Month: October 2023

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The Shark Deck. Hello Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pete Davidson hosted SNL last night. I’ll recamp that tomorrow. He was on Jimmy Fallon last week and Pete says he has between three to five thousand sealed VHS tapes that he hopes one day he’ll sell for a mass of profit.

Pete said, I started collecting VHS’s that were sealed in the box like three years ago because I was really high one night. So the plan is in twenty twenty six, it’ll be twenty years since the last VHS was made, right, So twenty years goes by, that’s enough time for people to be like, oh that was cool, remember like Vinyl. So I bought all the sealed ones that exist, like three to five thousand tapes. As of a month ago, sealed VHS’s are going for twenty to thirty grand a pop. Rocky just sold for twenty seven thousand dollars.

It’s my game stop. I own all of them, dude. No one believed in me. It’s gonna happen, you guys. Jimmy Fallon said it’s a disaster, and Pete said, if it doesn’t work, I’m gonna be on the road forever.

He talked about when he first got SNL and mother, I’m gonna be on SNL. Mom, Holy crab, Like wow, and she was like, well, just so you know, the Garbageman Test is at the end of the month, just in case. So until three years ago she would ask me to take the Garbageman Test. How did Pete find out he’d be hosting last night? He said, I got a classic Lauren Michael’s text.

He texted, there’s a rumor going around you’re the host for the premiere, and he goes, I guess it’s true because I started it. Krista Stefano spoke with GQ about a choice not to be on social media and said, one of my friends told me I should stop saying on podcasts that I don’t run my social media because fans want to feel like they can communicate with you, and I said, absolutely not. I’m so against people being on social media that I would feel like a fraud telling him to go on and talk to me if I’m not on it. Everything you see on my social media has my approval, or it’s my video that I sent on my social media. Guy, my friends will ask how I gave someone else my passwords, but I just give it to someone else the keys because it’s so bad for me.

Geq said, I heard your podcast with Colin Quinn and he made fun of you because wanting to host SNL is your dream. If they reached out and asked you to host, who would you tell first? Christa Stefano said, my mom. She said, humongous SNL fan. She’s like the person that knows the random actress who want a Golden globe in nineteen eighty one.

She loves Hollywood. She’d be the first person I’d tell because my daughters wouldn’t know what the hell I’m talking about, and Jasmine wouldn’t care. Well, she would care, but it would just mean as much to her as it would to my mom. Hosting SNL is another thing I would say is on my bucket list of dreams. And by the way, we’ve got Radio City sold out.

If we sell out the theater at Madison Square Garden. If we sell out those two, then the hope is to get the big Madison Square Garden. Amy Poehler was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast and she said, I learned a lot from Will Ferrell, because I’d watch him perform any of this mischievous quality where he and the audience were in on it together. The confident wing to the audience a crucial because the minute they see you sweat, it gets so stressful. If you don’t look like you’re relaxed or having fun, the audience gets very stressed.

Matt Rife spoke at the twenty twenty three Forbes Thirty Under thirty Summit in Cleveland, Ohio. Hey, Matt Rife’s living the life. Good looking guy. Everybody wants to be Matt Rife. But in terms of coolness, hey guys and go to the twenty twenty three Forbes thirty Under thirty summit in Cleveland.

Not the coolest look says the guy in his basement wearing flannel and sweatpants. Raife shared some advice you got from Dave Chappelle. Dave said, make sure you’re still making time to live your life, because that’s where material comes from. Raife said, July of last year, I was really contemplating quitting comedy, moving back to Ohio and getting a normal job. He also discussed it being compared to Dean Cook.

That’s somebody who reached the pinnacle of success in comedy, right, so think about how many people loved him, think about how many people hate him. So it’s like, as much as so many people like me, right now, so many people hate me as well. Don’t worry about the things you do that people don’t like. Focus on the things you do that people do like, and make more of that stuff for them, because those are the people who bless you with a career. That is well said.

Now. Hopefully by now you took my advice and listened to Mark Maron’s interview with Tom Poppa. It is fantastic if you haven’t just hit stop on this right now and go listen to that, and then you can come back, and then you’ll be like, yeah, I just heard what you’re about to tell me, Jenny Mack. Mark Marin climbed up on old Man Mountain and found a chair next to me on the bench and said, what the ef for these eighteen year olds watching? Let’s talk like old men?

I don’t understand. I can’t even get involved with TikTok comedy enough to hate it. That point, I high fived Mark Marin. In my hypothetical imagination, we were on a bench on Old Min Mountain together, Maren said to Papa in real life, I don’t know who they are. I don’t know who that guy Matt is.

What’s his name, what’s his name? It’s big, He’s the big guy, Matt Rife. Oh, Matt Rife. Yeah. And I watched five minutes of him doing some sort of rapid fire crowd work and I’m like, all right, I don’t get it and just comes back to this thing that used to annoy me.

But there’s nothing that can be done about it. But it’s when you and I Tompapa got into it. There weren’t even bringer shows except at Stand Up New York, and we thought it was weird. It’s like you go, you do the open mics, you figured it out, you get the ten minute spot. It was totally comedy club dependent, and we had a goal in mind, which was to be great.

I don’t dislike Matt Rife’s comedy. I think it’s pretty fun, but I do have a seat on the bench on Old Men Mountain next to Maren for sure. Out of the La Times right about comedians being political, James Fritz said, I don’t know what it means to be a political comedian. I do political jokes. I do drinking jokes.

I do relationship joke, said, who jokes about my family? But the sooner you realize that in this country everything’s political, the sener you’ll be. I think if you set out to be political comes across as false. You don’t have to look for the politics. Sports are political, religion is political, Barbie is political, hell your beer is political.

Longtime Jimmy Kimmel Alive writer Brian Cook said it all needs to be funny. And I love this next thing, he said, I love it so much. Pay attention. Cook said, I’ve never understood how a comic can ever be comfortable standing on stage while an audience just claps at something. They said, You’ve got their attention.

Now go write a joke that your job amen on the clapter. So many specials now have the clapter. Ben gleeb A steers his comedy towards politics more than most, and he says the way I found it to be most effective while saying something political in my stand up is to frame it away that comes from a humanistic place. Try to find common ground and the setup of the joke. Then make your point as cleverly and irrefutably as you can once you have people on board, So it’s very hard to deny the logic.

Every now and then you’ll hear me refer to the Macpack. What’s the Macpack? This is a joke that kind of started when I worked it Serious and I had just like the biggest man crush on Michael Chickliss, still kind of do. So the Macpack would be if I were a celebrity, the other celebrities I would hang out with and we would all just be cool together. You know what I’m saying.

It’s like the rat Pack minus those guys, plus me and the list. I’m going to tell you, so the Macpack includes Michael Chickliss, Tom Cavanaugh because I used to love the show. Ed remember ed. They don’t show it anywhere music Rights. It’s tied up.

There are no dvs, nothing that Tom Kavanaugh’s in the Macpack. Keegan Michael Key. I told the story a few times. He did me a real solid in the last day of Serious. I’ll tell that story again some other day.

Andy Samberg, he’s in the Macpack. Jeff Goldbloom, and Henry Winkler, who, by the way, has a new book which is what I’m talking about. The Macpack being Henry, The Fonds and Beyond by Henry Winkler. This will be out October thirty. First the description, the guy who played one of the coolest characters ever on screen is also known as one of the nicest ever off it.

So how exactly did the mild man Henry Winkler transform himself into the Fonds. Henry takes us inside his original Happy Days audition as part of a memoir that goes through his entire career from the Lords of Flatbush through Barry and Yes, he explains why he jumped the Shark. Nathan Habib will record his second special tonight at the New York Comedy Club. Nathan brings a friendly personality on stage while delivering a confidantly vulnerable attitude, quick banter, and tightly written bits and Variety has their list of the twenty five comedians you should know Rob Mister Comedy Hayes’ told Vauchray used to write what I thought people wanted to hear about. I noticed a lot of comics have an idea of what an audience wants.

I no longer care what they want. I want to talk about what I want the fun, and the challenge of performing is being able to talk about whatever and make it fun and enjoyable. There are times when everyone’s in agreement, and there are times when the room is divided. I get to dictate the chemistry in real time. Tell us about your worst show, he said.

Unfortunately, this story is more recent than I’d like. I was hired to a wedding anniversary party slash retirement party. Already, that’s a lot going on. The party was nice and elegant, The program took hours. People drank in eight and there were speeches from friends and family.

Now it’s getting tough. The man in the hour grabs the mic and he’s like, now let’s party. He dances, The DJ plays music. Then a lady stops the music and says, but before we do all that, we have a comedian. Come on, mister comedy man.

It’s your first to me is mister comedy man. I made fun of how absurd it is. I talk about the weird intro, the prayer, the interpretive dance one I should have performed. Then I try and tell a joke and I feel a tap on my shoulder. Nothing is discreet about walking up to performer.

And tapping them on the shoulder. So I was like, we all see you. What do you have to say? The DJ says that the couple would like me to wrap it up. That’s brutal.

But listen to this. I don’t like this last thing. What are your comedy opinions? The first one I like, the second one. I don’t like the first one.

Crowd work isn’t for everyone. People are great at it, it’s amazing, and people are bad at it. It sucks, all right, John, what’s the one you don’t like? Mister comedy man says, I hate reporting on comedy. One of the worst things is people trying to quote a live show.

What thanks for crushing my day, mister comedy man. It’s comedy news. Don’t even fall a show. Screw it. This is the last episode ever

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. During the week, Vulture updated their best comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far, I haven’t really looked at this. Let’s take a look at what they think. All specials listed from newest to oldest.

So they have Chris Fleming’s Hell up at the top. I enjoyed that one. Super quirky, but yeah, that one’s worth checking out. John Early is now more than ever. That wasn’t bad.

That’s also on my list. Ali Sidik’s The Domino Effect. I think I started that one and it didn’t grab me. John Mulaney’s Baby Jay I didn’t like it. I just felt like John, it didn’t feel real to me.

As for as much press as there’s been about that special, I just felt like John was shocking stories. I can’t really explain it. It just it didn’t connect with me that special the way some of Millenie’s other stuff did. Monique, my name is Monique. I don’t think I have checked that one out.

Mae Martin’s SA I did not enjoy. Kyle Kanaan Shocks and Struts. That’s a good one that was on my list. I’m just skimming down here, and I like this line that Vulture wrote his cruise ship material conjures a nightmarish, hedonistic carnival. Marlon wayans God loves Me.

I try that one. Not for me, Mark Maron, and I’ve been on a big time Mark Maren kick lately, from Bleak to Dark. It just didn’t enjoy it. I bailed about halfway through. All right, John, what’s your list?

Here’s what I have so far. Our best special year is Todd Berry’s to Bestic Short Hair. You’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis on Netflix. I really like that one a lot.

That’s two Thomsi Gore three, Knane at four, Nate Bergatsi at five. That’s on Amazon. Hell A World came out in January. Michelle Wolf at six. J Mcbridedaddy’s Grilled is on YouTube A seven, Jim Jeffreys on Amazon from February is eight, Hari Condobolu’s on YouTube is nine, and Chris Rock remember that was a big deal.

Yes. Some others on my list Jimio Yang, Morost of Mister Peanut, Big Jay, Mark Norman Nimesh Pateel, Sarah Soverman, Chris Fleming, hell at seventeen, generally at eighteen, not on my list. Jim Gaffigan’s Dark Pale, Joe Lysiahu’s Special was fine, but it’s not really special. Jared Freed, it was okay, Amy Schumer, John Mulani, Lewis, Black Handed, gasby Mark Mare, Andrew Santino, for Krasier, Greg Warren, Kevin Horrit Luenell, and I have not seen Roseannes Special. Kat timf has a new book out.

It is called You Can’t Joke About That. She has done a few interviews. Thank you for Scott, who listens all the time and we sometimes will trade an email on the side, and he sent me an interview Kat did with reason. I thought that was pretty interesting. What about the argument some people advanced that speech shouldn’t be banned, but maybe certain types of speech should be disapproved of in such a way that it’s almost the same as banning it, Kat said, don’t erase anything right.

In the summer of twenty twenty, there was a piece saying how many different streaming services pulled episodes. Examples It’s Alway Sunny in Phildelphia, thirty Rock, How We Met Your Mother? The interesting thing about how I Met Your Mother, where there was somebody who’s more on the left who was saying we shouldn’t erase anything because then we can’t talk about it. I agree with that. The example she gave was the yellow Face episode of How I Met Your Mother, where they dressed up as kung fu masters, and there was a debate at this time is this yellow face is this is silliness?

But she actually got the character wrong that was actually dressed like that, because it’s a lot harder to have those conversations when it doesn’t exist anymore. Kat also spoke with USA today, and she knows that when she tells strangers that she works at Fox, conversation is likely to change and judgment will follow. She says, if I’m at a party, I’ll be like, oh, I work in porn, because that’s less controversial. Conan O’Brien was asked by guest Ed Sheeran about Conan’s time as a writer and producer on The Simpsons, and Conan said, so many people think, oh my god, this epic TV show known for it’s really good writers. Conan said, the people I got to work with are insanely talented.

In the room is just awful. The room is terrible. It looks like the worst. I mean it did at the time. It’s much nicer now.

There was a bad shag carpet sofa is that if you’re in your first year college or university. You just get them off the sidewalk. He said. The writers would sit there and eat fried food while waiting for inspiration. There was a writer who smoked all the time who sat next to me, so when I die, it’ll be because of him.

It wasn’t sexy or fun or cool at all. I remember we chewed up some caramel and put it together in a big blob and mashed it into the ceiling and then try to get things to stick to it, because you’ll do anything to pass the time. I’d go and say here’s what I think should happen, and then have all these beats and ideas for an episode, and if they liked it, there was a little gong in the room. If the executive producer was really laughing, somebody would get up and bang the gong and say that’s going to be an episode. I remember a couple of times when they banged the gong when I said my episode, and I was so excited.

One of Vulture’s twenty five Comedians to Watch? Is Opie a la Baju? They asked Opie, what have you learned about your joke writing process? Opie said, for me, the best jokes take a long time to develop. I have jokes from when I first started that still aren’t finished.

Finding the balance of a joke is the hardest part. The only solution is to keep coming back and tinkering with the bit. All right, Opie, what comedy hill will you die? On? His answer, I don’t think comic should be allowed to post photos of themselves on stage from a show they know they bombed at.

Best advice, worst advice, he says, the best comedy advice I got was to quit. The worst advice I got was keep going. Nicole Byer spoke to Cosmo about Taylor Swift. Nichol’s like, people stop talking about her. It’s not that I don’t like her, She’s just not interesting to me.

They were talking about Taylor at the football game a few weeks back. She was dipping chicken nuggets and some ketchup and Ranch. Cosmo was like, I hear you’re also a Ranch fan, Nicole. People don’t like this, but I love Ranch. And steak.

I think it’s delicious. I will literally put ranch on everything. Cosmo was curious, what prompted you to try that combination in the first place. Nicole said, you know when you eat dinner at home with your family and whatever, and everything kind of goes on the same plate. I think I was having salad once and the ranch dribbled over to the steak, and then I was like, wait a minute, this is delightful and delicious.

I used to go to a sandwich shop on the Upper West Side. They had the best ranch. One day, I was raving about the ranch and I was like, what’s in this? Is it? Oh made?

What’s your recipe?

And then they took out a giant vat of craft ranch, like it’s nothing special,…

Vulture did an updated list of who is likely to be in the movie. Very very very likely to be in the movie because they were announced. Joe McHale as Jeff Danny PuTTY’s Abed, Alison Breeze, Annie Gillian Jacob Za, Britta, Jim Rashes Craiga The Dean, and Ken Jung has been Dan Hormon has claimed that all the cast members other than Chevy Chase have agreed to return. All right. What about Donald Glover’s Troy Harmon is confirmed, There’s no need to worry about that, as the film was scheduled to be in production in Atlanta to accommodate Glover’s schedule.

Hormon told Variety last November, Glover is down to clown. I would not want to think about making the movie without Donald. Last month, he said Donald is coming based on word of mouth. He explained the deal might just not be official enough to confirm the Clover’s part of the cast. Glover himself said I haven’t seen the script, don’t know and untrue Dan Harmon fashion will probably get it on the first day.

But yeah, it’s supposed to be happening, all right. What about event Nicole Brown’s surely well? Joe mcchal has tagged both Brown and Glover on Twitter in his post in announcing the movie. To that tweet, Brown responded, it’s happening. Congrats, So it seems like Shirley would be in the movie, right.

What about John Oliver’s Professor Ian Duncan, a Reddit user, has claimed early in the year, they attended a taping of Last Week Tonight and asked Oliver about it, and at that time John said he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to do it because he’s busy with Last Week Tonight. He said he’d like to do the movie if he could pop in whenever he had a break. All right, What about Jonathan Banks, he played Buzz Hickey. What about Paget, Brewsters, Frankie and Keith David’s Elroy from the last season. No news on any of them.

What about Chevy Chass Pierce. I don’t think that’s gonna happen. John Cleese said he’s struggling to get guests willing to discuss woke issues on Klees’s new show for gb News. Clee said, one university professor from Oregon told me more people have been fired during the woke period than were fired during mccartheism in the fifties. That go after people, and an awful lot of people are very, very scared of that, which is why people with a higher profile have to discuss it as if they’re not frightened of getting fired.

Most people are frightened of getting fired, and the people will employ them are frightened of getting fired, and that end of Woke is not very nice. His new show is called The Dinosaur Hour. It’s aimed at dinosaurs who were out of touch. It also has a lot of very good guests who aren’t celebrities. Yes, you’ve got to have a certain number of celebrities to get people to turn on, but then you can interview people who are really interesting, and a lot of celebrities aren’t interesting at all.

This show is for all who are out of touch, all the dinosaurs who are out of touch. You could be out of touch for two reasons. You can be voluntarily out of touch because you’ve given up, which is a very sensible point of view, where you could be out of touch without knowing it. But it’s for those sorts of people. The new show will be set in a castle.

He said it was extraordinary with the setting. I wanted to make it look like a very very strange gentleman’s club, a little like the bar in Star Wars. He almost made a new series for Netflix, and he said, I gave them six ideas and I thought two were really good, and they never even called my agent back, and you kind of think, what are you looking for? I have no idea what they’re looking for. The main thing is you get older, is you realize very few people have any idea what they’re doing.

Fellow Monty Python or Michael Palin, was interviewed by The Sunday Times and he talked about the emptiness he has experienced in the wake of his wife’s death. Michael said, when someone’s gone, someone who’s been so much part of your life for the past sixty years, you can’t believe if they’re not there to enjoy a little joke or an observation or complain about somebody, A great sort of emptiness comes in. Palin, who’s eighty now, said his wife had relied on dialysis for many years in order to keep her alive, and that she eventually took the decision, along with the kids and the doctors, to give it up. Pylon said he’d never seen her happier in a way than during the final ten days of her life after choosing to stop dialysis. She’d accepted it, We’d accepted it.

She was in a wonderful hospice. The children and grandchildren had all come to see her, so her death was a great deliverance for her. Palan said he experienced a full circle moment when he had to register his wife’s death, during which he saw a couple with a young baby at the registry office and he said, I saw the father holding on his chest this tiny, tiny little newborn baby, and I thought, yeah, that’s it. A new person. One in, one out.

I’m not going to leave you. On that note. Yahoo also talked to Palin and the topic is can there be a Monty Python reunion? The answer the two arena shows in twenty fourteen were our final hurrah. We got all the Pythons together, part of course for Graham, who died nineteen eighty nine, for all of us, that was a remarkable series of shows.

The great thing about Python was we were always keen to do something new and different. Taking a long run of shows around the world wouldn’t have worked. We’ve gotten board stiff. We were gonna do four shows at the O two, and the bookings were so good we did ten. It was terrific.

The feeling from the audience was incredible. I don’t think you could ever recreate that. We broke through some barrier with Python. Comedy shows were either Dad’s Armies or sitcoms, and easy to categorize. Python was scatter gun you didn’t know what you’re gonna get when you sat down and watch Python.

So many people like that. People don’t always quote things, but they’ll try to retell a sketch, don’t get it right. The Lumberjacks song and the Spanish Inquisition are the ones people tend to do most. And that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and big time Mets van. Jerry Seinfeld is warming up to the Phillies. Jerry, what the hell, dude? Jerry spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jerry’s playing Philadelphia tonight at the Met and they asked him what do you hate more, watching the Mets lose or watching the Phillies win. Jerry answered that he really liked Bryce Harper storming up the third baseline last week to yell at Angel Hernandez, who’s an umpire. A lot of people don’t think Angel Hernandez is a good empire. I’ll leave it at that. Jerry said, that was so Philly.

That was so great. The interviewer was like, rivalry, no, Jerry said, I don’t think so. I don’t know what happened to it, but these things can always kindle at any time. It’s all about weird personalities. They pointed out there’s a TV show called Seinfeld.

There’s an episode called The Boyfriend Keith Hernandez episode you’ve seen this, yes, that takes place at a Mets first Phillies game. Jerry said, just seemed like a very classic rivalry. At that time. I don’t know if there’s much of that left today. Once my team is out, I just pick another team.

I base it on watching them play. I like the Phillies this year. They’re exciting, great energy. Jerry, No no, no, no, no no. Pick somebody else.

What are you doing? Jerry says he loves Northeast attitudes and Northeast humor. And my friend Kevin Ord always tells me, if you can get laughs in Philly, you’re ready to go anywhere. Of course, that’s the New York cliche, but it’s also true of Philly. Their audience is very discriminating, and they know their stuff.

Philly is the greatest food since Jerry. Philly and Chicago are I think the best food cities I go to. Hmmm, I think I agree. I love Chicago food too, And I was down in suburban Philly last night and had a delicious cheese steak that I couldn’t even finish. And I can finish food.

That’s me talking, not Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry said, somebody will always recommend something I haven’t heard of, some Giro sandwich place or something, and I love doing that. I wonder if Jerry said Giro’s I’m reading a text hero. If he just said gyros Jerry’s from Queen’s, I’m sure he just said gyros. Lenno was asked, at this stage of your career, the things you find funny now that maybe you didn’t before.

Interesting answer, Leno said, it’s actually the other way around. It’s stuff that we found funny before that you can’t do now. But you know, it’s not bad. Like everything else. In old days, there were women in gay jokes, and it’s probably better that we don’t do those anymore.

I think you can tease and poke fun of people. It’s a classic case of if they’re laughing with you and you’re not laughing at them. I don’t find it that hard. Everybody likes being teased in that sense of humor. You have to know when you cross the line, and it’s a fine line.

In comedy, Bill Birds all the Canton rap that I don’t do her stand up as much as you would think. It’s more I go out and live a life and then I have stuff to talk about. It took me forever to learn that I’m always the butt of the family jokes except with my wife, and she can take it. If you go see Bill Bird. Bill Burr says, what’s great is you’re gonna hear a bunch of stuff that maybe you don’t want to hear, and maybe you can experience something different and laugh and learn something or not like something, and then like the next thing.

Bill talked about playing big venues like Fenway Park or Madison Square Garden. It’s unbelievable. It doesn’t make any sense. You definitely have Imboster syndrome before you go out there, at least I did before I started playing bigger venues. As crazy as it sounds, I’ve kind of gotten used to it.

I approach it the same way as when I was playing half filled comedy clubs. Sam Morrell was on the Creative Control podcast Creative with a K. Control with a K. Is Sam doing political comedy. He says, I look at it as social commentary.

I don’t think it’s political. I’m not condemning either side. Really, when I think of a political comic, I think they’re leaning hard into one side, and I don’t like that. I like the people from both sides can come to my show. I don’t think it’s my job to tell people how to think.

But then inevitably, certain bits will have an angle in a stance, but I don’t like to hammer people that. I think it feels more political, and I don’t like partisan comedy. Look, I dabble occasionally have one. You’re like, Eh, this is gonna tick someone off, But I just think it’s really funny, so ef it. I think there’s fun in making fun of everyone, and I think I’m not doing it in such a harsh way to the person getting hitchouldn’t laugh at it.

But that’s kind of the type of comedy that got me into comedy. When I was a kid, my mom saw me laughing on my discman and she was like, what is he listening to? I was so young. She grab my headphones put it on. It was Chris Rock’s album Roll with the New and I saw this look of horror come over my mind’s face, followed by her laughing, and I was like, Wow, that’s beautiful.

The Chris Rock has the ability to push you there, you know what I mean. That’s when I fell in love with Rock’s comedy at such a young age. He was so good at ticking you off in the setup and then making you how with laughter at the end of the joke. I mean, it’s my favorite type of joke. Bert Kreischer was out surfing.

He shared some video of it. This from surfermagazine dot com You’re home for comedy News. Apparently Bert did, okay, this articles in English and I’m reading it and I’m like, I don’t know what we’re talking about. Bert was so stoked he posted on Instagram and name dropped a few North Shore rippers. Dude, I’m tagging Nathan Florence in this, I’m tagging all the guys.

And apparently he tagged Florence Rothman and Jimmie O’Brien. Surfers are like, yeah, of course he did.

All right, let’s look more at the Vulture list of the comedians you should an…

Twenty five comics who industry insiders predictably be tomorrow superstars Stavrols Halkias. I feel like he’s been kind of visible. Yes no, yes, Yes. Twenty two special Live at the Lodge Room is full of material on his favorite pleasure center. His Body Is His Body, Sex, his sex Life, threesomes, Food, Drugs, and Self Loathing is another special on the way.

He’s been posting clips of his crowd Work for the last year and recently put them together as a half hour crowd Work only special. Gary Golman’s not gonna like that. Rob Hayes a certain he’d be famous by now if he had an interesting story. He tells a joke. Hayes says, I would go to church and they’d be like, God doesn’t give you more than you can handle.

And he says, I’m like, yo, God thinks I’m weak. Is Brian reagan esk nac for attacking subjects from multiple angles was put to great use in twenty twenty one when Hayes and Jamelle Johnson created Sneak This, a sneaker centric sketch show, say that three times fast I did. I got it in the first try. I sort of didn’t do an in it there. They did that for Bleacher Report Kicks that covered everything from engineering a robot to buy sneakers online to the excuses sneaker heads used to justify their spending.

That sounds like a ton of fun. Jordan Jensen is fond of saying she’s like this because she was quote re by a pack of lesbians. She slouches pulse faces, speaks with a growl, and interrupts herself, punctuates thoughts with the word dude. She is not prim jokes are often gloriously gross. She’s obsessed with sex, unseemly behavior, and all the thoughts that should be too unpleasant or uncomfortable to say out loud.

Andrea Jin says Vulture is the polstered child for gen Z Comedy Online. She’s a slightly messy, older sister type, speaking to TikTok and its native language by talking about core memories and past lives regression. On stage, she’s drolly at fashionable, seeming a little bit bored by the act of speaking, and slightly offended when people laugh at her. A very fun bit for comedian to have one more Rachel Kayley, Vulture writes judaism, being gay, mental illness. These are but some of the foundations on which so much comedy is built.

But few minds are able to combine these ingredients into a rich, humorous borsht quite like a Rachel Kayley. Kaylee’s delivery often sounds like thinking out loud, unsettling stand up cliches intentionally stripped of polish, particularly when she records in unlikely places like their apartment or on the side of the road ten minutes special about airplane on airplane is filmed from an economy window seat. I want to be respectful here. I’m not familiar with Rachel, and the Vulture article is using both the pronouns she and they. The parts I read there, I read as they had it written, and that is an awkward thing to take into the commercial breaks.

Let me add one more Edie Mootica. If you’re like, who’s that? Did you watch Jury Duty? You know the main woman that the Jury Duty guys kind of paleling around with and maybe they’re going to hook up, That’s who Ediemotica is. Modica’s characterization of Genie is the character brushes right up next to the line of too far.

She’s full of sexually inappropriate equips, touchy, and often a ridiculous mess, and yet her performance is layered and thoughtful enough to keep it just barely in bounds. Dean Horman’s a little stressed about this community movie because once the actor strike ends, there’s some pretty big people in community. Donald Glover’s a lot more in demand than he was when he first played True. Alison Brie gets a lot of work, you know what, I’m saying here, so Harmon says, the thing that’s gonna matter most to me as an audience member, to anybody who loved that show is seeing that people see each other and they still love each other, and it’s not gonna feel the same if you’re shooting them separately at different months, in different locations. I hate to say out terrified I am to do it wrong, because it’s part of me that knows that that fear can’t possibly result in a good thing, and you’re not gonna get anywhere doing an impression of what you think you should do or what you think they want.

But I really don’t want to do it wrong, and it’s truly terrifying. But then I’m holding onto the hope that being honest with myself about how scared am is at least a way to break the cycle. The Groundlings will be hosting a musical improv fundraiser and the Performing Arts Center in Vista del Mar on October twenty sixth. It’s the Groundlings One Night only. What is this?

They’re trying to raise money for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. It will see stars like Will Forte and a guest I are Kristin Wigg Mikhayela Watkins, Kristin Bell, Jim Rash, the Dean from Community, and a bunch of others. The show is called One Night Only. It will see a full production of a Broadway musical with the improvisers getting their scripts with one day’s notice. That’s fun October twenty sixth, This weekend, It’s the Because of their Funny Comedy Festival that’ll be at the Wharf in Washington, d C.

The comedy event will feature a competition to determine the Breakout Comedian of the Year, a woman focused comedy special on a homecoming lineup featuring black comedians from d C. Jeff Friday is one of the organizers that says, what we’re trying to do now is really spearhead, Who’s the next Monique, Who’s the next deal? Hugh Glee. DC is probably the smartest, most interesting city in the country. You know, it’s not Miami Beach, but this is a really special city.

Tonight it’s the Breakout Comedian of the Year competition hosted by d C Youngfly Saturday, Hey Ladies, Fierce female comedy show that’ll include performances by Leunel, Nicole Bayer, Aggo Nuotam and Aita Rodriguez. That’s a good show. Sunday, The DMV Black Comedy Homecoming Show, hosted by Avon Orgi, features Tommy Davidson, Donnell Rawlings, Tony Woods, and some others. Dcist pointed out notably, Dave Chappelle is not on any lineup during the weekend. They asked about it, and the answer is, Dave’s not a tour.

He said, he’s not in the lineup. We’re hoping him come. A lot of people would invited that aren’t on a lineup, and yeah, same answer. That’s why Dave Chpelle’s not on today’s podcast. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late Night back for like one night, and already the jokes have fallen off a cliff. I went through all the recaps. The only one I really liked was about Donald Trump’s truth social posts referring to late night hosts as low rated creeps of late night television and true losers. Stephen Colbert said, thank you for watching, sir, but I’m not surprised he’s a seventy seven year old white guy.

Of course he’s watching CBS. That was it. Let me flip the order around today and start with an article that I just hadn’t had time to get to this week because it’s been such a busy week. But it’s pretty major article from Vulture, The Comedians You Should and Will Know in twenty twenty three, twenty five comics who industry insiders predict will be tomorrows superstars. Vulture writes.

If you live in New York, LA or Chicago, or you don’t, but you do spend a lot of time on TikTok, you’re well aware that there are almost too many talented comedians you should know sketch group stand ups and people making weird animated videos or singing funny songs in their part, It’s harder than ever to predict which of these performers will end up being a big deal and which of them are just people the algorithm has assigned to you. In particular, Vultra says, these are the comedians you will know because they’re creating all kinds of weird and wonderful work while introducing a range of new perspectives and sensibilities to the art form. Vulture pulled more than a hundred industry insiders, including bookers, producers, artistic directors at theaters, talent scouts, TV executives, heads of podcast networks and comedy record labels, comedy photographers, and previous comedians you should and will know. More than two hundred comedians, duos and groups got at least one vote, But here are the twenty five. I’ll do the overview today.

In the upcoming weeks, I’ll look at some of the breakouts that Vulture did in alphabetical order by last name. Fumi Abbe in his stand up, Abbe rings gold from his internal contradictions, bringing sex jokes down to earth by inevitably focusing on the un sexy details. Bro Humor is a fine line of walk, and Abbe has mastered the ways to make it work by infusing his anecdotes with vulnerability. He has a new podcast, Cash Cuts, in which he puts his analytical streak and friendly but brutal honesty to good use, reading and judging his comedian friend’s critit card statements. That’s fun.

Brian Bahi. I caught him at New Faces in one story where an Asian woman mistakes Baje for an Asian person that she used to know because he’s quote Asian passing. He’s impassive. He goes, yeah, it works. Been crazy.

Ralph Barbosa. If you listen every day, you’ve heard me mention Ralph he out of this group. He and Nimish Patel’s on this list as well. Barbosa’s like right on the verge, if not already there. Barbosa’s joke about climate change, We’ve turned the earth into like a ninety nine hont A civic.

Yeah. I don’t want this to die. This is my only ride, but I’m not going to keep putting money into this thing. You may recall Barbosa hit the news last year when George Lopez said nobody knows who that MFR is why you’re saying his name. Barbosa, seemingly unfazed, reposted the clip to his Instagram with a caption that read, It’s all good, baby, The future is now Old Man Ralph Barbosa’s first hour long special Cowabunga on Netflix October thirty one, so everyone will know who he is.

Then, next up Charlie Bartley and Natalie Roder Lateman from Exploration Live. They teach their audience what it means to be a coffee shop celeb. That’s when you enter a coffee shop and know the barista. It’s a show about ideas, theories, axioms and concepts. The smaller and more discreet, the better, Sophie Buttle.

On The Late Late Show with Gordon in twenty one, Sophie Budle performed a bit about her boyfriend’s schoolgirl fantasy that doubles is a metaphor of her comedic approach. She says, sometimes it’s a grewn up lady. You have to act like a little baby. It’s weirdly a part of growing old. Valtre calls Budle a smart and Wallerhurst comedian reminiscent of a young Sarah Silverman.

Curtis Cook mixes the smart with the dumb, the Vitamin K with the melted cheese, and that’s led to producing comedies like This Fool and American Dad, writing for the Crank Anchors reboot, and a discussion of Kanye West that somehow got the Jim Jeffrey Show audience on board with the idea of the Black Panther Party. Katrina Davis her go to move on stage is to turn one palm upward, cock her head and squinter I at the audience, as if to say, I can’t believe I have to explain this to you. I’ll dive in more on that list tomorrow. Trevor Noah my favorite topic right now. He shared a lengthy post on Instagram about his visit to India.

Trevor shared a bunch of photos and he left a message for those fans in Bengaluru. Remember the show that didn’t go so well and then he made some jokes and then people were mad. You’ve been paying attention all week. Trevor wrote, what an experience it was coming and performing in your country for the first time. Thank you for sharing your rich history, your delicious cuisine, and your fantastic arguments with me.

They get everybody who came out to the shows in Delhi and Mumbai because you made it truly unforgettable Bangalore. Our story isn’t done. I’ll be back and next time we’ll make sure it’s the best show ever. In other Trevor Noah news, I told you I was googling Trevor no I mentioned that yesterday. He’s one of the people I’m extra looking up this week.

Trevor and Jacinda Ardern, remember her, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand. Yeah, you know that is. They’re going to the annual Sustainability Conference in Dublin in November. They’ll be there together. Why, I don’t know either.

AIBACH executive Colin Hunt Great Name said the theme of this year’s event would be It’s Time to Act, reiterating the urgent action needed. Oh there’s a third Trevor Noah story. Deadline says that they’re looking to make a UK version of Lol Last One. Laughing. In the Lol Last One, Laughing, comedians stay in a living room style studio for several hours, during which they have to make the other comedians laugh by any means possible while not reacting to the opponent’s attempts to make them laugh.

At the first laugh, you get a yellow card. If you get a second yellow card, it’s like soccer. That’s a red card and then you’re out. The only way to communicate with the outside is a telephone controlled by the host. Trevor Noah is going to host the South African version.

For the UK version, they don’t know who’s going to host it. In Ireland, it will be hosted by Graham Norton. It’s only a matter of time before that comes to the States. Nate Bergazy is launching the nate Land Company. That’s a family friendly content company that promises to entertain audiences of all ages.

Based in Nashville, the Nateland Company will feature comedic content on its YouTube channel, including stand up comedy, special sketches, scripted content for film and TV, podcasts, music, and more. Nate in the statement said, the nate Land Company is committed to producing high quality content that inspires and entertains while upholding values of respect, kindness, and inclusivity with a focus on laughter. Blah blah blah.

Let’s get to it.

To kick things off, they’re debuting nate Land presents The Showcase, a series that spotlights a diverse array of up and coming comics, hosted by Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber, and Brian Bates, taped at Zany’s in Nashville. There will also be a podcast version of it. Nate’s company has already produced three full length comedy specials, including Mike Vicky Owns The Attractives, Greg Warrens The Salesman, and Joe Zimmerman’s cult classic Very Cool. I Like Nate a lot. Matt Rife apparently has one major regret.

According to Yahoo, that’s his twenty nineteen comment telling Pete Davidson to run from ex girlfriend Kate Beckinsale. Rife said, I gave that advice because I was only speaking for personal experience, having been together and finding out that we weren’t the most compatible match. I wanted to make sure that both of them were careful with their emotions didn’t head into something that they also wouldn’t work out. Riife had a quote complicated, year long relationship with beck in Sale, who’s now fifty, that started in twenty seventeen ended a year later. After that.

Apparently, Kate date Pete Davidson at that time. Riife offered some man to man dating advice recap by TMZ. That advice was Joey, why you can hope they’re both happy. I don’t know if he said it like this. I hope it can build to where it’s an established good relationship.

I wish both the best, hope they’re happy. I don’t really have salid advice. Just be careful, Raife said, I were good saying that. Pete, if you’re out there, sorry I said that, Kate. I also apologized that I said that I shouldn’t have said that.

The Rogue Island Comedy Festival is back tonight, Baby Up in Rhode Island, Dan Saint Germaine doing two shows. Comedy Central stand Up featuring back in New York City for its fourteenth season, showcasing the next generation of stand up stars. The press release tells us come es Central continues to introduce the world to the sharpest and most distinct voices in comedy, and these special tapings will feature six to ten minute short sets. It’s at the Cutting Room in Manhattan. Starts tonight, two shows six thirty and nine.

The shows are free twenty one and over. Who’s playing six thirty show Ayana Dookie, Great Names, Sam Morrison, Chineado, Unaka Holmes, randall Otis, Lucas Zelnik and Kate Sisk Nine o’clock Show, Tommy Brennan, Grace Kohlan Schmidt, Hussama, Sidik, Mark Small’s, Mava Viola, Asha Ward, Ethan Simmons, Patterson and Eagle Witt. Zanab Johnson will have her first ever stand up comedy special, His Jabs Off That’ll be on Amazon October twenty fourth, who was recorded at the Harlem Stage in New York and explores her identity as a black female Muslim, having twelve siblings and growing up in Harlem. I thought this was interesting. Volkswagen did an advertisement for its electric car and it was kind of wrapped up as a late night comedy special.

It aired on September sixteenth from two to six am, with late night viewers seeing the brand spokesperson and Quebec comedian Pierre Luke Funk perform improvised comedy sketches while waiting for his electric vehicle to charge. I don’t know if you like want to go out of your way to remind everybody it takes four hours to charge, and believe me, I’m a big climate change guy. I’m all in favor of just figuring out the electric card thing, but you know four hours is going to be like what. A forty minute version of the specials now available for streaming on neu Veaux dot Caovo dot Ca, along with four smaller clips showcasing the best of Funk sketches. The segment titled pardon my French sans emission something like that except properly pronounced, was filmed at a single sequence using a sound stage that doubled as an EV charging station.

Sans Emission has two meetings in Quebec. The first no broadcast, indicating the overnight period when TV stations go dark, and no emission a reference to the lack of greenhouse gases produced by electric vehicles. I spend some time in France in March of twenty like, I don’t know, six seconds before the pandemic, and my French was getting like oh heay, like off my accent. Everybody knew that I was clearly not French. If I didn’t speak, I could pass as a local.

People were asking me for directions and they would come up and speak, you know, very quickly to me, and I would just do that I don’t know you’re saying thing. But I was getting around. I was able to order food and stuff and read signs a little rusty. There was this pandemic and I stopped working on my French. I was doing this duelingo.

I was all into. It was pretty good.

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And then I don’t know, I got busy.

But when we got to Charles Dagaull Airport, and again this was did I say March no ilid It was Valentine’s Day weekend of twenty twenty. When we landed at a gaul there was a line that was like, are you from China? If you’re in China, you get over there. They were like already not messing around. And I know I just like really did that forcefully.

That’s how it felt us, Like are you from trying to get over there? And it was this whole separate line of people with masks and you guys, stay the heck over there. We don’t mix it with everybody else. It was normal. But then about I don’t know, three days later was the night when the president closed all the airports.

Was like, oh, yeah, you can’t fly from Europe to America. Sucks to be you. And I was like, Oh glad, I’m home. I digress. I was telling you about this thing that aired on French Canadian TV.

The live stream was teased as if it were a real TV shows during the popular comedian time to coincide with the highly anticipated fall TV season in Quebec. One of the people behind it said, we had listenings in the TV guide in advance of the live broadcast, so we really did treat it like entertainment. The BBC has canceled Upstart Crow. That was a David Mitchell series in which he played William Shakespeare. David Mitchell’s hoping they can make more, he says, but at the moment we lack a broadcast partner.

At the moment, no one’s saying they’ll pay to make it so we can make some more. I’m not pointing the finger at the BBC. There are other broadcasters they could all get in such reviews for this sitcom were mostly strong. Ortle says The once lukewarm Telegraph newspaper called the final regular episode forcically funny but with a bittersweet twist good news for my wife only. Murders in the Building has been renewed for a fourth season.

I got home last night and she was watching the finale of the third season and was like, yeah, I hope they were new it, and I’m like, don’t worry, they will. I was right. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you gear shows, Tell a friend about it. See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night was back, Baby, and they had some good jokes about their absence. Jimmy Kimmel said, we’ve been gone so long. The Bachelor’s now a grandfather.

That is a great joke. Fallon. The stalemate finally ended when the studios realized we’ve got to end this now, where it’s another three months of watching suits fallon again. It’s kind of weird coming back after being gone for five months. The studio was empty for so long.

NBC converted it to a spirit Halloween. Seth Meyers said he missed his writers so much. I was so happy, so happy to see them in this morning, although by lunch I was a little over it. Jimmy Fallon again. I was more excited than the guy seeing Beetlejuice with Lauren Bobert.

Think about it, Fallon Again. Yea, everybody’s excited today. My dad called up and said, finally I can watch Kimmel again. Seth Meyers thanked his family, noting it was not easy to have me around for five months. I’ll never forget the day this summer my seven year old came up to me and said, not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today, I’m not going to care what he does tomorrow.

While I hear that, I do think he missing out, all right, Trevor Noah. This whole India thing is just wonderful. I mean, I love when there’s a story that comes out of nowhere and I get so much content out of it. I told you yesterday Trevor’s comments about how poorer he felt the venue was for his canceled shows. Didn’t phrase that correctly.

You know what I meant. Well. People on social media are now upset with Trevor Noah. Some on Twitter called him overrated, while another question him for insulting the city, saying, don’t laugh, you idiots. He’ll go back to where he came from.

Do the same to your city as well. Another shared some laugh at this attempt at crass humor. Noah’s overrated. Those mouth sounds are amateur. Give me Vierdas any day you tell him.

Speaking of Vierdas, he has been nominated for an International Emmy Award. I didn’t know that was the thing. The International Emmy Award any Comedy category. This for his last Netflix special Landing landing was a response to the Two India’s controversy that Vierdas was caught in. I wonder if people were upset about him.

More Awards news. I had mentioned to you that the Golden Globe Awards have introduced a category for best stand up Comedy performance. That’s good for me, more content for me. Some comedians weighed in. Gab Iglesia said we should just call it the Ricky Gervaise.

Joe Koy took this all so seriously and said he’s thrilled that the Golden Globes were acknowledging contributions of my fellow comedians in the world of stand up comedy. I have a deep passion for this beautiful art form and brings me immense joy to see them shine a spotlight on the exceptional work done by my colleagues in the industry. Taylor Thomlinson stand up is more popular than it’s ever been thanks to the Internet. It’s very cool to see it being recognized like this as an art form. Burt Kreisher, a little less quoti, said it was nice to know, for at least one meal a year, stand up comedy is finally invited to sit at the adult table.

We belong at the kids table, but it’s nice to know we can sit with the grown ups and they’ll let us drink golden globes. January six comedians will dooke it out for the title. Can’t wait to see who is nominated there.

Speaking of Bert Kreisher, he suited up with the Anaheim Ducks.

It did not go well. He shared some videos of Burt approaching the ice on skates and said, all right, get ready for me to fall. He’d took a shot from clear across the ice trying to hit the net. It almost went in, it did not cross the goal line. No goal for you.

Craisher had made a promotional video asking the Anaheim Ducks if it could come over. Let’s listen. I think my wife’s wrong. I think this looks great on me, and it would look him in better in goalie equipment, gentlemen from the Ducks. I heard the offer September thirtieth.

I’m at the Honda Center performing that day. I’m all yours. You sent the offer to my wife for me to try out for goalie. Send it to me next time. She said, no.

My answers yes, my answers always yes. I want to be a goalie for a day. Gear me up. We’re going tarps off. You guys will test for steroids due you.

Bert Kreisher were a number eleven Ducks Jersey with last name The Machine. By the way, The Machine is streaming on Netflix now. I haven’t gotten to it yet, looking forward to that. Kraishier is often partner in crime Comedy Something podcasting Change the Life of Chase Thompson. Thompson works at Wilford’s, a barber shop on South Jefferson Street in Pensacola.

He’s been a barber for five years and he has a long list of clients, about sixty eight eighty people per week. One of them Tom Segura. Thompson reached out to Segora on Twitter about two years ago. By the way, this from w ea RTV, before Segora was going to play Pensacola, and he offered to give the comedian a haircut while he was in town. Thompson said it was as simple as reaching out to him on social media.

He was here for show and asked him if he wanted to get cleaned up before show. Segura said yeah. Thompson added, I thought at that point that was cool, even if it doesn’t come into the shop. I was super happy that they wrote me back one day in Walks, Tom Segora Toompson said, the first fifteen minutes were kind of nerve wracking. What’s the nerves went away?

I was just in my zone, it my thing. It was fine. I just didn’t want to cut him. That would have been bad. I mean, we all love Tom Segura, and I don’t know what person would be in the barber chair.

They would be super intimidated cutting their hair. I’m not a haircutter. There must be somebody who’s really known for their famous hair that you wouldn’t want to mess up. But I don’t know. What’s the worst that happens.

You give Tom Segora a bad haircut and he makes fun of you on stage and gets ten minutes out of it. Segora now flies Thompson out to tour locations to get such ups. Sagora says, Chase is a magician with blades and scissors. Thompson said, I didn’t think I traveled this much in this job, going to California, Phoenix, being with him and the crew, sivil things, going to dinners and just hang out in green rooms. It’s very surreal.

Sompson says. They always have you on standby, so when the phone rings, I’ll be there. Thank you Batman, Hey, this is cool. A long last classic from British comedy from the Monty Python ors have been found. All six episodes of The Complete and Utter History of Britain have been rediscovered.

They were found in the ITV archives. They’ve been misfiled for decades. The series is a mockumentary style look at British history as if TV had existed centuries ago. Sketches include postgame interviews with participants in the Battle of Hastings and Julius Caesar’s home movies. The show was created, written by, and starred Terry Jones and Michael Palin you know them from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

After the Complete Nutter History, they moved to join forces with some other young British comedy writers. They became Anti Pythons Flying Circus. Prior to this, they thought only two episodes and a couple of clips had survived. All that was released on DVD in twenty fourteen as the new Incomplete Complete Nutter History of Britain. The show has now been fully restored and is streaming on it TV Premium, and we’ll see if it gets a physical release.

Billy Connolly spoke to nm E. He had some nice things to say about black comedians, generally in their fifties and sixties, saying they say it like it is, it’s breathtaking. That’s wonderful, and I’m glad they exist because the social workeration that has passed through comedies. Vomit inducing comedians never used to worry about what’s correct to say. You said it, and you soon found out whether it was correct or not, and then you’ve got on with it.

That was a good enough rule for me. I’m wondering who he means. I’m thinking of people that fit that general description, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock.

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Meanwhile, Katherine Ryan is catching some pushback.

She was on Desert Island discs. There’s an Island disc was recorded to September six, before the Russell Brand allegations were published. Now Previously, Ryan had said she had wrestled with the decision on working with an unnamed comedian she believed to be a perpetrator of sexual assault. On Desert Island discs recorded in early September before the brand accusations came out. Catherine Ryan said, I got a lot of why won’t you say it is?

It’s because everyone knows who it is. What they want is the women’s names, and that’s what I won’t give. And that’s why I’m reluctant. No one’s asking for his name. It’s funny how people go straight to accusing you’re the problem.

You won’t give his name. We’re not the problem. If I had a choice, I could go to work with someone who I believe to be a perpetrator of sexual assault, or I could turn down the job. Those were my options. Ryan said she believed at the time the person was or is dangerous, but felt she would have achieved nothing by turning down the show.

My compromise was, I’m going to go and let him know, under no uncertain terms, what I think of him. I’m not just gonna allow this behavior. I’m not going to let him think that I don’t know and that everybody works with it is just going to let him get away with it. So that’s the attitude. I took another show, and I do the right thing of the wrong thing.

I still don’t know, but I just felt, why should I stay home? He should stay home, But if he’s going to be there, I’m going to be there and tell him what I think. This year’s edition of the long running Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine fundraiser for the Scleroderma Research Foundation will be a tribute to Bob Saggatt, who was a longtime board member and co host of the event. This year’s event Wednesday, November eighth, at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, part of the New York Comedy Festival. Comedian Jeff Ross will host the event.

It will also feature Michael Chay and Nicky Glazer. I missed one. I didn’t tell you yesterday Beth Stelling. If you Didn’t Want Me premiered on Netflix. It’s still there.

You can watch it out tomorrow on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Greg Warren’s The Salesman. Friday digitally, The Road Dog, a movie starring Doug Stanhope, will be out and also on Friday on YouTube. Joe Paris Slow and Steady. Thank you to Sleeves the Rabbit who left a five star review on Apple Podcasts.

Sleeves thank you for listening every day and wrote, I’m a long time listener and I’ve always appreciated Johnny’s delivery and occasional mom and Terry. Someone else wrote a comment that he’s negative to women, and I honestly don’t see that at all. I know that he’s mentioned liking several female comedians and included many in his favorite comedy specials of the year. As a queer, trans female comedian myself, I think it would be great to see more coverage of comedians of my ILK, but I know he’s largely just reporting on what he sees written in the news media, which is largely male focused, so I don’t know if there’s much that can be done on that front. Hey, thanks for listening.

Shoot me some of your stuff. I’ll share a clip. Be happy to and your analysis is correct. As I put together the show, usually I start with I go to Google and I type in the word comedy and I see what’s there. Comedian is the second thing I searched for.

I also follow a bunch of sources on Twitter. There’s a few websites I check out. If it’s a slower newsday, I will start to type in the names of actual comedians. I’ll often find gold under the names Chappelle, Malaney, Gaffigan, Davidson. They tend to turn up a lot of random things.

If there’s still nothing, I’ll go a little deeper and I’ll type in words like Segura, Krazher. As I talk, I realize I haven’t mentioned any women in that list. I think that’s just because the names I mentioned tend to talk a lot, and some of them, Pete David, Dave Chappelle tend to be involved in stories with colorful details that I get a lot of stuff out of, like this week, the Trevor Noah thing. This is a week where I’m going out of my way to look up Trevor Noah because the India stuff is just fascinating to me and hilarious. But yeah, there tends to be more material about mail comedians, and I think that’s probably if we looked at if I don’t know, we put every comedian who performs the United States in a room and we counted, there’d probably be some sort of percentage that would lean mail.

And I think that’s kind of where the news falls out. Following your sentence, as a queer, trans female comedian, I think it’d be great to see more coverage of comedians with my ILK again, I’d be happy to as long as the news is out there. If there are some sources, good websites, please put it on my nose, I’d be happy to. As for the pushback on negative two women, and I’m going to hang myself here by doing this next story, A lot of that comes back to the early days of the podcast. During the pandemic, there was a comedian I’m about to talk about who I don’t know why the industry went straight to anointing this person as the next great thing.

And I’m a Mets fan, and Mets fans do this thing where you get called up from the minor leagues and you get two hits, and suddenly Mets fans will be like, Oh, so and So’s going straight to the Hall of Fame. So and So’s the next Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle, Tom sever you know, whoever it is. It’s straight like nobody can just be like good. They have to be the next awesome thing. So during the pandemic there was a comedian, Sarah Cooper.

Sarah has a new book out this week, which is why she’s back in the news, and she blew up on TikTok and on TikTok. She was taking the audio of Donald Trump and pantomiming to it. Okay, fine, and the mainstream media looked at that and went, oh my god, this is the future of comedy. Here’s a list of things that happened based upon Sarah Cooper pantomime to Donald Trump on social media. She got to host Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Yeah, she got offered a roll on a sitcom. Okay. She sold two TV pilots, one a project with Ricky Jervaised to Netflix and another based on a book she had written a few years before that, to CBS. Okay, fine, and she got a Netflix special directed by Natasha Leone. Again, going straight from pantomiming to Donald Trump, which isn’t hey, I’m telling jokes, it’s Donald Trump is saying words and I’m remouthing them to a Netflix special.

Seemed a little quick to me. And I used to comment them that all the time, and that rubbed some of the audience the wrong way. Sarah Cooper’s new book is called Foolish. She recounts her roller coaster journey. The La Times profiled Sarah and says, instead of feeling like she won the lottery, she woke up with echoes of you suck, You’re such a loser bouncing around in her brain.

Netflix and CBS eventually passed on her pilots, her marriage collapsed, her online numbers dropped. Cooper said the Internet was sort of like this playground for me. I went sixty Twitter followers to two million, but a year and a half later, all of a sudden, I didn’t feel playful anymore. I was scared that everything I was putting out was being judged. I was scared if I put something out and it was stupid, it didn’t do well.

I would feel that people were saying SARAH’SAAKA has been so she stopped doing Trump. She says, I’m really sick of his voice now. A lot of people write me and want me to do Trump, though, write oh my god, he’s saying the dumbest things. If you do a video, it would make it so much better. And I think if you would just stop listening to him, it would make it so much better.

Those videos are both joyful and icky. I want to be in a world where I’m putting out stuff that makes me happy and brings laugh to me and perhaps other people, and that’s it. Sarah Cooper’s book is called Foolish if you want to check that out. This has nothing to do with comedy, but I just feel like people need to know this. Today at two twenty pm Eastern, there will be a nationwide emergency alert test on cell phones, wireless devices, radios, and TV.

So at two twenty Eastern today, everything is just going to go and people are going to freak out and think World War three started. The government tells us this is a standard test that occurs at least once every three years. No action is needed, but your phone is going to buzz today at two twenty and people might freak out. The tenth annual Santa Cruz Comedy Festival kicks off today Eddie Peppotone performing at the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery. On Friday, the Big Show at the Real Theater Mosha Casher, Marcella Orguello, and Lewis Katz On Saturday, forty comics will perform across seven venues in downtown Santa Cruz.

Sounds cool.

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Meanwhile, in Chicago, it’s the second annual Latina At Comedy Festival that’…

The festival features the best Latina, stand up comedic talent from across the country, including Chicago native Gwen La Rocca, Las Christina Galston, and New York’s Sherry Diaz and the final note of today is no fun. Bill Cosby reportedly has been hit with a new sexual battery lawsuit and an eleven page shivil complaint obtained by Deadline. A plaintiff alleges that Cosby drugged and raped her in nineteen seventy two. She claims she worked at a Bay Area restaurant that Bill Cosby frequented, and they once followed her home to invite her to a performance that was part of his stand up comedy album Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby. According to the complaint, the woman felt sick after Cosby gave her a glass of wine and a limousine on the way to the event.

She recalls accepting which she believed to be an aspirin from him in a dressing room at the show venue. You can imagine the rest and I have not seen a response from the Cosby camp. If they have one, I will share it with you. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, see tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy newho is going to flip the order around a little bit. I watched Shane Gillis’s new special on Netflix. Beautiful Dogs is the name of that one, if you haven’t seen it. I loved it.

I found Shane to be just so personable and having a good time and just up there and he knows it’s all fun and silly, and you can tell he’s enjoying that. You’re enjoying it. It feels like you’re at the tavern and you ran into a guy who’said no maybe two and a half beverages and is a little loose and telling some funny stories, and the guy’s just fun to be around. I liked it a lot. As I watched it, I was like, is this the best special of the year, And by the end I decided it’s the second best special of the year.

I’ll give you the updated top ten in a minute. I think part of that this keeps happening to me. So I go downstairs and I watch a comedy special. Now, a comedy special is an hour, no matter how long it is, but you know it’s an hour in concept, and it is a flow, right you start. I remember George Carlin’s manager, Jerry Hamza, explained to me one time the way Carlin would work is he would come out and do a bunch of ratitat tat jokes and that real quick Carlin.

Hey, you ever noticed something something punchline. He’d do a bunch of those, and then George would go into a long flowing thing, you know, one of those long especially lateness, care long rants, making a point and then come back and do a little ratitat tat and then leave with the big thought. So comedians will craft a set, but what happens is I’m watching it, I’m having a good time, and my wife comes down and then she’ll be like is he funny? And already I’m like, yes, yes, he’s funny.

And then she’ll stand there and it’ll be in the middle of something that has …

And what happened when I was watching this the other night? She starts sweeping the basement. So I’m sitting there and there’s this woman just going so I just I hit pause. I’m like, really, so, I don’t know, Shane, you might have had to run at number one, but I was interrupted. I like Shane’s a lot.

I also put on Lunel’s special. I lasted two minutes ten seconds. I could tell right away this was not going to be for me. I wanted to hit stop after I don’t know four seconds, and I hung in there and I was like, no, not feeling this at all. My opinion, Netflix clearly wants to be in the Dave Chappelle business.

Dave executive produce that one. I’m not sure how well that one’s going to do. Let’s look at the updated list of best of twenty twenty three. According to Johnny macde best special Love the Year is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short here you’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis pops in at number two.

Toms Agore three, four, Kyle Canine five, Napper Gatsy that came out back in January on Amazon, six, Michelle Wolf seven, Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl that’s on YouTube, eight, Jim Jeffries from Amazon in February, Hary Condobolu at nine that was on YouTube. And Chris Rock, remember he had a big special. It was a big deal. Yeah, I’m more fascinated with my not on the list. The not on the List includes releases by Jim Gaffigan, John Mliney, Lewis, Black, Mark Marin, and I’ve been on a big Mark Marin kick lately.

Bert Craisher, I didn’t love the middle nor in the end of that special. Andrew Santino, Kevin Hartt, Lewin ELL’s so a bit of a comedy snob. Johnny Mack. Vulture put out their Comics to Watch list. I am recording this a little after eleven am on Monday, and I just saw the list.

I think it came out in the ten o’clock hour. Haven’t dived into it, and I have a lot to cover today, so I’ll get to that. But I did share the link in a Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, if you want to check out that, and I’ll talk about that in the next few days. I listened to David Letterman on the Strike Force five podcast. I love lettermans so much, and this just reminded me of the old twelve thirty Letterman because they were talking a lot about those days and his old NBC Daytime Show, the one that failed spectacularly.

A couple of tidbits that I didn’t know before. NBC had approached David Letterman to host the Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Tonight Show, and Johnny Carson would have done the other three, and Letterman asked, does Johnny know you’re talking to me about this? And the answer was no, and then Letterman said, I’m not having this conversation. That was interesting. The guys kept asking Letterman questions, and Dave doesn’t want to talk about himself, so they might ask him, I don’t know, who was your favorite guest of all time?

Yeah, you know, I know so many? Who was your favorite guests? And he kept whatever they asked him, he threw it back on them. I thought that was interesting. And if you pay a lot of attention to these episodes, especially the Letterman one, there’s this vibe that Jimmy Fallon is the little brother of the group, almost as if the others are like, I don’t know, Fallon’s up to our level here.

They keep making fun of him for the newlywed game type thing that Fallon did a couple episodes back. They talked about that a lot on the Letterman episode, and Okay, fine, that’s just some chopbusting. But they also just keep making fun of his questions. At one point, Fallon as Letterman a question, and they all made fun of the way it was freezed. And you kind of hear knock on Jimmy Fallon’s tonight show that he’s not the best interviewer in the world.

And and and maybe I’m just sensitive to this now. A lot of alcohol reverences, a lot of stories with Jimmy drinking beer. So hm. The late night shows returned last night. I’m still wondering if NBC’s considering making a change at eleven thirty.

We’ll see. We’ll talk about Late Night’s return tomorrow. John Oliver returned on Sunday Night, and during the first fifteen minutes iss of his show, he went in on the writer strike. Oliver said, I’d have loved have covered all these stories back when they originally happened. I wish so much I could have told you these jokes at the time, but I couldn’t because our writer is The people who wrote these jokes were forced to strike for a fair contract for the last five months.

And while I’m happy that they eventually got a fair deal and immensely proud of what our union accomplished. I’m also furious that it took the studios one hundred and forty eight days to achieve a deal that they could have offered on day FFing one. But hopefully this might encourage others, from autoworkers to Starbucks baristas to healthcare providers, whether they’re in unions or would like to be, to find power in each other. Some of the jokes that he had missed out on while away. On Trump’s mugshot, he said, Trump looks like he’s struggling to find Waldo in the crowd.

On the coronation of King Charles quote the world’s oldest boy, Oliver joked he was aiming for successful pimp, but ends up looking like someone wearing a set of tacky drapes over a Lakers Jersey. Oliver talked about when Reddit unveiled a policy that charged third party apps, and, as John explains it, for weeks images of me were used as a form of protest on some of the most popular subreddits. He showed a bunch of pictures himself, one looking like a muppet, another that made him look like John Wick. This one labeled John Oliver Wick, which is a pretty good way of showing you exactly what would happen if Professor Snape ever committed arm robbery and he joked about Fallout Boys cover of Billy Joels we didn’t Start the Fire, Oliver said, what it’s worth, We didn’t stop the Fire is the last song anyone should cover from Billy Joel’s discography, even if it’s original form. It’s the musical equivalent of a child telling you everything he learned to do at school that day.

Slow down. But also, I don’t care oh one more about Lauren Bobert attending Beetlejuice and some stuff happened there this next sentences PG. If you’re driving around with kids, whyn’t you get thirty second skip four times? Okay ready? Oliver said, I’m not saying it would be appropriate to engage in high school freshman era, hand stuffed or in the production of any musical, but I just wanted to be absolutely clear.

This wasn’t one of the more explicitly sexual ones like Spring Awakening or Rocky Horror or Cats. This was Beetlejuice, a song that is quite loudly about death. I’m just saying, if you’re gonna get your nipples tweaked and your pipe squeaked, you saved that for Fiddler on the Roof like an insult. Oh, Bill Maher was back as well. He said, first of all, I want to thank everybody who made as possible to be back.

You know, I’m talking about my brilliant staff writers and non writers who scrambled jet so it would beyond in two days, and the union folks who expedited the PaperWorks so we could get back quickly. So thank you. Pete Davidson reportedly swide swiped his car against a wall on Saturday night after leaving his comedy show. Page six reports there was another man on the passenger seat and three people on the back seat. Pete driving four people around.

What’s going on? According to the story, Pete’s car was apparently scraped from the middle door to the start of the back wheel. In some photos, Pete appears to be holding a cigarette and shielded his face from the paparazzi. Recall, Pete Davidson was recently charged with reckless driving in July and was supposed to complete fifty hours of community service. This Trevor Noah thing is fascinating.

I’ve been talking about his tour of India and more and more stories keep coming out again from the Indian Express. You’re home for comedy news. Trevor said, you know, sometimes you feel like something’s about to happen, and it does. That happened to us in Bengaluru. We’re driving to the venue.

After about an hour and a half of driving, I was like, where are we going? The driver and everyone in the car was like, this is the way we’re supposed to go. At some point, the driver turned onto a dirt road. Trevor said, where is this? Am I performing in the past?

Where am I going? And they drove us to this venue. Noah said when he usually goes for a show backstage, what happens is they’ll be like an entrance you walk into, you emerge in a backstage area before you come and perform. Here, we walked through an alley that was full of dogs, half of which were in cages. Some of the dogs are outside, others are in What have these dogs done?

That’s what I want to know. I have never prepared for show with a backstage area with dogs and cages. Trevor said the venue technically was building but the room he was in looked like a semi permanent tent with giant air conditioner units on the side making a loud noise. They tried to turn the sound up so you could hear what’s happening, but because the room wasn’t designed for human beings, what happens is the sound waves are bouncing around the room in every direction. That’s fantastic.

So I noticed on Sunday night, as I was doing some prep, skank Fest was over the weekend. Now, maybe you think I suck. We’re ten minutes in, so you probably don’t think I suck that bad if you’re still hearing my voice right now. But maybe you’re like, this podcast sucks and I just hate listen. I do try and prep for it.

I do look up the news, like these words I’m saying don’t just come from nowhere. God doesn’t go here is the comedy news. Like, I do some research here, and I was like, skank Fest was this weekend. There was nothing about Skankfest here. I challenge you go to Google and type in skank Fest and tell me what comes up.

Yeah, they have a website, and there’s one article from a Las Vegas paper which is the one I saw that went oh, it was this weekend. There were some big names at this thing, Robert Kelly or Spear, Dan soder, T, J Miller, Mark Norman, Joe List, Tim Dillon. That’s just some of the names that were there. Now, I know the skank guys. They’ve got all their podcasts and they go on each other’s podcasts.

And I’m sure the festival was amazing, and I’m sure they sold every ticket and I’m sure it was great. But that there’s nothing on the internet, no articles, both before or after, no coverage of this thing. Is that what you want to do? You want to have a festival, Nobody talks about it. Very very strange.

Again, I’m in your corners, gang Fest. I think your festival is a lot of fun, but I don’t. Let’s tell somebody about it. Congratulations to Eliza Slessengers. She has another baby on the way.

Eliza is forty. She’s expecting her second baby son to be born in February. On Instagram, we see Eliza Slessengers surprising a couple during their sex reveal by popping out of a box the couple expected balloons to come out of. After explaining the environmental dangers of the practice. Eliza shared her own baby news.

I have a balloon story to second. Eliza told people that filming the bit and revealing her our own news was so fun. My friends pitched in, I try to use my platform to advocate for the environment as much as I can. Sex or reals and baby celebrations can be done so irresponsibly, because I just wanted to bring awareness to that while making a point about simply having a baby is special enough. There’s no need to get the fire department involved.

Okay, balloon story. So on Sunday, the local town has the street festival. I like a lot and I’m walking around. All of a sudden, a balloon hits me chest high and I just grab it, and I’m like, this must be some child’s balloon. And I look around and there’s no children.

I don’t know where this balloon came from, and so I grab it because I just have issues. You know how, we all have issues from when we were children. So when I was a child, if I ever lost my balloon and up to the sky, I would freak out. Anytime I see a balloon, like a child lose a balloon, I get really sad. So I’m holding onto this balloon and I’m like, what am I going to do with this?

Because I can’t just let it go. I will be traumatized. I’m walking around the festival and I’m like, I don’t know, maybe I’ll see a kid and I’ll be like, hey, kid, do you want a balloon? I’m like, well, that’s kind of creepy. Why is this middle aged man handing balloons?

Kits? I just I walk around with this balloon for the whole festival, and I’m like, I guess I’ll bring it home. And I get back to the car and I put it in the car and I start driving home, playing with the radio, listening to some music. And I’m driving and all of a sudden, the balloon that I had forgotten about. I see it come from the back seat and it starts to approach the front seat, and then it suddenly goes up because Johnny Mack left the sunroof open.

I want to thank Travis who went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Company News and brought me not one, but two ice coffees. I was thinking of Travis on Monday as I was driving to the National Donuts chain. I was like, oh, yeah, Travis hooked this up, and I’m going to thank him the next time I record. And I was like, you know what, I’ll do a live thank you from the parking lot of the National Donus Chain. I took out my phone and I recorded myself walking into the National Donus chain, where three different people and I exchanged pleasantries.

Hey, you have a great day too. I saw one of my kids friends who said, Hi, mister mcdee. I had all this sun recording and I came back to put the show together, and I’d be like, Oh, Travis is gonna be so impressed that I actually put extra effort into this thing. And I never hit record, but I do have a second recording of me opening the car door and breathing heavy and closing the door and starting the car. If you want to hear that, Travis, you gotta buy me a coffee.

Dot com its Lash Daily Comedy News. Support the show, Travis, thank you for being a dedicated listener and appreciate the coffees. This one cracked me up. The headline from the a V Club Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. A dozen years in the show hasn’t lost any of its luster.

Okay, the headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review got it. Okay, So I’m gonna ask you two questions if you’re a new listener. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, you actually haven’t. But what’s weirder is have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer to that is also no. Now, I understand that the show appears to be a show, and there’s articles about it, and there’s merch, and they promoted during the football games, but it’s clearly a hoax. And it cracked me up that the hosters were like, oh, no one will say Bob’s Burgers that nobody actually has ever seen. In the back, We’ll put it up against the Taylor Swift football game. Yeah, So like they knew, we were all watching Taylor Swift at a football game and not one of us was going to pop over to Fox to see if Bob’s Burgers actually ever airs, which it doesn’t.

I’m sure Fox had a test pattern up up against Taylor Swift, but they were like, yeah, Bob’s Burgers is on season fourteen, but here’s what’s weird from the AV Club headline? Again that headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. The first sentence is over the course of its twelve years on the air. I thought this was season fourteen. How does that work?

Did they just not do a season thirteen because it’s unlucky? Did whoever is behind this hoax mess up? Oh? I don’t know anyway, The AV Club says, given enough time on the air, any show, no matter how beloved, is bound to lose its flavor. But somehow, even after all this time, Bob’s never as fourteen seasons in over the last twelve years.

However, that math works. The bloom isn’t off. The bloom and onion, and we hope we’ll belling up to the burger counter for many years to come. Uh huh, not falling for it. Hey, you know who has a new book today?

Sarah Cooper? Remember Sarah Cooper, a longtime listeners. She during a pandemic, was pantomiming to Donald Trump and the Netflix gave her a comedy special. Remember Sarah Cooper. He’s got a new book.

It’s called Foolish Tales of Assimilation, Determination and Humiliation. The description Sarah Cooper’s book is About You. Cooper, a recently ascended star having utilized the Internet to get famous with her pointed, withering performance based political satire, possesses a direct and fierce comic voice, and in her previous books she took down cultural dinosaurs. Here she explores, thoroughly, examines and mocks herself for past and her motivations, and shows how you two can find your voice, comic and otherwise and use it to exercise your demons. If you’re in New York City, Matt Golditch is taping his album tonight at Caveat.

He may even be joined by a very special guest. That’s an interesting tease there, if you’re like, who’s Matt Golditch. She’s a longtime writer for Late Night with Seth Myers. And Robin William’s daughter Zelda is getting annoyed about artificial intelligence. She said, I’ve witnessed for years how many people want to train these models to create and recreate actors who cannot consent, like my dad, Robin Williams.

This isn’t theoretical, it’s very very real. I’ve already heard Ai used to get his quote voice unquote to say whatever people want, and while I find personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings. Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their human effort in time, into the pursuit of performance. These recreations are, at their very best, a poor effects emily of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frank and Steiny and monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is instead of what it should stand for. That’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Was Johnny Mack right from Variety Comedy Central going back to Square one and its efforts to find a new host for the Daily Show. You may recall there was a rumor that Hasan Minhaj was the leading candidate. The new rumor they saw the Hasan Minhaj stuff that I’ve been talking about on the pod, and they’re like, maybe he’s not right for the Daily Show.

Variety says the Paramount Global Cable Network is considering a wider array of candidates to take the reins from Trevor Noah, after having previously identified Hasan Minhaj as a leading possibility. The decision appears to come in the wake of a recent report in The New Yorker in which some of the supposed autobiography stories that minhajs told in his routines were found to be embellished. Sources say minhas remains in the mix of people being considered. What executives are also pouring over audio research tied to recent guests, but they want to have a new host in time for the start of twenty four. That’s when they’ll do in decision twenty four and yeah, I think I get moving here.

It’s October now, guys, and you’re not going to do shows the second half of December. M Wood Junior, you still interested?

Speaking of Trevor Noah kind of sort of morphem is India tour fans of interna…

The show was supposed to start at seven thirty, it started nearly thirty minutes late and then abruptly ended after many audience members couldn’t hear anything because of quote bad acoustics. Trevor Noah went on Twitter and expressed his apologies for causing inconvenience and disappointment. Trevor wrote, Dear Bengaluru, India, I was so looking forward to performing in your amazing city, but due to technical issues, we’ve been forced to cancel both shows. We tried everything, but because the audience can’t hear the comedians on stage, there’s literally no way to do a show. We’ll make sure all the ticket holders receive a full refund and again, I’m so sorry for both the inconvenience and disappointment.

This has never happened with us before I found a clip of the audio. Now, I’ll remind you this whole story is about bad audio. So the clip I’m going to play the audio is terrible. That all makes sense, right. You’ll hear Trevor talking about slap back.

Slap back is when you’re talking and then the speakers slap the audio back to you, so you say hello, and then like half a second later, you hear your own voice saying hello. If you’ve ever had that in your headphones, it’s extremely distracting. So I can see why Trevor wouldn’t be able to perform with that. But let’s listen. Sam Morrel talked about traveling.

He doesn’t drive. Sam said, you think it’d be a problem, but really I can’t get anywhere flying by training by car, especially at this point, I could bring someone a drive. I mean, the only time you feel it is when you’re in some small town and they’re like, oh, we don’t have Uber, and you’re like, you don’t have Uber. I remember I was leaving a gig in Appleton, Wisconsin, and I had to leave reasonably early for flights. I thought this is a small town.

This will be easy. I call. There’s like one uber in the whole town and he’s thirty one minutes away. He’s completing a drive, but he’s just doing it for everyone. So I was panicking.

And the guy at the front desk of the hotel saw me panicking and said, what can I do to help you? And I said, I’m panicking because I don’t want to miss my flight, and he said I’ll drive you. And I was like, you don’t have to worry about the hotel and he’s like nah. Another guy and Sam said, I thought, if this is how I get murdered, I kind of deserve it. Did you see the recent Kevin James internet meme?

If you’ve been on social media, you’ll see an old promotional headshot that Kevin did for the King of Queens back in the nineties. He’s shrugging with both hands in his pockets and he’s kind of grinning. So Kevin has renamed his tour of the double Hands in the Pocket Tour, which he says is sheepishly coming to a city near you. Variety had a long profile with Dan Harman, the creator of Community, and Rick and Morty and some other stuff they wrote. There was a time not too long ago when Dan Harmon shared absolutely everything, a life of transparency, he reasoned, was therapeutic, kealthy, even for a guy who’d routinely describe himself as self loading and self destructive.

Then the culture changed. Harman said, it stopped being punk rock to just say anything. Varidy writes it’s not hard to see that Harmon views the community movie as his chance to write some of his wrongs, both with the show’s fans, whom he acknowledges have endured more than they likely bargained for and supporting him and his drama queen Ways, and with his cast, all of whom except for Chevy Chase, are set to return. Variety says that Harmon and his writers still need to haul up for a few days and finish the script. They pitched it pre pandemic as a Greendale Community College reunion, and they’re committed to getting into a place where they could shoot as is without possible rewrites.

Harmon said, I don’t want these now superstar people like Emmy winning Donald Glover, who are bothering to gather out of loyalty this thing to come back once again. Be getting blue pages run down by an intern that totally contradict what they spent all night memorizing. I want to have a veneer of here’s your reward. I don’t want them to go like, oh, he’s learned nothing and he’s treating us like cattle. Again.

The piece also talks about Rick and Morty writing Harmon had all but killed himself making community, only to feel like he was constantly letting people down. Now he had a partner in Adult Swim that actively wanted to be in business with him. It wasn’t until season two that everything started to change. Harmon brought in more writers. He says, if anything, what I wanted was for Justin Royland and I to both be able to be increasingly lazy and not show up for work.

That was the dream would be these rich idem men. He could roll around and go like, what if a genie had a butt instead of a penis? And I could be like yeah, and plus we’re gonna make people cry about it, and that’s going to make them freak out. It’s a story about a ged butt penis.

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And then we’d win an Emmy and it would be more ironic than ever.

Harmon says, but I found out later that it was like, oh, Harmon brought it as Harmon writers, and it’s not how I saw it. Royland started to pull back during season two. As the season wrapped, Royland sat down with Harmon. It acknowledged just how miserable he’d become working at the show. The application was it was all Harmon’s fault.

Harmon says, Honestly, I wasn’t sure what he was saying, other than maybe I feel like I’m in your shadow and I wish I wasn’t. Tim Dillon was on Piers Morgan and talked about Harry and Megan. By the way, if you like people that make fun of Harry and Megan, check out Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We make fun of Marry and Megan all the time.

We even did this very story on Palace Intrigue. Pallace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. Tim Dillon told Piers Morgan, it’s very interesting to make a Threeport documentary on Netflix about how bad things are while living in a castle. I find the lack of self awareness there to be very fun. I mean they’re very funny.

Victimhood. It makes me laugh and when someone is clearly not a victim, and I think living in a castle, being part of a royal family would make you not a victim. They make me laugh. I hope they keep behaving shamefully. It’s great for the tabloids, it’s great for us from shortol cult.

Comedian Neil Hamburger has released the second single from his concept album about patrons trapped in an average chain hotel. It’s called Sleeping for Free and it features the vocals of Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter, A J. Lambert. Aj is the daughter of Nancy Sinatra. Record label Drag City says the record sounds like a Silky La production circa nineteen seventy six.

It frames the complaints about the endless parade of noisy, smelling and non paying guests. The album is called Seasonal Depression Suite. It’s a musical about characters wallowing and self pity and paranoia, reliving personal catachrophees both real and imagined, or simply trying to use the hotel ending machine. Seasonal Depression Sweet November seventeenth. Hey, I want to thank you guys.

The download numbers for September where fantastic. This thing is really starting to catch now. Really appreciate you listening every day. I’ve been listening to other podcasts. I’m on a real Mark Marin kick.

I feel like he’s just been in a groove. His interviews have been really strong lately. I particularly enjoyed one with Aparna and Shula and they had like a real conversation, and Maren started talking about how much he loves being on stage because it allows him to do what he wants to do without worrying about others. And that’s kind of how I feel about this show. Like you know, I’ve had a whole corporate career, but Daily Comedy News, whether you like it or not, or you’re like John.

That commercial ready just did was nine minutes long? What the hell’s wrong with you? Who stop? I get to do what I want. I don’t have a boss telling me, Hey, the commercial reads are too long.

You should cut the back and see I can do twenty minutes. I’m the boss. I love it. So I hear you, Mark Marin. So that’s a parton an in Trillo’s episode.

Now he did have someone else on and that guest, and it doesn’t matter who the guest is. I’m not here to bash the particular guest went in and didn’t answer anything for real. Maren would ask a question and the guest would answer with a joke trying to be funny. That’s not what Mark Marin’s podcast is. So that guest kind of blew that appearance.

It was so bad. I was out for the nineteen mile run and you know that takes several hours, and I had to stop. The phone sits in a like a Velker arm band on my arm, and it’s hard to fuss with that while running, so stop and how to just skip the episode? Couldn’t take it. Give Marin real answers.

If you’re on David Letterman is on Strike Force five and get to that episode yet but definitely in my cue. We’ll see if that podcast continues. I guess it’s over now. With Late Night back short All says David Mitchell has ruled out a reunion of peep Show. Peep Show is a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic sitcom.

I don’t think it’s streaming right now. Let me check for you. There’s a website by the way called just Watch that will tell you where things are. Peep Show had been on Hulu, which is where I was watching it. Let’s see right now, you can stream it on Fubo.

I guess you’ll have to sit through commercials. Same thing on Roku and two B and Pluto TV. All right, so it’s on all of those. You can buy it on Amazon. Freevie has four of the nine seasons.

Freevie is usually not too bad with the commercials. But anyway, Peep Show is fantastic and won’t be coming back. The first episode aired twenty years ago, but Mitchell said he will not be reuniting with Robert Webb, Olivia Coleman she was on the show as well, or Matt King to celebrate. He told Graham Norton, Nope, we are not organizing an event. I’m very proud of it, but having made it so long ago, it reminds me of my own mortality.

Previously, he and Webb had talked about the idea of revisiting the characters of Mark and Jazz and Old Age. Webb said, We’ve always said it would be funny to go back and see them as old men, living in the same flat and having the same arguments. I think probably this side of shall we say seventy, it’s nice that people still give a hoot. I don’t want to attack anything onto the end of it. It would have to be a totally separate thing.

I wouldn’t want to drag the original thing down. Mitchell was promoting his new show Unruly, which is his book about the history of English royalty. Hey, that’s gonna help me over On Palace Intrigue, Mitchell said, I love history, and I love kings and queens. I’m particularly interested in me a holes and crowns that did dreadful things that really weren’t funny at the time, but it happened so long ago we can now laugh at him. Here’s a random thing I saw on Portland Mercury dot com.

They wrote, are you looking for a hilarious live comedy show where you can walk away with a fabulous prize or two? While you’re in luck? Because Mercury geniuses of comedy Arloe Eisenhower and Kate Murphy are your host for the most diabolical, hilarious and evil live game show in town. Two evils. This pretty good copy.

It totally wrote me in. This is like a minor thing, but I’m like, all right, I’m a trigue join Orlo and Kate as they ask a series of truly evil questions, and it’s up to the special guest, contestant and the audience who all vote on their phones and decide which is the lesser of two very evil answers. The guest for the Halloween themed episode, Kyle Kinnane. Good booking there, So if you’re in Portland, hit the Siren Theater On Wednesday, October eleventh. Lake Null is taping his special at Dynasty Typewriter in La Today.

Eight hundred pound Grilla says from his early days of picking up a guitar in Chicago, Luke Null discovered his knack for blending witty humor with catchy earworms. Wait, this style caught the attention of none other than Lorne Michaels himself, leading to a life changing opportunity as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Someone named Luke Noll was on Saturday Night Live. When was this Google machine? Help us out?

All right? Here’s a Vulture article from twenty eighteen. Luke Noll looks back on his very short time at SNL. I do not recognize his face. Fulture said, when you were first hired for SNL, the online consensus was that would see your musical side.

At some point, Luke Noel said, I wish I effing new man Vulture I assumed would see you on Update playing guitar like what Sandler or Fail used to do. Noll said, I certainly tried. It’s weird. Even though they hired me and I do a lot of music, they did not hire me to do music. They made that pretty clear.

They liked a lot of the other stuff I did. I auditioned twice and they hired me for that. The music stuff, I think it was more sprinkles on top. They don’t give me any feedback. It took thirteen weeks for me trying to pitch stuff like okay, they don’t want this good follow up by Vulture.

So you never had a conversation with the Update guys. Of course they did. It’s one of those places, especially when you’re a freshman cast member, you don’t have much way to be like, why can’t I do something because it’s your first year and Kate McKinnon isn’t in the show much this week, so she’s going to do Update. So for me to get something in an Update, I had to absolutely be one of the best people to pitch that week. But a lot of other people had to had of a bad week.

Even if I do great, I’m the lowest man on the totem pole. I had a few updates that were cut for time cut at dress rehearsal, but none of them were songs. Vulture, is there anything you know now having been on SNL you which new going in? And All said, I was only ever there one year. I had one season, and you definitely have a lot of questions looking back.

Did they do something wrong? Was I not writing good enough stuff? Honestly, looking back, knowing how the show works, the mechanism and the politics and it’s energy, it’s a very tense and stressful place. No one there is having fun. I’m fascinated by this, all right.

Vulture said, fans felt like you didn’t get a chance. Do you agree? And All said, I think the show’s producer would probably agree with that. It’s probably the biggest cast and biggest writing staff they ever had. So it’s a bloated and crowded room with a lot of great people in there.

But there’s never a moment where I was like, man, I deserve more, because I look ahead and I see fifteen people who are absolutely amazing. I did find myself wondering from time to time they hired me and moving to the city to do something, and the feedback I got was I was writing good stuff. I was getting cut at dress rehearsal. No one gets to see her here about that. So it was hard to leave and not think I didn’t get much of it at BAT.

Can’t be bitter about it, though. Sorry Luke Noll, I don’t remember you at all anyway, He’s a Dynasty typewriter tonight in la oh. I didn’t expect to do any of that, and that leaves me with two leftover stories for tomorrow. All right, that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shoes See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. It’s jokes Ober. Hi, I’m Hunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Joketober something we used to do with the satellite radio place. Maybe I’ll bring it back.

I’m the one that came up with it. Not there was that hard to come up with it, Do you don’t? I don’t want to make it at like I’m Einstein or the Beatles here that it just went October. David Letterman could have been in the movie Airplane, except for the part about his audition and they didn’t pick them. But theoretically David Letterman could have been an Airplane.

There’s a new book it’s called Surely You Can’t Be Serious. The True History of Airplane by David Zucker, Jim Abraham’s and Jerry Zucker aka za Z. The comedy trio that made Airplane and some other movies of that genre. David Letterman did a screen test for the role of Ted Striker. Letterman tells the story.

I get out there and they had set up a cockpit for the aircraft with chairs. I had a chair and there was another chair where the copilo would be. We did the scene once and then they came in and gave me some notes. Then we did it maybe two more times, and I kept saying, all along, I can’t act, I can’t act.

And then one of them came to me after the audition and said, you’re right, yo…

The new books out October third, counts on my finger, so that’s Tuesday, right. The book has interviews from the cast, including Robert Hayes and Julie Haggerty, as well as more casting dirt Sigourney Weaver maybe could have been in the movie. Letterman said they were really nice to consider me for a film because I could see where people would think, Oh, we have a thing where we’re opening in Alphabeta supermarket. Can you come out and talk to the bag boys? That made sense, but a movie, and the guy who produced it was Howard Kotch, who had a legitimate movie career in big time credits.

He was somebody I was even aware of, so I thought, geez, he’s not gonna want anything to do with me. I liked those guys, and when I saw the movie, it was just delightful, and I was delighted to see it knowing that I didn’t have to look at myself, because that would have ruined it. If not the whole movie, it certainly would have ruined it for me. David Letterman eventually hosted Late Night with David Letterman before leaving to go to CBS. He was replaced as the host of Late Night with David Letterman by Conan O’Brien, and that in the business is what we call a segue.

Conan O’Brien spoke to Kara Swisher about political humor, something Conan doesn’t do, and Conan said, for me, it was always what serves the comedy and what’s funny to me. The truest, most visceral comedy, to me is always going to be Warner Brothers cartoons that were made in the forties and fifties. That’s the stuff I grew up on that was shown in reruns. I liked it that kind of comedy. I was never as comfortable with comedy where I needed to make a point about something.

And then the conversation talked to goofing on Trump. Conan said, years and years and years ago, in another lifetime, I worked on the Lampoon back in college, and what we always knew is that you can do a parody of sports Illustrated would do parody magazines. You can do a parody of Newsweek magazine. I wrote a parody of George Will where he’s defending the feudal system. It was like, you can parody things that you can parody people.

Magazine is about its superficiality and it’s put Brookshields on the cover holding a fish. You can parody those things. But you can’t parody the National Inquirer because the National Inquirer can’t be parodied if you go and buy a real National Inquirer. It says Elvis cited an UFO. He has tentacles for ORMs.

Ghost Baby turns in a vampire and attacks Michael Jackson’s ghost. There’s no way to parody that. You can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible. So I thought, when Trump came along, what a lot of people after virtue is?

Doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. Kara Swisher asked Conan to Brian about Greg Gutfeld, and Conan said, I haven’t seen it. I drove a bus for twenty eight years and I retired from the bus company. I don’t ride the bus much anymore.

I’ll walk rather than get on the bus. So I don’t watch a lot of things. I see things here and there, but I don’t really know Gutfeld. And that’s not me being a knee jerk. Fucks, I’m not gonna watch that, man.

It’s more like, I honestly am not aware of what’s happening, so I don’t know. I think the beer question is the future of late night because we all know that time itself is becoming irrelevant. I think we’re probably gonna have to part company with the term late night at a certain point. And I’m not just saying that because I’m no longer part of it. I hate when people say, well, I’ve loved football now, so no, it’s irrelevant.

No, that’s a jerk move. I don’t believe that. I just believe it was changing when I was there, and it’s going to continue to change. I believe that talented people have something, a funny style or a way of connecting with people continue to flourish. It’s just that the medium will change around them, so it might not be called late night.

For example, I have more young people come up to me, and all they want to talk to me about is the podcast I’ve run in and people of their earbuds in and they’ll tap me on the shoulder and go, I’m listening to you now. Well, late Night is back, baby. All the major shows did not waste any time, John Oliver back tonight. The Daily Show will come back on October sixteenth with guest hosts Colbert Fallon, Kimmel and Seth Myers. All back to Morrow Night.

And reminder, there’s no more twelve thirty late late show on CBS. They gave up on that. At some point at midnight will show up Macpacker Keegan Michael Key has a new book, The History of Sketch Comedy, A Journey through the Art and craft of Humor. In the book, Keegan remembers the impact that SNL had on him and on his dad. Key writes, the first time I remember hearing my father laugh was in the living room of my childhood home.

My father watched the TV screen and on in Glee, and he was chuckling. My man was chuckling. My father, who was six foot four, two seventy and an otherwise very stoic man, was losing his dim mind. What was happening. Turns out one of the greatest comedic talents of all time was on TV?

Who was it? Who was it? Who was it? Eddie Murphy? Eddie Murphy was doing the sketch with Stevie Wonder.

In the sketch, Murphy plays an executive auditioning talent to play Stevie Wonder impersonators, one of whom is the real Wonder, that ultimately leads Eddie Murphy to do his own Stevie Wonder impression. Key writes, and then get this. Eddie starts singing like he’s going to sing better than Stevie Wonder, and he does. What the heck? My little mind was blown.

There’s a new PSA out the headline Comedians Aren’t Just Joking and a chilling new PSA by Sandy Hook Promise from the press release. As the US surpasses two hundred and forty school shootings this year, Sandy Hook Promise launched just Joking, a public service announcement to underscore how important it is to take threats of gun violence seriously. Now I started to pull a clip from this and it’s just not gonna work in terms of this podcast. I’m going somewhere with this. There’s comedians involved here.

Let me just tell you the PSA features a lineup of comedians including Billy Eichner, want A Sikes, Markert, Choe, j Farrow, Roywood, Junior Keitelan Riley, David Cross, Eliza Lessenger, and Rachel Bloom. So I could pull the clip and you would hear the comedians say things like it just this is just Awgward. There is nobody to get into said this Why I didn’t pull the clips, but comedians saying things like I’m going to shoot to school right, so, like that’s not funny and without the visual I don’t think it would have worked. In the PSA, audience members assumed the comedians are performing regular stand up routines. Yets just shot it like a lot of these look like they were shot during the actual specials the comedians were doing.

Audience members assumed the comedians are performing regular stand up routines and just joking. It’s later revealed that what the audience thought were punchlines were actually all real threats made by school shooters across the country. The chilling realization of the comedians were not just joking wakes viewers up to the importance of taking all threats seriously and taking action when there were warning signs of violence. Tom Sagora I spoke to Las Vegas, a magazine, and he’s working on a new Hour and said, the fun part of building a new hour is the stage where you’re really excited about new stuff and you’ve let the old stuff go. I have erot seen where I look at a special coming out as like a finale of the material I just accepted.

Sometimes you get at about and go, oh no, I have to do a new hour, and you start to feel that before you’re working on it. But the funny thing is once you’re doing it, it switches from anxiety to excitement. New stuff is always the most exciting thing, and you can’t manufacture the pressure. Ask any comedian. There’s no feeling like new stuff and nothing like being in that creative space.

And sometimes it’s hard when you’re out there on the road and you’re doing your hour and you’re bored of it. You’re actually bored, but you at the same time struggle to cook something new up. When you’re in a situation that I’m talking about, you have no other choice, and it’s a good place to be. I’m really excited about a new project I’m working on it. It’s called Ghost Scary Stories Today.

It’s October. Now, we’re doing thirty one ghost stories in thirty one days. If you want to check that out. Ghost Scary Stories Today, wherever you get your podcasts. Pop Sugar spoke to Hennah Burner, who said comedy is a great way to talk about taboo topics such as mental health, the wage gap, or fording without making people uncomfortable.

Hearing people laugh at something I’m embarrassed by or insecure about makes me feel less alone. Pete Corielli talked about how he met Sebastian Maniscalco. He was on Brian Kilmead show on Fox. Let’s listen. Oh yeah, I met him on tour in Toronto.

We were both on tour together and we met. We met at the airport briefly, and then coming down to do the first show, you’re getting a van to go to it, and there’s a few other comics from like Australian Canada, and we didn’t know anything and she’s bashed, has a little hanger and with a shirt and I’m gonna back in the van and I go, I know it, and he goes what I told my wife on the phone. I bet he carries his shirt that he performed, and he goes, I sweat all right, whatever you canna eye in it? When we get that too, and then we hit it off. That’s how guys hit it off, Yeah, ripping each other.

Cole Hilton ells right for The New Yorker and was impressed by Michelle Butto’s show full heart, tight jeans, Hilton Right says, but sometimes rambled seeing what would stick? I thought of her, Pierre Tiffany Hannish, They’re about the same age, and how how does she stand up as a display of sensibility, how she wears her loneliness like foundation under her rouge. Watching Handish perform, you have the sense that you’re seeing a little girl has been broken by love time and again, but nose there’s some good stuff on the other side of that heartbreak. By contrast, Butt kicks life’s broken pieces to the curb and encourages folks, especially women, not to settle. At one point during her set, she asked female audience members if they were in relationships and if they were in unsatisfactory relationships.

When a woman told her she was seeing a guy who was dating without intention but so once silent, then she told the woman to get out, open your heart and legs to love. You never know what’s gonna happen. The Milwaukee Comedy Festival kicks off tonight with the official kickoff with Kelly Ryan Tomorrow, The Roast of Milwaukee on the third day, Dandy Comedy Show, the fourth cast Comedy on the fifth Todd Berry, who right now has the number one comedy special of the year according to Johnny mack mke comedyfest dot com. If you want to check out more about that and that is your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it.

Maybe they’d like it too. And you can all follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify where every Gate shows see here tomorrow