Month: November 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust one today, especially for a Friday. Fridays are often a little light. Let me start with one that’s making me laugh.

From stuff dot co dot New Zealand, your home for comedy news. Southern tourism company real Endz is calling foul on a campaign encouraging foreign citizens to meddle in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century vote. Ha ha. John Oliver has posted billboards encouraging support for the Puda Katiki hope. I said that right on the streets of Tokyo, Paris, London, Mumbai, Brazil, and a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, you only need an email to vote on this.

So thousands of people have followed John Oliver’s lead, giving the endangered bird, also known as the Australasian crested greebe a chance of flying away with the wind. I love the copywriting here stuff. However, the real enz crew says the campaign’s not over until the kakaiky karaka sings. This is not an easy article for me to do, you see. Real Enz has spent a year fundraising in support of the kakaiky Karaka, raising one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.

Unsure which currency that’s in, but it’s still out of money. Right now, it wants New Zealanders to join its campaign Real Enz Chief Revenue Officer Scott McNabb has named his campaign Dear John McNabb said, we simply cannot allow one international check to commandeer our efforts. So we wanted to send a little message to John Oliver. The tiny but mighty amongst us need all the support they can get. We encourage all Kiwi’s, or rather New Zealanders, to get their votes in whichever feather they fancy.

This competition started in two thousand and five. It was run by Forrest and Bird, who decided in twenty twenty three it would seek to find the bird of the Century to celebrate its one hundredth year. That’s silly fun, all right. Lewis Black is going to retire from touring. Are we all getting old?

Ron White did this? Billing vall did this? Now Lewis Black retiring and we’re I don’t know, I guess this is a thing. Now comedians declare they’re retiring. Lewis Black is now seventy five, and he says his dates at the end of next year will be his final touring dates.

Lewis shared this news on his podcast, also posted the clip on Instagram, saying I’ve said this to people and it doesn’t seem to get through to them. What do you mean you’re retiring? Listening to the end of the sentence, I am retiring from touring. Really, I’m not making this up. I’m not gonna come back and tour again.

I’m going through to the end of December next year. Well, I continue to perform, yes, but I will literally perform from time to time. If you want to see me on the road, you better hurry. Final tour date’s coming soon. It’s already been four years since Gary Goleman’s The Great Depression premiered on HBO.

Well Gary Goleman as a new special to debut on Max, this one, called Born on Third Base. In Born on Third Base, Gary Goleman offers up his insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, while chronicling his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable densal care. The stand up makes an incisive swipe or two at billionairesm Gary Goleman said, I’m thrilled to be working with the Max team again along with Conan, who have admired for thirty years. Exactly, very honored and grateful to have this special is a doozy. Can’t wait for people to say nice things about it.

Conan, one of the producers on this. Dina Hasham as a new special out today on Amazon Prime Video, this one called Derek Little Whispers. Let’s listen to a clip. Huh, my dad left when I was very young. If you see a woman holding a microphone, her dad is gone.

I man have problems too, right in fact, clap if you’re a straight white man right now. Please clap if you’re thank you. Yeah. Did it feel nice to be heard right there? You know, we don’t hear enough about the bigotry against quiet people.

We just need more voices raised about it because we can’t do it ourselves. Dina was asked what draws quiet people to get behind a microphones start doing in comedy. She said, I don’t think quiet people are really quiet. I think it’s usually they have a lot of thoughts going on, but they either have anxiety or didn’t grow up in a place where they felt safe communicating with the people around them, and so they just kept everything bottled up. That’s why something like stand up can be so revelatory.

It was the first time, at least for me, that I was able to find a place to express things that was comfortable to me where I was immediately rewarded for it. With the Internet, you realize it’s impossible to really come to an understanding with people. With comedy, there’s a little treat for them. They get to laugh as well, there’s a reward for listening, and so it breaks through to people in a way that few things do. I hesitate to call it art, but it’s like that.

To really change someone’s mind, you have to do it in an oblique way. She was asked if there are topics that scare her, and her answer, I guess it’s tricky with the religious stuff, because a lot of my jokes about the way I grew up tend to be sort of skewering religion. There’s a risk of the wrong type of audience hearing that and then using it as an excuse to be prejudiced or racist. I guess my fear is being misinterpreted in a way that ends up hurting people. I’d never want someone to hear my jokes about Islam and then be like, see, those people are bad.

So it’s a tricky line. But I also don’t want to censor myself and deny the experience that I had. All these stories I tell are true, there’s obviously nuance to it, and that’s hard to communicate with each joke. You just have to hope that people are listening with good faith. Sebastian Maniscalco has a new show called Bookie.

This will be on Max Thursday, November thirtieth. Max dropped the trailer, Let’s listen, and the guest store in this scene is Charlie Sheen. You are correct here? What if I make this right with some baseball memorabilia? Guys, I’ve got bab Ruth’s autopsy for now.

I’m gonna tell you something I never told a client ever. You shouldn’t been on sports. Bookie Thursday, November thirtieth on Max. Two episodes out that day Bookie stores. Sebastian Maniscalco is Danny, a Los Angeles BOOKI whos struggling to stay a foot as he faces down the impending disruption of his business as California looks to legalize sports gambling.

Seems like that would be a good idea for a show, and it’s correctly cast. Now. I was thinking about Sebastian. Earlier in the year, he was pretty hot and then the movie This year around Easter, Sebastian has cooled off a little bit. But this feels like right person, right show, right TV network.

I know it’s Max streaming, don’t bog down on that, but yeah, I think this one would work. We also got a trailer for Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane. Quick clip here, everybody, listen, this is important. I’m going to show you, guys something. And when I show you what I’m going to show you, don’t freak out.

In Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane, which I’ll tell you description a second. This screams Adam Sandler to me. I don’t know why this isn’t an anim Sandler movie. This screams Sandler. Candy Cane Lane follows a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s Christmas decoration contest?

Is that not a sailor movie? When the man inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf who brings the twelve days of Christmas to life, wreaking havoc on the town. Oh no, that one will be on Amazon December one. The presidential debate Wednesday night touched into the comedy world a little bit. Jimmy Kimmel joked Chris Christy, Ronda Santis, Nikki Hally, vivek Ramaswami, and Tim Scott.

It’s a who’s who of who has no chance to beat Donald Trump. Fallon. It was quite a night. There were five candidates on stage, three moderators asking questions, and two people watching at home. Kimmel with an absolutely terrible joke.

Again, I’m sure as a professional joke tailor he told it much better than I’m about to. But this is terrible. Putting the Republican debate on opposite the CMA Awards, it makes no sense. It’s like putting lasagna up against a Swedish meatball. That is terrible.

But he redeems himself with this one. But for these five Republicans, the stakes were higher than the lifts and a pair of Ronda Santis’s boots. Love it nice, simple joke, good premise, not too harmful. Great, No buzz on Sarah Silverman hosting The Daily Show this week. I guess she’s not throwing heat on the Israel Hamas war, but not really seeing anything out of the Daily Show.

I’m surprised by that. The Debate also mentioned it. Joe Rogan. Vivek Ramaswami said, think about who’s moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson.

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk would have ten times the viewership. Politics aside, that notion of a debate with anybody debating being hosted by Rogan, Musk and Tucker Carlson, that probably would do ten times to viewership. So I don’t think that notion is crazy. It is called show business. Would you like to own the Late Show with David Letterman Marquis?

You know the blue and yellow one that was outside the Ed Sullivant Theater. Well enter a sweepstakes benefiting Habitat for Humanity for a donation of ten dollars or more. Anyone can enter the sweepstakes at giveaway Dave dot com until December thirty first. The grand prize also includes a trip to New York City to meet David Letterman and Paul Schaeffer, Johnny Max Goutt, you had another clip for you today. Let’s listen to Dave and Paul.

Hi, everybody, I’m giveaway Dave and this is my friend giveaway Paul. Nice to see it, Nice to see you, Paul. Giveaway, Dave, giveaway Paul. WHOA, what’s going on? Well, we’re giving something away.

That’s what I was hoping you would say. Yeah, what is it? It’s part of the old Marquis that was on the Ed Sullivan Theater building forever and it’s huge, says The Late Show with David Letterman. And not only that, we’ll get it to your home. We’re all getting older.

Man. Dave looks old with the big beard, and I noticed Schaefer is doing a little that esh thing that older people do sometimes with I don’t know if some teethwork had done. Not making fun of Paul, just observing. The Grammy nominations will be out this morning. I’ll discuss that on Monday’s podcast.

And I’m always fascinated by who gets nominated for Best Comedy Album. And if you’ve listened last few years, you know I get my nose in a crinkle about what is an actual comedy album and what is really just a Netflix special. So we’ll see what comes out on the list. Let me look at my list of the top twenty five of the year and see if I can guess here in advance. Chris Rock will get nominated for that live special that was a big deal.

John Mulaney will get nominated for his special because there’s so much press around that. Jim Gaffigan almost always gets nominated.

And then let’s say Marin Santino, Kevin Hart, Nate Bergatzy nice safe choice.

All right, we’ll see what they come out with. I’ll talk about it on Monday. It is the weekend of the Flyover Comedy Festival that’s happening in Saint Louis this weekend. Some of the performers Janelle, James, Sheng Wang, Jeff Ross And what I like about these guys they know how to do a schedule. They must listen to the podcast be like, oh, Johnny Mack will hate us if we just put things in alphabetical order.

Why don’t we put things where he can look by time? They have a wonderful, beautiful grid at Flyover Comedyfest dot com slash schedule. You can even download a PDF version do you know how happy that makes a podcast host. I can look at this in all one spot. We can even play that.

What should we go see? Game? Yes, seven o’clock. There are three shows we’re gonna go see. Zach Zimmerman and I’m Intrigued.

At eleven thirty tonight, the karaoke after party at the Improv Shop Bar. No real big names here today tomorrow Jeff Ross, Janel, James, Shane Torris. We’ll talk about that tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival continues.

They also have a website that goes by date order, although they don’t have a nice grid. I think everybody needs to do a nice grid. Make this easy on. Johnny mack. So, I’m on the New York Comedy Fest a website here, babbling as I scroll down, live as you was listen to me, babbel as I scroll down.

I finally got into the eleven ten part. Let’s see what’s happening tonight Steve O’s bucket List with Live Q and A at the Grammercy Theater at six thirty. Donnel Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven, Brett Goldstein Second Best Night of your Life, Great title at the Beacon at seven, Jessel Nick seven o’clock, Carnegie Hall, Wow, Michelle Wolf, Town Hall seven o’clock. Wow. A really funny titled America’s Next Top Bottoms at Club coming at seven thirty.

Some of the performers they are Mary Beth Barone and Sabrina Wo Bill Burr at the Garden at eight o’clock and I think that’s the Garden Garden. Second City Live nine thirty at Chelsea. Donnell Is a second show at nine forty five. A Tell and Friends at town Hall at nine forty five. Tim Dillon at Carnegie Hall at nine forty five.

Zach Schiffman has a show called Taylor Swift the Eras Tour. That’s at ten o’clock at the Little Field. Joel Kim Booster at the Bellhouse at ten. Boy, what a great night? Huh?

What would even go? See? Cori Elly Pete Corielly, my friend, That’s why I said, Corielly, Pete Corielly at the Grammar Sea at ten thirty. Absolutely great night. I’m gonna go with the Daily Beasts recommendations.

They say go see Tim Dillon and Anthony Jessinic at Carnegie Hall two back to back shows. You don’t have to move great venue. I know you’re passing on Burr and whoever else they just mentioned, but that would be the move tonight Jesslink, then Tim Dillon, depending on the news cycle. Since I’ve recorded this, it looks like the actor’s strike is over. A new deal reportedly comes one hundred and eighteen days after the actor strike began.

Reported deals to go to the National Board for approval. Today, Trevor Noah’s podcast What Now with Trevor Noah is out. The first guest was is the Rock? Trevor said, it’s fascinating to speak to the person who was trying to raise money for the Maui wildfires and then experience the backlash he did in a way that some people completely understood and other people completely didn’t. What’s that like from the inside.

Has the person processed the information? What do they think about it? I haven’t had a chance to listen to that one, but like I said yesterday, I really like Trevor Noah. Joe Coy is taping his special today and tomorrow at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn. Joe Koy is signed to do two more stand up specials with Netflix.

I guess this is one of them, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, where you get your shows. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the debate last night? Jimmy Fallon pointed out that CBS had the amazing race and NBC has the opposite. Jimmy Kimmel said, Chris Christy, Nikki Helly, vivek Ramaswani, Tim Scott, and Rond De Santis.

What a lineup. It’s like if all the Avengers were Hawkeye. Sarah Silverman was joking about we Work going out of business and said, we Work went from a forty seven billion dollar company to bankruptcy somewhere out there. Elon Musks going Oh challenge accepted. Trevor Noah’s new podcast is out today.

It’s called What Now. The official description listeners can hear Trevor going deep with his guests, including entertainers, CEOs, actors, athletes, and thought leaders. In each episode of the new pod, Trevor Noah will have an extended discussion with a single guest. They did not announce in advance who the first guest would be, and I did not get up at three am this morning to find out. But it’s out there now if you want to check it out.

Trevor, Noah Tild Variety. We’re very lucky. We have a mix of massive stars as guests and some people who nobody knows. Not everybody you speak to us to be a superstars. Somebody will be Number one of the box office, somebody will be a scientist.

It will change how we live for the rest of our lives. The main thing I can say to you is expect to be in some way, shape or form, entertained and engaged. Trevor said, I’m not going to create an echo chamber. It’s a space for dynamic conversations. There’s no denying that many of us, and I mean on many levels, creators, public figures, and individuals have created echo chambers in their lives.

We cease to have conversations with people we don’t agree with. We don’t interrogate our own ideas because we’ve grown comfortable with them. That limits our ability to think and grow over time and create connections with other people. I don’t think I’ve met a single human being where I don’t agree with them on something. Does he miss the Daily Show?

Trevor said, Oh, I miss the people on a lot of the show. But in life you sometimes have to let go of something to grab another thing. My biggest takeaway is how much I enjoy having long form conversations with people, which seems like something you would say when promoting a podcast about long form conversations. Trevor’s excited about the podcast format. Not only can they be longer conversations, I don’t have to worry about cutting away because of time, meaning those commercial breaks that come set times on TV.

I could beat a space where I can make the show as long or as as short as it needs to be. Each episode is expected to run about forty minutes, which he said is about the average commute time. Trevor, who put that in your brain? There was a study out this week. The average commute time in the United States right now is twenty seven minutes.

It’s longer in certain cities, for example New York, Los Angeles, some of the bigger Texas cities, but on average it’s twenty seven minutes. I don’t know what executive told you forty minutes. It might be one of the executives who let me go from my old job. Let’s not go there, John Trevor said, I never want to make something too long. I always like to make something I would also be willing to listen to.

There are moments when it’s funny and there are moments when it’s very serious. What people should expect is my life. My filter on the world is everything is imbued with some things that are funny and some things that are serious. So it sounds like there’s a bunch of these in the can already. If he’s saying there are moments when it’s funny and there are moments when it’s very serious.

How many of you pre recorded, Trevor? How topical is this thing? And I like Trevor Noo a lot. I always find myself laughing with a person that doesn’t mean the conversations are frivolous or trite. When I was growing up in South Africa, there were terrible times, but I don’t remember a time when we weren’t laughing.

That’s the paradox of living. He was asked about Comedy Central dropping Hasan Minhaj from the chair. Trevor said, perfect example of why you need a podcast. In this interview, I don’t have time to give an answer that is long enough to be respectful of the situation. Nice Dodge.

Trevor is also okay with the Ads says, it’s the nature of the beast, and it’s advertising that is paying for access to people who can’t pay or won’t pay for the product. If you were at the McDonald’s in Indianapolis and you rolled through and you’re like, hey, is that comedian Mike Epps? Yeah, Epps said, welcome to McDonald’s. My name is Mike. May I help you?

Apparently, Mike Epps had worked at McDonald’s as a teen. Epps was honored by McDonald’s owner operators and presented with a one in eight Alumni McDonald’s jacket. McDonald’s has a campaign focusing on the statistic that one in eight Americans has been employed by McDonald’s at some point. Mike said of his first job, I was looking really cool and fashionable working at McDonald’s. Everybody wanted something free.

I remember all my friends coming to McDonald’s like, man, you got a job at McDonalds. You’re gonna hook me up. I’m like, no, keeping count on those nuggets. Taught me sportsmanship, believe it or not, even though it’s not a sport. Taught me how to work with people at a young age.

Our youth need to see that it’s okay to start a level like this because it’s not only a job, it’s a learning experience. Great story. Oh, by the way, Mike Epps happens to have a new show on HGTV called Buying Back the Block. That happened a premiere yesterday. Wow, that’s weird.

Homer Simpson is no longer strangling Bart. On the October twenty second episode, Homer meets a new neighbor. The neighbor says Homer is a strong grip. Homer says Seymour strangling the boy paid off, and then ads, just kidding, I don’t do that anymore. Times have changed.

Some researchers have determined Homer has not strangled Bart since season thirty one. We’re now in season thirty five, so if you’re upset about this, he hasn’t done it in four years. And you didn’t notice The Simpsons wiki page tracks every strangulation ever on the show. And I don’t know, maybe somebody I’ll need holiday filler. We can get into that.

Bill Burr spoke to WEEI Radio. They were trying to get Patriots coach Bill Belichick fired. Bur said, one of you guys, relax, he has eight rings. He has one more than Brady. He shut down John Elway.

I’m done talking about this. The Running Gun, Greatest Show on Turf, won three with a six round draft pick, and then everybody was calling Brady a system quarterback, and then they win three more and all of a sudden, Brady knows everything and Belichick doesn’t know anything right, and everybody forgets the Seahawks victory, and everybody says that Pete Carroll screwed up, rather than that was an unbelievable coaching job by Bill Belichick and his crew to have that defense ready for that play. Ivon Orgy has spoken about the pressures of being a thirty nine year old virgin. She says she has felt so much pressure when dating. What if he wants to have sex with me?

What do I say? What if he doesn’t like me once they tell me he’s a virgin? But she realizes now that she’s that chick, there’re gonna be guys that aren’t gonna want to rock with you because you’re a virgin. And that’s fine, because she’s not for everybody that way. The Daily Beast was recapping some of their past interviews because Netflix has been doing comedy spousals for ten years, and over the years they had asked comedians about their first specials.

Taylor Tomlinson discussed quarter Life Crisis and said, on the one hand, he had my agent going, it’s a great sign of a special right now. People are just watching literally anything I noticed. I dropped the g on going, my voice is going, and the queen’s accent is slipping in today. Still feel that marathon. Why it ruined my voice, I don’t know.

Taylor said it helped to be a new thing on Netflix a week before Quarantine hit, but as the pandemic dragged on and on, she said, I started to feel like, well, I probably missed my window because people are gonna forget it even came out. I thought it was going to be the comedy. Tiger King Anthony jesse Nick said, you can’t get darker as you get older because it makes you seem bitter. But if you start out dark, you can always soften and people will still remember what you did, and you’re kind of like an old grandpa figure who definitely fought in a war and has done some stuff, but it’s now a sweet old man. But you can’t go the other way.

It’s almost like being a punk rocker when you’re younger. I’m forty now, and I want to involve and change as a person. As an artist, I want to be the type of villain the other villains are afraid of. We live in a world now where there are very real villains. I’m a comedian.

People get mad at me, but it made people laugh for a living. There are way worse people out there that you should be upset with, and I like that I might make those people are freed. Some of the shows at the New York Comedy Festival tonight include don Al Rowling at the hard Rock at seven o’clock, Jimmy Carr Carnegie Hall at seven. Jimmy Carr is playing in Philly on Saturday. I’m tempted to go down and see him there.

But also the Beach Boys are playing right by my house, and I’m a big Beach Boys fan. Hmmm, John, why don’t you go to Carnegie Hall? If you know John at all, John hates going to Manhattan. I don’t care where you are. Manhattan is the hardest place to get to in the world.

If you told me, hey, let’s fly to Paris to see Jimmy Carr’d be like, Yeah, cool. The flight doesn’t bother me the two hours to get to Manhattan. No thanks. Joe de Rosa plays the KGB Bar. Is that the KGB bar from twenty years ago?

Is that still a thing? No way? The roast of Barbie by character assassination at the New York Comedy Club at eight Rwanda’s Finest at the Stand at eight at Tonight is Comedy Gives Back Laugh At at Gotham, Gary Goldman, Jessica Kurson, Jeff Ross, Aaron Jackson and surprise guests for a benefit show that’s really good. The La Times has been suggesting La based comedians you see at the New York Comedy Festival. They want you to go see jau Ying Summers her hit podcast Tiger Milf.

Summer says, I wanted to headline The Apollo the moment I decided to become a comedian. The Apollo is heaven for megatalent of color, and I’m determined to use my voice to amplify Asian American experiences. I’m proud of myself and I’m pushing boundaries. I’m more than ready. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website caught a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival.

They enjoyed Sophie Buttle. Sophie did a set that never stopped moving and managed to expand our vocabulary around US regions by referring to Texas as being part of South America. They had Buttle works hard on her timing and it shows. Zach Zimmermann was the headliner at that particular show. They say there were space for short one off jokes and a set filled with larger bits about dating, seeking love as a queer person in a city that’s hard to find validation in growing up religious, doing naughty things to rats in Paris.

I can’t even tell you that. I think it’s against the law if I told you what he said sounds like. Issa Medina had a rough set at Brooklyn’s Union Hall. The eight hundred pound Gerrilla says the crowd was bad, as Brooklyn audiences sometimes are, and they were unsure if they could laugh at me. Is unique and important perspective.

Andrea Jin ran through material on loudness, dating someone younger at credit, and the facets of being Chinese. The audience lost it when she discussed having diarrhea, a uti and her period all at the same time, saying, quote, hold your ears, all holes were activated, you’re laughing. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla also liked August White, who ran through material that was feminist, sex positive, silly, and also formidable. There’s a lot of bad comedy right now, but White gives you something to feel inspired by. There’s a sense it’s just a matter of time before she takes off in a big way.

Ashton Womack deserved better from the audience. Ivan Kolkarney drove in from New Jersey to talk about posture, the weirdness of video games like Call of Duty, trying to sell the idea of war to kids, and trying to connect on LinkedIn. The set was hot, and Kokani used every second of it to its fullest comic potential. Mohanda Shiki is someone ready for a large special, says The eight hundred Pound Gorilla, and if this article can help move that along in any way, it succeeded interesting Serini Weira Sakira is a whirling jervish of energy that delivers club writing material and a charged woke package. Everything from ungrateful babies and Cayman Island pillow menus to white audience discomfort and race gets filtered through a delivery that’s on one point five speed and the eight hundred pound guerrilla, says Abby Govindan headlined and did something special.

Abby is funny, but there’s a real tenderness, kindness, and generosity to her comedy that feels personal. It’s like if you had one hundred dogs sitting in chairs and called each of them up by name to get a diploma. Truly someone to watch right. We’ll keep an eye on those names. Heather McMahon is taping her special Tonight’s and tomorrow at the Fox Theater and Atlanta, Georgia.

I’ve been there. That’s a solid theater. HEATHERN. McMahon was called by the Hollywood Reporter the next big thing. You can find her debut stand up special son I Never Had on Netflix.

Heather McMahon, Fox Theater, Atlanta, Tonight and Tomorrow not your comedy news for Today. If you like this podcast, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You know, you can follow it for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. Be Cheer Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel commented on a new poll that shows Donald Trump ahead of President Biden in a hypothetical matchup, and Kim More reminded viewers that polling a year ahead of an election is always super accurate and if you don’t believe me, just ask President Hillary Clinton. Kim All went with it’s like after the Turn of the Jedi, the people in the galaxy were like, you know, Princess Leigh is kind of a dud. Why don’t we give the emperor another shot.

Sarah Silverman, hosting The Daily Show, said, don’t panic, it’s still too early to say Biden will definitely lose. He can absolutely dine his sleep instead. Oh wow, Biden old jokes are fun. I gotta admit. All right, if you’re in Saint Louis and you have Gaffigan tickets this weekend, make sure you go to the correct show this weekend.

Conductor James Gaffigan will lead the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Stifle Theater right next door in the Inner Center. Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, but kind of messes up the story. Jim Gaffigan the Saint Louis Post Dispatch spoke to conductor James Gaffigan and said, you know that guy is following me everywhere. The paper tells us Their relationship got off to a rocky start. Around two thousand or two thousand and one, James Gaffigan got a phone call on his mobile phone.

On the other end, a man eating potato chips said, who is this? James Gaffigan said, I’m sorry, who is this? The conductor said, this is Jimmy Gaffigan, as he was called at the time. The other person started swearing and accusing James of identity theft. That person was comedian Jim Gaffigan.

Somehow, both James and Jim had bought a MacBook on the same day, and Apple confused their email addresses. James said he thought someone was stealing his credit card information. It was so random. James assured Jim that he had bought the computer himself. They calmed down, they compared notes.

James said, we started laughing and talked for about half an hour. They’ve yet to meet in person. James Gaffigan is hoping they’ll run into each other on the streets of Saint Louis. The New York Comedy Festival continues. I googled New York Comedy Festival.

Not much coming up. I’m not seeing recaps or anything. Again. Love the festival, but it just doesn’t cut through in New York City for some reason. One thing that did cut through was the annual Bob Woodriff Foundation’s Stand Up for Heroes event on Monday night, and again that to cut through in the Big Apple, you gotta whip it out.

Bruce Springsteen, John Stewart, Josh Grobin, John Mellencamp, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng, Shing Gillis, and a video message from Prince Harry. Let’s listen. Good evening everyone, and hello New York. Obviously, I was deeply honored when Bob asked me to debut my stand up act with you all tonight. I was so relieved to be invited back.

But then I started to question whether his invite for me to actually do stand up was in fact his idea of a joke. Either way, due to the shockingly low representation of Ginger’s last year and out of respect for my fellow endangered species. Here, I am reporting for duty. So, as I mentioned often, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the British royal family seven days a week.

Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. It was interesting that Harry wore his military medals. Sometimes that’s a little controversial. Harry joked about being somebody who was rarely scrutinized, and there was some kind of gag where they were trying to keep him on script and they kind of played him off.

Also controversy.

The video of Harry doing this was released online just minutes before his father, King Charles the Third, was about to give his first King Speech to Parliament. I’m not going to bog down on this here. If you want to hear all about it, flip on over to Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. John Stewart said, I just turned sixty years old. You know you’re getting old when you say how old you are and people clap.

When I was on the Daily Show, I had a suit on the makeup. The lights were beautiful and if you watch that show, you probably thought that guy could get upstairs no problem. The sad thing is I’m rich. I don’t have to look like this. Many people do surgery on people like me.

But I wake up in the morning, I go ah. Skirt aging is a humilitating process. Many of you are experiencing it. That’s clear. It’s a charity event.

So you’re the people with disposable income, because who knows how long you have worries about Rob Schneider the first from Newsweek. Actor and comedian Rob Schneider has been criticized online after weighing in on Travis Kelcey’s appearance in a Pfeiser commercial. Travis Kelcey is a new commercial encouraging you to get a twofer, which is a COVID nineteen shot and a flu shot. At the same time, Schneider, in a tweet wrote, dear Travis Kelcey, and then shared some differing opinions about vaccines.

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Schneider wrote, at sixty you realize the very real fragility of life and the temporariness of it all, A humbling knowledge that there is indeed a time limit for all things. That God’s design, though perfect, is precious, far beyond its brevity. I’m a new convert to Catholicism. According to The Christian Post, Schneider wrote, I was so angry at the people who shut down the schools and indeed the world, and coursed others to do things against their will, which hurt many people deeply. I offer my unconditional forgiveness and amnesty.

How can I stay mad at the famous singers who would not let others into a Broadway show unless they had an experimental job. I will never forget how kind he to me and my friends when he was the musical guest on SNL. Not clear who he’s talking about there. How can I continue to hold a grudge against the actor who shamed people like me but has been such a great example for other actors to never give up keep fighting for their dreams. How can I still be mad at the lovely actress that said she could no longer be friends with people who didn’t get it, knowing how incredibly kind she’s with every child she meets.

Is this so the back to back of those two stories is this second story? Super sarcastic. Is it a real like, Oh yeah, I’ve changed my ways. Let’s keep an eye on that one. I can’t tell from reading it.

Neil de grass Tyson got into it with Bill Maher. Tyson brought up how Bill Moore no longer performed stand up on college campuses and asked if Mar was writing off an entire generation by refusing to adjust to what students find acceptable. He asked Mar, why is it their fault not your fault. Bill maher defended his side, saying, literally every comedian had a bandon performing at colleges because they can’t avoid defending students. Not sure that’s entirely true.

Mar said, I’ve given up on any place that doesn’t even remotely attempt to believe in free speech and things thing they hear that they don’t like, that they don’t agree with his violence. These people are effing nuts, and you should be calling them out. You’re doing what your parents do. You’re taking the path of least resistance and therefore hurting the kids and yourself. Parents ruin both their lives.

They ruin their effing spoiled kids’ lives, and they ruin their own lives because the kids rule the roost. So that’s what you’re doing on a national level. Syson said, the move is it’s not good enough to be right, you also have to be effective. Cracked wrote ten female comedians more successful than Amy Schumer. You may recall that Amy Schumer declared herself the most successful female comedian of all time.

I’ll just read you the names they came up with. We don’t have to bog down into the why of it all. According to Cracked, Lucille Ball, Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Carol Burnett, Tina Fey, Roseanne bar Joan Rivers, Whoopy Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Amy Poehler. Edison Research announced the top fifty podcast the United States for quarter three. I did not make the list, but Theo Vaughn now number five, Joe Rogan at number one.

Whitney Cummings told Yahoo I started comedy in LA which I highly recommend for people. The first lot I ever did was a place called m a bar which is now closed. But doing comedy places that aren’t built for comedy. By the time you get to a club like the Improv, you have this skill set that I think not a lot of comics have that that came up in other cities. Thank you for reminding me, Whitney.

So I was on the Staten Island ferry over the weekend. You may recall Colin Jost and Pete Davidson bought a ferry to convert it into a comedy club. So as I was sitting on the ferry for half an hour, I was looking at it, trying to figure out how would this possibly work as a comedy club. Maybe if they built on the top deck, but I was in the middle there. The ceilings are super low, which I guess sometimes can work.

But like, nothing about a ferry feels like it’s going to be good for comedy. But Pete Davidson knows a lot more about comedy than I do, so what do I know? But I don’t own a ferry either. Back to Whitney Cummings who said, how did I get started? I think child did?

I mean? How far are we going? Back? Alcoholic home? Try to get attention from drunk parents.

It’s probably when I started started or knew I wanted to be or had to be an entertainer. My dad used to watch Roddy Dangerfield, and I remember that I couldn’t get his attention, so I used to think I got to get in that box. Tonight the New York Comedy Festival six point thirty the Edison Ballroom, Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine, a tribute to Bob Saget. Many of Bob’s friends will be in the room, including Michael Jay, Nikki Glaser, Jeff Ross, two of the Counting Crows, and others to be announced. Run out of time to make those announcements, but regardless, that list is already cool.

Margaret Chose at town Hall at seven, Conan’s at Bam at eight, Kat timf at the hard Rock at eight, at the Comic Trip at eight, Comedy four Piece, a funny special comedy international project with Muslim, Jewish and Christian comedians that was founded in March of twenty nineteen, and a whole lot of smaller shows that I did not read to you. Tomorrow, we really get to some bigger names.

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Tonight in Delaware, it’s the inaugural Towers Comedy Festival. Fifteen national comics will storm Delaware beaches on a mission to tickle your throat until it hurts. These are people you’ve heard of. Nikki Glaser Michael Rappaport, Hannah Einbender, Alonzo Bowden, Nicki’s Friday Night, Hannah is Saturday, Rappaport is Tomorrow. I don’t know what Alonso is.

Matt Rodgers from Las Culturistas is putting out Have You Heard of Christmas? A dance pop album of songs from his twenty twenty two Showtime special of the same name.

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Some song titles include Hottest Female Up in Whoville and God’s Up to His Tricks. Matt Rodgers says, my advice to anyone out there who’s trying to write a pop album that’s also comedy and seasonals, just go for it. Don’t question any of your impulses. You can’t be wrong. Bad news.

If you like Letter Kenny, It’s coming to an end with season twelve. The final six episodes will drop on Hulu Tuesday, December twenty sixth, and comedian Mark Watson got locked out of his own show. Audiences arriving at the Tobacco Factory were surprised to see Mark Watson sitting at the bar, he couldn’t get into the dressing room. Somebody caught this on TikTok. They were fifteen minutes to go until the show.

Mark Watson said, you know, we could do it here, but you paid for a seat, and you paid to be in a room resembling a theater. So I just wanted to know in case it looks like I’m very complacent drinking at the bar. And yes i am drinking at the bar, but I’m taking the situation as seriously as you are. It’s no one’s fault. I’ve been here for an hour to let them know I’m here, and that was the aim that everybody would relax, But I think they’ve over relaxed a bit.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pete Davidson went after a quote sneaky fan during his show at the City Winery late last week. Pete noticed somebody was filming and he stopped his show and shouted fu. According to an eyewitness, Davidson then instructed his security guard to escort the person out of the room.

Pete said he pays ten thousand dollars to lock up your phones, and then he carried on with his set as planned. He did not address the incident further in the remainder of his performance. A spokesperson for the City Winery told US magazine that the individual’s footage from the performance was quote erased after being removed from the events base. The Repseid Hour staff were devastated after the show, as they take so much pride and feel so lucky to be working on these special shows. These are the knights that make their hard work all worth it.

Apparently. During the rest of the show, Pete talked about his ups and down struggles with addiction, his attempts to set up his mom with a nice suitor. He also joked about trying to get Good Press. After his car crash. Eric Idol was on Twitter X and was asked to name something that Americans invented.

Eric Idol’s response, mass school shootings. They’re making a Barbenheimer movie. Yes, a Barbenheimer not not two different movies, one big Barbenheimer movies. In Barbenheimer, we follow scientist doll doctor Bambi J. Barbenheimer, who lives in Daltopia with her boyfriend Twink Dolman.

Doctor Barbenheimer ventures into the real world and sees the brutal treatle the dolls receive at the hands of human children. Barbenheimer decides to build a giant nuclear bomb to take it all out. Filmmaker Charles Band says, it’s an opportunity to have fun with bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe in the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor. It’s so silly, but it seems like every other feature is dark and depressing, and it’s like, augh, we need a little humor.

Going to twenty twenty five, Oppenheimer was fantastic. I haven’t seen Barbie but Oppenheimer. I loved that movie so much. It was like an old style, like seventies era movie with like a plot and characters and stuff. Highly recommended it if it ever comes out on Blu ray or digital.

Remember last week, Michael Richards was spotted at the In and Out Burger and was standing on the street with his family. Well, what do you know, Michael Richards has a new book coming out. Isn’t it funny? You don’t hear from somebody for like a decade and a half and then they’re spotted, and what do you know? They have a new book coming out.

It’s called Entrances and Exits. In the book, he’s seventy four year old. Michael Richards will share never before told stories from his life, including being raised by his grandmother. He writes of his time in the US Army after being drafted in nineteen seventy. Richards also provides behind the scenes look at the development of Cramer’s character and his lasting influence on pop culture.

Jerry Seinfeld wrote the ford for the book. Richards will also reflect on his quotes Shameful two thousand and six out first film Shouting Rachel Epithets had audience members during a stand up show in Los Angeles. We’re told the incident drove him into a quote lifelong spiritual quest. In a statement, Richard says, my book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the hole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all. Jerry Seinfeld himself has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater.

He’s added some dates January twelfth and thirteenth, February second and third, March eighth and ninth performances at seven and nine thirty each night. Bill Murray may be buying the Juliet Slammers of the Frontier Baseball League. A source told the Juliet Patch that three people are involved in an ownership group looking to buy the Juliet Slammers, including Bill Murray and Mike Veck, son of the legendary former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veck. However, the local radio station said on Wednesday night, Juliet Slammer season ticket holders were informed that Bill Murray is buying the franchise. So we’ll see.

Kevin Hart has another gig. The man is not afraid to work. This is for Netflix an upcoming comedy thriller called Lift Nope, It’s not about ride chairs, and the trailer is out. Kevin Hart plays Cyrus Whittaker. You know a name that a real person in the real world would have.

Cyrus Whittaker is the leader of an international heightst team who gets enlisted to steal five hundred million dollars in gold from a mid air passenger plane before the fortune ends up in the wrong hands. Oh no. In the trailer, we see Kevin Hart explaining the near impossible task to his coorts and warning that the land in prison if they don’t succeed. He says, half a billion in gold is on its way to as terrorist cell. We got to steal it mid flight, forty thousand feet in the air.

Kevin Hart tries to formulate the perfect plan, although he points out they may have to improvise it and says, all right, then let’s show them what true artistry looks like. Hey, Kevin Hart on Netflix, you’ll watch why Not Right? Sounds fun, sounds kind of fast and the furious, but in a plane. Nimesh Patel spoke to the GW Hatchet about d C style Heckler’s a sys. Washingtonians are well in f so they’ll interrupt a set mid routine to fact check him.

N Miss Patetel says, it’s very rarely of a Heckler and they know more than you. But you know, let that alcohol hit and somebody who’s working eighty hours a week, it’s some think tank words will fly. Patel also appreciates TikTok for bringing him more of an audience. He says, TikTok is onto something China spying on all of us, and I don’t want the government to do anything about it. Roywood Junior was up in Halifax and said, I watched the House of Commons the other night on whatever this Canadian c span you have up here, and they’re arguing a lot of yelling going on over heating and heating costs, and I love that.

That’s how cold it is in Canada that you argue about heating costs like it’s gun control, because the cold can kill you. If you go see him in Canada and you’re expecting all political stuff, he says, I’m not nearly as political. I’m opinioned about my issues, but the stuff from the Daily Show definitely attacks issues with a much harder edge than I do on stage. Regardless, it’s four great comics show on the stage. I’m headlining, but we have Joel Nicole Johnson from the States and also Canadians Mark Elasallin, Arthur Simeons.

Sounds like a good show. Jimmy Carr will host The Big Fat Quiz of the Year for Channel four in the UK again this December, and it’s also a new spin off The Big Fat Quiz of Telly. The press release reads, who is the real star of the King’s Coronation? Who went viral for wearing a puffer jacket? Where your team Barbie or Oppenheimer?

All these questions and more will be answered on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year twenty twenty three. Question Master Jimmy Carr is joined by celebrity teams as they battled out to see who knows the most about the year that’s been. As for the Big Fat Quiz of Television, the producer has explained some of the possible questions. You’re ready, what got Downton fans all on it? Tizz?

I don’t know what does tartise stand for? I could probably think about it if I had any brain Power Today. Why was Nadine Coyle booted off pop Stars? I don’t know. All these questions and more will be answered as The Big Fat Quiz takes on television.

Jimmy Carr is quizzing some of the UK’s biggest comedians to see who knows the most about the world of Telly bj Novak you know him as Ryan from the Office. He has launched a gourmet chain restaurant food festival, chain Fest. Love It December first and second, out in Hollywood. It’ll feature one reimagined iconic item inspired by each classic chain restaurant. Some of the inspirations come from Chili’s, Duncan, Jack in a Box, Panda Express, Pizza, Hut Sonic and Red Robin.

I’ve been into Panda Express lately. They opened one kind of close to my house. I’ve been hitting it a lot, Team Kung Pou Chicken. The one of a kind food and beverages will only be available during the two day chain Fest and will be paired with beverages from Pepsi and Guinness and Smirnoff and Crown Royal and Captain Morgan no Vakata statement said, I love chain food. It’s worthy as a celebration as any other type of cuisine, and it’s high time it got the respect it deserves.

Chain Fest December first and second sounds fun. Let’s see what’s happening at the New York Comedy Festival on this Tuesday night? Election Day? Did you vote forgot to nag everybody to vote? Vote?

Just go vote? You vote for whoever you want, but like, don’t give up your right to vote. Pick somebody. Seven o’clock at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Improvised Colombo.

This sounds amazing. Let’s click on this. Improvised Colombo makes its New York City Comedy Festival debut for a never before seenen episode of the hit seventies TV show Your White Boyfriend Just Can’t Shut Up About Colombo. Featuring queer comedians and queer codd street people, this experimental variety show celebrates introduces in dvs from the global phenomenon of yesteryear. You choose hour Columbo, you name the killer’s occupation, and together we’ll cheer on our favorite trans mask detective.

Sounds amazing. Seven o’clock, Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Sophie Buttles at Union Hall at seven thirty Samantha Bee seven thirty at the Midnight Theater. Conan O’Brien taping his podcast at Bam at eight. See what celebrity friends he calls in for this one.

It does not say, but I have a feeling there’ll be some big names of that one. Ricky Velez is a Chelsea at eight thirty. The New York Comedy Club has special guest headliner at nine point fifteen. The dice on that one. I wouldn’t on the hierarchy of New York City comedy clubs.

The New York Comedy Club not all the way up there, although Carolines is gone now, so maybe it’s moved up a little. Omagelly, let’s talk about us at Gotham at nine thirty. Gotham probably the top club. If it’s not the seller, it depends what you want. Jay Jorden’s at the Bellhouse at ten sam Jay and Keith Johnson at Chelsea at ten thirty.

And there’s a bunch of other shows you can check out at NY Comedy Festival dot com. Now, I was in New York City on Sunday. I visited all five boroughs. I didn’t see anything about the festival. New York is just too big.

It’s a great festival. You hear me calling out the names that it’s only getting as stronger as the week goes on. But like New York is just too big. It just doesn’t have a presence. Even like when they used to have JFL Chicago, it had more of a presence in the city.

It just doesn’t work here. The La Times did an article recommending some LA comedians to see. They suggested you go to see Jada Katapretta at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective at eight thirty. Kataprede is fireball entered Ghe delivers loud laughs, dancing, singing, gyrating, and serving up humor in two languages. There seems to be nothing this fiery Brazilian can’t do.

Brad Williams, very funny comedian, has unveiled his latest special. It’s called Starfish. It’ll be on the streaming platform Veeps December twenty first at five pm Pacific. I’m not familiar with veeps, all right, Brad Williams December twenty first, Why that date? You have to know the joke that Brad Williams is a little person.

So that’s the setup for the joke. Why the twenty first Brad tells us it’s the shortest day of the year. Anti Donna very funny Australian sketch comedy group. They had to show on Netflix a few years back, and they have a great podcast if you want to check that out. They have started a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

It’s called the McMuffin mcguffin, a three hour Dungeons and Dragons campaign. From a TikTok video shared by Anti Donna, we learned that the party will face many dangers, including a demigod and a D and D dragon with five more penises than you’d typically expect to see. So is that five or is that sick? Hmm? The D and D campaign trailer also features plenty of scenes where Anti Donna member Zach would rather be doing literally anything else.

The podcast is not over. But that part was your Daily Comedy News for today. I’m going to talk about the marathon here. So if you don’t care about the marathon at all, or if you like John shut up about it, you were dismissed, that was your comedy news. But let me talk about the marathon.

So ten years ago I did the New York City marathon, and I loved it, and I’m like, I want to do this again someday. So every year I would enter the lottery and you’d get to know and then you can tell your friends. I totally would around the marathon, but they would let me in. So I did that for about eight years, and then last year I got an email and was like balloons popped up and like confetti and it was like, hey, congratulations, You’re in. I was like, what, Oh my goodness.

So I started training again. I forgot to mention over the past ten years, I have torn the meniscus in both knees. My ortho told me stop running long distances. I’m also a beach volleyball player, which is also terrible for the knees, but I keep playing because I don’t know. I don’t want to give into age.

Somewhere along the line I did. After the meniscus tears, I did the Ruckers Half Marathon, and that race that I even completed, it meant as much to me as the first marathon did. So I kept entering the lottery and I got back in, and I was training in twenty twenty two, and I just I would get out there and I’d be months in the training and I’d be like, I can’t even run a mile. My annual physical showed that my iron level had crashed, so I got a bag. It’s kind of like getting a transplant of iron.

That fixed that. So this year I went back out and trained again and made it to the end of the training and finished the race on Sunday. So as the day goes, I know some of you are curious about it. You have to get to Staten Island. If you’re not familiar with New York City.

There are five boroughs, and stat Island’s kind of off by itself. The name will tell you it’s an island. So I took the Staten Island ferry there and it’s kind of zen. You just kind of chill and you watch New York Harbor and you can see the Statue of Liberty. It’s quite nice.

Then you make your way over to the village, which is a holding pen. The weather was perfect, so like one of the things to stress about with this particular racis am I going to be cold? Grab some water, hit the porter potty four or five seven times. Then there you are, and you’re at the foot of the Verrizonto bridge, cannon goes off, boom and here we go, and there was just something primal about running with thousands of other people. There’s just so many people.

The bridge will take you into Brooklyn, which is like, I don’t know, like an eight mile flat stretch, and I was feeling great on that one. My goal was to run a six hour marathon, which is quite slow, but I’m also fifty four years old. And at one point I caught up to the five fifteen pacer and I was like, oh wow, I’m like really doing well. When I ran it ten years ago, my final time was five nineteen, so like, I’m even near the five fifteen balloon. Now.

I knew I was going to be able to hold the five fifteen balloon for five hours, but I was like, oh, this is going well. Boom and boom. Then I needed a potty break because of the water I had drink, and you know, when you’ve got that on your mind, another eighteen miles of well I got to go to the bathroom is kind of annoying. So I took the potty break early and I never got my rhythm back, and at about the eleven mile mark, I bonked. Is the term runners use.

I found a great description this morning from the Guardian. When you bonk, your body is in a form of bodily sedation, where the mind and body have started to stop working as they usually do. You might have felt great two miles ago, but once you started bonking, it can be tough to come back. And that is what happened to me. I in the middle miles like eleven to like sixteen, I felt the closest feeling I could use is drunk.

I could tell my brain wasn’t working quite right. I just wanted to finish the race so I could go home and sleep for a week. I just like was out of it, so I just started walking really briskly. I could tell my legs, hey, can we run here? Nope, And it was just like walk walk, and I was walking at a pretty good clip.

Eventually I started grabbing some gatorades and was able to get my brain back in, but with the bank I had a gut out the last fifteen miles. It was a very long day, but I completed it and I got my medal. I did not make the six hour cut off. Little disappointing there, But on the other hand, I’m four years old. My other takeaway was the race was very loud this time.

I don’t remember it being as loud. There were a lot of bands which I remember bands last time, a lot of DJs, and everybody had their music on three hundred decibels. I run with they’re called shocks, open ear headphones, so they don’t actually sit in your ears. As somebody who’s been in radio for twenty years, I’ve seen a lot of coworkers with hearing loss. Some mois very careful with my ears.

I wear my headphones very low, even when I’m recording, like right now, I have one ear on one year off. I always watch my hearing. I don’t like when my ears ring. Ever, so these shocks had said if you’re a runner, I highly recommend them. They sit right in front of your ear and they use bone conduction and it’s amazing.

You can hear, but you can also hear the outside world, and I find it really helps with the ringing. But anyway, for the race, with the bands and the DJs, I couldn’t hear my music at all, and I don’t want to be like bro. If I could have heard my music, I would have totally crushed this and around there in three hours. I don’t. I don’t want to say that at all, but I do have especially worked out running mix for the long runs where there are songs that I love to zone out to.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller is a great running song. Genesis Home by the Sea, Second Home by the Sea great song to zone out too. Bruce Springsteen Detroit Medley is exactly at my perfect gallop. So I had the heads and phones on and I heard I think half of four different songs the entire race, like it was just so loud. Couldn’t believe how loud it was.

So, you know, I feel like the run itself not at all the time I had hoped for. But I do feel mission accomplished, and I feel unburdened now because now I can just run and I’m not beholding to a training program for the first time in two years. So it’s kind of nice. Thank you for everybody who commented on the Facebook group Daily Coming News podcast group, and I’m going to stop talking about it except during the mentions during the live read this week. All right, and that’s your marathon news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks for all the sport on everything. Oh one of the regulars hit me on the side and said, hey, you’re not hosting Travelers Back. Yeah, that’s for the winter. Between all the running and the situation with my mom.

You know, I go visit her every day. I haven’t traveled at all, so I don’t have anything to talk about, and I really haven’t had the time to research places that I want to go. So Journey Joe Mitchell hosting Travelers Back for the winter, and I hope to pick it back up in February or March when I get back out there. All right, that’s it for today, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I saw this several places, but I’ll source this story from Joe dot com, who recapped this is a thing. I looked around the internet this happened. Amy Schumer has suggested that Amy Schumer is the most successful woman comedian of all time.

This came part of a back and forth where Amy was coming under fire for some comments she has made around the ongoing Israel and Palestine conflict. Late last week, Amy posted a series of text based pictures on her Insta to clarify her position on the conflict. Amy clarified she wants every hostage back, saying quote, I want safety and freedom for Hamas for Palestinians and Israelis. I want safety for Jewish people and Muslims as well everyone just like you, I want peace. You will never see me wishing harm on anyone saying I’m Islamophobic or that I like geniside is crazy.

So here you go. By popular demand comments on please keep the blow in mind, people started commenting. Schumer commented on the comments, Amy wrote, when you say I’m rich, please add in self made. I come from being dirt. Poor Senator Chuck Schumer is my dad’s second cousin, once removed.

I didn’t meet him until I was twenty five. More comments, I have never been given any money to sport a cause other than Tampon’s. She decided to defend a long standing claim that she was a joke thief, writing I’ve never stolen a joke. Let’s dive in on that. There’s a YouTube video by the Tangerine Show that has a twenty five minute compilation.

I’m just going to play two and I am scoping these downs so we don’t spend five minutes on this. The first joke from Kevin Neilan, then Amy Schumer, second joke from John Mulaney, then Amy Schumer. It dawned on me that I don’t see it in colors. I don’t. In high school, I went out with this Chinese girl for a while once.

I didn’t even know she was Chinese. I thought, I don’t know, maybe really tired. And she’s like, well, I’m offended because I’m Asian, and I was just like, well, I’m sorry, but I didn’t even notice that. I thought you were just like really tired. Blacking out is when you drink so much that your brain goes to sleep, but your body gets all Aya the Tiger and soldiers on and I black out when I drink.

Is that the worst? No, your mind goes to sleep, but your body’s like ten. That is my night. If you do a Google search for Amy Schumer joke thief, some of the articles that come up are from Variety. Amy Schumer denies stealing Oscar’s joke off Twitter.

Vox has Amy Schumer’s alleged joke stealing, explained. The Daily Beast wrote, is Amy Schumer really a joke thief anyway? Topic for a different day. Amy also in the comments, wrote, people calling me a failed comic, I’m the most successful female comedian of all time. We’ll come back to that more comments.

I’m ugly slash fad. Okay, sorry you aren’t attracted to me. I found someone who is. I hope you find someone too. Next comment, We’re all in a lot of pain.

What hurts the most is that we actually love each other. You hate Jews. You don’t know why I still love you. As for Amy describing herself as the most successful female comedian of all time, I’ll let you ponder who it might be. Joan Rivers came to mind to me.

But Joan is from a different era, So let’s pull out a little more modern. How about Ellen DeGeneres worth five hundred million dollars. How about Julia Louis Dreyfuss. How about Rosie O’Donnell worth one hundred and twenty million dollars. How about Melissa McCarthy reportedly worth ninety million?

Amy Is reportedly worth forty five million. I’m doing some Google here. How about Lucille Ball? Why wasn’t she kind of successful? Joan Rivers, Roseanne Ellen, Carol Burnett pretty successful?

Amy, Betdie White, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Lampinelli, Whitney Cummings, Tina Fay pretty successful. So I don’t know. So is she in the conversation? Sure? Absolutely?

Is she number one the most successful woman comedian of all time? Not sure the body works there? Amy plus youd better watch out for Taylor Thomson. Taylor is the new host of After Midnight. That’s the CBS reboots of At Midnight.

This will aer at twelve thirty seven AM. That’s why it’s now called After Midnight, not at Midnight. Thank you for Dan Blueblitz Junior for putting this on My Radar via the Daily Comedy News podcast group. No day yet for After Midnight with Taylor Thompson, but a really good choice for host. I think she’ll be great at that.

Sarah Silverman hosts The Daily Show this week. Sarah has also been quite outspoken about the Warsole. We’ll see what happens on The Daily Show this week. Chelsea Paretti is bringing her podcast back. The original run of Call Chelsea Peretti ran from twenty twelve to twenty fifteen, with occasional episodes from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty.

On that Chelsea Paretti fielded phone calls from bewildered fans. The new version will drop every Thursday starting this week, November ninth. The press release tells us they’ll be talking to a Tahoe bear attack survivor, a couple that transformed their long into a vibrant wild flour garden, and a shocking episode on geese attacks. KC dot Com asked Nikki Glaser if she was a good girl in college. Nikki Glaser said, Yeah, it was.

I was so focused on being a comedian. I was so obsessed with stand up. I just kind of knew that a college education wasn’t going to change my life at all. I was just doing it to appease my parents because they were paying for school, so I wasn’t really focused on school or the college lifestyle is constantly driving to case to do stand up. Seth Myers is touring a new hour.

Seth said, my stand up special, Lobby Baby, came out at the end of twenty nineteen, so this has been an hour I started writing during the pandemic. It probably almost entirely turned over since the first time I did the show. But it’s sort of a rolling hour that you’re constantly building on. And when things that happen are funny based on being a husband, or based on being a dad, or based on being a son, those don’t really fit into the body of late night. So stand up’s been a wonderful place to sort of hold on to that as well.

And it’s good to have a bunch of different avenues when you’re a comedian because then you never come up with a tier where they don’t have a place for it. Seth. How is it doing a comedy show right now when the news is so heavy? Seth said, it’s cathartic. That’s the short answer, And we want our show to be cathartic for the people who watch it, because it’s certainly cathartic for us to do it.

The news happens whether you do a comedy show or not, and getting to sit in a room full of people that you love and to make you laugh is the best way to get through it. And if I didn’t have a show, I’d just be muttering about these things to myself on the street. The spokesman caught up with Adam Carolla, who before he was an entertainer, he was a craftsman. Corolla said, I did all sorts of things in the world. One day I could be making a dollhouse and the next day hanging drywall.

I realized that if I just hung drywall, I’d make more money, but if I committed to that life, I’d get bored. It’s the same with entertainment. I like variety. He talked about his two thousand and nine sitcom pilot called Ace in the Hole, which was an all in the family type show. All right, tap the brakes there, Adam Corolla, He said, we had a good script, a good premise.

Who was a powerhouse pilot. However, it’s the process that got us with pilots. It’s like flowers at its ear broth. A bunch of middle aged women who are not funny at all, oversee the entire process, and after making a number of compromises, you end up with a sitcom like According to Jim, it was frustrating. Corolla talked about working with Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice back in twenty twelve.

Corolla said, when he became president wasn’t surreal for me. I got to know Donald Trump a bit and his kid’s a bit. I clearly remember how my mom was with it. She was a left wing nut job who embraced every bad idea California ever had. She hated Trump but really didn’t know his policies.

I remember saying that I knew the president, and she said, you really don’t know the president and I said, I do. If he sees me, he’ll say, hi, Adam, how are you. My mom said, but you don’t really know the president and I said, you mean, like what’s in his heart? My mother tried to talk me out of whether I knew the president. My mother wasn’t a fan of mine, but she hated Trump.

Did I mention I ran the marathon yesterday. It’s entirely possible. I taped this before the marathon, you know, so I’ll catch up on that tomorrow. I was watching some TV late last week. I caught up on Ralph Barbosa’s special on Netflix.

It’s perfectly watchable. I did add it to the top of the year, but in the number twenty spot. I’m not going to recap the whole list today, So Ralph Barbosa, it’s nice. I enjoyed it a couple out louds. I thought it would be based on the buzz on Ralph.

I thought it would be a lot stronger. But it’s fine, nothing wrong with it. Dusty Slay sweeted, hey, I just put out he didn’t say hey. Why did I add the hey? Dusty Slade did not say hey.

Dusty Slay wrote, I just put out a fifty minute stand up video on YouTube for those that have been following me for a while. It won’t be anything new, but I recorded this in twenty nineteen. If you have friends that don’t know me, please share it with them. I have some friends that don’t know me, but we’re all on a Facebook group together, the Daily Comedy News podcast group and I shared the link there. It’s called being Poor in the Trailer Parks.

If you’re on YouTube. The New York Comedy Festival continues today, stand Up for Heroes at Lincoln Center. Pretty good line up, John Stewart, Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, Ronny Chieng, Shean Gillis, Tracy Morgan, Well, some music by Josh Grobin and John Mellencamp and others. That’s obviously the big show tonight. A bunch of smaller shows.

A comedian I like a lot of Adrian Apple. Lucci’s at the Standard eight Britannic. Oh, that’s interesting that they came to New York eight o’clock, the Triad Theater, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog at the Murmur Theater at eight, Joe Firestone and Made Higgins at the Little Field at eight. Love this title, Gay Bye Play. That’s at the Brooklyn Arthouse at ten.

Another funny title, The Luke Ass Spectacular with Kate sisk at the Little Field at ten thirty. Ooh, some fun stuff tomorrow, but you have to tune in tomorrow to find out what that is, or you can just go on their website. It’s all there. I also caught up on Mark Marin’s podcast. I was enjoying his interview with Larry Charles, but the part that was piquing my interest was Maren’s frank discussion of getting older and sensing that someday we all die.

And it spoke to me a lot of what’s been going on this year, including running a marathon trying to beat father time. Right, that’s part of what’s going on. And I won’t bore you with what I start thinking about three in the mornings. I don’t sleep most nights. But Mark Maron with Larry Charles, the death parts were kind of enjoyable.

That’s weird recommendation, Johnny Mack. I know right. Futurama is back, baby. Hulu has ordered two more seasons. Season eleven premiered back in July.

I’ve watched two and a half of them and got distracted. It made Nielsen’s top ten original series for six weeks. Season twelvell debut next year, and then seasons thirteen and fourteen. At some point in the future, are you watching Rick and Morty. It’s just off.

I keep talking about this. The Rick voice is fine, but the Rick voice doesn’t stammer in the way it would stammer. You know, I’m stammering like Rick traditionally would go back and he’d go back and he’d say something a couple times in a row. He’d say something a couple times in the row. Morty, and he’s not doing that now.

Mike Birbigley is the old man in the pool. Will come to Netflix November twenty. First, we’re going to be busy Thanksgiving weekend. The show is to take on life’s big questions like why are we here, what’s next? And exactly how much chlorine do they put in the YMCA pool.

Steve oh will release a comedy special on November fourteenth. It’s called buget List. You’ll have to go to his website STEVEO dot com to see this one. Steve O tells Deadline, I’ve poured my heart and soul into the show and can’t wait to unleash it on the world. Securing the right distribution partner and finding a company that understood my audience and would embrace the no holds barred nature of what I do.

Steve O dot com. Will the upcoming season of Curb Your Enthusiasm be the final season? The boss over at HBO? Was asked that and he said, we generally leave that up to Larry, And I think he’s been thinking about what he wants to do. He knows it’s been an open invitation, so I think he’s going to decide if he wants to do more or whether this is going to be the final season.

A premier dad for season twelve has not been announced. And we began with Amy Schumer. Let’s end with Amy Schumer Life and Beth as a season two premiere date Friday, February sixteenth. Put it on your calendar. All ten episodes will drop at once in season two of Life and Beth, Beth and John’s relationship grows more serious.

Returning cast members include Amy Schumer, Well That’s good, Michael Sarah, Susannah Flood, and Violet Young, and recurring guest stars like Jaminika Saunders, Michael Rappaport, and rosebud Baker. That is your comedy news for today. You can follow this show many places. I use the pocket cast at myself because I like getting the back episodes. You know, if you use Apple podcasts, they might be like, hey, there’s a new one and not tell about the other ones, like say on a Monday maybe you don’t listen to podcasts on the weekend.

Well, if you were on pocketcasts, you’d get three episodes. But you took out Apple podcasts and they’re like, yeah, here’s the Monday episode that John did, and you missed the two from the weekend. That makes John sad because his back catalog numbers are down. It’s not nice Apple podcasts. So pocket casts, overcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, man, I hope you’re having a good day as you’re listening to this. I’m somewhere in New York City running the New York City Marathon. Let’s hope it goes well. Thank you for supporting Advance Tough.

Si Gore ad Matt Rife on recently, and Tom asked Matt about his good looks, and Rife said, for me, I want to look the best I possibly can. Who doesn’t want to look like the best version of themselves? Right? Yeah, that’s why you’re on twenty six point two miles in your mid fifties. What are you doing?

Eh? It lost a lot of weight. It was good. Raife said, if someone who grew up ugly as a kid and as a skinny kid, and I didn’t lose my virginity until I had two months left of high school? Whoa tm, I, Matt Rife.

So I was such a little late bloomer that I’m like, can I just enjoy this portion of my life. I don’t know what I’m going to look like when I get older. I might look like Domarera in five years. Hope Domrera didn’t hear that one. The Columbus Underground caught up with Sam Morrell.

They asked him about some of his fellow comedians routines that he finds memorable. Pretty cool question, that’s a different one, Sam said. Jim Jefferies had a bit on guns that I thought was pretty hilarious. I know the bit, It is really strong. I thought he ate every angle on it was incredible.

Louis C.K. Was on a tear for a while. It was like every bit you know, Yes, for a while there c K was being called the new George Carlin. People don’t do that anymore. Greg Giraldo had a lot of jokes that I like to think about.

I’d think about a Civil War letter jokes, or about a sick freed and Roy jokes. Giraldo had so many bits where we take these touchy issues and find the silliest angle. And I love jokes like that where we just go, how the hell did no one else think of this? You think it’s because it’s easy, but it’s only because he made it look easy. It’s not actually easy.

Promise. Greg is such a good comedian because he would always just add an extra thing. You think the joke is over, because it would have been good enough, and then’d add another line. You’re like, oh damn, that’s a joke. Sam says he’s more into the after show hang than the pre show hang.

Sam says, I kind of want to just chill before the show. We have a routine where we’re pretty healthy. During the day, We’ll find a rec center or something and I’ll play ball, We’ll do some sort of exercise, get a good meal from in the city. I like just good friends doing something not comedy related, basketball, watching game, watching a movie or something. I like watching old movies.

He doesn’t like if you have needy energy. Sam says, it’s people I don’t know well who are like pushy with stuff. I mean, it’s why I don’t know them. It’s like I don’t want to know you. And there are a lot of comics like that.

Look, we picked a field with a lot of mentally iel people with massive egos, which is a pretty dangerous combination. A lot of creative people of terrible add your mind wanders, that’s why you’re creative. So those people are not good listeners. And I include myself in that. Sam says.

One of the most challenging parts of touring. I hate hotel beds. Even if you’re in a nice hotel, the bed is crap for some reason. It’s weird. It’ll be like a cool aesthetic or something.

But then this pill is trash. This mattress sucks. The sheets feel like sandpaper. So yeah, there’s a lack of sleep. I had an eight am cross country flight the last two thursdays to Vancouver and Phoenix.

Just waking up at five thirty am. I’m not really a napper, so that sucks.

And then to do shows that night sucks.

Doesn’t matter what time I get to bed, I’m a night out. The combination of late nights and early mornings would be the hardest part of the road, but you know, you get used to it. You figured it out. I think a lot of my sick and then you’re like, no, I’m just run down. Is it COVID or just my life is a game?

I play a lot. Kansin dot com spoke to Nikki Glaser about playing her old college. They were curious, what was your time like at ku? Nikki Glaser said, I think my best memories are hanging out at my friend’s house and having our whole lives ahead of us. College is really the last time you were a kid, even though you feel you’re grown up.

That’s my best memory where my biggest issue in life was a paper that was due. I was checked out of college life because I wanted to go to la and have a career. I was so positive of what I wanted to do, and I felt like college was keeping me from pursuing my dreams. I wish I would have leaned into college life a little bit more and enjoyed having that time in those four years to take it easy. I was just so eager to get on with my life, and my sophomore year I kind of had a wake up call of Okay, stand up comedy is really hard, and you can’t just phone this in and do it on the weekends.

You need to do it every night. I generally drove to Kansas City to do stand up shows a lot of nights of the week. The other nights that I wasn’t doing stand up, I was trying to work to save money to move to LA’s soon as I graduated. I had really supportive teachers that always let me skip class if I had a show or a radio appearance that allowed me to take a test another time. I teachers that knew my potential and stand up, and they were teaching courses that had nothing to do with it, and they were still supporting me.

My senior year, I got on last Comic Standing. I had to go to LA and film an episode. I missed my finals. My teachers were all cool about it because they knew that I was pursuing my dream. I’ll always be grateful to those teachers who allowed me to graduate despite not really attending that many classes.

NIMESH but Tell Tell WTP. I grew up with sixteen first cousins, so that was the comedy, all of us yelling at each other as we grew up. Chris Rock was one of the first comedians I saw as a special, but we were also run of the mill Americans watching Saved by the Bell Family, matters and the Waynes Brothers and everything that ABC and w B had on at the time. In terms of movies, Adam Sandler was king at the time. As we get older, movies and TV shows gave way to music, DMX and all that.

In twenty eleven, he started the NYC Broken Comedy Show with his friends Mike Denny and Michael Chay. Have heard of Michael cha famous that helped him get discovered by Chris Rock during a Brooklyn gig twenty fifteen, but told Wtop it had become the hottest independent stand up show in New York. Once I got when the Chris Rock was coming, I was like, I’m going up. Chris saw me. I had one of those blackout sets where it did great, but I didn’t remember it at all.

Afterward, Chris told me he thought I was funny and I was just in shock. A few months later, I got an email saying he wanted me to be on the writing team for the Oscars he was hosting in twenty sixteen. That was a whirlwind experience. My finance job was in flux, and I was interviewing a bunch of other places, but I wasn’t getting anywhere. There was like no gap between my finance job ending and my writing job starting January.

My finance job ended February, I was in La writing for Chris Rock for the Oscars. It was crazy. That was the year of hashtag oscar So White. One of the top comedy experiences I’ve ever had. It is the final day of the three one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago, best known for having a terrible website where the acts are sorted by alphabetical order and not by date.

So I’m scrolling through looking for the words November and five, and I found one at Park West. You can go see that’s messed up with Eliza Trigger and Kara Klink. Steven Burgatsy is at Zany’s in Chicago? Is this who I think it is? I’m clicking on it and it’s taking me in an endless loop.

I can’t even buy tickets, so I’m looking here. There is a man who appears to be older than me, wearing a magician’s hat. And I know that Nate Bergatzy’s father was a magician. I’m guessing this is him. Stephen Burgatsey has a tour It’s called the Magic of Steven And yes, his website says, even with all his awards and accolades, he is mostly known as Nate’s dad.

All right, that’s who that is. You know, three twelve Comedyfestival dot com. You could just put this information out there. You know, he’s at Zany’s today. I can’t tell you what time because the website’s not working.

Eugh, that’s a wrap on the three one two Comedy Festival, I am deleting the bookmark that I’ve had on my browser for a few weeks.

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Meanwhile, at the much more organized New York Comedy Festival at three o’clo…

I won’t be done by three. I’m in the very last shoot. I might be running a marathon, but I never said I was running a fast marathon. So when they asked me what time, I wrote five hours, fifty nine minutes, and they put me in the last shoot. That’s where I want to be.

I’m ten years older than when I did it last time, so I’m just going out today and I’m taking it easy and I’m taking in the experience. I loved it ten years ago, I’m sure i’ll love it today, and I don’t know if I’ll do it again in ten years. So I just want to soak this one in today, so I won’t be done by three o’clock. But you know, you could go and see a comedy brunt show. Joey Behar is at the Manhattan Movement at three five o’clock at the hard Rock Jeff Ross not gonna make that one either.

I’ll almost be done, Jeff, but I won’t be able to hit your show today. Mark Gerber is recording his album at the New York Comedy Club at five. The Frat Boys with a z Or at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective is seven like this title. Ben Palmer trolls NYC. He’s at the Little Field at eight, Comedy Hangman at the Brooklyn Art House at nine, and a bunch of smaller shows throughout the day.

And why Comedy Festival dot com slash schedule if you want to see how a schedule should be done. Rachel Kayley with a K is one of the Vulture twenty five comedians you should know. So while we’re getting to Rachel today, Apparently when I was up to the Cays must add a busy podcast that day and I bumped that one, Rachel said a couple of years ago, ideas would just come to me and I’d run with them. I think it was more manic a couple of years ago, and also doing improv many nights a week, so joke writing came to me more easily when I had alt comedy and unmanaged panic disorder adrenaline coursing through my body. I’ve recently found it’s harder for me to surprise myself and I have to force myself to sit down to write.

I think I’ve also learned that my style changes and my voice constantly needs honing. There were two years where I got really into writing of certain long stories that went off the rails and always ended with me basically getting killed or having sex, and it really worked for me and I think it was unique. But more recently, especially since working my New Hour, I’ve been veering away from that. I was fighting against that instinct to try and do new stuff and maybe do more formally normal stand up, But I think I have to accept that’s where I’m at right now, and I can still be funny and surprising in the space. Worst show Ever I was ten years old.

I was doing stand up at Gotham. They had a program called Kids in Comedy. One show I did a set. It was a voice twelfth birthday. He and his friends were sitting in the front row.

They hated me and heckled me the entire time, saying it wasn’t funny and I was ugly, so I told him to please stop after every punchline and I cried. I didn’t stop doing stand up after that, and now I beg people to heckle me because it’s the most fun thing that could possibly happen to me. I challenge every man over forty five to come for me. I will destroy you, I know, oh by you and your girlfriend a drink after and then we’ll go to a WNBA game together, even if you hate women. That is your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the marathon if you’re running one if you’re not. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Somebody signed me up for the New York City mirv on tomorrow. I need some pasta. Jeff Foxworthy spoke to this CV Independent about his traveling, and Jeff explained, back in the day, I would lease a plane and I would fly home every night, no matter where my show was, unless I was on the West Coast.

I know firsthand because I worked with Jeff. That is accurate. Jeff said, I would fly home every single night and get in at one or two in the morning, and I’d get up at six and take the kids to school. I’d go pick them up from school, and then I’d go get on a plane and fly out and do another show. Did that for about twelve years.

In fact, not long ago. I said to my wife, when did I sleep? But he gave me one hundred more days a year with my kids. Once they grew up, I’m like, this is expensive. So I started flying Delta again.

So that’s what I do now most of the time. If I’m going to the West Coast, I’ll try and do two or three stops in a row and then come home. It’s more relaxed. It’s a little easier on the body and the wallet than it used to be. Really enjoying this season of life, and I still really enjoy what I do.

Some people say, when are you going to retire? And I’m like, crap. I still love doing it. I just don’t love doing it at the pace I did it twenty years ago. Now.

My joke is, you’re paying me to get on a plane and sleep in a hotel room, I’ll do the show for free. So every night, when those lights go down and the light hits the floor, I’m like, I’ve got the best job in the whole world. Hey, Jeff, you saw Ron White unretired right and you saw Bill Ingvall came out and did a charity show. I think you got to pick up the phone. I know Larry’s in.

You got to call the other two and be like, hey, guys, we could make a lot of money. One more ride. Let’s do blue collar comedy tour. One more come on, Jeff, pick up the phone. Jeff said, I maybe do fifty shows a year now.

When I first started, I think the first eight years in a row, I did at least five hundred shows a year. It was almost like the Malcolm Gladwell thing. You’ve got to do something ten thousand times to get really good at it. So that was kind of my approach. Jeff watches out for fatigue and says you can’t write when you’re exhausted, but it’s also something you can’t force.

Kenny Rogers said to me one time that the best careers in entertainment are like a lava lamp. You heat up for a little bit, then you kind of cool down, then you come back and you eat up again, and then you cool down. Yeah, Like if you came back with say the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Larry’s in, pick up the phone, convince Ron, and then Bill’s a cool guy. Bill will do it. You got to convince Ron.

What Kenny Rodgers meant by that, which is when you hit those hotspots, it’s exhausting. You can’t sustain at that level. I had that in the beginning with You Might Be Dneck stuff and then doing the Tonight Show in Vegas and stuff, and then it cooled off a little bit, and then we came back with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and it heat it back up for several years, and then it cooled off. A little bit, and then I was doing fifth grader. You know, Jeff, if you picked up the phone, Larry’ll do it.

You just got to convince Ron and then Bill will fall in line. It’s time to heat up again, Jeff said. For me, I think I’ve always remained interested in stand up because I’ve gotten to do other things that kind of satisfy, that urge your curiosity. There’s just something about standing there and making people laugh just makes you feel so good. C’lon caught up with Reggie Watts and they asked, Reggie Watts fine moving to Montana, what are the top five rules for a black guy moving to Montanagie said, rules for a black guy?

I don’t know. Growing up there, the thing is, people are genuinely pretty nice. They might be suspicious at first, but I noticed that sometimes that suspicious isn’t necessarily because you’re black. I mean, it’s definitely a part of it, but it’s not just that. It’s that you’re a stranger.

I don’t know anything about you, and I’m gonna treat you as a stranger till something clicks. When something clicks, everybody’s super sweet and they’re really nice, and you’re done that’s it. I get it. It’s like when someone comes into the village. It’s a tribal reaction, right.

It’s like you’re in your tribe, You’re in your village, and then someone comes in and you’re like, who’s the stranger. I don’t know who the stranger is. Well, the stranger help with water yesterday, and the stranger help build a fire. So stranger, okay, now, not a stranger my experience. That’s why I kind of learned to be as useful and funny as possible, and for better or for worse.

They asked Reggie Watts, how long can you stay in Great Falls before you get on the road. Ready said, yeah, I hear that. That’s a great question. I’d say in general about ten days. I think ten days is a good amount.

And then I’m just missing my friends because I have so many friends in LA and I do have friends in Great Falls, but there’s only so much you can do there. I do comedy and I do music. I kind of need to be around a place that is comedy in music. Great Falls, for as cool as it is, doesn’t have those things at abundants, so I do tend to miss it. I love this question.

All right, Reggie Watts, we’re making a movie about you. We’re not gonna ask you who plays you. We’re gonna ask you who doesn’t play you, who’s not on the list. His answer, not on the list, Bill Cosby, and they added Tyrese Geez. So I’m like, yeah, I don’t know who should play, and probably some young kid that no one knows.

I think that’s what it have to be, because otherwise I hate it when famous actors take on mundane characters. The whole time, I’m like, am I not gonna be able to tell it’s that actor? The whole time, I’m like, that’s pretty good. That almost made me feel like I don’t think it’s that actor. Just hire somebody that nobody has an association with.

It’s way easier. Healthline caught up with Howie Mandel about his OCD. How He shared that I wouldn’t learn to sign my shoes because I didn’t want to touch the laces because they had touched the ground. So everybody bullied me, and I didn’t have a friend in school because I would just rather them think I can’t tie my laces. He talked about his younger brother holding up the laundry hamper lid during fights to ward him off.

How He said, I’d melt and scream and terror and do anything he wanted. I remember I met Howie early in my run. It’s serious, he was. This was the first person I ran into that did the fist bump. Jerry Seinfeld.

I remember being the second person. The fist bump has become a lot more common, especially post COVID, but going back twenty years, that was like, Oh what I do here? I bump your fist. Okay, that’s new, that’s fun now, he said, everything bothered me. I just couldn’t move on in life unless there were things made my way, not only by me, but by everybody was in my periphery who just brushed off as the quirkiness of Howie.

Not anybody diagnosed or said, well, this is strange, this is different. Why I seem obsessed with the washing and the cleaning all the other things I needed to do. I didn’t want to tell anybody that I had a mental health problem. I thought it was a sign of weakness. It was embarrassing.

So, as you sit here and talk to you today, this is one hundred and eighty degrees from where I was in my forties. John Klees discussed Monty Python with gb News and said Python were the early targets of cancel culture. John Klees spoke to The Sunday Times and said Monty Python were the early targets of cancel culture. People don’t like to have their cherished ideas punctured a question. We all love to live in our own close systems of thought, to be surrounded by people who think a bit like us.

That’s what happens on the edge too, where you get those blasted echo chambers. It’s why comedy is even more important today as a way of pricking those bubbles, opening them up, letting in fresh air. It’s good for all of us. The problem is that cutting edge comedy becomes difficult if a joke transgresses someone’s idea of good taste, and that means a comedian has banned for life. It’s abverts the creative impulse.

All right, John, would your comedy from the seventies and eighties working today’s times? Clese said the trick with creativity is to understand that it’s not a talent, it’s a frame of mind. You have to get away from fear and doubt. You have to get into a place of playfulness and curiosity, so you can find connections and push boundaries. Cancel culture tends to make people less broaden their thinking more literal minded.

It is together to make funny or intellectually interesting associations. In cultural terms, it’s dangerous. I’m so old, I’m not bothered about getting canceled, but as a young man starting out, it might be different. Furied does to talk to Outlook India about choosing to play smaller venues. He said, I like to remove the trappings of comfort from my shows.

I could have done the comedy special at a huge stadium with numerous cameras focusing on me from different angles, but I wanted to keep it simple, and Netflix was gracious enough to agree to that. In this special, there’s no set, there’s just one stool. There’s no production as such. There’s only some sand on the floor. There’s not even any enhanced lighting.

The special rides on the words that come out of the comedian’s mouth. So I like to scare myself in that sense. Let’s see who’s at the three one to Twoter Comedy Festival in Chicago tonight where they don’t believe in posting the schedule with using calendar technology alphabetic will only really annoying. Let me scroll down and see if I see November fourth anywhere. Nate Pergatzy at the Chicago Theater eighty five South at the Winterest Arena, Russell Peters at the Rosemonts.

I’ve been in that venue. Good venue, good place to see Russell. That’s probably a good choice for tonight. Michael Chay at the Riviera, also good choice. Ari Shafir at the Vic ah Wow.

Combination of theater and performer. That might have to be the move of Ari Shafir at the vic tonight. Creig Robinson in The Nasty Delicious at Park West, Chad Daniels at the Chicago Improv In some smaller shows around town, and now let’s check out the New York At Comedy Festival, who totally understands calendar technology. Some of the show shows. Aaron Chen at Union Hall at five o’clock.

You may remember me playing some clips from Aaron when we were covering at the Sydney International Comedy Festival. Aaron’s pretty good at a five o’clock show. Doesn’t run up against anything. That’s a good choice. Aaron Chen, Union Hall, five o’clock you’re in a comedy, I recommend that one.

Jeff Ross at the hard Rock at seven, Lona Glazer at BAM at eight o’clock, Sam Morrell the Theater at MSG eight thirty, and some smaller shows around town. The festival’s just getting started here as we get into next weekend, and we’ll see some pretty heavy hitters, but not a bad night of comedy on a Saturday night. Unless you’re running a marathon tomorrow. You don’t want to be at a comedy show to midnight. Go to pet.

Sabrina Wu is one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians you should know. Vulture asked Sabrina about their writing process and they said, my answer might be more about style and joke writing. I realized that I kind of hate jokes. Puns give me a headache, and mister X make me feel hollow inside. Especially Hey, when the comedian uses a hot button issue like at trans writes or abortion as a cheap setup for some stupid take that I know they don’t actually believe in the joke anyway, because they know it can get a laugh.

An example of that they used is abortion is like pooping because and then said shut up, Shut up, Shut up. I prefer watching comedians who are giving me their honest take on things. When I was starting out, I spend a lot more time with pen and paper trying to force out set up and punchline. These days, I generate a lot of material through gossiping and ranting with my close friends. I feel like it’s stuff I care enough to talk about off stage tends to make more compelling material on stage.

And that’s your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, pocketcasts, overcasts, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media, Bloom Shinny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this line I saw from Jim gaffig in. I think he said it a while back, but I just wanted to share it as I’d like it so much. Jim said, dads are kind of like the backup quarterback in the NFL. You’re on the team, but you’re not the star.

On the rare occasion that you brought into a game, people are nervous. You know, you’re good for a play or two, and then people are like, when’s the starter coming back. Tom Sagora had Matt Rife on a few weeks back, a really fantastic discussion, and Tom Sigora was quite surprised as it was I that Matt Rife, says, Comedy Central wasn’t interested in hiring Matt Rife, the guy’s huge. Rife said, They’ve been very fortunate to have south Park on the Daily Show, be like to continued staples on the network, but all these other things they do, they’re kind of like come and go. It’s like I’ve always wanted to change that.

I’ve always wanted to have that conversation with Comedy Central to be like, give somebody with a young, fresh fan base to project a run that can bring your network back to what it used to be as a comedy network. So Gorra said, you could get that meeting. Raife said, I’ve had it. They don’t bat an eye. Comedy Central’s never given me the time of day, so Goora even now, Rife never the fact that they don’t want to entertain the idea is bonkers.

I’m big on creativity. Take a chance. I get to your business. I get they have to go by the numbers and risk can cost a lot of money. But it’s like, your channel’s never gonna grow, Your network’s never gonna go back up.

WTP spoke to Master Brunny, one of my favorite comedians. I like Ma’s a lot. He hopes to bring people together with his Mister International Comedy tour at the Kennedy Center two nights tonight and tomorrow. Mas said, it’s Mister International because I wanted mister Worldwide, but Pitbull has that. I’m the other bold guy.

I tore all over the world, so I was like, what are we gonna call this in my act and talk about my travels. Back in the day, stand up comedy was just national You do the comedy clubs in America, but now myself and a lot of comedians are in the Middle East, Australia, Europe, Asia. It’s really become an international art form. He spoke about the current world situation. I’m a human being, so when I see the fighting, the wars, and all the atrocities, it breaks my heart.

I understand people who say it’s not a time to laugh, when I get it. They can’t imagine going somewhere and laughing. My job is to hopefully bring laughter and escape for an hour and a half or two hours and bring people together. People from different backgrounds come together, and we laugh together and find our common humanity. With the Israeli Palestinian conflict, I saw pundit saying we have Afghan and Palestinian refugees coming, claiming they’re going to be dangerous to America.

I just like to remind America that the biggest stret to America are Americans. Statistically speaking, immigrants have contributed to America. Were the land that accepts of refugees. In his show, Maz says, I talk about being a parent, I talk about getting older. My kids are now teenagers and it’s a strange thing to go in this phase of their life, and now we have to wrap our heads around them no longer being our babies.

I have an aunt who still talks to me like I’m a baby. I’m fifty one years old, and what she talks to me, it’s like, how you doing, Mazzi Wazzy. I’m like, I’m not Mazzi Wazzy. I’m fifty one. My daughter’s twelve, my son is fifteen, and anyone who has teenagers knows their rooms are a mess.

It looks like the Tasmanian Devil went in and did circles. There was a father, mother, and their teenage daughter in the audience, and I go, how hell to you, young lady, and she says, oh, I’m seventeen. Let me ask you a question. Did their rooms get cleaner? The father fell out of his seat laughing.

Switching topics, Mass said, specials or a double edged sword for comedians because people can watch the special, but then they come to your show and they go, wait, I already heard these jokes. You got to write new jokes, And as you’re watching your own special, you’re like, oh, that’s so cool. The world can see it now.

And then you go, Oh, no, the world can see it now, so I’ve been working on ne…

Fortune Femster apparently is a soccer player who knew. She spoke to the West Virginia Gazette and said, I’m really good at sports. I played tennis in college, played all four years, and I played soccer. She even played in a soccer league in LA for fifteen years. Fortune said, once I got out of the college level, I hated all the running, so I ended up playing in a seven on seven league.

The style was more aggressive but required less running. Unfortunately, she said, then the pandemic git and destroyed the league, like it did a lot of things. Entertainment Weekly asked James Austin Johnson, what’s been different about doing the social media videos of Donald Trump versus doing Trump on Saturday Night Live. James said, Yeah, when I was just walking around making videos just goofing off and being silly with my friends. Then I got to SNL and started doing Trump sketches, and it still felt like goofing off with my friends.

It definitely has more eyes on it. But the videos that eventually led to me getting to do cool stuff like SNL, I was just making those to entertain my coworkers. When I worked in a warehouse in LA folding hoodies for rappers and rock bands, I was just doing trump to them to make them laugh, and now I just want to make everyone laugh in the office at SNL. Ew asked him, of all the SNL hosts you worked with so far, what’s been the most memorable experience. James said, well, my first episode was also Owen Wilson’s first episode, so we both learned how to read cue cards at the same time.

We basically just learned how to do SNL at the same time. We happened to be in a couple sketches together, so we chatted and we bonded over the new guy thing. James, are there any impressions you haven’t done yet that you want to do on the show? He said, I love those old text to speech voices on an old Mac computer. You know what I’m talking about.

You know how sometimes you batter’d be running low. My favorite voice was Bruce. If you pick Bruce would be like, and I don’t know what the impression is here he does. Please plug in your MacBook. I’m dying to play Bruce from the mac os from the nineties.

One day, I’ll write the perfect sketch for Bruce from mac Os and it’s gonna blow everyone’s mind. The minute the world here’s this Bruce voice. It’s over. I still haven’t gotten to see The Shark is Broken. It’s on my list and I have to use my Today Ticks code DCN to go see it.

But Richard Dreyfus, who was in Jaws, he saw The Shark is Broken. He’s criticizing it for what he says our inaccuracies and for making him look like a big jerk. He told Vanity Fair, I want to see it to see if it was really gonna hurt it did if you don’t know what this is. The Shark Is Broken is based on Robert Shaw’s diary. It depicts a long rumored feud between Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw.

During the film Jaws is Hurry Up and wait keep cod shooting. Dreyfus has played by Alex Brightman, has depicted as neurotic and insecure, while Shaw’s non stop drinking continually slows down and a ready tortures shoot. Dreyfus told Vanity Fair when we were surrounded by lots of other people, Robert would take digs at me, and I’d take a dig at him. It was only to make the hours go better, faster. We didn’t take any of that seriously.

Thirty years after the film is over, I start to hear this thing about a feud. I didn’t pay too much attention. Dreyfus has some harsh words for screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and for Steven Spielberg, for as Vanity Fair says, what he perceives as their role in spreading the story about his relationship with Shaw. When Dreyfus says, I don’t think they gave it any thought that it would hurt me, and it did. I have to say that Carl and Stephen knew better because there was no feud.

There was an ongoing kind of humor between us. If you only saw us on the set, you might think there was something the feud was going on, But it’s never real. Never, And I hold that against Carl and Stephen. Oh no, the shark is broken. Close as November nineteenth, I gotta get cracking on this.

I’ve been busy. I mentioned there’s a marathon Sunday. That’s what I’ve been doing with all my time, all right, I gotta try and see this in the next two weeks. Let’s see who is at the three one two Comedy Festival tonight. This in Chicago where they don’t have calendar technology and they just post the shows in alphabetical order, so I have to just scroll down and find one.

Come on, guys, you gotta do better with this website. Nate Bergatzy at the Chicago Theater tonight night, John christ Is at Rialzo Square, Nicole Bayer at the Riviera Theater, Dan Cummins at the vic That’s a great venue. Gals on the go at Park West, and some smaller shows. What time are these shows? I don’t know.

Get your website together, folks, like the New York Comedy Festival has theirs together. I went to ny Comedy Festival dot com, slash schedule and clicked date. That’s how you do it. The New York Comedy Festival is an interesting one. I’m a New Yorker and New York is just too big.

You go to other cities, and when I have a comedy festival, it kind of takes over the city. In New York, this thing tends to be invisible despite the really fantastic acts. And the really great job that the people organizing this festival do. And there’s some really famous venues involved. New York’s just too big.

But some of the shows tonight Daniel Sloss at Town Hall at seven o’clock, Ladies Who Ranch at seven at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. An Evening with Chicken Big at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, also at seven. I’m clicking on this. What is this? You were cordially invited to an Evening with Chicken Big, a soiree of seriously absurd, seriously classy comedy.

Chicken Big are the three dumbest, richest, most powerful guys you’ve ever seen, and together they will create an experience that has never happened before. Prior evenings have included a black tie gala at a vent Massus, a birthday clown, a giant baby, a game of Tug of War with the entire audience, and a live human pinata. Sounds like a fun, not wacky improv show. Joey bay Are at the Manhattan Movement North Center at seven. Natalie Roder Lateman Life Is Life at Union Hall at seven.

Sabrina Wood the Bellhouse at seven thirty. Jeff Ross at the hard Rock at eight, Jordan Jensen at the stand at eight, I Ateed Rodriguez, Chelsea Music Hall, eight thirty, the wonderfully titled Casual Sacks at nine thirty at Club coming an all Horn e Knight for all love It. Zack Zimmerman plays a Little Field at ten and I did not read you all the shows. Good start for the New York Comedy Festival. And speaking of the recently mentioned Zach Zimmerman, he’s one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians.

You should watch right. What reality show would you be good at? He said, the Amazing Race. I think I could easily charm locals by appearing helpless and appealing to their inner sense of pity. And I’m a good driver, but not with a stick.

Look, if you’re going on Amazing Race, you gotta learn how to drive a stick. It comes up. Do I know how to drive a stick? No? But if you tell me I’m going on Amazing Race, I will learn.

Much like if you go on Survivor learn how to make a fire, it’s gonna come up. Zach says, I couldn’t do any of the bungee jumping or skydiving, but that’s what your partners. For Yeah, my son and I watch the show together and we play along like, all right, I’ll do this one. You do this one. None of that bungee jumping heights thing.

I can’t do it. That’s all him. I’ll lead the bugs. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best Greer Barnes told me you’re welcoming the audience into your mind, which reminded me that even though I’m there to entertain, I’m in charge.

Worst advice. Life is like a box of chocolates. That’s your comedy news for today. While the show for free on various apps, including podcasts and overcasts and Spotify, and I guess Apple has one too, but not for back catalog episodes. I’ll tell you that much, all right.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Charlemagne the God presumably has the same writers Jesus Merrow had on The Daily Show last week, but Charlemagne getting much better jokes. The topic is Ron DeSantis wearing some sort of lifts in his boots. Charlemagne said, we need a short president anyway.

People always talk about Napoleon complex is Well, that guy ruled the entire continent. Abraham Lincoln was tall and he got shot in the head. So you tell me who’s more successful. Charlemagne again. At least now I know why DeSantis is in that huge fight with Disney.

It’s not because of wopness. It’s because you got to be this tall to ride the magic teacups. That’s good, Kimmel. One of the most important qualities we consider when considering a leader is that person’s height. That’s why I’ve been pushing for a president Kareem for many, many years.

But Jimmy Kimmel for the win. It does seem that Ron de Santis may be wearing heels. I’ll tell you what, throwing a tube of lipstick and suddenly it’s illegal to teach kids in Florida schools about their own governor. I noticed Sammurial tweeted I met MSG Theater this Saturday in NYC. Not a lot of tickets left.

New Hour of Jokes see you there, And I went, huh, somebody is probably panicking about ticket sales. I mean, not a lot of tickets left. What does that mean? So I clicked on it and I shared it indie Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please join us and I’ll remind you this is the MSG Theater.

This is not the basketball arena. Plenty of seats available in the upper deck. Not sure what’s going on there because Sam is a fantastic comic.

Also not really selling a lot of tickets.

Surprisingly. Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan, Right, you think that would be a good bill. But in that same Facebook post on the Daily Comedy News podcast group, I shared their ticket sales and yeah, you can get in for fifty bucks in the upper deck pretty easily. I got suspicious about all this when I saw gaff Again and Seinfeld doing press together. They were asked the favorite part of each other’s comedy.

Jerry said, not only do I have material that we like, to talk about. But we talk about where we work and how we work and out it feels comedians are a very gabby bunch. That’s how we got another profession. All we want to do is talk when you have an approach and take the craft seriously. Those are the best comedians and that’s Jim.

Jim said, There’s so many things that Jerry has done that are impressive, but I’m most impressed with his work. Ethic comedy, more than anything in the entertainment industry, is ever changing. It’s very rare for someone to be performing at such a high caliber of quality through different decades. Jerry said, I’m speechless. Jim said, I’m reading this off the press release.

Here’s the big question. You’re performing two nights at the Chase Center. You gotta fill twenty thousand seats a night. Give us your best sales pitch For those on the fence, Jerry said, I would continue to consider it, give it a lot of thought. Don’t be impulsive.

That’s what I would advise. If you’re thinking about it, keep thinking. On gossip Corner, The Sun noticed that Seinfeld star Michael Richards was spotted at a rare public outing with his family seventeen years after the incident at the comedy club where Michael Richards fell from Greece, Michael and his family stopped by a local park and in and out Burger. No word on what they ordered. An eyewitnessed notice the family picked up their in a Porsche an eight in and out Burger in their car.

Kataku has been paying attention to Nothing Forever. Remember the Ai Seinfeld thing. It’s been running NonStop since last December. Apparently it almost broke last week, and they’ve now made some tweaks. Nothing Forever originally focused on Larry Feinberg and some side characters that were reminiscent of the Seinfeld sitcom, rendered in PlayStation one style graphics.

The apartment they walked around kind of resembled the Seinfeld apartment, and Larry Feinberg would even perform a stand up set sometimes. Then the AI generated Larry did a transphobic joke because it’s a comedian, I guess, and you have to I don’t know. That led to a temporary ban from Twitch. Fourteen days later, the series resumed, but had a new cast of characters. Larry Feinberg was gone.

In his place, Blogger Leo Borges that still kind of looks like Jerry. The stand up bits are gone and replaced with soliloquies of Leo’s thoughts, as he posed to his blog borges boredom Board. In October, a Twitter user posted that the show’s characters don’t even say anything anymore, just stand still in complete silence. That poster fought up on another tweet about a strange orange man that stocks the apartment, disappearing and reappearing at random. On October thirtieth, media reporter Jason Koebler shared a video of two characters, Leo and Nick Sterling, walking into each other in front of a close refrigerator on a loop for five days.

In the past, the show discussed eating fruit or cooking eggs frivolous stuff. Now the characters go on long tangents about the nature of existence, if a refrigerator has consciousness, how they’re trapped in a simulation, and of course aliens too bad. The original idea was kind of fun. Comedy Dynamics is producing a new comedy special from Paul Riser. He’ll tape it at the Newman Center in Denver on November seventeenth.

Paul is also returning as Detective Jeffrey Friedman in Netflix’s Beverly Hills cop Axel Foley. We could see Paul Riser back on stage. I’ve talked to him a few times. Good guy Brad Garrett shares with Deadline that he’s not happy that his name was being used to promote a comedy show starring the Real Housewives of New Jersey personality Joe Gorga. Deadline rights it turns out everything was a scam and no show is taking place.

A representative for Gorga tells Deadline it was coming from a fake Brad Garrett, Joe’s attorney was scammed, even had signed contracts in place. Gorga’s reps said that Gorga is disappointed and he was looking forward to performing in Vegas. Garrett was on Instagram and wrote, alert, this is not an actual show at my club and people are being scammed to buy tickets via a fake link. So Joey Gorga and someone else named Jack in it looks like WTF. No one knows who you folks are in the comedy world.

Now are you working at my club? Remove these ads immediately, geez and catch New Jersey has nothing to do with this as well. Let’s see if we can decipher what’s happening at the three one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago today. As I’ve mentioned most episodes recently, the three one two Comedy Festival. They might be good at comedy festivals, they’re terrible at calendar technology.

You can only search by alphabetical order. So today, being November two, I have to scroll through and see if I see the words November and two next to each other. Here’s the one at the VIC Theater, Dusty Slay. Dusty is amazing. If you have not checked out Dusty’s bit about it’s five o’clock somewhere, stop listening to this podcast to go find it on the internet.

It’s fantastic. Hannibal Burrs at the Chicago Theater also a good show. All right, I’m gonna click and see. Could we make it both? Why do you have to click?

Johnny Mack, aren’t the times on the page that’s sorted by alphabetical order? Of course? Not? All right? Dusty sleighs at seven scroll down, click.

This is really terrible this website. You’ve heard me do this festival thing before. Hannibal is at seven point thirty. Ooh, that’s a tough choice there. I would go see Dusty Sleigh right now over Hannibal, and I don’t say that lightly.

Chad Daniels at the Chicago Improv Roast Battle Chicago at Zany’s, and a couple of minor things not bad, but go see Dusty Sleigh if you’re in town. I noticed THEO Vaughn’s podcast is in the top twenty on the over all charts. THEO quietly becoming a comedy powerhouse. I was listening to an episode of his recently with a Politician. It is not a politician that I support, but I found the interview very compelling and very easy on the airs.

Theovonn’s podcast is pretty good. Heads up if you’re and Spokene and you’ve got tickets to see Colin Jose tonight, the show has been canceled and rescheduled for June twentieth. According to the Fox Theater, all previously purchased tickets for the Thursday performance will be honored at the new date. No reason given why a quick Google search for Colin Jose doesn’t turn up any news Dale Hugh Lee. You remember Matthew Berry’s generosity of spirit.

This from the New York post. They were co stars on Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip, which is a pretty good show. You should check out. That show deserved a lot better. It was kind of like what if the West Wing were Saturday Night Live.

Thirty Rock came out at the same time and kind of stole this show’s thunder. But I liked that show a lot. I believe it’s streaming on I want to say, Paramount Plus, why don’t you just tell them John look it up. No, it’s not streaming anywhere right now. I looked this up the other day and it was you can rent or purchase it on Amazon.

That’s a shame that that’s not streaming hugely said. I was on the road when Perry died, and I instantly flashed back to Studio sixty, and he tells a story from way back. It was a very late Friday night. My son had turned eighteen, so I was going to take him out and we were going to hang out all night. But we were running over in the shooting schedule and we got behind and Matthew let me leave.

It did something I would never do. He switched the order of things so I could leave early and be with my son. I didn’t ask him, but he found out about it and he did it, and he had to shoot scenes at like two and three in the morning. So when I heard he died, I flashed back to that moment. I forgot all week to talk about south Park joining the pander Verse.

Have you watched this yet? I have to add this on the top things of the year. Note it’s not a stand up special. Let me pull out my list here. Hmm.

This could be number one, which right now is Todd Barry and the number two stand up special is Shane Gillis. But between those, I have Kunk on Earth, which really gave me the giggles. I’m going to put pander Verse right below Kunk on Earth? Are you hearing me? Of all the specials that came out this year, I like into the pander Verse, South Park episode better than everything but Todd Berry Hi praise, The Hollywood Reporter explains in the forty seven minute special Joining the panda Verse, we’ll find it on Paramount Plus.

Cartman begins to fear that he’s being replaced by a diverse woman. The episode comments heavily on some of the creative decisions made by lucasfilm star Wars Marvel. The story shifts to a meeting of Disney executives where CEO Bob Iger is irate. An executive tells Bob Iger, we don’t understand it, sir. We keep making the same movie over and over and pandering to everyone, and suddenly it’s not working.

Iiger replies, then we’ve got to pander harder. Gina Carano, who starred on The Mandalorian and then got pushed out of that show after she made some controversial online statements, she chimed in and said, this is the part where Kathleen Kennedy, who runs Lucasfilm, demands any YouTubers get censored off of YouTube for sharing and laughing at this hilarious episode. She’ll have YouTube disabled the thumbs down option because of the ratio she’ll receive. Then she’ll have her publicist Gooules, make sure a variety and the Hollywood Reporter r on hit pieces about the South Park creators and their families, smearing their names through every useful idiot she has under her thumb who would sell their soul to work for Lucasfilm. She’ll activate her online mob to beat that the South Park creators are racist bigot transphobes and demand that the South Park creators publicly apologize by using only words she approves of.

And finally she’ll demand that they subject themselves to a re education course of forty five people in the LGBTQ community. Zoom call to sit there and listen of how badly they got their feelings hurt over a little boop of a South Park episode. Wow. Anyway, into the panda verse. If you have not enjoyed all the recent Star Wars and some of the more recent Marvel movies and you’re wondering what’s going on, watch into the panderverse.

It is very entertaining. John Glazer has an album out today. It’s called Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog, the ideal companion for those unfortunate yet unavoidable times that dog owners must leave their beloved pets at home all alone. The album has been designed to help soften those unsettling times. Checking in at a Grammy submission required minimum thirty minutes of peaceful tranquility.

John Glazer’s Smoothing Meditations for the Solitary Dogs the perfect remedy for any dog owner that cares about the mental well being of their Sweet Precious Angel. There’s an album release and party in Brooklyn tonight. Eugene Mermann, Joe Firestone and some others planning on going. It’s at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Sounds fun.

And if you’re at Cornell tonight, it’s the Climate Change Comedy Hour. Environmental historian Aaron sachs we use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change. Sax says, climate activists known for spouting doomagloom have almost never tried to use humor in their messaging. At this point, it’s probably too late, but we could always try to prevent the oil companies from having the last laugh. Cornell the Lewis Auditorium in Goldwyn Smith Hall, you know the building five point fifteen.

The event is free, the public’s invited. And I think we’re almost at the end of the list of the Vulture twenty five comedians. You should know there might be one or two left out of alphabetic order where I bumped it and moved it to the end of the list, But we’re up to Sophie Zucker. So these are the comedians whose last names begin with at least zu. There shouldn’t be too many, you know, unless there’s like Steve’s a Ziva coming up.

Sophie says, I’ve learned that I like to treat the audience like I’m already kind of annoyed with them my on stage persona, which is just an exaggerated version of myself. It took me a long time to figure out, and I think this sort of antagonistic presence was one of the final pieces. Having the point of view of you guys should already know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, you’re dumb. Sophie says, I’m bored of ironic comedy.

I’m bored of comedy that’s supposed to be funny because it sounds like bad comedy. Don’t make fun of telling a joke. Tell a joke. I know it’s harder, but I think you can do it. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Big news from Jerry Seinfeld after the Late Night jokes, Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily commedy News Late Night. Pretty good a set of jokes here the setup. Mike penns dropped out of the presidential race. Penn said, it’s become clear to me that this is not my time.

David Colbert said Pence’s time was sixteen ninety two, his place Salem, his job man who shoves woman into river to see if she’s a witch.

Also from Colbert, Penn said he prayed over the decision, not surprising, aft…

Colbert said, God responded with his own book, new phone. Who dis he got ghosted? He got ghosted by the Holy ghost. Charlemagne, the God is hosting the Daily Show this week now. Last week I kind of piled on Jesus nice, who was not good at it.

Charlemagne way better at it. Listen, Mike Penson, now that he is ending his campaign, that’s right. Mike Pints dropped out to spend more time in a step in bedroom from his wife, I won’t say, do they really ending your campaign and your campaign never got off the ground to begin with. It’s like turning down sex when you have a wrecked out just function like the choice was made for you already, My guy, all right? Would Charlotte made want that gig full time?

He’s off to a very good start. Switching topics, Former President Trump was in Sue City, Iowa, and mistakenly referred to it as South Dakota’s Sue Falls. Jimmy fallon. Joe Biden was like, somebody helped that world man. He’s confused and disoriented and fell.

And again it makes sense that Trump was confused. It was the first time in months he’s been in a room without a jury. Great set of jokes there, all right. Jerry Seinfeld, he’s on tour and at the end of his shows he does some Q and A. On Sunday night, he was in Detroit and he got asked again about the Seinfeld reunion.

Remember there was something about the finale and people were wondering what was going on. Jerry Seinfeld made this super clear. He said, a reunion of the Seinfeld Show. That subject has come up, and it is is it not happening? We can’t do it because we would ruin it.

We already ruined it, but we could ruin it even worse, Jerry joke. There’s been conversations about it, but I don’t think it would happen until all four careers are completely in the toilet. We’re working on that as we speak. Jerry was more excited to talk about his upcoming pop Tarts movie that will be on Netflix. Jerry said, I directed the movie.

I’m in the movie. It has fifteen other stand up comedians, all names that you know, all friends of mine. So we made the movie and it’s coming out at the beginning of next year. The movie takes place in Battle Creek, Michigan. It’s a place that I’ve never visited.

M Live was at one of the shows in Detroit. This from the Saturday Night Show and they say Jerry performed for just under an hour with an opener before him. There was no big introduction. Seinfeld just kind of waltzed on stage right after the opener finished, catching the audience off guard. It took a moment for people to realize, Hey, that’s Jerry.

We should be applauding right now. Jerry went into a funny bit about cell phones and how our lives are consumed by them, but he’s not very much interested in what’s going on on other people’s cell phones, no matter how good the content might be, or no matter how much they want to show him em live, says, Seinfeld still has it and then some. Nate Bergatzi shared more about how he approached hosting SNL. He crushed it. If you didn’t see the episode, find it on demand or find the individual sketches.

It was really strong this week. Nate said, I talked to John Mulaney pretty quickly after I found out, and he talked me through it all. When you come to the SNL studio, you wrap your head around more of what it is. But everybody was super nice. Nate said he talked to Jerry Seinfeld about it, Pete Davidson, Camel nan Gianni.

Nate said, there’s a lot of people reached out. They were very nice, telling me what to do and help me with the sketches and we look for the que cards all that stuff. Again, fantastic episode if he didn’t see it. Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudro, Courtney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer put out a joint statement which reads, we are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew Perry. We were much more than just castmates.

We are a family. There’s so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss, and time we’ll say more as and when we’re able. For now, our thoughts and our lover with Mattie’s family, his friends, and everybody who loved him around the world world. Perry’s memoir Friends Lovers in the Big Terrible Thing hit number one on Amazon’s bestseller list following Matthew Perry’s death on Saturday. The book originally came out November first, twenty twenty two.

The trailer for Good Burger two is out and it looks pretty good. It looks self aware, it looks like we know what this is, just a roll with it. Good Burger Too will be out on Paramount Plus November twenty second. Give you something to do over Thanksgiving weekend. There we see Dexter and Ed reuniting as staff members at Goudburger as the pair attempt to help the struggling fast food establishment and its parent companies plans to grow the brand.

The guys learned that Megacorp is planning to expand Gudburger globally, but intends to fire the restaurant’s staff. Keenan Samson Warren’s Mega Corp wants to replace everybody with robots. We gotta do something. Hilarity ensues. Goodburger came out in nineteen ninety seven, was based on a sketch that first ran on the Nickelodeon series All That in nineteen ninety four.

Like I said, I watched the trailer and I was like, all right, it’s self aware. It’s not claiming to be Citizen Kane. And I don’t know. Maybe I just like Keenan Thompson a lot more than I like Adam Sandler. This is a dopey movie, but it looks fun.

Fear to Oz spoke to the Indian Express and his theory is the audience now makes comedians humble. Vieer said. Earlier comedians were like, here are my jokes. If you’re offended, I’m off to the next city. Now we have to be humble about the fact that the audience has a voice and we have to deal with them in the most humble manner.

I love this generation. They have destroyed stardom, and they value artistry. There’s nothing worse in the world than the silence of the audience. There’s no greater teacher than the audience. There’s no greater editor than the audience.

They’ll change the lines. Our revolution comes from the audience. Are you into celebrity golf tournaments? The third Annual Comedy Gives Back Celebrity Golf Classic in Valencia, California, November sixth. Confirmed to celebrity golfers include Ray Romano, Jim Jeffries, Andrew Santino, Matt Walsh, Jeff Gorland, Greg Fitzimmons, and the Sclar Brothers.

And those are just the comedians I told you about. It’s called the third Annual Comedy Gives Back Celebrity Golf Classic, November sixth. Let’s stop off on gossip Corner. Bob Saggett’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, was on Katie Kuork’s podcast, and this is kind of awkward. Katie Cork told Bob Saget’s widow, I had a date with him once.

As you know, I really liked him. I found him so cute and funny and amusing, and I did think we shared a pretty nice kiss in the foyer of my apartment, Kelly Rizzo said, he always thought you were lovely. He was a big fan. He adored you. Quirk joked, well, not enough to call me again, but that’s okay, because it all worked out.

He found the love of his life with you. In The Hollywood Reporter, a guest editorial by Eliza Slessinger quite lengthy. I’ll skim it here. Eliza Wright’s innocent Palestinians are enduring a pain and tragedy that I cannot fathom. They’ve been born into a deeply complex region in society, and it’s not right to treat their lives as expendable or as a solution of the problem.

I can’t say it’s right to treat them the way we, the Jews, have been treated over and over. I have to, as a Jewish person, empathize with that. I hope that others can extend the same empathy to us. I was on stage about a year ago and I mentioned Israel apropos of nothing political, and I heard people gasp. It was more a knee jerk reaction and hearing something scandalous, something we aren’t supposed to mention, like Voldemort.

Skipping ahead Eliza wrote, anti Semitism is very real and very tolerated. As a Jew, it can be nuanced and difficult to outwardly express yourself without having to compare, equivocate, and acknowledge how hard every other group has it, and in doing so, it invalidates our anger in the moment by distracting an audience from our initial rightful outrage. In order to simplify a complex issue, people often make it about color, about white versus brown. What makes it easier to rally against Jews Ignorantly, Jews are seen as quote whites unquote, or a monolith or a race, despite only thirty percent of Israeli Jews being white European Jews, people who don’t even know a Jewish person or think they don’t, will have audacious opinions on Israel or Jews in general, often using their support of Palestine to substantiate their baked in latent at times dislike of Jewish people, and their actions show it, especially in America. Skipping ahead, Eliza wrtes, it seems as if every group, especially in the last few years, has had their fifteen minutes to say, we see your bigotry and we are finally vehemently standing up for ourselves, but somehow Jews have been left off the age.

There’s a lot more to that. You’ll find that on the Hollywood Reporters website, and that brings us to awkward segue. There’s a new Looney Tunes movie coming out, this from the av Club, and they nailed it. They wrote, it’s got to be a little frustrating to be a major movie studio that also owns the Looney Tunes brand. There’s iconic characters, Bugs, Bunny, Daffy Duck.

Yet the only time the franchise has ever produced any kinds of major dividends in theaters in the modern era was by resorting to also shoving the biggest athlete on the planet into the mix. Well that’s not stopping Warner Brothers. They have confirmed that they’re working on the Day the Earth Blew Up, originally conceived as a streaming offering, but now it’s heading the theaters, so you know it’s high quality. No details on the plot yet. I assume Marvin Marshan will take place in the Day the Earth Blew Up, and he’s my favorite character, so that would be good.

Vulture watched Gavin Matt’s news special. You’ll find this on YouTube. They wrote one of the first jokes in Gavin Matt’s new YouTube stand up special Progression is about people who use the cliche all things consider. That’s pretty good to grab silver linings onto predicaments where none exist. Gavin Mattz points out, I feel like you’re not considering all things.

Sure you’re considering some things, but you’re not considering all things. You’d be crying right now. This is a dark special Rights Vulture, dense with jokes about the dying oceans, suicide, overpopulation, on the possibility that we could all have cancer right this second, and Matt’s offers no hope for deflating all that heaviness. Isn’t it nice that I put a looney tune story between everything in the back half here? What’s going on today?

Chod Well Trot’s take us fantasy about the life you would have if he could rid himself of all awareness, in one in which he trusts companies and their claims that they look out for a little guy, He says, I want to retweet my bank. I genuinely want to give my bank a retweet, like what you guys are doing on social media over at the bank. You’re killing it. Gavin Matt’s progression on YouTube this week. It’s out now.

Mike Apps has a new project. It is called Buying Back of the Block. You’ll find this on HGTV. Mike Apps is on a mission to beautify his Indiana hometown. This will hit HGTV this month.

The show will detail Epps and his wife Kira as they provide renovations and in interior design to the homes the comedians grew up around Vulture. Speaking to the twenty five comedians, you should know one of them is Zach Zucker. All right, what reality show would you be good at? Zack Sucker? He said, Survivor.

I haven’t done in a while, but as a kid, I was big into eating slugs and worms, so I’d have a huge competitive advantage. Everyone else is going to go hungry trying to get a fire started after a torrential downpour, and I’m just rolling around on the mud, putting dirt in my ears and slurping up my goopy little friends. Worst show ever. One of the first shows I ever did was called Zackzucker Real Life Human Basketball Guy Man. It was a two and a half hour improvised theater piece about a mad scientist who turns himself into a Wilson official NBA game ball.

It ruins his life, but he goes on to be the game winning dunk in Game seven of the nineteen seventy NBA Finals between the Nixon Lakers, and he gets some favors in the bathroom at Madison Square Garden. It was a one off I did at the Old Joke Beans having in La Joya. There were over one hundred people in the crowd, including my family, friends and my girlfriend at the time, who’s now a WNBA player herself. Funny enough, I like to think we all share a special bond because of that show, like the bewildered camaraderie between the onlookers of a devastating train crash. I don’t think the world was ready for it back in twenty fifteen, but basketball has been making a comeback in a big way, so it could be time for real life human basketball guy Man two, real life human hockey puck boy child at the three one two Comedy Festival that does not believe in sharing their shows on a calendar based format.

As I scrolled down, Jimmie wolf As at Zeni’s tonight. And that’s the only time I saw the words November and one next to each other. I do see a bunch of November twos. So we’ll talk about that tomorrow and that use your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on various apps, including pocket casts that’s the one I use, Overcast, Spotify, and if you hate back catalog episodes Apple Podcasts, they’re not going to tell you John put out a whole bunch of episodes over the weekend.

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