her boyfriend because, as she put it, he didn’t do anything when he came home from his job. During the exchange, we find out the woman’s ex was an emergency room worker, and Matt said, oh, I’m sorry you broke up with a hero. That got a lot of laughs. Rife posted the video it got twenty million views in two or three days. Matt says it became this massive chain reaction and explosion of an audience.

From then on, every video I posted went viral. He announced his problematic world tour last month. He sold out two hundred and sixty dates in North America, Europe and Australian forty eight hours, six hundred thousand tickets in all wow, some resale tickets going for five hundred dollars two Taylor Swift Times ran right at it, though, and wrote despite the countless hours he spent at the mike, his popularity may have as much to do with his cheekbones as his comedic chops. Tall and strikingly handsome, with blue eyes at chills of jawline and full lips, Rife is something rare in the comedy world. A heart throb, he has played his looks to his advantage.

A black and white, glossy photograph on his website shows him shirtless and tattooed and a bad boy pose. His hair is always artfully tasseled, like that of a boy band member. He wears rolled of t shirts on stage that show off his tone biceps. His fans tend to be young and female. I asked my daughter as if they knew who he was, they knew who he was.

The Time says his club dates are often more Magic Mike than Comedy Central presents. He titled his first YouTube special Only Fans because people were searching Matt Rife Only Fans on the internet. That show got eight and a half million views. Rife said his sex appeal, like his career surge, is relatively new. He describes himself as a late bloomerd.

Photos from me a few years ago show a gangly looking youth whose strong jaw, high cheekbones, and jaggersesque lips had yet to coalesce into a pleasing hole. Rights The Times, Rife said, I was luckily for so long. I spent the first twenty two years of my life building a personality for what you think I need to be Funny now sounds a cool guy. He’s self aware. That’s nice.

Nimesh Patel talked to High Times, your home for comedy. He was about bombing. Nimesh said bombing knights are often talked about because they teach you a lot, but killing it on stage could be just as informative. When you’re in the zone and everything’s clicking. It gives you a surge of confidence.

You learn how to capture that momentum and use it to your advantage, like during a new tags or tweaking jokes on the spot. It’s about harnessing that energy and being able to replicate it even on nights when you’re not killing. Having the confidence to try new things, explore different angles comes from those successful moments on stage. So there are valuable lessons to be learned from both bombing and killing. Harry Conabolo was on with John Marcos Serresi on his podcast, and I found this fascinating.

I gotta get Horry on because Harry and I both grew up in the same neighborhood and Queens. I’d just find him very interesting. He said, I’ve never smoked weed. I’ve never wow. I’m a square, old school square to me.

That’s fascinating for comedian. Harry said, I felt I was always a quote unquote good boy, you know, but at the same time, just the idea of losing control in any way always made me feel uncomfortable. And I don’t think I ever had friends with the type that would be adventurous. I made a TV pilot, where I do things I’ve never done before for the first time. The other episodes were going to be swimming and driving.

I haven’t done a lot of things. I can’t swim, I can’t drive. I’ve never been on a roller coaster. I’ve never done yoga. I’ve never been to a strip club.

I’ve never smoked weed. Stand up is one of the few things I know how to do, to be perfectly honest. The Harold Scotland asked some comedians performing at the Edinburgh Fringe about cancel culture. Alison Spittle said culture wars are for people too much time on their hands and grifters. Comics wine about free speech because they can’t use slurs without being called out.

I don’t believe in culture war. People want tolerance, some want nothing to change. What are they protecting top gear using the word gay negatively? It’s passe society changes. Sachen Kumarandran says, I was recently booked for a rugby club dinner armed with zingers.

I look forward to in good humor roasting the sport. One audience member elected to on stage grabbed me and threatened to throw me out. Fortunately de escalated. There’s some old proverb about a single snowflake causing an avalanche. This one could have people objecting to me.

Saying anything is incredibly rare. When it has occurred, it’s predominantly middle aged men. So comedy demonstrates the representations of culture war, populist archetypes of who’s offended often aren’t true. In my experience, making fun of rugby is statistically the most offensive topic. Comedian Finjiwe said comedy is best friends with tragedy.

When used right, it’s the greatest tool for progressive change. Humor challenges people to address social issues. Coming from South Africa, comedy played a big role in addressing issues politics failed to address my comedy. Rule number one, if you can’t say it in front of the person you’re talking about, don’t say it. Rule two.

If it’s not your lived experience, don’t decide how people who lived it should feel. Your comedians not judges. When a parteid censorship ended, South African freedom of speech turned to new leaf, comedy is one of the main things uniting us. Where Rich and Port laughed together, Comedy is cheaper than therapy, but as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine, except when you have diarrhea. Good news for the Fringe Fest.

Of all the Gordian reports. They were under some financial worries. Their previous sponsor, a TV channel Dave, pulled out, but they have new backers, Sky TV and DLT Entertainment, and the Victoria Wood Foundation wrote some checks. They’ll sponsor Best Show, Best Newcomer and Panel Prize awards. Nika Burns is the director of the Fringe It says I cannot thank them enough for responding so swiftly and decisively in the true spirit of Fringe.

Burns has been running the awards since nineteen eighty four, when Obscure California called the Brass Band one and We’re never heard of again. The BBC announced some news shows to air on Radio four. These will air Fridays at six thirty, which in the States would be just an awful time to air anything. Maybe these will also live on the BBC APP. I imagine, I assume, I hope They’ll air on Friday evenings from July twenty eight to September one.

BBC suit says these specials will be broadcast in Radio force, popular Friday night comedy slot between the series of Dead Ringers and the news Quiz. Here are the shows. First up, the Newsmakers Rachel Paris will deliver her views on the new week’s news and then talk to the people at the center of those stories, all of whom are fictional and played by comedians. Number two, What Are You Talking About? Host Reyes James is joined by a gaggle of comedy’s fastest rising stars.

They’ll look at the news and ask why, how come and why though. Number three is Dom Jolly Breaks the News. Dom will host a mashup of Frank calls, interviews, and features. Tom is serious about tackling the act news of the week. He just wonders whether approaching it from a slightly different angle might give us some orange staying answer.

Fourth, the United Nations of News Rhea Lena leads up a crack team of comics from around the globe. Parts of the globe include Malawi, Spain, and Australia. Katherine Bohart show is called tl DRS in Too Long, Didn’t Read. She and her team will be digging deep into one big story that’s making the news that sounds little. John oliver Ish and The Naked Week host Andrew Hunter Murray strips away the filmsy covering in Jeer and not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news itself is packaged and presented.

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mac with your Daily Company News. Tom Sagoura caught up with Muscle and Fitness and they talked workouts. Tom said, I was two hundred and fifty five pounds the special. I say it was two hundred forty five pounds, but I’m lying.

I was two fifty five. The truth is, I don’t think it was actually very cool, but I was just kind of going along with it. I was thirty four when that was happening. It’s not a good thing, and I was completely sedentary at that time. If you go back and watch his specials in twenty sixteen’s mostly Stories, you’ll notice that he appears a little fitter.

His shoulders look broader than in twenty eighteen. Disgraceful, he revealed he had lost more than fifty pounds. Sigura said, everybody has their own number that’s permissible, where like after that their alarms go off. The thing that I’ve learned is there’s no end number, and that’s what took me a long time to figure out. Even now I’m in the two hundred pound range, like I kind of fluctuated, say between one nine eight and two oh five.

You don’t get to a number and go We’re done. It’s a constant thing. As cliched as it sounds, it’s literally a lifestyle. Part of the problem was the schedule, often doing two shows in a single day. You’d find he and his crew reading junk food late at night.

Now they try to eat between shows rather than eat in the middle of the night. It’s a very four departure from the way we used to do it. He suggests washing out for super coffees. They’re like, man, I love this chocolate squirreled thing with like caramel and I don’t know something else in it. And it’s just like, wow, it’s so crazy.

What’s in it? And they’re like, yeah, that’s how I get my day started. And I’m like, holy cow, man, it’s like you eat a whole cake. Here’s Sigoura’s training split. While on tour, Monday, we do chest and back Tuesday forty five to sixty minutes exercise bike for cardio.

Wednesday heavy day legs, back and arms, squats, deadlifts Thursday, forty five to sixty minute jogger exercise bike, Friday arms core and mobility Saturday light cardio. When he’s home, he has his own gym set up with a pellets on dumbbells and kettlebells and a wall mounted tonal resistant machine. Of course, says I love it. Fatherly focused on Christa Stephano the Parents. Recently on his podcast Chrissy Kaos, the Stephanote talked about the half weekday mornings that come with having three kids.

We have the twelve year old waking up, lady’s gonna miss the bus. We have him, my eight year old waking up right on time. She doesn’t want to do anything, she doesn’t want to do her hair, she doesn’t want to eat. Then we have the two year old waking up who’s just being too a crazy, drunk, lunatic person yelling, screaming, wants to be held, wants to be put on the floor, and she bites. There’s a lot of chaos going on.

We start yelling at each other. You only get the kids spreading on the bus. It always turns negative, sending him out in the world on the bus. He realized responding to chaos with chaos wasn’t going to get a positive reaction. It said, hey, let’s use these moments of crisis to show the children how you react.

Her in a crisis because with children, they can’t really communicate. Their behavior is the language. How they’re behaving is what they’re telling you. So I’m like, Okay, they’re behaving in a way that maybe they’re hungry, maybe they have to use the bathroom, maybe they’re scared because they have a test. Whatever.

But he admits sometimes it doesn’t work. He said, for some reason today when I woke up, I was like f everything, and I went just back to doing what I did last month and went back to the old me. Jeff Foxworthy said, somebody asked him, what do you think about before you walk out on stage? And Jeff said, I’m always kind of reminding myself, Okay, everybody you’re looking at is going through something a physical struggle, a financial struggle, and emotional struggle. And so my whole life has just been be nice to people, be kind of people, because you don’t know their story, you don’t know what they’re dealing with.

I don’t think laughter makes people struggles go away, but laughter is like the release valve that keeps the boiler from exploding. Now, as much as any time in my career, I have more people coming back after show and going, oh my gosh, I can’t remember the last time I laugh like that, which for comics like the ultimate compliment, because you know, for just a little bit, you made them forget about all the bad stuff, you know, just for a little bit so correct or incorrect. I think it’s almost therapeutic these days. He found the two year pandemic break weird for me. I didn’t get up on stage for almost two years, and I just missed it every week.

I think my wife missed me doing it. After a while, She’s like, don’t we have somewhere to go to do a show. I’ve learned to still be very grateful to be doing it since we’ve been back, because I still love it. I mean, I always think I’m the luckiest guy in the world because I’ve made a living doing something I would have done for free. I just kept my mouth shut when they offer to pay me.

I can’t imagine not doing it. I know I probably don’t have many years left to do it, so I’m gonna shaate them while I’ve got them. Susie Eddie Azzard has announced an autumn tour offering revamped versions of the greatest hits of her thirty five years stand up career. Zard will revisit routines like Darth Vader and mister Stephen in the Death Star Canteen, the Monkey and the Tree from French Lessons, and the Pair that Never seemed to ripen Zord said, in the first thirty five years of my stand up career, I came up with many weird and crazy comedy stories. The ones I liked the best will be in my twenty twenty three live remixed tour.

Legendary punk rock label Kill rock Stars has announced the relaunch of Kill rock Stars comedy. Pap Johnson’s album Simeless will come out Friday, August eleventh. Kill rock Stars has previously released albums by folks like w Kmanbell, Cameron Esposito, Harry Knobolo, Kurt Brunoller, Ian Carmel, Emily Heller, and Moore. That’s a great list, one of the suits over there says, Kill rock Stars is comedy. We started as a spoken word label and expanding to comedy was a natural move.

Comedy is the new punk rock and this excellent, hilarious Pap Johnson release marks the official reboot of our comedy program On Sinless. Oakland native Pap Johnson shares with you his uniquely hilarious perspective on life, death, race, social grace’s parenting, sex, relationships, and more. What We Do in the Shadows is back and Mark Proach, who plays the Energy Vampire well. He says, despite the series getting awards and nominations, he still makes more money off with his limited run on the Office than he does on a series that he’s in every episode of for five years. He told The Ramp, I make more from one season of guest starring on the Office than I made for every season of Shadows combined.

He’s been in over forty episodes of What We Do in the Shadows as Colin Robinson, the Energy Vampire. On the Office, he played Nate for nineteen episodes. Two of his co stars, Howrvey Gee and Kristin Shall, have echoed his concerns, emphasizing how actors are treated pretty poorly. Kristen said they don’t make enough money to have a living. The residuals on streaming are almost non existent, if at all.

I’ve definitely noticed it from doing voice over work in different things. If it’s a streamer, you get paid for the day, even if it’s a hit show. That’s not how people can make a living, and they shouldn’t have to. Kristen Shall described the current audition process, which requires performers to put themselves on tape like twenty times. She called it a full time job.

This started during COVID when everyone was social distancing. I know personally he’s some artists fund It’s just easier to do it from home. But then you get to do twenty revisions. Kristen said, just consider the norm because actors will do it. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming on for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcast. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, of York is getting ready to celebrate the thirty first Lucille Ball Festival August two through the sixth.

Pretty Good headliners too Gabriel Iglesias August third, Taylor Tomlinson August fourth. This year the festival’s comedy late night events at the Tropicana Club above the Lucy Desi Museum. That’s all fun. We’ll feature a variety of comedians performing new and edgier material. Free screening of classic I Love Lucy episodes on the outdoor jumbo screens, Lucytown tours and Lucy Legacy tribute events.

All the information on Comedy center dot org. Slash Festival. The New York Times profiled Comedy Bites. Who’s a group of comedians who call themselves an AI comedy collective. They’re going to perform at Crystal Lake that’s a barn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on July nineteenth.

What’s the format of the show. This is a lot of fun. In Round one, humans roast machines, machines roast humans. Round two humans verse specific AI celebrity and vice versa. Round three human versus an AI version of the human himself or herself.

One of the founders, Aaron Staple, said, I’m proud to say I successfully beat the AI. All three rounds. Battling myself was actually the hardest. The celebrity guest I had was Elizabeth Holmes. I work and tech myself during the day and kind of obsessed over the whole Theano story.

So it was really fun to be able to battle. Why was it hard to battle yourself? It got more personal than I thought, not in a bad way, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so pointed. There was a lot of like, your code isn’t even that good, and I’m like, oh man, that was spicy. And from the mirror a list of some license plates that have been deemed too rude or too controversial for your personalized plate.

I’ll read the number letter combinations and you can figure out what they are. All of these have seventy three as placeholders in the middle of it. Factor that in as you listen to me, read you alpha numeric combinations, So on the band list or as seventy three h O, L B U seventy three SHT and EA seventy three tc K. That last one made Johnny mc laugh. You cannot have EA seventy three poo and you cannot have t T seventy three TTS.

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The Shark Deck Hey Man. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Variety caught up with Mark Norman. He’s got a special coming to Netflix July twenty fifth. It’s called Soup to Nuts. Listen to this setup.

Since he was a kid, Mark Norman knew he was interested in comedy, but once his mother dulled out VHSS tapes of the Marks Brothers, Mark Norman’s mom did that, Yeah, it became an integral part of his life. After watching it, he soon discovered comedians, films, shows and specials from the past, all due to his mom. Mark said, I thought, this is great. It’s all jokes, it’s hilarious, still holds up. Then I went into a deep dive where you’re find Seinfeld, Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Edny Murphy not quite the Marks Brothers there, and then it was my whole world.

Mark said, I’m horrible at everything else, and I always love stand up. I always looked at Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor like being an astronaut. So I was terrified of it. But I was so utterless and broken at zero prospects that decided scart, I’ll try and open mic, and then I was hooked. I’m such a woe.

I’d go to open mics to watch. I was too scared to go on. I’d go to open mics and sign up and bail. I wouldn’t even go on. One day, I drove to Lafayette, Louisiana, got really drunk and went on there.

We went pretty well, and then I blacked out. They asked him the off Limits cancelation co Eston a lot of interviews, do Mark said, my attention is not to offend anybody, but I think dark stuff is funny. That’s why it’s so hard and frustrating when people get upset or offended, and they’re a lot to be offended, but you’re like, oh, I’m meant to bring a happy light to this. I didn’t mean to hurt anybody. I also think we’ve gotten this weird, almost a Pavlovian response to certain words.

It’s like you make a suicide joke and nobody cares, but you make a gage joke and they’re like, hey, they’re both jokes. I don’t know why you’re okay with me killing myself. I think we pick and choose weird stuff. It’s interesting, but I think it’s almost been conditioned us like, oh, this is bad, but this is okay. Well they’re both bad if you’re gonna get mad, get mad about all of it.

So ars Amada has a new comedy special. It’s titled The First Woman. It’ll be released via eight hundred Pound Gorilla on August fifteenth. It’ll show up on YouTube August twenty ninth. By the way, eight hundred Pound Gorilla bought website the Laugh Button.

They are really making a splash and comedy. They’re going for it. That’s good. They put out a lot of good stuff. The First Woman was taped at Union Stage in Washington, DC.

The one hour show sees am to disgust, gamming scam by dates, doing self stuff in cars, and being visited by witches in her sleep. Wasn’t expecting that middle part there. Rolling Stone caught my eye with the headline disgraced comedians are looking for a second chance on threads. All right, who were the disgraced comedians? And there’s a picture of two comedians, one of them Chris Delia, all right, he has been somewhat disgraced and Dane Cook.

And I’m like why Dane Cook? Dan Cook isn’t disgrace. Stay with me. We’ll get to that, but first, Chris Dalia posted on threads Okay, I’m on threads, and he followed up his first post with a link to his website, writing some toor dates rolling Stone reminds us and a recent rolling Stone report, ten women came forward to accuse Delia of emotional abuse and sexually predatory behaviors. Some were teenagers when they allegedly had unsettling encounters with the comedian rights rolling Stone.

The FBI has conducted in interviews with his accusers, but Dalia continues to deny their claims. Rolling Stone continues. Two stand up comedians who made it big and TV but saw their careers take a hit. They’re on threads. They are Ellen DeGeneres and Carlos Smancio.

Okay, Ella and staff, that’s a bad things say about her? Carlos Smancia and joke thief for right, we know about those okay Mencia started on threads writing hopefully this isn’t as toxic as Twitter. He also promoted upcoming shows and TV appearances. Ellen quickly amassed one point five million followers on threads. She declared threats to be gay Twitter.

And here’s where I’m confused about Dean Cook and disgraced being in the same sentence. I don’t get it. Rolling Stone rights, but no embattled comedian has embraced Threads with the same gusto as Dan Cook and a lister of the mid Auts who sold that Arenas and what double Platinum with his two thousand and five live album retaliation between some Hollywood flops okay fair on stage, misogyny’s comedy, tasteless comments about a mass shooting I Don’t Remember that, and his own plagiarism scandal. Critics believe he stole material from Louis C. K.

Brogan has accused him of joke theft as well. Cook did his iffy reputation no Favors last summer when, at the age of fifty, he revealed he was engaged to his twenty three year old girlfriend Kelsey after five years of dating. Injinets, Lewis quickly figured out that Cook and non Taylor, since she was as young as seventeen and attending Cook’s game nights, which were frequented by underage girls as well as adults. That timeline and the eyebrow raising gap between Cook and Taylor at Twitter uses branding him a groomer, writes Rolling Stone on Threads. However, Cook is quite at home alternating between jokes, show his stories, and attempts at inspirational life advice.

Dane wrote, everyone deserves to be treated like an equal. Maybe your sole purpose in this life is knots to have one, but many at many times, with many others. Eight hundred band Guerrilla News formerly Left Button tells us about an Andy Kaufmann documentary That’s Great. Clay Tweel will direct the new documentary that will examine Calvin’s life and career. The documentary comes from Campfire Films in association with David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks production.

That’s Great. Andy’s nephew, Tyler, said, my uncle Andy was a comic genius who continues to inspire artists around the world. There’s never been anybody like him, and there never will be. He delighted and provoked and was just as comfortable creating anger and confusion as laughter. He made indelible impressions.

His work is as vibrant today as ever, and we’re thrilled to join this filmmaking team and bringing viewers a very intimate and comprehensive look into his life and career. Director Tweel said, I’ve always loved Andy because he was able to elicit such emotional reactions to his performances by using both appointed and the absurd to keep his audience off balance. I had an opportunity when we were at Serious we were going to do Andy Kaufman town hall. So Sirius XM, I think they still do it. We would do these town halls.

You’d have an artist up. I remember one time we had Henry Winkler and then Bruno Mars came by. That was pretty cool. Say you’d have an artist up and you’d have an audience up. So we were going to announce one that Andy Kaufman was going to do one, and Michael Kaufman, his brother who was in charge of the estate at the time, was willing to give us quotes from Andy saying that he was going to make this his return.

So we were going to do this thing. I had this idea that would ask Kristin schla hosted and we would just see what happens and see if we got some press out of it. And the bosses just did get it. That’s just there’s so many stories of things I wanted to do that nobody got anyway. The doc is being done with the Andy Kaufman estate, who’s given access to materials never before seen, such as private recordings.

Very cool. A lot of buzz about the Barbie movie, Well, Diablo Cody said, the Barbie movie that would have starred Amy Schumer was trying to have a girl boss feminists twist. She told the Hollywood Reporter the idea of an anti Barbie made a lot of sense given the feminist rhetoric of ten years ago. I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is. In the Scrapped Barbie script, Amy Schumer would have pooed the bed because executives wanted an anti Barbie narrative.

Diablo said, I think I know why she crapped the bed. When I was hired for this, I don’t think that the culture had not embraced the fem or the bimbo as valid feminist archetypes. Yet, if you look up Barbie on TikTok, you’ll find this wonderful subculture that celebrates the feminine. But in twenty fourteen, taking the skinny blonde, white doll, and making her into a heroin was a tall order. There was pressure to deliver the dramatic equivalent of matthe is hard.

I didn’t really have the freedom then to write something that was faithful to the iconography. They wanted a girl boss feminist twist on Barbie, and I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is. I made several swings at IP with Barbie and Powerpuff Girls, and I take full responsibility for the failures of those attempts because I do have a specific voice in point of view and I haven’t figured out how to modulate it. I mean, nobody wants to delve deeper into the lord mythos of Hungry Hungry Hippos. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz the glamor of the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football, with news and stories three times a week, come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts from DC is two weeks dozens of new shows. What to expect at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival.

Taking over four stages in an office building in Georgetown through j twenty third, the festival will present more than forty shows that are uniquely fringed the annual festivals. In its sixteenth inneration, bringing together roughly three hundred artists from the DC area and around the country, Capital Fringe founder Julianne Brienzas said, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Fresh Squeeze Lemonade will be available at multiple venues. DC Fringe has some of the highlights. They include ten Principles.

Here’s something you might not know. They’re a ton of Burning Man enthusiasts in the DC area. They’ve even got their own Facebook group, and we’ll hear true stories from some of the locals who’ve made the trek to the Nevada Desert to experience a full fledge thriving temporarily metropolis. That show runs every night. Lauren Hans’s solo comedy is called The Holy Oh, in which main character Vera contemplates becoming a nun, although she’s never considered celibsy to be one of her virtues.

That’s night through the sixteenth. Charlie Ross’s comedy in Magic a Magician never reveals the secrets, but this one instead shows off his ability to do tricks while telling revealing jokes. July fifteenth through the twenty third. Hey Pamela, Yes Pamela is a partly improvised two person play from Pamela Lehigh. It’s listed as a comedy, but DC has says it could be described as a thriller since one of the performers is given the script just twenty four hours ahead of each show.

Big Dad Energy, Kansas City based comedian Jimmie Campbell combined stand up and musical comedy to explain the confusing experiences of getting married in his forties and realizing he’ll never be a parent. That runs through the twenty third. This Is What You Look Like DC comedy troupe described as societal outcasts repaired to cringe as they dismantle your thoughts on everything from capitalism to Taylor Swift July twenty through the twenty third Who did it Well? If you’re a fan of detective games like Hunter Killer, this interactive comedies right up your ally. This improvised murder mystery allows the audience to set up the crime scene that one runs through July twenty second, and that it’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Busy one. Today, let’s start with the Emmy nominations. Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded the nominees Carol Burnett’s Ninety Years of Laughter, John Maliney for Baby Jay, Lizzo’s Live and Concert, Norman Lear One Hundred Years of Music, Trevor Noah’s I Wish You Would, Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer, Hm, I don’t have to give It’s Carol Burnett. There the comedy specials mentioned, I didn’t love any of them, Trevor being the best of them.

Okay. Outstanding Variety Talk Series Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kim Alive, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Problem with John Stewart. I suspect Trevor Noah will get it as a farewell gift and well earned. Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Only three up for nominations, A Black Lady Sketch Show Last Week, Tonight with John Oliver, and Saturday Night Live, which had a pretty poor season.

I think Oliver will take it there. Outstanding Variety Special Live super Bowl Halftime Elton john the Oscars Tony Awards. While you mentioned it, Johnny Mack Chris Rock’s selective outrage in that category. Interesting. I don’t know how to handicap that category at all.

Best Comedy Actor, Bill Hayter for Barry, Jason Siegel for Shrinking Martin, Short Only Murders, Jason Sadakis, Ted Lasso, Jeremy Allen White for The Bear. Interesting in nomination as a Comedic actor there, hm, I think Bill Hayter kind of crushed it. This season we’ll see Best Comedy Actress Christina Appligate Dead to Me, Rachel Brosnahan and Missus Mazel, Quinta Brunson Abbott, Elementary Natasha Leone, Poker Faced Jenna Ortega Wednesday. I could see Natasha taking it. People seem to really like that one.

Kamalan Gianni gets an Emmy nomination for Lead Limited Slash Movie Actor for Welcome to Chippendale’s Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and nominees Anthony Karagan for Barry, Phil Dunster, Ted Lasso, Bred Goldstein, Ted Lasso, James Morriston for Jury Duty Interesting Abon Moss Backer Rock for The Bear, Tyler James Williams for Abbott, Henry Winkler for Barry. People like Britt Coldstein Alta could see him taking it again. Supporting Actress in a comedy series Alex Bornstein for Missus Mazel, who had a berry for the bear she could win, Janelle James Abbott Elementary Shirley Ralph Abbott’s Juno temple ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham ted Lasso. They’re splitting the vote there. Jessica Williams for Shrinking and Outstanding Animated program.

The nominees are The Simpsons, Rick and Morty, Kennedy Tartakowski’s Primal Entergalactic and Bob’s Burger’s Two questions. Have you ever seen bobs Bergers? The answers no. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen bobs Bergers? The answers no, But the Academy will probably give it an Emmy who knows soccer Star and Megan Rapino taking some shots at Dave Schappelle.

She did a big interview with Time magazine. The Women’s World Cup is coming up, by the way, if you like the soccer. Mark Francis and I have teamed up on another podcast because we don’t have enough to do this. One is called the messy effect. So what we’re doing is we’re talking about Messi’s effect on coming to play soccer for MLS.

We’re not doing soccer nows. We’re talking about fashion and money and TV ratings and the prey they’re having this weekend. So the messy effect reever you get your shows. But Megan Rapino said, I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it’s verbal or otherwise, against trans people.

Megan is frustrated with policies targeting transgender athletes, saying it’s particularly frustrating when women’s sports is weaponized. Oh now we care about fairness. Now we care about women’s sports. That’s totaled bs and show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans and sports. It’s just not happening.

Dave Chappelle has not yet commented on Megan’s comments.

Also a big story the New York Comedy Festival.

They put out their initial list of shows a New York Comedy Festival and November third through the twelfth, it is bigger this year. It has expanded from seven nights to ten days. Listen to the headliners David Sell, Bill Burr, Nicole Bayer, Jimmy Carr, Margaret Show, Tim Dillon, The Giggly Squad, Alana Glazer, Brett Goldstein, Nate Jackson, Anthony Jesseneck, Mattee Lane, Sam Morrel, Nick Mullen, Adam Freedlan Osco at Coska, Pod Meats, World Done Rawlings, Jeff Ross, Robin Shaw, Daniel Sloss, and Michelle Wolf. That is a fantastic lineup. Carolyn Hirsch, founder of the New York Comedy Festival, said, We’re very excited to bring the best comedians from merging talent, to establish headliners from across the country, etcetera, ETCETERA quick look at the initial lineup.

Friday, November third, seven o’clock Daniel Sloss, eight o’clock Take a Banana for a Ride. That’s a one man show by Jeff Ross. Saturday the fourth, Jeff Ross again, Alana Glazer at Bam, Sam Marill at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Sunday the fifth. I’m hoping to run the marathon that day, so no comedy for me that day or the night before Jeff Ross again and the Robin Shaw Experience at town Hall two days off and then Wednesday of the eighth Margaret Show at town Hall, Nick Mullen and Adam Friedland at town Hall.

Thursday the Ninth Pod meets World of town Hall. Donnel Rawlings at the hard Rock, Jimmy Carr at Carnegie Hall. I might have to go do that one, Giggli Squad at Beacon Theater, and Nate Jackson at nine forty five. I’m not sure where he’s playing. Friday the tenth, Donnelle Rawlings at the hard Rock, Brett Goldstein at the Beacon Theater, Jesselynik at Carnegie Hall, Michelle Wolf at town Hall, Bill Burr at Madison Square Garden, and that being the main Madison Square Garden, not the theater at Nicoll.

Bayer at the Apollo, David Tell and Friends at town Hall, Tim Dillon Carnegie Hall Wow. Saturday eleventh, Otsco at town Hall, Donelle at the hard Rock, and mattel Lane’s Al Dente Tour at Carnegie Hall. Bert Kreischer is up to something. This from the Las Vegas Weekly Review. Apparently Bert is working on a few projects all on hold because of the writer strike.

He says, they’re all exciting for very different reasons. I can’t really talk about any of them, but one is an indie project, one is with a really big dude who reached out the day in my film premiered and said I want to do a movie with you, and one is with my best friend. Presumably that’s the Tom Siguarre project, and the TV project is going to be a blast. Did you know Gilbert Godfried could draw? Sixteen year old Lily Godfried is the narrator of the Secret Talent of Gilbert Godfrey, a new short film that she also wrote and directed.

Lily says he probably knew my dad Gilbert Godfried as the famous comedian actor, but nobody knew he was also a really talented artist. As a kid, Gilbert’s earlier report cards were littered with complaints from teachers who complained about his lack of effort and his quiet, introverted personality. Yeah, in real life, that’s what Gilbert was like, very soft spoken man in real life. But one teacher recognized Gilbert had a gift for arts, cartooning in particular, and advised the family and encouraged the emerging talent. Grahama signed him up for art classes, where he learned to make masks and puppets that populated shows he put on for his family.

Gilbert dropped out of school at age fifteen, Torn between a career and stand up and art. He spent his day’s drawing and his nights on stage. His sister Karen said, here’s what I sometimes think about Gilbert. People say the left part of the brain is more suited to mathematics and the writers are creative side. Well, Gilbert’s right must have been huge because he had all that creative energy.

Cartoonist Drew Friedman describes Gilbert’s artwork as insane, twisted, sweet and beautiful and vile fevered. Gilbert’s father was a bit taken back by the sexual limergy that sometimes showed up in the drawings. Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of us soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. Tigna Sorrow will headline the twenty twenty three Rochester Fringe Festival. This is September sixteenth, Shall be there. Festival producer Erica Fee said, I’m absolutely thrilled to announced Tignatoro as our comedy headliner.

Tig is an absolute comedy legend, and I know that Rochester will show her in enthusiastic welcome. That reminds me to take a look at the boom Chicago comedy festivals. That in Chicago, Johnny mc No, it’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. Let’s see tonight at seven Music Improv Spectacular seven thirty, The Dutch Comedy All Stars, nine o’clock, The Shuman Show.

What’s that? No information when I click it? It’s just this Shuman Show, all right? And at nine thirty The United Nations of Comedy. Friday seven o’clock Stay Jam, a musical improv solo show seven thirty Best of La Comedy Stand Up nine o’clock, The Headliners, nine thirty Improv Adventure, eleven o’clock, the naughtily titled kunnelinga Show Snatch Game Edition.

All right, that sounds naughty. Nocturnal caught up with Osco at Katsa about the deodorant show she did that I told you about. It was that a week or two ago? It’s been a minute anyway. Osco apparently got paid by the Deodora Comedy to do a comedy show.

Osco said, yeah. I talked about how I was the seconds Asian American female to have a stand up special on HBO, and the first one was market Show who still had arm pits stains on her clothes in the special. It’s still there if you want to go back and watch it. I talked about how it took twenty two years for the second person me to get a special. So you know, it’s little hurdles like that that aren’t blatant in your face.

You go, okay, society still catching up. How long did it take Osco to come up with material for deodorant special? It took me a few days. You know, usually you tour an hour of stand up touring right now, with an hour of stand up a new hour after my special, but usually it takes months, sometimes like a year to develop an hour. It was a forty five minutes set about stories of sweat and puberty, going through changes and antipersprint.

I did that in like three days. I wouldn’t say it was the best stuff, and like I could just put it out as a special tomorrow. So ideally I’d like to be able to work on a longer But because I was able to be more personal about the stories, like embarrassing stories of sweat or embarrassing stories of me trying to cover up my order when I was growing up in the American Girl book I taught to teach me about this stuff. But because it was personal stories, I think it came quicker than say, just talking science. And the science was really fascinating behind y’d earned products that also helps, Like I didn’t know about the milky colored sweat.

I was like, gosh, the things we go through as people with bodies. So yeah, it wasn’t too hard to come up with material for it. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. Smash like button, tell a friend all that see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah tweets Threads versus Twitter. I’m on threads for the same reason I support King Kong. Sometimes you just need another monster to keep tweet Zilla in check. Hmm.

I watched a bunch of comedy specials. I know, right, Let’s start with Tom Sagora Sledgehammer best special of the year. His stage presence is great, the materials great, his pacing is great. A couple of laugh out louds love it. That’s number one.

I’ll redo the rankings in a second. Kevin Harts, what’s that one called reality check? I wasn’t feeling it. I think a lot of people will really enjoy it. I felt Kevin’s body language was selling the material, and it’s interesting.

I was listening to an interview with the Loudons of Bodin where he was talking about on one of his recent specials, he just wanted to get back to standing in front of a microphone and not selling the jokes with his body language. And I listened to the interview after I watched Kevin. When I watched Kevin, I think Friday Night, I was like, I don’t know what’s wrong here. I’m just it just felt off to me.

And then when I heard that interview, I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Kevin selli…

I just felt like the laughs outweighed the material. Like I said, a lot of people are going to like that special it’s on Peacock. I wasn’t feeling it. I did enjoy Nimesh Patel’s Lucky Lefty. That one’s on YouTube.

Was really digging that. It got a little long because it’s single topic about its testicular cancer. So after a while I just wanted to do something else, but that one’s really good. And Jimmy O Yang’s Special guess how much that’s on Amazon. I like that a lot.

Now this is personal taste. It is not the funniest special you’ve ever seen, but it was really good company, really easy on the ears. I just enjoyed watching, and I liked Jimmy a lot. I’d laughed out loud a few times, but I’m not going to tell you a pound for pound it’s the best special I’ve ever seen, but I really liked it. But Tom Segura is number one.

So here on the fly, let me update my comedy rankings for twenty twenty three. Let’s see the Sagoora takes over the one spot, knocking Kyle Kanine down to two. I’m typing into my document as I do this. Nate BERGATSI number three. Jay McBride was really good.

Jim Jeffries Horry is better than any of these that I talked about. Chris Rock special roast of mister Peanut. Okay, I’m going to put Jimmy O. Yang’s guess how much ahead of the roast of mister Peanut, which now falls to nine. Big Jay Okerson now at ten.

Nimesh is better than Sarah, so he’s now the eleven that makes Sarah fall to twelve. John Early falls to thirteen. Not adding to the list, Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart joined some big hitters, Amy Schumer, John Malaney, Lewis Black, Hannah Gasby, Mark Marin, Andrew Santino, Bert Kraisher, Greg Warren, and Kevin Hart not on my best of lists. Just one dude in the basement.

Your experience may vary. From the Independent comedian Scott Thompson, you know him as Carrot Top. He alleged that he was on board the American Airlines flight where a woman appeared to accuse a fellow traveler of being knots real, and Carrot Top says the incident may have been caused by a lost earbud. There’s a viral video a woman can be seen walking down the aisle of a full flight while screaming about her reasons for getting off the plane. She says, I’m telling you I’m getting the f off, and there’s a reason I’m getting the f off, and everyone can either believe it or not believe it.

I don’t give to you us what I’m telling you right now that mffort back there is not real. A spokesperson for American Airlines said American Airlines flight one thousand nine let service from Dallas Fort Worth two Orlando, returned to the gate due to a disruptive customer. The flight was met at the gate by local law enforcement and the customer was removed from the flights. Carrot Top posted the now viral video with the caption my flight, this is on my airplane. He then turned the camera towards himself and said this is why wall sitting here and effing Dallas now because she lost her earbud.

Karrots Hop did update us and said, hi everyone just want to let you know I’m made it home. I give my hats off to everyone at American Airlines for how they handled that situation with that nut job, but just lost her mind in front of the whole plane. Five hours later, we’re here in Orlando. He expressed his hope that the woman in question was having a relaxing evening behind bars in Dallas, Texas. Hope you enjoyed your little stunt.

THEO Vaughan’s podcast this past weekend had an episode removed from YouTube. That was the Rosanne bar episode that I told you about maybe a week ago. Roseanne had made some Holocaust jokes. YouTube said the comments violate its content policies. Quote this video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.

Vaughan responded and said, my podcast with Rosanne was removed from another platform, so I wanted to be able to live somewhere, and he posted it on Twitter. It got more than seventy million views. Seventy million views on Twitter. Elon Musk commented said comedy is legal on this platform. Vaughan had earlier said a clip was taken out of a long sarcastic ranch she had during our chat, can we not recognize sarcasm anymore?

Sarah Silverman is suing the company behind chat GPTT. The plaintiffs alleged that, when prompted, chat gpt will produce a summary of their works. They claimed this is copyright infringement and that they did not get sent to their books being fed to chat gpt. That will be interesting. Chelsea Handler had a new gig.

She was a bartender at the Springsteen concert in London. She posted a video on her Insta She was pouring a cocktail on dancing to Springsteen, who can be seen performing and huge monitors behind her. She also held out a cup that said tips for Chelsea. Kevin Hard is bringing back Beet’s Comic View. This version will be hosted by Mike Abs.

New episodes featuring Tommy Davidsons, to Kara Williams, Tony t Roberts, reach A Webb, DC, Young Fly, and rapper t I will make his televised stand up comedy debut. Kevin Hart said, I’m thrilled a partner with Beet for the return of Comic View. Having hosted Comic View in the past, I understand firsthand the incredible platform this franchise offers for comedians to showcase their talents on a national stage, and I’m excited to continue that tradition. Let’s stop off on gossip corner. Matt Rife, he got a big profile in the New York Times.

We’ll talk about that on the weekend. While he apparently has moved on from his fling with actress Lucy Hale, matt Rife now connected to find me in Paris actress Jessica Lord. This, according to page six. Page six says that matt Rife is smitten, pulling out all the stops to see her, admitst his career taking off, even though he’s on a busy tour. Any downtime he has, he spends with Jessica Lord, even if he takes long car rides for just a short period of time together.

My former co worker Jamie Fox looks like he’s doing okay. This is what I’ve been waiting for. TMZ has published footage of Jamie Fox waving while on a boat on the Chicago River. A source close to Jamie and his camp tells people, Jamie’s doing great. He’s taking it easy.

He’s not really having any visitors or anything like that. But he’s doing really well. Good to see him out and about. John Mulaney shared a tribute to Olivia Month on her forty third birthday and on his institch on captioned, thank you for another year of laughing like dummies, parenting like teenagers, and always looking for your glasses. They’re in your lap just for laughs.

Montreal has announced some more shows James Davis, you know him from his show Hood Adjacent, which was on Comedy Central and twenty seventeen. They’ve also added late Night down Under It Off JFL a night of Ozzie and Kiwie comedians. That’s Cool. The Nasty Show is Back, hosted by Mike Wardo, will feature Donnel Rowling, Steptlev, Adrian Appalucci, Jeffrey Asmus and Dino Archie. I’m actually scheduled to speak with Adrian today, so I’ll share that with you in an upcoming days Just for the Culture is Back, formerly known as The Ethnic Show, hosted by Alonzo Bowden.

I’m also speaking to Alonzo today. That’ll feature Zorna garg John Marcos SERRESI who I’m talking to I think tomorrow, Joel Nicole, Johnson, Judy Gould, Arthur Simeon and Malik Ellasal.

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Meanwhile, a new comedy festival, the laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival, wil…

This new comedy festival will bring over twenty five comedians from across the country for a four day event featuring six stand up comedy showcases, each headline by a nationally touring comedian at Best of the Fest Showcase, and an open Mike. Headliners for the inaugural festival include Ben Roy, John Novasad Jane Burris, Jocelyn Sharp, aj Finney, and Neil Rubinstein. The festival will also feature some of Colorado’s finest up and coming comedians along with comedians from across the country. Laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival August third through the sixth in downtown Loveland, Colorado. And that is your comedy news for today.

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