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Caloroga Shark Media a lots of cover. Jimmy kimmelaid, it’s John Mlaney crushed it. We’ll talk about the oscars in a second, but there are other news stories as well. Miami Dolphin star Tyreek Hill ended up in a heated exchange with a woman at a Kevin Hart comedy show. Hill had been accused of sitting in the woman’s seat.

TMZ reported that Hill was at Kevin Hart’s show at the Roxy in Atlanta. The woman grabbed him after Hill sat down. The report says it seems the woman was the more aggressive party. TMZ also reported that she pushed a member of Tyreek Hill’s team before security intervened. Com County PD told TMZ after reviewing the video, they determined the woman was the primary aggressor.

He decided to leave rather than let things go too far. Always a good decision.

Speaking of Kevin Hart, on Wednesday Nights, the masked singer Kevin Hart stu…

The p could not contain themselves as Kevin Hart, whose voice was unmistakable underneath the boxy costume, bumbled his way through the song through a voice changer. Kevin Hart said, I’ve done a lot, but what am I doing right now? This might be my most novel experience yet. When the reveal came a Robin Thick had guessed it was Kevin Hart. Thick hugged Kevin Nick.

Cannon complained that Kevin Hart was breaking the rules. Kennon said, this is stupid. That was the worst performance ever in the history of the show. How about that, Kevin Hart said, on purpose? Nick, I performed bad on purpose.

Cannon shot back, you embarrass yourself. That was stupid. No, I don’t look stupid. I look put together, Nick. There’s nothing stupid about me.

You know who looks stupid? You in that stupid jacket. Good buzz On Saturday Night Live, did you see Scarlett Johansson portray Senator Katie Britt doing the rebuttal to the State of the Union. Very very good. Jimmy Carr in trouble.

The New York Post went with the headline comedian Jimmy Carr’s vile joke at deaf audience member causes outrage. This isn’t comedy, all right, So Jimmy Carr is there performing in Kent. Carly is at the show. Carly says Jimmy Carr picked her out of the front row because she was wearing a beret. Asking why she was wearing it, Carly says, I used my right hand to lift my beret, exposing my hearing aid.

I hope he was at least a decent guy and would move on knowing I was deaf. It didn’t work. It had the opposite effect, as I was like a sitting deaf duck. Now I don’t think she understands what happens at a Jimmy Carr show. She said she was using a transcribing app on her phone read what Carr was saying during the set.

Carr then addressed her again and asked if she was going to call for backup from the French Resistance. That’s a good joke. Then he was talking about how you can say anything about deaf people because they can’t hear you. I was shocked. This isn’t comedy.

How did you wind up in the front row of a Jimmy Carr show. This is exactly what he does. I like Jimmy car a lot. Don’t read anything in the day. I’m on team Jimmy Carr.

Here that punchline about it because they can’t hear you. That’s Jimmy’s act. Carly said, comedy is an amazing tool for progressive change. Yet Jimmy decided to use this platform to put down those who have a tough life. There’s a joke and then there’s absolutely insulting.

It’s vile to the deaf community. It’s just not acceptable. He doesn’t need to do that. He’s rich enough. Okay.

Meanwhile, another story before we get to the Oscars, comedian at Nima Yumini has apparently backtracked about that whole Matt Rife thing. Remember the lawyers got involved, told you about that yesterday. In a new video clip you Meani said, while back, I did a parody video on my page and then threw Twitter under the bus, saying Twitter posted his parody video without context and passed off his jokes truth. Emani said, I don’t know Matt Rife, I’ve never met him, but my silly joke should not discredit him. I really do wish him success, and my content is entirely satire.

Sounds like the lawyers told you what to say. My content is exclusively for entertainment, no hitting agendas, so please everyone, stop hating based on rumors, lies, gossip, jokes. Matt Rife didn’t have me do this, But I want to give an explanation that was wrong. The Matt Rife conspiracy is just not true. I think we all knew that Cant Williams ran the forty yard dash.

Yeah, a lot of news, right, I want to get to the oscars. But all these stories came, and Cant Williams ran the forty yard dash at the Sports Academy in Texas. He ran it in four point nine seven seconds at fifty two years old. By comparison, Dak Prescott, who’s the quarterback of the Cowboys at age twenty two, ran the forty and four point seven nine. Again, four point ninety seven and four point seventy nine, not all that different.

All right, on to the OSCARS. I was driving back from Boston and we were playing YouTube TV through my car speakers, so I wasn’t at all watching Jimmy Kimmel, but I was listening, and my daughter was with me. She was watching, and our takeaway was sounded to us like Jimmy was struggling that the crowd wasn’t with him. Suddenly, Joe Coy’s not so bad at this, know what I’m saying. Yeah, Jimmy never found a rhythm.

The Daily Mail recapped. They said Kimmell, returning for the fourth time, left the eight listers grinning and cringing in equal measure as he took to the stage. They talked about the awkward thing when Kimmel said, Robert Downey Junior one of the highest points of his career, but Robert has been Then Downy pointed to his face, leading Kimmel to add, was that two on the note was a drug motion that you made? But look at him? Me so handsome sotalities when every war there is to win?

Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket? Or you just have a very rectangular body part? That joke fell flat. Later in the show, Kimmel appeared to catch the ire of Emma Stone as he made fun of Poor Things, joking about the explicit sex scenes in that film, saying that they showed the only parts of Poor Things that they were allowed to show on TV. Yeah, so, like I said, suddenly, Joe Coy’s not so bad at this.

She get a bad room. I think Kimmel’s a great host. I started the night thinking, Jimmy Kimmel should host the Oscars for the rest of time. But he didn’t nail it last night, and you know who did, John Mulaney. John Mulaney got up, I’m sourcing this next piece of audio from two different things because I don’t want to miss the first joke.

So the yadaile was a little shaky for five to ten seconds, and then I’ll go to the better audio. But here’s mullany crushing would that sound? We wouldn’t have been able to hear such classic lines as You’re gonna need a bigger boat. I’ll have what she’s having. And he was in the Amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died.

Or what about that moment in Field of Dreams when we hear if you build it, he will come.

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And then Costner does it.

He builds a baseball field. Well, I guess he doesn’t build it. He mows down corn, and then there is a field, and then he’s like, I’m gonna watch Ghost play baseball. And the bank is like, you want to pay your mortgage and he’s like, nah, I’m gonna watch Ghost play baseball. And Danny finds James Earl Jones, who wrote The Boat Rocker, which I thought was a real book deep into my twenties, and he’s like, people will come ray.

He’s the only one with a financial plan. But what’s weird is Timothy Bussfield pushes little Gabby Hoffman off the bleachers and she falls down and she’s unconscious. Den Bert Lancaster’s Moonlight Graham and he comes up and he pats around the back a couple times, and he’s like hot dogs stuck in the throat, and then he can’t go back in the game because I guess there’s a rule in ghost baseball that if you leave the field at any point to become an elderly ghost and do the Heimlich maneuver, you can’t return to the field. I love the Dreams That should win Best Picture. Should John Mulaney, who’s the Oscars next year.

I’ll bet a dollar that he does. He hosted some sort of secondary of tertiary awards. I don’t know if the SAG Awards or what he did, but he did something recently. I wouldn’t be shocked after two years of Kimmel and Kimmel being a little off his game last night if they tried out Mullaney next year. I think Millenie would be a good choice.

And I do really like Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy saved his best for last the show. Early on, as my daughter and I drove home, they had given away one award in the first half hour. We were like, this thing’s gonna sail long. And by the end they were a couple of minutes short and Jimmy had to kill time, and boy, this was his best two minutes. Let’s listen.

I was just you know, this doing this show is not about me, and I appreciate you having me is really about you and Emma and all these great actors and actresses and filmmakers. But I was totally have like an extra minute, and I’m really proud of something. I was wondering if I could share it with you. I just got a review. And has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?

His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not. Never can be get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC talent, George slop Monopolis. He would make everybody on stage, look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous. Blah blah blah, make America great again. Okay, now see if you can guess which former president just close said that on Shusan anyone?

No, Well, thank you, President Trump, Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still isn’t it past your jail time?

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Speaking of movies, you know, I was having just a great day prepping the show…

Guess who it is? Can you? Can? You guess already? You can hear it in my voice.

Now you might be thinking, I don’t know. It might be somebody like Robert Downey Junior. He’s Iron Man, He’s an Oppenheimer. You know somebody like that. Nope, Nope, nope.

The highest paid actor according to Forbes, Adam Sandler, Forbes tells us. Since signing his first two hundred and fifty million dollar four picture deal with Netflix in twenty fourteen, Sandler has started eight movies for Netflix. I have to produced several more through his Happy Madison production company. In the first six months of twenty twenty three alone, Netflix subscribers spent more than five hundred million hours watching Sandler movies five hundred million hours. According late, Netflix has rewarded the prolific funny man with not only one of the most luca of contracts in the entertainment industry, but one with enormous creative freedom.

Sandler’s three movies in twenty twenty three included Murder Mystery two, Okay You’re So Not Invited to My Bot, mitzvahs s Daring his Wife and Daughters, and the animated movie Leo, I Forgot That Happened. Combined with his forty four stand up comedy shows, Sandler earned an estimated seventy three million dollars last year. The rest of the Listen Kasher, Curious, Margo Robbie second at fifty nine million, Tom Cruz I’ve Heard of Him forty five millions for Ryan Gosling, tied with Matt Damon. They made forty three million. Jennifer Andison Now she’s in the Morning show on Apple TV and Adam Sandler movies.

Maybe I should just start sucking up to Adam Sandler instead of sitting here in the basement trash of the Guy seven. Leo DiCaprio forty one million. Jason Statham also forty one, Ben Affleck thirty eight and Denzel Washington twenty four million dollars. South By Southwest Today four o’clock Doug Benson tapes his podcast seven o’clock. The Super Good Show is stand up comedy.

Napoleon Emili has been on a lot of shows. South By Nathan McIntosh, Luisa Omi Lan, Brian Simpson at seven thirty Sunset stand Up Let’s See Jordaane Fisher, Stuart Goldsmith, Ear and Jackson Beth Stelling. Eight o’clock Only Murderers in the Building, Great Title Chris Fleming, Lynnkpletz, Pete Lee Dulce, Sloan Jubuki Young White the Show I Would Drag You To. At nine o’clock AI, Johnny Cash and his AI friends hooton Nanny while a great picture of Matt Besser, a dressed up best Johnny Cash looks pretty good. The programming description, which I’ll remind you is generated by participants and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest reads.

Johnny Cash and his celebrity friends are brought back to life in this unique musical performance of artificial intelligences. Johnny Cash once had a hit covering Trent Resner, So who will he cover now that he’s back from the dead. AI, Johnny Cash and many other AI celebrities living or dead will perform as you never thought possible. James Adomie and Matt Besser are your credited performers. I would absolutely be all over that.

A lot of times comedy festivals don’t have anything on a Monday ten o’clock Comedy Crossroads. The showcases all about raw humor and diverse voices. Orlando Laba, Christina Catherine Martinez, Iita Rodriguez, Jesus Trejo, Dustin Ebarra. That’s a good lineup and Stamptown once again at eleven o’clock. What’s throwing me here is it says the Creek in the Cave, which I know moved from Queens to Austin.

That’s just weird to me that a comy club moves, you know, baseball franchise. Tim Allen is getting another sitcom on ABC, at least a pilot. This one is called Shifting Gears. Tim Allen plays Matt, the stubborn widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When mattis strange daughter and her teenage kids, move into the house, the real restoration begins.

Boy, what an original premise. Somebody’s going to be the old dad and the daughter moves back in with the kids. Never seen a sitcom like that. I can’t wait. And a little crossover with Pallace Intrigue, which is the podcast about the British royal family.

Where is Kate Middleton? Huh huh huh. Well, Comedian Fern Brady is up against Prince Harry for a major book award. Fern Brady’s book is Strong female Character. Harry’s is called Spare.

You may have heard of that one. Spare was the best selling book of twenty twenty three. The winners of the British Book Awards known as the Nibbies. I like that because of the Golden Nibshad Trophy. We’ll be announced on May thirteenth.

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 meet you here tomorrow. I’ll see you

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are tonight, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. I previewed that yesterday in case you missed that. Looking ahead, and I know I say this every award show.

Monday’s episode might go out a little later. I might actually be serious this time because I have to drive to Boston and back today. Long story, so I’m not going to get home till like ten thirty eleven o’clock, so I might not be able to knock this out. I’ll see how tired I am. So if the episode’s late tomorrow, that’s why.

Okay. From Late Night, a couple of good jokes. Following the State of the Union, Steven Colbert said, it was a kind of a tense night because it feels like it might be the last time we get a State of the Union, depending on what happens in November. Next year might just be a kid rock concert and an immigrant catapult. Wow, Colbert again.

On the Democratic side, they wore white. On the Republican side, they were white. One more from Colbert, thanks to rules giving former members of Congress floor axis, George Santos attended the State of the Union. Come on, you can’t go back to your old job like you never left unless you’re John Stewart. Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmler are going to hook up again on password.

Have you seen the new password? I don’t know if I have. Apparently it’s hosted by Keiki Palmer, but Jimmy Fallon is a recurring player passwords back on Tuesday. I mentioned this on Friday after the break. On Friday, I mentioned there was an item that I saw that I didn’t want to talk about yet.

Well, I’m ready to talk about it now because TMZ has gone with it. Quoting from TMZ, Matt Rife seems ready to take a quote unquote comedian to court who accused him of performing a sex act to gain success. As Matt feels his rep has been harmed, TMZ has learned sources would direct knowledge tell us. Matt and his team have been reaching out to various litigators see what his best option might be to deal with the sillacious claim made by entrepreneur Nima Yumini this week, including potentially filing a lawsuit against him. TMZ writs, in case you missed it, Nima, a self described comedian, alleged that he and Matt were once both brought into a room with two Hollywood execs and promise fame and fortune if you know stuff, which Nima said he refused, but alleged Matt stayed behind and did the deed.

Matt’s name started to trend as part of this allegation. That’s where I saw it. TMZ Rights were told Matt’s sick of people using his name to game clout, which is obviously how he feels about Nenimi here, who appears to have no serious track record in comedy, and our sources say Matt wants to stand up for himself, especially against something as outlandish as this. I will keep an eye on that. One variety did a wax job for Netflix.

I’m sure this is all from the industry giving each other pats on the back. As part of South By Southwest. They quote independent artist media partner Dave Wrath, who manages comedians, who said Netflix was certainly an inflection point when the specials started becoming a thing. By Netflix paying some literally millions of dollars for their specials. They basically created it in ballanced in the marketplace because before that Comedy Central, HBO and a few other places were doing the long form specials, but they weren’t paying that kind of money.

Yeah, so I’ll chime in. That kind of from what I see from here in the basement, made the others, not HBO, but like Comedy Central cutback, and from what I understand from prepping the show every day, Netflix isn’t paying what they used to. So it’s like when a chain store comes to town. Prices are great at first, the mom and pop shuts down, and then the prices go up. Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Carolines, said covid also proved to be a paradigm shifter.

The virus forts comedy clubs all over the country to shut down, which led to an explosion of comedians. Comedians were able to build their brand on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and on podcasts. These platforms really put comedians on everybody’s phone. That’s what helped make these younger comedians in their own brands variety rates. Comedians such as Sarah Cooper, Oh, I don’t even have to do my bit, they did it for me.

Sarah Cooper and Matt riche Roaster prominence thanks to YouTube and TikTok. Cooper gained fame for her TikTok videos lip syncing then President Donald Trump early in the pandemic get mad at Them, they said It not Me, and has branched out in a film and theater work. Charlie Sotello is the senior manager of south By Southwest Comedy Festival, and Charlie says comedy festivals are so important the landscape of stand up comedy. They not only introduce comedians to new fans, but most importantly, they lead to new relationships that so often affect the course of a career. Robbie Prau, who oversees Netflix comedy needs to work for Just Laugh, says, I think this is one of the best times for comedy.

We’re working with more than foreigner comedians and selling out shows all over Los Angeles. We also see a wide range of comedians with different styles and from different backgrounds getting love on Netflix. John Leguizamo chimed in and said, I’m glad there’s plenty of comedy out there and it’s become more diverse. But unfortunately Latin comedians are having to live on just TikTok and the gram where they reach millions and millions of views. Unfortunately, Latin comedians, despite their success on social media, are not being chased by Hollywood or streamers, and that’s just systemic racism that happens in Hollywood.

Interesting take by John Rath says the best comics always surface and have success because they’re funny and talented. The problem is the audience’s attention span has shifted. That’s the biggest issue for comedy. Interesting huh. The New York Post talk to Kyle Kinneen.

They’re curious about him putting out so much much. Kyle said, I have an hour that I present. When I think it said it’s best, I record it and put it out. It’s similar to the UK model, where you’re like, all right, here’s this year’s offering, but wow, that’s being perfected. The new stuff is in the oven every weekend.

I’m in a club that’s four or five hours on stage. It’s a lot of time to take an idea and run with it. He adds, I’m trying to move away from party stories some middle aged men, and those aren’t glamorous. Bowen Yang talked about last week’s hilarious sketch where he was hooking up with Sidney Sweeney. Bowen said, obviously we were doing a lot of intimate and tense stuff, so I did one last check in with her.

I was like, whatever you’re not comfortable with, you can change your mind at any time. And she touched my shoulder and she was like, Bowen, I’m on Euphoria. It’s fine. I’m used to this, Bowen said, She’s such a professional. If you’re in Philly today eight pm, it’s One Liner Madness, a comedy competition putting sixty four local comedians in a bracket.

The rules are simple. Two comedians go on stage. Each will deliver a one liner joke based on audience responses. Only one comedian will advance, and then they have to have a new one liner in the next round. The competition goes on on to one comedian remains.

Apparently, the competition is fast and brutal. One of the organizers says, sometimes heavy hitters get knocked out early. It’s part of the fun. One Liner Madness doors open at seven shows at eight fifteen Bucks at Johnny Brenda’s twelve oh one Frankfurt Avenue, Philly. Today at south By Southwest at four o’clock, it’s Permission to laugh using comedy as a force for good.

Parentheses Live Comedy event. Join Comic Relief US, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of entertainment, etc. Etc. Comedian and host Tone Bell in a candid discussion with the comedian author Paul Sheer and Daily Show correspondent comedian D’ll Say Sloan. Six o’clock Improv for Humans, Parentheses Live Comedy Matt Besser, John Gabriis, Chris Gethard, Vick Mchelis seven o’clock Vanessa five thousand Parentheses Live comedy event after sold out runs in Edinburgh, London and La Courtney, Prusso the Ultimate sexy Clown comes to South Bya’s sex Robot Vanessa five thousand, who, over the course of her product demonstration, grows increasingly conflict about technology in her own existence.

That sounds like a great show. Seven thirty Stand Up at the Strip Parenthesis Say with Me Stand up Comedy. Oh yeah, this is the one with the AI audience image. Jod Rosa Napoleon, Emil Luisa O mi Lan eight o’clock Tonight at the Improv Prett the Seas Stand Up Comedy, Rickclassman and Laterman, Pete Lee Beth Stelling. Nine o’clock Stand Up Downtown Predeces stand Up Comedy, another AI generated crowd image.

Okay, James Domian, Aaron Jackson in Copplet’s Rich Voss. See that’s tough for me because I’d be like, ooh, James Domian, But I’m like uh, Rich Voss. Ten o’clock Riffs and riffraff with Nick fun and Friends. The friends are Chris Fleming, Andre Hyland, Christina Catherine Martinez, Paul Shecher, and Nick Fune. See that’s a winner for me.

That’s a great lineup. Eleven o’clock, Stamptown Predeces Live Comedy, A raunchy, chaotic, full on fever dream Stamptown is ninety minutes, a pure spectacle. Christina, Catherine Martinez, Natalie Palamedes, Courtney Perusso and some other That’s a pretty solid night. And Drew Carrey was in this week’s People magazine and talked about being offered the price is right. Back in two thousand and seven, he told People, I said, f No, I just want to be able to do things that were fun and interesting instead of having a job, job or something i’d do every day, because I just had after being on The Drew Carry Show and everything.

I was done with the idea of being on a show forever. But he was eager to buy a major league soccer team, or at least become part owner of one. Drew said, I knew how much money was going to take for that to happen. Then one of the show’s producers asked me if everything to do was I love leaving big tips when I go to restaurants. The guy said, well, if you work on the prices right, you’ll be able to do that all the time for a living.

Just give out things. Drew said, that was the light bulb that off of my head. I could just make a living giving prizes to people and being around happy people all day. Met my age at a steakhouse and I go, I think I want to be the host of the Price is Right? And he shook my hand and he goes, well, there’s soccer money, and there’s your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are tomorrow. I thought i’d put this out today so the episode would have a day and a half to live before it got incredibly dated. Jimmy Kimmel is your host.

He said, what sets the Oscar apart from other live events? Well, it’s not as sweaty as the super Bowl. It’s classier than any other wards shows. You know, the Oscars are the original. This is the big one.

It’s the granddaddy of the mall, and everyone’s aware of that. His wife, Mollie, is an executive producer on the show. She says the goal is to keep it a happy, joyfull celebration for the people in the room. Keep it moving. Jimmy’s also really good on his feet.

He thrives in spontaneous moments, so live TV is perfect for him. Jimmy said, to be honest, sometimes I hope things go wrong because it mixes things up a bit. You don’t want everything to be too deeply wrapped up at a bow. You want a little bit of a mess. Maybe somebody could slap someone.

You want a little bit of risk. And it’s a live show, and you want to remind people that so something happens, which things seem to be happening a lot, I feel like I’ll be ready for it. Kimmel’s asked about Joe Coy. You may recall Joe said this horrible, horrible, mean, no, just terrible joke about Taylor Swift, who reacted by basically murdering Joe Cooy’s career. I hate to do this to you, but let’s share the just vicious joke that Joe Coy told about Taylor Swift.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. 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, it’s just it’s so mean.

And Joe, what are you doing that’s vicious? Kimill said. Part of the struggle there for Joe was that he’s not part of Hollywood in the way that Kimmel is. Kim Will said, it’s a lot easier for me than it is for Joe Koy. It’s like if a stranger walks up to you and goes nice shirt, Tom selek if it’s one of your friends.

You don’t take offense to it, but if it’s somebody you don’t know, you might smack him one. He thinks Joe Coy should get another chance. Not that I have any business programming the Golden Globes, but I think they should let Joe Coy host the show next year and give him a shot at doing it over. It would be very smart. I think he learned all the lessons, and he’s a funny guy.

I think it’d be nice for everyone. Coy has said he’d love to return his host of the Golden Globes, but with five months to prepare, not nine days. Jimmy kim Ole will now have hosted the fourth and most Oscars behind Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal. That’s some serious company there, he says. It just shows you how far we fall, and as a Culture Deadline asked he actually enjoy hosting the show.

It seems like a lot of pressure, Jimmy said, I don’t love the lead up to it, but I do actually enjoy hosting the show. When I’m on stage and everything’s ready to go, it’s fun to show everyone we’ve been working on. I think it’s like secretly fixing up a car in a garage and then you bring the family to see it. How much time does he prepare? He says, we really start in earnest when it gets announced, because we can’t tell anyone we’re doing it until then.

So I started thinking about things that make little notes about award shows all the time. You know, if I think of something, I put it a little folder in my computer, and I fer back to that stuff when I need it. But as far as writing specific jokes and coming up with ideas for the show, I think we started like the day we announced it to the press in mid November. Does he see the movies? Yes, I think I see more movies than almost anyone, not even when I’m hosting the Oscars.

But I figured out I think I see about one hundred movies a year. I make a point to see all of the features, even the short films, the short and animated, you know everything. Does he test his monologue. I don’t trust a group of strangers.

And also I’m not sure that it really helps, because if you go to a comedy clu…

Right. Imagine you made a vicious, horrible joke about Taylor Swift and she basically murdered your career by making an icy face. That would be terrible. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

That’s what I try to do is test the jokes on the people I know who get it, who’ve been to the Oscars, who understand the dynamic there, and who’ve also been honest with me and will say like, yeah, I like that one more than this one. Will there be political jokes? I mean, I don’t rule it out completely, but it’s not necessarily what the show’s about, and it’s not like I don’t have an outlet to do that five nights a week. So it definitely has to be a joke that I can’t resist for me to use it at the Oscars deadline. If a joke doesn’t go well, do you plan on blaming your writers?

Kim Will said absolutely, I’ll do it privately when I go to their homes. And fire them in front of their families. They too asked about Joe Cooy You may recall Joe Cooy told it’s just horrible, horrible joke about Terry Swift. Here, let’s listen to it again. We have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

Ah so mean. I can’t believe Joe did that, Kimble said, I felt bad for him. I don’t think he was put in a great position. I think it’d be the first person to tell you that publicly blaming his writers was not the right move. But you know, it’s overwhelming.

I think he’s a funny guy, and I think it’s a shame that for a lot of people saw him for the first time, that was the impression they got. And I hope they look at his other work. You know, the guy rifted a joke in the moment. What are you gonna do? Tough enough writers?

Kimmell says, this is the crown jewel of awards shows. You know, it’s an analogy people use. It’s like when people say this guy’s the Michael Jordan of this These are the oscars of the chemical engineering world. You know, they don’t say this is the Golden Globes of the chemical engineering world. Do you want to do more oscars?

Jimmy said, I think I’ve retired from ruling things out, so I’d never be so presumptuous as to assume they’d want me back a year after year after year. But this year they wanted me, and they asked me, and so I’m definitely gonna do this. One funny anecdote here, they brought up that Jimmy Kimmel is the longest running late night host now and the ratings seem good. Jimmy said, I know, it’s crazy to think about it. I mean, it’s funny because even like my offices in our building, ABC didn’t want to pay fifty thousand dollars to remodel a room that had windows in it because they weren’t so sure that we were going to be on and it’d be worth it.

So the first two years I was in a windowless basement. Really had to beg them to move me upstairs i could get some sunshine on my body. People ask Jimmy Kimmel about a post show tradition. Jimmy says, the award show tradition is in and out after the show, and I think part of why is because when people are in LA, one of things on their list is to go to In and Out Burger, And there are a lot of people in La just for the Oscars, and they wind up going like, all right, Also, you get very hungry, So in and out is definitely the Award show tradition. Nothing as McDonald’s, but on Award Show night, it’s in and out.

Jason Zenniman writes for The New York Times headline Wanted writers for Award Show jokes must be skilled at diplomacy, hosts who have to entertain inside at the ceremony, and outsiders watching at home. Presenters who changed their minds. No wonder the bits are awkward. Jason brings up Joe Cooy, throwing the writers under the bus. Jason says two of the three veterans who wrote jokes for the Golden Globes Monologue declined to comment for this article, and a third didn’t respond to the request.

Megan Ameron wrote for the twenty eleven Oscars and said, you want it to be a little edgy, but not so much that it turns off the grandparents. Bruce Falance expressed sympathy for that meanie. Joe Coy pointing to the shots of the stars not laughing in his vicious mean joke about Taylor Swift, Bruce said, did he really need the reaction of Taylor Swift to swiftly bring condemnation upon his soul? At south By Southwest today four pm Local time, Samantha Bee presents Wits End, a live game show. Doug Benson and James at Doomian face off in a game of custom made trivia created and hosted by Adam Kessner.

Whether it’s a grab bag from the bag of misery when you lose, or an inflatable trophy when you win. This isn’t your ordinary trivia game. So Adam’s hosting it, but Sam b is presenting it. Okay, I guess she is the bigger name. Seven pm The Stand Up Spotlight Parentheses stand up Comedy.

Some of our favorite stand ups take the stage for an unmissible lineup. The unmissible lineup includes Rick Glassman, Luisa o’mellan, and Djubuki Young White. That is the unmissible lineup At the Stand Up Spotlight seven o’clock. At seven point thirty, Yamanika Saunders presents Maestra Live Comedy solo show. There eight o’clock, The Upright Citizens Brigades as Cats for Us is An scant Parentheses live comedy.

Matt Besser, John Gabris and Vic Mchaalis on the lineup programming. Descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest Okay lawyers appreciate that one nine o’clock The Creek in the Kve presents stand up comedy. James Adomian, Tone Napoleon Emiald’ll say Sloan Rich vass my son played golf with Rich last summer and apparently which was little full of himself. So when you hear me, I roll Rich every time his name gomees up. But that’s why tena clock The Origins of whatever You Call We did with Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel live comedy event.

Conan and Robert talk about meeting up at SNL in the late eighties and reminiscent about the ittoc they created together. It led to the birth of a talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien that would change the way people call Late Night with David Letterman. We’ll see rare clips, including the Adam West pilot. Look, well, that’s a fun thing if you can find that, and some highlights from the beginning of Late Night. Again.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. Credits Conan O’Brien is credited to Warner Brothers Discovery, Robert Smigel not available and at eleven pm. Stamptown Live Comedy A Raunchy Chaoto, full on Fever Dream. Stamptown is ninety minutes of pure spectacle featuring the most anarchic and widely entertaining performances from around the world. Again, I’ll remind you the programmed descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest some of the opinions.

Dick Bath of the Scottish Fields publication says one star as funny as Anthrax. Natalie Palomidius, Who’s fantastic, is on this one.

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I’m sure I get that wrong and I am sorry. Christina Catherine Martinez and Zachary Zucker good pedigree on Stamptown. Past acts include David Crossrogi Watts, Hannah Einbender, Natalie Palominiez, Cat Cohen, Sarah Squirm you know know her, Sarah Sherman on SNL, Daniel Slass and others. Oh, Randy Filtface, Neil Hamburger. Yeah, that’s a good show, all right.

So if we were at south By tonight, let’s do stand up Spotlight, then we’ll do the Creak and the Cave Presents stand Up, Let’s make the Conan Thing, and let’s do Stamptown. We’re gonna have to leave each one of these shows early to make the next show. The schedule does not allow you to double up there. But that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Ay. Quick joke from Jimmy Fown, who said, the good news for Nicky Haley She’s only fifty two, which means she can run for president at least eight more times. I am Johnny Meck with your Daily Comedy News. Ted Sarando’s he’s the Netflix CEO.

He was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s Fly on the Wall podcast and he talked a little bit about Dave Chappelle. David Spade told Ted, when you come out and say I do back a comedian saying what they want, it doesn’t mean you agree with it, just means let people talk. I think that’s commendable, Especially we’re comics. We like that. Ted compared Netflix to a bookstore, saying you can open any book you want or not.

People like to think about all kinds of diversity except for diversity of thought, and comedy is one of those places where you should have a pretty open playground to figure out ideas. Ideas have to live through conversation. I think comedy is a great place to start the conversation. Spade said. Some people don’t agree, some people do, and it’s under the guys of a joke.

Ted said, keep in mind we try to do a lot of variety because Netflix itself people like some shows and not others. That’s why we have so much to watch on Netflix, because tastes are really diverse, and certainly within comedy. The point I was trying to make when people got angry was the idea, if you don’t like that idea, switch it and find another one. True. I’m gonna just point out my Netflix algorithm did not surface the Hannah Gatsby special, and in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, Aaron posted, I had to actively search for this too, and I’m trans and a freaking comedian, so I don’t know what the algorithm’s doing.

Sarando says his position on Chappelle Gate comes from being a fan of comedy. I came to this completely as a fan. I love creative people. I love what you do for the world, and for me, it’s what makes me bounce out of bed in the morning because I feel like I’m doing something that matters to people. Really.

Alarm goes off at seven fifteen, You’re like, oh man, I got it. Brings people some comedy specially you just hop out of bed uh huh spades. He doesn’t always agree with comics to go too far, but he admires them for coloring outside the line, saying there trying stuff. It’s not the same six jokes that everyone’s allowed to use. Sirando says comedy is an art form.

There’s a lot of different shapes, and if you do shock comedy, the hard thing is getting the audience back. So it’s a different kind of art because it’s not just a cheap laugh. You actually have to ring the audience back in too. You have to be a master of a lot of things. Sarando’s revealed that he got Chappelle to sign the Netflix deal on the same night Dave hosted SNL a few days after Trump won the presidency.

He said, we’d been talking to him for well over a year, and he said at that show, my contract is signed and sitting on the seat. So he just signed it, said it on the seat, and went out and hosted the show. The Wall Street Journal has a really good profile of Kevin Hart. Two parts here. The second part about his entrepreneurship, but the first part he commented on Kat Williams.

You may recall Kat Williams had some comments about basically everybody in comedy. The journal throughout the word at feud, and Kevin said, it’s just entertainment. If that’s what he feels himself off, God bless him. Good for him hard edit. I hope he gets all that he needs and he wants, and I’m cheering him from afar.

The profile is what a former coworker of mine used to say. Is the Wall Street Journal waxed Kevin Hart’s car if you know what I mean? And they’re say thirty am Kevin’s home in la He had gotten up at five for workout, three hours after his plane landed from a performance in Connecticut the night before. He hugs his three year old Next up a ten thirty meeting with Heartbeat employees about the company’s twenty twenty four agenda. Jerry Seinfeld is quoted saying Kevin’s ability to maneuver in other fields as an anomaly.

Quoting Jerry, most comedians cannot function outside of comedy. If someone said the word ideation of me, I would just walk out of the room. Kevin said, I do know what I’ve done for the craft of comedy. By that, I mean I’ve changed the business of stand up comedy. Whether you’re a fan or not, you have to respect what I’ve done point blank, because you don’t do it by accident, and you don’t stay here by accident.

That is true. The article is pretty much thing from a comedy standpoint. Talking about the genesis of the latest special last October, the president of Live Nation got a text from Kevin. Kevin said, I got a new thirty minutes. That chunk of material started with drop in performances at small clubs, including the Comedy Seller in New York.

Then in Providence, Kevin performed for an audience of about three thousand people. A staffer who’s a videographer filmed the set, and, as The Wall Street Journal tells us, as the comedian breedes through seemingly polished jokes and Providence, he was also stress testing them. When big laughs erupted, he sometimes gazed to his left and grinned. Hidden off stage, watching from the wings were two members of his team who were in Heart’s creative brain trust. Kevin said, that little piece of eye contact from the stage is how they know.

Let’s jot that bullet point down. Very interesting there. John Mlaney’s ex wife, Anna Marie Tendler, has a book coming out. It’s called Men have called her crazy. On her Instagram, she said, I’ve been writing this book for two years.

More accurately, though, I’ve been writing it for close to four decades. I’ve never been more proud of any work. It’s a story about mental health, about being a woman, about family, and finally about the endless source of my heart break and rage. Men. One of those men, one assumes this is John Mulaney, so this could get pretty interesting.

The book will be out in August. Drod Carmichael is going to star in a comedy docu series for HBO. It’s called Drod Carmichael Reality Show. And the trailer he’s talking to a man in a black ski mask, which I thought was weird. I honestly didn’t make it all the way through the trailer.

I just got bored and didn’t care. But people on the interwebs say, given the body language of the person in the black ski mask, they believe the person is Carmichael’s frequent collaborator Bo burnham Bert Kreischer announced a whole bunch of dates for the twenty twenty four Fully Loaded Tour. Not all these comedians. I’m about to name her on every show, but featured on the website. Bert Kreischer, of course, David Spade, Mark Norman, Tony Hinchcliff, Whennie Cummings, Stavros Halkias, David Tel, Ralph Barbosa, Big, Jay Ogreson, Dan Soder, Matt McCusker.

That’s a really good list of comedians, you know, if you’re not going to get them all, but any combination of those, that’s a really good show. Sef and Maz GREBROWNI have been added to the inaugural Abu Dhabi Comedy Week in May. Other people performing at that comedy Week the not so canceled Disease, I’m sorry, Tom Si, Goora, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, and boy this is shocking, super controversial comedian Joe coy You may recall Joe coy Or recently made this horrible, terrible joke about Taylor Swift. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear all right. A couple of notes from putting together the show today, I am seeing a story involving a comedian who I frequently mentioned on this podcast. It involves the comedian, Hollywood executives and favors, you know, the Harvey Weinstein kind of favors. I don’t want to go there. I haven’t seen it from anything reputable, and people are saying the maybe perhaps the person telling the story made it up.

Just want to let you know I see it, and if it’s real, I will actually talk about it. As I was prepping as well, I saw a slug with a comedian. I don’t want to throw this comedian out under the bus because I like the person, but comedian name the story was. It had the person’s name, so it said, you know, Joe Smith, famous comedian coming to wherever. And I was like, you’re a good guy whatever, but famous comedian.

I don’t know about that. If I told you the name, you wouldn’t know the name. But at one point, at serious exam, we gave this person a pilot and it was pretty good. But then the next day my coworkers and I got like so many incoming inbound, like oh my god, that was the most amazing thing. You got to sign this up.

Like I don’t mean like three or four, I mean like hundreds. It was just like a completely unnatural reaction of just everybody in the world going, oh my god, this is the greatest thing ever. You got to give this person a show and we just walked away from it. Was like, come on, there’s no way that’s real. Stop doing this a long time, folks, I know how to recognize normal patterns.

At south By Southwest tonight at seven o’clock, it is the stand up Comedy Kickoff, which the south By Southwest website list has stand up Comedy Kickoff parentheses stand up comedy. Thank you for clarifying that the description comedians take the stage for the first stand up show of the twenty twenty four Comedy Fest. And I love this disclaimer that the lawyers most have said to put. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. Yeah, you don’t want to controversial take like comedians take the stage to be You don’t want to say that that’s gospel.

What if that doesn’t happen, What if it’s not a stage, what if they’re not comedians. We could get in a lot of legal trouble here. Anyway, I better protect myself. According to the Internet. Some of the performers who could theoretically show up include Doug Benson, napoleonny Emil, John Riddinsky.

Remember he was on SNL for like five seconds. He was a Montreal new face that I really liked a lot. But yeah, he was in like three sketches on SNL, Yamanika Sauners and Rich Voss at seven point fifteen. It’s the variety power of comedy. You know, this is another wax job, another car being wax job.

This year’s Honoreezer samb Robbie pra that’s the guy from Netflix Comedy. He’s getting the Comedy Champion Award, Nick Kroll and Andrew Reynolds getting the Comedy Duo Award. Sambi, I forgot to mention is the comedy innovator, Yeah, John, like Wuizamo’s the comedy actor. Yeah. Hannah Einbender Comedy Actress Award, Okay Fine Pamela Adlon Comedy Director Award, Lily Singh Comedy Crossover Award, Chibuki Young White Is Comedy, Kanna Swer Award, and Kazzie David is your Breakthrough artist again.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants, don’t necessarily reflect the opinions of south buying stop. I’m excited about this one. Eight o’clock the unfinished Orson Wells roast of Hollywood type comedy event. Thank you website. This website’s a lot of fun.

The programming description, again generated by participants and does not necessarily affect the opinions of south By cinema legend. Norson Wells disinvites the celebrity friends, past, and enemy’s future for a survey of the state of film screen in motion pictures as he looks at this year’s Oscar luminaries and considers the general pantheon celebrity of south By. Whatever it is you mean by that parentheses with James Adomian and friends. Your cast includes James Adomian and Matt Besster. That sounds like tons of fun.

Nine o’clock good sets parentheses stand up comedy if you’re a nice picture of a crowd that looks like it was generated by Ai laughing at the comedians. The description, which it doesn’t necessarily represent the opinions of south By is who doesn’t like good sets? See what they did there. Some of the strongest emerging and established comics at the fest take the stage for an unmissible line up Chris Fleming, Stuart Goldsmith, Luisa o’mealan, Zulce, Sloane and Nick. And that’s an interesting mix.

Ten o’clock Real funny Creating comedy from the director’s Chair. Barentthesees Comedy event. Frank Oz, Judd Appatow, Robert Smigel, and Lucia Aniello come together to swap stories and insides about the craft of directing comedy. Okay, that’s a fun night out at South by Joe mchil says that he dislocated Chevy Chase’s shoulder while filming Community. He was on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast.

By the way, Michael Rosenbaum my former intern. I’m going back to like nineteen ninety three, and Mike the Intern kept telling us he was gonna go to Hollywood and be a star, and we were like, shut up and make copies. We weren’t like Shadow. He was a good guy, like Mike a lot. Anyway, you know, a couple of years later, I’m watching Smallville and there he is.

He’s Lex Luthor. So Mike the Intern, he was right, Thank you for getting me coffee. Anyway, Michael has a podcast called Inside of You. The guest Joel McHale, and he says that he and Chevy Fist fought multiple times filming community. It was pushing and shoving.

Yeah, it was advanced horseplay. It was fun. It would get a little contentious. I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder, according to Joel, while they were filming a boxing scene, when Chevy encouraged him to hit harder.

As Joel tells the story, he wanted me to punch him as hard as I could. It punched him in the hand with the left and then he went down.

Speaking of fighting of sorts, Jamine Feller is going to co write, executive …

He’s got a script com inment for Fox. The description of untitled single camera comedy is after a self inflicted fall from Grace, a former jiu jitsu champion played by Jamine Feller, his only shot at redemption is to check his ego at the door and start from scratch at a low rent strip mall dojo. Feller started training in jiu jitsu during COVID. He said, when the pandemic hit, I had nothing to do. I was bored.

I always wanted to try martial arts. It’s a beautiful sport. It’s gruesome, but it’s so beautiful. He was a white belt. He won one fight out of four.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you liked the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. Tomorrow I’m going to do an Oscar preview, a lot of talk about Jimmy Kimmel, some funny Joe Coy material. At least I made myself laugh, and then Sunday will be a normal episode.

I just want to do the Oscar preview on Saturday to give it a half a chance with two days of sea as opposed to like ten hours. See tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News. Josh Pick shot back at Amy Schumer’s recent criticism of Joe Coy’s Golden Globes monologue. Right, you got this, Joe Coy was so mean to Taylor Swift, and then Amy didn’t like that, and then Josh Peck commented. Josh was on the Good Guys podcast and said, I took issue with Amy Schumer, who recently was on the Deer Media podcast.

She was asked about Joe Cooy. I feel defensive of comedians. It’s a brotherhood, it’s a sisterhood. And she was basically critical of Joe Cooy. She was throwing him under the bus, which was crappy because she’s a comedian.

It’s like, we all know he had a tough night. Why continue to go after him. A month later, Peck noted he isn’t a comedian himself, but his comedian friend Jannis Pappus shared his thoughts. Yanna said, the jokes are fine. He just wasn’t confident because it was such an intimidating room and they weren’t giving him love.

He was undeserving of all the backlash. You may call that Taylor Swift basically murdered Joe Cooy’s career after Joe told this horribly mean joke. I’m afraid to even share with you. It’s so vicious. But let’s listen.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear, Oh man, that is just so mean. I don’t know how Joe Koy could have possibly said such a mean thing about Taylor Swift.

Schumer at one point had been on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast. I hadn’t seen any pick up about this interview, but apparently she said if the audience doesn’t laugh, then it’s a problem. The thing with Joe he threw his writers under the bus, and that was not a good look. Now pay attention to this next part is this sop? Do people do this?

I’ve been around enough comedians and I don’t know that this is done. Amy apparently said, if I’m gonna say a joke about anyone, I’m going to clear it, like I cleared my jokes to Leah Ardo DiCaprio. I cleared it with these people because I don’t want to make that mistake. Really, hey, Leo, are you okay with these Really? That’s really interesting to me.

Now. Amy runs in a particular circle of the elite, and I guess she likes staying in that circle. Amy added that it does not feel good when the whole internet is mad at you and clarified that she does not wish that on anyone. Peck’s co host Ben said, if you’re bombing, you don’t need to tell us that you’re bombing. Because your writers suck.

He threw them under the bus. You know what, it was a live show. The guy riffed a joke. I really, it’s not that bad. Kid over yourselves writers.

Meanwhile, Amy Schumer hilariously crashes two wedding photoshoots in New York. You know, when you’re out there and you’re doing your wedding shoot and you’re paying this photographer, and you know you want to make sure everything is perfect for your big day. You definitely want Amy Schumer coming in and crashing her photos so she gets to do Instagram posts. That’s what you’re looking for. I know I was when I got married.

Amy sheared these on her Instagram story. She’s dressed in workout gear as she posed next to two different couples in wedding attire. Kind of curious that she ran into two different people. The first couple were posing in front of the Manhattan Skyline and holding flowers, and they smiled for the camera as Amy Schumer stood next to them in a pair of sunglasses. She captured the pick no days off.

The second couple, sitting in front of some greenery in a park, were also joined by Amy as she took a seat at the end of the bench. Amy has done this before. Back in twenty seventeen, that couple told E News at the time that Amy got out of her car and asked for a pick with us. She congratulate us, she can let us take some photos by her car. After we had finished taking photos, she offered us a lift to our reception as we were hailing a cab.

Last April, Schumer interrupted another wedding photo shoot. They wrote, it’s got to be great luck when Amy Schumer crashes her wedding. She just walked right up to us and asked to be in some photos. Now, let me ask you how often do you run into photo shoots? I’m from New York City.

I grew up in Queen’s I worked in Manhattan for decades. I’ve spent the last ten years more or less in the suburbs. So, you know, maybe wedding photography has exploded since COVID. I don’t know. But what is going on here?

Amy? Are you just randomly constantly running into wedding shoots? Are you going to the places where people often do wedding shoots on purpose? Is this some sort of stunt? Johnny Max suspicious radar is going Eh?

What is going on here? Kyle Kenane was on Late Night with Seth Myers. Kyle explains where he got the name for his new special, Dirt Nap with Seth, and the whole vibe was weird. The whole clip is on the internet if you want to watch it. It’s eight minutes long.

But it just seems like, I don’t know, we’re ten years into this does Late Night with Seth Meyers matter. The vibe is just weird, low energy here, let’s listen to Kyle. Dirt Napp is a unique title for a stand up special. Yeah, and it’s also the name of your Yeah Yeah all right, pee, little dirty, she’s up there in heaven now. It was.

It was a straight cat that was living in the yard of this house we moved into. And you know, you can’t really name a stray cat, so it went through some miiterations. At first we were calling it Helen. We thought it was blind and deaf, so my girlfriend named it dat so you’re not mad at me, you’re mad at her.

And then I was calling a dirt napp on account of you know, was just sleeping …

And how many is so it seemed like you maybe didn’t get a lot of good years with dirt app. We got three great years up time, three great years. We found it was a sixteen year old cat. From it, it was a sixteen year old straight cat that we’re like, all right, we’re gonna give this thing the best sunset we can give it. Well, that’s fantastic.

You did that. Yeah, yeah, you want to see the special now you can pay ten dollars to see it on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. It’ll be on YouTube on April second to at eight pm Eastern. Paste Magazine spent the ten Bucks or got a review copy, and they say Dirt Nap draws offbeat parallels between vegan caesadillas and religion, calls bs on Vin Diesel’s post mission sex drive in the Fast and Furious movies, and applies improv rules to phone calls with his mother. They liked it a lot.

Rommi Yusef will have a special called More Feelings. This will be on HBO Max Max Max, HBO HBO Max. I think this is on proper HBO whatever that means these days. There is a trailer. Let’s listen.

I’m done apologizing. I’m done saying that we’re peaceful. For twenty years, we’ve had to prove to people that we’re safe. Right, every time you turn on CNN, there’s like some Arab dude talking about how Islam means peace. You know that guy, but he’s always shouting it.

He’s always like, we come in peace. They’re like, bro, that’s the slogan for aliens. The official description tells us Siami rucep will offer his unique reflections on our divided world, expected perils of charitable giving, and more and hit on top of it, including the twenty twenty four presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life. I sat down and I watched Hannah Gatsby’s Gender Agenda. I had to actively look for it.

I thought Netflix would put it in front of me, and apparently Netflix has profiled Johnny Mack and thought Johnny Mack would have no interest in this. No, no, no, I really like Douglas. Nennette I think is overrated. Something could both be good and overrated. Nenette is good, but people treated that like it was the second coming of comedy.

It’s fine, but tap the brakes people. I actually think Douglas is funnier than Nnette. Okay, so it’s good, but it’s overrated, you know what I mean. So, as I started this thing, I was loving it. The first twenty minutes or so Hannah as host, I thought they crushed it.

Then just Tom came out and absolutely crushed that first fifteen minutes of Gender Agenda is amazing, and then it started to be diminishing. Return by no means bad, but maybe it was just the high of the first fifteen that it just couldn’t sustain. I actually paused it, so I didn’t bail on it. I intend to go back, but it’s getting a little tired. I’m like, I want to give this more of a shot, but the front half of that really good.

I’m not sure if it makes the list or not. I need to actually finish it, but I recommend you seek out on Netflix. Hannah Gatsby, Gender Agenda, Hanna, it’s old people. I asked myself, what’s something positive that I could do to leverage my platform, the little bit of power I have to try and humanize the presence of gender queer and trans comedians on the Netflix platform. It felt really important to help gender queer performers find their feet, and me being a slightly divisive figure means they’ll be a little bit of fuss made and hopefully it’ll draw attention.

Joel McHale commented on the community movie Ashtag six Seasons in a movie. He shared something details. He said, we go to the center of the Earth. It’s like the movie The Core. That’s different than what Donald Glover said, who said it’s a college reunion.

Joel was obviously joking, but he does believe the community movie will shoot this year. He’ll be shocked if it doesn’t, but I really do think it’s happening this year and probably next week. It’s basically working around Donald’s schedule. He called his Animal Control cast one of the funniest groups of people I’ve been around, in contrast to the Community team, who he joked with just a bunch of hacks. Ken Jung will be on Animal Control this season as a dog whisperer.

Joel said he too, is a hacked and can’t act or tell jokes. He’s not funny, not successful, and I’ve carried him for years. Everyone thinks I’m joking, but it’s true. Joel then got serious again and said Ken’s episodes were coming in too long because he did so much funny stuff. He was really too effing funny and it ticked me off.

Indy Wire has the trailer for that Steve Martin documentary that’s coming out. I’ve mentioned this before. It’s in two parts. The first part is about Steve’s stand up, which is the part that me The second part is about his acting career and the banjo stuff, and like, I don’t care about that stuff, but the first part I’m really interested in. Here, let’s listen to a piece of the trailer, and 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.

Well, this guy was getting people so happy. I always thought, this just does not happen, and it did. He’s the most idolized comedian ever. He reinvented stand up. It was a cultural phenomenon.

My name is Steve Martin. Steve Martin. What he was doing was unique. It was chancey. I always thought of him as the door out of the sixties.

You could be silly again. All comedy was political, and I felt that it was time to change that. Steve Martin has just taken the big leap onto the big screen. I was launched into the stratosphere titled Steve, It’s a documentary in two pieces. The then portion chronicles Steve Martin’s early struggles and meteoric rise to revolutionized stand up before walking away at thirty five.

The now section focuses on the present day with Steve Martin and the golden years of his career, et cetera, et cetera. Martin had previously told Indy Wire when I finished stand up comedy in nineteen eighty, I never wanted to see a live audience again. I did movies for ten or twenty years and only occasionally would be found in front of a live audience for you know, award shows or chatty events or something like that.

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And now it’s the only place I want to be, meaning touring with Martin Short.

I like having the audience there. They’re predisposed to like you because they bought a ticket and predisposed to listen and not judge you every two seconds. He sounds like John Clees there. Steve premiere’s March twenty ninth on Apple TV plus people stunned about, just for laughs, Montreal being canceled. I was getting texts from former co workers and industry friends and we all had the same reaction of like, wow, I can’t believe that happened.

This. CBC spoke to comedian Mike Critch. They were curious that is something like this happened because it looks like a big success. Mike said that show business, though everything is fake and show business, but I don’t think people realize how big that organization is. You know, it’s the festival, it’s all the spin offs, it’s a TV show based on that.

It’s a million different things and festivals all around the world. So maybe it’s a case of getting bigger than they can handle, but also coming out of a pandemic, show business has had a hard time as anyone, if not harder. There’s one thing you need for comedy show, and that’s audiences. I’m wondering, as are some of the Toronto media, what’s going to happen with the Toronto Festival. I assume that too will be canceled this year, which thinks.

Got some album news for you today. About a year ago, Andrew Santino put out a Netflix special called Cheeseburger that is now out in audio form. Minneapolis based comedian Eliehino is releasing her debut comedy album on April fifth. It’s called Soft Bones, a compilation of stories about being an ADHD mom, a weird wife, and a regular human woman. They were kind enough to send over a clip.

Let’s listen. So I’m a massage therapist, but I’m also a gemini, so yeah, I don’t like to do stuff just normal. So I’m a massage therapist for a hospice. Yeah, thank you, Yes, i am I’m an angel. Thank you.

And for those of you who don’t know what hospice is, it’s pretty funny stuff. It’s comfort care for the terminally ill. And I’m actually an independent contractor, so I don’t have like a four oh one K or anything. But I am going to heaven. Just kidding, that’s not real.

We’re just going back to space. That’s Elie Heinos Soft Bones. April fifth. Liz Meely will have a new stand up special called Murder Sheets Tuesday, April second, free on YouTube nine Eastern Film Live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, and Liz hit the stage with a rapid fire storytelling style to tell tales of dating, murder, rules, about edibles, international touring, dead cats, and more. It’s Lizmeili Murder Sheets.

April second. Kevin Casey White has released her on eight hundred Pound Gorilla That’s out now harang as a masterful exercise and audience interaction. Kevin’s crowd work is the centerpiece and he uses it positively, trying to draw the audience together rather than picking on the crowd. Camail nan Jianni, part of a press release, a snack food company has a new campaign called It’s Basically Cheating. The campaign features Academy Award an Emmy nominated writer, actor, and comedian Kamail non Jianni in an unexpected and satirical series of spots where he cheats at weightlifting, kayaking, and ice skating.

He even goes as far as to hire a construction crew to build himself an epic forty foot tall sand castle. His sharp wit and playful delivery punctuate the core campaign theme that eating Quest products are so good that it feels like cheating. Stuart Heflin is a suit at Quest, and he said a Quest we aim to revolutionize snacking by flipping the macros of all the foods you love upside down so they’re big on protein, low on sugar, and huge on in flavor. No, this is not a commercial. I’m just reading the press release to you, Stuart, the suit says.

The campaign leans into the idea that we all need a good cheat or life hack to make our personal quests a little easier and a lot more fun. Partnering with great comedic talent like Camal does that just to injict cheeky entertainment and cultural relevance into our brand vision. The Connecticut Post asked Joe Parra, this is a weird exchange. Joe, can we ask you about your tomato obsession for a second. It’s all over your Instagram.

Joe said, sure. The post said I saw one theory on line saying you’re a big Buffalo Bill’s fan, and Bill’s fans allegedly hate Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn’t like tomatoes. Is there something along those lines of football and superstitions and stuff like that? Joe said, couple of things.

I will say that Bill’s fans don’t allegedly hate Tom Brady. They do hate Tom Brady, and rightfully so. You see your man spinning out right now. He’s doing cryptocurrency commercials getting the fat sucked out of his face. We knew it all along.

Secondly, that has nothing to do with the tomatoes. One of the interesting things about doing comedy and seeing some of the stuff, the theories that people have online is it just makes you realize how much people like to mix up on the internet with no basis. And that’s your comedy news for today. All right, that was fun. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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I gotta tell you, I’m absolutely stunned at this first story, and the second story is a little wacky. The first story in Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The company that operates the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal that I was looking forward to attending I didn’t get to go last year has canceled this year’s addition. I was sitting at the lunch table eating my salad when I saw this come in and I was like, wow, like absolutely stunned by this. The parent company says they are seeking protection from its creditors as they begin formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

In a statement, they said JPR that’s the French version of Just for Laughs. Board of directors, after having extensively considered all available alternatives, came to the conclusion that the financial situation of the organization left no other choice than to initiate formal restructuring proceedings. The companies laid off seventy percent of its workforce about seventy five people, and has canceled seven shows that were previously scheduled. The company hopes that the financial restructuring will allow the festival to return in twenty twenty five. I mean, I am just stunned by this.

It’s a fantastic festival that takes over the heart of Montreal. There’s always a ton of comedians up there. It’s a great event. Wow, I don’t even say about this, really really stunning. That took the place of what would have been the big news story for me.

Nick Schwartson, best known for his appearances in Reno nine one one and Adam Sandler Movies, was escorted off stage twenty minutes into a set in Colorado over the weekend due to quote bizarre belligerent behavior. User Sean Guy shared a clip on social Let’s listen, what are you saying right now? I’ll save us. Let me just let me ask you this. It’s a weighted question.

What okay, I’ll tell you Joy all right, here we go. So one of my favorite days. I don’t have kids. I don’t have jads. Anybody here have kids?

Anybody here have jets? What the off? So one of my best friends was a guy named nor McDonald. Do you know who he is? He’s one of my favorite people.

So that clip abruptly cuts off a witnesses say that at that point the spotlights were turned off and the microphone was cut, so maybe that’s why it cuts off there. Witnesses told TMZ that while some attendees were uncomfortable with Schwartzen’s behavior, others cheered him on. In another clip, Nick Swartson can be seen rambling and struggling through an impersonation of Jason Statham as the crowd erupted in booze. A woman can be heard saying, I can’t take it. I can’t take it, I can’t take it, witness to say.

Before Nick was let off stage, he gave a brief wave and flashed a Shaka sign. After Schwartzen left the stage, the direction of operations came out and apologize to the crowd, telling the show had been officially cut short and refunds would be issued to those who bought tickets. Apparently, there’s also an email that reads, we apologize for the negative experience you may have had it this evening’s performance with Nick swartz Cent. Unfortunately, this show did not meet the Performing Arts Center standards as a world class presenter of the performing arts. Therefore, all tickets will be refunded, et cetera.

Et cetera. Please accept our sincere apologies and be in touch if there’s anything you will get you to further assist you. As Swartzon is doing that impression, he repeatedly said, here we go. As audience members bowed and heckled him. He said, do you want me to finish this or no?

And people are heard shouting back no. Schwartzen took to Twitter and said, just casually woke up on TMZ travel tip don’t drink and take edibles in high altitude brain diarrhea. I’ll make it up to Beaver Creek to me, the lesson no good comes from peering. In Adam Saylor movies, Trevor Noah as etis elbaw on his podcast and they traded impressions. The setup here is Trevor noahans how he uses Nelson Mandela to get to his Obama impression.

I’ve heard Dana Carvey explain impressions in the same way, and I know for my half ass impressions, specifically Jim Brewer, the only way I could start Jim is by going all right, That’s the only way I can get into it. I have to do that all right before I do anything in Jim’s voice or the half assed Jim voice. Anyway, you don’t want to hear me do half assed impressions. Let’s listen to Trevor Noah and Idris Elba trade Nelson Mandela impressions. My Nelson Mandela to get to my Barack Obama.

Okay, because I find they have the same. My conspiracy theory is that Mandela taught Obama how to do it because they the same. Yeah, because they got the same thing. Because, like you know, because Mandela has the hyper left, all South Africans, all my fact for this country. He’s got that thing right.

And then Barack, if you take it, it’s a natural it’s the natural progression of that right, hiper left where can come pro cover? And as Americans, we gotta try to h you know, it’s a strong voice, it has a lot of but when whenever I lose, I have to go back to Mandela because as Americans, as Americans, we gotta find our way. We believe in ourselves. It’s the same. I’m fighting every impulse to challenge you to a Baraque and a Mandela right now.

Why don’t we do it? No? Because because what what’s gonna happen? Because you’re just gonna murder me. I don’t believe that that’s true.

I don’t believe that that’s true. Do you do you? I’ll even like a harmony. Why you’re doing Mandela? There’s got to be a very see killing it.

This guy just pulled it out. But what it’s baroque, there’s gotta be No, that’s terrible. No, but you’re barck. You know why? Because I took it up.

Yeah, no, chesty, chesty Barock is also he’s also throw But that was flawless. I was almost doing like Mandela. Like you hear him on the radio. Why you’re heading up broadcast? Johnny Mack likes when comedians mix up a little.

On Monday Night, Andrew Schultz shared a clip on Twitter from a recent stand up comedy show he was performing in Philadelphia. In the clip, Schultz says, I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think Meek Mill is gay, but he is incredibly bad about proving he’s straight. He’s maybe the worst in history of doing that. If someone accuses you of being gay, you don’t go on Twitter and say I love women, cleaning it up, quite cleaning it up. I love women.

He uses words like Juicy needs your imagination. Schultz caption the post Meek Mill is not gay, but Philly, I love you. Thank you for always holding me down, just like Meek would hold down puff joking, joking, Meek, I love you, brother. Meek heard about the post and responded the first time I left at being gay. That had several crying laughing emojis, and then he tagged it with but don’t whit me in real life, I may swing lol.

Mike Birbiglia will have a documentary at Peacock. It’s called Good One, a show about jokes. At premiere is March twenty six. There’s a trailer. I was blown away.

I’m not blown away. He’s a little strong. I I liked the trailer. I wasn’t blown away by. It wasn’t Star Wars.

It’s a nice trailer. It made me laugh, is what I’m trying to say. Shut up, John and play the trailer. Good evening, and welcome to the Strange Attic, where Mike Verbiglia sometimes performs shows. For some reason, I love jokes and I love storytelling.

He loves stories the process. He takes that idea of what a special means literally, you’re probably thinking, how come we just get the first draft? I think Providence is the first draft town. This isn’t a fully realized show. All I’m doing right now is just throwing out jokes and seeing what’s dicks?

What’s the next show about? And it’s like, I don’t know. The last show is all about death, So now I’m trying to figure out, like what’s more high stakes than death. I’m happily married, which is to say I’m not happy, but I’m happy I’m married. Does that make sense?

You don’t want it to be pretty good, you want it to be great. The only way you make it great is writing. You need more of there. I’m failing. I got that line failing again.

That ending works well on the other show. Eventually you’ll arrive at something that is yours. The special follows Mike Berriglia through his process as he travels from Providence to Washington, d C. While developing new comedy material. March twenty six, looking forward to that, Jamie Fox has confirmed he is going to do a comedy special.

He says, everyone wants to know what happened. Remember he had the mystery illness, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I got to do it my own way, going to get up on somebody stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes and a story to tell. Jamie talked about his recovery from a mystery illness and said, I’m so thankful and I get emotional because it’s beyond the scope by some people in my life that really made sure I was here, because it was dire straits.

I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking, doing a movie television show. I didn’t want you to see me with the tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through By being quiet, Sometimes things get out of hand. People say what I got. Some people say it was blind, but if she could see the eyes at working just fine, said I was paralyzed. I’m not paralyzed.

I went to Helen back. My roads recovery had some potholes as well, but I’m coming back and I’m able to work. GQ profiled Hannah Gatsby. Here’s the headline. Netflix has made transphobia profitable in comedy.

GQ writes, when Hannah stays at an Airbnb, they like to check out their host Netflix algorithm looking at a stranger’s stand up recommendations, Gatsby says, is illuminating. They tell GQ, if I were to understand Netflix purely from my own algorithm, I would say they’re even handed, if not a little skewed towards the queer audience. But that’s not the reality. Gatsby jokes about their new special, this is the carbon offset show. You don’t raise the Amazon and plant a tree.

One of the comedians on the show is Chloe Pets. Chloe rolls her eyes at the way all the edgy comedians have got their trans routine. She thinks that’s what Hannah is responding to, not just Dave Chappelle, but comedians inspired by his success. Why are you pugging your nose into a discourse that has nothing to do with you, Hanna says. Matt Raife released a special opening with a domestic violence joke.

He’s not inventing anything. He’s not smart enough for that. He’s reading the algorithm room, and I’m just not interested in that. I think it’s boring. Gatsby knows that there won’t be a follow up to this if Netflix doesn’t get the numbers it wants.

It has the power to elevate this. Whether or not it chooses to is up to Netflix. Hannah Gatsby’s gender Agenda is out on Netflix now. The New York Times had an article h articles kind of. I don’t like the headline.

Here’s the headline, verbatim, disgraced but embraced pop culture pariahs are making big comebacks. Subheadline. Shane Gillis hosted SNL, the show that rebuffed him Yay, topped the billboard short after making anti Semitic remarks as the mainstream given up on banishing bad actors. So here’s what’s bothering me. Pop culture pariah and Shane Gillis.

Really First of all, the guy just hosted SNL. I didn’t see too much controversy. There was a little before, there wasn’t too much after. Pariah is a little strong. The guy got signed by SNL and like, I don’t know what it was, forty eight hours later he was off SNL.

It’s not exactly Ojay, you know what I’m saying. I think pop culture para and Shane Gillis in the same headline and sub headline. It’s a little loaded. I thought this was interesting Donnie’s old and who I worked with for a few years, says some exciting news. After thirty six years in the same location, seventy eighth and Broadway, Stand Up New York Good Club, We’ll be moving to Times Square.

There’s so much history and stories to tell from our time on the Upper West Side. I can’t even begin to start. For now. We look forward to our grand opening March fourteenth, and can’t wait to begin the next chapter in our journey bringing the best stand up comedy New York has to offer. Our new flagship location is in partnership with Bond forty five will also be powering the food menu.

I just find that interesting, especially with Carolines being gone. Seventy eighth and Broadway is a little out of the way, that’s it. A lot of big comics would drop in there because it was off the radar. People like Jerry and Amy would pop in and just do sets on the DL. You know, there are other places in the city you can do that, and I guess you could still do it at Stand Up New York, but if you do it in Times Square, it’s a little bit more than just kind of sneaking into a comedy club.

On a side street in the Upper West Side. Interesting, but Donnie’s a good guy. Wish him nothing but success. I keep forgetting. I wanted to salute a young woman.

I was at the Morristown on Stage talent show last week and a young lady named Naomi Williams got up and everybody else on the night, I think every single other act involved music. Naomi got up and did stand up comedy and she was good. She made me laugh. And I’ve talked about my psychotic Emperor of Rome thing where I don’t laugh, and I just go, oh, that was good. That was good.

She made me laugh. So Naomi Williams, great job. On Gossip Corner, David Kagner was vaping marijuana on the station Maryland, says DMZ. Apparently there was a fan in the audience who was puffing on a weed pen Dave noticed. Dave looked out into the crowd, said who’s smoking?

Is that weed? The man responded yes, David said, give here. The dude walked up to the stage as TMV and handed the vape to Dave, who started bantering with his fans as they egged him on to take a few tokes. Dave finally cave took two huge drags blowing out the smoke. TMZ and their legal department and Johnny Mack and his legal departments say, quote, of course, we can’t tell from the video it was really marijuana, but everyone in the crowd seemed convinced.

Unquote clad thing. We cleared that up. TMZ says, we’re told everyone had a damn good time. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Great advice from Ricky Gervais, who tweeted, hope you’re doing your own thing and not anyone else’s. Have a great day. Love it, Ricky. I’m really excited about today’s show.

Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Facebook group was super active over the weekend and I’m so thrilled it’s what was going on this weekend is exactly what I want. The Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, feel encouraged to join. The first time you post, I have to approve your post just to make sure that you’re not a pornbot.

We had a problem with pornbots last summer, you know. So I’ll be like, ah, this person looks like they’re actually a human, and then you’re good to go. But there were so many discussions. There were people commenting about some opinions I had and disagreeing, which is fantastic. I like intelligent discussion.

We don’t have to agree on everything. People brought up their own topics. I thought it was fantastic. That’ll drive a lot of today’s conversation. Aaron in the Facebook group again Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, to share this from the Stranger dot com and Aaron gets the jokes and said, you’re home for comedy news.

Love it, but this is kind of awful. The headline right wing media targets Capitol Hill comedy bar club owners canceled for shows now they’re facing constant harassment. This is the story from last week where Kurt Metzger, Dave Smith, Lewis Gomez, and Jim Florentine were unbooked from a Seattle comedy club. My take continues to be, like I get, if you want to have a particular vibe at your establishment, you should be allowed to have a particular vibe at your establishment. Does it suck that they were booked and then unbooked?

Yeah, of course, because why booked them in the first place, And then you might have cost them some dates because they weren’t available, or maybe they booked some travel. So that’s not cool. But the larger point of should I be allowed to have who I want my club who I want? I think that’s fine. From The Stranger, Jesse Waters was hosting on Fox News and had a headline Seattle loves drugs hates comedy.

The co owner, Jess says she’s locked down her social media. People have been harassing her online and have come after her and her children, suggesting, I don’t even want to say what people are suggesting happen to her. I mean, just like I don’t even know what to say. Like I know, I’m babbling here. I have the words in front of me, and I don’t want to voice them.

People are saying really, really horrible things. Jess said, given the response, I think maybe we made the right choice. I think this might not be the people we want inside of our club. Dane, who co owns the club, said, I think if you’re a comedian your fans rack with threats of physical or sexual violence based on a canceled comedy show, maybe you have some self reflection to do. I don’t know, the owner said.

Nobody came after them about the book performances. No community group forced their hands. The booking and subsequent cancelations where their decisions alone. Lisa Anderson said this all began with Kurt Metzger’s agent reaching out, according to this version, and the agent wanted to book Metzger at the relatively new club. With the Google search, Anderson learned Kurt Metzger had won a Peabody Ward and an Emmy for his work on Inside Amy Schumer.

The agent then offered her three other comedians for headlining shows at her venue between April and October. Those Smith, Gomez, and Florentine. So these are four shows. This was not one big show. Okay, that’s new information to me.

Or maybe I’m just terrible at reading. The agent says. Gomes has since dropped him as an agent. Another press person said Jim Florentine could not respond to the questions. He did talk to The New York Post.

We’ll get to that. As a booker, Anderson was overjoyed and said, oh, I just booked four headlining comedians. I’m killing it. I thought I’d done an awesome thing. Then an investor told her that Mesker, Smith, Gomez, and Florentine were right leaning or transgressive comics who may not be a good fit for the club.

After discussing the matter with friends, other comics, and people in the neighborhood, they decided to cancel the shows privately over email, the only shows they’ve canceled in their short history. Again, I want to use unbooked because canceled is a loaded word these days. Anderson said, it’s like a stupid, dumb mistake that’s turned into a whole thing. Let’s see of these four comedians. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to Dave Smith.

I’ve been around Jim Florentine. Kurt Metzker was working at a podcast a former gig of mine was associated with, and I don’t recall interacting with Kurt and Lewis Gomes and I have had, you know, a few conversations. They were all probably eight nine years ago. I was enjoyed talking to him. I think he’s very talented.

The Stranger sites a twenty twenty one New Republic article titled the comedy industry has an alt right problem The Stranger Rights. Smith and Gomez were a pete guests on the Gavin McInnis show, hosted by the far right Canadian podcaster who founded the Proud Boys, Johnny Mack wants no part of any of that. They discussed some of the guests on that show. You can read the Stranger article. I don’t want to amplify the guests or what their messaging was the Stranger Rights.

The article also mentioned that Smith and Gomez left mckinnes’s Compound Media for a network, Gomez co founded Gas Digital, where they carried on a tradition of quote racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and flirtation with the far right. More recently, a significant portion of Metzger’s latest special, Thirty Minutes with Kurt Metzger, is dedicated to jokes about trans people in politics, Anderson says, it doesn’t mean censorship. You can say it, you just can’t say it here. Metzger in a radio interview with Jason Rantz from seven to seventy Ktt Metzker is quoted as saying, anyone who cave to this nonsense, they don’t deserve anything but mockery, some hilarious mockery, and it’s important that we do it. If you saw on Glorious Bastards at the end, Commando Brad Pitt karsaswastika into Christopher Waltz’s forehead, marking him as a Nazi for life, that stupid woke nonsense is dying.

It’s dying now. And what’s going to happen is all the cancel pigs they’re engaging with that are going to blend back into society. Gomez on his podcast said he thought the club was stupid for booking him and then unbooking him, and so was his agent for booking him at a super woke, progressive venue that the entire lineup is blue haired, effing freaks. He wasn’t planning to address any of it until Metzger posted on Twitter. Gomez quoted is saying, there’s plenty of places that won’t book me because I’m an effing jerk face.

Clean that up a little who says crappy things on the internet. That’s the right of any business. The same way I don’t have to put anyone on my podcast that I don’t want to, or anybody on the comedy festival skank Fest that I don’t want to, if they don’t represent the band or the fing core values you want to call it. It’s just they’re right. They didn’t make a big stink.

They didn’t fing publicly say these guys are pieces of crap. That email is pretty efing respectful overall. Sounds like Gomez and I are aligned on this whole thing. If skank Fest doesn’t want to have I don’t know, Patton Oswalt Great, don’t have them. Florentine has since book shows that the Tacoma comedy clubs replace the comedy board date.

So I think that’s a fair point that maybe these guys tied updates and or book travel that they couldn’t get their money back on. So that’s kind of a lousy thing about unbooking them. So I get that co owner Daine says, these guys may come and sell at the club for a weekend, but then we have to be here forever as a private business. Everyone that performs on our stage is there at our pleasure. To characterize this as censorship is inflammatory and correct.

There’s a big difference between saying a book should be banned and saying I prefer not to have that book in my home. Again, I think that’s all reasonable. The New York Post took this angle, quoting for the Post, the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the vibrant voices of the queer community with a weekly queerst to the Front open Mic, had booked Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Lewis Gomez, and Kurt Mesker for upcoming dates before the about face, which the owner said was to maintain the harmony within our community. Florentine’s all the post, I speak my mind on stage. I’m edgie.

I don’t kiss the audiences, but I’ll talk about the transgender stuff. Why are comedians so dug in on transgender stuff? Like why? And I’m not saying, don’t crack a joke about really anything, but like, why are they so dug in on this one? Florentine said, I didn’t know you had to check with the neighborhood.

I called my friends that own comedy clubs around the country and said, I’m coming in a couple months. You got to check the neighborhood and see if they’re okay with me performing there. Usually what happens is the club will research you before they book you and decide we don’t want that type of comedy. A lot of places won’t book you and you’ll never know. But in this case, they booked us.

That’s the way they’re gonna run their business. I don’t see how they’re going to stay in business that long. I’ll say for a third time, if it goofed up their travel, that to me is the sin here. The booking and the unbooking, not the decision not to have a particular act at a particular venue, or as previously said, not to have a particular artist. On say A Comedy Festival, Florentines said some of his jokes probably wouldn’t get big laughs at Capitol Hill Comedy Bar.

He was asked for an example, Florentine shared a joke about his son’s gender identity that has to do with the size of his stuff. Jim says, that’s why I got into comedy, to push boundaries. Like sometimes you tow the line with something and think, oh, that went a little too far. That’s the goals of comic. Try to find where that line is and just write it.

I think they’re going to book all of us there on different weekends. They said, well, take you guys. Absolutely, we don’t censor comics like they do. Come on over here. Gomez on his podcast speculated that young, jealous local comics pressured the decision.

He said, that’s what happens when comics don’t have anything going on, they just look for drama. So Anderson found drama within the comedy space there, and she was like, all right, I think they’re great, but I’m not you know, I don’t need to make it a thing. Maybe they were concerned with protests. Head was like a super woke area Hollywood and Toto listen to Noam Dworman’s podcast. It’s the Comedy Seller podcast.

I haven’t had a chance to listen to that or pull the transcript yet. The podcast is called Comedy Seller Live from the Table. Anderson on that podcast that she was a fan of Metzger from his days on Chelsea Lately, only when the club’s investors told her about their problematic jokes, that she regret the decision. Towarman pressed the owners again and again, says Hollywood and Toto to share what the four comedians had said to warrant their cancelation. What joke, what routine?

Is so hurtful that progressive fans couldn’t be exposed to it. Dorman discussed why edge comedians are important to the culture. He brought up a seventies era advertisement for Richard Pryor, noting how Pryor was built as harsh, vulgar, shocking offensive. That’s how things were marketed to liberal people, says Torman. Would Capitol Hill Comedy Bar turn Richard Pryor away, boy, there’s a loaded question, maybe they would.

Dorman said, you’re obviously nice people, well intentioned people. You’re in an industry that’s about free expression. You’re in an industry that has a history of having landmark incidents regarding free expression that affect the culture. So you chose that industry. You don’t have to live up to that calling.

But it’s not like you opened a deli and found yourself in this. You’re becoming a cousin, and you’re nice people, and you don’t want to be of the people smashing the windows. Apparently there is referencing a recent incident at Berkeley where violent protesters raged against Jewish speakers. He continued, saying, they started smashing the place up. This is a close cousin of the sentiment that you’re buckling to.

I can’t sign off on it because it’s wrong. It’s leading the country down a terrible direction. And everybody fueled their certainty that their position is the right one, so right that no one else should ever be platformed. And I will smash up Berkeley, and I will ride outside the comedy seller, and I will put this comedy club out of business if they should have the nerve, not the endorse of view I do not like, but simply allow that view to be heard. That was a lot.

I got a lot to get to I’ll tell you what the best special of the year so far is after the break. Wow, I really didn’t realize how long it was going to take to get through that first part there. This next section here normally would be in the A block here on the podcast. The best special of the year is David Cross. I should probably know what the name of this special is because I really liked it.

Worst Daddy in the World. I watched that on Friday night. I had a crazy busy weekend. I was at soccer all weekend, so I couldn’t freshen up Monday Show the way I would have liked to.

Also, I screwed up the title of You Were Up Early.

A couple of people pointed out to me the original title of Monday’s episode was something like DCN Monday Offphonic, so that I’ll let you know my naming convention behind the scenes before I put a proper title. But Cross, I almost declared that it was over and this would be the best special of the year. That’s how strong the first three quarters is. Once he gets to the part where he brings the audience up, I think that was in terms of editing. I think that was a mistake because the special was rocking, and then that kind of tapped the brakes.

He’s got a strong closer, but it kind of gets goofed up there. Right now. This is number one, So the entire best of twenty four list right now, David Cross number one, Dusty Slay number two, tailor Thomason number three. I think Cross and Sleigh will stay near that top of the list all year. I think Thomason will fall down to the high teens by the end of the year.

We will see. But I was glad I finally liked something because I felt like I was like Mikey with the Life Cereal and Johnny mack hates all comedy. Consequence of Sound interviewed David Cross and said one detail of note during the special, Cross stays hydrated on stage with a red solo cup. He said that’s not his normal choice when drinking a beer, but it’s a trick of the trade, as the cup’s opaque nature means the contents aren’t visible, avoiding the possibility of continuity issues. Is the cup between the sets, He says, if I had a bottle of beer, the level of liquid rise and fall depending on the take.

At other points, He’s not hiding the editing at all. When you watch the specially, you’ll see what that means. But he says, I’m already doing that, so there’s no reason I have the beer be distraction. You know, the way I crew material is I just go on stage. I do all my writing on stage, and the last phase of that process is sequencing.

I’ll put it all together and it’s not just disparate bits. It’s all with an eye towards you know, am I doing too much of this? Yere? Am I doing too little of that? Here?

Even asking the audience like does this feel like I’m dwelling on this thing too much? Should I lighten it up here? And that’s the last part of the process before he hit the road. The Chicago taping was show forty of a seventy six show tour. He says, I always tape the special in the middle and then record the album at the end, because there’s different material in there.

By the time it gets to the end, it’s the same title, but the audio will be like twenty to thirty percent different than the material in the special. That’s really cool. Can we give him the Grammy? Then? He likes taping a special midway through a tour because the materials had time to percolate and get crafted.

Some material was relatively new, the Ron De Santis chunk. He said he’d only done like eight or nine times before the special. But the album will be more polished because now the materials a little tighter and he found more jokes within it, so it’s a more realized bit. Very very cool.

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All right, let’s see what’s in the Facebook group, because there was so many …

Again, feel encouraged to join us Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’m just gonna go in chronological order here. Dylan posted, excited to see some shows next month. We have tickets to see Brian Kallin, Nate Bergatzy, Brad Williams, and Shane Gillis. That’s great.

We don’t talk about Brad enough on the show. And Shane. I think Shane is so much fun and like I said last week, I don’t think there actually is a controversy. Dylan also pointed out Soda and gill Us on We Might Be Drunk came out on Monday. I just downloaded that looking forward to that.

There was a pretty big thread as I watched comedy on Friday night, I wrote quick takes. Dan Soder’s new roadwork thing. Nothing wrong with it, but skippable Joe List Works the Crowd is better. David Cross is currently number one, so breaking that apart my takes. I watched Cross and then I put on soda, and maybe it was just the positioning there.

Like I wrote in the Facebook post, it was fine, but I’m a comedy snob and an admitted comedy snob, so it wasn’t There’s a part of my brain that gets tickled by these things, and soda was just it was fine.

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And then I checked out Joe List Working the Crowd, which definitely is not a …

He’s not claiming it’s a special. Soder used the word special on his I’m not sure it was a special, especially the way it was shot. It seems more like an hour. Ian chimed in and I appreciate your comment. I truly do, because this is what I want the Facebook group to be.

Ian wrote, skip sodas if you don’t like a forty five, that it’s the ground running and doesn’t waste a second. That’s awesome. Comedy is totally subjective. We don’t have to agree on any of this, and I love when people put things on my radar, and I might give Soda a second chance based on what Ian said, So I think that’s awesome. Dylan chimed in said I watched most of the specials.

I can watch a good one and laugh a couple of times. I laughed out loud several times during Soder’s, So yeah, maybe I’m totally wrong about Soder. Dylan wrote, watching Donnelle Rowling special now, and while it’s good, I haven’t laughed out loud yet. Yeah, that one didn’t do it for me. Aaron said, I saw the David Cross special.

I could not stop watching, though I honestly thought it was because I’m a lefty. Starts out solid, then builds to a hilarious finish that had me in tears. Yeah, his closures really strong. It’s just that audience chunk. I’m not sure it works one more firm.

Dlan watch four specials this weekend, Soda, Cross, Scovell, and Rawlings. I like Soda. The best Cross is always amazing, but the first half hour of his was a bit slow, and he finished really strong. I saw a cross and Patton oss whall together in two thousand and two or so. He was so great back then that no matter how good his stuff is now, it’s not on that level.

Scoville was fine, but it started slow. I love Donnell Rawlings, but a special as a B minus at not bad but not great.

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And then the big thing that I watched Adam Sailor Spaceman.

That was what I let off Frinday Night with s planned. I was like five minutes in it when I was like, oh, man, almost invoke the name of a deity. There. Sandler is doing an accent. Sometimes he’s doing like bad Eastern European Ish accent in some scenes.

So, as you know from the trailer, he’s an astronaut. The mission is sponsored, so he’s doing camera work and he’s got the accent, and then the next scene he doesn’t have the accent, and I’m like, oh, is this like secretly brilliant? Is Sandler pretending to be a Czech astronaut because of the sponsor. No, he just drops the accent in the next scene and then it comes back when he’s talking to the alien creature. I was also eye rolling really early in the film.

Adam Sandler’s daughter has a role because she was the best actress for the role, of course, and I was like, here we go Adam Sandler doing a bad accent and in a but I enjoyed it. Is it terrible? Oh, it’s terrible. I’ve told a few people to watch it and they’re like, Oh, this is so boring. I’m falling asleep.

I found it strangely nice company. Bulk of the film turns into basically a two person stage play, and I don’t know. I enjoyed the dialogue. Maybe I like Sandlor as a dramatic actor, since those are the films that I seem to be attracted to, whereas I’m not a fit of his comedy films. I liked it.

I would be curious to know what you think. Again, this is what the Facebook group is for Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join, as boy, I am long here. Today I listened to Mark Maren’s interview from twenty eleven with Richard Lewis, Can I be honest here? Well, I’m always honest here?

Can I be honest here? I came away not liking Richard Lewis, the person that was speaking to Mark Maren, As I listened, I was like, oh, I don’t think I would like you in real life. It’s a very honest interview and Maren got good stuff out of him, but I didn’t come away liking Richard Lewis. I know you don’t speak ill of the dead, but that was my reaction to it. So if you want to check that out.

David shot me a note and let me know. I had quote it last week for a review from the Was It nineteen ninety three sitcom that Richard did with Don Rickles. He pointed out the editorial style of that particular newspaper and said it’s probably not surprising that they didn’t like the edgy comedy and sexual jokes from that particular sitcom, so that may have been a loaded review on That’s a really good insight there as well. David says, appreciate your content and we’ll look forward to being an ongoing listener. David, thank you for listening every day.

Really great to hear from everyone. I’m going to drop a bunch of stories that can wait to tomorrow. What else that I want to mention SNL there was a great sketch. I don’t want to spoil it, but the setup is Sidney Sweeney has a crush on Bowen Yang. Oh my goodness, was fantastic.

In a story from Fox News, we begin with Fox, We End with Fox. Fox News host Rachel Campos Duffy is the mother of a child with Down syndrome, and she praised she and Gillis. The Huffington Post had written, although she and Gillis used the R word to highlight how it is a slur and wrong to use, the punchline of the joke didn’t exactly justify his usage of it. Campos Duffy said, the down syndrome stuff was actually really good because part of the thing that Shane Gillis gets a lot of credit for is not being hemmed in by political correctness. And he’ll say words that have now been stricken off.

You can’t say these words, and not only will they say the word will go deep on the topic at Campos Duffy said, he uses the R word and talking about down syndrome. However, at the end of the sketch, what he says is what everyone who has a family member with Down syndrome, liberals are so afraid. You know. He’s obviously referring to the eugenics that’s used against them, and he says, the funny thing is that they turn out to be the best person in the family, which is totally true. You guys have met Valentino.

He’s like the happiest person in our family. I actually really loved it because I think ultimately it was a very pro life message and a really great message about what we’re doing to people with Down syndrome through abortion and through eugenics. That is Today’s Daily Comedy News again Facebook group, Daily Common News podcast group chime in Love to hear from you guys. All Right, I really like today’s episode. I hope you like.

I know it wasn’t as newsy as usual, but hopefully it was a good discussion around the comedy industry. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. If you skip the weekend, please go back and listen to Saturday and Sunday. I pulled a bunch of clips on Saturday with Joe Rogan and Kat Williams. Sunday a bunch of clips from Jim Norton’s Fantastic interview on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast. Hello, I’m Johnny mackin.

This is Today’s Daily Comedy News. A couple of good jokes from Late Night. President Biden recently had his physical Jimmy Feln said, when asked about his mental state, the doctor said, the President’s in healthy physical condition. Golbert said, we also got a list of all the medications Joe Biden takes for allergies, blood pressure, and heartburn. They’re all pretty common eloquis crestwords.

I missed a allegra, pepsid and nexim. Thanks Joe. I believe that’s every one of our sponsors. Et Online talked to Taylor Thomlinson and asked her about this nonsense where people compare her to Taylor Swift. I get they’re both in their thirties and they’re both named Taylor, and I guess they look more like each other than either one of them looks like me, so like, I get that, but it’s kind of lazy guys.

Taylor says, I don’t know who’s doing that. There’s a couple of comments on Instagram. I’m not doing that. I would never compare myself to Taylor Swift. I’m garbage compared to her.

I think it’s mostly the name. Yes Et Online says like everyone’s favorite ANTSI hero Tomlinson’s act features a few digs at some of her ex’es. Though they aren’t famous, they aren’t excused for making their way in to one of her bits. She says, anyone who dates a comedian, it has to go in knowing that I dated comedians, and I went in knowing that. So this is if I were you, I would not date a comedian.

I mean, I know why comedians date each other because we both know the deal. But a person who’s not in this business might be very scary. It’d be like, oh, we were just kind of on the record all the time. Stand up is a solo sport. It’s an isolated thing in a lot of ways, and I love it.

I love being on tour. I have a good friend who Wiltmes for me, I love my tour manager. I’ve never really been in a situation where I have to create something new every day with a group of people that I really expect and admire. I’m a stand up first and foremost, and I love to tour. So when I took the first meeting with the TV producers, they were like, we know what you’re gonna say, only going to film Monday through Wednesday, which means you could tour on the weekends.

Once I knew that, I was like, oh, well, then I guess I should really think about it. The more meetings we had, the more people I met who were involved with the project, the more I wanted to do it. Her dream guest Conan O’Brien. I think Conan would be fun. It’s probably a big ask, but I would love if Conan did the show.

Conin’s going to do the show. He’s got a new show coming out himself. You’ll want to promote Conin’s one hundred percent to do that show. David Cross spoke to the Consequence of Sound and talked about the film work he does and the TV work he does and the stand up and he says it’s kind of in the middle I’ve done numerous kinds of indie films that don’t pay much at all, and I’ve done big budget films that pay a lot of money. And I do works on shows where you don’t get it’s out of money, but you get something.

And I have done my own shows which paying me more because I’m writing, directing and producing and sometimes acting and stand ups sort of in the middle there. He has a podcast and said, I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I have, Well, then why started. It’s called Sinces Working Overtime and features him in conversations with guests like Jason Bateman, Michael Sarah Mark, Maren Janine Garoffalo Amber Tamblin, Eugene Merman, and Steve oh Across that I’ve been asked for years to put something together and didn’t have any interest. Then I was like, all right, fine, but I really enjoyed it. It comes naturally to me.

They’re all these interesting, funny people. We’re friends. He came to the realization that, look, if you want to keep touring and you want to make money, then the podcast will help you with that. I don’t know. That doesn’t make me feel good.

You don’t sound like you want to do a podcast at all? Right, it just sounds like, oh, I have to do this. That’s not fun. David Cross he’s working on his next stand up special and says I’m in the very beginning stages of doing that again for the next tour that’ll probably start in the fall. Next year is the thirtieth anniversary of Mister Show.

We’ll see if they do a reunion. Across’s new special, worsd Statty in the World is on YouTube if you want to check that out. Adam Sailor believes Lorne Michaels isn’t quite ready to retire from Saturday Night Live. Sailor told Entertainment tonight, I don’t see that happening. I don’t know.

Maybe somebody said he might, but I talked to Lauren. I think he’s saying enough. He’s rocking, he loves it. Yeah, but Lorne Michaels is seventy nine years old. In November of this year, he’ll be eighty, so he’ll be eighty years old at the time of next year’s big fiftieth anniversary special.

Isn’t that the time to get out like they always say, get out on top? Why do season fifty one and now ice you’re retiring. Let the whole thing be a big farewell tour next year, culminating in the coronation at the fiftieth anniversary. You know you could stay on in like an emeritus role and say that you’re helping Tina Fey or Seth Myers, whoever takes over for Lorne. But like, I’m not saying he’s bad, I’m just saying you’re eighty.

Like this is exactly the time to get out, like Tom Brady and Tampa. He should have left after winning that Super Bowl, played one year too many. If you enjoy you what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There’s somebody in the tip jar, but it’s Monday. I’m not gonna get a coffee.

You are actually gonna buy me five eighths of a smoothie. Smoothies are like eight bucks. You throw five bucks in the tip jar and I’ll throw on the other three. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Oh, for once, let me remember to propose the weekly comedy Thing.

I host the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. The app is free. The show is free. Who’s on this week? Dan Soder, Joe List, Doug Benson, Jeff Ross, Tammy Pascatelli, Dmitri Morton, Tom Poppa, Liza Selesterer, Verdaz, David Cross, Steve Travino, Jim Florentine, Kurt Metzger and Adam Sandler.

So if you want to hear less me more comedians kind of the opposite of this podcast, go check out the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app free and free Do it Rama. Yusef grew up in New Jersey. He said he didn’t envision being a comedian. He said, I never had this larger ambition because I didn’t think it was feasible. It didn’t feel real.

When he was a teenager, he saw the Arab American Comedy Festival and Access of Evil Comedy Tour. I always have loved the name of that tour begin picking up steam. So by the time he had college, the idea of performing a taken route. He dropped out of school, landed a role on Sea Dad Run, which apparently was a Nicked Knight sitcom starring Scott Bayo Rolling Stone Ads four years before Scott Bayo became one of the highest profile Trump supporters in the entertainment industry. Interesting note there, Rolling Stone, the arabnews dot com You’re home for comedy news, spoke to Russell Peters.

He gave the advice identify your dream and actively chase it. It’s far more rewarding and have pursued your dream even if you fail than a passively wonder about it. He said in the early days, he would drive hours to perform, earning fifty dollars plus chicken wings a tank of gas in a soda. He said, if I stayed, I’d be an exact same financial position I would have been had I gone, so I wasn’t losing anything. And if I’d stay there, I’d be talking to people for free.

I’d just remember all the hard gigs, those were the fun ones. He has enjoyed his visits to the Kingdom. He admires the generosity of the Saudi people. He says, I remember at the hotel they said, how did you sleep? And I said, honestly, it was the best most comfortable bed I’ve ever felt in my life.

When I came back to my hotel room, they had packed up all the stuff that I complimented and shipped it to me in America. As for the venue, he said, the acoustics there are great because it’s built for that, and they put the sound dampeners in there. The same can’t be said for I just performed in Egypt. Will Forte is sad he got to see Coyote Versus Acme. He says, it’s incredible.

This movie has been parked by Warner Brothers on Twitter, because that’s what we call it. Elon wrote to the cast and crew of Coyote Versus Act Me, I know that a lot of you have not gotten a chance to see our movie, and sadly it’s looking like you never will. When I first heard that our movie was getting deleted, I hadn’t seen it yet. Yeah, some kind of right off thing, So I was thinking, when everybody else must have been thinking, that this thing must be a hunk of junk. But then I saw it and it’s incredible, super funny throughout, visually stunning, sweet, sincere, and emotionally resonant in a very earned way.

And as the credits rolled, I just sat there thinking how lucky it was to be part of something so special. I quickly turned a confusion and frustration this is the movie they’re not going to release. Look, when it comes to Hollywood business stuff, I don’t know stuff about stuff. Even when a movie tests well like ours, there’s no guarantee it’s going to be a hit. And at the end of the day, that people paid for the movie can obviously do whatever they want with it.

Doesn’t mean I have to like it or agree with it. It doesn’t mean that this movie is anything less than magnificent. You would be so proud of it. A movie that should be seen, but won’t, The Hollywood Reporter had reported as a reporter would do that. Warner Brothers shelved Coyote versus act Me for a text right off.

Fans complained, the studio offered to shop it around. Amazon offered in the forty to forty five million dollar range for the film, but Warners rejected it. The film also starred John Cena, Who’s got pretty good comedy Chops. Netflix has revealed that Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership will debut globally on the platform on March nineteenth. Directed by Baron Vaughan, this is the first special to ever been shot at Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership.

Simpson covers everything from racism and gun violence to in vitro fertilization and masculinity. No trailer yet, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Today’s podcast is a little more adult than usual. There won’t be any swear words, but the themes are quite adult. If for some reason you listen to Daily Comedy News with little ones, why don’t you hit stop and I will see you tomorrow. For the rest of you who are still here, Jim Norton was on Neil Brandan’s Blocks podcast and it was fantastic.

I mentioned a few times recently that you know, I know Jim, and as I’ve shared in real life, he’s not walking around all day talking about hookers in Vegas, and I find them to be very thoughtful. In these clips, you’re going to hear me play. You will hear the thoughtful Jim Norton that I speak about. In many of these clips, Jim is speaking about his wife Nicki, a transgender woman from Norway, and as you likely know, the topic of transgenderism is a topic that tends to come up in comedy nowadays for whatever reason, and Jim and Neil here prove that there’s a way to have an intelligent conversation. First clip, again a warning, we’re a little more adult than usual, and on these clips I have made the occasional edit for language purposes, but I’m keeping the gist of the content intact.

Here’s Jim talking about his wife Nikki. She turns me on and she makes me laugh love, I love her brain. And I remember we had broken up at the end in twenty eighteen, but I remember we were I was like, I would love to because I enjoyed talking to her. I liked how she looked at these trans stuff in the way she discussed it, and I’m like, I would love to podcast or do something with her. And this is going back like almost six years now.

So we just started doing a channel. We’re just kind of showing snippets of our lives with no real goal, like because everybody has an idea of what this relationship should look like or what it is, and it’s just pretty much like any other relationship. And that’s kind of the point of this whole thing, is it’s not this magical thing when you have this is a weird question. Would you have been friends with her when she was a guy? You know, I didn’t know she started transitioning she was fourteen, so I can’t see her like that.

Like I’ve seen the baby pictures and there’s people in her family will still call her him like you know, and they’re like and then he I don’t even know if they’re being disrespectful or if it’s just such a habit. But I don’t know, Like if she de transitioned now, I would have a I wouldn’t want to I wouldn’t want to be in that relationship, even though I love her very much. I just don’t know how that would affect me. But no, I don’t know. I can’t picture her, like I can’t see it, like when I see old photos.

I can’t connect that to the person I’m with. Earlier in his career, Jim worked with Opie and Anthony with if you’re not familiar with them, they were shock jock shock Jockers, Scorched Earth, Shockjockers, and Jim talked about his time there. Neil was curious how the guys handled Jim’s sexuality, and I’ll let Jim tell it. I mean, our show was oh and he was a barbaric, hilarious show that made fun of everything. But they never cared about people being gay or bisexual, like in a legal sense, like they were never against gay people, but even like culturally it wasn’t even you’re gay.

It maybe you’re gay, but it was always yes, I’m not gay, but I’m definitely not straight. I was never a good ally for like LGBT never saw me as an ally because of the people that I’m with and the jokes I make and the things I’ve said. Well, all right, here’s the question whatever you’re vague sexuality is, do you feel like most people who’s either their non binary or they’re trans, or they’re all these new sort of they’re not new categories, they’re not new, they’re named. The naming them is new, categorizing them as new. But do you think that your experience is that off from most people within that realm?

I don’t know. I mean to be really honest, because I don’t understand a lot of it. I would assume it’s very contradictory and confusing within yourself. Well, I mean for me, I mean, there’s no way to consider myself straight. I never have.

Like you know, so many guys will say they misread it and they’ll go, you’re with uh, my wist name is Nick. You’re with her, and you think that he says he’s not gay, he’s delusional, But I’m not. If I was gay, i’d tell you I’m gay. I’m fifty five years old. I’m not nervous to say it.

And here’s a good left line about Jim’s turn ons. Is it like ordering off a menu or not ordering off a menu? What kind of food do I want tonight? Like Thai or Japanese or German? Or like we’re going on porn hub and being like old lady, I like ladies.

Sure, so then I within ladies, I go, I don’t know, maybe let’s see what if that’s anything. It’s like it’s more like blindly reaching my head into a bucket, and whenever I pull out, I’m likely fat. But is it that random? Does it feel that random? No, Like, whatever it is that will turn me on, it changes.

Adam Sandler was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast. This clip caught my ear. It’s a little weird. Sandler is acting like he’s the biggest Conan O’Brien fan, and he isn’t quite sure who Conan took over for on late night? Is that an obscure code?

In fact, the word late night is in the clue, Adam Sandler. But let’s listen. I’d probably told you this before, but when you got the show when we found out you were hosting the show and taking a you know over for lettering, right, Is that what it was? Yeah, it was unanimous with our reaction. Everyone was like, oh wow, yeah that’s great.

There was nobody going come, I didn’t get that about everybody was Conan’s name. Everybody just went yeah, wow, that’s perfect. What a great idea you were. You were sharper than everybody, but you. You You never came across nervous, like I remember watching your first night.

Who was the guest? It was Goodman? It was Goodman was the first guest.

And then Drew barrymore Wow.

And then uh Tony randall right came out like we’reing like a tuxedo.

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And then he and I sang Adelweiss.

We wanted to do on the first show, tell everybody this is the kind of show it’s going to be. So he and I sang adel Weiss and they cut to the crowd and there was a weeping Nazi and we just wanted to tell everybody like this, this is what this show is going to be. Cool, all pulling for you, all knew you were the best, and like we were like, maw, it’s officially. Hopefully you had a chance to listen to Joe Rogan and Kat Williams. I played a few clips yesterday.

They started discussing automated vehicles. Kat Williams said he has owned several Rolls Royces, including an electric one. Rogan said that thing is insane, just the way the doors open up, the way the doors closed when he touched the brakes, totally silent. Kat said, except for the price point four undred and fifty grand, it would have been perfect. The La Times, I’m glad they’re still doing comedy articles.

They recently had a ton of layoffs, and I was worried their comedy coverage, which is excellent, would get cut. It has not. They had a nice article about crowd work. Matt Rice said, I think people come to the shows with a certain expectation. They see something online and inspire for it to be them in a certain situation, which I feel bad for because it might not happen.

Trevor Wallace said, I do think any content that stand up related is better for sales. I get a lot of like I saw a stand up clip and I didn’t know you do that. Now I’m here, But I actually thought crowd work was this magical thing that all only a couple comics did, and I never thought I was wild enough to do it. Now, crowd work is more than fifty percent of Hannah Burner’s online content. It’s kind of a necessity, she said.

I would argue early on, you can post some good bits to get traction for people to hear your voice, but when you’re putting together special you don’t want your jokes already all over the internet. Raife said. Audiences think that because you only post crowd work, it’s all you can do, and it’s like, no, I don’t want you to pay to come see me in person to see the exact same jokes you saw for free. Riife says crowd work’s drawback is very rarely does he receive an A one response from an audience member, so much that he’s been known to say, not funny.

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Moving on, those clips don’t make it to social media, Rife says, you don’t se…

You don’t see me talking to somebody who absolutely gives me nothing. It’s never the person who yells out. It’s always the quiet ones that are at least assuming. Once again, the creators of the Simpsons may have predicted the future. Internet people think The Simpsons have predicted that weird Willy Wanka experience that I told you about the other day, and I’m glad I did you know, the one promoted as a journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises.

One clip online shows a bar of Wonka chocolate, a blue pipe, candy sticks, and one oople Loopa behind a pop up table. Another video shows a mystery character scaring kids well. A clip from The Simpsons has surfaced. It shows Homer Simpson charging a fifty dollars admission for Homer Land on a shabby looking sign, as well as a sad looking Oopa Luopa sitting smoking on a wooden box. While some of the screenshots are from different episodes, people are convinced it mirrors the House of Illuminatis infamous event.

On their social media page, the organizer said, I’m truly sorry for any upset and disappointment caused at the weekend. Refunds have been issued and will continue to do so. This was an event gone wrong. The House of Illuminati will not be holding any other events in the foreseeable future. Staying Animated Variety caught up with Dan Harmon talking about season seven of Rick and Morty.

That’s the season that just happened, Harmon said in the finale, where playing with the concept that we’ve fallen back on many times, where Rick considers moretyr replaceable. So this is kind of a final step into turning them into a partnership. Certainly not an equal partnership in any way, but they’re friends, their roommates. They’re kind of like Ernie and Bert. Showrunner Dan Martr says season eight will have a lot of similar flow and vibes to season six and seven, which is like a cool balance of silly and one up canonical stuff.

That’s the stuff I want as a fan. That’s the stuff Harmon and I work on, all jammed together. I’m really proud of these last couple of seasons. They’re sort of the perfect blend of what I look for as a fan. Notice we’ve stopped talking about the change in voices.

Martyr says, for Ian, who plays Rick, everyone who came in the door to do Rick screamed and felt like they needed to focus on that screen. But that’s just not Rick. A lot of the time, Ian worked on the opposite part that many people weren’t focusing on They talked about some popular fan theories. Matt Patt from the YouTube channel Film Theorists has proposed that the show is setting up mister Poopy Butthole to be the newest villain. Harmon said, ah, we can’t do that now where he could see us.

Right. Good job, Internet, you blew it again. Rick and Mordy season eight, not twenty twenty five, but this year we get Rick and Morty the anime. Quick note here, Kevin Casey White Harang is a new special ad on the eight hundred pound Gorillaz YouTube channel at seven up Pacific this evening. If you need something to do, and that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack and I’m stupid. I came downstairs to record three days worth the podcast without a drink, and I had a handful of peanut m and ms before I started, So my throat’s already closing up. That was dumb. Joe Rogan had Kat Williams on the Media picked up on a bunch of things I have pulled the clips.

Topic number one, Joe Rogan asked, why do black people like menthol cigarettes so much? Let’s listen, Like, in California they made flavored vapes illegal. Can you imagine? Yeah, Strawberry missed is our number one? That was fine, but they let it also hurt black people in that it counted menthol as a flavor and hurt Newport.

So you can’t sell menthol cigarettes in California, right, they have their own cigarettes. Well, have non mentho on Newports. It’s terrible. Why do black people like menthol so much? About it’s a totally different type of cigarette.

You’re gonna get me canceled. Oh, this is very racist. This is conversation, even even though neither of us are just talking about just saying why do black people like Newport so much and a black and a black person actually getting ready to answer this. It’s terrible on all ends. I don’t think it is.

Well, I don’t think it is either, because we have a news. It’s like if you started asking me about spaghetti, I’m not going to get offended you started asking me about Italian food or why why are Italian people so loud? I’m not going not gonna get how many people have ever died of pasta related? A lot, a lot of fatos out there kicking the bucket. Bro, that’s not because of pasta over abundance of carbohydrates.

They were going to be fat wherever they live there. Maybe that’s delicious story food. They couldn’t stop it. People are addicted to food like they’re addicted to anything. If there’s a thing that I could ever be addicted to, it’s that, right.

That’s all of us though, all of us, And what a blessing. Yeah, we have so much starving people are addicted to anything, and they don’t have food related illnesses exactly. But back to where we were, Yeah, right, they ment all cigarettes. Oh that’s right, and the answer is we value strength in product. So there’s this whole thing with liquor and malt liquor, and the difference between the two and one is richer and stronger, the more potent version, right, and as a people, we tend to go with those products.

Topic number two. Kat Williams explains that twenty years ago he knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. Let’s listen. Everybody’s like, oh, he keeps talking about people wearing dresses. No, it’s weird.

It’s not like that. Look at it from a different way. Look at it. Show me one person that ever wore a dress in Hollywood unsuccessfully. That’s how you understand what the ritual is.

So twenty years ago I knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. It wasn’t because I was a prophet. It’s just I had gotten so much information that I understood the path. Things are secular. It’s topic number three.

UFOs especially, he tells your story and then you have independent people who also used to work for the government now becoming whistleblowers and saying there’s a crashed retrieval program. Crashed UFO retrieval program. It goes back to what I’m saying, Joe, these are this is how you say this without getting canceled. Look, you do think they’re doing something, don’t you doing something? We want to believe like nobody’s doing nothing.

Like no, no, we’re doing stuff like they’re doing something. So there’s three hours of that. I haven’t gone through all of it yet. The transgender stuff is interesting. Tomorrow I’m gonna play some clips from Jim Norton, who was on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, a fantastic interview, and we’ll see another way to discuss that topic intelligently.

Richard Lewis’s wife tweeted using Richard’s account, saying, Hi, this is Joyce, Richard’s wife, thank you for your loving tributes. He would be beyond thrilled and so touched as am I. In response to the many queries, I know Richard would appreciate donations in his memory to the Los Angeles based charity Comedy Gives Back dot Com. Mark Marin shared his twenty eleven interview with Richard Lewis. I started talking about eighties Letterman, which is like one of my favorite things ever.

Eighties Letterman and Star Trek are probably my two favorite things. I learned a lot of valuable lessons to in these shows once early in the eighties, it was I did more Lettermans than almost anybody. And I actually the panel guest. You were the guy that I was like, I always look forward to you. Sitting down sound to me was a respectable thing.

Well, and Letterman was the guy who told me you’ll never do stand up on my show. You’re much better on panel. You’re too physical, right, and you engage too. You know, he can move you along. And because of him, it’s set a precedent for me back in eighty two, and I never even without a series, I said, no, Lewis doesn’t do stand up if you want me to just sit down, squirms in his seat, right, And that’s because of Dave.

That was a great thing. But two things. Let Himan. Let Himan really gave me my first real break. Yeah, and because I was on like every six weeks for years, and you know, I had endless amounts of materials, so that wasn’t a problem.

And the thing is, once I was talking about Hawaii and I said to the woman during the how he could ask me, I understand, you won’t know why, I said. The whole thing is so fraudulent to me, right, it just sounds fake and a fun clip here where Richard Lewis was I think getting ready to be on Carson and turned to Roddy Dangerfield and got a little nervous. Interesting stuff there had had a feel of Roddy Hey, uh yeah, yeah, it’s attitude. So yeah, I said, Rodney, I feel I can’t. I had.

I just wanted to go home and hear the tape and time it. It’s all I can for Carson. Yeah, I mean that Carson because David Brenna want to something when I was twenty three, says for one five minute spot on Carson is like doing the improv every night full house three shows a night for like he had an old figured out like eighteen years he had the math done. Yeah, he had to hear he was in maniac like, so I eighteen years, is it’s right? Ricky Gervais is interested in maybe perhaps possibly playing Herbie the Robot in the Fantastic Four movie.

Remember Herbie the Robot. When we were kids, there was a Fantastic four cartoon and there you had Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl, the Thing, and Herbie the Robot. Where was the human Torch? There was an urban legend that they were worried kids were going to sell themselves on fire. I’ve seen another version of that where there was something with the copyright.

There had been a fifties or forties version of the Human Torch comic book. People. You can let me know, so that might have been the reason. Anyway, So you had the Fantastic Three and Herbie the robot. Ricky Gervais interested in voicing Herbie if asked.

The Internet people have also suggested Bill Hayter, all right, that’d be a right Matt Berry done done in Matt Berry, anything is awesome. I don’t think he sounds like Herbie though, but then again, does Ricky Gervas sound like Herbie? I don’t know. I don’t remember what Herbie sounds like. Somebody else suggested tignets are, which is of course a terrible idea, more terrible ideas.

Bob Newhart and mel Brooks, they’re wonderful. They’re both in their nineties. Cheryl Hines is on Watch What Happens Live and was asked about Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s reaction to Larry David, saying that Larry does not support rfk’s a presidential campaign, Cheryl said, you know what’s so funny about that, We actually had dinner with Larry David that night and said it wasn’t awkward. Weirdly, it wasn’t.

Those two have been friends for so long, and I think when Larry said it, I think he was being Larry, like, oh, I support him, but I don’t support him. And I think Larry and Bobby were like, okay, and I’m just like, past the asparagus. This is a weird night, but okay. My former coworker, Jamie Fox, may be returning the stand up as on a side here. You’ll notice I often refer to Jamie as my coworker, and then I’ll refer to other people that I worked with it serious as my friends, like I would consider Larry the Cable guy to be a friend.

I always found Jamie to be nothing but awesome, but like I didn’t really know him well. He’s usually behind three velvet ropes and as an entourage and people around him, but it was always a cool guy. He posted a video from one of his past stand up specials on Instagram showing himself doing an impression of Prince. In the caption, he shared that he plans to return a performing comedy, that’d be awesome. Adam Sandler has been performing something that some people consider to be comedy.

He’s been doing a residency in Glendale all week, tuning up for his new special, The SFGate tells us, for most of the night, it seemed like the theater was out to get Adam Sandler. I like this theater. First, someone handed him the wrong coffee as he walked on stage. What’s the wrong coffee? Then the screens behind him, because of some incompatibility with his team’s gear in the venue, didn’t work for almost all of his more than ninety minute set, even though a lot of the show was supposed to have a video component.

Adam Sandler relying on video. Oh my goodness. When leaning into a song, the keyboard fell. The PNIS said there’s a hole in the floor. I think there was just a really really cool ghost.

Sandler said, there’s a hole in the floor. Can we get somebody out here to fix this? At PA and then a second PA ran out to prop the instrument back up. Sandler said, this doesn’t feel like a comedy show. Johnny Mack said, you are right, Adam Sandler.

Wait. At one point, a dog ran out to the stage. But the Gate tells us, despite Adam Sadler’s obvious frustration with the technical details of the evening and despite the fact that the early show came off more like a rehearsal for the evening second set, when once again a rogue dog made it onto the stage. Right now, I don’t think it’s such a rogue a dog. The show is still great.

Adam Saandler’s side, the sf Gate says, it’s proved a theory that it’s a great moment for stand up comedy in LA. All that time during the strikes gave comedians a lot of time to sit at home and come up with new material. Now they’re free to work again. A listers are popping up in showcases all over the city. Two weeks ago, I was at a showcase at the Comedy Store where Jeff Ross and Andrey Santino were the biggest names on the roster.

All of a sudden, Ali Wong stepped on stage. Days later, an email popped up in my inbox. Adam Sandler would be performing two shows a night in Glendale for a week. Anyway, awesome job, Ghosts. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throw somebody in the tip chart and know what I’ll do is not get a nice coffee and not bring it to the studio when I’m planning on recording three podcasts so that my voice can give out. Everybody is excited that Matt Rife is gonna play Indiana. This from the Indiana Daily Student. They quoted one of the college attendees who said, if Matt Rife’s willing to learn, then he should absolutely be welcome. But if he’s not willing to learn from what he said, then he has no business being on a campus like Indiana University.

We need to put our best foot forward, and that starts by vetting who we invite onto our campus. Talked about this recently. Comedians don’t want to do college campuses anymore because of this stuff. Another student said, if you’re trying to cater to men by making a joke about domestic violence, that’s how you know you should not be in comedy. Indiana University has the right to do whatever they want, but they need to also recognize they’re a host for so many different marginalized groups and that their students make up those populations.

Giving someone a platform that has said so many problematic things about women and other groups as well, it’s disheartening but not really surprising. A different student, who is the member of the Ladies’ Night Comedy group, said, I think real humor is humor that can make everybody laugh and not offend a group of people. That’s what makes a talented comedian, and Matt Rife can’t do that. Jimmy Kimmel is still thinking about what he might do if he walks away from Jimmy kim alive. I don’t think he’ll walk away.

He’s suddenly is what late fifties, mid fifties, he’s fifty six. Come on, what are you gonna do? Jimmy, sit home. You’re not gonna sit home. Do the show.

You have the summers off already. It’s fine. Do a Carson deal. Tell ABC you’ll do it three days a week. Let somebody else host Mondays and you can take the summer off.

That’ll work, Yes, Sarah, Sarah will host Mondays in the summer for you. She’s been looking for a gig. There you go. I just solved it. Everybody.

Kimmel says, I don’t know. What I’ll do might not be anything that anyone other than me’s aware of. I have a lot of hobbies. I love to cook, I love to draw. I imagine myself learning to do sculptures.

I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms, in my own bed, I’m gonna think, oh, I was neighbor to get to this, so I was never able to get to that. I just know that about myself. Feared us got into it with an airline. He was not happy with airline indie Go. He went on Twitter and commented about a series of recurrent flight delays he counted while traveling with indy Go.

He questioned, when did Indigo turn the board you on time, but keep you on the flight and depart when you’re supposed to land. Airline like fifth time in a row this happened. Indigo has acknowledging inconvenience and responded to the tweet. They said, our inflight team also made the onboard announcement about the delay, rest assured we’re fully committed to enhancing our services. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

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