Month: September 2023

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Denver Post asked, is TikTok focused crowd work ruining stand up comedy? Yes, and that’s your comedy news for you. No, I’m kidding.

I have more to say about that, but the short answer. Yes. There was a discussion at the High Plains Comedy Festival. Karen Watchell is the festival’s executive producer. She told the Post crowd work is something some comedians do very well and even based entire tours slash careers on.

But as comics have felt more pressure to build their online presences, crowd work seems to be a necessary piece, sometimes evil, even for comedians who have mostly avoided CrowdWork in their natural style. I have a pet peeve for you. I’m sure if you’ve been on YouTube, you see comedian Destroys Hitler and there’s it’s just like I guess, I guess. Sam Talent said, it has ruined talking to the crowd. Now everyone thinks you’re trying to get a viral clip, and that translates to either people giving you propostress answers to any kind of interaction answers they think will help the comedian, or even worse, answers they think are funny.

Our phones are ruining our memories. Jane Burns says she’s come around the crowd work as it’s gain traction online. She said, lately, I asked for moms. Then I ask motherhood related questions that are not too broad, so I can leave that interaction and easily jump back into my set. The Dinver Post points out comedians who avoid crowd work are often afraid it will devolve into a messy back and forth and which audiences start to think they’re the ones telling the jokes.

Nathan Lund said it can derail the set, can make someone think they should continue to interact after I’ve moved on, which can be awkward. If the crowd members drunk, it can get annoying to be interrupted, and then I have to shut them down. That can destroy momentum or create tension. Now let me jump in here. I’m gonna throw out some names.

Remember George Carlin’s crowd work. Remember Richard Pryor’s crowd work, Mitch Hedberg’s crowd work, Sam Kinison’s crowd work, Jeff Foxworthy’s crowd work, Bill Burr’s crowd work. Gary Goldman’s crowd work. You get the point, yeah, Dave Chappelle’s crowd work right, yes. Comedian Destroys Hicklerer Stop Josh Blue said, my general instinct is to go right at someone heckling or causing a problem.

If you make yourself a nuisance, I’m going to come right for you and verbally eviscerate you. Each case is so different that there’s not one answer for every situation, but for the most part, seek and destroy good stuff too much with the crowd work From The Guardian. Comedian Kate Smurthweight posted a video titled brand Awareness, and she said the allegations against Russell Brand were quote nowhere near scratching the surface. Continuing to quote her, I could probably, personally from my own experience, name fifteen to twenty people who have behaved inappropriately with me, and if I then included other women in comedy and the stories that they’ve told me, we could easily get that to one hundred to one hundred and fifty. There are so many others, and I know some people will say, well, tell us the other names, but no, I’ve done it before.

I’ve described these incidents, and people don’t hear me. They don’t believe me. They say, that’s a very serious allegation. I hope you’ve taken it to the police, and ultimately I lose work and I can’t do that over and over again. Hazel O’Keefe is a comedy promoter who founded Laughing Cow’s Comedy.

Hazel says that was a response to asking comedy bookers and promoters why there was never more than one female on the bill and their response, now time out. You know, sometimes you hear while there aren’t a lot of women comedians, or women aren’t funny. None of that was this answer. This answer was I wouldn’t take that risk. Wow.

O’Keefe said. A lot has changed since then when she founded Laughing Cows in nineteen ninety eight, but we’re still nowhere near where we need to be. The nature of the live comedy industry means that comics are often working in isolation and under extremely sexist environments. Professional interactions are often sexualized, but it’s often very difficult report due to power dynamics and the risk of losing work and being further isolated from the comedy scene. Vulture spoke with Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford and a partner and Unsurela altogether.

They all put out books recently and a very interesting discussion. Bamford said, I don’t know if you guys had this when a famous person texts you and says, can you do this thing? And there’s no mention of money, and you go what. I just find it ongoingly bizarre. I find it very interesting, not only in comedy but in the world where just like people don’t pay people a living wage.

Goldman said, I do think sometimes where the celebrity invites you and never mentions pay, then I’m looking back on it and I’m like, oh, but I did get the opportunity to be snubbed by Adam Driver in the green room, and Bill Murray took a picture with my wife, So was that worth it? I don’t know. I just feel terrible about myself. You watched my show and now you’re snubbing me. Sounds pretty uncool.

Adam Driver. I’ve met Gary a few times. If he’s calling out Adam Driver specifically, I’m inclined to think that actually happened. Barnes said, I did a show recently. The famous person asked me too.

There was no mention of money, and I think. For months, I was so mad about it and was like, he has so much money, why didn’t he just pay us? Then months later I saw it was for charity, but nobody tell me Bamford. Here’s my argument. Even if it is for charity, if it’s produced by somebody who has a ton of money, pay the performers, especially if it’s not going to be combat performance, which is what benefits always are.

Where people are in a hostage situation for three hours and suddenly you find yourself trapped watching a dance on behalf of Parkinson’s Stop, let’s stop it. It’s a gig. It’s legitimate work. Bamford. When somebody says something’s a benefit, I just go.

I’d like to give money instead. Tracy Morgan told the Press Enterprise the other day someone asked him if he would go into space? Well would he? Tracy said? Why would I go to space?

Why would I want to go down to the ocean into submarine? Why would I want to go see the Titanic? Do you know how many people died on the Titanic. There are people who like go to graveyards at picnic. Why do you want to lunch with dead people?

You’re a weirdo. It is the final day of Just for Laughs, Toronto. I’m going to miss this one. I like this here Tonight show seven o’clock, River Butcher, Second City, Colin Quinn at seven, Rory Scoville, Katherine Cohen. Good, line up there.

At eight o’clock, I Love Toronto. Jess Tom’s Less Lonely Beer, Beer Comedy, Saturday Night Satire, mart There Chavez in concert, Best of Absolute Comedy, and Andrew Schultz at eight. Johnny, you’re gonna pick Andrew Schultz. You just did five minutes hating on crowd work. I know, right, hypocrite time.

We’ll see what John picks in a minute. Nine o’clock Joey On, Nicole Johnson, Robbie Hoffman, Colin Quinn. Oh good, that’s going to free up one of my decisions. At seven at Sydney Washington. Nine thirty Joanne McNally, Marlon Wayne’s ten o’clock Saturday Night Sets Hire, one of those double threats, This one with Mattie Kelly and Charles Haycock, Second City Again, ten thirty, Best of Absolute Comedy.

Off the Clock with Tamara Chavan and Bria Hibert. Eleven o’clock a late night surprise and Robbie Hoffman. All right, what should we do tonight? Seven o’clock Rory Scovell. Haven’t seen Rory.

At eight o’clock Andrew Schultz, John, you did five minutes about hating on crowd work, and now we’re going to see Andrew Schultz. Yep, can I tell you? I don’t know. I feel like Schultz is really good at working the crowd. But I feel like he’s working the crowd and not just doing it to go viral, if you know what I mean.

I don’t feel like he’s doing just commu destroy Chuckler. I feel like that’s work to his I don’t know. I know it when I see it. Andrew Schultz. Very funny.

Let’s go there at nine o’clock, Colin Quinn. At ten o’clock, when do Saturday Night sat Sire see Canada’s honest comics at Toronto’s coolest indie comedy Club. They’ll post the comedians that day. All right, Yeah, we could do that. That might be a bit of a come down after we just saw some pretty heavy hitters.

And then eleven o’clock. I’ll stay up late with this since it’s the last night let’s find out what late night surprise winds up being. And that is your comedy needs for today. Tell a friend about the show. He’d be like, Hey, there’s this guy and he went on and on about crowd work and then he told us to go to a crowd work show.

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Chennymac with your Daily Comedy News. This one from the New York Post has cracked me up. Outside Back to comedy pretty quickly. But the Beacon Theater in New York City has put up a list of twenty items it forbids, including cowbells, hoverboards, bats, clubs, and clothes.

Christa Stephano told the Post clothing. I hope they have plastic covers for the seats. I’ve shows at Radio City in Madison Square Garden. We’re allowing clothes and cowbells. He said.

The sign looks like it should be outside Riker’s Island. I’m looking at the sign here on the New York Post website. I had his zone in if you are curious. The prohibited items are weapons, aerosol cans, fireworks, mace, cameras, audio visual recording devices, drones. You can’t bring a drone into the Beacon, tripods, poles outside, food or beverages, alcohol, illegal substances, bats and clubs, beach balls, frisbees, hoverboards or skateboards, strollers, bottles, bags, clothing.

It actually says clothing. I’m looking at it. It’s an icon of like a T shirt signs, banners and flags, horns and cowbells, no cowbell. A spokesperson for Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Beacon, thanked the Post for bringing it to their attention. A spokesperson said, Wow, that was clearly a mistake.

Clothing is definitely permitted. I love that story so much. Sam Morrell was on the Creative Control podcast. Both those words start with the letter K. As you know.

Sam was telling a story about joking with his parents. We had lunch and I said to my parents, you know, I really got in the stand up because I was kind of an f up and thought it was an easy way to drink for free, and I like jokes.

And then I realized how hard I had to work if I wanted to be a successful com…

I didn’t want to fail at this because I really love it. Sam said. A guy he looked up to was John Mulaney. He was doing the road and he would see him going up at some clubs, but he could also be an alternative room guy. He just had the chops to work anywhere.

He was so young and honed and articulate and funny. He just felt like a pro and to me that was cool. Look. I saw him at the Comedy Seller one night, right after I bombed a corporate event, and he’s like, Sam, how you been, And I said, oh, I just ate it. At this event, Mulaney said, I hate that.

Let’s get a booth. And it’s such a comic instinct. He saw that it was a little rattled and was just trying to make me laugh. Be nice, and he’s like, genuinely nice. Sam was asked about the reception of Mulaney changing you know, the substance abuse and the divorce and all that, and Morrell said, I thought, get a life, what are you doing.

I mean, they don’t realize our bond as comedians just runs deep. So my instinct is to side with a comedian. Of course, there’s cases like, look, I’m not going to have Bill Cosby drop in, But you don’t understand if this bond runs deep, it’s complicated. But also Dave Chappelle is a great comedian. I don’t understand.

He may touch on topics you don’t like, but this guy as a comedy legend, where you like it or not. Las Vegas Weekly he talked to Toom Sagora. Some of the day Segura’s a tour are called Tom Segora trying new material, and The Weekly was curious why he would advertise shows like that. Segura said, I like people to know what they’re going to People like stand up. I think it’s fun.

I’ve been doing things for last month, and it’s to say this is a stage where you’re not going to see somebody go up there and say I don’t know what to talk about. It’s a stage where the thing is taking form. And if you’re a person who likes stand up and you see it now and you see it later, you’ll be like, oh okay. In a year, it’ll be super polish where you’re trimmed the fat. But the fun thing about the shows right now is I’ll try something different.

I’ll try a different punchline Thursday, Friday and Saturday because I’m figuring out what’s the best for it, and I think for comedy fans that’s a fun thing to do. So I’m basically just informing the audience that you’re going to see experiments in addition to things that are really working really well. The Press Enterprise asked Tracy Morgan about his newest material and does he ever notice things that he found funny before he no longer finds funny. Tracy said, absolutely. You know you’re grown.

You’re not a child. You’re same things from a different perspective. If you do the same things you did when you were seventeen in your fifties, you’ve wasted thirty years. You have to grow. You see things like love, heartbreak, and all those other things that humans go through from a different perspective as you get older.

I think of things in my own way. I smell things in my own way. I hear things in my own way. Everybody has a different way of seeing and hearing things. I express myself and that’s all I’m doing.

Sense of humor is the highest form of intelligence on the planet. That’s why God gave it to me. My sense of humor helped me get through my heartbreak, pain and suffering. That helped me get through it. You’ll cry if you don’t laugh about it, and I’m done crying.

Vulture was talking to Gary Goman as part of that interview. Maria Bamford was there. They were talking about crowd work. I’ll have a lot to say about crowd work on tomorrow’s podcast, Gary Goleman said, I know. Maria Bamford said, she and miners crowd work.

It’s awful. It’s so easy. And if I was in the audience as somebody asked me what I did for work, I’d stand up and scream, what do you do for work? I gave me here to hear jokes that can be enjoyed as forms of art. Of course, there are two three people who do it well, and the rest of them are just doing a photocopy of a photocopy of the people who do it well.

Amen on that, Gary, Amen, I think they should give the audience their money back if they don’t do any of the jokes that they pre wrote.

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Also, crowd work is not that hard, and it’s always men, and they do it six sh…

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On a Friday night, JFL Toronto Great Festival, The Seven o’clock Shows, Colin Quinn, jess Tom Second City, Jessica Curson, Sidney Washington, Graham Kay. Eight o’clock Andrew Schultz, I Love Toronto, New Jokes, Who dis Don’t Tell Baba, Martinobrono, The Stupid Good Comedy Show, and Fan Funny Fridays. I’m gonna have to do some research on those. Eight thirty The Women of Comedy, nine o’clock, River Butcher, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Double Threat, Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock. Best of Absolute Comedy, nine thirty, Rory Scovel, Geekly Squad Live, ten o’clock, Joel Nicole Johnson, ten thirty, Yrhood’s a Joke eleven o’clock, Low Key, eleven thirty, After Hours, eleven fifty nine, Late Bad.

What should we see tonight? Now? I’ve recorded out of sequence, so I know that in the future I’m gonna go, like, Hey, let’s go see Colin Quinn. So it’s seven o’clock you wanna do? Jessica Curson or Who’s Graham Kay?

An award winning stand up comedian, actor, and TV writer. Graham Kay has been described as sarcastic and brilliantly funny. Warden raised Innawa, Graham lives in Brooklyn. Let’s go see Graham k I like seeing something new. I feel like I have a handle on what Jessica does.

Eight o’clock. I have a feeling tomorrow I’m going to tell you, let’s go see Andrew Schultz. Let’s pick something else. Don’t tell Baba’s a monthly queer comedy charity show hosted by two Arab immigrants, featuring a mix of Toronto’s top and upcoming stand up comedians. All ticket sale profits go to local charities.

Five comedians plus the two hosts on the bill. And it’s at the Tall Boys Craft beer House. Let’s do that. That’s just different. Plus we can grab some beverages.

All right, that’s the eight o’clock show. Nine o’clock, I have a feeling in the future we’re gonna go see River Butchers. So let’s do the Double Threat and our ten o’clock show will be Joel Nicole Johnson, and then the late shows. As you’ve heard me say all week, I get tired, I’m going to bed. You can do a late show, but say Elane is at the Chicago Theater tonight.

He warned his new husband, Rodrigo about the show because it’s the first time he’s met Lane’s family since they got married in August, and it’s Rodrigo’s first visit to Chicago, Lane says. Rodrigo says he’s prepared, but I don’t think he is. I’m so excited to show him the city, my school, Downtown, hit up my old haunts. I love Chicago so much. I need to live in New York because it’s where I can do my best work.

But Chicago is a special place. Mattaye Lane says, I love comedians because they’re just brutally honest. They just tell you tor face. You would think that would be such a harsh way of hearing things, but I think it’s a queer person growing up and being made fun of in high school. It’s a very healing thing for me.

I’ve never felt more connected in any community that I’m part of, Italian gay whatever. I’m the most connected with stand up comedians. Chelsea Handler’s Little Big Bitch Store kicks off New York City tonight and tomorrow, then DC Durham, LA bunch of other places. She finishes up in Feckerville, Oklahoma on December fifteenth, And I hear my voice giving out. I recorded four episodes of five Good News Stories.

That’s a podcast I do where I tell you five stories and they’re all good news. I did five of those. I finish up the live one show for the week, and then I recorded Thursday’s podcast, Sunday’s podcast, and now Today’s podcast, back to back to back. Why did you do Friday early? CHUNNYMC nineteen miler training run that I mentioned earlier in the podcast?

That takes you know, I don’t know how fast do you think I am? That takes three plus hours, my friends, and then I’m kind of tired, so I recorded Friday a little early. Thank you for listening every day. It’s a lot of fun for me to do. Tell a friend about it, maybe they’ll like it too.

And you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wh if you get your shows. My voice is shut. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigoria wants you to shove your junk into his glory hole. No no, no, no, Relax, Relax, relax. It’s for Liquid Death.

It’s an informercial spoof. It was created by the Canned Water brand to encourage you to recycle. You can now purchase a Tom Sigora recycling glory Hole. It’s a three foot tall box with a cutout where Sigora’s mouth is. It’s large enough to easily accommodate empty aluminum containers, but Sagora says don’t toss in plastic because plastic isn’t actually recyclable.

Five percent of it gets sent right to landfills. Now, if you’d like a Tom Sigora glory Hole, it costs fifty eight dollars. Andy Pearson is Liquid Death’s VP of Creative I like Andy, Andy said, we all grew up with messaging about how important it is to recycle. But there’s also something important we’re missing in that lesson, which is to waste less. Single use plastics like plastic bottles are endemic to our modern world.

What we want to do with this video and the entire brand is to get people to stop and think critically about their choices, and of course the best way to do that humor at it. Sagora react when he was pitched. We read him the title and he stopped us and said, yep, that’s it. If you are not familiar with the juxtaposition of the words whole and glory, don’t google it. Rob Schneider has canceled a trip to Canada.

I don’t know if you saw this story. Last week, a Ukrainian veteran was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons. Okay, what’s the issue? While the Ukrainian veteran fought against the Russians? Okay, what’s the issue?

He fought against the Russians during the Second World War. Who fought against the Russians in the Second World War? The Nazis, that’s who. Once everybody put that together, didn’t go over so well. How Speaker Anthony Rhoda resigned, expressing profound regret from my error.

Right, enough with that About the Rob Schneider part. Schneider posted on social media, this guy fought for Hitler, not like we call people Hitler today, the Hitler like an actual aid off Hitler. Dallas News caught up with Ralph Barbosu said, you never know how people are going to react to what you say. You might have an idea, but I think it’s a comedian. You should be allowed to at least have the attempt to say whatever is you want to say, as long as your first priority is that it’s going to be funny.

So I think a lot of time people could tell when you’re trying to be funny and when you’re just trying to be mean. Now, I think if you’re saying a joke is a comic and you’ve done it four or five times on the road, you can tell if it’s rubbing people the wrong way. Then you shouldn’t know what you’re getting into. Don’t hide behind the stage if people are getting angry. I mean, I think people have the right to come kick your ass every now and then.

I don’t think people should be canceled, But I also don’t think the comics should take advantage of the stage. My number one thing is always remember my point is to be funny. I’m not outdire to leave a message or to offend or anything. I just find something funny. In my special I make jokes about water, like people just drink water because I just find something funny in there.

So when I do talk about guns or politics, it’s not because I feel like, oh yeah, I’m gonna offend somebody or anything like that. It’s just out of like what I saw funny in it. Now I few people were offended by it, and you want to cancel me, do what you want to do. I also, if you’re funny or people like what you’re saying, you can never truly get canceled. You can only get rid of fans who now know more about you.

Will There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Now that the writer strike is over. Drew Carey had been covering the cost of meals tip included for card carrying WGA members at two restaurants. It’s May twentieth, Drew now tweeted, Yo, WGA West members, congrats. If the strike is officially over, you have until midnights.

Have one last meal at Bob’s Big Boy or Swingers. Go celebrate love y’all. Media reports suggested Drew’s bill was ten thousand dollars a week at Swingers alone. The strike is over, so Bill Moore’s show is back. It’ll be back this Friday, Mare tweeted my writers in real timer back see your Friday Night.

We’ll see what this means for the Strike Force five podcast. I assume it will come to an end. On a recent episode, Jimmy Fallon said after he left s al in two thousand and four, he wanted to pursue a career in acting in movies. Lauren Michael’s contacted Fallon ask him if he’d ever want to do Late Night. Remember there was ida where Conan was going to take over the Tonight Show in like five years and then eventually did so, there was like a five year gap where like Conan O’Brien was on deck.

Lauren said, would you ever want to do a talk show? Fallon recalled, no, I don’t know, I don’t think so, and six years asked me if I’m around, I’ll think about it. Well, Lauren Michaels did follow up. Fallen said he consulted with his wife, who said, you have to take this job. You’re one of three human beings ever to do this.

So I call Lauren and I go, I’m in. I’d love to do it, and Lauren goes, great, NBC doesn’t really want you, but I have to talk to them. I’m not even on their list. By the way, Michael steps in and went to bad for Falon, telling NBC either you do this with Jimmy or I’m not involved, or something like that. According to Jimmy Fallon Seth Myers said that Late Night wasn’t on his radar either, something that he wanted to do in his future.

He came across a New York Post story that said he was one of the rumored replacements for Jimmy Fallon. Said Lauren Michaels then called him Meyer’s joke. When you talk to Lauren, it often feels like a follow up call to a conversation that never happened. He just started saying, you know, I think you’ll do it, and it’d be good. I’ll take time, but you’ll have Jimmy as a lade in.

There was no moment when anybody ever said to me, would you like to host the show? Tomorrow is National Coffee Day, so if you’d like to support the show, A great way to support the show is go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News and for National Coffee Day, I will take your donation and I will go to the National Donuts chain and I will get a large ice coffee with caramel and skim milk, and I will thank you on the show, but not until next week because I prerecord the weekends. You know, that’s how it works. Buy Meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey, I’m excited about a new project I’m working on.

It is called ghost So in October we’re doing thirty one ghost Stories in thirty one days. It’s a podcast. I’ll just search for ghost scary Stories daily, ghost Scary Stories daily. It’s actually a sneak preview up. That’s pretty cool.

I did listen to Mark Marin with Chevy Chase all that community stuff. It was like maybe a minute. I didn’t clock it, but it was not like Chevy one on community for an hour. He clearly just didn’t want to talk about it. I feel like Marin had to edit a lot of that down.

I’m not sure. It just felt like maybe even Chevy stepped out of the room a few times. I thought, I don’t know, but it wasn’t that bad. It was definitely very very interesting. Check it out for sure.

Chevy Chase on Mark Marin’s WTF in the interview, Chevy talked about going to school with Christopher Guest, as well as musicians Walter Becker and Donald Figgan. You may know them from Steely Dan. Chase said he played drums in a band with them before they went on to co found Steely Dan. Chevy said, we started Steely Dan basically I was Fagan’s first drum and I loved it. We started at Board College.

I can’t remember the name of the little place that people would go and play guitars and sing, and we called ourselves the Very Bad Jazz Band. That was literally our name. I think I was a good jazz drummer. I love doing that kind of thing, and I didn’t many times later too. I didn’t want to be a rock and roll drummer kind of guy, you know.

As for the community stuff that Nicole Brown went on Twitter and posted, he seems nice. Chevy is coming to Rochester. He and his wife will take part in a live discussion and audience Q and A following a screening of the nineteen eighty nine Christmas classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation that’ll be at the Mayo Civic Center on Wednesday, December thirteenth. I wonder how much he’s getting paid for that. I can’t believe he’s doing it.

Wow. The Golden Globes have announced a new category. It is Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television. It will honor six traditional stand up comedy performances of at least thirty minutes that first aired in the United States, excluding work that’s part of a larger series or TV films. Brian Posin’s tour kicks off.

He’s in Ferndale, Michigan at the Loving Touch, then off to Grand Rapids, Chicago, San frand Burlington Appleton Cuday, Wisconsin at the X Ray Arcade on December first, and Madison on December second. Brian Possin dot com for details there. College Humor has changed their name to drop Out. Dropout is the name of the ad free subscription streaming platform they launched in twenty eighteen. College Humor has been around since nineteen ninety nine.

Dropout hoes more than seventy five quote uncensored unquote original series. Some of those include to Mension twenty, Game Change, makes some Noise, I’m Actually dirty, Laundry, Play It by Ear, and Breaking News. College Humor’s website shut down at twenty twenty, but they have a YouTube channel with fourteen point seven million subscribers. That channel is now being renamed Dropout. Okay, sure about that.

Guys. Michael Blaustein you may know him from the podcast Stiff Socks. He’s taping a special at Comedy Works in Danverds a night through the thirtieth and let’s see what’s going on at Just for Last Toronto this evening six thirty, The CBC’s Because News seven o’clock, Tom Popa, Paul Elia, Jeremy Hotts, he’s great, I know where we’re going there, Joe Nicole Johnson, Sidney Washington and Colin Quinn. Those were six different shows. That’s not one sort of amazing crazy show with six comedians of that level.

Seven thirty Antidepressant Thursdays, eight o’clock Double Threat Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock, Second sid at eight, Laugh Therapy at eight, eight thirty Best of Absolute Comedy A thirty Tiny Grievance Comedy, a weekly showcase of some of Canada’s funniest comics. Nine o’clock Just Tom, Ian Edwards, Chris Red, Robbie Hoffman. Nine thirty Jim Norton. I didn’t know Jim Norton was at this festival. Awesome ten o’clock riverd Butcher, Asian Comedy All Stars, eleven o’clock Low Key, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Martin or Bano, eleven thirty Midnight Madness.

All right, you heard me get excited about something. Seven o’clock. We are definitely doing Jeremy Hotts. He is fantastic. Eight o’clock.

I don’t know. You want to do the Double, the Diret, You want to do Thursday laugh Therapy, You want to grab a beer because I’m just killing time? Nine thirty. I want to go see Norton. I haven’t seen Norton in a while and I love him.

And that’ll take us to the eleven o’clock shows. Nothing really grabbing me, and I’m probably gonna want to go to bed. That’s your company. These for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify orherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, Jenny Mick with your Daily Comedy News. All right, the writer strike, he’s over. When will we get Late Night back? One late night insider told Variety, we want to come back a sap.

I think everybody’s leaning forward like they’re ready to go. I’d look for them to return on October two or October ninth. I think they’re going to be very motivated to get their crews working again. A different source said, we’ve been keeping the wheels somewhat in motion, so it’s sort of dusting off the studio and getting it back up again. It’s not exactly a light switch, but as long as you can get everybody back in, the network just has to pull repeats and start putting new broadcast shows back on.

It’s just about what goes into the shows, and that’s the bar you need a little lead time for is to figure out exactly what you’re coming back and doing. According to Insider, as some late night producers were already emailing staff about coming to work as soon as today. All Right, we’ll see what happens with that. The actor is still on strike. An interesting sidebar to this in Puck News, they claimed that Greg Daniels is looking to boot the Office.

This related to the end of the writer strike. They wrote, quote Greg Daniels is set to do a reboot of the Office, for instance, It is totally unclear. I looked at a half a dozen articles. Nobody knows what a reboot of the Office means. Does it mean it’s a completely different office and you just run the office format with a you know, crazy boss and a flirty couple on all that?

You know how the office works. You’ve seen this show, You’ve heard of it? Yes? Is it that? Are we going back to dunder Mifflin.

I’ll talk about that in a second. Is it a total reboot of the Office where what somebody else plays Michael Scott and we start over? I think that’s a terrible idea. As for an office continuation, you know, I don’t know. So what do you do?

Is Correll coming back? And even if Steve Carell said yeah, I’ll totally do it, well, how does that work? Michael’s decided to move back at his old job, and so Dwight gets demoted. Is John Krasinski going to do this show? Probably not?

So Are Jim and Pam still together? Does Pam still work there, but you know, she just talks about Jim, but he’s never around because he’s off being a sports age like. It’s not that easy to bring this show back. Sure, you can do this. There’s ways to write anything into it.

You know, Michael decides come back, Towight gets demoted Towy. It’s happier to be demoted. Jim’s just not around. You could make it work. I’m sure a lot of the secondary and tertiary characters would be happy to come back.

You could have some new people. I don’t know. But the other thing is I’ll watch, you’ll watch, so who knows. We’ll keep an eye on that one. Polly Sure would like to play Richard Simmons and a biopic.

Only Sure went on social media and said, I’ve noticed all the reactions to me playing Richard Simmons in a new biopic. I heard he’s living deep in Big Bear. We’ve been playing phone tag. Yes he still has a phone. I’m trying to make it happen for you, guys.

Be optimistic. In the meantime, hit up Hulu, Amazon, Disney, HBO and all the big producers. I definitely can morph into the guy. I’ll see you at the Academy Awards twenty twenty five. I’m not sure, Polly sure as Richard Simmons will wind up on Disney, but we’ll see.

From the Daily Mail, they covered Russell Brand and wrote in a rambling three minute clip that was posted to Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Russell Brand thanked his fans for their support and for questioning reports that had been made. Russell went on to accuse the British government of demanding that big tech sensor is online content, and Russell took a swipe at the BBC for its Trust News initiative that tackles fake news. I agree it was a rambling clip. Let’s take a quick listen, Hollo, there you awakening wonders.

Obviously, it’s been an extraordinary and distressing week and I thank you very much for your support and for questioning the information that you’ve been presented with. By now, you’re probably aware that the British government have asked big tech platforms to censor out online content and that some online platforms have complied with that. YouTube CEO Neeil Mohan has defended the decision who strip Russell Brands YouTube channel of ads. Mohan said, if creators have off platform behavior, or there’s off platform news that could be damaging to the broader creator ecosystem, you can be suspended from our monetization program. Trevor Noah played New Delhi’s j l N Stadium and The Indian Express was there to cover it.

Let’s see what Trevor’s doing on his Indian tour. Trevor talked about visiting the taj Mahal on his first day, but the audience enjoyed Trevor’s jokes about the Delhi traffic, especially the Tuck Tuck vehicles on the road, who, according to Trevor, were the real rulers of Delhi roads. Every time Trevor said a Hindi word, the amuse spectators cheered for him. The rest of his set was about with the weather in New Delhi, Indian immigration, and international politics. Trevor was both shocked and amused to know that New Delhi has a wedding season and how dates are set keeping the store alignment and weather in mind.

He also said he’s considering an arranged marriage for himself. Jokes about China got a favorable response. He asked the audience if India was happy about British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s appointment. He got a loud yes. Trevor said, do you know how angry some people were in the UK?

I was like, this is the best day ever to talk about flipping the script, Trevor set was almost two hours long. Pretty impressive there. Gary Goldman doing a lot of press for his book. Vulture asked Gary if he was worried about him his mom suing him. Carry said, yeah, I felt bad about certain things.

There are certain people in my life who I changed their names if I said bad things, but that was because a lawyer would ask. At one point she said, now your uncle Norman the burglar, is he still alive? And I said no, and she said okay, good because there are certain people who they don’t want to sue. But then the lawyer said, do you think there’s any way your mother would sue you? And I thought, I hope not.

Also, she’s old enough for I feel we could delay the lawsuit for a while and wait her out. Variety asked Sam J if there was anything Sam was afraid to talk about in the new special. Sam said, I’m a little bit past it because people are always going to have something to say. That’s a fact. In this special I made a greater effort to show my work, to really walk you through the thought process, and to leave less holes than the joke.

I just tried to make sure the jokes were a whole. They asked Sam about covering such topics, and Sam said, it’s because what my favorite comedians did, Richard pryor Chris Rock want to psychs George Carlin. I don’t think all comedy has to have some political comment to it. Some stuff’s just fun and silly, and that’s awesome too. Salute Me or Shoot Me is on Max.

You know HBO Max. Stop calling it Max. Go back to HBO Max. Salute Me or Shoot Me is on Max. Now, I haven’t seen much buzz on it.

I forgot it was coming out, and I host this thing every day, but it was the weekend and stuff. I’m not sure Saturday night is the best night for releasing specialties. Used to be forty years ago, but times change. Congratulations to Dane Cook. He has married kelseyat Sailor.

They got married over the weekend in Hawaii. Taylor posted on Instagram first day as mister and missus. Cook couldn’t be more over the moon. Dane himself shared an image his best man took of Dane thirty minutes before the wedding. Dane wrote, last night was one for the ages.

I made more memories in one night than I have in a full year. The wedding even had a hashtag hashtag kiss the Cook. Adult Swim put out a trailer for season seven of Rick and Morty, and we get to hear the new voices of Rick and of Morty. The network is keeping the names of the new voice actor is confidential until the show season premiere. You may recall both Rick and Morty used to be voiced by Justin Royland.

He’s got some concerns he’s got to take care of and it kicked him off the show. An insider said, we want the show to speak for itself. We believe in the strength of the season and our new voices, and we want to preserve the viewing experience for fans. I pulled two short clips, and the first one of the first voice, he’ll here is Jerry, who’s talking, You’re Rick. In the second clip, it is new Morty and new Rick.

I’ll play them and I’ll tell you what I think. I was wondering if you could help me out with a bit of a rake situation. A rake situation, what do you say, Rick per Space, come upon something. Maybe I have a moral objection. Slick and Morty.

We’re back, baby. It’s not bad. The Rick is better than the Morty. The Rick is missing a little bit of the angst, little bit of the gravel, and the Morty’s okay. But again, this could have been far worse.

Remember some of the replacement bugs bunnies if some of the replacement kerbitt the frogs. So this is fine. Good job at Rick and Morty. Dan Horman, one of the creators of Rick and Morty, is also the creator of Krapopolis and Dan Feinberg with my favorite TV critic rights for The Holly Reporter, and I forgot Krypopoulos was coming out again. I host this thing every day.

I’m not sure they promoted it all that well. Dan Feinberg in The Hollywood Reporter rights Dan Harman’s brand of comedy sometimes cure Isle, sometimes every night, usually with both sensibilities engaged on a graphic on screen wrestling match. Isn’t for everybody, even the shows of is that I love most Community and Rick and Morty and the Sarah Silverman Program, The usual Stuff, Lose me here and there. Krypopolis a longjest dating Fox animated comedy notable for off screen trivia. It’s already been renewed through a third season.

It looks bland, and the stories it’s telling are bland, and most oddly of all, the thematic underpinnings of the series are bland. Krpopoulos is never boring, and I chuckled here and there. The weird thing to say is that Krpopolis is almost aware that it’s underwhelming. The first episode includes a bit about how a joke of a roast of sorts was not laugh out loud funny and it isn’t. That show’s already on Fox in case you missed it, and I did.

Let’s see who’s at JFL Toronto on this Tuesday. Seven o’clock Bad Dates with Jamila Jamil seven o clock, Julie Kim seven o’clock, Sam Morrison, Sugar Daddy seven o’clock Gavin Matts seven o’clock. Joke Signals, hosted by Dakota ray Aber, a multi comic showcase that celebrates the best of Canada’s indigenous talent. Seven thirty The Humber College Showcase eight o’clock, Second City. I realize I keep saying SETV and it’s not SETV.

It’s the Second City. I realized I said SETV on like five straight episodes. Sorry about that, It’s the Second City. Paul Elliot at eight eight thirty The Disaster featuring Alex Klanko. What’s this an ALTS comedy showcase.

Comedians do whatever they want as long as it’s not traditional stand up or traditional improv A thirty best of Absolute Comedy. This is real bust for a Tuesday Man nine o’clock, Patty Harrison, De’ll Say, Sloane Graham, k Hey, Sus Treho. Those are four different shows. Amateur Night at nine thirty, ten o’clock Martin Orbano, Double Threat, Rachel Manson and Clifton Cramo eleven o’clock, Sam Morrison eleven o’clock. Low Key Comedy Show, which is an indoor outdoor comedy show.

Born out of the pandemic’s impact on live entertainment, Low Key as emerged as one of the top independent shows in the country. Two hosts introducing four stand up comics, each doing ten minutes, followed by an improvised five minute interview.

And then eleven thirty midnight madness.

All right, what should we do tonight? Seven o’clock. I don’t think we’ve seen any of these folks. Maybe we went to see Gavin Matts last night. Let’s do well, we know Sam Morrison’s playing leader.

Let’s do Julie Kim at seven. Actually, no, let me take that back. Let’s do joke signals. That’s the one with indigenous performers. Let’s go see that for something different.

Eight o’clock. Paul Elliot will do that. Nine o’clock. If we’ve done his su Straho yet, let’s do that ten o’clock. Malton Orbano’s the only show at ten, so we’ll do that.

At eleven o’clock. Sam Morrison sugar daddy, And believe me, after five comedy shows and it’s approaching midnight, I’m gonna want to go to bed. So that’s your Tuesday night at JFL Toronto. British comedian Russell Howard is launching a podcast. His guests include the likes of John Oliver, Jimmy Carr and Taylor Thomlinson.

That’s pretty good, Wonderbox. We’ll be out on October eleventh. It happens to coincide with the East Coast leg of Howard’s latest tour. Funny how that happens.

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Also funny that Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelsey.

And what do you know? The Chiefs happened to be on Sunday Night Football this week. And what do you know? Taylor’s promoting a movie coming out in October and has a new version of nineteen eighty nine coming out. That’s weird.

I guess Taylor will be at the big game in New York City on Sunday Night on Sunday Night Football again. Wow, that’s weird. Here at the Network and here in the basement, we started another podcast. This one is called Taylor Swift Today. If you want to follow the latest on Taylor Swift.

We’re putting that one out a few times a week. Taylor Swift Today wherever you get your podcasts. And one more for cross promotion. Comedian Katherine Ryan shared her tale of meeting Prince Harry. You know that guy.

We talk about him every day on the Palace Intrigue podcast. That podcast is just about the Royal family and I’m the writer on it. Katherine Ryan was on her own podcast, which is called Telling Everyone everything. So there she is, and Prince Harry enters the room appearing quote right over at my left shoulder. First thing out of his mouth, Oh, you’re the one that tells jokes about be Katherine, Ryan said.

I was like, yeah, it was me, Sorry about that. Harry says, it’s okay. I like jokes. Catherine says, okay, Well none of them were at your expense. Harry says, no, they weren’t, so keep telling the jokes, Katherine says.

After that she sank into a pool of sweaty shame. She said, Harry was lovely meeting the other guests. His presence was so striking seeing him up close, Prince Harry in the flesh, he looks exactly but taller like the image of Prince Harry you have in your head. He’s an HD and the photos of him look like the real Hymn. All right, So, if you want to follow the Royals Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows, if you want to follow Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Today, wherever you get your shows, I might as well promote five good news stories.

That’s a show I host where I tell you five stories, all them good news fluff stories, kickers, as we call them in the radio industry. Just quick smile stories. Do that one twice a week, new episodes Monday and Thursday. And you already know about Daily Comedy News, which if this is your first time listening, push that all a button on your arap the rest of you. You’re going to tell a friend about this.

She’s gonna be like, Oh, Johnny Mack, I love him, he’s awesome, he drinks ice coffee and he tells me about the latest comedy news. That guy’s wonderful. That’s what you’re gonna do. Other than that, see here tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Hassan minhas you know the guy that made up some stuff in his comedy routine and everybody’s all upset. I’ve been saying that a little flippantly. I agree with the take in The New York Times last week that obviously we know comedians make stuff up, but the way that Hassan did it in his last special, and he may have blown himself up here.

We’ll talk about that in the second. But he is the lead actor in the new DC Warner Brothers Spotify collaboration, The Riddler Secrets in the Dark. It’s a scripted podcast, it’s a Batman thing, and Hassan plays the Riddler. Now, usually the Riddler tells Batman true things disguised as riddles, so who knows interesting casting there. In this version, the vigilante Batman has undergone some unknown traumatic episode and it’s up to the Riddler to try and piece together the mystery.

See, they flipped things on its head. They’re very interesting. And DC News caught up with comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard, who’s a Muslim American and for her, Hassan was a role model She said the use of race and religion in his comedy was empowering and inspired some of her material, but she adds they trusted him. That’s why I think people are upset, and it makes sense why there’s backlash. A lot of people trusted Hasan Minhaj.

They trusted his programs because he depicted himself as a journalist, truth teller and someone who would always speak to what’s right, and he completely destroyed that. Well, said Sarah, That’s kind of what I’ve been dancing with, even though I’ve been flipping legoing Haza a lot of people. I think it’s a little different than maybe Jim Gaffigan not actually eating a hot pocket earlier in the day. I think it’s different. The San Francisco Gate was it Pete Davidson’s recent show.

Pete was flubbing lines and joked, I’m always mid the gate, says Pete mixed up a couple of his stories throughout the show and had to stop to read from his notes three times. Davidson made some jokes about San Francisco, saying it’s not that bad out here. There’s still the full house house, the Missus doubt Firehouse. It’s not that bad. He made a joke about his disdain for meeting six children through the Make a Wish Foundation.

His joke, they’re dying wishes to meet me. This kid has no hope. He joked about as well publicized love life, and he said the low point came not when he lost a lover, but when he lost a stalker. His joke, the difference between a stalker and not is whether they’re hot. Ugly girls don’t make bombs.

They eat cookies and cut themselves. Bill Engvall, remember he retired. He’s back from One Night Only. Baby. Bill Engvall will perform October seventh in Salt Lake City.

It’s a benefit for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah. Bill told Good Things Utah how a great horned owl named Ali inspired Bill Ngvall to return to the Spotlight for one show. You see Ali. The owl was living above the front door of Bill Angvall’s house for a few weeks, and one day Bill and missus Bill noticed the bird lying in the driveway with an injury. The couple put Ali in the truck and drove him to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.

After six months of rehab, Ali was released back in the wild near Bill’s home and became a father to four baby owls. Bill said about the benefit, I didn’t even say, let me think about it. They do such a great job, and this benefit is for them to have what we call a forever home where they don’t have to move anymore. Earlier this year, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah was told it was going to have to move to make way for a new parking lot owned by the neighboring Dinosaur Park. With the benefit, Bill and the organization hope to find a permanent facility for the nonprofit to continue its rehabilitation of roughly four thousand injured animals every year.

Nice job, Bill Ingvall David Spade as a new unscripted game show on Fox. It’ll be out this week. It’s called Snake Oil. Will Arnett as your executive producer. On Snake Oil, contestants are pitched unique products by convincing entrepreneurs, but some of them are showcasing real business ventures, while others are snake oil salesmen whose products are fake.

With the help of guest celebrity advisors, contestants have to figure out which ones are real which are a sham. Be celebrity guest advisors including Adam Divine, JB. Smooth, Natasha Lazaro, and more. David Spade said, when Fox asked me to host their new show, I was flattered, but then they told me it was about a shady snake oil salesman, and I was a little less flattered to be the guy that immediately comes to mind. Alison Wallack is a suit at Fox and gave this quotey quote.

David Spade’s signature brand of Irreverend Comedy, and Will Arnette’s ingenuity, combined with the most bizarre consumer products ever devised, creates an incredibly entertaining guessing game that embodies everything snake Oil is all about. I want to throw up on that quote. I suit shouldn’t give quotes snake oil. Wednesday on Fox, The Press Enterprise caught up with Tracy Morgan, who said, you have to be able to say what you want to say, and I created a lane for myself where you can’t cancel me. That sounds like a challenge.

All you’re gonna see is funny if you go see him on Friday at the Morongo Casino resort and spa. Tracy said, it doesn’t matter what I talk about, because I’m bringing it to you. You don’t have to worry about material because God didn’t give me material. He gave me a sense of humor and materials right in front of me. All right, Tracy, when did you first realize you could be a comedian professionally?

Tracy said, when my mother’s water broke in nineteen sixty eight at five in the morning. I was born this way. You don’t realize it, you just do. It’s my personality. My father was funny and did stand up in Vietnam, so I’m gonna say it was following my dad’s footsteps, like most sons do.

I didn’t make money off it until ninety five ninety six. That’s when it really turned into a business. All right. How would you describe your comedy, Tracy Morgan? The spirit got into me when I saw Jeff Jam I got on stage.

It was just being me. I said the things I understood and was funny with I rolled the dice and took a chance, and then four months later I was on Jeff jam I don’t think I had any new with it. It was the people that recognized the funny that putting me on stage. All right, Tracy Morgan, do you have any comedian friends you hang out with? What’s that like?

Tracy said, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy are like my family. They showed it to me, brought it out of me, and are big influences of my life. You gotta understand that I don’t just love Eddie or Martin on a comedic level. I love them on a human level. So when we’re together, we talk about human things, not funny things.

We talk about real things. Some people stay in the comedy zone all day long and that’s all they know. So I don’t have a lot of friends in show business. They don’t know how to come out of character. They think if they’re real for one minute, they’re comedy will go away.

Gonna be honest. I was all excited when I saw that the rap spoke with the guys from Please Don’t Destroy, And then I got a little sad. Why Johnny mack Well, let me tell you that the guys from Please Don’t Destroy or Martin Hurlahy, John Higgins and Ben Marshall, and I didn’t know this. The whole Nippo baby thing came up. Yeah, you see Martin hurla He’s a father was Saturday Night Live head writer and producer Tim hurla He and John higgins father was writer and announcer producer Steve Higgins.

So I’ll jump in here. It doesn’t mean they’re not talented, but it does suggest to me that it was a little easier for their stuff to get to Lauren Michaels. That’s how the business works, Higgins told the rap. The thing is, we get it. We’re so lucky to have those connections.

He understands that the troop had a huge leg up in the industry, while also acknowledging how hard we work on stuff. So I feel really lucky. I get the conversation. We just keep going fair enough, Hurley, he said, I hope the work is good enough and what we’re doing is fresh enough that there’s a place for it. But you know, obviously we acknowledge that beyond even connections or whatever, we have crazy privilege of being three straight white guys from NYU.

Marshall chimed in and said, I can also say from firsthand experience that these dudes were crazy hard and hold themselves to a super high standard and don’t take it lightly. Being at thirty Rock and taking the elevator and looking at the floor and seeing the peacock logo, that kind of thing still feels a little magical. But honestly, once we were there working, you don’t have time to think about anything. It’s just kind of like, go, go go. So we were really thrown into the fire.

I think our second week on the show, we had a video on and then from there it was just off to the races. But it’s still crazy. I still pinched myself that we’re working there. I do like their work a lot. I have a Christmas miracle for you.

Although it’s September, it’s a Monday, which means there’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. So what I do there that’s the foreigner of this thing.

I’d tell quick versions of the stories that you hear this podcast, but then I get to actually play the comedians bits, because you know, licensing and writes and stuff. And I have been meaning to this for months and I forget. Every Monday, I’m going to tell you who’s on the show this week? All right? So we have Michelle Wolf, Russell Peters, David Spade, Chris Rock, Leslie Jones a partner and Sherla David Cross talking about his tour name.

Eugene Merman about getting in a stand up Nate Brigatsy on making it, John to Pierce, Doug Stanhope and Dice Clay are both in new movies. And Steve Morton. So that’s called the Weekly Comedy Thing. Grab it on your phone there and you can listen to it after this, Hopefully I’ll remember next Monday to do this again. Let’s see who’s at just for laughs on this Monday.

Seven o’clock Julie Kim, Pattie Harrison, the Greek Canadian comedy show, Hayeseu’s Trey Ho Those are good options. Eight o’clock I Love Toronto Double Threat Hassan Phillips and Malik Alisol. Nine o’clock Gavin Matt’s another double threat, this one with Nigel Grinstead and Jonas Charlie Will Say Sloan at nine o’clock. Ten o’clock another another double threat, Chad Anderson and Adrian Fish eleven o’clock Late Night Surprise eleven thirty Midnight Madness. Huh, let’s do all right, Let’s make it a night where we don’t see big names.

Let’s do the Greek Canadian comedy show at seven o’clock. Always good to see some local comedy.

And then let’s do the Double Threats at eight, nine and ten, and then we’ll g…

You can go out by yourself at midnight Madness at eleven thirty. Johnnymac likes his sleep. That’s a really solid Monday. At comedy festivals, Mondays are usually dark, honestly. Or maybe there’s one show that’s a robust night.

So we’ll have a good night out hypothetically in Toronto, which is a great city. Vulture speaking to Gary Goldman, a lot of press Gary Goldman’s book being received well. Gary talked about his influences and said, I read so many books about memoir and writing. I read this collection of Kurt Vaudeguet’s ideas on writing that were cobbled together from everything he’d ever said about writing, called Pity the Reader. Then I read Stephen King’s on writing.

The best thing he said was you need to be a great reader. You need to read a lot, which gave me this thing where I was just not procrastinating but also reading, which I felt good about. In terms of memoirs, Adam Resnick, the creator with Chris Elliott of Get a Life and Cabin Boy, wrote a book called Will Not Attend, which was a collection of essays. Was the funniest thing I ever read. So I just kept reading.

And then I realized, oh, I’m just putting off my writing, and I said, all right, you need to earn some reading by writing for an hour. So I was just reading and writing all day. And luckily I’m married to a reader. My wife reads all the time. And it was also during the pandemic, so everybody understood any kind of behavior.

It was really helpful. And that’s your comedy news for today. Let’s do another week of telling a friend about the show. Hey friend, do you like podcast? There’s this guy Johnny McK and he just tell this great, amazing story about Gary Goman.

You gotta hear it here. Let me get your phone out of your hand, give me your phone, take it, and then take the phone out of her hand and then open up the podcast app and type in daily Commy News and push follow. Do that they won’t think you’re read at all. You’re got to do that for me. Appreciate you.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Man, who with your Daily Comedy News. I haven’t done Late Bot in a while, but from the Late Bot, Rupert Murdoch has decided to retire. Fox News is planning a tribute. It’s called the retirement Hoax. Is Rupert really leaving?

Where? Is this just liberal fake news? Another version of the joke that I think is better. Rupert Murdoch is stepping down. It’s the end of an era, or as Fox News would report it, breaking news.

Rupert Murdoch retires blames Hillary Clinton. John Stewart was on the Strikeforce five podcast. He said, I want to make one thing clear off the bat, not a fan, not a fan of the podcast, tried to get through the first one, not a fan. The discussion amongst the group, what was it like the first time you were on TV? John Stewart said.

His guest was Howard Stern. It must have been ten seconds in when he explained to me pretty accurately why I would be canceled in the upcoming future. Nailed it, kind of put everybody in their place for the thing, and then sat back and said, what do you have to say now? So was a suspicious beginning. We learned that John Stewart is listed as dufus in Stephen Colbert’s phone.

They consider each other best friend, but they only see each other once a year because Stewart is antisocial. John Stewart talked about hiring John Oliver at the Daily Show and said, rarely do you see a tape and go that guy, And that was one of those with John. He was so clearly great.

And then we found out that he needed a green card, and first bit in we sent h…

Oliver confirmed the story and said it was a Civil War reenactment. And I believe I was fighting for the North, and so the bit was before they said go, because I believe that’s how the Civil War began. I would run ahead of them as fast as I can at the other army, and I did that, and then I was running literally as fast as I possibly could. It was quite wet underfoot, and I was wearing dress shoes, and then I fell forward. I realized there was a musket in my hand, and so I got out of the way face planted.

There was blood all over my face, and I knew it had come to work at the right office when we got back and there was still laughter echoing around the office. That’s great. They did not discuss hippy felling gad. I don’t know if they ever will. The Dallas News caught up with Ralph Barbosa Keep an Eye on Ralph.

Ralph said, I think growing up with like half my friends being nerdy gamer type dudes that helped me stay true to who I am and not try to fake it. But it also helped when I was trying to fake it and I was hanging around with more like of the troublemakers once I started getting into actual trouble and made me realize exactly who I was. If I was hanging around the dangerous type kids to avoid fights or any kind of trouble, I usually try to make everybody laugh to kind of keep things cool. When I was hanging around the nerdy typers, I just felt more at home. It was easy to crack jokes, and they usually got my jokes a little better.

The Dallas News asked Ralph Barbosa about expressing his frustration with more seasoned comedians, saying younger comedians have it easy now, possibly George Lopez, who knows I don’t know what it was like for them coming up. I’m sure it was tough. I hear crazy stories, and I’m sure it was really tough. I know one could probably make them angry to see somebody do a video of them just doing crowd work, talking to the crowd, and it blows up, and then that persons selling tickets whatever. I’m seeing more and more stuff about comedians hating on CrowdWork videos.

It’s really interesting. There’s a thing with Gary Golman comments in that and upcoming days really interesting, Barbosa said. But I also think they shouldn’t be disregarded that a lot of comics were able to make a career from their videos or clips going viral online. Is that these comics are still forming, still writing. The Internet has been a helping hand for comics, TikTok, Instagram, all that, but it also puts me into another gear.

If I’m going to open up the gates to more views, It’s going to be easier for people to access my material. That means I have to pump out way more material. Whereas the comics from years ago, they could be doing the same jokes for years and years and years as their career grew. I could have gone that route, and I would have gone that route. I would have gone any route it would have taken to get to where I am, but this was the route that worked.

This is the route that I’ll keep working at. Nish Kumar has claimed that Russell Brand’s reputation for being a sex predator has been an open secret in British comedy since twenty eighteen. This from The Daily Mail, Kumar said it was discussed by multiple comedians in Edinburgh fringe shows the following year. In twenty eighteen, it was well known. To be completely honest with you, the story that I heard was relating to a sexual assault and it wasn’t covered in the documentary.

Those weren’t the stories that actually heard about. So it’s possible that there’s more allegations to come. I think if you look at Russell Brand’s IMDb page, you’ll see that his television work in Britain starts to dry up around twenty eighteen nineteen. That’s simply because increasingly people were just not willing to work with him. This stuff is still happening.

There are still people working in comedy who are the subject of open secrets. There are still people who work in comedy that we can’t name because again the threat of lawsuits. And there are still people work in comedy who people will say, oh, we don’t send young women into their dressing rooms. The only people that come out of this with any credibility are the victims who have been brave enough to step forward, and the journalists who have worked extremely hard to produce rigorous pieces of journalism so they could get around the threats of a very powerful man’s lawyers. And until we start asking ourselves the hard questions, we’re never ever going to get progress out of this.

Until men start asking the hard questions about how we conduct ourselves, until people in powerful positions start asking questions about why they’re indulging the whims of predators and monsters. Till any of that happens, nothing is going to change. Vulture asked Gary Goman while he wrote a book. Gary said, Revenge. When I gave my mother the book, she immediately started scanning it for her name, and mom and mother.

She’ll call me and say, well, that’s not who I am. My wife is so helpful in these things, she said, Barbara, book is full of quirky things about you that people are going to love. You’ll notice it’s not titled Surviving Barbara Goleman. It’s not really about you, and he loves you. Goldman said, that’s the joke answer.

The real answer is that I love books, and I’ve always wanted to write a book. I’ve always read these stories I wanted to tell as my life as a child, I remember so vividly. I love to tell these stories while an elevated voice, like they were so important, Like there was a late library book that takes up four or five pages and it was this traumatic experience. It’s sort of an extension of our stand up. Goldman said he listened to Maria Bamford’s book and said, I want to get this out there.

I was blown away.

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And also, I’m so grateful I didn’t come across it before I wrote my own, beca…

Maria Bamford’s book is so good, which is a high compliment from comedians to say that it made you feel bad about yourself. Still more to be mine. From Kara Swisher’s Fantastic interview with Conan O’Brien. If you haven’t heard that, that’s on Kara Swisher’s podcast. Kara was curious about the role of the interviewer.

Using the term the platonic interviewer, Conan said, people go in with different agendas when the interview. I’ve always tried to figure out, especially back when I was in the volume business game, where you’re talking to people at night, five nights a week and very few vacations. You’re talking to a lot of people, and people are coming through the might not naturally be interested in I’m a curious person, and I would try to find out what am I really curious about with this person? What drives a conversation is what are you curious about? As they moved on to the podcast, I talked to a fewer people, and they’re almost universally people that I really want to talk to.

I’m very fortunate that way, but I’m still always fascinated by all these skills people have that I don’t have, and all these things people can do that I can’t do, and I want to know about that. Conan said, I really do like to connect with people. I really want to make that connection, that drive to make that connection, and I do this. I’ll chat with people on the street or in a restaurant for a very long time, and I’ll ask them about themselves to point where it’s so ridiculous they say, look, Conan, I just wanted to get a selfie. I have to go.

Kara was curious, who is Conan’s worst guest. Conan said, well, I hate to put it on them, but it was really early on and I just didn’t have the chops yet. It was like nineteen ninety three and we had an earth a Kit on the show and I’d say, now you work with James Dean and she’d say, m, well, what do you care about that? She was very challenging and provocative, and I think if I had more seasoning, which I got quickly, but I didn’t have it, then I would have been able to turn that on its head and had fun with it. But I wasn’t able to, and it wasn’t just not good for her, and it was not good for me.

And I remember it after that interview thinking that was bad. It was really bad. At first, I was very knee jerk, thinking why was she so difficult, and then realizing no, it’s an opportunity. It was an opportunity. I just wasn’t there yet.

I just got out on the court and I tried to make a three point shot. And went into the audience and had killed a little boy. Johnny Mack, did you just laugh at killing a little boy? Codin was making up a story. No little boy was actually killed.

That’s what makes it funny. Looks like Bill marn Howard Stern aren’t going to be friends again. Bill Moore made some comments about Howard Stern’s second marriage on his podcast. Bill Moore said, how does this gushing about the second wife? How does that make the first wife feel?

Could we just not gush about the person while the other person can still hear it. Howard Stern commented on his satellite radio program and said, what a sexist thing to say, Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say. It’s assuming that he knows something about my first marriage. That of course the man must be leaving the woman, and the woman be devastated and me sitting around pining away for her. Famous man Kevin Hard, always out there hustling, making money doing business deals, a new one with Proximo Spirits.

They’ve been named the official luxury tequila of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kevin Hard put out a statement said, as a diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan, this partnership marries two of my biggest passions, football and tequila. Last year, I surprise fans will an Eagle to bring luck to my team. But this year I had to kick it up a notch. My tequila brand has signed a multi year partnership that brings the Eagles and Grand Cormino together.

The Eagles are stuck with me.

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Now, Let’s see what’s happening at JFL Toronto Tonight, seven o’clock, Mark F…

They’ll Say Sloan at seven, Second City again, Andrea Gin again, Ronny Chieng again, Jay Jordan again. Seven forty five, Queerly Canadian eight o’clock Double Threat, Rachel Manson and Clifton Cremo eight o’clock, Best of Absolute Comedy, eight thirty, The Nubian Show nine o’clock. I Hate People, People Hate Me. A special screening event with Bobby Summers. This offbeat, scripted comedy explores two friends lives as they navigate as underdogs in Toronto’s queer community.

Patty Harrison at nine, Double Threat, Hassan Phills and Malik Ella Salle at nine. Pretty ro A bus for a Sunday Isn’t this nine fifteen, Jink X Monsoon nine thirty Trinidad Versus Jamaica Comedy Clash. I’m intrigued for twenty years, This consistently sold up comedy clash is always a fun favorite. The Gloves are coming out with the heavy Hitters of Laughter, hosted by Jay Morton and Jean Paul. The Trinidad Verse Jamaica Comedy Clash is a clean comedy show in honor of all mothers, especially ones from Africa and the Caribbean.

I’m going to definitely put that on our list for tonight. Jay Jordan at ten, eleven o’clock, Alison Leeblee, The Alternative Show, Gavin Matt’s at eleven and Midnight Madness. All right, if you and I were there, what would we do? Seven o’clock. I think we’ve already hypothetically seen Neil Brennan.

Let’s go see Andrea Gin eight o’clock. Let’s well, let’s do Double Threat Rachel Manson and Clifton Creamo. I don’t think we’ve done that one yet. I definitely want to do Trinidadverse Jamaica at nine thirty, and do we have to do an eleven o’clock show? Can I just go to bed.

Now, you’re gonna make me hang out with you, all right, Gavin Matts will do at eleven o’clock. I’ve never seen Gavin, so that’ll be something different. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’m still on a mission. You’re gonna tell your friends, Hey, do you like podcasts?

There’s this one where this guy reads comedy schedules to us. That’s the dumb part. That’s like the last five minutes. But at the beginning of the show he tells you like the latest comedy news, and I kind of like the podcast. You’re gonna tell your friends something like that.

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The Shark Deck. Did I just swallow a bug? I am chunny back with your day company dudes. Right before I start recording, I go check, check, check to make sure I actually plugged in the microphone and the headset and everything’s working and it’s not distorted. And there was a bug flying in front of my face and now the back of my throat feels like I swallowed a bug.

It’s not why you’re here. Gary Goldman has a new book. It’s called Misfit Growing Up Awkward, and he wants you to read the entire book to prove it. In the introduction, he wrote, some people skip the intro. I don’t trust them.

It makes me wonder where else they cut corners, where else they’re phoning it in, and what other flim flammery they’re perpetrating some good Goldmanese language there. Gary talked about David Brenner. I got to do a few shows with Brenner and really enjoyed my time with David Brenner. Gary said, I discovered David Brenner on The Mike Douglas Show. Was magical to me because it was so eerie that it was doing this observational humor and it felt like he was spying on us.

It made me laugh, but it was also so empowering that this man and I always pictured as how I would look when I grew over, was behaving very creatively. I love George carlin silly ideas about language and his observational stuff. Later on I came across Gary Shandling. My brother had been bumped from a flight and got two free tickets, but couldn’t use them, so from my bar mitzvah. My mother took me to La and we waited in line with my cousin Della to see Johnny Carson.

Gary Shandling was his guest. I fell in love with them immediately. It was this interesting thing where a man was very neurotic and anxious but also seem to have that bugs bunny confidence. The other guest was Carrie Fisher, and he was flirting with Princess Leia. I eventually worked with Gary Schandling at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.

He couldn’t have been much nicer. It was it really great to meet your hero’s moment awesome. Jason Zinniman writes about comedy for The New York Times, and he got into the whole Hasan Minhaj thing. You know, Hasan Minhaj made up some things first comedy act. But Zinniman, I think really got to it.

This guy’s fantastic, What a great writer. I love Jason Zinneman at the Times, and he talked about, you know, we’re gonna start fact checking everybody’s comedy, and he pointed out, for example, Roddy Daintrefield was respected. He did get risk backed right. So, yeah, that all makes sense. We don’t assume everything coming out of a comedian’s mouth is true, but there was something a little wonky about Hasan Minhaj, and Zinneman writes, watching the King’s Gesture, that’s Hassan special.

Now hits differently. In some ways, it’s more interesting than the first time I saw it, when it seemed mawkish. Some jokes, like his desperation for social media clout, seem like clues, and others come across as the work of a guilty conscience, like the moment when Minhaj faces the audience and says, everything here is built on trust. Zinniman rights, this is the truth. Every comic has an unspoken pack with the audience.

The one Seinfeld has is different from Minhaj’s, and part of the reason has nothing to do with their intentions. Whether or not critics like me think authenticity is important, it does matter to the audience, so dishonesty and comics understand that. It’s no accident that many of the political comedians working today, especially on TV, employee researchers from traditional news sources. Getting facts right matters, especially when the comedy is about grave social issues. That’s not just because the comics.

Credibility can take a hit when stories told about reese, religious profiling, or transgender identity or exposed as inventions that can lead to doubt about the experiences of real people. Jason writes, one of the most notable aspects of the minha story is the lack of nuance in his response, the complete confidence he projects. It’s striking that he seemingly has no concerns about possibly deceiving some of his audience. His special is about his wife challenging him to take responsibility for how his words can negatively affect his family. One wonders if there will be any more introspection great stuff in the New York Times.

I’ve been on a mark Marin clip catching up he had Nimish Batel on in August. I only got to listen to it the other day when I was out for a run Humble Brig and I thought a chair a quick clip. As Mark Marrin explained how he’s putting together his next hour, I’m working a small room. My fans know what I’m doing. It’s only one hundred and fifty people there, and they kind of like they’re willing to go along with it.

So I just risk failing. Yeah, and I’m not afraid to fail. You know. It’s not going to take the window in my sales, but there’s going to be awkward moments and that’s all right. From Yahoo.

Leslie jones new book, Leslie Effing Jones features a chapter called killing Whoopie Goldberg. Well, what’s that about, Johnny mcdun sounds a little scary, don’t worry. According to her story, she smoked weed and teamed up with Keenan Thompson to write a sketch for SNL. Some context here. Sometimes Leslie Jones would play Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, but for this sketch it would be actual Whoopie Goldberg.

And in the sketch, Colin Jost would say, Leslie, I know it’s you, and actual Whoopee would say no, no, no, I know Leslie plays me, but it’s really me. I’m really Whoopee. Colin says, yeah, yeah, So what would happen if I do this and pulls out a gun. Whoopee looks terrified and says, no, seriously, I’m Whoopi Goldberg. I’m not Leslie, I’m really Whoopee.

Colin looks at her and doesn’t believe her and says, oh yeah, and then shoots her. Jones writes that the sketch would have cut back and forth between panic in the studio as Jost and Michael Chay realize it’s the real Whoopi Goldberg bleeding out live on air, and a station break pre tape of Lorne Michael’s taking port in various activities like writing, a was playing golf, taking a shower, and a voiceover saying Who’ll be right back is shown in between shots of the on screen slaughter. Leslie said, Keenan and I were weeping with laughter when we wrote this. We were actually going to shoot Whoopy Goldberg. On SNL head Brighter Brian Tucker according to Jones, looked at them and said, you guys are crazy.

So they pitched it to the weekend update team. In the update office, we were acting out the sketch and laughing the whole time. When we finished, Keenan said, it’s so funny. Right, someone said, you guys are nuts. You can’t kill Whoopi Goldberg on Live TV.

Leslie said, she’s not dead, she just got shot. They ended up writing a flushed out version of the sketch to present at a table read the next day. They even got Lauren Michaels to read the voiceoverports and then he stopped and said it wasn’t going to make it to air. Lauren said, we’re not going to kill Whoopi Goldberg on National TV for a personal joke. That sentence sounds like a funny sketch to be.

Whitney Cummings is recording her next special at the Comedy Store in la two day. Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me is on HBO today, But m says Kate Berlant is the quote most influential slash imitated comedian of a generation, a millennial Lenny Bruce. This from The Independent, Burlant insists she’s niche for life. The Independent rights, chances are you’ve seen the thirty five year old somewhere, or maybe if she jokes, you’ve just confused her for Katherine Han. Burland is amused that she was listed in New York Magazine’s NEPO Baby List.

That’s a fun list to look at, by the way, there’s a lot of people working in Hollywood with the famous parents. But The Independent says, I would argue that Burland’s dad’s career as a visual artist and the fact that her mother quote made the Stonehenge for this is spinal tap is not quite the same as being able to call too Oscar nominees mom and dad. Regardless, she said, I was thrilled to be on the list because it made me seem so much more famous than I am. She’s also worried that theater is dying. It’s a quaint form at this point.

If people are seeking comedy, they go to TikTok. They’re certainly not going to the theater. There’s almost nowhere left in culture where people are all actually together looking at something. She’s at the Soho Theater. If you’re in the UK until thirty September let’s mix up the order today and see who’s at the High Planes Comedy Festival in Denver on this Saturday night.

Chaos Theory. It’s six o’clock open mic, seven o’clock at Mutiny Information Cafe. Sky’s the Limit at seven. Mattale Lane quotes High Planes headline or show seven thirty at the Paramount. The Growlocks are there at nine, and then a couple of local shows.

So yeah, if we were there, Mattale Lane would be the move for sure, and then we could bounce around catching local shows.

Now, let’s see who’s at JFL Toronto on a Saturday.

If you listened to yesterday, I was a little underwhelmed by the Friday night lineup and I love JFL, but they got better in them than that. SETV backup at seven, Jay Jordan at seven, Michelle Wolf and Ariel Alias at seven. All right, we hypothetically saw both of them yesterday, so let’s do Leslie Jones. I’ve been talking about her a lot this week. This would make her our seven o’clock show, seven thirty New Faces of Canada eight o’clock Saturday Night set Tire eight o’clock Double Threat, Rachel Menson and Clifton Cremo.

Love the name of this one. This is gonna work on me. Eight o’clock Beer Beer Comedy. Beer Beer Comedy is thrilled to bring its brand of underground Toronto comedy to the bright lights of JFL, featuring Toronto’s top comedians. I’m sold on that we’re doing that, all right, that’s all right.

O’clock show, Beer Beer Comedy, so Leslie Jones, then Beer Beer Comedy, The nine o’clocks, Gavin Matt’s Ariel Elias, Joe to Rosa, Dan Smith nine fifteen. Reggie Watts. Have you ever seen Reggie Watts? Very very interesting in person? Nine thirty Neil Brennan nine thirty Ronny Chieng, WHOA.

I was on my way to Reggie Watts and I’m like, oh, I really want to see Neil Brennan. And I was like, I really like Ronny Chieng. Hm. Which do we see? All right?

Reggie Watts, Neil Brennan, Ronny Chieng. I’m gonna eliminate Reggie Watts, Neil Brennan, Ronny Chieng, Neil Brennan, Ronnie Chan Let’s go see Neil Brennon at nine thirty, ten o’clock Saturday Night sets Hire Alison Leebley, SETV ten thirty, Best of Absolute Comedy eleven o’clock, Andrea Gin Alternative Show, Patty Harrison, Jay Jorden An eleven thirty After Hours Let’s do Jay Jordan at eleven o’clock. There’s also the Hampton’s Comedy Festival. Some of your performers tonight, Eric Haft, Richie Byrne, Scott Baker, Vinnie Mark and if you’re in Scranton and you’ll like kittens. Animal Care Associates is a local nonprofit all volunteer foster and rescue that’s been serving the community for twenty years that they are teaming with the Scranton Comedy Club for Comedy for the Kittens.

It’s a fundraiser tonight, seven o’clock at the Scranton Comedy Club fifteen bucks. The show features Steve Marshall and Bob A. Finney as headliners. Aaron Bader is your feature. The event also features basket raffles, merch and Moore.

For details LNK Tree Slash Aca, Scranton. There will also be some kittens there. Maybe adopt one on your way home. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy what I do here, Tell a friend about it.

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big Jay Okerson releases his comedy album dog Belly today. That’s cool, Heather McMahon. We’ll have a special on Netflix October seventeenth.

It’s called Son I never had. Let’s listen to a piece from the trailer. I want to paint a picture of what baby Heather looked like. Okay, I’d always wear my dad hand me down golf shirts, just like tucked into the front. I’d wear a sensible bel CROs sandal in case they’d like take off after my mom at Costco.

I really solidified the look when I went to Great Clips one summer and I saw my stylish Trish and I just go, Trish. I want to get out the buzzers and hit the nape of my neck. I want to feel that sweet Georgia heat just running down my spine. Shot in Lexington, Kentucky, at the historic Lexington Opera House, McMahon tackle’s body image, drug, sex, fertility, grief, and she also let’s loose on female beauty standards, messing up her own IVF and wellness retreats. In this hilarious one hour special, Heather McMahon son, I never had October seventeenth on Netflix.

If you were heading to Las Vegas to see Strike Force three on Saturday, don’t the Strike Force three live event announced by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fown and Stephen Colbert has been canceled. Why Jimmy Kimmel has tested positive for COVID. Kimmel, on a statement said, well, Las Vegas, I got COVID and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend’s Strike Force three show. I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick. Thanks to all the purchase tickets, everyone will get full refunds and we’ll try to reschedule if possible.

Seems everything around Russell Brand is collapsing. He had a podcast, and podcast News Daily says Luminaries contract with Russell Brand to produce new content. It ended more than a year ago, and we will no longer promote any of his older content. Any recent episodes were simply reposts or promoting old content, podcast news Daily points out. Luminary did, however, announce earlier this month that Under the Skin would be one of the first six podcast that would be featured as part of its new alliance with a Cast.

A Cast would serve as Luminaries exclusive monetization partner. An A Cast rap says A Cast immediately turned off ads on Russell Brand’s podcast following news of the recent allegations against him. Katherine Ryan did a comedy show and she avoided the quote elephant in the room, joking that the elephant in the room was that she had lost two stones in the past two months. And she did a set covering her sex, life, kids and ancestry. Katherine Ryan had previously had some comments about unnamed comedian, now believed to be Russell Brand.

ABC made delay Dancing with the Stars Why. Matt Walsh said in a statement that he will pause his involvement with the show until an agreement is made with the Writers Guild of America. Matt said, I was excited to join the show and did sell under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement. This morning, when I was informed by my union, the WGA that it is considered struck work, I walked out of my rehearsal. I have been and will always stand with my union members of the WGA, SAG and DGA beyond our union artists.

I’m sensitive to the many people impacted by the strike, and I hope for a speedy and fair resolution and to one day work again with all the wonderful people I met at DWTS who tolerated my dancing. Quick stop on gossip Corner from fourteenews dot com, Bert Kreisher was seen shopping in Evansville just hours before doing his big show at the Ford Center. We’re told Bert Kreisher was downtown and made a stop at the River City Coffee plus Goods. According to their social media page, Burt bought some merch and left with a drink. He was then spotted at Goldman’s pawn Shop on Fourth Street.

That’s weird. PBS interviewed otsko ad Kaska and asked why it took so long for her career to kick in. I think people are afraid of things not working. People are afraid of things they’re not used to seeing. The audience has been asked for, and that’s what I mean by like social media and stand up comedians post their own clips online.

They gain their own followers and go on tour and the audience is there and they prove like look people do want to see this, and then the industry usually listens to, yes, that is funny. How that works. Michelle Wolf talked to Rolling Stone about doing her special in three ports. In case you missed it, I mentioned yesterday Michelle Wolf’s special fifth Best of the Year is how I have it so far. I liked it a lot.

It’s like fifth Best is not a dig I like the ones at the top of the list a lot. Michelle said. I wanted to see if I could change up the way we’re consuming these specials based off are decreased attention span. I think there’s a great place for an hour long special, and there are a lot of great hour long specials, but I also think there are a lot of hour long collections of jokes. This is more a collection of jokes rather than something that felt like a special.

I thought, there are fifteen minutes that work really well together, so I really need to find a segue to get into the next chunk that works well together. Or could I just break it up and then if they like it, they’ll watch another one That was exactly what I did. Michelle said. I originally made eight episodes that varied in length. I think the longest was twenty three minutes, the shortest was nine, and most are around fifteen.

Even though I didn’t end up selling those as eight episodes, I stand by what I was trying to do, and I hope they see that this is a way that comedy can be consumed and they say, in six months, I have another three episode that I could just grow up there, rather than waiting another year or two to get a full special, I can be like, you know, I have a really interesting twenty minute set and a really interesting seven minute set, and let’s add two more episodes to this. It would also give us an opportunity to be a little more timelier with it. I think everything she said there makes a ton of sense. Michelle said, I think this special is a bit more personal than my last ones, and I think I kind of mistakenly get put in the political comedian barrel. I’m not Bill Moore, and I’m not doing jokes about a Sandal shorter.

I do talk about things that I observe as being things that are affecting society right now. But I think I mistakenly got put in the political comedian category as someone who’s going to do a bunch of Trump jokes. I worked on the Daily Show, so that put me in the corner, and of course people associate me with the White House Correspondence Dinner. But I’ve always felt my stand up has been separate from that. Washington Post profiled a partner an Unschulish, she’s got her new book out, and they were like, you know, you can pay real money for an Anxiety Queen T shirt, And a partner said, it’s a bit surreal.

I think once any topic gets commodified or swallowed up by the market, it does kind of distort the meeting of it. In Unreliable Narrator, she grapples with these contradictions, says, maybe being a spokespushan for anything apparently makes you question your relationship to it. Perhaps I should have lawyered up early on and negotiated a more contractual relationship the only partial custody of my brain from Inside Radio. Joe Rogan may have one of podcastings biggest shows. I believe it’s the biggest, but he’s one of the medium’s more polarizing figures.

That is especially true among eighteen to thirty four year olds. Women were asked if they say listening to Joe Rogan as a red flag to a potential relationship. Fifty five percent said yes. The survey said more than a third of men thirty five percent, also see a red flag if their potential significant other is a Joe Rogan listener. Yeah, okay, I don’t know.

Maybe it’s just me. I’m able to listen to a conversation about comedy with say Jim Gaffigan, and I don’t know, my wife still likes me. Who knows, Maybe we’re weird. On the flip side, more men see as a plus if their potential partner listens to Joe Rogan. A quarter of eighteen to thirty four year old men say it’s a green flag if their potential partner listens to Rogan’s podcasts.

So if you’re out there in single and you see a cute guy, you might be like, hey, Joe Rogan experience, huh might get you date? Who knows. Tom Webster said, this is a show that is very easy for a lot of people to hate because it’s very good at excluding people, which means it’s kind of a velvet rope experience for the people that it appeals to. Okay, Ryan Reynolds will receive bring change to minds Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award. It’s the eleventh annual Rebels and Revelations fundraiser.

Each year, the Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award is given out at the fundraiser in honor of the late actor by his children. Previous recipients include Billy Crystal, will Be Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Dan and Eugene Levy, Melissa McCarthy, and now Ryan Reynolds. If you haven’t had a chance, you had to listen to Conan O’Brien’s interview on Kara Switcher’s podcast It Is Fun. And Kara was curious if Conan thought Late Night is on its last legs and will you ever go back to tv TV. Conan said, I grew up watching Johnny Carson, and there was one Lean Night host, and then there were two, and then there were three, and I think at a certain point the whole mechanism, the technology changed.

You know, there were so many people that used to watch me because they didn’t have much choice. It’s twelve thirty at night. They had to wake up and take a medication or baby’s crying, and they were like, no, let’s watch Conan. Now you have a choice between watching a late night host or anything that’s ever been shot or recorded in the history of mankind. You can watch the director’s cut of Lawrence of Arabia, you can watch any merchant Ivory movie.

You can watch all the Faulty Towers, I mean anything. So it’s much more difficult now. Bob Odenkirk talked about his time on Saturday Night Live. This from The Hollywood Reporter. They were listening to oden Kirk on Tignazarro’s podcast, and oden Kirk said, when he was at SNL, he was unsure of myself.

It was hard, It was existentially dangerous. I had feelings of I should erased myself. I was too young when I got hired at SNL. That was not a good thing. That could have gone wrong, that could have gone wrong.

It came disclose so many times and going so wrong. You gotta believe me. While at the show, he wrote for people like Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, and Tim Meadows. He liked Chris Farley. He said one time he played the dad in a met full sketch, and we did it seven times a week at Second City.

Every time I did. That was the most fun I had in show business. Roy Wood Junior told the Chicago Tribune what he would do if he were a commissioner of Major League Baseball. Roy Wood Junior said, to simple change. I like bat flips, I like k struts.

I like designs on sneakers, the cool bat paintings during the home run derby. That should be a normal thing. Blair wants to strat if a player wants a deer show announce of fun while playing the game, and then his voice trailed off because says, Suzuki stepped out of the batter’s box and he was apparently interested in the event. It is Friday Night at Toronto jfl. Let’s see who’s playing tonight.

Seven o’clock Tonight The Second City eighty eight Main Stage Review, That’s Cool seven o’clock, Fun and Slutty with Jonathan van Ness Andrea Jane at seven, Joe to Rose at seven, Drew Lynch at seven, Mark Forward’s Safari Time, Ron Funches at seven, seven, fifteen, eight o’clock The four twenty Show with Mike Rita f and Not Funny Fridays at Double Threat Chad Anderson and Adrian Fish eight o’clock Value Dog Presents Brendan Flaherty eight o’clock, Peter Wildman, One Funny Song eight fifteen, Adria Amran and The Experience It’s Musical Comedy. Nine o’clock, Double Threat, Nigel Grinstead and a Jonas Shirley. This is not quite the lineup we saw last night. Last night was a lot stronger than this, wasn’t it. Maybe they’re a Sam Morrell in the middle of there and that’s what propped it up.

I don’t know. I’m not feeling this lineup at all. So for sorry, jfl Toronto, Let’s see Joe to Rossa at nine. New Faces of Canada, Adrian Packer, Andrea ginn nine fifteen, Fred Armison nine thirty, Nicole Buyer, Michelle Wolf ten o’clock, Improv All Stars, Alison Leebley, Tim thirty Comedy, Melting Pot eleven o’clock, Ariel Elias, Run Funches, Dan Smith, The Alternative Show eleven thirty, After Arrows twelve thirty. Alright, I’m gonna reverse engineer this because I’m on a Michelle Wolf kicks.

I want to see Michell Wolf at nine thirty. That’s what I’m making you do. So let’s see what we can do early seven o’clock. You want to pick Jonathan Van Assad, Drew Lynch, Mark Forward, Run Funches. I don’t know, Drew Lynch, I guess I don’t know.

You pick eight o’clock, Jenny Mac That’s not how this works. I’m not feeling any of those eight o’clock Mike rita F and Funny Friday. Let’s throw deep and see what F and Funny Fridays is. Maybe we’ll see an up and comer. All right, then we’ll get a beer.

We’ll hit Michelle Wolf at nine thirty eleven o’clock. Let’s see Ariel Elias. There’s some buzz on her.

And then again there’s a show at twelve thirty called Late Bad.

But I’m going to murder you because I want to go to bed at the High Planes Comedy Festival today. That one’s in Denver. I love the name of the show, Diketopia. At seven o’clock, join Lee Robinson and Keith McLaughlin as they host a night of extremely gay comedy, drag games, and audience merriment. Strap on your burken stocks and come laugh with us.

Eight o’clock, something called Chaos blooms High Plane showcases. Let you see performers in their natural setting, no gimmicks, no themes, just a microphone and say I’m into that. Let’s do that ten o’clock Firecracker comedy Ay Day Naimi stand up supergroup consisting of a bunch of people I haven’t heard of, but that sounds fun. And at eleven o’clock, define Gentleman’s Club. Define Gentleman’s Club.

The description like those kookie Robot, Tigers and vulture on the fine gents are popping and locking themselves into formation for your stand up comedy enjoyment. I actually like this lineup a lot better than the Toronto one tonight. So let’s get on a plane. We’ll go to Denver for the night and seven o’clock Dike Topia, Chaos blooms at eight, Firecracker at nine, Fine Gentleman at ten has that sound? Or should we go to Washington, DC because Matt Rife he’s taping his new special there at Constitution Hall.

It is sold out, but maybe we know somebody at the door. You never know? Or should we go to Milwaukee because Hassan minhas you know, the guy that makes stuff up when he’s doing comedy That guy. Yeah, he’s starting a tour, which is great because now there’ll be a ton of interviews with him and he’ll be asked ten trillion times, Hey, people got mad that you made up some stuff in your comedy special, et cetera, et cetera, and he’ll have to answer it, and then I’ll have content for the podcast. And he starts in Milwaukee tonight, then Madison, Wisconsin tomorrow.

He’ll finish up December fifteenth the New York City’s Beacon Theater. Or should we go to Alexandria, Virginia and see Patton Oswalt? It’s the Effervescent Tour? Where should we wait? Until October eighteenth, when Patton will be celebrating twenty years since his debut comedy album two two two, Live and Uncut.

If you want to see Patton, he’s fantastic. If you’d like to see Patton Tonight at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Tomorrow on Richmond, Virginia at the Tin Pan will be in New York City where I kind of live. He used to live there, New York City City Winery. On the twenty ninth, up to Boston, Pittsburgh, Philly, Athens Georgia, two shows, Nashville, See Lewis, Chicago, and then Madison, Wisconsin, November ninth through the eleven, three shows at Comedy on State. Or should we go to San Francisco to Cobb’s Comedy Club, a fantastic place and a fantastic part of town because Natasha la Jaro’s kicking off her tour there.

Her tour is called Natasha on Tour. San Franz Tonight tomorrow, October nineteenth, San Diego, October twenty sixth, the Sacramento No. Number sixteenth, Denver. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it.

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The Shark Deck. Hi, I’m Enny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And this time I pushed the red button that says record. It’s right next to the green button that hit play. Luckily I caught that three minutes in and not twenty minutes in.

Yikes. Hi, I watched Michelle Wolf special last night. I loved it. You’ve heard me talk about it. It comes in three parts.

The first third is the best. I was absolutely I’m like, oh wow, this is gonna make a run here. The next best segment is the third segment, which was a little shorter. I was like, oh, that’s it. I wanted more, to be honest, I caught myself during the second segment, especially the first half of the second segment.

I caught myself playing on my phone and I had zoned out a little bit, so, you know. Other than that though, but the second half of the middle fantastic. Liked it a lot. I’ll tell you where it is on my end of year list. That’s what I just did when I noticed, Oh, you’re not actually recording, John, You’re just talking to yourself.

Michelle recently caught up with Rolling Stone and talked about living in Barcelona. That’s mentioned in the special and how Barcelona compares to New York. Michelle said, I still have a place in New York City. It’s really nice. But even just aside from work, there’s a tension in America right now that is very palpable when you leave and you come back.

There’s a tension here. I don’t feel when of them in Europe, and they want to have a good life there. They really value their free time, their family and their community. Spain is like, you, guys can make all the money you want, but we’re gonna take two hours off in the afternoon and get a coffee, and then we’re gonna come back work like half hour more, and then we’re gonna have a glass of wine and a snack, and then we’re gonna take a month off in August to really wind down. I think that’s nice.

I loved Barcelona when I was there, even though somebody stole my credit card. You rotten scoundrel, you. But I caught that like immediately and called my banker, Jason. I was like, Jason, cancel my credit card.

And then I had to borrow money from my son for like a week.

Michelle added, I don’t know what we’re grinding for here in the States. Part of the reason people grind so hard here is because they need money to pay for all the things we have to pay for. Healthcare is due to debt’s childcare, any number of things. You don’t feel that in Europe. And that’s nice.

It’s one of the things the pandemic pointed out to me. When I wasn’t working, I was like, what do I have other than work? I wanted to have a life and a family, and my family, I mean a collection of actual family and friends whose company I can enjoy. So it was a pandemic. Moved to Barcelona, and then this is interesting, she said.

Toward the end of the pandemic, I spent most of it in Ohio with Dave Chappelle. Donal Rollings was there, Moamare was there, and then there were a lot of comedians whould come in, do shows and leave. I was there from March twenty twenty and I don’t think I got back to New York until late October. I eventually got my own place there too. I can’t say enough good things about Dave’s family in the community.

Dave is the kindest, most generous person I know, and he’s also great at comedy. So let me tell you where Michelle Wolf lands on the rankings so far. I’m not going to do the entire ranking of the top ten. The best comedy special of the year so far is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short here you’ll find that on YouTube, and Tom Sagora at two, Kyle Canine three, Naper Gatsy. Michelle Wolf comes in at number five, knocking Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl down.

The six Jim Jefferies, Harry Conabolo, Chris Rock and Jimmy O. Yang is your top ten And it was at that point I was like, Oh, you’re not actually recording, so that’s good. So for the rest of what you’re gonna hear today, I haven’t done it already. It’s amazing. I’ve been doing this four plus years.

I think that’s the first time I actually made that particular error. Not too bad.

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Speaking of Michelle Wolf, Anthony DeVito is a former writer on The Break wit…

Inside Blog tells us Anthony DeVito special Brain Noise is available for free on YouTube. Anthony DeVito knows how to shape and joke from language to pacing. DeVito is a consummate, seasoned voice working at the height of his ability. It’s a pleasure to watch him present jokes that often focus on being stuck in poorly thought out situations and a chuckling au at their absurdity. Anthony DeVito’s good.

Check it out Brain Noise on YouTube. Another comedian to keep an eye on. This guy’s going to blow up and this might be what does it? Ralph Barbosa Kawabunga coming to Netflix on a Halloween. He filmed that back in August at the Kessler Theater in Barbosa’s hometown of Dallas.

He’s real good. Keep an eye. One spellsh you can’t watch is Russell Brandon New York City because Paramount Plus took it down. They didn’t give a reason why. I don’t know.

Why do you think? I don’t know. I have no idea. Why would they take a Russell Brand special down? That’s weird At the time of this recording, though, if you’re on Netflix you can still watch Russell Brand Rebirth.

The BBC also remove some programs featuring Russell Brand. A spokesperson said the BBC doesn’t ban or remove content when it’s a matter of public record unless we have justifications we’re doing so. There’s limited content featuring Russell Brand on iPlayer and sounds. We reviewed that content and made a considered decision to remove some of it, having assess that it now falls below public expectations. The remove content includes an episode of QI and a Joe Wicks podcast that had Russell Brand as a guest.

It’s awesome Internet buzz about Bill Hayder’s Van Halen impressions. He was on the Best Show. They were doing a twenty four hour live stream and in our seventeen Bill Hayter popped on and we learned that he has a text chain with Fred Ormison and John Mulaney where they role play as the van Halen brothers. I puleds a clip. The higher pitched voice is Hayter doing Eddie van Halen.

The secondary voice that doesn’t say much is Hater doing Alex van Halen. Let’s listen this guy. He goes out there on Bobby, but we totally disrespectful to Beck. Toy disrespect was the bext moment. He totally gets it by hold Beck and so I would call those guys as dan Halen brothers and then John Mulaney and Fred Armison and I had a text chain as the van Halen brothers rear ending somebody.

I mean, all right, I don’t think they’re the best impressions. Craig Gas does a fantastic Eddie van Halen impression because he lived with Eddie for a while. I went to try and find a clip of it and I couldn’t. Billy Mira does a fantastic David Lee Roth here got a brand new album, We got a brand new tour. Still got the same old fucky attitude.

Yeah. And the reason I know that is back when I was at Serious and Jim Brewer was the afternoon host. We one time before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame reunited Dave and Eddie on the phone. It was Bill and Gas doing the characters and it sounded so amazing. The next day somebody told Howard Stern that Brewer had Dave and Eddie on and they played the clip and Howard kind of believed it for a second.

Before Howards a sharp tool he figured it out. But we had a little buzz going there. We weren’t trying to prank the world. We were just having fun with the whole thing. But they both do great voices there.

Adam Ray, you know him from Arrested, Development and Curb and some other things. He’ll be taping his new special in Madison, Wisconsin, Comedy on State, tapings tonight through the twenty third, if you want to check that out. The New York Times read about Strike Force five. That’s the podcast with the late night hosts. They kind of nailed it, they said.

In theory, the podcast sounds like the late night equivalent of The Avengers. In practice, it’s more like comedians and cars getting coffee. You know, I got distracted mid sentence because I was like, are you actually recording? And I had to check. It’s more like comedians and cars getting coffee decaffeinated.

It’s an amiable, shapeless session of five years busting chops, trading shop talk, and occasionally reading sponsor ads like modern Day Joe Franklin’s By the way, Quality Control people, dudes, some of those commercials are recorded. Solow and I have a question about every episode. Why is John Oliver in a cave? We can’t get John Oliver a good mike. You want me to record it for you, I can eque it for you.

There are things we can do to fix bad audio. Guys, what are we doing the time’s rights. But other than it’s mission statement, which is to raise money to support the host out of work staffs, it’s only rarely about the strike. An episode three e, Colbert surprises his co host by having an AI read ads and their voices, and he says, this is why the Guild’s got to hold the line. This is why Saxey got to hold the line, because we’re all going to be replaced by robots by Christmas if we don’t.

Whoopi Goldberg has come to the defense of Hasan Minhaj. You may have heard on this very podcast Hassan embellished some stories and is being criticized for that. More about that on the weekend, Whoopy said, that’s what we do as comedians. That’s what we do. We tell stories and we embellish them.

If you’re going to hold a comic to the point where you’re gonna check on stories, you have to understand a lot of it is not the exact thing that happened, because why would we tell exactly what happened. It’s not that interesting. There’s information we’ll give you as comics that will have greens truth, but don’t take that to the bank. That’s our job, a seat of truth, sometimes truth and sometimes total be us. Yes, the formula is often a thing that actually happened, thing that actually happened, exaggerated thing that didn’t happen at all, but it sounds like it could have to give you the laugh and then later on you do the callback.

I get at whoopee, but we’ll get into hasan on the weekend. JFL Toronto kicks off today. I really considered going up there. If you’ve been listening, I’ve been sort of mentioning now and then my mom has been various degrees of ill. So I just didn’t make any plans to run up to Toronto, and I didn’t even have a minute to reach out to JFL to ask for interviews.

I love doing the things with Montreal and it was in the back of my mind, so I didn’t really have an opportunity to reach out to JFL. But I’ve done the Toronto festival. It is really good. So if you’re a relatively new listener, what I do with the bigger festivals is to take a look at the schedule and it makes some recommendations as to what you and I would do if we were at the festival on a particular night. So listen to this.

This is just night one, okay. Here are the choices for us. At seven o’clock we could see an evening with the Office ladies, Ron Funches, Dane Smith, Andrea Jinn, Mark Forward or Michelle but So. By the way, I really like how they did the counter on this one. Sometimes the schedules are a little hard to figure out, but they’ve put them together in such a nice format.

Here all at the eight o’clock shows, Wayne Jones and Friends, Thursday Laugh Therapy, Anti Depressant Thursdays, Alison Leebley and the Mainstage eighty eight Review, eight thirty Best of Absolute Comedy, nine o’clock, Ron Funches, Andrea Gin, Dan Smith, nine thirty, Sam Morrell, thirty Michelle but So, ten o’clock Laugh Sabbath, I don’t have a description. Eleven o’clock Alternative Show or Joe to Rosa, eleven thirty, Midnight Madness and Late to Bad at twelve thirty. All right, that’s just night one, okay. And this thing goes on for over a week. If you and I were there, what would I tell us to do?

Let’s say the seven o’clock shows, let’s do ron funches if we have time. At eight o’clock, let’s pomp into like something one of the smaller shows, and maybe something like Thursday laugh Therapy. Because we’ll have to leave early to hit a nine o’clock show. At nine o’clock, let’s do you know what, Let’s not do anything at nine o’clock. Let’s see Sam Morrell at nine thirty.

That’ll take us to ten thirty plus, so then at eleven o’clock let’s do the alternative show.

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And then for this mental exercise, I’ll tell you, oh, let’s hit late Bad at t…

But in reality, if you were actually traveling with me at twelve o’clock after having seen three four comedy shows, I’m going to murder you unless we go back to the hotel because I need to sleep. Just being real, Johnny Mack likes his sleep.

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Also kicking off the High Planes Comedy Festival, westward dot com tell us as…

The High Planes Comedy Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. It began as a dream by comedian and festival founder Adam Clayton Holland. It’s grown into Denver his largest and longest running stand up comedy extravaganza. More than one hundred of the funniest comedians from across the globe will show up for the three days. Clayton Hollands as it got the idea for high planes when he was doing Bridgetown at Comedy Festival in Portland.

He describes that experience as being like a summer camp for comedians. I just checked to see it was recording. Again. I’m so paranoid now and as you know, it apparently recorded because you’re hearing this conversation. Clayton Holland said there’d be big names at Bridgetown, but they also had a really good eye for up and comers across the country.

It was just bringing the coolest comedy party to Portland, and after attending, I knew din reneeded that and I came home with a fire under my ass to start it. It’s an indie festival, so when it started, I’d reach out to my friends and wouldn’t go through the industry and all that stuff. Over the years, it’s just kind of gotten more elaborate. The beginning was just a few comedy shows that I got all my famous friends to do. Now it’s way more orchestrated.

Tonight six o’clock. It begins at the Bobcat Club, Beth Stelling and Friends at seven, all Comedy Everything at eight, Chris Getherd and Friends at nine, and the High Planes Karaoke Kickoff after party at ten. Now you don’t need me to make any decisions for you, because they’re all laid out nicely. You could hit all of them. That seems like a good festival.

A couple of tours kicking off. Ben Schwartz and friends. You may know Ben Schwartz from Parks and rec You may know him Missed the Voice of Sonic the Hedgehog his tour tonight, DC Radio City on the twenty third, Counting on my fingers, there’s a Saturday Wow, not bad, then a little gap Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Houston, and Dallas. On November twenty nine, and from talkSPORT, comedian Lionel Messi was kissed on the neck by an Argentine comedian, comedian mcgae Granados published a clip of himself kissing Missy. Talk Sports tells us Messi smirked in anticipation of the kiss and let out a smile, with the nine second clip being viewed more than a million times on Twitter.

That’s fun.

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Also, my little podcast network here, we have a podcast called The Messy Effe…

But we don’t really talk about the soccer stuff. So if you’re looking for like a soccer podcast, we’re not really doing that. We’re more into like the glitz and the glamour and the Miami and comedians kissing Messy on the neck and hamburgers named after Messi and all the like silly stuff that goes with Messy. It’s been a lot of fun doing that one. That’s called The Messy Effect.

Wherever you get your shows, and that is your comedy news for today. If you like what I do here, tell a friend about it. Trying to grow the show a little. Every little bit helps appreciate you see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News on The Daily Beast, Sean McCarthy asks why are male comedians so scared to talk about Louis C.K. Sean wrote a nice opinion piece about that. Some of the paragraphs, Sean writes. Actor Michael Ian Black, who received plenty of pushback online in twenty eighteen when he asked what the parameters might be for Ck or anyone else to make a professional comeback, suggested to filmmakers of Sorry Not Sorry, the Louis K documentary that perhaps people are reluctant to come forward and participate in discussions about c K or me too, because everyone has skeletons in their closet. Sean writes, is that what’s happening here are men in comedy staying silent because they’re worried about what we might find out about them.

Were they submitting to some sort of snitches? Get Stitches bro Code. The New York Times profiled Shane Gillis, Shane is red hot right now, and they write getting fired, paid off. It made Shane Gillis a martyr to some, and he was savvy enough to embrace those fans without tediously obsessing over cancel culture. He said he understood the criticism of his comments, offered a halfhearted apology, then doubled down on lumbering through the China shop of cultural sensitivities.

A comic who tells the crowd he has no female friends isn’t looking to appeal to everyone. Gillis often holds a microphone with two hands, more like a singer than a stand up. His attitude is less telling you the truth about the world and stumbling through the mess of his thought process. His appearance telegraphs rumbled, ordinary guy, not polished entertainer, and he speaks to crowds as if he were messing around with friends. Few comics do more with the word dude and beautiful dogs.

He describes himself as a bit of a history buff, which he calls a sign of early onset Republican. If you’re a white dude in your twenties and thirties and can’t stop reading about World War Two, it’s coming, brother. He compares that to the pull of a person turning into a werewolf. Shane was also recently on Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant podcast and was asked about a recent photo of him and Joe Rogan rolling around. Shane said, I tried to fight Rogan last week.

Whoops. He ripped my shoulder off and I was hammered. So I was like, you can’t tap me, dude, So I kept effing with him. He tapped me like eight times, James, Dude, he kept going. Joe Parra has a new special coming out based on his recent year and a half long tour of places like the Upper Midwest, of the Lower Midwest, Buffalo, Scotland, and Phoenix.

It’s called Joe Parra Slow and Steady. He’s independently financing, producing, and releasing it himself. Let’s let Joe Parra tell you about it. I’m gonna have to clip this down a little bit because it’s quite long. Hello, comedian Joe Perron, and I got something exciting for you.

Stop the winning low Tho Poppers. It’s better. I think it came out real nice. If you want to watch, hopefully laugh a bit and say that was dang good way to spend fifty six minutes at forty one seconds. It’ll be on my YouTube and website Friday, October six, and I hope he’ll consider watching Joe Parra Slow and Steady filmed at the Opera House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

It’ll be on his YouTube channel October six at eight eastern. While back, BUCkies came up and I remember mentioning that I was unfamiliar with BUCkies, and quite a few audience members wrote into me to be like, oh, you’re totally missing out on BUCkies. While comedian Tim Hawkins has now written a song about Bucky’s whiskey, Riff writes, if you haven’t had a chance to grace a Bucky’s mid road trip, my thoughts are going out to you. While the gas station is mildly overwhelming, at some points, you can’t deny it’s a must stop if you pass the sign for one on the interstate, Bucky says everything you’d ever need, food, drinks, snacks, fresh baked goods, brisket, home to core, apparrel, booze, and so much more. If you told me that BUCkies began to sell fishing rods, I’d believe you.

Let’s listen to what Tim Hawkins has to say. I’ll clip this down a little bit as well. The files also be a nugget, Try a little fuck jerky, adda pulled pork, say it was just because getting lead. The Bowl of Anna, Hoodie pol the Wife pass down, Fried Pat Tapy Hadda die Yes. The Rosy Pek has shoot Bull the Dog, positive encouragement painted on a log, a lentchreprehanda pudding, the Callie Chicken wrap, people of the Journey, a Bucky beavera cab.

What’s up? Fantastic? Uh this next story? Please don’t do this. This came up.

I thought this was dead. This came up years ago, but it’s back. Eddie Murphy is in talks to star as Inspector Clusseaux and a new Ping Panther reboot. There’s just so much wrong there. I won’t even get into it.

But in this version of the Ping Panther, it’ll be a live action CGI hybrid that follows the actual Ping Panther, you know, the panther that’s pink and it’s a cartoon, the actual Ping Panther being broken out of an animated prison by his live action crew for a heist.

And then I guess Eddie Murphy’s Inspector Clusseau would chase just don’t, do…

The San Francisco Gate said that Seth Meyers closed out twenty twenty three’s dream Force conference in San Francisco. Let me tell you about this. I’m wondering how much Seth got paid for this, because he apparently did custom material a forty minutes set at the Moscone West conference Hall. I’ve been in the Mosconi four. They used to have Wonder Cohn, a comicon type event in that building.

That is a big convention center type place. Seth poked funded vaccine holdouts and wedding tropes, plus waxed about parenthood, New York City and his relationship with sports. All right, that sounds like standard material. But he said, what a crazy room this is. This is like a five year old had a birthday party and said they wanted the theme to be forest, And then he corrected himself, said a five year old billionaire.

Myers went on to pick apart corporate language. He made fun of the recurrent use of the words roadmaps and trailblazers in the conference program. You are achieving, you are amplifying, you are accelerating. Architect I saw architect used as a verb. I don’t even think architects used architect as a verb.

If you were to party and you said, what do you do? And someone said, I architect. You would think, no, you don’t. We’re gonna empower, We’re gonna experience, We’re gonna explore. How do we know we’re gonna explore the roadmaps?

This is some event. Kristen Bell introduced Sheng Wang, who guess opened for Seth Myers. What is this event? Seth said he had no fffing idea what Salesforce does, and the crowd roared. All I know is that I’m walking around a carted pond at what is likely the beginning of a pagan ritual and will end with you setting me on fire while you join hands and dance around me in a circle.

Jim Gaffigan was on Bill Moore’s podcast I’m Still picking Away at that. They were discussing relationships in general, and Jim started talking about Prince Harry and Megan Markol. You know them. We talk about them every day on the podcast Palace Intrigue. I’m the writer for that show.

If you want to follow the Royals, Palace Intrigue wherever you give your shows. Jim said, like, if Prince Harry and Megan Marco got divorced right now, people would probably vilify her and feel sorry for him, but we don’t know what’s going on. Bill said, I heard they’re on the rocks when you think that marriage is under a lot of pressure right now because they’re kind of effed up in their whole thing. You know, they kind of went way too hard on we’re victims, and they assess the mood of their generation in America correctly and that we’re lovers of victimhood. But America did finally find a way to say, you know what, we love victims, but you two just had a little too much of it.

Universal Music Group Nashville has a new comedy label, Capitol Comedy Nashville. The first release Nate Brigatsi’s Hello World Audio album now available, means that will be eligible for an Emmy. A suit at UMG said, We’ve been forever link going back to the early days of the Grand Old Opera and classic country shows like Keyhaw, where comedians shared billings with musical acts and helped us laugh at ourselves. I feel there’s no better time to relink our comedy history together with the start of our new label, Capitol Comedy Nashville. I’m all in favor of comedy audio releases on gossip Corner.

Will Pete Davidson wind up with Britney Spears. A source tells reader Online Now that Pete split from Chase Sweet wonders he’d like to make sweet music with Britney. It might not be a pipe dream, after all, she posted one of his goofy Instagram videos last year and admitted it made her laugh. An insider tells The Enquirer Pizza hopeless, romantic and loves having a woman on his arm, but he’s recently sought treatment again for his mental health issues, and Brittany’s navigating her own messy break up. Pal’s worrying neither of them is in the right head space to start a new relationship, and are convinced they’re hooking up would be a recipe for disaster.

From the San Francisco Standard. More than four dozen comedians spent Sunday at Golden Gate Parks Robin Williams Meadow. It was the forty second annual Comedy Day. Sacramento. Comic Johnny Taylor said, you know, I gotta say it’s an honor to perform in the most ideal conditions for stand up comedy outside in broad daylight with kids around, nothing quite like it.

Comedian Karen Braswell said, I can’t wait to walk around and check out the food trucks. I’m just gonna hope there’s a San Francisco micro climate going on over there, and the fish is nice and cold. Connor Lonsdale said, I love Oakland because you see stuff there that you don’t really see anywhere else. The other day, I saw a citybus run a red light. It wasn’t like he missed the yellow or there was like a terrorist making of keep it above fifty miles an hour.

He stopped at the light and he was like, screw this, I’m going I ran it too. I followed him. He didn’t stop at a single stop sign or bus stop. He did stop at the liquor store. And that’s your comedy news for today.

If you like the show, tell a friend about it. Huh. Meet you back here tomorrow. Thanks,