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Caloroga Shark Media either. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Lewis Black, retiring at the end of the year. He says, I have other things I want to do. I enjoy it all, but I’ve always liked stand up the most because it allows me to write, direct and act.

And I’ve always loved that the ultimate arbiter of any performance has been the audience, and not some producer or executive producer. Lewis tell says, anyone who’s over the age of sixty five says, these are the best years of your life, and you could take the back of your hand and slap them as hard as you can’t. Aging sucks. There’s nothing fun about it. You close friends call and they tell you they went to the doctor today, and then you just wait for the other shoot to drop.

It’s just so awful. Nikki Glaser, she’s getting ready to host the Golden Globes on Sunday. She tells Entertainment Weekly she’s on the Sea list, and I say that with so much love for myself. I’m fine with that. I’m a comedian.

If I wasn’t hosting, I wouldn’t be there. There’s no other way for me to be there, except maybe as a seat filler. Not entirely true. She’s nominated for Best Comedy Special. She explains her approach.

I have to say who I am first. I have to be a little softer and more self deprecating because I’m not as well known. I can’t just come out swinging. They’ll be like, who’s this lady and why does she think she has a right to talk to us? This way, I can’t come in with the same annihilating venom as I did at the Tom Brady Roast.

With status comes the ability to punch harder. She did seek out advice from Ricky Gervase, who told her you aren’t them. You’re a comedian. They’re a list movie stars. Remember that.

Do what you do, don’t try to be them. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you’re better than you are. She says, I like that because I always perform best when I shake that delusion off. I’m not a movie star. I just want to have a comedian that night.

Then by the third time I’m hosting, I can have a scorch Earth monologer. And I’m gonna give you some advice, Nikki, because I know you’re a big fan of Taylor Swift. What you don’t want to do during your monologue. You don’t want to joke about Taylor Swift because last year Joe Coy told the joke about Taylor Swift and she gave him a death stare and it killed the room.

And then everybody said Joe Coy did a bad job hosting.

And I don’t agree with that. I think that meani Taylor Swift iced Joe co Let’s listen back to that moment. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear, it’s just where to go to kare sorry about that. You have plans for tonight. NBC is airing Day Drinking with Seth Myers. Now I don’t I like Seth Myers at all, but of all the things you could do tonight, that’s not the choice. I mean, even if you’re home watching TV, just go with the Ryan Seacrest thing.

It’s basic. Just do that. Why would you watch Day Drinking with Seth Myers? Really, it’s an hour long look back at the best of Meyer’s drunken interactions with Rihanna Post Malone, Kevin Hart, Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Lizzo, Dua Lipa Ala. Air from eleven thirty to twelve thirty five.

NBC’s not trying, Why should you? Then at twelve thirty five, NBC’s trying even less. They’re going to air E News Presents NBC’s Hot ten of twenty twenty four, a one hour special hosted by some folks from E News. Fell and Dolly Parton Andy Cohen appear on the E special. CBS watch the CBS show five hours of country music.

New Year’s Eve Live, Nationhale’s Big Bash. It’s not comedy, but that’s fun. ABC is the traditional Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rock and Eve. The Ryan seacrests that’s not bad. CNN Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, they usually get a little loose on their show.

You could watch that or you know, you could have friends, you could watch movies, you can play video games, you could watch some comedy specials. I’m just saying this. Eth Myers thing’s gotta be pretty far down your list out You could watch Michelle Buteau. She’s got a new special tonight. Why don’t you watch that?

Michelle Butteu a betellful mind. Recording Radio City back in June, she reflects on motherhood and marriage, all while sipping rose through a straw. She’d tell the La Times, I have other stuff I do, but I love stand up. I love connecting with people.

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And now we’re actually wearing pants and heels, and I’m like, oh, the time is…

I love talking about my life, but finding a balance is important. Having the utmost respect for people in your life and not using them as fodder all the time, but definitely speaking about them in a more universal, bigger picture way is something that will always sort of inspire me. She spoke to the hollerd Reporter about the choice of venue and said, sometimes I watch a special, I’m not inspired. I’m like, where are you? You can be in Ohio, you could be in Kansas, I don’t know.

And because Netflix has such a reach one hundred and ninety countries around the world, I want people to feel like, look, when you watch a special with me, it’s gonna be a New York City night. Whether you can afford to come here or not. I just love when the world feel small and big at the same time. But I’d never headlined Radio City before, and when I walked into tour it, I was like, Oh, this place is magical. It’s calling me.

I asked the people who were taking us to tour the place, what other female comedians have taped their specials here, and they were like, none, females have headlined here, but no one’s taped a special and I was like, oh wow, okay, I’m in a Holly reporter said presumably it’s very expensive to book and hard to fill. Michelle said, oh yeah, any other agent or manager would it’s all their client go somewhere else, save the money. I don’t know if I’m a lot to say this, but you pay for production out of your fees. Usually you go to a theater. There’s few receipts.

That way, you can do two shows and early show in a late show. In case you don’t get what you want, you can mix and match the edit. But with Radio City Music Hall, it’s like, Okay, I only got the one show, and I can barely afford the one show. But I also felt this is bigger than me, and also like, how come no one else has done this before? I think he answered your own question.

Money, The answer is always money. Any question in showbiz that makes no sense, the answer is always money. They asked her about mentioning her family and her material, and she said, twenty thirty fifty years from now, somebody looks back in this, are they gonna be wildly hurt and embarrassed? Are they gonna say, Ah, she was gone through a lot of stuff, and she was living her truth and she made history and money. Are there jokes that you do in comedy clubs you don’t do it on a Netflix special?

One hundred percent. I mean I did a twenty city tour last year and there was a lot of stuff that I didn’t put in the special. There are things you should only hear live where it shouldn’t be recorded. You get to speak your truth and say that nasty little thing. You only get away with that a two drink minimum, and then you figure out what you can say on a platform like Netflix that will live forever.

Spoiler mid show, you take a dig at Chappelle. Why Michelle said, I’ve always been an inclusive person, and especially with comedy or anything in the arts. We have to speak truth to power. I don’t understand why we get to make fun of and punch down and bret on beautiful communities because the world is changing and we should change along with it. That’s what should happen.

Change isn’t linear, but its performers. We also have the power to move that needle. And quite frankly, I really wish more performers that have a bigger platform than me will also speak out, because it’s a reason why an injustice will happen for so long no one’s calling it out. And if we have an opportunity to not only call it out but also make it funny and then pay taxes on it and make some money, it’s a win win. And look, I’ve got so many protests and I’ve done a lot of hashtagging on social media, but I feel like if I really want to make people think about something, I gotta have to sneak the vegebles into the meal I could do with the kids.

I’ve got a sneak in my wokeness with some hilarity. So you’re beat it back to your friend at the water cooler on a Monday morning and hopefully learn something. Well. Lissa via Signora will have a special tomorrow. It is called Whelp What Now?

That’ll be on YouTube tomorrow January first. On this feed tomorrow January first, you will hear my interview with Mike Chishom. Mike Chisham actually interviewed me. I was the guest on the Lunarman podcast. But Mike was cool and said I could repurpose the audio and take a day off, so I did.

If you’re in Canada, the CBC has restored its New Year’s Eve celebration, a one hour special called twenty two Minutes New Year’s Eve Pregame Special. It features the cast or the political series. This hour has twenty two minutes. It will be followed by cann Out Alive Countdown twenty twenty five. People were mad at the CBC last year because some cost cutting.

They didn’t bother. They just aired a pre tape just for laugh special hosted by May Martin The Charlotte Observer as Sarah Silverman. Are you with Jerry Seinfeld type where every word is important? Are you more of someone who outlines your set and kind of goes with it? Sarah said, I’m never tied to a script at all.

It’s not like a written monologue. There’s all things I learned from the audience. You know, some jokes can bomb or killed depending on all kinds of factors. You realize, oh, I need to have a pause here, you need a tiny word here, or they need a little more information, or they need much less information where the setup is too heavy for the lightness of the punchline. There’s all this chemistry.

You get beakers of jokes, and you’re adding and taking away all that stuff until you figure out what works best, and you’ll never get the perfect version. But I’m a really meticulous slow honer. That’s why I can’t watch my specials once they’re done. It’s too frustrating. At a certain point, you just got to put it out on tape or digital whatever it’s called.

You got to record it and kiss it goodbye because it can all fit in my head. And I think with that, that’s your comedy news for the year. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like the program too. Have a very safe New Year’s Eve.

I hope you and your family had a good twenty twenty four. I hope you have an even better twenty twenty five. I appreciate you. Thank you for listening every single day to this podcast. It means a lot to me.

It’s a lot of fun for me to do. So Happy New Year to us all. Tomorrow’s an hour and a half episodes. If you have nothing to do on New Year’s Day, we’ll keep your company with that. Normal episode on Thursday Tomorrow is an hour and a half episode.

It’s me guesting on the Letterman Podcast. So if you have nothing to do tomorrow, now you do. Happy New Year,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I am Jenny Mack with your daily comedy. Hew’s a cool article on cracked dot com Mitch Hedberg’s secret to comedy, he apparently told Kevin Nalin. I started to delete stuff is what it comes down to. I have jokes that have maybe three or fourth the most punchlines, but I started to make it come down.

I figured out that one or two is the best. You know, the second punch line of the first punch line works better than the third or the fourth. Hegburg talked about performing in Ireland, saying I got a lot of food product jokes that I do. I know that some of the food products don’t translate and up to the point now where I’ll still do them regardless. Audiences just have to be really hip to understand a food product that is several thousand miles away from them.

If they only know their local food restaurants, you know f them. Times have changed way back. Heedburgh said, I’m working very hard to get recognition. It takes so long. Man.

I got like a small percentage of recognition in the States, but I decided to say f and I’m going to Ireland, where I have no percentage. I like the fact that I could basically go to zero and away and humbles you. It’s like all I could do is impress them. Each show is getting better, and I’ll play all the countries as long as they give me a chance to get better. The first show will suck, but the seventh show will be sweet.

You know that’s the bottom line. Hebburg passed away March thirtieth, two thousand and five. Wow, twenty years goes fast. The Chicago Defender spoke to Donnel Rawlings. He said, A New Day wasn’t my first special, but it truly evolved my comedy.

The first time I taped it, the material was two tied to the pandemic. It featured COVID jokes. They didn’t age well. Chappelle advised me to aim for something timeless, so I took that feedback seriously. I rewrote my material and refined my point of view, resulting in a final version that could stand the test of time.

Initially, my special felt like a collection of jokes that needed a clear beginning and personal perspective. However, I realized I had to capture everything I needed at the moment. It was my third attempt at the special recorded right after the pandemic, when audiences still felt its effects. While some jokes may have been funny, didn’t create a great special. By listening to constructive criticism, I returned to the drawing board a craft relatable and meaningful jokes To speak about Chapelle.

He said, our friendship means more to me than any business relationship. While Chappelle’s show helped boost my career, our connection genuinely matters. We’ve been there so much together. He was there when my son was born. We’ve attended weddings and funerals, including Charlie Murphy’s.

Whether we’re doing comedy or not, He’s one of my closest friends. Many people assumed I must be upset about Chappelle’s show not moving forward, but my genuine concern was his mental state. He didn’t often share his feelings, making things uncertain regarding the Comedy Central situation. When I ran into him a club in New York, I wanted to hug him and slap them, but felt relieved because I hadn’t seen him in a while. Monday Man caught up with Russell Peters.

He says, gotta keep working, ex wives, you got baby, mamas, you got it all. You know. I hadn’t accountant who I found out wasn’t doing his job properly, and now I’m paying the price for it because I got to get out there and hustle to pay the irs, which I thought he was doing. Some people on social media accused Russell of doing the same formula again and again. Russell says, the people that say that, don’t come and watch me.

If you do see me, you’ll see I do different material every night. Now there’s a whole generation of com that are doing my formula and making millions of dollars off it. But it’s okay for them and not me. When he plays Canada, he says, I’m home, they get it, And when he takes a show around the world, he says, listen, you should never talk about things you don’t know about. Number one, If you’re going to another country and try to tack their religious beliefs, of their government, or anything, that’s a definite no go.

Even if you know something about it, just don’t do it. Jang Wang says he’s pretty happy with where he is in his career. He says, I don’t have any big long term goals beyond just kind of what I’m doing right now. My goal right now is just enjoy the ride. I feel like, you know, even with this level of success, I’m dealing with more things than I had to in the past in terms of just simple things like marketing, or taxes or tax withholdings from different countries, talk to Russell Peters, uh or things I never had to think about too much beforehand.

And so I just really want to do what I’m doing and enjoy it the whole time, you know, not get too caught up with the business of these things. Well, I think it’s cool you have audiences along for the ride. Ultimately, what I find to be the most satisfying is writing a new joke. You know, touring, having a fan base, that’s all great, and it’s fun to do a killer show, but you know, really rocket for a whole hour in front of an adoring fan base. For me, the most satisfying thing is still just to write a new joke, come up with a new bit, and have some new insight about something.

The Whitmer Daily News spoke to Brian Reagan. He says, I don’t adapt, I just do it the way I like to do it. I think it’s a mistake to try and figure out what other people are doing or what audiences are looking for. I’m just gonna do what I think is funny, and if there are enough people out there who agree with me, then I’ll be fortunate enough to have a career. The stuff I think about doesn’t really bump up too hard against anything that’s super controversial.

I’ve never had it just accordingly. Sure, there are some jokes to avoid in today’s world. And since it’s an article with Brian Reagan, they asked him about clean comedy, and he said, for my side, we never push out that I’m a clean comedian. I feel like it is the wrong connotation. I feel like if someone were to hear that word before they see what I do, that put a connotation on that has nothing to do with my comedy.

It happens to be clean, but that’s not the point of it. When people hear clean comedy, they leap frog over to thinking, oh, he’s trying to make a point here, and it’s like, no, I just enjoy doing it this way. Skyler Hickley is one of Vulture’s comedians You should and will know proudest moment of your career so far. Listen to this. When my former boss, Conan O’Brien pulled me aside and said, you’re by far the most talented person I’ve ever met.

Wow. I mean never mind people that Conan may have casually met hosting his show, like Paul McCartney comes to mind, but even the people that he’s worked with that is high praise. Skyler says, having been a staff writer for The Onion and Conan, I do recognize that I’ve lived a lot of gen X white guy’s dreams. Being a part of the end of Conan on TBS was very special. Once he emailed me complimenting something i’d written, I emailed him back, this is a big deal coming from you.

Ever since I saw Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop when I was fourteen, I’ve been a huge fan of jay Leto. I was only there for the final season, which is like taking a paddle boat out to the Titanic to hop on it as it’s sinking into the water. But then you get to say you’re on the Titanic, which is legendary, and I got a nice little trophy, which is what it’s all about. Worst show ever I was supposed to do five shows in a weekend. I’d only sold fifteen tickets total, but of course there’d be some walk ins.

The first show went better than I thought, pretty good, but then there was the second show. I bombed for forty minutes straight. The few handfuls of people who did buy tickets at the door heck old made high pitched bomb dropping noises after every punchline, and walked out during the show, talking crap about how bad it was and refusing to pay for their drinks. The club canceled the rest of the shows that weekend, so I spent the rest of the weekend in a hotel room, depressed about my existence and truly resentful of how many comedians would have also bombed that situation but would have never been booked there. How to deal with the issues of being an outliner?

All right, what’s your comedy opinion? Hill? You’ll die on? Higby said, The majority of older famous stand up comedians should retire. They’re not offering anything that insightful or well written.

What they accomplished was great, but like with superstar athletes, there’s a point where they simply can’t be good anymore. Imagine if Jordan kept playing for the Wizards, but also every shot he made. How to be about cancel culture or trans people another one. The Internet has changed the value and form of comedy, and it’s become very easy to be creatively lazy, which is strange since we have the tools to make things very well the concept demand and not only write stand up all the time. But what everything on social media makes me feel like I’m dumping more crap into a river of crap.

Comedy is simultaneously better and worse than it’s ever been, and there are a lot of Itmazingly talented people could be making some great stuff given more opportunity. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They may like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, I get it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. If you’ve listened last few days. This is two days ago I did my top specials of the year.

Yesterday I did the next best specials of the year, and today is and I want to keep it positive, but today are some specials that are just not on the list. Some of them I liked a lot, but just not on the list as so as I make the list. Tier A are the things that I feel like just nailed it, like really funny comedian trying to do something not just as special by the numbers, just it’s got that little certain something. Then the next group of things like you know Seth Meyers doing Seth Meyers things and if you’re sitting on a couch for an hour, fine solid special, you laugh, but like there’s nothing special about it. Well the capital lests, you know what I mean.

And then today are some other things and I’ll share with you why they didn’t make the list. And I’m all proud of myself. After having weeks of voice trouble, my voice is pretty strong today. This is the third podcast in a row because I’ve done all these list episodes back to back to back, and I’ve got my large iced coffee with caramel and Millik can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Company News to support the show, but voices holding up, which is good right.

Not on the list, and there’s no particular order to this list. Maybe a slight chronological as something came out and I added it to the bottom, But don’t read anything into the order in which I discuss the following specials that are not on the list. Not on the list Adrian Applelucci’s Derk Queen, and I wrote, I didn’t buy the premises of the jokes. They felt like all untrue premises. I’ll compare that to Ronnie Ching.

Ronnie has that big opening sweep about freezing his wife’s eggs, clearly told for comedic effect, but I believe the underlying story, whereas with Adrian, I just didn’t believe anything she was saying and it takes me out of it. I need something to be at least a little bit reality based, unless you’re going like full Stephen Wright. Not on the list. Ali Wong’s single Lady for Me. You know not all comedian is targeted at a fifty five year old Mary dude sitting in a basement with kids recording a podcast.

You know, I’m not the target audience there, so I wasn’t feeling it at all. Doesn’t mean it’s bad, doesn’t mean it’s not funny, doesn’t mean you won’t like it. Just not on my list. And I can’t say this enough times. It’s just one dude’s list.

Let’s not get angry about the list. The list doesn’t made to make people feel bad, doesn’t mean anything. What it really means is John wanted to take three days off after Christmas, and everybody else puts out lists, so why shouldn’t I. That’s what this really means.

Also not on the list Joe Coy, Yeah, he had a special this year, remember that…

No me neither. I wrote down all energy, no jokes. Very disappointing by Joe Coy. Perhaps Taylor Swift really rattled his game. Who knows.

Not on the list Ronny Yusef’s HBO special from March, and I wrote I didn’t like the direction. I couldn’t focus. I know some folks have had this on their top tens, but just the way it was edited kept taking me out of it. You know, comedy directors, how about you shoot the camera at the comedian and you leave it there. I’m getting old, but all this fast cut stuff I just don’t like.

Ronny had weird lighting, so the direction just ruined it for me. The material might be amazing, but I don’t know. I bailed. Pete Davidson had a Netflix special in January. Remember that one.

I wrote terrible and then I wrote even more damning fake laughs question mark. That was a note I had on a lot of specials this year that because of what I do for a living. I’ve worked in radios professionally since ninety two in college radio before that. I’ve listened to a lot of audio over the years, and weird edits will get my attention. Even Ronny Chieng special, which I loved early on, there’s some weird video jumps that I was like, Eh, that didn’t seem natural, But as I watched Pete, I felt like they added laughs and boy, there’s nothing more damning than that Jackie Novak Get on your Knees on Netflix in January.

I’ve seen that on a lot of other people’s top ten lists. I lasted four minutes with that special, and like I said earlier, not every specials targeted at me wasn’t for me. You might like it. Kevin James, irregardless was on Amazon in January. I lasted seven minutes.

He was doing this weird dancing thing and no thanks. I’m out. Rory Scovell had one on Max and I wrote the same note I did with Pete. The laughter has me suspicious. And if I don’t trust that you haven’t added laughter, I don’t trust your special and I’m out.

I have that same note about Neil Brennan’s Netflix special back in April, I wrote, material was good, but fake laughs. Just don’t do that. Four specials that came and went, I have no note on them. Donalll Rawlings Netflix February, Jenny Slate Amazon February, Steve Travino Netflix in March, Liz Neely on YouTube in April. Nikki Glaser is HBO special.

I’ve seen some people put her way up on the list. I think she crushed at Tom Brady, but I didn’t think that special was all that. Again, maybe I’m not the target audience for it, but I watched that. I was like, all right, I mean it’s fine, it’s fine. I’m not gonna throw a pie at you if you like it, but it’s fine.

Some more specials not on Johnny Max’s list. Again, I can’t say enough. It’s just a list. Let’s not get upset about it. I’m just talking.

Hada Einemander had a special on Max and I wrote, is she even a good stand up? Boy? It must have been craiky when I wrote that one down, but that’s what I wrote. It’s not how I feel right now, but I did write that sentence A looking at my note right here under other projects best of twenty twenty four, and it says is she even a good stand up? Question work?

Ron In Hirschberg had a special on YouTube. I wrote generic comedian, Generic comedy. Christina Catherine Martinez had how to Make a Cake and I wrote weird and not funny, and I usually like weird. Natasha vain Blatt had one on YouTube and I wrote, it’s fine, nothing special. Dan Licatta for the Boys on YouTube, but his old high school.

I saw what he was trying to do. He went back to his old high school. He got some teenagers in the audience, but there’s like a fake teacher being like, you shouldn’t be doing that kind of material, Like I see what he’s trying to do, but it just didn’t work. I actually wrote the sentence not good Hannah Berner July Netflix. I just wrote not for me again, some specials are not for me.

All good, Langston Kerman in August on Netflix, I wrote fine, Anthony Jessnick Netflix in November, I lasted seven minutes and found it not funny. I have seen people on the intergwebs disagree with that sentiment, but I don’t know. I just wasn’t feeling it. And maybe the whole Jessinic character is cooked now, and I don’t know where he would go from here unless he just did a total different pivot and became a different kind of stand up. So I don’t know.

Also that week James Acaster’s HBO special, and I wrote, I’m not sure what he’s doing. The premise there was that hecklers were allowed to interrupt him. Okay, good premise, and then maybe you should have some hecklers in the show if that’s the premise. So I don’t know what. I know what he was trying to do, but he didn’t do it.

Jim Gaffigan had a special in November on Hului lead off of the hilarious specials, and I wrote boring Jim doing Jim things. Jim had a pretty good year, you know, the SNL thing helped him a lot. He has stepped up in classes, I like to say, but I don’t know. He’s had some pretty good specials. But this one was just like, all right, Jim kind of heard this already, so we’re to But if you’re Jim Gaffigan, what do you do this far in?

Like, do you come out and just do like the I’m gonna rant against Trump special for an hour and then lose your audience? So you just come out and tell more Dad jokes and just do that for another twenty years and retire. Probably the latter, But all right, my former coworker, Jamie Fox, I almost bailed really early. Then he did a very good Cat Williams impression, which kept me. But then he went into a preachy part that to me seems like it was added in later.

It seemed to me like the audio from the theater was too dead, and it was a close up of Jim, So that makes me think they shot it in an empty theater and dropped that in later. I say that because I feel like somebody would have yelled out we love you, Jamie or something like that, or you would have just heard something. Somebody would have coughed or sneezed or something. The room’s too dead. I see what Jamie was going for, and I think for what he was going for, it’s a good version of that, but not on the list.

And like I said, today’s episode is not The specials are turable and I hate them. These are just the specials that also existed that didn’t make the other two episodes and the other two lists. That’s all. This is today Fortune Fimester. It was on Netflix in December, and I wrote, fine, Matthew Brossard, who was a guest on this show, I had a special on YouTube, and I wrote, funny, it’s just not on the list.

It’s probably, you know, if I had to rank this group, maybe it’s number one in this group. But I haven’t ranked this group. This is just, you know, not on the list. Maybe it’s the number thirty one special of the year, if you want to look at it that way. And I want to be fair to some specials that I haven’t seen because I am recording these on December eighteenth to accommodate my skin, I have not seen Rose Mattafeo on Max Apergatsy’s Christmas Eve special, which I imagine would be way up on my list.

To Nate is solid and tends to be somebody that I am predisposed to like, So I imagine I’ll write that in on pencil at some point down the road. The Netflix End of the Year roast thing haven’t seen as I record Michelle Buttou’s coming up on New Year’s Eve and Alana Glazer on Hularius because why would the Hulu publicist ever get back to me about anything? So maybe it was good, maybe not, but they don’t want to promote it. I’m fine not promoting it. So what do you think?

Join us in the Facebook group, which is Daily Common News podcast group. You can agree, disagree, you can hate on me. You could love me. You’d be like John you nail that you got everything right. I agree with what was that fifty specials?

And I agree totally on every word you said, and you have them all ranked appropriately. We concur and I would appreciate such notes. It’s just a list. Don’t get upset. It’s just a list.

Best of the year roast to Tom Brady. If you don’t want to count that best of the year is David Tell’s thirty five twenty seven minutes special that he put out. Those were my favorites, all right, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m shunning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday. Yesterday I listed the top comedy specials of twenty twenty four and gave you sixteen specials you should watch. As I said yesterday, it’s just a list.

Don’t get upset over it, and don’t over analyze it. Don’t be like I can’t believe you had that one at number nine. That should be number seven, and you have number eleven too low, and that should be number like. It’s just a list. Your list is just as valid as mine.

Today’s tier I have called fourteen more good specials. So when I make these lists, I go along throughout the year. I open a little notepad on my Mac and as I watch comedy specials, I rank them. So, for example, on January seventh, Gaba Glecias will probably be the first special of the year that I’ve seen. It will either make Tier A or all write number one Gaba Galacias, or I will put it in the third tier, which we’ll get in tomorrow, which is this ain’t gonna make the list.

Then a second special comes out and say Gabe was number one. Then the second special comes out and I either put it above Gabe or below Gabe, and then if I didn’t like it, the second special goes on the not going to make the list list. So these ones are good, they’re just step down in class from the ones I read yesterday. The ones I read yesterday was like, oh, these are solid. These next ones, they’re good.

I do have them rank. The Hesitation of My Voice is the first one up here. Is like Seth Meyer is dead Man Walking that came out in HBO on October. But I don’t want to make it seem like that’s four and away the best out of this set. It’s just the same thing.

I ranked them, and Seth is slightly better than Tom Papa’s special who I Have at number two. Tom pap Is home Free on Netflix. Both perfectly fine specials you want to sit on the couch and laugh for an hour. Great, they just don’t have that extra h that makes me put it in the top list. You know, number three in this tier, which would be number nineteen overall if you want to look at it that way and listen to yesterday’s episode, Ellen Degenerous is special.

You know, traditionally I’ve liked Ellen’s comedy. I thought the old Ellen came out here for a bit. I liked her pigeon bit, but boy, there was too much of a victory lap. I mean, at one point there’s like seven minutes and that’s not a made up number of a standing ovation, and it’s like, come on, little too much patting on the back, and that’s coming from someone who likes to pat himself on the back. So Ellen might have made the top lisp but just left a not a bad taste in my mouth.

But I don’t know a taste in my mouth regardless. Greg Fitzsimmons was on YouTube in August my note to myself eighty percent funny. However, twenty percent hack. It’s a weird mix when he’s rolling, he’s rolling, and then he’ll just do some very hacky material. So that dragged it down out of the top tier.

But that would be number four slash twenty overall. Next up, Cant Williams Woke Folk, and I wrote next to it so disappointing coming off the Shannon Sharp interview. You just expected Kat to come out and just rip everybody, and it was fine. Kat Williams doing Cat Williams things. Probably even a good version of Kat Williams doing Cat Williams things, but just just it didn’t match the excitement leading into it, so it was like it was okay.

Number six last twenty one, Hannah Gatsby’s Gender Agenda. I like Hannah. I thought their second special, that One’s Douglas, was better than the first one, which I can’t remember the name of, that everybody put in the Comedy Hall of Fame. I actually thought the second one was better. This one not as good as either one, but no, nice solid special.

Connor O’Malley’s Stand Up Solutions is really interesting, high concept, pretty funny. It’s on YouTube. It is the type of thing I’m inclined to like, but it’s a bit of a roller coaster. There are some great moments, then there’s some lags. But he went for it, so I appreciate that.

Next up, Adam Ray’s Doctor Phil Live Surprise the Heck out of Me on Netflix in November. During the first half of it, I was texting friends, brought my wife down like you gotta see this, you gotta see this, and then it was diminishing returns. There were some cameos from famous people that I won’t spoil. That show up, but the front half is really strong and it tails off. Probably should have been half as long as it was, but I did like that one a lot.

And we’ll take the break here and I’ll come back and I’ll tell you some more. Next up it would be the number twenty five special overall, but again we’re in the second tier here. Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership that was on Netflix in March. Brian drafting off some rogan theme and will deserved funny special twenty six. Tignataro had a special on Amazon in March.

Do you even remember that one? It was fine Tiknatar doing Tignataro things. Twenty seven Taylor Tomlinson special on Netflix in February. This is another one of those that at first I was like, oh, this is really good, and it just went on a little too long. I also wrote the note, she doesn’t need f bombs.

She could work a little more clean than she does, and TV will bring that discipline to her. So she’s, you know, for buying stocks by Stock and Taylor Thomlinson. I would say she got kind of hyper after a while too. It was fatiguing to watch. Rachel Feinstein had a special on Netflix.

I wrote, nice enough, and that’s what this tier is. Nice enough, it’s funny, it’s worthy of being on Johnny Max’s list, you know, it’s nice enough.

Also nice enough.

Joe Rogan’s Burned the Boats Now, that was live on Netflix in August, so a lot of hype because he was live, and it was, you know, fine. I was entertained. It wasn’t amazing. And this next one is number thirty overall, but I’ve really warmed up to it. You know, I should probably revisit my list here on the fly.

I’ll tell you what it is, and then let me look again and see if I can rescore this one. Adam Sandler’s Love You. You know, I’m not a fan of Adam Sandler’s comedy at all, and yet this one was like, all right. Plus I liked how he tried to do something. It had that weird pseudo documentary feel.

They were trying to pretend these weird things were happening to Adam in the moment when they’re clearly staged. So it was art. It was interesting. But as I’ve thought back on the year, I’m thinking more fondly of that one. But I have it at number thirty and the last of Tier B.

But let me look here, so I rescore this, like, especially in this group. Is Sailor better than Seth Papa, Ellen Fitzimmons, Cat, Hannah Connor, O’Malley, Yeah, maybe not, Doctor Phil Live. Is it better than Brian Simpson, Tig Taylor Rachel Yeah? So Sandler, you know, I might even as go as far now in retrospect and bump Sandler up to Tier one and put it below Chad Daniels and make it seventeenth. Like I said, these lists are subjective.

I don’t even know where I want to bring it. But you know, I appreciate you, Adam Sandler, And to be fair to some specials that I have not seen, I have not seen Rosemata Feo on Max Nate Aperghatzy’s Christmas Eve special, the Netflix roast thing at the end of the year, Michelle Buttew on New Year’s Eve, a lot of Glazer’s hilarious special, plus you know two hundred others that came and went on YouTube. That’s Tier two. Feel encouraged to start a discussion in the Facebook group if you agree disagree, Maybe you’re like John you and Nail that that was one hundred percent. I agree with everything you said.

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Calorokashark Media. Way there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And I’ve got my large iced coffee with caramel and milk already here because I’m going to record three of these back to back to back. These are the top comedy specials of twenty twenty four, according to me, So let’s talk about that. And I’ve been chatting about this on the side when I was on the Letterman podcast and the Facebook group.

It’s just a list. I’m not saying you know what, I’m right, You’re wrong. Comedy is very subjective depending on the type of comedy, like something’s tickle one person’s brain and don’t tickle a different person’s brain. It’s just a list. Let’s not overreact to it.

But what I do is, starting on January first, as the specials come out, I put them on a list. I have this broken into three different sections. First up is a top sixteen, So why sixteen? As I rank these, I kind of teer them and I’m like, okay, that is in is a tier.

And then these other ones.

I have fourteen more under a section called more Good Specials that’ll be tomorrow. And those are very good and recommended, but they’re not in that same class as this first group that we’re going to talk about today.

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And then the third episode is the specials that also existed, some of which I…

I’ll explain and as we get to those. So what does Johnny Mack have as the top special of the year. It’s the Roast of Tom Brady. I mean, it was epic, hilarious. Kevin Hart brought his a game, and along the way, Tony Hinchcliff got on everybody’s radar, and Nicky Glazer got to step up in class.

So just alone Nikki Glaser set Hinchcliff’s set, Kevin Hart’s individual performance, the individual performances were awesome. As a thing, the Roast of Tom Brady was the best stand up special of the year. Now, if you’re like john that’s not really a stand up special, I’m not gonna count with that one. Okay, fine, then in that case, what I have at number two David Tel’s Hot Cross Buns on Netflix. It was like thirty five minutes long.

This was a tell showing you how it’s done, got up, crushed, hilarious, out, all killer, no filler. As they say, David Tel Hot Cross Buns. That’s on Netflix at number three. Again. If you want a nitpick that this isn’t a stand up special, that’s fine.

Again, it’s just a list. I have Triumph the insult comic Dogs You Lucky Bastards. That’s on YouTube. It came out in March at the time, I had it number one, and then a Tel came out like two days later. But this thing is hilarious and really got me on a Triumph kick all year.

So find that on YouTube. Triumph You Lucky Bastards at number four. Ronnie Ching’s Love to Hate It just out recently on Netflix. A friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann, had it as his number one special, and I can see why Ronnie is an awesome storyteller. I appreciated that I didn’t see the tags coming.

A lot of times I watched these specials and I’m like, I know where this is gonna land. I see the punchline coming, and Ronnie got belly laughs out of me. And I’ve talked about how I have the Emperor rome syndrome where I will just analyze comedy and’d be like, oh that was funny, but I don’t laugh at Ronnie Special. I laughed, as I had said before I saw it, I wasn’t going to arm wrestle Jason Zeniman and would be like, no, you’re wrong, or it’s just a list. But I can see why he has Ronnie at number one.

I have him at four, and again, if you want to throw out Brady in Triumph, I would have it at two with a tell just being a tighter set. Number five from YouTube David Cross’s Worst Daddy in the World. I haven’t seen too many people spotlighting this one, and I have it in my notes exclamation point. So that’s David Cross. Number six James at Doomian’s Past of Most Resistance that was also on YouTube, Very very funny.

Seven Dusty Slay’s working Man. There’s no G in the Working Maybe it came out too early in the year and people have forgotten that it even existed, but absolutely one of the best, and he’s one of my favorite comedians today. Number eight is Kyle Kanaane’s Dirt Nap that was on YouTube back in April as a special loan. It’s number eight, but Kyle has the best chunk of the year. He does a ten minute chunk about fast and Furious Movies.

That is the best chunk of the year. Kyle Kanan Dirt Napp. Number nine Matt Rife’s Lucid that was on Netflix at August. I know we’re supposed to hate on Matt Rife, but you know what my note here to myself was trying exclamation point. And what I mean is he went for it.

He tried to do something. So many of these specials are you know, a guy get up there and you’ve heard a guy do this type of material before. I’m pale, I’m fat, e pops arts, you know who I’m talking about, and it’s like, okay, but could you do something more interesting? So if you want to hate on Rife and be like, good’s this crowd work, I don’t care. I’m a guy on a couch and it was funny.

Number nine Matt Rife Lucid. Number ten. Samurill’s You’ve Changed, very very funny, specially you’ll find on Amazon and around out the top ten. Samurills You’ve Changed. That one came out on Amazon, very very funny special.

We’ll take the break here. We’ll do eleven through sixteen, and I’ve got some other things that are very very funny. But aren’t stand up specials. At number eleven and Dmitri Martin’s Deconstructed on Netflix. Much like some of the specials that I’ve liked on this list, this is Dmitri trying to do something him interacting with the drawings.

A really strong closer that I won’t spoil. Very very good. Number twelve a guest on this program this year, Dez Bishop, a special of All People came out on YouTube on October. Just from the opening clip where he starts doing CrowdWork in Mandarin, I was like, wow, and it’s a very funny hour des Bishop of All People on YouTube. Thirteen Hasan Minhaj Is Off with his Head that was on Netflix in October.

Hassan sometimes gets criticized for being a little too stylized, but I like that special lot. I felt it. At number fourteen, Jimmy Carr’s Natural Born Killer that feels like it came out forever ago, was back in April on Netflix. You know, I like Jimmy Carr. He’s gonna make my list unless he hands in a real stinker.

He’s always gonna make my list. Number fifteen is Phil Wang’s Wang in Their Baby. I dragged my daughter into watching that one, and we both love to the couch for an hour and change like Phil Wang a lot and number sixteen the final special to make my toppest tier. Chad Daniels Empty Nester that was on Netflix in August. Very very funny, and I’m hearing more and more comedians talk about Chad Daniels, so it seems like he might step up in class this year.

All right. Some other things that were really funny but don’t quite fit on this list. Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted movie If you were of a certain age and I am. I thought it was hilarious, laughed out loud, had low expectations, and I was like, you know what, this is pretty entertaining. Jenmarco SERRESI guest on this program and friend of the show.

He dropped fifteen minutes on YouTube at the end of June. That was right around when Biden decided not to run. He had some timely material he wanted to get out. That is a very very funny set. It is fifteen minutes.

So you know, we’ve talked about on this program all year. What’s a special. It’s not a special. I don’t know. Fifteen minutes feels a little short for a special, but apparently David Tells was long enough.

Who knows, but definitely check that out. Shane Gillis’s st Hires on Netflix. I’m surprised more people aren’t buzzing about that because people are for sure buzzing about Shane Gillis. That was six episodes in and out stovies on that one. It is funny, it is entertaining Shane Gillis doing Shane Gillis things.

I’m not sure why more people aren’t buzzing about it, but it did get a season two, which is great. And speaking of Shane Gillis, the episodes of Kill Tony where Shane showed up in character as Trump and stayed in character as Trump and just nailed the the Trump vibe if it were actually Trump and the kinds of things Trump might say if he were a guest on Kill Tony. Absolutely amazing. That was one of the best. To be fair to some specials that were not released at the time of this recording.

I am recording this on Wednesday, December eighteenth, eleven thirty five am Eastern Time, so at this time I have not seen Rose Matafeo’s special on Max Nate Purghetzie’s Christmas Eve special. Now, I like Nate a lot. I would be surprised if Nate would not be higher up on this list. But Netflix doesn’t want to answer my request for screeners, and I haven’t seen it, and I needed to pre record this one. I would imagine Nate would if he didn’t make the top tier, would probably make that second tier, but I don’t know, didn’t see it.

Also not seeing the Netflix End of the Year roast thing. I had pretty low expectations for that, despite people like Jeff Ross and Mark Norman being on it. But I don’t know. A lot of Glazer is special on hularious Hulu publicist, get back to me. I can’t review your stuff if you don’t interact with me.

So I don’t know. Maybe it was good, maybe it’s the best special year. I don’t know who la publicist can’t help you and Michelle, but Soe is on New Year’s Eve on Netflix. So those are the ones that I haven’t seen. So tarikap number one a roast of Tom Brady and if you want to say that doesn’t count, fine, Davitel’s Hot Cross Buns and those So your top comedy specials of the year.

Tomorrow fourteen more good specials you should watch. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Shonny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ope you had a good Christmas. Crack dot com did a really fantastic interview with Anthony Jessenick, and they are curious about the character he portrays on stage and asked him does the character have a backstory. Jess Nic said, I have no backstory villain.

I love. We don’t know what’s happening here, We don’t know what their problem is. My character was like the Devil’s Son, where there’s no motivation other than just being evil. I don’t want to get into here’s my upbringing. If I had a better babysitter, and maybe I wouldn’t be like this.

I wanted none of that because that stuff always sucks. You don’t know why I’m like this. You don’t have to know, and I love that. I’m very interested in villains and what makes someone a good villain. A lack of an origin story is always preferable to me.

Yeah. Remember, I was a Trevor Batman movie, Dark Knight. Is it just called the Dark Knight? The second one where the Joker tells a different origin story every time? Fascinating jess Nick said, every New Hour, I can resurrect everyone.

The mom dies in the last bushl she’s back alive. Now I’ve got five brothers and sisters, and now I’ve got one. Now I’m an only child. The audience doesn’t care. They recognize me, but they’re just in it for the story.

It doesn’t really matter what’s true and what’s not. And I don’t write a whole New Hour until the special hits because I don’t want any of that old stuff in my head. I don’t want to think about the grandma killed or the grandma who’s still alive. Let’s just go from scratch and do it that way. Cracked again doing a great job, asked him, are there any parts of you that are actually hidden in the jokes?

Or are we hearing about your personal life? J just nug said not at all. Really. Maybe in terms of my morality, I think you can probably get a sense of what I think about the trans issue. I think you get a sense of what I think about pro choice or pro life.

I think you can get a sense of what I think about cancel culture. But otherwise, now it’s not like I feel like I need to hide something. If you listen to my podcast, you get all that stuff. So there are fans at different levels. Oh I want to know him.

I have people come up after the show and they’re like, can I meet Anthony, And my tour manager will say, sorry, he doesn’t meet people, and they’re like, oh, yeah, I know he hates people, and they’ll walk off. And I kind of got in the reputation of my fans that if they’re a good fan, they want to leave me alone. They’ll come by and say, hey, that was really funny. I don’t want to bother you. If you want my personal life, you can find that through the podcast.

But I think personal stories on stage and stand up for boring. Unless you have some amazing story, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t think a lot of it becomes the same, and my stories would be the same. I’m not special. I’d rather have something more creative on stage.

Follow up from Cracked, You’re never tempted to get more personal as you get older. Oh, I’m tempted because it’s so much easier. I try it, and I get sick of the story. I’m just like, you know what, it is easier. I’m meeting up ten minutes, But why I didn’t only not tell stories in the beginning because I didn’t have much to talk about.

It is because I was bored telling the same story. Another good follow up, Will you’d toured this material for two years, What are these jokes never get boring? I gotta think it’s because they’re short. The jokes are very short, and the payoff, it’s not just the payoff for the audience, it’s to pay off for me. I like those laughs.

I like those bursts of energy. If I’m telling a story. It’s not like I’m bombing, but it’s just that there’s five minutes without a laugh, I start to feel anxious, and I don’t like feeling anxious. I don’t want that. I want to have those hits, which is why the stories that I do have are just joke joke, joke, joke joke, because I don’t want to have that explanation period.

And even if the audience is locked in on a long story, we love this and we’re just focused on you, I’m not comfortable. I’d rather have the laughs. Maybe at some point I come up with a story that I enjoy enough that I’ll be like that, but I’ve tried it. I understand why people want it from me, but I also understand why it’s better that I don’t do it. There’s plenty of people who do.

Texas Standards spoke to shang Wang, one of my faves. He said, as a toddler, I had a reputation for slamming my head into the ground when things didn’t go my way. I think that explains everything up until now. I’m originally from Texas. I grew up in Houston.

I went to the same middle school as Beyonce. That’s crazy, right, Beyonce alone is pretty big deal. But then you find out Shang Wang also came from the same part of town. It’s like, Wow, that’s a lot of talent. Most have been something in the water y’all.

The Standard asked what his parents think of his success, and he said, I think they’re proud of me. I’m really grateful. Follow up, they haven’t told you not in so many words. You know, Asian American parents or Asian parents tend to be pretty stoic when it comes to expressing affection or things of that nature. But I don’t know.

I’m grateful for my parents. I know they’re very loving folks. I feel like my folks are very much hands off in a way that was like, as long as you’re not getting into trouble and you’re doing well in school, you can do whatever you want. They weren’t against me doing what I wanted to do. They would sometimes my mom especially suggest alternatives to stand up That is sort of related.

She’s like, if you want to be on TV, maybe be a news reporter or something. You know. I guess she was inspired by Connie Chung. But yeah, they were pretty hands off and not pushing one way or the other. Jim Gaffian spoke to The La Times about touring with Jerry Seinfeld and said, I never had an expectation that that would happen.

Jerry has a very clear and concisive view and philosophy on stand up comedy. Then when you talk to him, you feel like you’re talking in Aristotle. He’s kind of like a stoic who reminds you to have control of your material. You don’t get caught up in the trend of the moment. You work on evolving your act in your writing.

Jay Leno and Adam Carolla are doing a comedy Fantasy camp. In January. Jay was asked about stand up comedy being Ai prove Jay said, you know, it’s the one form of entertainment that’s not changed, with the exception of the invention of the microphone. It’s been the same since the thirteenth century. You stand in the town square, you just yell and say things, or do physical comedy, juggle or do something.

But it really hasn’t changed at all. And I find a lot more made of political correctness. Funny’s funny, you know, if you have something you know. Nikki Glaser is a good example. Couldn’t be filthier but hilarious, and the stuff is so funny you have to laugh.

She was the best that that Tom Brady roast. Everybody else was just using obscenities. I’m thinking, I’m getting bored of this, and then she came out and I laughed really out loud. It was really really good jokes. So that’s the case of if you’re funny, all bets are off.

Eleno and Corolla were asked about a comedy renaissance. Corola said, we’re there, Leno said, A young comic said to me and Seinfeld, you guys are lucky you started when comedy was easy. It wasn’t easy. It’s always been exactly the same. Here’s how old I am.

You remember cabaret cards, Corola says, No, Leno says, in New York that’s how they got Lenny Bruce. You had a license to perform in New York City. If you’re on stage and you say the F word or something, a cop can come up and tear up your license, and boom, you don’t work. When the Warren Cord came out in sixty eight or sixty nine, boy Jay is old, all that went out the windows. Suddenly, pornography was legal, comedy was interpretive, but all that was against the law.

If you said obscenity, a cop would put the cuffs on you and take you to jail. And people think, oh, it’s so terrible now, it was way worse back then. The thing is now is actually better for comics because music is expensive to do. You have teams to load in, load out, put up a stage, set up the sound system. A comedian.

You just show up, Corolla said, every time I play a theater and see the posters like Santana was here eight years ago in the percussion section is fourteen dudes, and you look at it and you go, well, I just sold out a show and they sold out a show. How is this working here? The thing that’s funny, though, is that the theater wants to know if you want to come by that afternoon for a mic check, like you’re in Santana new topic, Leno said. People say to me, oh, I bet you wish you were doing the Tonight Show when Trump was president. No, I don’t, because when you really don’t like a guy, it’s worse.

I had a fondness for Bush. He then pantomimed set up for a joke. I don’t think President Bush quite understands and people would giggle him laugh. But if I really hate it him, I mean, you see how polarizing it gets. Now.

I sort of blamed Trump for all that because at the Tonight Show we used to make fun of both sides, and people couldn’t really figure out your politics, so you got the whole audience. Now you either get the Trump people like Gutfeld, or you get the anti Trump people like Kimmel, which to me, I’ll take everybody’s money, thank you. I play both crowds. Brandy Denise is one of vultures and comedians you should and will know, Vulture asked at Brandy Denise, how you’ve ended up becoming a comedian, Brandy said, gering up, I discovered some of Adam Sandler’s old comedy songs, Randy said, I never knew I was listening to a form of comedy, but I love them. Yeah.

Right, she’s saying it right there. She was listening to it and not realizing it was comedy because they’re terrible. I remember after that, I kept a notebook where I began to write my own comedy parodies. I think it was then when I first began my journey with enjoying being funny. Whose career would you like to follow?

Want of psychs. She’s had her own TV shows, she’s hosted, she pushed us out banging specials. And Adam Sandler he does what he wants. He’s transitioned from comedy to drama effortlessly and works with his friends. That’s the goal with my people.

Johnny Mack does like dramatic actor Adam Sandler. I’ve said that before. He’s not funny at all, but he’s a decent traumatic actor and he should just give up comedy and just do dramatic movies. In my opinion, biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since being a comedian, being broke is easy, but making a nice six figures for the first time after being broke for so long as a learning curve. I learned how to spend money quickly, but after that I realized investing in saving are just as important and you start making money.

Some years are better than others, but as long as you learn to budget early, you should be good. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice. Best, you’re already fun. Make sure your spirit is right and you know yourself, and stay grounded. Worst.

A lame ass stool banging comic in Atlanta told me not to move to LA because it wasn’t ready. Well, i’d say his name, but you’ve never heard of him. Like I said, can’t rock this boat, baby, I do what I want. It’s tattooed on the back of my neck, and I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media, Merry Christmas and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News over the holidays. Have you gone to Crumble the Cookie Place? Found out one of my students actually works on the one right by my home, So that’s awkward in there. When I go and order a Jimmy Fallon Brownie and she’s gonna be like, really, dude, I mean she works, She’ll be like, oh no, that’s a good choice, sir. What’s the problem with Jimmy Fallon Brownie?

It’s got twelve hundred calories. It is a holiday peppermint brownie called the Limited Edition Candy Cane Brownie, a chocolate treat smothered in peppermint buttercream and topped with candy cane bits. Foodies have said it is Crumble Cookie’s highest calorie item, yet, according to the nutritional information, each serving is only one hundred and eighty calories. As if you’re not gonna eat the whole brownie, the Crumbled people are trying to pretend that brownie has six servings per brownie. Come on, dude, no, it has one and it’s twelve hundred calories.

Jimmy Fallon’s clared it was the best brownie he’s ever had. Some TikTokers are not convinced the dessert is worth the inches on your waistline. One content creator said, tell me who in their right mind, and especially an American, is going to be eating this in six settings. That’s not realistic at all. Another content creator said, nobody needs that many calories.

No wonder the US has such a high obesity rate. Let’s break down the nutritional information. Okay, the brownie contains one hundred and twenty one grams of sugar and one hundred grams of added sugar. That’s two hundred and two percent of the average daily intake. There are also forty grams of saturated fat, which coincidentally, and I’m wondering if this is actually a coincidence or like there’s some reason they did this.

That’s also two hundred and two percent of the daily recommended intake. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that sugar should be less than ten percent of daily calories consumed in a two thousand calorie diet. That equates to approximately twelve tea spoons of added sugar, depending on your nutritional needs. The CDC says this adults should consume anywhere from sixteen hundred to three thousand calories total per day. The Jimmy Fallon Krumble brownie, therefore, could be almost all of someone’s daily caloric intake.

Professor Darwin Dettweiler from Northeastern University told The Daily Mail. Without clear labeling, consumers may underestimate the caloric and nutritional content, which is particularly concerning with oversized portions like those Crumble offers. If these cookies were firearms, they would be illegal. Are you gonna watch football today? I’m Netflix knows what they’re doing.

Christmas is totally just going to turn into day. We watch football. Now. When you have young kids, or our young kid, Christmas morning is amazing. You go play with your stuff.

But once the kids are grown up, we kind of sit around the tree for ten minutes and then everybody scatters. So, yeah, football on Christmas Day makes sense to me. You go Netflix? Oh, I’m just not. Bert Kraser will join at Netflix as a tailgate correspondent today and my comedian of the Year, the slightly starting to be overexposed Nate Berghetzie is going to be a special guest your lineup today.

One o’clock Chiefs, Steelers four point thirty Ravens Texans Beyonce scheduled to be the halftime performer. Al dot Com caught up with Jim Brewer. I don’t have my Jim brew impression. I’ve been losing my brew impression. Part of it is you’ve heard me talk on and off about how I’ve had this fuzz in my voice.

Now to do Jim, I need to get down a little more raspy. I always reset my half assed Gim Brewer impression, and back in the day when I worked with him, I did it pretty well, especially capturing the way he spoke in his rhythm. I used to write copy for Jim because I worked with him all the time and I have a good year for that sort of thing. But I remember the first time I met Jim. We were sitting at a high tabletop at Sirius and this is what he said and how I always reset it.

He was telling Hi about the show and he goes, it’s me my friend Pete Pete being Pete Corioley and I tell right, so you have to get down a little bit in a little gravelly. But I haven’t been able to do it because I’ve been having the voice issues. And part of the reason I’m having the voice issues is because a lot of pretaping for a holiday week. So instead of doing like one podcast to day, there are bed days, I’ve been doing four because I not only host this, I also host five good News stories. So I’ve been blowing out my voice.

Ail dot Com Asper who he enjoyed working with on SNL, and he said, Tom Hanks was the first star that came on for us. He was a megastar at the time, Like, oh my god, how did we get Tom Hanks? And I just couldn’t believe how engaging it was. That really blew my mind. It’s really funny because Alec Baldwin, as much as he drives me crazy with the things he says, he was probably one of the most engaging, very funny.

He was incredible. John Goodman, Jim Carrey, he just came in and everything he did he at home run. Then they asked him about working with Dave Chappelle on the film A Half Baked Jim said, we had a chemistry before that movie started. We were already in the comedy club scene. We had the same manager hung out a lot in the comedy scene.

We both were kind of hot names coming up, and so we already had a major history before or Half Baked. We were going to do a TV show together, so the chemistry was easy to do. And I knew that doing that movie that you’re never gonna be on a set like this again where everyone gets along and everyone’s helping each other out. That just doesn’t exist. Uh oh, Jim, better be careful here.

They asked him. Taylor Swift will be eligible for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in twenty thirty one. There’s a solid chance she gets in before Iron Maiden. Jim laughed and said, I don’t pay attention to who’s in the Hall of Fame. Hall of fames are meant for the people that actually make the real money out of the whole situation.

What a Jim Brewer answered, Jim always finds the conspiracy and everything, But yeah, he’s probably right. Hall of fames are for the people that actually make the real money out of the whole situation. So at the end of the day, it’s just like the government. Before government, we knew who the doctor was, we knew who the wise people were, we knew who the helpers were. We need to vote on it.

You’re always gonna know where maiden stands in history. All right? I got my half assed jim back there a little bit. A comedian Gary Delaney tells the lad Bible one of his favorite jokes is his most stolen joke by a mile. He says he originally performed the joke in two thousand and four, and the joke has shown up on countless t shirts and the pages of joke books.

Delaney said, I get stolen from a lot. I’ve seen comics do sets made above one hundred percent of my jokes. Nothing you do about it, but it’s annoying. All right, what is the joke? I went to buy a Christmas tree.

The guy said, are you gotta put it up yourself? And I said no, I was thinking about the living room. All right. Vultures did their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of those comedians Brennan Lee mulligan.

Worst show was at a bar in Williamsburg where the audience’s chairs were physically removed mid show to make room for a bridal party that crashed the bar because they’d been kicked out of their own wedding venue. Bride’smaid wandered on stage and we called the set shortly thereafter. Biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since becoming a comedian, Probably the biggest one was needing emergency dental surgery for my number eight incisor one of the two most visible teeth right in front of your mouth, and only being able to afford it by flying to Costa Rica. Yikes. I highly recommend dental tourism to anyone who’s worried about affording both rent and their teeth.

The dental clinic I went to did great work and offered a discount on a nearby rainforest zip line excursion. Comedy opinions. The customer is always right. If the audience isn’t laughing at you, it’s because you’re not being funny enough to get a laugh. Bombing on stage and then blaming the audience after the factor.

Being too sensitive is for chumps and losers. Another one of the comedians is Malik Ela sal whose career would he like to follow? He says, any comedian who’s married. A comedian being married with kids is more impressive to me than if they sold out Madison Square Garden Comedy opinion I don’t like the idea that comedy is unimportant. I think comedy’s perfect and comedians are flawed.

I feel the same way about religion and religious people. I don’t think we should be the go to for answers on the big issues. But I still believe comedy is a meaningful art form. A comedian friend of mine, Charlie de Mahers, once told me comedy is a brick you throw through a window that turns into stained glass. That being said, there are a lot of shows where you feel like you’re the equivalent of bowling.

No shade to the bowling community. Worst advice he ever gotten was from his dad, who told him to steal Kevin hartch jokes little short today. But that’s your comedy news on a Christmas. If you’re listening on Christmas, thank you for listening on Christmas. And if you’re playing catch up after Christmas, thank you.

Thank for playing catch up after Christmas. I will continue to have daily episodes for you here see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. A quick reminder of this program takes no days off. I will have an episode for you tomorrow and every day seventies a week. Daily Comedy News. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with the aforementioned daily Come News.

Nate Burgetzi has his new special at on Netflix Today. Nate discusses wanting a second dog, how much pizza to order for Guys Night, and how his wife is the responsible one. There is a trailer, let’s listen. My wife, she runs everything, but I do do my own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and it popped in my head and I was like, all right, I’m bringing that up.

Can I bring it up? That day? I was like, I’m sure there will be a time where we’re be in some fight. I’ll be losing this fight, and then I may not just come. I’m like, I do my own laundry.

I went to career day for my daughter’s school, so I was hoping to sit at a table alone. They put me at a table with a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose, almost to show the kids here’s the difference between reading. They asked him, how long did you go to school to be a surgeon. You know, he’s like fifty four years or whatever. It’s like them, and they asked me, They’re like, how long to be a comedian.

I was like, you’re good now, so look finish elementary school and make their parents happy. But then I’d get out and get after it. Nate recently wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal wrote it himself under the title Nate Forgets He isn’t here to hurt your feelings. Nate writes, in class I was funny, but I wasn’t loud of crazy. My side comments were always hushed so teachers wouldn’t hear them.

I didn’t want to be disruptive or hurt their feelings. All of this was my way of fitting in and standing out. By my senior year, I managed to win the award for her most school Spirit. I didn’t win class clown. I came in second.

I wonder who won. Growing up, I watched my dad do his magic tricks. He practiced them on me, so I knew how they were done. I thought he was cool. My father was sensitive, like Robin Williams in Patch Adams.

My mom is very funny, more like me in terms of setting up jokes. Dad is more slapstick in his delivery. But what I always admired is how we made fun of himself. He taught there’s nothing funnier than making yourself part of the punchline. I started performing when I was around eleven, and skits that my dad and his friend wrote at church.

They created these simple rural characters, Ned and Jed I joined, dressed nerdy with suspenders and say something dumb. What I love most was the audience’s laughter. In high school, I didn’t do well, but I love being there. I was homecoming king for a year book. We listened to where we thought me ten years and I joked playing in the NBA, But that actually happened.

I played for my church in the Nashville Baptist Association, so technically it was the NBA. He then writes about his career. I’ll skip to the comedy part. One day I told a guy at work, another guy we worked with, want to do some ipprofits someplace called Second City in Chicago, and talk to the other guy and we went ipent eight weeks there, and I learned that improv wasn’t a good fit. Instead, I took a stand up class at Jim Rouse’s Comedy College in Chicago for graduation in two thousand and three.

The teacher took us to a bar where we all had our first stand up experience. We did well since the audience knew we were just starting out. My turning point was two thousand and eight when I was booked on Comedy Central Live at Gotham on Conan, and at the Montreal Comedy Festival. My first Netflix special was in twenty seventeen. Today I lived with my wife Laura and our daughter Harper and Nashville.

We moved into our home in twenty fifteen. I loved that it was in a cul de sac with no through traffic. We have a big backyard and lost of space. Inside. We have an open living room, dining areaan kitchen where we all hang out.

You could see everyone at once, so you don’t have to go searching for any family members. Boston Magazine spoke to Dane Cook and asked Dane hay he missed doing film. It’s been a while since you were in a movie. Dane said, I’m gearing up to do one now. It’s first movie I’ve done in probably ten twelve years.

I love comedy. I’m always going to do that, but I love the collaborative process of film. But for the most part, the stuff I was being sent was either really derivative of what I’d already done or just really watered down. I was like, Okay, I could make a million bucks and do the movie, but then my fan’s gonna be like, dude, what the F is this? Dane was asked if voiceover work is the easiest pay day ever.

Dane said, it’s the most convenient payday. I wouldn’t say it’s easy. I was working on planes, and it was especially tricky because I was replacing an actor who had been fired. John Lassiter thought my voice had the boyish whimsy he wanted. The amount of work that went into doing and right and giving those animators what they needed was a lot more work than I thought.

So, yeah, you’re rolling into your pajamas and there’s no hair and makeup. But after that first take, you very quickly start to realize this isn’t just about putting on a cute voice. You gotta land it, and it’s a really really intricate work. Dane Cook, what’s your biggest personal extravagance. Dane said, I turned into a bit of a sneaker head.

Over the past couple of years, podcasting became so in vogue that I realized you can’t go on a podcast with the same sneakers every time. So I started buying a new pair every time, and I think I probably have about two hundred pairs now in my closet. Leanne Morgan told Movie Guide what it’s like to tour with her. She said, I’m always dragging a big suitcase they’re an airport, and then getting in a rental car and going to a theater, going a hotel, putting on a girdle, go to a theater. Do all that just hard on your body and hard on your mind.

Then you got to get there and you want it to be the best for your audience, you know. Then you got to get up so you can be the best and give it everything you got.

And then you try to go to bed and sitting in a hotel room staring at a space.

I don’t want to sound like I’m not grateful, because I’m so grateful, but I think two things can be true at the same time time out. I’ve been using that phrase a lot this past year. Many things can be true at once. People just too often discuss things in absolutes. Yes, Leanne says, you can have this wonderful thing happen, which is everything I’ve ever dreamed of and bigger than I ever dreamed of to be, but it’s so hard.

A partner in Turla sounds like me. When she travels, she says she’s really sensitive to noise, and sometimes at airports and airplanes there’s so much unpredictable noise that sometimes she won’t to have anything playing in her noise canceling headphones. I’ll just put them on to create another layer between me and the world. I do that all the time, she says. I used to have a pair of Bow’s headphones, and those were on their last legs.

I got a new brand going down one of those internet wormholes where it’s just looking for some more eco friendly headphones, and I ended up on some back alley website. The ones I have now don’t even have a logo on them. The Cut asked Caleb Hero, Hey, what’s your favorite holiday movie? Caleb said, a Christmas movie that a lot of people don’t think as of being a Christmas movie. He said, step Mom, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarana and you know it, You’ll sob for three days straight.

It’s one of the saddest movies ever made. It’s so effed up. Julia is Pete nineties Julia. She’s wearing leather jackets like it’s her job, and in many ways it is. She’s wearing a little beret sunglasses, She’s looking Sheikh as hell, and she’s the step mom and Susan Saranda is the real mom.

There’s a Christmas element to it. It makes me sob. It’s one of my mom’s favorite movies. The cut asked him, all right, you’re hopping in an uber. You can bring five celebrities dead or alive.

Who’s coming. That’s a fascinating question. I might have to ponder that question myself, but not right now. He says, I’m gonna go with Natalie Mains, the lead singer of the Chicks. That’s my girl.

I love that band. John Goodman, I love him and everything. And he went to my college, Missouri State shout out go Beers. Back in the day on Roseanne o g fat. John Goodman was so hot and so funny.

Whatsn’t I’m gonna put in there? Frank Ocean, I need to understand what’s going on with him. I love his music. He’s sort of in a where he’s refusing to put any out. I want to be his friend or more if he’s open to it.

Frank, hit me up. All right, I’ve kind of as I was reading that, thought about my list. I should go with the guys from the Macpack. Now, if you’re a new listener, what’s the Macpack? These are my celebrity friends.

When I become a big time celebrity, this is who I’m gonna roll with. It’s a bunch of people. So the original macpacker is Michael Chicklist. John, do you have a man crush on Michael Chicklist? I might, It’s okay.

I met him a couple times in real life. He’s cool. I like the guy. He’s in the Macpack, so he’s in my uber. I think Andy Samberg also in the Macpack, seems like a good time, so we’ll bring him.

That’s two. Now it’s dead or alive? Do I invite like Jim Morrison just to make the trip interesting Carlin, so we can talk comedy and I can be like, hey, George, what do you think of YouTubers? And that’s four? Can I time travel.

Can I bring Peak and White PD Blue? Kim Delaney just, you know, so we could talk about the show. Maybe she’s wearing a turtleneck. I don’t know how this works. It’s Christmas Eve.

Why don’t you shut up? Okay, all right, very Christmas. I’ll be back in the morning on tape. Well, you’re always on tape on it’s a podcast, yes, but definitely on tape tomorrow. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Sit there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I imagine this week and next will be very slow for comedy news here, but I will have a normal schedule to have episodes for you each day. I’ll mix in some of my end of the year countdown specials.

I can pre tape a little bit here and give myself a couple of days off. But if you’re looking for an episode on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, ne Year’s Day, You’ve got an episode for you every day. Thank you for listening. I really enjoyed Jay Leno and Adam Carolla speaking to the Rap. The Rap asks a good question.

Is there a common thread that you guys started off with that would still translate to today? Leno said, yeah. The most common is a girlfriend or boyfriend going why do you have to work every night? If you’re the spouse of a comic, I’m sorry, you might be close to equal or second in importance, but you’re not first, especially if you’re starting out in that relationship. No comic, male or female, is going to be happy in a relationship unless they’re happy with their act.

Unless you’re happy with what you’re doing on stage, then I am worth to give my love to this person. But if you’re dating one of these people, they have to do it every night because it’s the repetition. It’s the only way they sit around that other twenty three and a half hours waiting for their little set to come out. And there’s nothing better than killing an audience. There really Isn’t People say sex is great?

Oh yeah so, and not really as good as a good comedy set. You know this joke? Right? A comic’s in Vegas the first time. He’s all excited.

It’s like one o’clock in the morning, goes back to his room after playing a set. The phone rings, Hi. My name is Felicity. I’m the leader nancer across the street, and I saw the show tonight and I thought you were really funny and sexy, and I thought maybe I could come over and we could fool around. I mean, i’d leave before morning.

I’d just like to spend some time with you. The comic goes, did you see the first show or the second show? Corolla laughs at that and says that is such a universal comedian thought, because you do two shows and there’s always one you like more.

And then at some point you run into someone they go, I see you back at the wh…

When they say the bad show, which isn’t even bad, it’s not as good as the good show, there’s a God Hates Me kind of moment. Corolla and Leno were doing that fantasy camp coming up in January. The rap is curious, can you take anyone and give them some beating spark? Carol says, I, I don’t think you can make a non comedian into a comedian. I think you take somebody who’s got a little acorn of comedy and maybe turned it into a mighty oak tree.

But I need some acorn in there. But being good on your feet and being relaxed and being sort of conversational in front of people as a universal application, if you’re an attorney certainly or socially, whatever it is, maybe you’re not gonna end up being on the marquee playing the theaters that these guys play. It’s still like I would always tell people, take a groundlings class, take an improv class. Why because you’re gonna join the cast of SNL NO, so you can be funny at a party, give and take and have good conversations. It could pay off on a first date.

Leno says, I always find people’s comedic ability is inversely proportional to their intelligence. You want to try and take as much from your life as you can. If you’re like adult person, a dullart, if you come across a sort of boring, then be really boring on stage. That’s where your humor is. Corolla with his zing, that’s what Jay does.

He draws them decisive life show a fans. How many people have had their Dusenberg breakdown on the four h five, Leno says, See be a comic. Have you ever seen a group of animals and one of the animals is injured and all the other animals try to come and eat it. That’s kind of like being a comic. That’s what happens.

Just now. ESPN wrote about Adam Sandler’s basketball capabilities. ESPN rights. It’s March twenty twenty three and an LA based photographer who goes by the moniker Xavier Luggage, is in the middle of his first pick up basketball game at the Point Set, a recreation center. The park typically fills around six pm with people arriving to get their games in, but it’s an hour so earlier.

When the intention of the player snaps towards the side of the court, they all see him warming up seemingly out of nowhere. Luggage told ESPN, it was like, damn, that looks like Adam Sandler. Sandler shows up without an durage, donning his signature brightly colored, oversized polos and baggy shorts. He looks to make the extra pass. He dishes out as many compliments as assists, regardless of whether he’s on your team, and competition reigns supreme.

Luggage said, he’s like the random older dude that pulls up to the court and you’re kind of like, all right, whatever, and then you pick them up and he’s making the craziest passes, not moving too much, not doing the most, but he’s just got the og game like he’s been playing forever. He came up to me and was like, oh, man, I hope you’re not fast. And I looked at him and I’m like, oh, you’re fed up. He was meaning to play, not just to mess around, you know, like you wanted to win for sure. It was honestly pretty magical.

Bro Patrick Quinn is a comedian who played Sandler in twenty nineteen, they were in a park in La Sandlor comes by, he goes, you, guys, mind if I play with you. Quinn played against Sandler in one game, then they teamed up for the next. Quinn said, he’s essentially an influential person in other aspects that you’re like. I wouldn’t expect him to be doing these plays. It seemed like he had to be playing a lot to do something like that, and he was nailing them.

Sandler once again was wearing bright colors and a large T shirt. Quinn said, Sandler’s outfit is disarming. His theory is Sandler does it on purpose, so you don’t think he’s going to absolutely dominate on the court. He was playing point, calling out the plays. He was calling shots out, he was doing no look passes, he was creating shots, and he was going up and down the court.

He was back and forth, sweating, putting in some work. I was very impressed. Shashua Jackson said Sandler had to be wearing something from a decade ago, like three XL pants, wrinkled big and tall shirt. He definitely had clothes on that could fit a six foot eight linebacker. He executed a simple, beckcut and squared his body with the rim.

Jackson turned around and said it was a perfect pocket pass. I had to go with it. He doesn’t wow. Sandler executed the past but described it as super quick and soft. He says it’s still the best past that I’ve ever received in my life.

And I’m not saying that because it’s Adam Sandler. Luggage said, to be honest, I don’t even remember him really leaving. I just remember that he just wasn’t there. The only time spoke to Tom Popa about his podcast, Breaking Bread. They were curious, are there any similarities or parallels between the world of comedy and food.

Papa said, yes, there are. I name my podcast Breaking Bread because I’m huge into baking bread and I love to host dinners and get together as I’ve always enjoyed it, I thought it’d be perfect to talk about the food we all love. We all have drinks before enjoying a meal and a baked bread. For every guest to open up the conversation and literally break bread over conversations is one of the things that I live for. It’s passion, mind you all the time.

The podcast is growing. We just said Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman and more. Jerry people are realizing this is a safe, comforting place to talk and enjoy bread, food, drinks, and conversations. As for food and comedy, the end result is both similar and that you’re hosting people you’re entertaining with, either with your food or your jokes, and you just want them to escape their lives and smile and enjoy themselves.

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Also, the process of cooking and baking is just as humbling as comedy.

I’ve been doing both for a long time, and it’s always a new experience. Anything can happen at a show, we’re breaking bread at home. Really, Tom, you always have to be humble about your craft. It’s not just a thing you can pin down. You get better at it, but it’ll never be one hundred percent perfect.

No one ever nails one hundred percent of every joke on their act all the time. Baking and cooking is very similar in this regard. Leanne Morgan wrote in her book that she felt unseen in the comedy industry for decades and had some advice. Leanne said, I was coming up in comedy clubs when Comedy Central was big, and back then they didn’t want to see a mama talking about three little children and how she couldn’t fit in her pants. I didn’t fit the bill.

Nobody cared, but anyone in my heart there were women out there who’d relate to me. I didn’t go and live in New York or LA because my husband had a good job and we needed health insurance. But that ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. It was one of those silver linings and blessings because I was able to have a real life with my family, and my real life led to this wonderful material. I could mind that people could relate to what I had to do.

I would tell others to do is just keep believing in yourself. I just kept going. I’d pray about it, and God never shut the door. When I would get discouraged, I’d get some kind of sign to keep me going. Now, at fifty nine, I feel like I’ve really become my authentic self.

I was recently asked to speak at my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and I tell those kids, don’t change who you are. Don’t be ashamed of where you’re from. That’s what made you who you are. Be authentic. That’s what people are attracted to.

That is great advice. Roz Hernandez is one of Vulture’s comedians You should and will know. Roz says, sometimes when my family would eat spaghetti, I would secretly take one of the noodles out and slurp off all the sauce like a plain noodle. And a time one end in a nod he stood with me. When no one was looking, I’d put the noodle in one of my nostrils and then fake snees really dramatically.

When I’d remove my hands from my nose. My family would see a long noodle dangling from my nose, and then I would gaslight them and be like, what is something on my face? She says, I’m gonna dust that one off next time I go on an Olive Garden date wors show. Ever, I used to present as a drag queen with a big wig and the whole shebang. I hosted a month show in the smaller room of a venue with two stages.

I couldn’t even sell those tickets. For for a while, Joe Rogan would sell out the big room or the people who couldn’t get tickets to see Rogan would come to my show instead. I learned that the people who want to see Joe Rogan but didn’t get their tickets in time or not mine’s demographic. All right, what’s your writing process? You have to sit down at a computer and write crappy jokes every day.

I feel like I heard older comedians say do that, and I’d get frustrated because my mind doesn’t work like that. Now. I just try to live life and take notes of funny things and experiences, and then I usually think about how to make them funnier as I drive around town. Biggest financial hurdle as a comedian not having rich parents. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice.

Best get good in a smaller market before moving to a big city. I ignored this when I started in LA and I’ve regretted it because it’s really hard to undo first impressions. Worst try to appeal to everyone. Cracked writes that Jerry the character on Seinfeld. The character Jerry Seinfeld is far from a need freak according to actual need Freaks.

Someone in the subreddit wrote, how come Jerry’s supposed to be a need freak, yet him and his friends rarely put shoes on the couch. Along with that was a screenshot of Jerry enjoying a diet coke with a sneaker firmly planted on the cushion of his teal couch. Gabriel Phileppe works for the Environmental Resilience Institute and said, we can track in all sorts of bacteria, but certainly some of the ones we’re most concerned about are e coli because that causes severe dominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. There’s been studies that swab the bottom of shoes and something like ninety nine percent of the shoes test positive for fecal material. TV watchers point out Jerry gets rid of a shoelace for touching the men’s room floor, but steps on the coffee table with that same shoe when user said, he’s quite insane, a little confused.

I guess that’s your comedy news for today. Christmas is coming. I will have normal episodes all through I don’t take a day off. Sometimes I pre tape. If you listen on December twenty sixth, then you’re like wow.

John spent his Christmas recording to the December twenty sixth podcast. No, that was a pre tape, but I’m around, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hello Jenny Mack On Your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney told GQ, I can really be setting my ways in some ways, but I’m very good at major transformations. At Georgetown, he joined an improv group with Nick Kroll and Mike Probiglia, but said I had erratic work habits. I was very disorganized in a sense. I was always ambitious, but I wasn’t like I’m going to direct every play in high school.

I wasn’t all over it in any way. He got to New York at age twenty three and said I hit the ground running. It was all of a sudden, this total focus and drive to do as much stand up as possible. I didn’t drink alcohol anymore. I didn’t take any drugs.

I was just totally dedicated to one thing, kind of monastically, and it was awesome. GQ analyzed his style and they nailed it here. They wrote, He’s expert at landing an audience deep into the thicket of a joke set up and then pausing just long enough to allow them to arrive at the punchline right before he does. When it works best, a single word detonates like a bomb. Seth Meyer says sense to the audience, I’m in control.

I’m not particularly interested in which of these jokes you like and which you don’t. No matter what happens, I’m going to be having a very good time. Jim Jefferies told review dot Com. When I moved over to America, there was this sort of myth that I was only funny because I said the C word and because of my accent. But I sold more tickets in Australia where they weren’t fascinated by my accent and the slightest.

So it’s just good to see you can entertain people all over the world. It used to be to go to a country several times to try and break a country. When I came to America, arguably they’d only been a handful of comedians from overseas that ever broke America before that. Now you know about a whole heap of different comics from all over the world because you’ve seen their specials. I’m not on TikTok, so I’m a bit of dinosaur in that regard.

I don’t think my comedy plays out well on TikTok. I think part of the problem with TikTok is that we’re seeing comedy in short form. Amen, So the long winded stories are the things that loop around in the callbacks and the shows being a show, we’re sort of losing that nuance yep. In the same way that people don’t listen to albums anymore, they’re just listening to individual songs. They don’t listen to albums as they’re meant to be played out as the artists set it up to be heard.

And I think that sort of happened to comedy as well. Yep. High five standing oh for me On that comment, crack dot Com asked Anthony Jelsink about being an actor. He said, I would enjoy it because I enjoy the camaraderie. Stand up’s all on your own.

With acting, you’re working with people. I like that. I’m just not asked to do it very often, and frankly, I’m surprised I’m not asked. I’m a good looking guy. I have a very distinctive voice that I think they would use me in voice stuff.

But I think at some point people will start asking me. But I’m spoiler. As a comic, I see comics who are making huge movies and I talked to them afterwards, and they’re like, I lost money. If I just toured the whole time I was doing this movie, I would have done much better. It’s not something I feel like I’m missing out on and I’m not that good.

The interesting character is I wouldn’t be able to play. I’d be thinking, Oh, someone else should be doing this, and that’s a bad thing for an actor to be thinking. Cracked asked about Anthony’s current hair style, Cracks observation, the older spike eer haircut seemed more in keeping with a villain. Now your hair is a little softer, not as threatening. I assume you think about how the character looks on stage.

What prompted the change? Je Nic said, It’s something I don’t think about on stage, but it was something that I became very aware of after the last special when there was this huge debate about beard versus non beard and which is better for the character. The character seems more like a psychopath clean shaven, but I’m like, no, I like the beard. I decided to grow my hair a little bit longer on tour. I just thought, what would this do?

Does this make me more of an a hole or less of an a hole? And let’s be honest, I think having more of a styled haircut seems a little bit scarier. This is fascinating. It’s more like we’re putting on a show. Whereas the spiky haircut was easy to do.

Anyone could do that. It just seemed like I’m walking out here doing this. I feel like I’ve gotten more famous in the past couple of years because of clips, and the clips are short. Here with longer hair, he feels it can be a little more anonymous in public. Preacher loss and has been out on the road doing the Funny as Bleep tour.

And that’s not me bleeping it, that’s the name of the tour. Preacher said, I was very quiet, unless everybody in the class was quiet. Then I was like, all right, some people just really want attention. First off, everyone does. Let’s just put that out there.

No one wants to be ignored, but some people just wanted a little more. His tips for comedians get on stage immediately and just do comedy a lot. I think humor is like athleticism. Some people are born a little more than other people. Then there’s some people that are just born a little funnier.

But I don’t care how athletic you are, you still have to learn how to shoot a basketball or dribble. You need to learn technique for comedy right every day, like it’s your morning coffee. You should do it anyway for your mental health. It’s not supposed to be fun. It’s a job.

You’re not supposed to like jobs because they’re working, and that’s the trade off. Lawson says, I think I have the perfect amount of fame where if I go outside, there’s people that recognize me. But it’s not like I just want to eat with my family. I don’t like when people take pictures or videos of me without my permission. I think that feels uncomfortable.

It’s like I never said I wanted to be recorded. As for controversial topics, Lawson says, anyone’s going to get upset, but if it’s a large group of people that are upset, I think it’s usually because the comedian did a bad job of conveying the joke. Comedians, we’re just storytellers. We’re the same as you. When you go to the movies, you lose yourself for an hour and thirty minutes.

You know you’d leave the theater feeling refreshed, like that was a good time. If you go to the movie theater you don’t like the movie, you probably should have looked up the director. There’s this narrative that you shouldn’t apologize, which I think is stupid. I think there are times when the comedians should apologize and then they don’t do it because they’re like, no, I’m a comedi and it’s like, no, actually you should apologize. But he adds, I really believe anyone could talk about anything, but sometimes you say dumb things like my bad, that was dumb.

Sarah Silverman says, I don’t really come from a place of fear that I’m gonna get canceled. I talk about stuff that I think is important or funny. I’m never looking upset people are offend people. Comedy is not ever green. If you’re a comedian, you look at things you did ten years ago and don’t cringe.

You’re not growing ideally, you’re growing and changing and can’t relate to the person you were. People get mad at me because I’ve apologized for things in the past. I think it’s important to apologize when you’re sorry and not apologize when you’re not sorry. Everybody wins. Friend of the Show John Marco Sirizi is on Vulture’s list of the comedians you should know and Will Know.

They asked him, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would your outfit be A very John Marco answer. Five inch shorts, a T shirt I got on Etsy for a high school musical production that I wasn’t in that’s also a little too short, a jean jacket that doesn’t really make sense given the shorts, and high top nikes where one of the colors matches the color of the shirts text. Let’s also throw in a thin gold Forever bracelet with a tea chirm that I got my girlfriend at a casino’s tattoo convention, some Warpbey Parker glasses, and a brown leather watch, the two hands of which read Memento and Maury. Which musical nobody asked? Ideally it would be Falsetto’s Company or Wild Party, just to be pretentious.

Also, if I’m thinking about this as a cartoon for a wide audience, I’d probably go with fan of the Opera, even though I’ve never been much of an Andrew Lloyd Weberstan proudest achievement of your career so far? My jfl New Faces set is probably the only important set I’ve ever done that I wouldn’t do over. I was at that show, he crushed. He was the best of the night. I wrote that down.

I told you about it on the podcast the next day. I’ve told that to his face. That was a great set, he said. Generally, I found all these career milestones are fraught and stressful and imperfect. So in terms of feeling proud a panel in comparison to a new joke working, or even better, an old joke finally working.

I did a pilot last year for a roast based panel show hosted by Anthony Jesselnik Interesting, and he anonymously mentioned me on his podcast the next week. I know this because I’ve been listening to that podcast to fall asleep to for years. I was already asleep, but my girlfriend heard it, shook me awake and was like, go back, go back now, it’s pretty cool. I’ve been procrastlading filming an hour. Which comedian’s career would you like to follow?

John Mulaney, But just in terms of his personal life, his favorite worst show was getting hired to feature in a corporate gig in Santa Barbara. I think I was getting paid forty five hundred dollars to do twenty five minutes, which was hands down the most I’d ever made off a night of comedy. My mom drove me to the casino from LA and on the drive I looked at what company I was performing for. What I learned was it was less of a company and more of a union of sorts for West Coast electrical companies with a very intense ideological bent. Their newsletter had articles like has woke this Roob?

And travel and COVID climate change and other lines Democrats want you to believe. I wish I could tell you I thought about not going through with the gig, but it would be a lie forty five hundred dollars. When I got there, my mom and I found ourselves surrounded by mostly men in their sixties thousands, all wearing full cowboy garb without looking like that ever been on a horse. So I met the other comedian, a kind and talented comic who nevertheless sold merch shirts that said who done farted? Hmm, I wonder who that was?

Marco said. The comedy show started as all comedy shows should, with the singing of the national anthem. Then the auction, of course, which consisted of small guns, guns that were intended for warfare training packages, and you know, five friends to learn how to use those guns before or hopefully not after a wine tasting. Right as they were wrapping up the auction with the AK forty seven’s, I looked through the playbill to ensure there wasn’t going to be some kind of cross burning at the end, and that’s when I saw the part with my name, which stipulated in big bold letters that the comedy portion of the evening was only possible thanks to a generous donation by Exon Mobile, you know, the evil company. I started freaking out, taking stupid comedian thoughts like well would George Carlin do?

But I didn’t have any cocaine, so I tried to think of a joke that in some way Abzombia the sin. So I got on stage and preceded a bomb for twenty three minutes. I wish I could say that was on purpose, despite the crowd, but it was more a mix of my lack of practice sticking to clean jokes plus second guessing jokes in the moment that I figured wouldn’t play well with men old enough to have served in the Confederacy. Then, with two minutes left and no momentum to speak of, I went for it. At the time, I was closing with a joke about Titanic two, a recreation of the Titanic built by some billionaire who hopefully was on the recent submarine trip.

Yikes. Normally I’d note that Titanic’s voyage was much safer nowadays thanks to global warming, but this time I said it was because of the Iceberg’s got a lot smaller thanks to my sponsor Exon Mobil. Wasn’t a boo right away. First was just noise, a unified, confused groan, but then one old man was able to close his mouth long enough to produce a bee. I wouldn’t say it was like an Apollo level boo.

It was nothing like the Apollo in more ways than one. But it was my first real boo. And whenever I have an extremely crappy gig now I try to remind myself it’s worth it for the story. That is amazing, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it and hopefully they’ll enjoy it too, and you can both hit that plus sign on the app there and follow the podcast if you’d like the show without commercial interruption.

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