Month: December 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser has seen Taylor Swift nine times and spoke to the Spokesman dot com about it. Nicki said, seeing Taylor Swift it’s part of my self care. Her show’s an antidepressant for me.

I feel amazing during and after her concert, so it’s worth it to me. I’ve been judged by people close to me for going to so many shows, nine’s and not a lot. You know how many times I’ve seen Springsteen, But some people spend this amount of money on sporting events. I go to see Taylor Swift since she brings me the most joy in the world. Aside from my nieces and nephews.

Ah, they’re all hooked like I am. If you see Taylor alive, once you get it, I’ve seen Taylor once I get it. Nicki spent fourteen thousand dollars on a front road ticket, not me sixty bucks upper deck. Glazer says it sounds crazy to spend that much money on tickets. Yes, it does, but I don’t own a home, I don’t own a car.

I don’t spend money on my It was worth it. I was in the front row. I cried. I didn’t want to distract her. She’s okay, don’t worry about it.

Also, since you saw the show, you know, if you’re in the front row, she was behind you for ninety percent of the show. If you didn’t see Taylor last summer, there’s a big thing down the middle of the stadium, and Taylor most of the time is on the fifty yard line. So I’m glad you spent fourteen thousand dollars to have to turn around and watch her from forty nine yards away. Stop hating, Johnny mack. Nicki said, I was in the front row.

I cried, but I didn’t want to distract her. I have the same phone case as her, and I didn’t want her to see it. You know, there’s Taylor, She’s singing Karma. She sees Nicki galaza they are crying, and goes, we have the same phone. And Taylor gets all distracted and messes up the concert and goes viral.

Nicki said, I fall an account to know what she owes, since it makes me feel closer to her. I studied how she plays guitar. I see how she places her pinky finger over her ring finger. When she’s doing a g cord. I’m so close to her that I could see her arm hair, which is beautiful.

Nicki isn’t sure if she wants to meet Taylor Swift. Oh, I’m pretty sure you want to meet Taylor Swift. Come on, Nicki said, I don’t want her to calm me down and say it’s okay while I’m shaking and I’m saying, you mean so much to me. What I love about Taylor is that she’s always present at her shows. During a concert in Philadelphia, Taylor noticed a fan being man handled by a security guard while singing Bad Blood.

Nicki said, of that day, I have that scene memorized from watching the video from Philadelphia. When Taylor said stop it. She didn’t do anything, let her go. She’s so cute. She’s looking out for us.

But I get it she cares about her fans. I care so much about my fans too. My fans who come out to see me and listen to my podcasts know me like my family doesn’t. Since my family doesn’t listen to my podcasts, I always appreciate my fans. I’m always present.

Sometimes you’re tired when you’re performing and you think about what you lead after the show or what you travel days next day, where somebody in this front row has the same phone case as you. But I clear my mind from these thoughts and focus on the people who support what I do. I’m like Taylor in that I want my fans who come out to my shows that of the best time possible. The article points out, if you haven’t seen Nicki in a few years, she doesn’t talk about sex like she used to. Nicki said, I’m in my latest thirty As I put it, sex just is interesting to me anymore.

I don’t know if it’s my hormones or whatever. I’m just not that titillated by it, and I’ve explored it enough. It used to be ninety percent of my act, but it’s not that way anymore. You get older, you grow, you change, and change is good. Bit News asked John Marco Ciresi, do you think AI will come for comedy.

I’ve actually interviewed John Marco Ciresi on this very podcast. I wouldn’t have gotten too that question if I had nine hours, but John Marco feeled it. Boy, I’m feisty today. John Marco feeled it and said writing jokes absolutely but live entertainment. I think part of the energy of comedy is the same reason AI won’t take over sports.

There’d be no fun in watching robots compete against each other. Oh, I don’t know about that at all. Imagine some live version of rock’em soccer robots, that’d be great. It’s about the imperfection of it all. So yeah, do I think AI will write jokes?

Do I think some comedians on stage will use material written by AIS? Sure? But ultimately, the thing that makes live entertainment exciting is thee A living, breeding human being is flawed trying to do something on stage. That’s the excitement of it. I think people were scared when all those holograms of Michael Jackson going on to where We’re going to end the entertainment industry.

Obviously not because they didn’t because you want to see a real human being up there. You want to know they were alive before the show, they’re alive after the show. You could touch them. In theory, I feel really optimistic about it. Frankly, if AI starts pumping out every TV show under the sun and creates a bunch of shlock, live entertainment will just thrive because it’ll feel that much more unique in the landscape.

LeAnn Morgan wax poetically with Forbes about being a storytellerly and said, Honey, I don’t know else to do it. My parents are both good storytellers, and my grandparents were. That’s just how I do it. You know. I grew up outside of Nashville, and I’d see a lot of country music stars Minnie Pearl, roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Porton, probably more than comedy.

I always love Joan Rivers, David Letterman, j Leno, Kevin Meaney. I love them all the whole art of it. I always wondered what if I was like Jerry Seinfeld and I could write a joke about a cotton ball? Does Jerry have a joke about a cotton ball? Now?

I want to see if the AI can write one. Let’s see, let’s combine the last two stories. I’m jumping on chat gpt here write a joke in the style of Jerry Seinfeld about a cotton ball? All right? Chatchipt said, why the cotton balls looks so calm because they’ve already been through the spin cycle.

That’s terrible. I asked chat gpt for five more and it actually came up with one. I could see a comedian doing. Cotton Balls are amazing, aren’t they. They’re like the only thing in your bathroom that doesn’t have a purpose.

Toothbrush, her teeth, soap for washing, but cotton balls just sitting there, sitting pretty waiting for a chance to be slightly useful. A proper comedian could nail that. Seejren Marco SORESI where worry Leon Morgan wanted to be like Jerry Seinfeld telling cotton ball jokes. She said, my set is more things that have happened to me. Leanne’s got a book coming out in twenty twenty four called What in the World, And she said, let me tell you.

I wanted to talk about all my sins in the eighties, and my literary agent says, you know what, You’re not Joan Crawford yet. So these are funny essays to introduce me to the world, funny essays about my life. It’s about me getting started selling jewelry and women’s houses and being married to Chuck Morgan and the mobile home business in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, being raised in a town of five hundred people in a farming community and telling everybody, and I’m going to be a movie star. They probably thought I was crazy. At times, I thought I was crazy.

I was so cute in the eighties. I thought this was going to happen for me when I was younger and thinner. But it’s okay. I think that’s part of God’s plan that I was supposed to go through menopause before this happened. Got to raise my children and raise them in Tennessee and there who they’re supposed to be.

And I think it might not have been that way otherwise. And Chuck Morgan is tickled that I’m adding to her retirement. The Sioux City Journal wrote about the openers for Shane Gillis. They went to a Shane Gillis show and wrote about the openers and they liked them. They said, like his openers Lemaire Lee and Mary Ridzinsky.

Shane Gillis wasn’t afraid to talk about going to mcdonald’slaying high school football and getting back on Snapchat. Radzinsky went over the crowd immediately with the joke, I don’t like girl comedians either. That’s good. She detailed a ten year relationship with her boyfriend her joke, he says, I love you, She says I love you more, and he says probably lamiir Lee leaned into the night’s demographic, addressing characters and video games cartoons in the Bible, joking it’s very boring, but if you read it in an African accent, it sounds like the Lion King Jesse. David Fox is out doing pressed about his new book.

He caught up with The Guardian, who said Fox is hopeful about the future. He’s excited about the rise of stand ups like Mitra Jahari, Brittany Carneie, Zach Zimmerman, and Jay Jorden, who discussed their complex identities and serve as a pushback against the dominant form of stand up, which minimizes a comic story in favor of a wall of jokes. Fox feels the existence of this alternative group is essential to the health of the medium, and Hell’s work like Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net, which is painfully human in earnest in contrast to what we’ve been tought mixed comedy successful. Fox says, I think comedy benefits from a continual pushback against how it’s done. I always want there to be an alternative group because the truth is, mainstream comedy tends to be a manifestation of what was happening previously.

Verdas told money control dot Com. When I started as a stand up comedian YouTube, it just started, so access to audience was limited. Right now, a new comic can put five minutes and material on Instagram and get millions of views. Earlier, he had to do a movie, so the people knew your name and come watch your show. Now there’s no middleman, no godfather, no marketing agency.

I get to directly reach my audience, and that’s the best time to be a comic. Jess Tom spoke to Autostraddel, who asked, does your family have a Google alert for you? Jess said, I don’t think my family knows what Google alert is weird because they come to see my show sometimes and my mom learns a lot about me from my comedy. When I did an earlier version of Less Lonely in San Francisco, afterwards, my mom immediately said TMI. The Boston Globe asked Alex Edelman if you could travel anywhere where.

The answer London. It’s my second home. It’s foreign in exoticall at the same time. I know other people there. I love it.

I can’t get enough. The food and the museums get the worst wrap. The museums are awesome. Don’t lecture me. I also listen to stuff the British stole, I get it, but the museums are good.

First place he went after Covid Alexid, I drove to Zion on Utah. I’m a desert guy. I love slot canyons. My girlfriend at the time and I hiked the narrows together. Was just absolutely wonderful.

Best snack for a flight or a road trip. Alex says, butterfingers can’t get enough. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

If you want to support the show, you can go to buy me at coffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News, or some money in the tip yard. Today’s Wednesday, so I’ll go to the brewery and I’ll buy a beverage with it. While I played trivia, I have finished not me my team on the team, we have finished second last two weeks in a row. It’s the worst run we’ve had. Maybe tonight we’ll turn it around.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Parents, if you’re listening with kids, please hit stop on the podcast. I’ll give you a second, but you’ll see why. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Okay, parents, you’ve been warned. Hit stop on the podcast Everybody Ready. Matt Rife new controversy. This time he’s being called out for starting a fight with a six year old Bunny is apparently a famous TikToker, and Bunny posted a video slamming Matt Rife for his unnecessary and route comment towards her six year old son. In the video, Bunny says this all started when Matt Riffe’s comedy special, If that’s what we’re calling it.

You see, Bunny has a six year old son who is obsessed with space and minecraft. Bunny didn’t appreciate Rife’s comments on Jupiter and space. During the comedy special. Rife is talking about astrology and says it has nothing to do with the stars. Man.

Just because Jupiter has a ring and you don’t doesn’t mean dot dot dot. Bunny’s son then stitched a video with Rife’s comments on Jupiter, calling him out for his inaccurate statements, pointing out, Actually it’s Saturn that has the rings and your mean to girls. Riife took the comment very seriously and again parents hit stop, okay, hit stop parents. Rife responded, Jupiter also has a ring that is technically correct. They were discovered in nineteen seventy nine by the Voyager one spacecraft.

But Rife’s full comment was Jupiter also has a ring. Oh, and Santa Claus isn’t real Your mom buys you presents with the money she makes on OnlyFans Good luck. Bunny denied the claims that she is an OnlyFans model and pulled up her Instagram proving that she’s never even shown her body on Instagram. Bunny and her video said for you to assume that every single woman online makes money by showing their bodies, which like, if that’s what you do, girl, do you? But I’ve never made a single dollar from a man Bunny’s followers in the comments, one wrote Matt Rife is so soft he has to come after a child.

Another said he he just digs himself deeper. What kind of man beefs with a literal child? When Moore said we witnessed the rise and downfall of Matt Rife in less than a year. I Love It. BuzzFeed has contacted Matt Rife’s representatives for comment, and they had not heard back at the time of this recording.

The Golden Globe nominations are out the category Best Stand Up Comedian on Television. Your nominees are Ricky Gervais for Ricky Gervay’s Armageddon, Trevor Noah for Trevor Noah, Where Was I? Chris Rock for Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Amy Schumer for Amy Schumer Emergency Contact, Sarah Silverman for Sarah Silverman Someone You Love. And Wanda Sykes for Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer, not sure who I’d pick there, Maybe Ricky, maybe Trevor, maybe Sarah.

The nominations for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical are Air American Fiction, Barbie, The Holdovers, May December and Poor Things. Best Television Series Comedy or Musical, Abbot Elementary, Barry the Bear, Jury Duty Only Murders, Ted Lasso. Best Performer by an Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical, Bill Hayter for Barry, Steve Martin Only Murders, Jason Siegel Shrinking Martin Short Only Murders, Jason Sideikis, Ted Lasso, Jeremy Allen White the Bear. I would absolutely give it to Hayter there. Best performance by an actress in a TV series, comedy or Musical, Rachel Brosnahan for Miss Masel, Quinta Brunson for Abbotts, I you Atabari for The Bear, Ellie Fanning for the greats Selena Gomez Only Murders, Natasha Leone poker Face.

I don’t have an opinion on that category, CNN said. Chris Rock was asked to host the January seventh Ceremony. He has turned them down. CNN says at least four other A list comedic actors have turned down the Golden Globes. Today on Netflix, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock’s Headliners Only.

That’s the documentary that follows Kevin Hart and Chris Rock as they prepared for their four sold out comedy shows in twenty twenty two. There’s some news items involving both gentlemen. I’ll start with Kevin Hart. He started doing a manning cast type thing for the NBA. This actually debuted Friday with not much notice.

During Friday’s telecast, guest Philadelphia seventy six ers guard Patrick Beverly asked an awkward question. Beverly asked a question about Josh Giddy quotes the Oklahoma City thunder guard accused of having an alleged inappropriate relationship with a miner unquote. The Daily Mail recaps this and says Beverly asked Kevin Hart, I’ve got a daughter and I like to call myself a girl. Dad, what do you think about the Josh Getty situation? According to the Daily Mail, a stunned Kevin Hart didn’t know how to respond, turning to his co host to see if they had anything to say.

One of them tried to keep everybody out of trouble. Then Beverly doubled down and said, I read that too. I said, what do y’all think about it? That was my question, Heart, According to the male, sensing the need to take control of the situation, replied, Pat, I heard your question, but I’m going to tell you what I do real well deflect. I’m a brand.

Pat. I’ll text you and I’ll give you my real thoughts, But right now on NBA Unplugged, I’m going to keep it as commercial as I possibly can. Hey, at least that’s a real, honest answer, I love it. Heart tried changing the subject by asking Beverly if he liked the color of the blue and red in season tournament courts. Beverly said he liked the color of the courts, but not jail courts.

Kevin Hart then joked he was kicking you off the show, saying I haven’t sweated this entire game pad. As soon as she asked me that question, a piece of sweat dropped down my back. Kevin will do seven more episodes tied to more key NBA games on ESPN platforms, including Nick’s seventy six ers in January and MAV’s Heat in April.

Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock teamed up for a screen…

We’re told Kevin Hart wore a brown leather button up shirt on top of a bright white undershirt at the event. He also wore slim fitting black pants as well as dual tone sneakers.

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Meanwhile, Chris Rock looks sharp in a black turtleneck sweater that was pair…

Also there, JB Smooth wearing a beige overcoat, as well as a near matching scarf and a pair of shoes.

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Also on Gossip Corner from TMZ, Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will Smith ma…

Jada told The Daily Mail, I nearly didn’t even attend the Oscars that year, but I’m glad I did. I call it the holy slap because now so many positive things came after it. After all those years trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that slap for me to see I’ll never leave him. As you heard in the commercial, I got tickets to go see The Play That Goes Wrong. This is not a commercial.

This is me just telling you something funny you should go see. I loved it. It was fantastic. Reminded me a lot of Monty Python at parts, especially the lead actor who plays the inspector. I could totally see John Clees in that role.

I really enjoyed it. It’s called The Play That Goes Wrong. It’s in Manhattan. And yes I did use today ticks dot com a slash a DCN as the code to get twenty dollars off. And we actually did that.

I watched Stavros Halkias as special. It was fine. I was enjoying it, and I got like twenty minutes in, I was like, eh, I just feel like watching something else. And it’s funny. It’s good.

It won’t make my best of the end of the Year list, but it’s not on like a worst list either. It’s you know, sometimes comedy is just fine. I was laughing. It just didn’t have that extra gear that made me go, so I have to see this entire hour now. I also watched it after football on Sunday, and you know, I’m good for like an hour and a half of TV.

So by the time I hit play on that, it was after all the one o’clock and four o’clock games and SNL, so you know, the TV on for like nine hours, so that could have been part of it too. But it’s pretty good. I think you guys will like it. Stavros Halkius on Netflix. I’m excited for this one because this guy deserves to be more popular.

Dusty Sleigh getting a Netflix special. It’ll be out January sixteenth. It’s called Working Man. I’m inclined to like Dusty and that earlier in the year, it’ll be the number one rank special of twenty twenty four for at least a minute. Dusty is a former pesticide salesman who started as a comedian in two thousand and eight.

In a statement, Dusty Sleigh said, at the end of the day, I hope my comedy is relatable. I talk about things I go through and what’s going on in my life. Working Man, and I’m not dropping the g because I’m from Queen’s. It’s actually called workin apostrophe man. Workingman is the culmination of a lot of those experiences, and I hope it’s a break for all the folks that work hard yet can still laugh about the things that life throws at them.

Is to start a thirty five show. The Night Shift tour kicking off and spoke Cane on January fourth. Jeff Ross’s tour is called take Banana for a Ride. He explains that’s a term that his grandfather used to say when he was starting out his comedian Jeff told CBS twelve Grandpa used to give me a banana and a few dollars for gas, and it was kind of his way of saying, I can’t go with you, but I’m there with you in spirit, and I’m going to roast some people at the end. It’s got a lot of honka themes in this show, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun.

I’m from New Jersey. Everybody kind of busted each other’s chops for a living. So my uncle Murray was the meetest one in the family. We called him Me and Murray, and he’d make fun of me my entire childhood. I grew up and I realized he was preparing me for real life, and I did get my revenge.

At his nineth birthday, we roasted him. I said, Uncle Murray’s planning a big trip soon to that vase on top of the mantle ouch. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, you could support it by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throwing a couple of bucks in the tip jar, or tell a friend about it. They might like the podcast too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Disability charity Scope has been forced to moderate its social media accounts after receiving hateful messages in response to Ricky Gervais’s comedy routine Is from The Independent. The charity had criticized a joke made by Ricky, who used the term baldy while referring to terminally ill children in his new special Armageddon. Ricky jokes that the children supported by the Macawish Foundation were fing our words for not wishing to get better.

In a tweet, Scope said, language like this has consequences. The stage is real, Netflix is real. The people this kind of language impacts are real. Joking about this kind of language trivializes it. It risks normalizing the abuse that many disabled people face on a day to day basis.

Two days later, they had to turn off replies on Twitter, clarifying that we aren’t here to dictate what anyone should or should not find funny. They denied attempts to police comedy or speak on behalf of all disabled people. They were asked why they drew attention to Ricky’s routine comedians using the arsler and Bolden’s others to use it. We’ve seen this firsthand this week with disabled people being abused directly in their applies to our post. Bill Berg got political on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and said, you want to see a great case on narcissism.

Liberals are so effing stupid in the way they handled Trump. Leave the narcissist neutral energy neutral. You know what I think he was. He was a one hit wonder. He wrote the Twist and that was it.

He was on the casino circuit and then you idiot liberals wrote the twist again when you indicted him, and now he’s a martyr. He’s coming back. Jimmy, I can’t believe that these are honestly going to be our two choices, because I really try with each thing to be like, figure out who I’m gonna you know, there’s got to be on somebody in their forties, somebody that’s going to live with their decisions. Burr then said, with any luck, they’ll both die of natural causes before the election, and maybe you can get somebody that still has something to live for, you know. Send your letters to Bill Burr care of Jimmy Kimmel.

Alive. This next story made me just go Really from the Cut, despite the fact that they look nothing alike, agreed, people keep confusing comedians Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster. Yeah, why, The Cut says, It’s pretty easy to tell them apart if you have at least one working eye, a modicum of critical thinking skills, and didn’t sleep through your mandated DEI training in twenty twenty. Last week, in an article, The Hollywood Reporter included a tweet of Joel Kim Boosters as an example of a notable celebrity speaking out against Juliana Marghley’s. However, they also refer to Joel Kim Booster as a quote Saturday Night Live comedian He’s not That would be Bowen Yang.

Bowen Yang, who is not Joel Kim Booster addressed it on his podcast Las Culturistas. Bowen said, Also, I don’t think so, honey. Hollywood Reporter for is still confusing me and Joelkim Booster. In an article about this whole Juliana Marghleiz thing an article that’s reporting on racism, co host Matt Rodgers said, how ironic is that? Made me so upset?

It’s an article reporting on racism, and then you do the racist bs of SNL comedian Joel Kim Booster. The first was in twenty nineteen, when Hollywood Reporter shared a photo of Booster alongside an article about Yang’s hiring atn SNL. Jeez. The cut points out what’s out about this situation. It’s not hard to tell Yang and Booster part they don’t look similar, their comedy styles are different, and one of them wears glasses.

It’s much easier to tell them apart than say, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Chevy Chase fell off a stage and I think it was real. TMC has the video footage. I watched it. I don’t think Chevy was doing a bit.

They wheeled Chevy on stage for a Q and a conversation after a screening of nineteen eighty nine’s National Lampoon’s Christmasification. Chevy stands up, walks towards the other side of the stage to wave hello, and then seems to stumble and fall off the stage. Again. I don’t think it’s a bit. He’s helped back on the stage by his wife as well as the interviewer.

Chevy said, wait, my watch is talking to me. It says, I see I’ve taking a great fall. Then Chevy’s wife is seen tinkering with the watch and says, otherwise they might send an ambulance. Who knows. On Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler spotted by Sanna Antonian’s Adam Sailor clad in green sweatpants emblazoned with lightning bolts and a blue puffer jacket.

He makes me look like George Clooney. San Antonio local Alex managed to get a photo with Adam Sandler. In the photo, Adam Sandler is seen enjoying a cup of freshly brewed coffee from larder while seated in their outdoor patio area. Jackie Novak is getting a Netflix special. We are over using the word special, folks.

This one directed by Natasha Leone, who also executive produce it. It’s a half hour concert film, half comedy show. It is quotes both raunchy and poignant, and an unexpectedly philosophical coming of age triumph that pushes the boundaries of stand up. Jacqueline Novak Get on Your Knees, Netflix, January twenty third. That’s early in the year.

It could be number one on my list of best stand up in twenty twenty four, at least for a moment. We’ll see Culture That spoke to Mae Martin about their dating habits. May said, when I’m single, I really enjoyed dating. I’ll admit I could be two activity based. I’m a big fan of an escape room and arcade things like that.

When it comes to first dates, I feel like you know pretty quickly you don’t want to get in a situation where you’re going on a lot of third and fourth dates where you wind up having twenty mini breakups. Be honest when you have a connection and pursue it. If not, be really clear. In my early thirties, I was living in London and dating a couple. That was my first experience with alternative relationship structures.

I loved how they navigated the world. It was one of the healthiest romantic experiences of my life. They introduced me to Field feeld. I’m unfamiliar with it. I’m looking my family is going to be like what is in your search history?

John, Let’s see. Welcome to Field, the modern dating app connecting like minded individuals for fulfilling relationships. The Google machine tells me it facilitates communication between people interested in ethical non monogamy, polyamory, casual sex, kink, swinging, and other alternative relationship models. Wasn’t familiar with that one. Between that and watching Whitney Cumming specials, my family is going to be like, what are you doing down there?

Anyway, this couple that May Martin was dating introduced them to Field. Martin says, those apps, you know, they could sort of pressing, but it seemed like it had a sense of humor about itself. There’s more of a sense of fun and play on Field than any of the others. Are right, they got their plugs in there. May about those escape rooms, May said you have to gauge your date’s level of tolerance for terror and history.

And there’s some that are more puzzle based. I like the ones with live actors. There’s one that I did on date. It was very ill advised. My date was nervous and said, there are no actors in this right.

I didn’t think there were, And I asked the people who worked there. I was like other actors, and they lied. So there we were, and a man came in with a chainsaw and this poor person I was on the date with was just traumatized, but in a way we trauma bonded. It was kind of a fun story. Well, I’m stilling over that last news story there.

I’m no prude, but uh, we were out there a little bit there, Jenny Mick. Let’s rain it back in Ray Romano. He runs a little bit more on my speed. He’s got a new Netflix eight episode dark comedy series. I’m already in Ray Romano comedy I’m in.

It’s called No Good Deed. It follows three very different families vying to buy the same nineteen twenties Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But, as the sellers have already discovered, some times, the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare. Ray Ramond plays Paul Morgan. He doesn’t look like a Paul Morgan.

Change that character’s name. That’s not good. Ramano will play Paul Morgan, Constantly stressed and flat broke. Paul is a contractor desperate to retire, pay off his debts, and escape la. He thinks selling his beautiful luss for these home is the solution to all and his wife Lydia’s problems, but his past mistakes will continue to haunt him hmm, dead to me on Netflix no date yet.

Eddie Hazard will play twenty three characters in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This will be at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City starting January twenty fifth. Official opening night you know Broadway and off Broadway works right February eleventh, Susi Eddie Hazzard said in a statement, I’ve always gravitated towards playing complex and challenging characters, and Hamlet is the ultimate. This is a production for everyone at Timeless Drama with an accidental hero. Izard will be portraying men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.

If you missed out on Comedy Fantasy Camp, well good news. Comedy Fantasy Camp Volume two with Adam Curl and Jay Leno starting up in February. February twenty ninth, It’s a leap year. It’s in March third. Jay said, I like to talk to comics, and comics like to help other comics.

I have more in common with comedians than some people have known my whole life. Writing jokes is the hardest thing in the world. Where’s a power. You need to learn how to use them. The class will be led by such stars as John Lovetz, Trevor Wallace, Carolyn Ray, and Moore yet to be announced guests.

The Rap took a look at the ratings for the Daily Show guest hosts or fill in hosts. I guess they’re guest host They’re not filling in for anybody right now. Michael Costa was the most watched guest host of the new lineup, averaging five hundred and forty five thousand, five hundred total average viewers for his week. In second place til Say Sloan, Ronny Chieng, Desi Liitik, and Jordan Klepper, who hosted three days together the week of Thanksgiving. They averaged five hundred and thirty thousand, three hundred and thirty three total viewers.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John m’liney Toild Deadline. Once I left Detox, I started to thinking about the intervention. I called my friend Joe Manny to kind of get a handle on what had happened there, and he said it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it, and I told him after the intervention how I ranked the speeches.

He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away. Mlanie said he was intrigued to see that some people consider the special to be dark. It’s digested. It’s darker than I thought, and that sounds odd, I know, because of the subject matter. But my goal was to present this as funny as possible with no dramatic pauses.

I wanted it to be a joke driven special about something that’s complex and said and a little scary, but as a ton of very specific details. That’s what I wanted to get across. People might go this is harder sat or darker disturbing. I really am flattered and happy that’s been reviewed in disgust. That’s what I like the most is that people talked about it.

They asked him about his suit. Was it fusha. M’laney said, well, let me look up fuscha because I’m not a great color person. Fusia is a vivid pinkish purplish red color, named after the color of the flower, the fuchia plant. Okay, so we have the suit, and then we have the color correct, then we have your own screen.

So I don’t know. I’m not going to say you didn’t experience fuchia. You might have. I don’t know your color settings. It’s like a light of burgundy.

I really love that suit I got in England this place called well, I won’t say where in case they don’t want me sharing this, but they make King Charles pajamas and he really likes bright colored jammys. He goes to bed looking like a big bowl of fruit. They asked him about divorce jokes, and Malini said, just wasn’t something I was going to get into. Very short answer. There, I respect that deadline followed that up with there’s another great joke.

And you’re special about how even as an addict, you look better than so many people because of your athletic build and you look great and m’liney said, well, I’ve never had anyone, let alone a journalist, say that I have an athletic build. So I can’t thank you enough for that, And congratulations of being the first person ever to say that I’m walking on air right now. It was mid pandemic when a lot of people would put on some weight and a lot of people were home and I was out, So I was just dressed up a little and had remain velt through pretty unhealthy means. Everyone when there was adorable in their own way. There was more kidding that they looked like crap.

Good stuff as always. From Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times. He was writing about Netflix’s effect on comedy and said, it’s unclear how much the streaming service, known for specials by boldface names like Milanie and Adam Sandler, cares about minting stars. That’s why Netflix is verified as important. It’s two showcases each about an hour, featuring emerging comics doing short sets.

There’s a promising precedent. Back in twenty eighteen, Netflix aired the comedy Lineup, which was relative on knowns, doing fifteen minutes. From that group, three of them were Taylor Tomlinson, Michelle but So and Sam Jay. You know those names. Tim Dillon was another one and another’s been a head writer and sidekick on late night, specifically James Cordon’s Ian Carmel comedy lineup didn’t vault these performers to fame, but it helped, and in retrospect, the selection of the entire group, which also included Jack Knight, Phil Wang and Sabrina Jayley’s What a great collection of comedians, reflected foresight and taste.

The artists in the new showcases are not exactly newcomers. There’s Dulce Sloan from The Daily Show, Nimesh Patel, Leslie Lau, Rosebud Baker, who I feel is like kind of known. Maybe I just do this podcast every day and most people don’t know rosebud Baker. I know John Marcos Siresi, who I’m a big fan of. As part of this, Let’s see Zinnamon writes, Patel takes a leisurely paced mixing crowd work on topical jokes, including some solid roasting of effec Ramaswani, Buttel makes it seem like a casual offhand another night at the club, But Dulce Sloan may adjust to the form best because she starts quickly, ends abruptly, and sticks to a couple non topical subjects, including a bit about the benefits of dating a poor man.

One of the revelations for Jason Zinneman was Sabrina Wu, who barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. This is making me want to watch this tonight. I haven’t gotten around to it yet. There’s so much football. I watch football on Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, Wednesday night, I go to trivia.

It only leaves three nights and I have to play video games one night. Sabrina Wu barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. WUS standout bit Spoilers involves talking trash about Amanda Gorman, the former National Youth pote Laureate, at a contest early in her career, then describing the futility of a rivalry with her. John Marco SERRESI jokes spoilers. I just feel if white people would stop complaining all the time about cancel culture and actually fought for racial equality, then all of us could do the Chinese accent again.

Lewis Katz, a bald, filthy veteran comic with slingshot punchlines, opens his new release special Present Tense with better known comics, explaining why he never became famous. Nate Pergatzy says he’s too dirty, Mark Marion points to his hairline, David Tell blames personality, and David Drake begins his latest YouTube special with a pointed joke that is the ring of truth. Here’s how you make it in this business. I have a famous dad. Eight hundred pound Gerrilla wrote about John Marco and asked him how he picked the ten minutes that he used in the showcase I just discussed.

John Marco said, the biggest chunk of the set came from a never aired Don’t Tell comedy set. I did it earlier this year, never aired because it bombed. I tried doing all my Gun Show material to open the set. Not to blame LA audiences, but let’s just say once so badly. I called my girlfriend the next day at six am from the Delta Lounge.

Henry Winkler was also there, but thankfully I don’t think he noticed me. But I loved that bit and I wanted to get it out there before Gun violence in America stopped being a thing? Did you know who was going to be part of Verified before the taping? Who are you looking forward to sharing the stage with? Jen Marco said, I’m still not sure who was there, but I walked away being a bigger fan of Jay Jurden, who opened both tapings with his signature joke dense act that fully prepared the audience for stand up comedy.

He discussed filming it at Webster Hall and said, fortunately the team for this taping partially curated the audience from people who were fans of comics in the lineup. This probably meant there were a disproportional number of Nimesh Patel fans there, but luckily they and everyone else came to laugh. Kathy Griffin spoke to Variety about buying back her own material. Kathy said, it makes me very excited for my legacy. When I crook, I have a theory that when I’m dead, I’m gonna get a lot of props.

I almost can’t wait. I think once I crook, I’m gonna get one of those docu series and maybe Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will cry near z Eve can be a hole in Memoriam and anybody who screwed me over will feel guilty. Can you see what a healthy person I am. I hadn’t watched My Life on the D List since ad aired. I only rewatched episode one reason.

I am so thrilled when people mention that show or said that’d watch it with friends or their family. I’ve got a lot of guys be like I came out because of your show. My mom and I would watch it together. I’m so proud because that was a show that was really real. We overshot the stuff out of it.

It was eight episodes a year, and we would film for six months. They just followed me around and hope I did funny stuff. I think maybe people miss it because they know that good, bad, or indifferent was all genuine. What advice Kathy would you give to new comics being approached to do specials? Kathy said, I would tell them the best thing you can do is get licensing money, which is very difficult.

After doing specials at Bravo for many years, I finally got them to just give me a sum of money, and then I got to choose the production company and do the budget. That’s probably why I have so many enemies in the executive world because that’s how the guys do it. I thought I earned a place to be able to have that kind of power, But I’m sad to say it’s always tricky when you’re a chick. So I’m thrilled that I have ownership. It’s hard because a lot of the dudes assigned the checks.

If they’re not a fan, you’re kind of screwed. So if you can do your own stuff, do it, or can do it super cheap all yourself. That’s the way to do it because then you give a buyer the product and can go this is what I do. Do you want it or not? And if not?

Young people are much more enterprising than I am about social media. I’m sitting here at sixty three, still working hard trying to be a TikToker. Today, my San Francisco forty nine ers take on the Seattle Seahawks. Will Ferrell has some advice for the Seahawks. I’d say, guys, we’re gonna paunt on third down every series and we’re just gonna We’re not going to control the ball.

Let’s not worry about it. I don’t know, I don’t know what I don’t know what you do about the forty nine ers. Right Variety spoke to Marlon Wayans about cancel culture. Marlin said, I’m as much a comedian as I am a black man. I’m always gonna protect comedians.

Dave Schpelle’s a dear friend. I love him to death, and I have a trans son. I could give him my opinions, but he has every right to feel out. He wants me as a parent. When I do my special, I’ll handle it differently.

And that same article, Samsa Gore said, people in entertainment still see stand up as the lowest rung, like we’re effing’s circus jugglers. Listen, Meryl Streep would crap her pants if she had to do stand up. So Gora argue that the outrage that infest social media doesn’t reflect what he’s seeing on the road. He said, go to the clubs. You see somebody go for the joke and you can’t describe it.

It pops, audiences go nuts. They’re looking for people to make these jokes. It’s like there’s two realities. Some people believe the reality online is real, it’s not the real world. Matt Rife said, it comes down to your objective what’s your intention in saying some reckless stuff right now?

Are you trying to upset somebody? You’re trying to make light of certain subjects. He said, all this before the recent controversies. It’s a weekend. I’ve held on to the story for a couple weeks.

That way, it doesn’t take up such a negative space in someone’s mind, and they can laugh about something they may have brought them so much grief and discomfort. If audiences can tell you’re coming from a good place, he says, sensitivity isn’t an issue. Audiences can sense intent. The reason comics can get away with saying some crazy stuff is because the audience knows who you are that has aged well, hasn’t it. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I just got out of the car where I was listening to podcasts. I checked out David Cross’s since is working over time with guest Bob Odenkirk, and I was terribly disappointed. I like David Cross a lot so far, not the best podcast host you’ve ever heard.

I am a professional podcaster with thirty years of broadcast experience, so I’ll share some actual notes. One of the notes I would say as a program director is the show’s turned inward and I’ll compare it to something else. On the second but he starts talking to odin Kirk and they’re riffing with each other and making each other crack up. But they’re in their own room. They’re not including the audience.

You feel a little left out. They’re also using verbal shortcuts where they know what they’re talking about and you might not. Now. What’s interesting to me is Cross suggests that other people have sat in the chair before, so this is not the first recording, which makes me think they said, oh, let’s lead with the Bob Odenkirk episode. That’s worrisome as well.

The other thing is across the show doesn’t sound good. I don’t know if they recorded in a big, empty room across his mic doesn’t sound right. I add processing on this show to give my voice a little heft. If you meet me in real life, I’m a little less basy than what you’re hearing. Now.

There are things you can do, guys. I will give it another shot. But after one episode, David Cross love you, but this one, I don’t know. You could use some consultants. My contact is in the show notes.

I’m sure not making any friends here. Then I listened to Trevor Noah’s podcast. Did Trevor take my note on the new episode? He’s got Sam Altman. That’s the chat, GPT guy.

Fantastic interview. Now. I had previously mentioned that Trevor was starting the show with ten minutes of talking to random people that I didn’t know who they were, and Trevor probably even told me during the podcast to who they were, and I was like, I don’t know who you are and I don’t care. Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip On this one, Trevor took the note, got right to it right to Sam Altman. Very interesting listening about our official intelligence a subject that I’m very interested in.

I’ll take a point off in the entire interview. There is some low rumble that is something that happens. For example, I record here in the basement, my boiler often runs. There’s easy ways to get rid of things. There’s things called a noise gates where you can get rid of any noise below a certain decibel.

You can run things through a processor that will get rid of rumble. I do both of those on this program. Now, I would say I don’t know who’s running things over there, but I see who’s credited with the production of this show, and you should know better. I’ll leave that there. I’m not making any friends today.

Trevor’s show. Yeah, definitely listen to that. David Cross, Hopefully it gets better. Collider had a good premise during the week they wrote Netflix stand up specials aren’t special anymore. I agree with this.

Everybody’s putting out comedy, especially these YouTube things, and everyone’s using the word special, and I think we need to get back to calling things hours or half hours. Chris Rock is live on Netflix and he’s going to talk about the Oscars. Yeah, that’s a special. You went down on the chuckle Hut and set up two cameras and your friend through it in final cut pro and the audience isn’t mixed, right, I don’t know if that’s a special. We need to back down with that.

Clyde writes. If everyone wins a trophy, is anyone truly a winner? There used to be a time when landing a Netflix comedy special is a big deal. In the mid twenty tens, only great comedians like Bo Burnham, John m’laney to Mitri Martin and Chris Zecker were given a spotlight on Netflix. Now it’s as if no one is curating the specials that are produced for Netflix.

Half the time, these big ticket comedy events just appear on the streaming service with little to no fanfare in the form of advertising. I pointed that out all week with Stavros Halkias. There was no press about it for three days. Clyde writes, Unless it’s a generation defining comic like Norm McDonald, Ali Wang, Jerry Seinfelder, Dave Chappelle, Netflix couldn’t seem less interested in pushing new specials, should I bomp down? In Ali Wang?

Generation defining? Same note on Norm McDonald. I mean Norm’s great in all but I don’t know if he’s generation defining. Should I bog down on that? Not today?

How could you be interested when you’re busy releasing these every five minutes for every comedian on the planet. This is if they’ve run out of comedians and are granting this platform to anyone, because unfortunately for every living thing on this planet, Matt Riffe’s first Netflix special is getting extra special treatment from the folks behind the world’s biggest streamer. Collider ads A had to anyone at Netflix actually been curating their surfaces content, maybe natural selection would have done its job and killed this special piece of garbage before any of us had to endure it. It was pretty bigad. Somehow, they have debuted comedy special that manages to pull off the exact opposite intended feeling.

Rife has unlocked the ability to tell hardly any jokes in his comedy special in favor of spewing eight breened TikTok vernacular and waxing philosophical about why people shouldn’t take internetrolls seriously, while also throwing a fit over as Twitter applies. Is this what Netflix actually deemed special? I love this article, This is fantastic. They then recap rithe gate. I won’t do that today.

If you listen to me every day, you’ve heard it. Netflix. If you’re listening, please take a step back and find it’s the next great voice. You have the money, the resources, the reach, everything you possibly need to find the next grade comedian. Slow down the conveyor belt of stand up releases and give the best comic possible a special.

It feels truly special again. The thing is the guy running Netflix Comedy knows what he’s doing. He was a big wig up at Montreal Comedy Festival when I used to do stuff with Just for Laughs all the time. I’m on Robbie PRA’s LinkedIn right now. We’re actually connected.

His title Vice President’s stand Up in Comedy Formats at Netflix. Seven years at Netflix and before that twelve years two months it Just for Laughs. Is VP of Programming, so it’s not like he doesn’t know comedy. Man who knows probably comes down to the algorithm. But I agree there are too many things being called specials.

We’re just throwing stuff up there. But isn’t that what Netflix does? I mean, Netflix has a lot of content. I’m not sure how much of it is awesome. I am not making friends today Jesse David Fox, he has that new book about comedy.

Rodriebert dot com interviewed him. They’re curious, what’s it like for Jesse when he’s in an audience and not connecting with a comedian, but all around you people are in hysterics. Good answer you here from Jesse. If the comedy doesn’t connect with me for whatever reason, I don’t find it actively sinister or bad. I’m able to join in with the audience if the size and the energy you’re correct.

Most I’m happy to be around people laughing. I think, okay, cool, this is great. The audience is doing a good job supporting whatever this is. You could appreciate it like you would any art form, Like when you walk around a museum, you see different things. You go like like this a lot.

I’ll spend time with it, or I don’t like this this much, but I’ll read what the deal is and contextualize it. Good follow up here. You quote Mark Marin who said that laughter is the only thing standing between us and fascism. I don’t know. I once saw a so called right leaning comedian who told these absolutely horrible jokes about Hillary Clinton and the audience.

Rock with laughter was almost frightening. Jesse said, it’s complicated. The problem is that as much as the right can say that all comedy on the left is clapter and pandering, it’s not exactly true. If you’re going to see a comedian just because you agree with their political opinions, then they’re not operating as comedians. They’re operating as birthday party clowns who repeat the phrases people know from watching Fox News.

Donald Trump is the best version of that. Send in your letters to Jesse David Fox care of Vulture from the AAARP, You’re home for comedy News. Heyzus Trejo, he’s a caregiver. This interview spoke to me a lot. If you listen every day, you’ve caught me mentioned here and there.

It’s been a rough year for my mom. It’s been a rough few years from my mom, but the back half of the year has been quite challenging. And they asked Hejesus, what’s the top three lessons he’s learned from caregiving. He said, the bullet points are time, resting, in humor. You got to have a lot of patience, You’ve got to rest, You got to take the time to make sure you’re resting to be ready for what the day brings, and you have to take everything with some humor.

If you can master those three, I think everything else becomes easier. You have to have a good sense of humor because things tend not to go how you planned. And sometimes you just have to laugh. There’s no other emotion that you can tap into other than just a laugh and a smile. The hard thing about caregiving is that you’re juggling so many things.

You’re juggling life, you’re juggling career, you’re juggling caregiving, You’re juggling the caregivers. I’ll jump in specific to this podcast. Yeah, there have been a few weeks here where normally I record one day in advance, except for the weekend. I usually do the weekend on Thursday or Friday, but during the week I’m usually just doing the next day. There were a few times where I was working two days out, three days out, just in case I was gonna be unavailable to do the show, you know what I mean.

Luckily he didn’t come to that. I’ve recorded a few safety episodes. I’ve got some reruns ready to go in case I’m unavailable. So yeah, there’s definitely juggling to it. I’ve written episodes in emergency rooms, so I’m really feeling this article.

Azho says, being a stand up comedian being a caregiver they kind of go hand in hand. I’m also able to be a good caregiver because I do have that creative outlet, and I’m able to be a good comedian because i have this part of my life that’s very different than most of my peers. I learned a lot about myself as a person and an artist, and it’s that the only constant thing in life is change. Aging is part of life. You can’t escape it.

Everyone’s gonna deal with it. Either you’re gonna need a caregiver or somebody to take care of you, or you’re gonna care for somebody. It’s just how it goes. I will say that caregiving is a privilege. I know it’s hard to see when you’re in the midst of changing a diaper, being in a tough situation where you see your parents not feeling well.

It’s time spent with your parents and it’s as tough as it is. Sometimes you’re going to look back and laugh at those moments. It’s a privilege. Remember that I’m actually gonna wrap there. I had more, but I think that’s such a poignant note.

I’m gonna call of a day. That’s your comedies for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. If you want to support the show, buying mecoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle has announced a new Netflix special New Year’s Eve, which is good for old folks like me that usually stay in that night and just watch TV. Perfect. Thank you Dave, who use The special is currently untitled.

It was announced via a short teaser. In the teaser, you see his C logo let up with neon lighting, and in the background you hear Chappelle thanking the crowd. The phrase Dave is back then appears, followed by the release date of December thirty. First. This is good news for me because right after a Christmas in New Year’s is usually a slow news week.

Dave often makes jokes that don’t go over well with everybody, and then everyone will debate it for two weeks. Perfect. Thank you Dave. Yesterday, when I was doing the Jason Cinnama New York Times story, in his article, he had mentioned that Gary Golman special would be out December twenty first. I wasn’t sure we had actually heard that before, and I thought maybe I just forgot, But now the official press release is out.

The Max Original comedy special Gary Goldman born on Third Base debuts December twenty first on Max. There’s a trailer and everything, and I really laughed out loud at this. Let’s listen. I grew up in an oft ignored sector of Jewish people called poor. A heart surgeon will open up your chest, replace a valve, save and extend your life.

Forty five dollars copeck a dentist, Phill’s miniature potholes, cash only today. We’ll work on a payment plan like any other strip mall retailer, but you gotta pay. I said to my dad, I really want to play hockey, said son go grab the Sports Almanac. There was zero Jewish players in the Hockey Hall of Fame. My dad said, just for a point of comparison, more Jews have been the Messiah.

Quality joke there, Gary Goleman the official description. Gary goh Ohlman offers up his hilarious insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, all with a generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism. Looking forward to that one, Oh, back me up to Chappelle. That’s really going to screw up the end of the year list. I guess My end of the year list will be through Ricky Terve’s December twenty fifth release, and I don’t know if Chappelle makes it all revise it.

I guess maybe I can convince Netflix hook me up with a screener. That would be kind of cool. Here’s a terrible idea from Dan Ackroyd. He’s working on a possible Trading Places sequel. Dude, it’s been forty something years.

Don’t do this, Dan said. Last year, I generated a sequel for Eddie and I that I submitted to a paramount. It’s good, man, it’s good. No one’s asking for that. Dan.

Men’s Journal noticed that Bert Krascher looks like he’s lost some weight. Krascher posted a social media before and after picks of his forty five pound weight loss, captioned me at two seventy five versus me at two thirty. Men’s Journal says, beyond dropping the pounds, it’s clear from his defined abdominals, arms, and shoulders that Bert the Conqueror Store has also been hitting the gym. The Hollywood Reporter asked Wanda Sykes, how’s it different to shoot a special as opposed to doing a regular stand up show. Wanda Sykes said, when you’re filming it, you’re definitely in your head a little bit.

I shoot two shows, so the first one was like, Okay, let me get something in the can. Let me just make sure we got it structurally and technically. In the second show, I just let loose, have fun, actually improv some stuff sometimes and I stumble on stuff because I already have the safety of knowing I have one. We always end up using the second show wander how much thought did you put know what you wear? She said.

We were in Paris for Christmas. My wife is French and we were there for the holidays, and I knew we were going to shoot special in February, so I was like, man, I had to go figure out what I want to wear. And I knew I wanted something different. I didn’t want to go in a suit. I wanted to be a little bit more casual and have a bit more fun.

Because I’m rolling around on the ground. I’m much more physical in this one. And we’re shopping and I saw this jacket. It’s red, white and blue, it’s denim, and I was like, that’s it. This is what I’m going to do in Philadelphia.

The pitch KC caught up with Chris Tucker. He’s been doing stand up for thirty years, and the pitch said, what are the audiences like these days? Tucker said, oh, man, you know what, They’re hungry. You know, people are hungry they laugh. It’s one of the reasons I want to do this because people are saying they want to laugh, they want to get out and have some fun, and they’re just hungry.

Man. I love it. They’re more intelligent, they’re smarter these days because there’s so much entertainment out there and you got to come with your game, which I love. The energy’s great these days. He’s working clean ish and said it just made me better.

I’m just better, able to expand on things more. It’s just who I am. It may it’s definitely it may be still definitely edgy, but it’s just much better when I was younger, because when I was younger, all I had to talk about was when I was younger. But now I’ve had many different experiences, grown out of a man. Now, I’ve got so much to talk about, my point of view in the world.

People are really getting a lot when they come to my show. Vogue spoke with Matt Rife and they said, a lot of your audience goes wild, specifically for you. One woman proposition to you during your set. Does it ever make you uncomfortable? Matt Riife said, every single time, because like I just want to do jokes.

I just want to go on stage, tell jokes, maybe talk to a person or too, see if anything funny happens, and that’s it. It’s uncomfortable because there’s a lot of double standards, Like I’ve had my nipple bit at a meet and greet before. Can you imagine if a female comic was getting treated like this by guys it would never fly right. But of course there’s zero empathy or sympathy for guying because I’m not in physical danger. So it’s a bit strange.

Flattering that they care that much, but it’s a bit strange. How does he feel about being a heart throb? He says, it’s got pros and cons. I suppose the pros being you get such a massively passionate fan base, But the flip side is people take you less seriously as a comic, so it’s a weird thing. I have to personally choose how you want to balance that.

If people think I’m a heart throb cool. As long as you respect my comedy and like to laugh, you can think whatever you want about me. I don’t care, but I think it creates a lot more hate that it does positive effects. Besides getting my teeth done, I’ve never done anything to enhance my looks. That and going to the gym, which I do more for than just aesthetic reason.

So if anyone has a problem with that, that’s their problem. I’m like not doing anything. He laughs and says, I’m trying so hard to be as ugly as possible. I promise you. It’s one of those things.

Though at a certain point I’m gonna stop talking about it because I know I’m more than that. And the more people only look at me for like that one aspect of myself, the less they care about my comedy and my entertainment and things I want to create. So it’s like, yeah, can we reference these things now? But eventually I’m gonna be like, can we just focus on the work. I just bought a new phone during the break.

My wife would call me lately. Every time I go to use it, I push the button and it’s like, hang on, man, I Getsina sag. It’s not like I don’t use my phone. I am a professional podcaster and I need it. That’s what I did during the break.

What did you do? By the way, phones not cheap these days. I paid for it outright, and I got myself the newest, greatest phone in my family. As we went into the break, I had the oldest phone in the family. Now I have the best one.

On Wednesday, the broadcast networks will come together to honor Norman Lear. They’ll run a title card at eight pm Eastern on ABC, NBC, Fox, the CWNCBS Nice Job. On January first, Fox will celebrate Mash, the comedy of the Change Television, in a new two hour special That’s random, right, Like why Mash? I’d Mash one of my favorite things of all time, believe me? But why that now?

The special centers around previously on aired interviews with original cast members Alan Alda, Gary Bergoff, William Christopher, Jammie Farr, Mike Farrell, Wayne Rodgers, and Loretta Switt. Wayne Rodgers dead and I believe William Christopher is dead. Interesting, I guess these have been sitting around, Fox says in these intimate, highly personal remembrances, the creation and evolution of the show’s iconic characters are revealed, alongside rare and never before seen behind the scenes footage, photos and stories. Wayne Rodgers passed away in twenty seventeen. I didn’t make that up.

William Christopher passed away in twenty sixteen. I didn’t make that up either. Now what’s weird is the press release says series stars Larry Lynnville dead, Harry Morgan dead. They’re not saying dead, I’m saying dead. Mcclaan Stevenson dead and David Ogden Stiers, who’s also dead, are remembered through a collection of clips from the series as well.

So are they Why are they separate than Wayne Rodgers and William Christopher. This thing must have been sitting in the can for a few years and nobody checked the press release. Very very strange. I’m going to ask this question on the mash Reddit. Kelsey Grammer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about new freezer.

Kelsey says, I believe we have a home at Paramount Plus for several years to come. If there’s a Paramount Plus, Kelsey and we certainly have several ideas for it, it’s just what’s flushing out. We’re not sure yet. Because the writers went on strike and the actor stayed on strike and everything just sort of stalled. At least we got the episodes in Under the Wire before we had a lockdown.

Where our future is. Of course, we’re going to explore the relationship between the father and the son, and that’s natural then involve the other characters as well. The first few episodes of any new TV show needs to be sort of dedicated to the idea of allowing the audience to fall in love with the new characters. I believe that’s finally started to take shape. Now we have the luxury of saying, well, let’s branch off into this area that area, go a little heavier on this storyline, focus a little bit more on this member of the cast.

The basis of the show is that father son relationship, but also Frazer’s new friendship. Fraser’s new life is third or fourth act. Arguably, that’s what we’re discovering. We’ve discovered that he’s probably a bit more mature, maybe still a little bit the same sort of nut, but he’s grown some. For him to have been static for us to have started right back in the same show from thirty years ago, to jump right back into the same story.

It would have been ridiculous for a man who spent thirty years of his life and not age would have been ridiculous and not grow wiser in any way. We thought it was important to give him some sort of new clothes. They asked him how he feels about the term reboot. Kelsey said, we really think of it as new Freezer. We don’t really think of it as a reboot because we haven’t rebooted anything.

It’s just a character that has not fallen from Grease. He’s still loved and beloved character and one we really love playing. I wasn’t nervous about it necessarily, just that in a new world we have a new set of viewing habits. I figured we’d promoted it pretty well. I thought there were some loyal audience members around who were really kind of hungry for revisiting the character, because we really haven’t done comedy like that in quite some time, and I think there’s a hunger for it.

Was he upset that a lot of the original cast didn’t want to return, Kelsey said, I wasn’t upset. I had tried to get everybody back because that’s what I thought was the right and faithful thing to do. I wanted to remain faithful to them, but them not wanted to do it was fine, certainly their choice. Actually it led us to some choices that we wouldn’t have done probably, and I was very happy we did them. I’m happy we ended up back in Boston.

That never would have happened had the rest of the cast comeback. BBC Radio four has launched a podcast, Jokes. Jokes will combine brand new series with highlights from the archive quote, providing comedy fans with an easy way to find the latest content from their favorite comedians. To start the feed off the full series of Nora Meadows Week of Wellness. Uh what caught my eye, They’ve uploaded the twenty nineteen comedy special Phil Wang Wang’s Plaining.

I Like Phil. A lot new album out today from Andy Awantsio. It is called Better Living Through Femistry. Andy is a transgal comedian from Seattle by way of Baltimore. With her ten years of comedy, she brings a witty, sardonic, and slightly profane style to her jokes that navigate living with disability and a marriage founded, fueled and fortified by mad lib vows.

Andy’s open for some Pretty Good People Kyle Kinade, James Adomian, Cameron Esposito. Better Living through Femistry out today on Kill rock Stars Records. Hulu has shared a trailer for Self Romance, which features mac packer Andy Samberg. The plot line when a middle aged man Jake Johnson is invited into a limo by famous actor Andy Samberg, his adult life takes a thrilling turn. Wait, so is Andy playing himself?

Interesting? Johnson has offered a chance to win a million dollars in a dark web reality TV show where assassins from all over the world attempts to kill him for thirty days. The catch he can’t be killed if he’s not entirely alone, leading him to recruit an unlikely team to help him survive. His only problem, none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Andy Samberg’s in this, so is Wayne Brady excited?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the debate last night? It aired on News Nation Rumble in the CW seth Meyers joke. So, in other words, look for it wherever you get your computer viruses.

Switching topics, Brenda Lee has her first number one hit for Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, recorded in nineteen fifty eight. I think Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, Brenda is having a moment. Not only does she have the number one song, today she was seen holding hands with Travis Kelsey. By the way, Taylor Swift named Times Person of the Year. You can follow all the Taylor Swift news on her sister podcast, Taylor Swift Today.

Spotify put out there Spotify wrapped lists, and weird Al had some commentary on their royalty system. Here’s a statement from weird Al. Hey, how you doing hell here? Look, I’ll make this really quick. I just want to thank you all for your amazing support.

It’s my understanding that I had over eighty miss billion streams on Spotify this here, So if I’m doing the math right, that means I earned twelve dollars. So you know, I’ll not have to give myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.

Meanwhile, another statement, Ricky Gervas tweeted what he called an urgent a…

Hello Ricky Gervas here, this is a quick message to all supermarkets, off licenses, coller shops to say please stock Dutch Bom vodka. I’m the co owner of the company, so this could make me a lot of money and it’s It’s a premium quality vodka made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. It’s one hundred percent recyclable the bottle, that’s why it’s brown. Only one like it as well, so it’s standout on the shelves.

It’s how people will remember it. I think it’ll be like if you go in out, granddad, can you get me some vodka? What’s all the posh one in the brown bottle? Dutch faarn I can’t afford that. We should have worked harder then, so Dutch farn I like what Ricky’s doing there.

He’s running right at it, not even pretending the folks at All Dogs Matter tweeted, we wanted to say a huge thank you to our patron, the one and only Ricky Gervas, who has made an incredibly generous donation to go towards the care of our dogs. We cannot be more grateful. Heart’s emoji. Your donation will keep dogs like Colin happy, healthy and warm this winter. There’s a picture of Colin.

You can find out about Ricky Gervay’s donations by listening to yesterday’s podcast Happy Honikah. Adam Sandler recounts how he wrote the Honkah song. This from the Jewish Chronicle, home for Comedy News. Sandler recently spoke to the crowd at the ninety second Street Why in New York City and said, I am so proud of that song. I love it.

He wrote the song at the NBC studios of SNL. There was no Google in nineteen ninety four, so he went by what he thought was correct. The lyrics include Harrison Ford’s a quarter Jewish. Sandlor later found out he was off by twenty five percentage points. I remember when I met Harrison Ford, he goes half.

Sandler said, all my family’s Jewish. Everybody has a kind of funny way about them. I definitely after every family get together, couldn’t believe what I saw sometimes. Sandler first got into the stand up comedy at age seventeen and said I would bomb every night. Well, good thing that’s changed.

His stand up is hilarious these days now. If you’re wondering about the other people mentioned in the song, USA Today under the headline Adam Sandler’s Honaka Song, are all those celebs in the song actually Jewish? Let’s take a look. David Lee Roth, James Kahn, Kirk Douglas Dinah Shure Yes, yes, yes Yes, Bowser from Shannanhah and Arthur Fonzarelli. John Beauman is Jewish.

Henry Winkler is Jewish, Goldie Hawn, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, as the song points out, O J. Simpson not a jew but Rod Carew Yes, Rod cru converted. If you’re in the mood to hear the Hanukkah song. When we’re done here, go to the Live One app and play the weekly comedy thing that’s the show I host. I played the Hanukkah song this week for this very reason.

Sandler recently told Variety that Roseanne Barr almost performed the song on SNL in ninety four. Sandler said they were talking about Roseanne singing it and she was nice enough to say, no, let Adam do that. That’s his He wrote it, That’s his song. During Weekend Update, Sandler explained that he wrote the song after noticing the lack of music about Hanukkah. Does Sandler still sing the Hanka song?

He says, I sing it alone. I sing it without the kids. I go on a basement, I rip it out. I do the soft shoot to it. If it comes on the radio and I hear it, I get excited.

It’s still awesome. The Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame has announced the newest round of inductees. They include Jim Carrey, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and the cast of SCTV. So are Eugene and Martin in there twice or how does that work? I don’t know.

It will be a four day festival in February to mark the beginning of a three year collaboration with Tourism Hamilton. Jerry Seinfeld is playing Singapore. Jerry gave some quotage which was I saw recently that Singapore has some of the happiest people on Earth by scientific study. So I don’t imagine my comedy will be able to improve that by too much, but I’m really going to try. So excited for my first visit, I was curious how much tickets cost, and I went to the website that was linked in the article, and you have to register for a pre sale, and I’m like, I don’t know, I’ll just look it up next week.

All right, after three days, there’s finally press about Stavros Halkias. Remember his Netflix special came out on Tuesday and there were no articles about it. Well, Deadline got around to it Dell’s Deadline. He’s noticing a difference in those attending his shows. Instead of Internet freaks alone, he says he now sees nice older couples in the crowd.

In Fat Rascal on Netflix, Stavros talks about everything from nightmare travel days to experiences at the Big and Tall Store. He talked about having a hard time breaking in. He said, I had agents and managers, but you know how it is, nobody gets an f about you when you’re not making them any money. Nobody wanted to buy a special for me. In twenty twenty two, He’s self released a self financed special on YouTube Live at the Lodge Room that’s gotten over six million views.

He invested forty thousand dollars of his own money to get word out about the special. Halkias began disseminating online clips of material didn’t make the cut. Additionally, he embraced crowd work clips. For years, had been taping every set he did, whether it was at a comedy club, a brewery, or some kind of other lower end venue. He hired a friend with quote no editing experience away from his low paying media job, and they started mining old sets for clips to post online.

Those clips took his YouTube. I don’t want to use the word special if it’s self released an hour, half hour and how long it was from twenty thousand into the hundreds of thousands, which in turn resulted in him moving tickets. Quote like never before, every single clip was going viral was insane. I was like, what the F We’re growing at such an insane rate. I felt like I just found an audience that I had no idea existed, and I was confused more than anything.

He attributes his success online a good timing, saying met in Google saw the TikTok was eating their lunch and they were like, well, anybody that does short form video contact, we’re boosting the f out of their algorithm. It just so happened that while that was happening and YouTube shorts was getting boosted and Instagram was getting booted, and TikTok was trying to boost people’ stuff, some more people would do it. I had like two to three years of the best crowd work interactions, and I think I just got really lucky. It just worked in a way I could not believe, he says, I don’t mean to get corny or anything, but achieved my bleeping goals. I have friends who are famous.

I don’t want their lives. I don’t need to be more famous than this. In fact, I don’t want to be. The virtual reality stand up series Surrounded will return for a second season December twenty ninth. The six sports series will debut via the Meta Horizon World’s VR online video game platform.

Episode start on the twenty ninth, including a holiday festival special that drops at ten am Pacific on that day. These sets were filmed at the twenty twenty three Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, hosted by Lilrel Howery the episode’s feature Jack Whitehall, Marlon Wayans, May Martin, Fortune, Fimster, Mark Norman, Chris Read, Dan Soder, Jay Farrow, Meg Statler, Felipia Sparza, Rosebud Baker, Samuel Joe, Kim Booster, Hannah Burner, Nate Jackson, Brad Williams, Preacher Lawson, Seher Zamada, Brian Simpson, Steph tolev Annie Liederman, and Shay Durina. That is no joke that list. Lourel Howary called the show crowd work and freestyling at its best. So this morning at the National Donuts Chain, Evil Bill Angvall was back, but the Donuts Chain people just did not have my order together.

I mean I had ordered online. Took twelve minutes for somebody to make a nice coffee come on Donuts Chain. But it was good to see Evil Bill back in the house. Last week Tonight with John Oliver has been renewed for three more seasons. Yep.

But it’ll still be on HBO or Max or HBO Max or whatever it is these days. John Oliver said, We’re very happy to get to keep making the show without our fantastic staff. Will continue trying to stretch the term entertainment to the breaking point, a Suit said, over the past decade, John and his exceptional team have combined deep research and intelligence with cutting humor to tackle a broad range of subjects, both widely discussed and unconventional. With an important election here on the horizon, we look forward to seeing what John has in store for audiences over the next three years, Thanks Suit. Bowsome Usef recently made some news having a little back and forth with Piers Morgan.

Yousef showed up at COP twenty eight. That’s the big environmental summit. He said to the audience, Let’s be honest. The only reason I’m here is because I’m trending, but also because I’ve been an advocate of plant based diets. Someone asked why stand up comedy and how do you find humor during these dark times?

Yusef said, simple, because the fact that we still have to meet every year to decide not to hurt our planet is a joke itself. Paste magazine spoke to ZANEB. Johnson about her special His Jobs Off, released on Amazon back in October. This one recorded in the round one cameraman holding a steady cam for the specials duration Johnson said, I think there’s something really intimate about recording in the round. I always say my stand up should feel like I’ve invited you into my living room.

You get to hang out with me for a little while, and hopefully by the end of it you leave feeling fulfilled and good. You want to come back. Much like Jim Gaffigan, She’s not considered the jokester in her family. Johnson says, they love me, but they think I’m the most serious person. I tried to plan vacations with my mom.

She’s like, you know, you’re no fun. I’m always to the person trying to keep the family business in order. I’m like, what are the troubles, Let’s look for the solutions. What are the bills, what are the things we need to improve? And everybody’s like, we’re trying to have fun.

Celebrate Norman Lear, the renowned American television writer, film producer, and activist, passed away Tuesday at age one hundred and one worn in New Haven, Connecticut. Lear celebrated for creating All in the Family, Mary hart and Mary Hartman, The Jefferson’s Maud, Good Times, Sandford and Son Fernwood, Tonight, John Stewart tweeted, good night, Norman, love you, thanks for raising me. Jimmy Kimmel gave Variety a statement which was it is obviously silly to want more time with a person who outlived a whole century, but losing Norman Leear, even at one hundred and one years old, feels unfair. His bravery, integrity, and unmatched moral compass were equaled by his kindness, empathy and wit. Even at one hundred and one, Norman cared as much about the future, our children and planet as much as anyone have ever known.

He was a great American, a hero in every way, and so funny, smart and a lovely man you almost couldn’t believe it. Privilege of working alongside Norman, and the opportunity he gave me and my wife to get to know him and his beautiful family has been among the great honors and pleasures of my life. We’re all very lucky to have him. George Clooney, in a statement, said, it’s hard to reconcile that one hundred and one years old Norman Lear has gone too soon. The entire world of reason just lost its greatest advocate, and our family lost a dear friend, a giant walked in his shoes.

Tyler Perry reflected on his experience of meeting Norman Lear and said, just before I left, I asked, at a hundred years old, are you looking forward to without any hesitant? He said tomorrow with such a simple but powerful lesson to live your life fully one day at a time. Tyler said, it that up nice there, because one of the shows Norman Lear developed was One Day at a Time. Norman Lear, one hundred and one years old. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Couple quick jokes from Late Night Jimmy Fallons said, George Santos expelled from the house, and I for one feel better than Congress is now only filled with completely honest people. Finally, Charleamine, the God hosting the Daily show this week, said Santos put on his coat before the vote was even over. Let me correct myself.

He put on a coat for all we know there’s another congressman like somebody stole my coat. Pretty good, Fellon. Santos has already joined Cameo and is charging two hundred dollars a video, because that’s what you want to do. Give your credit card information to George Santos. Ricky Gervais stepping up love this.

Ricky Gervais is donating one point nine hundred and ten one thousand pounds to worldwide animal charities. He has split the cash evenly, says Toortal across donations to eleven worldwide animal charities, including All Dogs Matter, Animal Sos, Sri Lanka, Catastrophes, Cat Rescue, Sheldon Animals, Sanctuary, Dogs on the Streets Helping Rhinos. I actually donate to helping rhinos, millions of friends, mirror dogs, Pause to rescue PDSA and wild futures. Travai says, I hope the dogs, cats, rhinos, and monkeys invest this money wisely, because when my career goes up, I’ll lead it back. Jason Zinneman writes for The New York Times he does a great job covering comedy.

He’s definitely a must follow. I saw this morning he wrote best Comedies of twenty twenty three, and I was like, I’ll mention this on the podcast. I have not looked at this at all because I like to react in the moment. Jason writes, it’s time to stop taking Jim Graffigan for granted and more surprising takeaways from special stand up sets and other funny moments This year best special. According to Jason Zinnemann, while he’s not flashy, each year, he gets a little better figuring out new challenges that fit is every man aesthetic.

With his ten special Dark Pale in Prime Video, his comedy has become so skillful, varied, and pleasingly prickly that it demands closer attention. Now I don’t have that on my list. I have it in the not on the list category. I won’t bog it down with my list today, but I have twenty things in my best of twenty twenty three and don’t have Gaffikin on there. So it’s interesting that Jason and I don’t agree on that one.

All this is subjective anyway. Best Breakthrough writes Jason, best stilling for if you didn’t want me then, also not on my top twenty list. I even have a note hear to myself that I thought the crowd sounded sweetened, meaning they added some laughter into it. Best story Teller went to The Domino Effect Part two Loss, which is Ali Sadiq’s special on YouTube. He’s telling high stakes, dramatic tales of heartbreak and run ins with the police, but with the lightness and ease of someone just filling you in about their day.

Also not on my list. Fascinating here. Best bit went to John Early for Now More Than Ever, a mix of stylish satsire, soulful cover songs, and occasional observational humor. That one I do have on my list at number nineteen because it was quite different. Best New Double Act writes Jason’s in Him into the New York times like many funny duos April Clark and Grace Freud of Girl God look and Sound nothing alike.

Want to like Key Slacker the other more fiery baritone, but they riffed so effortlessly that they seem to merge. I am unfamiliar with them. Best closer went to Mark Marin for From Bleak to Dark. I also don’t have Maren on my list, and I’ve been on a major Mark Maren kick lately like Big Time, and that last special didn’t grab me at all. Jason writes, what would suicide by bat look like?

Only a comedian would think of that? Long and hard on the subject. Best online roaster, Jason writes the arch eladist Dan Rosen has created his own critical beat on Instagram, doing stylish and ruthless insult comedy on tasteless interior design hacked to Core in shallow architecture and not familiar with Dan. Best Canadian newcomer went to Sophie Buttle, She’s solid. Best take on crowd work went to Dion Cole in a Netflix set.

A best response to a peeping cell phone went to Joe Parra, who responded, in a deadpan you just ruined my life and then kept moving. Best Impression went to John Mulaney for doing a traditional al Pacino. Best buffoon Diane Morgan’s long running character Philamina, Kunk four Kunk on Earth, which is I think still my favorite thing of the year. Kunk on Earth is wonderful if you should watch it. Best YouTube Special, Jason writes a highly competitive category.

Never have been more funny people putting out specials. Django Gold’s folksy screwball jokes not familiar, Chase O’Donnell’s deliriously ditzy act, Seaton Smith’s Madison Square Garden Show, and Joe Lists, but Nathan Mackintosh’s Money Never Wakes stands out for its exasperated comic elements about the cocoon lives of the one percent. I think out of all of those, I’ve only seen Joe List again. There’s just so much out there. Best comic On comic comedy, Gary Golmans Born on Third Base, which will be out December twenty First, all right, we can look forward to that, Jason says.

It’s filled with intricate language, drunk jokes that have built Gary into a critical darling. This is his most political and pointed work focusing on the inequities of class. Best gen Z Surrealist, a cheerful, young Arizona absurdist who’s just getting started. She produces edits and stars and cartoonishly bizarre videos featuring milk spelling from the sky, goofy puns, jump scares, and I’ll throw this in the Facebook group. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group bj Novak.

You know him as Ryan from the Office. The Hollo Reporter covered Bjay’s Chain Fest twenty twenty three, attending Mindy Kling, John Legend, Chrissy Teagan, John Mayer, Andy Cohen, Chris Pratt and others. Wow, the Hollowed Reporter tells us the red Robin Berger was Mealy. The pizza hut Crust didn’t achieve their Greasy Lacy trademark. Only Duncan was able to retain its sense soorial qualities on site for this influencer crowd, and only Jack in the Box managed to truly complete the assignment.

It upped its game with slow braised beef tacos and Chain’s original Taco Perfecto sauce, which took a menu cornerstone to a striking new place. Back in twenty eighteen, Bja floated the idea for a single brick and mortar location called Chain that would aside from the name Chain being a joke itself, he said, the cool thing about only having one means zoning wise, you can put it in one of these chic neighborhoods that are all over LA or New York that won’t allow a Chili’s or Fridays and will only allow one of a kind restaurants. You put Chaine there, then everybody he really just wants to go. The concept’s next iteration was to sit down restaurant in a rented home in LA and seated about fifty people with sixty five dollars a ticket. At one point had a waiting list reportedly fifteen thousand names long.

The restaurant offered no menu and no modifications.

Meanwhile, at Chainfest twenty twenty three, the VIP room was called the Post…

Patton explained that he got the key to the city of Athens, Georgia. They gave me the key to Athens my first comedy album. I recorded it at the forty watt and Athens in two thousand and three, So this year was the twentieth anniversary. And the mayor, who’s a really interesting guy and exactly what you think would be the mayor of Pathens, Georgia. You know, he looks like an early eighties indies store record clerk, That’s what he looks like.

And he’s so chilling, funny, and he gave me that I should have brought it. I have a physical key to the city. Flat Hat News asked, what is the key to Williamsburg coming? Patton said, you tell me Williamsburg. When do I get my key?

Oh my god? What if I get obsessed and start collecting keys to city and becomes my thing? Hey, you just got an offer. Do the rhyme in and now is there a key to the city involved with it? Because I’ll do it if they give me a key.

That would be insane. I just want to collect keys. Flat Hat said, we’ll send an email to Mayor Doug Ponds on your behalf. Oswalt said, I will happily come back if there’s a key to the city. You’re kidding.

Flat Hat reached out to the mayor. The mayor responded, while mister Oswalt may be deserved of such a recognition, the city has no such designation. From Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler was hanging out playing basketball with Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and his family during Adam’s recent visit to Salt Lake City. Adam played the Delta Center on Sunday night. Smith shared a video of his son’s playing basketball at Sandler.

Sailor can be heard saying the video, boys, I can’t believe we started this friendship. This is forever. LA Magazine talked to Mark Maron about what he’s been eating. Mark is now a vegan, and LA mag was curious as to his reasoning, and Mark said, well, you know, I’ve gone through a lot of different faces for a while there. I had a smoker, and I smoked brisket, ribbi and chicken.

I got pretty good, but I was kind of starting to hit a wall, and I was eating a lot of fish too. It all started to turn me off. But it really started as an experiment to see how much my cholesterol numbers were based on genetics, orde and it definitely went down after I wasn’t missing meat. I was always sensitive to the plight of animals, but it came more so after I went vegan. I just stuck with it.

My cholesterol is okay now, but my sugar went down. I feel overall better, but not that different other than I feel a little lighter and a little less crappy waking up. Did you lose weight, Mark Mirron? I did for a while, kind of leveled off. Some people gain weight.

You have to be careful. You can’t base your vegan diet on nut butters and pasta and bread. You have to balance it. When I cook it home, I generally tried to make some kind of vegetable and a dinner of some sort of green, some sort of beans, some sort of green like keene while or brown rice, and there’s also protein. Air fryers are very useful when you’re dealing with tofu.

If you want to get that crisp bite without frying and oil, the use the air fryer a lot.

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Also, there should be something pickled on the plate, some sort of sea vegeta…

I tried to do some Indian cooking too. I got a really good recipe for chana masala that I make at home. I started making this pasta with white beans and tomatoes. Is pretty awesome. I like to cook and it’s always exciting to find new vegan stuff.

Great question here. You travel a lot for comedy do you look for vegan spots? Has that been hard? Marin? You can find one good vegan place in any city, and if you’re there for a couple of days, you can just eat there three or four times.

It’s usually what I hope to do in a place that has what I’m used to or different variations of it, or a lot of things on the menu. New topic, Mark, what’s your favorite LA thing or place to go? What’s your LA spot? Mark said, this place is more Glendale, but I hike up the mountain behind the Brand Library in Glendale like three times a week. I’ve become pretty attached to it.

And I think my favorite LA thing in general is just performing at the Comedy Store, so a one of a kind place. Mark says he does workouts there once a week and from the Star Observer. Mattel Lane gave a social media tour of his hometown of North Halstead aka Boystown, a gighborhood in Chicago. Lane was standing in front of a place called Roscoe’s Tavern and said, this is Roscoe’s. The floor is probably still sticky.

Somebody must have spilled some beer. Looking back in his times hanging out Roscoe, he said, I’m so ignorant, Like I guess everybody was doing drugs. I didn’t know I was drinking a vaka soda, Like, who am I gonna make out tonight? Everybody was just rolling. It just never understood, like how are they having so much fun?

That He went by a seven to eleven and said this seven one to eleven would make state filled prison blush. The amount of stuff that went down drug sex, party, complete and utter chaos. He talked about the first gay club you ever went to called Hydrate and explained, when you go to a gay club the first time and you’re not exposed to anything gay, you walk in and you’re innundated with everything. I remember the sign above the urinal said no meth. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media idly. Oh, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was out and about in the DC area. Told you a little bit about this yesterday. He apparently didn’t enjoy the correspondent from Straight Arrow News, who asked, Dave, what is the punchline on the joke for George Santos.

Chappelle responded, oh, man, don’t get me started on that stuff. About his appearance on Capitol Hill, Straight Arrow News asked, Dave, do you support anybody in particular or did you come here for a particular cause. Chappelle leaned into the microphone and smiled, well, I’ll tell you what I didn’t come to do be on television, Just kidding. Dave was also seen over the weekend driving past a peace protest. I think he just happened to drive by it.

You see a video of a car driving by, like an SUV type thing. Dave’s in the shotgun seat and the windows down, and Dave just waves and that’s it. I don’t think he took part in the protest. Despite some headlines I saw, Dave also visited Duke Ellington High School. Aw some news coverature that, but nothing controversial out of Dave Chappelle from TMZ.

THEO von baffles ESPN’s College Game Day with his football picks. THEO was on College Game Day on Saturday, where he joined Pat McAfee and the rest of the gangs making some picks TMZ wrights. Apparently THEO thought it was twenty thirteen again because he invoked Jamis Winston’s name to talk about the seminals chance. His only problem Winston has long left the university, something Pat reminded THEO of forcing him to pivot and come up with a new rationale. Let’s listen.

I’m a you know, I think Jameis Winston they’re gonna pull off that. Uh he was yeah, I understand, yeah, but I think he could still play if he wanted to. Down the months of eligibility and the Saints aren’t using him appropriately. We all know that. So I’ll say this, man, I think they’re gonna pull off that.

Uh, They’re gonna pull off that crustation w down there, that crowd dub believe me. Maybe I’m that trustation trust in me. I got this coach. Your thoughts? What did you say?

Fun clip theovonn Whitehot right now, is podcast really climbing the charts?

Speaking of podcasts, Matt Rife, Johnny Mack, you never mentioned him.

He was on the Jordan Peterson podcast. It had the clever episode title Rife for Cancelation, but Geeba took a listen to it. I downloaded it. They haven’t listened to it yet. Rife brags during the podcast he has gained more followers because of the domestic violence joke than he’s lost, but he also insists that he’s finished with the crowd work that made him so popular with women.

He later adds that women used to make up ninety percent of his audience, but that has massively changed in the last five or six months. Pajeeba writes, I wonder why it’s an interesting podcast episode if you can stomach it, if only because it pairs two people who have little knowledge of each other and even less in common besides an interest in exploiting each other’s audience. Both conceide not so many words that they didn’t know much about each other before last week, but they quickly find common ground, for instance, in the belief that men who support women are quote boy, I didn’t read the sensitive vance. Let me back up. I’m not going to make it edit because you’re not going to believe what’s coming.

All right, ready, let me back it up. Both can see in not so many words that they didn’t know much about each other before the last week. Okay, fine, but they quickly find common ground, for instance, the belief that men who support women are sneaky rapists. What Rife believes that the only men who thought his joke about domestic violence was offensive were men trying to get some ldroom action. The article quotes Riife here and says, I saw one TikTok video response from a guy who said I have a wife, and I find this severely disrespectful.

Rife says, okay, you cuck whatever, what do you want to get more? Cleaning it up here? Loving outside of your wife? You’re already married, surely respects you. What more do you want?

Boy? I met Riife, You’re just what are you doing? Dude? Two weeks ago this guy was on the top. Oh man, what are you doing?

Peterson says. According to this article, there’s nothing worse than a man who tries to worm his way in with a group of women by pretending to be on their side when their actual motivation is to be a sneaky effort. That’s actually a phrase from evolutionary biology. I’m gonna have to listen to this one. Rife tells Peterson he will never apologize for his joke, and the two discuss at length why apologizing is bad.

Raife repeatedly defends the joke on Peterson’s podcast, not only in its merits, but by saying, no one is making you watch. Raife says he put the joke at the beginning of the special so that viewers would know what to expect. If they didn’t find the domestic violence joke funny, they could turn it off comedies Like a restaurant, if you don’t like the food, you don’t have to eat there. He doesn’t mind that he’s offended people either, because if twelve thousand people were offended, one hundred thousand people loved it, and they’ve been through domestic violent situations and they found the joke very funny. Riife believes he’s a positive force for women who have gone through domestic violence.

If I can help in any way, even if it’s on accidents, Come on, younger generation, learn now English works. If I can open anyway, even if it’s on accident. Thanks Bornie. I feel good about that. So, like I’ve mentioned, I watched the special, I just didn’t find it funny when that joke went by.

I don’t even know if it registered in my brain. I wasn’t outraged at the moment. I’m more fascinated by this Matt Riife meltdown. We’ll see what happens, John McLay he told Variety stand up comedy has just become enormous and continues to grow and be so strong. I think the respective esteem comes from all the people that come out to see it.

Netflix has elevated it too. People check out tons of specials now. Oh I saw Beth Stelling, I saw on Aprighatzy, I saw the new Alley Wong. Tonight. If you’re in Chicago, it’s the Letters to Santa Gala, which includes John Mulaney and others six pm at the Willis Tower.

Letters to Santa the Holiday galas a new event aiming to raise one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help fifteen families in need across the Greater Chicago area. These families will have their letters to Santa answered on Christmas Day, receiving gifts from a wish list of clothes, furniture, living necessities, and an unconditional cash grant of ten thousand dollars for an ongoing expenses. This corn to the press release six pm at the Willis Tower if you’re in the area. Patton Oswall class of ninety one, recently returned to the College of William and Mary. He did two stand up shows and the newly inaugurated Glenn Close Theater.

Patton told Flat Hat News, I also made a mix of all the music. This is so cheesy. I made a mix a lot of the music I was listening to back then. So there’s been a lot of rim in my year, a lot of rock music, a lot of that stuff. Patten says.

I lived in a basement apartment and there’s now a law student living there who has where my bed used to be, a floor cave full of guinea pigs. He keeps guinea pigs in his apartment had kind of a horror feel to it, but the house itself was really charming and sweet, and I was like, oh wow, I used to really live here. This is where I got up and ate my rama noodles, and you know that was where. I mean, I’m not one for living in dwelling in nostalgia, but checking in on the places you were coming up it was always kind of fascinating. Some things for you to check out.

Dan Booblitz Junior on the Facebook group which is Daily Coming to News podcast group encouraged us to listen to Mark Maren’s interview with Jesse David Fox on Mark Maren’s WTF podcast Absolutely good discussion of comedy. Enjoyed that a lot. I listened to most Maren’s, but I was slow on that one, so Dan, thanks for doing that. I’d listened to that on the way to the airport last night. I had to do one of those pesky airport pickups that I wound up doing like once a month.

No, I’m not an uber driver and my kids like to travel. During that interview, Jesse David Fox and Mark Maron started talking about the two greatest comedians of all time. They have at number one, Richard Pryor okay, fine, and at number two, who do they have? Wrong? Why don’t you guess, for like three hours, just name every comedian you can possibly think of.

Who do they have at number two? Wrong? Nope? Wrong, nope, wrong, wrong, still wrong, You’re still wrong. At number two they had Maria Bamford.

What Maria Bamford second best stand up comedian of all time? I get that they respect the work, but number two out of everyone, you just thought of Maria Bamford, number two. Tap the brakes there. So the other night I watched Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is fantastic.

Loved it in the theaters. I bought the Blu ray. You know you worry about these streaming services. Now things are starting to disappear. I’m back to physical media.

I like to know stuff’s in the closet and I can watch what I want. Oppenheimer is fantastic, and I hadn’t realized when I saw in the theater the third act there a lot of homages to the film Judgment at Nuremberg, a lot of visual cues that reminds me of that movie, which is a fantastic movie which features a very young, handsome William Shanner. If you’ve never seen Judgment to Nuremberg not streaming right now, I looked because I wanted to watch it after I watched Oppenheimer. Watch Oppenheimer, which is not at all a comedy. My point of bringing that up is after I watch Oppenheimer, I’m like, I need something ridiculous, So I put on Bookie, Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show on Max.

I really liked it. Here’s what I like about it. It knows what it is. It’s Sebastian Maniscalco plays a bookie. That’s it.

He’s driving around, gets in some high jinks. The jokes are eye level, it’s sitcom level, but it knows what it is. It’s not trying too hard. It goes turn your brain off and enjoy this. And I like things that know what they are.

This is not claiming to be high art. This is just it’s Sebastian Maniscalko as a bookie. I loved it. Watched both episodes that released. Can’t wait for War so high recommendation for me on Bookie again.

Is it the greatest thing I’ve ever seen? No, but it’s pretty solid. Then I watched Obliterated, which Netflix put in front of me. I had no idea what it was, and I’m like, all right, what is this? I was trying to describe it to people.

The best I can come up with is picture Mission Impossible, dipped in cheese whiz. It’s like a super cheesy action It’s not a film. It’s one hour episodes set in Las Vegas, so there’s a lot of drinking and booze and nudity and this too. It knows what it is. It knows it’s kind of ridiculous, but it’s just fun.

So that’s obliterated. Check that out. Bill Burr’s on Jimmy Kimel Tonight out on Netflix today. Stavros Halkias is special, Fat Rascal is out. I’m not sure how excited Netflix is about it, because I tried to put a story here.

This is normally where I’d talk about Stavros, and there’s nothing. So there’s no press lead up here like you usually see what these specials. We’ll see if maybe there’s something tomorrow. But that makes me go, hmm, that’s odd. Collider actually has an interesting article I’ll get to it on the weekend about maybe Netflix has too many specials now and if there are too many specials, then nothing is special.

I agree wholeheartedly on that. Again, I’m not saying Stavros is special, is good, no bad. I haven’t seen it, but yeah, there’s kind of like too many quote unquote specials now, and I think we need to stop using the word special and go back to calling them hours. Bill Engvall has one of those tonight. I guess we’ll call it his a special because it’s the final thing he’s releasing from his career.

Bill says, I feel honestly that my show’s probably one of the cleaner shows out there. I mean there’s no swearing, there’s no dropping F bombs and all that. It’s something I’ve really felt strong about. I didn’t feel that any of the material on there was offensive. It’s what I’ve done my whole career.

You’re gonna have to hunt a little bit for this one and buy it or rent it on Amazon Prime or Apple or YouTube. Hopefully Bill put that up on YouTube plus commercials in a bit. HBO released a trailer for Leo Reichs literally who Cares? This will be out December sixteenth, and I was like, who’s Leo? Like?

Who is that? I do this every day? Who is this? Well, let’s listen to the trailer. I am happy.

I know myself. I am not personally rec foncible for anything. I just polishize about what I look like. I didn’t have any time to change or ash like run the hair straight from My Dad’s Worst Night Back Show, It’s still gonna be filled with twenty first century cynicism, the self objectification encouraged by social media, the late capitalist co option of the queer esthetic. I’m kidding, can you imagine?

Literally? Who cares? Starts comedian writer Leo Reich in his HBO comedy special debut. In his first HBO comedy special, this self diagnosed important young mind faces the swirling uncertainty of our collective future, asking the big questions such as is this helping? Am I hot?

And no offense guys, but literally, what’s going on? Reich’s show was nominated for Best Newcomer at the twenty twenty two d of Comedy Awards and Most Outstanding Show at the twenty twenty three Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His credits include Friday Night Live, Late Night Mash and Jonathan Ross Comedy Club. Nikki Glaser will team up with actor, comedian and writer Jamie Lee. They’re going to store in and executive produce Unsettling.

In unsett we find a heartwarming and refreshingly on a show about two childless best friends. Lee and Glazer In the thirties who decide to go in on a baby together and navigate their lives as brand new platonic co parents. This is in development with Prime Video Bill Lawrence, who’s got some pretty great credits attached to him. He’s part of this, so don’t blow this one off. Chad Daniels and Kelsey Cook have a new podcast called Pretend to Problems.

They are dating and in their new show they open up about arguments they’ve overcome, communication strategies that they love and hate, blended family dynamics, navigating being a part on tour, and more, and the teaser for the show, Cook explains to Daniel’s her rule of three, which is if I see you do something that rops me the wrong way, she makes a note of it and won’t talk about it until it happens three times. That is your comedy news for today. If you want to sport the show, one way you can do it, go to buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedyews. Buy me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw some bucks in the tipchair.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you skip the weekends for some reason, go back and listen to Sunday. There’s a whole thing with Mark Maren and Matt Rife. It’s just wonderful.

And the moon Tower Comedy Festival has a lot of news there, okay. In today’s news, Dave Chappelle has posed for a selfie with Representatives Lauren Bobert and and a Luna. This happened on Capitol Hill. Bobert and Luna spotted Dave Chappelle wandering the halls of Congress on Thursday. Bobert posted it and wrote, just three people who understand there’s only two genders.

Luna tweeted the same photo and captured it ran into Dave Chappelle. Luna told Dave as they spoke, thanks for all you do. Representative Byron Donald’s, a Republican out of Florida, was also filmed greeting Dave Chappelle and chatting with Dave. Why was Dave at the Capitol Great question? Reportedly for meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.

According to punch Bowl News, Dave was asked about this by reporter. He said, a lot of the people I grew up with work on the Hill, so I hang out here sometimes, and I’m in DC to catch up with old friends. A representative for Chappelle told the Washington Examiner that Chappelle did not conduct any business or attend any meetings while at the Capitol, given the reason that he was in town for last night’s Kennedy Center honors and an art is activism workshop at a local public high school. All right, we’ll keep an eye on that for tomorrow, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. I know, right.

Matt recently played Santa Rosa. The Press Democrat had somebody at the show, and apparently Matt offered a solution for anyone offended by his jokes. He said, we have a safe space for you outside the exit door. I’m sure he told it better. The Press Democrat rites on the soft side.

He talked about donating toys given him by fans to children, and made friends with a fan who sat with his diabetes service dog a pub named Waffles in one of the front rows. First, Rife denounced the dog as ugly, then later reckoned it was cute. A total of three and twenty fans attended Matt Rice’s two shows, including some who came from other states because their local right shows were sold out, according to a spokesperson for the Luther Burbank Center. As for the controversial joke and the Netflix special, I’ll remind you, Rife joked, Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye. Raife addressed it to the audience on Wednesday and said, it’s a joke.

It’s not based on real circumstances, nor does it reflect my real feelings. At the Santa Rosa show, Rife tried out some new material We’re told based on his standby topics, which are relationships, sexuality, gender roles, misunderstood segments of the population, and taboo words and concepts. He also talked about some positive responses from fans. Riife had set on stage that he loves otters. A fan invited him to an otter sanctuary, and then Rife joked, I’m sure he told it better than I will.

It was in Florida and was in a bathtub, and it was just a powsome painted brown I guess in context and told properly that could Land more details about Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only. This the documentary coming to Netflix on December twelfth. In Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only, we follow the two comedy legends as they embark on a series of performances while also taking audiences on a tour throughout their varying trajectories leading up to it. In addition to Kevin Hart and Chris Rock, the documentary features interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Wanda Sykes, Bill Byrd, Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Hannish, and Moore. Good note from Chris Rock, he says, I’m smart enough to always check to see what Kevin’s doing before I go on tour.

I’m not getting stumped by Kevin. That’s just not happening. John Mulaney spoke to a variety and said, going to rehab and a lot of other things that have become public knowledge, I felt there was no way to start doing stand up again without going through this. I also had a lot to say about it. It had been an extremely eventful time and the goal from the beginning was to do this as funny as I could make it, not as impactful as I could make it not to pause for dramatic effect.

I just wanted to be a little wilder and put you in my very confident, amended brain. During the time of addiction, I kept asking friends, do I come off like too much of an a hole? Jimmy Kimmel saw it at the tubidoor and said, yes, but you have to keep it all. I’ve been to my entire career where I think, oh, this is a little dark. I know if people are going to go with this.

For some reason, I had checked an audience from seventy years old to seven, and I’m aware of how this is going to play with a great, big group that I’m very lucky to have assembled. I just knew that this vein would be interesting to people. Mulaney was asked if he has any dad jokes, and he said, it’s a funny thing to me. I don’t have an immediate comedic take on being a dad. I have some stories that I think are funny because of the amount of talking we do.

Now we’re just chatting all the time, and I find the amount of time I spent talking to a twenty three month old versus any adults A musing Amy Schumer is set to Star and produce Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, we follow a Laney played by Amy Schumer, who is jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and begins wearing a fake baby bump that accidentally meets the man of her dreams. M Nicole Bayer has done a deal with Destination Canada. They’ve teamed up to create Canadian Crash Course, a new virtual course designed encourage travelers to step out of their comfort zone and gain confidence navigating winter like an expert, Like a Canadian. Nicole Byer hosts lessons on navigating sche mishaps, chili plunges, fashion blunders, sport fails, and more.

In for these lessons, you can go from northern novice to winter. Pro Buyer says hosting the Canadian Crash Course has been a blast. Canadians really go above and beyond when it comes to friendly hospitality. Watch and learn as I try skiing, cold plunging, ice skating, bundling up from the the lights, hunting and more, finding the fun of the hiccups along the way. I mean, if you’re gonna try something new this winter, you better do it where they do.

Winter Rite Canada. John Marco CIRESI was up in Connecticut and said, I’ve been all over Connecticut and this is definitely one of the least interesting places. And that says a lot for Connecticut. I’ve not been able to find a good smoothie place. Every time I ask someone for breakfast recommendation, they go, h Fairfield, and I go, well, I’m stuck here.

You also talked about touring Europe and said, I would say that they might not understand as many American political references, but they had a better understanding of history in a way that let me make some jokes frankly about the Holocaust, that they just understood the intricacies of more than the typical American. They were not quite as in a runch of humor, but they were very into dark humor. I feel like, and these are broad strokes that I’m painting, that Europeans have a more honest understanding of their own countries in a way that really lets you talk crap about them. They make fun of us for the gun stuff very hard. It’s an easy way for an American to get a laugh here, like, oh, it’s nice to be here and get a break from all those shootings.

And they’re like ah, yes, that’s you, America. I am finally remembering while there’s a microphone in my hand to tell you that I watched Mike bur Bigley as the Old Man on the Pool. I watched it, like I don’t know, two weeks ago, and I keep forgetting to mention it. My take. I think you guys are gonna really like it.

I share that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I think you guys will like it a lot. I like for Biggs as I watched it, and again, major comedy snob here, and as I’ve explained the past, I’ve listened to so much comedy over the last twenty years. My brain is just numb. I was struggling with it.

I didn’t believe his premises as he told the stories. I was like, I don’t think this actually happened, specifically the one about him wrestling, and it took me out of it. But that’s me. I think you guys will like it. It won’t make my personal list, but I think you guys will really like it.

Does that make sense? That’s just more about me being a snob, But I think it’s a solid special this week on the Weekly Comedy thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. The app is free. The show is free.

So you grabbed the Live one app and you download it and you look for the Weekly Comedy Thing, and there you will find me doing shre intros to comedy bits. It’s kind of like this podcast with a lot less me and a lot more actual comedians. On this week’s show. David Cross, John Mulaney, Nate Bergatzy Bet Stealing, Patton Oswalt, Bill Angvall, Adam Sandler’s Honaka song Sebastian Maniscalco, DJ Dimmers, who I’m really into right now, Gabe Iglesias, Kathy Griffin, Burbiggs, Eddie Hazard, Cheech and Chung and spinal Tap The Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. Ed Helms is down for The Hangover Part four.

Please don’t the first one amazing, major diminishing returns, and don’t forget the Hangover kind of destroyed the later seasons of the Office because they pivoted to Ed Helms when they should have made Jim Helper the boss and didn’t really work. Elms told the Hollywood Reporter, I mean Bradley Cooper. Zach Alifanakis, director Todd Phillips. These are some of my favorite people on the planet. I would do anything with them.

Oh my goodness, I would do anything with those guys. Bradley Cooper recently told The New Yorker Radio Hour he would do another Hangover in an instant because I love Todd, I love Zach, I love Ed so much. I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do it. Helms agrees, like Bradley said, highly unlikely Todd would be up for it. The Hill caught up with Kat Timf who said, I find that joking about this stuff takes away some of its power.

The scarier and more devastating an awful and insturmountable something can seem. If you say, oh, you can’t joke about that, that makes it seem even more powerful. You’re totally allowed to think of joke’s not funny. You’re totally allowed to say, ah, that hurt my feelings. I don’t like that joke.

Here’s why, and have a conversation about it. To say you can’t joke about it is actually a cool thing to say when you think about it, because what you’re doing is you’re limiting the healing mechanism that people who are dealing with trauma might need Kat says, I’m a free speech absolutist, but there’s a distinction between jokes and somebody who’s just being a jerk on purpose. It matters if someone was trying to make a joke versus somebody who’s being racist, because that person is a racist and wants to spread racism. Of course there’s a difference. I’m a sensitive person.

I have a lot of feelings, but I don’t think there’s such a thing as a subject that humor would not touch. She talked about the potential of another Biden versus Trump making things hard for comics, and she said, yeah, I think in some ways, yeah, I think it’s also just emotionally, we’re really going to go through this again. I always vote third party, and I’m open about that. So all that remains to be seen is when it’s all over, which side is gonna blame me for the law? Does she worry about being canceled?

Kat said, what I found is it’s never to think you think it’s going to be. She talked about a controversy involving her and some Star Wars jokes. She said, all I said was I’ve never seen Star wars because it was too busy liking cool things and being attractive. There werecorders of the Internet that did not appreciate that. Let me pause here and shake off my laugh for her next sentence, I got death threats, a lot of sexual violence, much of it involving lightsabers.

What people don’t understand. Sometimes there’s no way to really know if a joke’s going to hit or not until you try it. And you can’t really be afraid of swing and miss, because sometimes you’re going to swing and miss. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy this podcast, tell a friend about it.

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