Month: August 2023

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The Shark Deck pretty robust Monday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one could be really interesting. If you’re familiar with Barstool Sports, you may have seen that Dave Portnoy, the founder, had bought back the company for a dollar That actually came up in trivia last week. But now that Dave’s back in charge, he has bumped up Kevin Clancy, you know him as KFC to GM of comedy, and this is where it will get interesting.

Specific to this podcast. They got a big profile in Deadline and it quoted Christa Stephano who said KFC Radio has helped me in my career immensely. Getting to be heard by the bar Stool audience is huge for comedian. KFC Radio has always had their doors open for new talent, too, which is always cool to see. Clancy told Deadline, I kept hearing about how comedy would be one of the branches at the company and how that we’re going to bring in a GM of comedy and not really knowing what that means.

I’ve been around long enough at Barstool or we have heads of content, heads of production, operations, all these different titles and managers who try to come in and implement new stuff without fail. Six months down the road that person would get a new gig or get fired. And here I am having changed all my content because some random person said so.

And now what I got to the point where I’m never going to listen to anybody el…

Specific to comedy, Clancy sees comedy is almost a bar stool within a bar stool branch. We have this new live stand up show that the out of Order guys host called Dollar Slices, And what I wanted was to have them do an underground, grimy, funny New York City stand up show every month where they’re hosting and featuring all these hot and up and comers that could be sold as the best new scene in New York for comic talent. As guys in New York City, we take for granted the comedy scene so badly. You could just walk outside and go to the comedy seller, pay fifteen bucks, and you get to see the best comics in the world seven days a week. They range from superstars at SNL working out their material or regular is always up on stage night tonight, to new guys just getting their start.

I started to realize if I’m going to marry the Internet to the comedy world, I think we should start live streaming comedy, and I think there’s a world where we can bring the best comedy in the world to every house in America. His ideas to treat it like a sports ball game. Maybe it’s him and one of the co hosts anchoring Clancy said, in my life, I feel like they’re sports, and right beneath that are people that follow their favorite comic podcast the way they follow their favorite teams exactly. That’s why I consider this like sports center for comedy glance. He said.

If I could bring that to those fans and up to the production level and bring the barstool lessons to it, and we’ve become the guys who invented the live streaming comedy event you can watch in your house. That would be a lasting legacy for me to elevate the industry for all the comics, and I bring live streaming of live comedy in your computer or TV screen. Those would be the two major things to blaze the trail on for KFC Radio. Specifically, my dream would be and Bert Kreisher described it best as an East Coast Joe Rogan platform. Obviously we’re nowhere near his level.

But the idea is, you’re on the West coast for Boni especially, you go on Rogan. He’s in Austin, that’s in the central of the country and he can tap you and he’s that kingmaker, and you make that the next best thing. But if you’re on the East coast and you want their promotion, KFC Radio is kind of the East coast version of that. Very very interesting. They’ve got a big platform that could make waves.

Let’s keep an eye on that. We’ve seen what Rogan’s done in Austin. David Spade was on his podcast and talked about the time he turned down David Bowie’s request to switch roles with him in an SNL sketch. In the sketch, Bade had himself playing receptionist that stops you because he thinks that they’re better than you, and he envisioned David Bowie making a cameo as himself. Bowie wasn’t at the pitch meeting.

Spade then got a message asking him to call Bowie at his hotel. As Spade tells the story, I called him and he answers and it’s effing Bowie and he’s like, this sketch is so effing funny. This is exactly my life and these people I see, and he goes one tweek. Can I play the receptionist? That’s the funnier part.

Bowie argued playing himself was kind of boring since everyone has seen that. He suggested that Spade play Bowie and Bowie play the receptionist. I actually think that’s funnier. I agree with you. David Bowie’s ghost.

Spade turned it down because he was hoping it would turn into a recurring character. Bowie was persistent and said, well, what if the sketch never gets on the show. Spade’s like, I’m like, do you know this show? This well so true? What if it doesn’t get on?

I’m blowing it. He’s like, it’ll get on if I do it. Spade admitted that the whole sketch may have backfired on him because not only did it not get picked up for the show, Spade didn’t appear in any other sketches in the its entire episode. He said, the rest of the week, I wasn’t of the show, and I was like, f speaking of Saturday Night Live. The police don’t destroy guys.

Their debut movie is called The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. It’ll be out in November. Whitney Cummings will tape a new special at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles on September twenty three. Maybe there’s still some tickets available. You’ll find a link on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla website.

Greg Groups has a new album, French Drug Deal. Wow, that’s a great title. That’ll be out Friday, September one on a special Thing Records, recorded live at the Punchline in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. French Drug Deal follows Gregg’s previous release in the city, which he recorded live at the Punchline on New Year’s Eve twenty twenty two. From PinkNews dot com, Grand Lenin performed a comedy show outside of Hollyrood in Edinburgh to as Tiny Crowd after being acced from performing at an Edinburgh venue over his continued anti trans campaigning rights Pink News.

After receiving complaints from the public, a community hub, leath Arches, announced that it had canceled Lenahan’s appearance as a guest on The Thursday Show last week, hosted by GB Newss Andrew Doyle. Then a second venue also act Doyle and Lenahan. So the gig organized There’s Comedy Unleashed put the show on the street, where Lenahan performed on a makeshift stage to about fifty people. A video of his street performance was posted on Twitter X whatever can we stop with the x? Twitter comments included I thought comedy is supposed to be funny.

In an interview with Mail Online, Lenahan said that trans rights activists needs to be defeated completely. I want to make it clear, I’m not talking about trans people. I’m talking about trans rights activists, two very distinct groups that often have nothing to do with each other. I just think they need to be defeated it completely. It’s important at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it’s just for a second, and show that these people don’t get to push for the rest of us around and to demonstrate hell times have changed and gotten crazy.

Craig Ferguson’s catchphrase used to be it’s a great day for America. He said. The thing is when I say it now, and I’d still say it, but since about twenty sixteen, half the audience gets mad at the other half of the audience. I say it’s a great day for America, and they’re like, what the hell do you mean by that? And the other people are like, no, he’s right, shut up, no, you shut up.

Davy Club reviewed at Chris Fleming’s Hell that came out on Peacock late last week. I have not had an opportunity to watch it yet again, just to catch everybody up. My mom is pretty sick, so I haven’t had as much time to come home and watch stand up comedy as I might normally have. Thank you for giving who to Chris Fleming has long been a fairly niche figure, writes The av Club. Luckily, Fleming has not jettison at any of the flare that has made him a star.

Among as he says, quote theater people who don’t get cast. Fleming moves through topics with lightning speed. Minor spoilers here the first five minutes alone spoilers, riffs on parades, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama’s podcast, and drivers of Nissan Cubes. Davy Club said the effect is pleasantly disorienting and immediately breaks down whatever protective wall the audience had up much of the set’s success. His own to Fleming’s physicality.

The comedian’s well aware of how bizarre his own body is, offering it up for a slightly nightmarish sight gag in the opening minutes where he vocally compares himself to a horse. Sounds kind of fun and for Milwaukee Magazine, Taylor K. Phillips went on a road trip around the region to gain insight for her new book, A Guide to Midwest. Conversation that the book chronicles celebrates in decodes all the characteristics of Midwest speak. Taylor says, I remember the first time in New York I went up to the Starbucks barista and said, good morning, how are you, and you look like it genuinely scared him.

I’m very joky, bubbly and high energy, and in the Midwest that’s just normal. But on the coast people say things like your Midwest is showing. Back in Kansas City, she was at a coffee shop and heard someone say the phrase, well you know, she’s a character, Philip says, Basically, it meant this woman is bunkers. You have to mentally prepare to interact with her. That’s one of the first times I really noticed how different our phrasing is.

In the Midwest, and that’s your company needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Norman spoke to Esquire Middle East as one does and Esquire Middle East ask Mark Norman, who are some of the comedians you’d recommend to people that you feel like we’re missing out on? Great question? Mark said, I love this question because I love giving some love to these killers who aren’t as big as they should be.

Write these down kids, Mark Norman’s list. Sean Patton. I started with him in Louisiana. He’s a little older than me, but he’s just one of these lightning in a bottle kind of comics. He’s whacking all over the place, interesting, original, unpredictable, and just kills.

Then there’s Chad Daniels. He was number one on Pandora for a while, but he’s so good. He did the Fully Loaded Festival and he was killing every night. Dena Hasham is great jokes and I think she’s coming out with a special soon. Anthony DeVito is a funny comedian in New York.

I think has an album out, Yes he does. Ian Lara is really funny. He’s got an HBO thing that nobody saw. Jessica Curson is funny. I’m blanking out him more.

But yeah, check those people out. Oh, Sean Murphy, check him out. He’s got an album too, They asked Mark, I meant about the time he got the approval from Seinfeld? Did he call you? Keep it such?

Mark said, it was surreal, say the least. It still blows on my mind that I have his phone number and that we’ve met. But that’s the beautiful thing about comedy. There’s less pretension. Mick Jagger is never going to meet a bar ballroom guitar playing musician.

He’s off at the O two arena. This ballroom musician is just in some rinketing bars somewhere in Cleveland, and he’s brilliant, he’s killing. But I’ll never meet Mick Jagger. I got to meet Seinfeld because he saw me on The Tonight Show or a comedy club, and that’s what’s so cool. Mark Norman.

Do you watch other comedians? What are your top three specials from the past year? Mark Norman said, I thought Sam Morrell’s At the Same Time Tomorrow was great. That might be two years ago. I thought Louis Sorry was amazing.

Mulaney’s Baby Jay was cool. It’s a nice style change for him.

Speaking of Sam Morrell, The Valley Advocate talked to Sam, who said, I work …

I’m on the road a lot. I’m a comedian. I have to keep busy, and there’s a certain amount of catching up I’ve had to do over the last few years. I like being able to make people laugh, and when it got to the point that I could get the teachers to laugh too, was a way to get through the day. I wasn’t the greatest student.

He tells stories about some of the oddball characters he’s met. There was a guy in Cleveland who told Sammy at his back after Sam had been threatened outside a bar by the boyfriend of a woman who was talking to As Sam tells the story, that man was dressed all in white and introduced himself as the White Knight and a short Sam. He was there to keep that part of the city safe quote, I protect downtown Cleveland. The Valley Advocate says. Some of Sam Morrell’s best riffs are on the never ending debate about guns, Quoting Sam every mass shooting, they say he was a quiet man.

That should be part of the background check. You want this gun, you’d better be Chatty do my podcast, then we’ll see another take. Aftery gun debate, they bring up the Founding Fathers. You know the Founding Fathers had guns. Yeah, they did, but they also had wigs.

They thought a powdered wig was a good look. So that’s my stance on guns. You can have a gun, but you have to wear the wig. At least then I could tell who’s dangerous from afar. Sam has a bit in which he relates how a liberal friend explained to him Trump is Hitler.

Sam said, look, we don’t know how hilarious Hitler would have been on social media. That’s not fair. Hitler might have had a strong Twitter presence. He imitates someone tapping on a cell phone trapped in bunker. Sad Don l Rawlings spoke to The Journal News and said the character Ashley Larry, wasn’t Ashley on paper.

He was just a guy with boxer shorts, dress shoes, and he liked to gamble away his wife’s money. But I was doing Chappelle show, I didn’t get too many speaking roles. I was like, I need to be physically funny. I thought, when the camera first pans me, I want to be funny. So I went to the makeup department and said, I need a bottle of baby powder.

I’m gonna be the ashiest guy in this dice game. I didn’t let anybody know when they sayed action. I had a handful of baby powder and I blew it out, and an iconic street character was born that was Ashy Larry. So when I put the show together, I collect stories and I put him in a document, and I moved stuff around depending on how much I have on a particular day. And I like to include the source.

So for this one, I apparently I don’t know what happened. Here’s what I wrote as the source. One word, Oh you are t w n n Y no idea, but I just looked it up. Oh ourtown New York dot com. Who tells us about Caitlyn Cook who after college, Caitlyn Cook happened upon a piece of bathroom graffiti at a dive bar that said, writing on toilet walls is neither for critical acclaim nor a financial reward.

It is the purest form of art discuss. Cook was an art or history major and thought it was an intriguing way to think about bathroom graffiti from an art historical lens. She spent five years photographing things written on bathroom walls. Her one woman show, The Writing on the Stall is set in the bathroom of a dive bar, She’ll Beat the Soho Playhouse September six through the twenty third. One particular exchange stayed with her.

Someone had written plant your own garden, decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers, and then underneath it somebody wrote, f off, they should bring you flowers, And I love that both things can be true. About five years ago, I was doing a lot of musical comedy, and I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if some of the things I’ve seen written on bathroom walls were lyrics? So I wrote one song where all the lyrics were from bathroom graffiti, and I had photos had taken of the graffiti projected behind me as I sang. It got such a wild response. Everyone loved it, and I thought, oh, I could probably write a whole musical of the You know you’re wondering the best places to find bathroom graffiti in New York City, Well, Caitlin Cook tells us the Cobra Club in Bushwick and Sharlen’s and Park Slope.

Hank Saloon used to be really great, but it shut down a couple of years ago. I just found some a Jimmy’s Corner in Midtown. Really, any sort of Artzydivy bar is gonna have some great bathroom graffiti most of the time. Well, what’s the difference between men’s bathroom graffiti and women’s stalls? Caitlin says, it’s so funny you asked.

I currently have a real blowing up right now about this. It just hit five point six million views, which is wild. I have all these people in my comment section just debating the difference between men and women bathroom graffiti, which is so funny. I see a lot of really uplifting, empowering, beautiful things that women write to each other, like you got this, you go girl, just breathe leave him it’s okay. And in the men’s stalls some beautifully illustrated penises.

What about gender neutral bathrooms? She said, I saw one the other day. More people should be named Luisa. It just makes me think, who wrote that? Were they named Luisa?

Were they in love with someone named Luisa? What’s their story? One more quirket won she saw recently, which said, up until recently, I didn’t know that Stevie Wonder was blind. I thought classes were just his thing. For more information to Vie Caitlin Cook dot com, Carnival Cruises might be adding an early show.

We get this from crushive dot com, which is your home for comedy news. Apparently, if you’ve been on a Carnival cruise lately, you may have gotten a survey which asked whether or not you’d be interested in an earlier evening comedy show, one that runs from five to five thirty pm. Such an early show would be before the early seating for the ship’s main dining rooms, which is usually at five thirty five, forty five or six fifteen. Typically, Carnival’s earlier comedy shows, which are thirty to forty five minute sets, are scheduled between eight and ten PM and their family friendly, while shows that begin after eleven are generally adult rated. Sir Billy Connolly has unveiled four new drawings for sale.

Billy Connolly is eighty He’s been an artist since twenty twelve. The artworks are titled Punchous Tries, Pilates, Got It One, Arm Juggler, Nightmare and Drunk Donkey Billy said, I thought it’d be funny to call Poncious Pilates, and then I thought people would be offended by that, so I fiddled around and I got Poncious tri Spilates. He’s just a guy trying at the gym, trying his best. I don’t understand the whole gymnasium culture, but he doesn’t. He’s good as for one arm juggler.

Well, he’s an example of the fact that most of the figures in my work are doing things that don’t matter, just doing things they do think it’ll do good. I’ve spent my life doing that. You see guys out in their sixties running in an evening and you think, get a chair and a bottle of beard. Switch on the TV. Who are you kidding?

Nightmare? He says. I’m famous for shouting in the night and singing and laughing. My daughters seeing me. I’ve never remembered it.

And Drunk Donkey goes back to his days when he lived in Scotland. He owned two donkeys who he said he would let wander the play seating grass. They cling to you. They’ve got a real tide of human beings. Donkeys are funny animals, but it’s an endearing kind of funny.

Our donkeys used to scape over the wall the garden, run down to the village, and the villagers would bring them back. Donkeys always looked drunk and behaved drunk. And that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube Where the Gears Shoes See you Tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News Deadline profiled Matt Rife and said, Hey, Matt, your success with social media and self produced specials seems to highlight what’s so exciting about the world of stand up today. Rife said, the idea and route of traditional success in comedy doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s so much fewer and far further between. Now you’d get a late night show for five minutes than you do Montreal.

You get a TV series and Netflix or Comedy Central picks up for full special. That really doesn’t happen now. The entertainment industry has gotten so lazy via social media, and social media does provide everybody with kind of an opportunity to get seen and build an audience. Now a lot of it is luck. I can’t tell you what I did the first time to get my first couple of tiktoks to pop.

I could tell you what that is. Apparently, Rife used to hate social media. He said, I’m a fifty five year old man like I grew up around forty forty five fifty year old comedians who taught me the roots of success. That’s how I saw their careers blossoms. So I’ve built my entire career in life thinking that’s how things are gonna work.

But now social media gives you the opportunity to get in front of people. The entertainment industry is kind of screwed itself over and that they’ve lost the power of accessibility that’s now in your phone. Will Matt Rife start acting? He said absolutely. I love acting just as much, if not more than stand up.

I just haven’t been doing it as long and I’ve been able to get my foot in the door as well as I have with stand up. But now that I have the freedom and success via stand up, it opens up avenues in other areas that I’m passionate about, like film and TV that I’m hoping I can make the transition over too, because it can only feed itself. I’ve done a lot of independent work. I’ve done a lot of MTV Disney style stuff, so I’m really looking forward to the next project that I work on and acting to be something that I’m really proud of and enjoy doing. Matt Rife is working on some new material.

He said, his new Hour is so much fun for me because the first half of it is so silly and ridiculous and fun. And the second half is some stuff I actually got to pour some thought into, which if you’ve watched either of my previous specials, I kind of like to end the last of it with something people can think about and put some thought behind and given some real perspective on something I’m generally passionate about, as well as making it funny with a fun story. So I’d say it’s my most fun hour yet. I think people are going to really like it. Mark Norman spoke to The eight hundred Pound Grill about with Bert Kreisher.

Norman said, it’s a blast. It does take a special kind of comic. You gotta be willing to rally. A lot of comics are lazy, pot smoking, pajama wearing people, and this is like, you gotta drink all night, do the shows, and you gotta wake up and go slip and sliding at noon. It’s not easy every time.

Once you’re in it, you’re all right. I partied my ass off in college. I’m from New Orleans. I’m a drinker, tried and true, so I could do it. It’s not for everybody, but yeah, it’s the best.

Mark Norman said, when he meets fans, they’re basically expecting him to spend all night partying with them. Mark said, it’s awkward. I’d like to drink but chit chat. It’s like, hey, what are you up to? How you been these days?

And I’m like, okay, I’ll take the shot, but I don’t want a small talk. I’m an introvert. At the end of the day, I just feel guilty. So I had to stop doing it because people get so disappointed and I feel like I was letting them down. They’re like, what the hell, man, you don’t want to hang out with us, And I’m like, I don’t know you.

You know me, I don’t know you. I don’t want to sit here and hear about your dog. Jessica Kerson was talking about the importance of social media and said, nowadays, unless you’re a regular on a TV show, you have to play the game. Many people don’t want to do it and don’t know how. It’s a lot of work.

I need to bring someone a film every performance and pay people for editing, adding subtitles, whatever is needed. I have a team of people who do this and they send me things for approval. Because I hate watching myself on video. I can’t, so I let them choose what to edit, and then I uploaded. It’s so wonderful.

People watch it and said it to their friends, and they also follow me and come to performances. Jessica Kurson calls her a current tour the endless tour. I simply can’t stop booking more performances and more and more places. This is the first time I’ve been having performances that are sold out, and it’s also the first time I’m appearing in theaters. It’s wild and exciting.

She was asked if there was a time she thought it wasn’t gonna happen. She said, you’re kidding a million times. When you do things like this night show, I think afterward everything is going to work out. It doesn’t. Year after year.

There were one hundreds of times I wanted to quit, so many rejections, so many things they said I’d get TV shows deals on them fail. It happens to everybody. I’m now at a point where things are really happening, but it’s taken me time. Jessica had talked about the gap between male and female stand ups in the US. She said, when it comes to being a headliner on a stand up marathon.

As a woman, you earn less than a man. Now that my shows are in theaters and they’re selling, I’m earning one of them man does. But for years, if they slotted me in as the headliner in a stand up club, I earned less than a mail headliner. Jessica, is there or anything you won’t talk about on stage? She said, yeah.

I don’t bad mouth my parents, my family, my relationship. I’m private. Though it seems like I’m so open and revealing myself. They’re parts of my life that I’m very private about. And I don’t talk about politics.

I don’t think it’s funny. I have to find something funny in a topic I talk about, and there’s nothing funny in my opinion about what’s happening in politics in the United States. It’s disgusting. While f Tompkins spoke to Variety about therapy, and Paul said, I think, like a lot of people in comedy, I thought my fear was if I become a happier I’m not going to be funny anymore. And really I was just afraid of therapy.

I was afraid of what if I found out terrible things about myself. What if I found out I’m a monster? What if I have ever recovered memory. It’s really just the fear of the unknown. It’s the fear of finding out stuff about yourself that’s not pleasant or it’s sad.

It’s not like, oh my God, I’m gonna be a hannibal lecter. It’s somehow knowing in the back of your mind, I’m gonna have to talk about stuff that I don’t want to talk about, and that’s going to be uncomfortable. I feel like what I do here? Buy me a coffee, Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is returning to Wisconsin for it’s eighteenth year. They’ve announced the lineup the festivals October one through the eighth. Let’s take a look at the lineup. On the first at the lake Front Brewery, Kelly Ryan and some more comedians TBA. On the second, it’s the roast of Milwaukee that sounds fun.

On the third, Gray West, Christine Ferrara, Paul McCarry, and Ryan Mason will play October fourth at the Great Lakes Distillery. Lot of drinking at this festival, I like it. John Naim Danny Lang and Joe Eames and Johnny Beaner. October fifth, that’s Shank Hall, It’s Todd Barry. Let’s see some other folks you probably haven’t heard of other than Kyle Kinane.

Who is your headliner on what day is this one? On the seventh, Nina Gee has released her first solo comedy album. It’s called Stutterer Interrupted. Nina said, the first time I did stand up, a woman in the audience laugh, like, genuinely laughed about a joke I made about my experience as a woman with a stutter. I asked her if she stuttered, knowing the odds werelow that she did.

When I asked her, she said, no, it’s just funny, and I was like, oh, people can laugh up my jokes on my perspective on this, recently, someone who I don’t think really listen to my act said that I make stuttering the butt of my jokes. But it’s like, no, I make the people reacting to me the butt of my jokes. It’s really hard with any art form when you put it out there and people can interpret it anyway they want to. What I do have control over is what I say. So I’m pretty deliberate about my jokes.

Nina has been part of the Comedians with Disabilities Act. That’s a comedy troop started by Michael O’Connell made up an entirely of comedians with apparent and non apparent disabilities. Nina said, Originally it was Michael, who used a wheelchair, and Steve Danner, who’s a little person. And when I saw them, I knew as a group I wanted to be involved in. And I saw them they needed somebody with a non apparent disability and a woman, so they welcome me in.

I believe it was their second show when I joined, and I quickly became an active member. I think it was George Corland who said the best way to get through to somebody is humor, and the Comedians with Disabilities Act does that. Usually when you present as a person with disability, people are afraid to ask stuff, but they’re not afraid to ask comics. I’ve also seen people’s attitudes change about themselves and other disabilities, and it’s been really cool to see that. That’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. He tweet from Joe list My new special premiers tonight ten Eastern. You’ll find that on Joe’s YouTube page.

Also on Peacock tonight, Chris Fleming’s Hell premiers.

It looks like the guys at SNL are not expecting the writer strike or the actor strike to end anytime soon. Colin Jost and Michael Chay are playing at Radio City Music Hall of Note. It’s on a Saturday, October fourteenth at eight o’clock, so I guess that they don’t plan on doing SNL that night. Theol Vaughan was on Tom Sagora’s Two Bears podcast and they started talking about Matt Rife. Sagora said, he’s a funny guy.

I mean, he’s a funny dude. I’ve seen him. I’ve seen the clips. They’re all viral, and it really knows like he’s fun working a room. He’s just good at that.

So it’s unique. It’s a unique thing where he’s authentically being himself. Yeah, he’s both good looking and he’s quick and witty and funny, and it all just works. Most dudes that look like that aren’t funny and THEO tagnet with and most that look like that are women. Congratulations to Dave Chappelle, who made the Hot one hundred Billboard chart not for comedy no.

Chapelle debuted on the Hot one hundred alongside Robert Travis Scott. A collaboration with musician Young Lean titled Parasale is number fifty three on the chart. It is Chappelle’s first time on the Hot one hundred. Congratulations Dave. August eighteenth is Brody Steven’s day.

Some comedians are remembering Brody today, Mark Marin, Dean Cook, Jeff Garland, the scholar brother is Dean Delray, Craig Gasson Moore. At the Comedy Story benefit Comedy Gives Back ten thirty Tonight, Vulture caught up with Paul F. Tompkins, who quit stand up for a while. They asked him if it was a deliberate decision. Paul said, absolutely, it was a despair.

My last special which is called Crying and Driving, which I recorded in twenty fifteen. The special I did before that was called Laboring under Delusions. That was for Comedy Central, and I was really proud of it and really enjoyed doing it, was paid very well by Comedy Central to perform the thing. When it came time to do my next hour, which was three years later, I went to Comedy Central and they offered me literally one ten of what I had made for the previous special. I remember talking to my agents saying, man, this deal really sucks.

I don’t know if I should take this. I’m sure I probably use the word insulting or something. And my agent said, well, on the other hand, they’re the only ones making an offer, and I couldn’t disagree with the logic of that. So I swallowed my pride and I put all the money into the special. I didn’t make anything from that special at the time, and I said, I’m just going to make the best special that I can do.

And that was it. It came and went. It aired on Comedy Central. I don’t know who watched it. I was told for the last one I did, the numbers were pretty good, you know.

One as the assumption in showbizz from what I’ve seen, and I keep distancing myself from it. But this is common to a lot of people. I know. I’d see other people and be like, the idea should keep going up and up, and up. So I had not only plateaued, but now I was going back down.

There was a feeling of Wow, people just aren’t interested. In the intervening years, I had gone from wanting to be a guest on a talk show to wanting to host a talk show, and I was unable to make that happen. I did a pilot for Comedy Central, and then after the pilot was told directly by the head of the network, you kind of come off as old fashion and stuffy, and that’s not what our audience wants. You made some casting decisions with the guests that hurt I think, and I was like, ah, you saw every step of the process. You’re not seeing this for the first time as the finish pilot.

You know all the stuff I did. It felt really brutal to me. If you’re not going to pick it up, that’s fine, but this is literally a personal attack saying the audience doesn’t like you. You can say it didn’t go well, I can fill in the blanks myself. Wow, this is really really brutal, port Paul.

He continues, but that was a real real turning point to me. Then having the special happen a couple of years after that and have nobody be interested in it. I thought, this is the one thing I always thought I had, which stand up. I was always successful. I had some stature in the world.

Now I’m realizing I don’t have that stature anymore, and there’s not really a big market for the kind of thing I do. So I was finding joy and doing improv and working with other people and leaning on this other sort of life thing. But I couldn’t go back to stand up. It hurt too much. It really hurt.

There was a period pre pandemic where I tried to make myself go out and do sets and I just wasn’t feeling it. I was just going through the motions of doing it, but I wasn’t connected with the material. I wasn’t connected to the audience, and it felt bad. It was really alarming, Like this isn’t how it feels, this is really weird. I don’t like this.

So I just went where the joy was, and coincidentally where the money was good money for doing an improv podcast. And it’s an ongoing process. I don’t know if I’ll ever do is Special again. I’d like to, but knowing would have to be self funded. Not my favorite thing in the world.

They asked him how he feels doing stand up now. Paul if Tompkins said, I feel like it’s coming back to me, and the more I do it, the more comfortable is becoming. Right now, the feeling that’s coming back is the duck below the surface of the water kind of thing. I’m lucky that I’ve always been able to project a certain amount of confidence regardless of what’s happening internally. But I’m getting back into it.

It’s coming back and the enjoyment of doing it and the feeling of connection. Wow, the Daily News saw the Shark is Broken. I was all excited for the Shark is Broken. That’s the stage play about Jaws kind of sort of. The Daily News says the show doesn’t deliver much at all.

Ouch Not only is the low stakes script dull and pedestrian, but the characters change not at all, despite the premise of three wild men sitting in a boat and not waiting for goodo but for sharks at Spielberg. The Shark Has Broken had its origins at the Edinburgh Festival, and in that context it no doubt was a good campy laugh, especially for an audience that had followed Shaw’s pregaming example, but it makes for thin Broadway gruel alas with a ninety minute running time, a straight up point of view, and a series of behind the camera recreations of a situation that already has been much dissected and discussed. Yikes. Playbill wrote about the Fringe and said, this comedian can’t speak, but he’s making audiences laugh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After a rare neurological condition caused Alex Gibbon lose his ability to speak, he turned to comedy.

He tells Playbill over email, from what my doctors have told made my brain is structurally fun, but it’s sending the wrong signals to my body so effectively, I’m like a Windows update with a pulse. His current show is called Fat Femine Crippled, with the help of his rebel voice on his phone, which is a British woman, and his mobility scooter that he named Miscarriage, Gibbon responds, never underestimate the power of a wide range of facial expressions. He’s made it his artistic mission to destigmatize being both disabled and gay. He admits, far too often the stigma is suffocating. I felt either too disabled to be in queer spaces or too queer to be in disabled spaces.

This is often backed up by the fact that a lot of queer spaces like gay bars and pubs aren’t accessible and the staff aren’t friendly. For my show, what I do is I prerecord all my jokes. It takes several hours per set, but it’s worth it. I typed them up six at a time before turning them into MP three files to press play and pause while on stage for communication during my shows. It’s quite hard for me to go off script in general, so I try to avoid it.

The main time. I stop us for hecklers, mainly because I downloaded famous TV meme type sound bites that many people will know by ear. I can choose whichever suits best to the heck at the time, which both shuts them up and gets them laughed at. And from The La Times, Courtney Perusso’s one woman sex Robot Clown Show, I just want to say sex robot clown show again The La Times. Sorry, it’s a leggy blonde emerges from a smoke filled stage, domineering in a black PVC bra, thong, fishnet stockings and six inch thigh high platform boots her proclamation, my name is Vanessa five thousand and I am here to destroy humanity.

Just kidding, I’m a sex robot. She’s performing Vanessa at US at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival throughout August, after which the show will turn to LA after performances. She encourages people to DM her with ideas or thoughts. She said, many people have written her on Instagram and the performer has used selected suggestions from strangers. I’ll get feedback from everybody, but you have to know who to listen to.

She was inspired by Natalie Palamedes. Have you seen Natalie’s work? If fanastic? Palamedes suggests that prusso study clown, a form of experimental comedy that’s been gaining ground in LA over the past ten years. Amy Poehler produced Palamides special Nate on Netflix twenty twenty.

Go watch that It’s fantastic. Last year, Palamides performed clown with Chelsea and Hillary Clinton on their Apple TV show Gutsie. Clown is distinctive for its lack of a fourth wall, meaning performers look at, react to, and speak with the audience throughout a performance. It’s a highly visual and physical art. While clown can have loud, out, their vulgar, shocking, and gross out moments, it also welcomes vulnerability and beauty, often as a balance or counter.

Peruso explains, I think I can get away with moments of sincerity, or we’re letting people look at me as I am, because I’m also disrupting and looking really stupid. That’s your comed eies for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m shunning Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Apparently Conan O’Brien when he took off of for Letterman, wanted to call the show nightty Night with Conan O’Brien. He tell the story on his podcast and said, we thought it was just really cartoony and funny. Conan was worried about being compared to Letterman and you know year one there, Yeah, that was it took a minted.

Conan said, we had a meeting in this office at thirty Rock, and we’d told Rick Ludwin, who was the NBC Late Night chief. We told Rick we wanted to meet with him, and we were worried about being compared to Letterman, and we said we were thinking of changing the name Late Night. And Rick said, NBC owns that name. It’s popular franchise. We wouldn’t get rid of it unless there’s a spectacular new one.

And we said we wanted to call it ninety Night with Conan O’Brien. O’Brien said Ludwyn was a very proper executive and a wonderful guy, but he was tearing flush at the idea and said it’s going to remain Late Night. With Conan O’Brien. Conan said they weren’t under much supervision when they put the show together. If someone told me they picked a guy who was twenty nine, it was no ex experience.

And they picked a producer and Jeff Ross, who’s done some work with kids in the hall and much of his works been in music. There’s no way they’re not all over them. But we were in New York and most of the people were in La Jeff Ross said, I spent most of my time faking it and making it look like I knew what was going on until I figured it out. Screen Rants has hope for this upcoming Adam Sandler film called You Are So Not Invited to My bat Mitzvah that’s out on the twenty fifth. I’m less enthusiastic.

If you’re a long time listener, you know I openly I roll most Adam Sandler movies. I’m sure Sandler doesn’t care. He’s made a lot of money, He’s very successful, a lot of people like him. In my humble opinion, there are only a few good Adam Sandler movies. The masterpiece being Uncut Gems.

The second best one is probably Hustle and the ones with Drew Barrymore are pretty good. Other than that, Adam Sandler films are garbage and I have low expectations for you are so not invited to my bot mitzvah. But screen Rant writes, while audiences are used to seeing Sandler putting on goofy, indistinct accents and acting over the top, that you were so not invited to my botts us. He’s Adam Sandler playing an average dad. Sandler leans into a two by being sarcastic to his daughters, telling dad jokes, and simply being irritated when he’s distracted from the TV.

Here, let’s listen. Just named Julie ba would make the party perfect. You can have a ball pit that’s kids and at my period for seven weeks. That’s a long period, sweetheart. Green Rant says.

Some shots in the trailer hints at a more meditative and heartfelt performance as his daughter goes to him for relationship advice. Even more interestingly, Sandler takes a back seat in the movie, and he seems more like a supporting actor than the lead. The lead is fourteen year old Sonny Sandler. Her dad is Adam Sandler. Sonny is fourteen, so I will just move on.

Las Vegas Weekly was pulling their readers about their choice for various things that included a top gentleman’s establishment. I didn’t read that part. I read the part about best stand up show? So who did they pick? Johnny mac?

Well, they write in an era where stand up comedies booming bigger than ever before. No one’s been holding down the Vegas stay longer than Scott Thompson. You’re like, who’s Scott Thompson? I will tell you karrot Top. That’s who Scott Thompson is.

Las Vegas Weekly says karrots Tops always changing performance at the Atrium Showroom remains a mussy on the strip at the Luxer Sasha Baron Cohen is bringing back Ali G variety of says. Baron Cohen has been working on a stand up tour in which Ali G will make an appearance. A source denied that a new movies in development. However, noted that Sasha is a writer and actor abiding by strike rules the quote. As a sagond WGA member, he supported the ongoing strike alongside his fellow writers and actors.

HM, that makes me think a movie is coming In twenty twenty one. Ali G made an appearance during a secret gig at the Comedy Store in Sydney, Australia. Sasha said, I just wanted to get on stage and muck around and see what Alig would be like with a crowd. It was really good fun. Ali g made his first appearance in nineteen ninety eight on a sketch series called The eleven o’clock Show.

If you add twenty five to nineteen ninety eight, you get twenty twenty three. So we see what might be going on here right yes. Tonight at the National Comedy Center, Lewis Black will celebrate political satirist Mark Russell with a reception and dedication. Russell’s friends and fans are invited to the event. It’s open to the public from five to seven if you happen to be near Jamestown, New York.

The dedication and brief remarks take place at six o’clock tonight. During the event, the National Comedy Center will have materials and artifacts from Russell’s career on display, and will add one of his musical parodies as a permanent component of its Lyrical Laughter Exhibit. National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson said, Mark Russell transformed the landscape of political humored America and in doing so, influenced a generation of comedic artists. His musical sat sires well for decades by those inside outside of Washington, made him comedy’s greatest lyricist. His comedy legacy is unique and incomparable Lewis Black’s at Mark Russell was an extraordinary talented satirist with a unique comic voice.

He had a rapier wit, which are words I rarely used to describe a comedian. Hopefully people will now realize how important he was in the pantheon of comedy. Marlon Yans said that films like two thousand four’s White Chicks need to be made today because social media has made people lose their enjoyment of life and comedy. Wayans was catching some grief because he made a sarcastic comment the reference the Jason Alden song. Try that in a small town.

If you’re not familiar with that song, I don’t want to get into that on this podcast, Just google Try that in a small town. You could read the editorials yourself. Marlon was on Jalen Roses podcast and said, I think social media messed up socializing and we’ve got to get back to laughing and finding reasons to laugh and stop being said, damn sensitive. All we’re doing is filling our airwaves, filling our kids with fear and hate, and there’s no laugh and love. The only thing that’s going to bring us together is humor.

What got Way in some grief was an Instagram post where he mocked the viral Alabama riverboat brawl, and he wrote, how about we not try that in a small town. Let’s all just be love, not war. Some people thought he was endorsing the song’s message, Way and said, I actually thought the song was divisive and promoted the kind of mentality that fuels racism, bigotry, and some violence. Let’s stop doing stupid songs like that which negativity towards black people. That stuff ain’t cool.

Wayne said. Most of the people on social media with these negative opinions aren’t even real people. They’re boughts from other countries. They’re trying to strip us. So the very thing that makes our country special, the freedom of speech.

We’re so stupid that we allow this to happen. Sooner or later, they’re going to take away the first amendment. We’re all gonna have to think alike. People are gonna get canceled. You can’t think like this.

What kind of society do we live in? From Billy Penn dot com, comedian Jinny Yang is trying to stop the Philadelphia seventy six years from getting a new arena. Billy Penn rights the white and red posters declaring no arena and Chinatown I fit right in amid the didly lit graffiti, arts sculptures and midi murals adorning the staircase down to the underground arts subterranean space in Kala Hill, where comedian actress Jinny Yang was preparing to perform. Between jokes about being engaged inter racial relationships and growing up as a tomboy daughter of immigrants, Yang swallowed a tasty cake in one Go Regional reference, Trust me it makes sense. She talked about how Philly is so special to her and how trips on the regional rail and a Phillies Chinatown me alive and helped her feel at home while she was away from her family in California.

Then she lit into seventy six Devcorps and it’s proposed to build a new home for the Sixers on the side of the Fashion District mall and recently vacated Greyhound bus terminal. Yank said, these billionaire a holes want to establish a sports arena right up against historic Philadelphia Chinatown. Did you know this? The crowd booed. I don’t want to be very clear who I think the villains are.

I don’t think the villains are the seventy sixers. I don’t think the villains are sports fans in Philly. What I don’t like is the fact that very rich billionaires have decided that they’re going to take advantage of the importance and the real estate that Philadelphia Chinatown is on and extract it’s profit off the back of the little guy. That’s not okay. Don’t f with Philadelphia Chinatown.

Now I’m not from Philadelphia, but what I go down to Philadelphia, one of the things I always say is I like how all the sports arenas are in the one area. If you’ve never been there, the baseball stadium, the football stadium, and the basketball slash hockey arena. They’re all in one spot, and they share parking lots, and it’s very efficient, and you can get right on and off the highway and the subway goes right there. So I’m not sure why the Sixers are moving. I also don’t know where Philadelphia Chinatown is.

Should I get out a map? I should? Right? Why not? Okay, Now I see where this is.

This is over by Franklin Square. It’s kind of by six seventy six. It’s kind of by ninety five. It’s kind of sort or near the subway. But I don’t know.

Why don’t we leave the stadiums where they are? I admit I’m very under educated in all this, but as a tourist, I don’t know. I like what the stadiums are. Later, inter comedy said Yang incorporated six Ers owner David Blitzer and Josh Harris into a top ten list titled Eat the Rich. The segment suggested what kind of food different billionaires might be.

Yang said, between the three of them, their companies have been accused by human rights organizations of taking away affordable housing. I would want to eat them on a dish of delicious stir fry kung pound billionaires. Oh, and I had other things, but that’s a good way to get out because that made me laugh. Let’s get out there and I’ll see you tomorrow. Of fall the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The ev Club thought Joe Rogan had a good take. The take was on the Barbie movie. Rogan on his podcast said, a lot of people who are upset about the Barbie Movie.

I left perplexed. It was a fun, silly movie about dolls would come to life. A lot of it is about the patriarchy, and it’s a comedy. It’s a comedy about dolls. People are upset that it’s a progressive metaphor for life, that they’re pushing progressive politics in this, and I’m like, it’s an effing doll movie.

It’s a doll movie. It’s a fun movie about dolls that come to life and try to interact with the real world. I know some people personally who said it’s anti men. I’m like, no, it’s making fun of dorks. Are we going to do this thing where we put all men as men in one category, We’re not going to judge people as individuals.

I think it’s a superwoke movie, but it’s also a movie about how Barbies are the dolls that everybody cares about, and ken is just an effing accessory, which is real. So when you bring these things into a movie, that’s how they have to be, because that’s how it is in the real world. Eight hundred Pound Gorilla did a lengthy interview with Mark normand Mark said, I YouTube special because nobody would touch me. It was a huge failure, I thought. But it actually got a lot of views, so that did well.

He was referring to his twenty twenty hour out to lunch. Netflix noticed, but they didn’t want to give him an hour. They gave a half hour. Norman said, my agent was somehow able to finagle me into a half hour Netflix, which was already hard to get. I wasn’t in the running, I don’t think.

But we got like twelve million views, which makes me kind of bitter because other people just get it without having to prove themselves. But whatever, the half hour went okay, I think, and eventually I got this full hour and I think this is going well, so hey, I can’t complain. Mark Norman discussed the art of perfecting a joke and said, it’s almost like magicians, where we want you to know, but we don’t want you to know. We want you to think we’re saying it right off the cuff, off the top of our brains. But there’s also a part of you that’s like screw that.

I want you to see how much I slaved over this thing and how much time and effort I put into it. Vulture asked Paul half Tompkins if he was always silly. Paul said always. That was a real class clown, and I like making people laugh. It was very validating to me in the most traditional classiccent of I want you to like me.

Really meant a lot to me because it wasn’t something that I was able to get at home. It was a huge thing to make my mother laugh, and we were a family that joked around a lot. There was a lot of roasting and stuff like that. But to get my mom to laugh rather than respond with something that completely deflated the humor of what I was trying to say, are explaining to me, actually, this is why that is. I know why that is.

I’m being silly. So when I could make my friend’s laugh or make a teacher laugh, that was huge. Making an adult laugh was a huge deal. Christianity Today caught up with Leanne Morgan. She addressed at making fun about her earlier years, which were difficult.

She said, it’s like when Johnny Cash traveled with Billy Graham, he’d talk about prison in real life, she says, some people struggle to hold stand up comedy and Christianity intention. Morgan says some people said she was a Christian, but now she’s a comedian. That hurt my feelings. There was a time when I thought fame would be fun, but now other things encourage me. People come up to me and tell me I helped them get through chemo, or the pandemic, or their husband’s death.

It wasn’t about me, but they were able to escape life for a bit. I think God wants us to laugh and have a good time. He wants us to be hopeful. Great job by Judah Friedland. He’s been helping out some of the asylum seekers in New York City.

Gotham has caught up with him outside the Roosevelt Hotel and Judah asked two women, do you need food at all? Gothamis writes the woman, both from Latin America, I’d freelander warily, before offering quiet thank yous and accepting the snacks. Judah said, what I’ve been doing the past few days is as simple as this. There’s people that are hurting, and I’m just trying to show up and directly help. That’s it.

There’s a class warfare going on, but it’s mostly the billionaires against everybody else. Judah said it was his mother who alerted him to the scene of around one hundred and fifty asylum seekers living on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt. Freedlander showed up at the hotel shot a video capturing the cities during contrast, It shows the unhoused male migrants who are cramped behind police barricades, as well as the midtown lunch crowd is seem oblivious to the situation less than a block away. On Twitter x whatever we’re calling it, Judah said, so many people hurting in the country, whether they’re from here, whether they’re not from here. It’s terrible and it’s angering because you know, this country has the resources to do much better.

Then he handed out some more food and said it was time to get to his next appointment, which was on the picket line with striking actors and Hollywood writers. Before he did, he’d took out a cardboard sign he’d made which said billionaires hate you. David Keckner explained to the Dallas Morning News what you’ll get if you go see him. Keckner said, a night of dynamic entertainment. Here’s what it is.

I don’t want to overstate it. Fellow comedian Rob Mayer and I have been doing this for five years. He does half an hour and I do an hour. We work very well together. We have different styles, but it’s a rock solid show.

The show is hosted by Todd Packer, that’s Keckner’s character from the Office. But I don’t punish the audience the insired sign that’d be a little much. I come out as Todd Packer and do a bunch of the Packer lines to get people stirred up before we get into the trivia. It’s three rounds of trivia. I tell a bunch of stories about my time on the Office and showbiz stories, little tidbits here and there.

We do a Q and A at the end of the show, and the top two trivia teams come up on the stage and reenact a scene with myself and Rob. The News asked him why people connect with the Office so much. Kickner said, well, it’s started with adults getting into it right because they’re in the workplace and they recognize that they did have a broad scope of characters. They probably identify p much with everyone they’ve worked with, and it’s comforting, you know. Then I think the kids probably started watching it and they started thinking, oh, this is just dumb jokes.

But then they started getting the jokes, and now they feel smarter and hipper, right, And then there’s a bond with your parents, and as they became teenager, they think all adults are stupid.

And then when they get into college, now you got a group of people you’re bon…

And when they finally get to the workforce, you prove yourself right. If you enjoy what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. What would you do on a website called buy meacoffee dot com? What you do is you throw some money in the tip jar. I’ll get an email from buying meacoffee dot com and I’ll say like, hey, Smedley bought you a coffee.

And then I’ll take Smedley’s money and I’ll go to the National don’t chain large eyed coffee gamel milk, and then I’ll thank s Medley on the show. Buy Meacoffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Jason Alexander, you know him as George Costanza on Seinfeld. He was interviewed by Playbill. Jason said the stage has always been his first love, and Seinfeld actually felt right into that.

Jason said, show felt like a theater piece. Every week we were just playing to our live audience. We trusted him believe that the cameras and the director were getting the performance that we were giving to the audience. What I have found in good comedic writing from many different writers is they tend to have him music in their head when they’re writing. Neil Simon had his own sense of music.

John Shanley has his own sense of music. Larry David has his own sense of music, and when you latch it in the music in the author’s head, it becomes easy. When he first started Seinfeld, he was doing Castanza as a Woody Allen type, and if you watch the early episodes you can absolutely see that once he figured out Castanza was more or less a stand in for Larry David, he was able to unlock the character’s full comedic potential. Jason quotes Dennis Miller saying, it’s called a sense of humor, not a science. You either have it, which allows you to hear the possibilities of these rhythms in this musicality, or you don’t take a famous piece of comedic material like Who’s On first look at it on a printed page.

There’s nothing there, there’s no funny. The minute you hear Avin Costello start to put the rhythm of the melody on it, it becomes hysterical. There’s magic in it. He says. The same was true of Seinfeld.

When they were writing for say Jerry Still, they wrote the line, are you telling me there’s not one condo available in all of del Boca Vista. That’s not a joke, but when Jerry says it, it becomes radically funny. Writer and performer knew there was singing the same songs. The BBC wrote about the Fringe. Comedy critic Kate Copstick said, I’ve never known the Fringe to be so censorrous.

It’s not a nice feeling. Last year, Jerry Satowitz had some of his shows canceled after complaints from staff and walkouts. The complaints said his act was extreme and its racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny. Satowitz is back at Fringe this year, warning audiences, I might just do card tricks and say nothing for the whole hour, or I might just do the usual screaming fascist stick. Liam Witneil is playing the Fringe.

His shows called Chronic Boom. Yahoo says he positively vibrates on stage, ceaselessly pulsating from one killer antidote to the next. You’ll laugh until your jaw eggs. I’m intrigued. Kind of a generic description there.

But you’ll find Liam at Monkey Barrel Comedy, Monkey Barrel two. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny magg with a very busy Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney’s the guest on the Newest Conan O’Brien needs a friend. During the discussion, they started talking about how films are financed. John Mulaney admitted that movie financing is all he thinks about.

He said, you ever watch a movie and you notice there’s no extras. They didn’t have a dime, and you’re like, that’s Vancouver and there’s no extras. Conan jumped in and said they worked for Tim Morton’s Coffee and a pancake and there’s no extras. I had missed this one. A couple of weeks back, John Millaney has been working out new material.

He was out at Largo, apparently at the ten PM show a few tuesdays back. Mullaney made some references to his girlfriend Olivia, and spent a good portion of his set talking about the joys of fatherhood. He also teld a story about being sued by Comedy Central for one million dollars after failing to produce a third comedy special for the outlet. He had signed a three special deal for a mere five thousand dollars, and Millaney said, I don’t even think they paid me the whole amount. Tim Dillon is the guest on Joe Rogan.

That might be two episodes ago. By now, I have started listening to that. As you’ve heard me say before, Tim Dillon is fantastic. Someday, Tim Dillan’s gonna step on a landmine and I’m going to distance myself from Tim Dylan so fast it’s unbelievable. I will be saying Tim Dylan, he’s terrible, But until then, he’s quite funny.

He’s on Joe Rogan. Dave Chappelle sold out some shows last week in nineteen seconds. This from six fourteen now dot com. Bo Stinger owns the Old Town to East Club and said, I put the ticket linkin, pushed refresh, and all tickets were sold out in nineteen seconds. I don’t know how that’s even possible, or people just on that website going, you know, if Dave Chappelle ever plays here, I’m gonna, oh my god, click.

I don’t know. Maybe they announced like tickets will go out sailing, and I don’t know how that worked. Nineteen seconds is impressive. Stanger felt incredibly honored the Chappelle, one of his comedy heroes, was playing to the club. He said, he knew my name before even sold them.

Mister Chappelle said, thank you so much for this opportunity. He sells out Rita’s across the world, yet he’s here thanking me. You get really scared when you meet your heroes. But he was absolutely wonderful. Stanger was asked about various Chappelle controversies and said, at the end of the day, I have all the adoration for Chapelle.

Comedy can be uplifting to the soul. He’s a phenomenon. There’s a reason why there’s certain stances against Chappelle’s jokes and things that he’s spoken about, but the whole point if comedy is to turn tragedy into comedy. Any scrutiny or any sort of hatred towards Dave is completely misplaced. Chappelle operates on a sense of love, peace, graciousness.

It’s remarkable to see what he’s accomplished and be as reasonable as a human being can be. Variety reports that Andy Kaufman will be honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This will happen August twenty fourth, Andy Kaufman, I know you’re listening. Look, man, this whole hoax that you’re dead. You had a good run, you got almost fifty years out of it.

Show up at your star. That would just be like drop the mic. Oh my god, greatest hoax of all time because at some point you have to cash in because what if you actually die? So I think it is time. Looking forward to seeing Andy Kaufman appear at his own star in the Hollywood walk Off on August twenty fourth.

Netflix must really like this, Joe Koy fellow. He has signed a deal for two more stand up comedy specials. It’ll be a fifth and sixth for Netflix. So these must do really well. Joekoy sells out arenas.

The next one will tape at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn on November tenth and eleventh. Interesting arena there and should show up in twenty twenty four. Joe was currently on his Joecoy World Tour. Kevin Hart never afraid to have a gig. He’s got a new commercial.

He co stars with former NFL player Ryan Fitzpatrick. This is for online betting website. Online betting website tells us leveraging Heart’s brand of comedic belligerents and turning Fitzpatrick’s last name and if fitz Magic. The commercial both entertains audiences and it informs them about betting websites new promo offer. Jimmy Fallon showed up at the Jonas Brothers concert on Sunday and Fallon did a cover of Mister Brightside.

Let’s listen. You don’t Falon can sing. We’ve seen him do a lot of good clips on the Tonight Show. I’m not sure that was Jimmy’s best work. Zach Williams, son of Robin Williams, marked the ninth anniversary of Robin’s death with an Instagram message, Zach boasted Dad on the ninth anniversary.

If you’re passing, I’m remembering you for your most excellent fashion choices. These days are always hard, and I love remembering you for being so very very you. Love you so much. He captioned a photo of Robin Williams wearing a pair of shorts and a T shirt as he waved a racket at fans from a tennis court. Solar opposites his back that showed up on Hulu last night with the new Voice Collider said, it’s incredibly hard to talk about the new season of Solar Opposites without addressing the massive elephant in the room, which was the firing of co creator and Corvo’s voice actor Justin Royland.

I spent a lot of the weekend rewatching Rick and Morty, Collider reminds us. Instead of bringing in a sound alike, the de creative team behind Solar Opposites decided to go a different route. Dan Stevens is now the voice of Corvo and has like a British accent thing going The set up here minor spoilers, you’ll get over it. After Corvo was accidentally stabbed in the throat by a dart throne by Terry, Yemulac zaps Corvo with a voice restoration ray, which gives him his new, confident British accent. From there on out, the series acts as if nothing has changed for the new season.

It picks up after the season three finale. The Solar Opposites are trying to live a more human life. Terry and Corvo networking office job, Jesse’s hanging out with the school’s mean girls, and Yemulac like spending time smoking cigars with the Staff and the Teacher’s Lounge. Kill rock Stars has relaunched their comedy label with the release of Pap Johnson’s Timeless. Pap Johnson is an East Bay native who started out his comedy career winning Sony’s death at a funeral stand up competition.

It was the first time he had ever attempted stand up. Pap shares his uniquely hilarious perspective on life, death, the social grace’s morning, sex, relationships, political figures, pop culture, and more. He’s also willing to look in the bear and poke fun at his own insecurities. You can stream the album at POCP dot co slash Timeless so or you can watch the special on YouTube. Shorthold did not enjoy a show at Fringe.

They gave Bishops only two and a half stars. They write Chris Current and Noah Matthews check their privilege at the start of their debut show as Bishops, raising and attempting to quickly dispel questions of whether the Fringe needs another privately educated white boy sketched double act. The answer, of course, is known, but groups like cry Babies keep making formidable cases for themselves. Bishops currently fits the vibe to its sea, but they have a fair bit of work to do right shortal yikes. The sketches here do just enough to scrape by and provide a reasonable hour of entertainment for the young crowd.

But any fan with a couple of fridges under their belt, we’ll quickly start finding for the X that heavily inspire this show. Both performers are good at least they’re clearing the bar for sketch acting, but formula starts to emerge pretty early. Yikes. The Daily Mail says Netflix viewers hail masterpiece new comedy. All right, got our attention here.

The masterpiece new comedy is Australia’s answer to the Office. What’s this? You’ve seen it and it’s probably scrolled past on your Netflix. It’s Fisk Storry Kitty Flanagan, which describes itself as not another glamorous legal show. One social media user says Kitty Flannagan has created a masterpiece on par with Ricky Jervis is the Office.

Fisk is a fast paced sitcom about high end contracts lawyer Helen Tudor Fisk forced to take a job at a low grade suburban law firm after filled marriage and professional downfaller and I will check that out. You know what I accidentally stumbled into over the weekend? No, you don’t. How would you possibly know what I stumbled into over the weekend? What a weird setup, Johnny mac so.

I was on Hulu and I typed in su n n y. I was looking for a show about some people who want to born in Philadelphia and it put that up. But the second thing it showed me after I typed in sunny The Office parentheses Hindi version. Yeah, there’s two seasons of twelve episodes each two times twelve equals twenty four of the Office Hindi version. So what did I do?

I watched The Office Hindi version episode one, pretty much a remake of the Diversity Day episode, which, by the way, two points one Diversity Day is the best episode of the Office two. Apparently I haven’t confirmed this, they’ve taken Diversity Day out of the syndication. I don’t know if it’s still on the streamers, but if you watch The Office on you know, your local channel there, apparently they don’t show that episode anymore because somebody is going to be offended about something. Guys, that’s the entire point of the episode. That’s the episode that made the series.

Why are you not showing it? Nobody’s offended, everyone’s laughing anyway. The Hindi version of the Office remakes that episode. You do have to turn the captions on unless you speak Hindy. If you don’t, you’ll be like me and probably would be like, I don’t understand a word they’re saying.

I don’t speak Kindy. So I turned the captions on and had a good time. That Jim guy’s good, the Dwight guy’s good, That Michael Scott guy is good. It’s the American version more than it is the British version, at least after one episode. I’m going to go back to that.

So you’ll find the Office Hindi version on Hulu. It was Steve Martin’s birthday and the Hollywood reporter gave him a nice fluff job. A lot of people came out and said glowing things about Steve Morton. Lauren Michael said, talent is amazing and stunning when you first encounter it, but it has to get better and have a standard that it lives by. You don’t worry when Steve’s on something, He’s not going to be happy.

Until he cracks it, and even then he’s not going to trust it. Tina fades all the story. One time Steve Martin was visiting SNL and I’d seen him do Letterman the night before, and I said, you were so funny on Letterman last night. Steve Morton. Matter of fact, he says, well, you have to kill every time.

Tina says it was chilling to me, but it’s true. Comedy people can’t go on talk shows and blod are like actors. We’re supposed to deliver. Steve always delivers. Amy Schumer talked about Steve Morton’s book Born Standing Up.

Amy says, I don’t know a comic who hasn’t read that book. He’s in the comedy DNA of me and everyone I know. Holly Reporter says the decade since may have compressed his career arc down to a few cash phrases and indelible images for the general public, but Steve Morton’s iconoclastic sets forever minted Martin as a god to the comedy community. He shunned traditional jokes launched at as satirical rants, and, in one move that seems unfathomable mid today’s pressing safety concerns frequently encouraged large crowds to follow him to outside venues. Andy Kaufman did that well, but I guess maybe Steve did that first.

To be fair, Steve said, and I took the audience across the street to a jazz bar. All three hundred people came in and we went to someone else’s jazz guitar show. When the audience has got to be like a thousand, I couldn’t do it anymore. It was dangerous and they couldn’t hear me. If you need something to do tonight, John Novi Sad’s new special is on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube channel that is called Jokes.

I can only tell here and if you have Netflix, Jared Freed’s thirty seven and single premiers A nice hit for Jared. There and that’s your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube Where do you get your shows? See you tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start a gossip corner because it’s fun. Cracked took a look at what comedians went to see. Taylor Swift apparently, Zach Braff and Donald Fazon there hanging out together fake doctor’s real friends.

I guess Mindy Kaling was there. Molly Shannon, Tiffany Hattish hanging out with Cameron Diaz and Zoe Zaldana. That’s a power group. Mike Myers also hit the show.

Meanwhile, Will Farrell has announced a second installment of Best Night of Y…

This is a benefit for Cancer for College. Nice lineup two, John Stewart, haus On, Minhas, Jocoy, Batty Harrison, Royal Wood, Junior, Roy Scovel, the SmartLess Guys. Some musicians including Mike McCready from Pearl, jam Jack Black and Fred Ormison would perform as supergroup Mike McCready and the casual acquaintances. Will did this back in twenty eighteen in ancient times before the pandemic. That show had Seinfeld, Gimmel, Conan, Sam b Michell, Wolf, Jared Carmichael, and camal Non Gianni Will set immediately upon completing our last show in twenty eighteen, I set out on a search of the cosmos.

The mission was to find the most incredible lineup of talent the world has ever seen. I think we can comfortably say mission accomplished. I’m gonna push back on that. If you watch the video of the Magrigal Mystery Tour where they’re singing all you need is love the Beatles plus the Rolling Stones, pretty good. I digress For those of you saying, but Will, We’ve seen you a lot over the last five years, since successful films on popular streaming platforms and wildly funny TV appearances, I’m here to tell you the cloning is real.

Shout out to Bill Farrell, you did a hell of a job in my absence. My clones and I are super proud to be supporting the charity Cancer for College. I think we can all get on board with hating cancer and the terrible things that come with it. For thirty years, this organization has been providing need based college scholarships, educational experiences in medical debt to cancer survivors. All the proceeds from the show will benefit the cause.

That’s a nice job by Will Ferrell. There Bert Kreischer put out a tweets reminding us to check out Bert Kreisher’s Fully Loaded at Sea cruise, which is a cool thing. I’ll tell you about in a second. But there’s a waiting list, so I’m not even sure why he promoted it. Anyway, if you want to get on the waiting list, Bert Kreisher is fully Loaded at Sea October twenty seventh through the thirty first Miami two, Great Steer of Key Nassa, Bahamas.

Your line up, Bert Kreisher, of course, Mark Norman to Russell Howard, Felipia Sparza, Jim Norton, Miss Patt, Big Jokerson, Chang Wang who I’m a big fan of, Sean Patton, Pete Lee, Bert Kreisher Cruise dot com if you want some information. Sounds like that’ll be a good time if you’re looking to rest, Probably not the right cruise for you. Eric Andre has a new podcast called Bombing with Eric Andre. I liked this the first time when it was called the Art of Bombing with Dan Blublitz Junior. But anyway, Eric Andre’s version.

On his show, he hangs out fellow comedians and friends to talk about their worse moments in all sorts of ways on stage and public bombing in life, and many more northerly stories that may or may not involve audience members throwing a punch. Again, I liked it when it was called The Art of Bombing with and Bulbog Junior. Episode one of Eric Andre’s show has guest at Michelle but so they talk about their early stand up days, not knowing how to handle urine presumably thrown at them, an audience turning on you in Jamaica, and day drinking with Dutch friends. Adam Divine walked back his comments. You may recall his comments were, I feel like superhero movies ruined comedies because you go to theater and you expect to watch something that cost two hundred million dollars to make.

Comedy movies, aren’t that? So you’re like, why would I spend the same amount of money to go watch a little comedy in the theater If I can spend that and go see something and it’s worth two hundred million dollars, I almost almost almost slipped into half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld there anyway, people must given Divine the business because he tweeted as a guy who loves movies and TV. It’s cool to be in variety, but this is misleading. I like Marvel and I think these movies are cool. I’m guessing mister Divine’s agent called him and told him to walk that back.

Total guess by me. No, I feel like busting in half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. See if I can find an excuse. On today’s Pond, rosebud Baker is recording her special today at the Village Underground in New York City. Chris Tucker going out on tour.

It’s called the Legends Tour, thirty dates kicking off September eighth, and Charleston Sucker said, I started my career doing stand up in comedy clubs, and it’s stand up comedy that prepared me for all my movie roles. And if he said the rest of his quote as a half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld impression, it would sound something like this. I’m looking forward to getting back to my roots. I love before we live. It’s nothing like the energy of a live crowd, make people laugh, excited to be out there and tour.

Hollywood Reporter it took a look at celebrity podcast and who’s allowed to do what Zach Braff and Donald Fazon, you know, fake Doctor’s real friends. Sometimes they see Taylor Swift together. They said, we’re not allowed to talk about scrubs. Now, I don’t know if they said that both at the same time or how that works, but that’s the quote, we are not allowed to talk about scrubs. Not sure who said it a sag after a spokesperson tells the Hollywood Reporter Rewatch, Recap and Companion shows are promotional.

They can drive viewers to struct companies platforms to watch Struck shows. Members who appear as guests in these podcasts are not permitted to promote Struck work under any circumstances unless they have a contract. See that’s not any circumstances if I throw an unless in there, unless they have a contract that predates the strike and pre existing contractual obligations that they must honor. Hosts who are members should also refrain from promoting Struck work. A talents publicist says it’s frustrating because there are only so many ways some of these actors can make money, and I seriously doubt that discussing an eighteen year old episode of a canceled show is doing anything for the studios.

They Always Sunny guys say they won’t release episodes of the Always Sunny podcast while the strike goes unresolved. Kind Of good for me because I liked that podcast, but I’m about one hundred episodes behind now fly reporter points out that’s going to get complicated because they have some live recordings on the calendar, including one sold out show at Radio City Music Hall. The Office Ladies have been putting out their show, but noting the recordings had taken place before the strike. I feel like what I do here? Go to buy me a coffee?

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There’s some money in the tip jar. I’ll take your money. I’ll go to the National Donuts chain. I will get a largeized coffee with caramel and milk, and I will thank you on the show, which reminds me Zach had enjoyed one of my social media posts, and Zach commented, Hey, I’ve been enjoying the podcast.

Also wanted to mention that a couple months ago, my show The Big Laugh came out on two B. It’s six comedians doing fifteen minute sets, a bunch of US comics rented out of Comedy club and put together a killer show. All right, everybody that’s called the Big Laugh on two b Zach, thanks for sharing that. I will try and catch up on it. I’m behind on my comedy.

I don’t want to bring the show down. So my mom’s been like really sick and it’s been really stressful, and then quite candidly gaffing in special deals with funerals, which is why I’m avoiding it. Enough said, move on, okay, been a stressful month. Garrett millerc is playing the Fringe Garrett Road on Yahoo. Hey, we’ve been trying to unpack why we all do the Edinburgh Festival, not just performers but audiences.

By the time you shouted out for a combination travel, food, drinks and tickets, you’re down a grand minimum. For the same money, you can op on a plane and be sipping a mohito on a beach in the Maldives. But you’re not. You’re in a basement in Scotland looking at me. His whole thing is an immersive experience in mental collapse.

Everybody here is in some way unhappy with their lot. The performers are duking it out so to get reviews, awards and recognitions. So they can get more television, more radio, more followers. It’s a constant chase, a desire to be laughed at and taken seriously at the same time. Look at the cavalcade of posters laden with quotes promising to be the funniest person who ever lived, but complimented by a picture of someone who looks like they’re about ready to ruin a dinner party.

Trauma has been the enduring trend of the festival for a few good years, minding the worst experiences of life for laughs and recognition. Audiences are here to pursue happiness just as much as we are. Drinking from two pint jugs at lunchtime and seeing nine comedy shows a day is well above the recommended units of both. I do this professionally five nights a week and can tell you that the same number of live comedy shows to see in a year is probably two nine in a day. Get some ill.

You aren’t going out for seven dinners tonight. Stop eating when you’re full. Garrett Milleric’s show is called Never Had It So Good. You’ll find Garrett at the monkey Barrel at the Tron. Mary O’Connell’s show is called Monkey Princess Yahoo says it’s a blessed antidote to the very modern and wholly deluded pandemic of absolute certainty.

She doesn’t pretend to have any of the answers and instead obsesses over life’s every day absurdities. You’ll find Mary at Pleasant Courtyard Bunker three. Geordo gave four stars to Dan Tiernan show and said the show isn’t like being trapped in a basement with a craze lunatic yelling in your face. That’s precisely what it is. Dan has a lot of issues.

He knows he looks a bit peculiar and rattles off one hilarious analogy after another, quickly moving away from celebrity lookalikes into odd but uncannily precise descriptions that become running jokes across the hour. There’s some element of freak show here, a sort of comes see the wild Man of Manchester rattling his cage danger to his intense delivery, which Tunin fully leans into four stars from Shortal. You’ll find tune In at Monkey Barrel Comedy Club. Gary mule Deer a relatively obscure comedian. I know his work from when I used to run the comedy channels at the satellite radio place many many years ago.

Gary does a pretty cool Johnny cash bit. Anyway, there’s a new documentary about him called show Business Is My Life, But I can’t prove it. A film about Gary mule Deer. Some of the people who are peering it Amy Grant, Alice Cooper, and David Letterman. Red Sanders is the producer and says, so often we as Americans look at the big A list celebrity names is like they’ve really do it.

But it was interesting to see someone who didn’t have the true limelight of an A list celebrity, but is still able to look back in his career where he got what he’s done and be happy with it.

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The Shark Deck. Leanne Morgan’s having a bit of a moment time Johnny mac with Your Daily Comedy News. Leanne spoke to NPR about calling herself the missus Mazel of Appalachia. Leanne said, comedy is hard. It’s a hard business.

I resonated with that character because she was fearless and she had those babies and her husband was a ding dong. My husband’s not at ding dong. But she overcame so much and kept going, and men would say, oh, women aren’t funny, and all that kind of stuff and trying to sabotage her. I’ve been through all that. When young people ask me, do you think I should do stand up?

I don’t want to squash somebody’s dreams, but it’s hard for me as a mother not to say, listen, you’re going to be driving in a car for three hundred miles to make fifty dollars and you won’t have a hotel room. I mean, it’s a hard, hard business. When I saw that series, I thought that’s what I did. I had three babies, I was in the Appalachian Mountains. I didn’t have a comedy club near me, and I just had to pave out another way than the traditional way that people do stand up and I did.

I don’t know how I did, but I did. Leanne talked about four sitcom deals that fell through. She said, I’d be devastated at the time, but those little nuggets would give me the encouragement to keep going. For one thing, because I was in Knoxville, not living in LA or New York. I was raising these children.

I got to raise them in Knoxville, Tennessee, and they became who they’re supposed to be. If I’d gone to LA, they probably wouldn’t be who they are, and I’d be devastated when the series fell through. But then it always kept me encouraged, like I’ve got something. I know, I’m not crazy, I can do this. She ignored her ex husband when he advised her to get rid of her Tennessee accent.

Lean said her X said, your accent in your diction You need diction lessons. People are making fun of you. People think you’re stupid. And I remember at the time, I don’t know how I had the sense to think, now you’re wrong, and I didn’t change anything I could have. I had pretty low self esteem and I was pretty beaten down at the time, but I felt like, you’re not going to change me.

This is who I am. Either like it or you don’t. It’s okay if you don’t. A lot of Jim Gaffigan pressed this month. This one from Variety.

Jim was talking about when it was up for a role in m knights Chamalan’s two thousand and six Lady in the Water. Jim said, it came down to me and another guy, and the other guy got it. But a week later I got the call that Knight wanted to reshoot the scene and do it with Jim Gaffigan. It was just one day, but Jim was like, great, I’m gonna be in an m Night movie. So the story goes and he takes his kids to a movie and he saw commercial that Jim was in before the previews, and Jim said, I think Us for Sierra missed And he said, well, I can’t have the same guy being a commercial before my movie.

So they went back and swapped the other guy back in great story, Jim, do you really not remember what soda commercial you’re in? I’m pretty sure you know what soda commercial you were in. I don’t like when they play coy like that. I mean, seriously, is it for the other soda commercial you were in? Jim?

Jim’s ad ran during the Super Bowl? Okay, Jim, so let’s stop pretending. Oh, is it really? Was it the Sierra Missed Dandy? So Jim, come on, dude.

The Super Bowl ad. It features Jim Gaffigan with a long beer that’s combed over across his bald head. Gaffigan portrays an unruly employee named Ted who’s being fired by his boss because his decision making abilities are being reanalyzed due to his choice to wear a comb over a hairstyle. Jim’s quote again, I think it was for Sierra Missed Jim. It was a Super Bowl commercial.

You damn well know what it was for. Call me back, dude. Neil Brennan spoke to the LA Times and said, I don’t think I would have succeeded as much without the EMO stuff, But the brand new Neal tour isn’t emo at all. I have to make an announcement at the beginning of each show now because I did a show in DC a couple of months ago and a kid dm me and was like, dude, I was waiting for the whole show for the real you to arrive, and I wrote back, So you’re saying I wasn’t sad enough. So I have to tell people at the beginning of my set that if they need me to be sad, I have some horrible news.

Some people might want to see me be sad, but I’m not gonna fake it. Ali Wong had a sweet burn on me when I was doing my Block special. There was a five thirty show and an eight but no late show, and Ali said, you know why there’s no late show because all your fans are depressed enough to go to sleep early. Neil Brandon said comedy now has fewer gatekeepers and an almost infinite amount of gates in some ways, the YouTube algorithm and the Instagram algorithm and the bookers now, but it still favors the same stuff. It’s about having a sticky premise and memorable jokes.

You have to be way faster. People in my generation will release specials and it’s like, oh dude, all those premises were done six months ago, you know. Brandon talked about cancelation and said the only people get canceled, and they’re not even totally canceled, more like reduced. Were the people who did vaguely illegal sex things. No one has been hindered by the material.

Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan are both still doing arenas. I know like twelve people who do arenas, which is insane. Cancel culture is just a matter of eyeballs. If you get to Dave size or Joe size, there are so many eyeballs on you that someone’s gonna have a problem with you. You just have to hire more security guards.

I know that someone’s more likely to heckle you when there’s sixteen thousand people in an arena. Adam Devine was on Theo Vaughan’s podcast. He floated the notion that Marvel movies have destroyed Hollywood comedies. Divine said, you watch comedies nowadays and you’re like, this is not a comedy where the jokes where the bits. They’re still good comedy shows, but movie comedy, it’s hard.

My theory, I think Marvel ruined it. I feel like superhero movies ruined comedies because you go to a theater and you expect to watch something that cost two hundred million dollars to make, and comedy movies aren’t that. So you’re like, why would I spend the same amount of money to go watch a little comedy theater. If I could spend that and watch something that’s worth two hundred million dollars, and it’ll still make those movies kind of funny, like, oh my god, is it that a raccoon talking? That’s hilarious, which it is, but it’s not a real comedy, Divine said.

Every studio used to put out several comedies a year, and there were like forty five comedies in the theater per year. So every week or so, there’s a new comedy in the theaters. That last year there was like six or seven. It’s crazy. Joe Lysatt shared a joke portrait of Harry Styles and says Harry reached out to buy it immediately.

People magazine says back in twenty twenty two, Harry Styles had his portrait painted by famed artist David Hockney at the eighty six year old English painter Studio in Normandy, France. Apparently, Hockney once sold something for ninety million dollars, the most expensive work by living artist ever sold that auction at the time. Yikes. After Hackney’s portrait of Styles was revealed, Lysa drew a hilarious replic of the work, which features Harry Style sitting down on a chair in blue jeans, a red and yellow striped cardigan and a strand of pearls. Joe said on social media a few months ago, I was contacted by management for Harry Styles asking whether I would consider doing his portrait.

I didn’t really know of his celebrity at the time, so I said yes, but I wish I hadn’t because the whole thing’s been a disaster. He came to my home and sat for two days, and I only spent about twenty minutes on the picture in the end because I had an issue with my fridge freezer and added to frost and I realized there were some diced goat going off, so I made a curry. Joe said he thought he did a good job with the pick, but his management were quite cross and one of them said it’s Harry Styles, not Jeremy Beadle’s face with an egg. Harry just awkwardly kept saying was unhonored to meet me while not eating his curry. Joe that shared a social media exchange that supposedly is from Harry Style’s Instagram account, in which Harry supposedly writes, I think it’s incredibly important that I purchased this portrait from you.

If you’d ever consider parting with this masterpiece, I’d like to hang out my home immediately. Hope you’ve been well. H Joe says he’ll sell it for about ten bucks. Style’s account appears to respond with an offer of six British bands, which is around eight dollars. They eventually agreed that was a fair price.

Who Knows. Insider caught up with David Keckner talking about how some of David’s best known roles are very damaged people. David said, you can’t play them like you hate them. You must play them for whatever joy you think is happening. So my job is to show that this is the wrong behavior while you’re celebrating it away.

This is the wrong guy. They should not hold up as anything but a caustic, horrible individual. Keckner actually studied political science at the University of Missouri think he might become a politician and says, then I realized about the third year in oh, I’m not gonna make it because this is a different ballgame. I didn’t realize it’s about accumulating power and ego, so I was a bit disillusioned. He enjoys writing because there’s immediate feedback from the audience.

I just found a whole new twelve minutes because my daughters and I took a manatezee and dolphins tour in Naples, Florida, and who was not one manate see nor dolphin to be found. If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News through a couple of bucks in the chip jar. I will take your money. I don’t buy coffee. I’m not going to buy any of this new Eddie Iszard Gin.

Yes, Eddie Iszard has put her name to a brand new Gin and a bit to raise money for the Edinburgh Fringe. Now, I’m all in favor of raising money for the Edinburgh Fringe, but I don’t drink gin. So buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News Eddie Iszar at Edinburgh Fringe. Gin will consist of twenty four hundred bottles of Edinburgh Gin. It’s expected to fly off the shelves, they say, priced at thirty five pounds.

All profits from the sale to GIN will go to support artists hoping to perform it next year’s festival. Eddie says this means a lot to me as I’ve performed in different languages, acted in a lot of films, and run multiple marathons despite many setbacks. But I know a thing is possible if you believe. She hopes the funds raise will give others an opportunity to bring to life their own self belief on the stage at the Career to Finding Edinburgh Fringe Festival. One of the shows you’ll find at Edinburgh is Louise Young’s Fearal Yah, who says her experiences as a gay, working class Turkish Jordy are rich pickings for comic of her natural wit and invention, while her boundless on stage enthusiasm is infectious.

You’ll find her at Pleasant’s Courtyard Elliott’s. Steele’s show is called Love and Hate Speech, Yeah Who says Steele has always excelled at picking at taboo subjects and finding a smart, funny way to dissect the hypocrisies therein, but he’s never been quite this good. It’s like he’s found another level to make his brand of mischievous social commentary even more piercing and impossible to ignore. You’ll find him at Underbelly and that is your comedy needs for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube.

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The shark Deck Deadline with a big profile of Matt Rife. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The headline how comedian Matt Rife bulldoff stratospheric rise from pandemic era pickup truck stand up to a sold out global tour with live Nation deadline rights two months ago when Matt Rife announced his problematic world tour with a Live Nation, seems like Live Nations getting a lot of plugs In this one deadline, he moved around six hundred thousand tickets over the span of just forty eight hours, experiencing the culmination of twelve long years on the road. Remarkably, this was just the artist pre sale, with Rife ultimately going on to sell seven hundred and twenty thousand plus tickets to three hundred shows, including eight back to back at the Chicago Theater, six at Radio City Music Hall four, and Mohegan’s Son in Connecticut. Not bad.

Deadline points out Rife as recently as the summer prior, had struggled to sell even one hundred tickets a show. After COVID, Rife would double down by self financing and distributing his first pair of specialsch is the one of his TikTok clips that went viral and he began getting his name into the zeitgeist. Titled the Lazy Hero Rices, viral TikTok led him down the path to sixteen point three million followers and more than a billion global views on just that one platform. Matt Tell’s Deadline, it feels completely unreal, like half a dream come true and half of a one off. It feels like we’re going to be back in the back of my apartment complex in like six months trying to sell seventy tickets.

And I think that’s just because of how inconsistent the business is. We all got through jumps in our career that we’re like, oh, this is gonna be the thing. I’m gonna be fine from here on out. Then you have to start all over again. So it’s exciting, and I’m trying to remind myself to enjoy every moment.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that most people don’t get, so enjoy it, but work on maintaining it. Deadline said, we knew you were hitting the zeitgeist when you started getting reference on some of the bigger podcasts. Rife said, I don’t listen to or watch any podcasts at all except maybe Rogan. What’s funny is I do get a lot of text or dms from other comics or friends being like, hey, so and Sal’s talking about you on this thing. Did you hear?

And I’m like, nope, I don’t really care if it’s positive or negative. I’m sure it’s a strong mix of both. And I get a lot of really cool random calls, like Amy Schumer called me just to say she thinks I’m amazing and that she’s in my corner if I ever need advice or anything, which is so kind.

And then I’ll hear somebody’s talking crap on their podcast about how I don’t…

It’s nothing I haven’t heard for the past ten years living in La Deadline points out comedians often seem to be tough on those coming up, making you prove yourself before being invited into the club. Matt said, it’s a dream come true. You work so long in the industry for the respect of your peers. You want to be allowed to that elite group of comedian peers. So Chappelle Camp was kind of my first experience of that where he’s my idol.

There’s nobody I look up to and stand up more than Dave Chappelle. So for somebody like that’s offered me to not just perform with them, but enter his home, for him to be so hospitable and take care of my friends and my family and my girlfriend and be genuinely excited when I walk in a room, Like would walk into an afterparty, me and my girlfriend and would get up on a microphone and Dave would get up on a microphone and be like, Matt rives here, what’s up? Matt. He treated me like an equal rather than somebody who was mentoring, rather than somebody who he was put onto by somebody else, and he was just being cordial. He treated me like a real friend and colleague and gave me advice that I can only imagine was intended for me to someday reach his level and help navigate those trenches.

So I’ve just been so grateful and it’s exciting to be respected. Isn’t that cool? Chappelle sounds like an awesome guy. Never met Dave. Michelle Wolf talked to Westworld.

Michelle says, I don’t think there’s a good feminist. I think the best thing you can do is try to be the best version of yourself as a human. I’d be your authentic self.

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Also, just embrace being a woman, embraced the women around you, and realized…

She talked about starting out in comedy. I moved to New York because I wanted to get a job that would make money to be perfectly honest, and Wall Street seemed like the place to do that. I got a job on Wall Street, and a few months later, in two thousand and eight, the market crashed and the company imploded, which I swear I had nothing to do with. Around that same time, I had signed up for an improv class, and I really liked the class. That whole world was crazy and angry, but improv was really fun.

I just loved doing it. I was trying to do it every night after working all day. Eventually I got an opportunity to work at this tech firm that would allow me to have a bit more free time at night, and that’s when I started doing stand up. It was slow and painful, because I really hate this pointing people was it very hard for me to do. It was a fantastic company, but I knew if they fired me, they’d give me a severance package.

I took advantage of them, which I don’t feel about corporations take advantage of people all the time. I was able to get severance, and with my savings, I was able to live and pursue comedy in New York for a year. Within that year, I got hired at Late Night with Seth Myers, which she says it’s a cerebral first job because they are the best bosses you’ll ever have. Late Night was wonderful because it’s a show that happens Monday through Thursday, which forced me to write jokes every day, even when I didn’t want to. It was also good because the jokes that wouldn’t work for seth monologue I could sometimes turn into stand up jokes for myself.

Seth was very encouraging me and continue to do stand up as much as I could, and it was the first time I’d really been on camera. Late Night just had a wonderful family atmosphere and really helped me become the comedian and performer I Am Today, Michelle says the Daily Show was interesting because at late night, we were starting from ground zero, but Trevor was trying to fit into a machine that was already working and trying to figure out what his version of the show was Seth was making his own show from the bottom up, so I got to participate in that. Then moving over to the Daily Show was a show that already existed for a long time with a brand new host. I think it was a bit of a struggle, but also fun because you’re trying to see what the voice of the new show is. I’m not sure Trevor actually got to do exactly what he wanted to do.

If they continue and pick a new host for the Daily Show, would be nice to see somebody with a really strong point of view take over and really make the show their own. It’s really hard with social media now because the Daily shows on at eleven thirty night and everybody’s already had to take on the news for the day, So you need someone who’s going to have something surprising to say at the end of the day that you haven’t heard or seen before. I hope that they find someone who is able to do that and breathe fresh life into the Daily Show. I think it’s a valuable piece of entertainment slash news. Both sides tend to be wrong and show news from a very biased perspective.

I’d love to see The Daily Show continue to point that out. Isn’t the Daily Show on at eleven? I’m not being difficult, but it’s on at eleven, right, And then the other thing was on at eleven thirty, wasn’t it? I don’t know. Salon talked to Jim Gaffigan about being the clean guy, and Jim said, the entertainment industry is perception.

In a lot of ways. You don’t have control over that. In a lot of ways, it’s not your business. I remember initially being resistant to being known as the clean comedian, just because the only adjective that really matters would stand up is funny. On special, I had five minutes on cancer and people were like, he’s still clean.

He talks about food. You don’t have control over what people will take away or what people will assign you. It’s a strange thing where I go with the flow. I’ve had numerous acting roles, yet with every acting project, people are always like, what’s it like to be an actor. These are intelligent people that I’ve seen my IMDb page.

But in their perception, I’m a guy who only tells jokes about food. Doesn’t bother me. And it’s not an indication of somebody not doing their research. It’s just the perception. If you enjoin you what I do here, Why don’t you pop on over to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

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Ali Sadiq talked about self releasing and owning his own material. He spoke with Salon and said, you know, I always wish that these were very complex things, like it was a bunch of real thought. I knew it with me. I posted a clip of me on Comedy Central on Instagram and I got flagged for copyright infringement. I was like, wait a minute, I can’t promote that I have this special on your network.

I can’t do that. Then with Instagram, you know what, if anybody you can call and say, hey, yo, this is me. With Facebook, it’s not a phone call, which is irritating that you can just say, this is actually my work, this is who I am. It’s like going to the tow truck place where they tell your car and you walk in. You’re like, hey, do you have a Burgundy Lexus in here?

And they say, how do we know it’s you, to which Ali says, Who’s going to be going around to random places asking for a Burgundy Lexus with all my stuff inside of it? At the Fringe, Christopher MacArthur Boyd’s show is called Scary Times. MacArthur Boyd beams knowingly on stage, says Yahoo like he’s about to confide in the world’s dirtiest secret. He not so much tells you a joke as accent out Like all the best comics, he exus the pale intimacy of a devilish, ey witty best mate. You’ll find him at Monkey Barrel Comedy at the Tron.

Mark Watson has poked fun at the debate surrounding comedians posting about their sports crowds at Edinburgh Fringe. The debate began when Georgie Greer shared a photo of herself crying after just one person showed up to her first performance, Watson poked fun at the whole thing. He posted an empty crowd at his own show, writing a bit of a disappointed crowd tonight, but we’ll have fun. Many believed he was being serious, but he was quick to point out the photo was taken twenty minutes before his show, which was actually sold out. Mark Watson played to three hundred strong.

He said, not everybody got the jokes. I should make it clear this was taken before the show. This was a joke that people horrifyingly took seriously. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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