Month: December 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may have seen that Colorado’s top court rule that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from returning to office, et cetera, et cetera. Jimmy Fallon joked Christmas is almost hear and people are ready returning gifts. In fact, Colorado returned Donald Trump found again.

The insurrection clauses the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in eighteen sixty eight. Right now, President Biden’s like I supported it, then I support it now. A lot of good buzz on Gary Goleman Special at the time of this recording on Friday at ten am. I haven’t seen it yet. I was at a wedding on Thursday night when it came out, but I’m hoping to watch it very shortly.

Vulture was ecstatic about it, and they said, what’s most exciting about the hour is not just the incredible precision of Goldman’s material or his perfectly dialed in persona knowing a little cocky, just a hair too self assured. It’s that Goldman has the vision and desire to push his work in this direction. He’s so clearly invested in and he’s the instinct to do it with no pulled punches and no excuses for talking about something that might make his audience feel bad. It’s thrilling to watch, and it delivers on the implicit promise Goleman makes by getting on the stage. The politics never undermines the jokes.

It only makes the jokes land harder.

Speaking of Gary, there’s a great profile of him in Esquire.

I’ve shared it in the podcast group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. If you want to read that. I’ll talk about that in the upcoming days. I’m looking forward to Ricky Gervais’s special coming out on Christmas Day, A so I can watch it, and B so I can finish off my top specials of the year list. Ricky went on Twitter and said, in this show, I talk about sex, death, pedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the Holocaust, and Elton John.

If you don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch. You won’t enjoy it and you’ll get upset. I’ve got a bunch of these year end review articles that I haven’t gotten to yet, which is good, believe me. I’ve been doing this for a few years now, and it’s great to have a lot of stuff at the end of the year. Let’s take a look at Paste magazine’s twenty best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three.

Number twenty, they have Mark Marin’s from Bleak to Dark nineteen, Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me eighteen is Sasheer Zemadas The First Woman, That one I Haven’t Seen seventeen Django Gold’s Bag of Tricks. Paste writes Jango Gold spent years writing for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert before focusing on stand up, and it’s easy to tell he’s a writer when watching his self really special Bag of Tricks. All Right, that one’s on YouTube. I’m gonna add it to my list. I’m gonna make a list of things I need to watch this weekend.

Jengo Gold. His smart jokes are built on great ideas that often end with unexpected punchlines, and you can see the thought and carry put into creating many of them. He also has an ingratiating nor mcdonaldish delivery that helps sell the occasional joke that doesn’t land Cool sixteen is Heather McMahon’s son I never had haven’t seen this one either. That one is on Netflix. Netflix hasn’t surfaced that one for me.

That’s interesting how the algorithm works, isn’t it. Fifteen Josh Johnson’s up Here Killing Myself Good List, Pace Magazine. New York based comedian Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with candor and of course humor. During the first part of up Here Killing Myself. Whether accounting the seamless bag his family Cereal came from, on the questionable quality of their local pharmacy, he paints an effective picture.

That one’s on Peacock. I have added to my list. I got a lot of things to watch this weekend. That’s great. Fourteen Brad Wenzel’s Joke Joke Joke, Pace Magazine writes, joke joke, joke, It’s just that a succession of hilarious bits without any segways.

I’ve edited to my list of things to watch with several things on my list the comedy snob, I’m gonna have a quick hook, so these things better of good openers are gonna be like, I have seven other things to watch. Brad Wenzel special looks like it’s on YouTube. Thirteen. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, I’ll talk about that during the week. Kyle Knane Shocks and Struts at twelve, criminally underrated.

I have that one very high. Nate Pergatzy, Hello World. At eleven, I have that very high. Mike Berbiglia, the old Man in the Pool. As I’ve said a few times, I think you guys will like it, and I have reasons I didn’t Number nine.

I’m seeing a lot of buzz on this. I definitely want to get to this one this week. In Dina Hashem’s Dark Little Whispers, taped at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago in late twenty twenty two, Dark Little Whispers opens it to Dina on stage as metal music blair as a song featuring her on drums and vocals. The juxtaposition is clear. Hasham may possess an understated presence on stage, but that just accentuates her electric sense of humor.

That one’s on YouTube. I like this list a lot because it’s not just the same names that we see over and over on the other lists. Very nice. Eight. Mae Morton’s sap didn’t do it for me.

Seven Emma Arnold’s myself that specials on YouTube paste rights. Arnold finds pleasure in what some people might call the little things, which are not so little after all, and certainly not to be taken for granted, namely thinking of her mentioning dental insurance. Six Chris Fleming’s Hell I love that special. That’s way up on my list. Five they have Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer.

That one didn’t grab me. Four Harri Condobolu’s Vacation Baby. I have that high up on my list. Three that’s Stellings. If you didn’t want me, then that one I didn’t dig.

Two John Early is now more than ever. I have that on my list, but near the bottom. And they have a number one Joe Perez Slow and Steady. That one did make my list. I’ll explain my reasons for that later in the week.

Here’s another deep dive. I really like this one from the Toronto Star. Ten comedy albums that make us laugh and think. I did skim this one. What was surprising to me is I was unfamiliar with all these people, so I appreciate this stuff.

I also like learning about these things now. The Star says these albums are available to stream. I hunted around in the places I use, and I wasn’t able to find them, which is part of the reason I’m not familiar with them. They have Nicky Pain, Nikki, p a Y and E. Nicky’s albums called Performative.

The Toronto Star says Niki deals with her aging parents, mental health issues, and her awkward sex life. Next up is Dian Smith’s Cheweeny in a Tank Top. The Star rights a couple of this album’s best jokes reference their ties here to Toronto. One surreal but uplifting one is set on a plane from Toronto, LA, while another chronicle their sarcastic inner voice at a dinner party thrown by astronaut Chris Hatfield. But the funniest track involves meeting John Hamm at a bar, which caused the comics Poison Clarity to be momentarily and hilariously put on pause.

I don’t know what order this is in. It’s not alphabetical, and I don’t know if we’re going from best to worst, worst to best, or what order they came out in. But there’s a number three next to Paul Thompson’s album called Horny. Much of the material on this album is NSF W, Yeah, no kidding. From the title, he wishes he could be on news events the same way he does sports outcomes or reverse catfish scenario.

Thompson is utterly completely himself. Four Andrew Barr baarr Pursuit of Happiness. Bar has passed the one year sober marked part of that journey’s recounted in the first half of this double album, a double comedy album. Wow. Five is Kevin Banner’s heavy Favorites, with favorite spelled in the British Canadian way.

Whether he’s weighing in on bad tattoos or anger issues, joking about being a new dad, or trying not to intimidate women on sidewalks at night, He’s got a smooth, effortless delivery that belies how carefully his jokes crafted. Six Slogan Brown’s black Man, White Privilege. Most of the songs are too raunchy to describe, but one involves h Yeah, these are too runchy described. One involves animals. Let’s move on, Melanie Dolling d ah l I n G.

Greetings from the Big City. She’s from Winnipeg and jokes about moving to Toronto and being broke. Eight is Mike Rita’s Live in Toronto. The bulk of the album draws on his Portuguese immigrant parents who attempt to follow the raptors, take edibles, and watch porn on their phones, all with amusing results. That sounds fun.

Chuck Burn b y r N. His album is called Pounding Fatties. It’s wearing a cowboy hat and making a silly face on the cover here Toronto, Starr says. They say comedy is a young person’s game, but Burn, the most mature stand up on the list, just keeps getting better relationships, fatherhood, visiting the US. Burn covers them all with a signature lead back style number ten.

Meg McKay’s clown baby mc kay, The Star writs, a couple of years ago, I reviewed McKay’s debut album and concluded she had and yet found her voice, and pleased to say she now has and it’s quirky. Glenn Sumi wrote this and I will share it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Great stuff from the Star. There, Let’s do one more for Vulture. The Best Comedy Books of twenty twenty three.

Ten. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips. Phillips breaks down the elements of the aggressively normal friends, relatives, and acquaintances who are content to drive around, eat lots of cast roles, reluctantly entertained guests, engage in gift giving one upmanship, and never ever say what they’re thinking or feeling. Nine The Time Miaosen a Talking Cat’s hy two K Quest to Save the World by Marty Beckerman. Vulture writes, what can I tell you when the book subtitle lays everything out so bluntly and hilariously, You’re either going to read this right now or permanently rejected with disgust.

Doctor Taris Switcher lives in twenty forty in a hellish post climate change world with a robot cat. Eight Funny You Don’t Look Funny Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials by Jennifer Kaplan. Seven is Sure I’ll Join Your Cults by Maria Bamford her memoir. Six Grief Strike The Ultimate Guide to Morning by Jason Roder. The memoir in the form of a third person faux Manual wrote wrote the book as part of his own process and coming to terms with the loss of his mother.

Five Gary Goleman’s Misfit, a lot of Gary Goleman this week, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. Four Escape from Hawaii, a tropical sequel by Jack Handy. Remember Jackie used to have stuff on SNL. He’s the Breens behind tuonsis the Driving Cat and Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

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Also Deep Thoughts is where you might know his name from.

Three Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, post Punk, Wirdos, and a Tailiff Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts. Less of a memoir and more of a tribute to the people, places, and things that inspired his art and made him whole. Number two, Hi Honey, I’m homo sid that’s a great title. Sitcom Specials in the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baum and Vulture’s number one comedy book of the Year. Kind of a big deal.

How Anchorman stayed class and became the most iconic comedy of the twenty first century by Saul Austerlitz. I’ll share that in the Facebook group too. You got a lot of reasons to go over to Facebook today. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ve got episodes free every day.

I’m not going anywhere, So if you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. And if you’re driving a grandma’s house and you want to kill ten minutes, you can put on the podcast or come back on Tuesday and listen to the four episodes you missed. However you want to do it, but I will see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. He’s a quick reminder. I’ll have episodes every day through the holidays, seven days a week, not taking a break. So if you’re in the car, you just need to get away for your family for ten minutes.

I’m here for you. Seth Meyers had a couple good jokes lately. The first one, according to a new report, President Biden frequently tells aids and friends in private conversations that he feels so much younger than his age. And I’m sure he does, but it doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence when you walk around going man, I feel seventy three newt topic. A jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay one hundred and forty eight million dollars to two former Georgia election workers.

Seth joked well after marrying his cousin, giving a press conference at a landscape and company, and almost masturbating in the Boar movie, Rudy Giuliani has finally slipped up. Wanda Sykes is on The Daily Beast’s Last Laugh podcast. The topic Dave Chappelle visiting a representative Lauren Bobert recently Wanta said, wow, I mean if I go to Capitol Hill, I don’t think I’m going to seek her out. You know, where’s Lauren oh Man? Sounds like she’s gonna have to have it out with David at some point.

New topic. Did you expect Will Smith to be dragged out by security? You remember Wana was hosting the Oscars that night? Wanta said, Man, are you kidding? It’s the Oscars.

I don’t care who you are. I thought there were going to be some big dudes in suits and they take them walk them out, and Laped was going to be waiting for him on the other side. They followed up, what do you think that didn’t happen? Wanta said, it’s Hollywood. It’s just craziness.

I don’t know, but I do know that Chris didn’t want to press Georgia, so I guess it started there.

Also, we were going to change it up pajamas to say good night, but I stayed i…

The conversation turned to Wana’s guest hosting of the Daily Show and does she want the job. Wanna said, I have not had conversations about that. You know what, I’d say, No, I don’t think i’d want to do it, But I say that right now. Who knows down the road. Especially with kids, it might be nice to stay in one place and have a schedule in a routine, But then it feels like a job.

I’m doing comedy because I don’t want a job. Who’s her pick? Everyone brings a different take to it. I know Leslie Jones really wants it. Ronny Chieng is good.

I thought Sarah Silverman did it job. Who knows? But you know, I was sad to see what happened with Roywood Junior. Kevin James will have a special out on Prime Video on January twenty third, Kevin James Irregardless. We’ll see Kevin James deliver his unfiltered take on parenting, marriage, and getting older, covering topics from why he doesn’t trust technology to how many teetertots he can fit in his mouth.

Here’s a clip which I liked a lot. I trimmed it. He’s doing a lot of body language jokes, so he’s shaking the entire time. So as Kevin speaks here, just picture his entire body’s shaking. They’re all up to something.

Those apps, you know it. That’s their goal. They want to stay on your phone as long as possible. That’s why it’s so hard to delete an app. You do you ever try to delete an app?

You got to do that hard press on the phone. First of all, all the apps are shaking there. Well, they know somebody’s going. They know this. This is judgment day for one of them.

One of them just looking around seeing what each other did, like thinking about who’s going. That’s why they make that little X so small. It’s small in the corner because you can’t get it with your fat thumb, and you hit anywhere else on the screen and everything settles, and they’re like and then you gotta fire it up again. And they’re like, oh my gosh, this guy’s relentless now thinking about what they did. Oh, he’s definitely getting rid of me.

It’s not you, it’s me. I’m learning Spanish in thirty days. This idiot couldn’t learn Spanish if he was raised in Guatemala for thirty years. Real nice clip there, looking forward to that one. I wouldn’t have thought that I was, But hearing that clip, I’m like, all right, this is pretty good.

Jack Whitehall will have a special January thirtieth, this one coming to Netflix. It’s called settled Down. It was recorded over three sold out nights at London’s two Arena. That’s seventeen thousand fans at each showing. In the special, Jack will riff on dogs, drinking, dining alone, and finally deciding to settle down to become a father.

We got another clip for you. I like this one a lot too, but I did have to trim it some f bombs. We don’t do f bombs on the Daily Comedy News podcast, so this is a trim down. I wanted a god dog. I wanted a proper hound.

Yeah, I caught it. Dog you see tattooed onto the arm of a millwall. Fame can a dog that gets you a little bit of distance and respect when you’re walking down a street with it on the way the phones have a couple of loggers with the boys. We compromised and got a toy poodle. I wanted a hound.

This thing looks like it came out of a kinder Surprise. It’s the opposite of a guard dog. I’ve been abused because of my dog. I was in a pub in Wolfamstowe with my mates. Oh geezer at the bar looks over at me and my dog is like, am I does your dog come in?

Amends would judge a book by its cover? Buddy, you look at her the wrong way, she will rip your throgs house. You better pray she doesn’t get out of this handbag. I starting to think Trevor Noah is taking a run a Kevin Hard for the Hey, can you announce more projects? Title New Mexico United soccer team apparently has teamed up with Trevor Noah to create the World According to Football, a five port doaku series that travels around the world learning about how soccer functions as a mirror to society.

Episode two apparently focuses on the New Mexico United Academy and their efforts to buck traditional American paid a play system through a fully scholarship program. Yeah, if you’re involved in youth soccer, when I started being involved as an adult, you know, like twenty years ago, you could play town soccer, and then travel soccer came in. So instead of playing like the next town over, now you were traveling from North Jersey to South Jersey and then the Brits came over and took over and started like academy soccer, and soccer went from being four hundred dollars to four thousand dollars. So why did you pay the four thousand dollars, Johnny Mack? Because everybody else went up to the higher leagues, Like my son waited a year because Dad was like, I’m not driving at Tom’s River for game.

What are you crazy? Fast forward five years, I’m driving to Boston for games. I mean, it’s insane. But the lower leagues where you weren’t paying four thousand, the play was garbage because anybody who could play at all was given the Brits four thousand dollars. Anyway.

All five episodes are now available on Paramout Plus. Interesting note from Jimmy Carr. He says that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed to Jimmy Carr that there were UK governmental probes into UFOs and extraterrestrial life. He confirmed this during a night out together. Carr said, we were sort of quite drunk, a bit giddy and excited, and Tony Blair was in the corner of the room.

We went we should go ask him something. I was like, I don’t know what are we gonna ask him? We sort of concocted the plan. Why don’t we go and ask him if there’s aliens? Jimmie Oliver was there and chips in and goes, are there aliens?

And Tony Blair gave like a really good, sort of really good political answer, and he goes to need to know basis I would be told if I needed to know. If I don’t need to know, then they don’t tell me. Jimmy carrs of the opinion an alien invasion could make things better. He said, the state of the world, what’s going on? Maybe alien overlords are not such a bad idea.

Continuing a fun set of topics today, Emily Radikowski. You remember she dated Pete Davidson for a while. Well, this is nothing to do with Pete Davidson. I’m just telling you who she is. She has asked comedian Celeste Barber to stop making fun of her Instagram posts.

If you’ve never seen this, Emily will post, say, a photo in a bikini, and then Celeste, who has a different body type, will pose in a similar outfit in a similar way, and it makes the original post look ridiculous. Emily blocked Barber in twenty twenty one after Barbara mocked one of Emily’s swimwear campaigns, captioning it, We’re sick of you objectifying our bodies.

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Also, here’s my butt.

Reradikowski said, this whole drama Celeste has been blown out of proportion. In general. I found her it’d be really funny, But the message I was trying to send her was I just don’t want you to do this to me anymore. I want to be able to do my thing where I’d be about writing in my terrifying experiences in an industry that doesn’t protect women and young girls and fen presenting people while also having a bathing suit line. Next month topic from BuzzFeed.

Matt Riife apparently texted Brook Schofield after she put him on blast on her podcast, and her response is low key iconic. All right, BuzzFeed, what do you got? Brooke had said, I wouldn’t say he’s my ex or anything because I wasn’t like in a serious relationship with him, but it wasn’t just hooking up with him. I really liked him. Soon more red flags began to appear.

Brook said that should fly across the country see Matt and Sportaman shows, and when they were apart, he would text her saying she was all he could think about and he couldn’t wait to see her again. Then Brooke came across a TikTok video from a woman who said that she was dating Matter earlier this year. When Brooke realized that the timeline was suspicious, she reached out to the user and immediately added her to a group chat with around seven other women who were in the same boat. I love it. It’s the Matt Rife is cheating on me group chat.

Boy. Can we get a print out of that, please? Brooke said. She reached out to Met to make sure she had a fact straight. That’s when she realized he had blocked her number.

At the end of a photo dump, Brook posted Instagram there was an I message screenshot showing a text she had received which reads Brooke, this is m r H. I wonder who Mr could be. One person wrote, There’s no way that’s real. Could you confirm that that’s real? She replied, Oh, it’s real.

Somebody else jumped in and said Matt apparently refers to himself by his initials. Brooke replied, like he’s JFK. Paul Elia picked Christmas Eve for premier day for his debut special, Detroit Player, the first ever shot at the Detroit House of Comedy. I’m getting this from Deadline, who I think just printed whatever Paul’s camp said in because the first sentence that I skipped, but I’m going to go back now for a reason. The first cent that’s the Deadline just printed was rising comedian Paul Ilia has set a Christmas Eve premier day.

Blah blah blah. Al Right, so we’ve established he’s a rising comedian according to somebody, and here’s what makes he suspicious of this whole story. Ilia came to shoot a special after spending years performing stand up in many unlikely and awkward scenarios in order to pay his rent. Here we go. He performed that at Dubai Mall, almost got arrested.

Soon after, he performed at a royal event for Saudi Royalty, again almost getting detained. With Detroit Player, he explores authenticity, censorship, and what it means to hustle while avoiding arrests abroad. If you’re wondering who this is, he’s an LA based standup comedian, actor, and content creator. Originally from Detroit, perhaps best known for appearing in over a dozen sketches on TBS’s Conan, as well as a claimed series such as Ramie and Lady Dynamite. Currently, he’s a series regular and longtime friend and former roommate Yama Yusef’s series Happy Family USA, which is expected to premiere next year.

OW, this is interesting. I didn’t read ahead here. Look. Ilia produced Matt Rife specials Natural Selection and Matthew Stephen Rife after serving as an associate producer on his debut special OnlyFans. All right, rising comedian.

Let’s see for the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. They have their list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty three. Again, I’m waiting for Ricky Gervaise’s to come out so I can finish mine. Let’s see they have I’ll just quickly go here number fifteen. May Martin.

I’ll vote No. Fourteen. Dina Hasham Dark Little Whispers. I need to get to that one. Thirteen Kyle Kanine Shocks and Struts.

You have that criminally low. That is one of the top specials of the year. Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs. I have it at number two. Mark Norman Soup to Nuts, Good Call at eleven, ten Berbigs, The Old Man on the Pool.

My quick take on that is, you guys are all gonna like it, and I’m a comedy snob. Nine Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love. I like that one a lot. Beth Stellings. If you didn’t want me, then I didn’t grab me.

Joe Parra’s Slow and Steady. I have some thoughts about that. I’ll share in my review. Pete Holmes, I’m not for everyone. Love Beat five, So sar Zemata’s the first woman.

I haven’t seen that one for Sam Jay Salute Me or Shoot Me? Did not grab Me? Three? Gary Goldman’s Born on Third Base I didn’t see yet. Two Chris Rock’s Live One, Selective Outrage and their number one special of the year, which isn’t even on my top twenty.

John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. Why not Johnny Mack. I’ll talk about it at length next week. That’s your comedy news for today again. I’ll have episodes every day, not taking a break here.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervais has responded to some of the criticism about his upcoming special that’ll be out on Netflix on Christmas. In it, Ricky is joking about recording video messages for terminally ill children via the Make a Wish Foundation. Ricky’s joke, I always start the video the same way I go, why didn’t you wish to get better?

What are you fing? R? Word? As well? That didn’t go over well.

Ricky has now told BBC Radio five Live. In the actual skit, I say I’ve been doing a lot of video messages lately for terminally ill children, only if they are requested. I don’t burst into the hospitals and say wake up, baldy. I’m literally saying in the joke that I don’t do that. But people have a reaction.

They don’t analyze it. They feel something. That’s what the offense is. It’s a feeling. That’s why I’m offended.

Is quite meaningless. What do you want me to change? The host discussed a petition that has accrued thousands of signatures calling for Netflix to remove the joke. Ricky responded good luck. That’s what I say to them, good luck.

I’ll even retweet it. Ninety nine percent of it is faux offence. They’re not really offended, they just want to be heard. I’ll explain now, you’ve mistaken the subject of the joke with the actual target. Of the millions of people that watched it and loved it, only a few don’t like it.

If I give them special attention and try to placate them, I’ve annoyed the other millions of people that got the joke. They go, no, you’ve ruined it for us. So I’ve got a duty to the people that like it and get it. I wouldn’t sit down with a heckler, would I. If I’m playing to twenty thousand people, I wouldn’t stop the show and explain it to them.

I ignore them. Ricky adds, particularly with irony and satsire, I’m often playing a character. But some people get confused and think that a joke is a window into the comedian’s true soul. It’s not true. It’s a joke.

No one does this with puns, do they. Two books didn’t really walk into a pub. I deal in taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place that hasn’t been before, even for a split second. Most defense comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target. I think that’s what the comedy is for getting us over taboo subjects so they’re not scary anymore.

So I deal with everything, and I think we second guess the audience too much. I’m looking forward to watching that one. I’ve been holding off on publishing my Top Specials of the Year list because I want to include that one. I’d love to include Chappelle as well, but that doesn’t come out to New Year’s Eve, and I do want to include Gary Goldman, who has a special out today. I’ll get to that in a second.

I did, as promised, watch Trevor Noah’s special. I liked it a lot. It is not the funniest special, but it’s really compelling. I find Trevor to be great company. I like the way he thinks, I like the way he explains issues.

I just like listening to him speak. I love the voice work that he does. Maybe the specials ten minutes too long. I wasn’t laughing all that much again, totally entertained. Loved the special, was playing on my phone a little bit towards the end, and the spoiler thing I mentioned yesterday totally worked on me.

Trevy, you got me to watch the credits. So right now, plus or minus Ricky Gervais, I have Trevor Noah’s Special Ants number thirteen, so better than the Roast of Mister Peanut, which sounds like a dig but that was actually pretty good and not as good as Jimmy O yangs. Guess how much I’ll go over that full list sometime next week. Expect Drvas will make it, and I also expect Gary Golman’s Born on Third Base will make it. That’s out on Max Today.

In Born on Third Base, Gary Goleman offers up his insights on a range of topics from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, all with the generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism, while chronicling his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable dentsal care. These stand up makes an incisive swiper two at billionairesm Boing Boying got a screener of it, they say. In Born on Third Base, Goldman’s playful styles at the forefront with many digressions into silliness, word plying, observational comedy. But underneath all that is a very cohesive and even profound story of what it’s like growing up poor for a special as laugh out loud, funny as this Hour is. There are many strong and important public policy points he makes, including messages about welfare reform and shockingly accelerating income disparity.

Point Boying ads if you’re going to illustrate your thesis about America’s treatment of the poor, went on do it with a long, hilarious bit about pop darts. Brad Williams also has a special out today, this one on veeps. Not sure what veeps is? What’s veeps? Veeps your past live shows, get unlimited access to live shows on demand content blah blah blah.

So it’s an on demand service. Looks like there’s a subscription where stuff is free. I randomly clicked on and imagine Dragon’s concert and you could get that for six bucks. So there’s some way to watch Brad Williams today if you want. The New Hour sees him talk about navigating relationships and everyday life as a little person.

I was up in the middle of the night with my dog, that’s what my dog’s been doing lately. And I’m like, all right, we can go out if you want.

And then I was playing with my phone and I’m like, oh wow.

Conan O’Brien as President Biden as his guest. Codin talked to Biden about Biden’s speech impediment. Conan said, my theory is if you stay connected to these things that embarrassed you when you were a kid, whatever it was, speech impediment, anxiety, feeling awkward, not being a good athlete. Like my list goes on and on, having weird hair, having a weird name. Biden jumps in and says, I wish I had your hair.

I trade you right now if you want. Conan says, you want this air it comes off, I’ll mail you this week tomorrow. Sounds like the Manning brothers are not too happy with Kevin Hart. Kevin was supposed to be on the Manning Cast on Monday Night. Kevin Hart, big Eagles fan.

Kevin had to back out due to a last minute conflict. Hmmm. On air, Peyton Manning told ESPN Scott Van Pelt Kevin Hart was supposed to be on, but it’s a tall order for him. To be on them for the second time, so Kevin’s out. Van Pelt said, shots at Kevin Hart.

Peyton and Eli Manning then proceeded a mock Houston, Texas quarterback case Keenum for being Kevin Hart’s replacement on the show. Eli said, tonight, you’re replacing Kevin Hart was supposed to be on the Manning cast, but last minute he had a conflict. I really do not have time to prepare for you, So I said, okay, if I ask you the questions I prepared for Kevin Hart, that’s really funny. Keenan said he would get into his Kevin Hart costume by lowering his chair. Told you.

John Oliver went after Elon Musk. Elon Musk not really amused by all this, What a shock. Elon went on the social media platform we’re all calling Twitter. No one’s calling it that other thing. Elon, stop with that Twitter, Twitter, Twitter Twitter.

Elon was on Twitter. A social media user had posted on Twitter a clip of Oliver’s segment and wrote, oh no, how will Elon ever recover? Elon replied with crying laughing emojis, and then wrote Oliver was great eight several years ago, but stop being funny. When he sold his soul to Wokeness, where humor is basically illegal. What we do in the shadows, you know, the Office Vampires.

It’s ending, starting its production on the sixth season in January. It will be the last season, according to FX. Tonight on CBS, celebrate Dick Van Dyke’s ninety eighth birthday two hour special Dick Vandyke ninety eight years of Magic. Guests include Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Jason Alexander, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson, William Shatner, Martin Short, Jane Seymour, Jet Appatoo, Melbrooks, and Ken Jung. For some reason, that’s weird.

Musical tributes and songs from Van Dyke’s other career triumphs, including Bye Bye Birdie and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, would be part of the celebration. Dick Van Dyke said, I started with CBS in her contract in nineteen fifty five with the CBS Morning Show, then The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis Murder. Forgot about that third one. I’ve been with the CBS family for almost seventy years and I couldn’t be prouder. I’m incredibly honored that CBS will be throwing a ninety eighth birthday special for me.

Can’t wait to be part of the show. Of Sound has named their comedian of the Year. Who do you think it is? I’ll give you a second to think about it. I like their pick a lot.

It is Nateperghansey, they write. He’d never label himself one, but Naperganzy’s a bit of a business mogul. In addition to a stand up tours and specials, he hosts a Nate Land podcast under the umbrella of his Nate Land Company. The core of Nateland is similar to the core of Bergatzy’s comedy, humor that everyone across age, demographics or media preferences can enjoy together. The thesis there is that it’s all clean.

Nate smashed the record for Amazon’s most stream original comedy in its first twenty eight days with two point nine million viewers, four hundred thousand more than the previous record holder. I remind you the other day, Chris Rock I think got thirty six million some number like that. Jim Gaffigan’s Quality Time was the previous record holder. That could just be an Amazon verus Netflix thing. Good bick there.

I like Nate a lot for comedy dot co dot UK Mark muldoone caught Eliza Selessenger’s show. Mark said she’s making worthwhile but quite familiar points. Mark uses an example of a joke about how women say don’t actually need to make an effort with makeup to arouse men or her clean from some women that they wear makeup address sexually for ourselves, not for men. Good funny social observations, but ones that have already been made fairly recently by UK comedians. It’suffice to say, if you’re interested in hearing the differences between men and women in modern society, it’s certainly a show that’s all too happy to explore them.

After initial concerns about a lack of original thought, the show doesn’t warm up. She’s inventive on other social divides, namely the one between millennials and gen z, as well as the dilemma women face about whether to get cosmetic surgery. Is the age that punchline. It’s a difficult choice women have to make. Do you want to look gold?

We’re weird? Bill Maher has a book coming out in June. It’s called What This Comedian Said? We’ll Shock you in it? Bill Maher revisits some of his on air commentary.

According to the publishers announcement, Bill Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimaginating and updating them, and adding new material to speak exactly to the moment we’re in. I’ll translate there. Hey you want a book? Yeah? Do I have to do all any work?

Well? Yeah you do. Can we just reuse stuff I already did and I get money? Yeah, I guess. From The Daily Mail, comedian Rosie Jones has hit out at comments about her performance at the Royal Variety show the other night.

Rosie has serebal palsy, and she revealed she was on the receiving end of some cruel trolling over her performance. On Twitter, which is what everybody but Elon calls it, Rosie said, thank you for all the lovely messages about the Royal Variety last night. What fun less of a thanks to the not so lovely ones. On Instagram, Rosie said, so, I was on Royal Variati last night and I just want to make something clear. If you want to write me to tell me I’m not funny, don’t because I don’t care.

If you want to say that I’m too disabled to be on television or you can’t understand me, don’t bother, because again I don’t care, and I’m going to carry on being on your screen with my disabled voice.

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I’ll have episodes for you all through the holidays, not taking a break here. I might pre tape one, like you know, I’m not gonna record on Christmas Eve, let’s be real, but I can tell you right now the Christmas one has a lot of Ricky Travay’s material. So if you’re in a Ricky, you’re gonna like a Christmas episode. If you’re not in a Ricky, probably won’t like it so much. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has announced the top ten highest grossing comics on tour in twenty twenty three. Let’s take a look at Number ten Joe Coy Quietly a Monster, earning thirteen point four million dollars, selling one hundred and ninety eight thousand tickets during only twenty shows. Number nine Adam Sandler, selling one hundred and forty one thousand tickets over fifteen shows.

Adam made fourteen point two million dollars with his hilarious comedy. Number eight Sebastian Maniscalco thirty nine shows, sixteen million, one hundred and thirty thousand tickets sold. Number seven Taylor Tomlinson Yeah. One hundred and thirty two shows, two hundred and ninety six thousand tickets, seventeen and a half million dollars. Number six Peter Kay huge star in the UK.

Two hundred and seventy six thousand tickets twenty one shows that included ten shows at the O two Arena. He earned twenty and a half million dollars. Number five Nate Pergatsy, who had a great year one hundred and thirteen shows, three hundred thirty thousand tickets twenty point six million dollars for Nate. Number four Bill Burr, he did thirty seven shows, twenty point six million dollars, two hundred thirty one thousand tickets. Number three Berd Kraser, who also had a big year, four hundred and sixty thousand tickets, thirty two point nine million dollars, eighty total shows.

Number two was Chappelle nineteen shows, two hundred and fifty four thousand tickets, thirty six point six million dollars, and number one touring Kevin Hart sixty seven point five million dollars. He sold six hundred and thirty one thousand tickets. He did eighty two shows. Wow, and he still bangs out all that work. How much money does Kevin Hart have?

Wow? Trevor Noah’s new special is out on Netflix. I was hoping to watch it last night. I hope they can talk about it tomorrow. Essen’s caught up with Trevor and they asked him his process for developing new material.

Trevor said, to be honest with you, my process is living life and then being on stage. I generate material by living and thinking and communicating with others. Netting on stage, and I work it out, and that’s pretty much how I generate every hour that I’ve made. Netflix shared another clip from the show Let’s Listen. Every woman in this room has a trick that works on every man.

And right now, I know a lot of the women like shut up, trip, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. It’s a beautiful subtle technique. Yeah. You’ll be out having lunch or something. Then some guy will come up to the table.

He’s buff, works out, you know, looks really good. He’s like, oh my god, Michelle, Michelle. He’s like, oh Justin, Oh my god, Wow, how are you? And you They’re like, who the hell is Justin? What’s going on?

He’s like, this is crazy. I can’t believe this. Twice in two weeks and you there like twice when was once? Who is this? I know?

Oh my god? How are you? I’m doing? Good? Man?

We got to catch up sometime, We got we gotta talk about college. I was thinking about it the other day. We were so crazy in college. You remember that, you remember that night and you like you went to college. What’s going on here?

Trevord told Essence every special I release, I think comes at the time when it’s ready to be released. Art is a strange thing in that it never feels finished for the artists, but at some point you have to let it go. For me, this special is the culmination of meat traveling around the world and meeting people from all over. I love how comedy can bring people together. This year, traveling around the world doing it was a reminder of how wonderful a shared laugh can be.

So I wanted to release a fun light special that everybody can enjoy at home, especially going to the holidays and what’s been a tough time for many people for many different reasons. Essence asked Trevor why he thinks Netflix has become the hub for stand up comedy. I’ll answer because they pay millions and millions of dollars. That’s the answer. You want to become the hub for stand up comedy, start handing out one hundred million dollar checks to Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock you’ll be the hub of comedy.

But that wasn’t Trevor’s answer. He said, well, for a few reasons. Number one, Netflix was their first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off. I know HBO did it a little bit, but they had such a limited space for comedian and you had to be on when you were on. I think we’ve moved on from that.

Well, hold on, Trevor, I mean HBO did it for a little bit. They did it for forty years, dude, and yeah, it had to be on when you were on. But there’s HBO Max. Now you can watch a special whatever you want. What are we talking about, Trevor said, you should be able to watch something whatever you want to watch it.

Yeah, it’s called Max.

Moving on, Trevor, do you think you’ll ever get back in the late night TV?

Trevor said, I never say never when it comes to anything. If you’d asked me before Late Night TV if I’d get into it, I would have said, I don’t know. I never know where life takes me, what direction it pulls me in. But for now, I’m enjoying this period of my life and I’m enjoying traveling more. I’m enjoying spending more time in South Africa.

I’m enjoying doing more stand up. But if the right timing opportunity and motivation come along. I’ll do anything. That’s what I love about being in the field that I’m in. Hmm, I could see the tonight’s show at Trevor Noah just saying at the end of today’s podcast, I will have a spoiler for Trevor Noah’s special.

I will give you major warning about it. As I mentioned, I was hoping to watch it last night. The Times Now News saw as vibe spoilers here, they say, this time Trevor Noah has had more distance away from the US satirical show that made him an international name, But the way the comedian analyzes and shapes his with a stute punchline is much like what he used to do on the Daily Show. His material for Trevor Noah, Where Was I is made of discerning observations to different countries and cultures During his travels around the world, the talented comic was an act for nailing accents and nuances of different cultures. Recounts his experiences in places like Europe in the US.

Yeah, I love his voice work. It’s so good. I meant to mention that when I played the trailer clip he’s doing those voices. They are fantastic. For example, miner spoiler here, You’ll be fine.

While in torn Berlin, he praises Germany for acknowledging its Nazi past and it’s part in it. Later, he mocks their national anthem in a way that’s not offensive. At an hour and eight minutes, Trevor Noah, where was I is far too short? Wow from a hot reporter. Jerry Seinfeld showing support for the families of Israeli hostages after arriving in Israel earlier this week.

According to multiple local Israeli news sources, Jerry landed sometime on Monday and has since visited the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Tel Aviv, the hostage advocacy organization. Jerry told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages whose lives are in immediate danger. Jerry’s family was very moved and it was evident that they were deeply affected by the experiences they heard from the family members and they released hostages.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner on Saturday, Jerry was spotted at the India Garde…

Jerry apparently on an Indian food kick. That’s twice in a week we’ve seen him out for Indian food. Ray Romano says, you’re not getting it. Everybody loves Raymond reboot. He was on Bill Maher’s podcast.

He told Bill reboots are never as good. We want to leave with our legacy, he said. The rest of the cast was happy to go on, but myself and Phil Rosenthal round the show. We wanted to end it in season eight because we felt like it was time. Yeah, it’d be kind of hard to bring back.

I mean, you could have the kids now grown up, and you could throw Ray and Debrah into the parent roles. And Ray says, you know, as far as it reboots, now the question because unfortunately the parents are gone Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts. So yeah, if Ray and Deborah were the parents and the kids were grown up, and I don’t know, Robert lived next door, you could make it work. But yeah, just don’t. Fox Nation is getting in on the comedy thing.

On January third, they’ll release two separate Commonbody specials. One is called Jimmy Fala. They’re just jokes, featuring a special filmed at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island. I Know that place Interesting by the former New York City taxi driver turned Fox News commentator The Other One that Day, Tyrus Here and Now a concert filmed in Crowley, Louisiana, with the former professional wrestler and current Gutfeld panel member offering his takes on a variety of topics. On January a, Fox Nation will release a History of the World in Six Classes, a documentary series hosted by Dan Ackroyd.

Appearing in it Jim Belushi, John Lovett’s and Kevin Neil and also George went from Cheers. They discuss beer, wine, coffee, t soda, and spirits. I’m sure Akroid’s gonna plug his stuff. He always does. And on January tenth, Fox Nation will release an episode of a series called Who Is.

In that episode, they will profile Dave Chappelle. Netflix has released a clip from the upcoming Adam Sandler sci fi drama Spaceman. Listen to this trailer. This sounds awful, just awful. As I was hitting play, I’m like, is this a parody?

No, Adam is serious here? Listen to this crap just like you. I fled my planet through galaxies through black calls through time and then I Found You. Spaceman, directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl, which is fantastic. Spaceman will be out March first.

The film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia. We find Adam Sandler’s astronaut Jacob six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar system, as he realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Adam Sandler’s character is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time, which he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. By the way, that recent cartoon Leo had thirty four point six million views for Netflix during its first week, yikes. Deadline wrote about the future of Late Night you know, hey, is anybody going to take over for any of the five white guys currently hosting shows?

And they speculated who even knows? But the interesting part to me was talking about Lorne Michaels. As the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live approaches, Deadline rights comedy sources are convinced that Tina Fay remains the odds on favorite to replace Lorne Michaels when he does step down. Well, we all stepped down eventually for one reason or another. Seth Myers said, whoever goes after the person who replaces in there, that’s the job.

They should do a favor and just go to Monster dot com and hire somebody with no background in TV. Let them replace Lorn for six months and have the entertainment press put them on a spit Tell that person coming in here, you’re just here to take off the heat and you’ll get a golden parachute. That’s like what David Lee roth File at Harwood stirred exactly, that they should get somebody who’s not on TV, because after that they’ll never work in TV again. Are you a fan of the TV show Dave starring rapper Little Dicky Well. The soundtrack for the first three seasons is coming out on January nineteenth.

It is entitled penif Little Dicky’s first album in eight years. Dave Bird said, I realize this year. I took a step back and looked at all the different music that’s made it in the first three seasons of the show. There’s enough here, great body of work in a project that could put out as a soundtrack. I think this will be a cool thing for fans who’ve watched the show, and for people who have never seen the show.

I think they’ll enjoy listening to this as a body of music.

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And now that’s spoiler for Trevor Noah’s a special again.

I’ll babble here for five seconds case you want to hit stop. It’s nothing horrible, but you know, let’s tell you something that happens in the special. You already okay, there’s a cameo. Do you want to know who the cameo is? If you don’t hit stop, you still here.

Here comes to the spoiler in the special. Trevor Noah begins to sing Sweet Caroline, which he says is pure uncut Caucasian joy. The audience joins in. Trevor points out, you were like, this is it, this is our moment. Cameras then followed Trevor Noah as he exits the theater and gets into an SUV.

Who’s in the suv? Neil Diamond. Neil asked Trevor how’d we do? Trevor says, it works every time, Neil Diamond, it works every time. Trevor said, I had to make quite what a few calls to get somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody who would eventually get to him.

He called the appearance of the stuff that dreams are made of. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. And if you want to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News through a couple bucks in the tip shower. Today’s Wednesday. But I can’t go to trivia because my daughter is a concert. So I guess I’ll take your money and I’ll get an iced coffee, as the website intended, see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah’s new specials aut on Netflix today. It is called Where Was I? He filmed this on his recent off the record tour, and Where Was I?

Trevor Noah shares his comical experiences from his recent travels, which rains from foreign national anthems to varying cultural norms. This one was filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. It is Trevor’s fourth for Netflix. He had one just last year. I’m looking forward to watching this one.

I should be able to get to it tonight. Comedy dot co dot uk reviewed Trevor’s recent three nights at London’s Millennium Dome. They’re right, it’s not unusual to encountercomedian who’s as funny and they’re off the cuff moments as they are in their prepared routines. What’s more unusual is that the comedian is funnier and they’re off the cuff moments. There comes a point where you think, hang on, if you’ve got funnier things to say, can’t you make sure they’re part of the show.

The tickets are quite expensive I’d like to hear the best you’ve got. The website writes, the main body of Trevors show is absolutely fine, passable, certainly not anything you’d actively recommend to friends, or something that justifies being staged in one of the country’s biggest comedy venues. He talks about airlines and frustrating customer service situations. It’s all roughly the same quality, absolutely fine. Towards the back of the show, he opens up the floor for a Q and A session.

It’s here that he displays a talent that starts to explain the hype. He’s great, funny, interesting company. In those moments. You wish you’d more carefully filter his touring material, though, I wonder if it’s just not appealing to people who usually consume British comedy. We’ll see.

Pete Davidson has announced his second Netflix comedy special, this one with the fun title Turbo Fonzarelli. This will be on Netflix January ninth, so that’ll immediately be the number one special of twenty twenty four. In Turbo Fonzarelli, Pete Davison reflects on what it means to grow up in Turn thirty, as well as discussing love life and living in the woods. USA Today caught up with Matt Rice’s recent show at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida, last Thursday. Matt Rife said, I did want to make sure I mentioned at the top for the show.

Though. If anybody has come here to a comedy show at a comedy club with the possibility being offended by a joke, We’ve arranged a safe space for you. It’s located right outside that exit door. Go see yourself out. No one’s gonna stop you.

He addressed his controversial joke, which was I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye. He told the Naples audience. The joke is kind of funny because you know it’s a joke. I didn’t hit anybody, My food was fine, and put hands on anybody. USA Today says.

During the set, Rife talked about the hundreds of comments he got demanding an apology. He said he decided to swallow his pride and post a statement. The only reason I did a fake apology was because in what universe would I ever apologize for a joke. It’s a joke. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to listen to it.

You have to come to my show to be offended. Some people thought I was making fun of special needs people, and obviously that’s not what I was doing. I was making fun of critics for being so stupid to think I would ever apologize for joke. I’m saying, you needed those helmets way more than they do. Then, Matt talked about his alleged beef with the six year old boy on TikTok.

He’d tell the audience, no, you’re doing the right thing if you are, and just live your life. Everybody wants to be miserable on their own. And teach your kid how many planets have rings around them. USA Today writes, with the comedians saying the awkward part of the show is now over. His set turn of the format.

That is, eighteen point two million followers on TikTok have come to know and want to be a part of. From finding Grandmother’s hot to rebranding certain negative words to be positive. Rife set burned through several topics while riffing with fans. The more lighthearted bits included buying his mother house this year, experiences with his fan base, and his goal to donate all his gifted stuffed animal bears to charity. He also addressed his alleged plastic surgery.

Riife said people were saying I had jaw surgery to have a jawline. That’s funny to me, because I’m like, use your brain. If I’m going to get transformedive surgery done to me, you think I’m starting with my face. You would never hear me tell another joke the rest of my life. Matt said he hates the accusations that he does not like his female audience.

I hated that because women are the ones who gave me the career I have right now, and I’d never be anything less than grateful for that. I don’t feel like I’ve lost any female fans. I feel like I lost people who built an image of me that I did not live up to, which is on them. And we don’t happen to have the same sense of humor. And that’s fine.

You don’t have to like everybody. Jason Zenniman in The New York Times asks was a scandal the best thing that happened to Haas on Mine. Hassan recently played the Beacon in New York. He was telling a story about a girl cheating on him in eleventh grade. Hassan then turned to the audience and said, don’t fact check me.

That got a good reaction. He then joked, I had to go head to head with one of the most dangerous organizations in the world. I’m talking about a white woman with a keyboard. He joked his controversy as a sign of success. I’ve made it.

I’ve got a real old scandal, a dorky scandal. With regret in his voice. Minhaj joked, I got caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Nikki Glaser just recorded two shows in Seattle for an upcoming HBO special. Glazer told the Seattle Times, the last time I was in Seattle, it was like something’s different.

These people get me in a way that I’ve never been gotten. That was like two years ago whatever, But I remember remarking everyone around the time, I have to shoot a special here. Glazier said. She was on stage in Portland recently, and she slipped and referenced Seattle, and the audience is like, you’re in Portland, and I’m like, what’s the difference. It’s ringing cold and everybody’s kind of cool.

Her plan for this special was to warm up the audience herself emerging on stage in a bathrobe to say, Hey, let’s just acknowledge this is a big deal, but like oho care, let’s just have a blastedeks for being here. That’s what I would need as an audience member to feel safe diving into this kind of situation. In terms of being on HBO as post to those other streaming services, she says, HBO is some gravitas in terms of tastes, not like people taking these specials just to phillip space on their platform. Wonder who. She means, their approach is pretty much the same, but I’ve got to step it up.

As I often quote Taylor Swift, I’ve never been in natural. All I do is try and try and try, which is the ironic thing because it all looks so natural, and it does come natural in a way, but there’s still so much effort behind all this trying to make it look effortless. Congratulations to Whitney Cummings, who announced the birth of her first child on Sunday in a social media post. Whitney did not reveal the baby’s gender or name, but joked three D printed a human enjoy me, never having brushed hair again. John Oliver went after Elon Musk on Sunday Nights last week.

Tonight, John Oliver went down the list of bad guys that he says Elon Musk resembles. There’s Lex Luthor posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. There’s why No, mister bond I and my child broad expect you to die there just brought your media company. I’m about to strip you for parts. There’s space first, racist sheriff, and finally, the less bangable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic.

Truly the Man has ranged. John also pointed out Musk has the distinction of being both the richest person in the world and the first person ever lose two hundred million dollars. John says, which is even hard to wrap your head around. It’s like hearing someone run a marathon after accidentally running two hundred miles in the wrong direction. As we end on the holidays, just want to let you know this show will have episodes every single day, not taking a break.

Also wanted to turn you on to some other shows that this podcast is affiliated with. Check out Murder Weekly. We’ve been doing the twelve Days of Christmas. So it’s twelve Christmas themed murder episodes. I’ve been writing for that, and I’ve been shoehorning in references to snowmen and ponies named Snowflake, just trying to Christmas it up.

But I enjoy the episode Grandma Got run Over. That’ll be out this week. So that’s Murder Weekly. On Ghost Scary Stories, we’ve been doing the twelve Ghosts of Christmas. That’s a lot of fun.

Romance Weekly.

Also doing twelve Hallmark movie type stories.

Also over on five Good News Stories, I don’t plug that enough. I host that, you know, so that’s five stories, all of them good news. If you want to check out five Good News Stories. The number five good News stories, and Taylor Swift has been in the news a lot, so let me do a cross plug for Taylor Swift today wherever you get your shows. I checked out Leo Reich’s new special on HBO, and I liked it just about as much as I thought I was going to, which was not very much.

It was quote unquote better than I thought. I just didn’t care. I wasn’t making a connection with the comedian. He did have one good joke, which was he says he’s bisexual, which means I’m ninety percent gay and ten percent absolutely committed to proving my year seven bullies wrong. That got a good chuckle out of me.

I hung in there another five or so minutes, and I was just like, eh, I feel on this one. Leo tells the Advocate that people either leave his shows feeling sorry for him or detesting him. He says, both are fine. I’m not here to sort of dictate ho people should feel. I mean, it’s really a sponsor the show which has got such a spectrum of reactions from different people, which would I rather have?

I guess pity Pitty’s always nice. I’ve always loved being pitied and very competent about getting sympathy. I didn’t come away hating him or any of that. I just was like, eh, what else is on? Somewhere?

From that great article and inside hook with the title is social media killing stand up comedy? Trey Gallion says, since the pandemic, when I’ve been on the road, either done the big clubs or hung out of the big clubs, there have been times where the headliner has been somebody that I don’t know, which has never happened in my twenty years of doing comedy, you’ve never heard of them before, and it’s because they came from the YouTube world or the TikTok world. Gallion says such performers tend to draw a lot of young kids at shows, and on stage they tell stories as though they’re that person at the party that wants attention. That’s pretty much what their act is if you want to call in and act. Numesh Patel says he’s heard of TikTok and YouTubers who on stand up comedy stages exhibit PowerPoint presentations breaking down the viral videos they posted a social media and the staff will be like that mfor is not a comedian, but he just sold thre hundred tickets.

That’s not comedy. But if that’s what the fans want, that’s what the fans want. Pinky Patel has heard the grumbles from comedians about TikTok and YouTube stars taking spots away from established stand ups. Then she pointed out one stand up comedian who she didn’t want a name, who had gained a following primarily by posting crowd work clips to social media. I suspect I know who this is and it’s the same person that I heard some comedians taking a shot out last week.

Pinky says, from what I’ve seen on social media, what I saw on stage, I was underwhelmed. I’m not as happy as I am with their social media content. Ryan Heffron is the founder of the Comedy Zone chain of stand up clubs, and he says, if you sell tickets, I don’t care how you sell them. YouTubers are coming through my system on a regular basis, seeing a lot of really happy customers, and I’m seeing a lot of really good talent. Dusty Slay, who I’m really into can’t wait for his special in January, said he’d prefer to see social media stars with undeveloped acts get their shot at stage nights on different nights of the week, like Monday and Tuesday, where comedy clubs might otherwise struggle to track crowds.

Dusty says, if they’re taking weekend spots, it’s a little different. A lot of times a comic is not really so a lot of tickets, but it’s very good in building up a following. We’ll need Friday and Saturday nights because that’s when people will come out just to see comedy, interesting stuff. There not your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail reports that Netflix is under pressure to cut ablest slurs from the upcoming Ricky Gervais show Armageddon that’ll be out one week from today. Spoilers for the special I’ll give you a second here. In the special, Ricky says spoiler coming.

He had been making videos for terminally ill children at hospitals with a Makeawish charity. He joked that the children were effing our words for not wishing to get better. The mother of a terminally ill child that set up a petition to get the skit removed by Netflix, a UK disability charity, has slammed the sketch for having able to slurs in it. In the clip that was released to the audience roared with laughter. Really really interesting editorial opinion piece in The Grio written by Tore.

The headline are Chris Rock and Kevin Hart on the same level. I share this in the Facebook which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I commented, Yeah, I said this recently when Kevin Hart got the Mark Twain Ward. I don’t feel like he’s on the same level as the other people. He puts out a lot of work like a lot, but does any of the work like actually register How many shows have I told you about that we’re on Quibbi or random products he’s involved with. It’s like the man likes to work, but is he on the same level comedy wise as Chris Rock.

I agree with Torre, and I’m gonna say no. Torre writes, I have a creeping suspicion. There was one specific motive behind Netflix’s new fund doc Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners, Only it’s about more than taking a look behind the scenes as two of the world’s greatest comedians work their way through a historic run of shows, et cetera, et cetera. It’s about establishing Kevin Hart as being on the level of Chris Rock, which is a problematic writes Torre. He writes the doc takes us into the comedic roots of both men.

Points out that the Chris Rock was discovered by Eddie Murphy when Murphy was the biggest comic in the world. He saw young Rock and instantly believe in him and gave him a helping hand that led in time to Rock becoming the success Murphy as America’s biggest Black comedian. Tory writes, Yes, that’s a thing. In turn, when Chris Rock was ABBC, he saw a young Kevin Hart and helped him out, leading eventually to him becoming one of America’s biggest black comedians. Was he ever the sole ABBC?

No, Dave Chappelle took that mantle from Rock, Tory continues. The doc even gives us Tony Rock Chris his brother, saying Heart never missed a chance to talk to Rock about the intricacies of comedy, much like a young Kobe asking Michael Jordan questions about the intricacies of basketball. That suggests Hart is the Kobe to Rock’s Jordan. I see Rock as a comedian who’s also a philosopher and a political thinker. Many of his jokes are interesting ideas.

Rock always comes with great material. I believe there are two kinds of comics. Some have meticulously manicured material and some have a funny vibe about them, so much as they could read the phone book and it would be funny. Rock is a material guy. Heart is a phone book guy.

Wow, that is really well said. Kevin Hart is all vibe, Yeah, Tory continues, There’s nothing wrong with being a phone book guy. It’s a gift. The way Heart talks is funny. The way he moves is funny.

Heart could do anything and make people laugh. But do his funny stories lead to iconic material. I feel like any hour of Heart jokes will always be fun, but his stories and observations won’t be unforgettable. I can’t recall anyone ever saying did you hear Kevin hartch joke about dot dot Dot? As far as being able to sell tickets, they’re absolutely on the same level.

But as far as the quality and depth and complexity of their material, I don’t think they’re close. As for Rock, Tory writes, I think his approach to comedy transform the way many people view comics. He’s never a clown. He’s never the butt of the joke. He’s the smart observer of the world who’s come to help you see things the right way, or at least the Rock way.

Heart is more of a hilarious entertainer who welcomes you to laugh at his pain. He doesn’t mind you looking down on him. He’s happy being the butt of the joke. To me, the progression of the ABBC crown in my lifetime as this it was prior than Murphy, than Rock, than Chappelle. Heart’s an important part of the comedy universe, but he’s never held the crown.

Great stuff again. I share that in the Facebook group on Friday Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. I love a good non controversy. Jeopardy fans are upset with the show’s Seinfeld questions. You see, it was the champion’s wild game tournaments.

I don’t know. After the first break, Julia led with twenty eight hundred dollars, which was eight hundred dollars more than Henry Ken. Jennings revealed the categories, one of them was Seinfeld before and after apparently Gary crushed the category, pulled ahead, and Gary advanced. Someone on the Jeopardy subreddit said, speaking as a Seinfeld fan who ran that category, it really belonged in the first round. A single clue that requires knowledge of a particular sitcom in double Jeopardy is fine.

An entire category referring to one particular sitcom too much, because if a player isn’t familiar with the show, they’re out of luck. Another Jeopardy and Seinfeld fan agreed, saying, I agree on keeping those specific program categories in the first round. Last season there was a category titled Friends in the first round. It wasn’t even wordplay, just basic clues, like it’s the coffee shop where the friends hang out, which only fans of the show would know. Well, I have found the questions.

I didn’t find the answers, but I found the questions. So let’s take a look. Four hundred dollars. This George Costanda portrayer was the first US Treasury Secretary, all right, So they do this kind of thing at Trivia Night where I go on Wednesday, where you have to connect things so that this George Costanza portrayer, that’s Jason Alexander the US Treasury Secretary’s Alexander Hamilton. So who is Jason Alexander Hamilton?

Seinfeld before and after for six hundred set on controlling the Vichy Sauce supply. TV hosts Greg kinnear and John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist all right, who is or what is talk soup Nazi Seinfeld? Before and after for twelve hundred, this Wham front man continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer, who is George Michael Richards Seinfeld before and after for sixteen hundred. Avuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan Ilitch. Huh, I don’t know what’s the answer there?

A vuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan iliatsch oh okay, I got it. I’ll give you a second. I’ll come back and tell you Seinfeld before and after for two thousand. This Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal, the Luisa Dreyfus affair. All right back to the one I skipped.

Uncle Leo Tolstoy. Trevor Noah was recently in San Francisco. The sf Gate caught his show. Trevor said, everyone told me, O Trivor, you don’t want to go to San Francisco. If you’ve seen it right now, it’s armageddon, It’s chaos on the streets.

Trevor said he didn’t think it was all that different from many other American cities he visited. He talked about going out to Salcelito or enjoyed a meal from Sushi Wren. He did a bit about the hills the cars are holding on for dear life. He loved Chinatown and even expressed appreciation for some of the Tenderloin. Trevor said, the thing I liked about the Tenderloin is that you’re present in a world where we’re constantly distracted by our phones, thoughts running through our heads.

It was nice to be in a place where I was in the moment, my mind was nowhere else. I’m noticing its feel, its smell, its taste, its touch. I’m just there. No skipping down on the sidewalk. That led to a line of jokes complaining about San Francisco’s lack of public bathrooms.

He started talking with a woman in the front row who had cheered in response to the question. He asked her if she’d lived in San Francisco her whole life. She said she had lived around the Bay Area, so Trevor said, so, not in San Francisco, just around it. The person responded that they grew up in Fremont and Oakland, but were born in San Francisco and moved out of the city at age one. Trevor said, you lived here for a year, but you were zero to one.

You were a zero year old, you didn’t live crap, your parents lived here. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that South Park Survival is tied to its past, not the cancel culture present. Joe Rogan said, they’re the only show that Comedy Central leaves alone. There’s no way you could make South Park today if you were an unknown group of cartoonists. No chance.

They’d never let you. It’s too crazy. It’s the only good show on the network, so they kind of have to let it go. It’s a great show. It’s been there forever.

You get away with wild stuff you could never get away with otherwise. They’re a national treasure. They’re so import They’re one of the few people out there in this day and age, when you can’t even make comedy movies anymore. You’re never gonna see a traffic thunder today. South Park goes as hard, if not harder than ever before.

Without them, we wouldn’t have Veggie Comedy, not on a television show. Eddie Murphy is working on another movie, this one called to pick Up, a heist comedy.

Also in the cast Pete Davidson no details yet.

They’re gonna start filming in February. Macpacker Keegan Michael Key will host the NFL Honors Show on February eighth. Key recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and upset some Fox News types. Kimmel was making fun of the conservative media’s annual freak out over the so called war on Christmas. He got some help from Keegan, Michael Key, and Sean Hayes.

Part of what people are upset about is a queer nutcracker holding a Progress Pride flag being sold to Target. On Newsmax, Chrissy Clark moaned about the ornament and said, let’s be honest, if you’re a gay man and you have any semblets of taste, you do not have a gay Pride nutcracker in your house, Okay. Sean Hayes joked, first off, gay nutcrackers redundant. All nutcrackers are gay. A bunch of fit, older men with perfect posture wearing Padazza uniforms and knee high boots.

Open your eyes. Later in the bit, Sean Hayes’s nutcracker character was joined by his boyfriend Black Santa in a wheelchair portrayed Bykeg and Michael Key. Kim Will asked Key how he ended up in a wheelchair. The reply, I fought in the War on Christmas, Jimmy Kimmel said, I think Fox just got twelve more nights of programming out of this. I was gonna get back into that Inside Hook article, but I’ll get out on the laugh.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Curb Your Enthusiasm will end with season twelve. Season twelve from years on HBO, HBO, Max, Max whatever. We’re calling in February fourth at ten pm.

It’s a ten episode season that will conclude with a series finale on April seventh. Larry David said, as Curb comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this Larry David persona and become the person God intended me to be, the thoughtful, kind, caring, considered human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character. And so Larry David, I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.

Curb has been around for twenty four years. We’ll get twelve seasons total. By the late oughts, the show was starting to do every other year than It took a break from twenty eleven to twenty seventeen, when it returned. It was back again in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. Expected to appear Tracy Olman, Jeff Corland, Suzi Smond, Cheryl Hines, JB.

Smooth, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, and Vince Vaughan. Apparently, at the end of season eleven there was an alternate ending. In the alternate ending which did not air, Larry died, but apparently Larry David was not ready for Larry David to pass away, so we’ll get season twelve looking forward to that weird one involving Jerry Seinfeld. Fox News tells US pro Palestinian protesters marching through downtown Syracuse last week gathered outside the Landmark Theater to protest Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up show, accusing Jerry of being quote complicit in genocide. According to The Daily Orange, which is the student newspaper for Syracuse University, as people entered Landmark Theater for Seinfeld’s show, protesters stood outside.

Police placed themselves between the two groups, forming a pathway for those looking to get inside the building, while protesters chanted that Seinfeld was complicit in genocide. Apparently the lodge there is that Jerry and some others had signed an open letter to the Writer’s Guild of America condemning that union for being the quote to only major Hollywood union unquote to not provide a statement on the Hamas attacks. In happier, Jerry news he was in Springfield recently and he stopped by family owned Panjaba Tatka restaurant. They specialized in North Indian food. The restaurant tour shared a photo of staff members smiling with Jerry.

They captioned it, look who stopped by for lunch. No soup for you. Tiffany Hattish has been charged for driving under the influence. You may recall she had fallen asleep behind the wheel of her car in Beverly Hills. According to court records, LA prosecutors charged Tiffany with two misdemeanors.

Her arraignment set this week December twenty second page six says Tiffany was recently a last minute no show. She was scheduled to perform on Wednesday at the Ice House in Pasadena alongside several other comics. Those at the show say that after almost two hours of sets, the host came out and said Tiffany quote would not be performing tonight. A show attendee as he said she couldn’t make it. That was after five acts had already performed and only two comedians were left.

The eyewitness says they could feel the air leave the room when everybody gasp with anger disappointment. Everybody was looking at each other like is this part of the pit or is he serious? An insider tells page six, Tiffany likes to drink and have a good time, but her friends are noticing that she’s drinking way more around the holidays. We think she may be lonely and hiding behind a fake smile. Page six ads, however, Tiffany was recently at Paris Hilton’s holiday party, and a spy said Hattish was quote very sober and quote not drinking at all.

The unraveling of Matt Rife continues. Back in twenty eighteen, Riife decided he would pick on a kid known as the Walmart Yodeling kid. If you don’t remember who that is, I did neither, a twelve year old who had gained internet fame after singing Love Sick Blues by Hank Williams at a Walmart store. The then twenty two year old Matt Raife tweeted at the twelve year old and wrote, f’s on your forehead some gum so if you look at the phone, you can see some skin raised on the boy’s forehead, and the then twelve year old wrote back, it’s birthmark. Not all of us are perfect.

Matt Rife then backpedaled. He wrote back, you are perfect. Bro was genuinely curious. Lol, I’ve got your new single on repeat, little man, keep doing big things. Uh huh, sure, Matt, that’s what you meant.

Steph Tolev told The Toronto Star she had a hard time breaking in in the late auts and early twenty tens at the Alternative Club comedy bar. She said they treated me like dog Pooh. One comedy club owner criticized me for wearing geene shorts on stage, even though I killed. It was forty degrees out and I was biking everywhere because I didn’t have the money to take the subway. He told me, I looked like I’d been cleaning my house all day.

She looked back at her days as a middle act and said, I’d be stuck in Ottawa with these gross old male comics who’d say things like come for a drink, sweetheart, at two in the morning. It was disgusting. Then when I asked the fucking headline the club owner laughed and told me I wasn’t a headliner when she started performing at the La Comedy Store. Steph said when I started performing there in Instagram post, I wanted to thank those two Toronto comedy club owners because if they hadn’t told me I was crap, probably wouldn’t have worked so hard, am I petty? Yeah?

Did that make me work harder? Sure? The gang from Letter Kenny. They’re doing a stand up comedy tour featuring comedians from the show the final season coming up Christmas, I think, headlined by the always hilarious Mark Ford, who plays Coach. The show also feature stand up sets by Jeff mckenerny, who plays Alexander, and Letter Kenny writer Ali Pierce.

Tickets are on sale at Letterkenny dot tv, Slash Live Sketch Fast San Francisco’s added a few things. A screening of the IFC feature film Destroy All Neighbors, a twisted splatter comedy about a deranged journey of self discovery full of goofy practical effects. Jonah Ray involved with that one. There’ll be a live performance of the new D and D Adventure streaming TV show Faster or Purple Worm, Kill Kill also coming back festival favorite Upright Citizens Brigade Asscats a great show if you’ve never seen it, and you can solve a crossword puzzle live at the Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin. I spent a lot of time yesterday sharing a wonderful article in Inside Hook entitled is social Media killing stand up comedy?

Sim Morrell started talking about Instagram. He says, instance is penalizing users who post edgy jokes about sensitive topics by pushing them further down in people’s feeds. That has led to comedians bleeping out or dropping curse words from the audio and censoring their own captions. Sam said that can influence maybe the way a comedian writes because they want their jokes to be seen. It’s very tricky because we’ve been blessed to be able to circumvent the industry.

But at the same time, now these companies like Instagram, all they care about is ad sales, and they have an easier time making money if they have clean comedy clips. Yeah, that’s why I keep this show clean for that very reason. Actually, no, there’s two reasons. One the advertisers, and it’s not like the advertisers told me not to curse, but I just know from doing this for thirty years, if you work clean, you’re not gonna scare anybody off. The other thing is if a podcast is explicit, it doesn’t run on Apple podcasts in India, and India has a very large English speaking population, so that’s why I use words like stuff.

Sam says he remembers a time not long ago when a lot of comics would break on Instagram with the most provocative stuff ever. Inside Hook says the new algorithm may be perfect for comedian like Tony Dio, who might strategically inject a curse word and was set here or there, but generally works clean. One of his jokes, whoever invented the phrase slept like a baby, they didn’t have a baby. I don’t think they’ve ever seen a baby. I think that fray should be slept like an adult that doesn’t have a baby.

That video has nearly one hundred and twenty five thousand likes on Instagram, but he credits the moms on the platform for giving his following a big boost. Swarms of them lip synced and acted out his bit while cradling their own kids, hashtagging their videos with phrases like hashtag sleep deprived. Deo says he’s also learned of joke thieves who lifted his material from the Internet and incorporated it into their own sets. All right, now that he said that that whole sleep like a baby thing, I’m not sure that was the most original premise there. I feel like I’ve heard that before anyway, he said, I would still prefer not to have to do this, even though it’s helped me out.

I sort of wonder the amount of effort that I put into it the last year and a half didn’t translate into all that much extra revenue. I still feel like I’d rather just write jokes and tell jokes, and that’s all you ever want to do, and everything else is kind of getting in the way of me doing that. At a higher level, Sam said, it’s hard enough for me even to find time to approve clips. I’m so busy. Comedian Tom Ryan said that’s the new game.

The key is through content out there. You never know what’s going to connect. Max Fin said the recent release of his comedy album provided him with the opportunity to put material on Instagram. Recording all that material meant I wasn’t going to be able to use it again on stage. My whole hesitation with putting something has always been if I post a joke and then two months later I find a way to make it another minute longer, with more tax to it.

I don’t want the original joke being public because it’s already going to spoil whatever’s coming next. Graham Kay mourns the loss of industry gatekeepers who were excellent judges of talent, says of today’s stand up world, nobody cares if you’re good at live stand up. The only way we could break out is by getting noticed on social media. What that means though, This is also no more quality control as to what gets big fantastic stuff from in side Hook. I’ve shared this article in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

I’m gonna hold on to more of this and do more of this tomorrow. It’s really good stuff. If you like the show, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or tell a friend about it. They might like the show too. Meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. It’s a couple of things I couldn’t get to yesterday. It was so busy with that Netflix’s Joe Comedy Festival. What a lineup?

Anyway, Netflix has been busy. They released the trailer for the terribly titled Beverly Hills Cop axel f the fourth film in the popular Beverly Hills Cop series. Why not just call it Beverly Hills Cop four, which we’re all gonna call it right anyway. It’ll be out in the summer. I would share the trailer with you, but it has lots of music in it and that’ll get me in trouble with the music people, so can’t share it with you.

I watched trailer. It looks fun. I mean, if Netflix puts that in front of me, I’ll probably watch it almost immediately. It’s been thirty years since Beverly Hills Cop three. Cay Do the Math, Yeah, nineteen ninety four.

Eddie Murphy is back as a Detroit cop solving crimes in Beverly Hills. I wonder why he never retired. It’s been minimum thirty years. I have a pretty nice pension. Judge reyin Hold and John Ashton also returned as local cops Lieutenant Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart.

Andie Murphy told people it’s really physical movie. I had to do some physical stuff. I like to be on the couch. I don’t like to be jumping over and shooting and running, and I had to do some jumping and shooting and running. And as a result, at the end of the movie, I had a knee brace and my back is messed up.

But the movie’s going to be special. Looking forward to that one, Kevin Hart went, I don’t know, sixteen hours without announcing a new thing. Well, he’s announced a new thing. Peacock and Kevin Hart, they’re stepping into the boxing ring, says the Hollywood Reporter. Peacock has ordered a limited series titled Fight Night The Million Dollar Heist.

This will tell the story of an armed robbery orchestrated around Muhammad Ali’s nineteen seventy comeback fight in Atlanta. This already sounds awesome. Kevin Hart will star in the series and serve as an executive producer, presumably not playing Muhammad Ali. I think that would be a stretch it’s a limited TV series, not a movie. The official log line series will tell the infinitus story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic nineteen seventy comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny.

Is it infamous? I’ve never heard of this story, and there’s a good chance, just how math works, that I’m older than you are. The story centers on the hustler at the center of the robbery and the detective, one of the first black and Atlanta police officers to rise to that rank. So we’ll see who Kevin is playing, and we’ll see who plays Ali. Maybe a he’s not even in the movie.

Who Knows? Leo Reich has his new special on HBO today. It is called Literally Who Cares? Leo was on the Last Laugh podcast. Leo is aware that none of us have heard of him, and he said the trailer for the show came out a couple days ago, and the top comment on the video was like, this guy doesn’t even have ten thousand Instagram followers.

Why the f does he have an HBO special? He laughed and said, I was like, yeah, absolutely, I could have written that that’s so true. The show includes several musical interludes. Bo Burnham’s Inside is one inspiration. Written during the pandemic.

Leo says that dichotomy of being stuck at home during what was supposed to be the prime of his life helped inform the themes he decided to explore. He said, totally a joke, because, of course, in almost every way, it’s one of the easiest times ever to be young, especially for me specifically, one of the easiest human lives that’s ever been in the history of civilization is my life. But at the same time, you can’t help but focus on the specific ways in which your own experiences are harder than they’ve ever been. It’s ironic in the sense that I know I can order food on my phone, on my door or whatever, but it isn’t in the sense of, like, will there even be a world in fifty years. They asked him about Matt Rife, because I don’t know they’re both under thirty.

I don’t know why they asked him about Matt Rife, but he said, I haven’t seen that special, so I can’t really comment on Matt Rife specifically, because I don’t really know his stuff, But I think in general, TikTok does prioritize different skills and a different way of writing and a different way of doing comedy. Leo is not a TikTok comedian. He says, if you want to be successful on an app like TikTok, you really have to understand the algorithm and understand what section of the extremely animized audience you’re going to try and isolate and appeal to. And that’s almost the opposite of what performing in comedy clubs is like, which is really starting from your animized little group of your friends who you may laugh and using that as a base to try and find some kind of universalism, at least right towards a more universal sense of humor on some level. I tried it out, meaning TikTok in the pandemic.

I post clips and stuff of me doing stand up and would occasionally attempt a character, but I’m so bad at it. But also the stuff that I like just didn’t get good responses, and the stuff that I thought was terrible and got amazing responses. I went, yeah, I mean I could just lean into this and ruin my own ability to join my own output. That feels like a mistake at this juncture, and so I kind of backed off from the whole thing. Now, my goal for today is to watch lots and lots of comedy.

I’m not sure if HBO is putting this out at ten PM or if it’s on now whenever now is in your life, but I want to watch lots of TV today. I’ve watched this trailer twice and it’s not grabbing me at all. But also, I have my best of the Year list that I want to do and I want to just record that now. But Ricky doesn’t come out until Christmas, and Trevor’s not out yet, so I gotta wait. So I don’t know.

Maybe i’ll check this one out. If I don’t get to it today, maybe i’ll get to it tomorrow after football.

Speaking of Matt Riife, the Hindustan Times, which is your home for comedy ne…

Brook said she saw photos of Rife with another woman taking during the time that she was dating him earlier this year. She dm the woman in the photo about the timeline of the romance and they started comparing notes. She says, there were timelines, there were venn diagrams. We were comparing notes. It was so crazy for a man who doesn’t have time, this man at the most time, She said, I go to send Matt a little message.

I wanted to get my fact straight, as if my facts aren’t straight enough, and it wasn’t even rude. I just sent him a text and I was like, how embarrassing is it that I’m literally currently getting dragged for defending you while also in a group chat with seven other girlfriends you had. She says, he blocked my number. Blocking me is crazy. Brook, who is described as an influencer, says she hopes that the stand up star blocked her number to respect his current girlfriend, Jessica Lord, but then added he should unfollow the two thousand porn stars he still follows to this day.

Effing weirdo. Daniel Tosh spoke about cancel culture on his podcast. His take, I think it’s great cancel people. I think people deserve it, and you know, obviously it’s not a real thing where like oh, your livelihood is gone. As someone who’s done things and said horrible things constantly, I’m at backlash and I deserve it.

There has to be consequences, and I also don’t think there’s a problem with evolving. I’m like, oh, I used to be able to say this and now I can’t. Okay, Well, find good. I’m okay with that. Tosh claimed he has never changed because of anything, and I guess we’re going full circle here.

He’s thankful that none of his ex girlfriends ever wrote an article criticizing him. From Inside Hook, the question is social media killing stand up comedy? Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have been a boon of creators of comics. Their unintended consequences, however, have also been quite disruptive. Inside Hook says Billy Procida, a comedian with fifteen years in stand up, recently delivered a set in the nude at the Brooklyn Sex Club.

This the naked comedy show I told you about recently. Billy joked, I recently had an affair with a married woman. Takes a beat, and then says also got in a fistfight with a married man, but the punchlines expected last were quickly undone by a woman who yelled out no. Billy was like, well, okay, and this is not TikTok, I can hear you. That got a good laugh.

I’m right here, there’s no screen. He moved on to another bit. I slept with this woman recently. She’s an older and the woman yelled out no in the middle of a joke. Billy shared an Instagram video of the incident and with a caption that said, I was legit nervous.

I was about to yell at a disabled chick. Over the crowd’s gasps of disbelief, Billy referenced a real trend among TikTok users who may or may not have Tourette syndrome and said, with the TikTok generation, you’re all really into ticks. So that’s now.

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And then he stumbled, and he changes course and says, I’ll stop because other…

Then he said, with anyone under twenty five, I’m like, is this a disability or are you just annoying? The audience applauded. Apparently they were on his side, says Inside Hook. A number of comics say that Heckling is on the rise. Graham Kay is a veteran comedian from Ottawa who said, I’ve heard from a lot of comics that audiences are more vocal.

The things that get promoted on TikTok and Instagram are mostly CrowdWork videos, so people see people talking to the comedian and it normalizes it. The Hook reminds us sometimes comedians engage in crowd work, but that’s generally not how stand up shows work. The social contract accepted by most on either side of the mic is that the comic usually recites a string of words which may have been toiled over for months in front of other crowds who did not react positively because the bit had yet to be honed. Then eventually the audience is compelled to laugh. Kay talked about current audiences and said they’ve probably never been to a stand up show where they go once every five years, and they don’t know the culture.

So when they go for their annual stand up show now they’re talking more inside. Hook says, Developing just ten minutes worth of jokes that are sure to amuse a variety of audiences each year was a relatively high standard for comedians a few decades ago. Back then, brief annual appearances on late night TV shows was a primary goal, but nowadays many performers work on an hour of new material over the course of a year or two. They hope to score a stand up special or record an album airon streaming platforms and radio. And still posting even thirty second clips that they’re trying true jokes once or twice a day on social media is unsustainable for comedians over the long term.

That’s where crowd work has come into being. Vogue Case says, because algorithms favor short clips, many comedians will now include a controversial thesis statement in the initial stage of the setup. Comedians are starting to do comedy not for the live audience in front of them, but they’re structuring their stand up for a robot. The live audience is coming second to a digital audience. Colin Quinn discussed crowd work and said it’s like anything else in the wrong hands, it could be faked, It can be manufactured.

Yeah. I heard there is a comedian who has done a lot of comedian destroys Heckler videos, and I heard two comedians suggesting that a lot of that is staged. I’ll let them sort that out. Colin said, when it’s really spontaneous, it’s fine. But sometimes with these comedians, I’m watching and I’m like, hey, this person wasn’t doing anything, and you’re just bullying them, and you’re just trying to get them to say something so you can abuse them.

That’s the other big crowd work trick. Nimesh Ptil has a joke about taking an uber from Kansas City to Omaha. Later during the Q and A, a woman in the audience asked him how much the uber ride cost, and he said, I didn’t actually take an uber, it’s just for the joke. Come on, lady, what the f Numesh said. He rolled out old performance clips he out on YouTube starting around June twenty twenty, but it was on TikTok that took off.

The first stand up clip I put on there got like eight hundred thousand views. I never had eight hundred thousand views on anything ever before, even if you were to sum up everything I’d ever posted. Then I started feeding that machine like every day with a clip or two, and by March of twenty one, I had a mass like eighty thousand followers. I’m sorry if I’ve participated in dumbing down audiences. Sorry if I’ve participated in causing people to heckle and all that.

He was asked what part of that apology is sarcastic and which is authentic, and he said one hundred percent on both. He now addresses the hecklers by telling the crowd, some of you might be here because you think I’m going to talk to you the entire time. That’s not what this show is. I’m sorry I lead you to believe that that’s what this is. Sam Morrell talked about posting social media and it was because of COVID.

He said, YouTube was really an active desperation. It was like, I want people to see the work that I worked hard on. I’d been touring hard for an hour. You put a lot into it. If you’re a real comic who does the road, you’re honing it in a bunch of different cities and you’re sick all the time, and you’re like, how do I nail this?

I was one of the earlier comics just to put a special on YouTube, and I would definitely say I was one of the early ones who had done TV specials already. I didn’t ever do this with the expectations of getting on Netflix. The expectation was hopefully people buy tickets to see me on the road. This is good. I’m gonna pick up on more of this tomorrow.

There’s a little bit more here that I find interesting, a specific to Instagram. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A very very robust Friday with several major stories. But let’s start with the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which we’ll be back in twenty twenty four May, second to the twelfth, more than three hundred shows across thirty five plus la venues. The Hollywood Bowl will feature the biggest acts including Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney and we’ll see if this actually happens Matt Rife.

The Hollywood Bowl will also host Ladies Night with a lineup including Taylor Tomlinson, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Michelle Buteau, and an evening titled Seth Rogan Smokes the Bowl featuring music and comedy. This is insane, This is huge. Over at the Forum, Netflix will host Groat the Greatest Roast of All Time, which is a roast of Tom Bray. Jeff Ross will host that night to some of Tom Brady’s famous friends in Frenemies will gather together to light up Tom Brady. Chris Rock will host star studded table reads of his favorite films at the Hollywood Palladium.

The list of people at the festival so far. This is John reading a list, but I gotta do it. You gotta hear these names. You’re ready. This is no Joe Gali Wong.

Let’s go at Coonska. Remember when she was in the news every day for like three months? Haven’t heard her name? And a mother So Anthony, Jelsin, ekber Kreischer, Beth Stelling, Bill Burr, Brett Goldstein. If I stopped right there, you’d be like, this is a pretty cool festival.

We’re only up to the bees. Cedric d entertainer, Celeste Barber. So I’m ten names in and Celeste Barber the least no name right, Chelsea Handler, Chris Rock, Craig Robinson, Daniel Tosh, Deane Cook, Interesting, Dane Diino tends to be a comedy outsider, David Letterman, Dmitri Martin, Dean Cole, Earthquake, Fortune Fimester, Hannah Berner, Hannah Gatsby, Heather McMahon, Eliza Slessinger, Jason Menzukis, Jeff Ross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jesse Klein, Jessica Kirkon, Joel Kimbooster, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Jim Gaffick and Jim Jefferyes, Jimmy Carr. I mean, wow, Justin Willman, Katherine, Ryan, kat Williams, Kevin Hart, Country, Wayne kameil Nan, Gianni, Leanne Morgan, Leslie Jones, Lunel Mae, Martin, Mark Normand again, I know I’m reading a really long list, but you listen to these names Man, Marlon Wayans, Mitzel Lane, Matt Rife. We’ll see if that happens.

Maya, Rudolph, Michelle Butteo, Mike Berbiglia, Mike Epps, Mosha Kasher, Natasha Lazio, Nate Bergatzi, Nicole Bayer, Nick Kroll, Nikki Glaser, Patton Oswalt, Phil Rosenthal. Yes, I’m only up to the P’s What a list. I’m gonna keep going. Rachel Bloom, Ralph Barbosa, Ronny Chieng, Roywood, Junior, Ryan Hamilton, Who I Love, Sam Jay, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Seth Rogan, Shan Gillis, Shang Wang, Stavros Halkias, Taylor Thompson, Tim Dillon, Who I Love, Tim Robinson, Tom Brady, Tom Poppa, Tom Segura, Trevor, Noah Vidaz, Wanda Sykes and Dodgers player Will Smith not the actor that qualify. Wow, unbelievable.

You want to go? Tickets go on sale today’s tan Am Pacific. Let me break down the individual highlights at the Hollywood Bowl eight nights. Jerry Seinfeld, Chim Gaffigan, a bergazzy spashion of Manascalco, Bill Burjohn Mulaney, Seth Rogan, Matt Riife Taylor, Sarah Nicky and Michelle, Kevin Hart, Trevor Noah Wow. At the Forum the Tom Brady Roast, also Tom Sigoora and Bert Krascher.

I believe those are separate shows, but I’ll check on that. At the Palladium, Chris Rock’s table reads very interesting. Dodgers Comedy Night, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and presented by Dodgers catcher Will Smith. Chris Rock has to come by that for the easy Joe guess. Maybe it’s a little hackey, eh, you gotta do it.

At the Greek Theater, Big Mouth Live with Nick Krolmei, Rudolph, John Mulaney, Jesse Klein, and Jason Manzukus.

Also at the Greek Theater, John Stewart and Friends.

Separately from that Shane Gillis. Separately from that, I Think you should leave with Tim Robinson, Ali Wang and Scheng Wang play the Wiltern. Ronny Chieng wan To Sykes Daniels Toss played the Dolby Letterman, Mark Norman, Eliza Sllester, Heather mcmah, Dane Cook, Rachel Bloom and Katherine Ryan All at the Montelbon At the YouTube Theater, Kat Williams The Dark Matter Tour will be recorded for Netflix. Chelsea Handler, Fortune Fimesner, It’s Hail Lane, Sam Jays and Vanessa Gonzalez host Three Gays in Mexican and a Jew Great title A Night of Comedy with Chelsea Handler and Friends. Kill Tony at the YouTube Theater.

Wow, That’s awesome. At the Orphium, I’m Brett Goldstein’s Les Barbara of verrdas Country Wayne at the Theater. At Ace Hotel, Hannah Gatsby, Ralph Barbosa, Papa Nan Gianni Patten, Burbiggs, Jimmy Carr, Marlon Wayans, Phil Rosenthal, Henneberger, Jessel Nick, Dimitri Martin at the Avalon the wonderfully titled May Martin and Brett Goldstein make love to one another on stage. Separate from that, Felippe esparsa, Wow, this is crazy. All Right, I’m gonna stop because I’m just reading you lists, but this is amazing.

Great job Netflix. Six minutes into the podcast, I’ve only done one story, all right. Other major news, Trevor Noah will host the twenty twenty four Grammy Awards. It’s his fourth time. He announced this on his podcast What Now with Trevor Noah.

Trevor said, I think it’s important to acknowledge something. I’m hosting the Grammys. I’m excited about that. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun. I enjoy the Grammys because I get to watch the show in person and then experiencing comment and on person while it’s happening.

The Grammys are February fourth. Vulture points out Trevor if he wins, he’d be the fourth Grammy host to win during a show that they hosted. On this next story, I’m gonna pull my punch here. I’m gonna do a lot of wink wink, nudge, nudge, know who I mean, because I don’t want to be investigated by the Secret Service. The Messager reports.

The Secret Service investigated comedian Shane Gillis for saying that seeing a particular person. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Secret Service involved you know who I mean, and not the current guy, the guy before the current guy. Shane Gillis apparently told a joke about the person with that big job back in twenty nineteen. I’m quite paraphrasing here again, I don’t want to be investigated, and Secret Service appreciate that you guys love the show.

I’m just reporting on a new story, Shane said, paraphrasing here of all the you know people with that big job, I’ve been alive for that guy who had it at the time, not the guy who has it now. I’m not asking for that. I don’t want that to happen, but it’d be funny to see. He’d be on stage talking crap, the shooter be coming at him and he’d be like, sit down. He’d definitely make a funny noise when he got hit.

It would be funny, Shane Gillis wrote on Twitter back then. I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I’m trying to be the best comedian I can be, and sometimes that requires risks. The messenger says a look around YouTube and TikTok shows that Shane Gillis has recycled the joke at other comedy clubs around the country.

In twenty twenty one, Gillis retold that joke during a special taped in Austin, but that time included a joke about the guy who currently has the big job. Gillis suggests that that person is the first person with that big job that someone could kill with a punch, a reference to that person’s age and perceive fragility again, Secret Service, I’m just reporting a news story here. Appreciate that you guys listen, so the messenger tells us. After Gillis’s act at the stand was picked up by news outlets, the joke caught the attention of a protective intelligence research specialist at the Secret Service. According to documents attained by the messenger, the Secret Service employee noted the joke in an email with the subject line discovery of threatening statement by comedian Shane Gillis.

Per this report, the employee wrote that they found Gillis’s joke by doing routine open source intelligence research and found that multiple news outlets had reported on the joke. In the records, the Secret Service rits that Gillis was not interviewed when he made inappropriate statements towards Guy with Big Job, and the information had not been presented to the US Attorney’s Office. To conduct their productive, intelligent assessment of Shane Gillis, the Secret Service pulled his personal information such as his social Security number, of criminal history, last known phone number, address, and vehicle information. They also checked three internal databases for reports about pass threats. A Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in charge told the Messenger, the Secret Service is aware of the comments made by mister Gillison.

As a matter practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence. We can’t say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees. The Messenger reminds us Gillis is not the first comedian to be investigated for jokes about the guy with a Big Job. In twenty twenty one, John Mulaney apparently was investigated about a joke made on SNL. M’lany further joked with Jimmy Kimmel that he’d been investigated by the agency for a joke about Roman dictator Julius Caesar.

Another big story from page six, The New York comedy scene is being shaken by allegations that an SNL cast member lifted a catchphrase from Janis Poppas. Page six is told there’s been a flurry of angry messages and finger pointing between comics cast members and other members of the SNL team after an alleged blatant ripoff. If you saw last week’s episode, Marcello Hernandez played a flamboyant Hispanic character who used the catchphrase das it many times. However, apparently Yannis Pappas has been doing a beloved Hispanic character called Marisa for years with the catchphrase das it. Papus told Page six, I’m kind of torn on the situation.

Part of me is honored, but the other part of me has to find out about the bit the next day from people tagging me and writing me about this. I’m been doing stand up comedy for two decades now, so I’m not an up and coming comedian. I’m surprised nobody in the writer’s room spoke up about this. I find it hard to believe Marcella wasn’t aware of me and the character, a source close to SNL told Page six with respects to Giannis in his comedy. This sketch, in its premise, was independently created DEAs it was a commonly used phrase in Marcella’s household in Latin community growing up in Miami.

The sketch was not written with Giannis’s character in mind. Page six reminds us that the show has been accused of plagiarism a dozen or so times in its forty eight year history. In his two thousand and four memoir Gasping for Airtime, former cast member j Moore admitted to stealing a sketch from comic Rick Shapiro. Michael McDonald, You know the singer. He’s got a new book coming out.

Why you telling me about this, Johnny mack? Well, guess who co wrote it? Wrong? Of course, Paul Reiser is the cover writer. I was like, what, Apparently, Paul Reiser has several books, including Couplehood, Babyhood, and Familyhood.

Paul Reiser tells People Magazine. I sort of made a joke because I period asked Michael McDonald questions I didn’t understand about the doobies and about him, and I said, jokingly, you should write a book so I don’t have to bother you all the time, and he said, I’ve thought about it, but I don’t know how you start that during the pandemic. Apparently they worked on it. It is called What a Fool Believes Good title. It will cover McDonald’s long career, his interaction with other musicians, and his battles with drug and alcohol addiction.

It’ll be out in May. Kathy Griffin she’s been investigated by the FEDS. At some point, she was speaking to the pitch at Kansas City, who said, we read somewhere the your new stand up tour came together at a moment’s notice. I’d been waiting patiently for all the planets in a line like this, Kathy said, Yeah, I’ve been writing stuff this whole time. Because I’ve been doing it for so many decades.

I can’t help but look at everything through the prism of what would be funny. Honestly, it’s just pitiful. I’ve been taking my little notes the whole time, waiting for Hollywood to get over themselves and come back to me. And no joke. I just got a manager two or three months ago, and then they got me an agent a couple weeks later.

I think the people who buy tickets probably know about my cancer and how my voice is a little higher pitched now. I talk about that part because I didn’t know cancer was accidentally funny. But let me tell you something, when you have cancer, it’s the great equalizer. And if I’m called Kathy Lee Gifford one more time at the medical office, I’m on the D list even in my cancer medical appointments. But I’m cancer free now.

So I was actually injured during my surgery when they took out half my left lung. Half my left lung gone gone. It’s somewhere and it hazard been somewhere in Beverly Hills, along with my dignity. And from the Irish Star You’re Home for Comedy News, comedian Katie Boyle has explained Irish slang two Americans. She’s been living in New York for nearly a decade, but sometimes Jesus phrases that the Americans don’t understand.

I remember back in the nineties, I had several Irish friends and they would ask me if I wanted to go out for some crack. And in the nineties, when you said that to me, I’m like, no, I don’t really do cocaine derivatives. Thank you. Though apparently craxy or aic would just mean want to go out for some good fun. Wonderful word to throw out a sentence if you want to confuse somebody.

Katie Boyle has been confusing people using the phrase in bits, which I’m familiar with. She explained on stage, if we’re sick, we’ll say I’m in bits. But when I said that to Americans, they were like, sorry, what I had to explained it? I was like, it means sick because I’m in bits, I’m in little pieces, I’m not whole. I was like, oh my god, are we just all poets on Ireland?

This is so embarrassing, Katie said, every time I go home, the humor is so subtle. I have to remind myself that most people are being sarcastic all the time here. If you’re going to be sarcastic, you have to add a bit more tone. Irish people are just naturally funnier in general, and funnier with dark stuff. Irish audiences are chattier and interactive in a fun way.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. If you like to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com Slash Daily Comedy News, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow. Thanks,

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Caloroga Shark Media. HEYMN Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The second half of this podcast. The stories are quite out there, quite aggressive today, but we’ll do normal stuff in the front half. Wanted to catch up on some late night jokes that I liked, one from Jimmy Kimmel.

The setup here the indictment of Hunter. Biden accuses Hunter of spending millions on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature. In short, everything but his tax is Kimmel’s joke. Hunter Biden is like the son Donald Trump. Never had a new topic from Jimmy fallon.

President Biden hosted Ukrainian President Zelenski at the White House. When he asked for money and support, Zelenski said, sorry, Joe, I got my own problem. That’s a great joke. Cal Penn talking about the Dodgers signing at show Hey Otani to a seven hundred million dollar contract, cal Penn said, that’s one dollar for every minute it takes to watch one single baseball game. Trevor no has got a new special out December nineteenth.

I am psyched for it. Let’s listen to the trailer. When I flew to Paris, my luggage was lost. I had to find somebody to help me. It’s an older French gentleman and he was wearing a red vest and in French it read Informacion and then underneath an English said information.

I said English French English, yeah we I said, okay, could you help me? Please? My my my luggage didn’t arrive. I would like to know what do I need to do. He’s like, oh, the leg easier?

Did you come? If you could define? For that one, we maybe you’re gonna p do you because if you’re in you can be put you different want but you go to that when you can be fine for you because you did not do like them different ones for because I’m not in control with the but this different and controls to maybe you can’t see you for for that one, I was like, okay, okay, all right, let’s try French. Netflix is gonna have quite a run. Trevor on the nineteenth, Ricky Gervai’s Christmas and Dave Chappelle New Year’s Eve.

That’s awesome. I was watching Netflix and they suggested, hey, want to watch Kevin Hart and Chris Rock not an absurd suggestion Netflix, and I was like, hmm, I kind of don’t. I don’t know why, I just I’m not interested in this one. Jason Zinnemann covers comedy for The New York Times, and he only wrote two paragraphs about it. So maybe his editor cut it down.

Maybe the assignment desk was like, Jason, just give us two paragraphs, or maybe Jason’s not into it either. He wrote, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock headliner’s only as a slick self mythologizing. I don’t know how to say that word piece of Netflix conflict. I’m leaving it in That follows the two comedians on the recent arena shows they teamed up on. It’s aimed to comedy fans, even if much of it will be familiar to them.

The story of how Eddie Murphrey spotted Chris Rock at the comic strip and offered him a job on the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop has been told many times in Any stand up fan on social media or listening to this podcast knows that Kevin Hart presented a goat to Chris Rock at the end of their recent MSG show. That doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to watch, says Jason Zinneman. Did you see Netflix released Hey, here’s what people are actually watching. They finally did that, and I was scrolling down and I wanted to see what the top comedy special was. I got one hundred and twenty five down on the list before I got bored looking.

So then I went to the SEK function and I typed in the words Chris Rock and I found Chris Rock four hundred and ninety seventh. It was the four hundred and ninety seventh most watched thing on Netflix in the first six months of the year. That said, the things that were more watched have seasons, whereas a Chris Rock special was what an hour? So if you’re comparing that to I don’t know, suits has a lot of hours and Chris Rock has one hour, that makes thirty six million, two hundred thousand hours viewed much more impressive. So that suggests a lazy math here.

If it had thirty six million and change hours viewed and the special is about an hour, that means sort of kind of thirty six million people checked out this special. That’s pretty good as a random comparison. The one thing that popped up my mind. I was like, how many people watch the Seinfeld finale? That answer seventy six million?

That thirty years ago when TV was much different. I think thirty six million for comedy special, very very impressive. From The Daily Beast, George Santos says Jimmy Kimmel short changed him by more than twenty thousand dollars when Jimmy requested cameo videos that were later aired on late night television without his permission last week, and now he wants Jimmy Kimmel to pay up. Jimmy Kimmel had a segment called will Santos Say It? He played clips of Santos addressing bizarre requests he and his staff made using pseudonyms, including one where Santos was asked to congratulate a Gary Fortuna on winning a beefeeding contest in Florida.

Santos told The Spectator World that Kimmel’s stunt may have violated Cameo’s terms of service, adding he plans to take Jimmy Kimmel to court if he doesn’t shell out for the clips much higher business rates since they weren’t requested for personal use, Santos says, His total invoice to Kimmel, not including the two thousand already paid for the four videos, is twenty one eight hundred dollars and change. That account amounts for the videos and a fifty percent business rush rate, according to the Spectator. Kimmel provided the Spectator with a statement which reads, the idea that mister Santos would claim we short changed him and used credit card purchases improperly, proves once and for all that the man’s a comedy genius. Steph Tolev told the Toronto Stars she knew when she hadn’t made it. She looked out in the crowd.

There were eight women. They were part of a bachelorette party, but instead of wearing tierras and sashes, they were dressed in rompers and supporting mulletwigs. Steph said that was crazy, as jumpsuits, rompers and curly, dark, long in the back hair are Steph Tolev’s signature look. Steph said, that was crazy, a kind of imposter syndrome. So part of me was thinking, what are you doing?

Why would you want this? But it was strange and kind of nice At times. I still think what’s going on? Last year, she opened for Bill Burr at Toronto’s twenty thousand seat Scotiabank Arena. She said Scotiabank felt like an out of body experience.

I got there and it felt like a simulation. I started doing crowd work, but it’s hard in a plays like that.

And then I looked off to the side and saw my dad and sister just glowing.

And then I saw Bill Burr watching me and laughing, and it brought me back to reality. For a second. I felt more nervous for those people than myself. Before that, she was hanging out on her couch promoting her local shows on social media, making fun of New Yorkers, and then Bill Burr shared the video. She DMed him and thanked him for sharing it, and he said thanks for being hilarious, and then he asked if I’d ever want to open on the road for him.

I seriously thought I was being pranked. About a month later, till I was manager called and said Burr had specifically asked for her to be in his new Netflix special. He had told Netflix the request was non negotiable. Wow, that special as Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill. That changed things.

Steph says, I was already getting some headlining weekends at American clubs, but that special just took things to a whole new level. Clubs were banging on my agent’s door trying to get me spots. Nate Bergatsy was on the Manning Cast Monday Night, and people didn’t like it. Apparently I didn’t even realize those in Manning Cast because for some reason, Monday Night football had two simultaneous games. I YouTube TV and they had a channel option that let you watch both games simultaneously, so I didn’t go channel surfing at all.

I didn’t even know there was a Maning Cast Monday night, and I guess Nate brought along his father, who’s a magician. Some of the social media comments, I don’t know who magic Man is on the man In Cast, but he’s truly horrible. Another viewer said, Magic on Maning Cast is an all time flop. Kate mccoochee and now she has lung cancer. You may know Kate from The Big Bang Theory or perhaps Garfunkle and oats.

She said the diagnosis was pretty weird. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. It was a surprise, but I also guess it happens the American Cancer Society says that not everyone who’s diagnosed with lung cancer has a history of smoking. Non smokers can develop lung cancer from exposure to rate on secondhand smoke, air pollution, or other factors. That’s scary.

I’ll tell you something I hadn’t shared. So I had a little skin thing removed, and I’ve gotten the biopsy back and everything is fine. But I’ve got a big scar on my arm now. But my reaction to it was like, all right, this is not crazy talk. If you know me, I’m always at the beach.

I’m always out in the sun. So I wasn’t like what me and the example I was using. It was like, it wasn’t like they told me, oh, you might have lung cancer because I don’t smoke. I’ve never smoked, just like Kate. So it’s just interesting me that this, Wow, this actually happened to her.

Hope she’s doing okay. She shared a video and photo from her time in the hospital. You see her walking around in a medical gown holding an IV pole while admiring the pretty nice artwork on the walls. At the end of the TikTok, she poses on her hospital bed with a small box of cereal banana and a food tray. Really scary.

I hope she’s doing okay there. Vulture reviewed ma Maria Bamford’s new special if you’re like what Maria Bamford new special exactly. Comedy Dynamics released it as a thing you can buy. It’s on Apple TV for fifteen dollars. We seem to be in a little moment here where the comedy Senti has decided Maria Bamford is awesome.

Who was it last week that had was a Maren that had Maria Bamford as the number two comedian of all time? Again, Maria is wonderful? Was seeing her alive? But number two all time seems a little high. But vultures on the train, they said.

At first glance, Maria Bamford’s new special, Local Act does not look much like the artistic statement of purpose common Special lacks the kind of sweeping statements about humor and humanity that tend to come with this mode. In scope and style, it doesn’t have pretensions of grandeur, but Bamford isn’t interested in broad claims by other comedians about what art should look like. All of it is charming, and all of it is unmistakably Maria Bamford, full of odd little sound effects, swallowed premises, and startling character voices that arrive into part in seconds. Her physical performance is occasionally so broad that she literally pulls a face. At another point falls into a whole body collapse that punctuates her awareness of being a cliche.

Her jokes are so fast and full of sound it’s as if they’re being told by a one woman band holding invisible instruments. Towards the beginning of the special, she jokes, I’m a comedian as far as I’m concerned, but if I have to make a bunch of ladies at a nonprofit luncheon and NAPA Valley laugh who books this crap? She pauses, then points to herself and says, I do heard from a couple listeners. I always enjoy hearing from listeners. So several ways you can do that.

One participate in the Facebook group which is Daily Come News podcast group. You can email me directly my emails in the show notes. I heard from Susannah, who wrote a huge comedy fan and I love your podcast. It’s the first thing I listened to every morning. I’m going to circle back to that comment in a few minutes.

Please please, please give Michael McIntire some attention. His Netflix special show Man is by far and away the actual funniest like sides hurting, tears, streaming, laughing out loud that I think I’ve ever seen. I know he’s a brit but honestly so worthy of more recognition on this side of the pond. You know, if you listen to every Day, I’m a fan of British comedy on the podcast, I tend to do that stuff in the back half or more on the weekend because you know it’s primarily in an American audience. I get it.

I love British comedy, so I will check out Michael McIntyre. He is off my radar. Thank you for the tip. The Guardian wrote about Michael McIntyre and said, you want ten tight minutes on middle aged wine drinking, McIntire’s your man. Interested in a riff on yawning, Mcinsire’s here for you.

Itemizing the oddity of this universal human behavior, the comedy of failing to press it when in conversation, the incongruity of its seeming contagiousness, how do you catch tretis not for the first time you marvel at such an ostensibly but not observation can feel so fresh and deliver in McIntire’s expert hands such a substantial comic payload. Susanna, thank you for the note, thank you for listening, and that special sheet is recommending is called Showman on Netflix.

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Also heard from PS who said, Hey, Johnny, please take a moment to look at Pat…

He does a series called what makes This Song Stink? It’s all in fun He just released episode eight about Jason Aldeen and it’s insanely funny. I did that. I checked one out about Weezer’s Beverly Hills. I’m a big Weezer fan, and in that video, Pat Trinerty mentions Duncan.

I was like, all right, I could do this. Good tip there. Thank you for reaching out. Back to Susanna’s comment about it’s the first thing I listened to every morning. That pleases me, a couple thoughts about the show here as I put it together, That’s exactly what I’m going for.

You can listen any time of the day, but I’m just trying to do a ten to fifteen. Today’s going to be more like twenty casual listen in the morning, easy on the years, I keep it clean, trying to have a little fun. I was listening to another podcast and it’s hosted by comedian, and two comedians were the guests, and they were going after somebody who I regularly quote on this podcast, who reviews comedy, and they were just going after the guy, making fun of the idea of reviewing comedy. I thought it was a little unfair, and you know, maybe I got a little sensitive to it. I’m like, oh, will they think I’m stupid?

But here’s my deal. Some of you are gonna be like, yeah, yeah, we know. But for the newer listeners, I ran Serious XM Comedy for ten years. After that, I started running the comedy properties for Slacker Radio, which is now called Live one Radio. As part of that, I started hosting a weekly show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

I still do that. I’ll talk about that on Monday if I remember, I forgot this week and off that I wound up having all these extra stories, so I turned it into this podcast that you’re listening to. Now. I’m not a comedian, I’m not a performer. I’m not trying to be funny, you know.

I’ll throw in some dry wit that your maymory and I like, you might think I’m stupid, that’s cool. I don’t mind. And my take on this. You know, when I was running the Comedy Channel, especially at the series, people were like, well, you’re not a comedian, You’re not And I’m like, well, I’m not a guitarist, but I can understand that a Rolling Stones record is good and schedule it and music master and play it on the rock station. It has nothing to do with whether or not I can play bass guitar.

So specific to comedy, I think I know more about comedy than say, I don’t know ninety eight and a half percent of the population of the United States that zaid. The people that know more than me know way more so. The comedians who are making fun of the critic, they know way more than I do. Mark Maren knows way more than I do. Jason Zinnemann knows way more than I do.

That guy Cliff that wrote the book this month knows way more than I do. I am not claiming to be any kind of expert, just a dude in the basement who likes talking about this stuff. I thank you all for listening. While I’m doing all this, let me thank them members they’ve been on buying Me a Coffee dot com. These are the recurring members.

They are Tommy and Andrew and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny and Kenny’s always trying to get me to switch coffee brands. Kenny Man, I get too wired on that green cup one. I can’t do it. And some other folks have made donation, including Scott and Becky and Kara and Dan JB. And thank you all.

If you would like to support the show, you can go to buy Me a Coffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. All right, the rest of the show, and we’re a little long here today, but just some awkward stuff. Let’s start on gossip Corner. Taylor Swift. Happy birthday yesterday, Taylor, Hope, Taylor at a nice day.

If you want to keep up on Taylor, We’ve got a sister podcast called Taylor Swift Today. It’s like this, except not like this at all. It only talks about Taylor Swift. But today there’s an overlap. Taylor Swift attended a comedy show that featured comedian ram Yousef which benefited a Gaza charity.

And here’s where the controversy is going to start. This was on Friday night Taylor is with Selena Gomez. They were spotted walking into the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Voe confirmed it was a good old fashioned girls’ night out. Both Swift and Gomez opted for the mini skirt and tall booze combo for their evening out at ram Yousef’s stand up show benefiting a Nara.

Anara is the American Near East Refugee aid at charity that provides humanitarian aid to refugees and vulnerable communities in Palestine and Lebanon. Rami Yusef posted on Instagram that one percent of the proceeds for the remainder of his tour will be donated to Anara. Megan Kelly has chimed in and she’s calling for a boycott against Taylor Swift. Megan Kelly on her show said that Taylor owes Israelis and Jewish Americans in apology for attending the event. Megan says, I hope they boycott Taylor Swiss events until she issues it because attending this thing was wrong.

Do some googling see what they do in gaza to gaze see about women’s rights in gaza. Taylor otherwise do this and then motions to shut up when it comes to talking about those issues again. You clearly know nothing. This isn’t a political show, and I’m a little off The point here was Taylor went to a comedy show, and this has turned into a thing here I’m under educated on the entire issue. This next story is horrible.

Originally I left it out. Then when I went for a second pass of preparing today’s show, I see it’s the number one story in comedy. From the New York Post. A US comedian an activist was abducted and killed after trying to meet a woman he found on social media and Colombia. To Geer Jong Hope, I said your name right, an Asian American living in Minnesota, was on vacation in Colombia.

The plan was to spend the holiday season with family. He came into contact with a woman he met on social media. He planned to meet her on December tenth, but was attacked and kidnapped by a group of men around seven pm local time. The comedian called a friend in Columbia, saying that these men had demanded two thousand dollars in cash for his release. He told his friend, who filed a police report, that he was being held at gunpoint.

Hours earlier, police were at the apartment Jean had been staying at because a woman was taking items from the residents and ran off before police could arrest her. Jong’s body was found lying in a ravine with over a dozen stab wounds and multiple bruises, caused by an apparent fall from over sixty feet. Horrible. My favorite actor, Andre Brower passed away at age sixty one. I’m fifty four.

I can’t believe when he was on Homicide Life in the Street he was only seven years older than me. When he was playing Pembleton. I mean always seven years older than what I mean, but I think I was a teenager watching that show and he just absolutely great. Actor. Andre Brower passed away on Monday, age sixty one.

Terry Cruz, who co starred with him in Brooklyn ninety nine, said, can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you, and shared eight glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent. This hurts you left us too soon. Joe la Truglio from that same show said, so many wonderful stories will be told about Andre for now, but all my love goes to his wife and his three boys. We love very much and flew back every weekend from the show to be with.

Well you probably didn’t know is that Andre could sing too, and often did at lunch, building basic vocals from his dressing room to whatever new music he found. At first, it was odd because well, it was Andre Brower crooning at full lying behind closed doors. But then very quickly it made all the sense in the world because the man was so full of song, and that’s why the world took notice. I miss him so much already. If you’re under familiar with Andre’s work, go on social media and type his name in and add the word homicide and watch some of the clips.

He was just fantastic. S your comedy needs for today see tomorrow