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The Shark Deck. Oh, I got quite the one for you today. I almost did a bonus episode on Friday about this one. From Rolling Stone, the headline Hi, Oh by the way, Hi, I’m tryn to mack with your Daily Comedy News from Rolling Stone. The headline Chaos, comedy and crying Rooms.

Inside Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. Sixteen current and former staffers say Jimmy Fallon’s a ratic behavior spoiled their dream of working on the Tonight Show. Oh My, Rolling Stone rights who was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence on screen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings that according to a former longtime employee who told that to Rolling Stone. As the story goes, Jimmy then stumbled through rehearsal in front of a studio audience.

Employees who spoke to Rolling Stone about their experiences on the Tonight Show say it’s common knowledge behind the scenes that there were good Jimmy days and bad Jimmy days, and that was a bad day. They say Fallon seemed to be confused during rehearsal that day in twenty seventeen, when he crossed out jokes on the piece of paper he was holding, rifted will the audience for the bit, and then look back down at the same sheet of paper. The employee says he couldn’t remember what he had just crossed out himself. I was like, Oh my god, he seems drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

This could be awful. This could be another show right here. According to two current and fourteen former employees rights Rolling Stone, the Tonight Show has been a toxic workplace for years. They say the ugly environment behind the scenes starts at the top with Fallon’s erratic behavior and has trickled down to its ever changing leadership teams nine showrunners in the past nine years. Staffords say it was commonplace to hear people joking about wanting to kill themselves, and they would refer to guest dressing rooms as crying rooms because that’s where they would go to let out their emotions when they were upset with their alleged mistreatment.

One former employee tells Rolling Stone, it’s a bummer because it was my dream job. Writing for Late Night is a lot of people’s dream jobs, and they’re coming into this and it becomes a nightmare very quickly. It’s sad that it’s like that, especially knowing that it doesn’t have to be that way. Rolling Stone contacted more than fifty Tonight’s Show employees, passed and present. While many of them praised Fallon’s immense talent and comedic gifts, not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on The Tonight Show.

Wow. Nor would any of the program’s nine show runners since twenty fourteen comment about the program’s namesake on the record. They wouldn’t even give statements of support, as is common in the entertainment industry. Wow Wow Wow. All right, let me take a time out from the article.

I have met Jimmy Fallon. I want to say twice. It might be three times, and it might be one time. I definitely was with him when he was on Jim Brewer’s Show, and that was a decade ago. I want to say it was twice.

The Jimmy Fallon I met was the Jimmy Fallon public persona, the nice, easy going guy. So I don’t know about any of these other things. I have never run into that part of Jimmy Fallon. After Rolling Stone published their report, Fallon apologized to staffers and an all hands zoom call, saying it’s embarrassing and I feel so bad. Dis According to two people who are on the call, Jimmy said sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends.

I feel so bad. I can’t even tell you. This next thing is interesting and a statement. A spokesperson for NBC defended the program, but notably did not mention Fellon himself. The statement, We’re incredibly proud of the Tonight Show and providing a respectful working environment is a top priority.

As in any workplace, We’ve had employees raise issues, those who have been investigated, and action has been taken where appropriate. As is always the case, we encourage employees who feel they’ve experienced or observed behavior inconsistent with our policies to report their concerns so that we may address them accordingly. Huh. All right. In the second half of the podcast, I’m going to share with you my conspiracy theory because I like conspiracy theories.

But let me stay with this Rolling Stone article. They talk about when Jimmy left the Late Night Show the twelve thirty show and then went to the tonight show and said behind the scenes, there was a surprising, dramatic and ugly shift in the working environment, according to three employees who original worked on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. These employees say they felt a change because Michael Shoemaker, who was at the helm of Late Night, didn’t move over to the tonight show and stuck around to produce Late Night with Seth Myers. A former employee, He says, the producers felt this pressure and that translated down to all their employees. People that worked under them felt this pressure that if you made one mistake, you were gone and’d be easily replaced.

You have all these NBC pages in the building who are ready willing and able to take your job. Another former employee, he said, nobody told Jimmy no. Everybody walked on eggshells, especially showrunners. You never knew which Jimmy we were going to get and when he was going to throw a hissy fit. Look how many showrunners once so quickly We know they didn’t last long.

Another former employee Mentally, I was at the lowest place of my life. I didn’t want to live anymore. I thought about taking my own life all the time. I knew deep down i’d never actually do it, but in my head, I’m like, why do I think about this all the time? One employee says they lost nearly twenty pounds.

I know other people who were in my department who were also unhappy with mistreatment, but it was never a thing where any of us were empowered enough to say anything. It just always felt like you should be grateful that you have a job, and you should be grateful that you have this position at this show, at this network. Everybody wants to be in the spot you’ve worked hard to get here. Shouldn’t be a thing where you’re being ungrateful, Rolling Stone Rights. According to most employees who spoke to Rolling Stone, it’s common knowledge behind the scenes that Fallon’s temperament, mooton treatment of staffers is erratic.

Wow, I had never heard that. A friend of mine told me the other day he had heard. I’ll call it the friend who said, let me find it. That friend said, on the other hand, there’s always been talks about drunk Jimmy. I had never personally heard that, but apparently people in this article have.

Rolling Stone wrote over the years there’ve been rumors and gossip items about Fallon’s relationship with alcohol. In twenty sixteen, The New York Post around a story alleging that NBC executives were concerned about Fallon’s drinking. Falon denied this in a New York Times profile published in twenty seventeen, saying I could never do a day to day job if I shrinking every night. That’s just kicking you when you’re down. But two employees say they saw Falon seemingly inebriated at work in twenty seventeen.

Another two employees say, on separate occasions in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, they thought they smelled alcohol on Falan’s breath when they entered an elevator with him during the workday. When former employee said, it was like, if Jimmy’s in a bad mood, everybody’s day is aft. People wouldn’t joke around on the office, and they wouldn’t stand around and talk to each other. It was very much like, focus on whatever it days you have to do because Jimmy’s in a bad mood, and if he sees that, he might fly off. A commonly used phrase around the office, we’re up against it.

When former staffer says, when something was wrong, we all knew how to behave afterward, which was just sort of avoid eye contact and don’t make another mistake. It happened over the smallest thing, would have to shut the whole thing down. The sketch isn’t happening. When things like that would happen, you just beat yourself up. A former employee says sometimes would get nice Jimmy, but that was sometimes not a lot.

It was just really, really sad to me that this talented man created such a horrible environment for the people there. To employees remember witnessing Falon scolding the que Card guy in the middle of a taping with Jerry Seinfeld. They say it was an uncomfortable moment. Seinfeld told Falon to apologize to the que Card production member, which then he allegedly did. A former employee said it was very awkward, and Jerry was like, you should apologize to him, almost trying to make it a joke.

Was one of the strangest moments ever, and so many people were there, so it’s kind of hard to forget. I’ll talk about Jerry’s reaction to all this in a minute. Some spin control went out, including the NBC statement I read earlier.

Also a current employee the show spoke with people and described Jimmy Fallon…

He makes a point of commitding you when you do a great job and when he’s happy. Any feedback I’ve always received, it’s like, hey, we don’t need to do that again. It’s been very constructive and helpful for me and continuing to put together show he’s happy with. I’ve never been belittled, yelled at, nothing like that. It’s all exactly how a boss should give feedback to an employee.

Jerry Seinfeld spoke to people about the moment and said, I remember this moment quite well. I teach Jimmy about a flub and we all had a fun laugh about how rarely Jimmy’s thrown off. It was not uncomfortable at all. Jimmy and I still occasionally recall it and laugh. Idiotic twisting of events.

All right, let’s take the break here, and then I’ll tell you about my conspiracy theory. Let’s start with the New York Times from twenty seventeen, who wrote Jimmy Fallon was on top of the world. Then came Trump. Once the undisputed juggernaut of the late night category, mister Fallon’s Tonight Show, a celebrity friendly cavalcade of games and gags, has seen its ratings decline in recent months.

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Meanwhile, his politically pointed competitor, Stephen Colbert has closed wha…

So I was curious about the late night ratings. I found an article here just picking a random week week of January sixteen, twenty twenty three, from the Futon critic, Jimmy Kimmel Live ranked as the number one late night talk show among adults eighteen to forty nine, beating This Night Show with Jimmy Fallon by twenty one percent and Colbert by twenty seven percent. Kimmel three hundred and seven thousand viewers, Fallon two fifty three, Colbert two forty one. A Google search suggests Jimmy Fallen makes sixteen million dollars hosting the Tonight Show. A different Google search shows Seth Meyers makes five million dollars hosting late night.

He was my conspiracy theory and this is just me in the basement daydreaming. You know how I pointed out last year that it was weird that the Daily Show didn’t name a replacement host and they were doing the guest host thing, and then I finally figured out, oh, there’s a writer strike coming. So if they had announced the Daily Show with super new host, that that host would have gotten about two three months and then disappeared and they would have had to relaunch it. So it made sense in retrospect to do the guest host.

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And now right now they’re not paying anybody to host the Daily Show because t…

Now, let’s look at it Tonight’s show next year, there is a presidential election. That’s not Jimmy’s stronghouse. That’s Colbert’s wheelhouse, and Kimmel’s good at it. So were we looking at the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon finishing third in twenty twenty four? And if so, why are we paying him sixteen million dollars?

Meanwhile, CBS, when James Gordon stepped down from the Late Light Show, they decided they’re not going to do a twelve thirty show anymore. Maybe NBC’s looking at that and going, Huh, why are we doing a twelve thirty show here in the twenty twenties. Maybe that doesn’t make sense. So what if this is some sort of way to exit Jimmy Fouln from the Tonight Show when the Tonight Show’s not even on save that salary, and then when you come back, you come back to an all new Tonight Show with Seth Myers. Seth currently making five, which is less than Jimmy sixteen.

Pick a number between five and sixteen. Seth would be happy. Seth would host the Tonight Show. Everybody wants to host the Tonight Show, right, and Jimmy’s gone, and Set’s probably better at the political stuff. Pretty wacky conspiracy theory there, Johnny Mack, Yes, I agree, all right, what about Lauren Michaels.

He’d be pretty upset if you got rid of Jimmy found, wouldn’t he? Yes, But Lauren wants to stick around to do the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Lauren is going to take that victory lap. So no matter how mad Lauren gets, he’s not going to storm out of NBC in year forty nine of SNL, and it’s going to be a shortened to year of SNL. Lauren’s gonna want the victory lap.

So Lauren’s going to stick around. So even if you push out his buddy Jimmy Fallon, I think he’ll find way to get over it. So why did this article suddenly come out? Were people just bored? Does this have something to do with the writer strike?

Or am I in the something with this conspiracy theory? Again, I’m just daydreaming. Probably everything I said is absolutely wrong. You let me know what you think in the Facebook comments Daily Company News podcast group, And that’s your company 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 feisty one today. No, not me. I’m in a great mood. But what do you hear these stories? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Bill Maher, mixing it up.

He had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast. This has been in my queue. I just didn’t get to it yet, but the New York Post got to it. The subject turned to late Night. Jim Gaffigan said, I love all those guys, I do, but the formula of real time obviously it’s less of a celebrity interview turn and burnt thing.

But it hasn’t felt like any effects of that, Like, I think the strike is going to kill the late night show that we grew up with. More said, why is the strike killing it? I don’t get it, Jim, Well, because it’s off the air. Mar again, no knock on the guys who do it. But I don’t know how this art form is survived up until now.

I mean, I understand why I’m on because I’m on HBO. It’s an hour without commercials, and I mean, sorry, it’s a lot more entertaining, it’s a lot more edgy, it’s a lot more unpredictable and it’s true talk. I get that. What I don’t get is this error of watching what sponsors are sponsoring a show that’s on after most people go to bed. In an arrow where you can do anything at any time.

You know, you can watch anything you get into bed. You can watch Netflix, you can watch HBO, you can watch YouTube, you can watch anything that was ever made or do video games. Even if you wanted to watch this late night stuff, wouldn’t you watch it sometime when you could zip through the commercials and just see the stuff you like. It just seems so anachronistic. I don’t know how it survives until now.

I’ll jump in there. I’m shocked that one of the streamers isn’t airing a quote unquote late night show. It’s say eight o’clock, like Jimmy Kimmel taps at five thirty Pacific, and he used to do a show live. I wonder why he doesn’t choose to say air that on I don’t know ABC doesn’t have a streamer Netflix. Pair up with Netflix and throw that on day eight thirty.

That might do well, Or maybe I’m just from the twentieth century as well. Gaffigans told More that people develop a relationship with the late night hosts, and I want to hear Colbert’s take about the day. I don’t know about that, Jim, I really don’t know about that. I mean, it’s just a couple of jokes. I’ve even done late Bot here, No try agreed, Jim mar said, it’s not a take.

Those guys don’t have takes. I have takes. I have a take on things. What they do is say exactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that. That’s not a take.

I mean, I’m not saying it’s not Sincere, I guess it is on their part, but even if it wasn’t, that’s what they would do. There’s never a moment where you don’t know exactly. Oh, this is the correct point of view on that. They talked about the writer strike. More said, I feel from my writers.

I love my writers. I’m one of my writers. But there’s a big other side to it. A lot of people are being hurt beside them, a lot of people who don’t make as much money as them. In this bipartisan world we have where you’re just in one camp or the other.

You’re either for the strike like they’re effing Shaguvar out there, or you know, like this is Caesar Chavez’s lettuce picking strike, or you’re with Trump. There’s no difference. There’s only two camps, and it’s much more complicated than that. More continued. They strike at the wrong time, they have no leverage.

Has anyone who’s watching TV really noticed a difference? Has it affected the person down the pipeline? I don’t think so. I have a notice a difference at some point. A guess that’ll happen.

What day is that when Netflix runs out of what they have in the warehouse? Yeah? Pretty interesting. Before the strike, I would do Late Night jokes up at the top, and I had actually cut down on that a little bit because a lot of them weren’t that good, and I had kind of stripped it down as just doing two or three and it left a hole in my script. But here a couple of months in, I don’t even think about it anymore.

I just jump into the story. When Late Night comes back, don’t forget. We’ll have a new host of the Daily Show, possibly Hasan Minhaj. But I agree with mar on the points of you know, are you gonna stay up to eleven thirty, twelve thirty and watch these things. Just watch the clips later.

You know, it’s not like you’re gonna go to work. Oh my god, did you see Jimmy Fallon last night? Like those days are over? But as I said earlier, you know, maybe somebody could do a version of this on a streamer, Netflix probably being the best chance at such a thing working. But you know, do it live at I don’t know EPM Eastern Chelsea.

Handler did have a show that didn’t work. Hassan had a show that didn’t work. Who knows, Maybe it’s just a RELICI of last century.

Speaking of Jimmy Fallon, TMZ was paying attention to the Strike Force five p…

Fallon told a story about the Timothy shallow May puppet. I’ll catch you up. The story did ring my ears when I’m glad TMZ recapped it. Apparently somebody had made a Timothy shallow May puppet. Fallon said Timothy wasn’t a fan of the lookalike doll, and the plan was to have the actor destroy the puppet during a Tonight Show appearance, but then the creator of the puppet chimed in and said he was offended.

According to Fellon, the whole bit was Scrapped Puppet creator Chris Allen tells TMZ he was shocked when he heard Fellon on the podcast because of Gordon. To him, it’s one hundred percent false. He said, no one reached out to him about killing the puppet, and if they had, he wouldn’t care because it’s a night show had bought it from him. Chris says he feels like Jimmy’s podcast Tale is painting him as a villain. M More a controversy from that same podcast, Stephen Colbert told a story.

As the story goes, Colbert’s its second city and he would play an improv game called Freeze Tag. The game requires two performers to begin a scene that a third actor calls freeze he’d probably seen this on whose line tags out one performer and starts a new scene. Colbert says that Jim Belushi would regularly slap people on stage to get a shock reaction from the audience. Colbert said, he has these big old meat hook hands, so it’d picked someone who felt like that guy’s not gonna be back, and he would jack them. Colbert said he one thousand percent got the joke of slapping people on stage, but he recalled a time when things went a little too far.

During the game, Belushi did the slap Colbert called freeze. However, instead of tagging someone out, he told the slap performer hit him back. This is never gonna stop unless you hit him back. Belushi’s victim apparently refused. Colbert says, so I turned to Blushi and I said, like this, and I gave him the swiftest crack I could give him from a short distance.

That didn’t go over well. There was chaos in the house and the two men had to be separated as the house lights turned on to the theater. Colbert said, we were backstage yelling at each other. Was fantastic. He was a little upset.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Jim Belushi a couple of times. I found him to be a cool guy, but I wasn’t playing freeze tag. Bet Stelling was on Instagram and wrote, my Netflix is a joke at Comedy Special. If you didn’t want me, then premier’s on Netflix October three. I was just a little shy, so I got Whitney Cummings and her son to record the promo.

They know how to get views. Coincidentally, Bet Stelling’s tour kicks off tonight and Atlanta at the City Winery. She’s coming to Utah, Colorado, California, Chicago, Minneapolis, Louisville, Austin, Portland, the One in Oregon and wraps up December seven through the ninth, and Burlington, Vermont. Betslling dot com. Michelle Wolf has a special out on Tuesday.

Nashville Scene said, Hey, Michelle Wolf, your team does a good job of uploading videos. Do you think comics uploading videos helps or hurts comedy? Good question. Michelle Wolf said, it’s good to give people a snippet of what you do. What’s hurting is a lot of those CrowdWork videos with almost no jokes in them.

M Yes, people go to a show and expect I’m gonna get called on and get a moment from me, and it takes away the art of writing a joke. Yes, Michelle said, I’m not a fan of social media, but I’m working on a bit about that in my set. We need to respect ourselves more by watching good and interesting things by talented people. Yes, we all doomscroll on Instagram. There are things out there that are more interesting than what you’re seeing on your phone.

Should I do it a fourth time? Yes, we need to value talent and more than who we are well, said Michelle Wolf Amen standing Oh. Eugene Merman spoke to The woostermag Eugene claims to work on something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, if you’re a new listener, let me let you know. On the Conspiracy, long time listeners are like, oh my god, he’s gonna do this again.

Yes, I am new listener. I know you’ve seen artwork for Bob’s Burgers. I get it. There’s clearly merge. There’s T shirts and stuff like.

I get it. I get that. You’ve even heard Joe Buck telling you to watch and all knew Bob’s Burgers after football. Hey, John Buck hasn’t been on Fox and over a year. Kevin Burkhardt does the games.

Now. Yeah, I know inside voice rip off from jimcaffickin, but that’s not the bit. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck promote Bob’s Burgers. But let me ask you two questions. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is no, I won’t wait for your answer. Follow up question and I’m not gonna wait for your answer. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. The answers, No, isn’t that weird? This thing is supposed to being on a Fox for fifteen years and nobody has ever seen it.

Have you ever met anyone? You haven’t, it’s weird. Eugene Merman said, it’s really fun doing Bob’s Burgers and working with friends I’ve known for decades. And it’s also really fun to do stand up and perform live. It’s very immediate and I often get to see friends and travel with friends.

I love the variety of it. I think I’d missed not having a variety of all these different things, which is what often makes up anyone’s career in entertainment. The thing that’s really fun about voice acting is that sometimes you’re recording a loan, but often you’re with your co actors. It’s usually in different cities, but you’re live together. So with voice acting, you could try different stuff.

You can do different jokes, you can have different intonations, you can do all sorts of things. Then they edit into an episode, so you can really take chances and if they work out, great, they’re in the show. If they don’t, they just cut and it’s not a problem, so you can try a lot of different jokes while trying to make each other laugh. Congratulations to Robin Shawl. The Guinness Book of World Records has recognized her as the person who holds the record for making the tallest stack of donuts in one minutes.

Robin Shawl said, in the beginning of twenty twenty three, we made a list of goals for the year. One of the kids suggested breaking a Guinness World’s record title. I love the ideas. I went on the list, which is still on the inside of my closet door. She looked up records involving donuts.

She found the record for stacking donuts stood at twelve in one minute. That doesn’t seem that hard. That seems very breakable. Twelve because like donuts are sticky to begin with, and twelve wouldn’t be that time. I might have to go for this record myself.

I’ve been known to go to the National Donuts Chain. Shall said two weeks before tempting the challenge on live TV, I decided it was time to go in a full blown training. She said. She had to learn how to make donuts because it was difficult to find the ones that were the size required by the Guinness Book. What I kept the donuts in regulation, but some on the smaller end and some on the larger.

Once I mastered that, it was just practicing with the speed. She successfully stacked thirteen donuts. Let’s say it. On over to Gossip Corner, TK Kirkland was talking about some of the rumors about Steve Harvey’s marriage. Kirkland’s hold comedy hype.

But first I was like, Wow, all right, they just made her out to be a hoe. She kicking it with both of them mfers in the camp. Steve Harvey has denied such rumors. He said, I don’t know what y’all doing, but find something else to do because we’re fine. Sometimes you just want to respond, but I don’t have time for rumor and gossip man.

He rehash their love story and a video shared on Twitter. The New Yorker announced their lineup for the New Yorker Festival that’s October sixth through the eighteenth. They used very pretentious language. I will read it to you verbatim. Some of the interviews the actor Julia Louis Dreyfuss in conversation with the New Yorkers David Remnick.

The actor and comedian Eric Idol in conversation with The New Yorkers. Michael Schulman. The comedian Zway and a partner Achurla in conversation with the New Yorkers Emma Allen. All of a sudden, a partner’s back. She had disappeared for like two years, and this is like the third story this week.

I’ve seen her in. I wonder why she’s back. Ah See, there’s always an answer. I’ve been doing this a while. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

She’s got a book coming out September nineteenth, called Unreliable Narrator Me Myself an Imposter Syndrome. We’ll talk about that in an upcoming episode. But all right, that explains that she’s fantastic. I’d rather put out a new album than a book, candidly anyway. The comedian and musician Weird Al Yankovic in conversation with the New Yorkers Andy Borrowitz.

The New York Festival October six through the eighth. If you’re in Dallas, why don’t you hit The Women’s Comedy Festival, which was created in response to the limited and unequal stage time women comedians receive in comparison to their male counterparts. The festival will be at the Stumping Ground Comedy Theater. One of the founders, Anna Barton, said, this year we’re showcasing more different styles than just stand up. We had those last year, but stand up really ended up being the main attraction.

So we’re really excited to incorporate more improv and more alt comedy, and the Stomping Ground community has a good basis for that. Kate great House is helping to produce the thing for tonight show. Great House wants to encourage the weird and the new to try at alternative comedy acts. She recalls being the only woman on a comedy line up more times than she can count, and she says that does not fairly reflect the number of funny women on the scene. The festival continues tomorrow with Goddess, a Celebration of Women, which is a parody of the Goddess party trend.

That portion of the festival will be interactive with improvised music and other experimental elements. We’re told that it’s genuinely uplifting and fun and they get the whole audience involved. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks to Factor and draft Kings for supporting today’s episode.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy who has a lot of quick hits Today, Kyle Canaan records his next special at the ACME Comedy Club in Minneapolis. Starts tonight. I’ll also record tomorrow and Saturday. Canaan has one of the best specials of the year Right now. I have him as the number three special of the year, behind number two Toms Agora and I Told Yesterday Todd Berry’s domestic short here hilarious and funniest by a mile weird one here from TMZ, Peta selling Pete Davidson Halloween costume inspired by unhinged voicemail the story.

A source close to Pete says it’s disgusting to capitalize on someone’s mental health and not to mention illegal use of his likeness. According to TMZ, PETA’s limited edition costume comes with a paper mask of Pete’s face and I should have adopted hoodie and a hat with a censored curse word plastered on it. All this refers to Pete Davidson’s profanity lays telephone rant after Pete called out Pete Davidson for buying a pet store puppy instead of one from a shelter. It also comes with a plush dog wearing a shelter’s dog rule bandana. The whole thing goes for ninety nine.

Ninety nine proceeds go toward spay and neuter surgeries to help combat the overpopulation of homeless dogs. According to PETA, over seventy million dogs and cats are homeless in the United States. Wow, that’s a crazy number, seventy million.

Meanwhile, another weird one involving Pete Davidson from m Live.

They write, despite ending a second show earlier in the week, Pete Davidson has canceled the second show that he just added the original story due to overwhelming demand. During in August twenty nine pre sale, Pete Davidson added a second Kalamazoo stop onto his tour, and it was for the same night as the first. The second show was added for ten o’clock. Pete was going to play at seven. The ten o’clock show has now been canceled.

Officials did not elaborate on why Pete canceled the second show, citing a scheduling conflict. I’m wondering how much overwhelming demand there actually was. Maybe they sold, you know, four tickets and we’re like, maybe not. Pete is still doing the seven o’clock Show on Saturday, October twenty first at the Kalamazoo State Theater. That is currently scheduled to be the final show of the Pete Davidson Live Tour.

Collider watched Shane Gillis’s new special on Netflix. It is going to take me a minute to get to it. Tonight. There’s football tomorrow night. There’s a new video game called Starfield.

I want to play this weekend. I’m a celebrating Langston Kerman’s fake birthday. It’s a little call back there for those of either pay attention. Sunday more football Monday, I teach, So it’s Tuesday before I get to watch this thing. But they liked it.

Deciders said, it’ll remind you of a kinder, softer Bill Burr, wanting to tease and test his audience, but always striving to maintain his likability whenever he makes jokes about race, such as his suggestion that white Americans stopped being cool when they first saw Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers, or when Shane calls anything quoting from the article here a gay or restarted unquote He’s quick with a smile and an acknowledgment that he knows he’s transgressing. He has the self awareness to play both sides of the aisle. At one point, he mocks his love of history is a sign of early on set. Republican decider says, stream it and then wonders what SNL would have been like had they actually kept Shane Gillis. Remember he was announced to be on the cast and then somebody deep dived on the internet and then Lauren was like, nah, that all happen.

Shingills is doing okay. Jimmy Fallon did indeed do his thing with the Rolling Stones.

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And now they taught us in radio school never assume people know things.

So I’m going to tell you who Mick Jagger is. Mick Jagger is the lead singer of a rock band called the Rolling Stones. You know who I’m talking about. You’ve heard of Mick Jagger. Yes, yes, Mick Jagger said, we got to make a record that we really love ourselves.

We’re pleased with it, and I hope you are all two. The new record has twelve tracks, two of them written by Charlie Watts, who passed away a while back. They released a single called Angry. Angry came with a video that stars actress at Sydney Sweeney, which brings us back to Jimmy Fallon, who asked Sidney Sweeney while crossed her mind when she got the call to star in the video. Sidney Sweeney said, oh gosh, I mean I freaked out and called my family and brought my mom.

Fallon and Jagger also shared an Instagram post we see them reading newspapers at the Old Ship Inn in Hackney, London. Eddie Murphy has a new movie. It’s called Candy Kane Lane that’ll come to Amazon Prime Video December first. Candy Kane Lane follows Eddie Murphius Chris, a man who’s determined to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest. This sounds like an Adam Saidler type thing, doesn’t it.

After unintentionally striking a deal with an elf to improve his odds of winning, she cast a spell bringing to life the twelve Days of Christmas and chaos and sues for the old Town Christmas. Then worked to save Christmas for his family and community, and endeavor that entails battling magical creatures. Adam Sandler added Ja Pass on this one. This one also stars Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, and Chris read Vania Land caught up with Eliza’s Lessenger, who said Boston is one tough mffer of a city because it’s the East Coast that it’s cold. People are tough, but they’re warm and loving.

When fans give me Boston gifts and tell me Boston loves you in that familiar accent, I feel like I’m home, even if I never paid taxes there. It’s definitely not something I’d take for granted to be able to feel at home. And only a few cities across the country, and Boston is definitely one of them. If I were talking to my younger self, I would say try to enjoy cities more. I started doing stand up before uber was a thing, so taking a cab wasn’t always the easiest thing.

But when you can really get it’s a place, when you’re not too hungover or tired to explore a city, from farmers markets and upcoming suburbs to eating the food that’s from that city, it really makes you a better traveler for when you get a real feel for a place. The Wall Street Journal did an article about Spotify’s podcasting efforts. In that we learned that they’re paying Trevor Noah four million dollars. Now it’s unclear if that’s four million dollars a year or four million dollars for the next hundred years, but it’s four million dollars. The Journal calls it a deal that allows the company to collect revenue from the podcast to cover its investment.

After that, both sides share the take. That’s pretty standard. Maria Bamford’s book Sure I’ll Join Your Cult is out, and Maria is pretty open about sharing things, including how much she got paid by Gallery Brooks, which is an imprint of Simon and Schuster. She got fifty thousand dollars up front, another fifty thousand dollars once the book was published, so kitching that’s in the bank now, and then another fifty thousand if it gets a paperback edition. Maria spoke about her earlier career and said, I was at Nickelodeon for a year and I was voted employee of the Month the same month I got fired.

Being fired, I want a voice over role on Nickelodeon’s series Cat Dog. They gave me a severance of two months with pay, and after that I was able to move to a nicer neighborhood, get a dog, and begin earning more from stand up than from temping. But I’d still do anything for cash. I’ve answered phones for comedy development executives right after having pitch meetings with them. I worked eight hours at NBC four reception after doing the Tonight show the night before.

The weatherman walked by and said, you were on Leno last night and kept walking. The gradual change in being a full time performer took about as long as it took me to pay off my medical debt eight years. Bad news. If you’re enjoying How I Met Your Father, it is canceled. The Hulu series ended its second season in July.

We never found out how Hilary Duff’s character met your father if you never watched it. It’s set in the same version of New York as the original series. Some of the characters live in the apartment formerly occupied by Ted and Marshall in the original. By the way, Jason Seagull is fantastic in the Lakers show that I was talking about yesterday. That show is called Winning Time.

Jason Segull awesome. Adrian Brodie as pat Riley.

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Also Awesome I Digress How I Met Your Father also featured guest appearances …

I’ve been on Gossip Corner in a while. The Hollywood Reporter says that Chris Rock was at Beyonce’s show on Monday night in La. Some other famous folks there, Adele Lizzo, Katie Perry, Kate Hudson, and Chloe Kardashian.

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Meanwhile, Pete Davidson on Gossip Corner.

He apparently has broken up with Chase. Suite Wonders and Insider told people that Pete’s single again and he’s out and about doing really well. Over the weekend, Pete attended his friend’s wedding in Virginia. He was spotted in several photos. Pete was spotted wearing a dashing black and white suxedo while also dressing down in a white T shirt, black pants and matching shoes.

I have one of those links I haven’t clicked on yet. It’s from Jord Barker. It’s the twenty five greatest stand up comedians of all time. They say, presented in no particular order, Okay, I’m going to click on this. I’m very very afraid what they came up with.

Okay, in no particular order. Robin William’s fine, Bill Hicks, Okay, you know what you’re talking about. Gary Shandling in saying Phillis Diller is showing some respect. Tig nataro Top twenty five of all time. No Patrise O’Neil nos about about Patris over the weekend.

I won’t do it again. Dick Gregory’s an interesting pick. Don Rickles, Okay, you know what you’re talking about. Bob Newhart, Red Fox. David Tell a Tell is really really good if you’ve ever seen him live and he’s just doing crowd work.

Stephen Right definitely influential. Mort’s Saul. Do you guys know? Mort is a legendary political comedian and satirist known for literally taking comedy right from the headlines, as they often had a newspaper with him on stage to mind material. Bill Cosby makes the list.

Very complicated history there with mister Cosby. But you know, until recently he was always at the very top of every list. Let’s move on. Jerry Seinfeld, sure, Mitch Hedberg, Steve Martin, m According to Jord Barker. Steve Marton claims that he did stand up for eighteen years and only four of them were a wild success.

I don’t know about putting Steve Martin on this list. I’d have to think about it some more. Joan Rivers, Yes, Dave Chappelle, yep, he’s been top of the game for decade now. Chris Rock for sure, Mom’s mably respect Lenny Bruce, who started modern stand up, Eddie Murphy, Wellfettie’s on here, Prior better be on here. George Carlin next, and yep, Richard Pryor now looking at their phrasing, the twenty five greatest stand up Comedians.

Bomb Hope was really good at stand up, so I would definitely have him on the list without looking. I’m trying to think if anyone jumps to mine that belongs on here. Kennison is a favorite of mine, but he was a shooting star, but then again was so It was Headberg, Jeff Foxworthy, Jay Leno was really good Okay, not the worst, less but Patriso, Neil Tignataro no. Jake Rush has a special out today on the eight hundred Pound Gerrilla YouTube page. It’s called overwhelmingly negative.

If you’re near Anaheim, you might want to check out tonight Laughing Together, an evening of humor and compassion where comedy takes center stage in support of student mental health. Hosted by Chris Gether and features Nicole Buyer, au Parner, Nontrilla, Christy Cello, and more. That’s a good lineup. Laughing Together as a new initiative by Chris Gethard and Wellness Together aimed at bringing artists to the forefront of student mental health programming. It’s at the Anaheim Convention Center tonight, seven thirty to nine thirty Pacific, Doors open at six thirty.

The Bad Moms with a Ze Bad Moms of Comedy or in Chicago Tonight. Lindsay Porter started doing stand up late in life. She was fifty two when she took her first comedy class NBC Chicago profile The Bad Moms with a Z of Comedy and all female comedy troupe and already has eighty members ranging an age twenty to seventy. They’ve sold out female community events, and tonight they’re at Zeni’s founder Lindsay Porter said, I had no expectations. I set my sights at very small goals, So the fact that I’m performing at Zeni is on a somewhat regular basis as well, beyond anything I expected.

Janice Rodriguez found her comedic voice when she was thirty seven. She says she’s not a mom, and it’s actually not a requirement to join the group. She says, I kept saying I have a kid. He’s just fifty three years old and likes heavy metal. That’s my husband.

We’re all moms in some way. Another one of the founders, orly Kg, said, if you’ve woken up any day of the week and said do I have to do everything? Then you’re a mom. I think something happens in your forties as a woman. You’re just like, hey, if kind of raised my kids already and the job thinks pretty good?

So what about me? What do I want to do? Zanies Tonight, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle caught up with Last Best Comedy founder Levin O’Connor, who said Bozeman is happening for comedy. They’re kicking off tonight the Last Best Comedy festival of featuring eighty performers three evenings of improv and stand up shows. Levin’s wife, Annie said there’s a whole scene here.

Levin O’Connor jumped in and said, they’ve been working really hard and they’ve always had to survive in nooks and crannies and corners that would allow of them to cram into a coffee shop or bar or whatever. But this is a really hard setting for you to thrive. Unlike many other comedy venues, Last Best Comedy features and fosters the growth of performers in two different comedy card forms, stand up in improv. Levin said, our venue celebrates both. In a normal week, we alternate nights and we’re always about bringing people together.

It’s a lot to learn from how stand ups approach what they do. There’s a lot to learn from how improvisers approach what they do. Checking out the lineup today four thirty Improv and stand up. Seven o’clock a stand up show with Leslie Mitchell at a zoom in a couple of times, these fonts are pretty small here. Last Best Comedy Festival.

Eight o’clock Improv with Flow, Rotto and the Boys of Autumn. Nine o’clock a stand up show Olivia Witt and some others. Ten o’clock back to improv.

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Five o’clock Improv, six thirty Improv, eight o’clock stand up with Ben daily Boy, the sponsors So Small, nine thirty Improv, eleven o’clock stand up with Dan Treadway and a bunch of others. You can also find stand up at the Canyon Ferry Brewing at six o’clock tonight. More shows Friday and Saturday. All the details on Last Best Comedyfest dot com. So if you’re in Bozeman, go check out some comedy, and if the Vulcans show up, tell him I said, hi, deep cut there.

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a new best funniest special of the year. It is Todd Berry’s Domestic Short Hair. You’ll find it on YouTube.

If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard me talk in the past about what I call the Emperor of rome syndrome in my career of listen, whos so much stand up comedy? I do what the professional comedians do. I rarely actually laugh. I tend to just analyze comedy. Go oh that was really good, Oh, great, callback, hilarious.

Todd Barry had me laughing out loud. I know I’m a psycho and I don’t do that when I watch comedy specials. I laughed out loud many, many, many many times. I’m not talking about like four like a lot. Todd Barry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube is the best special of the year by a lot.

Like there’s a big gap. So here’s the list right now, funniest thing of the year Todd Berry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube. Then there’s a gap of I don’t know, three arters of a mile to Punk on Earth, which was on Netflix the best special of the year prior to Todd Berry, Tom Sagora, then Kyle Knin, Naprigatzy Cocaine Bear, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Hardy Conabolo, Chris Rock, Jimmy O Yang, The Rose of Mister Peanut. Trust me look it up on YouTube. I know you think I’m crazy, Big Jokerson, Mark normand Nimesh Patel, Sarah Silverman, Chris Fleming, John Early.

But again, all of those are three quarters of a mile away from Todd Barry domestic short here. I absolutely loved it. You can also hear Barry on Mark Marrin’s episode that dropped on Monday. I went out for a run and was enjoying this, and I felt bad. Todd Barry said that the specials produced through All Things Comedy, which is Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s company, and they tried to sell it and they couldn’t, and that the specials about a year old, which is why there are some COVID jokes, but they are funny COVID jokes that held up.

And Tod doesn’t really seem that into the special and seems to have moved on because in his life it’s a year ago. But it’s really really good Todd Berry Domestic Short here YouTube Funniest special the Year by a lot.

Also for your podcast listening, Strike Force five.

That’s the five late night show hosts doing a podcast together. On episode two, they started talking about their first shows, which I thought was pretty interesting. I like that late night industry talk. I gotta tell you though, I’m listening to the Fab five and I feel like there’s a group of four and Seth Myers Late Night with Seth Meyers is like extra invisible, isn’t it. Looking ahead to the Toronto Comedy Festival Just for LAFT Toronto, they have announced a free street festival September twenty second through the twenty fourth at Burze Park.

Ber c z y if you’re in Toronto, telling me how to pronounce that properly. Reggie wattson Fred Armison are your headliners. They are also a bunch of new faces of comedy colin Canada will be at that apparently a local brewery. We’ll have some beverages for you and if you want some food, that Jamaican patty Shack and poutine Supreme. The Guardians spoke to David Cross.

David enjoyed the moment when his daughter told him he was quot the worst daddy in the world. He had been struggling to come up with the title for his latest show. Then his daughter said that, and according to David Cross, I was like, Oh, there you go. A name for the tour. Very good.

The Guardian talked about the increasingly poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which aired on Channel four in the UK. On that show, David Cross stars as a hapless American energy drinks salesman sent to Britain to flog his wares, and it’s now impossible to watch in the UK. David Cross says, legally, no, you’re not allowed. That was in my contract. I said, I’m gonna work really hard for very little money for years on this project, but you have to promise me you won’t show it.

CBS News profiled Nate Burgatzy and they asked him if he keeps his clean persona throughout his life, like when you’re sitting at home watching the news with your family. He’s a little different, and Nate said, no, stays clean, just feels weird. I know, you know, I’m not perfect. There gonna be a difference between hanging out with comics and when I’m at home where you’re like, oh, I’m with normal people now, so you go, I gotta comment down. But overall it’s just yeah, who I am.

Nate Brolson asked Nate Burgatzi why he never comments on the news. Burgatzy said, a lot of people do it. They do it very well, So you can sometimes be tempted to think you want to let people know how you feel. I want to say something up there, blah blah blah, but then everybody’s saying something. There’s enough people smarter than me.

You don’t need me to be talking about things. I just want to be a break from all that. Congratulations, Ricky Gervaiz. The Guinness Book of World Records has declared at Ricky’s Tour Armageddon as having their record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever. Ricky racked up a one million, seven hundred ninety thousand, two hundred and six dollars and fifty cents on May sixth at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

That tour is still going. Three shows at London’s OVA Wimbley Arena October six, twentieth and thirteen December is the Brits Say, and eleven nights at the London Palladium Wow September thirteenth through the sixteenth, twenty eight through the thirtieth end October eleventh through the fourteenth Wow. Netflix has already bought the rights to Armageddon and a Layer at the end of the tour. Mark Norman was recently in Springfield, Missouri, and said, you have to have material for everywhere you go. It’s good to mix it up.

In Los Angeles, you know what jokes offend them. In Springfield, they’re offended by different things. Small towns are usually more fun. The audience has more salts of the earth. They put in a hard day’s work and want to laugh.

In Los Angeles they got their TikTok. Mark Norman told the News Leader Springfield is cool, but getting there’s a real pain. Eugene Merman spoke to the Wooster magazine. Eugene said, I took a variety of classes back in college. Then I sort of put that together in a major that was comedy.

I took acting classes, writing classes, history classes, I did independent studies as well. For science, I did the sociology of laughter, and for social science I did a paper on Lenny Bruce and now he started the modern era of stand up. It was variety of things. But else I had a radio show and I did a lot of different stuff that I put towards a comedy concentration. The thing that was sort of interesting about that in the end is it was almost as if it had the elements of a comedy trade school.

I had to figure out how to get people to show up to a comedy show. I then had to try new material, all putting together an hour’s worth of it and very much mimic what you actually have to do to become a comedian. At the time, it seemed like this odd, not necessarily practical idea, but it actually happened to be an incredibly practice education for I wound up wanting to do with my life. Tom Farley, brother of Chris Farley, spoke to the journal store. He said the Farley boys, Tommy, Kevin, John, and Chris were destined to be drinkers.

If you’re a Farley, you drink. If you’re Irish, you drank. If you lived in Wisconsin, you definitely drink. So it was very normative. We thought this is what everyone did.

When you have somebody that has a real problem, like Chris, it’s easy to point your figure at that person and say, well, I’m not that bad, so I guess we’re okay. So none of the brother has got any help for their alcoholism until later. Tom Foley added, and we also couldn’t help Chris because we were afraid that deep down would have to bring out our issues and behaviors and we didn’t want to do that. Tom runs the Chris Farley Foundation and was asked if Chris was funny from the Tommy was a kid. Tom said, I didn’t think so because I had to share a bed with him, go to high school with him.

That was my trauma. The whole family used humor. We had so much fun. He asked any of our individual friends that say, oh, Tommy’s the funniest, or Kevin’s funny. But Chris definitely, He’d go a little farther and he was always like that.

As for watching his brother become famous, that’s the weird thing for us. Chris was always just being Chris. So when the rest of the world saw him, we were happy for success. We didn’t see it like Chris, this is a big star now, because he was always just doing the same stuff. We just saw Chris.

Chris welcome in our world. Everybody else gets to see what we had to go through all those years. Aish dot Com caught up with Jean Marcos Sirressi, one of my current faves. SORREESSI was recapping a story when he was on James Corden. In the story, Jean Marco is getting drinks at a bar from a German bartender.

Sirresci’s jewishness came up. Jean Marco said. The bartender told me I’m so sorry for the Holocaust, and Jean Marco said, well, how am I supposed to respond to that as a Jew? No worries, don’t let it happen again. I didn’t know, so I just said could I get a free beer?

And he said I would, but my boss would get mad, and I said, I get it. You’re just following orders. Wow, it’s a great joke. He says. When he posts about being Jewish online to his social media followings, I’ll get ten comments about free Palestine.

It’s irrelevant to the thing I’m saying in the video. I’m an American Jew. One time, he got messages from an audience member that said, I hope Hitler sends you back to a concentration camp so he can write some new material Sir ESSI joked, I think he had a misunderstanding of what a concentration camp is. It’s not an artist retreat. But I could take this in stride.

I don’t feel threatened. This person was obviously going through something. Jean Marco enjoys making people laugh and said someone messaged me and said, I’m going through chem up therapy and your clips brought me joy. I get so much joy. That made Joran Marco feel I’d keep doing stand up even if somebody messaged me and said I hate your comedy, but I’m glad that people enjoy it.

Shout out to Crosby who went to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and claim the ten dollar donation. That’s one of the ways you can give. There’s the two dollars club, the ten dollar donation, and the standard five dollars. Anyway, this morning, I’d took Crosby’s money and I went to the National Donuts chain.

I got a large iced coffee with caramel and milk, and I’ve got enough money for another one tomorrow. Crosby, thank you so much for supporting the show. Via Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Wall Street Journal caught up with Eliza Slessenger, who said I could always make my mother laugh, even when I was in a jam. In middle school, I struggled with math.

One day, Mom tried to get me to focus on homework and I wouldn’t stop joking around. She said, you’re acting ridiculous. I’m gonna record you so you can see how you’re acting. She wants to get the video camera. When she returned, I was wearing my glasses and a shirt buttoned up to the top and with the British accent.

I said, why, mother, whatever do you mean? She lost it and cracked up. And at that moment I realized being funny was more important than fractions. H Is being funny more important than fractions? Probably right, Eliza says.

During my junior year, I signed up for semester at c College. Kids from all over sailed around the world on a giant ship, taking classes and stopping at ports along the way. I performed a stand up monologue and added observations about the guys and girls on board. They loved it, and I realized I don’t need a troop. I can do this on my own.

ORDEOU reports some comedy shows were canceled. Why the concrete crisis. They put a big picture of Jimmy Car and I was like, Oh, what did Jimmy Car do? Now nothing the story. Northampton’s Royal and Drine Gate Venue has announced that is closed its store for the rest of the month after finding reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete r AAC for you concrete aficionados and its building.

The venue said in a statement, due to the unfortunate discovery of r a A concrete in our buildings, Royland during Gate is temporarily closed. They canceled a bunch of shows, including you know, most of the audience here on Daily Company News as American. But you’ve heard me talk about some of these people. Jordan Grays, is it a Bird? Is canceled, s Faced Shakespeare canceled, Jimmy Carr canceled, Phil Wang canceled.

And those are just the four I Radio. It’s a total one, two, three, eight nine. I’ve been eleven or twelve. I scrolled out. It’s eleven or twelve, doesn’t matter.

It’s that many. Friend of the pod, Scott Beckett sent this one in about the Queen City Comedy Experience Tonight through the tenth. It features Chris Tucker, Shaun Wayne’s Colin Mockery doing his improv under hypnosis thing he calls hip prov the Capital Fools, Small Town Murder, and Therapy Get Go. It’s Charlotte’s largest comedy event fifty events spread across multiple venues, including dozens of show featuring regional talents like Tara Brown, Cartlett Dingle improv group, Now Are the Foxes, and many more. And that it’s your comedy needs for today.

I follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. One more shout out to Jimmy Buffett. If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane. I’m not going to start doing that every day, but the Jimmy buffettdn’t really bothered me. Seen Tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today is the worst day of the year because we’re on the other side of labor Day and if you have a nine to five office job, today is always the day where the boss is like, okay, good good book to work and everybody’s like, way too serious. I hate today in the office, but luckily for me, this is my real gig. So I’m just in the basement telling you that Jane Gillis will make his Netflix debut today.

His special is called Beautiful Dogs. This was filmed earlier this year in Virginia. Looking forward to that little Matt Rife controversy. See, I had put away the story about Matt Rife being profiled by Men’s Health and Matt Rife telling you about the matt Rife workout. We’ll get to that.

But I saw a story on What’s Trending which said comedian Matt Rife, extremely popular in social media, is no stranger to controversy. In a recent interview with Men’s Health, the comedians stated that quote, no one wants to laugh at pretty people unquote. Well, those comments were not well received and spawned numerous satirical impressions. And commentary on women in comedy. Now, briefly after the initial interview clip was released, several TikTok creators are revisiting more of Rife’s comments.

In his video interview with the magazine, Rife has advised new Jim goers to focus on building chess muscle, saying that building a chest is so important. You want to have the chest of a man, not a twelve year old girl. While many fitness officionados understood Rife’s point on a technical level, many felt that insulting twelve year old girls in the process was uncalled for. Digital creator Big brow Bear accused Matt Rife of casual misogyny towards young women and body shaming other men. At the time of this recording, Rife has yet to comment on Men’s Health Gate.

All Right, onto the original story I had parked away for today from Men’s Health, comedian Matt Rife shares the workout that keeps him sharp. On stage, Rife tolds Men’s Health I’d love to box Harry Styles high stakes loser gets kissed on the mouth straight up, bring your a game or don’t whatever. I’m taking a dive in the second round regardless. More seriously, Rife said, I realized how much of a release working out is for your mental health, more than even your physical So it quickly becomes addicting. Then after you see the physical results, it becomes even more addicting, and you go, Okay, how hard can I really push this thing?

I hear you on that I mentioned I’ve been training for the marathon. I ran an awful thirteen yesterday. Just awful was a step back week, and I should have been much stronger. But hey, sometimes you bunk, but like the weight’s coming off, and like, I kind of want to run today. I shouldn’t because I’m stiff in my running.

Guru Hal Higden preaches about the importance of rest days. I’m going to rest my legs. I could be stronger tomorrow, but yeah, I want to run today. Rife says he tries to work out every day while he’s on the road, a few hours before he hit the stage before the first of his two shows. Recently, he underwent a taxing leg day that had him thinking, it’s so stupid to do that before two shows.

I’m busy twenty three hours a day. I sleep terribly, so that one hour a day at the gym is my hour to stay focused on my body and make myself happier. All right, Matt Rife’s favorite workout moves. You got a pen and pencil and a paper or whatever you write on these days, you got a notepad on your phone. Matt Rice does alternating incline press, three sets of twelve per arm pull ups, three sets of eight to ten reps.

Zotman to reverse Zotman curl. I don’t know what that is, but he do three sets of eight to ten reps. A Russian twist with a midball, three sets of ten per side loaded plank, three by ten plank, mountain climbers, three by ten Bulgarian split squats, three sets of eight to ten per leg. Billmore got into it with Joe Rogan appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan told Bill Moore that he believes Joe Biden appears frail, that he’s quote skeletal thin.

Billmore agreed that Trump looks more healthy and robust, calling him a city roach. The worst things he eats, the stronger he gets. Rogan said he’s also the only president who didn’t noticeably age. Billmore said, no, we did, but he’s a criminal, and he’s crazy, and he’s stupid and crazy and stupid or two different things. Stupid is Frederick Douglas is alive, where the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or healthcare is hard to solve.

Crazy is It’s important that the crowd of my inauguration is the biggest ever, and I’m going to make an issue of this for the first two weeks of my presidency despite photographic evidence of the controversy. Or another example from Bill Moore, I’m going to steal these documents and I’m gonna put them next to the toilet at Mara Largo, and I’m gonna fight you to take them back. We’re not conceding the election. Those things are crazy or thinking I can charm at Kim Jong hun and Korea, although that might be stupid sometimes across the line between both. But he’s both stupid and crazy, and he’s also a criminal.

Rogan then reeled off some of the charges Trump is facing, and Mare noted Trump still hasn’t conceded the election. Bill Moore said he tried every possible way of stealing the election. He tried to do it through the courts, he tried to do it through the legislators. He tried to do it through intimidating Mike Pence. He tried to do it through the Justice appointment.

They talked about seizing voting machines, They talked about using the army. You can’t really believe this guy’s not worse than Joe Biden. I agree, Joe Biden is not a great president, and the Hunter Biden stuff is a stinky scandal that stinks to the high heaven. But if you think that compares to what Trump tried to do, then you just cannot tell. Unlike things support, Rogan asked, Bill, do you think he really believes they stole the election?

Bill Moore said, who gives an aff It doesn’t matter. All the people around him told him he lost on one of his quotes they have on record. I don’t want people to know I lost this election. Rogan said, that’s kind of crazy. More said, he’s a clinical case of malignant narcissism.

It’s not a quirk. It’s actually in the big book of crazy. It affects everything he thinks and does. It’s why authoritarian leaders were able to curry favor from him. They kiss his ass and got whatever they wanted.

I think Putin had him as soon as he said I think Trump is a brilliant man. Again, by it’s not my first choice, not my hunter’s choice, but the other guy is a crazy, stupid criminal. Send your letters to Bill Moore courtesy of the Joe Rogan Experience. Hey, let’s change the topic completely. You know that half the audience is throwing rocks at their iPhones.

Well, soon on your iPhone you’ll be able to listen to a new Rolling Stones album. Hackney Diamonds is The Stone’s first studio album since two thousand and five. They’ll give us all the details tomorrow. You’re gonna want to get up early at nine thirty Eastern. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood will be interviewed by Jimmy Fallon.

The launch event will be hosted and streamed on YouTube. Over the weekend, we lost Jimmy Buffett. I was like, for real, like super sad Saturday morning, like totally bottomed out. My friend Dave broke the news to me via in an email, and I was on my way to the beach and I thought to myself, Jimmy would want me to go to the beach today, So I drove the two hours down the Jersey Shore listening to Jimmy music, and I totally bottomed out. I almost did a bonus episode from my phone.

But I’ve been trying to tie Jimmy Buffett into comedy. There’s really nothing other than the Dusty Sligh It’s five o’clock somewhere. Bit. If you haven’t heard that one, it is fantastic. Here’s a quick taste.

I do like that song. It’s five o’clock somewhere. Though there’s a line in the chorus where he says this. He goes, it’s only half past twelve past twelve thirty. Just to be clear, he said, it’s only half past twelve, but I don’t care.

It’s five o’clock somewhere, all right, Well that’s not true, you know what I mean. It may be five thirty somewhere. Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett. Thank you for a lot of great concerts over the years. And in the words of jimm Buffett, if we couldn’t laugh, would all go and see Chris Rock and d a dip blow.

I’ve busted that out of burning man. Have you heard about the floods there? According to Chris Rock via the San Francisco gate. Rock said no one can clean or empty the portable toilets, quoting Rock from what I understand. Because of the flooding, the porta potties reportedly can’t be emptied.

Because the gates are closed, people can’t get into field generators or deliver supplies. KATVUTV said Chris Rock didn’t say why he was leaving, other than he just wanted a quote effing coldbrew. Rock was seen in a blue New York jacket, the wind whipping in his hair. According to KTVU, Sam Maill tweeted, being trapped at burning Man seems almost as bad as being trapped in a conversation with someone who went to Burning Man. Did you watch Office Race on Comedy Central last night?

No? I forgot as well, but good news it’s streaming on Paramount Plus. The New York Times reminds us that Beck Bennett starts as Patty Lacy quasiofic sales rep at an investment apps startup. Pat decides to train for a marathon. You know those weirdos high The New York Times says Beck Bennett makes for an adequate shlub, and his journey from the couch to twenty six point two miles is satisfying, if a bit too familier.

We get the usual sports movie beats, from training montages to motivational speeches. The Times adds the sporting cast is uniformly great. JB. Smooth is a champion race walker who advises Pat to partake in dipping tobacco to fortify his lungs. Kelsey Grammer as a small part as a former coach turned owner of a sports store at the time, says The Office.

Race MVP is Joel mchal as Pat’s maniacal, pun loving boss and race rival Spencer. Spencer chugs energy drinks as sex with Pat’s girlfriend and goes insane in an obsessive pursuit of marathon glory. Good cast Joe Mchael, Beck, Bennett, Kelsey Grammer, Alison Hannigan, JB. Smoove try paramount plus for that. One of my favorite shows is I just call it The Laker Show.

It is promptly called Winning Time on HBO Max, which isn’t even a thing anymore. Sorry Max, you guys blew that with that name. Anyway, The Laker Show. Are you watching it? It’s really good.

One of the characters on the Laker Show Genie Buss, Well, in real life, Genie Buss just got married over the weekend to Jay Moore. TMZ says a small intimate ceremony and Alibu. Twenty close friends and family members were in attendance. Variety asked Paul F. Tompkins, how do you create a character when you’re doing podcasts.

You’ve kind of moved away from impressions. Paul F. Said, I started doing comedy Bang Bang in two thousand and nine, and I think my first few appearances were over the phone. I think impressions I knew I could do that already came out of doing Best Week Ever, and impressions is very loose because it was characatures essentially of famous people. Then I started looking for more voices that I could do when I started my own podcast and then I don’t know it twenty fifteen, twenty thirteen, something like that.

I think the first one I did was maybe JW. Stillwater, the idea of like, I’m tired of doing these people who were tied to the real world. That felt like a limited thing to me. If I make a person out of whole cloth, then I’m not confined to that. There’s no anchor to the real world.

It could just be whatever it wants. It was also my way of learning improv without going and take classes. The biggest lesson for me was being okay with failure because I’ve always had a perfectionist streak control problem, and it would bump me out when things that I want to do, things I’d put on stage on the show, didn’t work when there are a lot of moving parts. If the thing didn’t get pulled off properly, it made me mad. It made me mad.

I have to lie on other people that way and made me mad I wasn’t able to communicate the thing I wanted to communicate adequately enough. Made me mad that I only had one shot at it and I couldn’t do it again. It didn’t work the way I wanted it to work. So doing characters and doing improv, that’s the whole thing that’s built into it. Sometimes it’s not gonna work and you have to be okay with it and move on.

John to Peers, Scott asked about cancel culture. Why, because she’s a comedian and all comedians get asked in every interview about cancel culture. Shahnda’s answer, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. In twenty five years, there’ll be no reality of what was going on in twenty twenty three. First of all, this free speech.

Second of all, you’re missing some great laughs. The world today’s so crazy. I’d love to be canceled to be so cool and great publicity. I’m not politically correct. I’ve been crafting a long letter to Dave Chappelle because I want to tell him welcome to the family.

The bottom line is, comedy’s a beautiful way to speak truth. It’s a palatable way for your audience to accept truth. And that’s all. He did speak truth in his opinion, and he gets beat up over it. Washton Post profiled earthquake and they said, hey, you had the Netflix special.

You’re popping up on TV shows. What’s the goal here? Quite said, to have my own TV show and do more movies. I’m going to write a book, and i want to do select dates of comedy but on the road for thirty two years. I’m really trying to do like Dave Chappelle does.

He works a lot, but he chooses where he wants to work and when he wants to work and how he wants to work. All right, quick what’s the TV show going to be about? Earthquake? Said? I can’t say too much about it, but it’ll be based in Washington, DC, about a government agency in DC, and it’ll be filmed in DC.

Did you ever think about quitting? Only one time? When I lost Beet’s comic View, Cedric the entertainer talk me out of it. He was like, what else you gonna do? You’re a great comedian.

The last about twenty four hours. I got back to it the next day. You can still have a meaningful career even if you don’t get commercial success. That doesn’t mean you’re not an artist. I learned when you do comedy’s subjective.

You might be funny to one person, but you’re not funny to another. Doug Stanhope is going to store in the movie The Road Dog. The Road Dog tells the story of an aging alcoholic comedian good casting. Doug plays Jimmy Quinn, a veteran of stand up Comedy’s Glory Days. Now I’m wondering, having seen the movie or the trailer winner stand Up Comedies Glory Days?

Is that the seventies? Is it the nineties? Is it five minutes ago? I don’t know. But in the Road Dog.

When Jimmy’s longest strange son, David, also an aspiring comedian, seeks him out, Jimmy offers to take him on the road and show them the ropes. They begin to grow close, but tension to rise due to Jimmy’s self destructive behavior. Ultimately, Jimmy must decide what he values most.

Also in the cast, Tim Kazarinski and Greg Fitzsimmons, Do you hear my voice s…

I did a lot of shows into Labor Day weekend. I was also going to record next weekend, but now I’m not because I can’t speak anymore. The film will be released digitally on October sixth. All right, let me tell you what really happened. I took a sip of my ice coffee, and I recorded the rest of the podcast.

And then I looked and the file had stopped recording right when I took the sip. I don’t know why it did that. It’s not like I don’t take breaks and take SIPs of coffee. I usually don’t tell you about it. So now I have to do the final two stories again.

But that’s okay. A couple of books are out today. Maria Bamford’s called Sure I’ll Join Your Cult memoir of Mental Illness and the questa Belong Anywhere. These are the stories of the actual, hilarious and howing scenarios that inspired her best known material. It’s less about the psychology of a comedian than it is a mental health memoir of a sensitive answer is craving gen Xer London Hughes as a book out today as well, called Living My Best Life Hunt Following Your Dreams is no joke.

It’s a contemporary stab at the dickensiean formula depicting how an outsider rose through the heavily structured British pop culture complex to make her dreams come true. And coming up in a week or so, It’s the twenty twenty three Milwaukee Roast Championships, a four round tournament where comic slam one another back and forth. The semifinals are September fourteenth, the finals are in October. The organizers hope to forge connections with neighboring roast scenes like Madison and Chicago that could lay the groundwork for a potential roast circuit. I say go all in thirty team Roast League Today New York City takes on Madison you’d watch.

All right. My voice is shot now, so I’m not recording any more episodes. I’m going to go do something else. Support my sponsors factor, the food’s good. I’m telling you, DraftKings, Go, Niners, say no More.

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The Shark Deck. We are running at a simmer My friends. Hi’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Westworld profiled Michelle Wolf. She’ll have a new special out next week.

Back in twenty sixteen, Michelle had to juggle Daily Show duties while going on tour. That tour eventually became her twenty seventeen HBO special Nice Lady. Michelle said, I wanted to do that hour one hundred times before I taped it, so I spent part of twenty sixteen and most of twenty seventeen touring it. I worked at the Daily Show Monday through Thursday. Then on Thursday I’d leave to go to whatever club I was performing at that weekend.

I do shows Thursday, Friday and Saturday, fly home Sunday, and go back to work at the Daily Show on Monday. It was definitely a grind, but it was also my first comedy special, and I was doing it for HBO, which was such an honor. So I really wanted to do with Justice, and I’m glad I did because I’m really happy with the final product. Michelle Wolf then talked about doing the twenty eighteen White House Correspondence Dinner that put her in the National Spotlight. Sure did, and she said, when they first asked me to do it, I was a little hesitant because I didn’t know what kind of jokes that could write for these people.

I took a couple days to see what I could come up with, and after those first couple of days, I was like, all right, I think I got the hang of what I want to do. I’ll be able to do something interesting and fun. I had a great time. I think it’s easy to tell jokes about people that aren’t in the room. It’s hard, but ultimately very fun to tell jokes about people who are in the room, especially when they deserve to be joked about.

She maintains that the Correspondence dinner was misrepresented in the media. Michelle said, they said I only went after the right, which I clearly didn’t. I went after the right and the left, but most importantly, I went after the media itself, because the media is just doing a disservice to us all and not actually providing us with good news. I don’t mean good as in happy news, I mean accurate news. I feel like journalism doesn’t really exist in the news media environment, and everybody’s just listening to what they want to hear and not what’s actually happening.

Everyone has a big bias, and I really think all the media, every major outlet, is doing a huge disservice to us as a society. Vanya Land spoke to Eliza Selessenger, who said, I always want women to leave my shows feeling good, but it’s never the expensive men. This is a show for young women, couples and everybody on every spectrum, because at the end of the day, stand up is about being human and I have a really energetic act, so I feel like it’ll lend itself perfectly to a space like an arena. There’s a lot of physicality in it. It’s still fun that people like about my act.

There’s voices, body movement, things take a weird direction. I pride myself on the fact that a fan once told me that my brand is consistently off brand, and I like that. I like setting up a joke and take into a different place. This is one of those hours where you strap in for it and before you know it, it’s over. I liked the idea of people leaving the arena and trying to figure out why they’re face hurts in a good way.

Of course. The Late Night Guys have their new Strike Force five podcast. In the premiere, Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he was considering retiring when the strike began. Kimmel said, I was very intent on retiring right around the time when the strike started. Now I realize, oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work.

You know, when you’re working, you think about networking. Kimmel also revealed that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon contacted him and offered to pay the staff for two weeks a week each. They wanted to pay them out of their own pocket. Kimmel declined. He said, I felt that was not their responsibility.

Stephen Colbert said, couldn’t you say yes and then give your money to us. Mark Norman enjoys interacting with the fans. At the end of his hour, he’ll ask the fans to give him some news topics. Mark Norman said, I only did it because I needed content for the Internet. I didn’t want to burn material.

It’s a perfect way to get a Hunter Biden riff out there, or Trump riff, or a submarine sinking riff. I’ll ever put that in my act because it’s a submarine it’s topical, it comes and goes. It’s a perfect way to get material for the Internet, and hopefully it’s still funny and you don’t have to burn your act. I’ve been doing it for years and I got pretty good at it. I thought, let’s open the special with that, because I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do that yet.

Opening a special talking with the crowd it worked pulls you in. Las Vegas Weekly asked Nicole Buyer, what’s the most surprising place you’ve ever been hit on before? Nicole said, this is hard because sometimes I don’t know when I’m being hit on. I was just hit on the airport by like a sixty year old man in a neck brace. The whole situation was weird.

I thought I fell in love in Denver because this guy was flirting with me at the sandwich shop. Then I invited him to my show and then he brought his girlfriends. I was like, Oh, maybe he was just trying to sell me a sandwich real quick. At the beginning of the month. I’d like to thank those who are the members on buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, So thank you, Tommy Amy, Gary Shannon, Mike and Kenny for your monthly contributions.

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You can even join the two dollar Club just two dollars a month. It adds up over time. Much appreciated everybody. CBN spoke to John Christ who said everybody in the King’s Court would say, you look good, you’re doing the best, You’re incredible, everything’s great, and then the jester was the guy would come in and kind of make fun of everything. It was done in a way that was therapeutic and helpful, not to tear anybody down.

Every video I’ve ever made, obviously we ruffle some feathers every now and then, but my hope would be that the person we’re making the joke about would laugh at it and still that it’s funny. And ninety nine percent of the time that’s what happens. His latest video is called Every Christian Music Video, and it points to elements found in almost every Christian music video. John said, there’s always some kind of disagreement or argument. That guy leaves the house.

The guy is some kind of transformation process, and then he comes back home and everyone’s forgiven and yield and restored. In like two minutes and thirty seconds. No really, he gets into what’s going on. He just kind of sees across in the clouds or something like that and comes home. Andrewdyce Clay will be in a new movie.

He will play a high school basketball coach. Yeah, uh huh. It’s called Warrior Strong, which follows a suspended pro basketball player who must work alongside his old coach played by Andrew dyce Clay, in order to restore his image and bring a ragtag team of high school basketball players back together on the court. Does that not sound like a movie that should start Adam Sandler? Did Sandler pass on that one?

What’s going on there? Adam Carolla spoke to the La Downtown News and said, as my fans know, my parents were too lazy to give me a middle name, so when it came time to get my license, I just threw Lakers in there on a whim. I’m an LA guy, so it made sense. Still waiting for those season tickets, though, maybe I’ll change it to Clippers next time. After anew podcastings in my blood.

My father was a podcaster, My grandfather was a podcaster. My great grandfather was podcasting on a steamer from Italy on its way to Ellis Island. So of course I grew up wanting to be a podcaster. From DC ist, a DC comedian is bringing funny arabs to the Kennedy Center. Rola Zaroor is known professionally as Rola Zi.

Born in Lebanon, she was forced to leave her home during its Civil war and grew up in Greece. Years later, she experienced a revolution in Kutasa when she was living in Egypt, and she moved to DC and her marriage failed and she was laid off from her job, so she became a comedian. Rola Zi said, I was like, there’s nothing left to do but getting a comedy, because no one goes to comedy when they’re happy. Right. She was doing a show during Veterans Appreciation Week and pay attention here.

I just said, any veterans, Oh, thank you for everything you do for us. Without you, guys, I wouldn’t be here today. There’d be no wars in the Middle East. She just kept going. Last week, a guy took me on a unique dining experience.

It’s called Dinner in the Dark. I walk in, I get nostalgic. This is like my childhood during the war. There’s no electricity, but surprise, we found bread. So she’s now producing Funny Arabs.

I wanted to see Arab American comedians and showcase their talent, but also tell our diverse story. It was really important to me to showcase the diversity of what it means to be an Arab and what our stories are. The Kennedy Center will host Funny Arabs at the Millennium Stage on Saturday, September nine, six pm. Based on those couple of jokes there, it sounds like it’d be pretty good, right. And that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Bobcat Goldthwaite disowns his horrible talking horse comedy on its thirty fifth anniversary. The anniversary just passed. That talking horse comedy called Hot to Trot.

It’s one of the few members of the infamous Rotten Tomatoes zero percent club. Hot to Trot a nineteen eighty eight American comedy film, stars Bobcat Goldthwaite as simpleton bachelor Fred Cheney who inherits a bucktooth horse named Don and half of a stock brokerage firm from his dead mother. Okay, he discovers Don as a talking horse who can also speak the language of several other animals. The horse, voiced by John Candy. Cheney returns Don to his talking horse family in the countryside and becomes a stockbroker.

Okay, Don the horse overhears a stock tip and calls Cheney again. That’s Bobcat Goldthwaite’s character, presumably using his teeth to dial the phone. Cheney acts on the investment advice. It becomes wealthy overnight. Does the rest of the plot matter?

No, So it’s mister ed Meat’s stockbroking. Oh hey. Back in twenty eighteen, Bobcat talked about the movie and said it was such a frustrating process and it put me in comedy jail. It was horrible. Honest to god, I wouldn’t do this movie now because how I feel about animals that pore a horse.

It knew that if I was around, it’d have to do stuff that it normally wouldn’t do. They were like, come on, Don the Worse, and Don is just clenching his mouth every time he sees me. Bobcat said there were also unexpected bathroom breaks. The horse’s tail would go up before he had to take a dump. There was a horse wrangler named Quirky.

He would catch it with a shovel and it would never hit the floor. We were doing this serious scene and I saw the tail go up. I look at Quirky and he’s sitting on an apple box. It doesn’t move. The horse had diarrhea and it just blasted the wall.

It blasted me everything from the neck down. The first assistant director was like, ah, that’s a rap for today, not even like, let’s clean the wall and moved to the other’s set. The film was shut down because the horse had diarrhea. Bobcat says, don’t blame the horse. Let’s not throw the horse under the bus.

You could blame me and the rector. Leave the poor animal out of it. Vulture spoke to you former Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez about the big question. Do people want to talk to you more about Game six where Seinfeld? Keith said Seinfeld.

Vulture asked him, so you got a call Seinfeld once you for an episode. What was your reaction? Keith said, I didn’t know anything about the Seinfeld show. We played night games, we didn’t watch primetime. I also never watched primetime my first year of retirement, so I never heard of Seinfeld.

When Jerry conceived the show, he was a fan of mine and a fan of the Mets. He could have gotten a hold of me through the Mets, but he reached out to my former baseball age and who called me and told me about the show. He called me her on the week on Wednesday, and they wanted me to fly to la and be there on Monday the following week. It’s very rushed. When I agreed to it, they FedEx the script to me overnight and I received that on Friday.

I thought it was gonna be a little cameo. Then I realized that I was a very prominent figure in the episode. It was actually the guest star. I’d never acted, never any desire to act, but it seemed like a cool experience, good opportunity, so I agreed to it, and I arrived on LA on Saturday night. I had a Sunday to relax, and then it was a seven am call of the studio on Monday morning.

Keith, did you have any for you agree to it? How much money were they going to pay me? I asked my agent how much? And he said, well, they’re gonna fly to LA and put you at the four Seasons at Beverly Hills and provide you with very nice transportation. You’ll be there for a week and they’ll pay you fifteen grand And Keith said, oh, okay, I’ll do it.

Keither Nanda says Larry David was very friendly and welcoming. Jerry was a little sheepish, but welcoming. Julia Louis Dreyfuss was about three months pregnant with her first child. I believe she probably wasn’t feeling like great, but she was wonderful to work with. Jason Alexander was a little standoffish most of the week.

Hm. Michael Richards was very inquisitive about baseball. He knew nothing about it and questioned me throughout the week. He’s very interested in the lifestyle and my profession contained. It was wonderful.

He was very sweet, a nice man. So they followed up about the Jason Alexander thing. Keith her Nannas said he probably had to work his way through bit roles and here I come as a guest star and who am I retired baseball player. I’m just speculating, but it all changed when we do the complete run through in chronological order in front of the NBC executives on Friday night. I had to pass their litmus test and censors, and I didn’t make any mistakes.

Jason come up to me with a big smile and shook my hand and said nice. Going that point on, he was one full I guess I’d approved myself. I realized I couldn’t hold them up and be terrible and not memorize lines. I had a lot of lines. It was a very very stressful week.

The first scene in the locker room was the most difficult for me because they kept altering lines until the last minute. I memorized not only my lines in every scene, but I also knew Jerry and Jason’s lines. I wanted to learn the cadence of how they spoke, so when they switched the lines, I was stressed out. After I did everything perfectly in front of the NBC suits, I went out in the first scene in front of the live audience and I screwed up, and I was like, cut, all right, Keith, let’s do it again. I’m like, oh gosh, you gotta be kidding me.

I went back behind the set, took a deep breath, try to calm down, and I didn’t make a mistake. After that, Larry came up to me and said, it’s important we get this right. We think we’ve got a really funny episode, and we don’t want to use laugh tracks if we can’t finish this today. We want real laughter, Keith said. I survived it.

I really couldn’t appreciate what was going on until I watched it when the episode aired. Little More Here A few episodes later, in the Boyfriend, there’s a baseball etiquette disagreement to Lane wears an opposing team’s hat while in the owner’s box the Yankees game. They asked Keith, do you do that? Keith said, if a certain organization invites you to game and you’re a fan of the opposing team or another team, you don’t wear the hat. You do not You don’t have to wear a Yankees had or a hat of whatever team invited you, but the protocols if you’ve been invited, you’re a guest and you don’t do that.

Comedian Colin Moulton wanted to check out his heritage. He said, I just got back from Moulton, England. I was searching for some good people in my family tree and I came up with bub Kiss. Molton discovered he’s a direct descendant of Thomas Malton, and admiral and a judge during the reigns of King John and King Henry the Third, who took part in a number of wars with Scotland. However, his ancestor was not beloved the current Moulton said, Thomas Moulton was reviled by the townspeople.

They dismantled a chapelly built. The townspeople hated him. He was a scoundrel. But I think I’ll learned there’s a little scoundrel on all of us. I was just trying to find one good person in my ancestry, and I couldn’t do it.

This all start with my dad. I didn’t want to be like him, since he was troubled in so many ways. Apparently the current Moulton took after his grandfather, who was a vaudeville comic in the nineteen twenties. These days, the current Moulton lives in Georgia and says I can be a comic and live in Georgia. I love my life.

I have a half acre chicken form, I surf. I’m living the life. He surfs in Georgia. I guess you don’t hear much about the Georgia beaches. Yeah, I guess I’m gonna get letters from Georgia.

Now I’m leaving it in. I’d love to hear from you Facebook group Daily Comedy News. If you’re in Georgia and you’re like, come on, man, big surfing crowd, hit me up. I could take it. The New York Times profile Judy Gold and asked her how she spends her Sundays.

Some of the things Judy Gold does is I put on my tennis clothes and I go outside. I get the Times interesting that she mentioned the Times at a Times article. I see what you did there, because they don’t put it on my doorstep. I stretch on the floor for five minutes and then make a shake with almond milk, way, protein berries, bananas, powdered peanut, butter, kale and chia seeds. Then I put my tennis bag together and pack two bottles of water, one with ice, the other with watermelon flavored liquid IV.

At eleven am, we leave for tennis. It’s only two miles, but in the summer it could take fifteen minutes because everybody’s driving five miles an hour on Bradford Street, which makes me crazy. We love the Provincetown Tennis Club. It’s something out of a waspy New England Jane Austin novel. It’s very social and friendly.

I love doubles. It’s like a chess game filled with strategy. Sometimes we see Billy Jean King or Adelia Ephron. I have a Wilson racket which we spend to see who goes first by calling Wine or Margarita. We play for ninety minutes, then we sweep the courts, drive back home and scream at how slow everybody is.

Then she talked about going to the beach for the afternoon. At night back home, it’s work mode. It’s hard to communicate with me because I’m focused on what I’m doing that night on stage, there’s a palpable shift. I see with my notebook at the kitchen table and go through jokes, usually new ones have written during the week and one and include. Then I shower, dress, get my face on, and get my bag ready.

I ride my red trek bike and enjoy the ten minutes of solitary time to get in the right head. I sit at the barn, get water. I don’t drink before set because I want every synapse of my brain working. If I have a new bit, I can’t wait to get to it. The show is about what annoys me, like cancel culture, anti Semitism, stupidity, and turning sixty.

After a show, we bike home on Commercial Street, two old lesbians with their bills going off because everybody’s in the middle of the street. At home, we watch TV. We just watched the Mary Tyler Moore documentary, which I loved, and Netflix is El Dorado. Everything The Nazis, hate, sounds fun that your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve thought it’d take a look at the av Club’s thirty greatest stand up comedy Specials of all time. If you are a relatively new listener. When I do these article episodes, I don’t look at them in advance.

I like to just react to them as I see them. And I’ve had this in my folder of things to get to and it’s been good for comedy news. There’s been plenty of stuff, but I figured, with the holiday weekend, let me work this one in. All right. It’s the thirty greatest stand up comedy Specials of all time from the Avy Club.

They write from Richard Pryor and Robin Williams to Mitch Hedberg and Hannah Gatsby. We’re putting a spotlight on some of the best stand ups ever. It’s a slide show. Because it’s nineteen ninety four. I don’t know, but okay, let’s click.

They have ranked these in chronological order, which is good because that way we don’t have to argue about which is the best one. The first one up they have from nineteen seventy five and Evening with Robert Klein. If I’ve seen that, I saw it on HBO eight billion years ago. I can’t say I remember it. Next up from nineteen seventy eight, Steve Martin’s a wild and crazy guy.

It’s very easy to forget just how popular Steve Martin was and how revolutionary his comedy seemed at the time. You go back now, like I remember, as a kid, we thought King Tut was the greatest, most hilarious thing we’ve ever seen. And you know, you go back now and it’s born in Babylonia, moved to Arizona. King Tut hilarious. But back in the day, Yeah, Steve Martin, will I’m crazy guy?

Love it good? Pick Richard Pryor live in concert, nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen seventy nine, I’m ten years old. So even though I’m somewhat expert in comedy, I do get confused as to which prior special is which. Next up, Eddie Murphy, Delirious from nineteen eighty three.

Yes, if you’re my age, you quoted this thing and probably at one point in your life could do almost the entire special off the top of your head. Have some things not age so well? Yes? Are there some things that you wouldn’t do today. Yes, are there some words you wouldn’t use today?

Yes? Did we all love it back in nineteen eight three? Yes? Did we realize Eddie Murphy was just doing a cover act of Richard Pryor, including the red plastic jacket thing. No, we didn’t because we were kids, But Eddie Murphy delirious.

We loved it. Nineteen eighty five’s Stephen Wright Stephen Wright Special. You forget how different Stephen Wright was. A unique voice. You hadn’t seen that type of presentation before, that slow, deadband delivery, and it just tickled your brain in a way that nobody had before.

Another great pick here by the Avy Club. Robin Williams an Evening at the Met nineteen eighty six. Robin another one of those comedians. When he first came along, you saw that different level of energy and it was just like Wow. I’m not sure if you go back now and look at Robin’s comedy you’re like, oh, that’s so amazing, But at the time, yeah, absolutely.

Another great pick. Paul A pound Stones, Cats, Cops and Stuff from nineteen ninety. I remember Paula kind of having a moment there for a while and then disappearing but interesting. Avy Club Rights, Cats, Cops and Stuff remains a seminal work from it’s era and in the wider cannon of stand up as an art form. Poundstone’s ability to command an audience new personal stories and witty sides a stellar But it’s her gift to pivot instantly to crowd working back again that makes her a legend.

Okay, I mean, I won’t fight you on it, but I’m not like yeah, the Paul of Poundstone Special. Next up, George Carlin Jamin in New York, nineteen ninety two. Much like prior, it’s hard for me to off the top of my head remember which Carlin’s special is. Which. Obviously we’re going to pick Carlin specials here.

I won’t be surprised if there’s more than one on here. Let’s see. On this one Jamin in New York, Carlin does an extended riff on the distrust of public drinking water. This one establishes perhaps the birth of the latter day Carlin we come to know and love. Earlier specials were a bridge between the counterculture Carlin of the sixties and seventies and the hilarious dooms Layers of the nineties and two thousands.

But Jamin in New York is the pure brilliant birth of Carlin Is comedy’s resident leftist prophet, the guy who watched The Heat Death of the Universe with a grin on his face. Next up, this one surprises me. Nineteen ninety five, Janine Garffalo’s HBO comedy Half Hour. Not sure I remember that one, and I always really like Janine was thrilled when she was on Larry Sanders. The Avy Club Rights.

Garffalo gave us her take on everything from TV commercials to bands that are too loud to wonderfully understated impressions, delivering the definitive gen X stand up in the process, the definitive gen X stand up set. I gotta push back on that. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t think it’s that. Nineteen ninety six Chris Rocks Bring the Pain Absolutely great special. The Avy Club reminds us the special is best remembered now for a bit involving the N word, which Chris Rock later retired.

Another illustration of how things change and things that worked back in the day don’t necessarily work so well now. But Chris Rock Bring the Pain from nineteen ninety six. Good pick. Nineteen ninety eight Jerry Seinfeld’s I’m telling You for the Last Time. I mostly know this one from playing all the individual clips on Series XM Radio when I used to program that.

I know this material pretty well. Jokes about the supermarket to Halloween candy. That was Jerry retiring a bunch of material in nineteen ninety eight, peaked j R. Yeah, great pick. Next up, Susie Eddie Iszard’s Dressed to Kill from nineteen ninety nine.

I know Iszard’s not everybody’s piece of cake. I like their material a lot. Oh one of my all time favorites from nineteen ninety nine. Is it really that old? No Way?

Comedy Central presents Mitch Hedberg is nineteen ninety nine. This is the one with an escalator. Can’t break it, can only become stairs. I can’t believe that’s nineteen ninety nine. I thought that was a little later, but I guess not.

Mitch passed away in two thousand five. Yeah, all right, here’s a pick that’s out there a little bit. David Cross is the Pride is Back from nineteen ninety nine. I like Cross a lot. Davy Club Rights Patton Oswalt might have become the household names to emerge from the alt comedy scene of the nineties, but David Cross is still the era’s unapologetic, inventive standard bearer.

With the Pride is Back, David Cross brought all these skewed perspectives of the mister show rats who was One Men act a reminder of Cross’s neck for squeezing everything out of truly transgressive premises two thousand The original Kings of Comedy. Sure, that’s a huge one. Bernie mac Cedric, The Entertainer Deal, Hughley, and Steve Harvey yep. Avy Club calls it a game changer. I agree, with little help from director Spike Lee, it showed the massive impact of black comedy to the world on a grand, instantly funny scale.

It’s one of those moments it feels like it will never be replicated again, which is a big part of what makes it special. Continuing, the Avy clubs thirty Best stand up Specials of all Time. Next up the year two thousand and they have Margaret Shows. I’m the one that I want. I’m not sure I agree here they write Margaret Show is certainly not the first out gay woman to make an impact in the stand up comedy world.

But with I’m the One that I Want in two thousand she proves she might just be the most fearless two thousand and five. Sarah Silverman’s Jesus Is Magic two thousand five might have been around peak Sarah Silverman’s She’s the eight Girl there for a while. Is it one of the thirty best of all time? I’m not sure? Not sure about this next one either.

Zach Alafanakis is Live at the Purple Onion from two thousand and six, a comedian who could do Stephen Wright’s deadpan and Robin Williams explosive commitment with the equal power, writes the Avy Club Live at the Purple Onion is a I meant, a showcase of his ability to ride out even the most questionable bits and ring laughs out of unexpected places. All Right, we’re on a run here of me not agreeing. Wanda Psykes s’ma Be Me from two thousand and nine. Davy Club rights I’m Gonna be Me feels at One’s vulnerable and razor shop like she’s been waiting her entire life to tell these jokes. Patrise O’Neil’s Elephant in the Room.

I’ve said this before. I never enjoyed a moment I ever spent with Patrise O’Neill. He had this way of just coming at everybody. I think he thought it was funny. He would just I don’t know whatever you’re doing right now.

He’d walk up to you and go, you’re really wearing that shirt, and it’s just like, dude, screw you. I just don’t want to I just don’t want to be near you. So I am definitely biased against Patrise. Didn’t enjoy my time with him. Davy Club Rights Elephant in the Room.

It’s truly something special at Leased just months before his death. It’s a brilliant set, full of moments when you can feel O’Neill pressing all of his audience’s buttons. Has been on sexual harassment is especially pointed example of this. I know all the comedians love him, especially the New York City like smoke a cigarette in front of a brick wall comedians, but top third, I don’t know a V club. Mike bur Bigley is my girlfriend’s boyfriend.

Boy, what is this like six seven in a row and all remind you I was at serious XM running comedy that was the ten years where I was like really in deep with comedy. I’m not agreeing with any of these bur bigs. Is nice, but I don’t know about this pick either. Maria Bamford The Special Special Special from twenty fourteen. Same thing, love Maria.

I’ve seen Maria alive, But is that one of the top thirty. I’m gonna have to make my own list. And I’m not going to just do that off the top of my head, because I’d really have to think about it. But the Headberg is going to be up there on my list. Kinnison is going to be up there on my list.

There’s no Kinnison on this list because we’re already up to twenty fourteen. That first Dice Special, whatever you think of Dice, that was amazing. I would have a couple of Carlin’s up there, and after research, a couple of priors up there, and after research, I imagine we’re going to get to some Chappelle’s here. No love for the blue collar guys yet so far? All right, next step Tignazaro’s Boyish Girl Interrupted from twenty sixteen.

I like the pick a lot that like peaked Tigg liked what she was doing there. Yeah, that’s a good pick. Patton Oswalt’s Annihilation twenty seventeen. Much like I’ve said about Carlin or prior, I have to remember which Patton Oswalt special is this one? This is the one following the death of his first wife, Michelle McNamara.

Oswalt went toe to toe and punch for punch with his grief. You know, I think there’s better Patton Oswalt’s specials than that one. But all right, I wouldn’t fight you in the alley way about picking that one, but I’d pick an earlier Patton Oswalt special. And if I’m gonna pick a Pat and I’m gonna put a Brian poseyin on my list as well, I’ll have to make a list for y’all. Hannah Gatsby’s Nanette.

I think Douglas is a better special. I get that everybody started praying at the Hannah Gatsby alter over Nanette. I think her next special, Douglas is better. On my list, I would pick Douglass over Nanette. But okay, I get it.

John Mulaney’s Kid gorgeous, good pick, by the way. No gafficking yet either, And we’re already up to twenty eighteen. Kid Gorgeous establishes John Mulaney as one of today’s top comedians. Sure as of doing this, and this is why I don’t them. Advanced things are popping into my mind.

No Dennis Leary on this list. Interesting. No Bill Hicks on this list interesting. Next up Bo Burnham’s Inside. I get that people like it.

I get that I’m old, I won’t fight in the alley and not my cup of tea wouldn’t make my top thirty, but I get it. Norm McDonald’s Nothing Special was really good, very funny. Recorded in the middle of the pandemic. Norm knows that he’s going to die, so he puts this material down. Yeah, kind of a cool special.

Gerard Carmichael’s Rathaniel Again, I know that all the critics think this was the greatest thing ever. I didn’t like it. That’s from twenty twenty two. Wow. And they have Mark Marin’s from Bleak to Dark from this year.

That’s not even on my best of this year? Wow? What did they write here? I’m shocked by this. Mark Marin has endeared himself to audiences through a blend of honesty and world weary wisdom, and it’s a blend that allowed him to go to some dark places over the years.

Da da Da da da. It’s quite possible no other major stand up alive could have pulled off a joke about considering a selfie with his partner’s dead body, and that alone makes this a towering comedic achievement. Huh. All right, that’s The AV Club’s top thirty comedy specials of all time. I don’t know no, Joan Rivers of have to make my own list.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News five of the late night host Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Myers. They’ve teamed up for a podcast, twelve episodes of Strike Fource five. Each of the hosts will participate in the conversation. Whoever’s leading the conversation will rotate.

The late night host will give all proceeds to the out of work staff from their respective shows. All right, kind of cool something to listen to.

Meanwhile, earlier in the week, a handful of comedians put on a stand up show…

This part of the strike protests. Comedian Mona Shake organized the events. One of the performers recent roast Battle LA champion Sarah Fitz Himmy. Sarah said, right now is a pivotal time in history for actors and writers to defy crappy pay and working conditions, not to mention lack of health benefits. I mean, who do you think you guys are?

Stand up comedians? Shake opened her set with a bit about audience members confusing her from Mindy Kaling and joking Mindy is rich I am or That’s why I’m doing this. She then segued into a criticism of Bob Eiger. I’m not sure this really landed. She probably told it better than I do, but the line Bobby said it was unrealistic of WGA members to ask for a two percent raise.

Just to put things in perspective, the average writer makes sixty nine thousand dollars a year, while Bobby makes seventy four thousand dollars a day. I think he failed math point taken. I’m not sure that’s a great joke. Alex Hooper said, it costs studios forty eight cents to send you a one cent residual check if you’re wondering where our money’s going. Felicia Michael’s followed.

Hooper ended her set after a few minutes, saying she’d soon devolve into a bunch of penis jokes, which does feel fair on a picket line in front of Fox Studios. Billboard did a big profile of Bert Kreischer about his tour. Bert said, each summer, I want to surround myself with my favorite humans, which are always going to be comics. I want to hang out with my friends and family. Tour and have fun.

I want to float on rivers, boat on lakes, end up in oceans, go hiking, shoot guns, get high on mushrooms and do whatever we can to have a blast. This year, the Fully Loaded tour included at times, Mark Normant and Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hatash, Stavros alki Is, Fortune Feemster, Davittel Lewis Black, Jim Norton, andrews Antino, Big Jay Oakerson, Jay Farrow, Dan Sodor, Chad Daniels, Ralph Barbosa, Rosebud Baker, and Tammy Pascatelli. All of them are great. Wow, what a list. Grayshers said, we wanted to make it the best experience a comic could ever have, with extra tour buses and plenty of amenities to make it feel like a great gig.

As for the lineup, Bert said, this is interesting. There are certain acts that other comedians have a hard time following. Acts like Chad Daniels, who was simply amazing.

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Also, I had Tiffany Hattish on the lineup, which no one could follow either.

Most promoters wouldn’t give a hoot and just say find someone to follow them, But as a comic guy to say now it’s not how it works, and I’m able to talk to a comedian like Dan Soder and ask him to open and he’ll do it because he understands and the request is coming from a comedian.

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And then I’ll take the bullet and close the show behind someone like Chat or …

Everybody there knows me. I’d just take my shirt off. People go crazy at the heart of things. I love comics. I love being on the road with comics, and my daughters, who I bring on tour with me love it too.

During the tour, one of them told me, I love this. You wake up in a different city every morning. If breakfast rate and everyone you eat with is hilarious, this is amazing. The same profile quoted one of the suits. I hate when suits get involved, right because everything I just told you was like fun and upbeat.

And then the suit says, our intention for creating fully Loaded was to build a lifestyle brand that represents all of the aspects of life that Burt enjoys the most, that could then support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. I want to throw up, listen to yourself, and then could support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. Stop. You took all the fun out of it. Congratulations to Adam Sandler.

He has a new all time best reviewed movie. Yeah you are so not Invited to my bot Mitzvah has a high Rotten Tomato score ninety six percent, higher than his previous films across thirty four years of making wonderfully awful movies. Hustle, which is the second best Adam Sandler film and a good Movie, has ninety three percent Somehow The Myrowood Stories has ninety two percent. Uncut gems, the best Adam Sailor movie ninety one percent. Oliver Anthony showed up at Joe Rogan’s Common Club.

If you’re like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? Because I was like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? I do this every day. I’m not familiar with such a comedian. No, he’s the guy that recorded rich Men North of Richmond to the song that went in viral recently.

Yeah whiskey Riff says Tom Sagura got the honor of introducing Oliver to the stage and said, guess what, I have a special treat for you. This doesn’t always happen, but this does happen when you come to really kop blaizis like the comedy mothership. I’m gonna bring on stage right now. This is so effing cool. This young man has exploded in popularity and we’ve all been blown away by this guy’s talent.

We’re so lucky to see him here live tonight, the very amazing talented Oliver Anthony. Everybody, let’s hear it, Whiskey Riff said, the crowd went nuts. Bill Mar will be in Grand Prairie Sexist tomorrow and said sexist knows how to party. I generally enjoy the Red States more than I don’t want to talk ill of anybody, but I’d much rather be in Dallas than you know, San Francisco or someplace like that, because they’re not politically correct. The Dallas News asked Bill Mar what kind of audience he expects.

Bill said, politically mixed, which is very rare. It’s very rare throughout history, but especially now when we’re so partisan. One reason I love doing stand up is it’s the audience who wants me to go there. I’ve always found there’s no problem in Texas. Asked for the Dallas metro area, it’s kind of the perfect combination for the last few years since the left kind of went nutty on their own.

I consider myself mostly what you’d call an old school liberal, but that’s very different from woke. I love it that I can make fun of and do the Trump jokes and everybody laughs at those, including the Republicans and the audience. And I could make fun of the woke nonsense and everybody laughs at that, including the liberals. I think there’s a hunger out there for common sense, left of center centrism. And they asked Bill Moore if Texas is any different now than it was in the nineteen eighties.

Bill said, I’ll say this about the South, it’s definitely less southern than it used to be. I’ve been in many Southern cities and I don’t hear any accent anymore. Austin is a little too New Yorky. I wish it was more Texas. I’m not looking for rural.

But you know what I love about the South is it’s still more friendly than anywhere else. Like I said, less stick it up your butt, just looking to have a good time, looking to laugh. Scott Rakowski is mad at the NFL. That’s the guy who formerly hosted HQ Trivia Well. Last week, the NFL put out a video for the upcoming Sea in which starred Macpacker Keegan Michael Key.

He presented an NFL script for a table read that included star players such as Jalen Ramsey and Patrick Mahomes. Regowski took to Socials and said, now, does it surprise me that a soulless mega corporation with zero creativity or independent thought would choose to blatantly rip off actually creative people to make their content. No, it doesn’t. Does it tick me off? You betcha because the person they ripped off this time was me.

Apparently, Scott feels it’s similar to his old NFL Writer’s Room bit. Scott added, they have the gall to use this. It is their tagline. You can’t make this stuff up. You’re right now, NFL, you can’t.

You stole it. Shame on you, Shame on all of you. The not Funny League. Bete Davidson apparently told the audience at the Garden the other night that he’s using kettleen. No, Kettleen’s not a thing ketamine.

I could have edited that out, but you’re laughing right now, so I left it in. Pete Davidson not on Kettaleen, but he says he’s been using ketamine just a little bit to help with his depression. Dave Chappelle has added some more dates to the Dave Chappelle Live. It’s a Celebration Bitch’s Tour. The new dates include October seventeenth, Milwaukee, the nineteenth Boston, and then the Raleigh, North Carolina on the twenty fifth, Charlotte on the twenty sixth at Lanta on Halloween.

Hey, thank you, Scott Beckett. Scott went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. And he didn’t buy me a coffee. No, he didn’t buy me two coffees. No, he didn’t buy me three coffees.

No, John, how long are you gonna go with this bit? I’m gonna finish it. He didn’t buy me four coffees. No, Scott bought me five iced coffees. Thank you very much, Scott.

Scott has been listening for a while. We email on the side occasionally. Again, feel encouraged to reach out to me. The email is in the show notes. Scott wrote, you’re doing good work.

Keep it going.

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Also, you’re missing out on Gary Coleman.

He’s got a lot of news out there, so that inspired me. I wrote to Scott on the side. I tried to give Gary Goleman a radio show back at Sirius XAM, kind of late in my run there. But one of the things that would happen is we pitched all kinds of things, all kinds of people. Hey, bosses, why don’t we give Deane Cook a show?

Who’s that? Hey? Why don’t we give Amy Schumer’s show? Who’s that? And Gary Goldman?

Hey, why don’t we give Gary Goldman a show? Who’s that? There were some executives who would go unnamed, who was like, if you didn’t walk in with Jerry Seinfeller Chris Rock, they were like, I don’t know who that is. And I always wanted to take long term bets on people, and history has proven my instincts were pretty good. So yeah, we talked to Gary about doing a show, but I couldn’t fund such a show, And thanks to Scott’s encouragement, I reached out to see if I can get Gary on the show because he has a new book coming out.

It is called Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. I self describe us from the eighties, so this is perfect. Gary Goldman’s Misfit Growing Up Awkward in the Eighties is due out September nineteenth. The book will bring us through the full gall out of school years, reflecting on the awkward and difficult moments and interactions between kindergarten and twelfth grade. Official paragraph here.

Whether it’s stories of failed show and tell presentations and fumbling in his first football game, where memories and anecdotes about his family, friends and neighbors, the book brings us deep into Goldman’s childhood landscap both inside and away from the classroom. Sounds fun because, like I said, I’m from the eighties. There are something called the Streamy Awards. The Streami’s recognized creators in more than forty five categories across beauty, comedy, food, gaming, music, podcast, sports, and more. And yes, I did hear myself drop the g and recognize that Queen’s accent comes out sometimes, Folks, I’m like somewhat expert in comedy.

I don’t claim to know everything, but here are the nominees from the comedy category. I don’t remind you I’ve been hosting this pod every day for four years, worked at Serious XM for ten years. And at least six days a week. I’ll go on Google and throwing words like comedy and comedian. So I was quite surprised to find the nominees in comedy for the Streamy Awards are Zamarcus, Sean Chris Collins, Lucas Lopez, the McFarland’s and your winner, r DC World.

Congratulations, r DC World. I’m curious. Yes, I’ll take out the Google machine and find out. I’ve gone to the r DC World. Pay they say, RDC World is all about making our fans laugh.

We provide entertainment through skitz, flog, short films and more. I clicked on the videos tab, and let’s see how aliens would be if they landed in the hood Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when they see each other. That one as a million and a half views. How Doc Rivers was in the locker room after the Sixers, Scott blew out two and a half million views. So these guys are doing quite well.

Congratulations r DC World, you’re winners of the Streamy Awards. Comedy. Some festivals this weekend. If you’re in or near Philadelphia, it’s the inaugural Philly Comedy Fest in Port Richmond Twelve Hour Comedy Festival Sunday at the gall and Company malt House. Matt McCusker, Ian Fight Ends, Tim Butterfly, Sarabelle, and Peggy o’leria among your performers.

Meanwhile, in South Coast Massachusetts, it’s the Whale City Comedy Festival that kicked off last night. One of the performers you can see tonight, he’s really good. Anthony DeVito. He’ll be in New Bedford. Nico White plays Saturday.

Sean Donnelly, Who’s a really good play Sunday. Details at Willcitycomedy dot com. Ian Lara is on tour. It’s the Problematic Immunity Tour this weekend in Chicago at Zenis and he’ll be on tour through at least December. December eighth and ninth in Toronto.

Information at Ian Lara Live dot com. That is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow, I’ll look at a list somebody made of the top thirty stand up specials of all time. I didn’t look at it before recording. See you’ll hear me react in the moment.

I did not react well. So let’s tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Normal episodes have a great Labor Day weekend. Let’s hit the beach while was still ken. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting the show.

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