Month: July 2023

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The Shark Deck something a little different today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today is a forty minute interview with Jackie the Jokeman Martling why he’s got that new documentary. It’s called joke Man. It’s out on July eighteenth, And I reached out to Jackie and he got back to me within ninety seconds.

It said yeah, sure, I’ll do it, So we did it here. I could have talked to him forever. I had so many questions left over. He’s such a good guy. Even before I could send him to thank you email, he had reached out to me in text and thanked me.

I hope to have him on again because there’s so much I didn’t get to. So I’m gonna jump right in here. I will warn you it’s a little naughtier than usual. Some of the language, some of the topics, a little naughtier than usual. So if you usually listen to Daily Comedy News with your five year old, maybe not today.

Nothing too bad, but not today. Joke Man out July eighteenth on Apple, iTunes and Amazon. Go to jokemanmovie dot com for the latest information jokemanmovie dot com. Here’s my interview with Jackie to joke man Martling. When you agreed to do this, I’m like, you know, I’m not gonna be like, hey, tell me about the show.

What else can I ask him about? I started thinking about your music. I gotta tell you, I’m not just feeding your line. That thinking about you song. Even before I watched the doc, I remember it that existed.

I’ve been walking around for five six days humming that. I was doing the yard work this morning, and I’m like Dunn and then and then that thing is canchy. Why did you do a clean version and give it to like Jimmy Buffett. It is. It’s just such a wonderful thing, the way it came about and everything.

Actually for the kid’s version called Saturday. But I’ve been meanning to go in and record it because instead of I’m a smoke because you can say you’re smoking pot. Now sure you know what I mean, So I can say I’m smoking pot, I’ve got my cocktail, which is which is perfect. But then the song just goes so far into the rabbit hole. But it doesn’t have to.

Oh, it could just be silly things, you know. I’m on the lawn, pick up my nose. I’m thinking about you. It doesn’t have me dirty. Yeah, So we’ll take your compliment and I will take it to the bank.

That’s what I was trying to get a songwriter’s credit. I was thinking, I’ve got my phone out, so when you get the Grammy, I get a piece. There you go. That song was up for an avy And Award. My buddy Eric Middleman was editing a porn film for this very good friend of his.

Her husband edited all the cartoons and pictures for Hustler magazine for twenty five years and he passed away and left her a lot of money and her one desire. Erica McClaine was the direct a porn movie, and she directed a porn movie called Pink Pigs or whatever it was, and he was editing it and I went out to visit him and he said, I’m editing this Eric’s porn movie and I’m running the credits. Can I run your song on the credits? And like, of course, so we put her on there and the thing gets nominated for an av En Award. And I find out that the guy who was in charge of that is what’s his name’s brother either Richie Kannada or the other.

One of the members of the Billy Joel bar and I said, that’s so great, and then we went out to the awards show. It turns out it was one of seventeen nominations and it’s one of those awards that they don’t give at the awards show. It’s like a technical award in that genre. So they gave out the award in the afternoon. Of course it didn’t win, but it was Yeah.

I got the guy’s names. They’s such a good friend. It was his brother. I said, I can’t believe he used my song. He said, Jackie, I heard that song.

I put it in. I had no idea it was written by you. He said, I just liked the song so much, which is very flattering. Well, of course it didn’t win, but being nominated for an AVM Award and nobody has to know the detail. So I found myself.

That’s the Adult Video News if I’m remembering AVN Awards. I found myself in Vegas at those awards one year. But serious, they got you doing all kinds of things. We’re out there, we’re broadcasting it, and we had a big round table and everybody’s getting up there and it’s the nominees for whatever disgusting combination you want to come on. Unbelievable.

The titles of the movies had all those great puns take a real movie and make it dirty. They’re getting up there, they’re taking it seriously. So anyway, they give us a gift and I go back to the hotel room and I open it up and it’s a glass fallast. I’m trying to keep it clean, and I’m like, and I’m like, what am I gonna do with this thing? I’m like, I’m not bringing it home.

I’m not bringing it on the plane. There’s a very obvious answer to that. I went to Ours Awards a couple of times, and of course all those porn fans are you Howard Stern fans? And I was with I don’t know, one of the a couple of our higher ups. And because it was started when it was a pamphlets, when the AVN News, the Adult Video News was a pamphlet, they came on The Stern Show like nineteen eighty six and Howard made fun of pull what’s his name, because you’re an idiot.

You’re an idiot. And five years later he’s a multi zillionaire with this huge award show. But we’re walking down and the red carpet wound all the way around the Venetian. It was huge, and the fans were like six or eight deep the whole length. I’m like, now these I thought Stern show fans would these people?

And of course they all know I wasn’t a Jaggie. That was the amazing thing was we went in and the awards are interminable. It must have been four hours. I want to thank Mother and Jesus for this triple at no like crazy, And when we left, those people were all still there. When we walked back down the red carpet, I’m like, now that is some fans.

Holy mackel, I like that packed some punch. Those Avian Award full red carpet. The year I went, the house band was smash Mouth, actual smash mouth, Like they’re not messing around. No, if Paul Fish bind, Paul fishbind. He just it was red hot, so long I got it.

He’s probably still red hot. I won a couple of years. Oh it’s so funny because there was this really pretty girl. My friend Toby Ludwig came with me and we’re looking around and we found out we weren’t going to be far of the awards. If we win, we’re not even going to know it.

And so we’re staying around though, with all the stars or whatever. Kimperton and I start talking to this girls. She’s so cute and I had somebody to take my picture with her with the iPhone, but I don’t know from porn. And I go home and I show it to Ian, my partner on Jackie’s jok On. I’m serious.

I said, look at this pretty girl I met at the awards. He goes, are you a kid? He said, that’s the world’s most famous squirter. I’m like, how would you know that? How the hell would you know that?

Oh? I can’t. I can’t think that’s dirty, because if you know what that is, that’s your own fault. It could be a water pistol. That doesn’t mean somebody’s the world’s second most famous.

Well, I just wanted to talk to you about music and the Porn Awards. It makes your time, and all right, that’s all right, all right to this documentary. I saw it. It’s amazing. Now you’ve been working on this for a while because both Norman Gilbert are in it.

What’s the origin of this, and so I do this podcast and so left serious. I’ve been doing this particular podcast four years now, and every day I Google comedy and I’ve got news alerts. I hadn’t seen a thing about this till you actually announced it. That’s neither here nor there. But how long has this been going on?

For a long time? When it first got off the show, there’s a couple of people interested in doing it, and then they fell to the wayside, and then some other people were doing it, and my friend Tom did a weird version of it, but it wasn’t really documentary. It was like almost like an episode to what could have been a longer show. And I think it was really it was the greatest twenty minutes in the world, but I don’t know what four And then these other guys started it, and then Ian s and he said, this isn’t it because the whole thrust of what they were doing was all about Jackie, how big he was and how great he was.

And then like an idiot, he walked away from the Stern Show and he said, that’…

He said, that’s one of his stories, and he wanted to make it about jokes and how that’s what I do. And of course the reason people know me is from the Stern Show, and that’s what got me rich and famous in quotes, of course, But it wasn’t my life’s flood and he started working on it. But it just takes a long time to take people and find them and track them down.

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And then and then the pandemic, of course, throw a monkey wrench into everyth…

And then Netflix showed some interest. They weren’t going to buy it, but they’re going to put it on Netflix, which is a big deal.

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And then, of course, just when they were thinking about doing it, I don’t kno…

If that doesn’t tell the tale of my career. But the funniest story is that already Lying agreed and he wanted to be in it, and he just couldn’t match up with him.

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And then already wound up in the hospital and wound up in jail, and wound up …

But it took so long to do the documentary that he was cleaned up and out and back in good shape. So we even could go and interview, which is a happy accident, and he’s one of the best things in the documentary, so I love him for that. And it just took It just has taken a real long time, and then getting a distributor, and then even once you have a distributor, it’s another six months. I’m like, Ian, I only have one request. Can we please put this out before I die.

I’m no kid, I’m fifty three years old. I haven’t got that much time left fifty three. I’m fifty three and I listen to you when I was ten, so I’m all right, put your hands away. Hilarious. Scott just thrilled.

It’s coming out July eighteen, and I’m very excited and just got a link for the pre order and the interest is so great. It’s so funny, John, because I left that show so long ago, Like, and I just got a couple today. I got an email from a guy in England and he said, Hey, it’s great to hear about you and your documentary. I’m from England and I’m forty years old and I discovered the Howard Stern Show about ten years ago. For years in the nineties with you on them are my absolute favorite.

I can’t wait to see the documentary, and you know a lot of people that are weren’t even around when I was on the show. They find out about the show, and then they go back and look at the shows from the nineties and they’re so complimentary, which is great because it’s not just the seventy five year olds that we’re listening in nineteen you know, and all the people that listen back then night they all left jobs now, you know, in the nineteen ninety two they were driving peaks of delivery charts. Now they own businesses, say they don’t have to sneeze when it comes to, you know, buying a movie or chipping in for this or that, and people are the most common thing people say to me is I owe you. You made me laugh in my roughness of times. You got me through my divorce, you got me through a tough job, you got me through college, and thank you for all the laughs.

I’m like, all the thanks. That’s all I need is the thanks. They say, Oh, my favorite is it. You must get tired of hearing this, but thanks for all the last I said, if you if I ever get tired of hearing that put a bullet in my head. I will never get tired of hearing.

That’s the nicest thing you could say. Those years were so good. I’m a powerless I happen to be listening to NBC when Howard took over afternoon for the New York run. I was there. I’m a high schooler, I’m commuting.

I’ll give you my hot take, and then I’ll give you probably the answer in my heart. The answer my heart is, I think the peak years and you talk about it in the dock, are that range where the puppets were around And maybe it peaked with the recreation of the al Michael’s bob a booy call. You know, maybe that stretched there with Billy in it. But my hot take, and I’m gonna blame you, I think the show peaked five seconds before bab a booy I think it was funnier when Garry would walk in and Fred would hit that Italian theme one percent of the time, all the time, every time, and I missed it. What you’re saying is the bab a Booye took the work, took the creativity out of breaking Gary’s bulls.

It was always like a look at Gary’s ass, or you look at those teeth and it just became Bubba Buoye and it was like a short cut to the laugh. But I don’t agree that that’s that might have been where it peeped, but it stayed in the plateau, I’d say, for like eighty seven to all the way till when I left. It just felt like it got hotter and hotter, or at least in my mind, because we just kept adding stations and all the gigs I did, and my price just went up and up, and I was turning stuff down and it just was so much fun. I didn’t leave because I was unhappy. I left because I thought it was gonna die if you work all day, all week, getting up at four thirty in the morning for five days, and all of a sudden, it’s Friday and it’s time to go rest and they’re waving what was to me stupid money to come to Denver or come to Dallas or come to Chicago.

I could I work too many jobs for one hundred three hundred bucks to turn down that crazy money. So I’d get on the plane, I’d go to the show Friday and Saturday and god knows where, and then fly home and start again on Monday morning. And ragged is not the proper word, but it was a happy rag. It was like it was fantastic, And once I sat in that chair and had a couple of coffee, yard was good to go. Five hours Boo Pal, funny Pal.

Of course, on the drive home the caffeine or and I walk in and the first person I’d see when I walked into my house, I’d bite him, whether it was the cat or the door of my wire. I produced John Gambling Show in the early nineties, So first of all, I’m producing him thinking three minutes ago, I was listening to you guys making fun of him. But but the hours just it kills you. You’re constantly tired. I’m in my early twenties.

My friends want to hang out by one in the morning on a Friday night when it should be peak party, and I’m ready to kill somebody to split a cab and go home to bed.

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And then it’s suddenly it’s Sunday and three in the afternoon.

You’re like, oh, I gotta start going to bed already. It’s awful, John. I do the show all week. Then we got a TV show, so we have another whole show to come up with, and then I’m flying to God knows where to do a gig. But of course if I show up in Chicago and go out and do a gig at the Chicago Theater with the old VIC, it’s so much fun with that radio station.

They’re paying me a fortune, but they want some bang for their buck. So I didn’t have a choice but to go out and party with them at the strip club or at the party, or I mean at the bar. And it was great fun. But you talk about using toothpicks to keep your eyes open, you know, his naked girls running around and endless spools and everybody wants to jump on your lap, and like you’re saying, I’m looking to see if there’s a play a dark corner where I could down. But it was great, and people like, how dare you complained about that?

I’m not complaining, but I’m really setting the center real for what it was really like. It was so great, so great, Now, why didn’t you jump on another show? Is it just you were at the peak of the mountains. I was never asked. And it’s so funny because everybody listened to a Stern show and they all loved the Stern Show and thought it was so funny and so many people knew how much I had to do with making Howard funny.

I got no offers from anyone. The one offer I got was from Anti Comedy. I wanted to give me maybe a show, but I forget how long you after It was a while after that just there was no interest. Now whether Don buckwelled, Howard’s agent had told the world that I was impossible. They always talked about on the air how hard it was to work with me was on how nobody liked me, and me while I was the favorite with all the sales girls and all the sales people a minute.

Yeah, when I walked into their office, they all loved it was They’re always laughing and having fun. But Howard made it sound like I was a real dick on which I absolutely not and wasn’t. But you still I’ve never asked, I was never asked. You stole my next question that I did want to ask you if you thought that perception of the Jackie character had led over to real life, Because you know, I know everybody loves it in the dark. People love you in real life.

ILL love you. This audience should know. I emailed you. You got back to me in ninety seconds. I’m nothing to you.

You’re just you’re doing me a favor. Here, nicest work. I lived for this, and I don’t understand it, because you’d think even just to have me in the room. If you’ve got a writer’s room with eight guys work and just have me, they’re breaking balls. I sat in one writer’s you.

That’s when we sat around reading the reading the script the Private Parts, and my one head lived that day. Wound up being the funniest line in the movie. The sloppy pussy line was the funniest line in the stupid Private Parts movie. And that was just something I threw in at the table read because it was so boring. So I just said that, and everybody cracked up.

There’s a whole story, and then I wound up. I didn’t even use it in the movie because they had nobody said anything.

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And then they said cut, and the guy came over and literally whispered in my e…

Why don’t you try that line? It’s like, all right, but god fulfid me say it out loud so as somebody to have any idea. It was my idea and wound up being killer sitting around at the table with guys that are writing a sitcom or a movie. You only have to contribute two or three things like that that may get worth people’s wild have you sitting there? But I never got asked, and I don’t know why.

I really don’t. It’s weird because even if you were a pain in the neck, which you are not, we both know talent wins out like he’s a pain, but he’s killing We got the number one show with deal with them. It’s not like that doesn’t go on. Well. Everybody knows that you put up with anything to get a couple extra laffs or a great idea.

But that’s one of the great quizzes. People say, why didn’t you have something lined up? I said, number one. I didn’t have any attention on leaving because I didn’t ask for so much money. I thought it would stop them in their tracks, like you know, well new But I wasn’t out looking for the next place to get up at four o’clock in the morning.

I’ll tell you that, God forbid, I hadn’t been offered that, thank God. But that’s all interesting in the way it works out. I left my job, got divorced, quit drinking and moved into a house all by myself on the water, all four at the same time. And they say, if you do any one of them, you shouldn’t change anything else in your life because it’s going to be such an adjustment. So I’ll tell you a little bit of a little roof.

For a while, it was a Frockney road. Are you make doing you get through? It’s just been wonderful? All right? Thanks for the segue there.

You just dropped into Rodney. I had no idea that you worked with him. I learned it from the dock. What was that guy like? So that’s a guy that had success pretty late in life, and from what I’m gathering, got the success and enjoyed it to its fullest.

Is that what I’m getting. Yeah, he didn’t ride away. I got to send you my book. If you haven’t read my book, you will love my book. The whole story about how I met Rodney and how I wound up with them is one of the best things in the book.

And we got hooked up and I went away with him for two weeks in nineteen eighty And to this day when I’m talking about it, I still think of things that I forgot happened. It was spectacular and we just had such a good time. It was a week in Fort Lauderdale. He wasn’t even working. He was just down there on vacation with his daughter and her girlfriend.

And then his son showed up, and then we flew to Las Vegas and the headline for a week with Paul Williams at the Aladdin, and it was just storybook, storybook. It’s nineteen eighty. I’ve been doing comedy for a year. It was, but I sold him what he said was the best best show. Can’t even never gave me, you know, of course, I look, it was just I will email you that chapter, especial.

I’ll email you a couple of Rodney chapters because all the Rodney’s stories are just so fun they’re all true. And he wasn’t necessarily that funny, just his attitude. When I first went to pick him up to take his doughter to the airport, I said to him, listen, boys, you got to understand every time you open your mouth, I’m gonna laugh because it’s funny whatever, whatever you know, And that’s all it takes. You know, you get that characters like everything is so down trodden, and blah blah blah.

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And then when I was with him, he had just done Caddyshack, but it wasn’t out …

But he was at the point where he was starting to get really well known. Because I don’t know if you’re all enough to remember, but he was in these middle light commercials with every sports star, baseball players, basketball players, fighters, football players, they were all in the middle light commercials and Rodney. It was whatever athletes and Rodney, and they played him every five seconds, and he said, hiked him. Believe it. You know how you said to Mark, you know or I’m a Carson.

Nobody knew me. Now it’s like, hey, Ron, they don’t know me. And all of a sudden, he’s feeling like it’s coming on strong and he literally I sweated. God. He said to me, yeah, it’s a little late.

What am I gonna do? Him fifty eight years old? Where I got two years left? I said, what’s wrong with you? I said, no, there’s nobody in better health than you two years left.

You’re an idiot. I would yell at him. We oh, he said well, what do you know Gray, fun performance style? You laugh at your own jokes. Can you walk me through the performance aspect of that?

Why are you doing it? What is it for the audience? There is no performance, There is no there’s no calculation to that. If there is a calculation to that, it’s something that just wound up being so part of me forever. I was always the guy at the bar or the party telling jokes, and I’ve always thought the jokes are so funny, and I really jokes I told a thousand times.

I still think they’re funny and they make me giggle, and sometimes I’m thinking about who told me. But when I worked at a country club here on Long Island, the Piping Rock Club, the most blue blood club in the world, there was a Dutch salad man named Jake, and I was the headbust boy. So I did nothing except yell at the other guys to get to work. And I would stand there and tell this guy Jake to joke after joke, and he would stand there like a wooden Indian. If I’m allowed to say that, he would just stand there and maybe smile, and I would.

The more he didn’t laugh, the harder I laugh. Because I’m going back and trying to figure out where the whole thing emanated from the genesis. And I would always laugh.

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And then when I told jokes at the bar, I was usually half sauce and I’d laugh…

But it wasn’t like, let me laugh at my jokes and maybe that’ll help. It had nothing to do with it. I laughed at him because they were funny. In the very beginning, when I’d only been doing comedy, I always told jokes in my bands. But I’m doing comedy and telling jokes and laughing at myself.

So we’re down at the comic ship of Fort Lauderdale. It’s funny. I just had this guy, Bill McCarty on our podcast this week, and I was at Bill McCarty and Mike Brown’s like three or four or five comics, and we’re so long ago that there was actually a television in the comedy condo those days. There hadn’t been a television or a phone in a comedy condo for forty years. We’re watching TV and it was like Red skelton seventy fifth birthday show.

And I used to sit there and watch Red Skelton with my mother, and she used to watch me laugh at Red Skelton because I got such a kick out of him. And we’re sitting there and he’s standing at the microphone and he’s telling jokes and he’s waggling his arms and he’s laughing, having a time of his life. I can still remember Bill McCarty turned. He said, Martlin, that’s you, I said, but not consciously. He does.

I do it the way he doesn’t. He does it the way I never looked at Red Skelton said, hey, that looks like and if you laugh at yourself. No, it’s just something I’ve always done. I’ve gotten in trouble with it. People that’s like such crap like Howard.

Howard would do anything to not let me get two out of control. So if somebody said, Jackie, tell this joke and tell that joke. I start to tell a joke, and I always start to giggle because it’s inherent to the way I performed the jokes. And I see, Robin, there’s the tell, there’s the tell, there’s the juice to get it, you know, like shut up, But this is the way I do it. I say, look at Rodney pulling on his tie.

I think that’s gonna help shut up. But it was always just so fun to just tell him be silly. But in the world of comedy, I don’t I call myself a joke teller. I’m not a stand up comedian and I’m really not. I’m not I started out doing that, but I said my family was rough and my father cheated a bay that you know, who cares about that crap?

And I just love the jokes. But in the world of stand up comedy, there are two iron clad rules, and they are you don’t tell old jokes. Well, oh, I hate the expression old jokes, because every joke is new until you hear it. Then it’s an old joke, which goes which pertains to every single person for every joke. If I tell you a joke and you haven’t heard it, it’s a new joke, and once you’ve heard it, it’s an old joke and people, if you think about it, of course that makes sense.

But in comedy stamp comedy, you don’t tell jokes and you don’t laugh at yourself. Those are the two ironclad rules of standom comedy. And that’s all I do is tell jokes of laugh at myself. They want to secure me. But I’m like, you know what, enough people come up to you and say, that’s the hardest I’ve left for an hour in my life.

That’s all I need. That’s all. I’m not trying to educate people or given anything. Well, people say you didn’t write that stuff, you didn’t write. I’m like, when you’ve got to see somebody do Hamlet, do you in the middle of the thing, you stand up and say you didn’t write this crap and they’re performing.

It’s a performance either they’re good editor, they at you. Just try to relax and enjoy it. Let’s sit back and laugh a little. I love the ratitatesat like I’m a big Bob Hope fan. I know everybody gives them garbage because of the last twenty five years, but you know, if you look at Hope in his prime getting up, I could listen to a sixty year old joke.

Hey, it’s great to be here at the Cleveland Air Base. You know, general jokes is so cheap. I get it. I don’t need to know where the general is. Ratitat and then hit mug for the camera and pull a laugh out of here.

It works. It’s good, Hey, Bob Hope is Woody Allen’s favorite comedian. And people first hear that, they’re like, that’s ridiculous. No, it’s not. The guy gets right to the joke and gets the lab.

Well, that’s the whole idea. People come up and tell me how a little old lady will come up and say, that’s the one of the show I ever saw that makes my week. Yeah, you talk about in the Dock about stripping the jokes back, and it got me thinking about I used to call it when I’d go to a million shows back in the serious days. I used to call it the comedy matrix. I remember sitting there one night.

It might have been pattent, it might have been possane, but I was sitting there with one of the hosts, and I felt like I could see the matrix. I’m like, all right, premise, he exaggerated it called back, and I’m like, it was like in grammar school when you’d graph a sentence. I could see the whole thing. So I appreciate I appreciate it. When you started talking about just stripping the joke down, let’s get in.

I don’t know what I said in the Doctor wanted anything I talk about in my book then that I hated. I wrote the Penthouse joke page for twenty years and they were great, and I used to put all my friend’s names in it. They always got a kick out of it. Instead of a guy went into a bar, Linnarbini walks into a bar. But the playboy jokes was so annoying because they’d say, the pretty young blonde sauntered into the bar and mose eat onto a bar stool and slowly took out a cigarette.

And I’m like, a girl walked into a bar. That’s all you need. Or maybe a girl walked into a bar because you need that, you know what I mean, Like, you just cut off all the garbage and get right to it. But so many people say to me, I can’t believe I’m out there laughing at a joke, and I’m in the middle of laughing at the joke, and I’m like, Jesus Christ, I’ve heard him till at five times they don’t even realize. But if they’re already laughing, it’s too late, right Yeah, Hop fine, that’s a compliment.

Hope would say, you know, I’ll do six jokes a minute, and maybe one of them a land that’s great. But which is fine? Hey, Nicky Merrill, nick and Nell only got to hit one out of every three time. Well that’s how it works. Jump in here with a quick break.

Joke Man on most platforms iTunes, Amazon, Where do you ever get your stuff? July eighteenth. More from my conversation with Jackie to joke Man Martling his documentary joke Man, It’s fantastic. I’ve seen it. You want to see it.

It’s on most platforms July eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Jokemanmovie dot com for more information. I want to ask you about some people. What was Sam Kinison really like? Sam Kinnison was a great guy.

He was really out of control. People get mad at me, but he in real life was not funny, not even a little bit funny, but a real nice guy. Couldn’t been sweeter. He knew what he was doing, and he was so good to me. You know.

He found out I was taking my wife to dinner and he made me take a couple hundred dollars he put in my pocket, wouldn’t take no for an answer, and he had me come open for him at Westbury Music Fair and he already had three opening acts. I was the fourth opening act, and that was the famous night when he got so screwed up in between shows that he walked around the circles and eighty percent of the people left and demanded their money back. But he just he couldn’t have been more fun because he was so out of control. One of the greatest moments on The Starn Show ever. We were sitting there six in the morning, the show had just started, and boomed through the door comes Sam Kennison, Pat McCormick, the Kiddie Show guy, what’s his name?

Jack Riley from The New Heart Show and The Kiddie Show, Chuck mccahn. Okay, so, Pat McCormick, Chuck McCann, Penn Jack Riley, and Kennison. He got done with a set or something at the comedy store or else he saw the guys said, he listen, is boring.

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Let’s get to my jet.

Let’s go get with a certain show. And they just flew in his jet to New York and came pilot into the Starn Show drunk and stone and I’m sitting there next to friend and behind us, I got the Mount Rushmore a comedy. It was just it was so real. I have no idea if it was funny. But if you if you were in that room, like Fred and I are looked at each other.

The cross on the league, Now that’s that is the definition of wild. And he was so funny. He was a terrific guy. How’d you get hooked up with Willie Nelson? He’s my mom’s favorite world but it goes see him in August.

He is such a delight. I worked in recording study. I always like to tell the story because it’s interesting. I worked in a recording studio in the seven and these and a band named Zebra. Did you ever hear that?

Yeah, So Zebra did a lockout where they locked the studio for two weeks and so they could record their album. So they were the only clients for two weeks. It’s right at Thanksgiving time, so I brought Randy Jackson, the lead guitar player. I actually brought him holding to my house because I said, you’re not going to New Orleans for Thanksgiving? You coming to my house.

He came to my house Thanksgiving dinner, and we’re all really good friends.

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And then that’s nineteen seventy six or something, so cut the Howard.

Many decades later, I get an email Jackie. This is Felix from Zebra. I don’t know if you remember me. And I wrote back and said, I spent two weeks up your buck. What do you mean do I remember you?

And he wrote back to you like country music, and I’m like, yeah, I like everything goes to listen my girlfriend it’s his wife. Now. My girlfriend is a massus and she does the Jets and the Giants and Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson and Willie’s working tonight down at Webster Hall. To want to come see him, but we’re on the guest list, so I hadn’t seen this guy in twenty five or thirty years. I mean, n’t we have a beer like it was yesterday.

We go to see Willie at Webster Hall. On we’re upstairs. I don’t know if you know. The players men’s room is in the basement, so if you’ve got to take a leak, we’re talking about three flights upstairs. I’m already so loaded.

I didn’t know all the time it is, but Willie’s been going for a couple of hours and it doesn’t look like he’s ever going to stop. And I go down all those flights that take a leak, and I’m on my way back up, and I’m like, you know what, if I go back up there, I’m gonna wind up on the bus with Willie. I’m not gonna sleep or I’ll probably miss the show. I’ll get in so much trouble. And I made the call to blow off getting high with Willie Nelson and took the cab back to my apartment.

I wanted to kill myself. A couple of weeks later, Felix Phelix Hanniman, the bass player and keyboard places listen, We’re gonna try again. Willie’s at the Westbury Music Fair, and he really wants you to come. Because when Willie was on the show, I always got these guys addresses, and I had Grillo get me his address or his company, and I sent all my CDs and all my joke books and everything to his company. So they put him on the bus and Gator the bus drive.

They all loved all my jokes, so I was their friend already. So Willie wants us to come. So it’s me and my wife, Felix and his wife, Lisa, the masseuse, and two of the New York giants, and we’re walking around the catacombs of Westbury looking for a place to get stone and then the show is over. And Willie used to sign whatever. If there’s three hundred people outside his bus, he would sign stuff for everybody.

First he’d go to the bus, get a little stone, and relax a little. And we went out there and they looked out the bus store and said, Jackie, come on, you guys, Lisa, come on and me and Nancy and Lisa and Felix and these two giants I think they were in season, I remember. And we’re in Willie’s trailer is bus which is a minute. So I’m sitting at this little for Mike a table across Who’s to me a god And I said this is something you will believe this, but there’s a true story. I said, well, I got some great homegrown.

He said, let’s spark it up. So I took out a great big joint of homegrown and Willie start, I sweaty john on my mother. He starts looking for a match. And I said, Willie, I’m flabby, assid. You’ve been on this bus for fifty years and you’ve been smoking pot for seventy years, and you’re actually looking for match.

It was just I’m giggling, so all these little drawers like a rock and roll bust. I pull open a drawer and there’s a copy of my CD Hot Dogs and Doughnuts, and I’m telling you my heart leap. I was so excited. I took it out of the draw and it was still in the plastic at that time, and I said, Willie, this just went from being my favorite story to my least favorite story because I know I’m gonna always tell it. It’s always going to have this ending.

And then we got a man. Then we just smoked pot.

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And then a couple of weeks later there was one of these things you probably k…

Sony was doing a thing where it’d be an artist and you could email an idea or calling an idea or send a letter and they would take requests. And it was one night it was Doctor John and Willie Nelson, and I knew the girls from Sony. And all of a sudden, it’s two or three weeks later and I’m in the bless again across from will He goes, what are you doing here? Again? Was I don’t know?

I guess I didn’t know people. And we’ve been very tight since, said now. We exchanged jokes by email, like every couple of weeks, I send the most disgusting jokes and I say, is that okay? I said that one, then they’ll send back one it’s even worse. And he’s just I was on stage with them at Radio City.

You know. It’s just a thrill to know the guy. Just a thrill to know the guy. That’s awesome. Thank you so much for your time.

We’re gonna get kicked off. Like I said, I’m cheap. I was like, I’m the forty minutes for I got five million more for you. The doc is fantastic. I love you.

I love you for saying that. And listen, why don’t we do this again when it’s actually when you can actually orderate or something like that. And listen, I’m here if you need me. Just let me know. Somebody Castle’s call out and take Jackie.

I got a spot. I’m always ready, Jock. You’re always good to me. I appreciate. I’ll take you up on that.

I got twenty questions I didn’t get to. But I love you, man. Thank you so much for doing this my pleasure. Thank you, and again I can’t thank him enough. You know, we crossed the halls.

It’s serious. And he’d come on the Raw Dog channel a bunch of times, so I know him a little bit, but we’re not like tight. He did me a favor here, and you can hear how much time he gave me. And seriously, I could have gone another hour with him. I had so many questions.

I wanted to ask him about Gilbert, and I wanted to ask him about David Brenner. You know, you may have noticed that I didn’t talk much. I studied Johnny Carson growing up, and the secrets to Carson was he knew when he had a good guest, shut up and let the guests tell stories. So me laughing over Jackie, you’re going uh huh, uh huh, just let the guy rip. You heard him, He told great story.

So that’s why I was kind of quiet. We were on Zoom, and you know, I was smiling and nodding, but I just kept my mouth shut. Don’t step on the jokes. Let the funny people be funny is one of the tricks of the trade. Jackie, Thank you so much again.

Everybody jokeman iTunes, Amazon, wherever you get your stuff. July eighteenth, it is out more information at jokemanmovie dot com. Now, one thing I didn’t talk about in the interview with him, he addresses it directly in the documentary is you do not see any of the people from the Howard Stern Show. Billy Weston already Lang up here, but no Howard, no Robin, no Fred, no Gary. It’s weird.

He addresses it during the show. I suspect everybody else was afraid to lose a well paying gig. And why Howard didn’t do it. You’d have to ask Howard. And that’s your comedy news for today, Jackie.

Thank you so much. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube if you’re a drive by listener today because he saw Jackie was on welcome. This is an a typical one, but usually about ten minutes of comedy headline news every day. Thank you for listening. See tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was on Hot Ones. As the podcast were eating increasingly hot spicy wings. He was asked by host Shaun Evans what the worst reaction he ever got from a celebrity host on a sketch mulaney had pitched when writing for SNL.

The answer Mick Jagger. Mulaney had a joke. I think this is fantastic. Hey, everybody on Mick Jagger, So mothers lock up your daughters or should I say daughters lock up your mother’s. That is hilarious, mullaney said.

Mick listened and he went, nah, I don’t like that. But Mlandy says, I remember I made Seth Meyers read that one. That’s a great joke. Mulaney said, I’m very confident there’s a profound difference between knowing you’re hearing a joke from a person and knowing you’re hearing it from AI. I took the challenge and I asked the Late Bot to come up with some stuff involving Mick Jagger, and they were all terrible except for this one, which is passable and not very good.

Late Bot says Mick Jagger once tried to hit on my mother, but she told them you can’t always get what you want. Hack. The BTS army is mad at Jimmy Oh Yang. His special has been out on Amazon for a while. I gotta watch that as well.

It’s called Guess how Much, and he starts joking about BTS, and the joke starts with Yang seemingly praising BTS in their extensive reach in the US, and he says, I love my BTS man. Even white people know BTS. Now, that’s progress.

And then he jokes about how once a fifteen year old white kid tried to introd…

I didn’t want to say it. I couldn’t say it as an Asian person, but they all just look like me with pink hair. He ends at jokes saying I could turn this whole show into a BTS concert right now. He points to himself and goes, this is Jimmy. Then he takes off his glasses and he goes, and this is jim in right here.

You don’t know, sounds funny even me telling it, right it’s a forty second clip, and the BTS fans are not happy. They’ve expressed disappointment in Yang resorting to cracking jokes using harmful stereotypes against Asians created mostly by the West, despite being a Chinese American artist himself. Eliza’s lessenger is playing Hawaii at the end of the month, one show in Oahu, the other on Maoi Nun bad Eliza, but she was making fun of Hawaii’s traffic. It said, Hey, when you get your tickets, start making a way to the theater early, because if somebody gets a flat, you’re all screwed. She says, I have been Hawaiian awhile, so I’m not doing any material that you saw on Hot Forever, my last Netflix special.

This is brand new. This is what we’re working towards, a new special, and you guys are the first ones that get to see it. So it’s a good time. Maui, July twenty seventh, Honolulu, July twenty eight Jeff Foxworthy talked to the Branson Tri Lake News, which is your home for comedy news, about the Blue Collar tour, and Jeff said, I enjoyed most of it. That was the most fun thing i’d ever done.

A few years ago, I had said, and Ron’s kind of the one that’s not as gung hood as the rest of us. I said, Hey, come on, Ron, it was so much fun. Let’s do it one more time. Ron said, I can’t write thirty minutes of clean material, and I said you can. We did three Blue Collar tours and he did it for that and he said, all right, I’m too lazy to write thirty minutes of clean material.

Jeff said, if I had one more thing i’d like to do before I hang up my cleats, that would be it. I’d like to do it one more time. When I hang up with you, I’m texting Ron that come on, man, let’s do it one more time. Jeff was about to do a show with Larry with a Cable Guy, and he was looking forward to it. He said, I hadn’t worked with Larry in almost a year.

I’m really looking forward to it. When we were doing Blue Collar, he’d be out there on the stools. He was like the Tim Conway of the Carol Burnett Show. All he wanted to do is make me laugh, so we would go off on tangents. I know if I looked at him I was going to start laughing, so I just stared down at the floor, and Ron would consistently lean over and go, just look at him, just look at him, and I’d go, hell, no, I’m not looking at him.

Because I look at him, I’ll laugh. And that’s what he wants me to do. I have talked many times on this podcast of working with the blue collar guys, all great guys. Even more great is Jeff, and even more and more and more great is Larry. They are wonderful people.

Billing balls listening right now, going you bastard, I’ve done favors for you. Bills also cool. I know Ron the least. Although when I met Ron and he found out I was the guy who was scheduling records on serious he thanked me for the royalty checks he was getting. They were quite significant.

He shared the number with me and I was like, m you’re welcome, buddy. Andrew Schultz will be touring the UK and Ireland this autumn double on October twelfth, Glasgow October thirteenth, Manchester October fifteenth and the Royal Albert Hall October nineteenth. Will find out how many holes it takes to phill it Hari Kannibolu spoke to exclaim and said, I’m a dad now, so clearly there’s a lot going on. There’s nothing to do with my career. There was a time when I lived and died off my thoughts and feelings, and I realized they’re not as important as they thought they were.

After the child was born. It’s like, you know, those are all second to the million out of things this child requires the best part of it Selfishly is I’ve tried to find ways for years to minimize self. Isn’t that like the goal of Buddhism and all it required was not meditation but a child.

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And now the self is so small, The self is a conduits and making sure my kid i…

That’s one big epiphany I had. I never added inkling, and now I’m like, I’ll do whatever you need me to do too. If my child wants to get into the arts and particularly stand up, I will not be nice about it. This is not something I wish on my child, and in some weird way, I feel like I want what my parents wanted for me for him. Go into something with a stable income where you can have a family, have more energy.

Don’t do what I did. I’ve a joke on the specialty. You realize how hard your grandparents had to work. Don’t waste this opportunity. With their generation, they had this large immigrant community, So the safety net is even bigger than you think.

The community to make sure you’re okay. They’ll never forget that you were in peril. Not I’ll be brought up for generations, but in this generation, I want to have the same level of immigrant safety net. It goes down with me. Johnny Mack, you never talk about John Clees.

I know right. John was talking to The Daily Mail. He’s working on the stage adaptation of Life of Brian. He’s actually cutting the final scene from the movie. That is the scene where they sing always look on the bright Side of life and says, nobody’s going to be shocked now to see people singing while on a crucifix.

People thought it was hilarious, they screamed with laughter. Well, nobody’s going to be shocked now. That joke is forty years old. Clees assured The Mail that the film’s transphobic Loretta scene would remain in the show, despite very experienced actors telling him he wasn’t able to do it. In the original movie, the Loretta scene features a character played by Eric Idol who has to be called Loretta and voices longing to bear a child.

Cles’s character in the scene dismisses the request as ridiculous. Others who have pushed back on the show are other Pythons and may Eric Idol expressed his support for the project by tweeting he has nothing at all to do with it, adding apparently Cleice has cut the song. Of course. Clie shot back, saying Idol is very keen. He used the song because he gets all the royalties from it.

Michael Palin try to offer Clee some feedback that Cleese didn’t take. Clie said, Michael, and I liked the first half of the new script, but was dubious about the changes that I had made in the second half. Klice wants to challenge people by doing the unexpected. For example, he wants to ensure the integrity of the project by making sure a marginalized group he and his weird friends have an outsized interest in is subject to Hackney jokes and stereotypes. The Daily Mail writes, no one could have predicted that the guy who spent the last few years complaining about wokeness and defending JK.

Rowling would do something like this unpredictable. High Times asked Nimish Patil, what’s been thrown at you on stage? Names said in Phoenix, the fire alarm went off for about ten or fifteen minutes into my set. Wasn’t a typical fire alarm. It was the mall’s fire alarm, loud as hell for about seven minutes.

I had to navigate the situation with an uncertainty. I didn’t know if it was a real fire and known from the club was communicating. Eventually someone said it was a false alarm. But those seven or eight minutes were completely unexpected. I’d never expected anything like that.

I had to hold the audience’s attention to keep them engaged. Fortunately, everyone had a great time and no one was hurt. It was a unique learning experience, great story, But the question was what’s been thrown at you on stage? I thought your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, Smashed Alike, See to Worrow

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The Shark deck me man, I’m Johnny mac with your Daily Comedy News. Is the South China Morning Post? Say it with me, it’s your home for comedy news. They were talking to John Clees. You remember that I mentioned yesterday?

Well there was more to that article. Why is Klees still working? John addressed that. He said, I have a look at the figures of my third divorce, but they’re like surely by now, Alice, his American ex spouse of sixteen years, has been paid off. John said, not really, have you ever paid anybody twenty million dollars?

It’s not the matter of an overnight success. I’m living in an eleven thousand square foot property in London. When I divorced, I had five properties. Switching topics, John said, the only thing I know is that in any interview I do now, even if it’s about the sexual meeting habits of a lemur, cancel culture will come up with the next few minutes. I think there are more important things than cancel culture, and if I keep feeding it by talking about it, we’re gonna forget about the important things.

If people ask, do you think it’s okay for people to shout nasty things at each other. The answer is no. I agree, it’s not okay. But the question is what do we do about it? Do we try and legislate to make people be better human beings?

Because that’s been trying the past by other forms of Puritans. It hasn’t worked out very well. Klees talked about his time in Jeames Bond and said, you know, they’re caught up in a world we’re the Only thing that matters is each film makes more money than the last one. And if you discover that the audience for Bond films is in the Philippines and Indonesia and South Korea, then there’s not much point in putting humor in that’s only going to be appreciated by an audience that speaks English, and I think that’s sad. Did you watch this season of The Bear?

It was fantastic Now. I think Hulu lost out on a lot of buzz by just dropping it all at once. I think that could have had a lot of sustained conversation around it this season, especially if they had put it out weekly. In that sixth episode with John Mulaney and it, it could have been a lot of talk around it. I did not know romy Yusef directed the fourth episode of The Bear this season.

That’s the episode Honeydew, in which Marcus makes a trip to Copenhagen. While prepping for the episode, Usf and Lionel Boys, who plays Marcus, studied at Noma, largely considered to be the best restaurant in the world. Romy tell GQ, I kept telling everybody at Noma I’d worked at a restaurant before, which I had, but I had worked at Panera Bread when I was sixteen. It was just really funny to be a Noman talk about working at Panera. Will Poulzer, who guest starred in the episode, said I heard him tell these five people that he worked at Panera Bread.

Over the course of our two days shoot. Exclaim, a cool Canadian website, caught up with Harty Konnabulu and he said the problem with Upoo and it’s ensuing controversy of a race and representation was a dividing line in his career. He doesn’t hesitate when he feels if his life, working and otherwise has been altered by the film and its reception. Her he said, I did. It’s frustrating, but the reality is what my career was before and after it is completely different.

Before that, I was certainly less known. I did fine in the comedy world. But and I’m yawning while I’m talking about this because I’m bored of the topic. For the people who knew my stand up, doing the documentary wouldn’t have surprised them that I’d do something like that. My stand up is more aggressive and brutal than what the documentary was.

That’s a pop culture documentary about a cartoon character, but it doesn’t delve into the depth of racism like a warmly I’d want to. Certainly wasn’t the documentary I intended to make either. I wanted to make something where I wasn’t the central figure in it. I wanted to be about the history of that accent, but also the history of minstrelsy in this country and the hazing process that people of color have to go through. And I wanted it to be a bunch of interviews cut together with me maybe doing a voiceover.

But once you sell it to a cable network, that’s not going to work. It’s a different vehicle. It’s certainly got watered down for what I wanted to do, and it was still an interesting process for me to go through. But it certainly wasn’t interesting in terms of the content. Wow, it’s not complicated.

The idea of having approved to people that this character is racist and has racial overtones, It’s obvious. The idea that I had to prove that in the film was almost insulting in a way if you actually grew up with it. Why does this need to be proven? Just listen to the character. The Simpsons didn’t really do anything with the character and kind of just hid from it.

It’s frustrating because people tell me I wanted to kill this character, which I don’t give a hoot about the character. Nobody will watches The Simpsons anyways, what I thought till I realized around the world they still do because I get death threats in Spanish and Portuguese. Now Paced magazine and did there ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far, and I thought I’d click on it. I’m looking at this for the first time as I record, because I like to react to these. Let’s see who paste has on there.

Number ten. Mark Marin from Bleak to Dark. I like Marin a lot, been into his podcast a lot lately. I did not love this particular special. Number nine, Josh Johnson’s up Here Killing Myself.

I haven’t seen this one Paste Rights. New York based comedian Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with candor and of course, humor. During the first part of up Here Killing Myself. Whether recounting his seamless bag as family serial came from where the questionable quality of their local pharmacy, He paints an effective picture his turner phrase, his conversational yet inventive, elevating stories that were ready funny to begin with. Number eight, Brad Wenzel’s a joke joke joke.

I’m not familiar with this one. Let’s see joke joke joke is just that, a succession of hilarious bits without any seguys, Wenzel’s good nature laughter acting as the glue that holds it all together. The special’s forty minute length is just right for Wenzel’s type of comedy. Not overstaying it’s welcome, we’re leaving us feeling short changed. I’m gonna add that to my must watch list.

Number seven John Mulaney’s Baby Jay I didn’t love it, it was okay. Number six and eight Bergassi’s Hello World. I think that’s one of the best of the year. Five May Martin’s Sap not the target audience there. I didn’t enjoy it, didn’t make it through.

Number four Emma Arnold’s Myself. I haven’t seen this one. Paste Rights. Sometimes you can watch a comedy special and I just want to wrap it around yourself like a warm blanket. She takes to the stage with the ease and joy of someone who loves what they do.

Myself is thoroughly hilarious and disproves the tired thinking that artists must suffer to make something great. She jokes she should just quit comedy now that she’s so happy. All right, I’m gonna add that to my list. Two Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer.

I don’t think I have checked that in. Well, I know I haven’t checked it out. I don’t remember why. Number two Harry Knobolo’s Vacation Baby. I like that special lots, although I like Nate’s better, and they have number one John Earle’s now more than ever.

I know people are buzzing about that one. I think it’s for a younger crowd than me. I do have a few gray hairs, and I watched it and I was like, is this brilliant? Is this horrible? And I couldn’t tell.

Vulture has their list. Let’s take a look. This was updated on June twenty seven. There’s are listed from newest to oldest. They have John Early all right, Ali Sadik’s The Domino Effect Part two Loss, John Mulaney, Monique’s my name is Monique May Martin sap again.

Kyle Knaine Shocks and Struts. That is, at the time of this recording my number one of the year. Marlon Wayne’s God Loves Me. I try that one and I lasted I don’t know five minutes, and Mark Marrin’s from Bleak to Dark. I already addressed that one.

I’m actually recording this on July fourth. Why Johnny mack Well, it started to poor rain and I had this script already and I’m like, might as well go down and record it. So my plan here on July fourth, two weeks ago to you is actually to watch Tom Sigourt tonight. I suspect that’s going to make my best of list. I’m really excited about it, and I might check out some of the others, but prior to recording those, here’s my list.

Kyle Kana Nabrigassy, Jay McBride, Daddy’s Girl, Jim Jeffries. That was on Amazon back in February, Hary Conabolo, Chris Rock. Remember that that was a big deal. Nobody talks about it. The roast of Mister Peanut, which everybody looks at me like I’m crazy, and then they take my advice and they watch it.

You’ll find out on YouTube. Watch the full fifteen minute roast of mister Peanut. It’s really good. Big Jay Okerson, Sarah Silverman, and I have John Narrowley on my list. Okay, I have him at number ten.

But like I said, I’m planning on watching Sigora later today and you’ve probably heard me talk about it in the last two weeks, and that I’ll probably make the list as well. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, smash All like button See tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The La Times profiled Fortune Feemster and Chelsea Handler loves her. Chelsea said, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who met Fortune and didn’t just love her. That’s what’s so great about her.

She kind of breaks through any sort of right or left politics, any sort of divisiveness, and she’s just a pure bundle of joy. Feamster was a writer on Chelsea Lately and It’s a mutual love fest. Feemster says Chelsea was putting people on TV that nobody else was putting on TV and not really caring if you fit the mold of who should be on TV. She was the first person who gave me the yes when everybody else was telling me no. Stand up allowed Fortune to cut through all the red tape and just show people who she is.

She said. While the industry was kind of like, we’re not sure about you, people watching me were like, oh, we can relate to you. You’re like one of us. You’re not some fancy person, You’re not like some supermodel. She left says, thanks a lot.

I always seem to connect with audiences before the industry really know what to do with me. She tried out for SNL twice, said you walk down that hall and your nerves it through the roof, and you get on the stage and your whole career flashes before your eyes. She did not make the cut and says I’m a believer if things happen for a reason. I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s what i’d tell myself, and it makes me feel better. There was a time in my career when I was getting a lot of people telling me they liked me, thought it was funny.

They didn’t know what to do with me. It was before being different was celebrated. Now it’s like, oh, we want everybody to be unique. The Charleston City Paper profiled a lot of Glazer. When Broad City ended in twenty nineteen, Glazer was inspired to return to her roots and stand up.

Her first comedy special, The Planet Is Burning, took on subjects like homophobes and Nazis and the patriarchy. Alana says, the thing I actually don’t like about The Planet Is Burning is that I talk about my perspective from a little bit outside of me. The news special is a bit more about my experience in my body. I see the world through a lens of a queer Jewish woman’s experience. So that’s inherently political.

This tour will be less about politics and more about the things I love talking about, like sex, drugs in and how it feels to be alive right now? Did you think I was gonna say, rock and roll? The South China Morning Post it is your own for Comedy News, and they spoke with John Cleese. He watched the coronation of King Charles and said, I watched her about five seconds and I just started to laugh uncontrollably. I mean, like really laugh, like remember when you were a teenager and you’d laugh until it hurts.

He thought it was a scene so ridiculous he might have dreamt it up himself for Monty Python. All these people in silly costumes behaving as if something serious was going on. I just thought it was hilarious. Hey, John, since you liked the Royal Family, wanted you to check out Palace Intrigue. That’s a daily podcast about the Royal Family.

I’m the writer on it and you might have some similar thoughts there, John Clees, check it out Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows all right, what’s going on with Faulty Towers? Man? Are we doing this or not? John said, for forty years his answer was I don’t see how it could possibly be a success. However, he was wined and dined by a US producer and his mind was changed over the course of a single dinner.

However, tapped the brakes. John says, at present, there’s no script, no concept, no location, and no characters apart from Basil. Yeah, that doesn’t sound very developed at all. Klees’s first wife, co writer and co star Connie Booth, is notably not involved. John says it’ll probably be set in the Caribbean.

We don’t have an idea yet. We have half an idea. The trouble is one of the producers wanted to proote himself a little bit and sent out a press release without warning anyone, and suddenly everyone got excited over something that hardly exists. I see what happened there. I’m sorry, John, that’s annoying because now you have to answer questions.

But you know who’s working on this thing, Rob Reiner, and Klees regards Reiner as among the only two or three people who know more about comedy than he does. Wow, he he admits, that’s a very arrogant thing to say. Who were the others? Steve Martin, Susie, Eddie Azzard and Frank Oz from short All Robin Tran says podcasts are bad for a stand up Hey, I don’t know about that, and well let’s see what Robin says. Robin writes, as much as I used to love podcasts, I think the oversaturation of comedians podcasts in the past few years has been bad for stand up comedies and art form.

I’m not talking about all or even most comedians, merely a group of some of the top names. We are mostly famous from their podcasts rather than their actual stand up I wonder who she means there. I could speculate, and this is from Orto, which is a British site, so it’s probably not big American names my guests. Who knows she writes technology. It’s gotten to the point where anybody can easily broadcast their thoughts and put them on the Internet.

I hate those people sitting in their basement drinking a nice coffee, reading news stories to people losers. In fact, during the hyde of pandemic, Amazon actually sold out of podcast equipment. There were two things they ran out during COVID podcast equipment and toilet paper. Now these comedian podcasters can do what they’ve always dreamed of, which is get paid simply for having thoughts, talking and existing. They can get together with other comedian podcasters where they just talk to each other, so the listeners at home can feel like they’re part of their friend group.

You know, that was the whole Earwolf midrole thing, like fifteen years ago. How long has it been twenty years ago? Now? You know, it was like they were like seven comedians and they would just all go on each other’s podcast. Now, I was working at a company you’ve heard of that I’ve mentioned, and I was like, you know, we got to tap into this la scene, and an executive didn’t heed my warning.

I digress. It’s and I’m convinced some of these comedians are moreged in glamorizing the lifestyle of a comedian rather than actually being a comedian. They can hype each other up, exaggerating each other’s importances, and talk about stand up comedy being the purest and only true form of expression, and through repetition, over the course of hundreds of hours of podcasting, it seeps on the consciousness of their fans and eventually seeps in of the culture. Now I’m wondering if she means the Austin Crew. When stand up comedy is presented as the sacred profession one is the beyond reproach or criticism, these comedians become unsugeable how many times if we were the comedians are modern day philosophers and the last bashets of free speech.

And when comedians can present themselves in this light, then their fans are along for the rod, gets swept up in the hype without even having to hear a single joke from them. And after years of comedians going unchecked and uncriticized, they have free reign to sell ads. It’s not the comedians should never sell out, but it used to be frowned upon for somebody to be money hungry rather than caring about artistic integrity. Now it’s the complete opposite. Do the monumental influx of comedian podcasts.

It’s no longer a shameful thing to sell out. Not only that, it’s now encouraged to sell out, it’s encouraged to make as much money as you possibly can. And if you even deer criticize this greedy nature of a lot of comedians have been developing. You’ll be slated for being weak and naive because you aren’t joining on on this money making scheme where the actual stand up becomes secondary. This thing is quite long.

I’ll skip to the end. Even their own fans have started to figure this out. There have been several podcasters comedy specials where their fans will say, his stand up isn’t very funny, but I love his podcast and was great to see him live. Oh. I can think of at least two people who have big podcasts that had terrible specials recently.

I’m not going to say their names. Robin Tran is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with her stand up showcase Don’t Look at Me. She does not have a podcast. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Boone Yang is taking a step back from his podcast Lost Culturestas to prioritize his mental health. Boone announced taking a very short break. Bad bouts of depersonalization are effing me up so bad, but I’m trying my best to get better.

Please take care be soon. He posted that on Instagram. Depersonalization is a term you might not be familiar with. The Mayo Clinic calls it a psychological condition in which a person regularly feels that they’re having an out of body experience and that their surroundings are not real. Ready, stead Cut watched Tom Segura’s new special and they loved it.

They called it one of the best of the decade. Wow, minor ish spoilers here. I’ll take a pregnant pause give you a second, but not too bad. They’re right. He opens up by asking if they’ll stop taking down Confederate statues.

He follows that up with a bit about meeting a supermodel and how they are equally as freak as a seven footer because they’re unbelievably good looking in person. Sagura has the perfect way of interest, finding his jokes, creating some incredibly funny callbacks. What made it even better was how he incorporated jokes about his father’s final words and to later jokes about his kids. They’re right. There’s something about Sigora’s body language that makes his jokes that much funnier.

It’s not outlandish or over the top, but quite subtle, just enough to add a little oomph on the joke to get it over the top. Another thing is the deadpan look on his face through some of his raunchier jokes, and it’s perfect. Very few comics anymore. Get on the stage, tell jokes, make you laugh, and get off the stage. Tom sagoora Sledgehammer is a masterclass of storytelling from one of the best comedians in the game.

Punchline after punchline will have you in tears laughing at Segoora’s incredibly dark jokes. It’s one of the best stand up specials of not just this year, but this decade. Wow are you in New Orleans? Head over to the Smoothie Center and see Bert Kreisher, Mark Norman, Tiffany Hattish, Big Jay Ogerson, Chad Daniels, Raff Barbosa and Rosebud Baker. Wow, what’s this, Johnny Mack.

It’s Bert Kreisher’s fully loaded tour. Mark Norman said, it’s a party on the bus. He sleep on the bus with comedians their activities. I woke up one morning and there was a slipping slide. It was Jackson, Mississippi.

They had no water in the city. But we’re here to play a dunking contest. Norman says that dividing the torn is several short stints made it survival. He says it’s only a couple of days at a time, Otherwise you’d die of alcohol poisoning. He meshed Pitzel tell the Last Laugh podcast he knew immediately after he got his cancer diagnosis that he’d be talking about it on stage.

He said, the night I went to the hospital, I knew it was going to be something. Having done comedy now for almost fourteen years, you get an understanding of when something’s happening to you that you should be taking notes about. I knew right away that something was happening it was gonna be fun to talk about. I did not know it was going to turn into a forty five minute thing. The Great Hannibal Burris once told me you got to talk about it right when it happens.

You gotta get on stage right away, even if you don’t have stuff written. Just get on stage right away. But sell one up at the comedy sellers all the audience. What happened. It helped that by the time he started joking about it, he was ready cancer free.

Before he got cancer, His biggest claim to fame was getting kicked off stage in the middle of a stand up set at Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance in twenty eighteen. He said, about twenty minutes in, I said something that some of them found a bit offensive, which at the time I’d never found offensive, and I still don’t find offensive. And I think if he asked those organizers if they find it offensive now, I think they may have changed their tune. But they came on stage, kick me off and cut my mic after asking me to make some closing remarks. The joke that got him in trouble, I Know You’re wondering, was premised on the idea that no one would choose to be gay if they were already black.

His joke, nobody’s doubling down on a hardship. No black dude ever wakes up, looks in the mirror and says, you know what, this black stuff too easy. I’m gonna put on a Madonna Halter top some Jordan’s and make some Indian dudes really uncomfortable. He got some awkward chuckles from the audience, but then the events organizers walked on stage and accused him of being disrespectful. Betel says, I could see why you would kind of take it of as offensive, but it’s not at all.

The most offensive part is the tag where I say that the only person who chooses to be gay every day is Mike Pence. That’s homophobic in a way, right. That’s me kind of outing someone who may or may not be gay, and I’m making fun of him. That I know is offensive. That’s not what you took umbrage with.

That part got a much bigger laugh. Are you in the Ozarks Well? Jeff Foxworthy’s at the Black Ope amp in the Lampy tonight seven third the Good Old Days Tour. Jeff said, that’s one of my favorite parts of the country. I always enjoy coming there and I have good shows there.

It’s one of those places where, let me think of the right way to phrase this, I don’t have to worry as much about what I say because I know me and my audience are on the same page from my whole career. Because I’m not mean spirited. I just wrote with the idea of making people laugh because I would always do a lot of women always do this and men do that. And well then I started getting emails from people going, well, I’m a woman and I don’t do that, and I’m a man, I don’t do that. So I’m like, all right, I’ll change it too.

I do this, and my wife does that. And I just kind of got to the point where I thought, when you’re having to edit yourself all the time, because the comics supposed to be a truth teller. We’re supposed to look at things that we do in society and kind of holdled up to people and go, why do we say this or why do we do that? I just kind of reach a point where I’m not out to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I don’t care. I’m just gonna try and be funny and not worry about it.

Another reason he enjoys the ozarks, He says, most people don’t know this about me, but one of my hobbies when I’m not working is looking for arrowheads. That area through the ozarks there is one of the best places in the country to look for them. I don’t want to buy them, I just like to find them much. I didn’t know that. Jeff, all right, what’s the show, he says.

I try to do about ninety minutes. I’m going to do maybe half an hour of whatever was the last special I did, and then a half hour of new stuff, and then a half hour of something older than people really like and request. I figure, if I do it like that, maybe everybody leaves happy. You know. I try to do a third, a third and a third, and some nights it goes a different way.

You know. Somebody will brings something up and you live down a path. But when I walk out there, it’s kind of where in my mind I’m gonna go. I like music, and I always tell my music friends. Art things are totally different, because if you’ve write four hits, you can play it so you’re ninety because people drive a long way to hear those four hits.

Whereas with a comic, especially in the early days, if you did a special or something like that, people would say that’s funny. But I’ve already seen that material. I want to see something new, So you’re always trying to write new stuff. My brain doesn’t hold but ninety minutes at a time. So whatever the old stuff was, I just flushed it.

But then out if people come up and going, hey, would you please tell the thing about the time you saw your grandmother naked? And I’d go, how does that start? Because I can’t recall. But now I’ve come to appreciate that older stuff because not everybody’s seen it, especially if they hadn’t seen you in concert before or something. The Boom Chicago Comedy Festival.

No it’s not in Chicago, it’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. It’s a night seth Myers wasn’t sold out yet when I recorded this. There were ten tickets left. You could maybe still get in shot of improv at nine thirty.

Let’s take a look at the weekend Tomorrow Night at seven o’clock thirty year Anniversary show, the two thousands nine o’clock thirty year Anniversary Show nineties edition. One ticket left for that one Sunday’s show six o’clock comedy Stuck in the damn eight o’clock The Ladies of Boom Chicago Veil Daily was very excited that Tom Cotter was coming to town. They said his style, inspired by vaudeville, includes innuendos, puns, and double entendres. When he writes his jokes, it’s like a Rubik’s Cube. Teams revolve around family life with three sons, self deprecating jokes like how short, broken, pasty white he is, and that’s such a politics.

Though these days he finds himself gingerly while seeing in political jokes of the preamble at a Shore’s audiences, he split right down the middle. And this won’t be a lecture. Tom says, well does have fun. You can always find the levity somewhere and people want to laugh.

And then here’s a line that just makes me grown.

If laughter is the best medicine, I yearned to be drugged. Hold on, I have to go throw up in red garbage kin in the corner. There catter guarantees laughter. As he packs two hours of material, it’s a sixty minutes. I promised them I’ll be funny, and he adds he loves to chat with audience members after the show, so stop by and say hi if you see him in the lobby.

And here’s one that jumped out at me from an interview with Jamilie Maddox. He was talking about comedians and he said, watching comedians like Doug Stanhope really makes me happy because it’s like an older comedian Doug Stanhope. It’s like an older comedian that’s still like really funny. And this is where my head explodes. An older comedian like Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny.

I don’t think of talking as old at all, but this made me realize I’ve been a comedy adjacent for a few decades now. It’s been more than a minute. And when I first met Doug Stanhope, he was young guy and I looked it up. Doug is now fifty six. Anyway, Jamilie said, when you see an older comedian, like ancient Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny somehow, because you see a lot of them like falling apart.

All right, I guess I gotta go take a nap. That you’re how many news for Today? Follow the show free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Kevin harn is back. Baby, He’s got a brand new stand up special. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This one is on Peacock Now.

Normally I’d get in a caddie remark here about now. No one’s going to see it, But even I have Peacock now because they gave me, like, I don’t know, seven years for thirty cents with some kind of deal like that. I might be exaggerating, but even I have Peacock Now. The new special is called reality Check, and Kevin hard is quote funny as ever as he processes his growing family fame mentions on black, Twitter and more. Mark Norman does a new special coming out.

I hadn’t realized this. This was in Nola dot Com Soup to Nuts Netflix, July twenty fifth. He’s out on tour with Bert Kreisher and they’re playing New Orleans. I think this weekend. Norman is just back from three weeks in Australia and New Zealand, and he said they love comedy and podcast We’re huge over there.

He enjoyed getting to be a foreigner and a novelty for change. He posted some of his interactions with audiences on his Instagram. In Australia, he agreed to do a showy drinking a beer at a sneaker sassed on stage by someone in the crowd. He says, it’s a whole different world over there. They don’t have as much guilt.

It’s a bunch of honkys who are drunken partying. They throw drugs on stage, they say horrible slurs. It was a blast. Seeps and Nuts on Netflix, July twenty fifth. Then he’ll do his own tour in August, including another New Orleans show in November.

From Drugstore News dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Here’s one of those press release promotion things that your comedy host will take the bait on. Because Klondike has partnered with Joel McHale for a road trip challenge. Okay, Klondike, you got your freemention, what’s the deal? Joe McHale is inviting fans to show off what they would do for a Klondike Again, you got your freemention, You got me to challenge fans around the nation.

Klondike is embarking on a road trip, popping up in three Wow, three whole US cities three, three, and I already mentioned your product four times three cities to find the most creative hometown three and reward them with their very own summer block party and the chance to be featured on a Klondike Bar limited edition packaging. Now through July sixteenth, Klondike is visiting New York City, Austin, and Pittsburgh. Visit the Klondike What would you Do challenge mobile and show off your hometown pride. I’m from New York City. We don’t do hometown pride.

We’re just like, Hey, we’re New Yorkers. Leave us alone. Get out of here. Where are you from? Go away?

You’re in my way. Walk faster. We don’t. We don’t do home We’re not gonna like have the like, Hey, golly gee, you’re so proud of New York City. That’s not how we roll Klondike.

Get out of town. You’re blocking the sidewalk. Move you don’t know how to get on a subway. To complete a what would you do for a Klondike Hometown Edition challenge, you have to include four plus of your family members, friends, or neighbors, post a video on Instagram with a hashtag. Klondike can pay for that hashtag mentioned tagging and following Klondike bar to enter Creativity and out of the box thinking is encouraged to prove why here are the number one hometown and you’ll be judged on I’m just thinking New York City.

We’re just gonna make a video and be like, hey, go as yourself something like that. Group participate, exemplify a sense of community and include at least four total participants. Creativity showcases out of the box thinking, originality, and unique ideas. The Klondike Spirit incorporates Klondike brand identity, including what would you do product brand colors a polar Bear. So if you’re in Austin, you’re already missed it.

Sorry, Pittsburgh. Sunday July nine, from one thirty to seven thirty go to Market Square downtown and in New York City Union Square where New Yorkers don’t actually go. Sunday July sixteenth, from eleven to seven, the challengers will be judged by the Klondike team and Joel McHale. One winner will receive a personalized shout out video from Joel for their hometown. So it’s Joel mchaeal going you go get him New York City, you’ll get an exclusive block party.

I hope Joel’s got connections with the NYPD because I don’t know how You’re getting a permit, Joel, And you’ll be featured on Limit Edition in Klondike Bar packaging. Joel McHale said, you know what Klondike and I have in common? No, Joel, I don’t. We’re both challengers at heart, and we both love to celebrate fun and spontane these acts of silius. So when Klondike told me they were challenging hometowns again, all three of them, Austin, Pittsburgh, and New York City, to prove who’s number one.

Hey, if you’re on the West coast, too bad. I couldn’t wait to get involved. I’m excited to see what people all over the country will do for a Klondike. By all over the country, we mean that obscure place, New York City, Austin, and Pittsburgh. I’ve been a longtime fan of the brand, and now I get to judge the Klondike hometown contest.

How sweet is that? Hey, Joel, will you do this contest for us? I don’t know where is it? New York? All right?

I’m already there Austin. Yeah, okay, I can do Rogan show all. I’m in town and Pittsburgh because that’s where our company headquarters is in. The CEO wants a picture of you and we’ll pay you. That’s what’s going on here.

Meanwhile, at gigs A gig Otsko Akoska headlines deodorant companies, they’re not getting the freementioned deodorant Companies special for a last laugh over sweaty pits, Go did a sponsor named comedy special at Chelsea Table and Stage last week. It was a candid versation about women’s deodorant habits, highlighting the links women will go to cover up pit stains and mask odor. Otsco and Deodorant Company brought women together for an exclusive comedy special to learn about their shared experiences of sweatnodor failures. Otsco got paid and gave this quote as a stand up comedian. Spotlight literally turns up the heat most nights.

I’m on stage for an hour unto bright lights, and my ego loves it, but my Bonnie and armpit struggle. That’s why I’m so glad the deodor Company shows me to He’ll educate about sweatnodor protection. Not because I smell, but because I used to before I found deodorant product. This stuff works. Are you in Amsterdam?

Are you’re at the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival. No, the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival is not in Chicago. It’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. There’s a club called Boom Chicago.

Told you about this a week ago. All right, who’s playing tonight? Seth Myers sold out? Tomorrow night Seth Meyers sold out.

Also, Shot of Improv sold out.

This festival is happening, baby. There’s a new host of Wheel of Fortune. Hey, hey, I see what you’re doing there. You’re like John. We know Ryan Seacrest has taken over a real of Fortune.

That news is like two weeks old. That’s not what I’m here to talk about. UK Wheel of Fortune. Graham Norton will host a UK version of the classic games show. The series will air on ITV one and ITVX in twenty twenty four.

There was a previous Wheel of Fortune that ran from nineteen eighty eight to two thousand and one. Graham said, I’m beyond excited to be bringing such an iconic American show to a New British audience. My first ever TV job was a game show on ITV, so this feels like coming full circle. You might even call it a wheel. My question, is there a Z that’s your comedy news for today?

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy and who’s pretty robust Off the holiday weekend. If you missed it, there’s a new Tom Segora special on Netflix and a fun headline I saw on Tom Segora Twitter said Tom Sagora says Groth Brooks finally blocked him on Instagram and doesn’t like the serial killer jokes, And I was like, okay, what’s this that took me to Whiskey Riff. By the way, do not click on Whiskey Riff dot com unless you love pop up ads covering the article you’re trying to read. I get the monetization, folks, but I couldn’t even read the article.

Here’s the backstory. You may have noticed that all of Garth Brooks social media posts, especially on Instagram, are littered with comments asking him a rather peculiar question. It all started back in October twenty eighteen, when Garth announced his stadium tour. Tom Segora brought up a conspiracy theory in which people believe that Gorthbrook stadium tours often align with missing people cases that appear across several cities in the United States. Sagora is on with theel Vaughan who said people are saying I’m trolling the guy.

All I’m doing is repeating what I’ve heard that allegedly his tour schedule aligns with Duzen and missing persons. On his own podcast, Segora has alleged, let me quote it here, We’ve been really, really on one with Garth Brooks the last few weeks or months. Really what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in graves in his yard. For sure, he’s probably killed two hundred to three hundred people in his life. The hosts continue to troll Garth Brooks with serial killer jokes and included segments in their show like Garth Brooks sucks, what’s wrong with Garth?

Groth’s beard looks insane? And most notably, where are the bodies Garth? Then they found there’s a gym in the UK named Garth’s Gym Future Bodies. Although sports Gidia points out in Daily Comedy News would also like to point out the theory seems to be a coincidence. No news outlet has reported on Garth Brooks being involved in any missing persons cases.

I don’t believe he’s a serial killer at all. In fact, I’ll declare that he’s definitely not and there are no investigations into Garth Brooks being a serial killer. Segura has confirmed that he’s been blocked by Brooks, telling THEO Von first, I got worried about a year ago from a one hundred percent reliable source. I was like, does he know, and they’re like, ah, yeah, he knows. And I was like, is he upset?

And they’re like, he just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t know why you’re talking about him. Then recently he blocked me on Instagram and I was like, oh, he finally blocked me for a couple of years. Sagora was not actually blocked by Garth on Instagram. He was just restricted, whatever that means, even though most of the comments Garth gets on any post are asking where the bodies are.

John Mulaney was on the Hot Ones podcast, and he can handle spicy food. He gave some harsh notes to a hot sauce called de bomb. Mulaney said, it’s not good. It’s not good food. Do you understand it doesn’t make food better.

I’m not trying to damage their business. Not a good product. Later in the interview, we talked about being a dad and said when he was a kid. Here’s the problem with goldfish, especially if you’re like taking care of people, you want to feed them more, but you’re not supposed to. There’s only one thing I can ever give you, goldfish, and I gave it to you ready today.

But you’re still there. And I want you to like me, and I want you to tell the other fish that I’m a good guy. So I’d love to feed you again and again and again kill him with kindness. A scary moment for Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias. His plane ran off the runway on Friday.

His private plane was attempting the land at Western Carolina Regional Airport around one o’clock Friday. The Guldstream four ended up on the grass about six hundred feet past the end of the runway. Gabe on Twitter set everybody is okay, but shaking up, happy to be alive. Here’s a weird one. What are you up to?

Amy Schumer? Amy Schumer dropped in virtually to commend the cast of Joyride. They were doing a press jacket and suddenly Amy Schumer’s on and says, Hi, this is Amy Schumer from I Love Joyride Dot com She went on to say that she loved the movie so much, the cast, everyone involved. I can’t tell you how much I love this movie and how much I needed it. It’s my girl friend.

Everyone Comedy of the Summer, you guys rock. I’ve been doing this while something’s up there. We’ll see what happens there. Joel mchael says Donald Glover is indeed returning for the Community Movie. This is a lot of news off of four day weekend, right, Yeah, not scraping the barrel at all today.

Donald Glover will be in the Community Movie. According to Joel mcchall, Chip Chase will not. Peacock has yet who officially confirmed Donald Glover’s involvement, but Joel was on Kelly Ripp’s podcast said Donald’s coming back, and that’s really important. The fact that Donald’s going to do it. That was the big piece.

But I think everyone’s coming back. I mean, so far, we’re pretty good, and I think it’ll happen. If not, then you know, Donald’ll be there. See it’ll just be Donald. It’ll just be in an episode of Atlanta, all right by everyone?

Does that include Chevy Chase? Michael said, yeah, I don’t think so. There weren’t any issues at all when we were making the show. Vulture reviewed Alex Edelman’s new show Just for Us. That’s the show built around Alex’s experiences at a white supremacist meeting.

Spoilers here. Once he arrives, he gets distracted by the fact that the meetings being held in an apartment full of completed framed jigsaw puzzles. The members of the meeting even have a spread of whites only muffins and orange juice. He starts his show by bringing its scale all the way down. He launches into a riff about a gorilla’s friendship with Robin Williams sentence, I didn’t expect to say even gorillas were like this guy is unbelievable, and contrasted williams nearly universal appeal with his own specific appeal, saying, my comedy barely works if you’re not a jew from the Upper East Side.

Vulture points out, as most audiences will know going in, this is a show about a Jewish comedian who ended up going to a white nationalist meeting. So why are we starting by imitating a zookeeper describing celebrity deaths and sign language? Because Edelman’s opening gambit reveals itself to be kennily constructed. He pulls the audience close with the self deprecation and then destabilizes the dynamic. He turns things around and makes the show all about his need as a comedian to appease, which reacts nauseatingly when it comes in contact with Nazis.

Genre Wise, Just for Us lies in the growing niche of solo performances that falls somewhere between storytelling and stand up in the vein of Mike Bibiglia’s ventures. Burbiglia is a producer on Just for Us. Josh Gadd gave an update on the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise and how you were like, hey, where’s the new Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie? Well, it was announced back in twenty twenty. Rick Moranis was going to reprise his role as scientist Wayne Zelenski, but we haven’t heard much.

Josh Gadd went on Twitter and he said, a lot of you are asking me what’s going on with this film? Were they really okay? True? It is we were inchest from starting and then COVID hit inchest from starting again, and then my schedule exploded with conflicts inchest from starting again, and budget got the best of us. If you want it, let your local Disney know.

UCB is going to reopen in New York City. UCB under new ownership now They found a new theater space on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan. The new owners said, we’re planning on resuming performances in the fall of twenty three, and that’s as specific as we want to get right now. New space will include three floors. There are plans to add an elevator to make an ADA compliance.

The ground floor will include a coffee bar, hangout space, and small performance area. The mezzanine will have a bar and restrooms that are so big it’s crazy. In the basement will house the main theater. This sounds pretty cool. Variety of reports.

A comedian has filed a copyright lawsuit over the stand up series Live at the Moth Club. Comedian Harry Dean’s Way is suing Steve Coogan’s production company over a series called Live at the Moth Club, which he claims rips off his YouTube show Shambles. In the filing, Shambles is described as a sitcom centered around a live comedy night at a Rundown club. Struggling to make ends meets The show blends fact in fiction by combining a sitcom set behind the scenes of a club with real comedy performances in front of a live audience. The lawsuit says Live at the Moth Club is kind of similar to Shambles, including the setting, the format, and characters such as a shambolic promoter.

He also claims a number of jokes are ripped off, including one about the lights of the club not working and another in which an intern ends up writing material for one of the comedians. A spokesperson on Coogan’s side said, we strongly refute this claim, which has no legal merit and entre comedy news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, Revigate show smash, I like button all that see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Happy July fourth, Tom Segoora has got a new special for you on Netflix. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Segura says he has no patience for comedians who pool punches out of fear for being attacked online. He said that backlash stuff is not real.

It’s not true. The time you get into deeper stuff is when you the comedian, decides to engage in the backlash. Guess what, it all goes away. His new special, Sledgehammer out Today, recorded in November. He jokes about parenting his two young boys, calling them like raising wild donkeys, getting his mom high for the first time on gummies, and his admiration for Brad Pitt.

This is interesting. They shot four different performances in Phoenix. They thought they’d cut it together and make a perfect special, but they ended up using just one show, and that was the first performance. Segoora said it was such a crazy, energetic, fun environment. He’s got more specials coming out on Netflix.

The next one will shoot late twenty twenty five at the earliest, though, so enjoy this one. Tom is also building out YMH Studios. They’re working on some movies. One of the movies Fat Astronauts, a comedy in development scripted by Tom Sigoor and Bert Kreisher. Fat Astronauts centers on two brows who live at De Botch Lifestyle on a moon colony and decide they never want to come back to Earth.

Gee, who would you cast as two fat astronauts in a movie written by Tom Sigour and Bert Kreisher. And they’re partying on the moon. We’ll see. Unfortunately, there’s that pesky writer Strike Segur says, you’re trying to do as much as you can without going into a coma. As a company, it’s fun to try new things.

He talked about his podcast podcast. Advertising is slowed down, but he’s confident it will rebound. Tom said, what has happened over the last year is not that unusual in business. You have an economy that’s been slowing down continuously for a while, and that always affects marketing at ad dollars. It’s cyclical.

This kind of thing doesn’t stay this way forever. I feel like the recovery has begun, he says. When he or his wife Christina Pizitski Christina Pee or on the road producing there your mom’s House podcast can be challenging. What we end up doing is going in a hypermode for several weeks to record and produce a big batch of episodes. I don’t want to compare it to real working people, but it ends up sucking the life out of you.

If you do eight episodes in one week, it’s a lot. It’s not our preference. The Sydney Morning Harold asked Fortune Feamster seven questions. Let’s see what they are. Question number one worst habit, Fortune said, I don’t always pay attention to detail.

Someone will tell me something and I’ll shake my head and then three minutes later I’m like, wait, what did you want me to do? That sounds like me seconds greatest fear, she says, I think as a performer, you always worry that work will just end, so we all bust our butts thinking things won’t last. What line stayed with you? Her line? But the pause of fear upon your chest.

Only love can sue that beast, and my words are paper. Tiger is no match for the predators of pain inside her. What’s that from John? That’s from the Indigo Girls. Love will come to you.

Fortune’s biggest regret. I couldn’t have changed this. But I wish my grandmother had been able to see me grow up beyond high school. She’d never got to see me perform. Orn’t be out.

Fortune’s favorite room is her office. It’s sort of my safe space and where I create. What art or song does she wish was hers? Basically any adele song and if she could solve one thing world peace. Kevin Hart was on Jay Shetty’s podcast and Kevin answered the question what’s the biggest drug in life?

Kevin said, the biggest drug, it’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin, it’s not molly or opioids. The biggest drug is fame. And the reason why it’s the biggest drug. It makes you feel like you’re powerful and like everywhere you go and anything you want, everything you want, Nobody prepares you for the world of fame. Kevin also talked about his near fatal car accident and he said, I really almost died.

The incident shaped his stance on fame, allowing him to sort his priorities out and get his responsibilities in order. Kevin said, I didn’t even have everything dialed up. If something were to happen, I’m out here. I’m just roaming. I’m out here aimlessly living.

I’m moving so fast I’ve yet to grasp the true concept and reality of responsibility. The event enabled him to prioritize his family alongside work. While the responsibility of balancing the need for work and spending time with his loved ones has led to several contradictions, he still tries his best to change every day. Kevin said, I believe in God. I’m not a spiritual sun maybe, but very thankful for the life.

God has allowed me to live in the opportunities that have been but embark upon. But I’ve got a lot more appreciation after life was almost gone. Jocelyn Chia wrote an editorial for Newsweek under the title I was canceled for a joke. Jocelyn is the comedian that made a joke about the Malaysian flight. Jocelyn writes, I first saw someone sharing my clip in an Instagram story.

The words were in Malay, which I didn’t understand, but ended with a wow. Funnily enough, I think it was a compliment. I reposted the story. However, as negative story shares and comments rapidly piled up, I soon realized that the wow had not been meant as a compliment. I knew one I had to do.

I’m not like some comedians who would just ignored block nasty comments. I used to be a lawyer, and in the face of verbal attack, the lawyer and me will rear her argumentative head and engage in battle with this kind of massive onslaught. However, engagement would have been both futile and emotionally destroying. Instead, it was time to play defense. I switched the setting of my social media to limit the comments and the messages I could get.

I’d deactivated the two platforms I was barely active on. Why I give the haters extra places for their bile. I turned on an auto responder for the email address that I was getting unwanted emails on, and pause the inbox all calls from a Malaysian number. I turned off Google alerts from a name and did not read anything being written about me. That night, I barely slept and woke up the next day to frantic sounding messages from the comedy seller.

I was informed that due to the review bombs they were getting, which eventually amounted to four thousand one star reviews, they had taken down the video. They requested that I take the video down too, which had their logo on it, and sent me a video without their logo that I could post if I wish. The comedy seller backed down. I was in this all alone against an angry nation of thirty three million people. By Thursday, the Singapore Foreign Minister had apologized to Malaysia from my joke.

The harassment also intensified. Multiple attempts were made to hack my socials. My personal information was exposed. The comedy seller website was hacked. In every venue I had ever worked at, was review bombed and threatened with strong arming them and not working with me.

IBM called to cancel me for a series of broadcasts I had done for their American and European offices every quarter for the past two years because their Malaysian office was unhappy with my joke. A new Or comedy club told me I could no longer be on a show I was previously booked for. A full on war was being waged against my mental health and livelihood. People advised me to just apologize, saying, Dave Chappelle can afford to not apologize. You can’t.

Jocelyn Rights, Chris Rock took a punch Dave Chappelle was attacked. Hasan minhas received an anthrax scare, Singaporean comedians that faced condemnations and calls for their arrest by Malaysians. A Malaysian comedian was arrested and is going to be standing trial over joke, and the list goes on. Even though it was just one person, I still wanted to take a stand, a stand for myself, my art, my fellow comedians, and for the freedom of speech, especially in a comedic context with no malice involved. So I chose to repost the video.

I wanted to send my haters the message I was not going to be bullied into backing down. I also posted humor stories about my situation and let them know there’s one thing they can’t cancel, my sense of humor. Wow. And here’s a July fourthe kind of thing from The Gazette. Comedian Bob Hope visited Cedar Rapperts three times.

I don’t know why they randomly did this. I don’t know if there’s some sort of anniversary or something going on there. I’m a big Bob Hope fan. I know a lot of people judge Bob by his NBC comedy specials. He did when he was eighty plus years old, and Bob lived to be one hundred.

Don’t underestimate the young Bob Hope. The radio shows are classic. He had such great timing the USO shows, I’m sure meant a lot to a lot of people. Was he a flawed man, absolutely, but one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century anyway. The Gazette writes performances range from a vaudeville program in nineteen twenty nine to sold out shows at five Season Center fifty years later.

Bob Hope performed in Cedar Rapids three times during his career. His first visit to Cedar Rapids he was twenty six and still mostly performing theater. He was included in a nineteen twenty nine Fathers Day vaudeville program at the Iowa Theater. At The Gazette reported, Bob Hope has some entertaining song and soalk numbers that made it a hit. No mention of the comedy interesting.

Second trip to Cedar Rapids was twenty years later. Bob had made the jump from theater into film and TV. He’d been doing the USO shows. He was accompanied by Maryland Maxwell, his co star in the film The Lemon Drop Kid. Hope and Maxwell arrived at the Cedar Rapids Airport on a flight from Omaha on a Saturday afternoon.

About three hundred people there were to get a glimpse of the stars. Maxwell proceeded Hope off the plane and broke on a wide grin. A banner greeted the new arrival saying welcome Maryland, Maxwell and above that, in smaller letters, Bob Hope End. They added out to the Cedar Rapids Country Club. They played nine holes of golf.

Bob shot at forty on a part thirty five. Maxwell was a novice who shot ten on the first hole. After that, nobody counted her strokes. She asked Bob about her stance and said, is this right Bob? And Bob said that’s it.

At least that’s what they told me. It only costs me eight thousand dollars. Bob came back in September of nineteen seventy nine. He was seventy six years old. Then he sold out crowd of more than four thousand watched his show at the five Season Center.

He said, it’s nice to be in Cedar Rapids. This is a beautiful garage. It was the same joke he had told three decades before. He did some local humor, saying Cedar Rapids is such a clean town. It doesn’t have any slums.

To spice things up. A hobo comes across from Waterloo once in a while, and he made fun of President Jimmy Carter, saying, I don’t know why people pick on Carter. Hell, he hasn’t done anything. When the show was over, Bob hopped in who was nineteen thirty five? I rolls Royce headed to the airport.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and this is not holiday weekend filler at all. What a robust show. News broke on Thursday, five seconds after I recorded the entire weekend. Pete Davidson has entered rehab.

Oh no, hope you’re okay. A source close to Pete told People that Pete, who’s twenty nine years old, had checked himself in a treatment but should be getting out pretty soon. Maybe by the time you’re hearing this, he is already out. According to page six, Pete entered the treatment center seeking inpatient therapy to address ongoing issues related to post traumatic stress disorder and his previous diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Another source told People Pete will often check himself in a rehab to work on these issues.

His friends and family have been supportive during the time. In twenty seventeen, Pete revealed his borderline personality diagnosis while appearing on Mark Marin’s podcast. Pete described his extreme mood swings, which he initially attributed to his regular marijuana use, but he was eventually diagnosed with borderline personality disorder of all. Months later, Pete said, I found out. I have BBT beat, said one of my psychiatrists diagnosed me.

He was always saying, before this big meltdown, you’re probably bipolar or borderline. We’re just gonna have to figure it out. Pete also said he was depressed all the time, but praise therapy for helping him improve. It’s working slowly, but surely. I’ve been having a lot of problems.

This whole year has been a nightmare. This year has been the worst year of my life. Again, this is back on Marin. This isn’t last week getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this. Earlier that year, he had joked about a sobriety and a stint in rehab on SNL’s Weekend Update.

Head got serious during that segment and said depression affects more than sixteen million people in this country and there’s no cure. But for anybody dealing with it, there are treatments that can help. First of all, if you figure depressed, see a doctor and talk to them about medication, and also be healthy. Eating right and exercise can make a huge difference. Finally, if you’re in the cast of a late night comedy show.

It might help if you know they do more of your comedy sketches. Mornings popped up before the holiday weekend. Kevin Hart has a special on Thursday, What Yeah, reality Check hitting peak on July sixth. I want to play the trailer for you, but Kevin didn’t go more than four or five words without an F bomb, and I try and keep it clean here, so I’ll just have to tell you. In the new special called reality Check, Kevin Hart is as funny as ever as he processes his growing family, fame, mentions on black Twitter, and more.

In the trailer, we see Kevin holding a baseball bat challenging people to rush the stage, and also in the special, we see Kevin say Lebron James real good friend of mine? Well he was. He hasn’t heard this joke yet. We’ll see what happens. Kevin Hart Reality Check Thursday.

Who Knew? Hassan Minaj made a surprise appearance at Stanford’s New York Comedy Club. Ronny Chieng was your headliner, Hassan showed up and opened for him. Chang said the reason that he was there is that he’s work shopping jokes ahead of an upcoming Netflix special. Deana Carvey on his podcast started mocking Anthony Fauci.

Carvey and his co host David Spade started making fun of Fauci’s COVID nineteen guidance. Carvey did a Fauci impression. I won’t do one. But what Carvey said as Fauci, Okay, I’m sorry. If you’ve had two boosters and two vaccines, he can get and give it to another guy who’s had five vaccines and four boosters.

Carvey pretend to be a citizen, asking Fauci a question that question, what’s the difference between a vaccine and a booster? Switching back to the Fauci impression, he said, I don’t know, it’s just more vaccine, but booster sounds better. The Ollywood Reporter spotlighted late night writers who are currently out of work. One is Jesse Joyce, who writes for Jimmy Kimmel Alive. He’s been a comedian for twenty three years, but it kind of stopped doing stand up once it began working on Kimmel in twenty seventeen.

While he’s back and booking shows, he said, there was literally just a strike thing where it was like, oh, I guess I have this skill, I could dust off as the sole provider of income from my family. He admits, it’s super weirds have stand up as your fallback safety net. Joyce recently teamed up with fellow Kimmel writers Troy Walker and Devin Field for three nights in Denver and has a show booked at Kimmel’s Vegas Comedy Club in September with five of the staff writers. He says, Jimmy’s trying to help everybody, noting that Jimmy is letting the writers use the Jimmy Kimmel Alive name, which makes it easier for them to book gigs. Matt Coff is a writer at The Daily Show since twenty thirteen.

He said he’s always had stand up as a side hustle, but he’s pivoted to full time during the strike, getting on stage four to five nights a week and booking road gigs. He said, I haven’t really talked to anybody who’s like, I’m gonna make just as much money doing stand up as I did writing for his successful late night show. The sense I get is that, like me, they’re on a quest for validation, that maybe they’re not getting validation. Did normally get from their late night writing job. Making a joke at a room and getting a laugh could be pretty a pretty good replacement for doing a good stand up set, and vice versa.

I think a lot of people are sort of like me, where they’re like, I don’t really have any other skill, so I gave to stay at home playing the Legend of Zelda, or I could try and get sharp with my joke writing. And at the Cubs game last week, Jim Gaffigan saying, take me out to the ball game. I’m gonna let that wrap up the audio for today, so I’ll say goodbye before you hear Jim sing for two and a half minutes. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify YouTube. Normal episode tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Scary Mommy. Lean Morgan said, when I was selling jewelry in women’s houses like Mary Kay and Tupperware, I was booking so far in advance that the big company noticed and asked me to speak at their regional rallies. So I’d breastfeed a baby on the toilet at the Opera Land Hotel and then hand the baby over to my mom and I’d go up on stage. She talked about how fast her kids grow up and said, I’d tell people anybody to enjoy it because it goes by like that.

I have children that are no longer toddlers, and I agree wholeheartedly. Everyone will give you that same advice. She’s right, Leanne said. Then all of a sudden, there you are in your gown watching the third hour of the Today Show because you don’t have to take anybody to school. Salon talked to Tom Papa about his new book, and they were like, hey, Tom Papa.

In the book, you talk about how it’s a red flag when people don’t laugh. That reminds me time out, Time out of time out. Tom. I have in the past mentioned specifically on one of Tom Papa’s specials that he was getting a lot of claptter, So just catch everybody up. What clap heer is is when a comedian does like a big segment and the audience doesn’t actually laugh.

They clap to be like, Okay, we appreciate what you just said, but we’re not actually laughing, which seems weird to me in a comedy show, and Papa has suffered from that in the past. Mark Marin on his podcast last week talked about that, and even Maren said that he’s noticing more and more it’s hard to get an actual laugh, So if audience has changed. Maren kind of got into a little bit saying, maybe there’s so much Netflix comedy now that people have just seen so much comedy and they’re getting I have this. I call this the Emperor of Rome syndrome. So what’s that, Johnny Mack if you’re a new listener.

I ran serious XM comedy for ten years. So for ten years I’d be at work and I would have the radio stations on all day every day, so eight nine hours a day, plus listening on my commute, plus listening in the car. Right, so I listened to a lot of comedy, and what happens over time is you get numb to it and you do this thing that the comedians in the back of the room do. And I’ve spoken to comics about this where I’m going to be up on stage and you’re analyzing it and you’re like, oh, that was really funny. Oh awesome, callback, Oh great set up there.

Oh I love what you did. But you don’t actually laugh anymore. It’s terrible. Anyway, Maron got into that on his podcast that came out last Monday. Tom Popa has talked about it in the book, and Tom said, when people don’t laugh, it terrifies me.

Before I was a comedian. As a kid, I would see people that didn’t laugh, or teachers that never laughed, and it was like, something’s wrong here right now with my kids, will meet these other parents that your children. You realize that the husband doesn’t laugh, the wife never laughs. What’s it like living in there? There’s no release valve.

You’re taking everything too seriously. It’s got to be a pressure cooker. Makes me very, very uncomfortable. I don’t understand that way of living. So you just brood over it and have real, honest conversations every night.

They asked Tom if he’s feeling the pressure not to offend anyone, and this cancel culture, it’s cancel culture even a thing, right. Every comedian’s like, there’s no cancel culture. And Dave Chappe’s playing arenas Papa said. Look, if you’re a comedian and you have your audience, you could say whatever you want. You can do whatever you want.

Your audience considers the source. They know when you’re joking. They know that this is an idea that’s just trying to push us further, and we all find funny and we’re all grown ups about it. So when you attach us some corporation, if you have a show on NBC, if you’re being hired by a company in a studio, then you’re in trouble. I’ve watched a lot of people get shows taken away, a lot of people you don’t even hear about.

There’s the big cancelation, but then there’s a whole other level of being canceled quietly you don’t even know, and you don’t hear because of one joke. They end up in trouble and have projects taken away, and it’s pretty terrifying interesting. Tom POMPA very interesting. The good thing about the moment, though, is you don’t need those corporations. So all these comedians you notice are starting their own podcast, starting their own networks, writing their own material, going out and performing.

If you’re not beholding to a company that’s frightened and hasn’t figured out how to make an adult stand and there’s playing to the whims of a few people complaining, that’s when you run into trouble. So all these comedians, now we have the freedom to speak, we have to do it on your own terms. Good Morning America asked Kevin Hart. Hey, how do you stay motivated to maintain a healthy lifestyle? Kevin Hart said, working out started off as just something to do to try and get in shape, but it’s become pretty much a part of my life.

So when it comes to health and wellness, it’s now embedded in me. It’s assist them a structure that I live by, stay true too, and ultimately helps me stay focused. The level of focus comes from the structure of the system. I stayed true too for probably roughly about the last seven eight years. Kevin, you have any tips for finding time when you’re on the gone?

Kevin said, you’ve got to have a moment where you can kind of black out, and block out meaning taking time to clear your head, being your own thoughts, being your own space of happy, whatever that might be. I think it’s different per person. For me, just a nice little quiet hour where I can close my eyes. Honestly, a lot of that time takes place in the gym. Putting yourself in an environment where you get the best out of yourself is where you find the best moments for yourself.

Lots of water, a lot of water. Ahmed Ahmed talked about getting in a comedy and said, I started going to movies. One of the first movies I ever saw as the kid was Rocky and I remember coming out of the movie theater feelings so inspired, just so full of life, and I thought, wow, movies could really move you. And so entertainment was kind of the direction I wanted to go in because I enjoyed it so much, the entertainment aspect of it, not the glitz and the glamor in the Hollywood toxicity, not even the money. Really, it was more about entertaining people, making people laugh.

Like Dan had a great sense of humor. He always cracked jokes. He was always the guy in the wedding or the birthday party, or the dinners or even the funerals, in the corner of smoking a cigarette holding court. Maybe that’s where I got it from. I’m atm.

I had talked about breaking in Hollywood, saying when I started, for about seven years, I took every role that was coming at me, the terrorist in this, in that movie. They were cool projects. I got to work with Kurt Russell and Halle Berry. I was in on these big action movies that took place on a plane or a train, and I was always the bad guy in the back, holding the gun and screaming and stuff like that. And I started getting a lot of backlash, including from my own community.

I’d get a lot of haters from the Arab and Muslim world saying, why are you doing this. You’re perpetuating stereotypes. You should be taking roles like that. And I thought, but if I don’t take this role, they’ll give it to a Simon guy or a Mexican guy. I played every terrorist role you could imagine.

I was the go to terrorist for a while. At one point I called my agent and said, can I audition for the friend? Can I audition for the police officer, the teacher. And they’d say, no, change your name, is what they’d tell me. I said why and they said, casting people in Hollywood is in a box and they just see your name.

I said, if my name was Joe Smith, they wouldn’t know where I was from. I refused to change my name. Was really stubborn about it. I said, call me if you have anything other than these terrorists. Rolls the phone stop bringing and ran out of money and I went back to waiting tables.

Wow. Nola dot com caught up with Jean Marcos Serresi. He was one of the new faces at Montreal JFL last year and in my opinion killed it was the best of the twenty comics I saw that night. He’s got a special called shelf Life, filmed a few years ago in an outdoor show when Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a small masked audience grouped in pods. Remember the pandemic that was the thing that happened.

Yes, Jean Marco says. Those shows were soff shows a big open fields where dogs are running around. There were date time shows and I’m doing Catholic priest jokes. There were shows in parking lots for people staying in their cars honking their horns instead of laughing. But he did do some pandemic material.

This is pretty good. I had a roommate who I didn’t really know, and whenever he came back to the apartment was like accusing your ax of having an affair. You’re like, where have you been? Did you wear a mask? From The New York Times, a little Amsterdam improv club launched big American careers.

Seth Myers, Jordan Peel, Amber Ruffin, and some of the ted Lassos owned their comedy chops at the United States at Boom Chicago. The Times right. Seth Myers had no idea what to expect when he got a job in nineteen ninety seven performing at a comedy club an Amsterdam called Boom Chicago. Seth said, I knew not one thing about the Netherlands. My first thought was to get some good hiking shoes, I guess because I thought I was going to Switzerland.

And then I showed up literally in the flattest place I ever lived. While the place is celebrating their thirtieth anniversary and from the fifth through the sixteenth, it’s the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival. Your Headliners July sixth, Brendan Hunt you know Coach Beard from Ted Lasso July sixth and seventh, Seth Myers U thirteenth, The Dutch Comedy All Stars July fourteenth, Best of LA Comedy Showcase. Imagine going there and going in LA Showcase. This is for the locals.

Don’t be caddy, Johnny mack Oh July sixteenth, at the show called f Mary Killed. Do you know that game? That’s where you picked three people and you realize which one you’d like to marry, which one you’d like to be cozy with, and which one you would kill. It’s a brutal game. The club now has its own theater in the center of Amsterdam, and it’s still what it was at the beginning of venue for two hour improv and sketch comedy shows by five performers who engage in comedic games and stunts based on audience suggestions.

The founders were inspired by Chicago. In the eighties, they attended late night improv sets at Second City. In nineteen ninety two, they took a trip to Amsterdam and they visit a coffee shop. One of the city’s legal marijuana cafes. They said, we had one of the best stoner ideas ever, which was to quit our jobs in America and come here and start a comedy club.

A city clerk said, your idea won’t work. Dutch people don’t want to see a show in English. Tourists don’t want to see a show at all. You know that actually sounds like good ways to me. But they did it anyway, and now we’re thirty years later.

Seth Meyer said, we got to be on stage four or five nights a week, and that was never happening for us in Chicago.

Also, we got to be in Amsterdam in our early twenties.

Amber Ruffin said at Booms Chicago, the learning curve is steep man, but once you get it, it’s the most funny person can have. It was the perfect place for young person to learn, the perfect mix of partying and then having to deliver. Seth said of the Dutch, they don’t give it away for free. It’s not really a language barrier, but I think they just are discerning. I have a great affection for the audiences I had there because it is the truest balance you are ever gonna get.

Brendan Hunt liked it because in Chicago, if you have a bad show, you have to wait a week to get the taste out of your mouth. At Boom, you have another show the next night. It sounds like a lot of fun, and I am bookmarking that to talk about, especially with that July sixth start date, because you know here in the States after July fourth, there’s gonna be a little lull in the comedy news. So I having something to talk about on the sixth, seventh, and eighth is gonna come in quite handy for Johnny Mack.

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