Month: March 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media Mappy Easter. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I thought i’d try something new today. Since it’s Easter, with people on holiday mode, the numbers will be down a little bit, so I’m like, all right, this will be a fun day to try something different. It’s festival seasoned down in Australia.

The Melbourne Festival will just starting to get in a full swing and then the Sydney Festival will follow that up. The Australian ABC asked a bunch of comedians what other comedians they were into. So what today is going to be is me rattling off comedians. I’d be stunned if you’ve heard of anybody I mentioned today. Of the entire list, there was only one comedian on the entire list that I was familiar with.

So this is educational for me. I’ve pulled a lot of clips, so it’s going to be me talking, then say a minute from everybody. I thought it might be interesting to learn about some new comedians. A couple observations as I put this together. So many comedians with Hey I’m from insert town you never heard of.

Hey I’m from scalawawrogu. Have you guys heard of it? They all do that same joke. It’s very strange, and then they either slam Melbourne or Sydney.

Also, as I pull these clips, I want to be fair to the comics.

I’m pulling a minute or so and usually their first minute. So if you’re listening to this podcast, do you understand how comedy works and things ebb and flow, So it might not be a fair representation of their work. But I also don’t want to play, you know, thirty minute clips from people. Mel Buddle was working as a high school teacher in Brisbane when she made it to the Raw Comedy National Final in two thousand and eight. She was twenty sixteen.

She didn’t win, but she said it fell at Christmas. I had my first flat white and ate at Pellegreenies. I was completely swept up in the magic of the comedy Festival. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It blew me away.

Little o Me a mere mortal was in the same sushi shop as David o’dherty. Here is mel Buddle at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Note the local humor and wow, wait this is nice. Nice to be here. Isn’t it.

Because I live in a place called Ipswich in Queensland, so whoo yes, And it’s nice to be somewhere nice. If you haven’t been to Whipswitch in Queensland, it’s a little bit of a bit polv right, it’s a bit of a rat hole, like I don’t know what your nearest rat hole is. Let’s just I don’t know. We’ll say Sydney for now. There’s no there’s no purebred dogs.

You know those suburbs where everything’s a Staffie cross, Staffy goss Kelpie staffa goss border Collie and I Staffy goss laborat or some of the kids are Staffy cross. There’s no purebred dogs. We can’t afford them. And if you do see one, it’s a German shepherd. That’s a police dog.

Out of the way. Ah. That was Melbutle, who says I really love brownwind Cuss. Whenever she’s available, I ask her to open for me. She’s dry as a bone with a deadpan delivery that really allows her brilliant joke writing to shine through.

She has a joke about Tina Or that makes me chuckle on myself on a weekly basis. Here is that joke from the Melbourne Comedy Festival twenty twenty three. All right, I’ll go first. I guess I think you’ve got to be careful what you say to people, right, Like some stuff, some stuff really sticks. Yeah, Like for me, when I was fifteen, someone said to me, she said, hey, you know Tina Arena.

I said, yeah, I know, Tina Arena. She said, well Tina not even her real name. Her real name Pena, Pena Arena. If anyone out there is waiting for a punchline, it’s Peena Arena. Reese Nicholson says, in terms of a lovely schmorgasboard of new babies, I feel professionally threatened by Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Zone is always a sure thing.

Here’s Reese Nicholson at the Sydney Comedy Festival. It is so genuinely nice to be like out and about doing things again, like because remember at the beginning of everything a few years ago, and let’s not talk about it, but like at the beginning of everything, i’d friends when the lockdown started, I’d friends that really used that time. I don’t think I’ve ever used time like I’d friends that like you know, you got really fit during the lockdowns, transformed their bodies. Me. No, I’ve been in a relationship with the same man for over a decade.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we locked the doors and we started drinking like it was jonestown, Like I oh, I’ve never given up with such a band and in my entire life, like what a thrill. I reckon for six to nine months. So the closest we came to any kind of exercise was we once tried to have sex under a weighted blanket, and it’s the least anxious I’ve been during sex. An agent recent Joris is Luca Miller and says I wouldn’t really call him an up and coming anymore, but Luca Miller always needs more attention. His show this year has a wonderfully Bonker’s conceit.

He’s a good boy. Here is Luca Miller. He did everyone have a good Christmas? It’s pretty deep into the year for that question, for sure. Middle of April, I had a great Christmas.

I went back to the town that I grew up in. I grew up in regional Victoria, a town called a Chuka. Do you guys know a Chuka. Yes, yes, yes, that’s good. People always have some connection to it.

A few weeks ago go I was like, I’ve been there. I was like, what did you do there? He goes, I’ve played paintball and I don’t know anyone knows, but quite a good thing happened at the paintball place in a Shuga a few years ago. So I was like, cool, man, when was that when it was a paintball He’s like, oh, maybe about five years ago. I’m like, that’s good.

And it makes sense because three years ago the guy who ran the paintball place and a chooka went to jail for selling math and he said, yeah, when I was there, he tried to sell me math. Beautiful town, most intense payball games in the state. Nina Oyama says, I love being asked for recommendations because there are so many great up and coming comedians who deserve your attention and money.

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Now here’s Nina.

As I listen to, I’ll tell you what I think afterwards. Hey, hey guys, oh my god, I didn’t expect so much supplause. This is really cool. Yeah, it’s really cool. I love I love Sydney, I love living here.

But Before I moved to Sydney, I lived in Bathist. Has anyone heard of Bathist? All right? Yeah, Bathist is Like it’s like famous for the car racing, you know, like the Bathist one thousand races, and less famous for like the Bathist one thousand racists. But oh, I’m half Asian, by the way, Like that’s why my face is weird.

Yeah, my dad’s Japanese. So he flew hey blue here and then I agree here, taut looks I didn’t want to poison your brain there. I feel like she’s reciting her material rather than performing it. I’m not a performer. I feel like she’s memorial Obviously everyone’s memorized their act, but for example, I’m working off my coworker of mine used to call it script helper.

I’m not totally reading to you. I’m looking at the words and I’m trying to talk them. I feel like she has memorized everything and is just reciting it, if that makes sense me. And it’s all the ABC. It’s an incredible feeling to witness a new comedian’s rise to fame, and an even better feeling when he gets a smugly say I saw them back at twenty twenty four when they performed at a venue that’s used as a carpet store room for the other eleven months of the year.

I do that, Guilty, Guilty. This is more common than you think, and to their credit, carpet roots do make surprisingly good settings for comedy. Anyway, take a punt on any of these shows. They are well worth your while and many are in actual proper venues. You’ve heard me say this before about comedy fests, like if you want to see Chris Rock, Chris Rock’s great, you can also see Chris Rock on Netflix.

Go see Somebody Haven’t heard of? She recommends. Alexandra Hudson. I like this clip a lot from the Melbourne Comedy Festival. A little bit about me.

I was born Sandwich between my brother and my sister, so each year on our birthday, I call and thank them for the brain damage. You can laugh, they’re not here, Yeah, so that’d make me crip lead. People always ask me what it’s like being a triplet, but honestly, I’ve got more in common with my ninety six year old grandmother then I do my fellow triplets, because me and my grandmother we show a lot of the same ailments like she has bunions and I have bunyans. She uses a walker. I used to use a walker.

She often pushed me around on her walker when I can’t be bothered walking anymore. Yeah, we have a really great thing going. We sit back all everyone in our family does everything for us. Next up we have Zoe comes More. Here she is at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

And what I like is she comes right out and starts, no work in the audience, just grabs the make boom and we’re in. So you know, when you’re on magic mushrooms, you know he knows, and yeah he knows, and you know that thing, right, that thing that happens. You know, say you take the mushrooms at like eight forty five and then four and a half hours later it’s eight forty six. What’s up with that? That’s what twenty twenty was like.

My girlfriend and I moved to Melbourne at the beginning of twenty twenty. It’s weird because we’ve lived in Sydney for about fifteen years, but somehow we’ve lived in Melbourne longer. So weird. Yes, I did, it’s a girlfriend. I am a lesbian.

Best to clarify that early. It can be confusing, can’t it? Like? Is she lesbian or just from the country boat? Hey?

Double? Where me? I am very high up in my coven. Will Zoe recommends Lou Wall. Lou’s been doing great stuff for years and their show this year is the wrongest list of life affirming, dumb stuff you never know you needed, delivered via internet memes and musical comedy by an eight foot talk queer comic from Kuma.

What morek could you want?

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I directed that one, so don’t let it put you off. Unfortunately there is no clip of Lou Wall available, but the show’s called The bisexuals Lament and it’ll be at the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s next guy. I like a lot. I did make an edit here because of an F bomb, but boy he’s got presence.

This is Dilbrook Jaya Sinna. I believe, I hope I got that right. It’s truly nice to be back back on stage, back in Melbourne. I actually, I actually one of the few people that get to say it’s nice to be back in Australia because I’m one of the lucky people that just flew internationally Yeah, I just got in from Perth and it’s just nice to be back on home soil two years of a pandemic. Two years ago.

I was the last sort of international flight I took, and that was to South Africa to go into a jungle for the TV show I’m a celebrity, Get me out of here. But when I went in, they were going to change the name too. Is he a celebrity? Should he be here? I had a small profile, right, and of course they start kicking people off the show, and the bigger the profile you have, the longer you stay because the audience picks up the phone votes for the people they like.

Right now, I still knew that I was going to go all the way to the end, and that’s not arrogance. I just know how the game works because it’s voted by the Aussie public that these days consist of so many immigrants. Haha. You think people from India, Schulankan, pakistan A voting for Randa Birch. It’s like that meme you know, Carol’s by candlelight curries by candlelight Steel.

Rox says, there are two bronze that I’m in awe of bron Lewis has only been doing comedy for a handful of years, but her command of the stage and skills and make you think she’s a seasoned veteran who’s been doing stand up for decades. And the joke writing in Bronwin Cuss, a show last year, made my own material feel like an open micer’s. We heard braun Win Cuss earlier. Here’s bron Lewis at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. A lot of buzz on her and she is the one comic I had heard of before I put this together.

Note I did take out a short phrase of her material here because of an F bomb. Heh, Hello, Hello God, it’s good to be out. I am living with a blunke at the moment who doesn’t speak English. I know this is very unpopular to say, but it’s really annoying. I mean, he has only just turned two.

You’ve been here your whole life. You know, I similate you, baby. You know we’re trying to teach him how to speak English. We are we trying to We’re teaching him words he needs to know to survive, you know, because we do want him to survive. He’s a beautiful baby.

We love him so much, but mostly we want him to survive because we don’t want to start again. You know, we are. We’re teaching where to survive, like food. When he’s hungry, he says food, great, nailed it. When he’s thirsty, We’re trying to teach him how to say water.

It’s having a hard time with that one. Because we pronounce it water, he pronounces it puta. That’s a bit funny because the cultured people in the room, we know that puta in Spanish means whore. Love it back in a second. Will Anderson up next.

This is a Greek clip. I had to make several edits for the f bombs, but hopefully you get the gist here. Love this clip. I tried not to get mad at the Americans for making stuff up about our country, because, let’s be honest, I also make up stuff about our country, particularly when I’m overseas, because people think I’m an expert in Australia just because I’m from here. But you don’t know everything about here just because you’re from here and they want to know about stuff it’s not my area of expertise.

They don’t ask me about the dark Knight trilogy. They asked me about like Koalas. I’m like, well, I can tell you about doctor who. They’re like, no, Koalas, that’s all they want to know. And I’ve been spreading misinformation because I didn’t really I wasn’t an expert, and I just was passing on what i’d heard.

And I’d heard this is my favorite thing I’d heard about Koala’s was they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day. And the reason they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day is you canalypt as leaves. I only give them enough nutrition to be awake for the remaining hours. But the reason they like you canalypt as leaves is you calypt as leves get them high. And I was like, I love Koala’s high half.

I was like, that is the best evolutionary choice of all time. One day, one Koala’s looked at the other Koala and gone, hey, Bill, you know what, after our next nap, get out of the tree and get some more nutritious thing and then we could like work more during the day. And Bill’s like, We’ve made our choice, mate. We’ve sleep fight in to twenty two hours and then we get high and we hang out in a tree and we’ll like, oh my god, I’m fluffy. Why are you making trouble?

Mike? Why are you I failing this? Will says I think of all the shows I saw last year’s Melbourne, Bronwin Cuss was my favorite. Right, that’s the third time Bronwin’s been mentioned. Such a relaxed style and great jokes.

Lou Wall is definitely a new favorite. Their Facebook marketplace piece is genius and I’m looking forward to seeing a whole hour of them. Tom Walker has been around for a while now, but still one of the most inventive and surprising comedians on the scene. I think Prue Blake is definitely someone to watch, great smart jokes in a dry delivery. Here’s Prue at Melbourne.

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship recently. Friendship it’s meant to be the thing that makes your life better, right, But for me, it’s just been very hard and difficult to maintain. And like, I know, like I was never the popular girl in school. I was never that hot girl, you know, the girl that kind of like marched to the beat of her own drum, like everyone wanted to do what she was doing. Everyone wanted to wear what she was wearing.

Everyone wanted to say what she was saying. You know, she marched that beat of her own drum, but the beat of her drum was the BPM that makes house music people go absolutely feral. She had like, did your school have that girl? No? If your answer is no, then you were that girl.

And I’m thrilled that you came. So I’m Gleason. Clip next from Melbourne twenty seventeen. I had to make several edits for f bombs. Here the topic is the Wiggles.

I don’t like the setup. I don’t know if you know they’ve done They’ve rebooted it. I’ll talk you through it. This is what they’re doing now right Anthony, he’s still there at the Blue Wiggle, He’s still there right. Then there’s Simon.

He’s the Red Wiggle. He used to be an opera singer or something. He’s like, hello, Kudes, boom boom, boom boom, you’re creeping me out, Simon. You’ve got dead eyes, mate. Then there’s Lockie.

He’s the Purple Wiggle. There’s no Jeff anymore, Lockie, there’s no wake up Jeff anymore. It’s Wyke. Up Lockie doesn’t even sound right? Does it?

Wake up? Lockee? Actually stay asleep. Then there’s Emma. There’s a girl wiggle.

Now there’s a girl wiggle. Now what has his country come to? Wiggling is a man’s job. You can’t trust a woman with this. Tom Gleason tells us, I’ve got one recommendation, and that is Jenny Tann.

I saw her at the Adelaide Fringe. Saw a lot of shows there, maybe twenty shows, and maybe another five shows at the Perth Fringe. It was my favorite out of all them. Jenny’s fresh, she’s young. She was talking about stuff that I don’t think about, which I like.

She’s very funny. Obviously she’s got a good story to tell. She had just gotten into stand up when the pandemic started, so she had to put her plans on hold for a couple of years. In the past the time she did TikTok and accidentally on purpose, became famous, so she’s got this huge TikTok following. It was fascinating when I saw her in Adelaide.

The crowd was on board right from the top, and everybody seemed to know her from TikTok. They already liked her personality, but I think the thing that makes her cut above is that she’s a really good stand up. I’m not on TikTok, and I understood the whole show. I really enjoyed it, so she’s really good at including people. I liked this clip a lot.

This is Jenny Tan at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. I also like, as I mentioned before, she gets right to it, grabs some Mike goes, doesn’t go like, hey, Melbourne, how we don’t just boom right into the material? That’s how I like my comics to do it. I wanted to play a lot more from her, but she started to get a little dirty about boobs, so I had to cut this a little shorter than I wanted to. But I like this a lot.

Allo, you are such a beautiful audience. By the way, not all audiences are so nice, right Like, I did a gig the other day and there was actually someone that came up to me after the show and they were like, you know, your English is actually quite good, and I found that very condescending because it was my mom. So I’d be curious with what you thought of today’s episode. Hopefully you enjoyed. It’s something a little different and you got a lot more stand up than you usually get.

Let me know in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group would be curious at what you thought of today’s show. All right, normal episodes tomorrow there’s something a little different to break things up. Happy Easter and I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media with all other problems in the world solved. A debate broke out on Good Morning Britain about whether audiences should be allowed to take a toilet break during a comedy show or not. High I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Comedian Kane Brown said getting up to use the toilet distracts others. Broadcaster Anime Megan said it’s a human right.

This debate comes after Frankie Boyle told venue staff not to allow people back into a show if they go to the bathroom after his act has started. Caane Brown, the comedian, said, I agree. I’m with Frankie. It’s really disruptive. As a comedian.

The one thing we requires attention, that’s all we ask. Your attention will do the rest. Getting up to use the toilet, we’re using your phone distracts other people and it distracts us on stage. I’ll I agree about the phone, but come on, I might have to go to the bathroom when you want. Anime, the TV host said it’s up to the comedian to make the audience pay attention and suggested that if the folks are going to the loo, maybe they’re bored.

It’s a human right to go to the toilet. You’re not doing hamlet. You’re getting ankled, I assume, and you’re heckling back. Why can’t people use the toilet King, the comedian said, it’s use of the people in the middle row and they have to excuse themselves. They have to go stand up.

They’re rubbing their nether regions on the back of people’s necks. It’s distracting. And of the host said, if you go to a common space to see a comedian or any show, you have to understand there are people on either side of you that might need something. The comedian said, you don’t respect the art form of comedy. If you have a problem with your bladder, sit in the back or on an aisle.

What do you think? Let me know. On the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Bill Burr was talking about the current comedy scene and what he’s seeing at the clubs and he said, in one corner of the hipsters and skinny jeans and buddy hollyglasses or playing or a room of people who look just like them. In the other corner, the hard working club comics slung punchlines in front of a brick wall, working the room and taking on the hecklers. Bill Burr was in the latter group, and by twenty twelve he’d had enough of the nerds who condescended on the regular folks who told good old fashioned jokes.

Burr on his podcast that I really can’t wait for the backlash on nerds. I’ve had it with them embracing the fact that they’re awkward, to the point of pretending to be awkward even when you’re not. The alternative comedy scene is like the hair metal scene in late nineteen eighty nine. We’re about a year away before Nevermind’s gonna come out. They’re all going to be scurrying.

I can’t effing wait. He finds the alt scene homogenized. That’s what I don’t like about. Okay, no heckling, no drugs, no obnoxious behavior, no aggressiveness. The alt scene eliminated every reason it takes Cojones to be a comedian, every reason people want to be a comic.

But never effing did it you remove from that situation. They’ve just created this bleeping comedy womb. It’s like a radio station. It’s not even a crowd. It’s like an effing radio station.

I only performed at hipster’s age eighteen to twenty four, where skinny loose jeans that have black framed glasses. When the jokes don’t go over the act like the crowd is dumb. He compared alt comics to specialists like long snappers on a football team. You can only probably one fing position, and you turn around. You blame the crowd burst fed up with the amount of shots over the effing years that they’ve taken up a club comics like we’re all a bunch of hacks talking about airplane food, like they’re above us.

Then you go do some benefit or some comedy festival. They put club comics and all comics together, and what happens. All the all comics go on early. That’s who gets to mop up in the end, two hours on thefing show a club comic. Just for the record, the all scene was started by club comics.

All those guys, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Dana Gould, Mark Marin Beasts, all of them. They could perform in off track betting and they could have a great set. But he says that first wave has created a generation of comedy nepo babies. They’re almost like rich kids who have kids. They struggle up through all this stuff and then they just have these kids in their first cars.

Like a Maserati. They wrap it around a pole and there’s no ramifications. Love it. Larry David was on Rick Eisen’s show. Apparently Larry David doesn’t like kicking in football.

It’s old, Rick, guys. And you know about the UFL. It’s starting up. It’s a spring football league, and you know how I feel about the Gold Pulse, right. I thought, let me talk to somebody in the UFL.

I mean, it’s insane. So my agent got me on the phone with Dwayne Johnson. Johnson is the face of the UFL. I think he’s a major investor. I don’t know, doesn’t matter.

Why doesn’t he like kicking. Suppose there was a baseball game and there were two parallel bars and deep center field that were twelve feet apart, and you could get a guy off the bench to hit a fung go and if you got it through the bars, you’d get a run. I mean, what’s the point, has nothing to do with the game. I kind of like that idea better than the ghost Runners. Nick Swartzen describes a stand up comedy as it’s like crack, but instead of a pipe, you have a mic.

I’ve never done crack, but when I’ve done with stand up, there’s a solid fallback plan. Film is way different than stand up. You have to work on a script, go in a pre production film, edit market and then see how it goes take over a year. Stand up is immediate. I can write a joke, go on stage at night and see if they hate it.

Film I have to wait for a year to critics to tell me to have off. Brad Williams spoke to Nouveau dot Net about being a father and they were curious about the difference between being a father and being a comedian. Brad said, it’s two different characters. When I’m on the road doing theaters, it’s rockstar life. There are thousands of people were excited to see.

There’s cheering, the people want to meet you. There’s everybody at the theater who’s like, whatever you need. Then you get home and no one gives a hoot that you just sold thousands the tickets and made a lot of money. All it is is getting up, making breakfast with the kid, walking her to school, and doing stuff during the day. The wife doesn’t care, the kid doesn’t care, nobody cares.

I don’t know if I’m balancing family and work correctly. The people on my work side would say I’m doing too much family, and my family would probably say I’m doing too much work, which means I’m probably doing it right if both sides are unhappy. TJ. Miller was on the Loud at Wire at Nights podcast, DJ said, I listen to rock albums growing up, but I also listen to stand up comedy albums. I listen to Steve Martin’s a Wild and Crazy Guy and comedy is not pretty, Bob Newhart.

I listened to Lenny Bruce, even Richard pryor George Carl and all those guys were so amazing. I love a room full of strangers all getting together and laughing and really enjoying something that they can all equally love. Steph Tolev told WPR one of her big influences was Kids in the Hall. I like Goofy. When I think comedy can be so over the top, it becomes funnier to me.

Her current tour is called Fifth Queen, and she said, somebody really worded my comedy very well. She’s like, you’re so gross, but you’re so goofy that it makes it not as gross.

Also, I am gross.

I think like this. It’s not like I’m trying to be gross. I’m a very open person. I’m very sexual. I talk about that stuff very openly, and I think people do too, but they just like to say that they don’t.

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The Melbourne and Comedy Festival continues. Oh so tomorrow I did a special episode. Tomorrow is a deep dive on up and coming Ozzy. So tomorrow is me going, hey, here’s somebody and a clip, and here’s somebody else you haven’t heard of in a clip. So it’s clearly a pre tape to accommodate Easter, but I think it came out really well.

So if you want to get turned on to some new folks, that’s tomorrow. And the Melbourne Comedy Festival continues. Now, since tomorrow’s already in the can, I’ll do two days worth here and as I’ve mentioned, because of the way time zones work, I have to stay a day in advance, So Sunday, March thirty one in Australia like this show title one hundred and one Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people. The Amazing Drumming Monkeys, the show for little kids. I’m curious.

I’m clicking why they it’s out. It is Australia’s favorite little kid’s puppet show. The Monkeys have performed at festivals and events all over the world. It’s monkeys drumming looks like the kind of thing you’d see over by the two Can show at Disney World. You know what I’m talking about.

It it’s like that, well, like a thing you’d see it chuck e cheese. But it’s drumming monkeys. Why not a lot of kids shows tomorrow? Bubble Show in Space after completely selling out their Melbourne run in twenty twenty three, Doctor Bubble and Milkshake return with their most amazing Bubble adventure yet. Milkshake wants a star from space, so she and Doctor Bubble travel to outer space in a bubble rocket that launches to the sky to see if they can get her one.

Perth Happenings gave it five stars. Fort to the Future fart’s are not my thing, but I clicked on this Far to the Future. Jed and Jamie’s friend, Doc Hockinbottom are lost in time, and the only way to rescue him is to use the farts of famous historical figures to travel through time. Suitable for audiences six through twelve and fifty four years old. Appearently, all right, let me get out of the kids section and scroll down here and find some stuff for adults.

Michael Chamberlain’s completely incomplete history of Australian rules football. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining intelligent. This guy is funny of these little reviews Best of British, So like, I’m not going to go to Australia to see Best of British. But I guess if I lived in Melbourne that would be cool, right, Yes, Boats and bogans one of my favorite words that I discovered last year. I wasn’t familiar with it.

There’ll be stories and there’ll be stomach hurting, get spewing, pants peeing. The Adelaide Show gave it four stars, saying great snapshot of Adelaide’s comedy scene some actual stand up with a clip Cecilia Porcola’s I’m as surprised as you are. Let’s listen. One day, I got up in the morning and one of my flatmates was in the kitchen making breakfast, and I went morning and she went mate, yeah, and she goes, I gotta tell you I heard you having sex last night. And I was like, well great, this is embarrassing because I was not having sex last night.

Not even a little bit. She goes, yeah, I’ll figured it out. What had happened was she has a tiny dog right at Chiawa Crosspapion. Its head is smaller than my fist. Okay, it sleeps in her room with her.

Somehow it got stuck outside her bedroom door, so it was crying and scratching at her bedroom door, and she heard that sound. I have a tiny dog crying and scratching, and when that’ll be sillious, bleeping, bleeping. I had a clip it there. She dropped an F bomb, but the punchline there was you know, doing the stuff. Ooh, it was close, very funny clip like her.

Kirsty weback, I’ll be the judge of that also has a clip for us. Let’s check this out. Hello, Hello, besties. I’m not one of those comedians who singles out people in the audience and thought I has a chat to them. You know, we’ve all been to one of those shows before the comedians gotten up on stage and they’d be like, what do you do?

And we’re like, oh, no, I wish I did something better, you know, and then they just rinse them for ten minutes in front of their tinder day like I don’t really do it, like no shade on other comedians, but I think it’s a little bit cheeky. You know. We’re like, buy a ticket, come and support my career, watch my show. Oh no, you are the show, you know, but we are. We’re one of the few modes of entertainment that does it.

And I actually went to the ballet recently because I’m a real culture vault. That is not true. I went to the ballet because I was tricked into it by mate. And this is how she tricked me. She suggested we attend the ballet in the fun voice.

You might be aware of the fun voice. It’s a little bit quicker. It’s a little bit high pitched, which should be in the ballet. It gets me every time. I was like, hell, yeah, let’s go to the ballet.

A couple of days later, I was looking at my bank account and I was like, why are we going to the ballet again? I want to remind everybody when I pull these clips, I’m basically pulling the first minute, and you know, she may be building into something there. I don’t know. Boy, there’s like seventy more shows if I scrolled down, but I got to do two days worth here. So let’s see who’s playing on Monday, April first in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first.

Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry. All right, what’s this? Experienced the wonder of world class wizardry in the realm of messenger, owls, robe, wizards and flying broomsticks. Not sure what’s going on there, but it’s fun. At the Basement Comedy Club, Ben Knight and Friends Educators.

Their logo is a chalkboard with educators who are no that caught my eye ever wondered what teachers think about you and your kids? Joined Ben Night as he hosts a lineup show of educators who have since become stand up comedians. That’s fun. Weird Al Piano Bar, what’s this? Come?

Worship at the Shrine of Yankovic with Milburn’s silliest sing along. Weird Al Piano Bar venerates the undisputed king of the pop parody song weird Al with lyrics projected on the screen. Here’s your chance to sing, shout and praise his Holy name. No actual weird Al, It’s just weird al karaoke. All Right, this podcast is going to be endlessly long if I keep going here, So let me get to more news.

Rachel Senat she’s been the it girl lately in the movies. She’s getting a show on HBO a pilot anyway. In untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition, and new relationships have changed them. Ari Spears wants to make it clear that he has nothing against Lebron James. He said to me, Lebron’s in my top five?

Do I think he’s better than Michael Jordan. No, I don’t give an f if he scores eighty thousand points. He’s been in the league since preschool. As popular as Lebron is, is he globally famous like on the Love of Jordan? No?

Has he impacted the game of the Love of Jordan. No. He also noted how Michael Jordan revolutionized the sponsorship part of basketball with their Jordan sneakers. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, they might look at you.

Tomorrow’s episode is pretty cool. Hope you enjoy it. Would love some feedback on it on the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Happy Easter and see you tomorrow and Monday.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Shonnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sever Have you heard of him? Hall of Fame picture, best known for being a picture on the New York Mets. So when Tom Seaver was late in his career, he’s pitching a game and the pitching coach comes out and says, you don’t have your best stuff today, you got nothing?

And sever goes, yeah, and he gestures at the hatter and he goes. But they don’t know that that, my friends, was yesterday’s podcast. For scheduling reasons, I needed to tape both yesterday and today, and after all the twenty minute episodes I’ve done lately. Naturally, when I was prepping the show on Wednesday, there was almost nothing new, and I was like, ah, you’re kidding me. Couldn’t like Kat Williams say something about somebody or something.

Now, I had some stories. Today, I had plenty. I’d planned on pre taping today, so I have plenty for today Today’s real Yesterday, I was like, all right, let me see if I can check and jive and get through this. And it worked. It was a pretty good episode of the fifteen hundred or so I’m not sure it was the greatest episode, but it was perfectly fine, so I was happy with how that came out to.

Doug Benson has already been scheduled for the Tower City Comedy Festival. You know when that is? January twenty twenty five. Then has this super early. It’s in Paris, Texas, three nights, fifteen plus shows, one hundred plus comics.

Sounds fun. Doug Benson is your headliner, Johnny, Sure you’re not bluffing today because you led with Doug Benson’s playing a show nine months from now? Are you sure you’re not bluffing today. I’m not bluffing today. This is a high quality episode.

Steve Martin’s new documentary is out Apple TV plus been telling you about this one. It’s in two parts. The first part focuses on Steve’s comedy. The second part the movies and the banjo and the Hall of Fame lamp and all that. I’ll watch part one.

Bill Maher says, what I’ve decided to do is not preemptively give up my nervous system to Donald Trump like I did last election cycle, or maybe the last two times. If he wins, he wins, I’ll do everything I can to make sure that doesn’t happen, but none of them have much influence. The country’s polarized. It’s like a prison yard. You’re either on one team or the other.

Everybody says they want to be in the middle, but really they just go to their corners. So either trumpill Winterer he won’t, and then he becomes president. Either he’ll blow up the world or put me in Guatanamo Bay or whatever. I just can’t worry about it constantly. Paley Fest announced a few moderators.

Jet Apatow will moderate Curb Your Enthusiasm on Thursday, April eighteenth. Patton Oswalt will moderate The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Saturday, April twentieth. Some casting news from This is Spinal Tap. Lars Ulrich, you know him from Metallica, and Chad Smith that’s the guy from Red Hot Chili Peppers. They’re gonna play drummers in the sequel too.

This is spinal Tap. Now, if you saw the first one Spinal Tap, drummers tend to die.

Also in the sequel, Fran Drescher’s back, Rob Reiner’s back, new editions to …

Paul Schaeffer isn’t Schaeffer in the first one. Did I imagine that? Yeah, Paul plays are you fucking? In the original? Yeah?

All right, I didn’t imagine that. Maybe I just think at reading comprehension. Anyway, Shaffer is in the sequel. Here in the sequel, we catch up with Spinal Tap. They reunite for one final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.

They originally wanted to release this this month for the fortieth anniversary of the original film March of eighty four, but there was a strike, delay and stuff, and the movie still does not have a release date. Steph Tolev spoke to w p R and they said, crowd work is where Steph really shines. By the way, some of us were talking about David Tell’s CrowdWork at Tell is the best. Did you watch it Tell specially? Yet?

Watch it Tell Special number one special? Year? Heckle. Steph tolav at your own risk her most viral videos of a man who overstepped and then left the theater. She tells the story.

It was at the comedy store. I was in another room, so I missed what happened at the beginning of the show. So I came in. I was talking to this couple, and they ended up not being a couple. They were like Boston employee.

Then someone else yealed out. He sponsored the show move on with this tone that was so rude for no reason, and he left. So I got mad because I was like, you can’t heckle me and leave. Sorry, I now this works. You want to kill me?

You stay in the room, you deal with it. I convinced the host at the end of the show to bring me back up. I was so pumped to go back on stage. The crowd went nuts too. They was bet up there.

The heckler slunk away once more. Steph says, then he ended up being route to me after texting a guy whose showed was still making fun of me. I was like, yeah, your chance, you wasted it. Sorry, you can’t be a troll. You troded me to my face.

This is what happens, Johnny. You assure you that trying to pull a CEV here this These stories sound pretty generic from the BBC You’re for Comedy News. Ed Gamble has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber in his advertisements on the Subway. He has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber. You dirty listener, I know what’s in your mind right now, hot dog, cucumber.

Don’t act like it’s not. You’re thinking about food. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking about. So Ed Gamble had used a hot dog in his advertisement for a stand up tour. Hot Diggity dog makes sense to me.

However, Transport for London aka TfL does not allow foods high in fat, sugar and salt to be advertised on its network. Really, a spokesperson for TfL said, following a review the advert, we advise that elements would need to be removed to and short complied with our policy. This is somebody’s job. On Instagram at Gamble describe the incident as a career highlight, adding eat your greens kids. So he removed the hot dog and put in a cucumber, but his team kept the ketchup and mustard.

Gamble said, I actually don’t have a problem with the TfL regulations. They make sense to me, but the new posters promote something way more harmful. The idea of the cucumbers pairwell with ketchup and mustard. I’m not sad to have them remove the hot dog. It was only featured on the poster because I wanted to eat during the photoshoot.

Hopefully it’s not too late to change the title of the show to Q Diggity Cucumber. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you by Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. It’s a podcast, Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. I love this one. I just wrote a bunch of episodes for it the other day, so I won’t even read the proper copy.

I’ll tell you what we’re doing here. You pick a monster, say King Kong, and then we explain how King Kong would kill you. Then we get into the plausibility of all right, could there be a giant gorilla? How would that work in science and stuff? We take a look at that, and then we’d take a look at the monsters in popular culture.

Are there movies with such a monster? A lot of fun. It was originally a throwaway idea. I said to my business partner Mark, I’m like, let’s do monster, sharks and dinosaurs. So that was the extent of the idea, and then when I sat down to actually write them, it came out a lot more fun and a lot smarter than I thought.

So this morning I was writing episodes about the Dracula, frank Stein’s Monster, the Mummy. We have episodes about Jaws and Jurassic Park. You know, sharks, dinosaurs. So the show is called Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

Where you get your podcast? Check that one out. The CBC says Just for Laughs has been a launch pad for Canadian comedians. What happens to us without it? Comedian Sam’s Faraza writes, a few weeks ago, I was feeling pretty good about being a Canadian comic.

I’d flown out to perform on a taping for Just for Last Vancouver as part of the next season. We see gyms that the new wave of stand up series. The morning of my filming, on a typically drizzly Vancouver day, I wrapped myself at a complimentary hotel robe. I treated myself to room service. Life was good.

Then the JFL announcement. My first thought was, what a devastating blow this would be a Canadian stand up My second thought was could my exorbitant room service be blamed for this? Then I remember and I had paid out of pocket Just for Laughs as a beacon for Canadian comedy. It’s the carrot at the end of the stick that every Canadian comedian is chasing, whether they admit it or not, it has a hand in creating the very foundation of Canadian stand up and as a result, getting booked on the Montreal Festival, the biggest comedy festival in the world, is one of the very few springboards for success in our industry. It has propelled comedians from amateur to something to at least somewhat resembles professional status.

Getting on JFL means something. It’s a stamp of approval, a sign that you’ve made it. I’ll add an amen to that. Showcases for JFL have all un canceled at the last minute, and comedians like myself that work on these important sets all year long have been left high and dry. Although it says it hopes to resume the festival in twenty five, that feels like a tall order the of the festivals dependent on jp R.

That’s the just for last company pulling off a huge restructuring in a year’s time, let’s take a lot of innovation and downsizing, no small feat for a large company that’s already struggled to pivot. As for other avenues for success, comedians are left with crumbs. There are little to no comedy specific grants for stand up. Often we’re grouped together with theater artists in the grant world, forcing us to compete with completely different art forms.

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Meanwhile, circus arts gets its own category.

And hey, no shade to sirc to sleigh. Just want a fair fight. And if you’re thinking, just post you stand up online build a following. I could tell you a thing or two is someone with a medium size falling online. First, the money doesn’t come easy because you have to have an online following.

And secondly, while festivals are far from the only thing to work toward in comedy, getting an opportunity to perform at a festival like JFL is a huge goalpost that’s now in peril. If JFL does come back next year, it’s hard to imagine Canadian comedians getting a good deal. Canadian comedians will be the first to tell you it means bringing in more bankable American talent paid for by Canadian taxpayers and artistic institutions. The same criticisms the festival is faced in the past will likely become more ingreened in the future.

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Speaking of Canada, Canadians are applauding a comedian who expertly shut dow…

Michael Harrison is a New York based comedian from Saskatchewan. He posted a clip titled an American Canadian explaining Canada to me, What a surprise. We don’t have a thirteenth grade He’ve been lying to him. Sorry to correct you. Yeah, we don’t have that.

I’m Canadian. Trust me, I’m very aware of what our country has. We actually don’t. Ontario had that a long time ago. They don’t have it anymore.

The woman goes, you have it. No, they don’t trust me. I hate to admit this to you. You’re wrong. The audience laughs.

He turns to the audience and says, this is how American that woman is. You’re wrong about your country. This is why people don’t like you guys as much when you travel other country because of that. Mike Lazer’s debut comedy album Life Rules Mixed Ape, Volume one out today on a special Thing Records, The Tights eight tracks of Comedy Gold. Mike hit the stage to explain that saying yes to life, his love of weed Town, for cooking, having good merch therapy and validation, and the pressure Beast tells Us Originally from Saint Louis.

Mike Glazer is an entertainment juggernaut with extensive credits, including appearances at the twenty twenty three NHL Awards and No, I didn’t forget. I just moved it to the end. Let’s see what’s happening at Melbourne. Let’s say you’re listening on Friday, which means in Melbourne it’s Saturday. By the way, Sunday’s episode of this podcast, already recorded is a look at up and coming ozzy comedians, so a bit of a format breaker.

It’ll be me just going, hey, here’s this guy I’ve never heard of. Here’s a clip, but it’s a lot of fun. I think it came out well. I’d love to know what you think of that episode, and you can share that in the Facebook group a Daily Comedy News podcast group. The Melbourne site.

They must have been listening to me complain about it. It loaded a little quicker and they now have a tab this Saturday, which made it a lot easier for me to do mental gymnastics. Let’s see if we could find something with an actual clip today. Tom Ballard’s good point, well made, says, there’s a clip and there is let’s listen rolled. Michael jokes about the name coronavirus Corona.

That’s like a bee. Then I drink what’s next Peroni virus? Yeah, look, everyone of those toilet piper o the news. It was hilarious. Then Tom Hanks got it and we were like, this is serious.

Sheriff Woody is sick. Then Richard Wilkins got it and we were laughing again. Okay, we were like, oh, now, this is a wonderful news story. All right. It took me a minute to find a clip.

There. He drops a lot of F bombs. I’ll give you a note, as a guy in a basement doing a podcast talking to a professional comedian, your particular material doesn’t need the F bomb every third word. Just drop it all. You don’t need it.

Johnny Max is not anti swearing, but you know, I don’t need to do this podcast. Like, hey, if you enjoy the fing show, tell a friend about it. They might effing like it too. Like I don’t need to do that. Eater does that?

Comedian? Now I hear my dog flopping upstairs. My dog is sixteen and a half years old. I’m going to go rescue her. Oh, my God just fell again.

All right, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Mo Ketchups Baby. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at Tel was amazing. We have a new top special at the year. I’ll talk about Davi in a second, but first, two fun late night jokes from Jordan Klepper sitting behind the desk at the Daily Show.

The topic, did just see Trump is selling Bibles? Yeah, look at the clip on social media. It’s interesting, Klepper said. I know people will say you’re not supposed to mix the Bible in the Constitution, but we have to understand is Trump hasn’t read either one of them. Klepper again, if we step back and look at this, Trump is getting into business with God and that can only mean one thing.

God is gonna end up bankrupt and serving a three month prison sentence for lying under oath. David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix is the number one special of the year, folks. That’s how you do it. It’s like thirty nine minutes joke after joke. The jokes are set up with mister Rex.

There’s no big grand standing, there’s nothing I cancel culture. There is a joke to which the word trans is a punchline. It is a harmless joke. It is funny. That’s how you do it.

Everybody. Now I’m sad here my romance with Triumph the insult comic dog. You know, he’s gonna be so sad what he sees today’s podcast and he finds out Triumph’s not number one anymore. Triumphs number two. Really strong.

But oh my goodness, Attel showed everybody how it’s done. So I’m glad now that I’m loving everything, because at the beginning of the year, I was worried that you guys are gonna be like, does this guy even like comedy? He hates everything? Because we had like seven specials in a row that didn’t impress me. Now this is two back to back that I put at the top of the list.

I mean, great time a tell again the length and I keep harping about the length Crush and Go Home. I had mentioned on the other day Brian Simpson special really strong, but like fifteen minutes too long? Here Dave Crush get out. At one point I had taken a sip of water and I almost for real spit taked. I laughed so hard.

Luckily I didn’t spit all over the TV and the dog sitting there. That would have been horrible, really really funny special. It’s just pure comedy. This is a master at the top of his game. Watch Dave Attel Hot Crossbuns on Netflix.

Current rankings and I know we just did these one David tel two, Triumph three, David Cross four, Dusty Sleigh five, Brian Simpson six, Taylor Tomlinson. A big gap between four and five there and one and two are out pacing three and four. I have not yet watched Tig Nataro, and I probably won’t get a chance to. It’s gonna be a few days. I got some stuff to do now.

For all the twenty minute podcast episodes I’ve done the last week, today is a little less sexy. There’s no big news. Chappelle didn’t throw a pie at somebody, Pete Davidson didn’t do something crazy. Kat Williams didn’t throw anyone under the bus. So today is a very workman like episode of Daily Comedy News.

The Podcast Academy had their rewards. I’m in podcasting. I don’t know if anybody actually cares about these things other than the people that go these conventions. I’ve been in radio wadio for thirty something years these conventions, it’s just like, what are we doing. It’s either like this is weird for me to say because I’ve been doing this thirty years.

It’s either guys who’ve been doing it for forty five years who have lost a mile off their fastball maybe aren’t in touch with stuff, or newbies. It’s kind of like the people that are hooking up with hot chicks don’t talk about it. It’s like that, but radio anyway. The Podcast Academy had awards Johnnie Back, You’re a hater, not a hater. I just don’t care.

Best Comedy Podcast went to how did This get made? Congratulations to Paul Sheer and ging. Jimmy Kimmel has a new unscripted series greenlit by Hulu. This is set in a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary. High hopes good title.

I guess, little Hackey, Which is it? John? Is it good or hacky? Can it be both? Maybe it can’t be both.

If I have to pick, it’s hackey. Actually sidebar here. When I used to travel with Mark says High, who was one of the hosted series Exam Get the Giggles, we would start making up NBC shows, and we’d start with a title like High Hopes and develop it so the joke would be because an NBC show will always take the title and name the character something, so High Hopes would be like the story of James Hopes who works at a high school. Like that’s what NBC would do. My favorite one was called Side Out, which was going to be about a volleyball player who comes out of the closet see that there’s a volleyball pun there anyway.

High Hopes by Jimmy Kimmel follows Belarus born brothers Slava and Mishka and their Stone Crew through the trials and tribulations of taking their cannabis business to new heights in Hollywood. They attract a wild mix of weed loving customers and as a home away from home for their og employees who work hard and smoke harder. This season builds to their biggest day of the year, four twenty, as Gang attempts to expand nationwide and release their own top shelf cannabis brand. Will they find what they’re looking for or their hopescope and smoke? You could tell that I can’t wait for this one.

This sounds great. Dan Saint Germain spoke to the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. He says his new hour is a hodgepodge of some of the best stuff I’ve done the last couple of years. When I started stand up again, I kind of quit for two years, and I started again two years ago, and then I had some bits that were on the last album for eight hundred Pound Gerrilla, and I kind of got to the two year mark, was like, you know, I have all these bits that I have been put in a proper special, so I figured this is the time to do it. But I’m already working on my next hour, and I feel like in a year or two I’m gonna have another hour of films.

I just kind of want to put this stuff together and get it out there. I kind of subscribe to the Joan Rivers thing where if it doesn’t work three times, throw it out and maybe come back to it in a year or two. But a lot of times with a bid, eighty five percent of it a work, and I’m waiting for that last fifteen percent to figure it out. It’s almost like seeing a jinga stack and you go, oh, this is kind of wobbling on the side, so let me try and see if I could pull something out, to push something in that’ll help support a little better and then it all falls. Dan Saint Germain’s special is called The Dance Fatty Dance.

You’ll find it on YouTube home At Julie spoke to the Telegraph. He says Netflix turned down his recent special, Good Times. He says it was too hot for Netflix. There are always issues with certain things, and some of the issues are unfair, like what agism. He says.

Netflix considers him not to be a relevant comedian right now. He asked them what constitutes relevant to the moment, and Jelily says he was told anything black and transgender, send your letters to Oma. Jelily, I’m not sure that’s fair. For example, David tel not black, not transgender, watched it last night, Julily says. At a time when events in the Middle East dominate the news, he finds Netflix not finding him relevant to be astounding.

He says, Netflix says, we’re trying to get everyone, and yet I don’t see hardly anybody who’s Middle Eastern Iranian. They don’t give us a voice. I’m very strong about this because I don’t think they’ve got it right. I think the mainstream does want to know. They do want to hear it.

Julie is working on a new tour called Not a Stay, in which Israel Gaza will be one of the main topics. Is he worried about getting caught between both sides? He says, yes, it’s tricky, but I’m of an age where I’ve ceased to care. The threat of being canceled doesn’t phase him. He says, I was actually canceled after nine to eleven, just for existing case you’re curious.

In the context of the nine to eleven comment, he is of a running descent and he is not Muslim. He says. He had won the two thousand and one Time Out Comedy Award. He was booked to play a gig on September thirteenth. I rang my manager and said the gig, I presume not going ahead.

Manager said, oh, they are, but they don’t want you. My kids say, when did you become an authority on this? Who the hell do you think you are? Jim Brewer was on OutKick the show. Here’s a clip.

I had a radio show for a while, and one of the greatest moments on my radio show was there was a call with Joe would come on and he he someone tried to say some Nonstan nonsense that Joe called him out. It was epic.

And then the other time is he called in and it was one of the greatest moment…

It was like from another it was like he was being channeled and he was talking about the times that we’re going into and it’s either we’re gonna spew the truth, truth of vera, everything’s truth, and if you don’t come with the truth, he’s gonna be exposed because no longer we living in the world where we’re gonna accept the liars. They’re like leeches. It was pretty profound, it was pretty powerful, and something that never forgotten really inspired me. So Joe Rogan’s been a badass for a long time. Bruce said, if you look at a guy like Shane Gillis, if he was saying what he said just two years ago, it’d be like, oh my god, how dare you?

How dare you say some of these things? And that was a guy that was canceled from SNL and now he’s hosting the damn thing. You know, maybe we should lighten up a little bit either way. If anything, I think the woke, ah, we’re not allowed to talk about that. In the moments Dying tremendously show me the comedian that it talks about being woke for an hour.

That’s selling out theater as an arenas it doesn’t exist. So yeah, we’re learning to laugh again. It’d common sense. Now pay attention to what Jolly just said. Here’s what Brewer said.

I was talking to Netflix and one of the guys in development was like, Jim, I’m a huge fan of you. They’re not in the business of white guys that are over the age of forty, and they’re not gonna be And that’s when I was like, ah, so that’s what the world they are committed to. It doesn’t matter if it’s funny. You got to be this color or that color, or that sexuality or that country under this thing in order for us to put our spotlight on. And that’s not comedy.

That’s you trying a piece of society that you’re trying to create. Again. I watched David Till last night. David Till is a fifty nine year old comedian from Queens, New York. I don’t know too much about his growing up or ancestry.

But looks like a white dude to me, so I don’t know. Brewers said, this was a slow process that started a long time ago. In the work world, those in charge would be like, well, if you’re this color and you get this kind of grade, sorry, we have to go with this type of person, even though the grades fifteen points lower. It was slowly put in a culture and before we knew it. Boom, it’s in entertainment.

Boom, it’s in government when your government’s trying to force you to a certain agenda. That’s called communism, socialism, dictatorship. Jim continued, how dare you say that? Well? Wrong?

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If you are a pornbot, I prefer Brunette’s, so that’ll probably get you proved a little quicker. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News my Substackmicdeponda dot substack dot com link in the show notes. Sign up there for free Melbourne Comedy Festival. Let’s do some math.

I’m recording on the twenty seventh. You’re listening on the twenty eighth, So on Australia it’s the twenty ninth, which means it’s Friday night. Good night for comedy. Should be a ton of shows. Let’s look loading loading loading.

World’s slowest site is loading. This is not an edit. It’s still loading loading loading. Come on, I like this title Lord of the Zings a Keyweking comedy showcase. That’s great.

Winner Breakthrough Comedian twenty twenty one New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards. Last Load of the Rings movie came out in two thousand and three, and these News z Eland comedians are still riding that wave. They don’t have a single joke about hobbits, dragons, or really any opinions on the works of Peter Jackson. They’re just using this as a marketing ploy. Love it no clip, but I love it all right.

Randy Dava, Hello players, says there’s a clip here, you know, from yesterday’s podcast. Just because it says there’s a clip doesn’t mean there’s a clip. Let’s see, Well, there was a clip, but it had a ton of f BOMs in its ivory too. Armed with lyrical rhymes and nasty beats, Randy will have his chance to truly express himself using the one approach he knows best hip hop comedy. The age says elicits uproarious laughter.

Did chat jpt write that? Here’s another one with no clip, but it’s Ruby Tay’s dog Seaword. Such a title sea word, the hard sea word dog seaword. Yikes. Now this show contains drug references, strong course language, nudity and sudden loud noises nudity.

What is going on? I don’t think that shows for me. I may not like nudity, but not like missing nudity with my comedy. You know, Mo Gilligan is playing a Philly tonight, Tomorrow and Saturday. It’ll be at the punchline.

Moe says. When I grew up watching stand up, I was watching people like Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy. So there’s always part of me that wanted to perform state side. It’s the biggest market in the entertainment world, so you want to be a success there America is a different terrain. It’s a bigger place where you can have comedy shows from Monday to Sunday and you can have a busy room every night.

And fortunately, in the UK comedy is usually a weekend culture. There aren’t as many comedy clubs midweek if there was, when we have a network and perform with each other, we just don’t have the infrastructure of having many comedy clubs in the UK. It’s much more competitive out there in the States. If you go to the comedy Store in la there’s like nine comics on the main bill and even more before that, whereas in the UK there’s about three. I think my accent helps the most.

Once they get on stage, they say, this guy’s come all the way from London. He’s got a Netflix special. Welcome to the stage. Mo Gill again ears prickup and they want to listen to this guy who’s coming from London. That’s what I like about the States.

If they see I’ve come all the way from somewhere to the comedy store, they sit up a bit more and like, ah, I want to check this guy out. He’s not from here. He must be funny that he is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Is kN Williams one of the great profits of our time. We’ll get to that in a second. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And what I love about this pot is there’s always something new.

And I was putting together today’s show and I’m like, all right, it’s okay, and then I typed kat Williams into Google and I was like, Oh, there’s the lead. I’ll get to that in a second. There’s some late night jokes that I really like. On Monday, a New York appeals court reduced Donald Trump’s bond in his fraud case from four hundred and fifty four million to one seventy five million. Jimmy Fowon said, so, the first time someone has ever heard good news you only ow one hundred and seventy five million dollars.

Having ten days to come up with one hundred and seventy five million doesn’t sound like good news. It sounds like the plot to a Jason Stathan movie. Fantastic Seth Myers went with after his lawyers argued last week that Trump didn’t have the money for the bond. Trump posted in all caps on truth Social I currently have almost five hundred million dollars in cash. Sayt says, dude, they’re trying to help you.

That’s like if oj tweeted the glove fits great. Trump’s trial is now April fifteenth. Jimmy Fallon pointed out the judge picked April fifteenth because it’s tax Day and he knew Trump wouldn’t be busy. Colbert had a terrible joke. I’m sure he told it better than I did.

But the writing on this one, I think is awful. The joke, He’s not a real rich guy. He just plays one on TV. Donald Trump has a billion dollars the same way Patrick Stewart has a spaceship. Okay, Star Trek the Next Generation ended in nineteen ninety four.

Like, what is that joke? Okay, he is Kat Williams of Prophet. Let me set up the story here in case you missed this, Federal and local authorities rated P Diddy’s home in LA and in Miami on Monday, according to Newsweek, to complete a search for sexual trafficking investigation. Newsweek adds the latest run in with the law for Combs comes after months of lawsuits accusing him of alleged sexual assault, sexual trafficking abuse and procuring illicit drugs. All right, remember Kat Williams was on Club Shaysha with Shannon Shirt.

Kind of a big deal. He threw everybody under the bus. Well, listen to this. All of these big deviance is all catching hell in twenty twenty four. It don’t matter if you Diddy or whoever you is.

All lies will be exposed, that’s all. And anyone who takes that the wrong way know why they take it the wrong way. Kat says, I gotta protect my integrity because if p Didd he be wanting to party, you gotta tell him no. Fascinating. David Tail tweeted check out Hot Cross Buns.

That’s his new special. Here’s a taste streaming on Netflix. Now. I was hit by a bicycle. Yeah no, no, it was my fault.

It was my fault. I was standing on the sidewalk. I mean, you know, you stand on the sidewalk, you get hit by a bike. I mean what. That’s the world we live in now.

And the guy who hit me was a food delivery guy. Yeah, a third responder. That’s right. These guys are heroes delivering heroes the heroes. Great joke.

CBS says, announced that they will air the Golden Globes for five more years. I guess they really liked it. The suit says, CBS’s collaboration with the Globes for this year’s broadcast was a big win for both of us and established strong momentum for award shows in twenty twenty four. You may recall Joe Cooy was the host this year. Now, I don’t know if he’ll be back or not.

I hope so. But during the telecast of the Golden Globes, Joe Coy told this horrible, vicious joke about Taylor Swift. I mean, this is the meanest thing anyone has ever said about anybody here. Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, I swear, Oh, I mean brutal.

You can’t blame Taylor Swift for apparently murdering Joe Cooy’s career by making a stoneface and not laughing at that terror, vicious, mean joke. So who knows if Joe Coyle will be back. I mean, would you risk having Joekoy back if he’s gonna tell mean jokes like that. I wouldn’t, actually I would. I like controversy.

They’ve added more cast to that film, SNL nineteen seventy five, that’s apparently a working title based on the real life behind the scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live. JK. Simmons has been added to the cast, and I was like, Ah, I wonder who JK. Simmons would play, you know, JK Simmons, the fantastic actor, Like, who would he play, you know, some sort of NBC suit or somebody. No, Milton Burl, Yeah, yeah.

Seth Myers was on Mike Birbigley’s podcast. He doesn’t think that Lauren Michaels is going to step away from SNL or Biggs s Myers point blank if he’d be taking over for Michaels and said, or is it tinfa And then you say said, I think it’s a false narrative that Lauren is going anywhere. I think it made sense for Lauren, who’s yeah, got a flair for the dramatic, to say I think I’ll be done at fifty. But now it’s not like Lauren’s got something else. He wants to do more than this for Biggs joked, so you think it’s Keenan, The thing is Lorne Michaels will be eighty years old on November seventeenth of this year.

I don’t know, A nice round number of fifty and a nice round birthday of eighty might be a good time to hang it up Laurene. Again, nothing against Lauren. I just I want you to go enjoy retirement, Go sit on the yacht. That’s a long week at eighty years old. Friend of the pod Scott Beckett shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, and it’s from the Wall Street Journal.

It’s about how the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gets put together. Kevin Hart this year’s winner. The article is by Cappy McGarr, co creator of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and a special advisor to the chairman of the Kennedy Center. That’s nice gigs, He writes, as stand up comedy emerges as a genre, the Marx Brothers, Frank Fay and others stumbled upon it by riffing between acts. It retained the scrappy, underground status associated with vaudeville, but a lack of mainstream recognition proved a boon for experimentation and for performers who might have otherwise been excluded, particularly Blacks and Jews.

It’s giving ahead no wonder. A majority of Mark Twain Prize recipients have been black or Jewish, and ever the overachiever Whoopi Goldberg, is both. Mark Twain once wrote against the assault of laughter, nothing can Stand. Dusty Slay spoke to CBS fifty eight Milwaukee about his creative process. As Dusty said, I like to write out my set list, so I have a general idea of the order I want to go.

The act of writing helps himent the order in my head. I like to build an act. The hour I’m doing right now completely different than my Netflix special. This new hour probably took me six months backstage, he says, I do like to take a second and kind of gather my thoughts. I don’t want a lot of people back here.

I want it to be really normal. And chill Abe has the hardest job in the show because he’s hosting Naomi, who’s the feature. Is in there to pump it up. So when I walk in it’s a hot crowd. If I can go out and tell one joke.

Everybody laughs. Everyone is comfortable. Audience members are not comfortable because they’re worried the comic’s not going to do well. If you can go out and give them something hot right away, they can all relax. If I’m up there and things aren’t going well, well, maybe I’ll try to move some of it up earlier to see if that’ll work better.

CBS fifty eight was curious about his writer. The Milwaukee improv said, Dusty’s easy. Dusty’s writer is Green Tea. Dusty says, I just get things from my room and eat those. Sometimes I go to the club and if they have good snacks there, I’ll eat those too.

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Yeah, that’s a lot of money. Unfortunately we’re just shy of five hundred thousand. I’m getting there, though, So buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Sign up for my substack. That’s where I pontificate about the media.

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Go no, but I want the free version. I’m not trying to make money off that. Stephen Colbert felt bad about his Kate Middleton jokes. Now I’m going to play a two minute statement from Colbert. Now, it’s not an apology.

You don’t hear the word i’m sorry or anything like that. It’s more of an explanation. And I don’t know why Colbert is so feeling so guilty about it. I’ve made my share of Kate Middleton jokes. I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast where we talk about the royal family every day.

She had disappeared. People were using phrases like Brazilian butt lift. Brazilian butt lift is funny, and it’s my kind of humor. It has really nothing to do with Kate Middleton. It’s a Brazilian butt lift joke.

Hey, did you hear Biden got a Brazilian butt lift? That’s equally as funny. Do you hear Mike in Cleveland’s getting a Brazilian butt lift in May? And that’s why I’m going out there. It’s just as funny.

So I think Colbert overreacted here. But let’s listen. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we we do a lot of shows, and I tell a lot of jokes, and I tell jokes about a lot of different things, mostly what everybody’s talking about. And for the last six weeks to two months, everybody has been talking about the mystery of Kate Middleton’s disappearance from public life. And two weeks ago we did some jokes about that mystery, and all the attendant truffra in the reporting about that, and when I made those jokes, that upset some people, and even before her diagnosis was revealed, And I can understand that.

I mean a lot of my jokes have set people in the past, and I’m sure some of my jokes will upset people in the future. But there’s a standard that I try to hold myself to, and that is I do not make light of somebody else’s tragedy. Now I don’t know whether her prognosis is a tragic one. She’s the future of Queen of England, and I assume she’s gonna get the best possible medical care. But regardless of what it is, I know, and I’m sure many of you, far too many of us, know that any cancer diagnosis of any kind is harrowing for the patient and for their family.

And though I’m sure they don’t need it from me, I and everyone here at the Late Show would like to extend are well wishes and heartfelt hope that her recovery is swift and thorough. Now, please say hello to Lewis Cato in the Late Show. Band. Well, let’s see what’s going on in Milbourne, all right, because I record it’s the twenty sixth, is you listen, it’s the twenty seventh, which means in Milbourn it’s the twenty eighth. This is so confusing.

Equally as confusing is which of these bookmarks, is it? I have one, two, three, twenty three tabs open on my MacBook right now, and apparently it’s none of those twenty three. All right, let me google Milbourne Comedy Festival. Now. While I was doing all that, I forgot what day it is.

Twenty six, twenty eighth. This is also the slowest loading website. But it’s got to load all the way from Australia, so you can understand why it takes a minute. That’s not how the internet works, John, Oh, yeah, I mentioned this yesterday. The Aussies do their calendars Monday to Sunday, so like I’m trying to click where Thursdays should be and the Thursday’s not where Thursdays should be.

Why do you have an alternate calendar down there? What’s going on? Like? I get week end? I get it, I got it, Britz, you don’t have to write me, but I don’t know.

Let’s see who’s playing bron Lewis on Sunday’s episode. You’re gonna hear a lot about bron Lewis. I’ve seen buzz on her. She’s playing at six twenty pm all times Melbourne.

All right, here’s one with a clip Takashi Wakasugi.

His show’s called Japanese Azzie. Let’s listen. I’m from Japan, thank you, And I have a question Australia. I went to supermarket to get egg, right, and there was no free round egg. It’s sold out.

The only kJ eggs was there. Right. The question is can I buy that kJ egg in the situation? Are you listening? It’s so confusing.

I tried to get but that makes me worry. Maybe someone see me, And then I think, oh, this Asian guys to buying kJ egg get out. It’s not good for the Asian community here, right. I remember him from last year. He’s funny.

The clip is still funny, but I remember that from last year. Reyes Matthewson’s show was called First radioh Yeah, that shows at six twenty five pm. I might have to go to Melbourne. I like these six pm starts. That means I’m home by like eight fifteen I go to bed.

That sounds awesome. Now. The website lied to me when they said there was a clip. It says clip, and I clicked it. There’s no clip.

I’ll read it to you. You know, when you’re eating fast food, when you’re driving you think no one can see you, even though your car is windows the whole way around. This show will be like that, public and intimate stuff, says Reyese. Matthewson is one of New Zealand’s best comedians. But there’s no clip.

Let’s fine one more with a clip. Akmel, I’ll played him yesterday, he’s back. What times that show six point thirty? I mean think about that could be home sleep. You young people can go to these ten thirty PM shows, not me.

Helen Bauer’s show is called Grand Supreme Daring Princess seven o’clock start, says play clip. Oh, there is a clip, let’s listen. I know it’s a comedy show. I don’t want to get too scientific, but when you eat when you’re drunk, the calories don’t count. It’s like eating on a train.

It’s not technically a meal. It’s not The thing is. I’ve got this two thing I do. It’s so adorable. When I’m drunk and emotional, I can now eat two kebabs in the space of time.

It takes the average human tweet half a kebab. What where do you put it? It’s just a metabolism thing. Look look at my wrist. That was fun enough.

I had to cut it a little short. She started using words. You know, I try and keep this thing clean. She was using words. That F word, a word for the thing that you keep in a bra.

You know, I can’t play these things trying to keep it clean. Here and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it too. Oh we didn’t talk about Triumph. Oh my god, I was so excited.

Did you see? Triumph retweeted me. Yeah? Boy? Am I needy?

Or what? Yeah? From the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog account, Triumph wrote Funniest comedy special of twenty twenty four is mine, says DCN Pod. Watch it here and tell everyone because we all got this little account, Let’s make poop number one special. Watch it.

It’s on YouTube. Just search for Triumph Fantastic Special. Still laughing about it? Natural comedy es for today. I did all that already.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart did accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday nightem sourcing here from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Hollywood Reporter, Dave Chappelle gave a heartfelt tribute. Kevin Hart followed that up with can I pe? Then he waddled off stage.

He then reappeared to accept the bust of Mark Twain from David Rubinstein, the retiring chairman of the Kennedy Center. Chappelle said, I played arenas with Chris Rock, and I would never play an arena before I saw you Kevin Hart do it. You made me dream bigger, and you’re younger than me. It’s humiliating. Jerry Seinfeld said, the triumph of tonight is we found something Kevin Hart doesn’t already have, the Mark Twain Award.

Chris Rock said his favorite Kevin Hart movie was The Upside, because Kevin Hart had to act like he had less money than Brian Cranston. The Washington Post says the Knight’s standout performer and the recipients of a rare standing ovation is how they phrased it was Kevin Hart’s mentor, Keith Robinson, who has had two strokes. Keith joked, mine year’s resolution, no more strokes. Chris Rock calls me Strokey Robinson. He’s an a hole man.

There were other standing ovations. Rubinstein got one when he announced his retirement and one for Eddie Murphy who was announced as a surprize guest, but it was a misdirect Nick Cannon walked out instead. The audience sat back down. Kevin Hart said, I didn’t start doing what I was doing to get awards. I just fell in love with the idea of comedy.

On the red carpet, Nicky Glazer was there and said he’s just inspirational. He’s one of the most naturally talented people I’ve met. But he also loves himself, which is not something he could say about every successful comic. JB. Smooth said, Honestly, when he was first starting out, he was a pest, but he was always picking up pieces from he or there, always learning from people and never afraid to learn.

Chris Rock joked about Kevin Hart’s first marriage by complimenting his appearance in saying, Kevin Hart has got that second wife happiness. Other comedians who have received the Lifetime Achievement Award include Richard George Carlin, woop Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, and Dave Chappelle. Bill Cosby got it in two thousand and nine, was taken back in twenty nineteen. Google Bill Cosby’s sexual assault if you’d like more information there. The ceremony will be broadcast on Netflix on May eleventh.

Gonna be honest. As I put this together, I kept thinking about that article I read to you on Friday about I feel like this is when somebody makes the Sports Hall of Fame because they played twenty seven seasons and had twenty seven okay seasons but never really had that great season. I feel like that’s what we’re doing here. Jimmy Fallon. So I was looking for clips, and there don’t seem to be any available yeats, which is interesting.

Usually that kind of thing leaks out. The one clip that did come out is Jimmy Fallon dressed in a country music artist’s outfit, black with a cowboy hat, picture like a Garth Brooks kind of outfit, and he sang a song, Well, here’s the song we all love this famous kaleva even though oh he’s too live. He’s the balls in in in room. But from behind he looks like you sail. You can’t stop this fun and fail and the movie’s the best sail he can weather in his storm.

Just grab a cocktail, Umbrell. Yeah, we gotta get the cred. He’s great at earning bread.

And then after a long day of work he takes doggy stairs to bathe.

Jimmy Fillon, Okay, that’s just two verses. I have a feeling that was a long three minutes. I don’t know about that. Jimmy, Rid Krascher and Samsagora. They’re having a five K.

They had joked about that in the past. It is now official. They will tell you about. It’s light eded here for a naughty word, guys. It is now officially ready to roll the Two Bears five It is happening and you can register right now if you go to two Bears five K dot com.

It’s going down May seventh. We have a lot of friends coming, a lot of celebrities, Jelly Roll, Shane Gillis, Tim Dillon, Mark Norman, Cam Haynes, Michelle Wolf. I’m forgetting names. That’s Stobby’s gonna be there. They’re all gonna be there.

They’re going to be at the Netflix at the Joke Festival. They’ll probably be at our five k a big race and then a party. We’ve got a DJ go register right now. Two bears five k dot com. David Tail as a special ad on Netflix today.

That’s awesome. It’s called Hot Cross Buns. Not a lot of press for it yet, although he went on Joe Rogan’s It’s not alone. The special will get watched. We learned that David Til has a flip phone.

Here’s Joe Rogan. It’s the best listen. Is about the great sound when I’m doing it? Like, mor how long does this take for you to accomplish this? I’m done?

So you don’t have an iPhone at all anymore? Have one too, but that’s me off the grid? Yeah, so what do you use that one for? Like? Who do you text on that?

Now? This one’s just like for all my texting, the other ones for emails? Wait a mins is not on one? You text on that? Yeah?

So when I text you, you text me on that? I do? Can’t you feel it? Olds like ten spaces in between words that I’m sending you a text right now, that’s what happens. That is so insane.

This is good. Did you get it yet? I did? No? Okay, I didn’t get to make the sound your name isn’t They always make sounds every time you text a button.

It makes a sound that doesn’t drive. It really annoys people too. Yeah, so it takes come in four presses to get an s Still you’re doing that thing. Yeah. It doesn’t even have emojis on it, like any emoji is Like he still uses emoticons like a colon in a parentheses sometimes for smiley faith.

Well, are you guys done with this tech beatdown? Like I’m a tech arder. Come out of the house, buddy, Come on, we love you, Big Dave. For Comedy Tonight is the Patrise O’Neill benefit in New York City, Bill Burr said after Patrise died, Comedy Central was going to do a benefit. My agent goes, do you want to do it?

And I was like, yeah, absolutely. The the day he was getting closer and closer, I was living in LA and I’m like, hey man, I got to get my flight. What’s going on with the benefit. He goes it went away, and I was like, what do you mean it went away? What went away?

For this guy? What went away? He said Basically, they couldn’t get enough comedians to commit to doing it for the venue they had, so I Bill Burr was like, well, there’s no way we’re not having a benefit. So we kind of kicked the ball. I think because they wanted to film it or something.

There were people trying to protect their material for specials. But it was bad. It was bad. I was talking to Jim Norton, so we decided to do it on our own. It was a huge success.

We raised money for his mom and everything. Something I’ve always hated is when somebody dies, there’s like one night for them, and then they raise money and you give it to their loved ones. It’s like, all right, glade with the rest of your life. Patrice was taking care of his mother and she would have been you know, she was retired, Like what was she going to do. It’s like one of those things in this country where we should stop yelling about politicians.

We should just show them what we want them to be doing, which is we should be taking care of each other, especially a mom. Losa’s son. I can’t even imagine the pain. That’s the only thing she’d have to deal with is or grief. She shouldn’t be thinking about how am I gonna make rent and pay my own health ashirt something like that.

So we started doing it every year. It’s a great thing. It’s a nice way to have a little reunion with a bunch of comedians that I used to see all the time when I was coming up, and for younger comics has become a thing like people really consider it on or be asked. It’s one of my favorite things they do in this business. On the line of Tonight, Bill burd Ridge, Foss, Bonnie McFarland, Sean Patt and Michael Jay, Robert Powell the Third, Tim Dillon, Siphu Sounds, Morcelo Hernandez.

Ticket’s still available. You can get in for one hundred and thirty two dollars. Take Natarro’s specials out today on Amazon, this one called Hello Again. From the Make Believe Lounge to the hallway outside her Physical Therapists office, Nataro finds humor in situations ranging from the every day to the bizarre, crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botch beating with a Hollywood heavyweight and a late night encounter with a mustache fireman as her questioning everything. Several ways support the show.

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It’s gonna ask you do you want to donate? Don’t donate, just sign up for free. I’m not trying to get money out of the substack. I just want to get a bunch of followers. But the way substack works is I have to offer you an option to give me money, but don’t give me money, just sign up for free.

The Melbourne Comedy Festival continues This is when I have to do mental math. Okay, I’m recording on Monday, you’re listening on Tuesday, but Melbourne is eighteen hours ahead? Is it eighteen Let’s say it’s twelve oh five in my basement and it’s three oh five on Tuesday already in Melbourne, so that’s what fifteen hours? So if somebody’s listening in Melbourne, they want to go down the block to the festival. It’s Wednesday, So let me tell you who’s playing on Wednesday.

Riley Nottingham kneedsre help. At five thirty pm today, here’s a clip how you recall out chats for training and quality. You may just be you, but I know you pumped out to me.

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And now I’m in love with a chat bot.

I fell in love with a chat bot. It’s lack old times because I’m here in line. I’m obsessed with you getting in this cue. I love how you built the ten shine the right time. It gives me an action and just ends there toasting.

Aussie theater says. With songs that would make Bo Burnham proud and a delightful mix of absurdity, it’s impossible not to fall in love with him. I think It’s possible. Okay, TikTok Musical Comedy Sensation of UK Musical Comedy Awards finalist Richard Lindsay brings you his musical comedy show. Always been a player.

Let’s listen. My name is Richard and this is what my shows alike. Join Richard for this fun night of variety, which includes a mixture of stand up comedy, Richard’s aristal songs, fun audience interaction. We heard that, and guest characters are all look suspiciously like Richard, seems like it’s fun. All right, let me set up this next one.

I listen to the clip and I was like, I got to tell everybody what this is. Right. The Big Banana is a tourist attraction an amusement park in the city of Coffs Harbor in Australia. The grounds of the park are set amongst a banana plantation featuring a large walkthrough banana. All right, so we got the joke here.

The Big Banana is fifteen meters long. The slogan for the park is It’s a whole bunch of fun. But they worked on that for a while, didn’t they. This guy’s name Akmal. The show is called Red Flags in the suburb of Cairo where me and my brothers and my family lived in his twenty story apartment block of units right, a lot of them in Cairo, pretty close to the heart of Cairo.

This is not a word of a lie. If you got on the roof of this building where we lived when we were children, you could see the Pyramids and the Sphinx clearly on any day. Let’s be honest to God truth. Right. So when we came to Australia and my parents took us to see the Big Banana and Cops Harbor and was, oh, no, it was just different because my parents’ fault, because they built it up too much.

They didn’t know what it was. Then let’s take the case to say that Biga and like they got only three hours driving till we get to a big banana and they got yeah, did he get together? There’s not even that big a big banana. It should be called the adequate banana. Show is called Red Flags, and the Adelaide Theater Guide says, wonderfully fresh, hilarious and a definite starter for your festival list.

I like this clip a lot. Neil Brennan continuing to crush it I see he has Bill Burr on. I didn’t get to that episode yet. I did want to share this clip from Kyle Kanaan’s episode with Neil Brennan on The Blocks podcast where they talked about money. I don’t think stand up should be elevated at the level that people are holding it right now.

I think it’s a service job, and I think it should be rewarded as such. Eighty grand a year plus benefits. No, we could do a little better than that, Okay, buck thirty, all right, you know solid you know metals and then I had like solid feature, solid feature, buck thirty. Yeah, clock around two for two years for two benefits, yeah, two two fifty. If you’re really you know, you’re getting all five shows with overtime, jadd and you’ve had in shows, all right, I’ll give you three.

But that cap it there, cap it at that. And but you’re jealous, Yeah, yeah, you’re jealous not giving any of my money away, right, Yeah, I mean I like, yeah, but I’m not like doing it for free. I’m not like so like nope, all proceeds all the dumpster later. Like I saw those punk rock kids too, and I’m like I like some I like having some things. I think part of aging or maturity or something is just accepting like no, I think comedians should there should be a ceiling on what we make.

And also give me more money. Yeah, give me more stuff and give me more money, and you just like both of those are true for me. Well, since we’re already allowing this much money to be floating around, yeah, I think I should have a slice of it, but if we were just start over.

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And also I don’t like that hack making too much money.

I mean, I’d be fine if I did. And somebody thinks that I’m a hack, but they’re wrong. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Shohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a top new comedy special of the year. I’ll tell you what it is in a second. It is not Rommy Yusef’s new one on HBO Max.

I sat down and watch that Saturday night. I hate the direction on it. The director shot at at weird angles. It opens up with Rommy in profile with the spotlight right in the viewer’s face. It was really annoying.

Then even when you get to a more traditional angle, it’s tight shots. You can’t really see the crowd. It’s Rommy against a black backdrop with light shining. I couldn’t focus on his material at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t good or anything, but after like I don’t know ten minutes, I was like, I don’t even want to look at this.

So maybe the material is funny, but that is not making the end of the year list. One that is Brian Simpson Live from the mother Ship. You’ll find that on Netflix. It’s very funny. How I saw a bunch of listeners in the Daily Comedy News podcast group raving about that one.

It’s really funny. It’s probably fifteen minutes too long. Somewhere over the weekend, I was listening to David Tell I think he was talking with Maren and how, Dave special that’s coming out this week is about thirty seven minutes. I think he said, maybe it’s me. Just because of what I do for a living, I do find a lot of these specials.

I’m kind of done and there’s fifteen minutes left, And that’s what happened with Brian. I was like, all right, this was really enjoyable, but can we move on here? But the uh wow, the best special of the year. I was laughing my hats off. I don’t know if anything’s gonna top this.

Just for laughs, Triumph the insult comic dog You Lucky Bastards on YouTube. I was raving it. I texted everyone in my family, you gotta watch this. I sent it to friends, you gotta watch this. My daughter came home and I made her stare at the last twenty minutes of it.

I was laughing. It is hilarious. So let’s check the updated rankings for best comedy specials of twenty twenty four. Number one, Tryumph, You Lucky Bastards to David Cross, I like that special. Lot three is Dusty Slay.

You’ll find that on Netflix, the Crosses on YouTube, then a bit of a gap. Brian Simpson and Taylor Tomlinson are the other two on my list. Those will wind up by the end of the year. Those will fall down to the high teens as more things come out and get between three and four. But Triumph Cross and Dusty Slayer are my top three right now.

Not on the list romy Yusef beat Davidson. I forgot that even happened. That was terrible. Jackie Novak, Kevin James, Rory Scovel, Don l Rawlings, Jenny Slat not on my list. As you know.

I had a terrible week last week and it’s just getting worse. Listen to this. I don’t know what the fate is doing to me. Adam Sandler, Yeah, he’s making a sequel to Happy Gilmore. I mean, life’s hard enough, Adam, what are you doing?

Christopher McDonald of from the original film said, I saw Adam about two weeks ago and he says to me, McDonald, you’re gonna love this. I said what he says, how about that? And he shows me the first draft of Happy Gilmore. Two sources say the project will be for Netflix. Well, of course it will.

They have a big deal together. Reps for Adam Sandler had no comment. The original grossed over eighty two million dollars worldwide. Stephen Colbert in some trouble with the pseudo royals Rose Hanbury. She’s been rumored to be friends with one of the royals.

I don’t want to get sued here, but lawyers for the former model Lady Rose Hanbury have confirmed that they sent the legal notice to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in response to jokes that Colbert made earlier this month. Colbert joked that Prince William was having an affair with Lady Rose Hanbury, which is not funny at all. He’s clearly not I’m not sure how this is going to work legally. Colbert is clearly a comedian making jokes. Who knows.

The royal stuff’s been amazing. I’m the writer on the podcast Palace Intrigue, and boy the numbers are the numbers are higher than they were when the Queen passed away. I thought that was going to be peak Royals, but Kate Gate has been unbelievable. Entry Griver Gear Show Seth Myers is taping a new special at the VIC Theater in Chicago Great Venue June fifteenth. It is unclear where this special will land.

His previous special was on Netflix. I’ll take a guest here. Peacock Great NBC seth Myers, Lord Michael was maybe involved. That’d be my guest, but what do I know. Tiffany Hattish has revealed that she’s been sober for more than two months.

She was on The Conversation podcast and said I haven’t drinked any alcohol, smoked anywheat or anything in like seventy two days. You may recall she had some adventures that made this podcast. Last year. On Saturday, I sat down in the Sleepy Cheer, was playing the MLB the show Game had some podcasts playing. Kyle Kanaan was on the Last Laugh podcast and Kyle has been super interesting.

Oh, I forgot. He’s also on Blocks with Neil Brennan. I forgot to pull a clip from that. I will do that maybe for tomorrow or the next day. But Kyle Kanane on the Last Laugh podcast.

Here he is talking about Netflix. I assume the comedians he’s mentioning here are the Bearded Bird crazier and does Tom siguor have a beard. Yes he does, of course he does. I just looked him up and I’m like, oh, yeah, that’s what Tom Sgur looks like. I don’t know why I couldn’t remember there tired, nobody’s knocking down my door.

You know, Netflix isn’t like, you know what we need is another guy with a beard. They got, they got their They got their dudes. They got their bearded white dudes over there that aren’t and also aren’t touching on political points, you know, So they got they got their guys. Next clip, but like this one a lot. Kyle Kaneen on the Last Left podcast talking about where comedy is now, and I think he nailed it.

The comedy got away from the comedy part for a little bit, thank you, Hannah Gatsby. But there’s a lot of comedy now, Like I was saying, like where people want somebody in the end of the story they’re winners. There’s a lot of kind of like more let’s say Alpha comedy and like bro comedy and like and that’s it’s wildly popular right now, and that’s great. It’s not the thing that I do. But also there’s there’s good and bad and every iteration of comedy, like my my thing was in the twenty tens, and it was when alt comedy was really ride and high at the end of the first decade and beginning a second dec decade of the century, which is weird to speak like that, but it was like all comedy, and there was some that was the stuff that I loved and appreciate it.

I don’t necessarily, I don’t think I do all comedy, but that’s what I liked, was being very honest about yourself and and that kind abused by so many hack alt comics of like, oh, I can just talk about my mental illness without any punchlines. And his third and final clip that I’ve pulled is about thirty second comedians. You know, people that have one good clip that goes viral on TikTok and suddenly they have Netflix specials. You know that kind of comedian. I’m with you on this, Kyle, the thirty to thirty second clips, like the kind of disposable, consumable fast food of comedy.

Right now, that’s fine, that’s you know, if if your thirty second clip gets you a million followers on social media and you sell tickets and then the people that bought those those tickets saw uce a good hour from you. Fantastic. You did a great job, you used the available marketing, and you are still a great comic. If you got a thirty second clips and then your hour sucks, I don’t know if anybody’s gonna come see you the next time you do an hour, So you’ve you dug your own grave with that one. But well, yeah, Or if you’re a seventy second clip gets you a Netflix special that’s an hour and you can’t deliver on it, But then that’s a that’s a problem too.

Yeah, I mean there is something to knowing. I mean, you have these vultures that exist in showbiz that’s like, oh, you’re just hot right now, so let’s let’s squeeze you till we can’t get any more dollars out of you, and you will be disposed of. You will be run through by a manager or an agent being like, he doesn’t have an hour, he sucks that stand up, but his YouTube characters are great. Book them on the road fifty dollars tickets and once that number starts going down, your phone calls will be returned. I also listened to Davitel on Mark Marin.

They were really in their groove there, so you might want to check that one out. I see a tell Is on Rogan. I haven’t had a chance to check that out. I mean, I can only sit in the sleepy chair and play video games for so long I am an adult at some point. The Moontower Comedy Festival will take place from April tenth through the twenty first is unclear to me.

So moon Tower is just for laughs, Moontower, and we saw the Montreal festival went sideways and I’m not seeing any just for laugh branding on the Moontwer website. Now, this was a successful festival in the past, and then it became jfl Moontower, so I don’t know where that relationship is right now. Regardless, the festival will be coming up. Jane Gillis, you know he was canceled. Now he’s not canceled at all.

He’s headlining the festival. Ronny Chieng and Tim Robinson will also perform. Andrew Schultz will beat the Moody Center, Margaret Chow, Nicole Bayer, Tim Robinson and if I click on here on this little graphic they made to see who they’re spotlighting. All right, Well, You can always tell who they find important by the font. So big font Andrew Schultz, Shane Gillis, Ronny Chieng, Tim Robinson, they get the big font, next biggest font, Amy Sedaris or A Shaffer, Brad Williams, Darcy and Jerr Remember I had them on last year.

They were fun, Desi Banks, Frankie Kenioniis, Jeff Ross, Jo Para, Kathy Griffin. Love It or Leave It? Mark Marin, Margaret chow Er, big Lea, Miss Patt, Nicole Bayer, Rachel Bloom, Roywood Junior, Sarah Sherman and Chloe Feyneman as one show the State first Bueller’s Day Off presented by Alan Ruck. Surprise, Mark Maren’s not in a bigger font there, So then we go down to font size three. I’m not going to read all these names.

Let me skim it here, Andy Kindler, Bruce McCullough, James Adomian, Natalie Palamides. Who’s fantastic If you’re Eisenberg, Rachel Finstein, Rosebud Baker, Todd Barry, see Todd Barry should be in bigger font as well. Then there’s an even smaller font. This is like an eye test, I tell you to even read this, I have to hit control plus plus on my mac. Here is to get to font size four.

Let’s say, who’s buried in funt size four that we’ve heard of? Blair Zochi, Jaye Jorden, Genny Zigrino, and a bunch of others who were in font size four. I think Natzaro as a special out tomorrow that went on Amazon. She was asked who in her peer group makes her laugh the most. She said a Parna Naturla, also her podcast co host Fortune Fimester and May Martin.

Chris Fairbanks is one of the funniest people live. We were almost legally married because our roommate situation went on for ten years. And there’s nobody like Maria Bamford. When I see her, I just think what am I doing? What made me think I could do comedy?

Advice If you want to get into comedy right now, you have to make sure you’re playing every vibe save spaces though you don’t want to put yourself in harm’s way. I’ve done everything. It was a preacher in southern California who booked me on a tour of churches. I was like, I’m not religious and I’m gay. He thought it was hilarious and tell me I could say whatever I want, but I’ve done it open MIC’s at a Taco stan, a laundromat, and still not too proud to do any kind of show.

I did a vegan benefit in someone’s living room two nights ago. The man who was sentenced to jail time for attacking Dave Chappelle will soon be released. The man has been in custody since May twenty twenty two. Remember this was that the Netflix as a Joke festival and the man went up on stage, and I remembering Chris Rock and Jamie Fox were involved somehow, meaning defending Chappelle. I don’t want to make it sound like Jimmie Fox attack Dave Chappelle.

The man will be conditionally released to a recovery center. Tracy Morgan was on the Tonight Show joking about ozempic that’s the weight loss drug, and Tracy said, I out ate ozempic. I’m like Magic Johnson. I gained forty pounds. He said.

The daily injections cut my appetite in half. I only eat half a bag of Dorito’s. There’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. It’s kind of like this except by talk less, and I can play a lot more clips for you on this week’s show, Ian Carmel, Mike, Vicky and Brad Williams, Arishfier, Andrew Santino, Craig Ferguson, and a bunch of others including Norm McDonald.

So I was listening back to the playback. I listened not because I have a huge I want to make sure there are no mistakes in the show, and I was listening to my half ass Norm McDonald, which is not too bad up against real Norm McDonald, and I realized my vals have to get better. I slip into a bit of Queen’s and I have to get a little more Canadian when I slip in a half assed Norm. I will work on that. There are several ways to support this show.

This week. I’m going to push the two dollars Club. So what you do is you go to buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, you join the two dollar Club, you sign up, you totally forget about it, and then like ten years from now, you’re like, wait, I’ve been giving Johnny mac two dollars a month for ten years. Yeah, that’s works. Maybe a little less cynical than that.

But if you want to join the two dollar club, you know, if a million people do that, I’ll be making two million dollars a month on this podcast. The other thing I’m pushing is my substack. I’m not trying to make any money off the substack. It’s just a thing where I write my media thoughts. The link is in the show notes, but it’s mcdeepod dot substack dot com.

In case you don’t know, my name is John mc dermott. Even though it’s my name, the N into the m is hard to say John McDermott, which is why I just say Johnny macketts a lot easier. But mcdeepod dot substack dot com. Sign up. It’ll be like, hey, do you want to donate.

You don’t have to do it, sign up for the free version. I just want to people to read my thoughts. That’s all that’s about, all right. The Melbourne Comedy Festival. I’m confused here.

If you go to Melbourne International Comedy Festival, it says it starts March twenty seventh, today’s March twenty fifth, and there are shows tomorrow. So This is why I’m unprepared. I was ready to do this starting March twenty sixth. Actually, because of the way time zones work. In case somebody is listening in Melbourne, I have to stay East Coast at US a day in advance.

Otherwise they’ll be like, wait, you’re telling me about shows that are three hours ago. Did I explain that right? Just look up out time zones or whatever time it is where you are. Now, look up what time it is in Melbourne. It’s tomorrow.

It’s like eighteen hours in front of you. But this is big festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first, and by March twenty seventh the Australians mean March twenty sixth. So let’s see who’s playing on Tuesday in Milburn. Okay, everybody understands what we mean by today. So it’s Tuesday, Tuesday, March twenty sixth in Melbourne.

And boy, this website’s confusing. I pulled down the March twenty six dropped down and now it’s telling me March twenty fifth, but there are no shows March twenty fifth. Come on, get it together. This is a big show. There’s probably twenty different things.

I’m not gonna read all of these every day. See what catches my eye? How about groundhog Day the musical? No gimmick here. You are familiar with the movie groundhog Day, That but a musical.

Yep. Phil Connors is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event. And it’s groundhog Day and you know what happens one hundred and fifty minutes at the Princess Theater at the Butterfly Club, Murder Village and improvised Who’s done It? That’s fun? At nine o’clock, Steph Broadbridge’s best dog joke ever.

At nine to forty five, Elliot McLaren’s Memoirs of a Methhead Chapter one. Usually they have clips that I can share with you, but they don’t seem to have any amp yet. Some things I could bump from last week from the Late Nighter website. That is a really good website talking about the late night shows. John Stewart paying dividends for the Daily Show.

They’ve now passed the eleven million subscriber mark on YouTube. Compare that to Jimmy Fallon with thirty one and a half million subscribers and Kimmel nineteen point three. The Daily Show has seven million subscribers. On TikTok, Fallon has nineteen point nine going back to the week of March eleventh. Apparently the Daily Show without John Stewart not working as well as they hoped.

The March eleventh episode hosted by John Stewart average nearly two million total viewers. The week averaged out to five hundred and forty seven thousand total viewers. So I’m not going to do the math here, but I’m sure if you take that two million out, it’s dragging up that five to forty seven a little bit. Yikes. Hannah Gatsby, she is on the cover of Rolling Stone down Under.

She’ll be on the Australia New Zealand to cover for the March to May issue, and I said, it was never my dream to be on Rolling Stone magazine, certainly not the cover. But why would you bother dreaming about something that’s highly unlikely? And ready is a special Autistic Bikini Queen is out on Netflix that came out over the weekend. Ian Carmel taped on Saturday night. He’ll have a new special coming out.

He also has a memoir called The T Shirt Swim Club. It’s a journey through the lifetime of being fat. He went from four hundred and twenty pounds to something a neighborhood of two thirty, back up to two forty, back down to two twenty three, back up to two fifty, back down to two thirty. His new show’s about confronting getting older and all the fun stuff. I was a pretty wild dude for a long time in terms of drugs, alcohol, partying and living, so I couldn’t conceive of a world where I lived till fifty.

I don’t think it was a conscious thought. But now I’m realizing I’ve treated my body very poorly, and being on the other side of that, I’m looking at life and all the other things about aging, like not being able to party anymore. And from Scotland. Last week, the front cover of the Herald Scotland, the world’s oldest national newspaper, reported the police have been told to target comics under a new hate crime law. Police training seen by the newspaper informed officers the material which can be deemed as threatening and abusive under the Hate crime and Public order can be communicated through public performance of a play.

Comedian Andrew Doyle said the best response to the Scottish national parties, and new hate crime bill is surely it’s a mucket and that intu comedy news for today. Last night, Kevin Hart was at the More Twain thingy, so we’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it. To see it then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News chat. Prather is a humorist and a podcast host. He went on Facebook to complain about the cost of his lunch at the airport in Houston. Showed a picture of a burger and said, at Houston’s Bush Airport this was sixty two dollars and sixteen cents.

There’s so many directions I could go with this post right now, Unfortunately, have bigger things to worry about. As I sit in seat one E of the United Boeing seven thirty seven awaiting takeoff, people started blaming Biden for inflation. The thread went crazy. The burger’s actually fourteen dollars, folks. I’m gonna start with a little inside baseball here.

This is from Ashley Carmen’s SoundBite newsletter. It’s about podcasting. This is on Bloomberg dot Com. She writes, whenever I’ve spoken to folks about who might have a sense of just how big the Joe Rogan experience it is, I always get the same answer. Huge.

Last month and Spotify quietly began testing a feature that shows just how popular Rogan and other pot casters actually are. The metric we’re looking at here is followers. By the way, if you don’t follow this podcast, please do, Ashley writes, and I think this was from Thursday Rogan Show. As if this morning has fourteen point five million followers, that’s nearly three times more than the next follow up program, Ted Talks Daily. So this is on Spotify.

Anecdotally into the I test, the podcast audience on Spotify tends to be younger than Apple podcasts. Generally speaking, I find Apple podcasts listening about sixty percent of the audience and Spotify about ten to fifteen, depending on the show different shows. I’ll pull up right here, I’ll tell you what this show is doing. So for the last thirty days on Daily Comedy News, fifty six percent of fifty five point nine three. That’s my hesitation there.

I will make the I did fifty five point nine three on Apple Podcasts and twelve point four to eight on Spotify. Overcast at four point seven three, iHeartRadio three point five six, and then a bunch of others. Just see you get a sense of what we’re talking about here in terms of relative popularity. Point being, you know, Rogan fourteen and a half million followers, Ted talks daily five million. I won’t read them all, but let’s see here.

Call her Daddy’s third with three point seven THEO Vaughn with one point one million followers. That’s more than Jason and Travis Kelcey Travis you may know at Dave’s Taylor Swift Ashley Writes, a podcast with Katy Perry as a host, only reached five thousand followers. Wow. Seth Rogan’s story Time got to one hundred and two thousand. Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis’s podcast has eighty five thousand Patreon members, yet they only have three hundred and twelve thousand Spotify followers.

Chopo Traphouse has forty one thousand paid subscribers, earning them one hundred and seventy five thousand, nine hundred dollars per month, slightly more than I’m making here, and they only have one hundred and twenty seven thousand Spotify followers. This show here on Spotify as a record on Friday, has on Spotify thirty four hundred and ninety three followers. Again, Katie Perry five thousand. According to Spotify. For my show, thirty six point six percent of view between forty five and fifty nine, with another twenty six point four to one between thirty five and forty four, and almost twelve percent twenty eight to thirty four.

Now, so we’ll see here, there was a spike on March thirteenth. What happened to March thirteenth? That episode was titled was Cat Williams Right? Was John Cena Humiliation Ritual plus Aamy Schumer head her Uterus Bronze and Jerry Seinfeld loves mad Men? All right?

Apparently people like that one. Looks like we might actually, perhaps possibly maybe get that Office. Reboot’s not the right word here. Showrunner Greg Daniels is looking to create a new series in the world of dunder Mifflin. He’s tapped the co creator of Nathan for You to help lead the project.

It’s not a reboot of the Office, but it’s set in the same universe. So I guess, like, I don’t know, Twight could drop by, but it’s I don’t know, a different paper company, or maybe it’s a guy podcasting in this basement. Who knows. You’ll watch. We’re all gonna watch.

Craig Ferguson might return to Late Night. He told the spokesman. I have meetings next week. Next week is now this week in Los Angeles for a show. I’m considering doing a show, but I just don’t want to do one every day.

I like doing a talk show, but not enough to do it every single day. When he left the Late Late Show, he said, I had enough. I enjoyed it, but it was all consuming. Some people are all about it. I’m very good friends with Jay Leno.

We do gigs together sometimes, and he talks about how much work there was with our talk shows. Jay was much more professional than I was and spent more hours working on things every day. The tough part for me is all the time I spent away from your family. The talk shows just take over your life. I’m grateful for the show, but I had to step away from it.

I’m thinking here. So it’s now twelve twenty nine. I probably started prepping the shows. I often will be prepping several ones. What happens is I do the new sweep and I’ll be like, Okay, this one needs to go tomorrow, this can wait.

Let me throw this one to the weekend. The weekend’s are a little more generic. So I’ve been working on the pod and I’m not complaining. I’m just telling you about my day. About two and a half hours so far, and I’ve done a bunch of prep and I’ve recorded yesterday and today, and I’m going to do one more.

I have a cool idea for Easter Sunday that I’m going to work on next. Oh that’s why it’s so long. I pulled here. I’ll just tell you for Easter Sunday, I want to explore up and coming Australian comedians because it’s festival season down there. So I pulled a lot of clips, so that’ll be more of it’s not a generic episode, like I put a lot more work into that episode than I did in to say, today’s episode, because I pulled I don’t know twenty clips.

So anyway, next Easter Sunday, you’ll hear a bunch of comedians that you probably don’t know unless you’re an expert in the up and coming Ozzy comedian scene. I’d be impressed if you were. Anyway, So I’ve put in two and a half hours. I can only imagine how much work Jay Leno did you have to prep for the guests. You have to actually read their books or watch their movies.

And you can’t wing it and like I can stop here and redoce something, and those shows, for the most part would be live to tape, so you got to actually prepare. The flip side is I don’t have fifteen writers. Ferguson talks about being a stintup. He says that’s the best part of going on the road. It’s all on me.

He was hitting Spokane, he said, even though I’m coming for the first time, I must say Spokane is my favorite city in the United States. He wasn’t sure what he was going to talk about, but I know I won’t be talking politics. I made a rule seven years ago that I wouldn’t talk about politics on stage. It’s a stylistic choice. I talked about this with Jim Gaffigan.

His stylistic choice is never to cuss. Oh cuss occasionally off stage, but he’s more comfortable not cussing while performing. That’s how I am about politics. I’ll just be there to provide levity when I perform. He now splits time between New York City and Scotland.

I left LA in twenty eighteen. It’s a one industry town and I had to get away. He misses interacting with his guests. He says, I had fun with it. I was happy to see Robin Williams, Gary Fisher, Betty White, and Kristen Bell.

Robin Williams was just what you say he was, but a lot of people don’t know how kind he was. He was the sweetest man. You know, Craig, if you miss interacting with people, you do have a podcast where you interview celebrities. You know this right, I’m confused. Robin Williams used to talk about stand up being jazz.

I get it, since it could be improvisational. Leno and I were just talking the other day about the music and comedy connection, and Jay said, you start out with your big number and then you go to a ballad. Comics think like musicians, and that’s not a bad thing. These have been long lately. I think the episodes has been really good, but I’m trying not to do like thirty five minutes a day.

I just bumped five stories again. Jerrod Carmichael was on Jimmy Kimmel during the week. This is one of the stories I got bumped Friday and Saturday, but it’s a good one. He was on with Kimmel and he talked about Taylor Swift. Uh, oh, be careful.

You know what happened at Joe Coy. So one time, Joe Coy was hosting the Golden Globes, right, and he told this horrible media here, let’s listen to this. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. And basically what happened was Taylor Swift and murdered Joe Cooy’s career.

That’s what happened. So Gerrod Carmichael said, Taylor, that’s my best friend. Taylor Swift is my best friend, but I’m not her best friend. She’s my best friend. Can you think of a better friend to have than Taylor Swift?

She’s very smart and interesting anyone else. There’s more shots of her own the NFL than on the Golden Globes. Whoa Seohnnie Mack? WHOA? Why’d you go there?

Anyway? They connected at a Bill’s playoff game the Bills were playing the Chiefs. He said, she knows more about football than I do. Kim Ol said, did you ask questions about football? And Drod said, yeah, I’m the girlfriend in that situation.

Tignazaro has a special out Tuesday on Amazon. It’s called Hello Again. Here’s a clip. My wife, Stephanie is directing tonight. Tonight’s My night though.

Okay, Stephanie hauled nine one one and a gigantic fireman appeared. I thought, I get it now, I could get used to this mommy’s home. I came around the corner and our son said, it’s just her. Does everything have to be a joke with you kinda? Yeah?

Eh? Right, eh. Seems like you’ve become the defecto Hollywood comic. Your social circle includes a lot of big names, so there were jokes about Reese, Witherspoon and an A List party. I don’t want to spoil your last special.

Do you ever worry about that causing conflict? Tick said no, because I’m not ever saying anything that’s mean. I don’t know. If you’re familiar with my Taylor Dane story, see it’s not a Taylor Swift story. It’s a Taylor Dane story.

Sometimes people will misinterpret that to think I’m bashing Gara, but I’m not. It’s more like, yeah, she was rude to me, but I don’t care. It’s amusing I’ve since met Taylor Dane, and I really appreciated that there wasn’t a heaviness to it. She was like, I’ve read been telling stories about me. Sounds about right.

I was probably a couple of cocktails in. I love ribbing people, and I love when people rip me, so I don’t run anything by anyone. Well, take NATARO, I dare you to make a joke about Taylor Swift going to an NFL game. I double dare you. You saw what happened to Joe Cooy, didn’t you?

Not? Tig said my special taping almost didn’t happen because there was a moment where I thought I couldn’t do it. I was touring Europe and the airline lost my luggage. I was just making rounds around Europe for two and a half weeks. When I went to the airport to try and find it, somebody checked me with their giant suitcase and launched me.

I fractured my wrist I don’t know, and ended up on crutches with my leg and embrace. Three days before he taped, I still couldn’t bend my knee. The outfit I was wearing for my special wasn’t what I planned because my suitcase was still on its own tour without me when I fell. It was at the Manchester Airport and I never actually picked up the luggage before the ambulance came and got me and ended up in a storage unit. It was the biggest circus.

And that is your comedy news for today. Let’s get out on the laugh. I just bumped another five stories. We’re gonna have long episodes for a few days here. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it.

They might enjoy it too. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Are you’re enjoying the March madness. Jimmy Fallon joked about Yale making the tournament and said their sign said, don’t you know who our fathers are? Perhaps we should settle this on the squash court.

And this is such a bad loss, I’m writing it off on my taxes. Jimmy Kimble said. Gonzaga is the college basketball version of the Easter Bunny. It shows up once a year and makes a bunch of baskets and then disappears. Netflix obviously has installed a spy cam in my basement studio here.

Yesterday’s episode was quite long, twenty something minutes before I did the edits. As soon as I finished, I got an email. Netflix is a joke fest outside Joke lineup announcement outdoors at the Hollywood Palladium two weekends, May third through the fifth, and May tenth through the twelfth. So just zipping down this on May third, Freddy Gibbs, are you still listening? And the drop hosted by st Afros Haukias on Saturday, May fourth, I think I’m in Cleveland that day.

I won’t be able to make the festival less. I blow Cleveland off. The guy in Cleveland I’m visiting right now. It’s like, WHOA, don’t do that? The Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin, Mark Rebel Lay, Josh, Adam Myers and the drop in hosted by Leslie Jones.

Then on Sunday, May fifth, Netflix is a drag Zach Sherwin again, Fred Ormisen and the drop in hosted by Janelle James. Then the following weekend on the Friday that’s May tenth, Puddles Pity Party, a roast battle with Jeff Ross and Friends, and the drop in hosted by Jim Jeffries. That’s awesome. Saturday, May eleventh, Adam Ray’s Doctor Phil Middle Aged Dad jam band with David Wayne and Ken Marino, Morgan, Jay, Reggie Watts. Another roast battle and then the drop in hosted by Tim Dillon.

Wow. Sunday May twelfth is that Mother’s Day. Netflix is a drag Therapy Gecko, another roast battle and then the drop in hosted by Otsko at Kotska. Now that’s not the main Festival’s outside a day pass. I’ll get you in for twenty five dollars all in with fees, says the email guaranteed entry to outside joke for the single day if you’re a festival ticket holder.

If you have a ticket to any show at the festival, you get access to the outside joke via the standby line entry, first Come, first serve. Pete Davidson has decided not to go forward with Bupkis season two. It had been renewed, but Pete says he has decided not to continue with it. In a statement, Pete said, I’ve always seen buck Gus as a window in my life, since it’s so personal about my struggles and my family. After nearly a decade if my personal life being in the media, I wanted a chance to tell my story my way.

Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. So grateful to Lorne Michael’s in Broadway, Video, Peacock, Universal Television, and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny, and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished. I’m very excited for this next chapter and for you guys to see the work. Thank you to all who support me for I am forever grateful.

What do you think’s going on there? That’s weird? Right now, I’m googling Pete Davidson. I don’t see anything gossip Cornery. But here from curbed, I’m doing this on the fly.

Here the plan for Pete Davidson and Colin Jose to Staten Island Ferry.

All right, let’s read this.

I’m reading this called curved. Right three months after Colin Jost and Pete Davison bought a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry for two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, Joe stood on its deck like a triumphant captain as it was towed through New York Harbor to a temporary dock that was two years ago. Ever since, the two hundred and seventy seven foot long boat seems to have just sat and sat and sat. If you’ve ever been on the Staten Island Ferry, it’s big locals living near the Staten Island dock till the near posts. They haven’t seen anyone working on it.

Pete Davison seld reporters. They were stone when they bought the ferry and said he hopes it turns into a transformer and gets the f out of there. Colin Jost has said, is it worse that I was actually stone cold sober? On a podcast last year, writes Curb, Davidson broke character and sold Seth Myers. There was an actual plan for the boat.

Regular conference calls about its redesign and even renderings quoting Peace. We had them and do one of those computer generated show you what it could be things curved asks. But who’s them? One report on the ferry purchase named a fourth partner ron, an architect who’s worked for some companies I’ve never heard of. Doesn’t mean they’re not good.

I’ve just never heard of them. On the website for that firm, it lists the JFKA Ferry as a project they’re working on for JFK Partners, with a budget of thirty four million dollars. Thirty four million dollars. That’s not a blown autit there, I said it twice. Thirty four million dollars and a floor plan of sixty five thousand square feet thirty four million dollars.

A short video that played on his website last month showed his renderings for each floor. A top deck furnished with patio tables set with umbrellas, another floor with two rolls of hotel rooms that open on a sun decks, and a lower level with two clubs thirty four million dollars. The ferry may open with two restaurants and six bars. I mean it’s big. It’s not six bars and two restaurants big.

I don’t think. I’m not an architect. I’m not an expert. Been on the ferry. Fe so doesn’t say that big so.

Curb interviewed this guy and as what’s Pete and Collins role? He said, they have input, They see everything. We have meetings as needed, sometimes twice a week, sometimes every three months. They asked him about the six bars and two restaurants. The guy said, it’s gonna have a lot of things.

I think right now we have six bars and two venues operated separately or combined. We have an outdoor event space, We have restaurants, two restaurants. It’s a big boat, almost three hundred feet long, sixty five thousand square feet curved. Asked Pete. Davison said it would have two hotels.

Is that still happening? The guy said, it’s only one floor of hotel rooms. Twenty four rooms on the fifth floor. They have private sun decks, but no pool pool. Something keeps coming up.

We’re going back and forth. There’s a little chacuozi kind of thing, but not a full on pool. We’d have to do a floating pool. And Davison said it’s gonna go between Miami and New York City. The guy said, yeah, I think that’s exactly Still, the plan doesn’t have to be in one place.

It can move. This is amazing. All right, This is going in the Facebook group, but Daily Comedy News podcast group. If you want to read this yourself because it’s uh. I would always say it’s unbelievable, but it’s uh.

Makes me go thirty four million dollars several times watched this. I’ll be here in eight years telling you how Pete Davidson’s a billionaire from this. Ferry Triumph, the insult comic Dog, has released a special and he Triumph spoke to a Consequence of Sound. Rob Smigle, the voice and hand up Triumph’s Booty, has just released an edited version of Let’s Make a Poop, the live game show taped at San Francisco Sketch Fest. Smichael told Consequence he didn’t have as much control over the taping of the show as he would have liked.

It felt like it was the most enjoyable show had done live in like twenty years. If I had really shot him more carefully, I might have tried to sell it somewhere. I didn’t feel it was in that kind of shape, but I still think it’s worth sharing, so I decided I would share it on YouTube for free. I gotta remember to watch this this weekend. Last night my daughter had a theater show, so that killed Friday in ITV, and you know, the new baseball games out on the video game platforms.

Gotta make some time for that. Plus my phone’s exploding. I listened to all these podcasts, which pairs up nicely with playing baseball on the video game. Johnny Mack digresses. So Michael says the sketch Fest show stands out because it had this unusual dynamic of having weird Al Yankovic there and having people sing his presumed song parodies, and that played out really well live on stage, had a really hot audience and a really good time, and Rob Schneider was a funny target.

As for including Schneider, Michael says, I’m always for putting people on as long as there are no restrictions for triumph, as long as triumph can tear into the person, and I feel like a tour and a Rob Pretty well, that’s kind of the point that people you want are rich subjects. You may or may not know that Rob Schneider has gotten politically outspoken in recent years. So Michael says, there was a passketch fest and they didn’t want the particular guests. They were like, now the audience will be too upset, and I’m like, you don’t get it. The whole point hasn’t going to tear into this person.

It’ll be very satisfying. So Michael understands why people have this impulse. Everything is so heightened down. People don’t even want to give platforms to dot dot dot. The word normalized is a very popular word.

Now. I had to take my sweatshirt off. It’s five trillion degrees in the basement today. I don’t know why it’s cold out. So Michael says, there is a class person that I wouldn’t give a platform too, even to make fun.

People that I feel are like grifters and are saying things they don’t even necessarily means they’re saying it to cultivate a certain audience. I didn’t feel like Rob Schneider fell into that category, but there are people that do, and I wouldn’t interact with them, even as Triumph. I’d just be like, nah, I don’t want to get anything out of this. I don’t want you to come away feeling like you got exposure credit for laughing yourself. They’re not doing it in a funny way like Triumph might do.

They’re not entertaining. Some of them think they are, but they’re not really funny enough to justify that. They’re just fanning the flames of paranoia and anger. I wonder who he means, Like seriously, wonder who he means. He did want to have on commentator Ben Shapiro.

Triumph would have had a field day with Ben Shapiro. I don’t know if San Francisco’s audience it’ll let me do it. But I like putting people out and ridiculing them if they’re willing to take it. And I feel like that guy has always been consistent, least he feels like he genuinely subscribes to what he says. That’s a lot more tolerable to me, a lot of people find him obnoxious, but he tries to speak intelligently.

Smichael says, now this interview is going to be like Smichel defends Ben Shapiro. Rolling Stone tagged on and said, triumphast if he could perform some of his favorite weird house boofs, only he delivered some whole there is dumb, half baked ones. Al definitely didn’t write one dumplings, said to bon chovis wanted dead or alive. Another mud slide, a take on Fleetwood, Max Lan slide about fast casual takeout and bowel movements. Triumph pretended weird.

Al wrote numerous parodies of green Day’s Good Riddance, one being about being confused by cream cheese with chives, one about cutting a cantelope with a plastic knife, one about a flight attendant explaining how a seat works as a flotation device, and one about not getting Paul Thomas Anderson’s inherent vice this is fun and I forgot I pulled the clip. Let’s listen, Michael winso Man is amazing. Michael Winslow can reproduce any sound except for a casting director saying you got the part notable for twenty Please know the bulls for twenty Okay, Republicans in twenty six states have been working to outlaw this act that many conservatives consider immoral. What is voting Okay? During the game show Puperty, which you just heard twice, the game required audio clues to answer questions about who wrote famous pop parodies of songs by Rim and Lona del Rey.

Thomas Lennon came out first, delivering a version of losing my religion about purchasing per Simmons, sam or Ruffin tackle, the latter turning summertime status into a tune about watching tennis. Great Pete Sampras close it out. Triumph got weird Alu himself to perform a duet of one of the fake songs, a spoof of Chandelier about wanting to binge old sitcoms, the chorus, I want to watch mister Belvedere love it Wow long again. Today there’s just been so much news. I just bumped five stories.

We’ve got plenty of other days. We can get to things on your HBO Max Max HBO Max Tonight, Romi yousef more Feelings. Rommi will offer his unique reflections on our divided world. The unexpected perils of charitable giving and more, including the twenty twenty four presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life. Before October seventh, Romy says he was touring an hour long set that included a story about going home with a woman and finding out she had and Israeli flag on the wall.

He says, I’m horny, so I’m trying to justify it. That’s the star of David, that’s their logo. It’s just Jewish big Post October seventh, he didn’t have to throw everything out and start over, but he knew he’d have to write about it after friends started reaching out. October tenth, they get a call from a guy. I know, yo, bro, where are you at with Hamas?

Yusef is defiant? Where I’m at? Are we effing you think any of us like what happened? We hate seeing people die. It made me cry.

His punchline spoiler, you know me? You think I’m Jumas, bro, I’m a Taliman. Guy talked about people asking him about Israel and Hamas and he said, let’s be real, at the bottom of the question. The bottom of the question is you think I’m out like this, you think there’s a chance. I think terrorism’s cool.

And he was asked, was the punchline always Taliban? He said, we tried Bocoharram, but their brand isn’t strong enough to get the pop or the laugh you want. The interviewer was like, wait really, Robbi said no, it was always Taliban. That’s not the kind of joke you can workshop with a bunch of Arabs, though, because at a certain point someone non Arab shows up and goes, what are you guys talking about? The joke in of itself creates the problem you’re trying to avoid.

The New Indian Express was curious about in the special, did somebody from Joe Biden’s campaign really reach out to you in twenty twenty? Romy said, yeah, itIt a zoom. I mean they’re nice people, by the way, like they’re really good and I think, you know, obviously in the special, it’s kind of fun to play with those situations. We’ren’t a really interesting predicament where it’s kind of like, hey, you sure you want to complain about Biden because Trump is worse?

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And then it’s kind of like, all right, you know that’s kind of textbook abuse…

And you say, Okay, I thought we’re in a democracy, or aren’t we supposed to kind of question it and poke at it.

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And then I’m feeling an interesting thing where we’re kind of voicing what I …

Here he was asked about Taylor Swift coming to see one of his shows, and he said, I mean she was like person of the Year. It kind of becomes this huge talking point or whatever. I’ve kind of a throw away joke about it. Watch out, be careful here, let’s listen to what the throw away joke might be. Says.

For the most part, it’s like we just met, you know, Like she was a big fan of the movie Poor Things. Boy, She’s gonna be mad at that joke. So I don’t know if that’s gonna say, but she’s a really cool person. All Right, that’s long enough for today’s mura. It’s gonna be long too, because I could tell you have any stories I just bumped.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Come back tomorrow. It’ll be robust to see you here.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media Jimmy Foul said a Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to ten months in jail for showing up to work drunk. Yeah, you got ten months in prison and a job offer from Southwest. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wait to hear this Kevin Hart thing.

Hoo, there was a lot today. It took me two and a half hours to sort the stories. Not everything’s making today’s program, with just so many articles and interviews and podcasts with comedians. So I’ve got a load of material well into next week. But the big thing today, The Washington Post threw some serious heat I insight right up against Kevin Hart’s chin.

The headline is Kevin Hart funny. Now I love this. The genesis of this article here is basically I’m paraphrasing, why are we giving the Mark Twain Prize to Kevin Hart? That was kind of my original reaction to the announcement as well. But the Washington Post is not pulling punches.

They write comedy, it seems, is merely the Empire’s cornerstone and some other comedians they could sort of weak. They quote Donnell Rawling saying on a podcast. I hear so many comics say Kevin Hart’s not funny. Donelle didn’t say if he agrees with them or not. Mike Epps on Instagram in twenty eighteen wrote, I still don’t think you are behind is funny?

I cleaned it up a little. You may recall Kat Williams was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and called Kevin Hart an industry plant. Kevin Hart reacted to that and said, at the circus, when a lion comes out and rides a bike, you don’t think about it too hard. You just go, Okay, that’s crazy. The post writes Heart has built something massive, But does the last name Hart mean something in comedy?

Does he consider his comedy to be impactful? Or is he a lion riding a bicycle? We’d like to ask Cart himself about all this. We spent months trying to schedule him the Kennedy Center, which we’ll host and confer the prize March twenty fourth. Tried helping.

Maybe the interview would be in Qatar, where we had a show, or maybe on a film set in Atlanta, maybe just over Zoom, but Kevin Hart had other things to do, so we bought a one hundred and thirty five dollars ticket for a bad Seat in North Charleston, South Carolina to see his brand new material tour and listen for answers. Boy, I love this article so much. They are bringing it. They’re write Heart’s small athletic frame. He’s five foot four, prowl’s the stage like an NBA player on the court.

All twenty three hundred members of the audience have locked their phones and secure pouches. All eyes are on Heart. It’s clear what he means when he says he doesn’t write jokes. Instead, he shouts his way through meandering stories. They usually end with a laugh line that will repeat several times, each one louder time out.

Chris Rock does that same thing. I’m not saying Chris Rock sucks, but Chris Rock will go, here’s the punch line. The punch line right. They’ll usually end a laugh line that will repeat several times while he pantomimes say his explosive defecation after eating a spicy Chick fil a sandwich where his family’s eye rolling when his nephew came out as gay. Quoting Kevin Hart, he I think I speak for the whole family when I say we know, we know, we know.

The audience devours it, laughing louder with each repetition. Yikes, yikes, yikes, this is fun. Johnny Mack likes the gossip. Sup Betting is Kevin Art Funny comics such as Keith Robinson, Patrise O’Neal and David Tel thought so. They helped him get a start and respect in New York stand up clubs.

Meet Him mogul Damon Dash thought so he put him in the Rock a Fella produced movie Paper Soldiers, alongside Jay Z, Charlie Murphy, and Michael Rappaport. Jodd Apatow thought so. He cast him in a few episodes of his Fox Had Come Undeclared with Seth Rogan and Jay Barshell twenty three years ago. The Fish out of Water persona he honed in movies such as Ride Along, Get Harden several films with Dwayne Johnson, draws big box office receipts. His movie character there is really only one, is an extension of a stand up act.

Frenetic, self deprecating, yet overconfident, fast talking, and most important, all caps loud. The Washington Post continues, Funny is in the ear of the listener. But perhaps the proof is in the empire. Cornerstone be damned his modeled underwear from Macy’s. He’s played in major poker tournaments.

He co created a TV show in twenty thirteen called Real Husbands of Hollywood. He founded a production company that pumps out the schlocky comedies he appears in. He started a ventual capital firm that invests in companies that make beds, energy, drinks, snacks, and cleaning products. Oh there’s more, all right, fasten your seat belts. Heart’s Empire seems impervious to threats.

He cheated on his pregnant wife in twenty seventeen, Johnny Mack pauses, No one seemed to care. In twenty fifteen, he said he would never play a gay character. No one really blinked. In twenty eighteen, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences announced he would host the twenty nineteen Oscars. Almost immediately, Twitter useres and journalists began sharing a slew of his old homophobic tweets and Santa pits.

The Academy asked him to apologize. He refused, resigned a gig, and then gave a non apology on Twitter but controversy rolls off him because he never fully admits wrongdoing, never earnestly apologizes. Instead, he talks about personal growth, He’s always evolving and growing, and complains about cancel culture. Did I tell you this is not pulling any punches. I can’t believe this.

I forgot to check the byline. Let me check the bioline here by Travis m Andrews. Travis m Andrews is a Future Wader. Joined the Post in twenty sixteen. He was previously a traveling culture editor for Southern Living magazine, a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable in the Week.

Some of his other recent articles, I’m Just curious is an oh bit for m m at walsh an article on March fourteenth about the Mark Twain Prize. On March twelfth, the headline, Oh that’s what happens when the Academy nominates popular movies March twelfth. Chat Cafe the exceptional Indian restaurant in a gas station. See I’m curious. I want to click on that, but I cannot afford to get sidetracked today.

Johnny Mack Stay focused Washpot writes a bid from his twenty thirteen special, let me explain about how his infidelity broke up his first marriage captures the cycle. Yes, people, I cheated. Am I ashamed of it? No? I’m not do I wish I could take it back.

No, I don’t let me tell you why you can’t evolve as a man if you never make a mistake. I’m not sure that’s all that cool. But again, it’s in the context of a comedy special, So we should never take anything set in a comedy special all that seriously. He told The Sunday Times in twenty twenty one. I’ve been canceled what three or four times?

In the same interview, he suggests that anyone who wants to cancel someone should shut the f up. Post continues. One phrase came up repeatedly among fans and Charleston. Oh, I know where this is going because I’ve preread this for age way to hear this That phrase, he’s relatable. Who among us hasn’t taken penis enlargement pills from a gas station and then commanded his spouse to recite his social Security number during six But maybe we’re thinking too literally.

What’s relatable isn’t the taking of the pills, but the insecurity that leads to them. There’s a deep universal anxiety at the heart of hard jokes, and there’s a deep universal anxiety. And the way he talks about himself. He needed to tell the Sunday Times I’m talented as f that he’s not funny. Slander is the Best began a tweetstorm in twenty twenty one when Kevin highlighted that his movies have made four billion dollars in the box office and that three of a stand up specials are among the top ten highest gross of all time.

I’ve also turned my comedic talents into a place of business and branding and radio and other revenue streams. The hate slander fuels me to do more.

And now the focus of the Washington Post article asked the question, is the T…

Is fun and loud? Close enough? Cliff nester Off, the stand up historian, notes that Kevin Hart and last year’s winner Adam Sandler are difficult to contextualize because they’re technically mid career. Nestro Off says, Kevin Hart really belongs to one generation of show business. I don’t know if we’re there yet.

To see specific comedians performers that have been influenced by Kevin Hart. It almost feels like we’re honoring fame. Wow, woh, would love to know what you think about that one. I shared it in the Facebook group. Folks are telling me the article is payhold, but you just got the gist of it.

And if you use Apple Podcasts, they now have transcripts. So if you want to scroll through everything I just read to you, I’d be curious your thoughts. Daily Comedy News podcast group. Wow, that one story was the length of what’s normally one segment. How about this one from Late Nighter?

They’ll say Sloan was asked about hosting the Daily Show. She also did not pull any punches until Late Nighter. I’m just telling you the reality of the situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I work there. It’s not about whether they asked me.

It’s why they didn’t ask Roy, would Junior? Because if they didn’t ask Roy, they sure is Heleen gonna ask me? If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in Late Night, why would they turn around and ask me? Next paragraph here on Late Nighter says Sloan is referring to the how late night has reverted to just being hosted by white guys after the following list of people have stopped doing late night shows. That list includes Samantha Bee, z Way, Ember Ruffin, Jesus and Marrow, and Trevor Noah, Well, Trevor left on his own.

Jesus and Marrow had a fight, sam Bee. I think turn around out of money, right. I don’t know why the other two ended. Sloane says the atmosphere at the Daily Show has lightned a bit recently. Sloan said, this is what’s happening with everything.

Look at all the shows that are getting canceled. Who lose this fool was hilarious. It got canceled. Nobody knows why. I’ll tell you why.

Nobody watched it. That’s why shows get canceled. It looks like this is what the directive is. And so I can’t worry about everything as a whole, because that just takes your brain somewhere it’s not supposed to go. It’s too big for my brain.

Listen, if your show gets views and you can sell to advertisers, it’ll be on end a story. There’s no conspiracy. I can tell you why this fool got canceled. Nobody watched it, so Loan says, with John Stewart coming back, everybody in the building has relaxed because it’s okay, we’re probably not going to get canceled now. Comedy Central is always an interesting place to be.

TV right now is an interesting place to be. So yeah, there are a lot of people who are like, my kids could stay in private school. We’re probably not going to get canceled right now. That’s the main thing. I got a lot more.

I need a break. Normally I do the show in two chunks. We may have three chunks today. There’s so much going on. David Tel he does indeed have a Netflix special coming out on March twenty sixth.

There’s no press about it, there’s no articles about it. This is it’s very strange. There’s not even a real triller. I went hunting and found that Netflix posted some audio. But this isn’t produced as a trailer.

It’s just somebody went all right, I’ll grab a couple jokes so you’ll know if there’s no music. There’s no editing here. You’ll also note that David Tell is working clean here. But I like this clip a lot. It’s really tough because there’s no late night food anymore.

It’s all gone. I don’t know what happened, but no food after eleven. You don’t believe me, I’ll take you through it. Okay. I’m in Milwaukee, which is a great town.

Milwaukee, great town, no late night food, which kind of explains Jeffrey Dahmer. Now, hey, this guy was a monster, all right. I am not condoning anything he did. But you get hungry, Am I right? I Mean, come on, all I’m saying is pack a snack, all right?

Now? I do trail mix anybody. I always travel with a bag of trails the most unsatisfying snack, Am I right? I mean, honestly, let’s call it what it really is. Are you ready?

Not enough M and m’s. I mean that’s what trail makes. It is. Every handful is just another handful of disappointment. Am I right?

It’s kind of like the hug of a step dad. I mean, it just doesn’t Yeah, I knew he had a couple of broken toys in the room. For what it’s worth, in my opinion, David Tell, and you don’t hear it there? He’s doing material there is really probably the best at crowd work. I’ve seen him going back a while.

We were at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and that’s a long time gone. And he just got up there and did I don’t know, half an hour just working the crowd. It was amazing. That Steve Martin documentary is coming out. Apple has released a longer clip.

The first voice you’re going to here is Jerry Seinfeld. Let’s listen. This guy was getting people so happy. He’s up there, the most idolized comedian ever. I always thought of him as the door out of the sixties.

Well here’s something I don’t often see. Wow, you know, you could be silly again. You know. I have figured out one thing that would totally put an endo show business, and that is if the human race, instead of having two arms, just had one arm right in the center of our body. Now, the reason that would put an end to show business?

How would people clap? And one more thing, if you bought my album and you came down here expecting me to do a lot of her teams from the record and I didn’t do them, well, I trim that a little bit for pacing.

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Also in this documentary, Tina fey Lorne Michaels, Larry David, Diane Keaton,…

Short official synopsis. Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Steve is a docum mentory in two pieces. I’ve talked about this before. First part, the part John cares about the comedy.

Second, the movies and the banjo and all that. I don’t care anyway, Steve. On Apple TV Plus March twenty ninth, Bert Kreischer went on Shaquill O’Neills The Big Podcast. Jack said, when I work out, my gym is in the back, the pool is cold. It’s like a cold plunge, so I jump in.

I don’t want to get out, and then take a shower. Kreischer shared his workout and said, ice cold pool, Get in there, wake up. I got rituals. I swim from one side underneath underwater back to my breath holds Sigora. He’s made fun of me for taking pool showers my whole life.

Shack took it personally because that’s also his ritual. So he grabbed the phone for Bert Krescher and sent a voicemail. Tom Sigor saying, Hey, Tom, this is Bert’s twin brother. I take pool showers too, so leave him alone or I’ll kill you. He was joking.

ConA and O’Brien will take part in a special event called Globe Trotting and Podcasting ConA O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV. This is part of the big push about this show on Max that’s finally coming out called Conan O’Brien Must Go. We’ll be hearing a lot from Conan coming up here. I think Globe Trouting and Podcasting Conan O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV at the Paley Center in New York on April eleventh. Did you see Mike Tyson is going to fight Jake Paul, Our spears waited in telling of lad TV.

Mike still got the power and he still has the speed. My question is does he have the endurance? And listen, everybody’s going, Jake Paul’s a YouTuber, Mike’s gotta whoop his butt, blah blah blah. I want to see Jake Paul get his butt whooped too. But here’s the thing.

When Jake Paul first started, he was a little sloppy and he wasn’t well put together as he is now with his body, his postures technique. So my biggest fears that Mike Tyson does not have the endurance. Hmm all right, let me take just a quick break here so we can do the second part in the normal way. I’ve got a rhythm to this, and I just I need thirty seconds. Be right back.

Climb to New Heights with Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs as we scale the Empire State Building to uncover the legend of King Kong. This week, we’re swinging into the heart of a story that bridges the gap between monster and man, from Skull Island to the streets of New York City. Join us as we explore the myth, the mystery, and the enduring legacy of cinema’s most iconic ape. Follow Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Big shout out, Hey, one of you has a BMW and you took it to a shop in New Jersey on Wednesday, and you were listening to Daily Comedy News.

And I know this because the guy that took in your car is my friend Van, and Van told me the story that he got in a car and somebody was mid Daily Comedy News. So, whoever you are, man, say hi on Facebook. I was so happy when Van told me that story, and I hope your car is okay. He didn’t explain why I was in. I don’t know.

Maybe just need oil change. I don’t know why, but BMW guy in New Jersey or woman, thank you for listening. As I mentioned earlier, the Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. It’s been super active lately, people other than me starting conversations, which is what I wanted to be. I don’t mind starting conversations, but I love when I log in and I’m like, oh, here’s a good topic, So please feel encouraged to join us.

The first time you post, you’ll get a brief timeout so we can make sure you’re not a pornbot. But once we figure out ah, this seems like a human, will let you in and then you could post away. Mike and Cleveland. He shot me a note he was reacting to the other day when I talk about Lenno versus Letterman, and I think he had a good insight, he said, paraphrasing. Leno felt like he needed to keep the job, whereas Dave didn’t give a hoot if he got fired or not, and I’m like, yeah, you know what, You’re right.

Good insight by Mike in Cleveland. A bunch of podcasts. As I’ve mentioned, I’m way behind on my pods. I’ve got a long drive next weekend. Maybe i can catch up on them.

Anyway. This week, Mark Marin had on Eddie peppatone that came out yesterday, and David tell I believe that came out on Monday. Neil Brennan, I forgot to write down the notes. Let me pull it up. He’s at a bunch of people.

Ah. Bill Burr, That’s who I wanted to tell you about. Bill Burr came out on Thursday. Kyle Kanaan came out on the fourteenth. Recent episodes there, Trevor Wallace, Jim Norton, Seth Green, Dusty Slay.

I’ve listened to the slag in the Norton. That show has been really clicking lately. Tammy Pascatelli’s on Elvis Duran’s podcast. Ari Shafer has launched a new travel podcast called You Be Tripping’ I like that title. His first guest is Andrew Santino.

The official description comedian and seasoned travel expert Ari Shafer has launched his newest podcast, You Be Tripping On You Be Tripping. Ari Shafir finds the comic wanting to ditch the travel guides and bring on real folks to discuss their messed up adventures in hilarious disaster tourism. I don’t know is Andrew Santino shucking jokes a good example of real folks. Here’s a clip if you can find a booie in a bay, which, by the way, is funny to hear him say. When he would say it, he’d say it sounded like boy.

He’s like, we must find a little boy, and I was like, why do we need a little boy? He’s like, no, we have to get a little boy for the boat. And I was like, I don’t really want a boy on the boat. Your wife just they have different customs. It’s you got, all right, we’ll get a little boy on the book.

By the way, that’s the first clip they shared, and let’s be honest, that’s not the greatest clip. I’ll check out the pod, but that clip doesn’t make me go wow, I gotta check this out. Already has lots of wild stories to tell from his international travels, such as getting Bert Krescher fat and Greece, as well as dancing for fourteen hours in a warehouse in Berlin. I had to read that twice to make sure it said warehouse, not a similar word warehouse in Berlin. On some of the finest lab made chemicals known to man.

The Entra Santino episode, they’d talk about the little islands off the coast of Italy, the subtle art of annoying locals and seeing so many stray dogs roaming everywhere. Upcoming guests include frequent podcast guests Joe List, Mark Norman, and also Kevin Ryan. More to be announced. From the Sun, No, not the not the Sun, the newspaper which is called the Sun. Imagine there was comedy news from the Sun.

Channel four bosses have apologized to one of their former employees who made a serious and concerning outgation about Russell Brand’s behavior. The CEO said, one former Channel four employee made a serious, concerning allegation about Russell Brand in two thousand and nine. Check your calendar. This was not escalated to Channel four’s then senior management team, nor investigated as it should have been. I’ve apologized on behalf of the organization to the individual for this breakdown and for the distress that this matter has caused.

A total of five women claim Brand had assaulted them between twenty six and twenty thirteen. Before the allegations were published, Russell Brand released a YouTube video in which he strongly denied the claims without specifying what they were. Mike Vicky Owns got a special today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. It’ll be at six o’clock. Now, I’m not sure what time zone the eight hundred Pound Gorilla stuff is usually Central Time.

This is called Worse Kind of Thoughtful. It’s inspired by his twenty eighteen comedy album on the same name. In this unique hour of comedy, Mike fully narrates while his talented friends, fellow comics, artists and more have been recruited to perform the stand up material on his behalf. That’s Fun. Adam Newmanman has a new hour of comedy, brought his guitar music, magic horses, but stuff.

This hour has it all. It’s called Jew Versus the Volcano. It’s his fifth hour of stand up. You’ll find it on Blonde Medicines YouTube channel. Jew Versus The Volcano has three acts.

The first act classic stand up checking in where he’s at now recently Mary traveled and barreling out of a pandemic. The second act is the age old tale about losing one’s virginity, featuring an appearance by RIM’s Mike Mills and a visit to the emergency room. The third and final act brings us to what Adam Newman has been planning all along coming out as a guitar comedian. It was in New York a few weeks ago, and it rained the whole time I was there. The first thing I had to do in New York was like dip into a bodega and get like a cheap four dollar umbrella, you know.

And I was walking in Brooklyn, in the neighborhood I was staying in. And I don’t know if it’s because I live in LA and just haven’t held an umbrella in a long time, or it was extra slippery or extra wet or whatever, but Augusta Wynn came and I just lost it. It’s just like up in the air. I turned around just in time to see it land in a baby’s stroller. Okay, the baby’s fine, I promise you.

The baby’s fine, but the mom was mad. She was like hey, I was like, I’m sorry, and she goes, you threw your umbrella at my baby. I was like, I didn’t throw it at your baby. Have you ever tried to throw and have you ever tried to throw an open umbrella? Like open against the way that it’s open, like facing the other direction?

Like for me to accurately be able to skill level, the skill level, the practice I would have had to put into it, the hatred towards her specific baby for me to land that in the stroller, her second reaction should have been my baby. Her first reaction should have been, that was incredible. You have to show me how you did that. That was amazing you versus the Volcano digital album and special out today vinyl orders in June. And that is your comedy News for today.

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