Month: October 2023

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Callaroga, Shark Media, Kappie Allawi, and I’m Joanny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Sam Morrel caught up with The Columbus Underground. Seemed a little salty. They wrote, if you have an opportunity to snag Samuel for chat about his career, maybe don’t ask him if he’s always been pretty funny. Sam said, it’s like, hey, how little do you give a hoot about this?

I understand it’s a common technique to ask about your origin, but it just seems so lazy to me. Sam also doesn’t seem to understand why he’s tagged as a rising star and said, yeah, I don’t know who’s writing that, but that’s nice. I guess there are very few overnight successes, so people could say, yeah, he’s a rising star for twenty years or something. I mean, I guess it’s better than if somebody’s like, all right, this is it, So I’ll take it. As a comedian, you just hope each year is better than the last.

Right. That means you’re working. But I’m in a good place now. If this was it, I’d be okay with it. Turning to comedy, Sam likes to gauge the energy in a room before he’s introduced.

Sam said, I’ll watch the opener and I’ll say, Okay, this area’s a little drunk. This person might be a problem, but you feel it out. I mean, people surprise you and they’re gonna bathe differently for me than the opener. Sometimes you don’t want to generalize with the crowd too much. You want to go in with a positive attitude when you’re up there.

I’m gonna go in no matter what, trying to give the best show that I can. Sam is now running into an increasing number of show attendees who interrupt a show to do some of his own bits. Sam says, usually it’s the longer ones, the ones that are stories resonate with people more. I have one about the White Knight, or the one about the alligator or the student magician. Those stories are the ones that people seem to scream out like they want you to do them as an encore or something.

And I’m kind of like, no, I don’t remember any of those stories. If I remember them, I probably wouldn’t be writing new stuff. So those are kind of gone. They live online. I mean, look, that’s more of a music thing, you see Billy Joel because you want to hear a piano man or we didn’t start the fire or whatever.

You don’t go see Billy Joel because you want to hear we didn’t start the fire. What kind of Billy Joel fan are you? We didn’t shert the fire is terrible. Sam said, comedian’s supposed to have a new act, and it makes me really jealous of musicians who wrote a killer album and are just like, yeah, I’m gonna play this forever, although it’s got to be kind of boring too, right. Eliza Selessinger, who talked to the Las Vegas Sun, she is planning a travel show filmed in New Zealand.

Eliza said, I’m always working on stuff and I generally don’t like to talk about it to the ink is dride on the contract. But I’ve been wanting to do a travel show for a while. It’s a weird hole in the market. So many men get to do it to explore and travel and say whatever they want, and there aren’t as many women doing it. I’m already traveling.

My husband is a brilliant chef and writer, and we were asked to do it. I think we made something special interesting. Nikki Glaser spoke to Casey dot com and she talked about channel surfing and seeing herself. She says, it happens a lot. I just recently turned on the TV and saw me in an ad for the one hundred thousand dollars Pyramid.

I was also in the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle back in May, which was a huge deal because I play that every day. So stumbling across my own name was probably the biggest achievement in my life. And I say that with no sense of irony. That’s going down in history, whereas most of the stuff I do, people will remember. What was the clue?

Slash TV host Nicky she said it was very obviously me and I got so many messages. That’s how you find out who your smartest friends are. But yeah, I’m on TV a lot. I just read a quote from Joan Rivers who said I never turned down anything. You say yes to everything because you never know.

WPR, it was interviewing Gary Goldman about his new book, and they were fascinated by Gary’s enemy from Jewish summer camp, a boy referred to as Kampler. Gary said, yes, he was my enemy because he was no more athletic than me, or really charming or interesting than me. He was just a regular kid, but he had enormous confidence. And he made the softball team, and he started the camp play, and he won the sand castle building contest. I couldn’t understand why this kid, who really didn’t have much more going on for him than I did, was so confident.

And I was so shy and sad and felt anxious all the time, and so I felt, even though he had no idea, I was resenting him. I had built up so much resentment because I was losing all these things of this kid who I couldn’t figure out why he felt so good about himself, and I felt so lousy about myself. Gary continued, I didn’t go on the zip line because I was afraid. Kepler, of course, was the first to go on. He was so energetic, was not afraid.

He believed in himself. He went on there and zipped down and came down and returned a hero. And everybody was impressed by it. And they surrounded him and they said, what was it like? Did you have a good time?

And I’ll never forget what he said. He said, well, you learned so much about yourself. He was nine or ten. I remember thinking, whoa he copied that? Here?

That on a commercial for Outward Bound or from an astronaut or something. I said to him, capler, why do you have to be so preachy? You sound like a commercial? And he wasn’t phased by being called out by that. Eating care people looked at me like I was an ogre and a jerk.

Jay Leno was asked and how he would have approached the Trump years if he was still on Late Night. Jay said, say what you like about the Kennedys. At least they slept with real movie stars like Angie Dickinson and Marilyn Monroe. It wasn’t Stormy Daniels and strippers. Leno does watch some of the current monologues and says they’re all really good at that, but he often tunes out because of the commercials.

Right, Jay Leno, how do you know when it’s time to quit? And he says, I guess when you have your stroke? I mean I like it. Why would stop? The Boston Globe asked Brian Reagan, if you could travel anywhere right now, where would you go.

Brian Reagan’s answer, Germany. I want to drink beer out of one of those cool looking beer steins, while listening to one of those cool sounding German bands, while listening to people talking their cool sounding language. As for his travel preferences, Brian Reagan says, I like any place that has a pool with a swim up bar. There’s something relaxing about being able to swim over to your bar stool to grab a cool drink. Being home is a vacation.

I love traveling, but there’s nothing like not being in an airport. I prefer to relax on vacation. But I do like history too, so I enjoy seeing things like Mayan ruins in the coliseum. People should like to kill each other a lot in the past. Best travel Tippy said, sit in the middle seat on a long flight.

It’s a great way to get to know people. Pitchfork did that series with John Mulaney about what music he would listen to at what age. Well, John MLINI turned forty and was listening to Remember Where You Are. Malani says, that was the show we played as the show opener on the Baby Jade tour. My friend Kevin, who introduced me to Steely Dan, told me about Jesse whare Baby Jay to Me is not a dark show.

I was really happy when I was talking about those things on stage. I’m not saying I’m proud of everything, but the person standing on stage has a new life that’s really happy. That was the vibe of the music. Celebratory but interesting. Vulture is twenty five comedians you should know.

Brian bah He fantastic. I saw Brian up in Montreal. Brian said, starting out, I felt like there was pressure for every joke to be full throttle, NonStop punchlines the moment you get on stage. I started comedy in New York and go to some open mics where you got like ninety seconds because they’d be seventy people trying to get up there. I saw the people who did well those open mics were doing these set up punchline jokes.

I’d try to replicate that. Once I was able to move past those situations and I was doing eight to ten minute sets or a half hour, was less concerned about getting NonStop laughs and more concerned about what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it. I’ve been enjoying jokes that were slow build. My favorite comedians were never the ones who had the most last per minute. They’re the ones who made me see the world through their lens for a bit.

So that’s how I tried to approach joke writing. Now awesome approach. In my opinion, worst show ever, Brian said, I want to go on record that I like it doing bad shows. I think it’s funny to do stand up in a really bad environment. Whether it’s because the stage isn’t really a stage, it’s a toilet where there’s no audience, or there is an audience but they’re toxic, that’s objectively funny.

Like if you zoom out to this third person perspective and you see that situation for what it is, which is a person trying to pursue this creative endeavor and they’re failing at it for some weird reason out of their control. That’s funny. There was one time, post nine to eleven, post COVID vaccine, pre monkey pox, where I did this show in Connecticut. It was a show with an all queer lineup. I took a train of Connecticut with two other people.

Then we got picked up and driven us some bar in a quaint looking beach town. The sun was still out. It was a backed room. The crowd Feld’s retirement community. I started a joke where I referenced Michael Barbaro, the host of The Daily podcast, and the room was silent for the entire joke.

I followed up with some questions, do you know who Michael Barbaro is? Now? Do you listen to the Daily? They’d heard of it? Do they own guns?

Some of them? And I was like, great, I have eighteen more minutes of jokes to go. And I proceeded to bomb best comedy device, Worst comedy advice Best For one of my creative writing teachers in college, she said, whatever field you’re pursuing, you need to consume that art. It sounds obvious. I’ve applied that logic comedy.

When I’m at a show, I try to watch as many of the comedians as I can. Same for movies, TV, any kind of media. Worst comedy Advice. Every once in a while someone will tell me I should do more jokes about being Native American. It’s always a white person who says that.

I usually mentioned that I’m Indigenous pretty early in my sets. I have a quick joke where I say, my traditional Native American name is Chipotle bathroom code, but the tea is that All my jokes are from an indigenous perspective. My joke’s about dating my parents, getting public lives from a greyhound bus. All those jokes are about being Native American. Mittel has released the ted Lasso Barbie collection.

You can get a barbie version of Coach Lasso with a signature blue tracksuit and aviator glasses, or you can play as Rebecca Welton, the owner or influencer Keeley Jones fifty dollars each. Yikes. Wanda Sykes will start her Please and Thank You Comedy tour in twenty twenty four to twenty nine dates beginning March first in New Hampshire, going through June five, fifteenth in Kansas City. Short Old watched John Klees’s new show Dinosaur Hour that Arizon GB News. They gave it two and a half stars out of five.

Trotle wrote GB News, Lord Clees with the promise of no editorial interference and Dinosaur Hour the show he could make with all that creative freedom, Well it’s just okay. Episode one was a platform for one of John Clees’s perennial bugbears, his long running campaign against the British press. Trotle wrights Dinosaur Hours certainly does not claim to be comedic, which is a good job given Clees’s opening line as to promise the show won’t focus on trivia like quote the latest transperson’s bicycle accident. John Klees now eighty four years old, hosting Dinosaur Hour. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, quick housekeeping. This is a second episode from Monday, October thirtieth. There was an episode earlier this morning celebrating Monster Mash Monday, so that was all Halloween themed. This morning, I wanted to talk more about Matthew Perry.

That’ll be the first half of the podcast, the second half more normal items, and then starting tomorrow back to the normal schedule and format from TMZ. Kevin Brennan, qualified as a former SNL writer and comedian, decided to tweet drowned in a hot tub ha ha ha ha. TMZ says the tweet wasn’t viewed by very many people. Kevin Brennan only has about fifty nine hundred followers or so, reports TMZ. Brennan also wrote, I do love it when junkies die.

Why stop there? Brennan wrote why is drowning in a hot tub funny? Because it’s not very deep. After TMZ criticized the remark arks, Near Post reports that Kevin defended them, saying I didn’t mock it. I just thought it was funny.

But I do love it when junkies die. Brennan has also asked, am I trending yet? TMZ points out Kevin is the younger brother of Neil Brennan, a Chappelle showriter and comedian in his own right, and TMZ shares that Neil and Kevin had a falling out years ago, and they’re emphatic about that. Even in a second paragraph they wrote it bears repeating Neil is not close to Kevin, and based on interviews Neil has done of late, when he was asked about his relationship with Kevin, you can tell it’s a sensitive topic. Based on this reaction to Perry alone, you’ll see their personalities are very different.

Matthew Perry’s family said, we are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother. Matthew brought so much joy to the world, both as an actor or friend. You all meant so much to him, and we appreciate the tremendous outpouring of love. CNN recounted the story of Matthew Perry auditioning for Chandler Being In his twenty twenty two memoir, Perry wrote it said that Charlie Sheen was yet again in trouble for something, but I remember thinking, why do care he’s famous? Out of nowhere, I found myself getting on my knees, closing my eyes tightly and praying.

I’d never done this before. He asked, God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous. Three weeks later I got cast in Friends, and God has certainly kept up his side of the bargain. But the Almighty, being the Almighty, had not forgotten the first part of that prayer as well. It was nineteen ninety four.

Perry said he was scrambling for work. He had no money, so I called my agent and said, you’ve got to get me any job, any job you can. This happened to be the year before Friends was shot, but I was off the market because I had taken a job on a pilot called Lax twenty one ninety four that was about baggage handlers at LA Airport in the year twenty one ninety four. I’ve never heard of this. Here’s a clip on YouTube.

Lax twenty one ninety four also stars Ryan Styles. Let’s listen two hundred years into the future. Ryan Styles and Kelly Who are US customs agents in sci fi sitcom Lax twenty one ninety four, styles is a bumbling, insensitive robot. How could you be so heartless? Oh?

Sure, call me heart So it’s just because I’m half organism, half machine and don’t actually have a heart. Okay, that was amazing LAX twenty one to ninety four. Then a script for a show called Friends Like Us came along. Perry said it was HILARIOU said, great, there was this part that was perfect for me, and it was making me crazy. I couldn’t go up for it because of the Baggage Handler’s show.

I was losing my mind. The TV executives who saw Lax twenty ninety four agree that it was horrible, which freed Matthew Perry up. In two thousand and two, Perry told The New York Times, you want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be, meaning the enabling of his although there’s the anecdote. One time Perry had an reaction to an anesthetic which stopped his heart.

A worker in a hospital in Switzerland performed CPR for five full minutes to restore rhythm. Perry wondered if I hadn’t been on friends, would he have stopped at three minutes from GQ. A few months after completing the book, Matthew Perry was scheduled to record the audiobook version. That’s when it struck him that although he had written the book, he had never actually allowed himself to read it from start to finish. As for writing the book, Perry said, I was completely honest.

It just fell out of me. It just fell out on the page. But when he read it, he said, I cried and cried and cried. I went, Oh my god, this person has the worst life imaginable.

And then I realized this is me I’m talking about.

That night, he couldn’t even be in the same room as his words, he said, because I had to go to sleep. I actually took the iPad and put it outside my room because it was too close, too painful. The New York Post reports Matthew Perry Fans flock to Manhattan’s West Village on Sunday to pay tribute to Matthew Perry. The Post tells us a couple from Staten Island laid two bouquets of yellow and gold flowers in honor of Perry. Jamie George told the Post, even when he was struggling, he was making us put a smile on.

If you would like to stream of the various Matthew Perry shows go on which was really good. There’s an episode of TV in the Basement if you want to hear Journey Joe do a recap of that. That is not streaming, you can download it. That’s the one where Matthew Perry played a sportscaster, the Newer Odd Couple. That’s streaming on Paramount Plus.

That’s the one where Matthew Perry teamed with Thomas Lan Perry plays Oscar Madison Lennon Well cast as Felix Hunger. That version was not bad at all and actually ran three seasons. And of course Friends that is streaming on the Max service. Max is honoring Matthew Perry with a tribute card at the start of each season of the sitcom on the streaming platforms. The card reads, in memory of Matthew Perry nineteen sixty nine to twenty twenty three.

I’ll take the break here, we’ll come back and we’ll do some normal items Over the weekend. I put on Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s on Netflix. Holy Cow it is terrible. It’s just it’s unwatchable. So from the get go, there’s opening credits, and I don’t think they even spent money on real music.

And I’ve been doing this for a minute. It’s kind of like library music. So in the industry you’ll have things that are just generic guitar riffs, things that sound like real music but oren’t. And I think the opening credits just somebody went and grabbed guitar rock bed number fourteen and just played it. So it’s cheap off the get go.

The acting is terrible. The acting is so bad. I can’t even judge the writing. Maybe there’s some good writing in there. Bill Burr wonderfully talented, Not sure acting is his thing.

Old Dad’s really really unwatchable. A funny story from my life. I hope it’s funny. Anyway. I was driving on Sunday and all of a sudden it started monsooning, and I saw my neighbors.

They go out for a walk and I saw them. I’m like, do you guys want to ride home? Because it was really really coming down. They were like sure, and they got in my car and I had forgotten. I had been listening back to the Weekly comedy thing.

That’s the show I host on Live one to make sure that everything was okay, and I totally forgot that’s what I was doing. So the neighbors get in the car and I start the car back up, and the radio goes back to playing Mark Norman. So all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you hear so female orgasms. Huh. I was like, Luckily, my neighbor knows what I do for a living, so he probably didn’t think it was too weird, but it was awkward.

Jim Gaffigan tweeted, does anyone else feel the need to call their Jewish friends and say, Okay, you weren’t being paranoid? I also watched Saturday Night Live, strongest episode in at least a year and a half, really really good, the George Washington sketch that makes fun of the metric system and other things really good. I like the song about Lake Beach I thought was strong, and I thought more about mikey Day as Joe Biden. Mikey Day is not good as Joe Biden, and I was like, why would they do that? And it occurred to me, here’s why James Austin Johnson is Trump and a very good Trump.

If we have a Trump versus Biden election, James can’t play both roles, so somebody else has to play Biden. So I assume Louren Michaels is trying to figure that out in front of a potential Trump versus Biden election Mikey Day and not sure he’s the right choice there.

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Speaking of James Austin Johnson, he’s going to be voicing the Grinch in a po…

Johnson said, he’s an icon. I think the Grinch is bigger than all us actors. It’s a little intimidating, but it’s also familiar. It’s something that’s winning us all. Everyone has at a day where you’ve had a couple of iced coffees and you forget to eat breakfast, and you think about one negative thing and it just becomes your entire personality.

James, you feel me, I feel Seen. Entertainment Weekly asked James what’s the secret to the perfect Grinch voice? Johnson said, it’s a mix of a lot of things. With this podcast, you’re hearing the Grinch talk a lot more than you’ve heard him talk in the past, and that’s fun to me tried it up my alley to do characters and get to live in it for a nice length of time instead of just a couple of lines here and there. Time out Rick and Morty, I think Dan Hormon nailed it a few weeks ago.

What I shared with you that it’s one thing to do a line here and there, and it’s another thing to embody the character. And I’m really picking that up on the voice of Rick Sanchez on the new season of Rick and Morty. Although the individual words sound right, the flow isn’t there yet. Back to the Grinch, how is the Grinch as a talk show host? James said, I wouldn’t say Dick Cavitt, but I feel like the Grinch is a fan of the nineteen seventies eir of talk shows.

I think he probably thinks of himself as a Charlie Rose type, and in reality he’s a raving lunatic. He’s not quite as straight lace as that. When he actually starts talking, he goes off in these little rants about all the seasonal stuff that drives him mad. James explained his approach to a Joe Biden impression. He said, with Biden, it’s quiet, and then he whispers jobs family security.

I don’t do a Biden obviously. First it’s a slow rumble, sort of like a storm is gathering, and then that storm breaks and crashes and explodes, and he just starts yelling out of nowhere. There are two speeds. He can me real low and quiet and lull you in. Then he explodes with righteousness.

So going back and forth between those two poles is something that I find fun to do with the character. I found I could bring some of that dynamism into the Grinch too. He has a low, quiet range, and when he’s feeling kind of sassy and chatty, he gets a little bit higher. I definitely felt inspired by all the Grinches. I’m finding layers to the other Grinches and using them to vultron myself into what I consider the ultimate Grinch.

Vultures twenty five comedians You should know, Asha Word, What do you know now about comedy that you didn’t know when he started? She said, I love a one liner. I used to try so hard to make my jokes longer and try to tell stories, but that’s not me. I just want the meat and potatoes of it. I love to c jokes down to the least amount of words possible, so as quick and punchy as possible.

I went to college for comedies. I was constantly being told rules about how you should do it, like joke structure, how you should act on stage, how you should hold the mic, the volume should speak into. And I’ve noticed I tend to stray away from those rules. I do pretty much everything my professor has told me not to do. It’s been working out well.

Worst show ever the back of a super cold bar. Only one guy showed up as the audience. The host of the show didn’t cancel. He made us do the show for one man. He did a fifteen minute host set and the guy didn’t laugh once.

It was surreal. I did a protest set where I told one new joke and asked the guy if you liked it. Then I said to the other comedians, you know, we don’t have to do this right. We can just all get a drink and talk to each other like humans. Nobody was in a good mood.

It was terrible. The guy stayed the whole time, though. I don’t know why comedians are like that, but we’ll do a set and no matter how bad the vibes are, I’m no stranger to a bad show. It’s all good fun. The power went out in the first show I was ever booked on.

I did my set with no mic under the flashlight of an iPhone. What comedy hill will you die on? I hate Instagram stand up. I posted some and probably will again, but I hate it when I go on Instagram. I want to see what my acquaintances are eating for lunch.

I want to see photo dumps. I want to see family guy memes. I don’t want to see stand up and maybe that’s just me. We live in the age of content now, so we have to do something to sell tickets. But I love going on a comedian’s Instagram and seeing them be normal in that issue.

Comedy News for Today for the second time. Back to a normal schedule tomorrow with all the show for free on overcast, pocket casts, Spotify, and if you hate back catalog episodes, Apple Podcast isn’t going to share them with you anyway. See, you probably didn’t even know there was four episodes this weekend because Apple didn’t share them with you. Thanks for nothing, Apple, See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack and today we’re celebrating Monster mash Monday. What’s that so across the parent company here, the company that I founded at Caloroga Shark Media. On the various podcasts, we’re all celebrating Monster mash Monday. Today, I’m going to talk about Halloween comedy.

If you listen to Palace Intrigue, the show about the Royal family, it’s all about royal ghosts. There’s a new series Romance Weekly. They have a ghost love story for you. We’re of course doing ghost scary Stories daily, thirty one days thirty one Ghost Stories. That’s a series.

Check that out. And on the best song Ever this week. This week’s best song ever is the Monster Mash. So let’s dive in with one of my all time favorites, Sean of the Dead from two thousand and four. Simon Peg stars as Sean, a salesman in London who’s caught in the zombie apocalypse with his best friend Ed played by Nick Frost.

Sean of the Dead was developed from ideas from Peg and Wright used for their TV series Space, particularly episode where Simon Pegg’s slacker character hallucinates a zombie invasion. In Shawn of the Dead, twenty nine year old electronic salesman Sean has no direction in his life. He’s disrespected by his colleagues. He doesn’t get along with his stepfather. He’s dumped by his girlfriend.

He’s heartbroken. He gets drunk with Ed his weed to dealing slacker best friend at their favorite pub, the Winchester. At home, Shawn and Ed’s flatmate Pete, complains of a bite wound from a mugger. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London. If you’ve never seen Sean of the Dead, treat yourself another one of my favorites, What We Do in the Shadows.

As much as I like the TV series, I loved the movie. I was blown away by this film when I watched it from twenty fourteen. The plot of that movie revolves around vampires living together in a no not Staten Island, but Wellington, New Zealand. Familiar Beats if you’ve seen the TV show, The crew of a documentary follows the lives of four vampire housemates, all of them have supernatural abilities. Jermaine Clement from A Flight of the Concords plays of Vladislav the poker in eight hundred and sixty two year old vampire who’s a former tyrant with extraordinary powers.

Rhys Darby, who you recognize, appears as Anton, the leader of a local pack of were wolves, in one of the wonderful subplots in that movie. Treat yourself to the film Rocky Horror. Right, you’ve all seen Rocky Horror? Yes, maybe you have it from nineteen seventy five, a musical comedy horror film. The story centers on a young, engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near castle.

They want to use their phone for help. You know, pre cell phones, this movie wouldn’t happen now. Right there, they meet strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is doctor Frank N. Furder, an apparently mad scientist who’s actually an alien transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Transylvania.

If you watch the film at home, you’ll be like, why did John recommend this? This is so bad? You have to see it in the theater where the crowd, and the crowd participates. That’s the whole hook. Of Rocky Horror.

Some of you are like, yeah, we know, man. But for the people who don’t, this is audience participation. You have to go see with other people. The quintessential Rocky Horror props include rubber gloves, playing cards, newspaper, toast balloons, and toilet paper. Go see it in the theater, You’ll see what I mean.

Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, directed by Mel Brooks, co written by Brooks and Gen Wilder. Gene Wilder stars as doctor Frederick Frankenstein. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist. He doesn’t want to be associated with that doctor Frankenstein guy. He insists his name is pronounced Frankenstein.

Doctor Frankenstein finds out that he has inherited his family’s the state in Transylvania, the ghost To check it out. There, he meets a hunchbacked, bug eyed servant named Igor. He introduces himself as Frankenstein, and then Igor insists that his name is pronounced Igor. From nineteen eighty four ghost Busters, based on his own fascination with spirituality, Dan Ackroyd conceived Ghostbusters as the Projects, starring himself and John Belushi. In that version, they would venture through time and space, battling supernatural threats.

Following Belushi’s death in nineteen eighty two and Akroyd’s concept being deemed financially impractical, Harold Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. An all time classic, several sequels of varying quality. How about Beetlejuice. After Barbara and Adam die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residents. Unable to leave the house, a family named the deets Is moves in.

They want to get rid of them. They team up with Beatle Juice, played by Michael Keaton. Really fun movie. I saw the Broadway musical probably about a year ago. It has since closed.

I saw it right before closing. It was fantastic. There is a national touring version. I highly recommend you go see Beatle Juice the musical. You accounting how many times I’ve said the B word, We’re definitely going to get to three in this episode, so don’t worry about it.

I don’t know what’s going to happen when I say it? Let’s just say it again. There was a sequel in development called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. In that film, the Deets family would have moved to You, Hawaii to develop a resort. Construction begins, and it’s quickly discovered that the hotel would be sitting on top of an ancient burial ground.

Time to call Beetlejuice again. In twenty thirteen, Winona Ryder confirmed that talk about a sequel was swirling around. She told The Daily Beast, I’m kind of sworn as secrecy, but it sounds like it might be happening. It’s twenty seven years later, and I have to say, I love Lyddy eats so much. I’d be really interested in what she’s doing.

Twenty seven years later, they abandon that, but they are currently actually for reels working on Beetlejuice too. I don’t know much about the plot, but Michael Keaton is back, Catherine o’haron, Winona Ryder are back. Jenna Ortiga will be the primary female character in the movie. And who could forget the all time classic, possibly the greatest movie ever made. No, it’s not Citizen Kane.

It’s Adam Sandler’s twenty twenty Halloween classic, Hubie Halloween. You remember this one. Adam Sandler plays Hubee, who most of the town calls Phubee in some highbrow humor of the Adam Sandler quality. Complicating things Hube’s neighbor, played by Steve Buscemi, who may or may not be a werewolf. Sandler hooks up the usual suspects.

Rob Schneider is in this thing, Colin Quinn, Kevin James. For some reason, Shaquille O’Neal makes an appearance. One review I see says, Unfortunately hub Halloween is too long at over ninety minutes, and it suffers from the same pacing issues that plague most of Sandler’s movies. The humor is in time well, and a lot of scenes run on for too long. Same review says hub Halloween is inoffensive in its level of entertainment, although it will likely be forgotten by the time Adam Sandler produces Tommy Thanksgiving.

Don’t give him any ideas on the TV side.

Let’s talk about community.

Who had a wonderful one of my It’s not one of mine. It is my favorite thing in all of community the beetlejuice joke. If you’re not hip to this, let me walk you through this. Season one’s episode Communication Studies, Slater and Jeff are in the parking lot, and rather than use Brita’s real name, Slater pretended to forget it and tried jogging her memory with other b word. It’s like bitter butter beetlejuice.

Okay, that’s one. Nine months later, season two episode called Cooperative Calligraphy, they’re trying to find Annie’s lost purple pen you know that one. To prove their innocence, everybody strips off their clothes. They go down to their underwear. During the search, Britta sees Jeff’s underwear and says that he normally wears stripeye turquoise beetlejuice numbers.

That’s two, and then the payoff season three, Horror Fiction. In seven Spooky Steps, the study group realizes that one member is a secret psychopath after taking a test administered by Britta. They then take turns telling spooky stories to test each other’s reactions. Before the pre Halloween party is ruined. Annie uses Britta’s computer to check her playlist.

She mentions that Britta only has the Beetlejuice soundtrack, and immediately following that line of dialogue, if you look in the back of the scene, someone in a Beetlejuice costume walks directly behind Annie. I caught it at at the time, and I realized what they had done, and I thought it was a maze. And when you see it’s it’s so subtle. They don’t draw any attention to it. If I hadn’t told you this, you might not notice.

But they say Beatle Juice for the third time, and a Beetlejuice walks in the back of the set. It is fantastic. There’s also a possibly darker Halloween thing to community screen. Rant writes Britta’s personal and family history remains a mystery until season three episode twenty two, introduction to Finality. In it, Brita tries to use her newfound therapy skills on Abed, who’s having a hard time dealing with Troy going to work for the air conditioning guys, but quickly evil Abed turns the conversation to Brita’s own traumas.

The episode cuts to a commercial, so we don’t actually hear the conversation, but when we come back from commercial, Britta is talking about a man in her past who is dressed as a dinosaur. The look on her face and the tremble in her voice suggests it’s the fourthest thing from a happy memory. Okay, stay with me. In season two, episode six, Epidemiology, everyone is dressed up for Halloween. Britta is dressed as a dinosaur.

The analysis here is that Britta exhibits other behaviors throughout the show that suggests that she’s not one hundred percent mentally healthy. Screen rent right, so a lot can be implied here, but either way, Britta was traumatized by the man of the dinosaur costume. Way to make this episode fun, Johnny mack, Hey, I try and keep it varied. There were several community Halloween episodes. Season one, episode seven’s introduction to Statistics Surely goes as Harry Potter.

Britta is a squirrel. Troy as Eddie Murphy. Annie is a skeleton. Annie is hosting a Day of the Dead party. Jeff tries to find a way into a nearby faculty party so he can hook up with Professor Slater.

Season two, episode six, Epidemiology, Jeff dresses as David Beckham. Surely is dressed as a princess. This is the one where Dean Pelton buys food from an army surplus store for the event, but the supposed taco meat is actually a hazardous substance. Partygoers fall ill, exhibiting zombie like behavior, which results in the Army locking down the campus. Very fun episode, all right.

Some other TV shows you may recall The Munsters Fred Gwynn Frankenstein’s Monster Hermann Munster of Onta Carlo as his wife Lily, Grandpa al Lewis as Grandpa Pat Priest as their niece Marilyn, and Butch Patrick as their werewolf son Eddie. They had a family pet, Spot, who was a dragon capable of breathing fire. The Munsters was the satire of the American suburban lifestyle and the typically family entertainment of the era. The Monsters aired on CBS Thursdays at seven thirty pm from September twenty fourth, nineteen sixty four to May twelfth, nineteen sixty six. Seventy episodes canceled due to low ratings brought on by competition from ABC’s Batman.

Also from nineteen sixty four, The Adams Family and I could have included that in the movies, but I like the show a better the movie. The Adams Family an incredibly close family who share a passion for the macabre and possessed supernatural abilities with no given explanation in the show, Gomez and Mortisha are your parents, a wealthy couple with an endless enthusiasm for life. Their children Wednesday and Pugsley you may know Wednesday from current Netflix series. They also live with Uncle Fester and Grandmama. They all live at zero zero zero one Cemetery Lane.

The theme song mentions that their house is a museum and the interior of the house is filled with odd and unique items, many of which are collector’s items. The family has a butler named Lurch and an appendage known as Thing that appears from different objects, such as wooden boxes. Recurring family members include cousin it Ophelia, who’s Mortitia’s elder sister, and Grandma Frump, Mortsh’s mother. And a quick look at various Halloween sketches over the years from Saturday Night Live, including David s Pumpkins a spooky elevator ride. Now, before I get to that, As I was putting the show together, I had typed David S.

Pumpkins into the dock and then went and did some other stuff. And I came back and I was scrolling through the dock, and in a different story, having nothing to do with today’s episode, I saw Paul F. Tompkins, and I went Paul F. Tompkins David S. Pumpkins.

I wonder if they did that on purpose. I never had noticed that before. Is everybody out there now, are you guys? Like? Yeah?

No kidding John? Or did I just put that together? Paul F. Tompkins David S. Pumpkins Anyway.

Tom Hanks plays David S. Pumpkins. He is accompanied by two swaying skeletons played by mikey Day and Bobby moynihan. He’s clothed in pumpkins. He’s a man of few words, yet he’s extremely spirited.

How about Bill Hayter breaking out his Vincent Price impression in celebrating Halloween with Vincent Price. Along with Vincent Price a crow perched on his shoulder. He’s hanging out with his famous friends Glorious Swanson played by Kristin Wigg, James Mason by John Hamm and LIBERACEI by Fred Ormisen, but none of them have anything to contribute to the event or take any notice of Vincent’s festive activities. In season one, Richard Pryor starred in The Exorcist I two. In this version of Exorcist two, Lorraine Newman played a devilish little girl who was riding about in her bed and slabbering as she hurled personal insults at the priests and their mother’s Richard Pryor noted for his facial expressions that demonstrate his horror and confusion.

And back in nineteen seventy seven, Dan Ackroyd broke out the super bats Omadic and Ideal Blunder for all your potion requirements. This was a sequel scout a variation of the classic bass Omatic sketch from the first season, where Akroyd played the part of a salesman promoting the amazing Superbasomatic seventy six blender that allowed people to make the most of fish. You know, you throw them in a blender superbatt Omatic seventy seven and that is monster Mash Monday. Hope you enjoyed it. Go check out Palace Intrigue for some ghost stories about the Royals.

Check out Ghosts for some ghost stories about ghosts. Go check out the best song ever this week, learn all about the Monster Mash, and check out Romance Weekly. You’ll get a little ghost love story there. All right back to ormand tomorrow. Happy Halloween, say yep.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Matthew Perry passed away on Saturday at age fifty four. Let me do some housekeeping on the feed. This is the second episode dropping on Sunday, October twenty ninth.

There was the normal three five am Eastern episode that discussed Dave Chappelle’s recent concert. Last night, I did an oh bit episode at around eleven pm Eastern, and I also shared an episode of the TV in the Basement podcast that covered Friends through a lens of Matthew Perry’s performance there. Tomorrow morning on this feed will be Monster Mash Monday, a special episode about Halloween stuff, and I may drop in a second episode tomorrow. So that’s the house cleaning. This is kind of sort of a bonus.

I want to talk about Matthew Perry, and I also want to talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live. Matthew Perry, from his own book, wrote, I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I’m still working through it personally. But the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic ordrug comes up to me and says will you help me? I always say yes.

I know how to do that. I would do that for you, even if I can’t always do it for myself. So I do that whenever I can, in groups or one on one, and it created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about friends, friends, friends, and I’m glad of that. Happy. I’ve done some solid work as an actor, as well as giving people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the World Wide Web. But when I die, as far as my so called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people. I know it won’t happen, but it would be nice.

In an interview last year, Matthew Perry said he could not watch Friends because it reminded him of his troubles. Perry said, I haven’t watched the show because I could go drinking opiate’s, drinking cocaine. I could tell season by season by how I looked. That’s why I don’t want to watch it, because that’s what I see. Matthew Perry’s last post on Instagram, made last Monday, was a photograph of him sitting in an outdoor jacouzie at night, with the caption oh so warm, water swirling around you makes you feel so good.

I’m mat Man. Warner Brothers, which produced Friends, shared a statement to The Hollyood Reporter which said, we are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry. Matthew was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Brothers TV group family. The impact of his comedic genius was felt around the world, and his legacy will live on in the hearts of so many. This is a heartbreaking day and we send our love to his family, his loved ones, and all of his devoted fans.

In a statement, NBC wrote, we are incredibly saddened by the too soon passing of Matthew Perry. He brought so much joy to hundreds of millions of people around the world with his pitch perfect comedic timing, and Rye writ his legacy will live on through countless generations. Some celebrity reactions I’ll just pick away from some comedic actors event. Nicole Brown, who co starred in the Odd Couple reboot, wrote, our Odd Couple family suffered a great loss today the entire entertainment world has. I am too sad about the news to say more than this.

Matthew Perry was a sweetheart who deserved more peace in this life. Fifty four is to young Ago, We love you, Maddy. Lisa Ann Walter was also on that version of The Odd Couple and wrote, in the Whole nine Yards, Matthew Perry runs full force into a patio door. That and the scene that followed is one of the top comedic moments I’ve witnessed. I told him so, I want to recurred on The Odd Couple.

He smiled so big that I thought he’d crack his face. It was beautiful. Paget Brewster played Kathy on season four Friends and wrote, I’m so very sad to hear about Matthew Perry. He was love leading me on Friends, and every time he saw him in the decades after. Please read his book.

It was his legacy to help. He won’t rest in peace, though he’s ready too busy making everybody laugh up there in the Hollywood Reporter Daniel Feinberg wrote the show that best understood Matthew Perry’s sensibility, and more than that, the essence of what he projected best on screen. May not have been one of his signature’s successes and may not be one of the first half dozen shows that heartbreaking fans look back on as we reflect on Perry. Go On ran for twenty two episodes on NBC between twenty twelve and twenty thirteen, was canceled after the lone season. Go On was, especially for broadcast television, a brave show, and it was definitely a brave performance for him, actor who, after the phenomenon that was Friends, clearly enjoyed testing how far he could take the build an audience whose affection he brought to each new role.

In go On, Perry played a sports talk radio host grieving the death of his wife. Eager to avoid his feelings, the character returns to work too soon, and after a meltdown, begins to find his way to a new normal with the help of his support group. With go On, Perry brought all the sublimated pain and sadness and insecurity that functioned as undercurrents in his previous roles and inverted the archetype, Feinberg writes, in many of his earlier performances, Perry gravitated towards characters who used humor as a defense mechanism, and for the most part, those characters succeeded. Sometimes they succeeded so rousingly that most viewers didn’t even recognize the sarcasm and smark were masking anything at all. Viewers could happily pretend Chandler, being on Friends, was a happy guy, except for the moments he wasn’t Chandler.

He had issues with his parents that would have required a season’s arc on in Treatments Unpacked. He had a job that nobody remembered and that gave him no satisfaction, which clearly paid too well for him to leave. He torpedoed relationships in favor of friendship in a way that was noble but not healthy. He kept going back to Janice, and that couldn’t have spoke well for his sense of self worth. When Chandler found Monica, though she recognized all his flaws and loved them, much to her surprise and much to our relief.

Perry made us believe and embrace all that was flawed about Chandler and made us laugh along with those flaws. In retrospect, it’s because of Perry that we now realized that Chandler was always just a work in progress, and that Ross was the pathologically damaged one. That’s a different column, though. Saturday Night Live featured a special tribute card for Matthew Perry, who hosted the show on October fourth, nineteen ninety seven, with musical guest Oasis. That night, in his monolog he encouraged New York City residents to help recreate the iconic Friends opening Fountain dance.

Some of the sketches that night Sarcasm one oh one, in which Perry schooled a group of students, including Will Ferrell, Cheri, O Terry, and Nor MacDonald on his signature comedic tone. The episode also featured a Friend’s parody in which Matthew Perry played the character of Joey and objected when cast member Colin Quinn played Chandler two effeminately. Take the break here, and then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live with Nate Berghatzy the Buzz on last night’s Saturday Night Live, Very Good EWD to recap, and they had for their recap former cast member Gary Krueger. Remember Gary, Yeah, Gary had some thoughts on a stand up hosting SNL, and Gary said, a stand up is the host that the writers feel most free with. There’s a feeling that there’s no reason to limit what they can do because it’s going to be funny regardless.

Stand ups now how to deliver the joke and so the comedic threat of a sketch is never lost on them. When I was on the show, the best examples were George Carlin and Eddie Murphy. Yeah well, yeah, yes, yes, both transcended easy definitions, but they knew where the joke was no matter what they were doing, and if a sketch was going south, they had the instincts to save it. Don Rickles was another example. Rickles, in one sketch just decided to go off script and the result was hysterical, even for those of us standing in front of the camera.

I proudly recall I did not break character. In the cold open. President Biden, played by mikey Day is hanging Halloween decorations around the Oval office. Biden jokes nothing puts people at ease like an eighty year old man hanging Halloween decorations on a ladder. Snl did some basic Biden is old jokes, including when I was a kid, ladders were cutting edge techno.

This was like an iPad, and then joked, a lot of my closest friends are ghosts. Christopher Walking drop By as the spirit of Halloween, the ghost of all Hallows Past. Onto the monologue, Nate Pergatsey said, I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here. Nate joked that he’s from the nineteen hundreds. I’m forty four.

My daughter’s eleven. When she’s my age, it’ll be twenty fifty seven. I don’t even believe that’s a real year. My movies didn’t go that high in fake years. How am I going to talk to somebody from twenty to fifty seven?

I have more in common with a pilgrim. Nate reveal during the week he got advice from Jerry Seinfeld. Jery’s advice, he talked about the monologue. The monologue, that’s why you’re there, that’s your job. Nate said, I just kind of follow whatever that dude says.

There’s just so much he’s talked about comedy that I do. I don’t wear short sleeves on shirts because he said not to. Nate clarified he didn’t really say not to, but Seinfeld jokes about not wearing short sleeves in the documentary Comedian, and Nate decided, all right, I won’t do it. Gary Kroeger’s analysis. I love Nate Pergatsey the first time I saw him a few years ago.

He is the non comic comic meeting. He’s just telling stories that at least seem real, and how he relates his authentic person owners to the situation as the source of the humor. He’s an every man who is not every man. How he admits his shortcomings is so relatable that you laugh at him even if his jokes aren’t told in a classic set of punchline format. He’s the upper echelon of working stand ups, even though his approach is very different.

It isn’t wildly observational. We’re acutely satirical. He is instead the funniest guy at the barbecue with a hysterical story about what just happened to him. On Weekend Update, Colin Joe said, after weeks of struggling to elect a new Speaker of the House, Republicans gave up and just generated one with Ai. There’s no way Mike Johnson is a real person.

He’s supposed to be a conservative Republican, yet he looks like every MSNBC host combined. I feel like the way Mike Johnson got elected is that after weeks of voting, Republicans got bored and all wrote in the same fake name, and they were like, wait, that’s a real guy. Michael Jay commented on the rocks wax figure Boy Johnny Max gotten three shows out of this topic. Jay said the museum has attempted to darken the statue, but unfortunately it melted in the tanning bed. Christopher walk In introduced the Foo Fighters back in two thousand and three.

I don’t want to go in a half assed walk In here, but he introduced them as Foo Fighters, but he got it right. Last night, Timothy Shallimy was announced as the next host. He will host the November eleventh episode. Musical Guest Boy Genius SNL is off next week. I wonder if Phil replay the Matthew Perry episode.

Jimmy Fallon revealed that he might go back to doing stand up comedy. He did an impromptu set at the Comedy Seller the other night on Friday Nights Tonight’s show. Fallon shared that on Thursday he was hanging out with Mike Birbigley and Chris Rock and they wound up at the Comedy Seller. Fallon share that by Bigley was trying to get Fallon star at comedy again. Fallon said, because I did start my career in stand up.

They decided to swing by the Comedy Seller and watch some comedians. After watching a set from Tina fer Me. If they started to leave, then Chris Rock showed up. Fallon said that Rock had also encouraged him in the past to go on stage of the Comedy Seller. Rock was there to make an unannounced appearance himself and told Fallon, I knew you’d come back.

You have to come back to stand up. Fallon said, I feel like the comedy gods are just telling me, you know, yeah, you should do stand up again. So Chris rockets up, surprises the audience and just he’s unbelievable. And so I went up to give him a bottle of water as a goof and everybody started clapping, and he took the microphone and he handed it to me. I was like, wow, So I did stand up for the first time last night in ten years.

It was unbelievable. I totally remembered it. It was super fun. It was great. I was like, I don’t even know what I was talking about.

He just made me feel so comfortable up there. Fallan talked about how it’s fun to be on stage when a joke lands. I do remember that the room gets hot when you tell a good joke, and then it comes down to a room temperature. I loved it anyway. I got the bug, and I wanted to thank Chris, Thanks Bike, Thank you comedy seller.

I’ll work on an act. I’m gonna work on an act, and I’ll be out there because I want to go around the country. I want to say hide everybody, all the fans, because I love meeting people. It’s gonna be fun. I’ll do it.

So it’s Halloween. Give me a couple months. I’ll work on something. A source said the crowd was in stitches. The New York Post tells us Jimmy Fallon was up to his partying ways last week at a Rolling Stones party.

They have their new album, Hackney Diamonds. By the way, if you like the Rolling Stones, the Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds is a solid Rolling Stones album. The Stones were like, we know what you want, here you go. I like it a lot. Fallon apparently broke out his mix Jagger impression.

A spy tells The New York Post Jimmy stood in front of Mick as he was sitting down and did his impression. It was hilarious. Earlier in the night, The Rolling Stones had played a secret show Fancy people there Daniel Craig, Chris rock, Mary, Kate Olsen, Christy Brinkley, Elvis Costello, Trevor Noah and rocker Tommy London. And that’s your comedy news for this morning. Again, there was the normal episode that came out of three five where I talked about Dave Chappelle and the news of the day.

And tomorrow morning at three oh five you’ll get the Monster Mash episode and I’ll see what the news cycle has if I need to do a second episode tomorrow, otherwise we’ll get back on normal schedule Tuesday morning. You can follow this show for free wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, Spotify overcast podcasts see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Choennie Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News. The Charlotte Observer says, Dave Chappelle surprises Charlotte crowd by saying he almost canceled himself. It had nothing to do with Israel or Palestine or the controversial comments he made about the Middle Eastern conflict a week ago in Boston. On Thursday night in Charlotte, Dave said, I almost canceled the show tonight.

Apparently that resulted in audible gasps and murmurs. The explanation was pretty straightforward. Dave said the brother of his wife, Elaine, had died suddenly. Dave said, we were hanging out one night and the next day just dropped dead. She was the one that told me not to cancel my tour.

A man in the audience shouted out, we love your wife. Dave chuckled and said guy in the audience screaming out, we love your wife, before adding an word, you don’t know her. Apparently that instantly lightened of the mood. Dave made some jokes about Asians having slanted eyes. The Charlotte Observer reminds us Dave’s wife is Filipino, jokes about Indians smelling like food, jokes about homeless people, jokes about the ocean gates submersible, jokes about strippers and strip clubs in general, jokes about Jamie Fox using his genitals as a weapon, and quote joke after joke after joke about members of the LGBTQ community, which he’s been at odds with for years.

Unquote, Dave said, I’m done talking about them transgender. I got a whole new angle tonight. I’m doing all handicapped jokes. He then mimicked a made up response to that by a made up person in a wheelchair who would have said, I came here to laugh at transgender people. That led to a roasting of Madison Cawthorne.

That’s the former US representative who was partially paralyzed. Apparently that got some laughs Charlotte observer rights. But for those keeping score from their seats, there were a heck of a lot more jokes about transgender people than they were about disabled persons on Thursday Night, and a whole lot more about gay people and about pronouns. Dave even got a joke about in North Carolina’s bathroom bill, tying it to a reference to a visit he made to quote some bar in Charlotte that was quote doing a whole transgender party. He claimed the lady question Mark at the door wouldn’t let him come in because of the perception that he is anti trans.

Dave said, I was like, can I use the bathroom?

And then smiled and winked at the crowd.

The observer continues and said, I will say the strongest part of his set was this analysis of the Chris Rock and Will Smith slap situation. While a long wind up for joke involving a Russian mobster had a surprisingly lame pyoff, A lot of this show will likely end up on Netflix, as suggested by the fact that the show opened with the Netflix logo displayed on video screens while this streamer’s iconic to dumb sound was piped in over the pa opener. Rick Ingram joked about the Yonder pouches and said, I already knew who the gen Zers were by the panic on their faces. They don’t have their phone right now. They’ve never had to live in the moment, and I see gen xers looking around like this is great.

Nobody can contact me right now? I know that feeling like one of my favorite feelings of the world is flying coast to coast airplane mode on. You can’t reach me for six hours. That’s amazing. Apparently Donnel Rawlings messed up.

He opened with what’s up? Roley. The show was in Charlotte, and he did this over and over. He even called them rally again as he was exiting. But the Charlotte Observer points out his routine was very good, his awareness of his surroundings not so much.

Dave did address Israel Hamas once again and said, as an American, I think we should all make our countrymen who are Jewish feel safe. We should make him feel safe so they don’t feel like they have to support the destruction of another people to be safe, he added, getting married is one of the hardest things people do, and to me, Israel and Palestine are married to one another, whether they like it or not. They’re gonna have to figure that stuff out. My mic just crashed? Is there like a ghost of Dave Chappelle?

Luckily I caught it before I sat here not recording for another fifteen minutes. But the files okay, you hear me right? Yes? Hi? I was about to say it’s a very good review from Charlotte.

They’re a good recap. I keep wondering why Dave Chappelle wants to be the transgender comedian, Like it’s going to make your obituary at this point, Dave, it’s going to be like Dave Chappelle comedian. Chappelle’s show Transgender euro Bit’s going to be Dave Chappelle Half Baked. Chappelle’s show jokes out transgender people, And I’m not sure why you want that to be your legacy. Dave matt Rife was on Tom Sigora’s podcast, actually Tom Sigorn, Berd Chrischer’s podcast right usually not on together, so hence my confusion.

But two beers one Cave. Matt Rife comes across like really thoughtful, really likable, and he’s aware of what your perception might be, like an old man on the basement would be like, oh TikTok comedian, And I really came away loving just what he had to say. One point, he tells Sigora, they started talking about how hot matt Rife is right now, not only on the eyes but his comedy, and Matt said, you can’t say at the top forever is another thing we were all talking about off air. Raffie May always said that to me all the time. He used to say, and he used to reference Dean Cook.

He used to say, you can’t live on the mountaintop forever. Eventually you have to go down. That’s why you have to be nice to everybody you meet on the way up. That’s why you have to be grateful for all the experiences you have on the way up and try to enjoy it, because, yeah, that moment’s only for a window. It’s a window forever.

I’ve been so lucky to get so much good advice, Like I was with Dave Chappelle at his summer camp. We turned them out my tour and he said, remember pigs get slaughtered. He said, you don’t have to do everything all right now, he says, if this is going to be your longevity, you have to take care of yourself and do it when you need it. If you can do twenty theater shows, you can do twenty six months from now. You can do ten now, ten six months from now.

But none of us want to hear that. I was the same way. Everybody do the same thing. Here’s how bad it was. I was saying, that to other people.

I was like, man, you pigs will get slaughtered, and then I’d sign up for the opposite. The offers come to you, they’re like, how about Thursday, Friday, Saturday, like Nashville, Charlotte Rawley. And you’re like, yeah, that sounds like a good week, and they go, you know, Wednesday. Greensboro’s got a small arena right down the streets right there. You want to do Wednesday?

And you go yeah. Netflix is offering free screenings on selected area screens for the new Adam Sandler masterpiece Leo. Screenings will be held the weekend of November eleventh through twelfth at select Cinemak Tinseltown theaters. Check out leosneakpeak dot com. In Leo, Adam Sandler plays a seven four year old lizard who’s a class pat and has been around for decades, witnessing more running noses than he can remember.

He learns he has a year left to live, and he plots to escape. Tomorrow is Monster Mash Monday. All the podcasts here at Caloroga Shark Media. That’s my big fancy company. We’re doing a little crossover events, so tomorrow will be all Halloween themed stuff, but John Tomorrow’s only the thirtieth.

Yeah, I get it. You gotta let this stuff breathe a little. You can’t just put it out Halloween morning. Then it comes and goes this week on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app.

The app is free, The show is free. The app is called Live one. The show is called The Weekly Comedy Thing on that I do some new stories a lot of overlap with this one, but I tell them a lot more quickly and succinctly, so you get less me and more comedy because over there I can actually play the comedians. So this week on the show, Ron White Hasan Minhaj. You probably know what I’m talking about there, Pete Holmes being thankful to Bill Burr.

Some Halloween comedy from Robbie Slowick and John Pine.

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The Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. The show officially comes out on Monday, but I’ll tell you guys. I publish it at like seven am on Sunday because I’m always up, and then I hop in the car and I do my National Donuts Shane, you know what I do, and I listen to the show to see if there are any mistakes. But it officially comes out on Monday, but if you listen on a Sunday, it’s usually there. Pitchfork talked to John Mulini about what music if he was listening to at what age.

At age thirty five, m’lanie was listening to Weather Reports Birdland. Interesting. M’laney said, I did the Comeback Kid tour and filmed a special that came out in twenty fifteen. We immediately went into the off Broadway run of Oh Hello, took that on tour from September to January the next year that went from Hillary’s Gonna Win to the inauguration. As the house lights would go down on Oh Hello, Birdland by weather Report would play, Nick Carl and I would be waiting backstage.

We would listen to Birdland and make up lyrics to it and character about George and Gill, thinking of every illegal possibility to get into Shayse stadium to meet the Mets. Some of the lyrics. You can meet the Mets if you want. You just have to get a custodian uniform or I have a fake police badge to meet the Mets. That wanting to meet all the Mets was once their dream.

Some comedians we’re talking about doing comedy in Russia these days. Von gar Kushko said on the whole you can joke about any topic. The important thing is how so it’s not to hurt anyone’s feelings or create conflicts in the room because there are very polar opinions and it’s not worth touching on painful subjects. You need to self edit, not wait for editing and censorship from someone higher up. You have to feel where this line is for yourself and understand what’s allowed and what’s not.

Boris Zeliger says a politically risky joke usually doesn’t even get a laugh, but causes a reaction like whoa you? Daredevil? Olioveitchkin said, for example, you’ll be performing and there’s some guy in the audience who just returned from the war and lost his marbles, and he interferes with the performance and shouts out. You often get that from those people and you get into some kind of discussion with him, you try to make a joke from the stage and have a laughs that calms down, and this can trigger him and cause problems for you. You could get punched in the face without telling a single political joke.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If all the show on podcasts or overcast or Spotify, or if you hate back catalogs, Apple podcasts, they made a tweak and it’s got Johnny Mac a little frosted. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Media law enforcement sources reported on Saturday that Matthew Perry has passed away after being discovered in a hot tub at his residence in Los Angeles. Further report, at around four pm, officials were called to Matthew Perry’s residence where he was found to be lifeless. Those who were present on the scene requested to remain anonymous due to the ongoing inquiry and did not provide a definite cause of death. There was no indication of wrongdoing.

Perry was born in nineteen sixty nine. His parents divorced when he was a year old. He lived between Montreal and Los Angeles. Beginning his career as a child actor, he had guest appearances on shows such as Charles in Charge in Beverly Hills nine O two one zero, and co starred with River Phoenix in the movie A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. He ultimately got his big career opportunity when he’s given a role in a show called Friends Like Us, a sitcom about six unmarried adults living in New York City.

The show made its debut on NBC in ninety ninety four and was eventually renamed Friends, The good looking chandler Bing had a unique way of speaking with a witty spin that made him stand out among the rest of the cast. His turning of phrases was so popular that could he be any more chandler? Matthew Perry did have his struggles. In his twenty twenty two autobiography Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recounted a struggles with substance abuse and addiction to alcohol and opioids. These issues resulted in multiple trips to rehabit a five month long stay in the hospital in twenty eighteen due to a colon rupture that initially gave him just a two percent chance of survival.

During the Friends Reunion special in twenty twenty one, Perry opened up about the pressure he experienced to land the joke in front of a live audience every night, and he believes that contributed to his addictions. After Friends, Perry starred in Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip, a very underrated show I should cover some time. He also starred in the reboot of The Odd Couple. Matthew Perry spoke to the Los Angeles Times in April and said he wanted his legacy to be more than just his work. When asked about how he wanted to be remembered, he responded by saying that I live life to the fullest, demonstrated love, lived well, and aided others.

I want people to feel that running into me was a good thing and not something bad. Variety wrote, Friends would have been Friends without Matthew Perry acting admits a murderer’s row of comedy performers. Perry was the cast tactician, figuring out precisely where the final beat of each scene fell. Paired with Mountain Blanc’s Joey’s roommates. In the show’s early going, Perry found new angles on the platonic bro friendship, making it clear that this was, for the time being, the most important relationship in both guys’ lives.

Friends will always be alternately funny and heartwarming to the many millions on its wavelength. The struggles that Perry went through in order to perform a character whose jockeying whit overlay’s clear sadness seems now all the more apparent. Matthew Perry was fifty four

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Matthew Perry passed away on Saturday at age fifty four. The next episode in this feed, we’ll cover the Matthew Perry story. What I want to do here is share with you our sister show. It’s called TV in the Basement, and they have an episode about Friends, specifically focusing on Matthew Perry. Here’s Journey Joe Mitchell and TV in the Basement.

Today we’re going down memory lane with one of the greatest TV shows ever. Friends. We’re spotlighting Matthew Perry, and later I’ll give you the rundown of some of the best episodes, complete with recaps you’ll love. So grab your Coffee Central Perk style and let’s get into it. Friends first premiered in nineteen ninety four and quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

The show followed the lives of six friends Rachel Green played by Jennifer Aniston, Monica Geller played by Courtney Cox, Phoebe Buffet played by Lisa Kudrou, Joey Tribiani played by Matt LeBlanc Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry, Ross Geller played by David Swimmer. The legendary Matthew Perry was born in nineteen sixty nine in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Perry moved to Los Angeles at a young age. Before Friends, he had several TV appearances, but nothing that stuck long term. Then came Friends in Chandler Bing, a sarcastic, witty, somewhat awkward, but endearing character that Matthew Perry breathed life into.

And here’s something you might not know. Perry was so in sync with Chandler that he often suggested lines and scenarios for the character. He contributed to shaping Chandler into the iconic figure we know in Love today. It’s safe to say Chandler Bing wouldn’t have been the same without Matthew Perry’s unique touch. It is impossible to imagine the series without the performance of Matthew Perry.

As the years went by, American culture would not have been the same without him. The actor known for providing the beloved show with a necessary dose of sarcasm, had made a point to spread awareness of his sobriety in recent years, and even opened a sober living house to help others with addiction. His death at fifty four came as a surprise, since it seemed like Perry had so much more to do in life. In his twenty twenty two autobiography, Friend’s Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing, Perry recounted his struggles with substance abuse and addiction to alcohol and opioids. These issues resulted in multiple trips to rehab and a five month long stay in the hospital in twenty eighteen due to a colon rupture that initially gave him a two percent chance of survival.

During the Friends Reunion special in twenty twenty one, Perry opened up about the pressure he experienced to land the joke in front of a live audience every night, which he believes contributed to his addictions. In April, Perry spoke with The Los Angeles Times regarding Big Terrible Thing. At the Festival of Books. He stated, I was determined to become famous. I was twenty five, still in the beginning of Friends, and I started to realize that the American dream was not enough to make me content.

I wanted more attention and fame, but it did not give me what I expected. The on screen romance between Ross and Rachel was the driving force of this classic show, but it was Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry, who provided the comedic relief. He expertly maneuvered his scenes, especially when paired with Matt LeBlanc’s character Joey. Perry’s comedic chops were most evident in the nineteen ninety nine episode The One where Everybody Finds Out, which is cited to be one of the best sitcom episodes of that era. His dedication to the complex scheme of trying to prove he wasn’t in love with Monica Courtney Cox made it a memorable one.

Chandler, as he was expected to, becomes overwhelmed. He goes to great lengths to deliver the joke, and the chemistry between Perry and Cox was a comedic blessing. However, he ultimately fails to deceive. There was one thing Perry as Chandler was incapable of doing, and that is deceitfulness. His piercing wit, implemented by a talented actor, is simply an amusing observation of his companions.

If it were too severe, it would have destroyed the show, and if it was too light, it would have not been effective. No matter the quality of the script or the personal challenges he faced, Perry continuously delivered as an actor. The show’s many fans moved by its blend of comedy and emotion, will now have an even greater appreciation for the effort Perry put into playing a character who hides a deep sadness behind his humorous banter throughout his lengthy career, which included movies such as Fools, Rush In and The Whole Nine Yards, as well as TV shows such as Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip and the twenty fifteen reboot of The Odd Couple. Nothing made quite the same impact as Friends. Friends was created by David Crane and Marta Kaufman, who were looking to develop a show that would encapsulate the essence of life in your twenties, a time characterized by friendships and the search for identity and success.

The series was produced by Kevin sp Bright, Marta Kaufman, and David Crane under their production company Bright Slash, Kaufman Slash Crane Productions, in association with Warner Brothers Television. After Crane and Kaufman pitched the concept, the show was picked up and first premiered on NBC on September twenty second, nineteen ninety four. Initially The show was supposed to focus more on the four characters of Ross, Rachel, Monica, and Joey, but as the writers spent more time fleshing out the characters, they realized the ensemble nature of the cast was where the magic really happened. Thus, Chandler and Phoebe were given more significant roles, making it a true ensemble cast. Casting for the show was a meticulous process, aiming for actors who could not only perform, but also had great chemistry with each other.

Jennifer Aniston almost didn’t make it due to prior commitments to another TV show, which thankfully got canceled. Courtney Cox was originally approached to play Rachel, but felt a deeper connection with the character of Monica. Matthew Perry was almost unable to participate due to another pilot he was part of, but fate intervened and the role of Chandler became his defining career moment. David Schwimmer was the first person cast, and his role was actually written with him in mind. The show initially received mixed reviews, but quickly gained traction through word of mouth and the undeniable chemistry between its cast.

By its second season, it had climbed into the top five of the Nielsen ratings. Over its ten year run, Friends garnered numerous awards, including Emmys, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. The series finale, which aired on May sixth, two thousand and four, was watched by around fifty two point five million American viewers, making it the fifth most watched series finale in television history. Friends has since become a cultural phenomenon, living on through reruns, streaming platforms, and a plethora of merchandise. The central Perk set has been recreated for fans to visit, and quotes from the show have permeated everyday language.

We were on a break. The show not only set the bar for future sitcoms, but also influenced popular culture in significant ways. The characters became household names and the actors achieved international stardom. Hairstyles like the Rachel became a nineties sensation, and catchphrases from the show are still quoted today. Beyond that, the show broke ground by discussing previously taboo topics on primetime TV, Although it has also received criticism for a lack of diversity and some dated humor.

Even almost two decades after the series finale, the show’s influence hasn’t waned. In twenty twenty, HBO Max acquired the rights for streaming Friends, reportedly paying around four hundred twenty five million dollars for a five year deal. The streaming service also released a reunion special in twenty twenty one, which was met with widespread acclaim in nostalgia, proving that the love for Friends endoers. Here are some episodes of Friends that are not just iconic, but define what made the series so great. The one where everybody finds out.

Oh boy, This one’s a roller coaster. It starts with Phoebe discovering Monica and Chandler’s relationship through a window. The tension and the comedic timing are top notch. It’s the episode where secrecy takes center stage and the laughs are unstoppable. The last one, the tear jerker that brought a decade long show to a close.

Saying goodbye is never easy, and this episode reminds us of that. From Ross chasing after Rachel to the group leaving their keys on the counter, It’s a heartfelt farewell. The one where no one’s ready talk about stress, Ross needs everyone to get ready for an event, but it turns into a hilarious series of distractions. Chandler and Joey’s fight over a chair classic, the one with all the poker, The Gang teaching Rachel poker, and the underlying competitiveness between Ross and Rachel make this episode unforgettable. It’s also where the gang dynamics really start to shine through.

Friends isn’t just a show, It’s an emotion, a part of our collective history. And let’s give another round of applause for Matthew Perry. Chandler Bing will forever be one of the most iconic characters in television history, and that’s in large part thanks to him. Until next time, I’m Journey Joe Mitchell

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with another busy Daily Comedy News. John mullane and Pete Davidson have postponed two shows in Maine following Wednesday’s mass shooting. In a statement, mullaney said, we are devastated by the events in Lewiston. Show scheduled for this weekend on Saturday and Sunday have been postponed.

We are thinking of you all. He signed the message from himself and Pete Davidson. Jason Zinneman writes for The New York Times He’s a must follow if you’re into comedy. He was writing about Chappelle’s follow up show on Wednesday, which Jason says was much the work of a diplomat as a provocateur, telling the audience to pray for both Israelis and Palestinians and calling the situation for both a nightmare. At one point, Dave addressed American Jews, saying whatever they can do to take the violence or the danger out of a situation, they should do it, and then added, I’m not about anti Semitism, but I’m allowed to disagree with whoever I want to.

I had mentioned that there was a possible medical issue. The other night, apparently Dave joked you know what he’ll say in the paper tomorrow, Dave Chappelle makes fun of man as he dies in Raleigh. He tell the crowd he would do a dangerous joke, as quoted here in the Times, the joke to Jews walk into a bar. I’d say the punchline, but there might be a transgender person here. Dave smiled as if he knew how corny this sounded.

Love more on Chappelle tomorrow. Wbe Z writes the voice of Hasan Minhaj is still vital and not worth canceling. They write, Minhaj’s exaggerations hurt so much because we put him on a moral pedestal for non Desi people. He was one of the few places to hear candid stories of Desi pain, and for Desi people, he was one of the few on such a public stage, so he had to be perfect. But that pressure’s unfair for generations to come.

Let Minhaj be an empowering opportunity to question the ways we let white media control our narratives and where we place our blame. Let him be a chance to grapple with nuanced disappointment. How do we hold our celebrities accountable in a world where we don’t have the power to hold white celebrities of the same standard without piling into discrimination. Maybe the Daily Show has entered an area where it requires a pseudo journalist at the helm, and Minhaj has already lost America’s trust, But don’t let his career in there. If it weren’t for him, I’m not sure I would have had the guts to apply to journalism school and wear my stories on my sleeve.

And that’s the legacy that I won’t let be erased. On the international front. The Sydney Morning Harold talk to Australian Sri Lankan comedian and actor Sirin Jane Man, who said, I don’t think Minhaj was embellishing for comedic effect. I think he was embellishing to push emotional buttons. If you’re going to speak on behalf of a group of people and you want that emotional truth to connect with mainstream audiences, you’ve got to be aware of how quickly that can come undone.

If you get called out for lying, then all of a sudden, you’ve delegitimized those emotional truths for everyone else. The punchline can take the story in an absurd way for comedic effect, but the purpose of the comedy should be to highlight the underlying truth. Boy, I got to record three podcasts today and I am already dry mouth. Here is an iced coffee. You don’t what to do?

Buy me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News should be a good Saturday Night Live Tonight. Nate Berghatzy is your host. Foo Fighters the musical guest. It’s not gonna get much better than that. In a new promo, featured player Marcelo Hernandez steps in when they’re promoting the Foo Fighters, and Marcelo says, or should we say boo Fighters?

Dave Girl goes what Hernandez says, because it’s Halloween, you know, like boo Fighters? Girl says, you know what, that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard. In another promo, Hernandez starts making comments in Spanish and Nate Bergatzy cuts them off and goes, sorry, man, that was last week. The joke there when Bad Bunny hosted last week.

Speaking of SNL, last week, Keenan Thompson did a Dion Sanders impression Dio…

I love him, I love what he’s brought to comedy over it’s got to be a couple of decades, it seems so. I had the pleasure and honored to host Saturday Night Live before, and I would never forget those moments. But as for the impression, yeah, it was good. Sam Morrell talked to the Pittsburgh News and they were like, hey, your Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow has brought you to new heights of prominence in the stand up world. How has your life changed?

In answer from Sam, he said, in terms of preparation, it hasn’t really changed, except that I have less time to focus on stand up, which is really my bread and butter. That’s tough. When I was a younger comic, I could just work on jokes all day, but now it’s podcasts. It just seems like I always have a full schedule, which is kind of good. It’s nice to be busy, but stand up requires a lot of attention and you can tell when people take their foot off the gas.

The big reason I do the road so hard is it forces me to come up with new stuff. It forces me to do the material until I’m sick of it and have to throw new stuff in the road. Will force me to get stuff done because you don’t want to waste those opportunities, which is honestly how I used to approach it as a young comedian, when I used to hand out flyers in the street in exchange for stage time. So stage time I never take for granted. I try to view it as valuable as it is.

We did the Chicago Theater, which is a pretty huge venue, so that was special. Toronto’s another huge one. New York coming up is pretty huge. It’s pretty thrilling to see that many of your people come out and hopefully leave happy. The challenges are the scheduling, not sleeping in your own bed.

Sometimes the lack of sleep is very difficult. I love the road. I love doing it, but you do miss home. So you get home and you’re like, man, I miss the road. Oh.

You have a routine that keeps you healthy, but on the road, it’s just kind of hard to maintain that. You try to eat healthy, but it’s the road, right. Even if we order at a nice restaurant, we’re going to get some crap, We’re going to get some dessert or something. Alcohol’s right there. It’s a challenge to stay healthy.

So we try to exercise every day, not just for our bodies, but for our minds to reset everything. You know, Vulture may have accidentally solved The Daily Show’s problem, and I hope someone is paying attention. They talked to and here’s a good choice to take over the show. You’re ready. They talked to Rob Riggle.

They asked him how he got his correspondence gig way back when on The Daily Show, and he said, I auditioned like most people, and it was a process. I thought I blew it. To be honest with you, it was very fortunate that I got the offer, but they only did it like six months at a time, Like you got the job, but it’s only six months, and I just moved out of New York to LA I couldn’t move everybody back. I had to come out here, get a studio apartment off Craigs Listen. At the end of the six months, they said, good job, you get another six and I was like, I still can’t move my family out here.

That was the only thing that frustrated me about it. I wish they would have just said you’re here, but that’s the way it worked for everybody at that time. But I was grateful to John the writers, the producer is my fellow correspondence. I was really kind of green. That show allowed me to grow to myself a little bit and discover more about the business of comedy.

I’ve crossed paths with Wriggles several times. Very cool guy. I remember one time he showed up to be a guest on the Wrought Dog Comedy channel at Serious XM, and the host had called in sick, and we were like, do you want to just guest host? And Wriggle jumped on the air and hosted the show on the fly, and he crushed it. Wrigl says, this is the business.

All you can do is get a gig, do the best you can at it, and hope it leads to another gig. Life is a series of gigs, a series of jobs. Even if you’re on Modern Family, which runs for ten seasons and it’s one of the greatest shows great and end someday, and you don’t want your career to en so you have to find another job. You’re always going to be looking for another job. The big question, would you ever consider returning to the Daily Show?

Is the new permanent host? Rob Wriggle said in a heartbeat. Obviously it’s one of those things where I’ve no say, but it would be an honor. Yeah. I think Wriggle’d be a really good choice for that one.

Consider that Comedy Central and they asked Wriggle and he gut checks on who they might be considering. Wriggle said, I don’t know. I did enjoy watching everybody they brought in for like a week. Want of Sikes nailed it. In my opinion, they’ll choose right, and I hope they choose well.

I want the Daily Show to be another institution like SNL. Pitch four Kad talked to John Mulaney about what music he was listening to at what age and at age thirty. Malanie said he was listening to Koputz by Destroyer. I don’t even know what that is. You guys can yell old man at your phone.

I don’t know what it is. It’s okay. Mlanie explains. SNL became my complete identity, this all consuming thing that I loved, and I loved that it was all consuming I loved working thirty six hours in a row. I love going to the office on Sundays to get a head start on Monday’s pitch meeting.

I loved working late Monday night and staying up all night Tuesday. I just loved being immersed in it. I had a couple specials come out, I got a couple offers to hosts to show my own in different formats. I thought I felt full burnout, but I wish I’d stayed one more year at SNL because I think I needed a rest not to leave. I was very nervous about leaving that orbit because it’s a fun orbit to be in.

The show is in the news every week. It just feels very immediate and relevant. I know I was going to leave. And that was around the first time I heard kop Putz. I was in the back of thirty Rock near the ice Rank at night, way to go some function as a staff.

We might have been at Suxedo’s. I was listening to Kobut and I heard that line chasing cocaine through the back rooms of the world, and I remember thinking to myself, Wow, can you believe we used to do cocaine?

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And then he laughed even when sober.

I’ve always been a pretty cochy person. Netflix announced their newest stand up series. It’s called Verified stand Up at a premiere November twenty eighth, So that’s probably Thanksgiving weekend, ish right, A new series Ten of the best stand up comedians in the game? Who Are They Asifa Lee, Jill s Sloan, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi, who I Love Check came out, Isaiah Kelly, Lisa Lao, Nimesh Patel, Robbie Hoffman, Rosebud Baker, Sabrino Wu and Vanessa and Zalez. I feel like Rosebud’s a little more known than the rest of that group, but maybe I’m wrong.

Same thing about Nimesh. November twenty eighth on Netflix. Kitty Lang is stepping down as the head of Comedy at United Agents Tell the Other Day about her comments. The agency, in a statement said, following the statements made earlier this week, it has been agreed that Kitty Lang will step away from her leadership roles as head of Comedy and as a member of the executive Committee of United Agents. She’ll stay on as an agent.

The three twelve or three one two Comedy Festival in Chicago continues, great lineup. Worst website ever. Why do you say that, Johnny Mack, Because they don’t have a calendar. They just have like random shows. I guess by alphabetical order.

That’s not a way anyone consumes anything, guys. So I have to do some math here. Right today is the twenty eighth. Let me scroll around and see if I could find a show on the twenty eighth. While I babble see what I’m saying here other comedy festivals.

I just go to the thing and I click it. You know what, there is no show tonight this thing, guys, come on. So they’ve been promoting this thing as starting from the twenty seventh through the like fifth or sixth. Yes, there was a show last night. The next show isn’t until the third.

I could edit all this out. I’m not going to varieties. Twenty five comedians you should know or watch or check it out or whatever it is. August White as a tip for comedians, which is do not suck your teeth before the punchline. When you’re just starting out, you can develop these little habits to keep the rhythm of the delivery of the joke.

And one super common one we have as Young Comics is on making a little sound before the punchline, like sucking your teeth or clicking your tongue. Whenever I can beat the instinct to do that, I always feel like the joke gets better. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best comedy advice was write your jokes by hand. It helps the brain slow down and allows you to pick up on things about the joke that you haven’t noticed.

Worst comedy advice, she says, not to pursue comedy. I’m glad I didn’t listen, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. News is a big story today from Hasan Minhaj and Dave Chappelle. But a quick look at Late Night Jimmy Fallon pointed out the new speaker of the House’s name is Mike Johnson, and if that name sounds familiar, it’s because it’s on every fake ID Seth Meyers said the speaker race was so embarrassing they’re not even giving their real names anymore. Mike Johnson is the name you give when you check into your motel with your mistress.

That’s what Spirit Halloween calls there, Michael Jackson costume. And I love that joke. Jesus nice, you’re not getting the Daily show he went with. But what we do know is he wants nationwide limits on abortion, he wants to criminalize gay sex, and he even wants to band Riggitton. All right, I’m lying on the last one, but that seems like his vibe.

Hasan Minhaj put out a twenty minute statement. I tried to capture it, and every time I went to play it and add would pop up. I did get some of it. Let’s listen to the beginning, and I’ve been asked by a lot of people to give my perspective on what is happening in the region. I’ve also been asked, wait a second, aren’t you a liar?

Now? For those of you who don’t know. Back in September, The New Yorker ran a piece on me called Hussenman Hadja’s Emotional Truths, in which a reporter fact checked my stand up specials and found some factual inaccuracies that they wanted to ask me about. So I sat down with them to explain my writing process and why I make certain creative choices in my stand up. Now.

When the article came out, it got picked up by almost every single news outlet, all of them basically saying the same thing. Now. As I watched this, I didn’t feel like he was genuine. I’ll tell you what he said, But my whole vibe watching it was, oh, I don’t trust you anymore. Whether that’s fair or not, That’s how I feel.

Hasan In the video, he says, with everything that’s happening in the world, I’m aware that even talking about this now feels so trivial. But being accused of faking racism is not trivial. It’s very serious, and it demands an explanation. To everyone who read that article, I want to answer the biggest question that’s probably on your mind. Underneath all that pomp, is Hasan Minhaj just a con artist who uses fake racism and Islamophobia to advance his career.

Because after reading that article, I would also think that. He says he took a beat before responding to the story, both because of the state of the world and because he’d been processing the criticism. Minhaj says, I just want to say to anyone who felt betrayed or hurt by my stand up, I am sorry. I made artistic choices to express myself and drive home larger issues affecting me in my community, and I feel horrible that I let people down. The reason I feel horrible is because I’m not a psycho, but this New Yorker article definitely made me look like one.

It was so needlessly misleading, not just about my stand up, but also about me as a person. The truth is racism, FBI surveillance, and the threats of my family happened. And I said this on the record in response to Hassan’s video. The New Yorker issued their own statement to the Hollywood. Their statement reads, Hasan Minhaj confirms in this video that he selectively presents information and embellishes to make a point exactly what we reported.

Our piece, which includes Minhaja’s perspective at length, was carefully reported and fact checked. It is based on interviews with more than twenty people, including former Patriot Act and Daily Show staffers, members of Minhaj’s security team, and people have been the subject of his stand up work, including the former FBI informant, brother Eric, and the woman at the center of his prom rejection story. We stand by our story, so the whole prom thing. In Hasan Minhaj’s Netflix special Homecoming King, he tells the story of asking a white girl to prom. He gave her the pseudonym Bethany read that’s fine, using the pseudonym makes sense, and then being told by the mother that Bethany won’t go with them because the family doesn’t want her daughters in pictures with a brown boy.

Hassan says, Bethany’s mom really did say that. It was just a few days before prom. I created the doorstep scene to drop the audience into the feeling of that moment, which I told the reporter. He then played an audio clip of his conversation with writer Claire Alone. The video also shows emails and texts between Minhaj and Bethany, which he said he provided to the magazine, showing Bethany thanking him for protecting her and her family and at least indirectly acknowledging that her parents turned Minhaj away from being Bethany’s prom date.

Hassan says, my team and I repeatedly tried to give them the emails you just saw. We confirmed the emails were sent to the reporter and their fact checker before the article came out. They knew my rejection was due to race. I confirmed it on the record and provided corroborating evidence, and yet they misled readers by excluding all that and splicing two different quotes together to leave you thinking that I made up a racist incidence. This is a lot.

You can find the video if you’ve got twenty minutes. It’s on The Hollywood Reporter’s website. As for other stories, Minhaj admits that he embellished the stories about being harassed by law enforcement that was surveilling the mosque and his family attended, and that he took his daughter to a hospital after she exposed what turned out to be fake anthrax. He apologizes in the video for commingling fact and fiction, but says that his stand up work allows for more artistic license. I thought I had two different expectations in my work, my work as a storytelling comedian and my work as a political comedian, where facts always come first.

That’s why the fact checking on Patriot Act was extremely rigorous, the fact checking in my congressional testimony deeply rigorous. But in my work as a storytelling comedian, I assume the lines between truth and fiction were allowed to be a bit more blurry. And I get why a journalist would be interested in where that line sits. I just wish the reporter had been more interested in their own premise. Someone genuinely curious about truth and stand up wouldn’t just fact check my specials.

They would fact check a bunch of specials. They would establish a control group, a baseline to see how far outside the bounds I was in relation to others. They wouldn’t just cherry pick a few stories. Wow, this is so much Hassan Menaj concludes, the guy in the article is a proper effing psycho, but I now hope you feel like the real me is not. I’m just a guy with ibs and low sperm motility.

Again, there is much more important news happening in the world right now that needs your attention. So I appreciate you watching. I take that note, and I hope to see what the next show. Ah, I am wondering. All right, so did some but he suggests we got to do some career damage control here since supposedly he was getting the Daily Show and they supposedly rescinded that.

So is this now, Like, dude, we gotta put the fires out, and I don’t know what’s going on here a very very long video. The New York Times recapped Dave Chappelle’s show in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday. They say Chappelle’s about twenty four minutes into a set when he briefly touched on the remarks he had made at the Boston show. So I guess Dave is now admitting that he was at the Dave Chapelle concert last week, the one in Boston that led some people to walk out. Chappelle told the crowd right now, I’m in trouble because the Jewish community is upset.

But I cannot express this enough. No matter what you read about that show in Boston, you will never see quotation marks around anything I said. They don’t know what I said. It’s all hearsay. The other night, I said something about Palestine in Boston and got misquoted all over the world.

And I will not repeat what I said the time, says. A woman in the crowd responded by shouting free Palestine. Chappelle quote. Please please miss listen, don’t start it, or I’m going to be in the news cycle for another week. This thing that’s happening in the Middle East is bigger than everybody.

This is what’s happening. And believe me, I understand. What’s happening in Israel’s a nightmare. What’s happening in Palestine is a nightmare. Continuing to quote Chappelle, There’s only two kinds of people in the world, people who love other people and the people that have things that make them afraid to love other people.

Pray for everyone in Israel. Pray for everyone in Palestine, and remember that every dead person is a dead person. Later in the show. I’m going to quote Dave here. Later in the show, there was a commotion in the upper deck.

Chappelle joked, quote, I’ll read it verbatim. That still might be the Jews coming for me. He then urged someone in the crowd to call emergency medical responders, before being reminded audience members didn’t have their phones because of the Yonder pouch. This thing, Dave said he never thought about what would happen without them in an emergency. Then he joked, I’ll read it for batim from the Times.

Sorry, mister Chappelle said, stretching out the word quote, I don’t want the Jews to know what I said. The Times rights. The audience cheered him loudly, and the hour and fifteen minute set did not appear to have caused the kind of walkouts that marked the Boston show rife. We’ll have his special on Netflix on November fifteenth. I finished listening to his interview with Tom Segura that came out last week, and I guess they recorded it in September.

I’ll pull from the transcripts when I get a chance. We’ve obviously got a lot of news to cover today. Anyway. The trailer is out. The special is November fifteenth.

I’m gonna play a clip from the trailer, but this is the only clean part that I even dare play for you. I can’t stand social media, which I know is crazy because it’s why you’re all here. Good joke there, Matt Rife, Netflix, November fifteenth. Casey dot Com was interviewing Nikki Glaser about her return to Kansas City and they have a timely question which was there’s much discussion about Hassan Minaj. What are your guidelines when weighing truth versus a better punchline?

Good timing Here at casey dot com. Nikki Glaser said, exaggeration within stories and using hyperbole to get a joke across is expected. A lot of times. I’ll make up a fake premise for the sake of a joke. But those jokes are not painting me as a hero.

I’m not delivering them like it’s a ted talk about something horrible that happened to me that I want everyone to be on the verge of tears about the way he wielded his lies were not for the sake of comedy. They were for the sake of people feeling emotional and feeling sorry for him. It was an act of fiction, the way he would cry and be a motive over saying things that really pull out your heartstrings. But it was done under the guise that this happened to him. So I find it inappropriate and manipulative the way he did it.

But I do agree with him that most jokes are like thirty percent exaggerated, a lot of glazers playing the Tennessee Performing Arts Center James K. Polk Theater in Nashville two nights, she told the Tennessee and I’ll be eating your hot chicken. I’ve done it before and I was pretty good. I’ll definitely be timing it correctly with my show, so that let’s just put it this way so that my performance is not affected. What will we hear on her show being a mom, being a stoner, being a stoner mom, anxiety and depression, my identity as a jew, being a teenager in the early aughts, which was a pretty vulnerable time to be a young woman.

And we’re ragging on Florida a little bit. If everything went according to plan. There is a podcast called the pod News Weekly Review, and I’m the guest. If you want to check that out pod News Weekly review. I’ll put it in the show notes if I remember to actually do that.

If you want to join us in the Facebook group, one rule, don’t be a porn bot. If you’re not a porn bot, we did have to make it a closed group, so just knock on the door and I’ll go, Hm, is this a porn bot?

And then I’ll let you in.

But if you are a porn bot, I might get distracted for fifteen to twenty minutes and forget to do the show notes. The three to twelve Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. It is a pretty big festival. I’ll be talking about this for the next week. It runs until November fifth, big names like Michael Jay, Nate, Pergatzy, Hannibal Burris.

Nate said, I moved to Chicago in two thousand and two with a buddy, took some classes at the Second City, and then in two thousand and three I took a comedy class and did lots of show at the alt comedy hotspots lions Den and the Lincoln Lodge. I was with Hannibal Burris, TJ. Miller, and Pete Holmes before we all followed Petez to New York. What a crowd that was. Anytime I go to Chicago, it’s crazy.

It’s always been one of the first cities I would always sell the most tickets. They got on board with me a bit earlier than other cities, and having started here certainly plays a large part of that. While he’s hosting US know this week he won’t have any trouble selling tickets, not that he does. And Nates were really good. The fast is special because I saw the Chicago Theater when I was first started out, and I don’t think I even knew you could even play it.

That meant I was so new and didn’t know what was going on. So now it’s unbelievable to reach that stage. Marylynn Rice Cub remember her Chloe from twenty four, Yeah, she’s a comedian. She told The Daily Herald that her Midwest nice demeanor goes out the window when she does stand up. She said, I love that about stand up.

You get weird and silly. It’s always satisfying, especially when a show doesn’t go how you expect, which is all the time with stand up. You’re always having to rethink what you’re doing. You keep getting the rug pulled out from under you her material comes from her own life. Mary Lynn says, I don’t like to speak about things I’m not completely informed about, And the only thing I’m completely informed about is my life.

Remember I told you about the wax statue of the Rock. I mean, I guess this really isn’t a comedy story at all, other than it’s funny. Well, Francis mousse Graven, how’s my French today? I nailed it, took the Rocks, comments and social media outcry seriously. Within twenty four hours, the figure of the was updated by artists who gave it a slightly darker skin tone with meticulous strokes of oil painting, says Vulture.

However, he’s still dressed in a suburban dad outfit, speak of which I forgot why I brought up the Facebook group. I got so distracted by the porn bot joke. It’s Halloween weekend, right, My kids say, hollow weekend is a thing. Anyway, if you’ve got a costume and you’re not a porn bot, go to the group. Share a picture.

My Jimmy Buffett was really good. I shared it with you guys. It was really really good. So if you’re not a porn bot, do that if you are a porn bot, send it to me. John’s naughty today.

I’m just having fun. I’m in a good mood. Where was I the Rock? We were talking about his wax figure. Veronica Berez is the museum’s head of pr and said, we found his reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that his figure was indeed whiter than it should have been.

Now, this next sentence is very funny because the article points out that some of the famous celebrities that Veronica Peress has worked with include Michael Jackson. And again, I’ll read her quote. We found his reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that the figure was indeed wider than it should have been. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to meet Dwayne Johnson, so we used several photos. But as it turns out, pictures can be very tricky because the nuances of skin tones can differ depending on the lighting and the photos.

Every time the sculptor has to determine the exact face and body shapes the volumes, and it’s always a very complicated challenge if we haven’t met the person, you know, it’s a shame that Rock doesn’t have an Instagram account. Oh wait, he does, and three hundred and ninety two million people follow it. If only were there some photos of Dween the Rock Johnson, if only he had ever been on TV or in a Fasten the Furious movie, only some way to get a feel for what Tween the Rock Johnson looks like. We conducted a casting of models based on his body measurements. And that wasn’t a small undertaking because we had to find a man who had roughly the same body type as Dween Johnson, a height of six to five, with those huge muscles, and we found our model in a bodybuilding club.

Hmm. Were they whitewashing Johnson’s figure? She says, this has nothing to do with it. We just made an honest mistake based on the photos we looked at. After we saw all these reactions on different blogs and social networks, we changed it immediately.

No reaction from the Rock at this time. I’m gonna wrap it there. That reading that Hassan Minaj thing exhausted me. I know I didn’t forget to do Malani. I’m bouncing it to tomorrow, and I didn’t forget to tell you the Vulture twenty five people, I’m bouncing it to tomorrow.

That is your comedy news for today. You can follow a show on various apps. If you’re on an Android, how about overcast or pocket Casts. I love Pocketcasts. That’s actually the app I use Spotify or you know.

If you hate back catalog episodes, I guess you could go to Apple Podcasts. But you’re gonna have to download the back catalog episodes you missed yourself. It’s not like they’re gonna automatically do that for you. Thanks for nothing, Apple, See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jesus Nice is just not gonna get the Taily Show. One of the jokes that I saw was Martin Scorsese’s out here making movies that last longer than speaker candidates. And I was like, ah, really, so I don’t usually do this.

Let me play a clip just so you don’t think I’m piling on. Listen to this. Let’s kick things off in Congress, we’re today Republicans were once again trying to pick a new speaker after Kevin Carky was kicked out and Steve’s colise failed and Jim Jordan no, so Phil, And then today they nominated some poor bastard named Tom Emmerts. And this dude was their nominee for four hours and then he dropped out. Martins Scorsese’s out here making movies that last longer than speaker candidates.

If you saw it this afternoon, you missed this dude’s entire nomination. It’s just not good. It’s not gonna be good enough, all right. Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and others will appear at Next four Autism’s annual Night of Too Many Stars Comedy Concert, December eleventh, Beacon Theater in New York City.

Also on the bill Rachel Bloom, Stephen Colbert, Ron Funches, James Austin Joh…

The event was created by Robert Smigel, you may know him as the voice of Triumph of the Insults, Comic Dog and others. Tickets start at one hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty five cents and go on sale tomorrow at eleven am Ticketmaster. Another show announced, Pretty Cool. The National Coalition Against Censorship, in partnership with the New York Comedy Festival, has announced Stand Up for Free Speech, hosted by Judy Gold. This one thirty dollars.

In the lineup’s also pretty Good, Mark normand Adrian Applelucci, Michel Laine, Yaminika Sanders, Rich Voss and Moore Stand Up for Free Speech November sixth, nine thirty at Gotham in New York City. We have an official date for Matt Riiffe’s Natural Selection. Netflix says that will be out November fifteenth, by the way I was listening to. Matt Rife was the guest on two Bears one Cave Thomp Saguera was hosting that one. It’s really good.

Rife comes along as very likable. I haven’t finished it yet. I’m running a transcript on it. I’m going to pick away at that. I want to listen to the whole thing before I go through the transcript and pull stuff out.

But really good listen there. In a teaser, Matt Rife says he can’t stand social media. The official description says, from his problem with protection crystals to his beef with social media trolls, comedian Matt Rife holds nothing back in this rollicking stand up special Matt Riife Natural Selection, Netflix, November fifteenth. Ronny Chieng has announced a tour. It’ll start January twelfth in Indianapolis and hit Cincinnati, New York, Philly, and quotes other great cities.

Tickets on sale Friday. In the not too distant future, Mystery Science Theatre at three thousand will return. Mystery Science Theater turns thirty five this year, not counting the KTMA years. Joel Hodgson announced that financing for season fourteen has begun after the two revival seasons on Netflix. MST three K is now doing its own thing.

They have the Gizmo Plex and online viewing and community hub that hosted the crowdfunded season thirteen, which raised six point five million dollars. This year, the initial goal of four point eight million will fund six new episodes, six shorts, and eighteen quotes, surgically enhanced classic episodes that would upgrade installments Wasting Away in four EIGHTYP up to ten eighty HD. If the show hits six point one million the next season, we’ll get nine episodes, nine shorts, and twenty seven surgical operations. And if you guys want to raise seven point four million dollars, you’ll get twelve episodes, twelve shorts, and thirty six surgeries. I watched Pete Holmes new stand up special probably has a name.

What is it called? Not for everybody? I’m not doing that audience thing. I actually forgot. I am not for everyone.

I was close. I’m turning into my parents. It’s okay. The first third or so Pete is a little frantic, but then he settles in this a great bit in the middle about marriage that really had me going. I was really feeling the special and then I was sharing this in the Facebook group.

My wife did what she always does. I don’t know how she knows. I’m watching a stand up special show. Come bhy and do the whole Oh is this guy funny? Yes, that’s why I was sitting on the couch laughing out loud.

But I’ll pause it now. What should we talk about? Wife?

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And then we talk about some stuff and then hit play and then takes me a while…

But Pete Holmes got me back in because his special is pretty good. I really enjoyed his closer as well. Pete also has some pretty good half ass impressions. He broke into a Jerry Seinfeld. He busted into another comedian and it’ll spoil the joke if I tell you who he did.

And I think there was a third. But I want to hang out with Pete Holmes and just trade off half ass impressions. I have spent some time with Pete in Miami. Very cool guy, exactly who you think he is, and I’ve seen him many times live. I am a big fan and this special will make Johnny Max Best of twenty twenty three, and I thought I would do this live with you as I record and figure out where it goes.

So right now, the number one comedy special of the year is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short Hair. You’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis’s Netflix special is a strong number two, then a bit of a gap down to Tom Sagora, Kyle Kanay, Nate Brigatsey. It’s not better than any of those, Michelle Wolfe, j McBride, Jim Jeffries, Harry Condo Bolu. All Right, it’s better than Harry, but I don’t think it’s better than Jim.

All Right, that makes Pete Holmes the new number nine special. I’ll give you the updated list again. Number one, Sad Barry, then Shane Gillis, Toms Agora, Kyle Kanay, Nate Bergatsy, Michelle Wolfe, J McBride, Daddy’s Girls on YouTube, Jim Jeffries from Amazon in February that you forgot about Pete Holmes. Number nine. Harry Condo Bolu on YouTube is number ten running out the list, Chris Rock, Jimmy o’yang, The Roast of Mister Peanut, look it up, trust me, Big j Okerson, Mark normand Nimesh Patel, Sarah Silverman, Chris flemings Hell, and John Early.

So we now have a top nineteen. I guess I’ll get it to twenty and then start lopping people off the bottom. Watch out John Early specials of note Not on my top list, Jim Gahana again, Joe Lisz, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Lewis Black, Hannah Gatsby, Mark Maren, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Greg Warren, Kevin Harritt, Lunel, Beth Stelling, Joe Parra, and Zorna garg Not on my list. I have not seen Roseanne special. Pitchfork did that thing where they would talk to John Mulaney about, Hey, you were this age, what were you listening to today?

We’ll take a look at age twenty five when John Mulaney was into Jay Z’s Say Hello, Laney said, I wasn’t doing any drugs or drinking at this point. I was still smoking cigarettes all the time, but that didn’t have any effect yet. It was a nice moment in time. I didn’t really have a day job. I was doing stand up at night.

I got to open for Berbiglia on the road, I got to open for the comedians of comedy. Life was getting really fun. I got a call to audition for SNL out of the Blue. I found out two days before, and I knew I wasn’t gonna get it. They had Hayter and Forte and Fred and Seth and Jason.

They didn’t need me. They offered a hotel for anyone auditioning, so I took it, and on my walk from the hotel to thirty Rocks audition for the show, I was listening to Say Hello from an American Gangster. I saw that movie, which is only pretty good, but I heard jay Z watched it and became inspired to make a whole album. That’s a funny thing to be like, wait, start recording, but Say Hello really psuck me up. I went to a place for the twenty minutes I was walking listening on repeat when I suddenly had this fake, super confident persona.

I have decent self esteem, but this was like, you’re a killer. I work myself up into a state with that song. I only got hired as a writer, but you know I got a job out of it. I should listen to that song again. Hmm.

So originally in this section here I was going to tell you about Pete Holmes Special, but I noticed the first half was a little short, and I wanted to go a little longer before the commercial break there. And I was also going to tell you about Matt Rife on Two Beers, One Cave, but I pulled that up because there was an actual Matt Rife news story. So it’s time for awkward segue into Kitty Lang, head of Comedy at United Agents, is under investigation by the top UK talent agency after social media reposts and shares highly critical of Israel as that country fights to war with Hamas this from The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday morning. United Agents said on its ex account, we have been made aware of social media posts by one of our senior agents this morning. These are not the views of United Agents Limited.

We are conducting a full and thorough investigation into this immediately. Lang represents comedy writers and actors in sketch comedy artists. That’s why I’m mentioning this. She is United’s head of comedy. Some comedians you may have heard of, Katherine Ryan and Nick Mohammed.

You know Nick Mohammad from Ted Lasso. That’s why I’m mentioning it. Lang has taken down the posts put out a statement I would like to unreservedly apologize for my retweets on social media surrounding the horrendous attacks on Israel on October seventh. With hindsight, I realize how naive I’ve been, and that much of the information on social media surrounding the conflict is unsubstantiated and hurtful. I should have taken time to consider that beforehand.

This is Prison Banned Books Week, and the folks over at PENN, a literary and free expression organization, are trying to get attention for Prison Banned Books Week. Why I’m bringing this up. One of the books that is banned, Amy Schumer’s memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Why it was flagged by Florida officials for graphic sexual content and for quote being a threat to the secure security order or rehabilitative objects of the correctional system, or the safety of any person. Let’s hit gossip corner.

If you were in Georgetown, South Carolina, you were having dinner at Root. You know Root down on Front Street and downtown Georgetown. You know the place. Bill Murray walked in Root Restaurant on Facebook said we were super excited to have Bill Murray stopped buy for dinner tonight. One of the funniest men on the planet is also one of the coolest.

The restaurant told WMBF News that Bill Murray stayed until the restaurant closed and took pictures with the staff and signed autographs for them. Jordan Temple is one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians you should Know and keep an eye on, or whatever that’s called. They asked Jordan what unscripted or reality series would you be good at. Jordan said Survivor. I survived the public housing projects in New York City.

I can survive anything. Roaches are my friends, rats are my cousins, and I’ve seen cats as big as lions. I’m not a lion, sorry, but my arch type is rugged loaner with a pretty face. Everyone at Survivor would say, had you learn to survive that, I would look wistfully into the mid distance and mutter the six train York City humor. All right, what about your writing process?

What have you learned? Jordan Tepple said, When I started comedy, I think I was trying to be too clever. I was just young, which I still am. But Now I think of all the ways my senses can help me develop different kinds of jokes, whether they’re clever or not. Now I try to be clever and the dumbest way possible, and also dumb in the most clever way possible.

I’m also big on self encouragement. I started writing down the middle of my stand up sets, keep going, you’re doing great, and telling the audience. There’s no notes. All it says is keep going, you’re doing great? All right?

What comedy hill will you die on? I love this one. Shorts. You can wear shorts on stage. I think shorts should be mandatory.

In fact, the longer you’re set, the shorter your shorts should be. Donald Glover was way out of his time wearing those tiny shorts. Where do you think he got all this power from? People were like, good, why is he wearing those baby shorts? Now look at him?

Normalize short shorts, Lean into your power. Love it not your comedy needs for today? Follow the show for free on let’s say Spotify, pocket cast. If you’re on an Android, you could follow it on overcast. This Apple podcast, but a minut at them with this new update that’s killing the back catalog downloads Apple.

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