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Caloroga Shark Media Pure Jommy Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail wrote an article about the top earning comedians and put some dollar amounts to it. Actually, they put pounds amounts to it, and I threw it into chat GPT and roughly translated the pounds into US dollars in case you’re curious. In this case, we used an exchange rate of one British pound to one dollar twenty seven US dollars. Not crazy off.

Your exchange rate may differ anyway. According to the Daily Mail, the top earning comedians of twenty twenty four, I’ll start with number eleven. I don’t know why they did eleven. Number eleven. They have Michael McIntyre at twelve point seven million.

Number ten, Andrew Schultz sixteen and a half million. Number nine, Jeff Dunham quietly going about his business nineteen million dollars shockingly low. Where do you hear these next two names? Okay? So number eight is Kevin Hart.

You know Kevin Hart who like starts a new business like twice a day. Kevin Hart quote unquote only twenty one point five to nine million. Now, why that’s interesting to me is number seven Joe Koy. You may recall Joe Coy also the Golden Globes over a year ago. I’m not going to bring that up, Scott back at relaxed.

But Joe Coy earned twenty five point four million dollars, So according to the Daily Mail, Joe Koy is making more money than Kevin Hart. How is that possible? Number six Trevor Noah twenty six point six five, Bert Kreischer also at twenty six point six. Number four, Peter Kay at thirty four point twenty nine million. Number three Seinfeld Jerry brought in thirty nine point three million.

Number two Sebastian Maniscalco big successful tour, okay, forty eight point twenty six million, and number one you want to take a guess here, and it’s a shocking difference. According to the Daily Mail again they have Sebastian at forty eight point twenty six at number one with seventy one point one two million, so that’s you know, twenty five million more loose math. Number one Nateperghetzi. Wow, yeah, I mean Nate had a big tour, but Nate quietly became a monster. I think everybody’s aware of him.

Now, but I had no idea he was making that much money. Nate is making I don’t know, forty percent more. I’m doing loose math in my head. Forty percent more than Jerry Seinfeld. I still don’t see how Joe coy is making more than Kevin Hart, but okay.

Meanwhile, bill Board shared the top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four. They say the top comedy acts collectively grossed a record breaking three hundred and ninety six point seven million dollars, up fifty two percent from the year before. I’ll go in the other direction. Here they have a number one Nates, grossing eighty two point two million dollars one hundred and forty eight shows with one point one million people going to see him, Number thirty seven overall on the all genre ranks. So I assume that includes Taylor Swift, for example, at number two, Number two two, where Matt Riiche grossed fifty seven and a half million sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand tickets across two hundred fifty six shows.

Gab Iglesias another one of those quiet monsters. Maybe not this week because he’s in the news, but he grossed forty two point eight million, sold six hundred three thousand tickets hundred twenty four shows. Kat Williams gross thirty seven and a half million, selling almost four hundred thousand tickets sixty shows. Sebastian gross thirty six and a half million, selling two hundred ninety three thousand tickets in fifty three shows. Krayzier twenty nine point seven million, three hundred and eighty eight thousand tickets sixty four shows, Trevor twenty nine point seven three hundred ninety two thousand, ninety four shows, Jerry twenty seven point eight almost two hundred thousand tickets thirty six shows, Adam Sandler twenty seven million dollars selling two hundred and sixty one thousand tickets and twenty six shows, and number ten Joe Coy Maybe he should host the Golden Globes, giveing more than nine days to prepare, and don’t invite you know who with the icy’s there.

Joe Koy gross twenty six millions, sold three hundred and sixty eight thousand tickets in eighty three shows.

Speaking of Gabeglacias, earlier in the week before the fires, he was profile…

He shared that the title of his new special was supposed to be hard Rock Fluffy because he shot the special the Hard Rock in Miami. Everybody was on board with it. Then we got a call from Netflix, who said, there’s money to be made on this and you can’t be promoting other brands. They didn’t like the fact that I was promoting hard Rock and Netflix, and they’re like, well, if something like that’s gonna happen, there needs to be compensation for it. I’m like, it’s cool, I’m there, I play the hard Rocks.

It helps me out. And they’re like, no, he can’t do it. So then, to be a jerk, I was like, all right, what about rock hard Fluffy, you know, to try and open up the audience a little. But no, they didn’t go with that either. They gave you about eight different titles, but they sucked.

Finally, we landed on Legend of Fluffy because I figured there’s a lot of pieces in the special that have to do with the amount of time we’ve been doing this. And I was a big gamer back in the day. I had my Gold cartridge, so I liked Legend of Zelda. So I said, let me just play with that a little bit. So that’s why the special is called Legend of Fluffy Switching Gears.

Gabe shared that a few years ago, a buddy of his has told him your generational talent. I said, what’s that even mean? He said, you got all these different generations coming out to see you. People that were kids the first time they saw you, and now they’re adults and some are bringing their kids. I’m like, that sounds weird, and I’m like, oh, I used to have hair, so it’s really really cool to see that.

I think it’s really beautiful that people come out and tell me I grew up watching you. Every time they say that, another gray hair comes out of my beard and another hair falls out of my head. All right, some political stuff here in the second half. If you don’t want to deal with the politics, you are dismissed. I understand.

But I’ve got a bunch of stories that pair up nicely. Let’s start with Jim Gaffigan, and he was on the Last Laugh podcast. He shared, I regret that people think I was criticizing people that support Trump. That was never the intention. Jim says he doesn’t regret publicly going against Trump, but acknowledges that he might have lost some fans.

Jim said, I also do acknowledge that there were true, diehard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy, but because they feel so passionately, they’ll never forgive me. According to Jim, the back last year received for criticizing Trump was noticeable, but didn’t affect him that much. I wouldn’t say it was measurable, but there were definitely comments on social media, and there are still some. Bill Maher revealed his issue with the Democrats and revealed the main reason he goes after woke liberals more often now. He says, you give me more material.

I’m a comedian. I’m gonna go where the gold is. The Democrats can’t stand. I have to endure a moment of hearing something they don’t already agree with. Not that the right doesn’t do it too, but the left does it worse.

Everything with these people has to be an opportunity for virtual signaling. Bill says some Democrats have cut off their friendship with him because he’s had on people like Anne Culter, Bill Barr, and Ted Cruz, And he says, just think about what this is. That’s people who hate me. For who I won’t hate. It’s in their psychological profile.

They just have this need for virtual signaling. And I have their friends, and I guess everybody on social media thinking of them as the good guys. We’re the good people. We know who’s good, and it’s us. He also criticized the youngins, saying they have no perspective, quoting mar They’ve been indoctrinated into this idea that they live in the worst country in the world at the worst time in history, when actually they live in with all our flaws, still probably the best with definitely indisputably the best time in history.

What America needs as a colonic Would Trump be the man I choose first to administer it. No, but I’d like to see what he and Elon Musker could do. Many Republicans say, maybe we can get Bill Maher. Now you can’t. What you can get is Bill Mooher being honest about the left.

I’m not going to join your team that doesn’t believe in democracy. And he has a message for Kamala Harris, saying you’ll lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person. Congratulates Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings commented on the political left. She said, I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person, but I don’t think the left is as liberal as it used to be. It’s like the left became the party of censorship.

It’s just wild to me that we’re in’t a time where if you’re on the left and you don’t criticize your party, how much you even care about your party? Do you know what I mean? It’s like what’s going on the left? I had to say, I just finally broke chants. If you love your party, you have to be able to criticize it, you know.

And I don’t really take sides. She then joked about some hypocrisy, quoting Whitney, my body, my choice, but you have to take this vaccine and also my body my choice, pro choice party, but you don’t have a choice in your candidate. I’m not an expert on politics, which is why I’ve always said I’m not weighing in on it. But I am an expert on hypocrisy. Okay.

I was raised by hypocrites, I’ve dated them, and I know hypocrisy what I see it. And that is your comedy news for today. Send your letters to Whitney Cummings, Bill Maher or Jim Gaffigan. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. See you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media. Be there, Trainy mat with the daily comedy views. Let’s start out in Los Angeles. Some comedy clubs had to close as the fires spread. The Comedy Store announced they would be closed, saying we prioritize the safety of our staff, performers and audience.

We’re working on rescheduling the shows for the dates and will provide an update soon. The Laugh Factory similarly closed, announcing on Instagram these shows had been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. On the TV side, Jimmy Kimmel Live has shut down production on his Tuesday monologue, which was taped at four thirty pm Pacific time, and Jimmy said he had no power at his house and joked that he might have to sleep over at Gillermo’s. Jimmy did get a joke in saying the wind is especially scary here in LA because of all the boatos.

We’re not used to seeing things move at all.

Also shut down.

The price is right. I’ll mention that because comedian Drew Carey HOSTSED and CBS’s After Midnight. The late night shows did discuss it, they treaded lightly. Seth Meyer said before Kick Things off. We just want to send our love to everybody in the LA area in California right now who are dealing with wildfires.

These scenes we’re seeing on television are obviously harrowing, and there are no real words so they can share other than we’re thinking about you and hoping for your safety. Jimmy Fallon said, I just want to say that a heart’s got to everyone in Los Angeles right now dealing with the massive wildfires out there. You just see the footage on TV. It’s surreal. We have so many friends who’ve been affected.

We just hope that everybody stay safe, including all the firefighters and everyone else trying to contain it. Stay safe. We love you, La. Stephen Gobert said, we know that people love Los Angeles are resourceful and kind, and they’re doing everything they can do to help one another. We want to send our love and concern to all the residents of Los Angeles who are facing what is being described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.

Joe River’s daughter Melissa, shared that she had just a few minutes to save a couple items from her house, which was destroyed by the fire. She told CNN, I kind of had a mental checklist. I made sure that we got passports, birth certificates, medication, clothing. I was just out shopping for clothes. It started to hit me.

We literally just had what we had on our backs. I grab whatever was there in my personal situation. That’s it. That’s the end of everything that belonged to my family and the history of it. To be one hundred percent honest, I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son.

Melissa shared that the Emmy is Jones’ Daytime Emmy Statute, which she won on behalf of the Joan Rivers Show in nineteen ninety for outstanding Talk slash Service. Show host Jean Smart’s start of Hacks has called on the networks to skip awards season. In her statement, Jean Smart said, with all due respect during Hollywood season of celebration, I hope any of the network’s televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider not televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to the victims of the fires and the firefighters. She labeled her post with the word attention in all caps at the start a nod at all. Convinced that that is something the networks are going to do.

The Awards shows will happen, in my opinion, shifting gears. Jim gaff again was on The Kelly Clarkson Show and asked Kelly, what is going on with the feet you see? He noticed that Kelly Clarkson was barefoot at the beginning of their interview. Kelly explained, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot. Jim then speculated on why she might not have shoes on and did a high pitched voice, saying, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot.

I can feel the ground. Nikki Glaser tells The Wall Street Journal she regrets her twenty eighteen season of Dancing with the Stars. She was the first contestant eliminated. Glazer said that was truly a low point in my life. I never thought I’d be in first place, but I thought it might last longer than the blind woman on the show.

Roywood Junior has a special coming out on January seventeenth. There is a trailer and I’m going to go first here. I think this material is hacky. I think the material is weak, and to my ears it sounds if perhaps possibly maybe conceivably the laughter is added in which you know happens in trailers. But this whole piece here not good.

Let’s listen. We ain’t gonna make it. What happened to the next shit, Let’s go. I was at the gun range and I saw somebody get bad service at the gun range? How are you gonna be rude to somebody who showed up to practice account security?

Questions? Are just us reminiscent about when life was better? Remember when you had a home field with love? What street was that house all? Before you get Paddy, got your auntie pregnant, and now you got a brother cousin.

Retail changed, They locked up everything, and then they mad at us because we need to keep The only time you see an employee at the grocery store is when you do self check out wrong. What you’ve done to the machine? Get your way up. You evern’t seen a couple so happy it ruined the date that you own. We get mad if the phone ranged double intended for talking.

Oh hell dog, you got to text me first. Hilarious Lonely Flowers. January seventeenth, moa mayor announced a new stand up comedy tour beginning in February titled Moha mayor also Palestino Spanish for the Palestinian Bear on the tour. US life family and his journey as a new dad in today’s political climate, will also shortly get season two, the final season of Netflix’s Mo A Good Show. If you want to go see Mo, He’s really good.

February thirteenth in Milwaukee is when the tour starts. I’m not going to read fifty dates to you, but it goes through May sixteenth in Washington, DC, the Kansas City Chiefs are getting into comedy for some reason. The Magic Number features Pete Holmes and total debut on the Chiefs websites on Tuesday. The Magic Number is an original, lighthearted, multi episode buddy style comedy series. It’ll be on Chiefs YouTube and Chief’s official social channels three pm Central Time Tuesday.

The Magic Number follows two fans on an adventurous quest for their third friend, hoping to bring the team good luck. By the way, to hear my voice going, this is what happens when you spend fifteen hours on a plane. My fellow passengers, Come on, guys, if you’re coughing wear a mask. I should have worn a mask. That’s on me.

The multi part series promises to deliver a mix of humor, heart and playful storytelling. The comedy’s voice by Chiefs fan Jason Sedakis. Key cast members include Pete Holmes. Pete said, I had so much fun with this Chiefs Playoffs campaign. The story celebrates the connection and companionship sports spring and I’m excited to share this adventure with all the fans.

The cast and the crew were amazing. Holly, David and I ruined a bunch of takes cracking each other up, and I love playing a part in this fun take on fandom. I’ve been doing this for a while. That was written by somebody in the publicity department and Pete signed off on it would be my guest, perhaps possibly maybe, And if the Chiefs make the Super Bowl, they might want to head over to fifty cents Super bowld Comedy block Party. That’ll be Saturday, February eighth, Although you know you might nitpick what they’re doing at a comedy show the night before the Super Bowl.

Fifty cents super Bold Comedy block Party features fifty cent Bill Bellamy, Chico Bean, and DC Young Fly Bad Money finally went in on Tony Hinchcliff’s Puerto Rico joke Bad Money till the New York Times. It was a real moment of frustration. Yeah, I know he’s a comedian, blah blah blah, but that wasn’t a stand up comedy show. Was supposed to be a political rally. He was in a suit.

I was like, Oh, he’s a politician. Then people told me, no, it’s a comedian. It wasn’t funny for a lot of reasons. I have a great sense of humor, and I like dark humor. But there’s places and their circumstances for that.

James Acaster turned forty yesterday and says it feels wild with the pandemic. Suddenly we were two years older. I feel like now I’m still thirty seven, or I when I turned thirty. I loved it, actually, because in my twenties I thought, oh, I’m an adult. Now he really needs to know stuff.

I need to understand the world. Then when I turned thirty, I realized, oh, I’m never going to understand anything, and that felt a lot better. Now I’m turning forty, We’ll see what the revelation is Ultimately, I guess I’m just lucky I’m still here. That’s good. Just got to focus on that.

Russell brand busted for speeding. He’s been fined after pleading guilty to speeding. Apparently, Russell was driving his Mini at ninety five miles an hour on the M four last June. He also was busted for driving the Mini at at thirty seven miles per hour and a thirty mile an hour zone. He did not attend the hearing.

He was handed three penalty points for the thirty seven mile per hour breach and five points for the ninety five mile an hour speeding, on top of the three points he already had on his license. That gives him a total of eleven. Drivers who get twelve or more points without a three year period face a band. The judge find him thirty four hundred and fifty seven pounds for the offenses. You know, Russell could probably afford a car service.

And Jim Norton has joined the exclusive club of people who worked at Series XM and got shown the door. Welcome to the club, Jim. After twenty years, Jim Norton is out. He had been hosting a show with Sam Roberts Jim announced his new podcast, Jim Norton Can’t Save You. On the podcast, he shared that he was expecting and received a low ball offered during the holidays.

Jim is a good guy. I’ve worked with him a few times. Really like Jim a lot. Best of luck with your podcast, and that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mack back Live. I’m back from Antarctica. No really, I was in Antarctica. I’ll talk about that after the break, but let’s catch up Nikki Glaser on the Golden Globes.

I thought she was fantastic. I really enjoyed her monologue. It was a nice traditional I called it Johnny Carson style monologue, where you just call out the people in the audience and say something funny about them. Be the equivalent of me going and Scott Beckett is here. Scott’s excited about the Golden Globes because it means I won’t play the Joe Coy joke anymore, you know, that kind of harmless spanter among friends.

I thought she was really, really good. Nicki shared some details with Howard Stern, saying I got paid pretty I’m good with that. There was a past host who said how much he got in his monologue, and I got less than that. I’ll come back to that, but that’s okay. I’ll get more next year.

I feel well paid for what I do. I’m all right. I like cause she’s assuming she’s hosting next year. That said, it should be a great choice. Obviously, The speculation is she’s referring to Gerard Carmichael, who hosted in twenty twenty three.

He disclosed on stage that was paid half a million dollars for his hosting gig. You may recall the Golden Globes had to rebuild the ceremony was canceled in twenty twenty two after the controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s a lack of diversity. But I think even after last year with you know Who making the joke about you know Who, the Golden Globes are back. Baby, It’s a thing again. I think it’s a chair that people will want to host.

But Nikki Glaser did great and said if they’ll have me back for twenty twenty six, I’m all in the first time. You just want to prove yourself and I feel like I did that. She sure did. She shared with Howard some jokes cut from the monologue, some of them which she obviously would have told better. This is the last time all of you will be in the same room together until the Diddy trial.

That is a great joke, she explained. They had another Diddy mention that worked better, And you’re kind of accusing the people in the room of being involved in that, and they might turn on you. Another joke I loved conclave. It’s about choosing any poop. It was heartwarming.

It’ll touch you so much that the church will have to move to another theater. Hot tip. You don’t need ID to get into the conclave after party, She explained, we didn’t do that because there were Catholic joke pedophile jokes. We’ve all heard them. We don’t need more of that.

A tag to her joke about calling Adrian Brody a two time Holocaust survivor for his appearance in two Holocaust movies, The Pianist and the Brutalist, dropped from that joke was the tag if Adrian Brody could go back in time, he would thank Baby Hitler for his career. Nicki said, I love that one so much, but my assistant is gen Z and she was like, I don’t get it. Nicki explained, Oh, we’re gonna lose a whole generation on that joke, and then I’ve said Hitler for nothing. Another cut joke, only murders in the building is amazing. I think it’s so cool that legends like Steve Martin Martin short and Meryl Streeper all in it.

It just goes to show you you’re never too old to still need money. Why are you working so hard? What’s going on? Did you get caught up in the hawk to a crypto scheme? That’s a good joke.

Why don’t you cut that one? Glenn Powell’s nominated tonight for hit Man. Who would have thought you’d only be the second hottest hit man in America? This one probably a good cut. This is the only show where you can see the biggest stars in movies and TV joined together with a common goal getting out here tonight before Dak Sheppard asked them to do his podcast, another one good cut.

The Wild Robot is nominated tonight, and by that I mean Nicole Kidman after two white wines. Glazer interestingly said, I wish we could have done that. But if she makes a face. Yeah, you don’t want to make a joke about somebody and then they make a face. It could kill your career?

Or did it? We’ll talk about Joe Hooy on the weekend. Michael Keaton was so great and Beotle Juice and Alec Baldwin sadly did not come back to play a ghost because he was too busy making them. Wow, that’s a great joke, Nicky said, Please know that, I know it wasn’t nice. It’s such a great joke, but it’s just too mean.

Another great joke, here’s Ben Affleck. I can’t wait to see which Jennifer you try to ruin next. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Golden Gloves producers. They asked why they thought Nicky was so successful and said, hard work. Putting in the work is very important.

And we’ve said it many many times. It sounds redundant, but she was doing literally four or five shows a night in la and other cities for three weeks to get ready for this, and she tested it out on a lot of the jokes and knew what worked and what didn’t work. And her team went to her and said, oh, that joke will work here. Maybe it’s too inside only of the people in the room. I get that the people at home won’t get it.

And she honed it down with the ones that work, and that’s why she did a great job.

And then she hit us with a couple of curveballs along the way, but that was f…

They wound up being funny like popular. So let me remind everybody Joe Cooy only got the job nine days before the Golden Globes. They didn’t have a host at all. So while we’re all killing Joe Koy for being the worst host ever, I mean he told that terrible joke about you know Who’m not going to go there today, Relax, Scott Beckett. He only had nine days.

Give the guy four months. You know, maybe somebody smiles at the joke. Who knows what happens. I still blame her. Bring it swifties.

The Golden Globes ratings were actually down. Initially, CBS reported that the ratings had jumped seven percent from last year’s show, claiming ten point one million viewers. However, Variety later released numbers from Nielsen that showed a dip of two percent in the ratings. With nine point three million viewers. Last year’s show, hosted by Joe Koy, was up fifty one percent from when the show aired on NBC in twenty twenty three.

That year got six point twenty five million viewers. Maybe Joe Koy should be the host after all? Catching up because I was in Antartica. We’ll talk about that after the break. Ali Wong.

Single Lady won Best Stand Up Special of the Year. The other nominees were Jimmie Fox, Nicky Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Rommie Yusef. Out of that group, I would have picked Adam Sandler, so that lets you know how bad the picks were. I don’t know who made those nominations, but I would have picked none of the above. And if I had to pick Adam Sandler.

People are mad a comedian Hannah Brenner for a joke Hannah made during that Netflix End of the Year special Thing Torching twenty twenty four. I have not seen it yet. I was in Antartica. Did I mention that Brenner joked she likes Luigi MANGIONI saying luigis so hot right now? Who knew besides Travis Kelcey you could become so popular with women by shooting loads into a billionaire.

That’s a naughty joke there when fan wrote not to be too woke, but that was wildly inappropriate. Relax everybody, It’s a joke. Kevin Nilan is getting a show on Fox Nation. His self produced talk show Hiking with Kevin will go to Fox News streaming thing Hiking with Kevin se’es Kevin Nielan joined by high profile celebrity guests including Nicky Glazer, Conan O’Brien, Rob Low, David Spade, Martin Short, and others as they hike through the canyons of La Malibu, Utah and elsewhere. I’ll let me jump in here.

I’m well aware of the fires. I hope everyone is okay. I don’t want to just flippantly make a reference about hiking through the canyons of La It is horrific what is happening out there. I hope everyone is safe. Clearly.

Neilan recorded this in the past. He said, when I hike with these people, they are really forthcoming. You’re outside, you don’t have an audience in front of you, you don’t have these bright lights, and you’re hiking. You become more casual and open and you have your endorphins going. Fox Nation has made ten episodes of Hiking with Kevin Availabel on a Fox Nation Hulk Hogan was booed in Los Angeles at WWE on Monday night they were making their debut on Netflix.

Gabriel Iglesias weighed in, saying it was a painful experience, but he thinks the WWE should have known better, given that the show was in LA and Hulk Hogan was a major Donald Trump presidential campaign supporter. Gabe said that was painful watching Hulk Hogan get booed. I’m like, yeah, wow, from great to hate that was ugly. That was ugly. But I mean, at the same time, they should have known better.

You know that Hulk Hogan’s been out there on this political train, trying to sell his beer and trying to be on the Trump train. So you take somebody like that and you put them in a blue state in LA, what else is going to happen? That might be the reaction? Hulk Hogan is out hawking a real American beer now an official partner of WWE. I have not yet seen Gabe’s new special.

I’m catching up on life. Did I mention I was in Antarctica? We’ll talk about that after the break. The Hollywood Reporter did a big profile of Gabe for this special. He said, I wanted to let everybody know, Hey, I’ve been around for a very long time, and I’ve seen a lot of things happen, and a lot of entertainers come and go, and if I’m still here after all these years, I shouldn’t have to deal with any of these issues that are amongst us right now about what you can and can’t say.

I’ve always felt, like I said, I’m coming from a good place. It should be okay. I’m trying to be diplomatic and cool about things, but also be like, come on, guys, I’m still gonna be here after this, so let’s just stop it already. In the special, he jokes about things like pronouns and says I’m leaning into it, but I’m not making an agenda to go out and just attack. I never attack.

I react. So it’s me sharing stories about going through certain experiences and how I to them, versus, hey, I want to talk about politics. The Hollood reporter was curious about, what do you mean. You’ve seen a lot of comics come and go. Is there a through line as to why many don’t make it?

And Gabe said, I think it’s pacing. There are a lot of entertainers out there that got the one thing that hits and next thing, you know, Gangham style man, and then you’re gone. I want to comment on that as somebody who’s been a comedy industry adjacent for two plus decades now. The people who last are what I call the brick wall comedians, the guys that tell jokes. The shooting stars are the gimmick comedians.

And I can go all the way back to somebody like Dice, these stylized comedians, you know, like Jim Gaffigan is standing in front of a brick wall telling jokes. Jim’s going to be around another thirty years. Then you’ll have other comedians. And I want to be positive today. I’m not going to pick on anybody, but like Dice had an act, and the act comedians tend to be shooting stars.

So that’s what means by Gangham style. Gabe said, it’s like, whoa, You’re on top of the world a minute ago. Where do you go? Being nice goes a long way. I think a lot of times people forget that and they start being a jerk.

He faces to people that eliminates people quickly and then being consistent with me, all the specials of branded everything is fluffy something you want to keep reminding people that that’s the brand. Sometimes people will say, well, that’s pretty excessive, and I go no, because all it takes is one or two years for them to start forgetting you. You have to constantly remind them and continue to put out what you’ve been putting out. I can’t just be doing a show that’s fun and friendly and then all of a sudden you go to this political rant about who you should vote for, because now you’re turning people off. The hollyd reporter was like, you refine this fluffy person over the years.

How’s he different from the real you? Gabe said, the guy on stage is just louder and talks more. So. Yeah, I went to Antarctica over the break. My daughter and I went flipping over all the cards here.

The last sixteen episodes of this podcast were pre taped. Now it was the holidays, so it’s a good time of year to be away. I can’t imagine another scenario where I would hand in two and a half weeks of pre taped shows because usually when I travel, I bring the laptop with me and just do the show from wherever I am. You know, I’m pretty open with you guys that’ll pretape a weekend or sometimes you know, wrap a weekend with a Monday pre tape. But for the most part, I do the show quote unquote live.

But yeah, it was a lot coming up with stuff for sixteen days of pretapes. Thank you Mike Chisholm for letting me rerun the interview on New Year’s Day, so that saved one. End of the year countdowns came in pretty handy in terms of the show. I want to pretape the weekend. I’ll give you quote unquote live shows through this weekend just to catch up.

I’m not gonna go back and do every story then I missed. You know, it’s Daily Comedy News, not daily comedy story. John didn’t get to two weeks ago, say John Mulaney on Broadway. We’ll just let the past be. I do need to catch up on my specials.

I didn’t see Nates, I haven’t seen Gabe, I didn’t see the End of the Year thing. I didn’t see Michelle Buteau and whatever else came out. But we’ll catch up here anyway. It is good to be back in the basement studio recording the podcast. But Antarctica, man, people are asking about it.

A typical day would be breakfast, You put on all your cold gear. You get in on a zodiac boat, which is like a big raft boat with a motorized engine, head over to the land, walk around, stare at penguins and seals. Come back, change out of your wet clothes, go eat lunch, go back to the room, put your wet clothes back on. Back to land again. Do that again for another two three hours.

Come back for dinner, pass out because you are exhausted. Repeat. It was amazing. It does take a minute to get there. On my way down, from leaving my home to JFKA Airport to actually checking into the hotel room was a thirty one hour trip.

So if you say to me right now, hey, you want to fly to Sydney, and I’m like, all I have to do is get on a plane in Los Angeles and watch moviees for sixteen hours, no problem, I’ll go. You may have heard of the Drake passage and the Drake shake. That is no joke. I was fine. My poor daughter has spent two days in bed twice.

It’s two days at sea before you get to Antarctica. And if you don’t like rocking boats, don’t go. But if you’re an adventurer, I highly recommend you go. I did an expedition cruise, so this wasn’t a big Disney cruise. This was one hundred passengers and forty crew on a boat probably maybe small than the Staten Island Ferry for New Yorkers, but definitely not a giant cruise ship.

And it rocked. But I had an awesome time. When I get some time, I’m going to make a podcast out of it, and I will share that with you when we get a little closer. All right, back to comedy. SNL is turning fifty.

Did you know that way? You should talk about that at some point. Will Ferralt, Tina fe and Andy Simberg are in a promo for Peacocks SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night, which will celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary.

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Andy Samberg says, my first audition I threw up. One of the four episodes centers on the more cow Bell Sketch, one of the Alzheimer’s. Another episode focuses on the problematic Season eleven that came close to getting the show canceled. Jimmy Fallon says, this is beyond my wildest dreams that you’re making a documentary about the cow Bell sketch. Some other specials coming out January twenty seventh, NBC’s Ladies and Gentlemen fifty Years of SNL Music, and a live primetime special will be on NBC in peacock A February sixteenth.

Also, we have to monetize everything, so live from Sacks Fifth Avenue is some limited edition SNL inspired merchandise. Fans of the show can visit a dedicated landing page on the Sacks website which features the items available to shop. Should we do this? We should do this. I’ve been away for two and a half weeks.

We can go long today. All right. It took a couple of clips, but I found it, and I don’t get it. If you really want, you can get a Favorite Daughter baseball cab that’ over a new forty eight dollars. You can get a Favorite Daughter SNL Sport and Spirit cotton tote bag that over a new fifty bucks.

You want favorite Daughter SNL Auto five pocket jeans, those are only two hundred and forty eight dollars, and a tote bag that says favorite Daughter SNL Live from New York. That one’s fifty dollars if you’re looking for a more Cowbell T shirt that might actually be fun. Nope. The president and chief commercial Officer of SACKS says, We’re excited to partner with Saturday Night. I’m bringing together two iconic brands out of shape culture and delighted our respective audiences for decades.

This is being spun as saying SAX and SNL have a long standing relationship. You see their flagship store is across from NBC’s A thirty Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. Yep, okay, uh huh. The trailer is out for Amy Schumer’s new Netflix comedy feature Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, Amy Schumer plays a lady who wears a fake baby bump while feeling jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and ends up meeting a perfect guy.

In the trailer, Amy asked, did you ever feel like such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it? Some of the comments on YouTube include, this trailer makes me want to sit on my TV and watch my couch. Is it too late to replace Amy Schumer with another actress? And it seems like Netflix took a look at what Taylor shared in has been doing by appealing to regular Americans who just want a fun time and said, yeah, let’s do the exact opposite of that.

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Caloroga Shark Media been there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Jim Gaffing. Until the La Times that stand up has changed so much, to the notion that people are putting out multiple specials didn’t exist when I started stand up. But I think that people who consume a stand up comedian’s material, there’s a familiarity, but it’s like a friendship. You can’t have the exact same conversation.

Even though we all have friends where it’s like we’re having the same conversation about high school. It has to be different. You both have to challenge each other. So for me working on the special or working on this new hour that I’m working on now, it’s self assignment. So some of it.

Any creative person’s like, what can I talk about that is embarrassing or revealing. I think that people that have tracked me along the way in my stand up would be interested in my view and parenting. I’ve always had the view that I suck at it, but I have greater empathy for what all parents are dealing with, and I think also parents of this era, we’ve made mistakes and it doesn’t help. With social media and the apps and the screens. And that’s something that’s revealed in doing my stand up and in reading some of the parenting books.

Parents of teenagers have this perspective. Adults have an impression of what their teenage years were like, and I’m providing this point of view about what it’s like to live with these people. It’s kind of a cliche raising teenagers is like raising a mentally ill person. It sounds harsh. We know this is a natural separation process where teenagers challenge things.

But I love that I’ve gained this perspective of was my data jerkface? Or maybe I was a jerk face? He used the D word. Maybe it’s kind of basic, but that’s something that’s universal. We all went through being teenagers, and not necessarily the conflict, but the misunderstanding between the teenager and the parent, which I find fascinating.

Jim Jeffreys told Rolling Stone that he wants to act more. Name dropper Jim said, I texted Russell Crowe excuse me, and I said, Russell, I’ve got an acting job. Can I call you quickly for some tips? And I think he thought I just wanted acting tips, and I was asking him more about when you talk to a director, what do you do here? Is it too much for me to add a line here or there?

Do you not do that? In trauma? But Russell sent me a quote from Hamlet and told me to hold up a mirror to nature and I went, thanks, mate. Rolling Stone asked him if stand up could take a back seat to film. Jim said, that’s like saying, do you think you’ll have sex with more tractive women?

It’s not my decision, is it. They get to make the choice. Now. Obviously I’m joking, I’m a happily married man. Blah blah blah blah blah.

But you get what I’m saying. It’s up to the movie industry. It’s not up to me. I look at Sammy Davis Junior. I watched a documentary about him.

He was a really good singer, an amazing dancer, and outstanding impersonator and all that type of stuff. He was a ball of entertainment, and I’d like to be that. I like the idea that I can entertain at any time. So whether it be TV presenting or acting or doing stand up, I just consider myself to be an entertainer first and foremost. I don’t think I can because of my voice or whatever.

But I’d like to do a bit of musical theater or something like that. I’d give that a crack. I’m up for doing everything but juggling and mime. Anthony Jesson expoke to crack dot com about his influences Stephen Right, Ronnie Dangershfield, and Mitch Hedberg. They were curious where he discovered those guys.

Anthony said, it must have been late night TV as a kid, waiting for those last five minutes of Carson to see who would show up. I remember watching a lot of end of Carson’s waiting for Letterman to come on. They would usually have a comic at the end. I’m sure, well, Stephen writes HBO special at some point, but I must have been introduced through late night sets Hebburg. I didn’t find out about until i’d been doing comedy for about a year, but Stephen Wright was the first, and then Dangerfield was like, oh, I’m into this guy too.

But Stephen Wright to me was huge. Did Jessinic try and mimic, writs Cadence. He said, no, surprisingly not. You could say Christopher walk In for sure has had an impact on how I speak, even though my dad gets the same comparison, But Stephen Wright was almost too much of a departure from my character. Maybe there would have been a couple of years in college when I was smoking too much pot that I could have had a Hebburg kind of personality.

But I never had that burnout thing either, which just more of how did they think of? That? Crazy twist? Never really entered into my persona with my friends in the beginning. Has the Anthony Justinic character evolved over time, and he said, I think of the character as an aging punk rocker.

At this point. In the beginning, it was like, there are no lines. If everybody offend everybody, let’s go. And I’m glad I did that in my twenties and that helped me out a lot my idols who have softened as they get older. I find that to be interesting, and as the world changes, you find yourself going from the villain of the hero.

My past is my past, then I’ll never apologize for it or try to whitewash it. But I think I’ve gained a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge and life experience. I like that I’ve softened and that the act isn’t as hardcore as it used to be. I think that’s good, and I think that’s more interesting. I don’t think of the character evolving, but as I write, I’m reacting to what’s popular around me.

If the biggest comics in the world started getting real family friendly, maybe I would go darker and would go harder. There’s plenty of comics now that are just as dark and hardcore as I used to be. It’s next part too justting listen to this. I think they lack my writing talent now. I just see a lot of culture personality.

I think having a popular podcast is more important than having a good act. That’s how it dies with the podcasting. You don’t really have to do anything other than have a popular podcast to sell tickets, and you’ll have a great show because the audience loves it, and you’re never really testing anything out. That’s why I see all these podcasts put out a special. They’re immediately savage by critics and forgotten about to the point that people don’t even want to write about it, because there’s no point in writing a negative review of something that’s just friends hanging out, which is what comedy’s becoming.

He’s both not wrong and somewhat wrong. I mean, I get what he’s saying about things having less artistic reaching. But on the other hand, from the consumer point of view, Hey, I went out, I saw somebody I dig. I had a good time and laughed, and I went home hopefully, and I’m home by ten thirty because I’m old. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

Not everything has to be art, and I know I sometimes argue that both ways, but I don’t know. If you go out and you have a good time, that’s fine. Like as I reviewed these specials, some of them are just fine. I can be a comedy snob, I admit it. Shang Wang, I like him a lot.

He spoke to The Texas Standard talked about his friendship with Ali Wang, who executive produced a special, and said, yeah, she’s a friend of mine. We met in the early days of doing stand up. We were both in the open mic scene in San Francisco in the early two thousands, and we’ve been friends ever since. I mean we got closer later on. We both moved to New York together around the same time.

She moved to LA to be a writer, and I followed her out there, And so I’ve been sort of following her footsteps and just kind of following her playbook in a way, so to speak. I kind of live in the ghost of Alley’s past. I have her old furniture, her old couch or old nightstand, and I might even tape my second special where she taped her second special. So I’m just kind of following the Alley Wong playbook in a weird way because it works. But I’m very grateful for our friendship and for all the sports she’s given me.

It’s pretty incredible to have a friend like that. I mean, she’s an incredibly talented person, but I think it’s also helpful to have a friend succeed to that level where you get a sense of like, this is a friend. This person also kind of looks like me, she’s an Asian American, and just makes it feel a little bit more accessible, like these things are possible. Of course, it helps when she produces a direction comedy special. JB.

Smooth as advice for aspiring comics, it is find who you are, constantly work on your style, matristylity of personality, say things that only you would say, and talk about what you know about. Don’t be stuck in one place. It’s great to have material, but you don’t want to be a robot. You want to be able to connect with people. If you can walk on stage and grab that microphone, you’re fifty percent there already fifty percent of what it takes is to get up there.

There’s rules, of course, you gotta have an intro, you gotta have a presence on stage, you gotta have a certain amount of last person minute. But you don’t have to go buy those rules. There’s something being offbeat and true to yourself and talking about what you know about, which is absolutely golden because you’re taking people on vacation, on a trip through your brain. Kevin Nielan said cancel culture has stifled some comedians. For someone like me, I don’t have a problem with it because I never really ventured in that area.

I may touch on something where someone’s like, hey man, you can’t do that, but some people get away with still. I don’t really have a problem with the woke stuff. Although my wife and son won’t come to see my shows because they’re afraid I’ll get canceled and be the last person to get canceled. People won’t even cancel my reservation if I don’t show up. I think a lot of comedians hopefully will evolve, like people do in their profession or whatever it is, They’ll find better ways of doing it.

I always try to be unique in my voice, because that’s what matters, That’s how you stand apart from other comedians. Now that we have zillions of comedians, it’s hard for comedians to become unique or be unique and also have something original say that isn’t about McDonald’s or whatever. A hard reporter I spoke to Matt Rife who said other comics have told me they miss not only the pace of stand up, but the level of control. Do you want to be an actor? Right?

Said? I don’t feel like I need control. I’m not a point now where I want to learn something new. I want to get better at something else. I mean, I’m getting so much better, so much faster at stand up, and I’m learning how to hopefully prepare for a lifetime of this, And now that I see that that’s achievable, I’m like, Okay, awesome.

What are some other skills that I can sharpen along the way that are only going to help everything else that I do. The better comedian I am, the more people are gonna want to watch the movies that I’m in, and the more movies I’m in, the more people are gonna want to see what I do live at a stand up show. Whose career mighty want to emulate? You have the Big Three Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, and Adam Sandler. Imagine Matt Riife doing Adam Sandler type movies.

I might have to quit the podcast. Those are the ones who did best, and I don’t know that anybody will ever do it at that level again, That’s my dream. Comedians who took their fan base into the theaters with their comedic talents and then they were able to transition over to different genres, especially dramas. I mean, my god, Robin Williams A Goodwill Hunting is one of my favorite acting performances of all time. Ryan Reynolds is my idol.

That’s who I’d love to work with more than anything, and he has this type of acting career that I’d love to try to emulate, and he’s done everything new top Egg Mett Rife, Who do you see is your core audience at this point? Young people, older women? Rife said, it’s a mix of everybody, which is so crazy and so cool. That’s a non answer. Nobody has everybody, most comedians, and this is exactly why you’d asked this question.

I have a relatively specific audience, whether it’s a specific race or gender or age range. But for us, it’s kind of everybody. There’s many people in their early twenties as there are fifty and up, just people who love comedy. What’s on your bucket list? I’d love to do more movies and TV, and I’d love to work with Ricky Gervais.

Adam Carolla and Jay Leno are getting ready to do a Comedy Fantasy Camp in La January twenty third through to twenty sixth. The four day camp offers workshops, Q and as and panels on all things comedy, from TV writing and podcasting to performing on stage. The Rap spoke with them. They pointed out that Adam’s from Southern California, Jay’s from Boston. Is there a difference between the comic sensibilities you know, Southern California vers East Coast?

Leto said, no, you know. Mark Twain said travel is the enemy of bigotry, and the fact is more you travel, the more you can pick things up and take them from other people. When I started to get popular in Boston and I left town because I was gonna wind up having a Boston base act. And I left and I said, I’m gonna go someplace else. But back in New England, I was a lazy guy.

I came here and suddenly I was the hardest working person because I didn’t have the southern California mentality. I didn’t go surfing in the daytime. So I think it’s good to travel around. If you got a joke that works in Texas and Anchorage, it’s gonna work everywhere. Awful things happen to you your first year you come here, you learn who’s a crook, whose agent is bad.

Second year you get a couple jobs. Takes three or four years before things clicked. This sounds horrible. You sort of learn who’s in town, who’s a real agent, who could really do something for you. You know, it takes a while.

It’s a lot of fun. It’s a great way to make a living. I mean, I figured I’d do it until I had to get a real job. I just never had to get a real job. It’s a job.

Don’t hang out with your pals at night. I mean I saw it at the comedy store. It became people just live there. You’re doing coke in the back. You have jokes about the thing on the wall the comedy store and about the window, and then you go to a real place and it doesn’t have those things.

Nobody knows what you’re talking about. I’d say that happen in Boston. Guys have twenty minutes on Kenmore Square. Then you go to Hartford and people go what. And that is your comment news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney talked about how he put together his on stage persona and said, I consciously thought, what if he did Spuden Gray with the energy of Bernie Mack. What if what you were really saying was really confessional and had an edge to it. The language was specific and nuanced, it was personal and contradictory, dark, suicidal, whatever it was.

But he kept saying it with this big show, busy energy, how big can you sell weird and specific? John said he thought, I’m gonna see if you could do a nine minute story about this and just hit it as though you’re doing the best bit about dating ever. I’m gonna tell this long story about how my parents had a complicated relationship with the Clintons and how it sort of plays it and how me and my dad relate to each other, and I’m gonna go on stage and annihilate with it. That’s how he handled twenty Fifteen’s The Comeback Kid. Then for Baby Jay, he said, all right, this is the most confessional one, so it’s gonna be all jokes.

There’s no moment that isn’t supposed to be very entertaining. Michael ian Black told Inside Hook, there’s really only two things on my mind at any given moment, maybe three things, politics, UFO, and poker. Really the only three things I think about with any regularity, he said, is childhood. Interest in UFOs was reignited in twenty seventeen when The Times New York Times did an article about a secret Pentagon program dedicated to investigating UFOs. Michael Lean Black said, they’re like, yeah, we’ve been studying UFOs for decades.

You’re like, wait, you told us that you hadn’t been. You told us for decades that you hadn’t been, that there was nothing to it, and now you’re saying there is. So at the very least, that’s a very compelling story. The thing I find so fascinating about this whole topic is whatever the explanation is, even the most prosaic explanation, is going to be fascinating. Because the most prosaic explanation is that the US has somehow developed tech, or somebody’s developed tech that nobody else has and nobody else even understands.

That’s a fascinating story. Or we all are the US and globally the victims of some sort of bizarre global disinformation campaign, which in a way makes less sense than the alternative, because you have these reports everywhere in the world, Russia, China, Brazil, Mexico, all of Europe to US, Canada, everywhere, So like whatever the explanation, none of it makes sense. And to me, that’s what I love. I just love the mystery of it. In a way I don’t want to know.

Nikki Glaser loves her Tailor Swift. She likes being around Swifties and said, I just love her music so much and singing it with other people love it as much as I do. This is no slight to Tailor. It’s just to speak to the power of her music and her fandom. But it was much fun at a Taylor Swift sing a Long Night as I do it in Aras tour concert.

NICKI, do you have any goals, you know, a surprise song or something that you’re hoping for when you go see Taylor live. I never have any goals because I like all of her songs so much that I really can’t be disappointed. But being able to sing You’re on your own kid with her in the stadium was really special. There have been songs that at first I overlooked, but I fall in love with Like The Lucky Ones is so good because it’s about the way I feel about Hollywood, and you know you’re quickly disposed of, and how you kind of have an exit strategy for when they decide they don’t want you anymore. You have to learn to really like yourself and have other interests because your career could be taken away from you despite what you do, or what you put out or who you are, how talented you are.

I always felt the Tailor was in a good mood performing. Of course she can’t always be, but she never lets it show in her performances. It’s probably because of her performances that she is happy. Do you have a favorite era, Nikki Glaser? I’m always in the era that she’s in.

The Tortured Poets Department really helped me get through preparing for the Roast of Tom Brady when I was really feeling isolated, alone and unsure of myself, and really all I was doing was thinking about roast jokes. It was the greatest gift because it was a distraction. Reminded me I care about other things, that my life is full no matter what happens with the Roast. It really held my hand through that really stressful time in my life.

And then even after the Roast, that was a really tumultuous time for me, just…

But say Elane, I talked about putting together an hour of comedy and said, when I’m on the road, an hour’s worth of material, that’s at least a year’s worth of doing stand up every single night at the Comedy Seller, working out new jokes, redoing jokes over and over. People think I do stand up every once in a while. I do stand up every night. I’m at the Comedy Seller every single night. To write new material, I have to be in front of an audience.

I think in July I did fifty shows at the Seller. You could see it within a week. If I’ve done eighteen shows in a week and I start that joke on a Friday, the next Friday, it’s a different joke. Usually I take May through September to write a bunch of material, and then you work them out in little clubs, trying to piece the material together. Three List spoke to a partner, Ninturilla, about travel.

They asked her window, middle or aisle seat. Johnny Mack loves the window. A partner said, I’ve historically been a window seat person. That’s right, that’s the correct answer. I like being able to nestle into the road, having that wall you can nap against.

Now, because of in my weakening bladder, I think I may have to eventually accept that I’m gonna have to be an aile person because I’m too conflict averse staff to keep asking someone to get up so I can go to the bathroom. One hundred percent on every piece of that answer. Love it all right? Do you pack light or do you overpack? She says, I’m an overpacker.

Johnny Mack is not an overpacker. I went to Australia with a carry on. I can get it done. MacBook airs and I sent in to that helps. And you don’t need to bring a big USB mic with you.

You know, if a famous comedian dies when you’re on the road and you have your book with you, you can use the microphone in the laptop of your audience will understand. Parna says, I’m bringing things that don’t make sense. I think if I had a go bag, it’d be like a three piece set of suitcases. I was just gone for two weeks, and I brought maybe seven or eight outfits. I’d say probably were four of the Moner rotation.

The thing about being an overpacker is when you suddenly need one of those random objects like your old journal, You’ll be like, see, this is why I need this favorite way to pass time on a plane. I was hoping get some work done on a few times I have. I’m like, can I get credit for this? I feel like a shner in miles for this. No, don’t do work in a plane.

Planes are wonderful times. You listen to music you never get to listen to. You close your eyes, you listen to podcasts like don’t Do Work in a Plane. Wi Fi should be banned on planes, and oh man, if they start with the starlink and start people start making phone calls on planes again, no no no no no no no no no. But partner said, I used to be someone who could sleep on flights, but I seem not to have that ability much these days.

So I end up watching something or reading most of the time. Her biggest travel fear something going wrong with the plane. Obviously crashing is the endpoint of that fear, but then I think really bad turbulence almost feels worse to me. You don’t know whether it means you’re going to crash orf it’s just going to be scary for some unforeseeable amount of time. Favorite travel snack some sort of trail mix where you’re getting different bits in one bag and it’s not all one thing, like a pretzel mix or something.

Paula got I spoke to the South China Morning Post. He says I was born in Hawaii in nineteen sixty eight, in the early morning hours after Richard Nixon was elected president. My mother contemplated naming me Richard, but thankfully she was also a Beatles fan and ended up naming me Paul. I have one sibling, a brother who’s fourteen months older than me, which is the two of us in a small Japanese family. He was the eldest son, which meant I was out of luck.

He got all the love, attention and adoration because in Japanese culture, the first born son is treated exceptionally well. It explains how I ended up in comedy, the need for attention and approval. I was on the city championship basketball team when I was a kid, but then everybody kept growing, so I stayed indoors, listening to comedy albums. There’s a lot of truth in comedy. The first comedy album I listened to was Gilda Radner.

In Hawaii, we only had one stand up comedian, Andy Bumasai. I had all his albums and listening to him on repeat day and day out. I could recite them verbatim. I wanted to be like Andy. The opportunity to elicit approval, laughter, an applause with my version of the truth really spoke to me.

In Hawaii, there was only one comedy club and that closed down, so there was no place for me and my friends to perform. In ninety six, I had a very bad idea to open a comedy club in Waikiki. The Comedy Cow was open about a year. Me and my friends had a place to perform at. Robin Williams came through one night.

It was great while it last did, and my finances, hopes, and dreams burned down around me. I learned I’m a terrible business person. I ended up massive debt and shame. I read in the newspaper that one of the morning DJs got fired from the local radio station. I sent a letter to the GM and said, hey, I’m the kind of person that likes to capitalize on other people’s misfortunes, so please hire me to do your morning show.

That turned into two and a half years at the station. That’s what convinced me that I should devote my life to comedy. Morning radio was a great creative experience. You have to write three hours of material every day and then burn it down because you couldn’t do the same show the next day. It forced you to be creative, and I enjoy that.

I didn’t like the hours. I had to wake up at four am to get to the station at five point thirty, which was bad. I did a morning drive. It’s thirty years ago now. I lasted four months on that shift.

It was hell. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning or weekday mornings, which was the last possible second where I could shower and get into New York City. And again no interney yet. I had to go find actual newspapers and read them really quickly to do the show. Prep before the five AM morning show.

Anyway. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning, and the first thing I would say started with the word F hated it. I hated it. Tom Green caught up with US magazine. He’s living on a farm in Canada and says, after a hectic day, I decompressed by being outside in nature with my dog or writing my mule Fanny.

She’s a big mule, very large and majestic mare. He made a list of twenty five things you don’t know about Tom Green. I won’t read them all, but some of them. Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show was my celebrity crush growing up. His favorite movie is Jaws.

His favorite karaoke song is Space Oddity by David Bowie. His first job was working at Dairy Queen. He made the peanut butter part and said the trick is extra fudge. I collect old coins and I don’t know why. Norm MacDonald was always my favorite stand up comedian.

I discovered him live in the comedy club when he was young and before he was famous. It was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen and made me want to be a stand up comedian. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll catch up about the Golden Globes in a couple of days. I was traveling yesterday and again today. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The La Times about parenting, and Jim says, I would say I was a very good teen.

I was very hard working. I would say that my dad was unnecessarily annoyed by some of my behavior.

And now I’m kind of like, oh, I get it.

I totally get what his annoyance was. And these are your children and you do anything for them. But there is a baffo mint. I talk about it in my latest special, where you have this sweet twelve year old and then they change, And obviously I’m using hyperbole and exaggeration, but there is a shift. And what’s so great about touring with the material is that it’s a conversation.

So the feedback from the audience can prove your premise or your theory. So even older parents, empty nesters can say, oh, yeah, that’s true. The hyperbolic humor statement you’re making is only funny because it’s grounded in a shared experience. Sarah Silverman spoke to the Detroit Free Press about the feeling that many women have in midlife about being more self confident and less worried about pleasing others. Sarah said, not everybody grows with age, you know, but it’s kind of thrilling to be like, yeah, I’m not doing that anymore.

I’m not gonna put up with that anymore.

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Also, I’m in a relationship I’m so happy with, but I also know that I love be…

A relationship has to be pretty great for me not to want to be alone. I think that’s a great place to be, and it’s a place I don’t think I could be at a younger age. Sarah has been digging the TV show Detroitters, the twenty seventeen series from Comedy Central that’s been showing up on Netflix. My boyfriend and I are watching Detroiters again. God, I wish there were more than two seasons.

Anytime we order dinner, we throw in Detroiters. It’s such a beautiful comedy. It’s very tricky to do comedy that’s warm and loving but has hardcore funny jokes with Sarah want to do a similar series with one of her female peers. She says, there are so many brilliant women I would love to start with. She was blown away by Kristin Malodian the Penguin and said, I was like, please, can I play her young mom?

She’s so brilliant. Sarah’s out on tour through February first, and said, it’s funny merch this time, which I usually never have. I say in the show. I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this. It just kills me because my dad would have borne every single thing.

Ah, they would just love it. Kathy Griffin is increasingly happy with her voice and says I sound like me again, shouting and cursing or my love languages. I tend to yell at the audience, even though I love them. I haven’t lost my hustle. I love the stage.

It’s the only time of fully relaxed. It sounds corny, but I get anxiety attacks. I can’t stop vomiting. I was in a restaurant recently and had to go into a corner. I had flops weat.

I was hoping nobody would recognize me. I had to get it together and drive home. She said. Joan Rivers told her to keep on working and never leave a blank page on the calendar. I worked with Joan.

Joan’s days were packed. I worked with her around two thousand, well, not around two thousand, when it was the fall of two thousand and one, two thousand and two. She would go up to Toronto or Philadelphia and do QVC and walk into the studio at five to six or five to seven. I guess it was a seven o’clock show, sit down, knock out a two hour show, and then go do something else. She like to work Joe Rivers.

Kathy said, I’m cut from the same cloth. Unlike Ellen, Kathy Griffin has no plans to leave the country. I assume that’s election related. She says, I’m not moving. I own a house in Malibu.

I love I have four dogs. I’m gonna keep touring after the inauguration. I’m good at saving money. I have no debt. My house is paid off.

I work with famed financial advisor Suz Orman. She never steers me wrong. Weird Al look back on getting permission from Michael Jackson for Eat It and said, I was completely surprised that he gave me his blessing. My manager, I guess talked to Michael’s representatives and we heard back fairly quickly that he was okay with it. At the time, I was virtually unknown.

I had one album out that didn’t do that great. I couldn’t believe we even got his attention. There’s a contract somewhere in the world that is my signature next to Michael Jackson’s signature, saying you know we are the co writers have eat it. Prior to that, it was tough to get anybody’s permission because nobody knew who weird Awl was.

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And then after we got to eat it, we had that for ammunition.

We could say, well, you know, Michael Jackson was okay with it, why you give me a hard time. If anyone song changed my life, that one certainly did. Because, as I’ve said many times, the day they aided video went into rotation on MTV, you hear of overnight fame, and it’s sort of a myth in most cases, but it was really true for me because right after that video hit MTV, all of a sudden, people are staring at me in public, which you know, never happened before. Paul Reiser was on the Everything Fab four podcast discussing the Beatles and said, my older sister was into them, and I have a vivid recollection of being drawn to live TV. There was just this imprint of importance.

You didn’t know it was going to be the cultural touchdown that it is, but you knowew to watch it. The night in question February nineteen sixty four, the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Reiser said they made good on it with one album after another. Specific Beatle songs are imprinted on the moments of my life, all our lives. Really, the music is so good it seems silly to even give it an adjective.

Seth Meyers told Variety he is consistently writing down funny ideas in real life situations on his phone and can gauge what works by reading different nuances in the audience’s reaction. Seth says, it’s how you feel and telling it sometimes even the way people laugh. You invented it in your life. That’s my wife I’m talking about. But if it’s ever anything, I’m worried she wouldn’t love.

I tried it first, and if you can’t make it work, there’s no reason to have it brought to her. Only when it’s a feasible. Bit to her credit, if it works, She’s always very supportive. I love doing stand up because it’s so different, not just in format, but also in topics. There’s something so universal about my family and should be noticed that even though I bust on them pretty hard, I love talking about them.

They’re my favorite people. Sometimes with Late Night, which is the show I love doing, I spent a lot of time talking about people. I don’t have a great deal of affection for us, so it’s nice to be out there spending an hour sharing anecdotes and observations about my family, the best people on Earth. David Spade caught up with Southjersey dot Com about his podcast, He Does What Dana Carvey Spade said, I wanted to do a podcast, but I didn’t want to do it alone and it was too hard. It seems very easy, and that’s why there are three million podcasts.

I didn’t know who to do it with, and I was trying to think of people. I just get an unknown sidekick, but I felt there’s safety in numbers. I was casually seeing Dana more than usual. He lived near me after always being in San Francisco. I’d hit him up for dinners and would always crack up and then we realized that we always talked about SNL.

We have the same manager. We discussed it and thought maybe this would be a good way to start a podcast. We wanted to do it on video and they didn’t. After a while, they want to do a spinoff, and I said, I’ll do one if it’s on video. So now they do the spinoff called Superfly.

So it’s kind of the same thing. It’s just me and Dana. We get have people on if we want, but the core of it is just he and I. It’s like when you were on SNL, you’d always be kind of aware what’s going on. What feels like a story that’s going to stick around, So we’ll scribble headlines just stories that are funny to me, like when Kanye asked his wife if he could have sex with her mom.

Really that happened, yikes, And then we just talk about it. What would you tell your wife? How would she react? And we just riff on that for as long as we can, and we go to the next story, and then sometimes Dana talks about what it was like on SNL this week, and then I talk about my weekend on the road. It’s a little more fun than Fly on the wall because Dana and I just blabbed like we’re at a dinner.

Spade also talked about hosting the Fox game show Snake Oil. I said, I’m not right for a game show, and then the production company, owned by Will Arnett, said, we want a host where you’re almost annoyed with the game. We’re trying to find different angles on it. Spade said the fun part of Snake Oil, which was on Hulu, is that he had no idea which items were real and which weren’t. I said, don’t tell me which ones are real, and then when I’m playing the game, I’m trying to chime in, going like I have no idea.

I’m not allowed to steer them. But I’m like, I could fully tell you I will guess wrong on this one, because even when I’d watch a rerun, I’d go, I don’t remember if this is real. But that’s the fun of it for me. That’s the hook. I like someone out there is working on a Chris Farley bio pick and Spade said, I’ve talked to the writers and the director, and I think they’ve got a handle on it.

It’s a big, big story to tackle and it’s not my story to tell. It’s whoever’s doing a movie about it. But I’d hope it all goes right. I think everyone that’s involved seems pretty cool, and they’re doing the best they can. So we’ll cross our fingers and hope for the best.

The New York Times profiled Young me Meyer great opening sentence, the comedian Young me Meyer didn’t mean to bring a cockroach into a downtown Manhattan food hall. And maybe she didn’t, but when one scampered across her body, under the table and out in the while, she just assumed that she was it’s host. Quote. I’m like ninety nine percent sure that was in my coat the whole time. My apartment is so cockroach infested that they’re like my pets now.

I mean, I try to clean, but they just won’t go away. I’ve given up. They’re hanging out with me now, they’re coming in my interviews, Caleb Heren spoke to The Cut about growing up in the Midwest. His favorite part of the Midwest Midwest nice. I love it.

A lot of people are like, oh, they’re nice to your face and meet behind your back. It’s not been my experience. Midwestern people are genuinely nice. I love When I’m in Kansas City, people hold the door for you. They say, hey, how you doing.

They really mean it, they really do want to hear about your day. It’s part of the reason that I still have a home in Kansas City, because I literally need it, and I love that Midwestern people will put seven foods were straight up not supposed to eat on a platter and be like, this is dinner. A cast roll is such a messed up concoction. You shouldn’t even be doing stuff like that in the kitchen, and I actually need it to live. I love cheese where it doesn’t belong.

I love four kinds of meat where none are called for. I love an appetizer sampler. I love a big chili with a cinnamon roll. You ever heard of that chili with cinnamon roll that’s happening in the Midwest. The Midwest is our cultural capital of the United States.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the Golden Globes or tonight your host Nikki Glaser. No, she’s a Tailor Swift fan. Do you think she’ll make a joke about Taylor Swift? Because last year Joe Coy did that it didn’t go so well.

Nicky said, I’m absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television. Now I get a front row seat. Actually, I think I have to host from the stage. The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy.

It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked. Except for Taylor Swift. Of course, it’s an excitingly challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars who might also be getting wasted wh’ll seated next to their recent exes. Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues where Tina Amy or Rickey have said exactly what we all didn’t know. We desperately needed to hear.

I just hope to continue in that time on her tradition that might also get me canceled. Vulture writes, we hope, for Glazer’s sake, the Taylor Swift makes happier faces at this year’s set than she did at Joe Coy’s. Now, I feel like Johnny Mack, Why do you keep mentioning Joe Coy? What did he say about Taylor Swift? Here?

Let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it’s just where to go to.

That could possibly be the last time I play that clip, you know, but it probably won’t be. Ted Danson will receive the Carol Burnett Award. The Globe has said dance and has entertained audiences for decades with his iconic performances that will forever be ingrained in television history. My wife was recently talking about Ted Danson and how he’s really good. You remember him as Sam Malone and then you see him in other roles where he’s not Sam Malone at all.

Great job there, I guess in terms of this program, the most interesting category for us will be Best Stand Up Comedian on Television. The nominees and these are all comedy specials. My former co worker Jamie Fox, what had happened? Was Nikki Glaser for Someday You’ll Die, Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Adam Sandler, Love You, Ali Wang Single, Lady romy USF’s More Feelings, Johnny mack is going with Adam Sandler. I know times have changed, right, or comedy’s gotten really terrible, probably the latter.

I mean, if you’re giving me a list and a picking Adam Sandler, what has happened? Josh Blue told CPR dot Org. No, that’s not you know, a website dedicated to resuscitating people. It’s public radio. And he told those guys what’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely.

Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or my brain puts a new connection together. He says, I’ve never written anything down physically. It’s just kind of all off the top of my head. So it’s basically whatever happens in my life in that timeframe. CPR was like, wait, does that mean you’ve lost jokes?

Josh said, oh, I probably have three specials worth of lost jokes. They were curious. So they’re sacrifices for comedian who lives in Colorado, say New York, Chicago, LA, and I’ll throw in Austin there, Josh says. For me winning last Comic Standing in six I was living here and it just skyrocketed me onto the national scenes. I never had to go to LA or New York to get discovered, and then I just became a touring comic and I’ve been doing two hundred shows a year since I don’t drive, so LA is not good for a non driver.

What I did miss was getting to Rubebbels with a bunch of other headlining comics. I missed going out to the comedy store on a Monday, when all the comics come back from tour, just this comic jamboree of Who’s Who? So I missed out. I’m maybe getting on people’s podcast just because they don’t know me from that scene. But my kids are in school, I don’t really have the opportunity to go do that right now.

Maybe later in my career, once they’re off to college, I can go do more of that. But it’s not like they don’t know who I am. They just don’t think of me right away. When a TV sitcom comes up and they’re like, oh, we need a character, I’m just not on their radar. Nick Swartzen got a little serious.

He said, I hate that I can’t eat a lot of food. I wish I could have ten meals a day. When I was younger, I’d eat everything, chicken, wings and ice cream Sundays. Sounds like me watching football on Sunday. So one day when my friends Adam Saydlor asked me how old are you now?

And I said twenty seven. He goes, how you eat is all about to change, you told me when he was twenty seven, his metabolism shifted. He’s like, joy what you’re doing right now, because it’s not gonna last. And all of a sudden I looked up and I was like, do I have a gut? Now?

I can’t eat anything. I ended up getting diabetes, so I can’t have sure he drinks either. The Guardian took a look at people who impersonate famous people. Tim Oliver dresses up as David Brent from the UK Office Brent Surrell as Gareth Keenan, also from the UK Office. The Guardian writes, I’m waiting for David Brent outside a mall.

Suddenly there’s the star of the office, stretting through the exhibition center, suited, booted, goatet and ready to rock. Shoot, he says, while making a gun with his fingers before doing an awkward shuffle of his tie. Look closer, though, and it’s clear that this isn’t Brent as performed by Ricky Gervaiz, but by someone else entirely. Tim Oliver has been performing as David Brent for twenty years now. Before that, he ran an events business in Sussex, but his face was calling out for a new career.

Tim says, it took me a good eighteen months to come to terms with the fact that I looked like him, like this weird, awkward boss who just wanted to be loved. People started coming up to me all the time, so I just thought it’d be criminal not to do something with it. He took some photos, sent them to a lookalike agency and booked a gig. He said, I was there for about three hours. It’s just mucking him out.

I thought to myself, that was a lot of fun and the easiest money I’ve ever made. He’s hugely in demand for birthdays, bachelor parties, corporate events. He not only looks like David Brant, he has his mannerisms and lines, and his voice is pitched perfect. He explains, I ripped audio off the DVDs and played it in my car everywhere I went. I drummed it in to myself.

People that have never met me before are always ask is that your real voice? Sometimes it’s kind of like I’ve lost my own identity. Maybe I’m not Tim anymore. I’ve become David Brent. It’s kept me going for twenty years, and I’ve got four kids, a nice car, and nice house.

Fortunately, he is able to turn his other persona off. He says, when the ties on, I’m in Brint mode and ready to work. But a minute the tie comes off, I’m back to being Tim. When Brent, it’s like I’m wearing armor. It’s almost like a superhero suit.

If I make a mistake, it’s fine because that’s what Brent would do. He often gets booked and teamed up with Brett, who plays Gareth. If we get booked for a gig in a pub, it could take half an hour just to get through the room. Oh, this gets even more fun. Oliver says, I was asked to do a porno.

Someone wanted to make an office the porno film. He passed. That’s got to exist, right. I would look it up for you and tell you, But then my wife’s gonna be like, wait, what are you doing in the basement, And I’ll be like, I’m recording my comedy podcast, what do you think of doing?

And then I’ll have to explain why I googled office porn.

You can do your own research. Fake David Brent said, I did a wake once, which was my first and last. These young lads convinced me to do it for their maid who had died. My job was to go up to the DJ, grab the mic and sing free Love Freeway. So I go up in the family are just staring at me.

I took the mic off the DJ and went straight into pretty Girl in the Hood of a Cadillac Yeah, and started singing. Then I did a mic drop. It was horrible. I will never do another one. You’re at a wake, that’s not meant to be.

Wow, that’s amazing. Enjoy the Golden Globes and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy, and he was. Jerry Seinfeld and Ronny Chieng had a discussion printed in Interview magazine, and Jerry said, my daughter is writing comedy and I’m teaching her wherever I can. But the main thing I teach is, in this life, you must always please the comedy gods. They dislike arrogance and ego.

They will smite you if you display too much arrogance, but they will also smite you quickly and seriously if you’re not bold when the opportunity to presents itself. I actually believe in this and we watch it happen every single day. Anytime you want somebody do a set, the gods right there to smack them. You don’t question them, you don’t argue with them. You accept their judgments.

If you don’t supply what they demand, which has laughs, they will make you sorry. It’s like a dog and food. Your dog is the most wonderful pet. Stop feeding them and see how long that lasts. New topic.

Ronnie said, your generation created the infrastructure of comedy, and in many ways, you guys were the pioneers of stand up comedy. Did you age into a different perspective. Does your audience age with you? Jerry, I’ve seen many comics girre oled, I mean, all the guys I love in the sixties. They were old, but ages a little different now than it was in those days.

Forty was pretty old. So it comes down again to what the comedy gods require. You. Love must be pure. Yeah, the money’s great, famous, great, but they’ll catch you at that if you try to pull that crap on them.

They’re the gods. They see everything. Ronnie, Are you trying to convert me to Judaism? Is that what this is? Jerry?

Sure, But Jews don’t look for converts. That’s why they’re so few of us. We sell everything else really well, Ronnie. Part of me loving stand up comedy is realizing that it’s separate from show business or Hollywood. At least I used to want Hollywood to give me flowers.

I wanted to be acknowledged that I had a good set, or I sawed out this venue. But the more I do comedy, the more I’m like, nah, I’m glad they don’t know what I just did. I’m surprised when people know that I do stand up comedy. I’m genuinely shocked, Jerry. That’s funny.

Stand up comedy is an island off the coast of show business. The money we got paid last night versus the money Netflix basis, it’s connected. I know it’s not amusing interesting how it happened, but it happened twenty fifteen when Chris Rock was offered a big chunk of dough to do an election stand up special. What she couldn’t do? That offers when everything flipped, Then all of a sudden, for the first time, it’s like, are we important, Ronnie?

You didn’t feel that way with the sattires like John Stewart. Jerry, No, you were still in exile. Who’s invited in a side dish that everybody likes? But it’s not important, Ronnie. But that’s what makes it cool, right.

It took me so long to realize that what makes stand up cool was being the side dish, being outside of it. Like you said in your famous award winning speech, we don’t want to win awards. We want to be in the back of the room making fun of people getting awards. Jerry, I would like to talk a little bit about some of the profanity you use. What’s your philosophy with that, Ronnie, I don’t want to rely on it.

Are we talking about swear words or just profane premises? Jerry profane premises. I don’t mind. I shouldn’t even be doing this in his interview. It’s only because your language skills are so exceptional.

This is my personal opinion. Feel free to reject it. But the reason we’re paying to see Ronny Chieng is because he talks better than us. Some comedians say, well, I like to use words to help people talk. If I want to hear people talk, I don’t need to pay for that.

I get his open the window. It does hit me sometimes when I see you use certain words, I go, Ronnie could get that same laugh without that word. Not because the words are offensive, because they’re not, but because it’s an opportunity to demonstrate your superior skill level. That’s the reason I bring it up, Ronnie. I appreciate that.

But you’ve given my mother fuel for the rest of her life. She’s been telling me you gotta be more like Seinfeld. He has unswear. Now Seinfeld is literally telling me to stop swearing. Jerry.

My mother wanted me to have more sexual material, Jane, are you serious? Jerry, I’m serious in her eighties and nineties should complain, why don’t you ever talk about sex? Isn’t that funny? Ronnie? Honestly, if your punchline is swearing, I think that’s when it gets a little lazy.

But pushing herself to not swear at all is a degree of difficulty. Sometimes the economy of words makes it so that it’s the easiest way to get across a certain emotion. But I hear you, Tom Papa has told WTP. When I was a kid, the first comedy albums I ever heard were George Coroland and Steve Martin. I was in like seventh grade and I heard Class Clown and Let’s Get Small.

In one week, my friend’s older brothers had these albums that it seemed mysterious, and we went in and heard these albums. I was always funny as a kid, but it dawn on me that week, Oh, there’s a job out there for grown ups to continue being funny. He launched his career in nineteen ninety three New York City, where he met Jerry Seinfeld. Tom says that was after his TV show when he came back to the clubs and he saw me on stage. I thought it was funny.

I just grabbed on his coattails and didn’t let go. Sabash in Maniscalco was about keeping the intimacy of a comedy show in a big arena. Sebastian said, I mean we grew up in a world where were always looking to screen. Anyway, I’ve noticed even in my own shows that people in the third row were looking up at the screen even though I’m right there. So screens are very important as well as lighting.

I’ve also tweaked the lighting where it brings a little bit more of a dramatic look to the stage, so it’s almost as if we’re shooting a special every night in terms of the way the arena is lit. Really took some time and trying to make this more an event than it’s been in the past. I like my shows in the past, and I’ve had pirotechnics and smoke when i come on stage. It’s not like I’m new to production. But this was looked at from a different angle.

So yeah, it’s been along road. It hasn’t been easy. You don’t become the CEO overnight. You got to work your way up. I started waiting tables at the four Seasons hotels for seven years when I was doing stand up comedy, and here we are playing Dilms twenty five years later.

I had some rat tat tat with weird Al from Interview magazine. Where do you dance? Aw only on stage when looking like an idiot? Is somewhat appropriate? Interview?

The world is Ending? What are you wearing? Al? Obviously not clean underwear? Interview?

What eighties fashioned tran? Do you want to make a comeback? Ol? Parachute pants? Interview?

What song is playing in Heaven? Al? Never Going to give You Up? By Rick Astley? Interview Do you have any rules for life?

Al? Do you want to others and then just keep doing it even if they beg you to stop. The Columbus Underground caught up with Mike Kaplan. They said they were listening to a set he did for dry Bar Live from the Universe. What struck them was my Champlan’s pacing.

There wasn’t a wasted moment. How do you purchase pacing, Mike Kamplan? Mike says, well, there’s a story attached to that particular set. I hope it doesn’t take anything away from your praise. Dry Bar is a company based in Utah.

The recordings are made of venue that doesn’t have alcohol. It’s in a bar. But the main deal about the esthetic is that it’s essentially clean comedy of a specific type. There were very specific guidelines and topics they prefer to avoid, if I remember correctly, they don’t even love it when comedians speak meanly about their spouses. I think we settled on about an hour’s worth of material that we felt was potentially perfect for it.

Out of the five hours of material we had, they only asked for half an hour. Over the course of the next month, I decided which half hour would be and essentially constructed it, so the whole piece was essentially like a cleanest and greatest hits on my past decade and a half of work. I decided, Okay, I think this joke would be a good ending, and I think this would be a good beginning, and then we group the other jokes. There may be a few vegan jokes, few jokes about relationships, few jokes about movies. It was a fun thing to put together in a different way than creating a new hour from scratch.

It was like old costumes that I was trying on again and being like, oh, I can stretch this one out again and find new youth in it. It’s really funny to revisit a joke I wrote fifteen years ago, because sometimes it seems like it was almost written by a different person in a way. With respect to how I achieved my cadence, I guess the simple answer is I don’t know. I did a show the other night in New York and it was a French name Matthew in the audience with a French accent. I asked him a question and I forget what I asked, and he said, if you want me to understand, please speak slower.

And I was like, this might not be for you then, not yet. I said that as a joke, but I probably think I kept in mind that he was there and it became a fun item to return to check in with him. I got a lot of notes early in my career to slow down, and I understand on different nights of different material for different crowds, I’m not always going at the same clip. I wasn’t the special. We’re talking about fascinating stuff there, right.

Aaron Chen was on Vulture’s list of the comedians You Should and Will Know Comedy Opinion You’ll die on. I really believe that the innovative creativity of TikTok and other more unconventional platforms and ways of entertaining should be just as valid as the conventional modes. Great comedy could be found anywhere. In the beginning of my TikTok journey, there were some people who suggest that I step out of my character for videos. I’m so glad I stuck to my gut and didn’t.

I’m so grateful that my platform is, for the most part, this totally fictional world for me to play in. Best advice was from my mom, who told me to keep pursuing comedy because, according to her, you have to be in comedy because you can’t help it be funny. That’s why I’ve been laughing you since you were little. Oh all right, fri end of the show. John Marco Cirezi was also on the list of the comedians who should and will know.

His answers were so long, I’ve split this up into like five of these. Check back in with John Marco. He says, what I’ve learned is nothing can replicate saying a joke, chunk story out loud in front of a full audience, even if I haven’t come up with an alternative line, even if it means I’m gonna bomb or worse, get a soft laugh, I just have to keep saying until something deep in my subconscious screams out a better version loudly enough for me to hear. Embarrassment is unfortunately one of the best tools for making comedy. I’ve also tried to fine tune the ability to go Okay, that might be funny, but who gives an f for?

Yeah, this joke is in his fine tune, but it’s clearly what you want to be talking about right now. I tend to write far more than I would ever actually need stand up wise, and I’m trying to be more purposeful in what I choose to spend my creative time on, because oftentimes writing a new joke is just an excuse to not finish the old one. They got a little bit into money, and he said I should mention that I really wish I could make money off Twitter. I know it wouldn’t be much, but boy, I want the ability to post long videos and make money off tweets. Let that speak to just how much I hate Elon Musk and how full of bleep I am acting like any of these other social media giants are not equally contributing to the downfall of civilization and meaningful art.

I don’t know what’s worse, trying to understand algorithms or having your entire career depending on whoever the hell book The Tonight Show starring Jenny Carson. I would imagine one’s opinion would entirely depend on if that guy liked you or not, Considering I haven’t gotten on the Tonight Show now, I’m fine with the former. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like to see.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, you’re excited. It’s Jason Kelsey’s Late Night Show debut tonight at one am, which technically is tomorrow, but ESPN doesn’t want you to talk about that. We’re gonna pretend it’s Friday night, not Saturday morning. Who cares, John, They call it Late Night begains its five week run Friday nights at one am Saturday on ESPN, taped in front of a live audience in Philadelphia.

Topics discuss will be mainly football and the weekend’s games. However, he plans to have guests from all walks of life. Whitney Cummings not wasting any time in the new year. The second leg of her Big Baby North American tour kicks off today in Austin. She will also play cities such as Tampa, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Napa, Milwaukee, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Knoxville.

She’ll also do four cities at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Canada. Boy, they’re booking quite the lineup. Fans can expect her to take on the chaos of personal growth, owning her mistakes, and her reflections on raising a son Whitney told Deadline, I’m so psyched to add more cities to the Big Baby Tour, especially since my Big Baby loves to tour. I used to think having a kid would be the end of my comedy and touring career, so it’s been a miracle to see so many people coming out to hear what I have to say about motherhood and being so excited for me to finally grow up and start building a family after sharing so much about my crappy childhood and relationship mistakes.

Also, I’m trying to leave California, so each city I go to, I’m also audition…

Two shows tonight at Rogan’s Club, the comedy Mothership seven and ten, also two tomorrow, and an eight o’clock show on Sunday night. Jim Jeffrey spoke to Rolling Stone about his chunk about America’s need for gun control. Jim estimates that that sixteen minute chunk has been seen ten times more than anything else he’s ever done. Some people don’t appreciate the bit, and he’s gotten death threats. Jim says, yeah, you get those, But if someone’s going to kill you or they’re not going to send you a threat.

Every time I get a death threat, I feel a little safer, you know what I mean. Could there be a weaker action in this world than somebody on social media sending you a death threat. Hay then goes on to say, like, if insert famous people here haven’t been assassinated, why would I be first. I’ve got to be low on the list, Like you’re kidding me, right, They’re gonna go Gandhi, Martin Luther King, JFK, John Lennon, Jim Jeffries come on now. And he says, I do feel like I’m this comedian who’s both loved and hated by the left and the right.

Anthony Jelinik talks who cracked about cutting up clips so the way the younger comedians do, and he says, I understand why the clips are popular and why they help. YouTube used to be the thing. Now it really is TikTok and Instagram. Everybody says, I love your clips, and I think I’m uniquely suited to that format. Just through sheer luck, where you can use all my back catalog.

Even though I haven’t been doing anything but touring for the past two years, I’ve had a social media team that’s gotten me close to a million followers on those platforms, just through old things. I don’t know what i’d be doing if I was starting out today. I don’t know if I would try to get on more multimedia, maybe try to write more. Maybe I would have started my own podcast earlier on. I just always wanted to be a stand up and now it seems like the top thing you can do in stand up comedy isn’t stand up, it’s podcasting.

Podcasting is its own TV show. Now it’s gotten a little weird for my taste. It used to be we’re just hanging out fing around. Who’s listening to this? We have no idea.

Now it’s about money. Now it’s like, if I show up and I’m not in a good mood on your podcast, I’m costing you money. If I say something bad about your podcast, it’s affecting someone’s bag. I think that’s changed the art. I think talking trash about other comedians comics being like that joke sucks.

What’s what I can do. It’s like in hip hop, where everybody’s feuding all the time. It’s good for the art form, whereas in stand up now there’s so much money in podcasting. You can’t say anything otherwise you’re a hater or you’re jealous of someone’s Patreon, which is insane to me that that’s even a real thing. Boy, that’s a really interesting answer there, right, Justin and I gay.

If you told me that I’d become a stand up comedian, it would be my greatest dream. I don’t have a boss. I don’t have to listen to anyone, but if they’re like you better pay attention to what Joe Robin thinks and what he says, because Joe Rogan can really help your career. I’d be like, what are you talking about? Joe’s fine, but I don’t want to live my life in a way that I have to worry about what he thinks.

I’m sure is a bleep and not gonna move to the city he lives in. I’m embarrassed by what a lot of comedy has become. John Laney told you that when John first told his father want to be a comedian, a dad’s response was best case scenario. You’re like, what, Steve Martin? Is there something wrong with being Steve Martin?

Dude’s had a Hall of Fame career, Melani said. Dad has since chilled. I think he enjoyed seeing Oh It’s a thing people do respect, which was fun for me to watch. I didn’t need them to suddenly become stage parents will love everything I say or even think that comedy is important. I don’t need that, Ali said.

He talked to the Philly Tribune. He works out of Houston. He said, I’ve always been proactive and independent, which is why I chose to live in Houston. The entertainment industry here is not as robust as in other cities, so our artists are primarily independent. We have a strong do it yourself mentality among our R and B singers, actors, actresses, rappers, and entrepreneurs.

We do things ourselves because we know if we don’t, we’ll always be waiting for someone else to give us a chance. I’ve been a stand up comic for twenty seven years. I wasn’t initially involved in social media because I began my career before it became a major platform. Back then, comics focused on getting TV shows or finding someone else produced their specials. I did a network special with Comedy Central, but they owned it and controlled it.

They released it whenever they want, which felt like leaving my career in someone else’s hands. As I prepare the content for my special, I began saving money and setting it aside. Simultaneously. I appeared on various TV shows, but a strategically avoided burning the material I intended to use for the special. Instead, I carefully crafted my performance within the context of each show, ensuring I would retain ownership of the specific content.

I’m hearing more and more of that from comedians, and good for them, right, I mean, we have ways to distribute things. You could be some idiot and abasement talking about comedians and you can self distribute. It’s kind of cool. This is interesting, he says. In my early work, I used physicality, but I always wanted to express a story through movement.

As my artistic perspective evolved, I learned how important it was to understand the essence of my topics. Rather than focus on apparent similarities, I attempted to identify the distinguishing characteristics that set people apart. Take Richard Pryor, for example. Many people appreciate him for his profanity and frank comedy, but that isn’t the real meeting of his work. Prior is comedy delves deeper presenting perspectives on life and the transformational power of personal experience.

His debut film, Jojo n Answer, was a reflection of his personal life, while Paul Mooney and Des White brought their own narrative styles to the stage. I carefully consider the perspective from which I tell a story, the underlying message, and the reasons for sharing it when constructing it. For me, everything revolves around considering the responsibility I bear for something. Halfd dot Com spoke to Jim Brewer. Jim says his comedy really started in sixth grade.

That’s when it really started. I wrote sketch. We did a talent show, and I made everybody howl. He called it his first bug for show business. I started writing material and visualizing and following fellow Long Islander Eddie Murphy.

By the end of high school, he was the class clown. He says. Landing Saturday Night Live was painful for him, as he feels he wasn’t wanted by the show’s management, but by NBC executives at a time when the show was not spiking in the ratings. Once he was on SNL, he learned about the power of a great sketch, saying Molly Shannon did that sketch Mary Kathyn Gallagher, and she murdered. I never saw an audience react like that from a sketch.

That’s what I wanted to do, not just some half ass sketches. He says he found his foot on the show by accident. He was talking to an intern and Brewer says, Harry me messing around to doing my Joe peshe in the break room and the intern said, hey, dude, you gotta do Joe Peschi on update, and that led to the skit the Joe Peschi Show that my opinion, saved my job. That’s what saved me from that moment on Lauren Michaels told Brewer, you have to do something that people know you, so that they know it’s you doing Joe Peshi. When the SNL gig came to an end, Lauren told Brewer, you’re too nice for this industry.

If you ever need a producer, I’m your guy. As for the future, Jim says, even if he doesn’t do a full blown tour, he can’t see himself not going on a stage. Jim says, I got to see Richard Pryor shortly before he was a mobile from MS and it was inspiring in one of the most powerful comedic moments. I always looked for him, and I went to the comedy store one night, literally hoping he’d be there, after going there every night when he was in La. On the very last night, magic happened.

I was getting ready to leave, and all of a sudden they said, please welcome special guest, mister Richard Pryor. There was a whole bunch of people helping him walk, holding him up. They brought him onto the stage. He talked slowly, but he was so funny. I can remember his it was yesterday.

I was talking about the most painful stuff in his life, but he was putting it out there and was powerful and amazing. To this day. It was such a powerful moment. I want to do that pretty much right to the end. And that’s your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Today on Netflix. Kunk on Life, I Love Phil and Meena Kunk as played by Diane Morgan. Kunk on Life, We’ll see Philamina tackle some of the most complex concepts have ever been discovered, including quantum physics, existentialism, nihilism, hedonism, and at least four other isms, as well as exploring subjects from the Big Bang to biology, morals to meditation, and art to artificial intelligence. In her search for answers, she’ll also examine some of history’s foremost thinkers and groundbreaking creatives, including whoever came up with those signs and kitchens that say Live, Laugh, Love.

Along the way, she’ll be meeting leading experts and academics and not letting them leave until she’s gotten to the bottom of such questions as what is life? Why are we bothering to find out? And when’s lunch. Morgan first introduced Kunk on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a British series in which there of Black Mirror delivered his comedic takes on the week’s news. On that program, she did Moments of Wonder segments tackling topics like time, philosophy, and art.

You may know her from The Wonderful Kunk on Earth, which was on Netflix.

Also out today, Dennis Leary’s going Dutch.

Everything about this just makes me go why, just why? But I guess someone will watch this. Dennis Leary stars as US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn, who’s tasked with reinstating discipline and professionalism among his group of military misfits. You see Colonel Quinn, after an unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. He now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, weapons, or tactical purpose.

Instead, it has a Michelin star level commissary, a top notch bowling alley, a lavender infused laundry, and the best from Mangerie in the US Army Danny Pouty, who should just go to NBC and go to Dan Harmon and be like, can we just do an abed spin off? Because this guy is talented but nothing is landing for him. He’s in that Rob Mcalenny. What’s the Apple Show about? The video games?

I can’t quest it’s got a question. It’s not good. I mean, I love it’s always sunny. My son and I sit there trying to watch the mcal anything that Danny Pooty’s in, and it’s like it’s actually unwatchable. We get mad at exists.

We can’t even struggle through it. Well, Danny’s on this thing. He plays Executive Officer Major Abraham Shaw, the colonel’s executive officer and codependant right hand man. Oh.

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Also in this thing Catherine Tate.

Remember she showed up on the office and we didn’t like her. What does she play? Katscha Vanderhoff, a smart, attractive Dutch woman with a PhD and intersectional feminism, the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and the local brothel owner. Oh wait, and because it’s a sitcom, the base’s previous interim leader happens to be Dennis Leary’s character’s extrage daughter going Dutch on Fox tonight. Are you excited?

You can hear? How excited? I am? Conne asked asked Ronnie about his travel. What do you want in a vacation, Ronnie ching?

Ronnie says, when I go on vacation, I don’t like to do touristy things. I tend to go to places I’m somewhat familiar with, like Hawaii, where I feel like a local. There are Japan. My wife and I go almost every year, so we ever spots. Japan is such a great mental reset you can’t help but leave kind of refreshed.

I like to go to Singapore because my mom is there. I love the food and I know how to get around. I also feel like a local in Australia because I live there so long, and same with Malaysia. I just like to go at a slow pace. It’s Singapore.

He goes to his usual spots. I actually have a food guide on Apple Maps, so if people want to see it, they can log into that. I usually go to Tongue a Eating house and get the ted Tarik, which is a milte. It’s one of the few places in Singapore where you can still get it made from scratch. They have a really good Kaya toast, which is egg and coconut jam and coffee pork ribs.

For long flights, he makes sure he has something and download it to his phone. Something relaxing. It’ll literally beat Tibetan singing bowl music or Rainfall or Apple Sleep music, which is just relaxing brain music with no words. That’s my key to surviving travel, having that kind of stuff on your phone ready to go. I’ve been finding a lot of joy in getting a newspaper at the airport or bringing a physical book with me.

I’m very lucky. I’ve gotten back into reading. A couple months ago. I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and that got me back into it. Reading a physical book really helps.

The other thing I do is download this video game emulator that looks like a mini game boy with all these video games when I was a kid that I never actually got to play, so Nintendo or Sega Games. And my wife got me in a Korean face mask. Putting a Korean face mask on while you’re flying as great inconsidered people, I mean that’s nothing new, but people feeling entitled when they’re traveling as my pet peeve, as though their problems supersede everyone else’s. People WI lack of consideration really irritate me. His favorite cities do stand up.

New York is obviously great. It always feels like a hometown crowd. San Francisco is greater Seattle. If you want the more unexpectedly great comedy cities. There’s Washington, d C.

Or Madison, Wisconsin, or Denver or Minneapolis. Nobody really knows why, but we all know which are the great comedy cities. It’s a combination of a comedy savvy crowd who loved to attend live performances and the venue is are they up for comedy? Do they get it? Some people think can just do comedy anywhere, but the venue is such an important part of it.

The height of the ceiling has to be low. It’s intimate. A high ceiling changes the dynamic of the gate completely. The culture and venues combined and it becomes a really cool comedy city and the word spreads and all the comedians love going through these cities. NPR asked Jimmy O Yang.

You know, because you’re interviewing Jimmio Yang, you can ask him anything. They asked him. Does the idea of an infinite universe excite or scare you? Yang says, Infinity scares me. If it’s something you put a number on, it could be a billion, trillion, whatever, it’s fine.

I can wrap my brain around it. Infinity is something I can’t wrap my brain around. And I think it’s why me and probably a lot of people are so afraid of death, because you’re gone forever. If you’re telling me I’m dead for a trillion billion million years and then I get to come back for one day, and then I’m dead again, and then I’m fine. But if I’m gone forever, very scary.

So infinite universe is a little scary. Anything infinite is scary. I look at the ocean at night, I get a little scared. It seems so vast and infinite. Yet people pay extra for ocean views.

I’ll pay extra to not look at the ocean. Give me the city view. I’ll look at your parking lot, your utility closet, you know. Give me a room with no winds. I’m not paying extra to see the cliff of my death into a vastness of infinity.

All right, one more, it’s light off the holiday. The La Times asked Jim Gaffigan, Hey, add jehone, your a comedic voice, and why do you think your brand of comedy is important these days? Jim said it joke is a surprise, and irreverence is kind of a short cut to that surprise. And by the way, we all love it. But I kind of nerd out when talking about the idea that there’s an aftertaste of comedy.

We have that really kind of bitchy friend that makes us laugh, that’s a little mean, but then afterward we feel a little guilty because you know, they went too far. He shouldn’t have laughed and what they said. I believe there’s an aftertaste, so you can take that short term approach. I think some comedians just do what they have to do. Irreverence is also something when it’s not in my wheelhouse.

Some comics are really good at it and that’s their thing. I believe you can be respectful and highlight some important stories and also present the humor of it. Jermarco Ciresi was on Vulture’s list of comedians you should and Will know. He spoke at length that I’ve had to cut this into like five different parts. But this time of year it’s been good for patting out episodes, and I’ve saved this for a rainy day, and it’s raining today.

What Comedy Opinion Hill, which ren Marco die on, He says it is simply bad manners if you’re not the host to do excessive crowd work on a showcase show. If magic strikes, go for it. All rules are meant to be broken, and that’s particularly true in comedy. But talking to the audience for a prolonged period of time changes the relationship between the audience and performer in a way that’s a disservice to the other comedians on the lineup. It’s not even a matter of this is bad comedy.

It’s just rude and breaks the presumably agreed upon premise that this is a venue for on stage joke telling. Gather your own audience if you want to farm for clips. Wow, he’s right. Oh that’s said comics complaining about comedians doing crowd work on their own shows. Can I don’t even know how to clean this up?

Buzz off? Let’s say, buzz off, I can’t even explain what he wanted you to do. He wanted you to eat something and know not that something else. No, I don’t think audience has become more trained to heckle or interact because of CrowdWork clips. If someone wants to ruin a comedy show, it can’t always be stopped.

It’s not Matt Reich’s wault. We’ve all seen street performers random crowds of people who aren’t even looking for a show into being an attentive audience. You certainly can do that while elevated on a stage with an amplification device. One more, we need to bring back bullying, not just random acts of cruelty, but like the story of Patresa Neal throwing a phone book on stage while Kevin Art was performing and saying something along the lines of find one person in there who thinks you’re funny. Obviously it can go too far, and the boys club nature of stand up led to bullying that was a sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, ablest, ETCeteras all articulated further, we need to cultivate inclusive bullying that holds comedians accountable for crappy work.

Art forms need filters, and anyone could look at the average quality of comedy spuscles right now to see that our filters have been turned off. And not because everyone’s nicer now, it’s because we all want to be followed back on Instagram. So crap talk criticized, call someone a hack, say some jokes so lazy. I don’t give an f if you’re going to be a piece of crap, at least do it in a way we haven’t seen before, because nobody is being made into a better artist. Buy in.

Everyone on our lineup was fire story post hoping they’ll reshare and I get a new follower out of it. Bs. The more I write this, the more I feel like I’m coming off like an a hole, and I am. But there was something I gained from working at LOL Comedy Club and occasionally having an older comic boom me from the back of the room where they’re looking out for me and trying to steer me in the right direction. Absolutely, not booming your coworker is psychotic behavior, but art is psychotic, and the pressure to not get booed made me nervous to get on stage on the right ways.

There’s still more to this. I’ll you pick away at it, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoin the program, please tell a friend about it. They’d like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works.

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