Month: December 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Wait to hear this one. I couldn’t wait to tell you about it. Hi, I’m Johnny Meck with your Daily Comedy News. Do you hear the green on my face?

Oh? I love a good comedian fight. Sean McCarthy writes for The Daily Beast. Sean was at the New York Public Library on Wednesday, so was Cliff nester Off. He has a new book called Outrageous, A History of Showbiz in the Culture Wars.

Appearing on stage with Cliff Mark Maren Mark Maren took a question about Matt Rife. Maren said, well, first of all, like, don’t jump the gun on Matt Rife if you don’t know who he is. He’s the new it boy of a crappy comedy and he’s taken a big chance in his career right now to crap on the mostly female audience he accumulated through social media disorder. Kiss up to these pseudo edge lords, and personally, I don’t think it’s gonna go well for him and ultimately, my producer, Brendan MacDonald, the Genius, made a good point in saying that he thinks Matt Rife is actually mobilizing a new generation of comics to push back against what it stands for, much the way that Dane Cook did at a different time, to once again, you know, be creative and bring a new energy and voice to what that doesn’t represent. So maybe within show business there is hope.

Nestor Off talked about the connection between Matt Rife and Dane Cook. Maren joked that Riife might have a righteous grievance before adding, I forget this is going out on the internet right now. He dropped an F bomb, and now I’m gonna have to deal with Dane calling me. Hey, dude, it thought we were good. Hey, look, we’re all in the same business.

We’re just trying to entertain people. Maren and nestor Off talked about Lenny Bruce, George Carl and Richard Pryor. Nestroff said they weren’t merely trying to be provocative. Today this whole genre of provocateur comedy where a guy go up on stage will say a word that he knows is going to get an ooh and an ah says the word or the statement gets to the U in the E. The comic is like, what what what you designed it to get that reaction, and now you’re feigning this outrage, Maren said, it’s a false premise, this hackneyed idea.

What they’re actually doing is co opting the idea that their free speech words, and they’re actually fighting for the ability and not the right, but the space to further marginalize people. Nest off. But it’s two forms of free speed, each pressing against each other. And if you’re going to defend only the bigot, not the anti bigot, like who that for you? What’s wrong with you?

Maren? I’ll tell you they are. It’s half the country. They perfected this propagantic because they’re very organized. It’s been going on for a long time.

But the whole idea of wokeism generally speaking, you know, doesn’t even mean it says, this amazing umbrella term for everything the right’s been pushing back at just takes over everything and it makes it this single object focuseddaeology which doesn’t even mean anything.

And now the big word what sands to me is there were guys and one woman, Rosea…

In the book, Nestrov condemns the David Spades sitcom Just Shoot Me and also Dawson’s Creek and says they are leading to the downfall of America. Maren said, and I think the point is here, these guys just have to die. Suit her. We’re seeing with Bill morenew Maren realizes what he’s done and says, again, I’m going to be feeling calls and probably some sweets that are not going to Eh, it doesn’t matter. I love this more from Maren.

What we don’t realize is at any given point in time, you know the ten comedians that are popular, there’s literally a thousand that no one effing knows about. And I think it’s the same generationally now whether the platforms, whether it’s TikTok or whatever, there are a lot more comics and a lot more visibility. You can get contact out there that will put you on the radar. But in order to stain a career in show business, you must be able to do the job, and the nature of that job doesn’t seem to really change that much. But I do think this is different, and I think that ultimately what happens that is sad is that when I see these younger comics or comics a couple generations from me, and they think they’re doing something amazingly new, it’s really not, and they think they’re inventing it.

I guess every generation does. But I think there’s hope, and that seems that true artists and true comics and people that really have something to say in a creative generally surface in a big way. So I think that’s optimistic. Right. Oh my goodness.

I love that. Hopefully Bill Marndane Cook get annoyed this and Matt Riich shoots back because it’s December. I’ll take all the content I can get. This is wonderful. I love it.

Keep going. Mark Moontower announced the lineup for the now very worthy titles moon Tower Just for Laughs Austin Moontower Just for Laughs Austin will take place April tenth through the twenty first. Headliners include Andrew Schultz, Sheen Gillis, The Office Ladies, Jennie Fisher and Angela Kinsey, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Byer, Mark Maren and a screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, followed by a Q and A with Alan Ruck, who played Cameron in the movie, as well as Connor roy on Succession. You know that guy also played Captain John Harriman in Star Trek Generations, The State, Worr Knight, Michael ian Black, Thomas Lennon, Michael Patrick, Jen Kevin Allison, Carrie Kenny Silver, Joelatruglio, David Wayne, and Ken Marino. That’s pretty cool.

So I thought this was fun. I saw up breakout. There’s Moontower, twenty twenty four headliners, and then a section called also performing. All right, so your headliners are here, comes John reading a list if you want to hit skip, Amy Sidaris, Andrew Schultz, Ari Shaffer, Brad Williams, Kat Cohen. One of your headliners, Darcy and Jerr.

Remember I talked to them back in the summer. They’re pretty cool. Desi Banks one of your headliners, Frankie Kinyonis, Joe Parrah, Kathy Griffin, Ken Flora is one of your headliners, Mark Maren, Margaret chow Berbiggs, mo Hart, Nicole Byer, The Office, Lady’s Roy Withoo Junior, Shane Gillis, The State, Reunion, and Sugar Sammy now in the also Performing. I won’t read all the names, but some of the also performers catching my eye, Todd Berry, who in my opinion as the best special of the year, also performing, also performing, The Scar Brothers also performing, Shane Torres also performing, Liza Trigger So I’m not sure why they’re broken out into the also performing, but Moontower looks pretty good. Shane McGowan from The Pogues, who passed away this week, we have learned he spent his final months binging on Father Ted.

Another Father Ted mentioned I’m telling you if Father Ted’s where it’s at, find it. I told you about it the other day his wife Victoria, it’s all the sun. So he wouldn’t get bored. We brought in a DVD player to Shane and we’ve given him presents of classic movies on DVD and apparently episodes of Father Ted. The New York Football Giants have a bye today, but Tracy Morgan has been joking about their quarterback, Tommy DeVito.

You know about this guy. Everybody on the Giants got hurt and some dude name Tommy DeVito has been playing quarterback. DeVito lives at home, why because his parents’ house is right by the stadium. He’s like, it’s just easy and Jay dot Com spoke to Tracy Morgan about New York Football Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito and said, hey, Tracy, when did you move out of your mother’s house? Because you’re starting quarterback right now, Tommy DeVito still lives with his mom and dad.

Tracy said, that’s a good thing. That’s healthy. He needs all the caregiving and get You can’t just get coaching on the field. You gotta get coaching at home. Coach Brian Dayball won’t tell him to make his bed and Jay dot com but that’s a grown man, Tracy.

You can’t live at home and you’re making a million dollars. Divito will actually make nine hundred thousand dollars this year. Tracy said, sure you can. I did. I was living at home when I got hit by that Walmart truck.

My mother said, thank god it was Walmart and not Walgreens. That’s a great joke, Tracy. Hazy Central took my chair on old Man Mountain and they wrote, hey, remember when Eddie Murphy ruled comedy. They’re self aware and wrote, I know, pull up a chair and let me grab my earhorn and I’ll finish with my geezer story. Murphy shots of fame on Saturday Night Live and starting great movies like forty eight Hours and trading places in good movies like Beverly Hills Cop and was the most exciting stand up comic since Richard Pryorhere now Murphy makes movies like Candy Cane Lane a more decent than you think prime video holiday family film.

The point is Murphy used to be the funniest person on the planet. Now he’s not even the funniest person in the movie. In fairness, he’s not trying to be, but still apparently Eddie plays the straight man for much of Candy Kane Lane. He stars as Chris Carver, a husband and father who loves Christmas. Low Despite his best efforts, he can’t win the annual holiday decorations contest on his block.

Again, I don’t know how this is not a d Adam Sandler movie. This screams Adam Sandlor to me. Anyway, plot points don’t matter. The important part for the purposes of this podcast is apparently Chris Red is very funny. In Itzy Central writes, everything that comes out of the mouth of Chris Red’s character is comedy gold.

He’s hilarious. Two and a half stars. TV insider wrote, who will be the new host of The Daily Show? Seventeen options ranked. I have not looked at this because I like to react as I see it.

Least likely, they say Al Franken, the former Senator, had the highest ratings of the guest host earlier. That’s interesting, but DV insider says if Comedy Central wanted an older host that would excite fans from all generations, it would need to be John Stewart.

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Also in the least likely category, John Leguizamo, Yeah, I agree, that’s not …

Least likely Hasan Minhaj Wow. He basically had the chair oops. Least likely Roy Wood Junior. They said Roy is made a clear he’s moving on. Least likely Chelsea Handler they rate I don’t think she’d want the full time gig.

I’m not so sure about that. Least likely Sarah Silverman, They say the same applies to Sarah Silverman, that applies to Chelsea Handler and John Leguizamo. They’re good fits as guest host, but got other stuff going on. Least likely Leslie Jones. They don’t think she would want to commit to one big thing.

Not so sure. Likely Ronnie Ching during the week, there was an interview with Ronny Chieng. He didn’t seem interested in it. Likely Michael Costa. He was the first guest host of the New Roster that kicked off in October.

I haven’t seen much buzz Onsta. Likely Desi Lydick. She could be a really good choice. Let’s keep an eye on her.

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Also during the week, there was an interview with her likely d’ll say Sloan.

Likely Jordan Klepper. They point out he’s the last remaining correspondent who was on the show when John Stewart was host. Likely Michelle Wolfe. I think she would be fantastic, and they write, likely John Stewart, that’s not happening. That said, I have advocated for an idea where the Daily Show moves to CBS proper and John Stewart comes back.

But I guess you could just give John Stewart a political show on CBS A not brand it with the Daily Show. I don’t know. I think it makes a lot of sense. They’ve got paramount plus as a streamer. John’s apple gig is over.

It’s an election year. Maybe John comes back for a year and you figure it out from there. Maybe John does four nights a week and you let somebody else do the fifth day, so we get used to them like they did thirty years ago with Jay Leno and Johnny Carson. TV Insider has Charlemagne the God as likely. Charlemagne is back hosting this week.

They have Deesus Nice in the likely category. I thought his appearance was not as awesome as the other appearances. Nudge nudge, wink wink Ooh. Now the most likely category cal Pen, who will guest host again on week of December eleventh. TV Inside reminds us Calpen was the Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs during the Obama administration and start on his own show, The Big Picture with cal Pen that’s similar to the Daily Show style.

I don’t remember that show at all. They add as a bonus, Penn is a gay South Asian man, which would diversify the late night talk show space. And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcast where show. If you like the show, tell somebody about it theym I like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gerviz has become the co owner of a distillery. He will now be helping to sell the products of Eller’s Form Distillery, starting with its Dutch Born Orchard vodka. Hi.

I’m Ricky Gerbets and I am thrilled to announce that I am now the proud co owner of Ella’s Farm Distillery and we make Dutch Barn vodka. It tastes great, It’s made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. And the best bit is this could literally make me hundreds of millions, so please buy it. Yeah.

Sure, like all strong liquor, it may damage your liver and your well being, but think how happy it’ll make me if so. And the saving the planet thing Dutch Bomb, Ricky said, I’d been looking to invest in eco friendly businesses for a while and as soon as I found Dutch Born, I want it in. I love the planet and I love a drink, so it was the perfect combination. On a serious note, Dutchborn is a really quality product. I love the fact that it’s done differently and I can’t wait to let everyone know about it.

Chris Freezer, who founded the distillery, gave some wonderful pr quote. He said, we’re so excited to have Ricky joined the team. With so many hollow celebrity cash for face brand endorsement deals out there, we’re really pleased to forge an authentic partnership with Ricky, involving both investment and creative leadership. Ricky will be an integral part of the business going forward and will help shape how Dutchborn is seen around the world. Last year, Ricky spoke to the website Joe and said, I have a glass of wine at six o’clock.

I mean, I’m looking at the clock at five to six. I just think I enjoyed doing it. I think if it started ruining your life or affecting your life, or you can’t get up the next day, then it’s probably not a good idea. In fact, it’s probably not a good idea to drink full stop and pick one SNL’s back tonight. Emma Stone joins the Five Timers Club, which I find absolutely fascinating because I was like, where do I even know Emma Stone from?

And I googled her. I’m sure she’s wonderful, and I’m like, I still don’t know who emastone is. But she’s up there with Tom Anklin, Steve Martin there, congratulations and Noah Kahan is your musical guest next week. Adam Driver, I know who that is. And Olivia Rodrigo, Oh, my daughter’s going to be very excited about that.

She doesn’t know about that yet. I will tell her. And Lorne Michael’s whipping it out for December sixteenth, the Christmas episode before the Break. Kate McKinnon and Billie Eilish. Nice, you know not that Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo is slacking?

Good bookings there, Lorne Michaels, He’s apparently good at the whole Saturday Night Live thing. Deadline caught up with Bert Krascher, who says he has a scripted series and multiple films in the works, including Fat Astronauts with Tom Sigore. I’ve talked about this before. He’s into acting, he said. When I got home from Serbia, I assume from filming The Machine he wasn’t just randomly in Serbia.

When I got home from Serbia, I will say that very candidly, I was like, I’m not an actor, but I think I want to be a movie star. I don’t think I have a passion for acting. I think I have a passion for being the center of attention. But you’ve got to know your strengths and weaknesses. He hopes to get more ambitious with his production company, Bertie Boyd Productions.

He names Kevin Hard as a role model. If anything, I’m an idea guy, and Tom sigor is an execution guy, and I’m a little bit of a sponge. I bring everything our way. Last week I told him we need to start a bedding app. One of the ideas is the Two Bears racing team that will see Tom Sagora followed passion he’s been recently entertaining.

Bert says, Tom is racing. We do have a race car. We’re definitely going to be running the Gumball three thousand this year from Cairo to Singapore. That sounds like it would be a fun TV program. Bert says, comedy’s hot.

There’s tons of theaters out there, tons of fans. None of us are slowing down. We’re all going to continue with our podcast. We’re all working on a new special. We’ve all got five projects in the Fireweight and it happened.

We’re all really happy to be here. John Mulaney shared that although he didn’t know Matthew Perry, he finds himself affected by Matthew Perry’s death. Aline He says, addiction is just a disaster. Life is a wobbly table at a restaurant and you pile all the stuff on it and it gets wobblier and wobblier and more unstable. The drug just kicked the legs out from under the table, and I really identified with his story, thinking about him a lot.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced award winning actor, comedian, and author Patton Oswalt will host the seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards seventy one Yeah apparently. The seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards takes place Sunday, March third, in LA Patton said, as a film buff, getting to highlight the hidden artisans to create movie memories as important as any moving image is a joy for me. I can’t wait for this year’s Mpsee Golden Reel Awards sounds like a crafted quote. It’s not how people speak inside. Spoke to Cheech Marin, he talked about how Chi Chi Chan came about.

I went to Canada in my early twenties as part of the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. I started doing comedy because they paid me more for doing comedy than delivering carpets, just what I was doing in Vancouver before I met Tommy Chong. We were really just trying to get paid so we can make rent. We moved to la in Our early goal was how are we going to find a dollar fifty every day? That was the amount of money we needed every day to buy a bag of rice or some beef and greens to make a Chinese meal.

We went from club to club trying to look for a gig while carrying this little red wagon with us. Whatever we found, pop bottles or soda cans would throw them in the wagon to get the five cent deposit per can. By the time we finished our journey, sometimes we wait a dollar fifty and we could go buy something to eat. That was our quest. If you want to see our motivation, that’s motivation.

I think what audience has loved about Cheechenshong is that we represented what was going on in the times in a kind of benevolent way. We learned how to create this inoffensive, pointed humor. When creating our shows. We used what we called the omniburger approach, where the show has just the right amount of meat, the right amount of tomatoes, a little bit of mustard, because you could serve it in an appetizing way. In Atlanta one day, in New York City the next Subashton Maniscalco making the rounds.

The New York Times asked him some of the things he likes. Some of the things like to buy, Sebastian Maniscalco include Italy. They have lobsters in an aquarium where the kids can look, and they have big hole fish with the eyeballs. They have a little pasta station. I asked them, okay, pick out the pasta that you want Daddy to make you tonight.

I feel like they have more of an appreciation of the food because they’re invested in it. I also want to open up their palates to different sauces on the pasta other than butter and cheese. Some guys go golfing. I like cooking for people. It’s a little nerve wracking because something could go wrong and you’ve got thirteen people over The problem with me is I like to do it too much.

I like people to be full before they even start eating the entree. Sebastian always likes surprise date nights. Sometimes you become ships passing of the night and you need that time together as a couple. So she picks a night and surprises me where we’re going to go, and then the next week I’ll pick a night and surprise her. I think it’s very important to have those date nights in a marriage that let you reconnect.

He’s also a fan of Succession, saying it’s more of a comedy for me because I find myself laughing and a lot of things they say, particularly Brian Cox who is hysterical in this thing, and Kieran Colkin the zingers that they throw out. I think I’ve got about four episodes left. Amy Pohlar is going to be doing a masterclass. Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Amy Pohlar, and I’m standing in front of a bunch of books, which means I’m smart and you have something to learn from me.

Let’s get started. Amy tells The Hollywood Reporter the principles of improv’d be more creative, more resilient, and more collaborative. My class is an attempt to show how preparing to be unprepared can add value on how we approach life and relate to other people. In Prepared to be Unprepared, Amy Poehler shares nine principles of improv, including don’t bail on your partners, don’t worry about being cool. In my class, we’re going to discuss how these improv principles affect your real life.

It’s for people working in relationship, parents, you know, how do you deal with the kind of everyday humanness of life. Yahoo asked some comedians if stand up still has a place in the age of YouTube and streaming. Angela Johnson Raya said, heck yeah, I think it’s growing. I mean, there’s always been random rooms you can go in and do stand up comedy at this cafe, car wash whatever. Car wash awesome.

But I think even more so and even more towns. But I think in even more towns comedy is growing. It used to be La or New York, like, those are the spots if you want to do stand up. Now Nashville has become a little hub for stand up comedy. There’s a thriving scene of stand up comedians out there.

She left out Austin Fortune. Fiemester said, I think stand up is bigger than it’s ever been. It’s so difficult to find availabilities at theaters every night. I just put out a ton of new dates on this tour. I’ve been touring this material for the last year.

We did the next leg of the tour and I think things like TikTok and YouTube we’re getting people a lot of exposure. They’re getting very popular from those mediums, and then they take that and they take it out on the road. The Express spoke with the creator of Father Ted and The id Krowd, Graham Lenihan. He said there’s been a chilling effect on comedy due to quote a sudden atmosphere of censoriousness. I like that word.

Graham was recently canceled due to his views on transgender people. He was banned from Twitter and had his Edinburgh Fringe show scrapped by the venue. He talked about the successes of the shows he created and said I think everybody’s beginning to realize was kind of the golden years for British comedy. I’m getting a bit nervous now that this kind of wealth of comedy that we might not see again for a while because of the sudden atmosphere of sense in what you might call a psychonic politeness that means you’re not allowed to make fun of anyone. I think there’s definitely a chilling effect.

And you know, by the lack of good comedies in the last five years, there’s very few strong ones. He said, it would be impossible to make something like the Young Ones now, he said, these people take themselves so seriously. You simply wouldn’t be allowed to be entering in a lot of these third rail issues that you’re not allowed to talk about, the trans issue, race issues. You’d have to speak about those things. But I think now if someone came up with an idea with the same kind of anarchic quality, the same kind of desire to grapple with the reality of what it’s like to be young in the UK, the moment, you wouldn’t be allowed to do it.

I mean not allowed to do it. Wouldn’t occur to you to do it, because you just wouldn’t be able to imagine getting it off. The Telegraph highlighted Father Ted’s success as being down to its gentle nature humor. Have you ever seen Father Ted. Let me see if it’s streaming anywhere.

Father Ted follows three Irish priests, the old drunk priest, the young priest who really isn’t sure he wants to be a priest, and then the main guy who’s just trying to get things going. Let’s see. There are three seasons on Roku Crackle Free V. I highly recommend Father Ted. You would enjoy it.

Graham said. We always felt if someone’s doing one kind of thing, do the opposite and we’ll stand out. And that’s what we always did. We just thought if every other character in sitcoms at the time were cynical and rude, we had characters who would say feck instead of the bad word because they’re so polite and they’re so innocent, and there’s something about that and it just allowed us to stand out from everybody. Is that where feck comes from?

My Irish friends use that word, So I don’t know if that’s a thing that then drift into Father Ted. Maybe it went the other way. Anybody from Ireland out there, let me know. Hit me up. My contact is in the show notes.

Renowned German comedian Henning When best known for his appearances on shows like eight out of ten cats. When on Twitter to vent frustrations at the exorbitant cost of renting a simple two bed flat for the duration of Fringe in twenty twenty four, Wenn said yesterday I was flat hunting for the Edinburgh Fringe. Going rate for bog standard two bedroom flat for the month seems to be nine thousand pounds. Nick Coppin has spotted a camper van on someone’s drive for seven thousand for the month. I think that’s me done with the Fringe.

Others took to the thread to say they too felt priced out of the festival. We heard a lot about this the last two years. One user said, as a punter, I’ve booked a room at student Halls in Holyrood nine nights at around nine hundred quid. The whole comedy side of things could move to Manchester Liverpool be a lot cheaper all around, Probably cheaper to get a flat in Inverness and rent a helicopter for the month. Susan Russell’s the head of marketing for the Fringe Society, and said we spent hours, days, weeks and months dedicated to this issue across our team.

Continue to do all we can in a challenging market of privately owned accommodation at a city struggling with a housing crisis. Plans proposed for the twenty twenty four Fringe including an Olympic style village by performers, as well as campsites set up around the city. Hum that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get shows. See Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was driving in the car with my daughter and she obviously knows what I do for a living. She’s like, did you see the Matt Rife plastic surgery thing? And I was like, no, do tell.

Life and Style magazine has recapped the controversy of sorts people of speculating did Matt Rife have plastic surgery. Some social media users have accused Matt of getting implants and his jaw and cheeks to give him more chiseled appearance. Matt says his face is all natural. In a July twenty twenty three interview with Access Hollywood’s Mario Lopez, Matt said the biggest lie he’s read about himself was quote that I’ve had plastic surgery. That’s the funniest thing in the world to me because I hit puberty too late.

I didn’t look like this until I was twenty three. Sorry, if you need surgery to look like that. So what does did this up? TikTok famous plastic surgeon, I guess. Doctor Benjamin Coughlin posted a video of himself quote skipping along to the song Hurricane by Bridget Mendler.

I have no idea. I just read some words. I’m so old, I have no idea what we’re talking about. Uh. The TikTok famous plastic surgeron with this song captioned it me after creating the greatest jawline ever seen, just for my patient to get canceled right after dot dot dot, He added, the comedian will not be named.

Many users in the comments inferred that it was Matt Rife. Well, Matt Rife apparently saw this, and he responded posted lying about medical history as illegal just fyi. Social media users responded to that and said, revealing yourself into your surgeon’s big post isn’t seen. He just outed himself with the comments. There are so many awards shows.

I can’t actually remember if we’ve talked about this before, but Variety was talking about the new commentwards, the Golden Globes. I don’t remember if this is new news or not, but let me tell you who they are. The numbinees are Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, John Mulaney, Baby, j Amy Schumer, emergency contact, Mark Maron from Bleak to Dark, Sarah Silverman, somebody loved Marlond Wayne’s God loves Me, Nate Bergatzy Hello World. Out of those, I would give it to Nate. The categories open to programs of thirty minutes or more released on a broad array of platforms, including broadcast, basic in premium, cable streaming, and pay per view of note.

Shows host on your social media accounts, including YouTube are not eligible. So that’s interesting. So there’s plenty of specials on YouTube, say Todd Barry, which I think is the best special deer not eligible. Sebastian manascalco out doing press for Bookie. He told USA Today, I don’t know anything other than working hard every day since I was young.

Actually, I think it’s a disease. Sebastian, Now that you’re a big time actor, would you ever stop doing stand up comedy? Interesting answer here, he said. I’ll always do stand up, but you need breaks. You can’t do stand up twenty four hours a day, three sixty five days.

You have to live your life to get your material. Chris Rock told me this. If you never make an exit, it’s hard to make an entrance. You don’t want people thinking, ah, I can always see that, guys. So maybe I do a comedy tour, go away for a couple of years to do other projects, then come back and tour interesting Kiss playing their final shows tonight and tomorrow at Madison Square Guard in New York City.

Comedian Craig Gas is celebrating this. He’ll play comic strip live on Sunday, and Gas said, I’m making fun of Kiss for an hour, but it’s with love. I’ve gotten to perform with Kiss over the years. I’ve had a strange relationship with Kiss. Apparently this started when Gas did his Gene Simmons impression on the Howard Stern Show.

Gas said that bothered Gene so much he got on a plane and flew to New York City to confront me live on the air. Shortly afterward, I was contacted by Kisses management company, who wanted to tell me that their singer Paul Stanley was my biggest fan. Then Paul Stanley started offering me gigs to perform with Kiss on this event called the Kiss Cruise. Cruise with a K. He asked Paul Stanley, you know what’s the deal here?

And Paul goes, well, let me ask you a question. How many jokes do you have about Geens Simmons? I said literally hours? And he said you got the gig, the entire show beginning, and will be my stories about my run ins with Kiss and how many times I’ve been scared to death. I was going to get murdered by Jane.

That’s awesome. Well, you know, it’s not awesome if Geene Simmons murders Craig Gas. Although in terms of content for this podcast, that’ll get me at least two three days of great articles. I worked with Craig a few times. He used to be a frequent guest on The Jim Brewer Show.

He does a really good Eddie van Halen. He lived with Eddie for a little while. I’ve mentioned this before. One of my favorite things we did was we had Billy Mira on doing David Lee Roth and Gas doing Eddie, and we announced a Van Halen reunion before Van Halen reunions actually happened. We got a little pickup on that we were just messing around.

Was fun. Robert Smigel told Salon that he never set out to be dangerous. I did set out to be satirical, and I didn’t put limits on myself. If Lauren Michaels didn’t. At SNL, Michael said, it’s a bit of meritocracy there, and when I first got there, I thought Lauren hated me for a year and I barely got rehired after the first year, which was a disastrous year.

In eighty five eighty six with Michael Hall and all these really great people. Joan Cusack was one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, a Randy Quaid. The show struggled and we were getting beaten up for the writing. Then they ended up keeping most of the writers, including me, and I survived it. Then we brought in Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks and Dana Carvey, and Norah Dunn was there, and Kevin Neal and Victoria Jackson.

It were just sketch veterans, people who were really born to do sketch comedy changed overnight. They asked Michael if there were sketches he really had to fight for some that didn’t make it, So Michael said one of those was pulled permanently. We did Michael Jackson three times. That was one of my first ideas when I went to Lorne and said, I want to go back to the show. Here’s three things I can do.

I can do the ambiguously gay, do a thing this ex President’s Cartoon and this fun with real audio thing where we take real audio and turn it into a cartoon. The fourth one was actually doing Hannah Barbara kind of cartoon characters about celebrities. The first one I pitched was Michael Jackson as kind of Yogi Bear. The way Yogi Bear kept snatching picnic baskets, Michael Jackson did the same with underage boys. Basically, that was the premise.

That’s what was going on in the nineties. The nineties were in incan time comedically, because the dam burst in the nineties. Basic Cable had joined the fray in the eighties and HBO had broken out. There was all this pressure suddenly on network television to compete with Basic Cable and pay cable to be more outrageous and reflect the real world more. Suddenly in the early nineties, the standards department was dissolved in NBC.

It came back in a much softer capacity. That happened everywhere Fox within Loving Color the kind of stuff they would do, and everybody applauded it at the time because it was considered taboo breaking and outrageous. Isn’t that great networks are loosening up? But retrospect some of the most politically incorrect things that would be perceive now, like sketches that made fun of handicapped people or gay people. Relentless kind of sketches that way.

The nineties and early zeros, I would say would be the most reflective of that time. He said, I’m still proud of the ambiguously gay due at least the concept because it was supposed to make fun of homophobia and our obsession with it. These guys gay, they seem gay, and the absurdity of carrying so much to the point where superheroes, the most heroic people in the world. All they’re trying to do is save the world, and the audience is obsessed with whether they’re gay or not. I know what’s weird.

I’ve been telling you about Evil Billing Vall. He’s disappeared. He has stopped go into the National Donut Chain. Maybe he’s a listener. I don’t know what’s going on.

It’s very strange. The Daily Show has announced their upcoming guest host Calpen and Charlamage the God will get another shot each. It’s their second time in this round of auditions Charla Maine. This week December fourth, Cal Penn December eleventh, Variety says executives at the Paramount Global Network they’re said to be eager to study audience research and get another look at how various personalities handle the job. I’ll get into that a little bit more tomorrow.

John Appatsow has a new documentary about the friendship of Don Rickles and Bob Newhart. In the twenty minute piece, Newhart and his wife reflect on their well known close friendship with Rickles and his wife, Bob and Don a love story. Where can I see this, Johnny mack, Well, you’ll have to go to the New Yorker website. Seems like that might have been a bigger thing that was supposed to air somewhere else. Hopefully we get a longer cut of that from Newsweek.

During a recent performance in a comedy club, an audience member asked Ashley Gavin, how do you feel about Israel? Gavin said, what do you mean? How do I feel about it? How the f am I supposed to feel about it? The crowdburst in a laughter, and Gavin asked, how am I supposed to make this funny?

The ghost of George Cardon could make this effing funny? What do you want me to say a rabbi and a Palestinian walked into a bar. That joke landed. Sheells your rabbi so fat in the style of a classic Yo Mama joke. Gavin is stunned by the laughter and tells the audience member, I just effing did it.

She then asked the woman if she’s also Jewish. The woman confirmed she is. Gavin tells her, you have to be. That’d be super weird if you weren’t Jewish. A Palestinian because no one just plain white is like, hey, yeah, talk about it.

We want to hear it. Most people seem to like what she said, although TikTok User five nine eight zero five three five one six nine zero seven three apparently called her ignorant. Newsweek is keeping a tally of where various people are on this issue. Celebrities who have been slammed for their support of Israel include Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp, comedians Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, actress Galgadott, and Will and Grace starre Deborah Messing. That was coming under fire for supporting Palestinians include Susan Sarandon, former adult film star at Media, Khalifa and the Incredible Hulk Mark Ruffalo from the San Francisco Gate.

Just days after comedian Daude naim Jar received the contract for a two night’s stint at a Dallas comedy club, his manager received an unexpected email from the clubs bookers. The show was off. There was no explanation, so the manager gave the venue a call. According to the report, the cancelation had something to do with Nimiyar’s recent social media posts. He told the Gate, all of my most recent posts have to do what’s going on over there, meaning Gaza.

In one sketch, he dresses up in a suit and plays a real estate agent for the fictional Israeli reality group formerly known as the Palestinian Reality Group, which advertises free recently sees land to Israeli settlers. His character says, this whole area used to be schools and hospitals, but we bombed it. He said he sat on the sketch for two weeks after shooting it because he were to be insensitive. I like to make people genuinely laugh at terrible situations. But he got enough positive feedback from Jewish and Palestinian freends he decided to release it.

He tells the Gate. If they’re stopping me from my political beliefs or my jokes, they might be doing to other Muslim comedians or other people who are in a similar stance. And Hey, you want to see somebody naked? M m. You know what I’m saying.

Once you had the Naked Comedy show in Brooklyn tonight, who are gonna see naked Johnny Mack, Nat Towsond, Madelin Murphy, Geneva rust Order, Tony Sakowski, Herbie Gill Beecher, Wanda Colon, Sarah Barnet, and Hannah Gerlander. New York City’s Naked Comedy organizer Billy Prosida says, if they were wearing the clothes, he’d still be like, this is a great lineup. Do you like creepy voice? I don’t. Billy says, you forget you’re naked.

Like a minute into it. A lot of the comics are surprised by how not weird it feels. Once they’re up there. You get like thirty seconds with the audience of them being like, hah, look, and after that first thirty they’re like, do you have jokes?

Also, anybody in the audience who is brave enough to get naked and tell a jok…

Is welcome to that’s you, dear listener, Believe it or not, a handful of attendees usually do, and the winner gets a ordered a prize. Is what are the prizes? It could be some weed? Are you allowed to just get away weed? I don’t know what the New York City laws are these days?

Or a vibrator. Billy says, the more naked the audience gets, the more fun the whole audience ends up being. Before the show, comedians are known to do pushups to tone their arms, or use a resistance band for buns of steel, and he admits sometimes the male comedians are worried about how they’ll present. Is the word that was used. That’s your comedy news for today.

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