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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I got some nice compliments about that Hepburg episode on Saturday, thank you very much. So that was to accommodate my schedule and had a pre tape a couple here, which means today I want to catch up on a few major items I didn’t get to comment on yet. George Lopez says he’s retiring from stand up comedy after his next comedy special.

Lopez says, I’ve subjected the American people to enough of my crap. This is making me feel ancient. When I started at serious comedy, the very first comedian I met in that role was George Lopez, and I have seen people come and go. I was recently thinking of my friend Lisa Lampinelli, who had a hot career for a while. She’s retired.

Ron White retired, Lewis Black retiring. It’s just crazy, Lopez says, it seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has just never like me my whole life, and it’s a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point. Lopez got his start and stand up comedy in the eighties. Appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Johnny Carson Tonight Show.

In nineteen ninety two, he’d tell the La Times that he’d like to start on his own TV show like Seinfelder Rozanne, where he would have full creative control because the parts they write are horrible for Latinos. He did get his own show, The George Lopez Show, which ran for six seasons on ABC. Lopez is only sixty three. He had a kidney transplant at one point, right, so you know, maybe that factor’s in. He says.

This upcoming special on Amazon is the last one. It was filmed in Los Angeles September twenty seventh and twenty eighth as part of his All Right Comedy Tour. He’s not entirely retiring, though, He’s going to continue to work on his NBC series, Lopez Versus Lopez. He says, I wanted to spend more time with my daughter, and I love the show. Lopez Versus Lopez just headed into its third season on NBC.

You’ve probably seen some Jerry Seinfeld headlines. Jerry Seinfeld backtracked on the comments he made earlier this year. Or you may recall, Jerry had blamed the extreme left and PC crap for ruining comedy. Jerry told The New Yorker back in April that he believed TV comedy was suffering because people are worrying so much about offending other people. Is quote, then nothing really affects comedy.

People always need it, they need it so badly, and they don’t get it. Used to be, you’d go home at the end of the day and most people go, Okay, Cheers is on, Okay, mashes on and oh, Mary Tyler More is on. All the family’s on. You just expected to be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well guess what where is it?

This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands committee’s groups, here’s our thought about this joke. Well, that’s the end of your comedy. I agree with him about the comedy by committee thing, absolutely, you may recall Julia Louis Driff has pushed back, saying I want to hear people starting to complain about political correctness, and I understand why people might push back on it. To me, that’s red flag because it sometimes means something else.

Well, Jerry has now backpedaled. He was on Tom Poppa’s podcast.

All right, here’s where I’ll jump in.

I think Jerry did Tom a favor. Why do you say that, Johnny Mack. Tom Papa has a special on Netflix next week. Papa used to open for Jerry. They are friends, they are good friends.

And I think this was an interesting place for Jerry Seinfeld to make headlines because now we’re talking about Tom Papa a week before his special. See how all this works, Folks pay attention to timing on things on Tom Papa’s podcast, which, by the way, the special on Netflix next week. We’ll talk about that one tomorrow. Jerry said his original comments were wrong and he regretted saying it. Jerry told Papa, I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy.

I did say that. It’s not true. If you’re champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re gonna make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate.

You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, where’s the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to. Does culture change? Are the things I used to say that I can’t because people are always moving the gate.

Yes, but that’s the biggest easiest target. You can’t say certain words whatever they are about groups, So what the accuracy of your observation has to be one hundred times finer than that to just be a comedian. So I don’t think, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I’m taking that back now. Officially they have not.

It’s not my business to like or not like where the culture’s at. It’s my business to make the gate to stay with my skiing analogy. Seinfeld denied suggesting he would never perform at colleges because young people were to PC. He told Tom Papa, I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids performing for them.

I do colleges all the time. Which is interesting because in twenty fifteen, Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN show The Herd quote, I don’t play colleges, which is a chair, but I mean maybe nine years ago he didn’t know he does. I’ll be fair, I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me don’t go near colleges they’re so pc. I’ll give you an example. My daughter’s fourteen wife says to her, well, you know, the next couple years, I think maybe you’re gonna want to be hanging around the c anymore on the week out and so you can see the boys.

No, my daughter says, She says, that’s sexist. They just want to use these words. That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice. They don’t even know they’re talking about as Then, if he believed such her attitude’s hurt comedy, he replied, yes, it does. Jerry Seinfeld says, you’re welcome.

All right, more stuff. Johnny Mack asked to catch up on last week. Jim Gaffigan crushed the Al Smith dinner. This was a last Thursday. Kamala Harris became the first presidential candidate in forty years to skip the Catholic charity bash.

Jim did not pull his punches and said, you know, this event has been referred to as the Catholic met Gala. Twenty two percent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I’m sorry, why is Vice President Harris not here? Gaff again got some laughs as he ridiculed Kamala from making times like that naughty podcast call her daddy.

Jim said, I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. In her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on the View Howard Stern Colbert in the longtime staple of campaigning to call her daddy podcast. You know what I think this is?

I think she doesn’t like me, Chuck, Do I have bad breath? Gaffigan talked about the change on the ticket, saying the Democrats have been telling us Trump’s reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned to this threat they staged a coup. Else did They’re democratically elected and come and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true.

Really makes me consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes prayers take three and a half years out at George Clooney op ed this is killer stuff by Gaffigan. So great. One person on Twitter wrote, hello nine one one. I’d like to report the murder of an entire political party. Malania Trump did not enjoy one of Jim’s jokes.

Jim referenced the whole thing with Trump’s comments about their eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs, Jim said. During the first and only debate, President Trump talked about migrants taking cats and eating them. You know, if you’re keeping track at home, this is the second time grabbing a kitty has been part of a campaign issue. Think about it.

It’s a little naughty. I’ll leave it there. Trump laughed at the joke. Milania remained, quote stoneface. We are going to be very political today.

That is just the news. Donald Trump said he leaned on Fox News to help him come up with a tight ten minutes of joke for the dinner. Rumors on social media were that the jokes had been written by the network’s news and opinion hosts. Trump said, nope, Nick Topolo, quoting Trump, I had a lot of people helping a lot of people, a couple people from Fox. Actually I shouldn’t say that, but they wrote some of the jokes.

The most part, I didn’t like any of them. In a statement, Fox News confirmed that no employee or freelancers wrote the jokes. According to one person familiar with Trump set, Nick Topolo contributed one joke that Trump used that is not uncommon. When Obama was president, he used some writers from The Daily Show for his White House Correspondent’s dinner routine. Andrew Schultz has accused the Brooklyn Academy of Music of canceling his scheduled stand up special just hours after he had Trump on his podcast.

Schultz, on his podcast Flagrant, said three and a half hours after the Trump interview, they canceled the shows, f them and f them forever. He shared an email from the Brooklyn Academy of Music telling him that his November shows had been canceled, with only a vague explanation quote, after some internal discussions with leadership, it was decided that BIM is not the right fit for the show at this time. Schultz says he doesn’t know for sure if it was because of the Trump interview, but the day before it came out, we were ready to go. We were gonna go on sale this week. We’ve had this venue locked in for a month now.

It’s not like we might do it here. It’s booked, it’s ready to go. We’re going on sale. This week, Jimmy Kimmel called out Donald Trump for sharing what Kimmell says is a made up story about the few times he has been on Kimmel. Trump was on the Full End podcast.

Kimmel shared some clips from that. On Full Send, Trump called Kimmel a loser, and Trump said, quote, I do Jimmy Kimmel. I did him a lot, to which Kimmel said, you might be confusing me with Stormy Daniels. Kimmell then pushed back and said, We’ve been on almost twenty two years. You’ve been on three times, Mike.

The situation from Jersey Shore has been on more times than you. But go on, Trump said, Kimmell used to greet me on the sidewalk outside his studio. This was before politics, of course, But I’d come in and be standing on the sidewalk saying, oh, oh, sir, can I bring you in? And he’d bring me in every time, Kimill said, and by every time he means no times. He loves telling this made up story.

Never did I ever stand on the sidewalk to greet Donald Trump or any guests. The only time I’ve ever walked out in the sidewalk for Donald Trump was to urinate on his star in the Walk of Fame. He has invited Trump back onto the show on one condition, he has to take a cognitive test. Kimmell said, if he wants to come back and accept the invitation that I made last night, that he’d take a cognitive test against Kamala Harris, I will for sure roll out the burnt orange carpet and go meet him on Hollywood Drive. Sticking with Late Night, seth Meyer has won the bet with the guy on his staff when the Steelers beat the New York Jets.

Because everyone beats the New York Jets, I mean, that’s not hard. Meyers had a bet with Kenny Coyle, a Late Night Utility Grip and Fierce Jets Dave Ot. The original bet was if the Jets won, Meyers had to play a mug featuring the final score on his desk for the rest of the football season. If the Steelers won, Coyle would get a tattoo of the score and seth Meyer’s signature on his arm. Steelers thirty seven, Jets fifteen.

Speaking of sports, where you’re watching ESPN’s College Game Day over the weekend, Tony Hinchcliff was on This caused a stir on social media. I’m just going to quote Tony Hinchcliff here. Send your letters to Tony, not to Johnny Mack. Tony Hinchcliff said, quote, I didn’t realize we had pre best in lesbians kicking today. Quote it’s an incredible look.

He’s like broke back Bob the Builder unquote. He also referred to another player as quote Matthew m kinda gay. Hassan Minaj’s special is out today. It is called Off with His Head. You may recall Hassan was probably going to host The Daily Show and got in some trouble with his previous special, The King’s Gesture, in which he elaborated on some real life events as comedians tend to do.

But I kind of understand on the other side, why that might not be a good look for The Daily Show. Who knows? Hassan specialist taped to July at the San Jose Civic Center. Des Bishop has a new comedy special called Of All People that’s out on eight undound Gerrilla Today. Of All People’s an hour of original stand up and a culmination of years of experience on stage all over including Queen’s, Ireland and China.

Bishop’s material often focuses on cultural differences he noticed being a transplant into Irish society from Queens at a young age. He always incorporates a lot of material about in language. I’m supposed to speak to him later in the week, so that might be Saturday’s episode. I haven’t quite planned it out yet, nor have I actually recorded the interview, which I need to prep for. But I used to hang out in the Irish bars in Queens with Irish Irish people.

I’m Irish American and cash cantell from my American brogue here, and I remember when they in the nineties, the Irish would be like, hey, you want to get some crack? And the Irish word crack cr a c means good fun. I was in New York City in the nineties crackman something entirely else, so people were like, you want to get some crack, and I’d be like, what what are you talking about? No. From cardplayer dot Com, you’re home for comedy news.

South Korean comedian Legion Oh in hot Water, he revealed he broke the country’s laws by illegally gambling. He confessed to be borrowing money from friends and family, including reportedly one hundred million one that’s seventy four thousand US dollars from Jim and from K pop band BTS. In the social media post, Lee jin Ho said, I will fully cooperate with the police investigation and accept the consequences of my actions. It was the harsh advice from those close to me and the fear of losing the work I loved that finally made me stop gambling. However, by then I had already received financial help from many people.

I am steadily repaying the debt each month and intend to fully pay it off on my own, even if it takes the rest of my life. Lee was the host of the variety show Knowing Bros. South Korea Network GTBC, in a statement said Lee jin Ho will leave the program starting with this week’s recording. We will edit out as much of his previously filmed content as possible. Yikes.

Lee was also part of a Netflix show called Comedy Revenge. He missed a press conference to promote the debut. Netflix said we’re deeply disappointed to learn about this just a day before the show’s premiere. However, Netflix said he will remain in the show. Because the program is structured around team competitions, fully editing out specific teams presents significant challenges to the narrative.

We ask for your understanding. Billy Crystal was honored for his devotion to the Clippers. For some reason, the Basketball Hall of Fame put in Billy Crystal. He’s part of the Nasmith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein Superfan Gallery.

Billy Crystal said, how strange should be getting a ring before any of the Clippers. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link of the show notes. Tell you how that works. A short version five bucks a month.

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jeffries told Rolling Stone, New Zealand. I’m very interested in doing as many different things in entertainment as possible. I like a challenge, I like doing something new.

I don’t know if 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 I’m an entertainer more than a comedian. Jim studied musical theater and opera at the West Australian Academy Performing Arts. Who knew He did a couple open Mike’s spots in Western Australia and Sydney, and then decided Australia simply wasn’t equipped to give him the career he envisioned. He wanted more, Jim said, you had, and I’m not kidding, maybe twelve rooms, two purpose built comedy clubs and ten rooms that did comedy occasionally in a country that at that stage was twenty million people.

That’s not enough to make a living. Even to this day. If you’re a big comic on Australia, you’re doing morning radio. I don’t want to wake up in the morning. So in two thousand and one he went to England started getting work and said, I was doing over three hundred IT shows a year for the first few years, and that sounds like a lot more than it is, because I was doing three or four on a Friday, three or four on a Saturday.

But if there was a corner of a room for me to stand up, I was taking the opportunity smile politely. He spoke to Hari Condobolu. They were curious about his pop culture references in his shows, and Harry said, I’ve been waiting for somebody to ask that question my whole career. I’m a full human being, and I felt like at a certain point, looking at my stand up, probably when I was in my mid dely twenties, I realized that I’m doing this job, but I’m not in it, you know what I mean. It’s almost like I’m playing a role and I’m not into it.

To make this material, mind have to be in it. People have to see me as a full human being. So why don’t I talk about the other things I care about to find interesting? A five minute Weezer joke which doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere else, but it’s me. As long as there’s enough for everybody.

I feel like those moments are really special. They’re both something I find funny and also wink to the other people who love those things. It makes me feel part of a community in a weird way, a community of fans. The goal is not to be pandery. The goal is to be like, I’m this too.

When I drop a Pixie’s reference is because I want people to know that I love the Pixies. I think, from a practical perspective, the more you personalize a show, both in terms of a shared moment in this town, in the space of the audience, as well as this is my family, this is my world. These are things I like. When you talk about the heavier stuff, you’re hearing it from somebody you relate to, as opposed to some stranger that shows up and starts yelling at you. The more you can become friends with the audience, connect to the audience, the more they’re willing to listen to things that might be uncomfortable.

This is really smart. The audience is a reflection of me. In a weird way. You look out of the crowd, and you see all these people you could protest with, go to a concert with, talk baseball with, it’s the same people. It makes the audience feel like we’re all friends you just haven’t met yet.

Jim Brewer is out on the Survival with Laughter tour. Al dot Com was curious why that name, and Jim said, it’s pretty simple. It’s gonna be the craziest few weeks probably I’ve seen a long time. Can’t get much crazier than four years ago. So no matter who he feels right, or who you believe in, or what team you’ve joined, ain’t nobody surviving this one unless we unite, and we got to start by funding the laughter and all of it.

As for doing political material, Bruce says, the only way I know is to bring it down to as common street sense as possible, so that no matter what you think, you believe that you’ve learned from the news and all your favorite slow and all the favorite things you like to talk about your opponent, he didn’t create any of that. You’ve been told that. So to find the common sense, I mean, it’s not even political. But if you want to start with Joe Biden, would you allow the CEO of your company to talk the way he does and ramble and not know what he’s doing. You’re gonna let that guy run the biggest company in the world.

Why don’d you allow it in your presidency? So right there, the whole things are ready to choke. What do you get into in your shows these days? Brewer? Usually the first ten to fifteen minutes is please everyone wake up, and then after that we talk about other things, like the way I’ve been hitting other cultures and going to other countries, and then I go into family stuff and where I’m met in life, we all do fast things.

We’re like, oh, let’s have a fast on sugar, Let’s have a fast on food. How about you have a fast on everything you’ve been watching and see how it does. And That’s what I’ve been doing. When I’ve been traveling. I like to go to remote places.

I’ve been in Africa three times this year. Yes, for the SA Far East, but it’s also one of the most peaceful places I’ve ever been to because I don’t have to stare at the screen the whole time, and then when I come back, I realize how nutty everything is. David Cross said, I don’t live in Los Angeles. I lived there for as little time as I possibly could, and then get out of there. I’ve been in New York for twenty four years.

I see things every day. I talk about things extensively that have happened to me in New York. Things I see in New York are things I experience in New York. And I’m a firm believer in that LA makes you a different person. Whether that’s better or worse is relative, but it’s certainly not better for me.

As an artist, Cross played Central Park. It was called David Cross in his Superpals. Cross said the summer stage thing. They approached me about this big show and said here’s the budget, and I don’t want it with that chunk of money. And I don’t think I’m at the place where I can do an hour and a half by myself, at least when I accepted the offer.

So I said, let’s get some friends together and we’ll divvy up a check. Unfortunately, I got rained out on the original date. We lost literally half the lineup, but we replaced those guys. Outdoor shows bring a challenge, he says. I’ve done a bunch of outside shows, and I think every comic will say the same thing.

You can kind of figure out why there’s not a lot of time for silence, like in the theater and the focus on you it’s dark. You can tell a story you want up telling jokes differently when you’re doing an outdoor show, at least I do. CNN wrote about Don’t Tell Comedy. I’m only seeing great things about Don’t Tell Comedy. Lea Samson was about to give up comedy and then got booked to do a shit Don’t Tell in La.

Then Don’t Tell Comedy posted her full set on YouTube along with a clip on TikTok. Overnight, her Instagram follower count doubled. The TikTok had four million views. Eight hundred thousand people have seen the full ten minutes set on YouTube. Samson said, I’ve always felt like I’ve been a really good comic, a hard worker, and I just needed people to see me, and Don’t Tell did that for me.

At a recent show in Atlanta, one hundred and forty nine people packed into a basement boxing gym to see seven local comedians perform. Rather than hoping a clip post on TikTok blows up, Don’t Tell gives comedians access to a built in audience on social media. Don’t Tell founder Kyle Kazanjian Amri says, the tough thing in comedy is you’re either living in a multimillion dollar house, so you’re scraping by to pay rent. The pathway to make money as flipped, comedians have to develop and nurture their fan bases through other avenues like a podcast or newsletter, so fans want to buy tickets to see them perform. But the idea of comedians having fans as a relatively new phenomenon, the article points out in the past, sure there was Jerry Seinfeld, but for the most part, comedians were just some name on a Friday night at the comedy club.

Comedian Grace Johnson says Don’t Tell right now stands out as one of the premier places to go for comedy and the way that Comedy Central has been especially as someone who’s been doing it for a shorter time than others, it’s been a really legitimizing thing. Don’t Tell. It doesn’t care how many Instagram followers you have. They just care that you’re funny. Johnson said.

The secret sauce of Don’t Tell is just like is it good? Okay? Sabrina Bryer is one of Vulture’s comedians you should know and will know. Worst show first. Then one that comes to mind is a small show I did in Brooklyn with friends.

I’m pretty sure there were more performers there than audience members. One by one, my friends and I got up on stage four sets and just reacted to the super awkward energy in the room. Do you have any comedy opinion hills that you will die on? She said, I really believe that the innovative creativity of TikTok and other more unconventional platforms and ways of entertaining should be just as valued as the conventional modes. Great comedy can be found anywhere.

Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice, best. In the beginning of my TikTok journey, there were some people who suggest that I step out of my character for video, and I’m so glad I stuck to my gut and didn’t. I’m so grateful for the platform. It’s a totally fictional world for me to play in. Best advice I got from my mom, who told me to keep pursuing comedy because, according to her, you have to be in comedy because you can’t help but be funny.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Interesting story from Greg Fitzsimmons about the classic era of Howard Stern. He said, a lot of comedians used to cycle through the Howard Stern Show. They called it Jackie’s Chair because when Jackie Martinley left the show, it opened up a spot for people to sit in, usually during the news.

It was a very jokey segment. Me and Howard had great chemistry. Kennison would come in and he would have stayed out all night and it’d still be drunk, and they’d have a couple of hookers with him. He’d take over the show and it was magic. It was amazing.

But that wasn’t what I was doing at all. I was just there to be a team player. They wanted to replace Jackie’s Chair permanently, and they brought in Doug Stanhope. I was one of the guys that brought in a lot already Lang. Jeff Ross an article in The New York Post that it came down to me and already Lang obviously already got it, which was well deserved.

He just had a lot more to offer in terms of what he had done last weekend than the guy was married with two kids.

Also, he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

When they didn’t get it, Howard told me the door was open. Anytime you want to come on the show, just let me know, and he was true to that. Anytime I’ve ever asked to come on the show for a thirteen year period, I just came on and it was great. Jim Jeffries told Rolling Stone News Zealand about the time in Manchester a remember from the audience assaulted Jim. Jim says, I distinctly remember what happened.

I got punched in the face and I sort of fall to the ground and then he hit me in the back of the head, and the audience came up and rushed him. To this day, if I go out drinking, which I don’t do anymore, he’s been sober for three years. If I go out in Manchester, someone will come up to me and say they were one of the guys that jumped on the stag. Should defend me. I think I’ve bought about thirty drinks, but I only saw four people get up on stage.

Jeffries rallied and rather than be afraid. He decided to go bigger, and he said, because I was the person who put it up on the internet. What it did do is it sold out that tour. GQ spoke to Lucas Zelnik about his viral TikTok crowd work. In one clip, which has been viewed six point seven million times, he takes on a growing number of hecklers, one at a time and his shows, and another he banters with a person integrating back into society after a state a psychiatric facility.

In another, he stumbles into a conversation with a drug dealer who winds up delivering a sales pitch. Lucas tells GQ, I grew up in Manhattan, rich kid. Everyone was going into business and being a CEO and consulting in fancy schools. Zelnik founded at Sesh Comedy, a Lower East Side club that eventually sold so he could tour. He said, year one was about figuring out what the show that I’m giving is.

Year two is about making the show better, and now year three I’m looking at his coming into my own as who I want to be as a comedian. He does not identify as a crowd work comedian, but he’s not offended if other people use the term. A lot of people come to the shows, can even be surprised by how little crowd work I do. The length that I set on tour sort of accordions, because I’ll try and build a new chunk of material, which will make it longer, but then if I don’t like it, it’ll get pulled out, or once I do like it, I’ll pull out something old that I don’t like. Longer than shorter, longer than shorter, so hopefully it improves towards the end of the tour.

Last year I was writing new material for this upcoming tour. Sometimes the set was like an hour, ten hour, fifteen, and of that probably fifteen minutes would be crowd work and an hour would be jokes. GQ was curious, I feel like I don’t see much of your traditional stand up on tiktoku work clips just work better, Lucas said, I think the biggest thing is to stay in front of people’s faces. You just have to put out so much content. Jokes take so long to ride out.

Put out chunks of material, but very selectively, and frankly, I probably won’t put out any more material until I’m ready to release an hour long special, which I think I want to give that a few more years. Stand up has changed so much, and by most definitions, I’m very new. I’m about to hear my five year anniversary. But I put out ten minutes of material with Don’t Tell In another ten with Comedy Central, so I’ve put out twenty minutes and then the rest has been pretty much CrowdWork. GQ said TikTok, CrowdWork comics are kind of a genre now, or are you resentful of the label?

Lucas said, What I feel is overwhelmingly grateful for the fact that I can perform for crowds of people who come to see me. In The notion of sitting in my house resenting who my fan base is or who I’m referred to is pretty insane, given that it’s enabled me to do my passion, get overpaid for it, and be here at twelve thirteen pm on a Thursday talking to you. So I hope when people watch my comedy, whether it’s crowd work and material, I’m able to convey what I’m trying to convey, which is who I am, and I hope that comes off as someone who’s intelligent thawful, not too freequ leading into hackey things, or try ways of making people laugh, subverting the expectations of where people typically make jokes, whether that’s in their written material or crowd work. Lucas says, I think in a perfect world, my career could look something like John Mulaney’s career, which is to say, involvement as an actor in TV while still always doing stand up and touring. Mulaney is very much primarily still a stand up but touring’s just personally very challenging.

Traveling as much as I do, so, I think in the full course of time, i’d like to have different outlets. My view is everything you should say should be really funny, and you shouldn’t be making points to make points. But I have points I want to make. I think I’d just rather make them in TV or film rather than be on stage and be like, now, let’s get real for a second. I don’t want to be that guy.

Ever. I’m not looking to be staffed in a writer’s room right now. But if the SNL cast decides they want another a mediocre white guy who’s decent looking, I’ll give you my phone number and you can have them reach out to be. Shane Moss, known for his uncanny description of psychedelic experiences, tapes his next special today at the Perplexiplex in Denver, A great name. The Washington Post spoke to Ben Schwartz about improv He says, audience members asked came the same question and time and time again.

Is it scripted? Schwartz says, literally, not a word of this is written. That’s almost the fun part when someone is like, I can’t believe you just made that up, or they think it’s magic. He explains, it’s about balance. If one improviser specializes in broad characters and physical comedy, Schwartz might combine them with more cerebral comics.

As The Evening’s MC takes it upon himself to facilitate the scenes, play to his guest strengths, and keep the show moving with savvy edits. So those are moments when a scene is interrupted or ended, He says. It’s like picking a basketball team and finding your point guard, your center, your small forward. On the Ben Schwartz and Friend’s Tour, the go to prompt has been tell us about the most exciting day or night of your life. There’s three thousand people in these audiences, it’s a lot of pressure.

Some of the things I do at the beginning of the show are very much to make the audience feel comfortable, to tell them we got this. I know it’s nerve wracking because we don’t know what’s gonna happen, but it’s gonna be good and it’s gonna be a good time. As for the audience, Schwartz notes and over excited, a patreon is often not the best choice. As soon as someone starts telling their answer, Schwartz can tell almost immediately if it’s a story worth falling or if you should gently move on to someone else. Specific characters are great, and intricate narrative is better, but he keeps an eye out for detours, perhaps a detail that the audience member gloss is over, but Schwartz recognizes is curious enough to pursue whatever they say.

I’m listening to every syllable. As the show finds a rhythm, Schwartz monitors the audience’s enthusiasm while deciding which gags to double down on. Around the halfway point, they start looking for references from earlier in the show to call back on. As they head towards the hour mark, they work overtimed weaves together of the show’s disparate threads, and no matter how wildly delightfully far they may have strayed from the original premise, Schwartz tell’s The Washington Post, I look at the clock, and we’re around fifty five minutes. That’s around the time where I’ll be like, let’s start calling everything back.

Let’s see if we can connect. Sometimes the stuff you’ve been building connects perfectly, and you can call back everything and every character and it almost looks like it was perfectly written. The biggest thing for me is to try and make everybody look funny, everybody look good on stage, and to give the audience something great. Francesca Duva is one of vulturous comedians you should and will know. Worst show ever.

Very long time ago, I was in college. I was in a sketch group that I thought was amazing, invited to perform at some kind of parent weekend event with other campus groups. The venue was a cafeteria, which is tough to begin with, and then very few parents actually came. The ones who did were mostly parents of children who were in one of the mostly amazing dance groups that were also performing. Due to a couple of sketches we thought our best, and not a single parent laughed.

It was silence for ten minutes. It was so hard for me, seriously, because I love parents my whole life. I love winning the approval of people’s parents and making them laugh. And that day they all stared at me with disgust, like I was some weird, random girl. It was just sad, and I learned a tough lesson at that show, which is should have been a dancer.

That’s your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link of the show notes that to tell you how that works five bucks a month. It’s the short version there. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. There’s been talk of the Hebburg Gassans had burchase Sons. Anyway, Mitch Hedberg’s name has been around a lot more lately than it had been in the past few years, so I thought I would do today is just off if you listen to all fifteen sixteen hundred episodes of this podcast, this is for you as a rerun. But you know, new listeners come and old listeners go.

So what I’ve done here is over the years, I’ve sold a few lengthy Mitch Hedberg related anecdotes and I’ve put them together to make it today’s episode, which is all about Mitch Hebburg. So one thing I can tell you is I know exactly where I was on March thirty first, two thousand and five. Here’s why. I was at the New York City Javit Center doing an episode of Jim Brewers radio show for Sirius XAM. We were broadcasting from the car Show and Jim was in a bad mood because the night before Jim was doing a concert with Mitch Hedburg and Mitch did not show up, and Jim was kind of annoyed because he had to stretch and fill because the other comedian didn’t show up, and Jim wound up doing an extra forty minutes or an hour or whatever was the story there.

Jim was quite upset about it. As we were doing the broadcast from the car show, we got word there was a reason Mitch Hedberg didn’t show up for that show. He had passed away the night before. Mitch Hedberg passed away March thirty, two thousand and five in Livingston, New Jersey, not far from where I live, So we were like, oh, that kind of changed the mood several ways. One, we felt like we were being a bunch of jerks for being mad at the guy not showing.

Two, we all love Mitch Hedburg, and holy cow, he had passed away. From personal experience. I knew at the radio station that I wanted to do a tribute to Mitch Hedburg, but I don’t like being a vulture, so I didn’t want to, like the next day be like, oh, wait, I do a Mitch Hedberg tribute, because then we make it about us. So we waited, and I eventually reached out to Mitch’s wife, Lynn Shawcroft, and I’m like, hey, would love to do a tribute to Mitch. Would you be into that?

She was into it. She came by. I got to know Lynn reasonably well, and when she came up, she had Mitch’s notebooks with some jokes and a bunch of I think they were cassettes. They might have been CDs, but they were live shows recorded late in Mitch’s career. And I was sitting there with Lynn and she hadn’t heard them in a while, and they sounded great, and I said to her, you know, you’ve got another album here.

That album became the posthumous Mitch Hedberg album that do you Believe? In Gosh? I had nothing to do with making the album, other than possibly perhaps putting the thought in Lynn’s brain. I’m glad that that album was released. From a twenty thirteen article in GQ, GQ wrote, Mitch Hedberg was Twitter before Twitter.

His jokes were short, inane, and timeless. It was on the road doing stand up three hundred nights a year, living off vending machines, writing constantly about the world he saw around him. Mike Birbigley said Mitch wrote some of the best jokes at the last three decades. He’s one comedian who all comedians agree is great. Mitch was never without a pen and never threw away a notebook.

Lynn Shawcroft kept most of the notebook’s private, but back in twenty thirteen, she opened them up to g QGQ wrote the results a masterclass in comedy. There was only one time Mitch ever lost a notebook. He and Lynn were in Chicago that had gotten back to their hotel. When Mitch noticed it was missing, he tore through the hotel room looking for it. Lynn said it was one of the only times I saw him really visibly upset about something.

Finally, after a while, he started telling himself, it’s fine, everything’ll be fine. That’s when the phone rang. It was a kid at a frat party. Apparently Mitch had left the notebook on stage. Somehow it ended up in the hands of a college age fan who wanted to give it back.

Mitch and Lynn headed to the party to meet the kid. When they got there, or relieve, Mitch pulled out a lot of cash tried hand to the kid. The kid didn’t want any money, He just wanted Mitch to call him to hang out next time he was in town. But by then it was already five or six in the morning, and Mitch hated to feel indebted to people. He finally looked at the kid and said, just take the f and money man.

Lynn says, Mitch’s jokes were about our life. He wrote about what he liked, so his jokes were about sandwiches and carrots and staying in hotels and the weird ways language works. Now this next thing. I remember Lynn telling this to me when we were listening to the tapes I referred to earlier. We were in one of the smaller studios at Sirius, and she pointed out during Mitch’s stand up, people would call out the endings before he could finish them.

He was having a tough time touring because of that, so Lynn says later in his career he had to write jokes that were even shorter and faster. Examples, when someone tries to hand me out of flyer, it’s just like saying here, you throw this away, or a turtlenecks, like being strangled by a really weak guy. All day, Mitch knew what else connected with his audience. Drug jokes. There were dozens.

I like the FedEx driver because he’s a drug dealer. He doesn’t even know it. He’s always on time. People associate long hair with drug use. I wish long hair was associated with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake.

That strangers would see a long haired guy and say that guy eats cake. He’s on putt cake. To say another daughters, don’t bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flower. See how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching.

At one point, Mitch started writing companies he liked looking for sponsorships. In addition to gold Bond, he wrote a uniball to say the jokes he wrote with their pens were funnier. Eventually, Jimmy Johns the Sandwich Makers signed on to sponsor Mitch Hedburg from the Guardian in twenty fifteen. Mitch Hedburg a sly alchemist who turned sentences into comedy. Gold from behind sunglasses and bound head, Mitch Hedberg delivered concise gags that open up the mundane world and showed anyone could be a comedian.

If you’re flappable and have legs, you’re never blocking a fire exit. That’s the line that got the writer hooked on. Mitch Hedburg. A man standing still on a stage with his eyes shut, Mike in the stand reciting a list of staccato jokes with a percussive rhythm seemed odd. I’d never heard one liners before which had no hint of pun slinging or wordplay, just funny sentences.

I guess the writer hadn’t heard Stephen Wright. Believe me, I’m a huge Mitch Hedberg fan, but there’s surely some Steven Wright influence in there. Mitch was a drug user or something, which caused his death in two thousand and five, but listening to him didn’t sound like the ramlies of a typical stoner, but instead the thoughts of someone unencumbered by the conventional logic that gradually takes us over so we succumb to adulthood. Watching Mitch allow you to feel like a child again. And although kats and Hamburgers aren’t important, finding humor in the mundane is Jokes such as if you live with a muster, you’d never get the hiccups require a sense of thought, But having been in his presence for two minutes allowed you to think with the Hedbergian that logic or is it Hedbergian?

How would you pronounce that word I’m going with Hedbergian sounds cooler Hedbergie in that logic that guide you seamlessly to the funny. The joke is just ten words long, but ten words was enough for Hedberg to paint a hilarious and detailed picture that most people couldn’t paint with one hundred. However, the audience aren’t just laughing at the painting, but the man with the brush, and their own incredulity that a single person is able to have all these thoughts which don’t make you just say, I’ve never thought of that in a way before, but instead, I’ve never thought about anything like that ever. His long hair often of skirt, his bowed sunglass face, he never showed dominance over the stage by pacing His hands would often be held still behind his back. He seemed shy, but this made him far more relatable than any confident comedian who chats to audiences with the unfettered glances of an old mate.

Most audience members know they don’t possess the requisite skills to talk on a stage as confidently, such as greats like Steve Martin or Sarah Silverman. So Mitch Hedberg’s demeanor made him far more human to many people. He made me realize you don’t need great performance skills and ability to write seamless segues to be a comedian. If the sentence you’re saying are funny, people will laugh. As untimely passing means we’ll never know what one of the most inventive and prolific writers in comedy could have eventually achieved.

But watching a handful of his YouTube clips makes it clear he created more laughs and jokes in his one short life than many other comedians could hope to create in two. In twenty eleven, dead Spin wrote, by all accounts, Mitch Hepburgh was a pretty regular guy. He grew up in Saint Pame, Minnesota, before he ditched the suburbs, literally leaving his parents home without telling them after high school graduation because he didn’t know how to tell them he was going. I met Mitch’s parents at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Oh, it’s got to be fifteen years ago now.

They were so nice. Mitch eventually surfaced in Fort Lauderdale, eventually taking up kitchen work and trying his hand unsuccessfully at opened My Comedy Nights in the area. He begged his way onto MTV’s short lived comic Kazi. I didn’t know that, And even though the show didn’t last, Hepburg was on his way. In ninety six, he appeared on Letterman Wow That Long Ago Wow.

Ninety seven, he won the grand prize at the Seattle Comedy Competition. In ninety eight, he stole the show at the Just for Last Festival in Montreal. Heedburg developed a style of awkward, scattershot observational jokes that weren’t exactly one liners. He was a minimalist, sure, but he was working on another level, and say Henny Youngman, his jokes weren’t just riffs on existing tropes. The only norm hebburger here, too, was that there weren’t any norms.

His humor never met you halfway. He pulled listeners into his own head. His delivery was as off putting as his material. His was the sort of art that elicits a huh wow as opposed to a wow huh. That was his brilliance.

The obvious point of comparison is with Stephen Wright, and again, on paper, the two comics seem to share a lot in common, but where Wright was a comic Gollum, an android programmed to tell off putting jokes. Hebburg was in an odd way, emotionally accessible as offbeat. As much as his jokes were, they presented in the manner of an odd ball childhood friend you hadn’t seen in years. Though dressed in the garb of turn of the century hipster, Hedberg’s jokes were decisively unironic. He wasn’t engaging in social commentary or rye negativity as much as he was bearing his weirdo soul.

The stoner labels inaccurate, but even the occasional drug user could identify Hepburg was you high, thinking you’re funny, but actually being funny. That’s how he won us over. The way he stood on stage, eyes closed, sunglasses on, bangs over his face, halfway trembling. He told joel Stein in nineteen ninety eight, I don’t like to connect with the crowd. I find if you look at people’s faces, you see a disappointed face.

He said. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think of something that’s funny, I go get a pen write it down, or if the pen’s too far away, I had to vinced myself that what I thought of ain’t funny. He broke the fourth wall repeatedly in an attempt to reposition himself from alone on stage to seated among the audience. That’s like a carbon copy of the previous joke, but with different ingredients. I don’t know what I was trying to pull off there, that joke, maybe laugh where I could finish it, which is good because it’s no ending, all right.

Oh, he was so good once when being handed a drink mid joke, a joke that was foundering anyway, he just cut the joke off and said that up a joke, a joke about FFing up, an fed up joke. After he broke out it just for laughs. Edburgh got a five hundred thousand dollars development deal with Fox. He appeared on Letterman a few more times. He financed his own movie, a subtle tribute to his restaurant days, called Los Enchiladas.

His next paragraph has a couple jokes that I don’t remember hearing dead smend rights with disarming subtlety. He deconstructed the stand up form by ticking on hackneyed subjects and turning them on their head, or by bombing deliberately halfway sports. No. I don’t want the f Remember that show My Three Sons. It’d be funny if it was called My One Dad.

Wait what, I just bought a two bedroom house, But I think I get to decide how many bedrooms there are. I hohtsh you. In the context of tripping non sequitors about koala infestations potato chips, this came off as subversive. He was blowing himself up along with everyone in the room. The self destruction extended to his personal life.

At first, it seemed div Hedberg’s riffing on his drug use was more of a dig atous stage persona. My manager saw me backstage and said, Mitch, don’t use liquor as a crutch. I can’t use liquor as a crutch because a crutch helps me walk. A liquor severely f’s up the way I walk. Some people think I’m high on stage.

I would never get high before show because when I’m high, I don’t want to stand in front of a bunch of people I don’t know for stretches. He lived off the grid, living out of hotels or out of the RV he bought with Lynn Shawcroft in May two thousand and three, after showing Austin Mitch was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. He spent two and a half days in jail, followed by six months in a hospital, supposedly for the treatment of a leg badly mangled by heroin injections. Through the end of his life, he’d walked on stage with two plastic cups that were widely known to contain alcohol, and at least one specifically identified as screwdrivers. Hebburg had kill her sets and less successful sets.

Some lack verves, some lack directions. Sometimes he couldn’t remember the jokes at all. Sometimes his fans would holler out the jokes who was trying to tell to help him out. It was interactive stand up. Even on the good nights, people sung along to the choruses that often step on his punchlines.

Hebburg had so fully seduced his fans the division between stage and seats fell away. Didn’t you ever hear of dramatic pause? Hid, sometimes grouch, But that was the point. His fans weren’t attuned to the artifice of performance so much as they were there for communion. Lynn Shawcroft is Missus Mitch Hedburg, and she had some really interesting tweets.

Lynn tweeted, what Mitch Hedburg achieved in stand up comedy is nothing short of astonishing. The way he did it, almost one fan at a time, is crazy yet admirable. He had several appearances on late night television and one low rent Comedy Central special. That’s it. The Comedy Central was fun by low Rent.

I’m referring to the audience that was papered. They weren’t fans per se, never heard of the comedians. I think Mark Maron taped a special the same day slash same audience. I could be wrong. Norm MacDonald was there a tell two.

Mitch didn’t have an online presence or platform. He wasn’t on a TV show with a built in audience. I remember club after club packed. He worked too much. He had a hard time saying no.

So after Lynn wrote all that, I love this tweet reply from Toby Welch. So Lynn writes all that about Mitch, and Toby Welch tweets, Yeah, that’s nice, but what happened to the defriines. This next section is from two episodes. The first story is about the missing ten of minutes and then you oh, I’ll hear my voice change. I was on my Twitter account and a friend of mine, Brian Rich, he tweeted like a normal this is just a normal guy tweeting, and he tweeted Tuesday night, I bought it pie and thus I’m ready to watch the debate.

And when I read it, my brain did it in Hebburg going, I bought a pie and that’s I’m ready to watch the debate. That’s ridiculous, which right, like, despite my half ass impression, that’s like a Mitch Hedberg joke. So this article I found, it’s really really great. Bradlaidman dot com. Brad wrote the night I first saw Mitch, my only whole show was not a great night for him.

Most of the people there had no idea who they were going to see. I did. That’s exactly why I was there. They looked at him, like Bill Hicks said, through the eyes of a dog that’s just been shown a card trick. They didn’t try to get him, and they decided it was just funnier to keep buying him drinks.

Sadly, whether Mitch considered himself an alcoholic, he probably did. Doug Stanhope once told me, that’s Brad, that Mitch was so nice that Mitch would never turn anyone away and would never refuse a drink from anyone out of courtesy, fan or not. Lynn Shawcroft, to her credit, did eventually go up on stage and stop Mitch from accepting free drinks. After about fifteen minutes more of only a few people laughing at really good material delivered well, Lynn started I him to tell people about his great CD that was available for purchase. Mitch ignored her for a long time and then said something approximating this.

I got to waste my time for what like three people? Why would anyone actually buy this crap? About three of us raised our hand and I did purchase it that night. So when it was released by Comedy Central in two thousand and three, it had twenty one tracks and was fifty three minutes and forty seven seconds long. My version, which is what I burned on on my computer, is one hour, three minutes and four seconds.

That’s exactly how I want it to be. I may have to reach out to this guy and do an interview with him. I want to know all about this alternate version of the CD that he has. He writes it has no tracks, just one huge, probably unedited chunk of the real show, which is why I had to go to the internet first to find my quote quickly. I should have just listened to the whole thing again, even though I was only making a quick Facebook comment about Little League Baseball that I could have spent two seconds on had I wanted to be lazy and posted the meme from the Internet.

I’m not sure why or who edited out those ten minutes from my original, but it was probably for idiotic reasons that didn’t get who Mitch was or the brilliance of Mitch of guessing. For all I know, Mitch could have said, take exactly these ten minutes out, but I would bet my net worth that never happened. My suspicion is that the business people thought those ten minutes didn’t go over well and were complete jokes. But if he saw him that night or any night, you would know that he would always throw out a joke and then would immediately say wasn’t a complete thought or even a joke, and his delivery of it and the reaction to it would likely be the highlight of the entire show. Near the end of the uncut version of especially says I’m a heroin addict I need to have sex with women who saved someone’s life, which would have been perfect had it ended there, but it didn’t, and because it didn’t, it became somehow more perfect.

After some giggling and a small amount of applause, he starts again wondering about how it be shown on television. When does it air? He looks at some of the crowd says, you’re a good reaction guy. Keep the camera on that guy. I want to tell the people in the truck wherever you’re cutting reaction shot cut to him, because you’re really could you very?

You laugh a lot man, very pleasurable to see. My special is going to be all cut up. It’s gonna be very weird. It’s not going to be seamless. I gotta get out of here.

They’re going to get mad at me, and know it gonna get yelled at all right. I love you guys, thanks for coming to my special. The aired version ends with a different great joke and then cuts right to I love you guys and to thank you. The al right is gone, which may not seem to matter much, but do some research about Jim Morrison hearing Elvis throw the word all right, and how much it mattered to him, and how much he did it too. Isn’t that amazing?

The article also mentions when Mitch was on Howard Stern late in Mitch’s life, Stern asked Mitch what Mitch would do if he knew that perhaps he only had a few months to live. Creepy right. Mitch thought about it a while and answered, I won’t do the impression here. Wow, that’s a really hard question. I do know that Bill Hicks knew that he was dying and did work really hard until the day he died, like he went to Waco and stuff like that.

Me I sort of don’t think I’m that important because most of my jokes are about bananas and things like that. And let’s wrap with an album review from two thousand and eight from the Washington Posts. This the review of the posthumus Do You Believe In Gosh, a stand up performance recorded two months before Hedberg’s death. The album is funny moments, but listeners familiar with the comedian’s personal history may find that Hebberg’s troubled specter looms over the proceedings. Do You Believe In Gosh does include bits on anchovies and carrot juice, but Hebburg also delves into darker subject matter.

He seems particularly fixated on missing body parts, with references to amputation, a woman born without arms, and extended bit on the Headless Horsemen. Granted the materials more silly than morbid. I’d hate to be the headless Horseman’s dentist. He wouldn’t make very much money. He also delves into his professional life, saying I got a door deal here.

Tonight, I’m working for fIF percent of the door. Then tomorrow I’m working for fifth percent of the door, and then on Sunday, I’m going to have a door. Since the album comprises a seemingly unedited live show, the forty minute runtime includes at least as much laughter and applause as it does Mitch Hedburg. His reactions to the audience are sometimes as funny as jokes. At one point, he trails off, then assures the audience trust me.

It’s hilarious to get into my head and come back out and tell me I’m wrong. Towards the end of the performance, self consciousness seems to win out over the professed confidence, as Hedberg refers to his jokes as half there needing work. In some cases, he’s correct, but we’ll never hear the fully realized versions. The Washington Post wrote, the album strange poignancy may be best captured by one of Hegberg’s typically observed setups. I want to ride and a cold air balloon.

I’m afraid of heights. I don’t want to leave here well and take a ride in my cold air balloon because we ain’t eving going anywhere. And that is your comedy news for today, Mitch Hedburg boy, I miss him. He was fantastic, all right, See tomorrow.

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Caalarogus, Shark Media Boom. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jeffries rejects the suggestion that he hates women. Jim says, I don’t believe I’m a misogynist. No, but that’s you know, that’s probably what a misogynist would say.

I’d rather this be part of an interview. This was with Rolling Stone Australia, New Zealand, when people could actually hear me talk then read what I’m saying, or have some idiot in a basement recording a podcast read the words from a transcript from what Jim actually said. Why would we do that? That’s dumb, Jim says, But look, you never watched a female comic go on stage about some guy they had sex with, who had a little member who didn’t make them finish. I’ve cleaned that sentence up three times and thought, how dare she?

Right now? If I were to make a joke about some women’s general tillia being too large and me not finishing, I’m the worst man in the world. Right There’s no difference between those two jokes. There just isn’t. But do you believe that that woman when she makes the joke hates men.

No, you don’t think that she hates men like you know, I don’t. Women are half the population. I’m gonna make jokes about them. I do self deprecating comedy all the time where I make jokes about myself. Oh, I guess you could make an argument that I hate myself.

He discusses his mother. She was a hard person to grow up with. She was physically very abusive and verbally a very abusive person. So sometimes I imagine I’ve had a chip on my shoulder about women, and it’s probably been unfair for much of my life because my abuser was a three hundred pound woman growing up, you know what I mean. So that’s where this might come from.

Now, if you were here a female comic in an interview say their father was abusive and belittled them and was physically abusive and all this type of stuff, and then they said something about how men are, you wouldn’t begrudge them. You can see where that’s coming from. But for some reason, there’s no gray are with this that you can’t see where I’m coming from? Or why is this the one subject where you don’t know that I’m joking? Jim are there any jokes you do regret, he says.

One in his twenty sixteen Netflix special Freedom, he took aim at Jenny McCarthy and her son, Prison made a joke about whether or not the son was autistic or just Jenny McCarthy’s son. Jim says, I was more doing it because she was an anti vax person and I thought which she was doing is very detrimental to the world, and I felt like she was a person who was more of a hindrance on the planet than anything. So I made a joke about her child as a parent. Now I’m deeply sorry I did that. I shouldn’t have done that.

Maria Bamford has a book out. She and her husband, the artist Scott Marvel Cassidy, have collaborated on Hodge Book and Laser Eyes, a graphic novel. It describes their relationship from the perspective of their dogs. Maria Bamford told The Express News, it’s a beautiful sort of a memorial to all the dogs that we’ve had over the course of our relationship and how they supported us. Max was a marine and then he got into private detective work and that’s why he did the perimeter of whatever room he was in.

He’d go around the perimeter and make sure everything was safe. Then there were Arnold and Betty. They were a bonded bear and they were just completely in love with each other. Maria says they’ve typically taken in older dogs, even though it’s a setup for heartbreak. She says, you know they’re going to pass away, But I prefer an older dog because I think that’s what I am.

I like to sit down, I like to eat. Sarah Silverman spoke to NPR about her early career. You may recall it Sarah did blackface at some point. Sarah said, I think early on there was more character in her early work and certainly was purposely racist and all the ists because the character was an ignorant, arrogant person, and I felt like the truth would come through that, and at the time it worked. I can’t imagine a level of ways in which that special does not hold up now.

I think it would be hard to find any clip that works. It’s very hardcore and it does not hold up in today’s world. But that’s also what art is. You know, you watch it in two thousand and five, and it’s a very different show than when you watch it in twenty twenty four because you’ve changed, because the world has changed around us. I’m absolutely not proud of a lot of things in it looking back at it today, but I accept that that’s what it is to be an artist who’s been around a long time without the leeway of changing and growing.

We’re just defined by our singular moments. The world was bigger and it was way more ignorant. It’s funny because the character was this ignorant character that I could point to and go, she doesn’t understand, she says all these horrible things, but it’s okay because it’s a character.

And then really, I’m super liberal blah blah blah.

And then the irony was that the real meat behind that was ignorant. But I have to accept that because that’s me. And in order to grow, you have to accept that you can grow and change me different than you were, and not to find yourself by your most ignorant moments. Kevin neil And spoke to the Union about explaining his comedic delivery, and he said, it’s kind of like describing how you look. From what I hear, people would say that my stand up is very absurd, and a lot of misdirection, and I did to friends, tell me my comedy kind of sneaks up on you.

When I’m onto the next little hunk I’m talking about. The laughter is just coming to them. It’s very conversational. You know what makes me laugh? Or children?

Children are so naive and they do things that are just funny. I also like to go on the Daily Dose on the Internet and they have videos of animals or kids or anything. It’s really funny. My laughter comes from normal people doing silly things. Chicago Sun Times caught up with Langston Kerman.

He graduated during the Great Recession and said, I ended up moving back to my mom’s basement, which I vowed I would never do length since now thirty seven, it all felt dark to me. It was so antithetical to what I had envisioned in my head. I went to school, I got could grades and follow the rules, and now I’m back in this life I didn’t want. He decided to take a risk and pursue a dream. He signed up to do a comedy set at an open mic at Doc Ryan’s.

I went up there and I bomb for five minutes. But it was the great kind of bomb that a sick person like me can somehow translate as you should go do this again. She keep trying. So every week I’d go up to that open mic and bomb, and every week I felt a little bit better about the idea of pursuing this. He has a podcast called My Mamma Told Me, which showcases black conspiracy theories.

For example, did Bill Cosby attempt to buy NBC? Does the Black Illuminati exist? Or aircraft chemtrails infecting the public with chemical or biological agents. Kerman says, we take a lot of pride in either of us being scared of any conversation. I think conspiracy theory is so important.

I don’t mean that we should all be conspiracy theorists, but I do think the conspiracy theory is sort of like the adult version of imagining and whimsy. It’s fascinating me to unpack where these ideas come from. It is netflix special. He relays a time when a student made fun of his poetry, and Kerman said, I deeply resent that child. She’s not a child anymore as a grown person.

Should I ever come across her, I got smoke for her. Felippia Sparza said, I had great advice one time from Paul Rodriguez because I was worried, how is my comedy going to cross over? How’s it going to transcend to other cultures, to other nationalities, And he told me don’t worry about any of that. If you’re funny, the audience will cross over to you. It’s not your job to cross over to them.

Deadline caught up with Matt Berry. Matt, what were you doing before you were an actor? Berry says, I was in the London Dungeon. That The London Dungeon is a lunch in tourist attraction. It’s across between a museum and a live performance kind of thing.

During the course of the day, you’d be Jack the ripper in the morning, and then you’d be a judge in the afternoon, and it’s hired. You’d be doing something like twenty or thirty shows a day and I loved it. It was fantastic fun, but the money was horrendous, so I’d do gigs in the evening. And that’s how Dark Place happened. I was doing a gig and Matt Holness and Richard Aoide come up to me and said, we’re doing a TV version of their friend show Dark Place, and would like you to play the Spanish doctor.

In my head, I was like, well, you’re taking a risk there. Because I’ve never done any TV or any company before. I haven’t got a clue. But obviously I didn’t say that to them. I was like, yes, yes, fine, because I had nothing to lose and absolutely nothing going on at that point, so it was all to play for.

I just said yes to everything and turned up to rehearsal, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t think i’d work after Dark Place. I didn’t even know whether they would show the whole series, and I wasn’t convinced it was actually going to air until the first night when it did, and no one believed I was going to be on TV. I told people, including my family, said I’m going to be on TV next month. It wasn’t until the adverts came on.

I was in one of those adverts that everybody realized it wasn’t full of stuff. Deadline asked about the origin of Toast of Lunch and which is a fantastic show if you’ve never seen it, Barry said, I’ve always wanted to do it because I’ve been doing voiceovers for years and years with older actors seeing how they behave just finding it very, very funny. I knew there was something there, so I wrote all ideas for it, his name and everything, and then spoke to Arthur Matthews. Because I wasn’t successful enough for anyone to say, yeah, he’s written this, let’s make it a series. I needed help in the form of Arthur.

And Arthur’s still the best of what he does. The character Toast. He’s pompous and he thinks that better things should be happening to him. There’s a never ending supply of things you can do to put him back in his place each time. But it’s just fantastic to play because it’s not set in any particular time and as a foot in the seventies and in the modern day, so we’re not limited to what we can do.

A bit like Shadows, those characters are in their own world and they can do anything. Will there’d be more, he said, Well, I did Toast of tinsel Down the fourth series where he went to Hollywood, and if you’ve seen that, you’ll know what happened to him at the end. I don’t know. I’m happy with it. I did everything with it that I wanted to do.

Vulture as their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of those comedians is young Me Meyer. Young Me, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what we were outfit be? She said, I already wear a cartoon character outfit aka the same outfit every day, hot pink tennis skirt, mesh crop top, pink bra. It’s giving dumb bitch cartoon character that f’s up everything and think she’s the main character.

And she sort of is, but in a villain adjacent way. Vibes worst show ever. Once I did a show at a Jewish retirement home in upstate New York. I had to get a ride with the other comedians in the lineup. We got there and the show took place in a fluorescently lit dining hall during their dinner at four pm.

When I got on stage, I started off by saying, so I’m a single mom, and this ninety year old grandma on the back just yelled boo and did a double thumbs down. I don’t really remember anything after that. I just slowly walked off stage, like what could I even do to recover from a double thumbs down? Nothing? Writing process.

I cannot write jokes while sitting down at a computer at nine am with a cup of coffee. No matter how hard I try. In the beginning, I would set aside writing jokes time. I just can’t write jokes in that way. The only way I can write jokes is on stage.

There was literally a two year period where I just stopped doing bits on stage when just riff By going up with zero material was horrible. But now I feel like I can do bits and they’re more dynamic and fluid. I think joke telling has to be sort of spontaneous for me. There’s something about being pushed into a hairy situation that makes me funny in a way that I can’t, for the life of me, pre plan any financial hurdles. The biggest financial hurdle since becoming a comedian is becoming a comedian.

I am so broke. OMG. I have to say that I was talking to my friend who was a normal nine to five job that she hates, and she’s also broke. We all have to get side whustles as uber drivers and restaurants servers or anyway, so why not do our dream jobs on the side too. Best comedy advice was for my friend who told me just post anything I thought was funny, and not to be too precious about it or to think about it too much.

He also told me not to post or act on social media in a way to game the system, and always keep true to what I thought was funny. Worst comedy advice I’ve ever seen was when some old stand up comedians told me to focus only on standout, never get into doing online content because it will kill my live performances. Although I understand where he’s coming from, truth is, in this day and age, all comedians need to hone the skill of making content. It’s a separate language. You mean good is it doesn’t translate to the station, vice versa.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Reiche tells Formes his overnight success was a decade in the making. He was fifteen when he landed on Wild and Out, remember that on MTV. He was in sixteen episodes.

He said, I got Wilding Out and that was a phenomenal launching platform from my career, but it’s not what I want to do forever, which is why I left the show. Trying to make his name in comedy, he said he was getting a few hundred dollars a show and paying for his own flights, while sensing that he was capable of a much more Raife says, nobody wants to pay any attention. How am I to get in front of people? If nobody wants to give me a chance. I’m not asking you for anything drastic, just an opportunity to get in front of people.

My friend was like, want you to do yourself. You’re sitting here complaining about how nobody will give you an opportunity. Why don’t you create your own opportunity. Man, You have a little bit of a following and comedians are starting to put their stuff out on YouTube. Wyann’t you just do that?

That was the advice that led him to call his first YouTube special OnlyFans. That was a playful response to fans frequently asking if he had an only fans page. People kept checking to see if I had an only fans page, and I was getting tweets all the time asking about it. That’s when the adult theme platform exploded, and I thought if I named the special OnlyFans, it’d be a number one Google. He funded the special through a go Fundme.

He raised close to thirty grand and says, I think fifteen or twenty thousand was what I was really praying for, And for some reason, people were so supportive. People really believed in me and wanted this product. Only forty people attended that taping. Only Fans now boast thirteen million views on YouTube. His second special, Matthew steven Rife has twenty one million views.

His third, Walking Red Flag is thirteen million. You may recall he sold out two hundred and sixty dates in forty eight hours. He said, I remember lying in bed his tickets went on sale. My phone blew up with a message from my agent. This sold out, This sold out, and I’m like, didn’t go on sale five minutes ago blew my mind.

Adding Ford my passions in film and television, acting and development. That’s really where I want my career to go. There might be a day where I’m only doing movies. I don’t have the time to do stand up anymore, at least tour the way I’m doing now. Touring has been my life for thirteen years now, and it’s all I’ve ever done.

But it might not always be that way. Interesting Whilston Magazine asked Dane Cook about TV shows about comedians like Has or Missus Mazel. Dane said, I think Ax is wonderful. I had the real privilege of sharing the stage a couple times with Hannah Einbinder. She was like, I’m such a huge fan.

That made me feel great. I forget that I had been around for a minute. We had this fun back and forth talking each other up. With Mazel, I’m so far behind, but I love it. I grew up loving films like The King of Comedy Anything I kind of pulled back the curtain of funny people in the world of show business I was infatuated with.

In fact, I’m developing something now that’s kind of similar and I’ve never had so much fun failing miserably trying to get something off the ground. They asked Dane, what’s your process? And Dane said, this is my favorite question because I wish you could get me and ten other comics on a call and say how do you write? Because it’s so different. I found it in ninety seven.

If I wrote something down, when I looked at it again, I’d say, I’m unfunny, I stink. I realized that when I wrote something down, I hated it and thought it was terrible. But if I went on stage and just tried it on a dead Monday night, somewhere there was hope. If I organically talk about the first thought I have, instead of trying to write things that I don’t even know if they’re funny or not, it’s better. Had his Dane deal with hecklers, He said, I had a Heckler moment a few weeks ago and she said something about my wife, something about my relationship, and I got really angry.

But I learned something in therapy years ago. When someone makes you angry, respond with honesty. So I enjoy that process instead of just hammering them, I’m gonna invite them to the table, so to speak. I shoot the hecker, like I know you need to get something off your chest. I’ll invite them, We’ll go back and forth, and at the end of that, I’ll hit them with some final zinger.

But if you’re talking about people who are just disruptive and rude, they’re ruining the show for people around them. I get emails from people ten years later saying, we still think about the night Jonathan I got drunk at your show and you just scarlet letter to him Dane Cook, who’s the funniest person you know? Dane says, it remains Dave Chappelle. He makes me laugh. I had the luxury of doing TD Garden with him back in October.

He asked me to be a surprise guest, and I hadn’t been on stage in the Garden since I did Vicious Circle. I do my twenty minutes and I killed. Honestly, turned to my wife and said, no way, Dave’s gonna be better, but he comes out. My wife and I were wiping tears away. I was giving him a standing ovation mid set.

Who’s the comedian that you weren’t four but he’d most like to meet? He said, Oh Man, George Carlin. At times in my career when there was pushback against me and people were not happy to see you succeeding, he inspired me. I remember Carlin doing the hippie dippy weather Man, and then the day he went on TV and killed it. He brought the cardboard cut out and threw it out of the frame and said he’s dead.

I’m not this guy, and he literally kind of killed his career and allowed himself to say I’m changing, and if you don’t like it, I don’t give a rat’s ass. Worst moment on stage ever, Dane, He said, I was in a comedy group and we did The Garden in nineteen ninety two as part of wbcn’s Rock of Boston show. Fish was the closing act. This is a good show. They put us on, not at the beginning of the show, but two plus hours anyway, right after the spin Doctors and before Fish.

Being huge Fish fans, he’d sig here crowd through lighters and sandals. I got a welt on my neck. I got hit so hard with the lighter. I swear to you, if it hit me in the I would have lost my sight. When I describe it, I say, you ever see the opening of Saving Private Ryan you picture of that but with sandals and lighters.

Dane All liked this question. For a Sebastian Maniscalco, who was asked how do he put the material together for a new tour, Said’ve probably been working on it for two years. It’s not like I go in some room and start writing down funny things. It’s more of living my life, extracting the humor in everyday occurrences, whether it be hang out with my kids or my take on Amazon. He tells a story.

I got two kids, five and seven. We don’t bring the iPads to dinner. But that being said, if you don’t bring out iPads, you basically become the iPad and or just doing whatever you can at the dinner table to entertain your kids, like I’m doing things from the eighties to try and entertain my kids. That’s a little morsel of something that I might be working on. And what you’re seeing now is not where you’re going to see at the end of the tour in April.

Because as I live life, material kind of comes. And I’ve noticed as a comedian it seems that people really enjoy crowd work. I’m like you know what let me lean into the crowd work a little bit. I think it personalizes the show a bit more. You got to know where to put it.

I not, it’s just from trial and error. If you put it too early during the set, people all of a sudden think they’re part of the show and they might yell stuff at you. So it’s kind of science. Were we drop it in? The Texas Chronicle asked Shang Wang, if you hadn’t discovered comedy, or if comedy hadn’t discovered you, what you’d be doing today.

Shang Wang said, I don’t really know. I don’t think I would have been happy if I’d fall through with the business track. I was in a poetry and photography and maybe i’d be some kind of a photographer perhaps, So I’m not really sure. I still like to dabble in that. I’ll still shoot pictures all the time, and sometime in the future I might try to combine the two.

One time, Scheng was asked best and worst comedy advice, and his answer to worst advice was that he should do more Asian jokes. I don’t know if things have changed or things are changing, but I think something you come against when you perform for the general public. I feel like, especially if you’re somewhat of an ethnic minority or just some kind of minority in general, in our society, you feel pressure to do certain jokes, to dress certain issues, to be a certain way, and I think that advice comes from that phenomenon. Like people when they see an Asian person go on stage, they assume that these are the type of jokes they should be saying. And I think whoever gave me that advice at that mentality, I think it’s terrible advice because it’s not my nature to do those type of jokes, and I grew up hearing jokes, stereotypes and stuff like that that I find to be very limiting because it doesn’t allow to be who you really are, to be a whole person.

I think it’s much more free to do the jokes you really want to do, and I think it’s bad advice to limit yourself in such a way. Nico Karney is one of Vulture’s comedians you should and will know. Nico says, the first stand ups I love growing up where Tig Nataro, Mike Berbiglia, John Mulaney, Brian Reagan, and Jim Gaffigan. All right, we see the lame there. I love comedians who use language and cadence that is very specific to them.

I love Greer Barns. He makes it look effortless. I’m also a big fan of Julio Torres. Worst show Ever. I’ve done plenty of shows at restaurants where the audience was expecting a meal in surprise, there’s a comedy show.

Now, they could prepare you for doing anecdotal material about coming out as trans to a room full of people who just wanted to eat their burritos in peace. One time, he did a bar show where the mic was so close to the end of the bar and the only audience members were all seated at the bar, so it was kind of like giving a toast group of strangers. If I had to pick one worst show ever, it was probably a college gig. They put me in a massive auditorium. I performed to silence for less than a dozen students, most of whom left.

How many times have we heard how horrible these college shows are. The faculty member who organized it wanted me to stand in the elevator before the show to promote it. The only thing more humiliating than doing stand up for a group of uninterested college students. Is barking for audience members and an elevator? Yikes?

Interesting answer here. Biggest financial hurdle you’ve ever encountered since being a comedian travel in taxes. I’d just shown Ohio, and even booking three months in advance, it was going to cost nine hundred dollars to fly from New York to Cincinnati. No offense to the good people of Cincinnati, but who’s going there for nine hundred dollars? The Cincinnati airport isn’t even in Cincinnati, It’s in Kentucky.

The airlines need to get a grip. Taxes were also higher than I expected. I didn’t realize the government needed so much money from an up and coming artist, but I guess we have to fund this failing nation somehow. Best comedy advice, worst comedy of ice, best not to do crowd work for the first few years of comic I think we’re on the come down from the crowd work trend thanks to a very successful comedian who special maybe didn’t quite live up to the hype. Hmmm, is that a slam at Matt Rife?

But Matt Rife’s special is pretty good. I don’t know who’s slamming there. That’s interesting. Hit me in the Facebook group if I forgetting somebody, But that’s got to be a rife dig right, Yes, No, Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I think a lot of young comics.

He isn’t a quick way to go viral online. But starting out, it’s so much more important to find your material in your voice than it is to learn how to do crowd work. Worst advice I’ve received was to talk less about being trans. I could make myself more palatable for larger audiences. From what I can tell.

The man who told me this has never played a large audience. I’m not sure where he was coming from. I hope his open mics are going. Well, that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Hunnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The laughter, the littlety hear in my voice is because Nikki Glaser did an interview and guess what they asked Nikki Glaser about. That’s right, Taylor Swift. The question at hand, did Taylor at Swift influence your own sound?

Hmmm? Intriguing? Kind of like asking Joe Piscopo if Bruce Springsteen influenced his comedy. But okay, Nicki said, without question, I think when I first started stand up, I sounded exactly like my favorite stand up who was Sarah Silverman. I was obsessed with Sarah Silverman in a way that I am with Taylor Swift right now.

I’m sorry, Sarah, that’s really terrifying. Did NICKI follow you around the country attending all your comedy shows and doing the jokes along with you? Sounds horrible. So when I first wrote my jokes, I was like, what would Sarah Silverman write? No matter how hard I tried not to think about Taylor Swift, there was no way I wasn’t going to sound like Nikki’s hoping to go to Taylor Swift’s final show on December eighth, and says I hope she doesn’t add more shows because I can’t go to the dates that they’re predicting.

I have in fact checked if they added more dates, and doesn’t really matter, does it. If she does, I’ll probably shed some tears. I just want to be there to see her wave as she says good night for the final time, to thank her for all she’s given us, because it’s been so much work for her. I just want to be there to wave at her. She sinks down at the recesses of that stage one last time, let me jump in.

I saw Taylor Swift last summer, played the heck out of her music, saw the concert that it was fantastic, But like Taylor shut up at the Chiefs game last week, and I was like, can you just go away? And the Kelsey Brothers guys tap the break? Well, maybe not tap the breaks, because I think the Kelsey Brothers have about ten minutes left before everybody’s sick of them, So you might as well cash in now and be on every commercial and show up at every event. That train’s about to stop. I feel for the Kelsey’s John.

You’re making friends today, I know, I just I can’t. I just turned it into Mark Marin. I just can’t sit in the basement and not say what’s popping into my brain. There’s a microphone in front of me, you know, Nikki Glaser. What we do post here is listen to this.

She’s got to be doing a bit right. Listen to his answer. I’m going to fly to cities to go to Taylor Swift singalongs, which I’d done before the years tour. I’m going to potentially start a Taylor Swift cover band that would either open my own shows on the road, I would do it as an add on a little show when I’m on tour. I’m currently also getting really invested in football, or at least trying to.

Yeah, because you got that gig with Amazon. I really find a lot of similarities between the way my boyfriend loves football and the way I love Taylor Swift. Maybe if I really find a way to love it, I can have this thing to look forward to every fall. Okay, moving on, review spoke to Jim Jeffries. Jim had a sitcom in the works that got canceled when the pandemic happens.

To hear about the pandemic, Yeah, everybody had to stay home for like a year. It was a thing. Look it up. It’s a pretty interesting story. Jim said.

It’s hard to put your finger on what happened after the pand I make. It’s hard to know what would have been and what could have been. But then on the other hand, without COVID, I might not have married my wife, so you don’t know.

Also, I think a little of that time off actually made me a better writer, so …

Jim gave up alcohol and switched over to weed and said, as soon as I walk off stage, I take an edible and then I get myself a little bit of something to eat, and I go to bed. That’s as much parting as I do these days. The days of cocaine and women are long behind me. I always had a couple of drinks before I went on stage, and a drink could hit you differently. Sometimes you couldn’t feel it, sometimes you felt it too much, and it was a bit of a bouncing act.

Where now I don’t drink at all before I go on stage, so I’ve got a clear mind. Maybe with the heckling. I was a little bit faster with the heckles when I was drunk, as you’d say the first thing that came to your mind. But I also said a lot of stupid stuff that could have gotten me in trouble. So I think I remember my shows a lot better.

I think I’m a lot more polished than I’ve ever been. In Australia, he’s hosting a game show called The One Percent Club and says hosting a game show for a blooke like me is a pretty easy gig. Not really lines to learn. You just got to talk to people. You’ve just got to read a few questions.

You just got to keep smiling. A lot of people gave me guff for hosting a game show. But here’s the deal, man, I love game shows. I watch at least one game show a day every day. I like the question and answered things.

It keeps you engaged. Game shows for me with the last bit of television where you’re not looking at your phone because you have to focus. So, as a fan of game shows, I never thought i’d have the opportunity to host one, because no one would ever see me that way. But I’ve loved every minute of it. Mark Maron, who I just turned into a couple of minutes ago, spoke to the Phoenix New Times.

They were curious if there’s anything he won’t talk about in his act. Maaron said, nothing is really off limits. I sort of moved through my material from my own point of view and my own struggles and my own ideas. Haven’t understand things I’ve tell jokes in my life. There were wrong mind that I’ve told jokes in my life that could be seen as controversial if I was a bigger voice on the scene.

But for me now, there’s nothing off limits. You can talk about whatever you want. You have to decide for yourself whether you want to shoulder the repercussions of what you’re saying and whether it’s worth saying. So, really, whether or not there’s anything I can or can’t say or won’t touch, it’s not because videological principles. It’s just about, like I want to deal with that crap.

Mark Marin, where do you think comedy is headed in the next ten years? It seems female comics are on the rise, right said, Look, it’s always going to be the same. Somebody can find an audience, they’ll play for them, and if more people get on board, then you know they succeeded being in that level of comic. There’s a lot of comics around, a lot of them are just okay and working their angle. It’s a lot of different business than why I started in.

There’s a lot of weird crowd work going on. But you know, Nikki Glaser’s a huge comic now and chearned it. You know, Maria Bamford’s a genius, and there’s Kate Martin. Look, comedy’s not going to go anywhere. It’s just like the dominant paradigm at any point in time.

Since everything is content, everything is based on likes and followers, the justification for what success is really has nothing to do with the creativity of the art of comedy. It’s not like that changed much, but it’s changed in terms of how one gets seen in popular There’s a lot of people that are terrible and extremely popular. But I don’t know if that’s ever been different. I think comedy will just keep lugging along. Like you said, there’s a lot more women and a lot more diverse voices out there doing it where they make it on the large radar I don’t know.

Comedy’s always been sort of a niche thing for a lot of people. Success is based on a number of followers and likes and CrowdWork one hundred million dollar deals. So that’s just the way apples and works.

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Interesting question here, will you ever have Matt Rife on the podcast? Nah, I’m not interested in talking to him, really, that’s why not, Mark Marin, Have you ever thought about retiring? I think about all the time. I don’t know. A lot of people say it’s impossible to do, but look, doing more acting and trying to figure out how that works for me and standup keeps coming.

It’s still my primary source of creative enjoyment. But yeah, sure I think about retiring a lot. But I don’t know what that looks like. I don’t know. I fuppull out entirely because that’s just a little weird.

But I’m gonna be shooting a movie next month that’ll kind of determine whether or not I’m come out for the acting game in any big way. So we’ll see what happens. Jim Brewer talked about warming up the crowd for Metallica. Al dot Com said that takes a lot of guts to go out there in front of metal heads waiting to hear their favorite band. Had that happened now?

Jim has been friends with Metallica for years. I was sitting at my desk one day, phone rings serious, this is John Hello, this is James Headfield, And it was actually James Headfield. He was down. Jim Brewer didn’t tell me that Headfield was coming up to do the show, so I had to go down to the lobby and get mister Headfield. Who were said when they asked me to do it, and all the time I was like, this is amazing, and it was like, well, it’s not really stand up, what do you mean?

Sort of just entertain the crowd before we come up, you know, like maybe shoot off T shirts and stuff like that. So they had all these different ideas and when I say they, it was more of their team. But I huded Lars down. I said, what exactly do you visualize? And he put it on the line.

He made it so simple. He said, Jim, you’ve been around us a long time. You’re a huge fan. We had you on our thirty year anniversary shows. You interviewed us, you know us, You know the crowd better than anyone.

Just give them a quote experience. And here’s the most important thing is you don’t have to be funny. Tell the stories. We’ve gone on vacations with us. Tell the stories, Oh you and James went to Disney World with your kids that actually happened.

Tell the goofy stories. You know, I entirely leave that up to you. You’re the creator. I’m not stepping on your art. You do what you gotta do.

And the minute he said, dad changed my whole perspective on it. And I’m a diehard Metallica fan. What would I want to see start a show if I don’t have a band? Laura said, you know, when we have someone, especially a band, open for us, we want them to be the next biggest thing. Because hour crowd is so die hard, they don’t show up for the bands.

It’s a bummer for them, it’s a bummer for us. So we’re gonna try this. And it worked really well. If I remember, the first thing it did was kind of come out and let everyone know that the first time I saw Metallica was an eighty six and the fans were skeptical. But the more details that throughout and I start uniting the crowd, find me the oldest metal head in the arena.

And the minute I came up with that concept, you realize everybody was in this together, Like, Hey, I’m like you guys. The quicker we’ve done with this, the quicker we can get to Metallica are even Chattanooga. Do you like comedy? Do you look Out? Comedy Festival features thirty plus comedians.

It runs tonight through the nineteenth. Headliner is Laura Peek, Aj Wilkerson, Drew Morgan, and Leclerk Andre LCF organizer and local comedian Donny Marsh said this year’s festival will feature eleven shows over four days with some of the best rising and top headline comics across the country. Chattanooga’s comedy scene is long punched above its weight, and it’s very easy to get great comics to visit here if you can only make it a one show. I encourage comedy fans to follow these comics on social media beforehand and decide which one you’d most like to see. The festival is a labor of love for comedy in our local scene.

Every comic at my level experience does stand up at night as often as they can, stringing small tours together and promoting small gigs while juggling the other jobs and commitments. This festival wouldn’t exist without the everyday grind of jobs that have nothing to do with the arts. It’s a rewarding process that it’s an honor to bring these great performers to a city that’s given me so much since I moved here in twenty twelve. You can get a festival pass as well. Lookout Comedy Festival dot com.

Vulture has there comedians you should and will know. One of them is Courtney Peruso Worst show Ever. About ten years ago, my friend Casey put me on the lineup for his backyard show Super Tight in San Diego during Comic Con. I really hadn’t figured out how to perform on a lineup after being a Groundlings performer, and I was super nervous because a lot of cool people were there and I was intimidated by stand ups. I went up after Brody Stevens, who crushed with a magician’s assistant act where the premises the magician didn’t show up, so I’m just dancing around and smiling and pointing enthusiastically at things that aren’t happening, like an idiot.

But for some reason, my music stopped about thirty seconds in, so the intentionally awkward bit turned into an actually awkward bit, and everybody was kind of staring at me in silence, like, okay, I wanted to puke and die. Brandon Wardell went on after me and lightly roasted me, and I did a pretty little grudge about it for a while, but in retrospect, he had no choice but to acknowledge my bomb to save the vibe of the show. We ended up working together a few years later, and we’re actually good friends now. Love you, Brandon. What’s your biggest financial hurdle?

She says. What doesn’t help is that my comedy involves self producing shows that are full of costumes and props, and during the workshopping process, I often try out ideas that I quickly abandoned, but in the moment, I’m like, I need to go buy five yards of blue fabric, twenty five toy guitars at a Marie answen at Wig, and a nine hundred dollars portable dance pole so I could try out my bad idea tonight, and then my bad idea doesn’t work, and then I have all that stuff taking up space in my apartment. That’s why I recommend becoming a stand up, not a prop comic. That’s comedy advice. Worst comedy advice, the best.

One time, years ago, I was feeling down about my prospects and was winding to my clown mentor about being old, old and broke and doomed, and he said, whatever, dude, you’re a failed actress who gives a whot, Just don’t it. It’s cool. I cracked up and snapped out of it, and I’ll never forget it. Worst advice was in two thousand and eight when an acting teacher told me to get side swept bangs. They weren’t for me.

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Callaroga, Shark Media, Hidley Holmes, Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News the LA Daily News and spoke to Sebastian Maniscalco. He said there’s no better testing ground to prove what you made of than standing on stage alone in front of a crowd. Sebastian said, everybody’s trying to do it at different levels, and when you get down to the court of it all, I think you have to embrace that fear because as a comedian, you’re up there spilling your soul to these strangers. I think it’s part of what makes the connection between you and the fans grow deeper. That’s the beauty of going up there.

I’m a huge fan of showmanship. Back in the eighties, Prince Motley, Crue, Michael Jackson, those were all musical acts, but there’s an element of production and excitement, and I want to recreate some of that by doing some of the things that might not be traditional in the world of comedy. He had been working on figuring out things like how do I get from the back of the house to the stage, or how do I make an entrance? Then of course I have to be funny or else. No one in the arena gives a crap how I got there.

I just want people to say I never disappointed them at a show. That’s kind of what most important to me. He says. Putting most of his energy into his live show is a better use of his time at this stage than worrying about boosting his profile on TikTok or Instagram. He did post a video with the lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp.

That video got twelve million views. Sebastian said, I just put it up like a fun, stupid video and not thinking he was going nuts, rather than trying to figure out how do I get in the algorithm or what a kids want to see, what’s the other generation looking for. I just do what I do, and if you like it, great, and if not, that’s fine too. If you just do what you think is funny, I think people will relate. This tour kind of has a little bit more meaning to me in the sense that for the first time in my life, I’m sharing what I do with my entire family, in particularly my kids, because now they’re kind of aware of what daddy does for a living.

He makes people laugh. I don’t know if I’m going to be doing a dome show. In two years, I could be back at the theater or a comedy club. Who knows. So to enjoy this tour with my family is really important to me.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Matt Rife about crowd work. They were curious how respectful Matt’s fans are when he’s out there doing prepared material. Rife said, I’d say a large already to them. They’re respectful. Occasionally they aren’t.

But there are pros and cons of doing crowd work. He gets to interact with these amazing people that you choose at random, and then people at home are like, oh, if I buy a seat in the first five rows, that guarantees me a chance to speak to him, where they’ll purposely yell, thinking, Oh, if I talk to him and he turns into something funny, I’m gonna be in his next clip. And I gotta understand how that can be the perception, but it’s not how it works. It’s rarely the loudest person in the room is intion that’s the most interesting person to talk to. It’s usually the least assuming person who probably had no idea who I was in the first place.

That sparks the best kind of conversation. So yeah, people do yell out sometimes because they expect or want to be the person who get spoken to, and then I’m like forced to entertain it. And that’s the thing. People will disrupt a show, which is a bad thing, but then because I’m good at it, I turn it into a good thing, and then they were rewarded for doing a bad thing. But if I scold them or I don’t turn it into something funny, then I look like I can’t handle a heckler or I can’t think quickly on my feet.

That’s really interesting, isn’t it. Yeah, so I’m kind of forced to rise to each occasion, and most of the time it ends up being something wonderful and we get a good moment out of it for the show, and the whole audience appreciates it. But I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times that people do ruin a moment for the show. Raife said, here’s your headline. F the haters, like, I hear about what they say, and I think it’s so funny.

It’s pretty obvious the stereotypes of people who don’t like me, and that’s totally fine. I have no problem with people not liking me. Cool, stay as far away from me as possible, because I make a lot of people very happy and that means the world to me. And you don’t know how badly these people need to be made happy. So yeah, for me, it was just an opportunity to comedically and creatively take a jab back.

This doesn’t matter how good loose it is. I could wear in an Emmy for it and they’ll still say it’s trash. And I try not to give haters the time of day, but I was like, Okay, here’s one little opportunity to get in my licks. I suppose comedy is just intention right, So my intentions haven’t changed because they were never wrong in the first place. If people think I’m this person, then you haven’t done enough research.

I mean, I don’t think I’ve done anything controversial. Just because somebody does something that you don’t like doesn’t mean that they’re the devil. That’s crazy. People are allowed to like different things than you, People are allowed to laugh at different things than you. Even in twenty twenty four, he’s working on a Netflix series that’s set in a gym and said, right now, my writer and I are passing off a couple of different script drafts back and forth that will submit to Netflix and hopefully get picked up the series.

It’s really really fun. The gym is something that’s very important to me, and I believe should be important to everybody, not just for your physical health, but for your mental health. Everybody goes to the gym isn’t trying to be a powerlifter. For me personally, it’s the one hour I get out of my day that I don’t have to think about work and I can just focus on myself and it’s a stress release. Like right now, I’m totally exhausted, but as soon as we get off the phone, I’m gonna squeeze it an hour before a show tonight because I know it’s part of my routine and I really need it.

The Columbus Underground spoke to Mike Kaplan about reviewing past material. Mike said, I’m sure that I’m not the only comedian who reviews and reflects. I can only speak from my own experience, and I think comedians aren’t a monolith and there’s a range. I don’t know if this is accurate, but Tony V was one of the first comedians ever saw on Boston. He’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever seen.

There are a lot of comedians that come from there, but there’s a rich lineage of really strong joke writers. In addition to great performers. You have Dane Cook and Bill Burrn and Patris O’Neil coming from there, and also Gary Goleman, who I think is a masterful performer, And there are masterful writers like Wendy Leeman. There are a lot of Boston comedians who are still there and still crushing it, and you might I see them tell their perfect joke equations night after night. Tony Vee was one who I remembered.

Even it was telling the same jokes of the same stories, it would often come out differently. I don’t know if he ever wrote anything down, or at least that’s what it seemed to me. He might have. Maybe he tricked me in the way that many comedians trick many people, but it’s my sense that he was like, I have these ideas, and I know I’m funny. I’ll express them this way one night, in another way another night.

Mike Kamplan started talking about seeing Rory Skovell in the two thousand and six Seattle International Comedy Competition. Everybody was doing basically their tight fives. It’d be their audition set to get on TV, and that served a lot of people. Well, Rory completely did not do that every night. It was something different.

It was inspirational to me. From that point on, I realized I didn’t have to just do the jokes as written in the order. I decided I could leave room for chance and open up to the moment and start riffing and experimenting more at the ends of jokes or in between jokes. So the Lasher point is there are some comedians and never write things down, when there were some comedians that write things down meticulously. When I first come up with an idea, usually I’ll record it in my recorder out loud.

Then I’ll write it long hand in a notebook. Later I’ll type it in my computer, and at each stage, when I’m revisiting, I’ll a stents quote unquote the same idea. Or visiting something can always spark something new to happen. So I’m not saying that every comedian should do what I’m doing, but it certainly serves me.

All right, let’s stay comedically philosophical today Dina Hasham spoke to Sl…

Dina said, yeah, I mean, having new experiences definitely helps. It’s not like you’re not having new experiences and you can’t joke about being a comedian for the whole time. So I have to consciously make an effort to do new things or have new experiences, and that definitely helps have new ideas. What happens to a lot of comedians become rich and famous, it changes their act and for the worst for the most part. Like it’s hard for me to think of comedians who’ve gotten better with fame and fortune.

My all time favorite is Norm McDonald and he just managed to be funny his entire life somehow. Sam Campbell is one of Vulture’s comedians. You should and will know. Sam spin on my radar for a few years for his work at the various festivals, the proudest moment of his career so far. There’s a funny comedian called James Gill who runs a Great Night in London at a pub called the Tommy Field.

He host the show and one says, I left the stage, he said to the crowd, give it up for Sam Campbell, the Maestro. I got a real jolt for him, called the Maestro, did wonder for my confidence. Unfortunately was short lived. I’ve done the gig a few times since. Discovery calls quite a lot of comedians the Maestro.

He says it all the time about people. But you can’t discount something just because it’s short lived. Whose career trajectory would you like to follow? He says? The answer is simple, Shelley Berman, interesting, worst show ever.

I’ve boon more times than you’ve had hot dinners. Every time I go on, I’m trying to showcase rather than just goose around. I almost always die very badly. I’ve had some really awful, unforfiable ones lately. Sorry, it’s not a specific answer.

If I try to access some of those memories and depth, I I could trap to not be able to come back. All Right, what comedy opinion hill will you die on? Sam says, A lot of people give me a hard time for laughing at my own jokes on stage. I’d like to dress this once and for all. They’re not my jokes.

I stole them from various open my comedians and foreside comic strips, and my laughter is always genuine. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice, the best. I have a boozy lunch with Jimmy Carr whenever he’s not touring, and it’s always an honor and a masterclass to listen to him muse on the craft. He recently said, be careful when you get to the top of the mountain. You might not be able to breathe that air.

That stuck with me. Worst advice. Johnny McCallister, who runs the Comedy Lounge in Perth, Australia, would say to me, only do your gold There was a lot of pressure. If I was a promoter, I would say to every act your golden Go out there and see what happens when the light bounces off of you. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag who with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney is going to host a weekly talk show. Yep, it’s for Netflix. It will be live.

The Netflix Chief Content Officer Bella Bajaria announced the news at a Bloomberg screen time and said, I’m really excited about it. I mean, John Mulaney. Hello. Kind of weird the way they released this, just you know, out of the blue, no press release or anything. So we have a long relationship with John, obviously, and we’ve done his stand up specials and during the Netflix As a Joke Festival, he did a live talk show called Everybody’s in La And I was there at a couple of tapings and it was just so bold and original and fresh and then unpredictable.

And I think it’ll be really fun to get to do a live show with him. No word yet on when this will premiere or if John Mulini even knows about this. I will keep you posted a little more solid as Nate Perghetzi will return to Netflix with two stand up specials. He had been working with Amazon for a little bit. I guess he came back home where the money’s greener who knows your friend Nate Pergetzy will launch on December twenty fourth, and then they can promote the heck out of that on the football games the next day.

He’ll also do a second special in twenty twenty five, your friend Nate Pergetzy will see the comedian discussing wanting a second dog, how much beats an order for Guys Night, and his wife being the responsible one in the marriage. Andrew Schultz said Donald Trump on his podcast and laughed in Trump’s face. Trump referred to himself as basically a truthful person. Schultz burst out laughing. Trump said, of Harris, I always refer back to the simplicity of McDonald’s.

You lied about McDonald’s. You lied about many things, and she’s a liar. There should be some kind of rule, you know, where it’s a lie, you can’t do a commercial on it. But this is a thing that’s gonna end in twenty nine days, so I can say what they want. I have a hard time doing to them because I’m basically, you know, I’m basically a truthful person.

Schultz then burst out laughing in Trump’s face. Schultz said, what does that mean? Trump said, she’s given me so much ammunition. I don’t have to. She’s a radical leftling lunatic who will destroy our nation.

Send your letters of complaints to Donald Trump, or listen to the Ballot podcast, where we do this stuff every day over there, Ballots wherever you get your shows. Schultz then asked Trump if he supports abortion bands. Now that Baron Trump has been quote unleashed in New York City, Schultz asked, tell me the situation. Baron is eighteen, he’s handsome, he’s tall, he’s rich. Trump said he’s got the whole ballgame this kid.

Schultz said, he’s unleashed in New York City. Are you sure you want to reverse Roe V? Wait? Now, I mean maybe give him a few years, you know. Trump didn’t answer the question, but cracked a smile gave a straight answer about how it’s up to the states now, and I’ll leave the political stuff for the ballot show.

Let’s go hang out on gossip Corner, and it’s very gossipy today. Donald Rowling’s booked to Chicago. Defender the topic, Diddy Donale said, you know, it’s interesting. There’s two sides to every story. I had the chance to learn one version of Diddyon.

Some of those accusers are sharing their experiences in that photo, I saw a group of black men enjoying each other’s company, celebration of blackness, fatherhood, and friendship. People can interpret that image however they want, but that’s the energy I felt. Did he host gatherings like this every year? And I remember when Dave’s kids were hanging out with his kids? I believe the Dave in question there is Dave Chappelle.

Everybody was out in the water having fun together. It was a beautiful celebration of life, family and made a lasting impression. Unfortunately, many people now see him as the devil. Still, those who had the chance to work with him or receive undisputable opportunities have a different perspective, and that’s important to recognize as well.

Meanwhile, Atlanta Blackstar is asking where is Kevin the headline.

Kevin Hart’s wife, an Ego, has not posted the comedians since he was bombarded with Diddy questions. The troll attacks, as they’re being called, started on the couple’s September twenty ninth post about their daughter’s birthday. One comment read, still pretending everything is normal and acting like your eyes are blind as crazy. How did you sleep? Bro?

On October sixth, Kevin Hart shared a video of himself wearing out the gym. The comments included, you were invited to join Diddy’s jail party. Don’t forget baby oil. Kevin Hart was out in West Hollywood. A Papa Rozzo asked Kevin Hart, when you hosted for Ditty, did you catch any baby oil?

Kevin Hart responded, when I hosted for Ditty. You’re asking the wrong person, the wrong question. It’s not a good question. Which is an interesting answer here asking me if I’ve ever met Ditty? No, I have never met Ditty.

Have ever been one of his parties? No, I have never been to one of Ditty’s parties. I know that’s shocking, but no, I haven’t missus. Hart has not shared any images with Kevin on her Instagram since August twenty fourth. Again, we’re on gossip corner.

Now staying on gossip corner. Jerry Seinfeld was at the Mets game. A video shows a fan asking Jerry to send a message to the fans brother who’s in Israel. The brother was watching the Mets game from the Gaza border. Seinfeld raised his fist in solidarity and offered a three word message, which was let’s go IDF weird AWL told the story to people in which Andy Samberg, who’s in the macpack, actually weird Al should be in the macpack as well.

We’ll get to that a different day. Samberg actually called me up before the show SNL and said, hey, man, I’m doing an impressive view and I hope it’s okay, and I’m like, yeah, it’s fine, whatever you want to do. Al would like to HOSTSNALI, He says, I wonder why haven’t I done that yet? And that’s one of those things, but you know, still may happen. Who knows.

I think I’d rather be a host than a musical guest, because if you host, you have more permission to mess up, and as a musical guest, if you get one note wrong, you’re a failure. Samanth the Bee told the Daily Beast podcast she’s working on a three night run of a new show in New York City this week. The title of the program is How to Survive Mental Pause. Sam says, I’m not generally a hot takes type of person, and I do like to think about things and consider things, but the anger inside of me would boil. I would rage boil in a nanosecond.

It was such a powerful feeling that I did. At the end of the summer, I was throwing things privately. My personal anger was overtaking me. I never really did that in anyone’s presence, but it was like a private inner turmoil, and I thought, I really need psychiatric care. This is very out of character.

The show runs October seventeenth through the nineteenth at the Minuta Lane Theater in Manhattan. By the way, I want to thank the supporters. You know several of you support the show regularly. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

You know I’ll get an email in the middle of the night telling me somebody signed up. So Deb, thank you, Deb joined the two dollars Club. That’s a nice easy way to do it. Ellen Avon, Aaron Becky Different Aeron, Liz, Travis Scott. Maybe I should blackmail Scott and be like, hey man, a little more donations, a little less Joe Coy know what I’m saying.

Nudge nudge, we have fewer Camber shots of Taylor Swift, Tommy Andrea, Gary, Shannon, Mike and Kenny. Thank you all so much. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what I’ll do. I will go to the National Donut Chain.

I don’t have one with me. What this is here? This is a diet coke that I got at famous Hamburger chain. Dudes, two cheeseburger meal that you would get at a famous hamburger chain. Eleven fifty.

What are we doing? Trevor Noah said he’d be happy to drop by the Daily Show. Coincidentally, he’s got a new book to promote. Wow, it’s weird how that happens. I mean, Trevor hadn’t mentioned wanting to go on The Daily Show at all, and he’s got a new book, and now he’s like, Oh, I’d go on the Daily Show.

Huh. I see how that works. Savannah Guthrie asked Trevor while he was guesting on The Today’s Show, the question, would you ever go back to the Daily Show just for a guest thing? Look at John he’s doing Mondays. Trevor said, oh, always, always, John and I text about it all the time.

I’m just gonna come pop in and harass him for a full day and then be his guest. Trevor said he always wished he could do a version of The Daily Show with a lighter schedule, and then he messaged Sean Stewart saying, I literally messaged him and was like, you set up a bee. You figured it out. Roy Wood Junior tell the Egle Online. What makes the Daily Show so legendary but can also be burdensome creatively is they have to try to look at the solution of the problem or the causation of the problem, so he can put a real call to action on the issue.

But when it comes to Have I Got News for You, we get to live in the joke first and the solution second. I mentioned this the other day as I’m watching HBO Max, Are you watching the Penguin? By the way, somebody’s got a crush on one of the actors in the Penguin? And no, I don’t have a crush on Oz Cobblepot. You can figure out who.

But I digress. Have I Got News for You? It’s like in the Top ten. So, as I mentioned, it might not be a good idea to have on CNN Saturday night, but people are watching it, which is good. I like everybody on the show.

Royoo Junior said, everybody interprets and digests information and trauma differently. So I think we have an opportunity with Have I Got News for You to introduce a new prism through which to process everything terrible that’s going on in the world. You know, one week, Donald Trump’s talking about people eating dogs and cats. In the next week, the mayor of New York City gets indicted. Every week’s been an amazing bingo cord of chaos.

There were so many shows that were around attempting to offer their own ankles on the stuff. So the fact that a new show even dared to enter the market space in the last four years is huge. Right. Vulture is keeping an eye on this crossover between Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny. They have an update which reads a lot of NSWF improv is hitting the cutting room floor.

Patrick Schumacher toil the rap. When we were shooting last week, Rob had this improv in one scene with Ava that I didn’t know was coming. He just thought about it temporaneously. It made me spit out my coffee and then wish we had an episode that was just like a gag reel of all the stuff we can’t use. When Quinna first brought it to me and Pat I was like, this is gonna work.

How we’re gonna marry the tones of these shows but stay true to the own show. It was incredibly fun to do. The Abbot folks added that Mceleenny and Charlie Day spend time in the writer’s room to make it work. No details and when it will air? Are you in Toronto tonight?

I like the title of this all of us are Asian comedy show. Exclamation boint. This is Toronto’s hottest comedy show that will take you on a wild and hilarious ride. The show always sells out. Get your tickets now.

Well, John, why’d you tell them about it two seconds before the show? I don’t know. Maybe I pretaped the weekend. You know it happens. Yeah, maybe I appreciate the weekend.

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Caloroga Shark Media people are really wigged about this Australian version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. They’re acting like, oh, I can’t believe they made an Australian version of the Office. Are you paying attention? There’s a zillion versions.

There’s a version on Hulu that I watched that’s Hindi. It’s like half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it’s the Office. I get it. And I don’t know if you know this. The Office, as great as it was, was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay’s so let’s stop acting like we can’t make a new one.

Felicity Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais has approved a female lead. He’s very excited about a female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK on October eighteenth.

If you’re in the US, You’re not going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked how she’s feeling about the show’s released on October eighteenth, and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love the office. They’re like, hey, what do you want to do?

That’s fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero preparation because I read the script and I’m like, oh my god, this is every annoying part of my personality. I’ve been preparing for this my whole life, and I don’t know if this showrunner, I don’t know how much she had seen me before, but it was like as if she got the tapes and then edited out the charm and the bits that people liked about me, and then just wrote a character. So it’s just there.

It’s very strange playing a character where you’re supposed to make people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime. This one you can watch in the States. It’ll be out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special.

In Jeff Dunham’s Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham’s So yeah, I’m leaving that in. I did you hear that? All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and then I was going to do the pick up, and then I realized screwed up is funny. So I’m leaving all that in, including the explanation.

This is where I start over. Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on another bust. Leave it in. I’m giving you a little behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams screwed him.

You’d swear I’m doing a bit. Take four Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In Jeff Dunham’s scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In the classic roles, Guess who’s Scrooge? That’s right, Walter.

But when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed to their thespian parts, they don’t quite agree and the plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up comedy special. It’s Jeff Dunham’s thirteenth comedy special, his second to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine’s Day he did I’m with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy.

They’ve donated a gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The DCA said, we’re excited to announce the potential edition of an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all of our wildcats by creating a space that can be used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and new locker rooms and office spaces.

Junior did some crowd work and bonded with an audience member over catching her boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood’s joke about AOL wasn’t the only one that aged him, but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would have joked about a process called book buy back. The program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around one tenth through the original price.

Yeah, if you’ve got any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I actually teach you college classes. I don’t use a textbook. I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class in a podcasting class so I can write the notes off the top of my head.

Roy said, I know a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu. Smile asked Hari, what’s it like being a smart comedian? Harry said, what it means is you get described as smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say, deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn’t used nearly enough.

The only thing I want to see is funny. He’s really funny, hysterical. I’m a comedian at the end of the day. All the other things smart, well spoken, thoughtful, and I’ll throw in ever so serious. I’d be part of it.

Is your interview Persoda, dude, I’d like that to be the garnish around the funny. I do think, certainly there’s a reason that I bring an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things that might not be in pop culture and maybe more about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that’s what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I don’t know.

Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased already said, first of all, it’s a show. It’s been canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still gets its flowers, it’s really nice. I wish I got more. I feel like the fact that the clips aren’t readily available online.

When FX bowl the clips after the show got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision. They put the episodes up. The episodes aren’t going to be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It’s just annoying watch things. It’d be like, yeah, we cover this a decade ago, and that’s the same angle we took, and there’s no record of it.

I’ve seen things since and it’s like, Okay, that’s literally almost verbatim. When I said three years later the same joke. It taught me that there were more people appreciated the point of view that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of the show had. It made me feel like maybe I wasn’t out on a limb the same way I thought it was at the same time, and also taught me that we were still on the cutting edge because the stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans rights and police brutality and the angles we took then became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden, you even see late night shows covering those issues that started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes from totally biased.

I was thinking of a pool uh last week or the week before, and I was watching the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I don’t think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe I just missed him, or I said, that’s the thing that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things that a community know where feel have been discussed for years are new when you’ve been ignored by mainstream society. So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we were as a society and perform in real time.

When you’re doing stand up, you’re doing it in real time, but you’re also releasing things of the masses. It’s every few years in a special or set. It’s totally biased. Every night, we kind of got a sense of where people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered Columbus Day.

Stuff that was forever go to me, and somehow it’s still relevant people. It also says that the stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption. If you’re an Apple podcast, there’s a banner.

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