Month: August 2023

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The Shark deck Man. Am I procrastinating? Hi? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You see a marathon training, Humble Brag and this week Hal Higden, who’s my guru, wants a four miler seven four arrest day and then a fifteen.

Now after I record this podcast here, I’m gonna go do the seven. But I have been taking my time recorded a couple episodes of five Good News Stories. That’s the podcast where I tell you five stories. They’re all good news wherever you get your shows. I’ve even wasted the first thirty five seconds of this podcast before I tell you Matt Rife is the latest performer to get pelted with a random object on stage.

This time it was a bra. While you’re laughing, Johnny Mack, it’s not nice, I don’t know, it’s just funny. It’s a comedy show. You’re really upset that I’m laughing that Matt Riffe got hit with a bra. Come on.

An eyewitness tells page six that Matt Riffe was performing in Atlantic City and a female spectator decided to shoot her shot. Writes page six. An eyewitness says it went down when Rife was flirting with an eighty five year old woman who had flown all the way to Florida for the show, and she got pelted with a bra. All right, that’s not funny. I don’t want eighty five ye old women getting hit by bras.

Why isn’t eighty five year old woman at Matt Rife anyway? Rife himself was taken aback because why would somebody throw something at an eighty something year old woman who was getting all of his attention. The insider notes that the woman’s daughter picked it up with disgust and then threw it the rest of the way towards Rife. A second eyewitness says Rife didn’t even bother to catch it. The bra land that at his feet.

An insider said, Rife did pick it up and notice something had been written on the bra. You’re curious, right, what did it say? It said, if you find my bra, tell Matt Rife to reach out to me, and it had her Instagram handle. It also had her hotel and her hotel rooms number written on it. The insider says, rather than keep that information to himself, Rife read it out to the crowd.

Paul Reiser is back in a stand up comedy, and the San Francisco Chronicle asked him what’s been the best part about getting back in stand up? Riser said, one of the things that was underscored for me after the pandemic was how much of the human element was missed. It’s part of why I always love stand up. I was reminded that human contact and interaction is irreplaceable. You can’t get that in a movie.

I don’t personally feel I can get it even in theater because there’s a wall of fiction between you and the audience. I was rusty, as to be expected. There’s no app that’ll make you funnier, better or stronger quicker. It’s only going on night after night after night and doing it. Stand up is technology proof.

There’s nothing you can do to be better other than doing it. He talked about his first time on stage. It was the summer of nineteen seventy four, the summer after I was a freshman in college. I actually found a cassette of that act while cleaning out a closet. Reacently.

I had written first time ever on it and it was five minutes and I listened to it cringing, going, oh, I can’t believe I had the audacity to go out and try and do that. But when you’re so young, you’re protected by a sort of embryo or shield of ignorance in Naivet’s hey, so you have no idea that what you’re doing is no good at all. On the other hand, I’d hate to look back and go, boy, I was much funnier at eighteen than I am now. It wasn’t a particularly great living, but we fellow comics, we’re all supporting ourselves. There were enough clubs, and you get twenty bucks here and a hundred bucks there and seventy bucks there, and it was like, oh, I think I got the rent covered.

We were sell thrilled to have three hundred dollars in our pocket and thrilled not to have to do a regular job. My goal was looking at George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and going, that’s what I want to do.

And then I stubbled into a casting office and I ended up in diner.

Then that got me on the tonight show, that gets me in Beverly Hills, cop All these things happened sequentially on top of each other, so I was like, all right, I guess this is what’s happening for me. Jane Curtain looked back on her early years of Saturday Night Live and doesn’t find it funny. Jane spoke to Deadline and said, we were sent the five year compilation video of S and l’s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one of my daughter. We were out visiting and her husband said, have you ever watched any of these? And I said, you know, I haven’t seen them in a long time.

He said, would you mind if we watched one? I said, no, great big one. So we sat around the TV and I had that sort of anticipatory, open mouthed grin that people have when they’re waiting for something to happen. They know it’s gonna be really great, and it never happened. It wasn’t funny.

Not one thing was funny. There’s not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle. Jane attributes the unfunniness of SNL to it being dated since it’s fifty years old. But after the rewatch, I was like, this really wasn’t a very good show. Was terrible.

Vulture asked Paul F. Tompkins if there’s a certain amount of salvation interesting word in embracing the successes of new comedians. Paul said, oh for sure. Yeah, I mean it does help to keep me away from the bitterness. I remember Beth stelling special Girl Daddy that came out.

Man, to watch somebody who has like when you see the thing where they’ve come in in their own they’ve got it and it’s down and it’s funny, and it’s deep, and it’s insightful, and it’s entertaining, it’s everything. When you watch them become that, I get chills talking about it. I had to refrain from texting during the special. I was like, watch the whole thing and to say, Beth, I love the special so much, congratulations. I have to pull myself back from saying I’m proud of you, because I don’t have any right to say that.

I didn’t have any hand in her ascension, but I felt that way, you know, I felt that pride to see somebody get to the point where it’s like, you did it, You’re so good. This is where you’ve submitted your status as one of the great comedians. When somebody puts out one of those hours that’s unassailable. How can you not be excited by it all right, Paul F. Tompkins, they give your own such a moment.

Yeah, I think Laboring under Delusions. I worked so hard on that and that was the special where I was like, this is me, this is who I am, This is the purest expression of me. Because it’s funny, because it’s personal, but it’s silly. I worked really, really hard in keeping it tight and funny, and I wasn’t afraid to go into the emotions of some of things. I wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable.

I think it was the best night of my career. I think that’s safe to say. I love this. Next story, it’s from the Times of Israel. Alex Edelman arrived at a senior living home for conversation about his solo Broadway show Just for Us.

You know that’s the one where Alex Edelman, who is a Jewish comedian, infiltrated a white supremacist meeting in Queens. I’ve told you about that one. So Edelman goes for the Q and a one of the seniors asked him, where are you from Massachusetts? Now what part Brookline? Now what street?

So he told him what street, But the senior citizens had more questions, where did you go to Camp Seneca Lake, Camp Yevna, a hockey camp, and a few others. Where’d you go to college? NYU? Did your parents ever want you to be a doctor or a lawyer? Edelman said, his father’s a doctor, as a mother’s a lawyer, and they wanted me to be happy.

Next question, what does your shared say? Edelman said, Jesus the Savior of a new generation. And it was written in the style of a Pepsi logo. That got silence. Senior citizen Maggie didn’t like the show.

She said he wasn’t prepared. I thought enough something else to say. If we hadn’t been asking our questions, I don’t know what he would have talked about.

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Also, Maggie was offended by a mistake Edelman made.

He said, my friend Alfred was ninety three. He’s only eighty six. A TikTok comedian is going viral for a video where he explains multiple Southern US cities into quick, simpler terms for his California friend. For example, Austin is described as San Francisco but barbecue, and Joe Rugan Houston is described as Texas Atlanta. He calls Birmingham, Alabama murder Atlanta.

Wow. This TikTok has over a million point four reviews. People in the comments seem to agree with the Texas Atlanta joke, but one comments are pointed out one city is not mentioned and says, this is San Antonio. Eraser, I guess I gotta go do that seven a mile run now, all right? Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck Easy One again. Today, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Before I tell you about Chappelle’s fiftieth birthday, I just recorded Saturday’s episode. I’ve been sitting on an article. The av Club did the thirty best stand up specials of all time, and I just went through it cold without pre reading it.

I didn’t react when I’ll do it at all. You’ll hear that on Saturday. I’d be curious as to what your list is. The front half of the list. I was like, yeah, good, pick, good, quick, good pick.

And then I got to about two thousand and five and I was like what. Dave Chappelle celebrated his fiftieth birthday several ways. Friday night at the Comedy Seller. He had a private party in the Comedy Seller Dozen Clothes of For Too Many People. Guests included Angela Bassett, John Hamm, Chance, The Rapper, t I, Justin, Timberlake, Chris Rock, Andrew Scheltz, Michelle wolf A, Zeazon Surrey, Donnell Rawlings, and Jeff Ross Wow.

Then on Saturday night, Chappelle played Madison Square Garden once again. During the week, various guests included Chris Rock, John Stewart as He’s and Sorry Nas, Ludacris, Travis Scott, and Burna Boy. Saturday included John Mayer, Busta Rhimes, Common, Ti, and Pete Davidson.

Also hitting the stage.

Michael Chay, Ronny Chieng, Michelle Wolf, Jeff Ross, Mike Tyson was in the audience. Chapelle also honored the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop, so Common, Ti and Buster Rhymes performed their well known hits. Davis on the It’s a Celebration Bitches tour, which will visit Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Nashville, Chicago, and Kansas City. Steve Harvey apparently fired the social media team they did some social media that didn’t go over so well. Steve Harvey’s account tweeted name a comedian you don’t find funny at all.

Steve says he’s got official social media people handling his accounts. He insists it wasn’t him who posted it. He lamented the tweet as mean spirit and downright negative. A screenshot of the deleted tweet shows it was viewed at least a million times. Steve says the explanation he got from his handlers was they were just trying to get some engagement, but he adds they’re going to be needing some new employment.

Now. Good thing I didn’t see it, because if he had tweeted the name of comedian you don’t find funny at all, I might have responded with somebody totally unrelated to that, Adam Sandler, I’m mugging for the camera, even though it’s an audio only podcast. Adam Sandler acknowledge deep passing of Bob Barker in his social media post. Adam Sandler wrote, the man the myth, the best. Such a sweet, funny guy to hang out with.

Love talking to him, love laughing with him, loved him kicking the crap out of me. He’ll be missed by everybody I know. Heartbreaking day. Loved to Bob always in his family. Thanks for all you gave us.

Rob Schneider chimed in, writing one of the nicest things I ever heard in the show business was Bob Barker saying I moved to Hollywood to be an actor, and the only person whoever let me do it was Adam Sandler. Drew Carey wrote very sad day for the Prices Right family and animal lovers all over the world. There hasn’t been a day on the set that I didn’t think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever. If you’re vaguely my age, anybody vaguely my age, The price is Right was the thing you watched when you were at home from school back in the days of five channels.

So if you were I don’t know, between thirty five and sixty, you probably watched a lot of Bob Barker. Michelle Wolfs special It’s Great to Be Here, coming out on September twelve. She has self finance produced it and licensed it herself, like a lot of comedians are doing. Michelle said, I want to do something different than a traditional special and make something on my own terms. It’s hard to convince the industry to give you money to do something new, so I made it on my own hopes I’ll be able to sell it.

I shot eight episodes and we ended up with five of them combined into three sounds complicated. Don’t think about it, just watch. I’m hoping people like this short, digestible format. If so, I have three episodes in the vault and more ready to tape. I’d like to develop more stand up series, hopefully I’ll get a chance.

We’re seeing stand ups make their own specials more and more funny people might not be getting a chance. Y’re giving themselves a chance, and good for them and comedy and you who watch comedy. I think doing these episodes is a fun way to frame stand up an hour it can be really great, but sometimes you have fifteen minutes that feels like it stands by itself, and I think it should be able to live like that without trying to horsehoe it into a format that doesn’t serve the material for the sake of a format that’s ready or arbitrary to begin. If I can do an hour, and I appreciate an hour, but why not try something new. Maria Bamford has a book out.

It’s called Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult. She spoke to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Before they got to the book, they asked her, Hey, it’s stayed fair time in Minnesota. Any tips for fairgoers? Maria said, don’t work as a costume character.

I auditioned to be Getney the Minnesota Pickle. I got a call back, and I have to tell you the pickles from prior seasons had tales to tell. It’s one hundred and twenty five degrees in that pickle costume, and because now you seem like an object, people will chase you. It’s dangerous. You got to run back to your Kia Rio and hope they lose interest in chasing you in your costume because you can’t take it off and lose the mystery.

As for the book, who was the ideal reader? Maria Bamford said, I think it was me. I hoped it would be funny. I tried to make a self laugh and sometimes I lost my own interest in the writing of the book. Hopefully you can’t tell what those sports are.

It’s very quiet when you’re a tip tip typing by yourself. It’s no fun. I really like a live crowds. I had to get some needs met by having friends listen to me read it out loud to see what worked. He had a cash I provided created a power struggle where they felt uncomfortable if they didn’t laugh.

Fear makes people laugh. It turns out sure, I’ll join your cult. By Maria Bamford, two eighty eight, pages twenty eight ninety nine. If you’re in Denver tonight, the States is reuniting at the Paramount Theater. It’s the start of their four date breaking Hearts and Dippin’ Balls tour.

It’s tonight and then three shows in October New York. That’s kind of a weird tour. It celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the MTV series debut. Eight members the original eleven person group are back. David Wayne said in the nineties it was harder to get together.

We were waiting for Zoom to be popular. Thomas Lennon talked about how tight the group is and said, in my life, I’ve been in the emergency room three times, and twice I was taken or carried by Ken Marino. Marino asked, wait, who is the other person that took you the hospital. Lennon said, it’s my wife, Ken, my wife. Over the weekend, Tiffany Hannis jumped on the TV and did the weather.

She was on Katla doing the weather and now again this is from a few days ago. Please don’t take this to be an actual weather forecast. It’s just Johnny Mack recapping a story. Tiffany addas in the valleys the wine will be blowing strong, so take your wig down and hunker down because it’ll fly off. The coastal areas will experience very moderate temperatures.

It’s looking to be a beautiful, beautiful week. Make sure your air conditioner is on point, you have ice water near you, and stay hydrated. It’s gonna get hot, but it’ll cool down at night. You know, California, it’s called at night. As for the desert forecast, well tomorrow.

On the rest of the week, it’s going to go up, y’all. But get ready because on Friday it’s going to be one of those summerines where it’s gonna be hot, but it’s also going to rain at the same time, so you can wear a two piece in the rain. Kathy Griffin showed off her dramatically swollen lips. What happened? She got them tattued during a cosmetic procedure called blushing.

She posted on YouTube, I’m eft, look at me. Her friend asked if Griffin’s lips were real. Griffin’s husband let out an audible sword when he saw the aftermath of the procedure. Kathy said, it’s a little swollen. From the CBC.

I love this one. A Quebec bar added a woman after being called out for all male comedy lineup, but turns out she doesn’t exist. Montreal comedians Emma A. Sure and Courtly Lapierre have an Instagram account which is called no Girls in the Lineup and they call out gender inequality in Quebec comedy. But Sure said we did it as an answer to us being told that we exaggerate when we say it’s a problem.

Guys, let’s try to book more women and people are like, nah, it doesn’t happen. So we started this page to be like, here are the receipts. So they started calling out bars, one of them lay tro Qua. In Gatineau, Quebec. They have a comedy not every Thursday, often spotlighting only male performers.

So in June let tro Q started promoting a comic name not Sonya Balanger, who started showing up in the lineup every week. But it turns out she doesn’t exist and was created by AI. So the Instagram page No Girls in the Lineup called them out again. It said it’s crazy how much effort goes into just not booking a female comedian. Hats off to you, really slow clap.

The guy who runs the club said that page often mentioned us painted us as misogynists, as if we were making any effort. So, in response of their joke of associating us with this type of management, we responded with the joke of creating this comedian from scratch. Every week they promote Sonia Blanger and then her performance is canceled at the start of every show, and most of our clients hell knows it’s a running joke. I can see both sides of this. I get the point of no girls in the lineup, but I also think the fake comedian being canceled every week just to mess with them back is sort of funny.

Maybe I’m just a jerk. Hey, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Book comedians of all genders will you, but having a fake comedian the lineup is kind of funny. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark deck. Kevin Hart’s in a wheelchair. Oh no, and Hi’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart went on Instagram and said, forty four and sitting my ass down. I got to be the dumbest man alive.

What the f am I doing? So you’re curious what did he do? He challenged former NFL running back Stephen Ridley to a forty yard dash. Guess who didn’t win. Kevin Hart said, I blew my crap.

I’m done fml. I’m in a wheelchair. Why well, because I try to jump out there and do some young stuff. The debate was based off who’s faster those that know me, I’m pretty fast, Stephen said Kevin. Ain’t no way you’re gonna beat me.

Kevin gave us all the warning to all my men and women out there that are forty years old and above. It’s not a game. Respect that age. Respect that age, or that age will make you respect it. I was just forced to respect it.

This is just a public service announcement because I know people may see me out and I don’t want you to be alarmed. But I’m in a wheelchair. I don’t know what I sare He then explained that what he’s dealing with is a torn lower abdomen and tears to his hip abductors. He said, I don’t know what that is, but I tore them. I tore those two.

I can’t walk. Ridley commented back and said, I saw Tom Brady do it at your age, and I figured you had the joist too big. Bro my bad Kevin Hart eel up and keep making us all laugh. Pete Holmes not happy with the celebrity family feud. So the Holmes family’s up and they’re playing a different family top.

Whatever answers on the board, tell me a cent you’d be shocked to see as an air freshener bing. The other family goes microwave fish. They flipped the board. Food slash Broccoli appeared on the board as the number one answer, gave the other family twenty nine points. Pete Holmes jumps in and goes, hold on, hold on, so any food, any food gets the answer.

That’s nonsense, I say, butter cream food, fish. He dressed Steve Rvy, Steve, I feel you with me on this. Pete started making guttural noises, implying family feud would have accepted anything at all. Why not any sound gets the number one answer, Just go number one answer. Rick and Morty almost back, baby.

This will be the new Rick and Morty following the exit of co creator Justin Royland. Will have a new voice of both Rick and Morty. Hopefully this goes a little better than Solar Opposites. Have you been watching Solar Opposites? Here’s the problem with Solar Opposites and New Corvo.

It’s not even the voice. It’s they started writing Corvo differently. Corville used to do these slow burns that he would do them in threes. It’s kind of like the Rick slowburn, you know, something along the lines of I’m recording a podcast. It’s a podcast that I’m recording it because that’s what you do.

You record a podcast like that kind of thing. And New Corvo with the British voice isn’t doing that. So I like Solar Opposites a lot. The new season really struggling guys, So hopefully they nail New Rick and New Morty. It’ll be back Sunday, October fifteenth at eleven pm.

The president of Adult Swim says it’s happening thanks to the talents of the entire show team, we could all enjoy ten new episodes that yet again raise the bar for comedy and animation. An official season seven description makes a reference to the recastings quotes Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like the Seals than ever. It’s season seven and the possibilities are endless. What’s up with Jerry evil summer? And will they ever get back to the high school?

Maybe not, but let’s find out. There’s probably less year in than last season. Rick and Morty one hundred years, or at least until season ten. A couple of stray thoughts from me. I was watching the Republican debates last week, and I was watching Vivek Ramaswamy, and I was thinking, if there were no writer strike and you were doing Saturday Night Live, you would have to include Vivek.

And then that made me wonder, well, who would play the character? You may remember they had at one point Fred Armison doing Obama and that wasn’t the best idea. So I’m not sure there’s somebody on the current cast would make a good Vivek Ramaswamy. So then do you have to call in a favor or by the time the writer strike is back, none of this will matter because it sounds like the strike’s gonna go on for a while. We won’t have S and L for a while.

Did you also see in the news Carlos Santana made some transphobic remarks. The reason I’m bringing this up is Santana held his hands together as he made the remarks and said, I am like this with my brother Tavespell and I’ve talked about this in the past about Chappelle doing transgender material, and I have asked Dave out loud, Dave, is this what you want your legacy to be? Do you want to be the trans guy anti trans guy? Like every time the topic comes up, everybody goes Dave Chappelle, Dave, that who you want to be? Or maybe do something else and don’t do trans jokes.

In your fourth straight special, Sasher’s Amada’s new special out on YouTube, but today it is called The First Woman. Sasher says, I’m excited to release it on YouTube and give it to the people directly because I have control over it. I have ownership over it, which is not what I’ve had in the past. Boy, we’re hearing more and more comedians say that right, everybody’s self releasing now it sounds like after that initial Netflix bonanza where the Chris Rocks and Amy Schumer’s were getting a lot of money, sounds like the second and third wave of that, nobody was really getting baid and nobody owns everything. So everyone’s self releasing now very interesting.

Sashier said, I’m very proud of my last special, but this is the first special I’ve self produced, and I’m just excited to be in a place where I know what’s happening and if control over my material and artistry, and yes, I can give it directly to people on YouTube. More stand ups are doing that now, and I think people are looking to YouTube as a place where you can see comedy, which is great. So many options now, there’s so many streamers and networks that have comedy specials, but sometimes they get lost in the shovel. So I think when you make it specific and you’re like, come see my stuff in this channel on YouTube, it could be easier for people. Andy Kaufman did not show up for the debut of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I was hoping he would show up and be like psych That would have been the greatest hoax ever. Maybe Andy Kaufman is dead or he’s holding out for an even better opportunity. His Taxi cast mate Mary lew Henner was there, as was Kevin Neilan. I didn’t realize they were friends. Kevin neil And said he was a comedian, performance artist, prankster, trickster, and a song and dance man.

I considered him a comedic genius. He was incredibly inventive. He was brave and darling. Other people might call it annoying and mentally ill, but no, Mary leu Henner said, Andy was a provocateur. He irritated people.

You never knew what was going to come out of his mouth or what idea he had. But he was always so damn interesting and I adored him. I wonder if Tony Clifton came by, that would have been interesting. Kristin Shaw was there as well. She was a past recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award, which is an honor created by the Kaufman family.

And that’s how I met Kristen, like twenty years ago. Now from Deadline, the cost of British comedy is getting more and more expensive. BBC Studios comedy boss Josh Cole said rushed to make comedies infused with straight drama had impacted the ability for producers to land broader comedies. Cole said comedy is guilty of taking itself a bit too seriously in the past few years, and the first rule of comedies make people laugh. Audiences love that, but there’s been a move away from it, and it would be great to see more of it.

Itvs ahead of comedy. Nana Hughes said, the way we consume comedies evolving, the way young people are looking at and discovering comedy. The tone is less cynical, but it’s very hard to be funny. We have to be less offensive and very sensitive to everyone, so that stifles comedy. It’s finding the right place to land jokes without being scared, and that always comes back to risk.

Do we lose the audience if we go hard? Like Ricky Gervais. Nicole By spoke to the Las Vegas Weekly. She recently took up pole dancing, but don’t expect her to be any good at it. Nicole said, I think we need to normalize being mediocre or bad at our hobbies.

I can climb up a pole, I’m very strong and it’s cool. I don’t want to be sexy. I just want to scare people. She was in Las Vegas and said, I did a whirlwind of a trip with my friend. We went to Usher, Chris Angel, MindFreak, circ De Sleg and Magic Mike.

I drove a ferrari at some racetrack. We did go carts. That’s all I like to do it. I don’t gamble. I don’t understand it.

Last time I gambled, I was absolutely faced with my friend’s sister and I was sitting at one of the slots and I was banging a button, like this is how to get you. They get you by sitting here. He just pushed the same button. Then a man walked by and said, you have to put money in it. And that is your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big profile of matt Rife and they were impressed by his low key outside shows during the pandemic, and they asked him if he had any memories. Matt Rife said, yeah, there’s a lot of them. There’s pushing dumpsters with your bare hands, no gloves or sanitizer. There was a show that wasn’t even sold out outside.

There were like thirty two tickets sold maybe out of one hundred and twenty. We could have fitt in the space, but Paul and I already paid the deposit on the space. We already booked the comedians, we had set up the equipment, and then we got news it was going to rain like an hour before the show was supposed to start, and we’re like, well, we’re already out money, so we can’t be out more money and canceled the show. We have to at least preserve what we’re gonna have left, So we took the money out of what we were aready gonna lose and went to home Depot where lows and bought like ten pop up job fair kind of tents that we just taped amongst each other to create a roofed room that we could all perform in outside. I’d say maybe eighteen of the thirty two people showed up.

We still put on a show. Was one of our most fun shows because everybody there was so aware of what a stuff show it was, and that’s kind of what brought together the camaraderie and the humor of it. Nobody could really believe we were doing this ourselves included, and that moment of pure rock bottom in the sense of production of a comedy show was still one of the highs. Of those low moments, we’re able to find gratitude and positivity in that time. Another good one the cops showing up on our first day of doing it, five minutes before the show was supposed to start.

I was in the shower. Paul kicked in my shower door. It was cracked open, so they didn’t have to kick it, but he did it for dramatic effect. I’m naked behind my glass shower door, and Paul’s like, cops are here, and I throw on a towel really quick and throwing some shorts of shirtless running out there, and the cops are inspecting our apartment. We’re like, oh, we’re gonna get shut down.

Somebody must to complain about the noise or the fact that something was going unduring COVID. I remember stopping with the cops, being like, is there anything I can help you with, because obviously you’re here for us, And the cop goes, We’ll let you know, and he makes his way to the back area, goes upstairs, talk to one of the people living upstairs, comes down and leaves. Turns out it was just domestic violence. That’s all. Nothing crazy, nothing to deal with us at all, you know, just domestic violets.

I digress. We were scared at stuffless. We were like, we put so much energy and effort and thought of that first show and so much money in time, I can’t believe it’s gonna get shut down the first time we attempt it. Sure enough, nothing happened. We were abo to do that show for the rest of the pandemic.

Matt talked about how comedy has changed. Said, it used to be just write jokes, learn how to tell jokes. You’d go to open mics, and that led to more stage time. It’s all you really had to do besides learn how to promote a little bit get the word out, but that came from TV credits, late night shows, all that kind of stuff that used to be it. Now that’s the most basic part of it.

That’s learning how to read and write in school. But in order to succeed, you got to do some science class. You got to hit social studies, gym class, math class, all that. To be a well rounded person, you have to learn how to market in social media. You have to learn how to edit videos, how to shoot videos.

You have to learn how to book your own travel. I had no idea. That was such a big thing for years until I got a tour manager. I was booking all my own flights, my own hotels, greyound buses, all that. I’d get to clubs at eighteen years old and they’d be like, hey, who sets up your travel, and I’d be like, I do.

So you have to be able to do everything. Those are the most basic concepts of being a stand up these days. But then when you get into the entrepreneurial side of things. I had no idea how to shoot a special. I had no idea how to produce a comedy show outside of one with my Friend’s Trail and Error.

You have to be willing to eat crap. You have to be willing to fail. But the silver lining and that is you already have nothing to lose. I already nobody’s handing me anything. I’m already not doing apparently what I need to do to succeed.

So let’s try this thing, Let’s figure it out. Let’s fail a couple of times so we can figure out how to do it correctly and do everything. Michelle Wolf has a new special coming up. It’s broken into three half hour episodes. The individual pieces are called New Neighborhood, All Struggles Matter plus Me two and News to Me plus all Beautiful.

When you put it all together, it’s called It’s Great to Be Here. It is Michelle Wolf’s third special. She had one on HBO in twenty seventeen, one on Netflix in twenty nineteen. This one Netflix. Wolf Finance produced and edited the series herself, which consists of performances reported in August twenty twenty two at Comedy on State and Madison, Wisconsin, and Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia.

In It’s Great to Be Here, we will see Michelle Wolf get more personal than she has in pass specials and tackle topics like dating sexual harassment, race relations, and living in a new country. Let’s take a listen. I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of comedians have been using their time on stage to talk about their struggles and how they identify, and I think that’s good for comedy. So I guess what I’d like to do tonight is I’d like to come out as insufferable Michelle Wolf. It’s great to be here.

September twelfth. Then a week later, on September nineteenth, Country Wien’s A Woman’s Prayer will be out on Netflix. Waen brings his Southern flair in this one of a kind stand up special on fatherhood, gender dynamics, and faith. No clip available at this time. Do you play fantasy football well?

Jack Links has teamed up with Rob Cordry for the Ultimate Meat Roast. Cordry says, I’m in four leagues and none of them trash talk enough, so I have a lot of build up energy for the loser of Jack Links Ultimate Meat Roast. I’m really going to get to know the winning league and study them like a textbook so I can properly hurt the losers feelings. Once the season wraps up and we know who the loser is. Rob Kordry will do his homework and get some dirt on the loser who used that to craft a roast benefiting of someone so terrible at fantasy football.

I bet you then person draft at Aaron Rodgers. I’m nothing against Aaron Rodgers, except he’s on the Jets. It’s going to be a disaster. John Mulaney was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and talked about Malcolm, that’s John Mulaney’s son. Mulaney said, I used to spin out about so many things, and I used to want to be so clever and wanted to be this curated little person.

And now I have nothing in my head except yeah, Malcolm, do that. Oh yeah, right? Baseball. Malcolm wakes up at four fifty am every night when he goes to bed, I go, what time you’re gonna wake up? And he goes seven, and we both laugh and we say deal and we shake.

He gets in bed and he wakes up at four fifty. N zip him at four fifty and he goes baseball and I immediately go, you want to play? And he goes game. So I take him out and get him out of his sleep sack Now he and I are in the front yard at five ten am and pajamas and jackets, and I take the ball and I put it on the tee and he’s holding whiffleball bat and he goes two bats, so I had him another bat and now he has two, and I put the ball on it and he goes, dadda do it and I go, dadda do it and I smack that whiffle ball so far and he goes, yeah, a good job, and I go, yeah, good job. I bought a ball on for him, and I go, Malcolm, do that, and he goes, Malcolm do that.

He hits the ball, which means he hits it with his hand holding the bat against the t and the ball falls off, and I go, yeah, good job. And we’re just two morons at five in the morning with floodlights and ring camera lights going off because it’s so early. Frasier is back, Baby, well not quite yet. It’ll be back on October twelfth on Paramount Plus, but Paramount Plus has released some images of the upcoming Frasier. They’re also gonna let people sample it on CBS Proper.

CBS will air back to back episodes on Tuesday, October seventeenth. Frasier premiered in nineteen ninety three and run for eleven seasons. You may remember the character Fraser from Cheers, so Gil’s at Grammar has gotten a lot of money out of Frasier Crean. In the new series, we follow Frasier Crean in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston. Gee.

I wonder if he’ll eventually run into any other characters we might know who live in Boston. Frazer returns to Boston with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Not on the New Frasier David Hyde, Pierce Grammar told people David basically decided he really wasn’t interested in repeating the formans of Niles. But Pierce told Vulture, no one ever approached me about it, so it wasn’t something I turned down, but it was also not something I was looking to do. I don’t have a strong feeling that there’s anything more that I can think of that I need to say about the character.

I love those characters, but I don’t miss them. But he left the door open to potentially appearing on the New Frasier. Just live long enough, you’re all gonna be on. It’s gonna be Niles and Sam and Carla come on like they’re not going to do this. Pierce said, I would never disrespect that in such a way just to say off handily, Oh no thanks, I’m not going to do that again.

Apparently he said that in the half asked Mark Norman impression that slipped out there. It’s too valuable to me. But by the same token, because it’s so valuable to me, I also wouldn’t do it just to do it, and I believe it could be done without me too. Finding new stories to tell in the same way Fraser did after Cheers. They didn’t bring along the Cheers gang to make a new show.

Jane Leaves, who played Daphne, also not part of the show. BB new Rith who played Lilith. She will return as a guest star. What about producer Roz She will appear as a guest star. What about John Mahoney, who played Fraser’s father, He will not appear.

Mahoney passed away in twenty eighteen ten episodes of New Frasier. It also stars Jack Cutmore Scott as Fraser’s son, Freddie Nicholas Lynhurst as Fraser’s old college buddy turned at university professor Allen. I hope they explain why what was Fraser on like nine seasons of Cheers and then eleven seasons of Frasier. I hope we find why Fraser never mentioned Allen or maybe he did. One of you was like dude, season seven, episode fourteen, he totally mentioned Ellen, all right whatever.

Some other characters, the head of the university psychology department, Freddy’s roommate eve In, Fraser’s nephew David. Good Burger is getting a sequel. It is called Good Burger two. Good Burger two will be on Paramount Plus this fall. The film centers on Dexter played by Keenan Thompson and Ed played by kil Mitchell, uniting at their former workplace twenty six years after Good Burger.

They are joined by a new group of employees. In the trailer, Mitchell is driving when he hits Thompson with his vehicle. Thompson explains, hey, man, he almost carburgered me to death. This leads Mitchell to excitedly reply. The New Adventures of Edondex starts now and there’s a new season of Animals in Therapy.

Animals in Therapy uses comedy and connection to advocate for animal conservation. It press release says, unlike many campaigns which feed echo anxiety, the new series uses comedy and relativity to deliver a print in message that we are all closely aligned to certain endangered species. They’re smart, they broke out some famous people. Rehese Derby breaks it down with a Coca po. I don’t know what a cockapo is, but I have Google.

A cockapo is a large, rotund parent adults can measure from fifty eight to sixty four centimeters that’s twenty three to twenty five inches for your Americans in a length when the winning span of thirty two inches. The bird is endemic to New Zealand. Murray Bartlett, you know him from White Lotus and The Last of Us. He connects with Otter. A thumbnail of a video shows two Otters and Murray Bartlett, and the text says to humans also feel happiness.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Union Leader caught up with Kevin Pollock. I have a minor Kevin Pollock story. There was one time I had gone to lunch and came back to the office and Kevin Pollock wanted to meet to talk about a programming idea.

So I went back out to lunch and had second salad. I did it to be social. I was so full after first salad and then second salad. But I had a nice lunch with Kevin Pollock, really cool guy. That idea did not come to fruition at place I used to work of that you’ve heard of, the one with the satellites.

A lot of things went into sort of development. Never happened. But I enjoyed my time with Kevin Pollock, who told The Union Leader he’ll only admit to being part of six standout movies, including a few Good Men and Casino. Pollock said, my wife and I will negotiate because she insist its way more than six, and I’ll be grudgingly allowed her to demonstrate the numbering individual choices, and then I have to admit, okay, maybe there’s eleven. In a recent interview, Pollock said he has the stories to prove it, including Jack Nicholson hitting on my mom when she gained the set of a Few Good Men.

I’ve been in a number of movies. I don’t know the exact number, and then it instantly said ninety seven. As for impressions, and he does a lot of really good ones, including a shatterer that I love. He said, it’s a parlor trick that wouldn’t work if the celebrity was in the room, because as good as others might think I am, it’s still effects simile. If I could think of someone you love and I can recreate this in front of you, I’ll actually steal the affection you have for this person.

I have this freakishability that I can’t really explain, other than all children mimic when they’re infants in order to learn to speak until someone tells them to stop. Joe Parra is touring the Midwest and the Rust Belt. The tour is called Places I Wanted to Visit in August Love It. Parra said, I think maybe a lot of the material that I have is about missing that alternate life that I could have had had I stayed in Buffalo and the things I appreciate about it and miss As for his style, he said, I thought some ways people do stand up was like, I don’t know. There are shortcuts to a laugh using certain words talking about certain subjects.

But after a while I wanted to figure out new ways to get laughs. And I guess you could call that wholesome if I’m not talking about the dating apps are using swear words. He has a monthly podcast called Drifting Off with Joe Parra, and he said, I definitely feel it’s a cousin of the stuff that I try and do, stuff that people used to fall asleep. There’s no whispering. Ryan Dan does a complex sound sign sometimes and his music is very gentle, but it’s more about having a conversation with the audience or just keep talking so they can’t have those two to three am spirals that’ll keep you up at night.

Yeah, I’ve been there most nights lately. Keep you on a track of stuff that won’t freak you out, and there’s no mouth noises or anything like that. If you ever get a chance to see Joe Parra alive, go do it. I’ve seen him a few times. He’s fantastic.

Fox spoke with John Christ You said, basically, all comedy is just saying things out loud that you’re not allowed to say. That’s really the whole thing is. You just say things that are a little bit across the line. Any comic will tell you that makes comedy so much easier because to say something offensive back in the nineties, you’d have to go so far, be so agreed just to say something that the flabbricass that everybody. But now you get just question every day noble things, and that’s now comedy because it’s across the line.

You just have to make sure it’s done well. I think right before I press publish or a video or make a joke on stage, I look at myself in the mirror and I go, do I believe in this? Is this really something? I want to go to bat four As a comic, that’s kind of a job, not to make it more serious than it is. But in the culture it’s important on both sides that freedom of speech is welcomed.

I feel like what I do here you can buy me a coffee, and buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News through five bucks in the tip chair. I will take your money and I will go to the National Donuts Chain. I’ll be like, hey, National Donuts Chain employee, large ice coffee, caramel and milk. We’ll trade your money for some coffee. I’ll drink it.

I’ll shout you out on the show Buy Me a Coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. When Jim Gaffigan was on with Mark Maron recently, Maren asked him about his special. They realize both their specials, we’re dealing with death. Maren said, you know, and I did this in a different way, but to intentionally deal with death, I’m gonna do it the way you do it.

That was sort of a departure because you did it in ten minutes, and that was sort of a choice. Jim said, it’s all self assessment, right, Maren, Right, self assess and be We’re like, you know, I have to deal with these things they’re either pressing in my life or because look, food is everyone knows food, and everybody knows, you know, a lot of the cultural points that you’re talking about. But death, to go into it and deal with the reality of it, you know, it’s risky, Jim, It is risky, and I think one of the things that with my wife’s medical crisis is you know, I believe that as humans we live in such denial about the fact that we’re going to die, and then we do lose a loved one that we kind of dip in this reality. We kind of, you know, whether we’re sitting in awake or sitting shiva, we kind of look at each other and we go, Wow, this is crazy. People are dead, and then we dip out of it and we don’t want to hear anything about it.

From King five Seattle, one, Seattle based comedian Jodambrowski makes fun of being a teacher. It’s from years of experienced Joe said, I loved dad. It’s definitely the most underrated profession I could think of without teachers. There’s no other profession. Teachers are just so down out, overworked and sad, and being in that sort of trauma makes for a great comedy.

He’s got tens of millions of views on YouTube and nine hundred thousand ins to followers. He’s mister d His breakthrough performance was at school. He said, I remember boring days at school, not wanting to be there, and I never wanted my students to experience that. One day, he recorded himself pranking his fourth grade class with a fake spelling test, including words like tangentine and speak Uslam, which is spelled spee k u z SLMN. Those are silent letters at the end.

Okay, he said, I posted it, and I wake up with twenty million views. The local news at my school trying to get interviews with me, my principal and a full frenzy, not knowing what to do. I remember the secretary being like, Joe, good morning, America’s on the phone and he’s like, I’m in social studies right now. That’s awesome. And Florida police have asked you to stop reporting the manatees having group sex.

Do I have your attention? Yes? The police tell us the manatees are more than fine. The Penella’s County Sheriff’s office took to Facebook to let everyone know we get calls all the time from citizens when they see this, believing the manatees are in distress. We can assure you they’re more than fine.

Manatees actually mate and herds and are often near the shore. So if you see some manateees getting it on, leave them be, will you?

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The Shark Deck. If you listen regularly, you know, sometimes I’ll record back to back episodes, especially with the weekend. So here’s a question for you. When your creative juices are flowing and you sound pretty good on the mic, do you keep going or do you take the potty break you kind of need to take? See, I’ve been drinking one of these large ice coffees from the National Donut chain.

By the way, Pumpkin is back. It wasn’t back a week ago. The app told me Pumpkin was back, and I went there and they’re like, no, and Pumpkin’s not back. What are you talking about? But it’s back now, baby.

Anyway, I’ve had some and I’m like, kind of could you use a break here? DMI Johnny Mac. But I’m flowing, so I’m gonna keep going. Andrew Schultz went to see Taylor Swift. He was very excited.

I also saw Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift was amazing. I’m not the biggest Swifty, but I walked out of that concert going, wow, she’s great. Now. I’m a big Springsteen fan, at least I was until he decided to charge everybody five hundred dollars for tickets this tour.

Note thanks brucing your four times. I’ll pass and enjoy the empty seats he would have had in Philadelphia. And Yeah, Springsteen was on Instagram saying, hey, take it still available. He wound up canceling those shows. Bruce himself was ill.

Or maybe conspiracy theory, Johnny Mack. Maybe Bruce didn’t want to play to empty seats in Philadelphia. I love a good conspiracy anyway. Taylor Swift like four hours, high energy, choreographed as routines. You know, so if Bruce and the guys want to stand at the other end of the stage and just play guitar, I’m not as impressed as I was twenty years ago.

I digress, Johnny Mac, getto You’re and a f in today. Andrew Schultz want to see Taylor Swift. He was on Instagram and captured it. I went to Taylor. By the way, it was the greatest live concert I’ve ever seen in my life.

The only person who can compare to Taylor Swift is to Michael Jackson. Let’s not compare Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson. Maybe Michael Jackson as a performer, but you know, you know, google Michael Jackson. Let’s not get into that. Schultz said, there’s nobody else.

You’re doing it a service to any other artist if you compare Taylor Swift to them. I’m being honest with you. It was the most amazing live concert I’ve ever seen. Andrew was asked if he’s ever Beyonce. He wrote back, Son, I’ve seen Beyonce and I was just gonna hurt feeling here, But you’re doing it a service to Beyonce to compare it to Taylor Swift, because Taylor is in another galaxy.

Love it Middle East Esquire, you’re home for comedy new Who’s asked Mark Norman, what are the three top specials of all time for you? Mark Norman said, WHOA. I’m going to try and be objective because some of these specials they hit at the right time. You’re young, they mean a lot to you, So I’m gonna try it and not to go personal and emotional. I think Louie’s second special Chewed Up, it’s like a masterpiece.

That’s the stop of the heap, masterpiece opus best work he’s ever done. Are you enjoying the half? Asked Mark Norman, and I’m starting to slip in it’s not quite there, but it’s not awful. Chris Rocks Bring the Pain is pretty damn amazing. It’s rod it’s dark, it’s it’s funny, it’s silly, it’s got everything.

It’s got crazy jokes where you’re like, oh my god, I can’t believe he’s saying that. But it’s also really smart stuff. There’s so many great specials. Norman said, I love Zeinfeldt’s first one I’m telling you for the last time, that has so many great jokes in it. It’s just years of reps and doing work.

I love these early specials because he could see how much time and effort people put into it. Killing Them Softly by Dave Chappelle, the first one’s incredible. Top to Bottom, the Sesame Street bit, that’s incredible. Ellen’s first one Here and Now is really good. Richard Pryor obviously Live in Constant might be the best comedy special ever made.

Top to Bottom, Gaffigans Beyond the paleis great. Milany’s New Town is still I think his best work. Killer. I agree. Napergatzy’s last special put that on the list.

That one was incredible. Yes, Bill Burrs, why do I do this? I mean that hour blew my mind, and Michelle Wolf’s first HBO special was incredible. Check that out The New York Times. I went to see John Oliver and Seth Myers.

They played together at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. They each day a fifty minute stand upset. Then they returned to the stage together and answer questions. One man in the back shouted out that his goal was to be a talk show host. Seth Meyer said, bad timing.

Referring to the writer Strike Oliver said, can we have a job from you? The time says the biggest difference in seeing John Oliver live is his pacing. Last Week Tonight is so densely written that the show needs to be a little hurried to make it to intricate give its work. A lot of jokes and quick pivots must be crammed in In a stand up John Oliver’s assured deliveries and more jaunty, leisurely and varied, alternating speeds wildly in the course of a sentence. He still speaks on articulate paragraphs, but the punchlines can be so dry that some of the laughs take a second to arrive, but then they linger a slow burn kill Oliver said, America is a divided country.

You constantly hear people saying that, and he gave it a beat and taconet with and other people agreeing with them. The times right. So there’s something about the timing of the pause and the shift and intonation that made an unexpected and funny point one. He followed by skewing those who claim that we’d never have been more divided. He asked, what more did the Civil War have to do?

Some other topics, why British food stinks, the frustrations of daylight savings time. He predicted future generations would judge us harshly. His central theme was take a closer look at history and it helped make sense of the present. Seth Myers was more down to earth and observational, opening with jokes about recent gigs in Florida than moving on to his family and COVID. Jay Farrow was taping his next special tonight at the Den Theater in Chicago.

We’ll see if he busts out some of his famous impressions, including Barack Obama, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Stephen A. Smith, Kanye West, and Chris Tucker. Den Theater Tonight, Chicago, Mark Marin had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast, Oh it’s probably about a month ago now, and Maren said, I don’t know. It bothers me because I get older. I really don’t understand people.

You know, you think people are right, and then you see stuff that goes on it’s like they’re definitely not. There’s a lot of people they volunteered for their brains to be broken into a certain way. Jim said, yeah, you know, it’s like among comedians, it’s like a different kind of comedy. I get it. It’s not for me, but they’re decent people.

Dave Batista and Jason Momoa will do a buddy action comedy currently titled The Wrecking Crew. No plot details are released right now. If you are a cannabis enthusiast who likes comedy and you can be in Muskegan, Well, head on over to the Bowl at six twenty three West Clay Avenue. R j N Comedy is having a show tonight to I’m not into the cannabis. If you are, that’s cool.

I don’t care what you do. But apparently there’s a consumption space and it launches this weekend, so they’re having a comedy show. The guy putting this together says, comedy has pretty much been in my whole life. I like to make people laugh. So this first year, we’re hoping people come out and have a good time and tell other people so we can grow it next year.

It’s a free show six to seven thirty tonight. Russell Karen’s Farigatura, Jay Harris, Kevin Johnson are your comedians from the La Times How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rear disorder and laughed in the face of death. The La Time says Ryan Stickler’s storytelling style is unparalleled, his high pitch laugh is infectious, and his spirit draws you in like the smooth inhalation of a joint, which Schickler also knows the thing to two about. Sickler has a rare blood clotting disease that almost killed him. He talks about his comedy and he said, early on, when I went on stage, I used fake buck teeth and did a hillbilly character.

I’ll tell you what though, the next time I used those buck teeth, they broke and I had nothing to go with that. I was like end of prop comedy. That was like my second set ever, and I had no idea. What was even funnier what to do? He has a genetic mutation that increases a person’s chances of developing abnormal blood clots.

He said, it was the first time I was ever headlining the Breya improv for a weekend. I’m in the shower getting ready. Suddenly I fall on my knees. I’ve never felt pain like this in my life. I looked down and both my legs are like clotting.

I got rushed on the hospital and ended up being kidney stones, but they put me on bed rest, which made my legs clot Long story short, he spent the month of January on his back. The angle of his hospital bed never set higher than thirty degrees. When his tests were good, he was able to leave the hospital. Then is good news. This one’s ikey from matured old taking a look at the fringe.

Benjamin Bellow said he experienced three racial incidents during his ten day run. That is awful, He said that had never happened before. Twice he was told go back to your country. The third time, this is horrible. Let me just read the sentence as written by Turtle.

In the third case, a woman repeatedly said she couldn’t see him in the dark. People are horrible, man, Just come on. All this occurred in public places. In two cases, fellow comedians intervened. In the most aggressive case, stand up Dafna Barum called the police after no other customers or staff in the cafe where they were eating stepped in.

Below said it’s like no one knows how to respond when these incidents happen. It’s exhausting to have to deal with incidents like this, not only as it’s happening, but then to raise awareness afterwards. Black Acts should not be racially abused for visiting Edinburgh to make locals and tourists laugh. These incidents will never stop me from coming to Edinburgh. I’ve never experienced any racist incidents here before, but this year felt strange.

Perhaps they are isolated incidents, but it needs to be addressed. Black Acts visiting the city needs to be aware that there’s an increase in racial incidence. Apart from getting ready to protect ourselves, we do need more allies to act when they witness these incidents. There’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, revigate shows see tomorrow

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The Shark deck Man. Any day you get a new Adam Sailor Movies. Fantastic, isn’t it? Yeah? Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Taken a Sorrow, Fortune Feamster and May Martin have launched a new podcast. It’s called Handsome. Handsome is a comedy and storytelling podcast where the three comedians laughed their way through a candid, far reaching, and uproarious conversation. Pretty good guest Keenan Thompson, otsko At Katska, Neil Patrick Harris, Jimmy Fallon, and some others. Topics on Handsome range from childhood memories, to philosophical musings, to creative inspiration and even thanks to Sarah Silverman, another good guest, private part hygiene.

Pay attention to this next paragraph. A little while back, the three of us decided to get together, have some laughs, drink some whiskey, tell some stories, and even devol. I’m never before told secrets, said hosts Tig Fortune In May. Are they the borg? Did they all speak this in unison?

How does that work? I’ve seen two person quotes which confuse me. This is a three person quote. How does that work? The three of them, presumably assimilated by the board said, luckily and completely by chance, it was all being recorded on professional recording equipment.

We’re beyond excited to release our first episode and officially become the most handsome trio of hosts in podcasting history. New episodes every Tuesday, and what a shock they all have the same representation at c AA. If you were looking forward to Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s movie, well things have gotten easier for you. I think. Originally was going to hit the theaters, but Netflix has acquired it.

It will be released on October twentieth on Netflix. No trailer has been released yet. In Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s a middle aged father and his two best friends sell their company to a millennial, and they soon find themselves out of step and behind the times as they struggled to navigate a changing world of culture, career, and fatherhood. Sounds like Bill Burr would be good in that role if he is presumably one of the dads. Brian Simpson playing Joe Rogan’s Club this weekend starting tonight.

Don’t miss out. Brian Simpson named in twenty twenty one as a new character of comedy by Just for Laugh He was also named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch for twenty twenty three. He’s recording a special at Rogan’s comedy Mothership, So you might want to go, all right, big exciting day. New Adam Sandler movie, That’s right, you are so not invited to my bot Misvah. It’s on Netflix today.

It stars Adam Sandler’s teenage daughters, Sonny and Sadie. Adam Sandler plays the dad. It’s based on a young adult novel in which lifelong best friends Stacey and Lydia Stacy played by Sonny Sandler, have long dreamt of epic bot Mitzvah’s, but when popular boy Andy Goldfarb and Hebrew school drama come between them, the perfect plans go comically awry. The Hollywood Reporter says, as with many Sandler comedies, you were so not invited to My features more than a few dumb cringe worthy jokes. Let me back that up again.

Features more than a few dumb cringe worthy joke, but they add thanks to it’s well observed, amusing depiction of teenage girl aangs that a genuine sweetness at its core, it proves thoroughly winning and then the Hollywood Reporter like spoil the ending. I’m not going to do that. I started to, but I made an edit. I have saved you because I know you want to watch this and is it that wasn’t good enough? News.

There’s another Adam Sandler movie coming, I know, right, yes, Leo coming to Netflix November twenty First, all right, what’s this one? It’s animated. It is a coming of age musical comedy. Adam Sandler voices a seventy four year old lizard who’s been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades. When he discovers he only has one year left to live, he plots an escape, only to get caught up in the problems of his anxious students.

Let’s listen, Wow, Sammy’s olva. Here we go. Alright, another year, another batch of fifth grade headcases. I tell you why one kid calls me Lizzie. This year I quit it.

Just don’t pee in my lettuce ball. Then we’ll be all right. I don’t know. I gotta feeling this year is gonna be different, something big. It’s gonna happy.

It’s pretty good cast I mean, Adam Sandler, but other than that. Bill Burr Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Sadie Sandler, Sonny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Schwartzon, Nick t Turo, Robert Smigel, Jocoy, and Stephanie Sue. The Eight hundred Pound Guerrilla website recap the events at last week’s Brodie Stevens tribute. They say it featured a great night of comedy featuring top comedians including Jeff Gorland, Dean Cook, Mark Marin, Dean Delray, Sam Tripoli, Byron Bowers, Craig Gass, and some other names I am less familiar with. Goreland said, outside of Brody, comedians don’t generally like each other.

Maron praised Brodie Steven’s work ethic, saying, rarely as a comedian gun all the effing way like Brody. Eight hunder Pound Gerrilla says the night started out with a ten minute montage of Brodie himself, and he still managed to generate big laughs even from the Great Beyond. It was also supposed to be a walk and a softball game, but those were postponed due to Hurricane Hillary. Some quick house keeping you may have noticed an uptick in the commercials again, I’m transparent. This is a commercial endeavor.

Now starting next week, you’ll hear me doing more live as they say. Thanks for the folks at Gemini thirteen who have done a great job selling the show. So one of the ways you can support the show is support those advertisers. So when you hear me take a minute, minute and a half telling you about a product, a great way to support the show is to use those products and make sure you use whatever code that I’m hawking during the commercials. You’ll start hearing those things on Monday.

Thank you in advance for supporting the show. Rob Schneider has criticized President Biden over his response to the fires in Hawaii. Schneider posted a screenshot on the thing we all call Twitter. Schneider captioned it one hundred and fifteen billion US taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, one point nine million dollars to American Maui fire victims. Biden hates Americas.

Send your letters to Rob Schneider. Bert Kreischer was speaking with Tom Sagora on their Two Bears, One Cave podcast and they were watching some people wiping out surfing. Bert says, it’s my favorite. Those are my favorite videos to watch people getting effed up by waves. Go to kuk Slams dot com.

It’s one of my favorite things. Bird continued his surfing enthusiasm, saying, Robot Shadow hit me up about going surfing at a wave pool I think in Texas. I was like, you texted the right off, and guy, let me know when you want to go. You know who Robin Shadow is. Google him.

I may be getting this incorrect, but Robin Shadow is part of a whole group who showed up in Hawaii. At the same time, there’s a whole group Kelly Slater’s age who all the shot up in Hawaii. They all took different paths. They’re all buddies, They’re all badass surfers. If I’m not mistaken, Rabbit Shadow was the first person to not really care about professional surfing.

He just went out and made videos, DVDs, do badass stuff and people buy it. So we’re in. We’re going to effing Waco, Texas with Rabbit Shadow. The Hollywood Reporter listed the forty most powerful people in podcasting. I didn’t make it.

It’s not the worst list I’ve ever seen, but it’s the Holy Reporter, So you know, they’re kissing Agent Bud and they’re gonna go with the big stars. Some names you may know. Conan O’Brien. You’ve heard of him. He has a podcast called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.

Did you hear my cheer? Click there? Yeah? I lean to the left and it made a noise and I’m not editing that out. Another name on the list Joe Rogan.

You may know him from The Joe Rogan Experience, a rather popular podcast that The Hollard Porter says reportedly averages eleven million listeners per episode. Nick Afferman is touring. The official description, Join Nick Offerman for night of deliberative talking, mirth, and music and evening that compels listeners to chuckle while also causing them to honestly countenance the aspects of humanity about which we have to laugh so that we don’t want to attack each other with the shovels. Nick Offerman tonight in Calgary at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Oh, that hasn’t shown up in my Google stuff.

Let’s let’s take a look at that for the weekend. Nice line up Nick Offerman Tonight, Jonathan van Ness on Saturday, Andrew Schultz on Sunday. You’ll find them all on Prince’s Island Park in Calgary. Anyway, Nick Offerman’s tour. If you’re in Cleveland and I know you are, he’ll be there September twenty ninth, then Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, wins Are Ontario.

I won’t read you the ten other dates. You can go to Nickofferman dot COO. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow the

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The Shark Deck. What’s up. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust one. Today, Shane Gillis will make his Netflix debut, and it’s pretty soon September fifth.

His stand up special is called Beautiful Dogs, was filmed earlier this year in Virginia during his Shane Gillis Live Tour. No trailer yet, but September fifth is soon. Man, things have turned out all right for Shane. Remember he was announced as part of the cast of SNL a few years back and then got not quite canceled, but Lorn was like, no, You’re not on the show. Shane has made his own path.

Congratulations Shane Gillis. Todd Barry also announced a new special. He did that via Instagram. His special, Domestic Short Hair, will be on All Things Comedies YouTube channel. That one’s coming out on Monday.

Yeah wow right. There will also be an album on October thirteenth. That’s good, say you programmed the comedy stations on the Live one app. It’s always good to have new comedy albums. Todd even shared a clip.

Let’s listen. I had a beard for a while, then I got a girlfriend who doesn’t like beards. And she was really subtle about it. She’d say things like, oh, you have a beard. Huh.

Some of my friends like guys with beards. I was like, Oh, that’s weird. Some of my friends like when people say things directly. Continuing our big news Thursday, Jessica Seinfeld’s nonprofit has announced a fundraiser. Some pretty good comedians will be at A very Good plus Night of Comedy.

This will be at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on October eighteenth. By the way, if it’s Andrew Carneggie, why do we all say Carnegie Hall. I’ve always wondered that. Anyway. Pretty good lineup that Jessica Seinfeldt has gotten.

She got Jerry Seinfeld to do the show. Pretty impressive.

Also, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, and Ronny Chieng d Nice will be your DJ for th…

Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Ronny Chieng pretty good. Dan Leary also announced the annual Comics Come Home Right. All the announcements today. This is the longest running comedy fundraiser in the country. It’s twenty seventh year.

This will be at Boston’s TD Garden on November fourth. Your performers pretty impressive, even out there, Jessica Seinfeld, my humble opinion, Dennis Leary and Lenny Clark. Okay, Bill Burr, Mark Marin, already, I’ll take that here, let’s play it. Would you rather see Seinfeld, Kevin art Amy, Ronny Chieng Or would you rather see Bill Burr, Mark Marin and whoever else? I say here, I’ll take the ladder Bill Burr, Mark Marin, Rachel Feinstein, Alex Edelman, or Lando Baxter, Robert Kelly, and Tommy Pascatelli again with Dennis Learry and Lenny Clark on top.

Pretty good. Seinfeld is really really good live though, like really really good, like the best. Dave Chappelle turns fifty today. Happy Birthday, Dave. Dave has been playing Madison Square Garden this week.

I have not seen anything about the particular shows yet. I will share it when I get it. I quick stop at gossip Corner. This from the Sun. Pete Davidson has resurfaced on social media.

You may remember at the end of June, Pete had checked into rehab. Well. Pete has posed for a full length picture posted by his friend Sarah Lee. Sarah posted the dis on Instagram. She posted an older photo of she and Pete on one side, and on the other a more recent picture of the two friends hugging.

The caption says then and now so so so insanely proud of you hashtag Pete Davidson. The Sun says last week, Pete looked healthy as he posts for picture after he got a haircut at Don’s Barbershop. You’ll find Don’s Barbershop in ponte Vedra, Florida. John Heffron’s new specials out on YouTube. It’s called Sunday Night in DC, recorded at the DC Improv in Washington, DC.

You probably could have figured that out without me telling you. John Heffron takes the stage to share his unique take on the absurdities and intricacies of everyday life. Pretty generic description there, right, Isn’t that what every comedian does, their unique take on the things of everyday life? No? Yes, yes, no, yes yes.

From family antics to relationship to Lemma’s work, Shenanigans to the trials of aging, John Heffron masterfully transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, turning the mundane into a side splitting journey of hilarity. You guys might want to run this copy through chat GBT or something. This is very generic. His clever observations and spot on punguli this copy is just so vanilla. His clever observations and spot on punchlines resonate with audiences of all ages and backgrounds, creating an exuberant atmosphere that keeps the laughter rolling from start to finish.

Also on YouTube, JB Balls It’s my privilege growing up in diverse communities, schools and sports teams. JB persona fies the unity our country should strive for. From recounting childhood experiences with white friends aspiring to become the first black president, to narrating a tale of saving a turtle from a gunman, JB addresses these obstacles with wits and levity. This was filmed at the University of Tampa’s Sharlene E. Gordon Theater.

That’s out on YouTube. One more.

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Also out on YouTube.

Foil Arms and Hogs Swines. Now you’re like, who is foil Arms and Hog I didn’t know either, but the he tells me they are Ireland’s top comedy group and Swines is a live comedy special with hilarious sketches, rezor sharp ad libs and sheer silliness. Swines was the best reviewed in top selling show at the twenty nineteen Edinburgh Fringe all Right, That’s pretty good with over one billion online views, including the viral hits Getting past Us Immigration and an Englishman Plays Risk. The group are best known for their YouTube sketches. The show features a host of hilarious sketches, including the World’s Strongest Man Mime Edition, What Happens when an actor is used for military purposes and the true story of when Beethoven was part of a musical duo with some guy called Barry, recorded live in Dublin following a sixty eight worldwide tour.

All Right, That’s foil Arms and hog sounds fun. The BBC asks a perfect question. They ask they have millions of followers for their TikTok sketches, but how will four hugely successful creators fair and a live stand up show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Cocos is one of four TikTok comedians who, she says, want to find out if there are any good at stand ups. Sarell has nine hundred thousand followers, she says, which is better than four LinkedIn comedians, so you’re gonna have a decent hour, not bad, the BBC says, as host Sarell gets stuck straight in with some CrowdWork quote unquote, I can read between the lines there, BBC writer.

In other words, asking people in the front row what they do for living and trying to come up with an amusing response. But Sarell struggles to find good banter with the first victims and awkwardly moves on. It’s not long before we know the professions of most of the people in the first two rows. She eventually admits defeat and says, I think crowd work is done. As mc currell returns in between the other acts, she grows more comfortable and assured, and proves her crowd work can work when she plays matchmaker in the audience.

Stephen mckel three point eight million followers and BBC rights how to put this is larger than life and flamboyant with a flair for physical comedy. His sachet onto the stage could form a TikTok video on its own, but here it only fills five seconds out of his fifteen minutes lot. But he did some work about his family and apparently did okay. Next up, a Yama, Ponder says her first name is Japanese. Four, my parents are pretentious.

A Yama has two point seven million followers. She built her following largely commentating on videos of things like bottles being rolled down stone steps and watching them smash. The BBC writes, yes, that’s a thing on TikTok. No. I don’t secretly write for the BBC, but I’m aligned with this writer.

I like you, BBC writer. Ponder starts here, set with tongue and cheek, brags about being a TikTok star and incredibly famous, before moving on to everyday topics like dating an the nicknames she’s given boyfriends based on their physical attributes wink, wink, nudge, nudge is saying no more, no what I mean. As she exits, she says, I’ve been amazing and you’ve been so so. Next up, Henry Rally one point two million followers on TikTok. He made his name with videos parenting pompous, posh people.

He puts his whole body into fully acting out his ridiculous characters and earns extra laps by being more blunt and risque than his co stars. Of the four, he is the most fully formed act, is the most convincing storyteller, and seems to have the self possession required for stand up. If you’re curious, get over to Edinburgh. Knock Knock is at the Pleasant Courtyard Cabaret Bar until Sunday. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Esquire Middle East spoke to Mark Norman about touring. Mark said, I’d just like to work, but I always forget about the little things. You know, people say you want to do Nashville.

I, oh, I’d love to do Nashville. I love Nashville, I love the club, I love comedy. But then you forget that it requires packing a bag, getting an uber, going the airport, flying there, landing, getting none of the ruber. I always forget about that part. I always say yes to everything.

And then I realized, oh my god, I want to kill myself. I’m hungover and now I’m in a baggish claim and I want to vomit on the floor. But I still get to do the Nashville show. It’s kind of like a lady. You’re like, oh, I’d love to sleep with this lady.

Then you realize you got to meet your parents, are getting married, and you have a kid. You know, you just want to kill yourself. All right, Mark, what do you do on a day off? I’d kill for a day off. Well, I actually like stand up.

I’d like to chill out all day. I’m a big walk guy. I think walking is highly underrated, So I’d walk around the city with a podcast going, maybe do a couple pull ups on some scaffolding, have a nice lunch with the wife, and then write some jokes and do some comedy. Comedian Norman Freeman getting some push back after posting videos of their character Obese Betty, in which Freeman performs in a fat suit. One of the video shows Freeman struggling to get the fat suit in a pair of pants, another shows the character eating, and a third clip shows them drinking alcohol.

All three of the videos one viral one has almost five billion views. In a TikTok boasted last week, plus sized fashion influencer Munat’s ab Duels says that she can’t believe people are still making jokes like this about fat bodies. In her TikTok, she asks was that fat suit really necessary? What year is this? Some of the commentators suggested that Abduel should lighten up.

Others agree that Freeman’s video was hurtful. Oh My Julily was speaking of the Metro on a related note and said, we all need safe spaces, but we have to be very careful what we say with cancel culture, and there are a lot of people who come to be offended. They all want to go viral. They know they’re cameras. In the live arena, we have to be a little bit careful what we say, so we don’t want attract nutbags.

But also in the live arena, anything can happen. Lots of stuff is hap in my career, and you have to sort of roll with it. It teaches you to live in the moment. But if comedians are feeling unsafe, if that’s something that should be addressed. Nate Brigatsy was on Dave Ramsey’s podcast and talked about how he knew when he made it.

Nate said, I worked at Applebee’s in comedy. When I got to the point that I was making just as much as i’d been making an Applebee’s that someone who knew go to college or anything, I was like, all right, I’m making just as much as I would make, you know, thirty grand a year, whatever it is.

And then you slowly have little check marks we can be like, all right, I woul…

After the Netflix specials released, we took a pretty big leap where you go to theaters and the audience is there to see you. You gotta have new material. You got of all this new stuff. They’re there to absolutely see you. He’s still amazed at his success.

He says, why would I get any of these awards? I don’t think I deserve any of the stuff. It’s wild and hard to take in. When it happens, it’s pretty surreal. I’ve done stand up for twenty years.

It’s all gradual. I always say, either make it at twenty or forty. No one makes it in the middle, so you either get lucky and get plucked. You have to go out and grind it. The Guardian asked Dean Baptiste who inspired you when you’re first starting out.

Dean said, the most inspirational comic for me when I started was Chris Rock after seeing Bigger and Blacker. After that, I would say that the list is now endless, as they’ve been able to draw inspiration from all over, from Dave Chappelle to Katherine Ryan, to David Mills to Sebastian Maniscalco. There’s inspiration to be found anywhere. Any bugbears from the world of comedy. Dean said, I didn’t like the point in comedy about five years ago, where good comedy shows were measured by how many harrowing, tear jerking stories they included.

Comedy is supposed to be the endeavor of using humored, irrationalized traumatic experiences.

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Also nepotism.

If art isn’t meritocratic, and then I don’t see the point. Just make your rich kid get a job, please. Any pre show rituals, yeah, water and using the toilet. My body likes to cleanse itself before telling dirty jokes. Best heckle.

I used to have a bit where I’d asked the audience what their last meal would be if they were on death row. One audience member replied, your penis Suffice it to say, I had no comeback for that aggressively delivered compliment. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Eric Appell about Weird You Know the Al Yankovic documentary. Appell had worked on the original twenty ten Funnier Die Fake trailer, which starred Aaron Paul as Al Yankovic. After years of hearing from fans they wanted a real movie, Al reteam with a Pell to produce a full length version.

Bell says this was one of three or four fake movie trailers that I made. My thinking back then was if I can make these fake movie trailers that potentially fool people into thinking they’re real movies, real movies they’d want to see, then maybe somebody will let me actually direct a real movie. I remember right after the trailer came out, emailing Aaron Paul and Olivia Wilde, and the three of us were like, this should be a real movie. I remember bringing it up to Al the time and him kind of laughing it off as a joke. When Al emailed me out of the blue in twenty nineteen, I’ve never responded to an email faster.

The two of us got coffee the following morning, and I immediately started brainstorming ideas for a real movie. It was nice that we weren’t actually telling the true story of weird Al. I had to do zero research. I took what I knew from being a fan of Al’s. I think quiet it’s such a great partnership is because maybe he’s a little more joke forward than I am.

I direct mostly comedies, but I wanted to make sure that the movie is enough heart and the emotional beats were really earned. A good example is the Pablo Escobar sequence. In our very first meeting, Al said, I’d love it if I became an action hero like John Wick and Hawaiian Shirt. Maybe I go up against Pablo Escobar. He had just finished all of Narcos.

We had to figure out how to get Pablo Escobar in this crazy sequence. I’ll really wanted it to come out of the blue. It was my job to justify why we had a plant a couple Pablo Escobar references in early The audience will still never see it coming, but we had to know that Pablo Escobar exists in the world. At the end of the day, there’s nothing in the movie that we didn’t both agree we should be in there. All right, I’ve been talking about Fringe strife all week.

Will the Guardian kind of suggest the Fringe is doing just fine? They write Fox office income is said to be back up to immediate pre COVID levels when the Fringe reached its zenith of bloat, and that’s with programs significantly smaller than in twenty nineteen. Shells are selling, which tends to inoculate everyone involved from artist venues agents in the pr folks. Of course, the downsides haven’t disappeared. A queer sketch group from the US called Alphabet Soup or sequestered beneath a Second World War base in the absence of anything affordable above ground.

One of them told an interviewer staying at a nuclear bunker is crazy. Something long and traditional in American culture is fearing the Russians and I don’t wake a day without thinking of putin. Maddie Smith is out on tour. You may know Maddie from MTV’s Wild and Out. Originally from Buffalo, Maddie is known for her quick wit and cutting roosts.

Maddie opens for Bert Kreischer and Theo Vaughan. You’ll find it tonight in Philadelphia, then heading the Grand Rapids, Portland, and a bunch of other places. Maddie Smith Comedy dot com and there you can stream and download her album, which has the wonderful title Another Sexless Night in Queens Been There. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow this shover free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, where we get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I took an entire night and watched five stand up specials. I started with Jim Gaffigan’s Dark and Pale. Jim’s previous special, Comedy Monster, I had.

If it wasn’t number one on my end of the year list, it was way up there. So I’m like, all right, let me watch Dark Pale. And it’s not good. I could kind of tell right away Jim coming out in the mask didn’t work doing COVID jokes. Just felt like what are we doing?

And the material just wasn’t clicking, and I’m like, isn’t me? And I went on Facebook and I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, I’m like, is this special bad? And people kind of agree with me. So really surprised at that that will not make the end of the year list. So then I’m like, all right, let me switch over to Netflix.

I haven’t watched Mark Norman yet, but Netflix put in front of me Jared Freed’s thirty seven and single. I know Jared as Smidge. He had a podcast affiliated with a podcast company I used to work at, and I liked Jared a lot. I liked his podcast a lot, and I’m like, all right, this should be good. And immediately I was like, this is better because if nothing else, just the pacing and his snappiness on stage, and I was really enjoying that.

But I’m an admitted comedy snob, and a little while in I it kind of lost me because none of the stories felt real. They felt like they were well crafted comedy stories, but they didn’t feel like they were based in any kind of reality. So I punched out on that, I think it’s totally watchable. You’ll enjoy it, you’ll laugh. Like I said, I’m a comedy snob.

So then I went to Mark normand my notes much better. And Norman is faster paced. If you don’t like a Mark Norman joke, wait four seconds, he’s got another one right behind it. A couple of good laughs out there. I did note that he had to beg for clapter a few times.

He threw out a line and the audience didn’t do anything with it, just silence, and he kind of stood there for a second and got the claptor. Maybe some editing there might have helped that special a little bit. But Norman was pretty good. That’ll make the list. Then I switched over to Peacock and Fleming’s Hell, and right away I was like, oh, this is really fun.

I like all to your things. It was quirky, high energy, tickled my brain in a way that the other specials didn’t just because it was different. I’ll agree with the review that I read yesterday. The sketches kill it. It totally kills the momentum.

You’ll be in the middle of the stand up, you’re feeling the room and it cuts to a sketch, and the sketches are okay, but just in terms of a special, it just didn’t work. And by like the third time that the sketches interrupted the stand up, I was like I had enough. Chris Flemings Hell probably would work better as half an hour, but it will make my end of the year list.

And then it was Friday night at ten o’clock and I remember Joe List was debut…

So I’m like, all right, I’ll watch that, and I put Joe List on and perfectly fine hour of comedy at a comedy club. Really funny, you should watch it. Liked it a lot. I’m going to push back on the word special. We have to stop throwing special out there just because something is filmed and put on YouTube.

Not everything is a special. Joe List did an hour of comedy that was really funny and really good, and you should watch it. It’s not a special and just because of that, I can’t put it on the end of the year list. But totally watchable, totally funny. You should do it now.

The YouTube algorithm, after I switched Joe List off, oh my god, everything it’s suggesting to me is now a Joe List hour like I like. Joe List also was lightly affiliated with Joe and Mark Norman when they had their two Days with Stories podcast at the podcast company affiliated with my podcast company, so I know them. I had meat balls with them one day on ninth Avenue. But like, just in terms of the YouTube algorithm, it’s like Joelish joelas Jolis Jolist, like guys, I like stand comedy, but show me something else. Anyway, here’s the updated best of twenty twenty three list.

I’m going to include two things that are not comedy specials. The funniest thing of twenty twenty three so far conk on Earth. You’ll find that on Netflix. Number one special is Toom Sagoris. Two Kyle Canaine three, Naprigatsi’s Hello World.

You may have forgot about that. That came out in January. You’ll find that on Amazon Cocaine Bear. Cocaine Bear is amazing. I’m hearing more and more people talk about Cocaine b.

There are some laugh out loud scenes in that movie that’s streaming on Peacock. Fourth special of the year, Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl five Jim Jeffries that came out on Amazon in February. Harry Conabolo’s special that came out in April on YouTube. The last thirds little soft, but the front two were good. Chris Rock remember him, He had a big Netflix special that was live.

There was a big deal. Remember that one. That’s number seven. Jimmy O Yang’s Guess how Much is number eighth. I think that’s on Amazon.

The Roast of Mister Peanut Again. If you think I’m crazy, why don’t you go on YouTube watch the fifteen minute version of the Roast of Mister Peanut and tell me that that’s not good. Big Jay Okerson at ten. Mark Norman makes his chart debut at number eleven, number twelve, Nimshi pat Hill’s special was really good, Sarah Silverman’s isn’t bad at thirteen, Chris Fleming Hill slightly behind Sarah Silverman there, and John Early at number fifteen. Now, who’s not on the list.

There’s a lot of big names on this list. Jim Gaffing and Dark Pale not on the list, Joe List, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney’s Baby Jay wasn’t feeling. Lewis Black wasn’t feeling. Hannah Gatsby’s third special didn’t feel it. Mark Marin, who I normally loved, didn’t make the list.

Andrew Santino Bert Kreischer’s special back in March. I didn’t love the middle and I didn’t love the end. Greg Warren, I wrote down hated sweetened audience is my note there? And Kevin Hart special did nothing for me. I have not seen Roseanne special, and I’m not seeing the eight trillion specials you’ll find on YouTube.

That’s my list. To be curious what your list is, once you go on the Daily Comedy News Facebook group and shear what you’ve been into. Will Farrell crashed the USC Trojan’s football practice on Friday. He gave the team a mini pep talk, which I’m sure they needed, before dropping to the ground and rolling around on the field and will Ferrell’s style hilarity. Several Trojan players, including raining Heisman Trophy winner and twenty twenty four projected number one overall pick Caleb Williams, posted photos with Farrell to their social media accounts.

So Sheer Zemata is excited about her current special. It’ll be on YouTube on August twenty nine. So Sheer said, this is first stand up special I’ve ever had, the first one I’ve produced, and I’m just excited for y’all to see it. I’d like to tell your friends, your family, your enemies, anyone who owes you money. In The First Woman, she jokes about dating woes, masturbation, menstruation, equality, and even Amelia Earhart.

And here’s some fun facts. Drinks were provided by Kendall Jenners eight one eight Tequila Taco’s courtesy of the Lime Truck, and guests went home with period cups as a callback to the chunk of the comedy special about periods. There has been so much drama at the fringe. This from Unheard dot Com Andrew Doyle rights, canceling our comedy show proves the point. This is the show I was talking about yesterday that was canceled, Andrew Doyle writes.

Five years ago, Andy Shaw and I set up a monthly comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. Our objective was to challenge what we perceived to be the group think that was developing within the industry. Promoters, TV commissioners, critics, even comedians themselves had begun to turn on X who failed to convey the correct political opinions, and many fellow comics confessed to me that that they had began a self censor for the sake of careers. And so we launched a night which would encourage innovative and freethinking acts, where we might cultivate a comedy literate audience who understood that the art form can’t exist with the potential to cause offense. Not that the acts we booked necessarily had to be offensive.

Rather they would be free to tease the limitations of the audience’s tolerance should they wish. The only condition was that they have to be funny. This year, we decided to make an appearance at the trade fair known as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We booked a venue in Leath on the outskirts of the city. That bill is to include Bruce Devlin, Mary Burke, Dominic Frisbee, Alice Stair Williams and the co creator of the classic Sitcom’s Father Ted and the It Crowd, Graham Lenahan.

Those are two great shows. Again, this is the show that was canceled that I told you about yesterday. Andrew Doyle rights, Given that we knew our show would sell out, we didn’t advertise Graham in advance, preferring instead to tease the audience with the prospect of surprised canceled comedian with the show just a few days away. We finally announced his appearance and within twenty four hours the venue, Leath Arches, had posted a statement on Instagram stating that they quote do not this comedian or his views, and he will not be allowed to perform on our venue and is canceled from Thursday’s comedy show with immediate effect. Doyle writes, the historyonics didn’t stop there.

We’re an inclusive venue, the statement continued, and will not allow such views to violate our space. The venue later deleted the post and replaced it. Doyle asks how a venue can claim to be inclusive when it excludes performers who do not subscribe to the ideology of its staff. Is anyone’s guests. Those who complain to the venue could simply have refrained from buying a ticket.

Instead, they sought to prevent the audience members of a sold out show from making their own decisions.

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Meanwhile, at the Fringe, Evo Graham got two stars from The Guardian.

His show is called Organized Fun. The Guardian rights he may be making his tenth Edinburgh appearance, but you can’t accuse Evo Graham of coasting. He’s got three separate shows at this year’s festival, and the main one, Organize Fun, takes his stand up in a new direction. At the behest of his infant daughter, he explains this is a wholly inconsequential hour which begins with stand up below Graham’s usual standard and ends with a participarity game show below the standard of other comics to do that sort of thing much better. Some comics have a flair for this crowd work, heavy comedy.

Graham isn’t one of them. There’s no spectacle, nor much fun, organized or otherwise to the game he’s created, which in any case gets bogged down in admin. Props to the veteran for trying something new, but as task Masker fans may have anticipated, he does not make a success of it. Two stars, Pleasant Courtyard through August twenty seven. And that’s your comedy news for today.

And I’m wondering why my voice is raspy, because that often happens if I record three DS in a row. I only did this one. I feel fine. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube See tomorrow