Month: September 2023

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The Shark Deck. I had to rip up today’s podcast at start over. There’s a lot of Russell brand I’ll do that in a couple of minutes. Let me tell you about some other things going on. And Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with you Daily Comedy News.

Leslie Jones.

Now, let’s remember Leslie Jones has a new book out today and she is promotin…

Coincidentally, she tells the Hollywood Reporter that her friend Chris Rock sought counseling after being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars. Did you year about that? Yeah, it was really something. Leslie Jones, who has a new book out today that she’s promoting, said that stuff was humiliating. It really affected him.

People need to understand his daughters, his parents saw that he had to go to counseling with his daughters. Leslie, who has a new book out today that she’s promoting, says she was watching the Oscars from home that night and was infuriated when seeing the incident and said, you don’t know that I was going to jump in my car and roll up there. I was so effing man on so many levels.

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Speaking of jumping in cars from the BBC Trevor Noah was running late on Frid…

He was in Johannesburg and due to appear on the ninety seven radio station morning show, but bad traffic, a confused taxi driver, and angry locals made him late. There’s a bicycle fighting with a taxi driver. That’s not in your traffic report. He then announced he was gonna get in with some guy and showed up in the studio shortly thereafter. Trevor said, can I just say, whoever’s in this traffic?

I feel you. We’re in this together. Trevor talked about his morning, saying the driver with doesn’t know where he’s going, so I jump out of the car and send him gonna run. When I’m running, people are in the street listening to your show and they’re hooting and shouting Trevor, it’s the other way. You’re going the wrong way, Trevor.

Then one guy decides to stop. He doesn’t just point, he stops the car. He says, Trevor, get in. Then he took me to the wrong building. Trevor was finally spotted by his staff member, who took him to the correct studio.

Scary moment at a Russell Peters show in Vancouver on Friday night, a man was allegedly carrying two blades and heading towards the stage. Vancouver Police said no one was injured in the incident, which happened around nine thirty pm Friday, but a thirty one year old man was charged with uttering threats, assault and possessing a weapon for a dane her his purpose, Sergeant Steve Addison in a statement, security guards at the Comedy Festival in Stanley Park saw a man armed with two edge weapons breach of fence and moved toward the front of the stage. The motive is unknown and the investigation is ongoing. Friday’s incident came five days after a man stabbed three people at another downtown festival, the Light Up Chinatown Festival a week ago. Sunday.

Yikes, Amy Schumer has apologized to Nicole Kidman and fans. Remember Amy got backlash for joking that Nicole Kidman didn’t look like a human and a picture of her taking at the US Open Remember that happened. Well. Amy went on Instagram to make it clear that she felt her joke about Kidman was taken out of context. Amy wrote in a caption, okay, so the joke.

I was making the way she was posed didn’t seem like how a human sits. I was not making fun of how she looks. Nicole Kidman is beautiful and one of the most incredible actors of all time. I hope everyone is okay and takes a deep breath, including all of the think pieces written on this. You guys good.

It’s all the people commented on me. I’m so sorry. I’m not prettier. Please forgive me. I apologize.

It wasn’t even a slow news day. North Korea and Russia are getting too close for comfort. There were deadly storms sweeping our world, and a man was convicted of reap. But what got your goat was me saying that Nicole Kidman’s post was not humanlike breathe, y’all. To the people who write hateful things below, I forgive you as a mother, a woman, most importantly, as someone who likes hot gas.

Have a good weekend. Bill Maher is following the lead of Drew Barrymore. Did you follow this over the weekends? Drew Barrymore was going to bring her show back. Then Bill Maher was like, I’m coming back too, and then Drew Barrymore was like, oh wait, everybody’s really mad.

I mean no, I’m not coming back. Totally not coming back. Well now, Bill Maher totally not coming back. Bill says he’ll hold off from zooming production on his weekly show for now. The reason given because the writer’s guilt and the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV producers are working this at a time for a new round of contract negotiations.

Has totally nothing to do with the backlash Drew Barrymore was getting that Bill Maher was about to get. Nothing to do with that at all. All right, Russell Brand, you’ve probably seen some stories he heard. Yesterday’s podcast told you the News played Russell’s side of it all right. Saturday night, Russell did indeed do his comedy show.

Two thousand people went to see him at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theater. It’s part of the Bipolarization tour. The BBC tells us Russell Brand said, there are obviously some things I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand. The BBC says there was an announcement that Brand was on his way to the venue but was caught in traffic and the crowd waited and everybody figured it was going to be canceled, but they waited. A woman in the crowd had a large piece of paper, the top line of which read we stand by You, and she asked security make sure it was given to Russell.

Brand. The show did happen. It started at ten pm, about an hour later than the scheduled start time. Russell walked on stage to the song you Don’t Own Me, a nineteen sixties feminist anthem, performed by Leslie Gore. He apologized for his lateness, saying I appreciate you.

I appreciate you. Blame the lateness on the traffic jam. I really appreciate your support. I love you. I want to do a fantastic show for you.

I’ve got a lot of things to talk to you about. There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about, and I appreciate that you’ll understand. I love you lot already. I’m going to give you everything I’ve got. Let’s go.

In his show, Brand told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, but the BBC says he appeared distracted throughout the second half of the show. He constantly referred to pieces of paper. At times at a period he had lost his place and he’d resort to talking about freedom, transcendence and authority. The show ended with a standing ovation lasting a few moments. On Monday, we found out that Russell Brand’s stand up shows in the UK have now been postponed.

The promoters of the tours said, we are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows and we don’t like doing it. We know you’ll understand. Russell was scheduled to play the Theater Royal Windsor tonight. Russell Brand’s publishing deal with Penn McMillan imprint Bluebird has been suspended. A rep for Bluebird said, these are very serious allegations and the light of them, Bluebird has taken the decision to pause all future publishing with Russell Brand from Deadline Exclusive.

Russell Brand’s last major television job in the UK ended with him being dropped after he was repeatedly accused of being a sexual predator during the recording of the show. Russell Brand was booked as a judge on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in twenty eighteen, but only last a single season after he himself was roasted on camera over allegations he had sexually assaulted women. Deadline says sources close to the productions said Roast Battle judge Katherine Ryan turned the heat on Brand a number of times during filming. Her allegations did not make the final edit. Katherine Ryan has previously spoken about her experience on Roast Battle, but had not named Brand or the show she was working on.

She was on a BBC show last year and said she had confronted an unnamed costar quote in front of loads of people in the format of the show, said to this person’s face that they are a predator. Industry insiders, according to Deadline, said the production company grew uncomfortable with the rumors swirling around Brand and his reluctance to be roasted. A source said contract negotiations were made as tricky as possible. It’s the best way to put it. In the end, it came down to the fact that it seemed like Russell didn’t have a good sense of humor.

He didn’t feel he was fair game. In The Independent, comedian Vix Layton writes, it felt inevitable to be honest women and how many we’re all brace for it. Within minutes of the Russell brand. Allegations being made public, people swept in and criticize everyone who is aware of the rumors around him and did nothing. Responsibility was placed on us.

Those who were quietly protecting each other were deemed not to have taken enough action to prevent this kind of alleged behavior, And my god, we’re so tired. Realistically, speaking, rumors are exactly that unless you hear directly from a victim. With that in mind, it is very difficult to go quote on the record unquote with any information you’ve received. There’s a risk to you from sharing it from a legal standpoint, particularly when you know the person in question has power or money. Skipping ahead vix rights women who have spoken face intense scrutiny.

You only have to look at Catherine Ryan to see that. So we do what we can in smaller ways, through DMS and conversations and green rooms. I’ve lost count of how many messages I’ve received along the lines of hey, just a heads up about X, or about how many lift shares or promoters arranged for me involving being in a car with someone I’ve never met. When I’m checking with other comedians to check that they’re okay, it’s a horrible time to be a woman in comedy at the moment. The depressing part is that when the fewer over the specific incident has died down, we know that very little have changed.

The daily al ass in a headline is this comedy’s me two moments how Russell Brand’s alleged alute behavior was quote open secret unquote. In the industry and female stand ups set up what’s App groups to warn one another about sexual old predators in show business. The mail rights in fact, Brand’s name is chillingly just one of many on a blacklist shared by women working in comedy warning each other about possible sexual predators. Male online can disclose at least five more comedians have been named in the conversations. They did not name those comedians.

The number include famous stars who have appeared on TV, radio, and stage. Some are still performing at the top level within the industry, while others have disappeared from view in the past ten years. Allegations made against them vary from stalking up to violence against women and sexually praying upon them. Comedian Daniel Slas is getting some praise as being the only male comedian who has spoken out about this type of behavior. Slas said for many, many years, women have been warning each other about Russell.

He said comedians even spoke of him and what’s app groups which they used to warn each other which comedians to avoid. From The Daily Beast to British stand up comedian London Hughes told the story quote, I was newly signed with Russell’s agent at the height of his career. I was a huge fan of the man, so excit didn’t meet him. But my first day at the agency, I was told, unprovoked that I shouldn’t sleep with him under any circumstances, as he likes to pursue women have sex with them. But as soon as he had sex with them, that made him feel sick and he didn’t want to be around them anymore, so we’d have them fired or drop from the agency.

It had happened several times in the past. I was twenty two at the time. I did what I was told and completely avoided him. This is not some cheeky, misunderstood man. I am not shocked by the documentary at all.

I believe everything those brave women said. She was asked directly if she was aware of his alleged behavior before the revelations. Her quote, there’s not a single comedian in the UK that wasn’t aware of his behavior. We’ve all heard the rumors. I personally didn’t know it was as bad as our starstar star.

I’m not sure what that word’s supposed to be. I didn’t know as bad as our star star star, but I always had the understanding that he was, for lack of a better word, dodgy and I should avoid him. The Daily mails us at off a video of Jimmy Fallon telling off Russell Brand after Russell suggestively bounced Katherine McFee on his lap. The clip is from twenty twenty three. Russell Brand refuses to move out of the interview chair as Katherine McPhee steps up to be the next guest.

Russell jokes to Jimmy she’s welcome to sit here, meaning his lap. Jimmy tells Russell, no, Russell, don’t even say for the queen. You can’t. Jimmy put his hand to his face and looks stressed. As Russell told Katherine McFee, you’re beautiful, Falon said Russell, please stop look away.

Russell says, as you know, I’ve announced that I find Katherine very attractive, and I think when she said exchanged numbers, I thought things that liked to exchange with her numbers Jean’s genetic info data. Falon then talks about Katherine mcfee’s husband, and Russell jumps in, I didn’t know you were married. I’m gonna f off now. A very fast moving story. Will keep an eye on it as the day’s head forward.

I had mentioned that a Parnernchurler was back, and I had wondered where she’s been. And I now feel bad that I made that comment because The New York Times has anceled it. A partner’s mental health got so bad she had to stop performing. She’s got a new book out. I’ll tell you about that in a second.

The New York Times writes, with her index and middle fingers, she was tapping on the crown of her head, tapping her chin, tapping her chest, and reciting affirmations. She told herself, I’m allowed to make mistakes. Tap tap tap. I’ve done this before. I’m good at it, Tap tap tap.

She was using this technique to help settle her pre show anxiety. Her nerves were also why then Times was told by her pulpicist. They couldn’t meet a partner before the performance. Exactly an hour before showtime, she took an anti anxiety med time so it would kick in right when her set began. A parn’t it’s all the audience.

She’s been on so many different meds that at this point, I’ve basically donated my body to science. In the middle of a bout of depression, she’ll write her thoughts on a notebook. Two out of five turn into jokes, and she says, and then three of them are just like, oh, this is just me being sad and writing something down. This is not a joke at all. By twenty eighteen, her anxiety had snowballed.

She couldn’t perform. She felt uncomfortable on stage, unable to enjoy the moment. Pre show nerves would consume her mind for days. She canceled a thirty one city four month tour. In late twenty nineteen, she decided to take a break from doing stand up shows altogether.

Wow, I had no idea. I like her comedy a lot. Her new book out today is called Unreliable Narrator, Me Myself and Imposter Syndrome. Other books out today Leslie Effing Jones, a memoir described as not the kind of comedian memoir that’s an extension of the act and explicit provider of context or personal branding exercise. This is a conversational celebration of the force of nature that is Leslie Jones from the world’s foremost expert on Leslie Jones.

Who’s that expert? Leslie Jones?

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Also out today, Gary Golman’s Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties.

Misfit employs two timelines to tell two stories with two different tones. The nostalgic will enjoy Goleman’s eighties flavored reminiscence of being a child who very much knows who he is, but is nevertheless uncomfortable. Empathy is engendered with a diary that goes along with interstitials of a fully grown, fully realized Gary Goleman during an especially brutal depressive episode. Hey, if you’re by Irvine and you want to catch them comedy and help some animals in need, why don’t you hit Comedy Unleashed Today? A fundraiser held at the Irvine prov features fun and funny performances from comedian Eric Schwartz and two more comedians.

Forty four Bucks includes dinner and three comedy performances. All proceeds go directly to the Irvine Animal Care Center. The Irvine improv five twenty seven Spectrum Center Drive. To find out more about the event, Irvine animals dot org. The Irvine Animal Care Center provides housing, care, and enrichment for homeless, neglected, abused, or unwanted animals.

And that’s your comedy used for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. A lot of strike today, and I’m not just talking about the idiot who scratched up my car bumper in the park and didn’t even leave a No. Come on, man, hi, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

All right, let’s start with Hasan Minhaj.

I think he blew his shot at the Daily Show. Would be my take. Here the headline from the AV Club, Hasan Minhaj admits to fabricating alarming details in his stand up specials. His exaggerated claims included experiences of racial profiling and his daughter possibly being exposed to anthrax. I’ll tell you the story, but the AV Club correctly points out, when you see a comedian, it’s a given that everything you’re hearing may not literally be true.

There were stories that have been tweaked and embellished for laughs after being told hundreds of times. They gave an example. If you found out John Mulaney never actually encountered a man who professed I’m homeless, i’m gay, of aides, I’m new in town. In that order, it would still be an effective bit of comedy writing. But wouldn’t you be a little disappointed?

So what’s going on here. In a New Yorker article, Hasan Minhaj admits that he fabricated details of some of the stories he tells in his specials Homecoming King and The King’s Jester. Okay, comedians do that all the time, But the issue here is, as the A V. Club puts it, the fabrications weren’t purely for laughs, but were specifically relevant to his experience as a non white Muslim growing up in America. The character brother Eric, a supposed FBI informant who infiltrated his family’s mosque, was completely made up.

Similarly, Hassan made up the story of having to take his child to the hospital after she was exposed to white powder they feared was anthrax. Minhajs told the New Yorker every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy percent emotional truth this happened, and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration fiction. In his view, the punchline is worth the fictionalized premise. Dav Club comments, Yet there’s not a punchline too.

My daughter was exposed to a substance that could have been anthrax in this case, the exaggeration doesn’t make the story funnier, it’s just more upsetting. In a statement to The New York Post, Hasan Minhaj says, I used tools of stand up comedy hyperbole, changing names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories. That’s inherent to the art form. You wouldn’t go to a haunted house and say, why are these people lying to me? The point is the ride.

Stand up is the same. You get to say whatever you want on stage and we have to live with the consequences. All my stand up stories are based on events that happened to me. Yes, I was rejected from going to prom because of my race. Yes, a letter with powder was sent to my apartment that almost harmed my daughter.

Yes, I had an interaction with law enforcement during the War on Terror. Yes, I had surgery so we could get pregnant. Yes, I roasted Jared Kushner to his face. Sources close to The Daily Show have confirmed a Rolling Stone that Hassan is currently one of three top candidates for the job, but the source says no deal has been locked in with any talent. I’m wondering if he blew it here I’ll jump ahead to a story I’m going to do later about Michelle wolf who and I’ll do this later, but her relevant quote for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the Daily Show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, it tends to be more factually accurate than any news show.

So I’ll come back to that. So I don’t know if they can give him the cheer here. I’m I get the Dealer shows a comedy show, but now I’m picturing like a Brian Williams scenario. He might have blown this yere and Nat Hasan Minhaj then who all right? Next strife article from The Verge told you last week that Theo Vaughan did that tirade about a podcast company.

There’s been a lot of coverage on this. The Verge rights multiple creators who have left the podcast netwhere Cast Media say the company owes them significant sums of money. Comedian Whitney Cummings told Hotpod that she believes Cast Media owes her at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for ad sponsorships, although the amount could be more. Cummings wrote in an email the whole thing is a nightmare. THEO Vaughan posted a ten minute video on YouTube on September sixth, the title of that this man defrauded at our podcast.

He alleged that cast Media owes him and a group of other creators over four million dollars, and an email to Hotpod, THEO Vaughan said that he personally knew of six different creators who were owed amounts that ranged between one and a half million dollars and six hundred thousand dollars. Vaughan said, castos his show on amount that’s in six figures. As I recorded on Saturday, a very very fast moving story, this from the New York Post. Russell Brand accused of ripping and sexually assaulting four women, including a sixteen year old. This according to a joint investigation by The Sunday Times of London, The Times and Channel four dispatches.

On Friday night. Brand got in front of this by releasing a statement, Let’s listen. Now, this isn’t the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption, because in this story, I am the news. I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuffs like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. But amidst this any of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.

These allegations pertained to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play? Whatever is going on?

Deadline reports Russell Brand appears to have parted ways with his UK agent. His profiles no longer on the agency’s website. Elon Musk come at dead and said, well, of course they don’t like competition. I met Russell Brand once. He was upbeat, personable.

We had to record some promos. I remember him doing them quite well in like one take, maybe two, And I want to tell you he did in one take. That’s it. That’s all I know about him. It’s been I don’t know, ten minutes with him.

Maybe seemed nice enough. The Independent reminded us of this story, which I had forgotten. Russell was a video journalist for MTV in two thousand. The gig was short lived because Brand was fired after arriving in the studios dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after September eleventh. I was kind of busy on September twelve, so maybe that’s why I don’t remember that one.

The Independent ads. His stand up shows acquired a reputation for chaos, as he would offer and perform while high quote releasing locusts, cut up pigs heads, smashing up dead mice and birds with a hammer and then throwing them into the audience. According to the Guardian, what Russell was scheduled to play Wimbley on Saturday night. All right, keep an eye on that all right. That Michelle Wolf’s story she was profiled in Rolling Stone.

I’ll pick at that. Over the next few days. She discussed Dave Chappelle and said, I think people really miss a lot of what he’s saying. He says it very clearly in his One special. Why is it easier for Caitlyn Jenner to change her gender than it was for Cassius Clay to change his name?

I think that spells it out right there. He wants everyone to be able to live the way they want to live, including black people. Time and time again, we see that as a country, we literally don’t want black people to live, and we don’t do anything about it. They try to act like Davis some sort of villain when he’s not. He’s a hero.

He’s fighting for his people. But there are black trans people. He’s not saying those people shouldn’t exist. He’s just saying that he should get to exist too. Michell Wolf discussed Louis C.K.

And said, Louis I feel, is the only one who actually admitted to anything or apologize, So we can go back and forth about how good or bad his apology was, but I don’t think you’re ever gonna have an apology that everybody’s going to be happy with. He’s the only one who did that, and it seemed like he got punished for most of it. He apologized and he wants to make things better and said people were like, now you can’t. There’s no way for you to make things better unless you do this in this but nobody said what this and this was nobody said what he could do because nobody agreed on what he could do. And she spoke about the Daily Show and kind of back to Hasan Minhaj.

Michell Wolf said, for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, tends to be more factually accurate than any news show. I think there’s a way to do that, make it funny and give people the information they want need without coddling one side or the other. I think both sides are doing a terrible job right now and a huge disservice to the people. This is the trick of nations for as long as time, you keep the two sides fighting so they’re too busy to go after the people in power more strife. Steve Martin has responded to allegations made by Miriam Margolis, his co star from nineteen eighty six is a Little Shop of Horrors.

She has a new memoir in which she writes, I was hit all day by doors opening in my face, repeatedly, punched, slapped, and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin. Perhaps he was method acting and came home grumpy with a splitting headache. Steve Martin was undeniably brilliant, but horrid to me. Steve Martin addressed this in a statement to Deadline and said, when I first read Miriam margolis Per jerative account of our scene in Little Shop of Horrors, I was surprised. My memory is that we had a good communication as professional actors.

But when it’s implied that I harmed her in some way, was careless about doing the stunts, I have to object. I remember taking all caps extreme caution regarding the fake punch, the same caution I’d use with any similar scene. She assured me she felt fine, and we did a few successful takes and stopped. There was never any fiscal contact between her and me, accidental or otherwise, in this scene or any other we shot. Gutfeld says Conan is wrong on Trump in comedy.

I’ve been picking away that Conan O’Brien interview with Karas Swisher, who seems the mainstream media picked up on the Trump part, in which Conan said, you can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible. So I always thought that when Trump came along, what a lot of people have to revert to is doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. He’s an a hole, and those aren’t jokes.

Well, Greg Gutfeld has chimed in on Friday’s The Five. Greg said, this is the funniest time to be alive. Wokeism is like the biggest funniest thing ever. Joe Biden is perfect target. Hunter is a perfect target.

Nancy Pelosi, the city’s descented to the criminal force as a target, climate change, wacko’s gender nazis. All of this stuff is ripe for comedy. But for these guys, it’s Trump or nothing. It’s dad. You have comedi who are actually crying on air or doing propagandizing videos for vaccines.

That’s why I think Late Night isn’t chaos except here. The knives are out for fell, and they’re going after Bill Moore because I think he’s doing the right thing. He’s saying, we’re hurting all these other people, the caterers, you name it, whatever, because the writers are upset. I like killing in, but he’s a little late to this party. The Brady Bunch House has sold for three point two million dollars, but the asking price was five and a half.

The house was built in nineteen fifty nine. The exterior was used for the credits in the nineteen sixty nine Brady Bunch. In twenty eighteen, HGTV purchased the house for three and a half million and remodeled the exterior and interior to look exactly like it did in The Brady Bunch. The new owner plans to use the home for charity events. Her real estate agent says it was a nostalgic purchase.

She just had to have some downsides. Fireplaces and some appliances and fixtures are decorative only. A new book by Mike Brydenstein looks at Chicago’s heyday as an incubator for stand up ours. The Chicago Suntimes took a look at the book and they say, the list of talent from that time in the late nineties and early auts is outstanding. The town includes camal on Gianni, Pete Holmes, Hannibal Burris, Cameron Esposito, Dwayne Kennedy, t J Miller, Kyle Knaan, Matt Bronger, Brook Van Poplin, and others.

That is a killer list. I remember there were a bunch of comedy festivals in Chicago in you know, like two thousand and five or so, and yeah, I saw a lot of those people in small, small places. It was a great time. The perfect amount of wrong. We’ll be out on September twenty fifth, Mike says, I wanted to write something that was authentic to the scene and was coming from someone in the scene.

Back then, the lions Den and other local outlets imposed zero guidelines on material, which encouraged adventurous stand ups. There was Bill O’Donnell who would routinely induce vomiting on stage, and Chet Lactatious, whose signature bid ended with the comic and a full ku Klux Klan outfit. A bunch of comedy clubs had closed in late nineties, Zanies in Old Town survived the to become the only game in town. The lack of opportunities at Zeni started a ground swell of ambition at the local level. The setup for those shows was less than ideal.

The Lincoln Lodge cash register was cafinists and the servers chatted at full volume. At the Elevated, comics had to contend with the roaring of the Red and Brown Line train zipping by just outside the bar. Brydenstein says one time somebody said to me, why are Chicago comics louder on the mic? Because we were shouting over a bar for years. We turned chaos into charm.

Some of the anecdotes from the book. One night at the Lion’s, Dan nick vaderat also Great Chicago comedian hid in a storage closet through twenty performers to play a Marionette pupper and Brady Novak’s act. Camail Nanjiani went up a Chase cafe for an audience of two and killed by throwing a bouncy ball around the space. And one time power went out at the Elevated’s anniversary show, so the host lit performers with flashlights. Rether Than canceled the show.

That’s your comedy needs for today. Tomorrow should be more fun if you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. Will Yeah, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Vulture had a really good article from John Roy. He’s a comedian and pop culture writer. The headline, Jim Gaffigan’s most popular joke is a stand up master class. John Roy writes, I first saw Jim Gaffigan perform in twenty thirteen at the UCB in LA for a hundred skinny twenty something hipsters.

He was older than anyone else on the bill by ten years, and he was wearing a bright canary yellow T shirt one might charitably describe as a little too tight. I was worried the audience might reject a mainstream dad comic known for working clean. But Gaffigan was ready. The first words out of his mouth were an impression of a skeptical audience member reacting to his entrance. Look at that shirt, he whispered.

He’s trying to look young, he added, and then went for the jugular with he’s fat, and I got applause. Not only had he won the crowd over in less than a minute, he was ready killing and he hadn’t even talked as himself. John Roy is impressed by Jim’s famous bit hot pockets it’s four minutes and thirty seconds on one time, it’s lean at under six hundred words, and it’s packed with act outs and character changes. It gets so many laughs that two thirds of the way in, Gaffigan is essentially performing over a rolling applause break. The bid is track seventeen on the two thousand and six album Beyond the Pale.

Gaffigan starts Hot Pockets by confessing that he ate one and feels awful, like a metal band choosing not to play above a certain decibel level. Gaffigan, having opted out of using taboo words, has to find something else to replace their transgressive power in his material. His first solution is to get mean. He says that Hot Pockets warning label should read hope you’re drunk or heading home to a trailer you hell billy enjoy the next NASCAR event. He dinfuses that by doing his in their voice, I like Nascar.

He’s a jerk. Two seconds later he’s at it again, having lost no. One. He gets nine laughs and his first forty seconds. Then starts to run the crowd, a technique where, instead of letting the audiences laugh, fade so they’re ready for your next joke.

Comedians starts the next set up in the middle of their laughter, giving them no time to think. Gaffigan cuts five laughs short to get to what will become the bits mantra, singing the Hot Pocket jingle and a high pitch, breathy off key warble. Then he pulls his foot off the gas and lets the audience get it all out. They reward him with nine seconds of applause at the one minute mark. Writing and performing society.

Hotpoch had succeeds because of the central observation that grounds it. Corporations, surely you know when their product is trash. Some products are clearly so trash that the most believable explanation is that it’s intentional. What if the company just came out and said it based on the enthusiasm which we as a society consume hot Pockets. Gaffigan seems to suggest that it wouldn’t make any difference at all.

Great stuff there. Conan O’Brien was on Kara Swisher’s podcast. I got to add that to my playlist. I told I downloaded it, but I didn’t actually listen to it. They were talking about Tom Shells, Remember that guy.

He was a famous TV critic, and Kara was like, hey, Conan, you may recall he wrote a devastating review of your show in ninety three, but ninety six he said he were the only good thing on late night. Conan said, yeah, that was quite a turn around. I was eternally grateful for that, and that was very nice. That was something I did not see coming. And that was a different era too in TV.

Where you think about it, Tom Shells had so much power. The media has changed so much that I’m hard pressed to think of a TV critic who could potentially end a TV show, but Tom shell certainly had that power. Conan talked about retirement. What I retired from was the volume business of late night television because I loved it. I really did love it, and I did it for twenty eight years, and I did thousands and thousands and thousands of hours and I’m told four of them were quite good, and I love that very much.

What I started to see is that there were things that I became kind of more in love with, and the podcast is one of them. Fortunately that was just a happy accident. But another was doing the travel shows, going to Cuba, going to different countries and shooting remotes with people I found and doing found comedy around the world was electrifying, and I realized not rather be doing this late night had changed because there were so many late night shows, and I started to feel, Okay, I’ve done this. We only get so much time. I’m no spring chicken like to really focus on these other things.

The Tennessee has answered the question why comedian Nate Burghatty stole a chair from the Bridgetone Arena. Nate was at the twenty twenty three Snids and Friends Pro am golf tournament. Everybody was a little nervous, so they had Nate tell a story back in a role. Nate said the Bridgetone Arena all time attendance record at nineteen three hundred sixty five, beating out the previous record holder, Morgan Wallan, who held the record at nineteen two hundred and ninety two. Wallin only had the record for a month.

Nate was determined to hold the record much longer than Wallen did and perhaps forever, so he swiped a chair from the arena on his way out, thus lowering the capacity. Nate said, I’m just trying to secure my spot in history. You don’t get a lot of chances like that as a comic because the music acts are so big. Cause I was like, maybe I’ll just take a chair, and I did. As long as they don’t throw another chair in there, I should be good.

Nate talked about his sports prowess and said, I got cut from basketball back in high school. I think I got cut from golf. To be honest, I played track my senior year. I don’t think you played track. I played track my senior year and that was the only thing I made.

He bounced back by thriving when he played church league basketball. Nate said, I was a bit of a problem for the competition when I played on that court. Actually it was a carpet that we played on. His uncle, Ronnie, was a three sports star and went on a coach basketball at Vanderbilt in a bunch of other places. It said, growing up here was all Ronnie.

I get it from all guys all the time. Are you Ronnie’s boy? We’re here because of Ronnie. Ronnie was each part of my dad’s life. When my dad came to Nashville.

We’re big Vandy fans, and the reason is because Ronnie was very involved in Vandy. Then my mom worked at the ticket office there, so we just got roped into it. Lunell will make her Netflix comedy special debut on September twenty sixth Town Business proper title Chappelle’s Home Team Dash Luinelle Town Business Netflix, September twenty six shot during her set in her hometown of Oakland. Town Business sees Lunell expose all of the absurdities of air travel, the importance of keeping the window shade up, and why she appointed herself the unofficial air Marshal of the Skies. Dave Chappelle executive produced the specialist part of his Chappelle’s Home Team series.

The first one of those was Earthquakes. Back in February of twenty twenty two, Leo Weekly caught up with Chris Tucker. Tucker back at doing stand up and said, I started out doing stand up comedy. You know, that’s a big source. So I think it’s the source of everything.

It’s like an actor going on Broadway or coming up through Broadway or off Broadway. It came up through the comedy clubs and that’s sparked me. It’s the gate that opened the avenue, the doors for acting. So it’s everything to me. It’s stand up.

You have freedom to talk about whatever you want to talk about, man, your personal life, all these things. When you act, you have to play a role, not stand up. It’s really about my life, real life and real life events. It’s a great, great art form, all right, Chris Tucker. Who are your favorite comedians?

Dave Chabelle, Chris Rock and Kevin Hart, all those guys and many others like Earthquake. Who are some of your influences of growing up? Definitely Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor definitely growing up and Red Fox too, all right? Who are the comedic goats? His answer, I would say Richard Pryor.

He inspired even Eddie Murphy, so I would say Richard is the goat, all right. Who would join Richard on the amount rushmore of comedy? Definitely Eddie Murphy. All right, we need two more, two more, all right, Dick Gregory and Red Fox. Back on Friday, I was reading you the very very very very long biography of Derek Small’s, the bassist from Spinal Tap.

Derek has a new single called must Crush Barbie, and as part of the press release, this absurdly long bio and I’m still not going to read the whole thing, but I did want to get back to it jumping in the middle. Spinal Tap carved a reputation as one of England’s loudest bands. Its series of mishaps, breakups and reunions drummers perishing was chronicled in a nineteen eighty four film. Derek calls it a hatchet job. There were plenty of nights where we found our way to the stage, but of course they didn’t show you that.

In the late eighties, as Spinal TAP’s fortunes waned, Derek joined a Christian heavy metal band, Lamb’s Blood. Their best known song, Whole Lot of Lord made a respectable showing on the Christian shorts to cement his relationship with the band members, all of whom were Americans. Small’s got a Christian fish tattoo. Tap reunited nineteen ninety two. Concerned he’d have to cover up the tattoo, Derek hired an artist to fix it, and the piece now is a devil eating the fish.

Following that short, Spinal Tap broke up and reunited twice more, once in two thousand at a historic New York venue that Derek described on stage as Carnegie Effing Hall and in two thousand and nine and appearances at Glastonbury and Wembley. Derek appeared in TV commercials for the Belgian snack food Floop and Serve for a time as a judge on the Dutch reality composition show Rock Stars r ok Strz before the show was rebooted as Tomorrow’s Hip Hop Hero. Derek stepped forward as a composer during this time. His jingle for Floop, which is I’m in the Flop Group, was a regular earworm on European TV until the publisher of the In Crowd threatened a plagiarism lawsuit. In twenty nineteen, smallest parlatest celebrity in the Low Counties of Europe as a position as brand ambassador for brubacoin a Dutch based crypto coin Boy, that’s a lot all right?

Should we hit the First Vegan Comedy Festival, a two day orgy of comedy and music plus extensive vegan food and drink. Everyone is welcome, vegan or not two days September thirty one October. First Award winning character comedian and UK pun champion Lee Brace says people have referred to vegan comedy as an oxym. We’re on you know, a bit like humane slaughter, but vegan comedy exists and it’s plant weddingly funny. Fifteen musicians, twenty comedians.

There’ll be a bar, tea, coffee cake, mocktails, cocktails, juice bars, and some truly inspiring independent vegan traders exhibiting at the show. Everyone is welcome, Vegan flexitarian, We’re vegan curious. It’s the Vegan Comedy Festival. That’s your company news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify YouTube.

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The Shark Deck. Originally this was going to run last Saturday, and then the Jimmy Fallon stuff broke, so I bumped it to this week. I’d been sitting on this for a while because normally Labor Day week is pretty quiet for news, But like I said, the Foulon thing came along and it gave me something else. So I’ve been sitting on this article from the av Club, the forty best comedy Albums of all Time ranked. If you were a long time listener, you know when I do article episodes, I don’t look at the article until I record.

I like to react in the moment because a lot of times I’m like whoa, So we’ll do that in a second. But I did put some thought into a list. Here. Let me give you a quick list. I’ll give you a top five.

At number five, some sort of Carlin album. If you’re of a certain age, Remember you’d go into record chains and they would have the nice price, and they’d be like a big barrel of cassettes and you’d go in there, and that’s how we all wound up with like Steve Miller’s Greatest hits and things like that. There would always be some Carlin Ones in there, and I had a bunch of Carlin ones that I used to listen to on a walkman commuting to high school in the eighties. I can’t tell you what albums they were, but one of those would be number five. At number four’ll give you a wildcard here, Trump versus Bernie Live for Brooklyn.

This is James Adomian as Bernie Sanders and Anthony it Samnowick as Donald Trump doing a debate. It is one of my favorite things. I play it on the Live one Slacker show as much as I can. Trump versus Bernie Live from Brooklyn. Fantastic.

Check that out. Next up, let me put Sam Kinnison’s Louder than Hell. I mean Sam when he first came along was so amazing, and some of his material about marriage is still holds up, which is fantastic. Number two I’ll put Mitch Hedberg’s Strategic Grill Locations. And number one I will put Eddie Murphy Delirious.

As I always say, some of the things haven’t aged so well, but if you were of a certain age like me, there was a time when you could probably do three quarters for this album off the top of your head. Gooney Gooho. As I’ve aged, do we understand that Eddie Murphy is just doing a Richard Pryor cover act? Yes? I do, but that’s my personal list.

Let’s look at the A V Club list. They made some good points. They said there were times when a concept one up being so strong and elevated a performer who wouldn’t otherwise be considered a candidate for the Comedy Hall of Fame. For example, The First Family. That’s Vaughn Mader’s nineteen sixty two album that made fun of the Kennedy’s, and they rate Vaughan Mader may not have had significant comedic skills, but as JFK impression was enough to fuel a landmark comedy record.

One of the best compliments I ever heard about that album is when you think in your mind of a JFK impression, you’re actually picturing Vaughn Mader and not what actual JFK actually sounded like. Davy Club ads. The passage of time inevitably alters the perception of the content. That’s the case with such a master’s of the forum as Bill Cosby and Woody Allen, comedians who recorded successful and influential albums at their prime, but those records may sound uncomfortable to a contemporary listener due to the scandals that have tarnished their legacies. We did not include those albums for that reason.

Okay, let’s take a look. It is a slide show number forty. Vaughan Mader just discussed it. Great pick. Thirty nine Jonathan Winters The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters from nineteen sixty respect but personally I never got into Jonathan Winter’s comedy.

Thirty eight Lily Tomlins. This is recording from nineteen seventy two. Stan Freeberg presents the United States of America Volume one, The Early Years from nineteen sixty one. Thirty six Peter Sellers The Best of Sellers nineteen fifty eight, whoa They Write? Not a compilation.

The Best of Sellers nevertheless does feature Peter Sellers at a peak, rushing into the studio after his version of the old music hall standard Any Old Iron became an unexpected hit. Sellers crammed his mini LP with pop, rock and roll, folk and jazz parodies. Characters he did on the BBC’s show The Goon Show. The producer George Morton, you may know him from such bands as The Beatles. Wow, good pick.

Whoever did this knows what they’re talking about. Thirty five Bob and Doug McKenzie’s Great White North. I considered mentioning this at the top. There’s a couple tracks on there. Twelve Days of Christmas, an all time classic, another one I play every year at Christmas time on the Live one Slacker Show.

Interesting pick, I like it. That’s from nineteen eighty one. Thirty four Lenny Bruce The Carnegie Hall Concert. Lenny Bruce, you know, founded modern stand up comedy. But the material to me just feels a little dated.

Recordings aren’t that strong. But like I get a good pick, good pick, We’re doing great here. Thirty three Joan Rivers from nineteen eighty three. What becomes a semi legend? Most Joan one of the greats.

I worked with Joan for five years or so. I’ve got some stories. Won’t bobogg into that today? Like Joan a lot? Thirty two Alan Sherman’s My Son the Nut from nineteen sixty three.

You know this from the Hello muta Hello Fata song. Song in the voice of a kid writing home from summer camp. It spent two weeks on the top of the Billboard shorts, and achievement that no other comedy record matched until Weird Al released Mandatory Fun in twenty fourteen thirty one. They have Adam Sandler. If you’ve listened to this podcast at all, you have picked up on I don’t find Adam Sandler the least bit funny, Not at all.

Adam Sandlers They’re all going to laugh at You from nineteen ninety three. Let’s see what they wrote. They’re all Gonna laugh at You played at crucial port in building Adam Sandler’s popularity outside of SNL. A purposefully juvenile record filled with goofy grass out of humor. They’re all Gonna laugh at You became a word of mount sensation at middle schools and colleges alike, thanks in part to Sandler’s relentless focus on adolest and angst and pranks.

He’s a cartoon character caught on Vinyl m Okay thirty. Robert Klein, Child of the Fifties from nineteen seventy three. We all respect Robert Klein. You know that’s in I’m trying to get how you explain it. It’s like when you look at a I don’t know a ball player that played in nineteen ten.

You’re like, Hm, I get it, but I don’t get it. And that’s kind of how I feel about Klein. But sure it’s twenty nine Dennis Leary’s No Cure for Cancer Dennis Leary really interesting because if you’ve studied comedy, you hear the Bill Hicks influence with a capital I capital and capital fluence on Dennis Leary. But yeah, Ivy Club says Dennis Leary brought the underground rantings of Bill Hicks into the mainstream. I’ll leave it there, saying a more good album though.

Twenty eight Martin Mull’s Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your living Room nineteen seventy three. I don’t even know what this is, a relic of it’s time. Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your living Room finds the former folky setting up is Hippie Hubris who wrote that and hitting such easy but worthy targets as dueling tubes. Huh interesting. I don’t know a thing about it, so I kid say that it shouldn’t be there.

Twenty seven David tells Skanks for the Memories, what a great album. I really wish we had more out of David Tell in album format. He really hasn’t recorded too much, but that’s a fantastic album. David Tell skanks for the Memories. Twenty six Dick Gregory in Living Black and White from nineteen sixty one.

I’m unfamiliar with this album, Davy Club said. Recorded to Chicago’s Playboy Club, and Living Black and White preserves Gregory’s peak, finding him weaving between pointed racial commentary and observations about the state of international affairs at the height of the Cold War. I like this list a lot. These guys did a great job with this list. Twenty five Andrew Dice Clay The Day the Laughter Died from nineteen ninety Do you know this one?

This is not the good Andrew Dice Clay album that you’re thinking about. It’s Dice was such a public menace. He and producer Rick Rubin designed his debut album as a provocation, a double disc document not of Clay’s nursery, rhyme routines, but the danger he conveyed as a comic performing at a small club filled with unprepared listeners. It’s comedy as a weapon. The audience doesn’t laugh, They squirm in a fashion that’s even audible on record.

Interesting pick that is just an awkward, awkward, awkward Listen. Are we overgrading this? I don’t want to say overrated, but are we overgrading this because Rick Rubin is involved. I know when we would play this on Sirius XM and in later days when I played it on Slacker Slash Live one. That album does not do well because it’s a comedy album and no one’s laughing.

Next up, Cheech and Chong Los Cocinos from nineteen seventy three. That’s the one with Basketball Jones on it. I mean, Cheech and Chong are fun for what they are. You know, maybe back in nineteen seventy three as an album was fun. I’m not sure that has aged all that well, but okay, I won’t fight you in the squoyard about that one.

Twenty three Lewis Black’s The White Album. Okay, I mean, I gotta see what comes. Twenty three feels a little high for that one, but let’s see what’s coming. Twenty two Monty Python’s Flying Circus another Monty Python record from nineteen seventy one. There are so many Python compilations, recompilations re re re compilations.

You could take your pick of the Python records, but sure that one’s not bad. Twenty one Don Rickles, Hello Dummy from nineteen sixty eight, recorded live at the Sahara. Dummy is very much a product of its time, which means there are more than a few jokes that couldn’t fly in the twenty twenties. Don Rickles, fantastic, good pick.

All right, let’s take the break and then we’ll do the other twenty Continuing…

I’m trying to remember if I know this album. Maybe when we have the clean Channel, it serious used to play this one a little bit, you know the fine They’re fine. Like to see some more new Hart on here. If we’re going to do with some Mother’s brothers, let’s say nineteen Mitch Hedberg’s Strategic Grill Locations. Talked about that one on the top, and I still can’t believe that’s from nineteen ninety nine.

One of my favorites. Number eighteen, National Lampoons Lemmings Lemmings was a stage show National Lampoons, staged off Broadway nineteen seventy three that spoofed Woodstock. The production was spun off into a cast recording. The LP served as an introduction to John Belushi, who performed the majority of the stage announcements and his Joe Cocker impression.

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Also Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest on that one interesting, all right?

Number seventeen Stephen Wrights, I have a pony. Yeah, what an influential album. Now the challenge I have with Stephen Wright. And I’ve seen him live and this is why I say this. Stephen Wright in five minute clips amazing.

Stephen Wright in longer form, your brain goes numb. I went to see him. He was hilarious, but like an hour into it, I felt like I was hallucinating just that non change of speed for an extended amount of time. It’s really so Yeah. Good pick for the individual tracks In terms of an album, I don’t know, not the worst pick sixteen Bill Hicks ranton E Minor Okay, we’ve done justice to the earlier Dennis Leary pick.

Okay, that’s a very good album if you’ve never heard it. From nineteen ninety seven. Fifteen What is This? Mike Nichols and Elane May’s and Evening with Mike Nichols and Elane May from nineteen sixty Educate Me one of the defining comic d he was in the nineteen sixties. Mike Nichols and Elaine May had an elegance to the rapport that still sparkles, capturing highlights from their Broadway show, not at all famarial with it.

Fourteen Patton Oswalt’s Werewolves and Lollipops. When I did the episode last weekend, I mentioned I have trouble remembering which Patton Oswalt album is which, but sure his recording material is very strong. Thirteen Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks The two thousand year Old Man from nineteen sixty one. Okay, one of those things that I’m not sure has aged all that well, but respect. Twelve Sam Kinison Louder than Hell Fantastic album number eleven.

Red Fox unsensed from nineteen eighty Ncensor is filled with the kind of raunchy humor that couldn’t be heard in public in the sixties. In nineteen eighty it one Fox a Grammy for Comedy Album of the Year. All right, Top ten, what do you think is gonna be here? I haven’t mentioned Carlin yet, I haven’t mentioned Priory yet. I’m sure they’re gonna come up.

And are we overwaiting and only picking one from each artist? Because I can make a case for several Priors and several Carlin’s on here. Let’s see number ten Albert Brooks Comedy Minus One from nineteen seventy three. I mean, if you want to have it unless but top ten. Number nine Chris Rock Bigger and Blacker from nineteen ninety nine.

Good pick good, pick good. Pick eight Steve Morton’s Let’s Get Small from nineteen seventy seven. Steve Morton has been coming up a lot lately on the podcast Again back in the day was a monster, monster, huge comedian, but such a shooting star. I’ve actually been playing this on the Slacker Live one show recently. It has aged pretty well.

Okay, let’s do it. Number eight Steve Martin shre seven Roddy Dangerfield’s No Respect nineteen eighty Good Pick six David Cross shut up you fffing baby. Wow. Wow. It’s six wow, and there’s only five left, so I’m guessing we’re not going to give multiples to Carlin Or prior.

But okay, let’s go the top five. Number five Eddie Murphy comedian, Yeah, comedian, the album Delirious, the TV special, that’s the one I was talking about before. Great. Pick four Robin Williams A Night at the met This comes up a lot. I don’t think it’s aged that well.

The Robin Williams mafia is going to start writing me letters. It’s good, but four seems really high. I’d have it on this list, but not at four. Three Bob Newhart, The button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. The New Heart stuff is very funny.

It runs at a different speed if you’ve grown up watching Fast Got Avenjuran movies, but in twenty twenty three might feel a little slow for you. But it earned New Heart the Grammy for Best New Artist in nineteen sixty. Number two George Carlin’s Class Clown. That’s the one that has seven words you can never say on television, all right, and that means they’re gonna have a prior. I’m going to guess Sunset Strip at number one.

Let me look click Richard Bryer live of the Sunset Strip from nineteen eighty two Bryer’s returned to the stage after nearly burning himself in a free base accident, remains the ideal marriage of revelation and craft, a dark knight of the soul that is riotlessly funny. Now, keep in mind a lot of artists have not released album albums in recent years, although some have. I’m surprised there’s no Gaffigan on here. I’m surprise there’s no Dane Cook on here. Those are two that come to mind.

Or how about Jeff Foxworthy who has sold more comedy albums than anybody that alone, he should be on here. But pretty good list by the Avy Club. It would be curious as your thoughts. You can always join in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Would love to hear from you.

And that’s your show for today. Follow this podcast for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Oh man, is it Christmas already? Hi? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Adam Sandler is back on sour Huh.

If you listen every day, you know how funny I find Adam Sandler. I cannot wait twenty five city tour, the I Missed You Tour, and we don’t have to wait long. It kicks off in Vancouver on October twelfth. Adam Sadler promises surprise guest will join him. Variety says, while Adam Sandler is a much love screen actor, and boy are his film’s fantastic?

You remember Sandler got his start as a comedian doing stamp right, Can I tell you for real? I mentioned I host the weekly comedy thing over on the Live one app and I program the comedy stations over there. The things that do the worst with the audience, and I mean the worst are Adam Sandler comedy bits. Anytime I add one of them to the rotation, I get, I run the report and it’s like people are like skipping it. They can’t even sit through it.

So it’s not just me anyway. Adam Sandler’s October twelfth Vancouver is doing a lot of back to backs. Thirteenth in Seattle, fourteenth in Portland, fifteenth in Nampa, Idaho at the Fort Idaho Center Arena. Not familiar with Nampa. Sixteenth spoke Can then a day off, then another run the eighteenth, San Jose, the nineteenth state line, Nevada, Fresno on the twentieth, Palm Desert on the twenty first, a day off, Anaheim on the twenty third.

Then he’s taking two weeks off, six straight days, or it seems like he’s doing six nights. One off Toronto, Rochester, New York at Washington, DC, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines day off November fifteenth, Indianapolis, then Memphis, little Thanksgiving breaking there, then back on the road December two, Vegas, Salt Lake, San Antonio, Thackerville, Oklahoma, not to be confused with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he’ll be the next night, Oklahoma loving Adam Sandler apparently Wichita on the tenth, and the final show for now unless he adds more dates, Denver, Colorado on the twelfth. I cannot wait, there’s next one. I was bringing the show and I was like what from Variety. Derek Smalls, the legendary bassist with the ultimate heavy metal band Spinal Tap.

You know what that is? Right. He’s returned with a brutally contemporary new single called must Crush Barbie, described as an excoriating attack on the pink sensation. The advocate of everything pink and fluffy. Barbie, the self described embodiment of lukewater Warm, reaches boiling point with Small’s first track in five years.

The song is available now, Let’s listen, big new stink too Much Take Derek Small’s variety says, who may or may not be actor Harry Shearer, co star of nineteen eighty four, is this is spinal tappication? Not getting the joke here, Derek Small says, I been spending the last year or so as brand ambassador for brugal Coin, the Dutch cryptocurrency. Since it was cratering this pass spring, I was following the news more than usual, which is where I got bombarded by all the barbibs. I don’t know which angered me more, but it’s really hard to write a song about crypto, but the overwhelming shroud of pinkness definitely deserved a major pricking, and that’s where I came in. They also shared Derek Small’s official biography.

Derek was born one April quote, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, having to endure growing up as an April fool’s baby. His father, Donald Duff Smalls, raised Derek after his mother, Dorothy, left home to join a traveling all girls jazz band called the Hotton Toddies That’s Ready. While Derek had a quiet school career in his hometown of Milford on the River Knoll in the West Midlands, Duff carried on his work as a telephone handset sanitizer, working for the pioneering film in the trade Xantophone until it was absorbed by the former British Telecom, primarily according s reports at the time, for its robust bill collecting operation. There’s like seven more paragraphs of this. I’ll get back to this on Sunday because I have a lot to cover today.

Bill Maher getting into with Keith Filberman. Why Bill Maher has decided that Real Time with Bill Moore will return despite the ongoing writers strike. Keith Olberman tweeted, without writers, the new weekly scab all caps edition of Real Time with Bill Maher will be eighty three seconds long. As somebody who’s known you since nineteen seventy eight. F you Bill, you selfish and unfunny.

I’m trying to think of a way to clean this up, a bag that would have scum in it. He didn’t really clean it up, John, did you? No? I didn’t whatever.

All right, let’s just read it.

F you Bill, you selfish and unfunny, scumbag. That’s how Keith Hilpriman probably wants that read. TV writer Jennifer Gross posted, can’t wait to tell my son there won’t be Christmas this year because Bill Maher and a bunch of talk show hosts who couldn’t stay away from the limelight prolonged to strike that was gaining ground and are putting countless writers, actors and crew and financial peril and definitely Bill Maher and his announcement said it’s time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with and hope they’re addressed to their satisfaction. But they’re not the only people with issues, problems, and concerns.

He noted he will honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue at desk piece, new rules or editorial. The Writer’s Guild called Bill Moore’s announcement disappointing and added, if he goes forward with his plan, he needs to honor more than the spirit of the strike. Bill Moore is obligated as a WGA member to follow the strike rules and not perform any writing services. It’s difficult to imagine how Real Time with Bill Mark can go forward without a violation of w GA strike rules taking place. WGA will be picketing this show.

Frasier is Back, Baby. Paramount Plus has released the official trailer for the Fraser reboot Kelsey Grammer, Please Fraser. The new series follows Frasier in the next chapter of his life. Blah blah blah, Boston blah blah blah, new challenges, new relationships, blah blah blah. I’ve told you about this several times.

Jack Cutmore Scott plays Frasier’s son, Freddie. Freddie’s Got Some Friends. Baby new Worth will be back in one episode as Lilith Frasier Paramount Plus October twelfth. In the US October thirteenth, and the rest of the world. The first two episodes will air back to back on CBS Proper on October seventeenth, beginning at nine fifteen pm.

What’s That about there’s probably seventy five minute survivor or something we see in the trailer. Apparently Fresier’s hanging around out at a bar, but no, not that one where all his old friends are. It’s unclear to me why he’s not hanging out at the old place. He’s got new friends and a new bar. Who knows, Maybe like Cliff retired and moved to Cleveland and he still loves Cliff and doesn’t get to see him.

Who knows? A special titled Fresier Inside the Series while they are on October seventh on CBS, giving fans of behind the scenes look at how the new series came together. I could do that special in four seconds money, I will shoot. I still have three seconds left. CBS is like, hey, what should we do?

In late night? They are going to run Comics Unleashed. That’s a show hosted by Byron Allen. If you’ve ever been up late at night, you may have stumbled across this thing. It’s so hey, it’s that good.

That will follow repeats of Stephen Colbert beginning September eighteenth, that’s Monday. For what the network says is a limited run, CBS will air two episodes per night at twelve thirty seven in the spot formerly occupied by the Late Late Show. Comics Unleashed has arity in syndication since two thousand and six. Byron Allen hosts a roundtable discussion with a rotating panel of comedians. Guests have included Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Hattish, gab I Lecias, Cedric Howie, Mandel, Leslie Jones, Wayne Brady, roy Would, Junior Whitney Cummings, Jabe’s Move, Billy Gordell, and Margaret Show.

So that’s like twelve comedians and this thing’s been on since two thousand and six, So in seventeen years, I just listed ten comedians you’ve heard of son. You can stay up late on Monday and watch that one. Big Mouth is also back, Baby Baby, October twentieth for the premiere of the penultimate seventh season. You know big Mouth Inspired by Nick Croll’s Childhood. Big Mouth is about the glorious nightmare that is puberty.

Some of the guest stars in season seven Megan thee Stallion, Stephanie Beatrice, Zach Alafanakis, Randall Park, Chloe Feinneman, Beck Bennett, Zach Woods, Mark Dubless, Paul Sheer, John Daley, and Andy Daley. Welcome to the Yucky part of today’s podcast. Of the next two stories are kind of ikey. I’ll read them verbatim from Yahoo. Tiffany Haddish reportedly was slapped with a one million dollars lawsuit at her recent show in Los Angeles on August twenty eighth.

The lawsuit was served while hosting a comedy event at the Laugh Factory on August twenty eighth by a process server for the girl’s trip. Actress’s former friend, Treza Morris. Morris is the mother of the two children who accused Hattish and fellow comedian Iri Spears of grooming them for a twenty fourteen skit called Through a Pedophile’s Eyes for the comedy site Funnier Die. Morris is suing Hattish and Spears for defamation following the aftermath of a previous lawsuit brought by her children, who were fourteen and seven at the time the skit was filmed. The teenage girl claimed that Hannish coached her on how to simulate fallacio while eating a subway sandwich.

The skit also featured Spears rubbing oil on the young boy’s back and lusting after the child while looking at him through holes in a newspaper. The lawsuit was eventually dropped by the plaintiffs, but Morris, who has paid a fifteen thousand dollars settlement from Spears’s claiming that the two comedians labeled her as an extortionist, can read more about that story on Yahoo and from the av Club. I’ll also read this verbatim. Rick and Morty creator Justin Royland is now facing accusations of using his fame to course young women and teens into sex. NBC News Cat ten Barge published text messages and social media dms between Royland and his various accusers, and a revealing and disturbing report that includes accusations of sexual assault, grooming, and coercion.

Royland has denied the charges through his lawyers, saying the allegations were false and defamatory. You can go on the Avy Club and they’ve got some of the text messages. I choose not to go there or read any of them. Let’s do something more fun and pop on over to Gossip Corner from KOI. N will Farrell was in Portland again on September ninth.

He was catching the soccer Timbers two LAFC. Zero was one of the owners of LAFC. He probably wasn’t happy. Gossip Corner Koi N tells us after the game, Will Farrell was seen performing a mostly unscheduled stand up set at the Mcmanamans Wringlers NX in Southwest Portland. Mcmeneman’s employee may And told KOI N that Will perform about ten minutes of material.

Now, what’s a mostly unscheduled stand upset is that Will might come by sometime between midnight and midnight. I don’t know what that is. Morgan, the employee said, We’re pretty close to the stadium and Will Ferrell walked in earlier that day to grab a drink. He noticed that we had comedy that night and asked it would be able to stop in for a quick stand up set. Ah, that’s why it’s sort of scheduled, got it.

We let him know we couldn’t make any promises. Really, who was possibly performing? Hey, can Will Farrell get ten minutes now? I’m sorry, Johnny banana Is and Crash Kurigliano are performing tonight. We don’t have any time for Will Farrell.

I’m sorry, mister Chappelle, Rock and Seinfeld won’t make any time for that could actually be the lineup. You could have actually had Seinfeld, Rock and Chappelle. And if Will Ferrell shows up and goes, can I do ten, They’re all gonna go, yeah, of course, what are we talking about. We let him know we couldn’t make any promises, but we couldn’t see how our host would ever say no. You think we weren’t entirely sure he would come through.

But after about fifteen minutes or comedy started, he walked in. Tim Dillon has kicked off a tour. By the way, I’ve mentioned I really liked Tim Dillon’s podcast and someday Tim Dillon’s gonna step on a landmine. I’m gonna deny I ever said that on a recent episode he had on a politician. I’m not even going to tell you who it is, because the point isn’t the politician’s politics.

It’s just, hey, Tim Man, I love you, but you’re not Joe Rob. It just when you do your thing where you just monologue and make fun of the news, when you’re sitting down on the politician having a pretty serious interview, what are you doing? Don’t do that? Tim Dillon. The American Royalty Tour kicks off tonight Charlotte.

Then he’ll hit Lexington, Cincinnati, Devenport, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Comedy, hotbat Out There, Omaha, Wheatland, California, Sacramento, i Guess, Rochester, Munhall, Pennsylvania, Detroit. In December ninth, Toronto’s and Meridian Hall. Nikki Glaser continues the Good Girl Tour that started back in January, but we have some new dates. She’s in Chicago tonight as the Chicago Theater Fans Plastic Venue. Then off to Peoria, Englewood, New Jersey, over by Me, Prior Lake, Minnesota, Calgary, Nappa, Wheatland again, San Francisco, San Diego, Milwaukee, Riverside, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, which I always think of, remember the day after That’s what I always think of.

One night here, Lawrence, Kansas, Boston, Baltimore, Rohobeth Beach. Maybe she’ll see the President there, Atlantic City, Portland, Rama, Ontario at the Casino, Rama Love It, Munhall, Pennsylvania, Wow, Munhall, Pennsylvania, getting everybody, Detroit and Denver. On New Year’s Eve, Brittany Corney is taping a special on Sunday at King’s Comedy Club in Raleigh. She’s a writer on Audible’s upcoming podcast Networking for Introverts with a porn and unchula and controversial father Ted co creator Gran Lennhan was out performing again. He’s going to write a book about his TV career and recent notoriety as critic of the transit right movement.

Sough Crowd is the name of the book. It will chart his life since his sitcom success. He did a set the other night and was given a stay ending ovation by parts of the audience. That’s funny, but it was only his eighth gig and it showed he initially fumbled with the mic. He was doing a bit about Frankenstein and he stopped it when he realized it wasn’t going well.

A chunk of the crowd left when Lenahan finished, so it was clear where they come from. But apparently he hasn’t really put together a cohesive live set, and then headliner Andrew Lawrence had to go on that sucks. Oh sorry, Andrew, and that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting today’s show, and I’m gonna go sit on Ticketmaster and get Adam Sandler tickets right No,

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The Shark Deck may see one again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A bunch of the late night guys tweeted, I saw Colbert did it, and then Kimmel did it. I’m assuming Falon did it as well, but from Colbert. This just in.

I’m headed to Vegas with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel for Strike Force three Live Catch us one night only, Saturday, September twenty third. All proceeds from our live show will go directly to out of work staff from our respective shows. See you there. The Hollywood Reporter had a press release in which Seth Meyers and John Oliver addressed their absence. Oliver said, I’m not allowed back in Vegas until I’m cleared of all charges.

Seth Meyers said I will be in Vegas, but unable to attend as I got to play my slots. The Hollywood Reporter points out they have yet to discuss fallon Gate on the podcast so far. The episodes that have been published were recorded prior to fallon Gate. We’ll see if they addressed them on upcoming shows. I’ll suspect not, but you never know.

Did you see this whole Martin Short thing. A guy wrote a piece on slate dot com with the headline why we keep putting up with Martin Short? And apparently Hollywood did not react well to the taking down of Martin Short. The writer cited his reasons for questioning Martin Schwartz’s talents. He thinks Martin Short will desperately do anything for a laugh, and he finds almost all the over the top characters that he played unbelievably annoying.

Are we sure this isn’t me writing about Adam Sandler? Because no, Dan Kois Kois Hope I’m saying your name right, Dan? Anyway, Dan writes, I find Martin Short’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy, standout, too uneasy, movie start at twice, failed talk show host, enthusiastic song and dance man. I’ve wrinkled my nose. I’ll let me jump in here and let me give a quote about Adam Sandler.

I find Adam Sandler’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy standout to movie star, I’ve wrinkled my nose. Okay. Back to what Dan wrote about on Martin Short, Eugene Levy did not like it and wrote, just got wind of that ridiculously laughable op ed about Marty Short after five years in the world of comedy, There’s one thing I know for certain. No one is faster, smarter, or funnier than Marty Short. He is the definition of funny.

Ben Stiller wrote, Martin Short is a comedic genius. Endo story, Mark Hamill. You know him as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. He said, heart to believe people are actually debating whether or not Martin Short is funny. Newsflash, he is hilarious all caps.

John Cusack, I don’t know what people are on about Martin Short, but is mister Rogers boxing match is my fave. And in the end, Dan wrote that Martin Short is basically a nice, decent guy who would find heaters like him boring as a dinner companion. Kara Swisher has Conan O’Brien on her podcast. I haven’t listened to yet, but I did read the transcript and I’m actually gonna grab that pod right now. I got my phone right here.

Here it is. It’s called Conan O’Brien talks Today’s Accountant. Fifty nine minutes downloaded, done. I have shared the transcript if you want to read along. That’s what I did in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

But there’s a lot’s unpacked there. I’ll be picking at it for like the next five days. I want to just sit here and read an article to you for an hour. Conan self described and said I could probably come across to a lot of people as, oh, he’s so silly and he makes a lot of jokes and he takes things very lightly. And I’ve never been that person.

I take things very seriously, and I am that person. But also when I’m given an assignment, I take it very seriously, and it’s in my nature. I don’t want to let people down. I think for years and years and years, i’d wake up and I was so driven by what’s the show today, how’s it going, how did we do this week? What does the network thing?

How are things? Are we repeating ourselves too much? What’s the next challenge? And I felt that way for a boy. I started in ninety three, and I think that was my mo for twenty some odd years, and I started to get better in the latter part of the TBS show.

But now that’s my life. I feel you, Conan one of the first things I do every day as I checked the podcast download numbers on this thing, Conan continued. I think it was eventually toward the end we went to half an hour, and I remembered feeling a huge difference half an hour and an hour. It’s more than just a thirty minute difference. I don’t know how to explain it.

We feel this responsibility the whole time for a longer period of time, so I don’t know. I feel that just helped, and you have to remember it. Towards the end of my run, COVID hit and I think COVID accelerated things a bit because I was doing interviews late night interviews on Zoom and I remember if just feeling like, yeah, I know COVID’s going to depart and things are gonna go back to normal. But I think to a degree, COVID may have accelerated a bit, meaning I might have done thirty years instead of twenty eight. But then I thought, why stick around for two years?

Leave? Now? It’s been fun It’s been an amazing gift. Conan said he loves his podcast. I love the travel shows.

Let’s do this transition now. Let’s not wait around and have some cool three zero anniversary, especially as you say, the culture is changing so quickly. Comedian Owen Benjamin has been making fun of his own sketches in light of Fallon Gate. Owen Benjamin tweeted this aged well. What he was referring to is a twenty nineteen sketch that he had previously posted.

In it, Benjamin don a wig in a suit to play Jimmy Fallon. In the sketch, Jimmy Fallon is interviewing Joseph Stalin, played by conservative commentator Stephen Crowder. There’s an opening monologue where Benjamin is Fallon claims he read Stalin’s autobiography in a bubble bath with Justin Timberlake. Crowder appears in a Stalin tunic and a fake mustache. He sits down with fake Jimmy Fallon.

The audience goes wild. Crowder, playing Stalin, becomes angry and yells who was the last one to clap, and then tells Benjamin as Fallon, I don’t know why you have so many nice things when you have such weak hands. They banter for a bit Krowder as Stalin tells Benjamin’s Fallon. When he returns home, he will find his wife and children dead.

And then Jimmy Fallon goes.

When we come back, Harry Styles and I’ll be doing stuff to each other on a ferris wheel, and we’ll play beer pong with Kim Jong Young. Here’s a weird one for you, and I’m sharing it because Chris Rock appears in the story from The Hollywood Reporter. The Federal Government’s crypto crackdown is hitting Hollywood again, this time star getting an animated web three series featuring the voices of Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher, me Lacunis, Jean Fonda, Seth McFarland, and more. The SEC on Wednesday filed Chargers against the creators of the NFT cartoons series Stoner Cats for an unregistered offering of NFTs. I don’t believe Chris Rock is involved in this at all, other than he was one of the voices.

Stoner Cats launched in twenty twenty one as an animated series funded by selling NFTs to buyers. The series is about the wacky adventures of cats who learned talk after inhaling medical marijuana. As I’m talking to you, I’m getting texts. My daughter apparently wants me to get Olivia Rodrigo tickets. Okay, I rolled a seven on the tailor Swift tickets, so she must think I’m really good at ticket Master.

I’d digress. The NFT offering, which raised more than eight million dollars, gave buyer’s access to watch the series their own stonecat avatar, and promised the creation of future animated projects. Did I erase this from my brain? I was doing the podcast then anyway. Rough week for Kunis and Kutcher.

They also have been getting backlash to letters they wrote to the court and support of former That seventy Show cast member at Danny Masterson ahead of his recent sentencing. Let’s not go there. Pete Davidson spoke about as Kenemine use at the show on Sunday at the hard Rock and Atlantic City. That’s the show he’s doing with Millennium, John Stewart. I told you could have got in for fifteen bucks, Bet Davidson.

I am fresh at a rehab everybody. I got that post rehab glow seventh times the charm. During his set, Pete revealed he took ketamine every day over a four year period before checking in a rehab In June, Pete joked, it was magical one time I got the wiggles to mesh with Schindler’s List. He revealed that he was high when attending Aretha Franklin’s funeral in twenty eighteen. Why would Pete Davidson be at Aretha Franklin’s funeral?

A quick Google reveals to me, Ah, it was in twenty eighteen, and at that time, Pete Davidson was engaged to Ariana Grande, who was asked to perform at the service. That makes sense. Forgot that happened? The Huffington Post, in the same article I’m looking at says, in case you forgot, which I did. Pete Davidson has a leg tattoo of Hillary Clinton, who he called one of the strangest people in the universe.

Pete shared the photo on social media, and the Hillary A Kamp wrote back, thanks Pete Davidson. That makes it significantly less awkward that I’ve had a Pete Davidson tattoo for years. Boy, I didn’t know we were going to go anywhere near this. I was just trying to tell you about Pete Davidson’s tea on Slurday Night. That was a fun digression.

Pete explained to the crowd, you can’t do drugs in your thirties because it’s not cute anymore. At that point, you’re just a drug addict. This next story is not new, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it came up because this week was the anniversary of nine eleven. Apparently, Jimmy Carr had tested a joke before making it about Pete Davidson’s father. Back in twenty sixteen, Jimmy Carr was on a Comedy Central roast.

One of the panelists was Pete Davidson. Jimmy Carr’s joke, I’m a Paul that people would come here and make jokes about the sacrifice pete heroic father made on nine to eleven. This is not the roast of Pete Davidson’s father that was in two thousand and one. Last year, on the Have a Word podcast, Jimmy Carr explained that he first debuted the joke at the Hollywood Improv in LA. He revealed the line got a laugh and then an ooh, and that Pete Davidson was laughing harder than everyone else from the back of the audience.

Car said, there’s a laugh from the back of the room, like a sustained maniacal laugh. It was Pete Davidson. Okay. The Daily Beast saw Michelle Wolf’s new special. I haven’t seen it yet.

You see, last night was trivia. Tonight’s football Friday. I’m gonna play Starfield. Are you’re playing Starfield? Yes?

Maybe Saturday, actually maybe tomorrow. Usually on Friday night, I’m tired, and I say I’m going to play video games, and then I just like stare at the TV. So and I also have to watch Chane Gillis. My son said, Chane Gillis is really good.

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And then Sunday’s football and Monday’s football.

By the way, Jets, sorry, bro. Michelle Wolf has a new special. The Daily Beast reviewed at Laura Bradley is the reviewer, and I read her review and I’m not so sure she liked it. She wrote. Much of Wolfe’s material pointedly points out the hypocrisy white women enacted in a society that can often encourage their sense of victimhood lest they discover and embrace their true power.

As she labels it karening, quoting wolf and Spoilers, Waiting until a couple summers ago to realize that things have been bad for black people is like needing to see that documentary to No Sea World is bad? Did you know Wale shouldn’t live in the sink? Laura Bradley continues, but on other topics, like me Too, the comedians comments start to feel less considered and more incendiary. During one joke Spoilers, she sums up me too supporters positioned by saying, doesn’t matter what you did. You could have raped somebody or accidentally whispered into a boob.

It’s all the same, and you have to die. Michelle Wolfe says she was so frustrated by me Too because I think we genuinely could have made social change. We could have made things better for women and men, but we effed it up from the very beginning. Michelle Spoilers also jokes about trans people, quoting Michelle here, I heard her about all these trans women getting murdered and assaulted, and all I could think of when I heard that was welcome jump on in the Water’s terrible and full of missing women. The audience laughs let’s out a few ohs, and Michelle says, some people say, now statistically more trans women are getting murdered, And I’m like, well, are they getting murdered because they’re trans?

Or are they getting murdered because they’re not used to presenting as women? She tells an imaginary trans woman, you used to be a lion, Now you’re a gazelle. There’s different rules. Okay. Laura Bradley said, Wolf obviously did not set out to write a thesis paper, but still this treatment feels frustratingly glib.

Sean McCarthy writes for Decider of cross baths with Seawan quite a few times over the past twenty years. He definitely knows comedy, and he said what comedy special is will Michelle will remind you of? By format, nothing per se by subject matter, Wolf stand somewhere on the spectrum between the sexually explicit feminism of Nikki Glaser and the defines of Dave Chappelle. Sean McCarthy for Decider says, stream it precisely because Wolf chose to split up her new material into multiple episodes, You’re much more likely to want to watch the first twenty minutes, so you can decide for yourself whether you want more. Where that came from?

Holy Cow. I just check the clock running along here. I’m going to talk about the commercials at the end of today’s podcast. By the way, the writer strike is getting serious now. From the Hollywood Reporter, NBC Universal’s studio group has suspended Lorne Michael’s Broadway video and Dween the Rock Johnson’s seven Bucks deals.

Wow, those are two pretty high profile people. I’ve been sharing my Jimmy fallon NBC conspiracy theory with people, and people are buying into it. If you missed it, check out Saturday’s episode that was all about fellon short version. I wonder if that story leaked, if they’re trying to push Jimmy out before a political year. And I’m mentioning that right now because normally I would think Lauren Michaels would try and protec Jimmy failing.

But Lauren’s heading for SNL’s fiftieth year, and NBC apparently isn’t afraid to mess with Lauren right now, So very very interesting. Derek Brown has a debut comedy slash poetry album out today. It’s called A Close Shave with Heaven. Let’s listen. There’s a strange thing that happens when you’re in a relationship, and when you’re deep in it for like four years, you don’t know why this seismic shift happens in a relationship where you go from like, let’s have fun, let’s go play dodgeball, into like, let’s argue all the time, and you can’t get back to that fun.

And therapy can try and do it, and sometimes you can’t do it. But I want to examine more that strange thing where you argue all the time. The only sex you’re having is makeup sex where your girlfriend puts on a bunch of makeup and then goes have sex with a bunch of other dudes. The album was recorded live in Boston intro by Eugene Merman, who’s a big fan and signed Derek to his PGF Records comedy label. That label includes Bob gat Goldthwaite, Love what He’s Doing These Days and Maybe Higgins.

A Close Shave with Heaven available streaming digitally. It’s on vinyl and quote the Total Brownie Jam Pack, which includes a Close Shave with Heaven on vinyl, a two egg carrying case, a stealthy shaving cream and canister with secret advice inside and a book of poems That’s fun Over on Gossip Corner. Matt Rife was in Vegas. He did two shows of The Cosmopolitan last Friday, then he showed up at the Jonas Brothers show. The Jonases were doing their residency at the MGM Grand and that show included a special intermission from Matt Rife.

Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde seen hugging comedian Nick Fune during a night out at the Greek Theater. This from Eats Online. Olivia Wilde was out to see nap Bergatzy she was greeted by Nick Fune. Nick Fune reportedly stepped out from a backstage area to greet Wilde, and the two shared and embrace before entry the venue. Whom James Adomian is taping his special today at the Allegian in La Love.

James Adomian one of my favorite albums from the recent years. I didn’t phrase that well, you know what I meant, Trump versus Bernie Debate. Fantastic album. The official release says on the stage, James Adomian is a living god, an incarnation of Dionysus, meaning he’s often drunk and largely available for bookings. He’s been to Armenia twice but still can’t convince anyone that he is Arntmenian.

Jad Daniels is on tour. He’s starting to really heat up. I think that’s a name we’ll be talking about more and more in the next year or so. To our kicks off in Denver tonight at the Comedy Work South three days, then onto Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake, La, Irvine, San Antonio, or Arlington, Portland, to wrapping up December fifteenth and sixteenth in Tacoma, John Marcos or Esse. You’ve heard me talk about him, one of my faves.

Keep an eye on him. He just started a tour. Tonight is not the first night, but his tour is called the Leaning ind Tour. Tonight and bloom Rington, Minnesota, then to Northford, Connecticut. I haven’t heard of Northward and I’m from New York City, Poughkeepsie, La, Liberty Township, Ohio, Dubuque, Scottsdale, Chicago, Milwaukee, Milan.

I was like, what’s it Italy, That’s what it is, Milan, you know that Milan, the famous one. I was like, what state is it? No, it’s Milan. It’s Milan, Milan. Then he’s in London, UK, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris.

If you’re in Paris, no November ninth, Apollo Theater, go see Chan Marco. Or if you don’t want to pay the airfare, just go to Bridgeport, Connecticut November sixteenth, then DC Point Blaisant Beach, Pittsburgh, Springville, Utah, Memphis, Jeansville, and then December twenty eight through to thirtieth in Philadelphia. That’s a pretty big tour there, pal. That concludes the comedy segment of today’s podcast. I’m going to talk about the commercial load because I’ve gotten a bunch of comments and I would just want to address it.

So if you don’t want to hear any of that, we’re done zee tomorrow. For those of you still here, Isaac posted a review before even comment Isaac, dude, thank you so much for listening every day. I’ve been doing Brady in some form for thirty years now, and I know you wouldn’t post something if you didn’t actually care. It’s the easiest thing in the world to go delete, it’s the easiest thing to just like ignore, But that you actually took the moment to post this. Let’s me know you actually do like the show and you actually care.

So I’d’ve gotten a couple other comments about the ads. Well, let me start with Isaac and the I’ll explain. So Isaac posted the headline so many ads has become overloaded with repetitive ad reads. I had to change my five star to a one star. Seems like it’s become fifty percent ad reads, and they are so repetitive.

It used to be great to listen when those one minute of ads and ten minutes of content, but it’s hard to listen to now. Isaac, totally fair comment. So let me explain how we get here. Cards up. I’m totally trying to make money on this thing, one hundred percent, dude, one hundred percent.

I’m not gonna pretend i’m not. So there’s two kinds of commercials. There are live reads, which is me talking about a product, like this week, talking about draft kings. And there are the commercially commercials. You may get a lot for online casinos.

I got one this morning for a famous credit card company. All right, So there’s the commercials and there’s the live reads we’ll call them. Last week there were two live reads that not really supposed to happen. It’s supposed to have one. The two advertisers were Factor and Draft Kings.

Draft Kings did a significant commitment to the show. I think it’s nine weeks in total, So thank you Draft Kings, and I want to be good to Draft Kings Factor as a new sponsor. I want them to stay in I like that category. I truly do like the food. This is not a commercial.

This is me just telling you what’s going on. What you heard was me truly enthusiastically promoting the product. Did I go long? Yeah? In retrospect, did I go too long?

Yeah? You guys made that clear. So when you put the enthusiasm for Factor back to back with a Draft Kings read that comes along with a lot of boilerplate legal stuff that you have to do. Yeah, that middle break got a little long. There, You’re right.

The feedback I’m getting this week is it’s a little better. The other part of this is when you do a podcast, the podcasts have to live somewhere. That’s called hosting. You can either pay for hosting or you can get hosting free. I work with a hosting service that as part of the deal, they sell the commercial commercials the ones you hear, and I have to run at least one before the show.

I have to run at least one after the show. In the past, I had two and two because I never had any live reads. Live reads pay a lot better than the other kind of commercial. Again, following your feedback, I’m like, oh, all right, gotcha, everybody. So I had two and two.

I’ve cut it down to one and one. So what you should hear now is a commercially commercial at the beginning. Then me I try and do all the other stuff, including the housekeeping in the middle of the show. If you want to skip it, skip it, I get it. I do the same thing and then one more at the end.

So that should be the format. I’m not being defensive. I’m just trying to explain. I hope that’ll make sense to you. Another thing, just as I’m talking, as I think, So when you upload the file, you have to put a marker and tell it how many commercials If you go backwards in time, I have the mark for two and two and things like that.

I would have to go back and change fifteen hundred episodes. That takes more than five minutes. So you know, maybe if you go back and you’re like, hey, I wonder what John talked about back in February. You’ll get two and two. If you listen tomorrow, you should get one on one and whatever pops up in the middle next week.

I don’t think there are any live reads, so you’ll just hear commercially commercials. I hope that all makes sense. Oh. The other thing too, is I immediately got the feedback on Labor Day. People were like, dude, what the hell?

So last week, after I got that feedback, I went back in and I redid Tuesday’s episode and make it longer. So I did try to make the episodes longer last week, so it wasn’t like fifty percent commercials. But Isaac Man, I hope you’re still out there. Email me on the side. Would just love to connect you.

We don’t have to do anything public. John at the sharkdeck dot com my emails on the notes would love to hear from you. I hope you’re still out there. All right, Na’s your comedy needs for today? Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube.

Thanks to Draft Kings for supporting today’s show. See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Matt Rife. I wanted to tell you about this yesterday, but there was so much strife yesterday. Matt Rife has a new special coming to Netflix titled Natural Selection. Rife will leave no topic unsouched, from crystals to social media trolls, and no audience member spared.

You’re gonna have to wait a minute because he hasn’t even taped it yet. He’ll tape it on September twenty second and twenty third at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. This all part of the Problematic Tour, which is sold out for a run of more than two hundred and sixty dates. Wow, Jimmy Kimmel on Strike Force five, that’s the podcast the five late night guys are doing. I heard Kimmel on Monday’s Bill Simmons say that the first five episodes have been recorded.

So if you’re waiting to hear Jimmy Fallon talk about Fallon Gate, you might have to wait. And I wonder if they’ll talk about fallon Gate at all. Maybe they will, maybe, I don’t know. We’ll see what that podcast doing very well. Even if they can’t get John Oliver on a proper microphone, and he sounds like he’s in a cave.

And they’re making lots of headlines. Jimmy Kimmel told the story about trying to use the time off for the writer strike to get a vasectomy. He made an employment shave. The you know, you got to shave some stuff, Kimmel said, It’s complicated, it’s a little bit scary. There’s nothing smooth in that area.

It’s like shaving chewing gum. And the day didn’t go as planned. Kimmel’s Uber driver overheard him talking about his vasectomy plans and suggested another option instead, which is semen retention. Hold on, Jimmy Kimmel’s taking an uber to a vasectomy. He doesn’t like have a car, like a driver or anything that much money.

Does Jimmy Kimmel make fifteen million dollars a year? Jimmy Kimmel takes ubers. He doesn’t have a service. Was he on? Wait?

Am I misunderstanding? You know? Maybe his wife could have driven him to the vasectomy. I don’t know. Anyway, As the story goes, Kimmel’s Uber driver, whenever he was in this uber, overheard him talking about his vasectomy plans, suggested another option see him in retention.

Colbert said, did he have a bunch of jars on the front seat? Falon said, is it like holding it a sneeze? Kim Will said, honestly, I think it’s something you learned about in one of those podcasts these young guys listened to. Then he said him meeting me and the uber is one of his desires, and it manifested somehow we had a very long ride home. Okay, so this wasn’t on the way to a sector me.

That’s why I don’t read the articles in advance. It’s no fun if I do that. Oliver joked. I think he may have inadvertently clicked the box on the Uber app that says please talk to me about semen retention. That’s either a one star ride or a five star ride, and I think it might be both.

Jim Gaffigan was on Bill Maher’s podcast last week. I finally got to listen to the whole thing, really enjoyed it to the point where I pulled a transcript for it. At one point, mar asked Jim Gaffigan why he tours with Jerry Seinfeld like they can both set out they don’t need to show there’s help, Gaffigan said, because it’s fun to hang out with other comedians. He gives us an opportunity to a show, and we do this in New York City all the time. We’ll do a show at Gotham and then we’ll hang out afterwards, usually just for half an hour forty five minutes, and I’ll be talking about comedy because some of it, you know, I think of Jerry as kind of the comedy Socrates.

He doesn’t engage in gossip. He engages in discussions of comedy, which all comedians do. But we can sit there and some of it is the craft of joke writing, you know. Mar said, I got to New York at seventy nine. I think he was a couple of years before me.

I think he started in seventy six. So he was always like this calm head of the class guide, not like arrogant about it, just like aware of what you had to do to get on TV and be successful and do this act everyone could get. It seems to be a week for dusting off old beefs. A clip of Ali Wong on Trevor Noah’s Daily Show from twenty nineteen, resurfaced on TikTok, Allie Wong had a confrontation with a white male comedian. She didn’t reveal who it was, said he was not a very successful comedian and tell Trevor Noah, I don’t even know if you’d know who he was.

She explained that the comedian approached her while she was pregnant and touched her belly with quote his fat, sweaty hand, as she described as so gross to begin with. She said, just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to touch my belly. He referred to her pregnant. She then said the comedian said, so this is your stick now, her reply, getting pregnant is not rainbow suspenders. I’ll come back to that.

The comedian told her she was so lucky because she receives all this attention because she’s both female on minority or come back, you know, because historically there’s always been the winning combo for recognition and success. And he was like, you know what I mean, like me, I’m just another white guy. She said, back, be a better white guy, and then cited some successful white male comedians like Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell, Nick Carole, John Mulaney and on and on. So that’s rotten. No one should touch her, no one should accuse pregnancy of being a gimmick.

But her line about rainbow suspenders being a gimmick, so comedian rainbow suspenders, that’s Robin Williams right, Is that a gimmick? Is John Mulaney wearing suits a gimmick? I don’t know. I think suggesting Robin Williams as a gimmick comedian is that’s a little harsh. Sam J will have a new special on HBO September twenty three that’ll be out at ten o’clock.

What can fans expect from Sam Jay’s new special, which is called Salute Me or Shoot Me? Well takes the stage at Brooklyn Steel for a hilariously frank discussion on embracing our differences, the stresses of long term relationships, and the power of empathy. Newly engaged sam J gets candid about life with her future wife, on the unknown stresses of being the man, the grim reality of trash day, and Moore. Chris Gethard is in the middle of the New Jersey is the World tour. He’s hitting all of New Jersey’s twenty one counties.

Each show will be at very intimate venues. He says the largest is fifty five seats, with hyperlocal reference, crowd work and other Jersey comedians joining him. He said, I’ve always prided myself on being able to look at the comedy scene and to see where the coolest stuff is happening. And I feel lucky to tell you right now, something effing cool is happening in Jersey. A lot of hard working, hilarious, vers little comics are doing great things around here.

I’d take no credit for it, but I’m happy to help shine a spotline on it. If you’re local to New Jersey, You’re in Montclair tonight Silver Stream Studio. Tomorrow, Union, New Jersey at Van goz Ear Cafe, Jersey City. On the fifteenth at pet Shop the sixteenth Vinyl Brewing in Hamilton, New Jersey. Been there for many A soccer tournament.

September seventeenth yearbook Records at Lenoka Harbor and then a gap to the twenty fourth, he’ll be at Panos Highland Park. The New York Daily News profiled Gary Goldman’s upcoming book, which is called Misfit Growing Up awkward in the eighties. The News calls it a clever, self effacing, and sometimes melancholy, three hundred page ish tomb that lets reader see how Gary Goldman got from ABC to ECT. The Daily News talked about how Gary’s openness and nice nature he is a really nice guy, has made him both a poster boy for mental health and the resident dry shoulder for other comedians, a role he embraces. He says, I’m happy to do it because I’m grateful that I feel better, and I feel an obligation to humanity to try and help people along.

I used to think, at the very least I could make people forget about their troubles, at least while I’m on stage, and maybe feel less alone. Young Gary was mostly kept company in the afternoons by Sesame Street. He said, it was so helpful to have Sesame Street as a rehorse. I always felt that I was a Burt in an ernie world. He cites as his favorite comedy sketch Ever Grover as a haphazard waiter to an angry bald customer.

The News rights, like Goldman Grover a furry blue monster. Thank you. Daily News is well meaning, a lot smarter than he lets on, and someone who just wants to save the world, at least from itself. The book is out on the nineteenth. Wh’ll do a book signing at Brooklyn’s Little Field on launch day.

Goleman says he’s been practicing his signature. I remember meeting Ray Bradbury and he signed my notebook and my old copy of Fahrenheit four fifty one, and he also drew a picture of a cat. The line was out the door. He was in no rush. He was so kind.

I just want to emulate him during the tour, the same way that David Sedaris is so kind for the people who wait. I think this is a very special connection between a writer and someone who takes the time to read their books. So I want to express my gratitude for that. A new special on eight hundred Pound Gorilla Jake Rush is overwhelming neutral. Eight hundred Pound Gorilla has their own blog, So this is, you know, Pravda for comedy, but you know, I’ll take it seriously.

They wrote within the first minute of a special, Jake Rush jokes that just last week I actually delivered a pizza at the university I graduated from to people that knew me He quotes someone at his graduation saying, hey, everybody, give it up if you’re an actor. I didn’t realize at the time, but that was actually the best advice I got in college. Those are two good jokes, the gorilla says. The one two punch shares some overlap with the one liners of Anthony Jessnick. A few minutes in Spoilers, Rush mentions he used to work as a college comedian.

Made slight waves after seeing a sign calling for the song Baby It’s called Outside to be canceled, clarifying how can you cancel that Christmas Carol because the woman is in danger but completely turn a blind eye to Grandma got run over by a reindeer. He then goes on to dismantle the song, going from the main premise, considering the hoof prints on her front and claw marks on her back, before shifting the joke with the line news flash, reindeer don’t have claws. The joke then pivots to how she was flipped over for possible murder, and ends with a degree of certainty that she was a cult sacrifice. That sounds like a great special. It’s called overwhelmingly neutral.

The artist is Jake Rush that should be on YouTube tonight. Jake Rush overwhelmingly neutral and at her I’m twelve years old. This story I did on my other podcast, five Good News Stories, which is just a bunch of smile stories. It was Friday, September first, the kickoff to the Labor Day weekend. The general manager at the Quality Inn in Absecon, New Jersey, went out to open the pool and noticed it was covered in blue stuff that was turning the water green.

At this point in the summer, the GM knew the drill. The staff of the motel drained the pool, washed it down, filled it back up. Three hours later, people were swimming, but when the general manager returned hours later to drop off supplies for the next morning’s breakfast, the pool turned yellow before her eyes. She checked the security camera as nobody had driven by. There were no cars in sight.

No one walked past the pool with thrown something in, so she called a detective at the Galloway Township Police Department. She told the detective it has to be a drone. The detective said, you might be onto something. Okay, you’re ready for this now. That day, the Galloway Police, in partnership with the federal Aviation Administration, The New Jersey State Police and the Abscon Police Department tracked a drone as it flew from the quality in to a nearby heating and cooling business.

There, they arrested a man who has been charged with multiple counts of criminal mischief and harassment. The accusation the man operated an unmanned aircraft via remote control and used it to drop packets of sea die into neighborhood pools. Sea dies a chemical used in water rescues. It turns water different colors, from bright yellow to fluorescent green. Apparently this went on all summer.

On August thirteenth, an Absecon homeowner called the police reported drone and hovered over their pool and dropped a substance in the water that turned the water green. The detective said similar reports soon emerged from around the area. He described the investigation as ongoing. I know this is terrible. Can you just imagine be the cop taking these calls asked about a motive.

The cops suggest all indications or the accused had been pranking people. This is how much this went on. The poolback at the hotel First Turn Green on June twenty second, the GM said it first, it happened every other week, Then it started happening more frequently. The week before the police figured it out, the pool turned green on both Thursday and Friday. The GM said he was getting too happy doing it.

She was happy to get a call from the detective who told her her nightmare or summer was finally over. The GM said, I said, thank you. I can breathe now. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The shark deck. Fuh today, he’s a fist. You want Hi, I’m chunny man with your Daily Comedy News. You know comedian’s fun right. Nope, Nope, nope, not today.

All right, let’s start with Pete Davidson. The headline from The Sun Pete Davidson lashes out at fan after he slammed as a racist during a comedy show. In a shocking moment, Pete was on stage Saturday night in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. According to a US Sun reporter, in the audience, Pete Davidson came out at the end of the show alongside John Stewart and John Laney to take some questions from fans. Okay, one woman shouted out that Pete was a racist, to which John Stewart tried to calm it down and explain it’s just part of Pete’s act.

But The Sun tells us the accusation seemed to enrage Pete Davidson, who shouted out, I gotta clean this up here, You’re a C word. Shut the f down. Stewart tried to make fun of the moment, saying clean up an aisle three. Somebody who was at the show said Pete was talking about his realtor, who’s black, and he said the realtor was him Holmes, and he called the big room the master bedroom. Pete apparently then did a quote skit about himself being the master before he was corrected by the realtor, who told him the term is now primary bedroom because master was named after slavery.

The son says it’s not clear what part of the joke the woman specifically objected to.

Meanwhile, Amy Schumer has been accused of cyber bullying Nicole Kidman.

After making fun of Nicole Kidman at the US Open, Amy Schumer took to Instagram on Monday and shared a photo of Nicole Kidman. The picture shows Nicole in a pink dress, staring wide odden and the camera with her hand held beneath her chin. Underneath the picture, Schumer wrote in the caption this how humans sits. Some people got a little annoyed. Amy went back on Instagram and said, I want to apologize to all the people I heard posting a photo of Nicole Kidman and alluding to her being an alien.

I’ll be asking the cast of that seventies show to write letters advocating for my forgiveness. Some comments on the social post, one wrote, this post seems beneath you. What point are you trying to make here? She’s most likely uncomfortable because there was a complete stranger recording her. That’s the look of annoyance and frustration leaking through the botox.

Another fan seemed disappointed in Amy, writing, Wow, so mean. I expected one of my favorite comedians to have more respect for other people’s feelings than this. All right, there’s a new documentary. It’s called Sorry Not Sorry. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night.

Producer Kathleen Lingo expressed disappointment that famous women who once criticized Louis c Ka’s behavior didn’t want to participate in Sorry Not Sorry. Lingo said that every single famous comedian the team approached to speak about Louis c Kay’s actions did not want to be interviewed for the project. I think the thing that really stands out in my mind, having been super involved with the outreach, is how many women had spoken out and around twenty seventeen, but when we reapproached them twenty twenty one declined, which is sort of a sobering reality and it just goes to show the bill the bravery of the women who are in the film. As we’re sort of looking back at the me too movement right now in the rear view mirror, and everyone’s always asking or things better, things worse. It’s really hard to have a blanket sort of assessment.

Just the fact that the women who at that moment felt the sense of promise to now not feel that anymore. I think it’s quite dark. I note at the end of the movie indicates that Louis C.K. Did not respond to the filmmaker’s request to comment on the project or to be interviewed for it. If you don’t remember what this is all about.

A November twenty seventeen New York Times report had five women accusing Louis C.K. Of sexual misconduct, detailing encounters in which he had exposed himself and did some self stuff and requested to do some self stuff in front of the ladies. Ck responds to the allegations the following day, admitting the stories are true. In twenty twenty one, he released a special slash comedy album called Sorry, which included jokes about his sexual misconduct, that won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy album The Light Times as comedian Michael Ian Black, Parks and Wreck co creator Michael Scher, and noelm. Jorman, who’s the owner of the comedy Seller, also appear in the film.

John Stewart, who declined to participate, is seen in archival footage juxtaposing the Daily Shows twenty sixteen, exchanged with college students Dan Ackerman with his Today’s Show appearance addressing his friendship with Ck a year later. Co director Kara Monis says, it’s stunning to watch. Of course, we’ll never know what John Stewart did or didn’t know, but I think being able to watch public figures speak about this over the course of years of striking, and here is real time reactions how we responded that question being posed is pretty incredible. But at the heart of sorry not Sorry are the women interviewed on screen, some of whom like artist and comedian Abby Shackner and TV writer Jen Kirkman, described sexual harassment by Ska, while comedian and rader Megan Coaster shares the antagonistic reactions she received after reporting on CK’s then rumored behavior. I’ll say private and career anxieties followed as their accounts were ridiculed and challenged in the court of public opinion.

If you miss Saturday’s episode, I caught you up on Jimmy Fallon Gate. That was an entire episode just about that, go back and listen to it. So in light of Jimmy Fallon Gate, New York Post says a tense exchange between Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon has gone viral. The heated interaction was initially covered in Tina Phase twenty thirteen autobiography Bossy Pants to Picks. Jimmy Fallon yelling at Amy Polard during a table to read for SNL.

Tina Fey wrote, back then, Amy Pohler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeen floor writer’s room waiting for the Wednesday night read through to start. Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can’t remember what it was exactly, except was dirty and loud and unladylike. Jimmy Fallon turned to her and a faux squeamish voice said stop that it’s not cute. I don’t like it.

Amy dropped what she was doing when black in the eyes for a second and wheeled around on him. I don’t eff in care if you like it. Amy made it clear she wasn’t there to be cute, She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in the boy’s scenes. She was there to do what she wanted, and she did not effing care if you like it. The New York Post has reached out to both Amy Pohler and Jimmy Fallon for comment.

They have not commented. Someone who did comment, Greg Guttfeld, who said apologizing was Jimmy Fallon’s mistake. Guttfeld said, they’re trying to ellen degenerous you and they’re sad cowards and s bags. Who uses that term really? Guttfeld continued, he’s a gentle, sweet purse and he’s great at everything but hiding his own crap, and that’s the problem here.

If the drinking story is true, that’s sad. If the drinking story isn’t true, that’s evil because he’s being targeted for fake or possibly real reasons to get him fired again. He’s being ellen nid Hmm. I wonder if gutt felt it believes in my conspiracy theory that maybe NBC’s looking at the upcoming election year, going hm, should we make a change, and should we make a change now while we don’t actually have a tonight show that would have to pay for plus or minus contracts. I haven’t read anyone’s contracts.

I don’t know. I’m just speculating. Listen to Saturday I talk about that got Feld. The most important thing is dude, doo doo doo, dude. Maybe make sure I get there at one, two, three, four, five, six dudes.

According to transcript I’m reading, the most important thing is dude, dude, doo doo doo. Dude. You’ve got to stop with the apologizing. You’re apologizing all the time, and you’re apologizing to people who will never forgive you. None of those people like you.

How dare you apologize to anonymous people who go to Rolling Stone, a sham of a scuzzy little magazine. Two words, Duke Lacrosse.

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Now, let’s say he has a problem.

Right when you’re that talented, talent can overshadow per painting the excesses of your social life. The people around you won’t tell you if you have a problem. My advice to start listening to the family and the people who love you and screw all those a. I assume the next words holes it’s dotted out that are around you. They’re not doing you any favors.

Hey, we’re only like ten plus minutes in and we can get to the fun stuff. Michelle Wolf has a new special out today. See normally that would be like the first thing in the daily Company News, But I told you it was a strayful day. Michelle Wolf’s All Struggles Manner plus Meet Too and News to Meet plus all beautiful makeup. It’s great to be here.

Michell Wolf’s third special. She tackles topics like dating, sexual harassment, race relations, and living in a new country. Bert Kreisher’s The Machine will hit Netflix September twenty third. That’s good. I really want to see it.

Haven’t done anything about seeing it, so if Netflix sticks it under my nose, I will watch it. The official cause of death for Paul Ruben’s akap we Herman has been released acute hypoxic respiratory failure, a condition that occurs when the lungs can’t release enough oxygen of the blood. The death certificate else said Rubens battle two types of cancer at the time of his death. A leukemia cancer of the blood and bone marrow, which will listen it as a sequential underlying cause and metastatic lung cancer. Ruben’s passed away a little over a month ago at age seventy.

Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, has written his debut screenplay. It’s called fakem Hall fa ck Ham. Make sure you pronounced it correctly, facam hall. It’s a Downton Abbey period spoof in the style of Airplane and the Naked Gun films. Jimmy said, the British film industry does two things very well, period drama and comedy.

Now we didn’t have time to write two movies, so we’ve had to mash the two genres together. I’m just slightly worried that if you don’t say fac’m hall in a posh English accent, it might be misconstrued. Hopefully that will be a problem. The story will follow a new porter who embarks on an unlikely relationship with the youngest daughter of a prominent UK family. At the same time, rivalries are spilling over in the Davenport family, led by Lord and Lady Davenport, as they also weather the epic failure of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddy cousin.

Letter Kenny presents a night of stand up comedy featuring four comedians from the popular, award winning Hulu original series Letter Kenny. Have you seen that one? That one’s fun and there’s a lot of episodes of it. So if you’re like Ai, there’s nothing to watch Letter Kenny. There’s a pre sale today at ten am.

Here the code is Puppers. Puppers is the Code Letter Kenny Tour November sixteenth, Boston, then to Ottawa, Burlington, Ontario, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus, London, Ontario, and Kingston, Ontario, and December third. Letter Kenny’s now in its eleventh season. Wow. Letter Kenny revolves around the dustups Wayne and his pals get into with their small town rivals for the Hicks, Skids and hockey players of Letter Kenny, getting your butt kicked as a legitimate concern on a day to day basis.

You’ll find Letter Kenny on Hulu and that is your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify YouTube. Thanks to Draft Kings for supporting today’s show. See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy new who stand Up for Heroes. We’ll be back for its seventeenth year. The annual benefit is returning November six that David Geffen Hall I was like, where’s that. I’m from New York.

I don’t even know where that is? Lincoln Center. The lineup this year Jimmy Carr, Awesome, Ronny Chieng, Shane Gillis, Josh Grobin, John Mellencamp listed. John was in a little social media hot watered last week. Should we go there?

And I guess we’re there? From the New York Post, let me read verbatim. Liberal comedian Bill Maher got into a tense exchange with musician John Mellencamp on Monday last week after the Pink Houses singer songwriter claimed only one percent or two percent of black people living in America today have better lives than slaves. During an appearance on mars at Club Random podcast, Mellancamp revealed he wrote a song called From the Cotton Fields to the Playing Fields that he never recorded because he believed it was wrong. The song’s message was an attempt to show how white people love to hate black entertainers and often exploit them.

Twenty nine minutes in the interview, Moore said, I would say that the playing fields are a lot better than the cotton fields. That’s what I’d say about that. Maybe I’m crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton who was not as good as playing left field for the Yankees. The Post write says Maria attempted to continue his argument. Mellancamp interjected and said, there’s no doubt one or two percent of black people in America have a better life.

More said, oh, stop, that’s what you think one or two percent. Mellancamp said, okay, let’s say ten percent. I just pulled a number out of my ass. Mare then told Mellancamp that’s where his opinion belongs. It was a feisty week over in Bill Mooreland.

Anyway, you’re lineup Jimmy Carr, Yay, Ronny Chieng, Shane Gillis, Josh Groban, John Mellancamp, Tracy Morgan, John Stewart, the War and Treaty, Rita Wilson, and Moore. Bob Woodruff said, I’m thrilled to announce these seventeenth Anuel stand up for heroes, an amazing night of hope, healing and laughter and honor our nation’s veterans and their families. Today is September eleventh. I’ve put together a bunch of stories here related to nine to eleven in comedy. I found some really very fascinating anecdotes, including a George Carl story that I’ll share.

I just want to tell you that’s what the next big chunk of the show until the commercial break is going to be. So you know, if this is something that you just don’t want to go there today. I’m from New York City. I was in New York City on nine to eleven. Totally get it.

And I’ll tell you even as I was putting this together, a lot of the articles had pictures of the towers on fire, and yet brought me back to that place. So just want to let you know that that’s what I’m going to do here, all right. From Vulture a few years back, they had a compilation of comedians talking about how they reacted to nine to eleven. So I pulled a couple of those stories out. One from Mitzy Sure, who owned the comedy store.

Ahmed Ahmed told the story that Mitzy made him a paid regular a year prior to nine to eleven because quote, she had an epiphany that Middle Eastern comedians will be necessary in our society at some point. She’d always tell me there’s going to be a war between America and the Middle East, so get ready. I called her the morning of nine to eleven and said, he’s seeing what’s going on, and she replied, I told you so. Mitzy decided to open the comedy store the Friday after nine eleven and request for me to go on stage, open the show and talk about being Middle Eastern and Muslim, to which I replied, nope, I didn’t know what to talk about, and she said, just be yourself and you’ll know what to say. I’m Damed.

Took her advice and said his first joke was Hi everyone, my name’s I’m ed Amed, and I had nothing to do with it. Please don’t follow me out to my car after the show. He says. That got a few chuckles, and then he proceeded into more self deprecating jokes and the crowd loosened up. About a month later, he was touring with Master Brawny and the Arabian Nights.

That’s who are Evolved into the Axis of Evil tour, which was just a great name for a tour. His manager called and said, you guys are getting death threats. It’s probably not a good idea to continue with the shows. Amed called Mas and they both laughed and said, well, we’re gonna die, die laughing. So they did the shows, which were all sold out.

Mas said he flipped his act so it didn’t lead with being Iranian. Quoting Mas, at one point, I said, oh, by the way, I’m Iranian, and then said something along the lines of yeah, I know, I’m disappointed too. I remember I brought an American flag and put it on the back of my car. I don’t know if it was out of fear of having somebody shoot me or if it was just out of patriotism. It was probably of both.

I was pulling into the parking lot at the comedy Store and there was this comedian Marylyn Martinez. She was just laughing at me in a funny way. She was like, oh my god, look at Master Branni. He’s got his flag trying to blend in, and I go, hell, yeah, Marilyn, I’m blending in. Alonzo Bowden said, I remember Vegas being empty and deserted.

I think they said the normal week in occupancy was over ninety percent and we were under twenty five percent. I joked that Vegas was so empty that the hookers were handing out their own flyers. I was also joking at the time that we black people were glad was the Arabs because it took the pressure off for a while. I didn’t do jokes about the attack. I joked more about the aftermath.

The crowds loved it. They always do. We comics relieve the pressure. People weren’t angry. I won next Big Star, so that was cool.

I also remember flying about two weeks later after the airline started up. I ran into Doug Stanhope at the airport around five or six am, and we laughed about how only comics were getting on planes, which brings us to Gilbert Godfried’s infamous performance. About two weeks after nine eleven, A few minutes into a set, Gilbert cracked the joke, I have to catch a flight to California. I can’t get it direct flight. They said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.

Gilbert later recalled that he lost an audience bigger than anyone has ever lost an audience. Gilbert told Vulture, Now, if there’s something that should not be said, I like to say it, and I’m standing at the podium, and I wanted to be the first one who address the elephant in the room. So after a few jokes about Hugh Hefner, I said the joke had shared with you. Well, no one in the history of show business has ever lost an audience. Worse, there was booing and hissing.

One guy yelled out too zoon, which I thought meant I didn’t take a long enough pause between the setup and the punchline. Well, after standing there for what felt like five hundred years, I decided to go to the bottom level of hell. I told the aristocrats joke. If you know anything about that joke, it’s beyond defensive. It has to do with loads of incest and beastiality, and those are the clean parts.

To my shock, the audience went from brewing and hating me to laughing uproariously. The laughter just kept building. When I got to the punchline, people were cheering. One review said, it’s like he performed a mass tricky out of me on the crowd. What that show proved to me is that after horrible times like September eleventh, people desperately needed to laugh.

Dina oh Badalia was a young comic in two thousand and one. He’s currently out on the Arab American Comedy Festival tour. He remembers changing his name for some shows post nine eleven at the suggestion of a booker and consciously avoiding talking about the Palestinian side of his ethnicity. He’s also part Italian. Some of them material he does it.

This year’s festival deals with his personal arc post nine eleven, as he became more defiance of the bigotry thrown his way. He says, when it became political than it became of interest to me. The idea of using a vehicle a comedy tried to tell people our story and who we are has always appealed. The Arab American Comedy Festival come to New York there at Gotham November sixteenth through the eighteenth, and New York City’s town Hall November nineteenth. And I found this wonderful story from twenty sixteen from The New Yorker.

I knew some of this, but not all of this, and it’s really interesting. The New Yorker writes On the nights of September ninth and tenth, two thousand and one, George Carlin performed shows at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, working through material that he planned to use at the taping of his next HBO special that November. The special is going to be called IT kind Of Like It A Lot of People Die. After nine to eleven, Carlin abandoned much of the hour had been working on. He rewrote other parts, and that special became complaints and grievances.

However, they eventually found some recordings of those shows. Those were eventually reworked, and eventually, in twenty sixteen, I kind Of Like It When a Lot of People Die was released as an album of sorts. The track listings on that album, Boston ran from nineteen fifty seven, Rats and Squealers, Cocaine, the Fecal Differential, Tired of Songs, the first Enema, Uncle Dave, an interview with Jerry Hamza, his manager, an interview with a guy named Rocco Orbiskie I’m not familiar with, and then the track I kind Of Like It When a Lot of People Die, recorded on June twenty third of two thousand and one, but as for those shows. On September ninth and tenth, The New Yorker writes, the most striking thing about the show listen to this, this is amazing is that Carlin made a joke about Osama bin laden and an exploding airplane. They write, and fashion typical of the comedian.

It started as a fort joke quote. These planes get flying so fast that the most vicious, lethal, volatile, flammable, unstable forts get pushed toward the back of the airplane, where they begin to build up pressure. And they build, and they build, and they build until they reach critical fort density CEFD, and they continue to build throughout the flight until some kid turns on a game boy and boom, the whole back of the plane blows off, and you know who gets blamed, Osama bin laden terrorists get blamed for those explosions that are nothing more than cabbage fort detonations Again September ninth and tenth, two thousand and one. Wow. Carlin then goes into an extended riff, one that he’d repurpose on the two thousand and six special Life Is Worth Losing about a broken water made in Los Angeles, setting off a cascading series of increasingly gruesome disasters across the country.

That is a wonderful bit if you’ve never heard it, Carlin says, I know some people think these kind of thoughts are gaulish and demented and sick, but I know they’re not. I know these things are normal and quite common. Societies tell you that nice people don’t take pleasure in mass death, but you’re wrong, because I think mass death is terrific and I’m a really nice fffing guy. The only thing I care about is fun. That’s all entertainment.

By the time of his HBO special that November, he had given up most of the death obsessed bits, but he didn’t ignore nine to eleven completely. He told members of the audience that he had to bring it up to get it out of the way, because and then he did that voice he would do otherwise the terrors win switching gears and this is a lot more fun. The Australians are mad at. Shane gillis the Daily Mail, writing Wonderfully, a comedian hailing from the United States, has been called up by Australians after his bizarre claim that the country is doing nothing and as zero exports. There’s a clip that’s gone viral.

You can find it on the Daily Mail site. And this is from Shane Gillis’s new special. Shane says Australia is good. Australia might be number two. That’s a good country, dude.

It’s just a whole country doing nothing. That’s what I like about them. They’re just down there, zero exports, creating nothing, dude. The only export I’ve seen coming out of Australia is that YouTube video the guy punching that kangaroo in the face. The Daily Mail rights Australia does in fact have many exports.

They include iron ore, whole natural cast gold, agricultural products like beef and wheat, minerals such as aluminum copper. Our university system, which attracts students from around the world, is also considering an export because it brings in money from overseas. Australia is also responsible for many inventions and innovations that shape the modern world, including Wi Fi, the black box, flight recorder, hearing aids, the polymer bank note, the HBV vaccine, and the ultrasound scanner. One Aussie responded on social media, Australia might be number two. Pretty bold from someone who lives in a country without free ambulance usage, free hospital coverage, four weeks of sick leave, and of course the fact that we can send our children to school without fearing that they’ll be mass murdered.

Yikes, John, you can’t go into the commercials after that school children line? And after ten minutes about nine to eleven, do you have anything upbeat to break the ice here? Okay, let me move a story up. Trevor Noah has a new book coming out is called Into the Uncut Grass. Trevor said, few memories in my life bring me more joy than the first few books I read as a child, either with my mom or reading alone.

Those simple stories shape so much of how I saw the world. I hope this story can bring a little bit of that same joy to readers of all ages. Into the Uncut Grass is a moving modern fable about forgiveness, acceptance, and solidarity for readers of all ages. From the Hollywood Reporter Adam Sandler is most recent movie, You Are So Not Invited to My bat mitzvah. My wife liked it, by the way, I didn’t watch it, has managed to draw a higher Rotten Tomato score than any of Adam Sandler’s previous films over the last thirty four years.

You Were So Not Invited has a ninety six percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. News story here totally changing topics. This has nothing to do with that Adam Sandler story. I just telled you congratulations, Adam Sandler. But there’s a story going around in Vulture.

Apparently a pr company has been accused of paying off critics for Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yeah, Vulture wrote an article called the Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes claims that a particular company manipulated the Rotten Tomato score for a movie that had nothing to do with Adam Sandler. But it seems there’s a thing going on where maybe some movies should perhaps possibly who knows, getting reviews that you know, maybe you’re a little better than the movie. Actually, yes, again, this has nothing to do with Adam Sailer. Let’s be clear, You were So Not Invited to my bot mitzvah fantastic film.

I mean, ninety six percent fresh score and Rotten Tomatoes. What else can I tell you about? Let’s see football Monday Night football. Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions did a gag that got a lot on promotion, suggesting that Peyton and Eli were going to had a third host to their Little Monday Night Football additional alternate telecast as the word I’m fishing for There, they showed thirty five people auditioning for the third seat. Some of them included comedians like Will Arnett and Sarah Silverman.

The eight hundred Pound Gorilla has released a specials called Tory Piskin Pretty Skirl. At the special school filmed at the Brooklyn Comedy Club. The set begins with Piskin on stage with family photos. Piskin is immediately animated Land’s a joke and begins to do impressions of the people who populated her world. A small impression of Frank, her boyfriend at school, leads quickly to the lines we had no idea what Frank’s disability was.

I think just from Staten Island. She then does an impression of her mother. The portrayal situates her mother as a Jewish New Yorker who’s of a certain generation that prioritize suspicion, caution, and these near imperceptible characteristics helped bring it to life in the best way possible. Piskin’s mother is able to play dumb when maybe claiming she’s slept with someone besides her husband, be critical of men her daughter dates, and be both self congratulatory and untrusting when describing the principle as a big druggie because he doesn’t tailor his pants. You’ll find that on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website or their YouTube Tory Piskin Prettiest Girl at the Special School.

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The Shark Deck. This is actually take two on take one, which I just did. The music ended and I couldn’t remember what I do and then I was like, oh, you’re supposed to introduce yourself, so Hi, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Cross spoke to the Guardian about the biggest disappointment of his career. Last year was announced that Cross and Bob Odenkirk had reunited to create Guru Nation, a comedy about two rival cult leaders who end up joining forces.

There was a bidding war and Paramount Plus won the bidding war. Scripts were written, a director recruited, then as they got ready to film, the whole production shut down. Apparently the marketing and analytics department couldn’t figure it out, says David Cross. According to The Guardian, that has left a Cross in despair because of the power AI wielding on the industry. A Cross said, I said to the president of Paramount, I don’t know what a computer wants.

We asked the computer what it wants, and then instead of spending a year and a half on this really cool project only for the computer to say no, maybe let’s ask the computer first what it wants, and then maybe Bob and I can go do that. He imagines the marketing department’s thought process. It’s two old sketch comedy guys. They’re both white dudes. No thanks, Cross continued, You’ve got these mega multinational corporations saying it’s cheaper for us to just dump the shows.

We’d crunch the numbers and we’d only make forty two thousand, and that’s not enough. We need to make millions. Cross is confident he’ll always be able to find an audience for his stand up career. It may not be lucrative anymore. I may not be doing Netflix specials for a lot of money, but I can always do it.

Yet it seems like the Netflix money has gone away. Everybody’s self releasing now. I told the story last week where Todd Barry said they couldn’t sell his special, which by the way, top special of the year so far, unless Shane Gillis is better. I haven’t seen Shane Gillis yet, Cross, as he’s only done one joke that he actively regrets because the victim is Native American in it. It’s not smart.

I didn’t make a point. I just wanted a cheap laugh and it’s out there, and I wish it wasn’t. He has stopped doing two other jokes, one involving the freeze the end word, not the actual end word, but the freeze. The other about Native American reparations quote because people who are upset by them eloquently and articulately explained why it was upsetting. I agreed with them.

I didn’t see it that way, and now I do. The one issue that has changed relatively dramatically over the past six or seven years is pronoun changes, which I found so annoying for no other reason than it bumps my idea of correct grammar. I wish they would have chosen a different word than them. They. However, the more I knew trans people, the more I got it, even though intellectually I’m thinking this makes no sense.

I’d rather have people be comfortable than knowing I was having anything to do with making people, especially people were so marginalized, uncomfortable and unhappy. THEO. Vaughn went all in on somebody. I’m gonna tread lightly here because I suspect somebody with a legal background. I was going to call someone else about this one, and I’m not involved, but let me just tell you what’s going on.

I saw a story in podcast News Daily and they wrote, quote this man to fraud at our podcast, claims a new video from THEO Vaughan. It’s the latest claim from former creators at particular podcast company. So I watched the video. Apparently THEO went all in for ten to eleven minutes on his podcast and then separately caught that out to be its own ten minute ish clip, which I watched. The description of the video I watched said the person’s name had defrauded podcasters of over four billion dollars and tried to strong arm them into a deal at his alleged new employer.

Beware of this man and anywhere he does business. He can steal our money, but he can’t steal our voice on God exclamation point. I watched the video. It took some quotes. THEO at one point said, you fed with the wrong rat.

Who’ll keep an eye on that story. THEO very very forceful there. Apparently this John Stewart, John Mulaney, Pete Davidson concert the John, John and Pete Tour not doing too well. If you want to go see them at the hard Rock at Atlantic City tonight. The new York Post said tickets are going for just fifteen dollars.

The Hollywood strike getting a more serious, Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter than Warner has suspended a number of overall deals for its top creatives. Some of them include Bill Lawrence you know him from Scrubs and some other stuff, Ted Lasso, and Mindy Kaling. The Holly Reporter adds it’s important to note that the deals have been suspended and not outright canceled slash dropped, as once the labor action concludes, Warners will need its top producers to ramp up writing and producing immediately as the content pipeline continues to thin. Jim Gaffigan spoke to Salon about using his kids in his comedy Age. Jim said, it’s a moving target because you never want to go full Kardashian.

We live in such a voyeuristic, exhibitionist era. If you’re not revealing some of yourself, you’re not going to develop a relationship with the audience. My general approach on parenting is that if a parent is complaining, means they’re involved, and I’m not hiding anything from my children. It’s weird because one of those things is where a ten year old’s view when having a father that’s comedian is different than a seventeen year olds. It’s interesting because we live in this day and age where some of their peers are really in a comedy or their families are in a comedy, and they might have an awareness, and then some kids are not in a comedy and would never come up.

Comedy is something that’s enjoyed by everyone, so doesn’t hit a particular type of kid. It could be an athlete, it could be somebody who excels in academics, and not that those are mutually exclusive. Jim, you almost stepped in a big controversy there. Can athletes also be smart? Can smart kids also be athletes?

Relaxed Jim, It’s okay. I’ll run into my kids friends when I’m doing shows because they’re going on stage. It’s a strange thing in New York City. Or I’ll be auditioning for something and I’ll see some kids parents. So New York City is a small world.

Bill Maher was in the news a lot this week. The Dallas News asked him how his audiences are different in general. Mars said, back in the day, people didn’t talk about politics at every moment. In fact, they rarely did. It was almost considered impolite.

We had no idea how much we hated each other, and it worked out much better.

And now everybody has to share every thought they have on Facebook.

It needs to go back to just being about cat videos and humble brag and finding out who from high school’s gay or fat or bald or dead. You just have to accept people. It’s a big country with lots of people that don’t think like you, and they’re not going anywhere. They’re not self deporting, and you’re not self deporting. You just have to get over it and understand that’s how the country is.

They were curious about people moving from California to Texas. A lot of people have done that recently. Mars said, here’s the thing. The people who moved to Texas from California are the ones who are fed up with California. And I don’t blame them.

California is a ridiculous state. Now I’m too old to go anywhere. I’m dug in here. It did take me three years just to get my solar power turned on, because the bureaucracy here is so ridiculous. It took three inspections just to change my garage door.

So I understand why people move. I’m not going to do it, but I don’t think you have to worry about people from California who moved to Texas because they moved there because they have more of what you have and less of what we have. Lean Morgan was profiled by people, she says when perrymenopause hit, she started working it into her act. Lean said, I’ve always been honest, and I’ve always talked about everything. I talked about my body and what I was going through.

Morgan is now fifty seven and says perrymnopause is one of the hardest things. It sneaks up on you and you feel crazy, so I had to talk about it. Women have come up to me after my shows, saying, now my husband gets it. These precious women that felt unseen all of a sudden have a comedian speaking to them, and we all learned from each other and love on each other. That’s been so much sweeter than Oh I got a comedy career from this.

John Marcos Orreesi talked about how his podcast The Downside started. He said, someone said to me, what are the podcasts you can do when you’re in a bad mood. When I’m in a bad mood, I love to complain. I love to talk about it. I love to ask why did something bad happen to the airport?

Why did I have a fight with my girlfriend? Why am I angry my dad?

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I feel like with social media and with promoting ourselves, we’re constantly asked to put on this very specific version of ourselves and not to be too morbid. Then some person kills themselves and it’s like, well, that’s because we all live in a place where people are always putting on a face. Jessica Curson spoke to hartstock Co And said, it’s not always easy for people when I talk about Jews and how I’m Jewish. The more people don’t want to hear about it, the more I want to talk about it because I’m very proud of being Jewish. I feel in various ports of the United States where there isn’t a single Jew in the audience, and it happens a lot of places.

I go I laugh at them and they laugh. I tease them, and that makes them like me, and that’s how I teach them about Judaism. There’s a way to do this so that ultimately they’ll like me. The more really you are on stage we seem to have a theme today, the more the audience will appreciate you. If it’s not going well, well, you can ignore it and just keep on telling jokes.

You have to acknowledge what’s really happening in the room and tell the truth. I’ve taught comedy for many years in the last decade, mostly to women, and I always say that the aim is to be the most really you can possibly be. You want people to leave your show saying I wish you were my best friend. The Daily Mirror went inside the real Ted Lasso Pub in Richmond. Tourists show up there.

Landlord Reese Kent says his pub makes you feel just as good as the Ted Lasso TV show. Kent is just twenty eight. He took over management of the Prince’s Head Pub in April of twenty two. During filming, the pub is temporarily changed. They dress it up as the Crown and Anchor.

That’s where Ted Lasso hangs out, or at least used to hang out. The show’s over, Johnny meck Rees says, now it’s a tourist hotspot for Lasso lovers, and it’s not a big deal. There’s only been a handful of filming days. Re says, overall, though it’s been great for business. I didn’t realize just how many tourists would attract.

People were taking holidays and making sure it was part of their trip. It’s not just about the pub though, it’s about Richmond as a whole. The pub is just at the heart of the community here. He’s a fan of ted Lasso the show. He says, it makes you feel good inside, just like the Prince’s Head.

A lady does a hold Ted Lasso tour around Richmond. They end on the bench on the green. Tourist always want to come in and have a chat. You can even tell when the tour is finished because they all have on AFC Richmond shirts. The crew would only film outside the bar because any scenes filmed quote unquote inside are a separate set.

The set does match the actual pub’s interior, and Re says customers come first. I don’t cancel bookings. People take time out of their holidays to come and often only have one day to visit. It’s exciting to be on ted Lasso, but I have regulars who been drinking here for fifty years. The New York Times took a look at the battle between bots and comedians, and they say AI is winning the war.

Matt Moran lost the crowd with a joke that riffed on the idea that women aren’t funny. His opponent was a chat cheap et powered version of Sarah Silverman. Sarah Silverman Bott said why did the humans stare at the glass of orange juice? They were trying to concentrate? Then it proclaimed roasted.

Neither side was getting big laughs as the Times, with the AI was more unflappable, moving from quipped to quip with the pace of a metronome. Some of its jokes were simple, like your as edgy as a butter knife, and at least one didn’t make sense. But the bot drew blood with a punchline that used details from Maren’s jokes. Silverman bo said, you’re from Long Island and you lost your virginity to a prostitute. Talk about starting from the bottom and staying there.

That’s funny Maran looked defeated, and then the image of Silverman Bat was replaced by one of himself. Then he got roasted by a digital version of himself. The time says humanity lost every round. Happy fake Internet birthday to langsd in Kerman and that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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