Month: July 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media. Maybe fourth of July. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Eddie Murphy was on the New York Times conversation. I saw the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, talking about this one.

I held on to it so i’d have something in the late off position on July fourth. Pretty interesting interview. I did share it in the Facebook group again, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Now I didn’t share it. That’s a lie, that’s a conflation.

I didn’t share it. I was going to share it, but Dylan shared it. Thank you Dylan, And they remind us that at one point, Saturday Night Live was cud on the thin ropes, and Eddie Murphy helped bring it back through sheer force of charisma rights the Times, as well as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters like Gumby and mister Robinson. Eddie brought the show back to life. A highly plausible argument can be made that without him, SNL may not have made it to a tenth anniversary, let alone the fiftieth.

I agree it would have been really easy to put on Saturday Night Videos. I was watching Friday Night Videos on. It was a YouTube, a full episode with bumpers and everything. The first song was the Police Synchronicity two, and then it went into Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. There was Lionel Richie, and I’m like, this is wonderfully terrible, but I love that show.

I lived in Queen’s We didn’t get cable till nineteen eighty seven, and not because my parents were cheap queens in New York City was not wired for cable television until nineteen eighty seven. You couldn’t get it, So Friday Night Videos and a channel Nick called You sixty eight was all we had if here from the New York City metro area. You know what I’m talking about anyway, Eddie, back when the first Beverly Hills Cop came out, did you feel you understood what it was about you that met the moment so perfectly? Eddie Murphy said no, not even in retrospect. I was twenty two when I got to do cop and twenty years old when I started doing forty eight hours.

Now I look back at those times and I trip about how young I was back then. I kind of took it for granted one thing that led to another, and I wound up on a movie set. Then when stuff worked and became hit movies, I was like, Okay, that’s what it’s supposed to be. Will Eddie Murphy go back to stand up? Eddie says, I used to have little periods where I’d be like, I’m going to do it again.

The closest I got to do it again was right before the pandemic, because I had done Saturday Night Live, and I was like, let me go to do one stand up special and bring it all full circle. Then the pandemic hit, and when you’re stuck in the house for two years, I wasn’t going. When I got out of here, I want to do stand up again. Here’s a good analogy. It’s like somebody was in the military.

They were on the front line in Vietnam, and they got all these metals because they did all this amazing stuff. Then they moved up and became in general. So it’s like going to the general and saying, hey, you ever think about going back to the front line. You want to bullets whizz past your ear again. No, Eddie was Elvis the influence behind some of the on stage stuff.

You wore when doing stand up. I’ll jump in there. I think Richard Pryor was definitely an influence there. Watch Sunset strip and then watch Eddie stuff a similar outfit. Eddie said, Elvis had a huge influence on me, though other suits and raw I come out, I have a scarf.

I was rolling like Elvis too. I didn’t have the Memphis Mafia, but I had my little crew of dudes in the same way you see me dressed in Delirious and in RAW. I used to dress like that in the streets. Totally in my Elvis trip. When I got older, I was like, oh my god, Elvis wasn’t cool at all.

Elvis was going through some stuff now Michael Jackson, that whole red jacket thing and thriller thrillers after Delirious. When I own the red suit. I’m not saying he was influenced, but I had on the red jacket before, Eddie. Do you understand what you mean? The comedians like Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Chris Tucker.

Eddie said, well, I didn’t lay down a path. They took their own path. The comic used to be the sidekick, the comic was the opening act, and I changed it to where the comic can be the main attraction. That’s fair. They thought of comics one way, and I was like, no, a comic could sell out the arena and a comic could be inn one hundred million dollar movie.

All that changed with black actors was like, the black guy could be the star of the movie, and it doesn’t have to be a black exploitation movie. It could be a movie that’s accessible to everyone all around the world. The Hollirod Reporter did a comedy round table. Taylor Thomlinson was on it. The questioned, Taylor, you said that audiences weren’t as interested in hearing you tackle darker subject material like your mother dying when you were younger.

I did you gauge that and when did a shift? Taylor said, I just started really young, So watching a nineteen year old do stand up at all is uncomfortable. People are already scared for you and nervous about the show. So I don’t think I had the maturity as a performer to pull those jokes off. It took a few years of performing anywhere and everywhere you could.

How do you know when something’s not working Taylor Tumlinson. She says, people aren’t laughing and it’s devastating. It’s what you would call a bad show for other people. It’s when people are laughing too much and you’re like, none of this is new. No, It’s when people are sad and uncomfortable and looking at you like are you almost done?

What’s so great about stand up is that you know pretty quickly if something does or doesn’t work. Jackie Novak was on the round table and she feels that the question one of their subjects that the rest of you have felt audiences wouldn’t go with you, and Jackie said yeah, but for Biglia said something to me like, there’s your agenda, and there’s the audience’s agenda or the booker’s agenda. Work your agenda for me. That meant I’m gonna put my show up in New York, but I need to work it out first, and so I’m doing it at the jukebox in Peoria, so I know it’s gonna land. Well.

I mean, some people might find it interesting, but I’m planning my feet and saying the words, and maybe I’m burning my chance in the room where I did it. The punchline in Philly and my boyfriend we talk about it now and he’s like, yeah, the way you want up in Philly just bombed was great. You had to do the thing you did. And I was like, I bombed. I was always like, what do you mean?

I stood up there doing my art. It was almost delusion, required delusion. But this phrase my agenda, really helped me almost not listen to the crowd, and it was huge for me. My agenda doesn’t matter tonight. Everyone in this room might hate me, this club will never hire me again.

And I had a lot of bad nights before the run at the Cherry Lane Theater, nights where I just had to stand there and say my words and get them in my head. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla put together a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty four so far next weekend, Like on the thirteenth, I talked to to the executives at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. So that’ll be the Saturday Interview in about ten days. This Saturday, Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with ties to the comedy scene, is the Saturday Summer Interview. Anyway, The Gorilla has the ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty four.

And I like this list because it doesn’t match mine at all, and it reminded me of a bunch of specials I need to catch up on and this will be a good weekend for that, right and plus itagely fourth, I have to watch Jaws tonight on Thest Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen Don l Rawlings a New Day. I can’t remember if I clicked on that one or not. Dusty Slate Working Man, I love that one. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not a queen’s accent.

The title is called working with No g Man Keith Robinson’s Different Strokes on Netflix. Haven’t gotten to that one yet. I was shotgunning the Bear. I wanted to watch the entire Bear before I got spoiled. I have completed it now I won’t spoil it for you.

And I’m also trying to keep up on the boys, and I can only watch about ninety minutes of TV in one sitting and then I fall asleep. Rommy Us have some more Feelings. I didn’t like the direction on that one, even though I really like Rommy. Alex Edelman’s Just for Us I keep forgetting to watch that one. That one is on Proper HBO.

Dan Locatta’s for the Boys. I’m hearing great stuff about that that’s on YouTube. Neil Brennan’s Crazy Good. Like Neil, I feel like perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow someone added some accidental crowd noise. I’m sure nobody meant to do it, but the mix just sounded suspicious to Johnny Mack and I punched out on it.

Sal Volcano’s terrified. Hearing good things about that one that was on YouTube, but Taylor Tomlinson’s Have It All. That’s on my list. And I know I do this frequently, but let me just skim my list really quickly for you in case you’re looking for something to watch this weekend. My list rost of Tom Brady, David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix, Triumph You Lucky Bastards YouTube, David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World YouTube, Dusty Slay, Kyle Kinane YouTube, Dirt nap As an all time fifteen minute chunk about Fast and the Furious.

Dmet You Martin on Netflix, Jimmy Carr Netflix, Kat Williams, Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agendas on Netflix. Brian Simpson tig Nataro Taylor, Tomlinson, Rachel Feinstein also unfrosted the Jerry Seinfeld movie and John Marcos Siresi’s recent fifteen minutes that he dropped on YouTube. But last week or this week all highly recommended. And this is reminding me too. Vulture had a list.

There’s a couple of things I want to catch up on this weekend. So let me just remind myself. Oh, I need to add Nathan McIntosh down with Tech to my list. That’s on YouTube as well. I’ll do that now.

One of the ones I want to check out that Vulture recommends Christina Catherine Martinez is how to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age. That’s on YouTube. I just want to check out. And Natasha Vain Blonde World Dads here on YouTube. And let’s keep the podcast tight today so we can all hit the beach or do whatever it is you do on July fourth.

That’s your comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a normal episode. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media by me Ho, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John MARCOSRESSI tweeted, based on my experience of seeing stand up comedians who are big on TikTok perform live, I would never trust a doctor with a large social media following. Jimmy Carr has joined YouTube’s exclusive one million subscribers club. He has a new content strand on the channel. It is called heckle Amnesties.

It features fresh, social first videos where Jimmy Carr’s trademark reciprocal talents are showcased as he interacts with audience members whilst on his current tour A suit says, a household name in the UK and one of the biggest selling comedians in the world, Jimmy consistently performs to capacity crowds at his shows, where his interactions with Heckler’s have become legendary. Filming on the road during his current sellout live tour, Jimmy Carr laughs funny. The short videos show a fresh new take on Car’s responses to audience members, with the comedian inviting them to give him his best shot with their ultimate heckles. Hannah Berner has a new dating show on TikTok. I am not the target audience here.

My daughter, on the other hand, very excited about anything. Hannah Burner. She has teamed up with Caribou Coffee. They’re celebrating their new iced drink menu. Hey, maybe we can meet here.

A daughter likes Hannah, I like iced coffee. I’m in anyway. They’re celebrating their new iced drink menu created with its gin Z guess in mind. Caribou has announced the comedian and reality TV star Hannah Burner will serve as the host of the six episode series dream Date, a sip at Love. One episode already out, Hannah said, I don’t know what I love more a good energy drink.

We’re forcing two strangers to answer personal questions. So when Cariboo approached me with their idea for dream Date and the promise of unlimited blue Raspberry energy drinks, I knew it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. We had so much fun with this matchmaking experiment, and I can’t wait for everyone to tune in and get inspired to search for their own sipsation chip at Cariboo this summer. I’m curious this is working on me. You know me.

I like to click on a menu and babbld you guys for cup minutes. Cariboo Coffee Google, see where the locations are. I don’t think there’s one anyone near me. Maybe I’m wrong. Let me look.

Nope, not even showing up on the map. Rats menu at ten dollars. Cariboo Combo. I’ll look what is this? Cariboo Combos are only available for registered users.

Please sign in with an existing account. Guys, I’m just trying to do a bit on a holiday weekend comedy podcast. What do you think of doing here? Trending include the strawberry fruit Shaker, the peach fruit Shaker, the Very punch fruit Shaker, the blue Raspberry energy drink, Peach mango, strawberry pineapple, pomegranate, blue raspberry, peach, mango, lemonade, strawberry pineapple. Ooh, a glazed donut.

I won’t read you the entire menu, believe me, I’m skimming it. We have some coffees. Here’s an oat milk crafted press with oat milk cold foam. This place looks cool, but it’s nowhere near me. See if there’s one in Chicago.

Maybe I’ll send Becky on a coffee run. Nope, nothing near Chicago. All right, los Angeles? Where does this chain actually exist? Guy?

Nothing near Los Angeles either. Okay, they’re apparently in Minneapolis. If you’re in Minneapolis, hend on over to Fifth in Washington. They’re open until six. Where was I?

Comedy? Podcast? Each episode will feature two contestants at a speed date style setting, with Hannah Burner at the helm to help determine if it’s a dreamy match or a real pass. Aaron is a suit. She’s the chief marketing officer and said, we really wanted to shake it up this summer, and after lots of conversations with our gen Z guests, we concluded that they love four things.

All right, here’s the list of the four things gen Z’s love. You ready write this down? One energy drinks, two fruit shakers, three afternoon treats, and four dating shows. What better way to connect with this important audience through a TikTok dating show than with the beloved Hannah Burner. Beverly Hills Cop four is on Netflix today.

For US oldies, I covered you gen Z. This is for jen X. You know Eddie Murphy doing Beverly Hills Cop Remember that from the eighties. It’s back. That’s on Netflix today.

That might be a good one to watch tonight next week. Jimmy Kimmel, He’s got the summer off. Catherine Hahn will host a Monday through Wednesday. Camel Nanjiani, We’ll host on Thursday. Chad Daniels has announced his new Netflix special that will be out July sixteenth.

It’s his tenth comedy special. Chad Daniels explains he’s an empty nester as his kids are now twenty and twenty four. Listen to this humble brag of flex with twenty two plus tracks that have reached over a million listeners on Pandora. Daniels is one of the most listened to comedians of all time. Yes, but again, this is one of the most listened to podcasts of all time.

It just depends how far down the list you want to get. I’d listen to this Flex. One of only thirteen comics to be featured on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Chad Dude God it had The Tonight Show for six minutes. Chad has lived in Minnesota’s Whole Life while also touring the country for over twenty years. He did share a trailer and boy, there’s some naughty jokes there I just can’t share in this podcast.

One about what happens when your girlfriend comes over and the kids. Aren’t you know what I’m saying? Yes, The Airmail News talk to Nikki Glaser and asked, Nikki, when do you start getting ready for bed? Nikki said, I’m on the road in hotels. I’m getting ready for bed as soon as I walk into my room at the end of the night, between eleven pm and one am.

It’s easier when I don’t have a stand up because I just don’t really know what to do with my time at night. All right, Nikki, take us through your nighttime skincare routine. John, is it a holiday weekend? Are you filling? Are you stretching?

No? No, no? What do you ask? And Nikki said, it’s rather short, and I wish it were longer because I feel like John, you already read a coffee menu and now you’re telling us Nikki Glaser’s skincare routine. Are you sure it’s not a holiday weeken?

Are you sure you’re not stretching out? Now? This is the news. I don’t know what you guys are talking about take us through your nighttime skincare routine. Nicki said it’s rather short, and I wish it were longer because I feel like I’m failing as a woman when my skincare routine is as short as most men’s.

I tucked my hair in the back of my shirt. Usually can’t find a clip because I’m really disorganized, and I washed my face with her as clear water as hydrating cleanser. Then I use the ordinaries one hundred percent plant drived squalene. That’s litterally all I use. Well Nikki Deanna any extra steps After a show, Nicky says, I usually take out my hair extensions way before I get to bed.

They’ll come out in public. I don’t care if people seeing me take them out. I almost want people to see me take them out because I want people to understand that having thick hair is an illusion for most women on TV, and that you shouldn’t compare yourself to us. I take off my eyelashes and put those next to the sink so that my boyfriend gets scared and thinks their house centipedes. Andrews santino Is announced a tour twenty four dates starting on September fourteenth in California at the Table Mountain Casino Resort.

Other stops include Indianapolis, Charlotte, Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, New York, San Diego, and Boston. Don Al Rawlings spoke to WTOP. I didn’t know this. Rawlings joined the US Air Force at one point was stationed at Bawling Air Force Base in DC. Donnelle said, I had just gotten out of my four year enlistment and I started stand up in a place called Comedy Connection in green Belt, Maryland.

They gave so many opportunities for a lot of local comics to get stage time when you couldn’t get it. I was a military police officer wanting to be a DC police officer. In the interim of that, I went to a comedy club with some co workers. I fell in love with that. I was a heckler turned professional stand up.

Along the way, he met someone named Dave Chappelle, famous comedian. We met New York, but we knew of each other being DC comics. He moved to New York a lot sooner than I did. We really connected once I moved to New York and became part of a Chappelle’s Show. To be honest, me and Dave became closer after the show than we were actually doing the show.

I looked at it more like we were co workers. All I wanted was for him to say action. Let the camera speak for itself. If you would like this program ad free, there’s a link in the show notes. I recommend you choose the option that says Calibergod dot Com slash plus five bucks a month.

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That’s who you want good job, Deacon Mike. Thanks for supporting the show. Normal episodes Thursday and Friday. Saturday, I’ll have an interview with Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with some ties to comedy. Sunday will be a normal episode as well.

Back in the morning for July fourth, See then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack if your Daily Comedy News. I’m thinking ahead to the weekend and the interview I have with Alex Bennett. Alex is a friend of mine, longtime a radio personality, and he’s up there in years, and we got into a friendly disagreement about old jokes, and as you’ll hear Alex say, he doesn’t appreciate them.

And then when we got into this, this was pre debate that we recorded.

This is I was saying, I like a nice, harmless Joe Biden is so old joke. I just had the late bot running some and like, to me, these are harmless jokes. I like stuff like this. Joe Biden so old his birth certificate is written in Roman numerals. Joe Biden is so old his Social Security number is one.

See that’s funny. Joe Biden is so old he remembers when rainbows were in black and white. Like. So those jokes aren’t really about Joe Biden. They’re just silly jokes using age as a premise.

But Alex really had a problem with it. You’ll hear about that in Saturday’s show. And it’s just top of mind on this side of the debate here on July second. We’re seeing the news slow down already. Don’t worry.

I’ve squirrelled some stuff away. But as you’ll hear today, it’s just a bunch of oh yeah, we announced a couple things right before the holidays, So let’s dive in. Bowen Yang, he’ll have an Olympics podcast. I suspect this will do really well. I personally have bow and fatigue right now.

I really enjoy him on SNL, but I don’t know. It’s starting to be a little much Bowen, But I have no doubt this podcast will do really well. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas say this show will offer a different take on the Olympics, with each episode featuring a dose of the host before diving into the games. Bowen says, we’re going to get around to the Olympics. It’s called two Guys, five Rings, so you’re going to have to get through us before you get to the Olympics part.

It will be fifteen episodes. Yang and Rogers break down the top storylines, discuss the athletes to watch and the results, Obsessed over Paris culture, and find out what really goes on in the op village. They have put out one episode that you do that to seed your feed and you can climb the charts a little bit, but the main thing will run July twenty sixth through August eleventh.

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Meanwhile, Colin Jost will serve as an NBC Sports reporter for the Olympics s…

He won’t be in Paris, though surfing is being held in Tahiti. NBC calls Colin Jost an avid surfer. Jost will report live from Tahiti. Olympic Surfing kicks off Saturday, July twenty seventh at twelve fifteen am Eastern. Jost will be on site to interview athletes and report on the conditions.

Pro surfers Joe Turple and Mike Parsons will handle the play by play and analysis. Joe said, I’m honored to get to watch the best surface in the world compete on one of the heaviest waves imaginable and help showcase the rich history of surfing in Tahiti, and my Writer’s Guild Health Insurance is excited to see what the coral reef does to my back. Now, if you’re wondering why Tahiti apparently the Sian River is not the best for surfing there in downtown Paris. But you’ve heard the phrase French Polynesia. It all makes sense.

Yeah, so it’s France, but you know France over there, I guess Joe said, as you could tell from this in no way doctored photo. I can’t wait to get to t he to cover the twenty twenty four Olympics surfing competition and maybe even seriously get injured trying to surf. Jimmy Fallon will co host the closing ceremony. Love this spin after NBC Sports Mike Turico invited him while guesting on the Tonight Show. As if Tarico ad lib this, as if Mike just went on the Tonight Show and was like, you know what, I’m just gonna ask Jimmy Fallon to do this.

What if he says no on live to tape television, Mike Turico, I’m not buying your story. Is Jimmy Fallon gonna be like no, no, no, Mike Urico, I don’t want to do that. Are the bosses at both NBC and the Olympics going, wait, they asked Jimmy Fallon, Oh shoot, don’t try and hogwash this guys How Fake Stop with Your Spin. Keenan Thompson will also co host a highlight show with Kevin Hart on Peacock. Kevin Hart Never Afraid to take a gig Leslie Jones will also be doing some work for NBC slash Peacock.

While would you like some Boneless Wings? One of my favorite comedians, Jimmy O Yang, is working with Popeyes. Jimmy O Yang, apparently known for his skepticism about boneless wings, has teamed up with Popeye, promoting six mouthwatering varieties like Classic Honeylemon Pepper, and Signature Hot Well what are the other three? Now? I have to go to popeyes dot com.

You got your click, but come on, I mean it’s only six. Tell me what they are? All right? It took a lot of clicks. According to popeyes dot com slash menu slash section E four, there are five sauces, not the six mentioned in the press release.

The five on the actual Popeye’s website are Sweet and Spicy Sauce, Honey Barbecue Wing sauce, Roasted Garlic Parmesan wing sauce, Signature Hot Wing Sauce, and Honey Lemon Pepper Sauce. Well what’s the six sauce? Hmm. Mel Brooks still out at about and you can join him at the Peacock Theater Saturday, July twenty seventh for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Blazing Saddles, we got a trailer for the best Christmin Pageant ever and inspirational comedy starring Judy Greer and Pete Holmes. The Best Christmins Pageant Ever centers on the Herdman kids, who are the absolute worst.

They lie, they steal a bully, and they’ve hijacked the town Christmas pageant. As the rowdy and Rocus siblings force themselves into all of the lead roles, they drive the pageant’s director, Grace played by Judy Greer, and other members of her family, including husband Bob Pete Holmes up the wall. How Adam Sandler’s not in this? I don’t know. I know what an Adam Sandler plot sounds like, and this is one.

But through their misfit mischief I like that writing there, these unlikely messengers might turn out to be the ones to deliver the town sensational and moving portrayal of the true meaning of Christmas. Ronin Hirshberg has yet another special out today, Comedy Dynamics releasing it Could Have Been Better. It’ll be out on album form on July fifth. It Could Have Been Better is Hirshberg’s fourth special overall, his second in the last two months. He released one on June twentieth that I watched over the weekend and told you it’s okay.

I don’t hate it. I don’t love it. It just is. That one’s called Brave. You’ll find that on YouTube.

Comedy Dynamics also announced the acquisition of Tony Rock Rock the World, the debut special from a comedian, Tony Rock. You may have heard of Tony’s brother, Chris, also a comedian. Among Tony Rock’s credits, he has been seen on the series Everybody Hates Chris. Jason Zenneman from The New York Times. We all like him right now, we all know who he is.

He cut up with Keith Robinson and wrote with the changes to his movement and speech, Robinson’s stand up has new gravity and pace. After considerable speech therapy, Robinson can tell jokes but must work harder to be understood. Keith says everything has to be more precise. Now everything counts I can’t depend on movement. After his second stroke, which was far more debilitating than the first, Robinson briefly thought he’d have to quit performing and become a writer.

Chris Rock hired him to help with Rock’s recent special, but Robinson missed being on stage, hang out with comics, and most of all, busting chops. Drew Carrey wants to keep posting the prices right. He says, I do have a goal. I want to keep going until I die. This is my eighteenth season.

I’ve got to get to the thirty five and forty one year mark so I can catch Bob Barker and Pat Sayjack. Drew says, once I hit ten years here, I was like, wow, that’s the longest I’ve ever had a job in my life. It’s just such a great part of my day, my year, my life. I can’t imagine giving it up. I don’t like CBS to know that.

But it’s going to be a few years till my next contract negotiations, so maybe forget I said this. I can quit any time I want. Amber Ruffin came out on social media. She wrote, and what will come as a shock to exactly zero people, I’m using the last day of pride to come out be proud of who you are. Little babies.

I know I am, and I can’t wait to be discriminated against for a new reason. And that is your comedy news for today. See if you can figure out what the sixth the sauce is and let me know. See you tomorrow