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Caloroga Shark Media Coming he here. I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Kevin Hart is taking legal action over cheating allegations made by a former assistant. The assistant and made these allegations in an interview with YouTuber Tasha Kay. Heart’s complaint was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by People magazine.
The complaint centers on an online interview between Heart’s former personal assistant and YouTuber Tasha Kay. The assistant work for Heart’s company from August. The interview includes allegations from the former assistant that Kevin Hart had an affair at his office. She also claimed that she told Hart’s wife that Kevin was cheating on her and that the comedian had a gambling problem. A preview from the conversation was captured the interview that Kevin Hart will wish never came out.
The document alleges that November, someone affiliated with Tasha Kay contacted a representative of Heart, informing them that the interview would be damaging the Heart’s reputation. The individual stated that Tasha k would publish the interview unless Kevin Hart paid a ransom of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Heart contacted the police and issued a cease and desist order. It cited an NDA between Kevin Hart and the assistant. In twenty twenty two, musician Cardi b won a libel case against Tasha Kay, whom the rapper accused of making malicious claims against her.
Let’s stop off at Gossip Corner. According to page six, Chris Rock and TV personality Amber Rose were spotted hanging out New York City last week. Page six reports that Chris Rock and Amber Rose were all smiles during their quote unquote stroll and then made their way back to Chris Rock’s apartment. Page six says the couple did not show any signs of PDA and noted that the nature of their relationship is unknown. People are mad at Amy Schumer again.
She named her top film of twenty twenty three. She picked the movie The Zone of Interest. That is a movie about a commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was also a wacky rumor last week that Amy Schumer had been hospitalized after falling down the stairs. Not true at all.
I don’t know if you saw this video. There’s some sort of TikTok trend where you do stuff on stairs. I don’t know. I’m an old man. It’s all stupid to me.
Anyway, I’ve seen the video. In it, you see a blond woman dressed in a black long sleeve top, leggings and white socks bouncing sideways up a set of wooden stairs. Then the woman falls down the stairs. Some people said it was Amy Schumer. The caption was Amy Schumer hospitalized after attempting TikTok trend and sources say she’s in critical condition.
It was viewed over thirteen million times. It is not Amy Schumer. The gang at the av Club apparently didn’t like Ricky gervas as New Special as much as I did. It made my top twenty three of the year. They wrote, Ricky Gervais isn’t David Brent from the office.
He’s worse Aavy Club, writs Ricky Gervais Late as Netflix Special finds a new low for the once revolutionary comedian. Ricky Gervas no longer does comedian. He does grievance. Two minutes and two his latest hour long outrage bait for Netflix Armageddon. He’s talking about the backlash he generates and now he’s putting woke in his Twitter bio.
Later, amid ad libbing about Chinese people eating dogs, taking an applause break for saying that white people invented the inWORD and bragging about his nine bathrooms, he cries out f my legacy Today. Jervase starts jokes within my day and ends them with two genders alone on stage. It’s hard to imagine the types of people Jervas targets. A praid of straw men, women and children populate Jervas’s flights of fancy, but offer no truth. These are just jokes, Jervase reiterates, and therefore don’t have to make sense or, in the case of his musty Michael Jackson material, even be relevant.
They simply have to garner a wave of laughter and applause at the idea that white able body people are really the victims and all this treat people respect nonsense. I don’t think the folks at the Avy Club understood Ricky Special. It’s pretty funny. What do you want a comedy special? Debate?
Like what are we gonna do? Get up and do climate change jokes for an hour. I don’t know what people want from a stand up comedian Jim Gaffigan does his U I think they’re weekly comentary’s for CBS, and the recent one he talked about kids movies. Jim said, parenting as a series of sacrifices financial, physical, and emotional. You know how many horrible kids movies I’ve seen in the theater, Way too many.
I’ve voluntarily driven to the theater, bought multiple tickets, and sat through absolute garbage, objectively bad movies. I didn’t need to read a review. I didn’t need to watch a trailer. I knew nobody asked themselves. I wonder if the Smurfs is any good.
It’s not. They try to warn us by calling it the Smurfs. Hardest part the self censorship. After suffering through a movie like My Pretty Pony, any censured being would need to turn to someone and say, well, that was painful. But you can’t say that’s an eight year old, so you smile and go, hey, what did you think?
Yeah? I hope they make another one too. Vulcher wrote about the rise of crowd work crowd Work. They even have a photo castioned three of the most notable anti CrowdWork comedians. They are Kyle Kanaan, Mark Marin and Joe Parra.
In an October episode of Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird, Pete was speaking with guest Sam Jay about crowd work and they agree that they I hate it and the crowds are roudier. Sam Jay said, they absolutely think they’re part of it now and they’re like, I’m giving you a leg up culture writes. Over the past year and change, comedians have gone meta with the trend by needling crowdwork’s laziest tropes and satirizing CrowdWork using crowd work itself. An example the Gary Golman bit that I told you about yesterday, I won’t do it again. Maren recently started doing some crowd work, but not before offering the caveat that his crowd work would be pure and honest and boiled down to what crowd work really is.
He’s a Dynasty typewriter in LA and he starts asking audience members basic questions, then mocks their responses with intentionally juvenile insults. One tells him his name is Joshua, and that’s met with a reply of that’s effing stupid. Another says he’s originally from LA and he gets a reply of that’s where we are now, stupid content that he’s generated enough content. Mark Maron triumphally collects his phone from the audience member declares there’s like three tittok videos. In Joe Parra’s twenty twenty three special Slow and Steady, he pretends to engineer a spontaneest moment by abruptly asking the audience anyone here bang he used the F word.
Para instructs the camera operator to turn the camera around and proclaim Chappelle would probably like that. Crowd work. Australian comedian Sam Campbell started doing some crowd work and asked an audience a member, what is that a jumper? Or what is that they do that? For another thirty seconds or so, I beat passes in Campbell Declaire’s We’ve got a destigmatized crowd work.
I’m trying to talk to this lady. You think I like her stupid hoodie? It’s the worst hoodie I’ve ever seen. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it.
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