Month: September 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack who with your Daily Comedy News. Seth Meyers joked about last week’s Foxtown Hall, during which Donald Trump criticized George Stephanopolis said his interview with President Biden was the softest interview I’ve ever seen. Seth said, you’re gonna say that while you’re being interviewed by Sean Hannity. I asked tougher questions when John Oliver’s here.

Trump told Hannity that he couldn’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Joe Biden. Set said, Yeah, I can’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Biden. You know why, because he’s not on the ballot anymore. I made an executive decision yesterday. I did Part one of Vulture’s Comedians to watch the List.

I’m gonna do Part two next Sunday, so we’ll do a normal episode today. A lot of news as September continues to be busy. The New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation announced the lineup for their annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit. This year, It’s on November eleventh. Your lineup it’s you know, both a really good lineup and somehow feels like a step down from past years.

But here’s the lineup, Jim gaff Again, Nora Jones, Mark Norman, did quest Love, Batty Scalfas, Jerry seinfeldt Bruce Springsteen, John Stewart and Moore. So if I just take the headliners there, it’s you know, Springsteen, John Stewart, gaff Again and Seinfeld with Mark Norman batting fifth. So Johnny Mack, I don’t know what the heck you want these people to put out there. But I don’t know. It just seems like there were more people on the list in previous years.

I might be making that up, but Gaffigan, nor Jones, Mark Norman pretty good list. Will keep an eye on that one. The Daily Mail reports a scary scene transpired during Chris to Leah’s a stand up show. A man sitting in the front row seemingly suffered a seizure. As the report goes, instead of stopping the show, Chris continued with the show by reacting to the situation.

Chris did a thirteen minute bit where he ranted about what he had just witnessed, and a question and an answer session about the man’s condition. So apparently, the man’s head slowly began to fall as the seizure started. He fell forward and then backward in his chair. Someone next to him caught him. Delia stopped the show to ask if he was open.

After a few moments, when it appeared the man was all right, crystal Leia asked, you’re right, bro, Yeah, round of applause for a guy who almost died. You are right, y’all? Good? Is that something that happens? The man confirmed he was okay.

Deliah then realized that the man was not okay and began to seize again. Chris said, no, no, he’s not okay. We should call in an ambulance somebody. A couple guys then carry the man away from the seating area to give him metal attention. Crystallia says a round of applause, let’s do the show, let’s walk with him, and then transitions back to comedy and jokes.

WHOA, that’s crazy. I guess that Pride month bit really hit him hard. That’s when I fan yelled out too soon. Chris said, too soon? It happened now during the comedy show.

What do you mean too soon? What am I supposed to do a monologue from a Tennessee Williams play. It’s a comedy club. This stuff happened in the front row. Didn’t happen back there.

You guys are like, be cool, dude, Well f you, dude. You know how hard this stuff is right now? The guy almost died when he Cummings spoke to the Dallas Observer. She has often talked about the bedroom in her comedy, and now so that she’s a mom, she says there’s a whole new world of topics she wants to share with her audiences, and if that means there’s less sex chat in the mix, that’s fine with her. Whitney says, I’ve spent so much time talking about dating and sex, which was surprising at the time, but now that’s all you see on the internet.

The most shocking thing you could be is a little wholesome and talk about things that are more simple observations. My goals for people to sit in theater of two hundred people and we all laugh at the same things. Comedy is supposed to be a unifying thing. I took a while to have a kid, and I’m glad it took a while. They called it geriatric pregnancy, which is insane.

But I think having a kid older is better. I think my brain just started functioning properly. Like if I had a baby one year sooner, I’d probably have sold it for tickets to Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s name comes up a lot in this podcast. The way it changes to you is pretty magical, and I think about how it changed me and how it’s changed the way I see the world.

The thing is, as a comedian, you’re always looking for a way to turn something on its head, to show people something that they see every day and take for granted. It took a long time to make sure I was breaking these ancestral cycles. If my child is born a comedian, I failed. When you have a kid, all the stuff comes back, like putting him in the high chair. My eyechair was basically scaffolding.

I drank out of the hose until I was fourteen. There are pictures of me and Drawers as a baby. We’re all doing a little better than we think, and it’s part of a comics job to make people leave with a little perspective and context. I get that phones are bad for kids, but we played on seesaws that it’s a miracle that any of us survived. I was trying to strap my baby in the back of the car and I had a flashback of being the back of a pickup truck when a lawn chair.

Jim Jeffries gets the cover of Rolling Stone. But it’s the cover of Rolling Stone Australia and New Zealand. Doesn’t mean it’s lesser. I’m just telling you you might not be able to buy it in Los Angeles. Who knows, maybe you can.

Maybe does international newstand with New Zealand Rolling Stone. I don’t know why did I fall into this hole? Move on? Jim Jeffrey said, my mother was a hard person to grow up with. She was a very hard woman.

She was physically and verbally very abusive. So sometimes I mentioned I’ve had a chip on my shoulder about women. Jim says, I’m very interested in doing as many different things as entertainment as possible. I like a challenge, I like doing something new. I don’t know if they’re there’s a stand up comic from Australia who’s had a more diverse career, you know what I mean.

I think of myself like an entertainer more than a comedian Jay Farrow has announced a new special. This one will be on YouTube on September twenty second. He also released a trailer. I pulled the audio from the trailer, but it’s just it’s too quickly edited and a lot of bleeps where the swear words go. It just wasn’t gonna make sense for the podcast.

In his new hour, and I haven’t seen a title for it yet, Jay Farrow rips the lid off pop culture, talks about a suburban upbringing and a run in with the law. Taped at the Den Theater in Chicago. My former coworker Jamie Fox is getting ready to hit the comedy stage. He’ll be in Atlanta October third through Sunday October fifth. It is called One More Chance, An Evening with Jamie Fox.

In an Instagram post, Fox posted an image of a black box featuring the words what had happened was? Then the log line Join us for an unforgettable one man show as Jamie Fox takes the stage to share his journey through a serious health scare filled with humor, heart and inspiration. Experienced Jamie Fox like never before. This intimate and gaging performance as he opens up about his struggles, triumphs and everything in between. Get ready for a night of laughter, reflection, and genuine connection.

I’m curious to see what he says here. You know, I spent some time inside that camp, and I personally found it very surprising that nobody was able to just get a picture of I don’t know, Jamie sitting poolside looking cool, giving a thumbs up. It was very interesting to me that there was like nothing for a while. I hope he’s doing okay, he’s a good guy, and I’ve done that this next story already, but I took a second look at it, and I have some comments. I told you Jermaine Feller will join Tracy Morgan on the comedy series Crutch.

Now let’s break this down again. I didn’t pay enough attention the first time. That’s on me. Okay. Tracy Morgan plays Crutch, a brash yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world has turned upside down when his highbrows son and free spirited daughter moved back into the family home.

Okay, so we’ve got an old curmudgeonty guy whose hippie daughter moves home with her ivy league husband. Isn’t that just all the family from late night or this one caught me by surprise. Sarah Sherman did two days on General Hospital. What Sure? She played Miss Robin Finch.

Apparently her character criticized Olivia for the way she pronounces croissant. Finch introduces herself as a dialect theorist and tutor to the stars, claiming she once coached Meryl Streep’s daughters. This once, Lois says she never hired a tutor, Tracy confesses that no, I did hire miss Finch. Tracy explains, Lois is my employee. Our sales are directly linked to her presentation.

I believe that her numbers will improve if Lois’s rough edges are smoothed out. Sarah Sherman said, I was so nervous about flubbing my lines because I was surrounded by pros and memorized like a billion pages of dialogue a day. Very strange. Dennis Leary, He’s got a sitcom Going Dutch. I’ve told you about this one.

There’s no way this is good. Going Dutch follows an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel played by Dennis Leary, who, after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished the command position at the least important army base in the world the log line. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, he now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it as a Michelin star level commissary, top notch bowling alley, and the best and only from Majeray in the US Army. Surrounded by a diverse group of underdogs, the colonel tries to reinstall military discipline and professionalism with the help of the basis previous interim leader who just happens to be as a strange daughter.

So why am I bringing this back up? Deadline reports. Danny Putty will play the role of XO Major Abraham Shaw, the colonel’s executive officer and right hand man. So I’m just trying to picture this show, right. So it’s sixty seven year old Dennis Leary playing an army colonel.

He’s sixty seven. I imagine it’s Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things. So he’s going to do some slow burn about a back of my day. We had guns man and then Danny Putty is going to say something wacky millennial, and then the laugh track’s gonna play. There’s no way that’s going to be good.

And I like Danny a lot. There’s just no way that this show’s good. South Park will return in twenty twenty five. Trey Parker and Matt Stone has said they don’t want to deal with the election. They told Vanity Fair, we tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections and it’s such a hard thing to do.

It’s a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance. Trey said, obviously it’s important, but it kind of takes over everything. We just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump. They said.

Not returning until next year’s on purpose. They also want to wait for Paramount to figure all their crap out. The last regular episode of south Park season twenty six aired March twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Since then, we’ve had the amazing south Park joining the Pandaverse special that came out October of twenty twenty three. Then we got a second special in December of that year.

South Park not suitable for children, which parodied oldly fans and the most reason one May of this year, South Park the End of Obesity, made fun of Ozampic and I’ll leave you on this poignant note from Billy Connolly, who said I used to think about death and about the life I led, and would ask myself, how will I be held responsible for it when I come to judgment? For God, I don’t believe that anymore, although the whole thing’s still a mystery to me. Billy is eighty one. He says he no longer fears the prospect of death, and he’s found peace with his Parkinson’s diagnosis. He told the Scottish son, with something as big as that, you just confront it and stick to the front of it, be with it, and make decisions based on it.

And I don’t think you’d been badly treated. And I don’t think he got the bad pick of the straws. It’s not like that. You’re one of millions. Just behave yourself, relax.

You realize that death isn’t the big thing everybody’s made it out to be. It’s nothing. It’s a sudden nothing. Wait to leave us on an up note, Johnny Mack, you’re welcome, and that’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Kalaroga, Shark Media, Helloon, Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy New is. One of the most interesting lists that comes out every year is from Vulture. It is the Comedians You Should and Will Know List. This year it is twenty twenty four’s Comedians You Should and Will Know List two dozen of tomorrow’s stand up sketching online comedy superstars, according to industry insiders. Not just to add a curiosity, let’s look at a twenty twenty three’s list to see how good they do.

All Right, So from twenty twenty three Fumi Abe that was a good call. He had a good year. Brian Baje had a good year. Ralph Barbosa for sure. Charlie Bartley and Natalie Roger Lateman still not sure who they are all right?

Three and one Sophie Bottle sure four and one Curtis Cook, Katrina Davis, Stavros Hakki has had a monster year. Rob Hayes. This is the twenty three list. Jordan Jensen, Andrea Jin, Rachel Kayley, Eddie Modica, Opie A La Baju, Nimesh Patel had a pretty good year. Richard Perez, Jordan Temple, Asha Ward, August White, Maggie Winters, Sabrina Wu cut through Zach Zimmerman, cut through Sophie Zucker, kind of cut through Zach Zucker.

So all right, from last year, I don’t know seven or eight. That’ll ballpark how we’re going to do here? Wulta writes, the comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in twenty twenty four. Name brand comedy venues are opening new locations. Local venues are being brought out by mega corporations and streaming service.

Home comedy festivals are usurping the old fashioned ones. With so much going on, the mattmosphere is sure to be rife with hacks and phonies, but it’s also full of undiscovered treasures. So the hell with the algorithm, Let’s do Vultures eleventh annual round up of Comedians you should and Will know, After polling more than one hundred industry insiders, including TV execs from streaming and linear TV, bookers for clubs, artistic directors from comedy theaters, indie comedy producers, podcast network heads, top brass anime studios, terrestrial radio chiefs, comedy record label execs, comedy festival programmers, comedy historians, live show photographers and performers featured on last year’s list, They were left with a pool of more than two hundred comedians. From there, Vulture had to grapple with some questions. Which names came up over and over again, Who stood out from the crowd work, who’s on the rise to stardom, and who will be the masterminds of our future favorite TV shows and stand up specials.

In alphabetical order by surname. Sabrina Briar, Ulture tells us Sabrina Briar’s face can turn the most unremarkable life experience into a meum in case in point, the way your eyes bug out and she juts her body forward like a blondea delaphosaurus when she says her Memorial Day weekend was amazing except for her raging uti. It’s not just the relatability of her behavioral observations that helps this persona connect with her massive online audience. It’s the palpable way she revels in the squirmy, grotesque rie. There were entire cringe compilations of her uttering the single syllable, Oh number two, Sam Campbell, Sam’s been buzzing, You’ve heard mention Sam.

Over the years, here, especially when we talk about the International Festival’s Vulture Rites and Sam Campbell’s twenty twenty two solo show, Comedy Show, winner of the prestigious Best Comedy Show awarded Fringe, The comedian introduced his brand of comic absurdism to the audience with the tongue in cheek one liner, my mind is a prison full of crazy ideas, and I think there’s going to be a jail break. As Campbell has matured as a performer, he’s grown more depth to translating a style from mainstream audiences. Campbell’s eccentricities are palpable but never alienating. In one twenty one sketch, he plays a boyfriend meeting his girlfriend’s discriminatory parents for the first time, but their instant dislike of him isn’t rooted in religious or racial prejudice. They simply can’t get past the fact that he’s thirty percent transparent.

Third up Nico Carney. Once Nico gets to the part of his set where he reveals that he was a Division one athlete in college, everything clicks in a place only years of early morning drills and after school practice leads to stand up. That’s this consistent smooth and fine tune to kill. Carney starts a set with an introduction to his trans identity. People are very curious about trans people.

People ask me sometimes, how did you know? When did you know? It happened to me? The same way it happens to all of us. Caitln Jinner bit me, that’s a great joke.

Number four Aaron Chen. Some comedians tride on stage with a sense of grandiosity and expansiveness. Chen stands, blinks calmly, and waits for the audience to recalibrate to his measured pace. Chen says he took an uber to the show and the driver asked if Chen minded if he talked to a friend. Chen says, of course, and thank you for considering me a friend.

I want it way up to four. Georgia severus. George says, I can’t believe I fell for orange wine for three years. It’s because I have too much faith in food professionals, because of my own progressive politics. Saveria says a gay, glasses wearing, cynical Greek man who in the stand up world is wildly over educated.

Stanford Mt Alum while, as he put it to podcast co hosts Sam Taggart. I’m default either bitchy, condescending, or rude. He imagines what it would be like to have a beautiful daughter who hates him. He describes attending progressive straight weddings. There’s a ChEls with blue hair, the bride is being walked down the aisle by a random lesbian, and the bride’s dress is ripped to represent our broken justice system.

That sounds really funny. Francesca Duva has the pop acumen of a Swedish hit maker and the comedic sensibility of an entire thirty rock writer’s room. She could probably have a lucrative career writing five songs for an episode of Netflix reality shows. Instead, she creates the best musical comedy in Brooklyn, which is saying something in a burrow that has more musical comedians per capita than doctors. A Mary poppins on Popper’s song about nanny, ing the lyrics I am your nanny and I will be till I die.

I’ll never leave you even after I die, I’ll be your ghost nanny finds her voicing a little Cockney boy with a budding foot fetish, a song about wanting to play Joseph and the Catholic School kindergarten nativity play functions as an exploration of the way she struggled with being othered as a kid, But it also ends with another kid getting crushed by a cross and a pitch perfect Shakira impression. What do we have to number six here? Brandy Denise brandy signature standup bit centers on her previous career as a social worker when she says she’d often get hit on by her clients. You gotta have a lot of confidence to hit on your social worker. After the interview, you just told me you live in an underpass.

You haven’t had a job. You can’t feed you. I know you can’t feed me. Malik Ali sal how many comedians can say their journey ins to the performing arts began with their high school teacher attempting to pilot a theater program just to nurture their talents. Malik delivered book reports at his Islamic private school in Calgary with so much theatrical verb that one kind teacher was inspired to take up his cause.

It wasn’t long before the program was shut down by another teacher out of an abundance of religious precaution. He impersonates one such teacher with a flare for character work. It says, when you see the power of a laha on the day of judgment, brother, he will not be laughing. Continuing with Vulture’s Best New Comedians at twenty twenty four, are up to Roz Hernandez. Roz is loud, indignant, and ready to entrap both spirits and audience members, and her stand up, she leads audience members down a cliff by coaxing them into saying the other name for a water spritzer, which is mister, then getting offended that they misgendered her.

Part of the fun of Hernandez’s act is how her joyfully exuberanto style so directly contrasts her connection with the macabre. The classic hernanage image is of her in a zebra print coat with a blue feather collar, recapping how a ghost ruined her hookup by turning a lights on what her makeup wasn’t done. Those shady ass ghost said, sir, I want you to see what you’ve signed up for. That sounds fun and different. Ros Hernandez.

There, all right, Skyler Higley, I think we’re up to number eight here, if I’m counting correctly, and I’m probably not. Higgiley grew up in Utah as a black child of white Mormon parents. This is, as Higgley puts it on stage, half of What’s wrong with Him. He has a joke about being high on acid while writing Public Transportation and realizing a guy near him has his whole ass hanging out. I don’t want to look at ass.

I want to look at a beautiful sunset. I want to see a rainbow. But because I was tripping, I realize I’m not looking at ass. I’m looking at billions and billions of cells made up of billions and billions of atoms. That ass is amazing.

Thats good. Chloe Hilliard reached six foot one by the age of twelve. Her sense of humor stamps from being the awkward big girl at plenty of time to observe others. First day of high school, I walked into this sh the teacher’s here. That’s great.

Another bit LA’s origin story is the gold Rush. They were like, I’m going to be the one to find a nugget of gold and change my family’s life forever. That’s why today everyone in law say Liss is delusional. Hilliard wrote for a Black Lady’s Sketch Show, and wrote F Your Diet, which was awarded Best Comedy Book in twenty twenty A Leslie laugh when we have to number ten here or so I’m trying to do twelve. I realize I can’t do twenty four today.

In her twenty twenty three Netflix verified stand upset, Leslie said, I’m thirty six years old. I have a bedtime decisions to make. I don’t have a night. You need to give me information that matters to me. All I need to see is your manhood, clean that up and your paycheck.

When I was younger, I used to be sad about being single. Now I’m angry. I feel like when I find him, I’m gonna be like a mom whose kid got lost at the grocery store. Like where you’ve been get in the car. That was so embarrassing.

Everybody was staring at me. Mandw all caps M, A and DL, the Atlantic comedian possesses a rare Norm MacDonald like quality, where in his natural cadence, parlance, and body language make the journeys to his punchlines as rewarding as the punch lines themselves. All kinetic energy and the little giggles. He leans on animated stories and sprawling bits that build momentum as they unravel. Mendal’s work caught the attention of John Mulaney, who had him open for Everybody’s in La That’s Interesting.

He also opened for Melanie and the Netflix’s Joke Show at the Hollywood Bowl. And if I counted right, this is number twelve Gavin Mattz, who says, I’m not masculine. I’m just regular toxic. My toxicity has no masculinity. It’s hard to articulate.

He had a joke about police brutality that he did at the Comedy Seller. It’s hard to articulate that you’re intellectually insecure when you’re as dumb as hell. That’s why I understand why police gets so violent. As soon as they step on a college campus, they’re like, ah, everybody here reads, I gotta start hating somebody. Older people will be like, there’s two genders.

How would you know that you have six remotes? You have more remotes than their genders. I don’t think so. All right, that’s twelve for today or eleven or thirteen? You tell me I didn’t count.

Maybe we’ll continue this tomorrow, right, so that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and we’ll do something tomorrow. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My guest today is the very funny, hilarious John Marco sir RAIZI. He is one of Vulture’s comedians you should know and will know. We talk for about a better part of an hour here.

During the summer, he released a little something Special which is one of my favorite things of the year, very very funny, fifteen seventeen minutes something like that. But did Biden chunk in it? Then? When Biden didn’t have such a good debate and looked like he was going to drop out, John Marco was like, oh, let me get this thing out there now. So he’ll explain to us how that came out.

He also has a recurring show in New York City called The Silver Lining, which has been sold out consistently for over two years and theater adults the show coming up at Joe’s Pub. He will explain what that is. I may have tried a little too hard here in the first couple questions. I just I try not to be like, so you’re a comedian, huh, And I try and come with a different angle. So I’m not sure he was totally feeling me the first minute or so here, but then we really clicked.

Sitting here and just making sure that I sent out the proper link of everything I’m clicking on an industry trade. This is totally random, but I figured it’s hopefully more interesting than just going So what do you think of cancel culture? A press release? A comedian media store with over eighty followers is about to launch a podcast, So is that really good publicist? Or you know?

I always set the bar low, so you got exceed expectations. So the big stress of my life today is what happens if the DMV calls me in the middle of this interview. I figured, let me just start with awkward things, So why would the DMV call me? Long story medium. I went to get my license renewed and a New Jersey was like, sorry, your license is suspended in New York.

I haven’t lived in New York in twenty something years. Twenty five dollars. Fine, I have to get a letter from New York and it’s it’s not like you click on the website and they send it to you. So supposedly the DMV’s going to call me and no offense, love you. But if they actually call me, I’m going to have to bay otherwise, I my Chad drive.

Me to work. Man. Sure listen, I hear about. That’s a good excuse, so you keep me posting. I was catching up on your podcast.

I enjoyed recently dropped a Patreon episode with some AI written Italian style comedy, some very hack comedy. I thought that was amazing. Yeah, it really because I don’t talk about food. It was all about food. So really all the AI was able to do is they said, he said he’s Jewish, they said he’s Italian, and then let the stereotypes roll and it was all this food.

I don’t talk about any food in my app. There’s at least one comedian that I can think of that could deliver that material. Now, I didn’t think the material was particularly written for your wheelhouse, but I can think of one guy, if he had the crowd rolling and did it in his delivery at his stadium shows, could have performed that material. The materially itself, in the right environment, maybe could have flown. Are we talking Sebastian on a scalco You can go sure, sure he could act it out.

He could take that. He could take a soft punch line and show him serve with the batsa ball soup or serve with a PASTRAVI he could make it work. I could see it. You’ve got the right name for it. I was thinking maybe you could do like a bobcat Gouldwaite thing and open for yourself, Like could come out and just you, really John Marco, and then you come out and do your normal act as a closer.

Maybe give yourself a different first name for the second part. Listen if I leaned in, if I leand into the Italian thing, and honestly I would, It’s just I wasn’t raised like in an Italian community. My dad’s a little Italian, so I just don’t have that many jokes about it. Believe in me. I would be that comedian if I could.

But my dad was making cup of noodles, not spaghetti and meatballs. But you grab three other guys with Italian sounding names, you start a tour, you go out. I’ve tried to think the Italian. It’s got to be like the mob bosses of comedy. Okay, I’m well ahead of you on the AI twenty minutes ago.

I’ve got ten for you. You’re ready, Here we go. Sure, some of these even for Hack or Hack. But the Gobbelgool Gang. I liked that they added the gg the Gobbegle Gang, you and three of the guys.

This one is in Hack’s Corner of hack Town. Boughta being Comedy jam though they had a jam. Sure, Pasta and punchlines pretty awful. The Canoli Chronicles, Oh, brutal spaghetti and stand up these are so bad. I like this one, Sauce and SaaS sure, the Forget About It Funnies is just awful.

The Meatball Mafia awful, Manja and Mirth and the Mozzarella Mirth Tour. Yeah, and the short stuff is too on the nose. I just put it in now. The don of comedy sounds cool, but that it looks like that exists already. But listen, chat GPT is already good enough to replicate at least eighty percent of the stand up comedy world, and it’s eventually it’ll get better enough.

Sometimes I’m quite a comedy snole. My daughter is working in a local theater and part of her job is to just research acts that they could potentially book. And she came home one day and was like, have you ever heard of this? And it was one of these. It was the Italian American Wise Guys of Comedy, and I just said to her, I go, there’s no way that’s good.

It’ll probably sell out, but there’s no way it’s good. Sure I did when I did Just for Lasts last year, it’s last year. I did the Just for the Culture Show, which used to be called the Ethnic Show. And before the Ethnic Show, they had the Italian Show, the Black Comic Show, the Jews Show, and then last Society Guru. They’re like, okay, well combine the ball.

Okay, We’ll call Just for the Culture. And I was on the lineup with Judy Gold and I was like, oh, they think she’s the Jewish one and I’m going to be the Italian the stand up in SaaS and they we really just ended up being a Jewish, very Jewish lineup between me and Judy. My name can be misleading. Do those nights still exist? I’m rusty, but LA used to have Asian Invasion and Chocolate Sundays was one of them.

Those are still around, Chocolate Sundays, and I would say, crack them up. Comedy is also like the Black Show or the Urban Show at the Comedy Store. In the belly room. So those still exist. I don’t know about the Asian invasion, but listen, I think of those theme shows, even they’re not seen, but centered around identity, can bring in a lot of people who have never seen a stand up comedy show before because they go, Okay, this is geared for me.

I guess, and so I had scripted. If you look at a lot of comedy club lineups, you might as well call them the straight white guy show. So what’s fine? Maybe we need to create some special pockets of shows. Dude’s a prep.

But I always find it fascinating anytime I google you, there seems to be a fascination with headline writers. It’s frequently Italian Jewish comedian or Jewish Italian comedian. And I look at that and I’m like, you know, are we booking Irish Catholic Jim Gaffigan coming to town? Like, I don’t get it. Yeah, I just think people people think that that’s going to give you everything you need to know about someone’s comedic dialings.

I guess to go, oh, Jewish, he’s gonna be a neurotic again. I’ll talk about his gil pig mom and then Italian it’s like he’ll talk about food. You know, it’s hard to write about comedy in a way that has massive peel. What are you going to say, a mix of Anthony Jesslnik and John Mulaney with a theater kid background. No one’s find tickets to that show.

They’re going to say, obviostly Jesslink or John m’laney on their own. So I whatever they want to say, I think theatrical and dark are the words that I want to Then I think i’d want to get through just so just to deter someone who’s very doesn’t want anything mean. I think that would be the thing of it’s not going to be it’s not warm, that’s not going to be the evening ahead of you. That’s the only thing. But also that’s not a great title.

Eight come to see that not warm and fuzzy. John Marco SIASI. I never noticed the Mullany. You’re in the same vocal range. You’re not a mulleni clone.

But if we put a suit on you and shaved and made you play Millennie in a sketch. You could do that. I think Mullaney musically, I think the way I have to limit how much I listened to it to him because I just think the way that he made it a little nasally and it just fits comedy, and I really do. And I’m sure apparently there was a comedian who works at the Seller, the Comedy Seller, named Dan Natterman, and someone told me that when mulaney started, people called him like Dan Natterman, ripoff or something like or he was imitating Dan Baderman. So I like to believe that, like the music of comedy, which I feel like it doesn’t get talked about as much, just like the musicality of the way people deliver jokes, Milani’s is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them.

It’s just the place that I do. It’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup and you different to the center for the punchline because you change the often and it’s fun. That’s fantastic. So but I have the ear for this because I’ve worked in radio for my career in podcasting, so we always when you build a team, you want to make sure people aren’t in the same range.

So, for example, you and Malaney would not partner up on an audio only radio show, whereas you and Sebastin Maniscalco would because. You wouldn’t be like, which one is talking? Sure, that’s really cool, I’ve mad sense now that you say it, But yeah, you’ve got to there’s podcasts where I go I still don’t know which voice is which guy. It all just bleeds into one. After listening for two years.

Right, yeah, how are you enjoying podcasting yourself? I dig it. I certainly wish we had more listeners, but the clips and the videos that we get out of it are enjoyed. And ultimately, when I started making the podcast, I had all these ideas, these high concept ideas, and I had a friend who was like, come up with something that you’d want to do, even when you’re in a terrible mood, even when you don’t want to do it. And ultimately it was like a looser concept the downside complaining with a good friend as a co host, And I’m so glad that I picked something that I not only loved, but also where the podcast could be notepad for ideas.

I could talk about stories, I could talk about whatever’s going out of the news, my family, my life, and I just it richens my work. I think I get a lot of joke ideas from that podcast. So I love it, and I’m glad that I prioritized kind of something I loved over maybe something with a clearer hook. Because it’s so much work and the rewards are still minimal. It’s financially devastating, but I love doing it and I love being able to see my friends on a regular basis and just choot the shit with him.

So naively respectfully, you said it’s so much work, So what is the difference between a perception of you just show up and riff for an hour and fifteen minutes and you go home and it’s a lot of work. Sure, I think. First, we have guests for a lot of episodes, and I like to do my research. I like to if they’re a stand up, I’ll listen to their most recent special, I’ll comb through. There are tweets, some interviews just to seek what they enjoyed, talk talking about what aspect of their life are they willing to get into the weeds and talk shit.

And then there’s a lot of. Post work where it’s I built kind of the engine of my comedy career off social media and clips. So I go through a transcript of every episode. I’m picking out what’s the clip that best catch is it, what’s going to pop online? Send it to my editor, check the caption, schedule, all the posts.

So it just becomes a huge And I think when we have a really great guest, the episodes can d of be two hours two and a half hours. So the better it’s going, the more work it generates. And I think I’m going to make. Sure even though it is loose, I got to cut with my pockets filled. I had an acting teacher that always talked about coming to a role with your pockets filled.

What happened that week, what do I want to talk about, what’s a cool new segment, what’s a little prank I can play on my co host? And I think the key to having all that looseness really work is you got to have kind of some hidden structure underneath. Does it work as a sort of workout room? Are you testing material or is it the opposite that a conversation goes somewhere in spurs an idea. I think it can be a workout room.

My co host has a great laugh. Pete Holmes, he is his own last track on his podcasts. He provides it for me. That’s slit. And it’s my co host who’s a laugher, and he is not.

He’s allergic to joke jokes when I love joke jokes. So I think it’s not fully a workout room. And I’m saying what I would say on stage, but I think it’s if we get into an idea that really gets him going, and really we start risks and I go, oh, there’s something there, and then I got to do the work after the fact. So in a way, it is a workout room, but not as strict as let me run this bit. Let me try to sneak in this bit, because if my co host sniffs the manipulation around a joke, he’s out.

He’s out. I beg him. I say, please, let me tell you my jokes from performing at the Fish Festival this weekend, and he’s okay. But it doesn’t It just doesn’t work. Like those old style horrible talk show guests.

Hey tell me about podcasting. Never mind podcasting, let me tell you about the airport, the TSA. These those guys, I think. Codin O’Brien, Johnny Carson was very clearly like a Rodney Dangerfield panel interview and Johnny, I don’t know how much prep they did, but Johnny was always really good at just like stay in that one line to keep it going and never screwed up a joke of Rodney Dangerfields.

And then I think.

Conan did a much more evolved form where Norm McDonald was there to tell his moth joke and Codin had to figure out like how to be frustrated that he was taking so long without disrupting the tension of the jokes, and Cody was so good at that. And I sometimes have guests on ZARNAGARV. I think is a perfect example, guests who like, she’s got some jokes she wants to do, and she likes the old school panel style, and I can sense, I like to think I can sense when she’s going into kind of a bit of a routine and I go, okay, how can I support this in the podcast sphere where it doesn’t feel corny but she’s supported and instead of been feeling like a punchline, it feels like the most genius, spontaneous thought a person has ever had. And that can be fun if you can pull it off. Yeah, I’m a big Bob Hope fan.

A lot of people judge Hope by his last fifteen twenty years, but if you look at the entire work of his century, some really great stuff. But Johnny Carson hated Bob as a guest because Bob would basically declare, I’m coming on your show and it’s NBC, and Bob Hope’s the one person Johnny Carson can’t tell to go hose yourself. But Hope would do what we just talked about and just sit down and Johnny go Hi, good morning or good at good night, and Hope would just go in as material. And Carson hated it. In a tourbiously, where as I haven’t consumed that much Bob Hope, Like, where do you start?

What’s the thing that I would Is there an album of his best hits? I think if you can find video. So he had a very popular radio show, and then when television came along, all the radio shows became TV. So if I’m sure they’re on YouTube, his very early television shows are basically a radio show with a camera in front of it, so he’s standing up to stand up Mike and when the announcers going now from NBC the Bob Hope Show, and he’s just doing the monologue and mugging for probably the camera guy. But you can see how quick he is.

And this is probably I don’t know Bob in his forties, maybe early fifties, not the eighty five year old reading off Q cards guy. But he was just so quick. So I would say that period of around I don’t want to TV really come in, say nineteen fifty one Bob Hope just to throw a dart, and of course his movies. You got somebody who can sing with Bing Crosby and dance with Jimmy Cagney, and you got to give him some props there. But I digress.

Oh can you just Carson’s in my mind? Now? Can you imagine as a comedian if we go back it’s fifty years now, what a huge spot that was, because now you can self markets there it’s can I get on the Tonight Show and I’ve got I don’t know what was it, five minutes eight? It was probably five? Right?

You got a type usually think Johnny waves you over. That must have been insane. Yeah, I think about it a lot, because because sometimes it can be very frustrating what it feels like. Man, it feels borderline impossible to do one thing and have it like catapults your career. There are so many There’s just a million little things you can do, and maybe something crazy happens that goes viral that maybe it boosts you a little bit.

Be on the Tonight Show. Now, I did Cordon, and I think maybe one person in my whole life has said to me after a show like I loved your courting, and I think it’s this mixed thing. Yes, it is. Cool that the Carson you go on there and your whole life would change, unless not cool if the booker didn’t like your vibe or you pissed off whoever that guy was going to the comedy store and you never had a shot Carson. It definitely feels like it was just way too much power under this one kind of cranky guy who’s asked you had to kiss.

And personally, I’ve always struggled coming up with clean deaths that I like love, or at least by today’s. I sent a set into the Tonight Show after New Faces, and the response I got was a holocaust joke. Yikes, And I was like, oh, no, I’m not getting this, and it was like at the time, it was like that was and that was the centerpiece. I had this a joke that mentioned the Holocaust and I loved it. And I don’t know if back then, if I would have been in easy to fantasize, Oh, I would have been in.

I would have had that Tonight show. I would have killed it, got into the couch. But there’s another world. Where he didn’t like me. I didn’t have the set, and then I would have been dying for Instagram to let me gradually build myself up.

So I think it’s there needs to be a middle grounds. I think that tonight soo when I hear about it, it sends a shiver down my spine because I just go, God, that guy controlled whether you had a stand up career or not, and that’s not good. I just did a story for the podcast. Somebody else wrote a hot take. Joe Rogan is too powerful in comedy now, and I’m like, Joe Rogan’s good for comedy.

Not everybody likes Joe Rogan, that’s fine, but he’s good for comedy. He basically created a third Coast. Sure, I had my previous touring agent I had was like, you have three ways to succeed in touring. And this might have shifted a little since then, but it was like big social media, you’re on TV or Joe Rogan’s podcast, and I was like, geesus christ. I think I was saying this last night.

I was at the Comedy Cellar and I was talking with Nathan McIntosh about so many people will come to shows and we’ll say afterwards and say, this was my first stand up comedy show. I don’t think that happens a lot with music. I don’t think people at the end of concerts but this is my first concert. But like, stand up. Comedy is such an untapped market.

There’s so many people who don’t necessarily know they would be into this. So there’s a degree where I go, Yeah, Joe Rogan talking NonStop about stand up comedy makes a new generation of men. If we’re speaking about Rogan and being honest, get into stand up comedy, and great. Maybe they get into that, and then there’s tastes to expand beyond Joe Rogan’s sphere. I think the fear is that Joe Rogan creates a specific kind of thing and that universe, that kind of really wants to see a white guy say a slur that you’re not supposed to say anymore, and that’s their definition.

That’s the only fear I think of the kind of ideology of that general sphere. I hope it ex fans. I hope it intermingles. I hope all comedians start splitting up sharing lineups. But that’s ultimately.

I do think it’s good for comedy that he exists. And I’ve had audience I remember an audience member years ago came up and they said, Oh, I saw you’re working on new material. That’s so cool. Joe Rogan talks about how comedians and imes have to work on new material during the show, and I’m like, you know what, God bless if he’s educating our new comedy fan as to how this all works, and you’re into it. Great.

You talked about spheres, and it reminded me there are all these spheres that I guess don’t touch each other. What came to mind was when Kat Williams went on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and started throwing heat that surface to maybe a different audience. The whole Atlanta scene and the various beefs that go on in that sphere of comedy, and that probably doesn’t cross over with the Rogan verse unless Gat goes on Rogan. I think ultimately. When you separate these worlds is it doesn’t benefit the quality of the comedy because suddenly you’re not dealing with the cream of the crop.

You’re dealing with the cream of your little sphere. And it’s just the quality goes down overall whenever people are And it’s the same with you could call it the opposite of the Joe Rogan universe, but like the Brooklyn world, like there is the world of you could call it old comedy or just left leaning comedy, where if you never mix with another world and the best from that world, it just gets worse and worse. And I think that’s happened to a degree with the Austin scene. I think that’s why New York is such a powerful is still, in my mind, the best place to keep doing comedy, because there’s more colliding, there’s more a mix, and that elevates everyone, that forces them to be good to continue to participate. And I have nothing.

I don’t know Austin well enough to have any kind of hard opinion about the Austin comedy scene. I just know from more secondhand and occasional shows that I do there, that I could use a little mixing. To put it politely, it could use a little mixing, and I think it will happen. I do. I don’t think these worlds can stay itsler forever.

I think I think we need more panel shows, and we need those panel shows to be a mix and I think one day, I think kil Tony will get to a point where it does have some comedians that you wouldn’t think would do it now, and it will expand the vocabulary and show more people what great comedy can be. And I’m hopeful that kind of will come to pass. We did a show at Serious early in my run there. He used to run the comedy properties there. It was called four Quotas and it was basically a tough crowd rip off, except we just leaned into the four quotas.

There was some gimmick that the government had passed the law you had to have a white guy, a black guy, a woman, and then the wild card position just to make the booking easier. And I look back one of those early episodes was Jim Gaffigan Lisa Lampanelli Asi’s I’m sorry, and I forget who the fourth you thought about being diverse? That was a really fun show, a little too early in the runned series for it to take off. We talked about isolating one joke, and we talked about the civilians coming in, and I think there’s something to be said for taking in an entire set. My wife will often come down.

I will be watching a special and she’ll show up thirty six minutes into it with a laundry basket, stand there at the TV for forty seconds ago, is this guy funny? And it’s just I have to hit pause and it kills the whole room, and I’m like, you know, I can’t go into you see that line There is actually a calling back to eighteen minutes ago where he set this up, and that was a headshake, like it’s just is that guy funny? They what? First of all? I sometimes I have to acknowledge.

And sometimes it’ll happen, like when a clip goes viral and some people go, this guy is not funny at all. Some people don’t like stand up and that’s fine.

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And then someone who loves musical theater I know more than anyone that like …

Someone will see a Stephen Sondheim musical, the most agreed upon, the greatest composer of all time, and they’ll go, eh, that was no good and it’s okay. You don’t like the form and that’s fine. And it’s the same for stand ups. Some people don’t like those jokey things. But I agree.

It’s always hard with a partner when you don’t love the same piece of art. Sometimes he fights could be brutal. Now, my girlfriend, she’s a manager, she’s a comedy manager, so she represents comedians, and she doesn’t want to watch as much stand up as I do. And because sometimes I’m watching it, Okay, what’s going on here? What’s okay?

What is the best amount of scalco talking about right now? What can I learn from the cameras? And our rule is when she can guess three of the punchlines, it goes off automatically and it happens a lot. And I do like to think that her bar keeps me sharp because I’m like, even in conversation, if I’m trying to be funny with my girlfriend, I gotta if she guesses three times, she’s going to break up with me on the spot. So I gotta keep my comedy game high.

So I found it interesting there how you explained how you’re watching comedy and the cameras as I have a producer’s breen. The night of the attempted assassination of President Trump, I clicked on CNN because it’s what one does, and I knew it was six point thirty on a Saturday, so the d team was anchoring and I’m watching it. I’m like and I’m like, actually, she’s doing a really good job. She’s doing it. And I said to my daughter, I go, Wolf Blitzer’s in a cab and somebody’s calling Anderson Cooper in the Hamptons.

Now going, dude, get here right away as soon as you can get there, And sure enough, top of the hour came, Wolf’s in the chair. You wait another hour, Anderson’s in the chair. So like, I’ll tend to watch breaking news and not actually care about the news part and just look at all the what’s going on behind. Oh, they got caught with their pants down. Biden stepped down at one forty six pm on a Sunday, so nobody’s there to cover it, so they’re stuck in an infomercial.

I love that stuff. Yeah, that’s really There was a very funny thing on Twitter because wolf Blitzer had just tweeted a picture of him like getting a martini called the wolf Flitzer, and he looked like really fun.

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And then an hour later it’s him at the desk and he looks a little just oh my …

We all know you’re buzz dude. All right, natural segue. You dropped a special because the President announced he wasn’t rerunning, so you released Sorry, I dropped my notes here. I want to get it. What’s the title again?

I want to get it right? A little something special, A little something special. Yeah, so walk me through that was that going to be part of a longer special? And he went, oh my god, this chunk just got. Need Honestly, it was like I was waiting on a couple different things to see if they wanted an hour from me, different streaming networks.

Do you want an hour? Do you want an hour? Do am I going to release something on my own? Let’s wait, let’s see what they say. And I just have a chunk of material that felt I want to release this yesterday, and it feels like it feels just so on the pulse, and I go, well, if you know xyz stream or wat this, they’re going to film it in five months, it’ll be released in a year.

Especially when you’re not famous, famous. You you could record something and it could come out so far away. Your ability to be topical is more limited than I think if you were Chris Rock or John Lady and I think I just had these jokes and I was like dying to get out there. I felt like if they came out a year from now, they just wouldn’t be quite as exciting to hear, And so very last minute, I just picked a weekend I was doing Comedy Connection in Rhode Island. I had a good one night or the year before, so I was like, this will be good.

I guess my opener is also a great cinematographer and editor and producer. He basically put it together. We did three cameras, we flew in two people, and he could very scaled down version and I had a very specific I was like, I want to do this fifteen minutes. And it touched on mister Beast, It touched on trans writes, It touched on Roe v. Wade being overturned at abortion rights, and then it opened with some jokes about Joe Biden versus Trump again, and just one particular joke was how I was able to recycle all my twenty twenty jokes about them going against each other.

So I felt really good about it. I was going to just release it and then cut it up into clips, and I had a whole schedule planned for the end of August. I was going to Australia in August. I said, I’ll come back, release this, do podcasts.

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And then one night it was my girlfriend’s birthday and I wasn’t watching the …

And he was one of the guys who was saying, like Biden, he’s got to stick it out. He’s the guy who can win, and he’s just an institutionalist. And he texted me in the middle of this dinner he said Biden needs to drop out right now. And I was like, oh. I was like, what what could have possibly happened at the debate and my girlfriend’s birthday.

Because I’m a workaholic and because her work is Tommedy, we had agreed that this why we weren’t going to talk about work. I wasn’t going to talk about if it works things. And I get this text and suddenly my mind goes racing, like, oh my god, all my opening jokes are about Biden being the nominee. And I watched the clips and I said, this is not looking good. And all the op eds came out and the next morning I said, they’re in bed at eight in the morning.

I’m just like, I feel like I have to release it today because I didn’t know if it was going to happen that day. It felt so the first surge of Biden being called to step down was very intense that first day after and I thought it could happen that day, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and I was like, I got to get this out now. And thank god, by editor, we had gotten a lot of stuff done in advance. Sound was mixed, it was edited, it wasn’t captured, it wasn’t clipped. But I basically said, oh, I got the day wide open.

Let’s release it by three pm today. No podcast, no press. I don’t know what he’s going to drop out. I don’t want to cut the beginning of it off. I don’t want to have to like be like, hey, guys, I know the beginning’s a little dated, but check it out anyway, And we got it done, and by we by my team, my social media team, my editor, my captioner, my girlfriend was there to let me run even the clip captions by and I was so glad we did.

And ultimately he stayed in the race, I think for three weeks after, maybe a month after. But I was so glad that we put it out in a time again where it felt topical. Although I will say it, if I ever record something like that again, I will be a lot more hesitant if it’s a special to include political material that isn’t very big picture, because that’s the risk we run in comedy, and a lot of comedians the day Trump’s assassinated, comedians now were. Like going, what’s the joke? What’s the joke?

People are recording it that night, they’re captioning it that night, and why because on social media, it can pop, It can get into the stratosphere, it can go viral, it gets featured in news, and there’s a real struggle between are you just making the obvious joke? Are you just regurgitating all the natural jokes? That would come out of this. Do you need time to make a deeper joke? And have we ultimately made our humor more shallow by feeling like we need to immediately react to events.

That used to be Late Night’s job and they had a writing staff, And now it’s every comedian the moment a tragedy happens or anything crazy in the news. We got to be like going up in twenty minutes, what’s the joke? What’s the joke? And I had a boss at Sirius who one time asked, us, how come we don’t have our own version of the Daily Show? And I’m like, me and my staff of two, I’m like, you’re gonna give me twenty writers like you want us to bang out a half hour of top notch comedy four nights a week?

Are you insen? But Late Night even now the new cycle so fast you recorded five thirty. By the time eleven thirty rolls around, there’s three new things in the news you’re not talking about in your monologue. It’s really hard. I don’t know what to like.

I once had the thought, and I just don’t think it really works in practice. But I always think to myself, Man, the best jokes. Twitter has made it in a way where like, the funniest jokes are in the moment, and it’s because it’s it’s thousands of people taking a stab, and then the ones that go viral are the best, and you go, these Twitter jokes are better takes than a writing staff of five on the East Coast. And I always thought that when it be fun, if you have a late night show where somehow they were paid and they wanted to be a part of this, you could have. I think if you told me after a day’s events that I could look at the best tweets and craft a monol out of those jokes, I think you could have a fucking electric in the moment monologue that night.

Now, obviously would those people be into that, what would the pay system be, how would it work? But I do think there is something about telling a joke out loud to an audience that gives it an extra dimension. And I wish we could combine the kind of incredible power of social media making the best jokes rise to the top and live entertainment. Maybe someone will try it someday, Maybe I’ll try it. It’ll fail miserably, but that’s the problem with topical jokes, and I think sometimes stand ups in certain scenarios, I have to go, you know what, I don’t have the best joke about this, And if I try to always chase the topical joke, I’m never going to build the deeper joke that is more universal, reaches deeper, is more original.

And I have to make sure I have a balance, because if I lean towards in the moment, I’m just going to create a lot of kind of fluff that expires the next day, and that’s not what I want to do. I did want to ask you about feeding the beast. I don’t want to bore you with a crowd work discussion, but it’s got to be insane now just to have to constantly put up something on social media. And is that fight the development cycle of a proper routine to use an old timey. Word, Yeah, it’s very I enjoy again, like I enjoy that I can put out a joke, I enjoy also the capacity I can put out a joke that is, I think it’s a good joke, but I wouldn’t put it in a special I think that’s cool.

Then I can still get it out there and get some kind of visibility awful thing that I like but isn’t my final forms. So you can use social media, I think, to feed your creative process. And if some joke does better than I thought it, that I can go, oh, is there more there to explore? Can I bring this? Can I incorporate it into something else?

But ultimately, You’re right, it’s incredibly exhausting, and I think it’s very hard to decide how do I develop my quote unquote act with what I’m putting out there, especially the concept of burning material. I think a lot of comedians are we used to be. My friend Jay Jorden used to be We’re comedy stops, and there was a degree off. You do it on your Comedy Central, it’s burnt, or if you do it on your special, it’s burnt, And then it’s like if you release it on TikTok, then even if it goes viral, even if it’s seen by millions of people, when you have a show at Banana’s Comedy Club and Hasburg Heights, New Jersey, maybe there’s one person in the audience who saw that clip, and do you get rid of a joke that’s tremendous because that one person, or do you go, I’ll never post my finest material, okay, but then you don’t have any fucking fans because you didn’t put enough out there to build up a fan base. I saw Mike Bribigley last night.

At the Comedy Cellar and he was mentioning how he said there’s some jokes from his first album I believed that he had done on a show recently, and he was shocked because nobody had heard them before. And there’s this thought of, oh my god, why would I not do this incredible joke I worked on for so long and made so good, and no one in the audience knows it. And I’m not doing it because why Because that’s the comic code, because there could have been two people who knew it. All those conversations I think are evolving, and I’m figuring out an hour that I want. To film, and I have to come up with my own rules.

I did a set on Netflix. Not a lot of people saw it. Is it okay? If I use one line that’s a really good bridge between my divorced material and my theater material. I’ve asked myself that in some cases, I go, yeah, this is a shit backit.

Just do it. If it makes the hour great, do it. This is a lot of people’s introduction to you.

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And then there’s the other part of me that goes, I should move on, I should l…

And it does make it harder. It does make it a lot harder. But also. He gives me an ability to show my best joke to someone who’s never going to watch a comedy special. If I have a joke about drag queens, it’s going to get to an audience of people who will never see a comedy show, who will never go to Netflix to watch a comedy special.

But they did get to watch a minute of me telling a joke that I’m really proud of. You win some you lose. So that makes sense to me, especially pulling out a line or two. And any artist is going to have their super fans. But oh, we heard this already.

I liked him better when he was in the clubs. But I think that makes a lot of sense.

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And then I’m thinking, as you were speaking the other way, if it’d be very ol…

I’m not sure I’d be upset. I’d be like, oh cool, I get to hear carl and do that now. I would hope the rest of the hour were new. But if he went into that thirty years later, it almost like the stones dusting off start me up. I’d be like, Okay, I think it’s again.

I think someone told me that Louis C.K. Back in the day after his shows, he would come out and say, are there any bits you want to hear? And he would like, let the audience request their favorite bits, and he would do it like that. I think there’s listen. I think comedy is relative to music, is still a younger art form, and I do think there’s room for us to figure out, like, oh, you know what they do like when I go into this chuck, they do like if I bring this thing back and maybe you do it as an encore, maybe you slip it in there a bunch amongst and a lot of other new stuff.

But at the same time, I do have that it’s an old school impulse that was kind of taught to me of just if they know if they’ve heard it before, they’re not gonna like it. And I just think the world is too fractured in terms of you have a special on HBO and nobody sees it. The world is too fractured to live by those old rules, because then what happens is if you’re trying to churn out too much new material. And I struggle with this too, it doesn’t become as strong. I have jokes that I can tell you when I first started telling a worse version of them five years ago, five years ago, seven years ago, and I go, it didn’t reach its vital form until so many years.

And with our current system, it’s hard to think that a joke would live that long without being quote unquote burnt. So we’re all going to have to navigate it. And I think I’ve seen a lot of comedians used to be very strict about levoz on comedy centrals. It’s done, completely give up on that notion because that’s just not what’s supported anymore. Is there peer pressure from the back of the room.

Look at John Marco’s being lazy, He’s just doing his good joke. You get that crap. I think a little bit less. I don’t know what it was like. I’ve been doing comedy for ten years.

I don’t know what it was like back in the day, if like comedians watched each other more or commented more. But no, unless someone like really does not ever seem to change their act at all, I don’t think people go always doing that bit. Again. I notice the people who I go, Jesus Christ, you haven’t changed a single bit of your fifteen minute set? Aren’t you bored?

But no, I think, and I don’t think this is good, but I think comedians’ eyes are more unlike how each other is succeeding in this career, more than artistically. And I don’t think that’s good. But I think we’re in such a doggy dog world. It’s such a real ruthless climb. That’s where people’s minds are right now.

I always found it as a civilian, not a comedian, never want to be a comedian, not claiming to be a comedian, not a performer obviously, but just as a guy in clubs. I always found that the comics either appreciated if one of their peers was crushing or eating it. They would find if you were eating it fun as well. It was that middle ground of you’re not even trying. That tend to be the comedy snobbery.

Yeah, there’s times when I’m working on more news stuff and immediately I go, I’m not doing really well. Everyone watching here is things that I suck.

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And then I try to remind myself that when I see comics that I really admire w…

I go, yeah, that’s what you’re using this Sunday night spot at the bar show for. And I think that impulse to crush is always there, and you have to fight it sometimes. I remember just seeing Bill Burr at a comedy club. And he was like he wasn’t doing great, and he was very clearly like sticking on a topic and just hidden every possible thought he had on that topic. And I’m sure the audience, as they do with more famous comedians, went like, yeah, he was okay, but I.

Knew from the back of the room as a comedian. I was like, yeah, this is his workout room, my hot Friday night show room at a comedy club in New York. For this moment, I need to use this because I’m doing Madison Square Garden tomorrow. I’m going to work, and I think the great comics and the prolific comics they have to fight that urge to kill every time and bombs sometimes if it means take a risk, and you see someone kill with the same set for years, I do think, I go, what’s the point though? What’s the point of killing on this random bar show right now?

With jokes already work one hundred percent? What do you gain? And when I’m doing spots, I really like to gain something. I like to learn something, and if I don’t, who cares. Yeah, I always appreciate an artist going for it, even if it misses like I as a snob.

I hate the sitcom with the dead that looks like me, that could lose some weight and has the hot younger wife and she thinks he’s stupid, and We’ve seen the sitcom five hundred times and I’m like, you’re not even trying. Whereas I appreciate something that is coming from a different angle aspiring to be something, which is my lead in to ask you about theater Adult, which I don’t want to misdescribe, but as I read it, and I’d rather you explain it, here’s somebody trying to do something. Basically, I came from this acting background and I have a lot of theater jokes related things talking about theater. I would have people complain about my podcast they go Jesus Christ another musical theater episode where you talk all about community theater and bad shows and teachers and all of that. That says to me is that, oh, okay, Like I have a very specific interest that I do want to cultivate.

I’m drawn to and so it’s okay. So where in my life can I create a vessel for all my theater thoughts, my theater jokes, my my theater just talking about it. So I made the show Theater Adult, and we’re about to have our second one at Joe’s Pub where I open it with some stand up and I get to go deeper into my theater jokes. Fred Armisson did a comedy special where it was for drummers, and it’s like, if you never drummed, you’re not going. To get most of the jokes.

And I’m like, this is for all the people who this is for theater kids, this is for people who did theater, who do theater, who love theater, and I can go deeper into the those jokes get more specific and then I can do I do a lot of I do a lot of crowd work at my headlining shows, and I love talking to people about their theater disasters, the shows they did in high school and what do they do now, How does being. A theater kid. Does it play into their own life now? What are they like when they do karaoke? So I want to create like a show where I could open with my theater standup, go into my theater crowd work, and then from the podcast side of it, get someone who either used to be a theater kid and now is whatever a lawyer and just an actor, a comedian, or someone who is on Broadway but did theater when they were younger.

I focus on that part of their life and I want to find out about the disastrous performances, the summer camps where they came out of the closet an acting class. I want to hear that story. I want to use the theater to talk about deeper things about their own life, their family, their romantic life, their dreams, their failures, and then just to make my dreams come true in fuse it with a little bit of singing, so I have my guests sing some songs from their old high school productions, even if they’re totally wrong for it. Lot of there’s a lot of non Jews who played Teva and sitting around the roofs and I go, here’s a space where I give you permission you can do if I were a rich man.

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And then at the end I join in for a duet from my own theater past.

So it’s just like a space that I think I can infuse my comedic sensibilities with my love for theater and the nostalgia of a lot of us when we were in school, was I have a sports or theater that was just the division. And so there’s a big swath of people out there who have this experience who, even if they don’t love theater, now they did it and they can enjoy talking about it. And I’m really excited about just making it a more regular show in New York at comedy festivals where I can get a really cool guest that people are excited to hear about their past, use it to just have conversations that they haven’t they wouldn’t have a normal interview circumstance. I think that’d be great for festivals, definitely great for New York. I love the feedback of stop talking about theater on your podcast.

That’s like, hey, Rogan, stop with the MMA talk like you know, you know. One of the things if you google you, theater kid tends to come up. Like Rogan like it’s a and shouts people who go into Rogan ago, it’s it’s another it’s an MMA guy, I’ll skip this one. And it’s yeah, that’s fine. That’s fine too, And that’s why Rogan ultimately he goes on the it does panel for the MMA and it’s okay, you find a space for your interest too.

I’ll let you go because we’re way over, and I appreciate you giving me so much time. I didn’t want to ask you how much you enjoyed Australia. I was there in twenty fifteen. I just loved it, and it’s not easy to get to, especially for a East Coast, but I would love to get back and just I want to someday in my maybe in my sixties. I’m gonna tell my wife I’m going away for three weeks.

I want to rent a car and just drive around the entire circumference. Growing up in Queens, I’m always attracted to nothing. If I go out to Arizona or Nevada, I like going out in the middle of nowhere and being around nothing. So there’s something about Australia that appeals to me because, all right, they’re Sydney, there’s Millbourne. But if I go thirty miles that way, I could be in the middle of nowhere.

That’s very that’s a you sound like an easy vacation, or that sounds like easy. It’s the I loved Australia. I think first of all, the comedy was great in the sense that, like, they know so much about America that I didn’t really have to adjust to what I wanted to talk about. I was able to just play with with. Just American topics and they understood everything, and they’re excited because they know this is the one time I’m going to be there, probably for two years maybe, And the audiences were just so just smart, and we’re very much people who have known my work for years and there was never a chance to see me.

So they just bring that excitement to the shows. And in terms of the country, it’s the food, it’s incredible, the views are astounding. Sydney. The bridge in Sydney was just so pretty, at night. I could never be that chill.

The people there are very chill. Everything moved at a much slower pace, and I think after a week and a half I’d be like, oh, come on, please, please, can I have a refol of my water? I’m begging you. But it was really it was a special trip and I want to go down even longer next time because it’s just different world, dude. And I didn’t make it to New Zealand.

When I went, it was long enough ago that I used a travel agent to help me put this trip together. Sure, and the travel agent was like, you can’t do Australia New Zealand in two weeks, you need that’s a separate trip. But you hit New Zealand. How was it? It was fast and furious.

The food was just so great. I just got there’s so many There’s just so much like Japanese food in New Zealand, and sashimi which I love, and fresh fish and I didn’t I wasn’t really into doing the Lord of the Rings thing, and it was at the end of the trip, so I was a little bit worn out. But just the food, just every single meal, you go, what are they feeding us in America? Because everything here. Is feels fresh, if the blueberries are bigger, and.

Next time I hope I can hop around the islands a little more. That’s awesome, shen Marco. Thank you for your time today. Looking forward to seeing you on the Botta Being Comedy Jam during US Paul and then coming to to Netflix. I appreciate that.

Thanks, thank you, appreciate it. Shenmarco is a razy Thank you for coming on the show, repeat guest. He’s really fantastic and he is one of Vulture’s comedians that you will know and should know. And we’ll talk about that list on tomorrow’s podcast and see it then

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Caloroga Shark Media. I know Johnny Manhood your Daily Comedy News no Taylor Swift fan. Nikki Glaser tells any why I’m not a politician. I’m not enacting laws. My job is to be truthful to myself, and what’s authentic for me is to share these dark thoughts I have.

It really releases some of the shame I struggle with the morality that’s put on comedians say the right thing and have the right take. We do have an influence, obviously, but we’re also telling jokes. It’s hard because the things I do think are so wrong and so bad, and there’s fear of getting canceled for saying the wrong thing. But ultimately I know I’m a good person. I dealt with a lot of like, am I a bad person because these thoughts?

And I’m really not. I could sleep well at night knowing that I didn’t really say them to hurt anyone. I’m only as sick as my secrets, and so I try to release as many secrets as possible up there. I do worry about Nikki the more of these interviews I read. In her recent special Someday You’ll Die, she ponders guns are easier to find than compassion.

She then calls out the suicide lifeline nine to eight eight. Throughout the special Sedgy material, it took her a while to get to a point where audiences felt comfortable laughing with her right City Wire Glazer says, it becomes a challenge the suicide material stuff. I was getting a lot of pushback from audiences, and I thought, Oh, guess I can’t really go there and talk about my suicidal thoughts and joking about how I’ll probably kill myself some day. They’re never gonna be okay with it. But I kept going, and I kept trying until I found a way that actually worked, and it was one of the biggest laughs of Mindsire said, that was really gratifying.

I hope she’s okay there. Bob Saggitt was friends with John Mayer, so no surprise that Bob Saggett’s favorite charity will honor John Mayer with a special award at the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s annual fundraiser, Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine that’s on October twenty ninth. The nonprofit will give John Mayer and comedian Jeff Ross the Bob Saggat Legacy award in honor of how they helped Sagat raise funds and awareness. Jeff Ross will host the event, which would feature additional comedians, TBA musicians and performers. Kelly Rizzo, Bob’s wife, said, I could not be more thrilled to see the Bob Saggatt Legacy Award go to John Mayor and Jeff Ross.

They were two of Bob’s dearest friends and both in body’s dedication to the cause. The reference ensure that Bob’s impact continues, proving that laughter and music can be powerful tools in the fight against this disease and bring us closer to a cure with every event. After Saggot died in twenty twenty two, John Mayer paid for a private plane to transport the body back to California and later served as a pallbearer at the funeral. Earlier this year, on Bob Saggot’s birthday, John Mayer posted a photo of himself with Saggot, saying, I miss you the most when I’m exhausted and I just want to talk to my friend. We all miss you.

Lost me be out of our control, but remembrance is our active defiance and we will never Forget You. Zarna Garga got into comedy because of her teenage daughter. After all, mom sold funny stories. How hard could it be? Sarna jumped on stage in twenty nineteen.

She’d never been inside a comedy club before. Then her children convinced her she was funny. She went up onto the open mic and was given half an hour. That’s eternal. A half hour is endless.

She didn’t really have material, so she went with what she knew. Gark told post Media the thing is I discovered there’s a big and vibrant audience for Indian mother in law jokes. I didn’t know enough to have stage fright to be honest with you later around the op but Mike encourage me to go up there and talk about whatever I think is funny. I thought about a lot of things my mother in law said to me, so I went with it without thinking twice. I’m really glad I was ignorant of what it should be to be afraid up on stage because the vibe of just naturally showing up on stage and talking about life is also how I do it.

Now. It’s much easier for me to not overthink it and to treat every show like a big extended dinner party. Zarna says, you don’t have to be part of my culture to know there are inappropriate people in everybody’s life who say crazy things. They don’t have to be Indian or even have a mother in law. We all have that friend or neighbor or uncle or aunt wherever that randomly blurts out completely inappropriate things.

It thinks it’s totally okay to do it, these things of all the one thing at a time. Once I understood what stand up comedy was, I hung out with comics, learned what they were doing. I’m immersed in that world of entertainment in the comedy format. Now in a minute, I’m very tuned what’s going on in the digital space. It’s very interesting.

Once you decide you want to do something, you start learning before you even know you’re learning. Greg Fitzsimmons said his first writing job was with Bill Maher. I was hired to do audience warm up but only been doing comedy maybe seven years, and he liked my warm up, so he offered me a writing job. I was with a bunch of guys who’s still as writers twenty five years later. It’s like a club there I didn’t stay in that club.

I got fired, but you know that just happens when you’re write for TV shows. You get fired a lot. Usually a producer will call you in and gently let you go. But Bill sat down with me and did it himself like a man, and I’ll always respect that. The South of China Morning Post is your home for comedy news.

They caught up with Phil Wang, who said stand up is like alchemy, turning nothing into something. There’s something mystifying about that. To stand on stage on your own and turn that nothing into a room of laughing people. I found that fascinating. It’s not about I’d give it a go.

The first gig I ever did was at school in Bath when the drama teacher invited people to do five minute open spots. To me and this other kid said yes. People were surprised, but I found I had a knack for performing. The jokes were mainly stolen from you, Twoe, but I had the ability to tell them the sense of the rhythm, the intonation, the punctuation, the musicality of it. Three years ago, Wang put out a book called A Side Splitter, a book about being mixed race and having grown up in Malaysia and then moving to the UK.

Phil says it was awkward and confusing. I suppose in Malaysia I was sort of treated as a white kid, a bit foreign, but people mostly found that interesting. But I never really felt like part of the gang or that I was meant to be there, which is why I was excited when we moved to Britain and then at the school I was treated as the Asian kid. I realized that was gonna be the case wherever I am, so I might as well embrace it. And embracing it I found stand up.

Phil has a degree in engineering from Cambridge and said going to Cambridge was important for the comedy angle. Although I was still half thinking I’d be an engineer and half thinking I’d be a comedian, but comedy overtook the engineering. The second year of engineering was the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life, and then I promised myself I’d never worked that hard again, and I have kept that promise. Dane Cook, how has your comedy changed over the years. That was a question from Boston dot Com and Dane said, well, anytime it starts to change, I go back to Boston and fix it.

To get right back to exactly what I’m supposed to be doing in the first place. I’m a cut up. I’m supposed to say the thing that’s wrong. I have to remind myself of that. What about cancel culture?

After all, this is an interview with the comedian, and he got asked about that. He says, I don’t pay attention. I don’t care when Dave Chappelle spoke his mind on his Netflix special, if Shane Gills got cann from SNL, they made it come back. Tom Brady Roaston ever laughed so much in my life. I kept saying, I can’t believe this is live.

Comedy’s back right now, right now, and they’ll never take it away from us again because enough comics have gone through the ring of people dissecting their bits. Judging an excerpt of a comedy routine is like trying to defend somebody for crime, but you’re only allowed to use a tenth of the evidence. With an excerpt, it’s impossible to know where somebody’s heart and soul is. They’ll still be comedians who misstep, but as far as silencing or tampering with a freedom of speech of comics, that that’s over. Dane’s line, if it hasn’t happened to me, if it isn’t how I see the world, I ain’t saying it.

But if it happened to me and I experienced it, I’m saying it. That’s my truth. As a comic. I believe that if you’re observing and reporting on things that are actually happening, just like in journalism, it’s fair game. I didn’t write the story, but I’m telling you what happened.

New Arab caught up with Dave or Hedge. Dave expressed his hurt and pain over the situation in Palestine. Dave said, I just feel like there needs to be more empathy and it’s so sad what’s happening. Palestinians deserve better treatment. I feel it’s inhumane.

We should be ashamed of what’s happening. You feel helpless and it’s just very sad. How are we arguing anything when children and humans are just dying. The conversation to talk to Dave at being cast in the twenty twenty three films, sometimes I think about dying, and Dave said, it’s always great to be you know, cast or looked at for your skill set. I mean for me, to play many different types of roles and tell different types of stories.

I think it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I don’t necessarily have to play a Middle Eastern person all the time. Some comedy tapings this weekend, Roywood Junior. He’ll tape a special at the Lincoln Theater in Washington tomorrow night on the seventh. Then on Sunday, Nick Fune.

All of a sudden, hearing a lot of Nick Fune, I guess he’s been opening for Nate and Nate is producing this new special. Nick Thune will be at Zenies in Nashville. Yeah, so this is really in the Burghetzi verse. If you’re not familiar with Nick, he is a dead pan who mixes storytelling and one liners.

Also on Sunday, Dean Delray.

Guess who’s opening for Dean Delray? Who’s opening for Dean Delray? Bill Burr? Wow, this one is also in Nashville. So you’re gonna have to choose which show you want to hit.

This one’s at the Cavern’s just outside of Nashville, and Pellam at Tennessee Sunday Night. Dean Delray with special opener Bill Burr. And that’s your comedy news for today right this weekend. Tomorrow, I have an interview with John Marcos Siraisi. We went most of an hour really interesting discussion, talked about some of his projects.

We got into naty gritty of comedy. I was enjoyed speaking with him.

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And then on Sunday, I’ll poke at the variety list of comedians you should kno…

But good stuff coming up over the weekend. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. All right, see you back here tomorrow with Jamarco

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Late Night Back, and Steven Colbert came out of the box firing it some good ones. One. Because of the electoral college, the election could come down in just seven states. Yeah, it’s going to come down to Michigan, Wisconsin, Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance Colbert again.

One reporter describes the seven state race as the equivalent of a knife fight in a phone booth. See a knife fight in a phone booth is notoriously difficult because it involves close quarters and finding a phone booth Colbert. One. More, Harris is particularly popular with women, while Trump is ahead among men, leading some to call this the boys versus Girls election. And remember many Trump voters are not vaccinated against cooties.

Great stuff there. This next joke, I don’t know how this made it to air. Really, Jimmy Fallon writers, this is what you got. Jimmy Fallon talking about Joey Chestnut eating eighty three hot dogs in a contest. Fallon went with us on the show.

I can’t believe it. Three hot dogs in ten minutes. That’s basically me at every wedding when they pass out pigs in a blanket. Ha ha ha. Thanks Uncle Jimmy.

I’m sure he told it better. Seth Myers with a good one. Did you see the Russian spy Harness well passed away? Seth said, even crazier. It died after falling out an eight story window.

Are you ready for some football? It’s Chiefs Ravens tonight, It’s Chiefs. I know that for sure. Yes, it is the Ravens. The Kansas City Chiefs, World’s largest tailgate will return.

Rob Rigel will co host the event. Rigel a well known Chiefs fan. Good guy. I’ve worked with him more than once. The tailgate games lineup includes the Sauce Relay, the two Minute Drill, Coaches Cheeseburger Challenge, and the Chiefs Cup.

Give us some details, Johnny mack okay, I will. The Sauce Relay is a relay race in which participants will traverse an obstacle course while carrying containers of barbecue sauce. At the finish line, competitors will pour the remaining sauce into a bucket, and the team with the heaviest bucket when the timer runs out wins. That’s fun. The two Minute Drill is a passing challenge where participants where homes with blacked out visors and they have to attempt to complete as many passes into cardboard cutouts as possible in two minutes.

The coaches at Cheeseburger Challenge, you can’t use your hands. You have to assemble a cheeseburger using your partner’s hands from behind them. The competitor who’s using their hands will be blindfolded. The competitor in front has to guide their partner. You know, that just seems like an excuse to have a pretty lady be your partner, and you’d be like, Oh, I’ll wear the blindfold.

Yeah, I know what’s going on there. Fellas, Been there, done that. Chiefs Cup a variation on the traditional Flip cup competition where the cups get progressively larger throughout the game. Before you can begin flipping your cup, you have to dump a cup full of confetti on your head. The first team to flip all its cups wins.

Okay, there’s more. There’s BBQ and a Ask Me Anything style interview segment with Chiefs players answering questions over a rack of Kansas City ribs with no napkins in sight. Chiefs Trivia. We can figure out what that is. Chiefs Cup Challenge players try their hand at Chiefs Cup to see who could register through the fastest time.

Adam Sandlor is a major Swifty, we learned, and he was on Travis Kelsey’s podcast. You might know. Travis Kelsey plays for the Kansas City Chiefs and dates Taylor Swift. See how this all came together. There very nice Well’s lot of John You’re welcome.

Sandler and the Kelsey brus started talking about Taylor Swift. Adam Sandler said, by the way, what a girl. What a girl? Travis said, you know it, best performer out here. Sandler said, she means so much to our house.

The kids were little and we were listening to Taylor Swift. It was one of the first times that he listened to every song on the record. When I was a kid, the Beatles, you did that with maybe Elton John every tune. They know every word. I love listening to her in the car.

I love what she has to say, every message, every melody, the production. What she meant to young girls, what she means to women, what she means to guys doing the right thing in life. Sandler said, someone asked me who I get nervous around. I said, I do get nervous around Taylor Swift because I don’t want to blow it from my kids and say something stupid. He then said, to Travis, you being together the photo of when you first started dating.

My family was like, yes, look how good they are together. He’s a gentleman, and she’s having so much fun with him. At anytime Taylor’s laughing with you. My whole family is high fiving. Mi.

San Antonio caught up with Joe Coy. All right, Scott Beckett, fan of the show, not a fan of a particular bit. I’ve already mentioned Taylor Swift, and I mentioned Joe Coy. You know where this is head and buddy, right, I mean you could just it pause now because it’s inevitable today. My san Antonio article says that earlier this year, audiences were unkind to Joe Coy after he fell short as host of the Golden Globes.

Wow, sounds like it was pretty rough. What could have possibly happened? Well, Joe made a joke about Taylor Swift and it didn’t go so well. Let’s listen. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.

Joe Coy didn’t let it bother him. He says, you can only get inspired when you hang around inspirational people. Negative stuff always brings you down. My San Antonio asked Joe Coy, when you think of San Antonio, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Joe Coy said, to be stupid if I didn’t say the Alamo.

Right. One of the coolest things I did in San Antonio was with my son. I had no idea you guys did live re enactments. He was about seventeenth the time and told my son, let’s go next thing we knew. We heard gunshots.

It was a lot of fun. Joe Cooy, how would you describe your year overall? I’ve loved everything about it, the upside, the downs, but everything puts everything in perspective. You can’t enjoy your wins unless you go through things. So I love where we’re at now.

The Life from Brooklyn special is amazing. Now we’re preparing for a second special for Netflix. Oh. They asked him about the Golden Globes again. He said, I just enjoyed the position I was in with my family and my fans, and seeing all the big wigs that come, like Kevin Hart and Seth and Whoopee and Jamie Fox.

It was an amazing time to have your peers with you. He talked about it being a difficult gig. Yeah, I mean I could go on forever, but it was so last second. Kim will get six months to do the oscars and I got about ten days. Would you do it again?

Everything’s worth a shot, but it’s never been a lifelong goal of mine. Host an awards show, I think stand up has always been my dream and I’m living my dream, so everything else would just be a bonus. Joekoi talked about being a zaddy. My san Antonio was like, you have to have some kind of swagger, a sex piel. No, Joe said, I think that’s on the eye of the beholder.

My san Antonio said the most famous zaddies right now were Jeff Goldblum and Pedropus Gal you were at their level of zattiness. Joe Coy said, hell yeah, I vote me in the same level.

And then for some reason they asked him who should play jd Vance and Tim Wall…

You guys were crushing it. You shouldn’t have tagged with this question. Joe Coy said, you know, it sucks that we don’t have the Phil Hartman’s and the Dana Carvey’s anymore. That’s my generation. I don’t know who can pull it off, but it’s always funny when they do it.

SNL always rips those people apart. They’re gonna crush it. I think it’d be funny if Will Ferrell came in and did something. Hasan Minhaj is just getting another special for Netflix. This one will be out October twenty second.

It is called Off with His Head in Hasan Minhaj, Off with his Head. Hasan Minhaj is back in full force. We see him tackling politics, misguided self improvement, and the challenges of life with young kids and aging parents. Donald Trump taking shots at Joe Rogan. Trump was on Lex Friedman’s podcast, which is just a bizarre podcast.

It’s super popular, but it’s just weird that it even exists. Lex Friedman asked Donald Trump, what’s the beef with Joe Rogan brought up a truth social post where Trump wrote, I wonder how loudly Joe Rogan gets booed the next time he enters a UFC ring. Trump had written that right after Rogan had announced that RFK made sense to him. That was before r FK pull out of the race and decided with Trump. Friedman has said, well, he said some nice things about RFK, Junior, you said some not some nice things about Joe.

I think that was a bit unfair. Trump said, I don’t think there’s any intention, And I’ve always liked him, but I don’t know him. I think he’s good at what he does, but I don’t know about doing his podcast. I mean, I guess i’d do it. You would do it in a heartbeat.

Are you kidding me? Get out of here. You do it in two seconds. I mean, I guess I do it. But I haven’t been asked, and I’m not asking him.

I’m not asking anybody. Rogan has said that he’s turned down several requests from Trump’s camp to have Trump on. Rogan told Lex Friedman, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have on my show more than once. I’ve said no.

Every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him. Trump went on to say Rogan is sort of a liberal guy. I guess from what I understand I liked did he likes?

Kennedy’s a kind of guy. Don’t forget. If you would like this program without commercials, you can go to Calaroga dot com slash plus. You’ll get the details there, but the short version is four ninety nine a month. You’ll get this program and almost everything else on the network commercial free Kalaroga dot com slash plus link in the show notes.

I watched Phil Wang special Tuesday night as planned. My daughter joined me. We both liked it a lot. I love the venue, the Shakespeare Globe Theater, so nice, small wooden room lit by candlelight. As Phil pointed out, I did comment in the Facebook group, which is daily Common News podcast group.

Especially in the first ten minutes or so. My spidery sense was tingling for perhaps, maybe possibly wouldn’t surprise me if somebody had added some crowd laughter there. There were a couple shots where I heard what in my mind was registering as a waveform of just that HAA. A bunch of jokes had a similar laugh of similar length, and then you saw it, particularly on Phil’s left shoulder. Some audience members they weren’t laughing.

And then conversely, there were a couple of times where there were things that potentially were a laugh line, and somehow the audience all knew at once not to laugh at that particular laugh line. So keep an eye out for that. In the first ten minutes that said, it’s a really good set. I was able to disengage my brain from analyzing waveforms. The materials really set, So Phil Wang, I like that a lot that will make the end of the Year list.

Also out this week. I haven’t seen it yet. Jennie Hogan’s Regression. That one’s on Amazon and some other places. Genny Hogan used to be a data scientist, but she up and left her job in San Francisco to move back with her parents in New York.

She talks about addiction, turning thirty and Los Angeles. Congratulations to Will Ferrell. He will receive the seventeenth annual Kirk Douglass Award for Excellence in Film. Big Fancy Black Tie Dinner in Santa Barbara’s Ritz Carlton at least tells us no actor in the twenty first century has been associated with more hit comedy films than Ferrel. Among those in which she starred two thousand and three is Old School An Elf two thousand and fours, Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, thousand and six, Talladega Nits, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, two thousand and eight, Step Brothers, twenty ten’s The Other Guys, twenty fourteen’s Get Hard and the Lego Movie, and the list goes on.

That is a pretty good run there, Michael Douglas said, comedy’s the hardest and you make it look easy. Will congratulations, Dad, loved you From the Boston Globe. Sam Jay will be at the Wilber Theater on Saturday. Sam is just enjoying her tour, not worrying about industry pressures. Sam is just enjoying her tour and not worrying about the industry right now.

I’m just kind of having fun with comedy again. I kind of like not being in this development of an hour mode because it’s a different part of your brain that has to work to do that. I’m just having fun doing stand up and connecting with audiences again and just playing with ideas as they come. If you go see her at the Wilberg, There’s gonna be some political jokes in there, because that’s part of my repertoire. There’s gonna be some oservation in there, but because that’s what I do.

But to say it’s gonna be this or that, I don’t really know what’s gonna be. Stylistically, Jay says she doesn’t set the table and just starts talking. I was always like, I was over here, this kind of thing happened to me, and I still approach comedy in that way. So I’ve never felt a name to explain myself. The more I’m up there and the more I learn, the more I know about myself.

So with that the comfortability comes. Apparently everybody wants a late night show all of a sudden, Hey guys, no one has any money. No one’s getting a show. No one has any budget at all. Everyone is cost cutting.

You’re not getting a show. The kid Miro has scheduled two test shows for what he’s calling a work in progress talk show. They’ll film the first one tomorrow at the Comedy Seller, another on Tuesday, September seventeenth. The Comedy Seller’s website says this is a late night talk show style show and not a traditional comedy seller show. This is a test show and taping Jesus and Marrow at a show on Showtime twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two.

They seem to no longer get along all right, We’ll see what happens with that. Jermaine Foller will star opposite Tracy Morgan in Paramount Plus’s Crutch. Tracy Morgan plays Francois Frank Krutchfield, who goes by Crutch, a brash yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world is turned upside down with his highbrow son now played by Jermaine Fowler and free spirited daughter moved back to the family home. Fowler’s character is named Jake, an ivy league educated lawyer who forget goes a high paying position at a swanky white shoe law firm to provide low cost legal aid in Harlem. Yellowjackets has added Joel McHale for a guest role in its upcoming third season.

Details on Joel Mchal’s character are being kept quiet for now. Maybe the in between ers will come back. Have you ever watched this show? It’s fantastic one of my favorite shows. British show about I guess they were high schoolers, typical horny teens kind of comedy, but it was really good.

Star Joe Thomas as that he and his co stars would consider reuniting for a third movie. He told the Always Be Comedy podcast that the idea had been discussed in various forms. We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives, we all still like each other, and it was something that came up. I think we would want to do it. I think it works with the right idea.

It would be challenged in doing another series just because of the timeline. Yeah, I don’t know how they would be still in high school. It’d be forty but the film, there’s all sorts of options. Thomas said a bachelor party could be a good vehicle. Las Vegas would be an interesting venue for the boys to reunite.

He said, there’s something about the adult world and how much more complicated it is than the world of adolescence. A film can be a special occasion. A film is about a disruption in normality, whereas the sitcom is about what normality is like. A film is a story with an ending, whereas the sitcom is more like going down to the public friend, who’s funny and it’s just open ended. The in between Ers ran as a TV series on Channel four in the UK back in twenty eleven.

The original movie grossed eighty eight point nine million dollars worldwide. The twenty fourteen sequel made sixty three point nine million dollars. Aaron Weber will tape his special two nights tomorrow and Saturday at the Lab at Zany’s in Nashville with the help of Nate Berganzy’s Nateland Entertainment. Nate is becoming a mogul from the Press. Harold christ de Gooth is a comedian based in Portland, Maine.

He’ll be at the Portland Main Comedy Festival, king off tonight and going through the weekend. He says, my perfect day in Maine begins at six am, when I get out of bed and walk to the back of the porch to catch a glimpse of the sunrise over the Eastern Promenade. I’d behold the breathtaking scenery and say to myself, Wow, I can’t believe I get to live here. Then immediately I go back to bed and sleep another five hours. I’m not a morning person.

Once the clock strikes eleven. I get out of bed for real this time and climb up Monjoy Hill to double grate for an iced latze whole milk. I’m viciously lactose intolerant, but that’s how I start my day because pressure makes diamonds. After breakfast, I drive to Higgins Beach. It has a special place in my heart.

I taught myself out to surf at Higgins. Anyone can learn by the way. You don’t need to hire someone to teach you. Surfing is a lot like stand up comedy. You just have to do it, keep doing it, and except they’re gonna suck at it for a little bit, well for a little while, really long time, actually years and years.

Surfing is easier than stand up comedy. But you get the analogy, right. Does he end his perfect day? He closes down the open mic and makes his way over to Empire Comedy Club to do a spot. He orders some chili Chris renoodles and some General So’s bow buns for dinner from the Empire Chinese Kitchen, and I have a killer set because this is my perfect day, and a boy can dream.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program. I have a friend about it. They might like it too. Appreciate all your new listeners for sticking around.

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Caloroga Shark Media. The numbers are up man. Thanks everybody for listening. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And if you’re on YouTube, yeah there’s no video.

I know. I didn’t say there was. I’ll tell you. Usually this week is a dead week off Labor day, and I had been squirreling stuff away. I don’t need it.

Plenty of news. Everybody got right back to work. It’s like what I talked about on yesterday’s podcast, the annoying boss going, Hey, you know, Simmer’s over. Let’s good to work, guys. Okay, they got to work.

Vulture put out there what do they call it? It’s comedians you should know and will know list. I’m gonna deal with that on Sunday. There are twenty of them and it is quite long, so let me hold that until Sunday and I’ll do a deep dive on that. Then.

I did share the link in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group if you can’t wait till Sunday.

Also a reminder, Saturday, I’ll have John marco Ciresi, who is one of the twe…

They keep dripping out information about Ellen’s new special, Ellen DeGeneres for Your Approval, premiere globally on September twenty fourth on Netflix. In a statement, Ellen said, to answer the questions everyone is asking me, Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Porsche really is that pretty in real life? Netflix tells us the final comedy special of her historic career.

Ellen gets personal and reveals what she’s been doing since being kicked out of show business, from the mundane world of raising chickens and parallel parking to the harsh realities of becoming a brand name celebrity. She goes deep into her stand up roots and brings laughs through life’s most real and absurd realities. I always found her stand up to be pretty good. You may recall. The Ellen Degenerous Show ended in twenty twenty two after nearly twenty years on the air.

Its finale came after a series of reports detailing allegations of racism, sexual misconduct, and intimidation on set. Hulu’s not messing around. They’ve now lined up otsgo at Katska. She’ll have a special on Hulu. No date yet, no title yet, but she will tape it at the el Capitan Theater in Hollywood on Saturday, November ninth.

This part of her full Grown tour, which kicks off on September thirteenth, includes twenty dates across the US. In Canada, I think she’s fantastic. You should go see her, Osco said. As a company that pionneered cartoons, it was only amount of time until they asked to work with me. I mean, look at me.

I rock a bowl cut and wear bright color as I am tuned down excited to bring good times and shenanigans to the people of the world with the Disney Hulu family. Peacock announced that Colin jos and Michael j Present New York After Dark will stream September twelfth at nine pm Eastern. It’ll feature a rotation of the pair’s favorite New York City Club comics, along with fresh faces and likely some familiar ones as well. So that’s interesting, right. That’s more of them hosting an evening than doing comedy themselves.

We’ll keep an eye on that. That Saturday night movie made its premiere Intellier Ride. People seem to really like it. Deadline wrote a top director once told me ninety percent of the success of movies is casting. If you get that right, you’re on your way.

If that’s the case, then Saturday Night director and co writer Jason Rightman nailed it and then some, with a killer ensemble of more than eighty speaking roles helping to bring the life to film. This is a masterful movie comedy firing on all cylinders. Wow, I’m excited to see this one. With no time to breathe, and it’s tight one hundred and three minute running time. I have to do some math here, so that’s sixty and forty three an hour forty three.

Johnny Mack thinks the perfect movie is about an hour thirty nine, but one hundred three minutes. That’s good. Brightman has mine comic gold in telling the incredible tale of how producer Lorn Michael’s navigated a nervous network, bruised egos, and an unpredictable cast. Blah blah blah. The clock ticked down to eleven thirty when it still wasn’t certain, believe it or not, that NBC would press the button for its first SNL or the Johnny Carson Tonight’s Show rerun they had ready to go in its place.

Some of the casts stand outs, according to Deadline, Corey Michael Smith’s spot on Chevy Chase Lamur and Morris’s Garrett Morris no relation, Matt Woods, John Belushi, Nick Brown’s rolls of both Jim Hansen and Andy Kaufman. Wonder why they did that. That’s an odd choice to have him played two different roles. Right and some others, including a chilling pitch perfect JK. Simmons as Milton Burrell.

Simmons nails Burl’s visit to the set had missed all the chaos and a brief but an unforgettable turn that has to be seen to be believed, and that includes a thing. There’s a fun fact about Milton Burrell. I like to keep this show clean, but it’s a big fact. People know this big fact about Milton Burle legendary. The big fact, Rolling Stone said.

Saturday Night turns the SNL origin story into a late night bad news bears. The Stone writes, part sloppy and overly Reverend tribute, part hilarious nineteen seventies gross out romp, and an all out assault to recreate the adrenaline Russia, producing that inaugural LESSNL. Jason Rightman’s Saturday Night seeks to bring folks back blah blah blah when Michaels keeps the ship together.

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Meanwhile, Chevy Chase is already being courted as a breakout star with a bri…

Dan Ackroyd is flirting with every female in site and carrying on a not so secret relationship with a rosy Thray. Newman is neurotic, Geene Curtain is ironic and waspish, and Gilda Radner is adorable and deafy. It’s all admittedly funny and nerve jangling, with the comedians mugging and the pressure mounting, and the chances of Michael’s dream of a show made for the generation who grew up on TV by the generation who grew up on TV actually airing, slipping away minute by ticked off minute. The movie also heads to a foregone conclusion. Imagine an underdog story about a group of rag tag baseball players who you already know will eventually turn out to be the nineteen twenty seven New York Yankees.

Anyway, that sounds like it’s going to be fun, all right. Bert Krascher was walking around a right aid in Los Angeles. I guess he found the shelves pretty empty. He tweeted a video, and yes, the shelves are pretty empty. Here’s what Bert Krascher had to say.

I had to make several clips to get rid of some f bombs, but you’ll get the idea. This is Los Angeles. Everything is gone. Look at this is our deodorants. I think this place is going.

I mean this looks like looks like it’s been looted. And I guess thieves just come in and take whatever is expensive and just walk out with it. This is crazy. This is unrecognizable. When it moves to Los Angeles, you come and ride it to spend the afternoon looking around.

This is so fad. This is Los Angeles. On gossip Corner. Adam Sandler, his wife and daughter, died at Goldberg’s world famous Deli in Milburn. I saw this story in one of the local papers, and I’m like, world famous.

It’s not even the most famous deli in Milburn. I mean, I’m sure the locals somebody’s gonna argue this, but I always hear about the Milburn Deli, which is not Goldberg’s world famous deli. Anyway, Sandler was at Goldberg’s. According to owner Chris, they came in and walked up to my wife, and she gasped in surprise and let out a wow. She thought she was keeping her surprise on the inside, but she was not.

Who’d be able to They were so nice to everyone. As soon as they walked in, the entire deli just lit up in joy. Everyone was smiling and just so happy to have such a fun family joining us for a meal. Sandler was happy to take selfies with guests and staff. Adam’s been in my greater local neighborhood.

He hasn’t been like next door, but he’s been pretty close to where I live. Filming Happy Gilmore two. Chris the owner has a message for Adam Sandler. It is Adam, if you’re reading this, all the best and making the world laugh and smile once again on your latest endeavor, Happy Gilmore too. All Right, I finally ain’t got around to watching Adam Sandler’s comedy special.

I know I’m a week late on this, but you know we talk about Sailor enough here. You’re probably like Johnny Mac, did you like it? Did you hate it? You hate it? You hate everything?

Right, Johnny Mack. Well, I’ll tell you what I liked it. Let me break it apart. The safty stuff at the beginning where they kind of shot it like a movie and Adam pulls up in a car and we follow Adam walking to the club and people ask him to sign stuff. I really like that.

I thought it was interesting. I kind of hate the way most comedy specials open and wish it would just be like Ladies and Gentlemen, Joe Comedian and the comedian comes out. But you know, a lot of these specials have to have these forced opens. I kind of liked that this one was stylized that said during the set proper the fake stuff like the random dog or Adam pretending that the venue isn’t good even though it’s a fake venue, you know, and pretending there’s technical problems and all that. It just didn’t work work for me.

Maybe if I didn’t know it was fake, I would have been like, oh, that’s interesting that they left that in, But it just it didn’t work at all for me. I watched it in two chunks Friday night. I was kind of tired, had a really busy week last week, and I kind of liked the low keyness of it. Adam was kind of chill, and I was into it. My wife came by with the laundry basket, because, as I’ve told you, one hundred percent of the time, if I’m watching a comedy special, she will come by about thirty seven minutes in, and sure enough she did, and she was like, is that Adam Sandler?

Yeah, I thought, you don’t like Adam Sandler, and I said I don’t, but I have a comedy podcast that said I liked it.

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And then I was like, how much more of this?

And there was still like another forty minutes. So I went on to do something else. But Saturday night I went back in and watched more of it. The second half I kind of got bored. There was more of the Sailor songs in there, and his songs are just really dumb, and I know they’re supposed to be dumb, but they’re the same thing over and over.

He just sings like four line a normal song and then says something ridiculous at the end, gets the laugh line, and the song falls apart. They’re not even like complete thoughts. It’s just like roses are red, violes or blue. Let me say something absurd so you laugh now, And it’s that same formula over and over. Rob Schneider came out as Elvis and I had to fast forward through that.

I couldn’t even do it.

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And then some people have said the song at the end is very poignant.

To Adam, sing’s like a ten minute song about other comedies in the history of comedy and famous comedians, and he’s got a clip show behind him, and it’s designed to make you clap and designed to make you feel good. And it just felt really forced to me. John, it doesn’t sound like you like the special. I did like the Special. It’s got a lot of problems.

I’m going to add it to the list of best of the year. It’ll probably be the last thing on the list, however long it gets, but it makes it. I appreciate when someone tries to do something like what came to mind is Kevin James last special not trying to do anything that was just dumb. Sandler here is trying to do something. I’m not sure it worked, but I appreciate it, if that makes any sense.

So it’s not in the top tier at all. It’s in my second tier on a rather long list now, and it’ll probably be the last. But yeah, I liked it, Okay, Adam Sandler, I trash you a lot. I feel fair here, and if we look back now, since Hub Halloween, you’ve done Uncut Gems and Hustle, the Basketball Movie, and the Space One, and you’ve had two specials, one of which I liked. Maybe I’m coming around on Adam Sandler or maybe I don’t know.

I also watched Greg Fitzsimmons, a special on YouTube that is going to make the list as well. It’ll be in the second tier, but at the top of the second tier. But what I found interesting about it is it’s eighty percent really funny, but also twenty percent really hack It’s a weird mix. When he’s on, he’s on he definitely reminds me of Portman’s Bill Burr, and then he’ll do some hacky material and I’m like, really, dude, that’s like awful. Which one that I like better?

Fitzimmons is better than Sandler, for sure. I have not watched Philang yet. That was my plan for Tuesday nights, so I’m sure my wife is planning on doing laundry. About thirty seven minutes after I hit play on Phil Wang, shortle saw it spoilers coming up here. They gave it spoilers.

Are you gone okay three and a half stars out of five. Phil Wang opens with the main difference between white people and Chinese people. Straight out of the gate, doesn’t even say hello, but chortle tells us don’t expect any hack material or edgy race based content from this mild mannered comedian. Later, he tackles the N word in rap lyrics and the concerns most non black people have in singing along. His solution takes potential offense and makes it cozy, typical of a comedian so physically soft, he confesses to injuring himself on bread, complains about having to do everything himself when flying seem lightweight, but end with a more distinctive payoff, calmly dismissing a task that he doesn’t want to take on.

It’s the closest the composed comic ever gets to snapping Phil Wang Wang in their baby Netflix. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Could follow me on Twitter at DCN pod, follow me on threads where I got the proper at Daily Comedy News, and please feel encouraged to join us and start conversations in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Time, Johnny Max, today’s my least favorite day of the year with your comedy news forgot to say that part. So recently my daughter asked me, what’s your favorite holiday? And I said, Thanksgiving? Why?

Dad, Because everybody celebrates Thanksgiving, and you know, I just like it. Everybody takes the day off. We all kind of do the same thing, the same basic tradition, turkey football, go to somebody’s house. Details may differ, but you know, the basic thing. Kind of everybody in the country celebrates it.

But then I said, except me. I’d rather just stay home, play video games and get a pizza. So we continue that conversation. I said, my favorite moment of the year is Friday afternoon into Memorial Day weekend because you have the whole summer in front of you. The possibilities are endless.

There’s long sun, so you know, around five oh one on that Friday, it’s like, oh, it’s summer. This is so great. Today, the day after Labor Day, is my least favorite day of the year. We are as far from summer as possible. You can’t listen to the Beach Boys.

Shomy Buffett doesn’t sound right anymore. You gotta go back and hard rock winter music. And if you have a job, job, and I don’t have a job job right now. Boy, the bosses always are like, okay, back to work fall initiatives, and it’s just like, I don’t want to be here, dude. Anyway.

THEO Vaughn claims he was so paranoid about using the bathroom when he interviewed a former President Trump that THEO decided to urinate in a cup. Why he thought the secret Service agent might think the sound was some kind of secret message, THEO said, some super scared there. He ended up just being into a cup. They had a red solo cup that I brought in there and peed in it, and then I just bought it into the toilet. Dude, like along the side of the toilet walls.

It’d be real quiet, you know. I just kind of think I was getting super paranoid. I think super paranoid is an understatement. Phil Wang’s new special is out today. Apparently I source this from The Fordian, which is like The Guardian but a typo Phil Wang?

Are you excited about your new stand up special? Wang? In their Baby arriving on Netflix today, Phil Wang said, I am I don’t know, he said, more. Apparently because of my previous one, Philly Philly Wang Wang was affected by the pandemic. That was a really good special.

That last special was covid Wang. This is normal, actual whang. And it’s nice to have an exclamation point in the title, like Oklahoma. It gets you going before we even started. It was filmed at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

How’s that? Phil said? So cool beautiful, the only completely candilit venue in London, if not the country. Right now, stand up is being consumed in very intimate ways, often on phones, so it plays into that the combination of wood naked flames adds an extra frisen. Johnny Mack has to look up the word frisen.

Anybody out there know what frisen means. Frisen, also known as esthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively balanced effective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with pilo erect and my dresses. I’m still not sure what that means. I think it means like, oh, the environment feels cool. Prison is the French word meaning to shiver or to have chills.

The BBC has an article called Frison why music can give you chills or goosebumps, Just say goosebumps. Boston Magazine asked Dane Cook the question that anyone would ask Dane Cook. Dane, do you believe the old saying time plus tragedy equals comedy. That’s exactly the first question I would ask Dane Cook. Danefield it and said absolutely.

I’m doing a documentary right now talking about putting my brother in prison during what was the most harrowing time of my life and career, was at the height of my comedy career, in the depth of personal tragedy and betrayal. And in the documentary, not only am I laughing at some of the things I went through, but I’m enjoying being entertaining telling people how I got clobbered, literally eviscerated by that betrayal. Boston mag fought up, does comedy come from a place of anger or pain? Dane said, no, I’ve never subscribed to that. There’s certainly something to be said for overcoming trauma and overcoming challenges.

You know, a lot of good comedies come from being bullied or minimalized. But I gin it’s really more about understanding people and interpreting those clunky human moments that we all experience. Dane, when was the last time you snorted from laughing too hard? Yeah, I put a comment there. I don’t know what you’re accusing Dane Cook of, and I’m definitely not.

I just find the choice of the word snorted interesting, Deane Cook said, probably just lying in bed with my wife. We were both scrolling TikTok showing each other things. That’s still the funniest thing in the book when the guy comes out on his front porch and he doesn’t know the whole porch is black ice. He just takes a header and ends up halfway down the driveway. I’m a sucker for slapstick.

I was also listening to some old Patriso Neil bits and I laughed out loud. On the same day some old Opie and Anthony clips of them playing the male Gibson tapes where he’s yelling at his wife, and it was all just so twisted and demented. I had a good long day of laughing at all that content. Opie’s got a podcast by the way, and he’s been playing old Opie and Anthony clips on that one Vulture caught up with Langston Kerman and John Mulaney the question that everybody’s asking, will there be more episodes of Everybody’s in la Mulaney said, I think we’d like to figure out how to do more. It was a very interesting experiment in this confined amount of time.

Definitely open to it. We had lots of bits that we didn’t get to. Langston said, yeah, I’m into it, but I’m not in charge of that. By the way, speaking of John Mullany, and I shared this over the weekend, I’m play it again here. It was a really good conversation with John Marco Sarasi, and in it he slipped into a Mulani the discussion you’ll hear the extended discussion.

I said that I hadn’t realized that his vocal range was in the same range as mulaney, and then here listen to this. Milani’s is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them, It’s just the place that I do it’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup, and you different to the setup for the punchline because he changed the often. So that’s Saturday with John Marco Langston. Do you happen to know any friends in comedy who are the subject of rumors that one day they’ll host the Oscars?

Length had said, what do you want me to do? You want me to nudge him? Listen? I didn’t get a single joke on in twenty sixteen. Langston was a writer that year.

Chris rocketed everything I offered, and I respect that choice. He was doing the right thing for him, and John hosts a lot of cool stuff. I’m sure he’ll figure it out if that’s what he wants to do. Melandy said, I think I’m not hosting. I said, no, people are telling me I’m not.

Yeah, I’m not doing that. Vulture asked Josh Johnson how the Daily Show has felt since John Stewart came back. Josh said, I think we’re in a beautiful place. I think we’re doing one of the most historic election seasons the country’s ever had, and I think we’re doing with a team that’s been tested, having to go through so many different guest hosts, a testament to the agility of everybody to work with different voices and have a real sense of what the show wants to do and what the show has to do outside of just one person. So now we have John Back, I don’t have this amazing news team of people rotating that all have very distinctive voices, and they all have very different comedic takes on sometimes the same topic.

One of the ways to keep people engages to mix up both the delivery of takes and the takes themselves, and it helps keeps the show fresh and the people excited. Let me jump in here. We have on here on the Caloroga Shark Media Network Ballot. That’s our ten minute daily show ish kind of program, and I contribute to the writing. It’s been a lot of fun fun lately that show has found its voice.

So Ballot’s ba at Doublelot wherever you get your shows. There’s some shows with similar titles. It’s the one with a cartoon drawing of an elephant with Trump like hair and a donkey with Kamala like hair. Josh says, I think the daily show feels more exciting because I’m coming from the Trump years where we’d have a show ready and then Trump would do something at three and would be like, we should probably include this. So things don’t rattle to me at all.

I think it’s more sort of the unprecedented events where’re like, what’s the best way to talk about this, where we’ll look back and be really excited that we took the opportunity. Do you want to host? I’d be open to it, but right now I’m happy to be learning. I’m excited to be doing my chats and going out in the field. I’m just learning the differences between writing and being a correspondent, and the differences between performing for the studio audience and performing for people at home, and how to get more and more comfortable out in the field.

Mike Cannon will have a new special add on September fifteenth. It is called A Traumatized Animal, a little premiere on Chris de Stefano’s YouTube channel. Chris also served as the specials producer tape last April at the New York Comedy Club in Stamford. Traumatized Animal irreverent and honest look at parenting as a millennial father looking to break the chain of generational trauma and an hour jam pack with jokes and stories. Mike candidly speaks about his own mental health struggles and love for his child one on the Way, as well as deep dives into his own childhood while breaking down how it’s impacted his approach as a father.

There’s a relentless and refreshing, authentic hour of comedy from a comedian that’s ready to launch. And I love this article from Slate. It’s about Adam Sandler, they write, it needs to be said that despite his current rehabilitation on the pop culture for Mint, Adam Sandler has mostly starred in slop. I, like almost every other thirty three year old white guy on the planet, retained some fawnas for the schlocky eighty eight minute comedies who produced in the late nineties and early odds, Billy Madison, The water Boy, Big Daddy. But my affection for those films has more to do with my wistfulness for a bygone, outrageously y two K form of cable TV osmosis that’s impossible to replicate in the streaming age.

It’s ten PM on a summer night, you and your friends are a six pack deep and crushed into an unventilated basement den, someone flips on Spike TV, Happy go on, Life’s never been better. This is the world which Adam Sandler became a superstar. And I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I haven’t revisited much of his work since I left for college. The jokes weren’t great then, and they’ve only gotten worse since. People are coming around.

Have you noticed now where what five years into this podcast? You can go back? There are tons of episodes with me putting in the title Adam Sandler’s not funny or something like that, Like I’m on the record on this. People are coming around to Johnny Max’s corner of Hey, maybe Adam Sandler is not funny at all. Seems like a nice guy.

He’s a good dramatic actor, uncut gems, the Basketball one, the Space one. He can do it. But some of these things awful, Jack and Jill, come on, he’d be Halloween seriously s late right. Sandler put us all through a truly grotesque late prime. I think even in his most ardent, defenders would struggle to go to bat for click or pixels.

We’re grown ups and grown ups two those have ten eight percent of rotten tomatoes, the Sandlor Cinematic four Mammeeler war thin Quickly. There were a lot of fart jokes, a lot of poof jokes, had a potentially lethal dose of Rob Schneider, and Yeah. As Sandler enters his late fifties, all of his crimes have been miraculously washed away. Last year he won the Mark Twain Prize. His recent special bolstered by strong endorsements from needle movers like The New York Times.

The Comedy Specials being framed as the next chapter in Sandler’s ongoing cultural coronation.

Meanwhile, halfway through it, Sandler concludes a story about a genie who on…

Has he changed? Have we skipping ahead? Nearly all his peers, particularly his nineties era SNL compatriots, are heavily invested in what they perceive as a war for the soul of comedy. It’s led to some exhausting, redundant seminars posting as stand up specials. I never needed to hear Chris Roxay, the word woke.

Sandler should fit the same mold. He’s a man in his late fifties who can credit much of his success to the low browed territory in which his filmography treads. Instead of fighting in culture war, he’s dedicated as craftmanship to becoming astonishingly effective telling the same penis poop and Ford jokes he’s been telling for decades, trimming the fat, reforging their elements. Tell the land with something you could call grace, and that it is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Boy. I like summer, and there’s what eighteen seconds left on the clock, and I’ve got a time out. I could feel somemmer inning. Nikki Glaser will host the eighty second annual Golden Globe Awards.

You know, kind of sad. I really enjoyed what Joe Coy did last year, but apparently some people didn’t like this joke. 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 camber shots of Taylor Swift.

Yeah, that joke didn’t go over too well. And in my opinion, Taylor Swift murdered Joe Coy’s career. All she had to do was smile a little bit and it would have been fine. But you know, you can’t take on the Swifties. But I’m taking on the Swifties right now.

I hope the Swifties come after me. That would be great for downloads. Come on, Swifties. You know who music is awful, Taylor Swift. You know who’s overrated?

Taylor Swift. You know who sucks at football, Travis Kelcey. Yeah, bring it. Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift fan, will host the upcoming eighty second annual Golden Globe Awards. I mean good news for me because of the whole Nicky Glazer, Taylor Swift Joe Coy triangle.

There I get to do the bit for another three months. Sorry, Scott Beckett. Scott Beckett fan of the show, not a fan of the Joe Coy clip. Nikki Glaser said, I’m absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front row seat.

Actually, I think I have to host from the stage. The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy. It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked. At least I hope, so God, I hope so. Except for Taylor Swift.

It’s an exciting yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars such as Taylor Swift, who also might be getting wasted while seating next to their recent exes. That’s not a dicktt Taylor Swift, That’s just what Nicky said. Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologue. So Tina Amy or Ricky and have said exactly what we all didn’t know or desperately needed to hear. Notice she didn’t mention Joe Coy.

Hmm. I just hope to continue in that time honor tradition that might also get me canceled. Ooh yeah, Nikki, you’re gonna be so edgy on CBS or wherever this thing is. You’re gonna get canceled for hosting the Golden Globes. Ricky Gervaise didn’t get canceled.

You’re not getting canceled. You could walk on stage and say good evening, welcome to the Golden Globes. You know who’s a Sea word tailor Swift, and you’re not getting canceled. This is truly a dream job. Plus I no longer have to feel guilty for every TV show and movie I’ve binge over the past year.

It was all worth it. Now. This article here says Glazer is the latest high profile comedian to host the Golden Globes. She joins the likes of Tina Fane, Amy Pohler, Ricky Gervaise, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, and Gerard Carmichael. No mention of Joe Coy or Joe Coy.

It really wasn’t that bad. You guys are harsh on poor Joe Coy. Helen Hayin is President of the Golden Globes and says, Nikki Glaser is a comedic powerhouse who’s daring an unfiltered humor is the perfect match for the gold Globes. She’s sure to bring a unique energy and spontaneity to the show that will keep the audience entertained all night. And if by all night you mean the host basically disappears after that first twelve minutes.

Sure, ooh, we got more quotes. Jay Penske is the chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He said, Nikki Glaser brings a fresh and unmatched candor to her comedy and to the Golden Globes. Boy, you worked a long time in that quote. Huh, And I’m telling you really really good chance that the publicist went, hey, I’ve drafted a statement for you, and Jay Penske, Chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, just went yeah, fine.

Her unapologetic style made her an obvious and compelling choice as host for this year’s event. We’re hopeful this could be the first of many Golden Globes that Nicki will surprise and delight our CBS audience as well as our audiences around the globe. Okay, let’s remember that a year from now. Jay Penske, chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, is hoping that Nicky will be back for years and years. Suppose to the last year.

What it was like, Oh, shoot, the Golden Globes are next week and we don’t have a host. Who’s free? Joe Coy? You loose, yeah, man, and I’ll do it so also too, while we’re grading on the curve here. You know you gave poor Cho Coy a hard time.

He had what nine days to prepare Nikki Glaser. It’s what September one? You’ve got? When is this thing January? I don’t even know.

You got three months? No excuses? You better be good. Oh my goodness, how many quotes in this press release George Cheeks from the office of the CEO for Paramount Global and President and CEO of CBS for Now. George, I don’t know if you’ve heard the rumors about your business being sold.

George Cheeks said, The Golden Globes has a rich history as a night for entertaining provocative humor. Nicky Glazer is a comedic force who’s funny, bold and irreverent. Comedy will continue that legacy and further established the special as a can’t miss event on CBS. Oh, there was a funny comment in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us.

What was the one I gotta find this? This was great, Dylan wrote, She’ll do great as long as Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff right for her ouch zing she wrote her own stuff at the roast of Tom Brady right. Yeah, it’s a good line though. I like it. I’m punchy today.

Late Nighter had somebody at Michael Chase taping last week. Michael Chay did, I don’t know, a self made pilot for a late night show. I don’t know what he’s trying to do here, Michael, nobody has any money anymore. The only way you’re getting this is if Lauren Michaels goes, especially in the fiftieth anniversary year of SNL. If Lauren goes, I want Michael to have a show, You’ll have a show.

Other than that. I don’t know if this was good or bad. I haven’t read the article yet. I think you’re really funny on SNL, but no one has any money. You’re not getting a late night show.

The eight hundred pound Gerrilla says the congregation could be the new dog Bound, at least if Michael Chase first episode of his late night talk shows any indication this was one of those no phones allowed shows, they said. The show was at the loft at City Winery, which seemed to have sold out it’s one hundred and fifty person capacity. The stage featured a makeshift desk for chay, a couch for guests, and a DJ off to the side. The show inquited here to the trappings of a traditional late night show, and that seems to be by design. The live show experience seemed more exploratory than anything else, with the comic keeping things loose.

He explained that his main vision at this point is to create a conversation with the audience after a set by comedian Derek Gaines. It was more of an opening act than a typical warm up comic. Chay took center stage to deliver some of his own stand up comedy versus a traditional monologue. Then came the guests. All right.

Former SNL writer Alex English appeared in characters a singer sitting for a chat, then singing Beyonce’s Freedom. Comedians Amina Amani and Reggie Conquest also guested. That’s interesting to me, you know, no big names there, and if you’re actually trying to ship this thing, that’s when you call on the favors and you go, hey, somebody with some name value, can you do this thing? Like I was just listening to Conan’s podcast with Robert Smigel and I can’t remember if that episode is new or from like two years ago, but they were talking about when Conan was doing pilots, and again those were official NBC pilots. I think Jason Alexander was one of the fake guests.

You actually Jason Alexander, but it wasn’t a real show, you know what I mean. But Jason Alexander did it. Late Nighter, says the result was a show that feels less like the tonight’s show, despite the fact that was wearing a foul and sweatshirt, and more like the Chris Gathered show where John Mulaney’s Everybody in la. Before wrapping up, it evolved into a seemingly unplanned dating game style panel with three audience members, all of whom volunteered to be considered for a date with the money. The only pre written material came by a way of fake ads interspersed throughout the show.

Beyond a couple of references about possibly pitching it to streamers or showing a tape to the City Winery event to Lorne, he didn’t elaborate and where he’d like it to go. This is random. My daughter just texted me the seventeen year old dog I was telling you about at the end of yesterday’s show. So she is a Border Collie and will patrol I call it. You know, her senses are gone and she got stuck in the bushes in the yard and my daughter just wrote my fitbit registered me rescuing the dog from the bushes as a swim.

Apparently it was forty four calories and took nineteen minutes. Dad was not home when that happened. I digress Jay made one thing clear, There’s more to come. He tild the crowd. He wanted to do more of these live events, so fans you missed out keep their eyes open.

Sticking with a Saturday Night Live. Chris lem apparently has had it with Saturday Night Live. He’s heard that cocaine is back at thirty Rock according to a video posted on Instagram. And if they are doing coke at SNL, Chris Fleming wonders, where’s the rush, where’s the excitement? Let’s see some results.

Then you’re doing coke? To do a Zillo sketch, at least Belushi used to run through a wall. Chris Fleming said, you better be morking Mindy season one. If you’re on cocaine. The crime to do coke simply to be boring or bomb at the Weekend Update desk.

If Colin Jost is on coke, Fleming swears to God it’ll carry out some unnamed threat and frustration. Fleming then went out on Colin Jost and said he exists in a very interesting space where we’re aware of him, but he’s the last thing we’ve ever thought about, Like if knowledge and awareness were a land mask, he would be on the furthermost tip of the peninsula. He’s the final pebble before the estuary of not knowing. How do Colin Joe’s parents remember that they have him as a kid. They must have so many mnemonic devices in place and note cards all over the house.

Inside the fridge it says Colin jostas your son? Why why are we going after Collin Jows? This seems armless. How to Scarlet Johansson not download RAYA? I had to look it up, Old, that’s a dating app.

Within fifteen seconds of leaving her house. She must have Google glasses that say Colin Jost exists and he’s your husband. Tim Heidecker commented, wow, otsco at Cosca through in a savage Nick Fune wrote, thank you for your service man A little long here on Labor Day. Usually I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel this week, but no, I’ve got a lot I can tell him. We’re any going to bum Phil Wang, he’s got a new special tomorrow.

One of my favorite comedians. This from the Guardian. Phil will kind of material you currently drawn to? Phil Wang said, silly joke. Silly’s coming back, comedy got very serious, particularly during the Trump and Boris years.

I have this theory that when politics gets silly, comedy gets earnest. This is armchair sociology, but I think politics and comedy are in this symbiotic relationship. One has to balance the other out. Now the politics is a bit more serious, at least in the UK, comedians can stop speaking like politicians and just be funny again. Phil Jost did have I Got News for you at short notice back in May.

Howd that go? Phil Wang said, I got the call the night before, halfway through a pint at the pub. Was thrilling. Growing up, my mom used to bring back videos of the show from the UK, so it’s always been part of my life. The first time I was a panelist felt like a dream.

Hosting it was the next step up. He was asked about the Labor government. What do you think of them so far? Phil Wang said they’re more boring, which is exactly what I wanted. It’s weird not to be following some cycle drama every day.

If Kamala Harris gets into We’ll love lawyers as leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, imagine all that boring economic stability. Phil Wang was in Wonka and broke his arm. What happened? I had a small part and it was my first ever day on a movie set. I had to do a tap dance on a table and after a few takes it broke under me.

I seemed to fall in slow motion. I remember being in mid air thinking Timothy Chalamey is right there. How embarrassing, and crunch I landed hard. The next morning I woke up and couldn’t move my arm. Being in pain with Willy Wonka in full purple costume being sympathetic was quite drippy.

Phil Wang, you were a huge succession fan. What’s replaced it in your viewing repertoire? Phil said, my girlfriend is making me watch Sex in the City. The movies aren’t so great, but the TV show’s genuinely funny, and the performances re spectacle. All right, Who do you identify with good question?

Definitely not Carry Sadly not Samantha. In some ways, I’m a Charlotte, but she’s too prudish. I suspect I’m probably Miranda. And that’s enough for labor Day. Let’s hit the beach.

Some must fall. That’s your companies for today’ se tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I just want to tease something I’ve got for next Saturday. I recorded with John Marcos Serraisi and along the way he slipped into a Malini impression. I just want to share with you.

I’m really into this. Milanies is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them. It’s just the place that I do. It’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup, and you different to the setup for the punchline because you change the often.

So that’ll be on Saturday. John Marcos Sarrissi is my guest today. My kind of story from the Daily Mail. Despite soaring straight into the Netflix Top ten list, fans were not in used by Adam Sandler’s newest special. That’s right, one user said on Twitter.

Let me start out by saying I’ve been a big fan of the Sandman for decades. With that being said, this special was effing awful. The audio was absolute dog poo, Adam mumbling everyone else just so loud, including the crowd. The sound engineer needs to be fired. All the scripted pieces that are supposed to be candid or techy and take away from the special.

Another user said I only watched about ten minutes. It was too hard to understand what he was saying. The format was just bad or something. Another said I’m a huge fan of him too and thought the way he was doing it was clever, but I ended up stopping at about fifteen minutes for that reason it was too hard to understand. I’m glad it wasn’t just me.

I have not had a chance to watch yet. It’s been a crazy week in my life. Doug Stanhope. It looked like he had a crazy week, but there was a twist. Fans of Doug Stanhope were worried that he’d been arrested on a live stream, but false alarm.

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office tells DMZ that Doug stanhopes Arizona home was used for a training mission by the county swat team and Doug stand and okate them the full go ahead to do it. The spokesperson clarified when the trainer kicked off nobody was home, and then Doug showed up during the final training scenario, asked to join as a role player and got the green light. It was all voluntary. Doug was not arrested, not involved in any illegal activity. The scene did look super real, it is being described.

It shows Doug Stanhope appearing to be apprehended by multiple armed men entering his home, with one figure clearly identified as him by viewers. There was also another guy in the house involved in the role play, and knowing Doug stand Hope just a smidge, he probably thinks this is the greatest thing that ever happened. The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla celebrates Matt Rife on having the number one most watched special on its channel OnlyFans has thirty million views on YouTube one hundred million total plays across all platforms. One of the founders of The Gorilla said, we wanted to recognize this important moment not just for Matt, but also for fans that watched the special.

Meanwhile, the Daily Trojan with a hot take.

They say the comedy world is rife with problems. Get it women. Comedy fans are often treat it as less important that needs to change. The Daily Trojan Rights and stand up comedy. Crowd work is an important skill to have, especially when starting out open mic nights.

Matt Rife went viral for his crowd work on TikTok, especially among women. Some found him attractive, or charming, or funnier, maybe the mix of the three. Regardless of how the Matt Rife fan pipeline operates, it really works. Yet it seems like Rife is not satisfied with his success. Before the premiere of his Netflix special Natural Selection in twenty three, he told Variety, There’s one thing I wanted to tackle in the special, showing people that despite the way you think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women.

I would argue this special is way more for guys. The Daily Trojan Rights. I look at the rest of his YouTube channel shows the almost exclusively post crowd work content, with such titles as Spitting Game to a Veteran and Handicapped crowd Work Compilation. The latter’s over thirty minutes long and has two point eight million views. Matt’s doing completely fine with popularity.

There’s no reason to rebuke the women who support you. Aside from misogyny, There’s nothing wrong with the wanting to expand your audience, but it doesn’t have to come make the expense of your audience. Celebrities don’t know anything to their fans, but there’s a concerning pattern of disregard toward women. Women are able to appreciate comedy, music, and art just as well as any other person. Success with women comedy fans should be understood as regular success, not something less than.

America Magazine with a Matt Rife hot take. Comedian Matt Rife’s crowd work depends on marginalized people in the audience. In Walking Red Flag, Jake Martin writes, contrary to first impressions, Matt Rife is not Dane Cooked. If you understand this reference, congratulations you are old. Dane Cook was, at the beginning of this millennium, like Riife is today, a good looking, twenty something white guy’s stand up comedian who’s bread and butter was raunchy and misogynistic humor.

Cook was at one point able to parlay his enormous stand up success, which included selling out Madison Square Garden, into an ever so brief a film career. Rife is almost that. But when I say he’s not the second coming of Cook. That’s important because Rife’s level of success has yet to reach the levels that Cook achieved at his peak. For you younger fans, I was doing this during Dane Mania.

Dane was really popular there for four years, five years something like that. The other comedians hated him. Part of it was just jealousy that he’s a MySpace comedian. Met Dane once he was cool. Back to America Magazine, where rifus a pass Cook is in focusing a stand up less on the scripted, structured monologue that has been part and parcel of the medium since at least Vaudeville.

Instead, Rife has focused on interactive crowd work. His best moments are in his extemporaneous back and forth with audience members, particularly those from traditionally mortalized groups such as people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, and the elderly. In one set, when an elderly man tells him that he’s been in a wheelchair for thirteen years, Rife responds, it’s nice just to relax, isn’t it, then turns to the audience. It says optimism. Rife gestures back to the man says optimism Now I read that as flat as possible, and I thought those were two good jokes.

Maybe I’m a jerk. When Rife interacts with a young woman with several palsy who tells him from the crowd that he’s hot, he responds, you want your hands now. Just because you’re in a wheelchair doesn’t mean it won’t beat your brakes off. That’s a bit hacky. Rife’s going out of his way to interact with the marginalized in a show speaks to two correlative aspects of humor, both of which open up a space for the construction and the deepening of authentic relationships.

One of those aspects is the knocking over of sacred cows, which in turn leads to another aspect, the deflation of tension. The one two commedy procedure proves liberating for the audience and allows for authentic engagement. In Rife’s case, that authentic engagement is usually full of scatological and sexual humor, but that’s beside the point. In its foreshadowing of the marginalized, He’s given them a public space to fully manifest their humanity. They’re not being celebrated, they’re not being degraded.

They’re being allowed to be who they are. Chelsea Handler has a new residency. That’s a great gig if you can get one. She’s got one at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas is a thirty two hundred seat Chelsea theater. It’s called Chelsea at the Chelsea.

Well done agent who put that together. It’s a monthly or so gig. Tonight November tewon and thirtieth January eighteenth or twenty first eight early teenth. Had she come up with the schedule, she joked, I think they were just trying to link it to my menstrual cycle. That’s Vegas for you.

Some spoilers for her material and I know you’re going tonight, so you might want to hit pause here. She says. There’s a story about me playing pickleball on three edibles at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. There’s a story about my field romance with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo before he was canceled. And there’s a story about Bill Cosby.

It’s a shame she didn’t mention one of her ex boyfriends, you know who I mean there, Scott Beckett, because then I could go into a bit. But I’m not gonna do it. For those of you who don’t know. She used to date Joe Coy, one time host of the Golden Globe, so Handler says of Cosby, this was many years ago in his hotel room. But I had two men with me, so my experience didn’t in the way it could have.

There’s not many people with such crazy stories, but I feel if you’re sincere, you can’t go wrong. The people who are my fans rely on me for the truth. Does she party? I’m more of a homebody. Okay, Well I’m in Vegas.

Sure I’ll be out with my friends gambling, partying, you know, But unless I’m doing that or on stage, it’s low key for me. I’m in bed by ten my kind of person. On the weekends. Now sometimes I’ll stab two eleven fifteen, crazy, right. I am up early, though, Chelsea said.

I just got a new dog and we went wine tasting up in Napa. He’s a chow chow named Doug, and I’ve had chouse before and they’re not very social. They don’t play fetch. But he has all those traits in one dog, and it’s impossible not to notice his good looks. I don’t want to objectify him, but he’s so handsome.

Chelsea’s favorite musicians I listened to with Spotify called Golden Hour. It’s a mixture of cool soul, funky jazz, and you know, happy hour songs. But I also listened to Nathaniel Rateliff, I w hay to sort of perform, and I enjoy Chapel Rowan songs and Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift of course. Eh, you know Chelsea used to date. Somebody made a Taylor Swift joke one time.

I mean, you’re practically begging me to play at Scott Beckett’s driving around listening to the podcast. He’s throwing stuff at his dashboard. I’m not gonna do the bit, Scott, Relax. What up and coming comedience is Chelsea? Healler excited about?

Sorry, are Chelsea Hayler most excited about? That’s how English works. Her current favorites are Yaminica Saunders and rosebud Baker. How about politics, she said, I heard a great quote recently, decades can go by without any progress happening, and then within weeks it could feel like decades of progress. It feels like there’s a good momentum good energy, but I won’t touch politics in my shows.

My shows for people to enjoy themselves. They’re coming to see my stand up back to take a load off. If you enjoy what I do. Here one are the ways you can support the shows. You can go to buy me acoffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News.

There’s some money in the tip shar I will take your money. I’ll go to the National don’t chain where pumpkin is back. I put on the app the other day and they were like pumpkin donut and I was like, yeah, pumpkin donut. You got me. So I’ll be fattening up until when did they get rid of the pumpkin?

Like November sixth or so, Like I get how Halloween works, but then like there’s some pumpkin spice hanging around. They keep using it. By the way, you know, it’s really tasty and tm I here the butterprick can. But if you suffer from kidney stones, like one podcast host in his basement, butter per can, we’ll create kidney stones. Don’t do it.

I get that it’s delicious, stick with the caramel, maybe the pumpkin. Anyway, Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna give you a random, non comedic podcast recommendation. Question of Faith is hosted by my buddy, Deacon Mike. So yes, it’s a spiritual podcast, but that’s not why I’m listening.

Apparently Deacon Mike put together this softball league, and he’s been updating us on the Catholic softball league out in Cleveland, and I’m fascinated by this Question of Faith. Wherever you get your podcast, at least I hope where you get your podcasts. Hopefully Mike has submitted it everywhere. It’s definitely on Apple Podcasts. Greg Fitzimmons says, I still walk on stage with a crumpled up piece of paper with bullet points on it.

I have notes when I’m trying new stuff, and I still get excited about it. Sometimes I’ll be out to dinner with some friends. It’s ten pm. We’ve been sitting there for hours, eating, talking and laughing to you. We dropped the g the Queen’s came out, and I’ll be like, all right, I got ahead into town.

They’re like, what are you talking about? And I’m like, oh, I got a show, and they say how much you’re making and I say thirty dollars. Pat McGann is getting ready to open up for Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian’s doing four nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City. That’s insane.

Pat says, I grew up with funny people. We walked to school together and try to bust each other up. Combine that with just like in comedy my parents, I remember them talking about Seinfeld even when it’s just a regular on Carson. Was Cherry a regular on Carson? He was definitely a regular on Letterman?

Was he a regular on Carson? Mike from the Letterman Pod? Hit me up on the side, tell me the answer to that one. I’d sneak away to watch Eddie Murphy Delirious. When you’re ten twelve years old, you understand some of the material, but you’re also seeing this guy on SNL.

He’s also a man of Pearl Jam and he says their latest record, Dark Matter, is a favorite. I’ve been listening to it front to back. I just let it play. And that is your comedy news for today. And before we go, a very happy birthday to my dog.

She is seventeen today. Happy birthday, doggie. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you here tomorrow.