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Caloroga Shark Media at the home Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sam Morrell sold the story to WAMC about Dave Attell, who’s one of Sam’s favorite comics ever, if not his favorite comic of all time. Sam remembers opening for a Tell a long time ago at Terrytown Music Hall and Dave would bring me out on stage. You know, it’s so intimidate and go out there and riffle them at the end, because you literally feel like you’re up there with Obi Wan Kenobi. Like nothing he say is going to be as good.

But I remember we’re driving back in the car, like he’s the only one who doesn’t realize he’s great, Like every comic thinks he’s great, and obviously so many fans. But we’re driving a car back and he was like, I’m a hack. I suck And I was like, dude, we all think you’re the best, and he goes, well, I’m better than you guys. The PGA Tour Instagram account has been sharing photos and videos of Nate Brigetzi out on the golf course. Nate said, this is how the pros do it.

They unpackaged the glove on the first tee, I just bought these gloves this morning. He gave the empty glove package to Rory McElroy and asked Rory to hold my trash. Nate teed up for the first soult and said it should be said that I was asleep twenty minutes ago. In the next video, Nate asked Rory McElroy what times you get down here. Rory says five forty five am.

Warm went off at five. Nate couldn’t believe it and said, oh, but tomorrow you have like a one pm. Rory said, yeah, late tea time. Yeah, Nate could have done a late tea time today, but no, he chose with me. He goes, let’s do seven ten am.

I was like, why can’t I come on with you tomorrow to the tournament at Won. So they’d see off. They hedge their balls and it turns out Nate was in the bunker. Nate says, I’ll be honest with you, that one might not be mine. It says Nate Brighetzi, but there could have been another.

Nate hits the ball again. It winds up to the next bunker and he chokes him. Keeping the fairwayes pristine for the tournament tomorrow. The filmer asked Nate how many warm up swings did you have? Nate said, I mean you saw the first swing, so that was it.

There’s never a warm up, to be honest. Terry grow said that great interview with Bill Burr last week. Bill talked about his hair and said, the greatest thing I ever had at me. So I went ball for my acting career because then I shaved my head. Look a psycho idiot that I am back in the day when I actually had hair.

You know, Hollywood, you know they talk about you just racism is sexism. It goes beyond that. Like they even divide up redheads. They were like rules about redheads. I was in the redhead drawer.

Okay, I was in the Opie Ron Howard Howdy duty drawer, Brooks Laine. I didn’t get the gun, I didn’t win the fight. I didn’t get the girl. I was a mugging victim. I was just there for the cool guy.

And I was saying I used to do joking my act, like I’m not the hero of the action movie. Like I was the nerd in the van when Tom Cruise is going, you gotta give me more time and I would be in front of the keyboard. All right, I’ll try click click, click, and you know you could totally see Bill Burr in the Simon peg roll. All right, what’s going on with Kevin Hart and Mike Epps. Kevin Hort’s entertainment production company is planning for the w NBA All Star twenty twenty five events that will be in Indianapolis.

President and CEO of Heartbeat Entertainment Kevin Hart told the Breakfast Club radio show, it’s an opportunity for our company. Our company is a creative engine for any resource that allows us to beat the pacers. We’ll use that as an example once we do it well, and from that example, I’ll go to other fing NBA teams or the NBA in general and’ll be like, I’m looking to be a better partner for the NBA. How do we better tell stories for your brand? How do we better promote market you?

How can we amplify and activate differently? These are words in the business the companies desperately want to hear from potential partners. Now. A few days earlier, Mike Epps had been on the Breakfast Club. They asked him about the Kevin Hart deal.

Epseid he should have called me hmm. You see, Mike Epps had a high profile during the twenty twenty five NBA All Star Weekend, which Indianapolis hostedpset, it’s politics. There’s a lot of times people that are not in business like comedy, or people who aren’t in the rap game that run entities. They don’t know. They think me and Kevin are sitting in the backyard drinking iced tea together.

So you really can’t get upset about it. It’s enough for everybody. Kevin’s put on enough young comics and people, so I don’t get slighted about it. Kevin Hart is stressing that his company will run the show in Indianapolis, not Kevin Hart, the seventy six ers fan, or it said, it’s not a Kevin Hart thing. Everybody as seems that Kevin Hart is the driving factor of the source.

It’s the entity. The entity has to do things outside of me for an entity to thrive, that’s a fact. Whether it’s the Pacers, I got business with the Falcons, I got business with the Eagles. Our business thrives when we can implement ourselves in places to create where elevant to brand a company, an entity and activation, whether it be live entertainment, storytelling, at etc. Will Heartbeat reach out to Mike Apps, Kevin Hart said, absolutely, if All Star Weekend’s coming up and we’re like, okay, we have ideas to serve a bigger process that people can probably gravitate towards a little different from when they done in the past.

Absolutely, does Mike want to bring in and be responsible for comedy from Indiana. Absolutely, that’s where you tap in. All we at Heartbeat are servicing the hub. We’re the hub. Now.

It’s our jobs go and grab everybody and make this thing underneath our hub better. You desperately need that. So in this case, hell yeah, Mike. Come on, Mike. By the way, this is your city.

What’s dope about the city that we can do with you? What do you want to do? How do we help you? That’s partnership right now. The priority between me and Mike is figuring out the thing we’re going to do together.

And I think now having that as a priority, his fans will be happy. My fans, I think will be happy. I think it’d be dope for the culture when we do it. Tom Poppa talk to Seattle Magazine the subject of the news. Tom Papas said, here’s the big stuff we can’t get away from.

Like you just want to look at your phone for something fun and you’re innundated with bad news. Your friends are now your news source. Even if you swore off the news, your friends will pop up and tell you. It’s like all my friends have become wolf Blitzer. And there’s small stuff like people watching videos on their phones in public without any kind of ear butter headphones.

Oh yeah, we need to throw pies at those people. I still can’t believe somebody will stand an introm new boarding a plane and watch a video on full volume Pies everybody. We need to throw pies, you know, like soft shaving cream pies on a paper plate. I don’t want to injure anybody, but people need to get a message here. Airports are even making announcements about it now, and you know the bad behavior has gotten worse when they start to include it in the run down before takeoff.

Jennifer Coolidge told the story about Pete Davidson, two people they work together during the filming of Riff Raff. Jennifer said, I remember one day was freezing and I was on a house where filmed, and then this Rolls Royce bulls up and I was like, who’s that. It must be the owner of the house, right, and it’s Pete Davidson in his Rolls Royce. The car didn’t quite go with the neighborhood or any of the experience. But then I thought, he’s doing his own thing.

I was never as interesting as that, you know, showing up at a Rolls Royce in the middle of winter at some job. It’s a very fancy car to roll up in the dead of winter. You can’t tonight. It’s a crafty way for the young comedian to impress the star studied ensemble. There’s everything wrong with the person doing their own thing and traveling around in style.

Brian posain teld The Sonoma’s Son. In comedy, it takes a while to find your own voice. You start out acting like other comedians. The comedians I love, which Steve Martin and Robin Williams. I’d listen to the records stand up recorded right across the bridge in San Francisco.

They were my comedians, connected and local, using references that I understood that it became obsessed with all the eighties movies, the Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma, where Brian was playing was different. Then the same movie would stay in the theater for weeks, and I’d go watch them all more than once. Late Nighter was excerpting from Joe Piskovo’s book, in which Joe Piscopal tells a story about his Frank Sinatra impression. Joe explains, I’d record Sinatra from TV on a VHS tape, then I’d record the audio onto a cassette tape. Between the video and the audio at my source material, I’d drive around in my Ford Fairmont great detail there, listening to the cassette and repeating it over and over.

When you do that, you just start to catch it or you don’t. It was trial and error. Piscopo points out that Sinatra’s accentes Hoboken, North Jersey, which is distinct from the rest of Jersey. Joe said he’d loosen it up a little bit and make it a little more stre Eventually, Joe winds up at SNL they want him to do the impression. Joe sen Sinatra letter that said something like this, mister Sinatra, I send this with the greatest of respect.

You’re my hero, like my father’s my hero. He told me you’re the number one entertainer of all time. I mean no offense when I do the impersonations. They’re done with complete respect, first and foremost. If you find them would be offensive anyway, I’ll cease it and assist immediately.

Joe said he never heard anything. All right, this is cool And starting tomorrow, Vulture has a show called Guaranteed, a new bi weekly comedy show at LA’s Lyric Hyperion Theater, hosted by two of twenty twenty four’s comedians you should and will know, Mandal and Skyler Higley. Nice lineup tomorrow. The first show Emily Catalano, she was on this very program, naomiic Peragin, Yes, Heer Lester, and Robin Tran. A few weeks back in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, one of the main crew over there, Dylan posted question for both of you, the other person being Mike Chishom from the Letterman podcast.

Of the group of the late night host since ledone Letterman who be remembered as the best. I think it’s Conan or John Stewart. I was busy that particular day and said, you know, I’m gonna hold this in cycle. Back to it when I have a minute to think. Mike from the Letterman podcast wrote to me, Conan was really the third man in and he is a different place in history than Strike Force five does.

He’s in a league with Letterman Carson as far as I’m concerned, Yeah, I feel the same way. You know, clearly Conan taking over for Letterman and Letterman going to eleven thirty. So there’s the Johnny Carson generation. You know, if you want to throw Decavot in there, if you wanna throw or Senio shooting Star show in there, you could. Uh, then there’s Letterman leto and Conan’s at twelve thirty there.

But I feel like Conan is a half generation later, Like if we were seniors, he’s a freshman, So I would kind of put him in his own generation. As for the current group, Mike wrote, Colbert has a classiness about him that I think will only deepen with longevity. Kimmel has a case because his tenure and resume alone. Colbert host at a phone news talk show and morphed into late night talk show guy John Stewart. Wait from late night talk show guy to a fake newsguy.

That’s really interesting. Fallon is and always will be a quandary to me. He’s got massive talent and a big following who love what he does, and a bigger following who loves what he does in small doses? Is he the best at that? Now the cordon’s gone, He’s the clear winner of the viral video portal of late night?

But does that make him the best host? Good thoughts for Mike. So the question here is who will be remembered the best? So if he asked me which is my favorite late night talk show? I think I would answer Jimmy Kimmel.

And I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched an episode of Jimmy Kimmel on a television. I’ve seen tons of clips and I like what Jimmy’s about, But I do feel he’s like somebody who makes the Baseball Hall of Fame because they play twenty three seasons. I’m not sure what Jimmy’s signature moment is. Is it hosting the Oscars? So I don’t know.

I feel like he’s gonna put up the stats and make the late night Hall of Fame. But I don’t know. Colbert, I don’t know. I’m not feeling it. I know he’s winning the Late Night Wars Fallin.

I’ve worked with Jimmy a couple of times. I never encountered the Jimmy that some of the rumors were bad. I found a nice guy. I think he’s immensely talented. I think he understands what hosting the Tonight Show in twenty twenty five is, and the game and the gimmicks and the social media clips.

I think he understands the mission. And maybe in another universe where he was unshackled the way Conan has been, maybe you could see what Jimmy Fallon can really do. But right now, based on the body of work, or we’re going to look back at Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. I mean, let’s rank the Tonight Show hosts. What are we gonna do?

And I’m winging this and you can send letters and tell me I’m an idiot. We’re gonna go Carson, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Jay Leno, Conan only because he only hosted it for five minutes and Fallon in sixth, right, So I don’t know there. So I guess the answer is j Stewart and more. For John Stewart’s original ten year rather than this coda that he’s tacking on, And is the coda going to be one of those things where Aaron Rodgers played for the Jets. We’ll see.

I think the hope was that John would have a major impact on the election last year, and I’m not sure the show registered the way it had in the past. So if I had to answer John Stewart, I guess so that’d be my answer might not be the right answer. And you can always comment in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. All Right, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Krasher shocked about how he writes his material down. He told Variety, I’m an old school pen to paper guy. I love being on a plane, getting a cocktail and writing during takeoff.

I have a certain kind of book I use, and a certain kind of pen I use. The jelly roll oh Age is my favorite pen. Back in the day, i’d carry the book on me all the time. Now I just have my phone. I have a note section that says new material, and it’s probably twenty pages long.

It’s everything I find funny. Like I talked to a guy the other day who said he and his wife went to Paris, and I asked what they did, and he goes Disneyland in Paris was so awesome, and I was like, what, who goes to Disneyland in Paris? I write that down? Then, when a building an hour, I might pepper those observations into a story to make it a little richer. I collect them.

It’s almost like a spice rack. Bert, do you ever do corporate gigs? Never? You can’t get me to do one. I have no interest in that.

I don’t like being told what to do. I have what my wife would acknowledge as bad behaviors, and I’m not a good employee. I’m not good with a bunch of millionaires telling me what to do. I did a corporate gig in Aspen. That’s when I really needed the money.

I got paid twenty five grand, which is still a lot of money, but back then it was take care of us for a couple of months money. It was for a hedge fun and I got up there and they’re like, well, kind of watch you wearing. I tried doing some material on my watch, and then one guy in the front row goes, dude, do the machine, let’s barty. So I did twelve minutes, I told the machine and we went to a bar and got wasted. Having said that, I did do a gig for a company called Planeter back when they were just a startup.

They gave me five grand. I just came in and rost with them for an hour. Broady said you should ask for equity when you do these gigs. Bert, I almost guarantee you they offered me equity, and I had no idea what planet or was these two dudes. We smoked cigars drink whiskey and talked about securities or something.

Bert what about international gigs. He said, there’s one gig I’m toying with an Abu Dhabi, but the rule is you can’t take a shirt off. I don’t trust myself. I think every comic has this weird anti authority behavior. If you tell me not to, I’m gonna it’d be weird to see Bert with a shirt on at this point, right, that’s kind of like his image.

Or I’m gonna get so close to it that the Hall monitor is gonna get a little upset. But every other international gig Dublin is probably the best show I’ve ever had. It’s so funny how small the world has gotten. Netflix has changed the game with comedy because people come out to hear your show in Dublin and they look like a dude from Omaha. They just sound different.

Greece was a little weird. I was getting ready for my Razzle Dazzle special and I had this joke it wasn’t working about getting some manscaping done. Let me leave it there, and it’s quite aggressive man escaping, but it said I did it in Greece, and it was like I was reading the Bible. They were losing their minds. It made the joke better because they really experienced it.

Patton Oswall talked about touring the country. He tries to separate people from politics and welcomes almost everyone to his shows. He says, I never go to a place in dreadite like Ugh, I’m in Mississippi now. There’s always pockets of coolness and resistance everywhere in the red estates.

Also, five minutes outside of LA you’re basically in a red state.

Then you can be an Asheville, North Carolina, which is one of the most left wing progressive places on Earth. So it depends where you are, and now you treat the people you meet. Brian Possayin spoke to the Sonoma’s Sun. Brian was excited about returning to Sonoma, where he grew up. He said it was a big gig for me.

Usually when I have performances coming up, I’m not thinking about what to do because I already have an act. But to be performing in the theater where I first saw Jaws is next level. My mom used to drop me off at the theater with movie money and be gone all day here. I remember that kids from these seventies and eighties. The Sebastiani Theater was a big part of forming who I’ve become.

The first time I performed comedy in Sonoma was ninety one on the stage at the Plaza. The last time was in ninety two. I had to do it at the theater where I may or may not have written George Washington’s slept here on the seat in front of me during a Clint Eastwood matinee. Is pretty cool and kind of a full circle moment from me from the Coin Telegraph, your home for comedy news. Explain why TJ.

Miller wants to be a trustworthy face for bitcoin. And if you can’t trust TJ Miller, who can you trust? He explained. It all started with a casual coffee run in Manhattan. While in town for a Bitcoin investor week, Gareth stopped by the Romeo and Juliet Cafe where his bitcoiner Radar went off.

Tells us the Coin Telegraph sitting nearby in that cafe TJ. Miller, who it turns out, was happy to dive into an impromptu conversation about all things bitcoin. TJ explains, you can tell that I’m passionate about it, and so That’s what I’d like to do is sort of be able to be somebody that brings cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring more people to it. Because it’s important for people to buy bitcoin, but it’s all important for people to understand why and not just buy bitcoin, but why bitcoin. Rosebud Baker spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her decision to work her miscarriages into her material.

Her recent special shows her both pregnant and then after delivering a healthy child. Rosebud explained, Look, I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t have a lot of faith that she was going to make it. I’ve never had a superstition about it where I thought, oh, if I talk about this, something bad could happen. It was more like, if I talk about it and then something bad happens, how do I address that. I really sat on my original material and then the jokes that were in it, so I could talk about what this feels now asposed to what I thought it would feel like when I was pregnant.

The special something I would have really appreciated when I was battling with whether or not I wanted to have kids. I made something for my former self. I joked about my miscarriage the week hand happen. I was going on stage and doing those jokes. That being said, after about three weeks of running those jokes, I realized I hadn’t processed enough to be telling them.

It went for being excited to I need a second with this alone before I can bring the topic back up. So even though I can write a joke about something sad right away, until I’ve actually dealt with it, it’s not fun. Audiences need to feel safe to laugh at this stuff, and if I don’t feel truly cool about laughing at it, they don’t have a shot. At the beginning of my tour, when I was pregnant, I knew I was going to tape that hour because I didn’t think i’d have a lot of time afterried the baby. It’s not a good enough reason to actually put a tape out there.

But then I was talking to my comic friend Ryan Hamilton, and he suggested holding onto it and revisiting it after the baby whenever I got to it. So then I filmed a whole news special with the updated material and decided to just send both tapes to my incredible editor Killie and told her pit whatever works and just airr on the side of funny, So it became a combination of the two specials. Andrew Schultz talked about one man shows and said, I have respect for the one man show people, but sometimes I feel like you’re asking the audience to lower their comedic expectations. And that’s okay because there’s another component that might fill that void. But for me, it was like, what could I do to make you laugh as loud as you’ve always laughed when you come to my shows?

And one of the most rewarding things that I get these dms to this day. People come to the show. They had no clue because I didn’t promote it like this. They probably saw the Life tour and they thought I was bragging like I’m living a life. So they come to the show expecting one thing, and then they leave and they’ll DM me like, oh my god, we just started our IVF journey.

Then they’ll message to me months later like here’s a picture of our baby. We just got pregnant, where some people were struggling and they say this gave him a little more hope. And again that’s not what you go in expecting. I just wanted people to come laugh, but have that kind of connection with people on top of it. It’s been awesome.

Bill Burr was talking about his special drop dead years, and he said, sometimes late at night, I put the kids to bed and I can’t go to sleep. I think about them and I get sad. But I don’t look at death as something to be feared. And I don’t think there’s this angry, invisible guy that’s gonna be upset. Who has the time to watch the tapes of my life.

I don’t want to be up there just pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows I was guilty of that early in my career, but that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you realize that you’re bring some of the problems to the table and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way. Much like Schultz, Burr has heard from fans.

He says, I hear it in the way they’re laughing, and it’s good for women here. That’s understand there’s perception that men are just dimensional. Get man sandwich a man happy. There’s a little more nuanced to guys than perhaps they thought. One of the fun things about getting older is your perception changes on things.

For me, we was starting to understand women a little bit, which is crazy something I never thought I would do. I thought forever they’d be confusing to me. Maybe it’s because I can communicate better, or the women in my life communicate better with me. Still, God knows, it’s Alwa’s going to be our fault. Spoiler for the new special.

He talked a little bit about Israel and Palestine, and Bill explains, if you listen to that bit, it’s apolitical. I’m just saying we need to come up with a way to solve our differences without dropping bombs on children. I don’t think anybody would have a problem with that. The great thing about travel, if you travel with your ears open, is you see way more similarities than differences. Everybody kind of wants the same thing, to chill out with people they love, to have enough money for food and clothing and shelter, and to be able ex hail and not worry about what’s coming around the corner.

What really bothers me when I travel is the level of angst and worry out there from hardworking people. That’s why when I tour, go to the twenty five cities you’re supposed to go to after you make it. I just did a whole tour of the Central Valley, and I got to tell them my perspective on things, and I got to listen to theirs. I learned a lot more about California than I ever knew. I’ve been out here for seventeen years.

It’s interesting seeing what they find funny and what they don’t. Bill has asked what’s the worst trend in comedy right now? He says, I don’t tell people how to do things. What I feel like I should be doing is making fun of both sides. My job’s not to pick a side.

You come to see me because you want to forget about your problems. Even if I do make fun of a politician, I always make sure I get them both. If I’m gonna make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of Fox and make fun of the whole thing, because I don’t feel like politicians work for us. They work for the super rich, and they’re grossly underpaid, so they’re open up. Bribery gives regular people something to get mad at.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Burt Kreischer. Did you enjoy his special? He was talking to Variety sold a cool story.

I was walking in Savannah, Georgia one time before playing the arena, and I saw my fans partying before the show down by the river. I was jealous. I was like, dude, I want to be with them, and I think they know it. I love getting into stuff and being a fan of something. I love discovering something and then becoming obsessed with it and buying tickets for me and ten friends, like, Hey, have you guys heard of the Red City Strays.

They’re coming to town. They’re about to be a new favorite band. I bring all the comics, Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, Big, Jay Ogerson, my wife, my whole team, six of my friends. I get his tickets. We saw Jimmy Buffett, we saw Goose, we saw Wilco.

So I’m lucky to have fans that are like me. Variety talked about that cliche that rock stars want to be actors and actors want to be rock stars. Back when I was working at Serious, I remember comedians were in the mix, there was it. The comedians wanted to be rock stars, and the rock stars wanted to be actors, and the actors want to be comedians. I think that was the triangle anyway, Bert, do you feel that way about live music?

Bert said, oh yeah, I’d love to be able to just have a set list that I know is going to murder instead of going up at the comedy store trying to figure it out. You could play your hits for years. Look at Creed, they’re doing stadiums now. I think all comedians wish they were rock stars. We all wish we were taken seriously and sexy.

We’re goofballs. Ironically, the sexiest thing about us is that we’re not sexy at all. At the beginning of this special Spoilers, Bert rips his shirt off and throws it in the air and it lands perfectly on the mic. They were curious how many times on tour did that workout versus not? And Bert said, it never worked.

That’s why you could see the look on my face as sheer exuberance. We had that ridiculous outfit made because I noticed in all my specials I’m wearing the exact same thing, jeans, and no shirts, so they all look identical. Netflix would brand my specials with different outfits on the thumbnail to draw people in, but then I’d be in jeans, so I wanted to have a VERSACEI Miami style suit made. The taping was special, if I’m not mistaken, we use the entire set front to back from that taping. With comedy, you can get a little bit of magic.

That’s why crowd work is so fun. When my shirt landed on the mic, everyone went crazy. We had one taping where someone out a stroke, so we’re not gonna use that one. Oh that’s awful. They were curious about how he works in his family, and Bert said, I write everything in the hopes that my daughters and wife will like it.

Land saw the act a couple of times. It definitely had notes and doing that material. There was a certain point in my act where it became less jovial. It wasn’t coming across the right way, and she had a note about that. She was like, all I need is a little bit of Rascal smile on your face.

You’re doing it so much that you’re losing that. Remember the way you did it the first time. Great note from Leanne similar discussion between Samarl and WAMC, who said, when a rock band goes out on tour, people just want to hear the old stuff. With comics, it’s the opposite. Sam said, yeah, I was just watching that Bob Dylan movie.

The big scene is that he wants to shake things up and go electric, and he’s like, yeah, screw you, I’m going in electric and it was so funny that, Like, no disrespect to musicians, but boy, they have it easy, especially the big ones. You know, obviously if you’re struggling musician, having a middle class lifestyle as a musician’s probably harder than a comic. I think they’re the easier trajectory. But then if you’re like Billy Joel, you’re like, oh, I don’t have to write for forty years. That’s incredible.

Topic of podcasts came up and how every comedian has one. Sam said, I think the problem is there’s so many things you have to do. Remember years ago, David tell told me like enjoying now when all you do is wake up and write jokes, and he was right. But now it’s very hard for me to find time to work on my act. The hollyw reporter asked Andrew Schultz, you have a lot of success, why don’t you just post on YouTube?

Schultz said, I did the first Netflix special during COVID, and that was just based on these turn your phone videos that I do. And the last one I did where we sold it ourselves, was really supposed to be on Amazon, but they gave me push back about a couple jokes, and I don’t even blame them. I’m like, hey, you’re a billion dollar company that sells toilet paper. Why would you risk tarnishing your brand over my Michael Jackson take or whatever the joke was. So my initial idea was to do that one with the streamer and see how that worked and see if that brought it in a different audience, etc.

But then people were able to rally behind me and that was pretty sick, all right, So why go Netflix this time? Schultz explains there was a time during COVID when people were so engaged online with creators where we were buying these live moments and live events, and it became part of what we did because there was so little content out there. Then the second that COVID ended, the studio started pumping stuff back out and people were like, all right, I don’t need to buy that little moment. I’ll just watch Severance on TV. Culture changed in the way we consumed in my estination, So I was like, yeah, I think it makes sense to go over here to Netflix.

But one of the cool things is that I had a number that I could do on my own, meaning I knew how much I could generate. No comic really knows their worth. You just think of a number, you go, Okay, Chapelle got that, But I had a number having had that experience on my own. But even then, in order to get an offer, you need another offer. That’s the other thing I realized about this business.

Rody asked him about all the various streamers getting into the business. Hi, Hulu public says, how you guys doing today? You know you don’t have to answer, It’s fine. Schultz said, this is the best thing that can happen for comedians. I’m putting this special on Netflix, but every comedian should be rooting for Hulu right now.

They should be rooting for Amazon. My dog is apparently rooting for Amazon. I can never tell if the directional Mike picks up the dog, but she’s barking, which is a story I recently did an industry podcast, and I asked my wife, I’m like, can you just take the dogs for an hour? Because I need to seem like an industry professional. It’s one thing when I’m doing my own silly comedy podcast, I can reference the dogs or make a bit out of it.

When I’m trying to come across as guy that owns podcasting company, I need to be an adult and I can’t have crazy dogs. I was on a job or interview lately and an online teaching course was looking for me to teach a class about podcasting. In the middle of it, the dogs went bananas, and like, I’m texting her on the side, so it’s a zoom call and I’m trying to keep eye contact with the person interviewing me, and I’m texting her like with my phone, blow the camera, like will you get rid of the bleeping dogs? And she ignored my texts. So it was very embarrassing.

I digress. Andrew Schultz said every comedian should be rooting for Hulu right now. They should be rooting for Amazon because the more people out there, the more competitive they have to be. We created a competitor in YouTube, and what I think that partly did is it loosen the constraints? Netflix has always been good with putting out content, not censoring, but it made comics go, oh, I could potentially get more for myself, not even money wise, just to get more reach on YouTube.

I often tell comics that are younger in the game, putting your stuff out on YouTube and clipping the whole thing and putting it out everywhere before anybody knows about you is more beneficial for you. Variety variety, push, and the stamp of approval then Netflix seemingly provides. Doesn’t outweigh that, Schultz said, I think it depends where you are in your career. I think early on people want to find you. If somebody sees you at Madison Square Garden, they’re gonna be like, oh, he’s popping.

We don’t want to feel part of that discovery because you represent their dreams. Good follow up A few years ago, apparently Andrew on Rogan’s show said Netflix is done. Andrew explained awestly anything, it’s why he can’t take me too. Seriously, Ry was curious if that impacted the negotiation. I’ll answer having worked at companies, and I haven’t even read his answer yet.

Talent wins. If somebody wants to be in business, you could throw pies on the boss’s face. And if they think there’s money to be made off somebody, they’ll work with somebody. Let’s see what Andrew said. Oh, that didn’t matter.

They don’t care. They’re in the business of putting out the best comedy and they want to make sure it’s on their platform. Yep. So they’re not gonna let me say Netflix is dead. Before the last special I put out get in the way of me going to Hulu or Amazon.

They were right by the way. I thought I was right, though, I was like, how can they win this race? Everything’s going to be on YouTube? But they figured it out. Man Bill Burr was on Terry Gross’s show last week.

He was doing some therapy. It sounds like he said, I’d get off stage and just feel like, God, what was that? What was that? That didn’t feel good? Meaning the laughter, even though the response was good, it just kind of felt like it didn’t feel good.

It was gross. It’s just dark, ugly, just plain hurt, just coming out the wrong way. Where it’s so funny because some comedians that I love the most, the way they process their pain was a very empathetic short way, which I’d say Richard Prye was the king of that. He just really had this ability of talking about his mistakes that he made in a way that you could see that it bothered him that he did some of these things, and it also made you root for him, Like I felt like that was the biggest thing I had as far as being a fan of his work was beyond finding it hilarious and jaw droppingly brilliant, was that I found I was rooting for him in his personal life as he was going through all these marriages and vorcees and problems with the cops and abuse and lighting himself on fire. Like you know, I love the guy, and I was just hoping he was going to find peace.

Where my comedy act right now is I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other. I talked about that last week. Remember when Billy Corgan showed up on Howie Mandel’s podcast and they started floating the conspiracy theory that Billy and Bill Burr are brothers? Was it a bit? Is Billy Corgan for real?

Apparently he for real? He told people it was one of those rare moments where I think all three of us really didn’t know where it was going. And you see that, and that’s what makes it sort of interesting. There’s enough energy there. That’s why it’s not a bit, because it’s really about confronting something in a way that none of us really knew what that confrontation would lead to.

And you see it play out. You see jokes, but you also see like, oh, there’s something there. A really good friend of mine said to me, all right, tell me the truth, and I said, I don’t think so. I don’t think we’re related.

And then my friend said, well, I think you are, and I said, well, I guess it’…

So then my friend goes, we’ll get a DNA test. No word on a DNA test yet, or if Bill Burr would be interested in that. Corgan said, it’s taken out a life of its own. It’s sort of strange. It really started from honest things, which are my father may have fathered twelve other children, and the facts of Bill’s life actually do match the story that I was told.

So there’s no invention there. MOA Mayer talked to the BBC for his show. He said he wanted to keep the greater context in mine and didn’t want to focus on October seventh and its aftermath because that almost insinuates that this just started. Mo explains that couldn’t be farther from the truth. He spoke about the final episode, which I won’t spoil.

Originally it was sixty minutes long and they cut it down to thirty nine. He says it was almost like we filmed a movie. He wanted to cover the main strokes, which included how difficult it can be to enter and live as a Palestinian. Once over there, Mo explains, immediately, you’re not on vacation, You’re on edge. Actually, he says he can’t walk away from being seen as a spokesperson for Palestinians.

I think everyone just needs to manage their expectations. But I’m not going to shy away from it. Those that agree with me or disagree with me. It’s important to continue the dialogue and have a conversation. He has that he’s always hopeful that things can get better.

Seattle Magazine caught up with Tom Papa the topic touring and when he toured you get some weird meals. What’s the most depressing tour meal you’ve had, Tom? Papa Tom said, what’s depressing is when you’re in some hotels and you see they have room service, so you get room service, which seems like a good plan because of the timing. You know, I got to get to the show. I’m coming home late, or at least they have room service.

And then they show up my door with a paper bag with the room service in it. It’s a leftover from COVID. I’m like, oh, I thought it was actually going to eat and now I’m just burrowing through the trash looking for food. Zach Zimmerman will premiere their debut comedy special, Surprise Me, on April twenty seconds. Zach has been hailed as a rising star by The New York Times and was named in Vultures Comedians You Should Will Know.

Filmed at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, Zach takes a look at the definition of love across evangelical Trump trained family members, Romance gone Wrong, and Donuts Done Right. You won me over at Donuts. The special is described as sweet and salty. I see what you’re doing there. It’ll be on YouTube Tuesday, April twenty second, eight pm Eastern.

Surprise Me will also be available as an album. Johnny Mack likes when people put things out as albums. Out tomorrow on Amazon if you’re in the right geographic location. I don’t think this will air in the States, John, Why are you talking about it? Because John likes Jimmy Carr, who’s the host of Amazon’s Last One Laughing.

Hopefully they show it here. On Last One Laughing, comedians are put into a reality TV style house, and chill should keep a straight face while other contestants try to make them laugh. Jimmy says the format plays into stand up strengths, as we’re competitive and we don’t like our colleagues to be funny. It’s strange should be working for Amazon, a soulist, capitalist, dubious money making machine, but Amazon still thought I was the man for the job. Last One Laughing is based on a Japanese game show, prompting Jimmy to joke.

Amazon are continuing their policy of supplying cheap knockoffs from Asia. Some of the contestants names you may know include Richard Ayoade. He didn’t watch the show at the screening. He chose to read a book. Trotle tells us the book is Absolute Beginners by Colin McInnes.

Richard said, I still haven’t seen it because of psychological problems, but well done everyone. I have a strong policy about seeing my own face, and it’s a no for me. Richard Liken the show to a hostage situation, Last One Laughing on Amazon tomorrow, depending where you live. Susie Eddie Hazzard is going to tour Shakespeare this fall September thirteenth through November fifth. His art will perform Hamlet.

Not really comedy, but I thought it was an interesting item. Took fifteen seconds for me to tell you. A Nashville scene caught up with Andy Marie Tillman two and a half years ago. She began posting clips to social media and the guys of various original characters. They became a hit.

Tillman has around five hundred and seventy three thousand followers on TikTok another four hundred and sixty nine thousand on Insta thanks to characters like Papa, who’s an ornery, overalls clad Appalachian, Pam, who’s your southern aunt who’s prone to oversharing, and I love this Nashvaratu, a Countree count count Country Countree musician and vampire trying to fit into the Nashville scene but having a rough go. I love that as a premise, Tillman says, you know, maybe, perhaps possibly it’s been inspired by some of her family. She says, my family takes bets on who’s who, so all of them think they’re everybody, and I think they like the down home kind of stuff. Nashvaratu was too weird for them. They’re like, I don’t get the vampire stuff.

You’d probably do better if you did more, Papa, that’d probably launched you somewhere else. I’m like, okay, don’t need the no. She said, when the check started coming in, I was able to quit cleaning houses the thirty hours a week that I was happy to do that to make the ends meet.

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And then I thought, all right, maybe this social media thing isn’t so bad.

There’s something about getting a check that just makes everything. You put your soul on the line for that money. She is Andy Marie Tilman, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreischer’s specialist on Netflix Today. It is called Lucky, and Bert says, I’m a glass half full m er. I feel very lucky to be alive and working at this point, he told Variety when asked about the state of the industry.

TV and movies are about to explode in Hollywood in a really fun and crazy way. He believes comedians are entering an era of financial independence and creative freedom. Dudes, they’re already there. Except those Netflix paychecks are pretty nice. Let’s be honest, Bert, I’m sure you could put something up on YouTube, but let’s not act like we don’t like the Netflix paychecks.

Bert says, it’s like the gold rush right now. Look at Hollywood, and I see massive opportunities coming around the corner for all of us. Be careful. Ask the TV series producers what happens when you tear down the establishment. I would kiss Netflix as a ring.

Bert, be careful. Variety said that they noticed watching Bert’s special there were shirtless men in the audience. Bert said it started happening was doing clubs. Dudes ripped the shirts off and watch the whole show shirtless. When I did Red Rocks for the third time, we had a top off camera that was shooting the way they would women ripping their shirts off for a kiss cam.

We did that for the whole arena tour. We just go to big dudes who ripped the shirts off. Not one camera ever hit a woman. Bert says, I idolized Jimmy Buffett. We’d go to his shows, and there’s something really cool about getting lost in a group of fans seeing them dress up like crazy.

Yes, Buffett shows were fun. I never thought the thing on have was going to be that big, obviously, but it’s kind of cool that I get a bunch of overweight dudes with body positivity ripping their shirts off. These are guys that wear a shirt to go swimming, you know. Bert said, I wish I knew my brand better. It’s hard to see from the inside of the forest.

I think I give them permission to party. That’s a good name for tour. Permission to party. That’s a really good name for tour. I think I just named my next tour.

I’ve always been the guy who like at the kid’s birthday party, the dads will come to me and be like, if you open a beer, we can all have a beer. I’m also unapologetically in love with my wife. Not cheating on your wife is cool. My fans are guys who feel lucky to have the chick there with, lucky to have the life they have, lucky to have the kids they have, and that one night is the night to cut loose love this interview, we’ll pick at this at the next few days. The Hollow Reporter caught up with Andrew Schltz.

So they were talking about audiences and you know, where do you steer your comedy and they pointed out in Aperghetzi, who subscribes to the steer clear of anything that offends philosophy. Andrew said, exactly, But I don’t know. Trump is a specific thing. There are a lot of people who could be critical of platforming somebody like Trump and they say they’d never do it. But you also didn’t have the opportunity to So you really don’t know what you do until you’re given that opportunity.

And yeah, I don’t know. I had three things that I wanted to tell the person that might be the leader of the free world. They were three things that are important to me. One was I wanted him to say on camera that he would protect IVF and he did. Another was stopping not all the foreign wars, but if there’s ones that are senseless that are just to line the pockets of the military industrial complex, that maybe we could curb that.

And then the last one was some empathy for illegal immigrants that aren’t breaking the law, like maybe a pathway to citizenship. Doesn’t look like you listen to me much on that one. I’m not saying I have any impact on him. But if you have the opportunity to be impactful and you choose not to do it for whatever reason because you’re concerned about I don’t know what your friends or your supporters might think, you’re allowed to do that. But for me, I just thought it was something and I could sleep at night doing and I’m proud of myself for doing it.

I agree with everything he said there. Kelsey Cook spoke to Vony Land about the difference between opening for Jim Norton at the Wilbur and headlining the Wilbur. She explained there’s a level of pressure with either situation when opening for someone is where you want to make sure you’re doing your job and setting them up for as much success as possible. But there’s something extra special about headlining because it’s your crowd, so there’s a little bit more built in confidence in a sense that people came to see me, to have the chance to be at the Wilber and have it be my crowd, it’s just really cool. She talked about her current material and said, I’ve had some things happen last year that I’ve become part of the material in a more natural way.

I stopped drinking last year, so I talk about being sober, being diagnosed with depression, and I go a little bit into my mom’s dementia. I don’t go into it as much as I did in market territory, but those themes are sort of connected here, and I’m just trying to find the silver linings and all of it and bring humor to it. I feel really fortunate because the Hustler was received so well and that helped my ticket sales boom, and I was touring so much and got right to work on the next thing and was able to turn around a lot of the new material and get it to a good place. Was also exciting to have this new added fan base for me to work the Mark your Territory material out too. That hour gave me more confidence and permission to just be myself and talk about the things I really wanted to talk about, opening up and talking about depression.

Especially. It’s been cool enough people come up to me after shows and thanking me for talking about my struggles with it and antidepressants, intrusive thoughts and all that. It’s definitely not a taboo as a topic as it used to be. But I do you hope for anyone dealing with any of those issues they can walk away feeling seen. Matt Friend tells the Chicago some times, if you go see him, it’s something for everybody.

Old references, newer references, everything from Milton Burrel to Timothy Shallamy. Friend got famous walking around New York City. He’d encounter celebrities, people like John Oliver as a bashi in Madscalco and talk show host Andy Cohen. He would take videos of himself impersonating them. He’d upload them to TikTok.

No celebrities he said ever told them to get lost. Matt explains, I’m not ambushing people, it’s out of respect and admiration.

And then it kind of organically happens.

He can’t I quite explain how he does what he does. He says, I’ll walk down the street and King Charles comes out. I don’t really think about it. It’s just sort of part of my life. He told a story about meeting a representative from the Obama team when a friend was in d C for the Correspondence dinner.

A few months later, Obama’s team reached out to meet in Chicago before the DNC. Matt says, I’m like freaking out. Suddenly I find myself in a room with Obama and I’m doing all the greatest hits. It was an insane, insane moment. He’s not worried about cancel culture.

I don’t fear that. I just do what I always think is right. If you’re living a life like that, fearful of one side or the other, you’re not going to go for Michael ian Black sometimes gets called a progressive and says, I don’t really think of myself in those terms. They feel sort of self limiting. But anybody who follows me or knows anything about me would call me a liberal progressive.

Some have called me a communist, a term I would not apply to myself. He does add that we’re living in a fascist healscape. We’re in a very catastrophic way re examining everything about the nation. There’s a way to do that. I do think we’re long overdue for a constitutional convention.

I think it would be an excellent, excellent exercise for the nation to participate in. I think it could have potentially very beneficial outcomes if people take it seriously. If you go see him these days, he’s not going to make fun of Trump. He says, give me an Obama, give me a Jimmy Carter, give me a Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was funny.

Trump not so much. Felipe, as Barza said, George Lopez and Paul Ardriguez have always been the coolest people to be. They’re the kind of people who always up my back even though they don’t get along. But who cares now because I’m friendly with both of them. George Lopez took me to World Series Game five against the Astros, and we were right behind the Dodger dugout.

I was high five in Kershoff from my seat. Bro Paul Rodriguez gave me good advice twice. He was the first comic to give me a lot of money and take me on the road. He even bought me a suit. Paul Rodriguez taught me this be nice to everybody, because you’re gonna meet the same people on the way up in your career as you will on the way down.

That was the first thing. When I started. There were a lot of Latino comedians who would never play Latin rooms. They’d never walk in a room with their whole audience was a Mexican American in LA because they wanted to cross over to a wider audience. They wanted to perform the improv the comedy store of the ice house, so they never wanted to go to the East Side to perform.

They’d go, Now, bro, I don’t do those beaner rooms. So they lost out on a lot of fans by not going to those rooms. Paul Ardriguez. But you know what, man, don’t worry about crossing over in a mainstream audience or white people. If you’re funny, like really funny, they’ll cross over to you.

That was the second thing, and that’s been the model for my career. Moa mayor was recognized by the Arab American National Museum. The Mayor of Dearborn honored Mo with a framed attribute for his contributions to storytelling and representation. The mayor said, the way you’ve shattered stereotypes has opened up doors for us as public servants, as people who want to give back to the community. Oftentimes it does take the comedian, It does take the notable actor.

It does take the individual who’s speaking to our narrative, who understands our narrative because they grew up in it, student it and understood better than anyone. So on behalf of the entire city of Dearborn. I want to say thank you and welcome home. If you watch Mo on Netflix, good series, you should watch it. Moe is often seen carrying a small bottle of his mother’s homemade olive oil.

Mo explains, some people carry hot sauce, I carry olive oil. But beyond that joke, the bottle is a symbol of his Palestinian heritage and the traditions that anchor him. But toul Azin is a Palistine Nian American who grew up in ann Arbor and is a fan of Mo, and explains, so often we’re depicted so negatively in Western media, either our stories about war or worthy enemy. But I think this show depicted what it’s like to grow up with the trauma of understanding the family history of occupation in war, but also trying to find happiness. You don’t see a lot of Arabs and popular media being happier laughing, but the show did that really well, letting you laugh but also reminding you of the struggle, what it means to be Palestinian, but also the beauty.

The Laughing Buddha Comedy Festival is back for its third year. Baby It features the best emerging stand up comics in New York City. The festival takes place today through Friday, April fourth at the Saint Mark’s Comedy Club. Laughing Buddha will be giving away more than five thousand dollars in cash, including a grand prize of three thousand dollars in a year’s worth of spots to the winning comedian. This year, one hundred and twenty comedians will be chosen to showcase a diverse lineup who will compete in front of fans, industry pros, and comedy legends.

Winners will be decided by a panel of judges and audience responses. Each show will feature professional hosts and headliners including Jeff Lawrence, Kevin Dobrowski, Alexis Carbono, and Moore. Judges will include comedy club owners and industry professionals. Eric Walsh won the festival in twenty twenty four and said winning the festival has been a game changer for me. A year of spots has been invaluable for developing my material and growing as a performer.

It was incredibly well organized and gave me the opportunity to perform alongside some seriously talented comedians. That sounds like a lot of fun and looking ahead, get this one on your calendar. Comedy is going to have its own film festival. The The inaugural New York Comedy Film Festival will take over Asylum, New York City, February of twenty twenty six. Write This Down and YCFF celebrates both seasoned creators and emerging voices in comedy.

The CEOs says, when things are going good, people want to laugh. When things are going bad, people need to laugh. The festival will feature red carpet arrivals, world premiere film screenings, TV pilots, original digital content, private parties, and live performances, including a special live celebrity tablescript read of a beloved comedy classic. It is the New York Comedy Film Festival February fifteenth through the twenty second, twenty sixth, and that is your comedy news for today. Go watch Bert Chraser.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daly comedy news. Vulture had a big piece about the state of Netflix comedy in twenty twenty five. They interviewed Robbie Bram, who oversees Netflix comedy. I worked with Robbie and everything back at Serious Now is fifteen plus years ago, back when we used to do stuff with just for laughs.

Got to know Robbie a little bit. They opened up with Mullany and this article came out before Mullenie’s show debuted last week, so they were talking about everybody’s in LA from last year. It turned out the audience for LA wasn’t huge rights Vulture and average of one point one million views an episode. What made you do the show anyway? Robbie said, well, there’s only one John Mlaney.

He’s such a singular artist that when presented with the opportunity to do this with him, like you said, it was a no brainer. That number seems low, and maybe that explains why when I was watching it live Onnesday night, there wasn’t really all that much buzz on social media about it. Interesting, good follow up, Is it really more about gut and taking a chance on talent, and I’m a big believer in taking a chance on talent. Absolutely, Robbie said, if you look, John mullanie is not only one of the most viewed stand ups on Netflix, he’s one of the top tickets selling stand ups in the world. So we had a lot of confidence of the new show we’re doing, Everybody’s Live is going to break through.

These types of shows have always grown over time. And look, there’s nobody like John out there. If you watched SNL fifty with fifty years of some of the biggest stars in comedy, John Mulaney stood out in that room and on that show. So we have a lot of confidence him and in this new show that’s not crazy. How soon after LA did you start talking to Mallani about doing more, Robbie, I don’t want to use his words, since I don’t remember what the word exactly, But John had a lot of fun with the fact that there were no stakes and everybody’s in LA because he couldn’t be renewed.

But he came to this. Honestly, what we did last May wasn’t a pilot. It was truly being done as a six day show.

And then he was so great and so natural in the seat.

I think we started the conversations pretty much immediately to see if he’d be interested. Then they got into how Malanie is a collaborator on the show. Again, this is Unvulture. You should read it new topic Vulture. Netflix has done weekly talk shows and Talk to Jason shows with everybody from Chelsea Handler, Joe McHale, Norm Michelle Wolfe other than the Letterman’s Project.

They didn’t really stick. If this one works, we make a lot more talk shows. Again, Robbie said, it’s not something we’re focused on. I mean this show. We weren’t looking for a show like this.

The show exists because we had an opportunity to work with John Mulaney, and we think there are things you could do live that are just really, really exciting for the viewer. We’re definitely gonna be looking at doing some things live when it makes sense, but it’s not necessarily a concentration Vulture. What about a live sketch show now? Bill Simmons talked about this. Bill flowted the theory that Netflix is waiting for Lourene Michaels to step down, at which point SNL would be theoretically vulnerable.

Simmons also suggested that the SNL calendar leaves a lot on the table, specifically in the election cycle, when the big conventions are happening and all the fun stuff is happening, SNL is dark. Maybe Netflix does something in the summer, which I think would make a lot of sense strategically. I don’t have any insight into Netflix view patterns in which months are more or less popular. I do notice they tend to drop a lot of big, shiny things around holiday weekends. Robbie said, I think down the line would be open to it.

Down the line, Simmons, maybe right there, you’re bringing up SNL in fifty years as some of the best TV of all time. I’m sure we’d love to one day be in that business, but no plans for it at this point. That’s a pretty clear answer. Great question by Vulture. Does having that big library of stand up specials have an impact on how much you green light?

Now you don’t need as much as you did early on when you’re starting from zero. Great question. Robbie said, it hasn’t affected our volume at all. What it has done, it’s given more of a journey to when people discover the new favorite comedian on Netflix to be able to see more from that comedian or similar comedians. A recent example of that is Nate Brighetzi or Moa.

Mayer just released his comedy series last month, and you’re seeing more viewing on his old specials. Another great question by Vulture. Nice job, Vulture. You used to make headlines for paying crazy sums of money to comics for their future specials. I’m sure you’re still writing Big Chicks, but you’re trying to spend less on stand up.

Robbie said, I think it’s that different. We’ve always bought shows that have been produced and put on Netflix. I mean, for example, Chappelle’s for specials, well us, we’re produced before we purchase them. We’re just looking for the best specials out there for our members, and people have such different tastes that sometimes quite frankly, it’s really great opportunity where you see something that’s pre produced because you gets sense of exactly what the creative lens is. But I don’t think the strategy has changed.

It’s still about trying to find the best things out there, whether we do a deal in advance or whether it’s licensed. Fultcher brought up Bert Kraser, saying he seems to be everywhere on Netflix. Does having talent all over the service help them attract talent? Great question? Or Robbie said, it’s probably the thing I’m the most excited about.

I mean, Netflix is obviously a really big company, and you know all the buyers across film and nonfiction and series. We talk a lot about this with talent. You mentioned Bert Krascher. Bert was just all over the NFL Christmas Game. We talked about Mulaney.

We have a sketch show coming out with Tom Segura and season two of Michelle Butteu’s Survival of the Thickest. And this is the way we’ve thought about things since we start in the space with people like a Zi’s and Ali Wong. I know that was the serious model. It was a great way to attract talent because you could come up and say to anyone from Bruce Springsteen or a NASCAR driver or I don’t know, a comedian, Hey, come on up, and you can go on the country station, the rock station, the comedy station, the sports station and hit all these different audiences and they could do like a big media tour just walking down one hallway at series make you know, come up for three hours and you could hit eight different audiences. It’s one of the reasons we were able to get so many people.

Vulture asked about the competitors, Amazon, HBO, Hularius, Hi Publicist, how you guys doing. Hulu even did a deal with Bill Burr, who’s been a regular on Netflix. How much of a threat to your dominance are these other players? Vulture, You crushed this interview. Robbie said, I think the eyeballs to come to Netflix to watch stand up and the deep bench of library titles that we have in our festivals and radio stations and all that make it pretty clear we’re invested in the space and are very proud of had this leading role in the comedy business.

But the truth is it’s very good for the stand up business that there are other buyers in the space. I mean, first and foremost, we’re huge stand up fans. Boy, this is a nice polished answer, Robbie, good job. So all these great comedians having homes is great. Oftentimes different comedians go to different places, like Nate Pergetzi, he went to Amazon and came back to Netflix.

We think the fact that competition is out there is a great thing and just shows how big a business. Stand up has become Vulture again. Good question. Was there a bidding war for Burr’s special and was Netflix interested? And is it something Netflix was interested and went after?

Robbie said, I mean, Bill’s one of the best stand up comedians of all time. We’ve had a lot of business with him, so yeah, there was definitely interested in that, and we look forward to working with him again down the line. Vulture, one person you said you have no plans to work with again is Louis C.K. But last fall you bought a special he directed from Adrian Appolucci. I know that’s not the same as doing deal directly with him, but something changed.

Sounds like Robbie was ready for this one. Adrian is such a hilarious comic that our team’s been tracking for a really long time. Who were thrilled to put out that special, But there are no plans to work with Louis at this point. Yeah. Is there going to be a Netflix comedy festival at twenty six?

Robbie said, I have nothing to talk about right now, but we love a big comedy festival at Netflix. More news to come. Vulture. Uh poked him in the ribs and said, uh, so you just confirmed it, and Robbie said, I understood the nature of your backdoor question and I appreciate it. Nice job.

Vulture people. Deadline spoke to Amy Gravitz, who is HBO’s head of Comedy. She says, I have full support inside the comedy to continue to keep the HBO comedy brand thriving. This is a broader interview, not just stand up. She spoke a little bit about untitled Steve Carell comedy that’s about to start production.

It centers on Steve Carell’s character, who’s an author. That character’s complicated relationship with his daughter, which told the character gives some crazy, stupid love vibes, which is a twenty eleven movie Steve Currell started. Amy said, I’ve always wanted to do a show set in a college environment, and adding Steve at the center of it is a way into that world as a character who’s exploring college experience for the first time later in life really felt like the way for us to do it. And of course working with Bill Lawrence has been a really fantastic partnership. A lot of pedigree there and could curb your enthusiasm come back, She says.

Larry David has not spoken in HBO about doing another season, but she’d love it. We’ve been chatting. It seems like he’s got some good ideas for me. Hmm. Outdoors Comedy Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan not coming.

He’s quotes unavailable to perform at the three day event July eighteenth through the twentieth. I wonder what has changed on Jim’s schedule. They sub somebody in for Jim gaff again, now performing Martin Short, who will co headline alongside John Mulaney on Sunday, July twentieth. They also announced Short will replace Jim Gaffigan at the Winnipeg Festival on July eighteenth. Verydas told Yahoo Canada, you know, comedy is always sort of counter cultural.

Trump brought a different kind of comedy into the mainstream, and I think that will make more nuanced voices counterculture. And I think that will make more thoughtful voices counterculture. So I actually think what’s happening with that will be very good for comedians. What I do know is your content can become controversial, but controversy should never become your content. Smart, he says, you can’t predict what will go viral, and if you try to second guess that as an artist, you drive yourself insane.

Your best bet is just to have it and go at it and then deal with it when they’re upset. I don’t think there’s any predicting what makes people upset. Russell Martin is starting a US tour today at the House of Blues in Dallas. He told the Dallas Observer. The thing about gigging internationally is it gives you more strings to your bow because you’ve got street level knowledge of what it feels like in Holland, Denmark, Auckland, Wellington, whatever it might be.

You’re not getting material from the interne out of your country. Traveling as a comedian gives you more spices to add to your comedy cast role. He declared himself the king of adapting to different crowds and comedy styles, conceding that American humor can be a difficult bridge to cross for some British acts. He explains American audiences of such a reputation as being big fat laughers. The big difference between US and British comedy is it maybe we’re a bit less high status can take the seriousness.

It’s a word this little vulgar in the States and not so vulgar in Britain. One of those words starts with the pee, rhymes with hiss out of ourselves in a way that doesn’t happen broadly speaking as much as in the US. That’s self deprecating. Humor is a big part of being British. He believes the only way to test new materials to show up unannounced at smaller venues.

If people already fans, they have a vested interest. There’s no point in getting rid of that and being statistic and going out of your way to perform people and make it hard for yourself. There’s a useful amount of dress when you’re creating new stuff. If you just do it in front of your fans, it makes you a wee bit narrow. He’s taking an advantage of the US comedy club scene.

I figure out what works and what doesn’t, what needs changing. Otherwise you’re leave me it to chance. It’s a real kick in the ego. Teach sometimes to rock up a comedy club in New York. We’ve just done ten nights at the Royal Albert Hall and broken the record, and then we were in a comedy club in New York and there’s sixty people there and you’re dying thinking, oh, Ef, this worked a week ago.

But that’s the process, man, You just got to do it in order to make the shows great. I would rather go to a comedy club and try out new jokes than go to a red carpet event, unless it was a film I wanted to watch. If you’re just gonna be photographed to be in the Daily Mail, I couldn’t think of anything worse and happy Saint Patrick’s day. Let’s catch up with Enia Martin the Irish Times did. She explains she was named after the singer Y but I honestly never heard her played once in the house ever, so I don’t know if that was a spur of the moment thing.

But thank god my parents didn’t like meat loaf, because I would have been a target for bullying at school. She says, I love the Irish sense of humor. You could say something so offensive to someone Irish and they’ll just laugh it off. They’ll know you’re not serious. I think I got my mad is from my mother.

She’s not shy at all. I would say if she were born in this generation and she had the freedom I did. I definitely think she’d be in this industry and she’d be graded as well. I would say the highlight of my previous year was being able to buy my own car. It was my third car, but being able to buy my dream car was a symbol of how far I’ve come and how hard I’ve worked.

When I was coming home from the US recently, I asked at the desk how much was to upgrade Supremium Economy. She told me, and I was like, yeah, I’ll upgrade two do things like that. When I grew up in a working class area, I thought, there’s not much I’m gonna a mount to. I’m probably just gonna have a great job like everyone else. It’s something I thought i’d never be able to do.

But now that I’ve broken in the UK, I try not to play the comparison game. Don’t compare your chapter one of someone else’s chapter ten. Good advice. She want to go see her. She’s at TF Royal Castle Bar on the twenty first, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

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Caloroga Shark Media find they own Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The media has changed so much. John Mulaney, as part of his press tour, I mentioned, you know, he did CBS this morning, and I’m like, that just seems weird to me. But we live so long that it also seems weird to me that John Mulaney did Rolling Stone, like in nineteen eighty five. Ooh, John Mulaney’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Let me see what he’s up to. Ooh, a Van Hagar article I’ll read that. Can’t believe David ly Roth quit the band shocking Anyway, mullany talk to Rolling Stone. They tell us it’s the Last Word column where pop culture icons reflect on their work, success and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Okay, John said, please feel free to include literally anything we discussed, because it’ll be far more interesting than anything about my career.

They asked John what are the important rules that he lives by. His answer, never planned more than three months in the future. Live by, not work by dony crackers or anything like that. In bed, even if you keep the plate run under your chin, they’ll on up at your feet and an easy one. But nobody knows nothing.

No one’s an expert. We have a complete inability to ever discuss scenarios that actually will happen, and we’re off on the wrong thread. He told an example one of my first agents we had to call in two thousand and five with ABC. They were hearing pitches from comedians that were twenty three years old, and I asked him what kind of shows do they want? And he paused and said, oh, they want hits.

That really stuck with me, like, oh right, they just want whatever would work, and they want the thing that no one else would do that it seems like it won’t work, but that works. I used to laugh. When I was younger, people would be like’s your girlfriend pretty? I’d be like, what kind of question is that? No?

All I can get is trolls. I’m lucky I even have this one. Me’laney said. The horse being a loose in a hospital joke was about Trump, but it’s more about a joke about how we’re not good at predicting anything. Seven minutes before nine to eleven, we’re all looking for Chondra Levy.

We’re just not really on it. We’ve never been on it. I guess they were these psychics back in the day that would make their New Year’s predictions some of them won’t contrue, but that’s probably not true either. Best advice John Mulaney ever received, my dad told me, if you’re on the phone with someone in a business conversation you don’t like what they’re saying or how they’re counting, just say nothing. Silence makes people crazy.

They’ll pause waiting for you to talk. You won’t. Then they’ll continue to talk and they’ll go are you still there? And you go, uh huh, and then they’ll start talking again. He goes, they’ll probably walk back everything they said, or meet you with the terms you wanted, or they might even go above what you wanted because they’re so uncomfortable.

John admits to trying that in his career and it working. Worst advice John Mullenie ever get. I won’t name them, but in twenty fifteen, an extremely powerful person in Hollywood was telling me that I always have to own all my IP which is not possible. The guy’s looking at me and he goes, I know people were famous, not rich, and they’re miserable. And I know people were rich and not famous and I John Mulaney say, and they’re happy, and he goes, no, they’re miserable.

And he looks at me and goes, you need both. You need to be rich and famous. It was like a parody of meeting this person. I was like, is this a cut scene from The Devil’s Advocate? Good question here from Rolling Stone?

What advice would you give to two thousand and eight John Mulaney, who’s auditioning for SNL and working on his first special, The advice as soon as you’re ready to leave SNL, stay one more year. I wish I had. I didn’t realize that when you feel burnt out, that’s not the moment to make a decision like that. In terms of other stuff. There are a lot of twists in terms of my life after that, but I don’t know if the advice would have stuck.

Funny answer here, what do you wish somebody would have told you about being a celebrity growing up? Mulaney said. I would have said to my child’s self, it’s exactly like you picture it. And I would have said to my twenty year old self, it’s exactly like you picture it. Best and worst parts of success.

Melleney said, The best part’s easy, it’s what you think. The worst part is your instincts were rewarded, but your instincts aren’t always right, John, do you get imposter syndrome? No, listen. One of my problems is not that I don’t feel really at home doing entertainment. I have other problems.

Then they talked about the infamous rehab skipping ahead and have you heard of Chekhov’s Gun? This is Chehov’s podcast. Mulaney said, I like David Lee Roth’s bluegrass albums of covers, which is called Strman with the Devil from two thousand and six. I’m embarrassed to say it’s kind of in my shuffle. Terry Gros said Bill Burr on her NPR podcast, Good question build us.

This special market change in your public or private self the topic, and I’ve been talking about this all week, kind of the new Bill Berber said, it’s something I’ve kind of been going towards. But like most people that get on stage, they sort of watch what you do and then think this little sliver of you is what you are or whatever, like the Rolling Stone thing saying that I was the King of Rage comedy, you know, and it’s in rolling Stones, so everybody listens to it. So then I think I’m just walking around just fearus all the time. It’s two dimensional. I’ll jump in there.

I’ve been in the podcasting industry getting a fair amount of attention in the first quarter because I have the sub stack and it’s free and link in the show notes, and I’ve been, as I call it, throwing fastballs on the substack. I’m commenting on the podcasting industry and I’m just throwing heat, nothing but heat, and people are paying attention.

And then, as I wrote in the substack, when you go, hey, look at me, you can’t…

However, then I get invited on podcasts about podcasting, and the first thing I say is I’m glad we’re here to have a new onance conversation, so you can hear the tone of voice. And don’t think I’m walking around kicking garbage cans all day going. I can’t believe everybody’s making video podcast girl, I’m not like that at all. So I totally hear what Burr is saying about your public persona, including Johnny Mack, who is ninety nine percent John McDermott, I’ll explain. Johnny Mack clearly doesn’t like Adam Sandler movies, right, John McDermott also doesn’t like Adam Sandler movies.

But I don’t walk around going all day. I can’t leave Netflix, cave Adam Sandler another deal, Like, I just don’t care and I move on with my life. But you know, it’s a podcast. I’m trying to be entertaining, so maybe I ramp it up a little bit. Back to Burr, there’s also part of me that really hates the fact that I’ve been so angry and had a temper and stuff.

It was never something I wanted to be and something I grew up with, and you know, you think to yourself, I’m not doing that. I’m not gonna be this person because they’re making me feel bad as a kid, and then you grow up and you end up. It’s a weird thing. Gross asked, who’s the person who told you was your wife a therapist? Burr said, everybody in my life, everybody people reviewing my act, my wife.

You know, like, you can only argue point for so long when one hundred people in the row are going like, nah, you’re pretty angry. Good Stuff. I haven’t been able to live to that one yet, but it’s definitely in my cue. Good show in Los Angeles tonight is a benefit concert called Let’s Get Laid, Get It Elaid, Yes Well, combined stand up comedy and live music. It’s at the United Theater Weird Now, Margaret Show, Bob the Drag Queen Al Jardine.

As I’ve joked before, I assume it’s the Beach Boys, Al Jardine and not some comedian off my radar. Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, Eric Idol, Maria Bamford, Mark Prosch, and Neil Hamburger will make appearances. Other guests include Paul Schaeffer, Peter Asher, Puddles, Pity Party, Reggie Watts, Rufus Wainwright, and Tim Heidecker. That is a great, great lineup a night of music and comedy for La wildfire relief. Proceeds will benefit firefighters who battled the various fighters as well as those who’ve been displaced.

The Houston Press caught up with Tom Papa and asked Tom about growing up in New Jersey. And this is such a stereotypical New Jersey question that I love that the Houston people asked it, Tom Papa. Being from New Jersey, how much was Bruce Springsteen’s chef in your face? Tom Papa said, didn’t feel shoved, does so much as it was a presence like everything else. You had the skyline of New York in the distance, the Jersey Shore waiting down south, and Springsteen was the soundtrack everywhere he went.

When I was in high school, he was hitting the peak of his fame, so it was kind of cool. Yeah, pop is my age, so yeah, born in the USA. Big. Then Springsteen had the Lost Years that the big reunion in two thousand. I know, I personally won tour, saw twelve shows.

You drive up and down the Garden State Parkway in the summer listening to Bruce, it just sounds right, Absolutely, Papa says, New Jersey’s always been a punchline. I always said the reason I was a comedian is you had a good sense of humor about yourself being from New Jersey. What music is Tom Papa listening to? He says he still listens to Arim and Prince, but he’s left Culture Club and Duran Duran in the eighties. Dude, Deuran Duran is fantastic.

Tom put On Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf. Come on, those are bangers, as the kids say. Tom also loves Ren DMC and Public Enemy, but says, now, I guess jazz is the thing I listen to that now, But I would hope that the young Tom would understand that someday he understand jazz. Kevin Hart has revealed that he’s traded in jeans for all bands, all slacks after turning forty years old. He was on with Jennifer Hudson and he said, I’m over forty.

I feel like a good pant is necessary. Jeans aren’t the same. Jean’s hurt and are not comfortable. Sam Morel talked about the Error’s tour to w AMC. He’s on a bus.

Sam says it’s a pretty efficient way to travel because you see what happens with airplanes now and just the stress of misflights and all that. You eliminate that, so that’s nice. When my daughter was in school in Chicago, I used to drive from New Jersey to Chicago. People thought I was insane, and I’m like, dude, by the time I got to the airport and the delays and all that, I’m halfway there anyway, and that’s when I would catch up on my podcast. I would like to drive Chicago right now.

I could listen to Bill Burr with Torry Gross. Sam talked about the country at this particular moment in Times and Your Letters to Sam Morrel. He said, I mean, you see how toxic everything is on the internet, and now bad everything is on the news, now mean and racist everyone is on Twitter.

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And then you go into like a cafe and you’re like, I think it’s all right.

You know, it’s confusing because you just go around things seem to be okay, but you know things are tough from short Old Phil Wang is going to host the BAFTA Games Awards for the second year in a row. Video games we’re talking about here. Phil said, I’m so thrilled to be returning as host of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Last year’s show with such an uplifting celebration of this incredible industry. Blah blah blah.

I played games all my life, and these awards feel like my opportunity to think the people who made them. Because of games, I never had time to learn the guitar well enough to play at house parties, and I think that is a public service thank you games. C two E two twenty twenty five announce their comedy track. C two E two will be in Chicago April eleventh, of thirteenth. Maybe I’ll do one of those twelve hour drives.

Who knows. Paton Oswalt’s will be on the main stage Friday, April eleventh, eight p m.

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Caloroga Shark Media Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News both today and tomorrow. Pretty robust for the weekend. Tons of news. We’re in this little comedy cycle now where we’ve had Melaney Burr and coming up on Tuesday, Bird Chrysler special. So plenty to talk about in the next few days into all of next week.

Actually, Bill Burr caught up with NPR. I’ll drop in and out of a half assed Bill Burr impression here and not impression, but I try and capture his bite. You know, he’ll speaking short said, it’s this little bit at us, So I’ll do that. In and out Bill tails NPR. He traces some of his rage and his dark humor to the emotional abuse he experienced as a child in Massachusetts.

Bill said, every way that you can be abused as what I’m talking about, I don’t know if you can ever undo things that were done to you. He realized at an early age if he could make people laugh, he was less likely to get hurt. Since then, he’s tried therapy and silo they’ve been aka magic mushrooms as a way of dealing with the past. He says both helps and lately has felt lighter on stage. Let me jump in here there is clearly let me back up.

I posted this on the Facebook group Pretty Daily Comedy News podcast group. A few things. As I’ve aged, I have increasingly been using the phrase many things can be true at once. For example, one, we should all try to be a better person today than we were yesterday. Absolutely true.

Two, many things can be true at once. There appears to be some sort of PR campaign right now to let us know that Bill Burr is a better man than he was yesterday, and that he softened and he’s changed or whatever, that he can dial the rage on and off. That is in every messaging I’ve seen for this current promotional cycle. And again go back to point one. I think we should all try and be better people.

But I’m noticing the PR campaign is what I’m saying. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just telling you i’m noticing it. Bir said that whole myth that you can’t be happy and still be funny’s a myth. I’m a mess of a human being still, this far into life.

That is my existence to day, week to week, month a month. It’s just what it is. But it makes for good comedy. If you want to hear a good, solid hour bilburt Is on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air, you can grab that as a podcast. He talked about the mushrooms and said, I started tripping and it was goofy and I was laughing.

I was like, Wow, this is wild.

And then all of a sudden, like this feeling came over me and I couldn’t reall…

It was this profound sense of loneliness. I think I asked the question, which really is a cool thing to do when you’re on mushrooms, to kind of say, what are you trying to tell me? And it’s weird, like the answer just sort of comes. The answer is basically, this is how you felt growing up. It’s the weirdest thing.

For like a week after, I was who I would have been if all this stuff didn’t happen to me. It was like this honeymoon phase. This euphoria made me want to become a better person, made me want to fix my life. So seven days of that, oh my god, I’m not angry anymore. I felt this lightness in my chest.

But then after seven days the anger came back tenfold, and then I had to work through that. That was only like a three week thing, because I kind of saw who I could be. Bill has asked about some of his early career jokes about women. Bill said, if you watched my earlier stand up, all that crap that I said had nothing to do with women. It had to the fact with it.

I didn’t know how to get on with my life that I wanted to get married, I wanted to be in love, I wanted to have kids, and I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t understand what my problem was, and I didn’t know how to fix it. One of my biggest fears when I was on her comic and I looked at older comics and never got married, never had kids. They were still doing shows and then hanging out afterwards, trying to pick up chicks at the end of it, and I was like, oh my god, I don’t ever want to be that guy. I wanted to get married at twenty six and I have like five or six kids, but I didn’t know how to do it.

Good stuff there, We’ll pick at that over the next few days. Brad Paisley Country Music Store. He’s doing a comedy benefit at Zany’s in Nashville on April thirteenth to benefit a free grocery store he operates with his wife. That store is called The Store. The show was called Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without.

Brad says, it’s such an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything. Most charity events are too long. Most of them are asking a lot of people that attend. You’re asking for money, you’re asking for time. You usually feed them a badly catered meal.

There’s an auction that takes too long. None of that is part of this. This is literally what we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based grocery restored at Nasville Families with Food Insecurity.

They open up their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, I reveal plans for a second store. Brad said, we really thought this would take off, and it’s great to see that it did. No details yet on who’s appearing. The date is April thirteenth.

Doors open five point fifteen, show starts at six. It said. Zani’s in Nashville. Ticket price two hundred fifty dollars general admission. Before you’re like two hundred and fifty dollars, please remember it’s a fundraiser.

I don’t know what’s going on at Amazon. George Lopez’s special came and went, and I didn’t see any press about it. So as I was putting the show together, I saw, oh, Eliza Slessenger spoke to the La Times because her special came out last Tuesday. Now, aside from that, I suck and I’m terrible at podcasting, and I don’t know how to put a show together. I do every single day, type in the words even if I don’t record, I type in the words comedy and comedian into Google, and I visit five six seven websites.

And I didn’t say a thing about Eliza’s special coming out, or I would have mentioned it. Somehow fell off my radar.

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Also, what I normally do is if I don’t know if Joe Comedian announces as spec…

And what I will do is I will start a file labeled June sixth, and I will put in there Joe Comedian Special out on surface today, and that way, when the day rolls around, I know it’s there. Eliza came and went so Amazon, I don’t know what’s going on. You make the Hulu publicists look awesome. Haley Times asked Eliza the title of your special, which apparently came out last Tuesday, A Different Animal is an aggressive title, but it also seems like it’s got a bunch of layers to it. How do you think the title relates to your comedy?

Eliza said, I wanted to do something that was very me, but also my comedy is a little bit of force, that aggression built into it. But I did want to sort of announce that I’m on this new platform, Prime Video, and I think what I bring as a performer is different. Every comic should feel that they’re bringing something unique. Otherwise, why are you an artist? In a literal way?

My comedy is a different animal because I do these animal sounds during my show, and I’m very theatrical, and what I do this is different comedy than what you might get somewhere else. I think I create a very special product. She then talks about putting on a show and says somebody came up with having Eliza and big letter behind me because the ideas you’re watching this and just in case you forget who you’re watching. We always wanted it to be on screen, and I wanted to be fun and polished and visually appealing. I thought about doing everything in white, and Amazon was like, that’s gonna be a little hard to watch the whole time.

They’re like, you should be the whitest thing about your set. She explains, I’m the first one to perform in leggings and sneakers when I’m on tour, but for a special it should be special. Ela Times said, having seen around town in La you do multiple sets to night and you’re very focused, stressed down, and very inconspicuous. What’s your mentality when you’re in that mode? Eliza said, I believe in loving the work, so when I go out at night, I’m there to get something out of it.

Always do the set, even if you don’t feel well, even when you’re tired. If there’s no real reason to stay home, like if you have flu, maybe okay, stay home, don’t spread it around or due I think maybe COVID was started by a bunch of male comics just breathing on a microphone, but I’m there to do work, and I’m there to find all the little weak points. I’m there to find new things. I’m there to find tags. So if I’m not on the road, I’ll get up like two three times a night.

I don’t do three sets as often as I used to you because by the third set, even if it’s only a twenty minute set, I’m still like, did I already say this to you? Or was that the other club boy? I know that feeling, especially when I record by out of sequence, I’m like, did I say this one yet? I either can’t remember if I’ve told the story or if I’ve told the story two days from now, if you know what I mean. Plus, I also host the weekly comedy thing on the Live one app and some stories get done here and there, and it usually happens when I’m recording that show.

I’m like, did I say this already? I feel like I did this one already. I try and keep good notes, Eliza said, I try to get up a few times a night because I don’t write anything down, so it’s all in my head. And so for me, it’s about retaining remembering the muscle memory of what gonna laugh last time? The only times thought it was crazy that she doesn’t write anything down.

She said, I write down like a word, like I’ll say gello, and then that’s my mental cue to remember the entire bit. Even though my memory feel shot since becoming a mom. I’m a big believer in the repetition that is the workout. So I’ll do a lot of shows where I riff. If you come see me in Hollywood, chances are I’m making up like a third of what I’m saying there, and then I feel like whatever’s good sticks, and that’s how we arrive at the hour Gavie Igleacias got his hands in the cement over at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Gabe said, the emotions are going, It’s very overwhelming. He paid tribute to other Latino entertainers who came before him with a shirt featuring photos of Vincente Fernandez, Chess Burrito, Desi, Ornez, John Like Guizamo, George Lopez, and Freddie Prinz. Gabe said, I thought, if I could find a way, how do you say a lot without saying anything? So I had this shirt made to showcase this. I love it.

I spent my childhood coming down here with my family. So the fact that I’m here now means a lot, not just me, but being Mexican. It’s like, this guy can do it, why can’t I do it? Everybody is a dream? What’s your dream?

And what are you doing to make it happen? People are mad at Jennifer Huts and she did a promo about her guest, Kevin Hart. They put out picture out on social media. You see Jennifer’s why the queen’s accent came out there? Uh drop the accent.

You see Jennifer smiling brightly in the frame where you can only see Kevin Hart from the forehead and up. One person on social media said, for the first time in my life, I have felt secondhand disrespect. Johnny. You never talk about John Mlanie. I know right.

Late Nighter had a cute story. David Letterman has given an Emmy statue that Letterman won for him. My next guest needs no introduction. He gave it to John m’laney’s father, who appeared in the episode that won the award. Lanie’s father recently got a package from Lenorman.

Dave wrote a note, I found this extra Ammy in a closet. I told the kids. Let’s give it to Chip, So here you go. I hope you love it the way television people love it, and it’s solid gold. Spinal Tap two The End continues a sequel to the nineteen eighty four This Is Spinal Tap is heading to theaters this fall.

September twelfth is the date, once again, directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap two the n continues as Christopher Guest, Michael mckeinn and Harry Shearer, all in their original roles as one of England’s loudest bands. The plot this time spoiler spinal Tap is reuniting after fifteen years for one final concert. Reyner returns as Marty de Bergie, the documentarian who folls them on tour making Cameo Zelton, John Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival will take over Auckland and Wellington throughout the month of May over one hundred and fifty comedians, delivering more than six hundred live performances.

Some of the comedians Nish Kumar, whose name has been coming up a lot lately, comedian and podcast host Olga Kach Australia stand up and presenter, Becky Lucas, TV writer Adam Kaye, also Jen Brister, Laura lex here Shaw, Sarah Keatworth and Moore, UK comedians making their way to New Zealand. Lucas will host the Best Comedy Show on Earth at the sky City Theater, presenting an evening of hilarious comedy from a selection of crowd favorites and rising stars. Closing out the festival is Last Laughs, hosted by Eli Mathewson, also at sky City Theater. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just wanted to touch on one thing that’s been creeping up a little bit, specifically in the Apple podcast reviews.

Some people don’t seem to enjoy the feed drops that you get on Apple podcasts that say you may also like and then you get an episode of something. Let me just be transparent here. So why did I start this podcast? A few reasons. One, I was already hosting the Weekly Comedy Thing.

That’s a weekly show I host on the Live One app. I’m paid to host that show. I put the show together and I was noticing increasingly as they put the show together, I had all this extra material, and I’m like, Eh, why don’t I turn a podcast to that? So that’s one two emotionally, and I’ve talked about this when I was serious. I built all these comedy channels.

I put my heart and soul and I build this thing. It’s super popular for ten years, and then I get tagged out because I got a new boss who wanted to hire his assistant from Philadelphia and I basically got fired for no reason, so kind of annoying. So emotionally, this show you’re listening to right now, it’s mine. It’s not for sale. You can’t have it.

I’m not going to sell it to you. Maybe it sucks, maybe you hate it. I don’t think I hated if you’re listening this far in, but it’s mine. So emotionally, this is mine, right And then also I like to make money. Podcasting is my job.

I’m making money off this and the other shows on Caloroga Shark Media, including Palace Intrigue and Five Good News Stories. We put out the shows, we put commercials in the middle. If you don’t want the commercials, we have the premium subscription. Totally get it. But you know, I put a couple hours into this every day, specifically this one show, and it’s nice to turn a buck.

So the feed drops they pay really well, Like they pay really really well. I wish you could see my face right now. I’m looking at you in the ass going. It pays really well. So I get it.

I personally, I listen on podecasts and I don’t see those drops at all. They’re specific to the Apple Podcasts app and they go in as bonus episodes. So if they’re annoying you, Pockecast is a pretty good app. But like, I totally get it, and I hope you can understand where I’m coming from, all right, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mag with a very busy Daily Comedy News. Bill Burr’s new specialize out today. But let’s talk about John Mulaney. Oh boy, where it has start.

I’m trying not to come out of the box super negative, but I made it ten minutes in. Can we all agree it wasn’t great. I know I’m gonna be swimming uphill here. I know people are gonna be like, John Mulaney’s wonderful. But was it?

I was on social media during the show and people were not saying awesome things. It was fine, and I think it really illustrates the first series, the Everybody’s in La series. When you do it in the middle of the Netflix comedy special and you can have Jerry Seinfeld sitting on the couch for whatever else is going on, or you know, somebody of that ILK comes by, it makes the show a lot easier. I felt it was like I compared it to a baseball game where you’re watching the first inning and You’re like, oh, Pictcher doesn’t have his best fastball today, and I’m like, Mulani does not have his fastball tonight. I feel like he got by on He’s John Mulaney.

Now, I’ve been in media for thirty years. Everybody’s first show if you want to call this the first show or the seventh show, whatever. But you know, things get better over time. So I’m not kicking a can and going cansel this thing. It’s terrible, but it wasn’t great.

I went through the reviews. I feel like most of the reviews were two thirds written before the show even aired, comparing it to the LA series, and then they like filled in, oh yeah, and Joan Bayaz said something, I feel like, you know, because this thing was at ten Eastern and a lot of the meetings on the East Coast, myself included, so I feel like they were written early. I mentioned it’s a lot of easier when you have Jerry sitting there, and The New York Times wrote how or the guests their answer. Mlanie’s format can lead to awkwardness among the panelists if the conversation doesn’t flow freely at first. That seemed to be the case with Michael Keaton telling a meandering story about going to Benny Hannah.

Joan bias is anecdote about the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King telling dirty jokes was much more entertaining, though she wouldn’t repeat any of them. Men’s Health had the headline. People are roasting John Malini’s new Netflix show as cringe and boring, One user wrote on Twitter, John Mulaney is one of, if not the funniest comedians, and yet somehow as Netflix talk show sucks. Another user said it’s extraordinary boring. Most of the pickup went to Joan Baiaz.

She said to John Mulaney, you could say I could say anything I want out here. We’re all here to be silly enough fun and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames, we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires. She didn’t mention the billionaires by name, but people had some good guesses. Joan said she once owned a Tesla and said, I hated that thing. I thought I was supposed to like it, so I drove off in it.

Within forty five minutes, I smashed it into an oak tree on my property. I was thinking, that’s a sign. So in my opinion, and it might be an unpopular opinion. Rough start for John Mulaney. Bill Burr is on Hilarious Tonight, Hi Hulu publicists.

How you guys doing it is called drop dead years. I’ve talked about the week. You’ve probably seeing the PR campaign for establishment Bill Burr. So we’ll see what the special brings. Are we going to get quote the old Bill Burr or is there some new version.

We’ll find out. Today Bill did a notable interview on the Fresh Air NPR show. It’s out as a podcast. I haven’t had a chance to put ears on a yet. I’m so behind in my listening.

This is what happens because it gets cold. When it’s warm, I go out and I’ll like run for an hour and I listen to things at two point two speed, so I can get through a lot of stuff. Plus I have to walk up the hill to get home, and you know, winds up being an hour and a half and get through a lot of pods. But my kids are grown now. I’m not sitting in the parking lot at soccer practice, and I’m not driving two hours to tournament, so I have to get my listening in anyway.

You don’t care about that, Bill Burr said, I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize that it’s a select few group of nerds eating raw amends, doing their stupid workouts, competing with each other to have the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down? Is Bill making it sound like he has a part time job? Hold on, I want to know where Bill Burr lives. Google. I don’t know where Bill Burr lives right now, but I found an article from twenty eighteen December thirty first twenty eighteen Variety with the headline stand up comedian Bill Burr sells Mediterranean Via in Los Felice.

Bill purchased the property in twenty eleven for one point zero eight million. The nineteen twenty three Mediterranean Via offers three and potentially four bedrooms and three vintage bathrooms in twenty six hundred plus square feet. This article does not mention a pool. It also tells us though Ber maintains a modest, one bedroom and one bathroom co op on a high floor of a well maintained but otherwise unremarkable, one hundred plus year old, low rise red brick building a couple blocks west of the northern terminus of Times Square. So he does have a one bedroom above a badega in New York.

That’s what. Maybe I don’t know. Maybe that’s just where he’s living, in a one bedroom apartment in New York City on the West Side.

Also back in twenty eighteen, a variety reported that they had bought a place…

It’s unclear if that place has a pool. I have totally digressed. But you know, Bill saying, we’re competing with each other after the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down. Bill, you’re not part of the rest of us. I’m sorry, dude, you’re just not.

You were, but you’re not. Congratulations you were successful. It’s okay. I’m trying to be successful. I’m going to get a big house with an infinity pool.

With his podcast takes off, I’m gonna have three places in LA. I’m not hating on you. I’m just saying, let’s not act like you’re just scraping by Bill. As the rest of us are getting pushed down, they politicize the whole stupid thing, and we’re falling for it. I guess he’s saying he’s not a multi billionaire, and I like Bill Burr, I don’t want to sound like hating on Bilberr a lot of press this week.

Burr found an easy target in Elon Musk. He said, I just refuse to believe that his hand salute was an accidental two times see Kyle and he does it at a presidential inauguration. This is why I hate liberals. Liberals have no teeth whatsoever. They just go, oh my god, you believe this.

I’m getting out of the country. And he said that. I think before Rosy o’donna left the country. I’m not even gonna talk about that one. I was like, you’re just gonna leave the country because one guy with diet hair plugs and a laminade face, who makes a bad car and as an obsolete social media platform, Why does an e leave?

Why are we so afraid of this guy can’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Variety was curious why Bill filmed Dropped Dead Years in Seattle. Bill said, if I’ve done a show there before in a city, how much I love a city, and I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback from the crowd when you’re filming a standup special there’s cameras there, so people tend to be a little more agreeable, and I need that push pull thing to happen. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber. I’d rather have it more hostile than agreeable.

Variety asked, have you found that hostility more in liberal cities? Burn No, because I adjust my a whole vibe to whatever kind of STATEUM in. If I’m in a conservative place, I go more liberal. If I’m in a liberal place, I’ll go more conservative. It’s like trying to make an over medium Meg.

You know there’s an art to it. I don’t like it if I say something everybody goes yeah. It’s one side. Everything asides now, So I have to make sure if one side gets too excited that I’m agreeing with them, that I trash them, or maybe I trash myself. Political views is something you don’t ram down people’s throats, and I go over that double line a lot.

Sometimes I’m here, sometimes I’m over there. It depends what you’re talking about. He talked about clapped spoiler for the special, Okay, minor spoiler, it’s not going to ruin the special. At one point, Bill says, I’ve been married for eleven years and the audience goes whoo. Bill says, it’s like I could a chain her or a radiator.

What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect. And I also don’t like that sound. I’d rather you say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t what to do with that.

But if you tell me, hey, ahole, you’re a pretty funny to night, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, huh, life goes by so fast and I really want to make sure at the time, I’m like, oh God, stop talking like that. It’s creeped me out. Here’s a question that’s been coming up a lot lately with the established comedians. I’m not hating on the question.

It’s a good question. It’s an interesting question. Bill. Do you ever still bomb? Ber said, I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully.

I’m like an old fighter that knows how to take a punch, so I still lose the fight, but I don’t get knocked out. The key to bombing gracefully composure. You have to maintain control even when you’re bombing, and you have to make fun of yourself. Last week, I had a benefit on Tuesday, so I was working out my set at the Comedy Store, and I had no segues. I was owning up to the fact that my act wasn’t there yet.

There’s a reason they’re coming to see me in the original room on Sunday night. But people come out to see on those nights. They’re very forgiving. They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching somebody they’ve seen do well struggle a little bit. Bill says the store is one of his favorite places to work out new material.

I also like a lot of the satellite rooms that the younger comics are running. Young comics keep you young. You’re still old being not at act your age comedically around them, if that makes sense. If you perform to your generation, only you grow old with them. The comics that I love growing up never stop going to the gym, which is going down to the comedy club and getting in front of twenty somethings despite the fact they’re in your fifties like me, and learning how to get your fifty something year old ideas over to them.

If you go down there in your fifties and try to act twenty that’s going to be a train wreck. You got to understand that you’re like, they’re funny, old or relative. That’s my uncle saying dumb stuff. Again. They asked about the evolution of burrs act.

I don’t want to just be up there pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows. I was guilty of that early in my career. But that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out everything.

As you get older, hopefully you realize that you bring some of the problems to the table and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way to do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living with in a positive way or negative way really makes you confront your flaws. God knows, I have a bunch of them, a lot of things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. This was my issue of not understanding myself.

Good fun follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever? Nah? Not at all, I though when people bring that up, because I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years to get offended.

You’re just s getting around to it now. The sort of crap happened to comics. I grew up watching They did these jokes, and generally everybody laughed. Then the natal moves twenty years later, and the same people laughed at it, act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets herosent a time.

All the comedian is showing you is where society was at the time. Hollywood in Toto asked what on earth happened to Bill Burr Subetter. The Boston Natives counterculture jokes helped pave the way to superstart him. He wasn’t conservative by any means, but his willingness to call out woke’s insiduous tentacles set them apart from the comedy mainstream. Is twenty nineteen Netflix special paper Tiger confirmed it he was part of a rebel comedy movement, alongside Tim Dillon, Shing Gillis, Theovughn, Tyler, Fisher, Chrissy Maher and Moore.

Earlier this year, Burd took a stupefying position on the California wildfires. More recently, Burd lasted billionaires in the most ignorant manner possible. They cite the line where Burr said, these effing billionaires they need to be put down like effing at rabb dogs. Total rights comedy works best. One is a kernel of truth at the center.

Where’s the truth in burs rant? For what it’s worth, the capitalistic system that yields those evil billionaires has been pretty good to Burr. They get into Burr’s comments on Luigi Burr’s comments on elon Total Rights burst taking a heart left turn, No doubt that’s his prerogative. The problem is twofold, the country’s fearing to the right following the excessis of progressive leadership. He finds himself both out of step and siding with a movement that has fundamentally lost its way.

More importantly, is anything in his recent comments remotely funny? Angry? Yes, ignorant? Sure, ill informed, of course, funny not so much. Guitar dot com, your home for comedy news, had a minor spoiler for the special.

A teaser clip shared to social media showed a snippet of Bill’s Guitar Center segment. In the video, Burd says, I’ll give you the number one place to see sad men Guitar Center. Oh my God one of the saddest places on earth. Failed struggling musicians behind the counter, A bunch of men in loveless marriages to divorce, just walking around to go the guitars. Musicians are finding it funny.

Gibson Mark Agency replied to the clip on Instagram with a row of laughing emojis. Misham and Shore of Periphery commented, Jesus, he’s going for the jugular Questlove replied with a bunch of skull emojis. Lake Wyland of the Tone Mob podcast responded, the void desires customs shop guitars and it must be satiated. Bill Burr hilarious tonight. Other news, Nikki Glaser will return as host of the Golden Globes.

No surprise there. There’s been a lot of rumors and she did a great job. Why wouldn’t you bring her back? She should just do that until they kick her out. It’s a good gig and she did well at it.

Congratulations too, Nikki Glaser. There’s a new documentary about Mark Marin. It is called Are We Good? Directed by Stephen Fine Art’s The Hollywood Reporter recaps. I guess spoilers here towards the end of Maren’s twenty three special From Bleak to Dark, Maren tells the audience a high wire joke he’s been working on since his partner Lynn Shelton died in twenty twenty.

There are scenes of Maren workshopping the joke. The film chronicles the years in Maren’s life after Shelton’s death. It follows Mark as he returns to stand up and use the stand up to navigate the painful experience. The Donkeys’s home videos, recent footage of Maren living his life for testing new bits, as well as interviews with friends and colleagues like John Mulaney. In the end, HBO asks Mark Maren for a special and at boosts Maren’s confidence.

The Holly Reporter tells us the special makes Maren feel like he’s arrived and it becomes a place where his emotional artistic lives meet. Honestly. Quick hit from Gossip Corner, The Statesmen in Austin saw Tom Sigor and Berg Krescher at NADC Burger Apparently some sort of burger joint that we’re supposed to hit when we’re down. There never been there, there been Austin, never mind the burger joint. Luckily somebody had a camera out.

Burg Kreischer says, this is so good. This is so good. The chef says, it’s good with vodka too. Actually, we’ve been talking about doing like a secret menu. Yeah, we could have a secret like you want to turn this thing into two bears, one burger.

We could spikle with little poor osos. Should we do that? Sgora says perfect. I love secret menus Kreischer, Yeah, you should, Chef, we should do it. I’ll let you know what happened.

Joel McHale admitted he was an a hole to reporters on the set of Community. Joel said the reporters would be like, such a great show, just so amazing, and it’d be this one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing. But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on a set, you should have done some research. You should know what show this is. Avery reporters come back and be like, yeah, you really got me, And I was like, yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion not call people out.

All right. What happened with the Community movie? Is it ever coming? Out. Joel said, well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do, and everyone’s in.

That’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules and a script was written, so this is real. We just got to get those schedules together. He did give a major spoiler with a laugh. He said, I’m not gonna tell you anything about it.

I’ll just say everybody dies. He doesn’t think Chevy will be part of this, and again he’s seen the script, so I guess Chevy’s not. But Joel said, I don’t think he’s allowed to. I don’t think it would happen. I’m guessing if you asked him, he wouldn’t be interested.

Obviously, his unceremonious departure in season four pretty much did that end. And an interesting note about Daniel Sloss, he said he had to hire some security when performing in the US. After the UK’s Channel four Dispatches episode Russell Brand in Plain Sight disclosed allegations against Russell Brand, Sloss told Dispatches, according to Comedy dot co dot UK that claims that Brand was a predator were an open secret in the comedy industry. I’ve shared in the past, I worked with Russell Brand exactly once and its completely professional. I don’t know what else happened in mister Brand’s life, but I’ve also worked with Bill Cosby, who is completely professional.

Except for the Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until he passes away. It’s a good one, trust me. And that is your awkward end to your comedy news for today. All right, Bill Burr, let’s see what you got see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johenni mag with your Daily Comedy News man. I hope Andrew Schultz is okay. The poor guy, he just went out to take in some professional wrestling and he’s there and Logan Paul wanted to hear Andrew say some nice things about Logan Paul, but Andrew preferred to name Seth Rollins and see him punk and the phenomenal one and boy Logan Paul did not like that, pulling Andrew Schultz out of the crowd. Luckily, AJ Styles came to the rescue.

Let’s listen. I know who I want to see. I want to see AJ Styles. That’s who I want to see the night. Jeez oh no, come on, Logan, he’s a guest.

Come. Andrew Schultze is special on Netflix right now called Life. He might not have one soon. He is absolutely spectacular. This is no way to be trading a come.

Ind Janus so log and he’s a cast claudad Tjo Come on now, loggany cat. Th fire comes Styles. Styles. You wanna call out Paul and. I but now he comes out there to say Schultz and out Styles and Paul coming at it.

Hey take Styles, it’s hard to talk. The folks over at Hilarious, you know, my my friends at Hulu. They put together a really good campaign, this one from Adweek. Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, and Sebastian Maniscalco are sitting in a diner and in walks the Hulu mascot, which is basically the Hulu logo with like, uh, you know, mascot arms and legs. It’s a big time campaign including out of home ads placed near comedy venues in La New York and Chicago.

Is that where you need to reach? People think you need to reach Middle America? I guess this is just an imaging piece, a social media placements Influencer partnerships, Hi, Hello, Hello, Hello so uh Hulu dudes, come on man, I know it’s not the biggest show, but it’s the right show and I have filled out the Hulu media relations form and no one got back to me. You can get back to me. Go your show sucks, it’s terrible, your bad mouths all the time.

The show’s too small. That’s fine, but come on, someone get back to me. Influencer partnerships but not podcasts dedicated to fans of stand up comedy. Digital banners bus takeovers and dedicated billboards and posters at locations like Walt Disney World, at Disneyland Resort and in Times Square. Boy, this is a lot of money.

Anyway. The forty five second spot is called meet Up and it’s pretty good. Let’s take a listen, all right, it’s just about well, I wanted to introduce you guys to something or some way. Is this about religion? No, No, because you’re always doing.

That here they are, Bill Sebastian. I’d like to introduce you to Hulu. Oh wow, Hulu is getting into the stand up business and I think you guys would be perfect for it. They’re calling it hilarious. Jim, Yeah, what is that?

Well, that’s the Hulu mascot. I think it’s trying to shake your hand. Brand you stand up specials every month and now streaming on Hulu. Why is it looking at me like that? It’s not looking at you.

It doesn’t have a face. According to Aaron Goldman, EVP Creative Marketing of Disney Entertainment Television, it was Jim Gaffigan, who were told has a history in advertising, who came up with the concept for the spot and was quote a great partner in bringing Bill Burr and Sebastian Maniscalcout together for the campaign. HM possibly perhaps may be true.

Also possibly perhaps in their contracts they have you know usually with thes…

Could have been that, or Jim was just like, Hey, Bill and Sebastian, can the three of us jump on a zoom? I got to pitch you an idea? Who knows? Goldman said it was a total partnership from the beginning. Jim wrote the script and collaborated with Ryan Brasno, the SVP of Creative Marketing for Hulu, and Johnny Mazur, who is the executive creative director for Brand Marketing, who Gaff again collaborated with those guys to bring it to life.

I should note that the three comedians also improvised in riffed, which added some hilarious beats that ended up in the creative Guys, this is a forty five second commercial, so Jim sketched out I don’t know, the three of us are in a diner and the Hulu mascot walks in. This is not Godfather too. Goldman noted that in addition to the full spot, there will be shorter pieces rolling out on social and he also talked about the song. We made a custom hilarious song which is featured in the spot, based on Duran durant’z Notorious. We changed the lyrics to hularious and hopefully created a song that you can’t get out of your head now.

On that, I was curious who the hell sold out to Hulu? Was it Simon Labaugh who did this? And I have learned from the internet. Warner Chapel Music as a Chapel as a Chappelle, It’s not Dave Chappelle. Warner Chapel Music and Sony ATV Music ablishing own parts of Duran Durand’s catalog.

The Warner folks own the rights of the catalog from eighty six to the present, including many of the band’s hits, including Notorious. They also own the publishing rights to all the band’s current and future compositions. Wow Future deal Duran Duran did Wow. I am a I won’t say I’m the biggest Duran Duran fan, but I’ve been known to drive around listening to Duran Duran and you could play both hungry like the Wolf and Rio on Endless Repeat and I Will never tell you to turn it off. Notorious is also one of my favorite Stranduran songs and also a big fan of A View to a Kill, which is, as you know, the best James Bond theme.

Goldman tells us they’re looking at using the Hulu mascot as a connective thread for future hilarious campaigns, and he got the funny in saying, in the meantime we take turns wearing it to the office. Bill Burr is out tomorrow, then in April we get Jessica Curson, august Ralph Barbosa and Sebastian Maniscalco. In November, this article didn’t mention who else is in the list. I’m racking my brain here to remember who else they announced, and I’m not sure that they’ve announced anybody. Maybe I forgot one anyway, Hulu, paul A Sis get back to Me.

Trey Crowder specials out today on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, Trey tackles everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringings as he reflects on the ultimate parental role as a trash daddy. And you to see who the New York Times profiled. They profiled friend of the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. Jason and I actually recently connected.

He’s going to come on the show in a few weeks as we get closer to the twentieth anniversary of Mitch Hedberg passing away. I’m a big fan of Mitch and just wanted to observe the moment, and I asked Jason to common So we’re gonna record that in a week or so. Other people at The New York Times ask Jason, which do you enjoy more? By the way, this article speaks to me, I am aligned with everything Jason says. Here, Jason Zieman, which do you enjoy more?

Finding a new angle on a well known figure or introducing readers to an unfamiliar subject. Now, if you listen to me every day, you know what I’m going to say. You know what I say about the festivals, right, Jason said, I take more satisfaction in writing about somebody who nobody knows about. One of the great things about this beat is you spend time in improv houses and clubs, and get a sense of who’s gonna break big in the future. I remember seeing Hannah Gatsby at this tiny theater.

I was like, this is going to be a big part of the discourse, and it’s engaging in some really provocative ideas. Being the first critic to see her show in American and introduce her to readers was really satisfying a men a million years ago. Back at Sirius, I used to really love spotlighting artists. I remember we had Hannibal Burris week. I remember we did Tim Mention Week.

We used to love going out of our way and going, hey, audience, check out this really cool person who you haven’t heard of yet. Jason ads, I think one of the jobs of critics is to say just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s good. These people who are not getting a spotlight or often some of the most gifted artists times. How has the comedy landscape changed and you started covering it fifteen years ago, Jason, Increasingly their artists doing work on TikTok and Instagram, that we need to do a better job of figuring out ways to recognize For a lot of teenagers, their introduction to comedies like mine their first experience with comedy isn’t watching late night talk shows. Their stand up comic is probably gonna be on social media, So we have to meet people where they are.

Now. That’s interesting to me and I totally respect it. For my personal thing doing this podcast, I feel like if I started getting on here and chasing after TikTok comedians, I would be the Paul Bashimi, Hello fellow kids, meme and just at some point it’s not my generation, it’s not my thing. I will stay in my lane. I admit to living on old Man Mountain and don’t think Jason’s wrong.

I just think if I started doing it, it would be like, come on, oh Man. Jason says he sees live comedy three or four times a week. I still go out a lot, but less. There’s two reasons for that. One to get a sense of who’s out there.

There’s less of a need to go as often. I totally get that. But the bigger reason is the bounty of comedians online. When I started this job, I was covering comedy as a kin to covering theater. Before I wrote about someone, I wanted to see them live.

But increasingly the way that most people are consuming comedies through social media and streaming platforms. So now I spend more and more time looking at comedians online and listening to podcasts. That totally makes sense. And you’ve heard you talk about this. I’m glad Jason said it.

The question are you someone who laughs out loud at shows? I call this emperor of room syndrome. Jason said, I suffer from the same thing that most comedians do, which is that if you see as much comedy as I do, you laugh less. That that doesn’t mean I enjoy it less. I’m not someone who laughs a lot in the audience.

Sometimes that makes me self conscious because if I’m in a room with very few people, it has a big impact if no one’s laughing. So I’ve even found myself at times fake laughing just to not distort the room, or because I feel it’s almost rude not to. But I try to be honest with my laughter. Great stuff. A big fan of Jason’s work.

IHeart had their twenty twenty five iHeart Podcast Awards. This is one of those awards that if you win, you’re excited, and if you’re not part of it, you just kind of eye roll it. It’s you know, iHeart they make podcasts. I’m not saying that they have their thumb on the scale, but you know there are basement podcasts like this one, and then there are the establishment podcasts. So you know, Best Sports Podcast went to the Kelsey Brothers.

Sure, but you know, I bet if we really dug down, somebody’s doing like a really great Kansas City Royals podcast, if we really took the time to look. But that’s not how these big shiny awards like. And the winner for Best Podcast goes to Tony and Jose from Kansas City. They host Royals Talk like that doesn’t make for a good award show, So understand what this is the podcast of the year, Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. I’m not saying it’s bad.

I’m just saying, you know, somebody’s probably doing a pretty good Game of Thrones podcast out there too. It just doesn’t make for a good award show. On a same note, Best comedy podcast, Fly on the Wall A’sdana Carvey David Spade sure makes a lot of news, great stories, SNL, hot topic, talented guys, funny guys, a great podcast to listen to. Same thing, and I’m not saying, oh, I should have shot I should not have won Best Comedy Podcast, No way. But you know, is uh Carvey and Spade better than what Tim Dillon’s doing?

I don’t think so. Best ad Read got to give it out an award for Best ad Read for some reason, that went to Conan O’Brien.

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Speaking of Conan, Late Nighter reports that Conan O’Brien Must Go has been f…

Well, yeah, Conan is red hot right now, although Late Nighter points out, for those paying close attention, the announcement is less a season three pick up as much as they shuffling the deck of what we already had. They explained Conan’s second season was set to run for six episodes that was ordered just after a month, but according to the new announcement, season two will now consist of just three episodes, and HBO did not specify how many episodes have been ordered for season three. I’m gonna guess three. Netflix just did this with Megan Markle. They said, oh yeah, we renewed Megan Marko for season two.

The thing is those episodes already in the can. That’s like me telling you this podcast has already been renewed. For next Weekend. Season two all three episodes. Dun’t do you hate that when like you’re excited at something, are you watching the Pit?

The Pit is the medical drama on Max. Fifteen episodes. It’s almost like old school TV. You remember we used to get twenty six episodes of things in the good old days. Now we usually get eight.

Term in case of Con O’Brian, we get three. Fifteen is amazing anyway. Conon O’Brian Season two all three episodes coming out in May. Rommi usef as a project called Number one Happy Family USA, which follows a Muslim American family in post nine to eleven America. The premiere it takes place on September tenth, two thousand and one.

I can tell you exactly where it was that day. I was at Jones Beach romy premier these series at the south By Southwest TV and Film Festival and explained there’s a representation warning in the beginning of every episode that tells you not to use this show as representation. I’ve had a very torn relationship with representation and the idea of what it should do or what it is. This is a show about capitalism. I think when you watch the first couple episodes.

You’ll see that, but it’s certainly not representative of Arabs or Muslims, many of which I think will see things that they really appreciate, and other things will be like, what the f Rommi, why did you do this stuff? You revealed he pitched the series during Trump’s first term. That’s how long it’s been. Remember the happy Trump be sad Now by the way, I don’t know if you guys noticed the audience laughed. I don’t think he likes this either.

I haven’t seen him smile once the whole the first time. He’s always laughing. So yeah, shout out to him. This guy’s miserable. Send your letters to Robbie usef.

All eight episodes premiere April seventeenth on Prime Video. And that is your comedy news today. Back tomorrow we’ll talk about Mullenie. I didn’t forget about Mullenie. But I’d also on stay up til one am to record the podcast and Bill Burr as a special.

I don’t know if you heard about that. That’s out tomorrow as well, So plenty to talk about tomorrow. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidley Ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Malaney Salk Show is live tonight, but I’m gonna talk about that in a second. I think there’s an even bigger story.

Netflix has announced a relationship with Tony Hinchcliff. They’ve ordered three Killed Tony comedy specials, as well as a new stand up comedy special from Tony. First Kill Tony. Netflix will tape at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas and stream on Netflix April seventh. In a statement, Tony Hinchcliffe said, myself and our entire crew of Austin comedians, peers and upcomers are excited for the opportunity to share our chaotic, insane show with a whole new chunk of the globe.

It all started in a room in the Comedy Store with twelve audience members and barely anyone watching. In twenty thirteen, After world tours and seven hundred plus Monday releases on YouTube, it seems the persistence is paid off.

And now to think that I can pull a name out of a bucket and that person will …

Is both exciting and frightening. It’s the most spontaneous, improvised show that’s out there. The great freedom given to us by Netflix so you keep the show in its pure form is a comedian’s dream and we can’t wait to Netflix and kill I see what you did there, Tony Hinchcliff. That’s really exciting, both as a comedy fan and a podcaster, just to see something go from like an idea and now this is that. It’s a loaded word, but I use it on purpose.

Establishment to kill Tony. This is it, Tony. You’re no longer an outsider. This is no longer some little show where we’re just doing our thing. You are now establishment.

Kill Tony, and I’m not saying that’s bad. I will do establishment Daily Comedy News. Netflix, write me a check. I’ll be there. I’ll even wear a tie.

But I’m very happy for it. Tony and the Gang. What a great show. Kill Tony if you’ve never checked it out. Okay, John m’laney, Netflix crushing it.

John m’laney, tonight. Sorry that awkward pause there was Are we having an earthquake? I can’t tell if it was that or if my boiler were super loud. Anyway, by the time you hear this, you’ll know if there was an earthquake yesterday. I’m leaving that in.

Where was I? Boy? That was distracting John Mulaney. He’s live on Netflix tonight, ten East seven West. John is making the press.

He was on CBS Good Morning. It seems like once you make the establishment, I’ll keep using that word today. You go on CBS this morning. Is there a big overlap with stand up comedy and CBS This Morning or is somebody over there who books the show just into it. It just seems like, hey, John Mulaney wants to get the word out, I’ll go on CBS this morning.

Just seemed like a disconnect to me. Maybe Gaff can put a bug in his ear. Who knows. I pulled a few clips. No, now, slowly and thoughtful.

Mulaney is speaking in these clips, and this first clip he talks about his early career. Yeah, there were some early times where it wasn’t so much that the audience wasn’t with me. I didn’t know what I was putting out there. You know, you grow up watching a ton of comedy and I’m sick but I’m not contagious. By the way, for all your viewers, you grew up watching comedy, and there were so many styles I liked, and so many comedians I liked, from like early radio to Chris Rock, the Simpsons, Cone and everything.

So I just had no sense of what I even wanted to do myself, except that I wanted to be on stage doing stand up. But I didn’t know if that meant George Carlin or Stephen Wright or George Wallace or what. So I remember kind of trying out ways of being and many of those falling flat. I’d say, not to be corny, but I’m obviously I’m still figuring that out, and it’s a very kind of obvious lesson. You just kind of a presenting some heightened version of your most authentic self is what works, and your most authentic self might be like strange, cryptic one liners, like, it’s not like you have to be confessional or anecdotal about your life in order to be authentic.

Next up, some of John’s influences. It is interesting choices here, and a little bit about his look. We’ll talk about more about his look in a second. I really like people like Spaulding Gray. I really like Geene Shephard.

I really like storytellers, and George Carlin had a lot of that too, like his Irish Catholic boyhood and stuff like storytellers who get into the get into interesting personal details that are singular to them. They’re not saying to the audience, this is your life. They’re saying like, this is my life, And when presented in a certain candid way, it’s so disarming. People really see their own lives in it. I liked that a lot.

But I also liked Bernie Mack and Deaf Jam and big personality comedians and really forceful performers like Paul F. Tompkins, who were like wears like three piece suits and is still telling personal stories that way. So I wanted the presentation of a deaf Jam comic with sort of the nuanced person stuff of a Spalding Gray. And one more time, here’s John Mliny talking about where the suits came from. I did a show at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta, really fun club there, and I was wearing a checkered button down shirt and jeans, and there were five opening comics because there’s a great local scene there, so five people were on the show before me.

They all wore the same thing as me, a checkered shirt and button down jeans. Everyone in the audience was dressed like that, and I remember thinking, I’m twenty seven. There’s no reason I should have the microphone except that in this you know, con job of entertainment, I’m declaring that I’m the headliner, and I thought i’d like to look like the headliner, and I’d like to look like the entertainer for the night. So no matter where you’re going, you’ve gotten a sitter, you’ve paid the cover charge, you’ve gotten your dog created and medicated, whatever you need to do to go out for the night. And as silly as it may be, and as sort of maybe corny as it may seem in you Know twenty eleven, like I’m gonna wear a suit because I’m the entertainer for the night.

And also it’s a bit like I have to take charge of the room. Nothing I’m saying is important, so I have to act like it is. Malane eats Old CBS. He likes doing the show live because I feel like there’s more at stake. I love it.

It’s the best. The host asked, is it a feeling like coming against a cliff and dangling over it, and Melanie said, no, it’s dangling over it all the time. It’s a fun feeling to know that hopefully a lot of people are watching and it’s live globally with no delays, and you could really damage your career. That’s funny. John and the CBS crew went shopping to Amba Music in Hollywood and was asked, you know when you come to a place like this to people leave you alone.

Ma’lanie said a little bit. My joke is thought, I’m like Lewis Firechon, I mean a lot to a small group of people. The topic of John sobriety came up and does he think about it every day? M’laney said, well, that’s a good question. I don’t think about cocaine opioids in some big word Benzo ds Speren every day.

I’ll acknowledge that I understand the vigilance I need. I don’t think about it every day. I just don’t. I do think about the ways I can lead my life to perhaps never feel the kind of strain that got me there. So yeah, sobriety maybe being like a bigger term than just abstaining from the chemicals.

I definitely think about that every day. John joked about the division of labor in the house. He said, my wife and I just welcomed a baby girl into our family. My wife takes care of the five week old and I take the two year old. That’s not an equal distribution of labor at all.

Saying you have a five week old, I’ll take a two year old. That’s like saying I’ll transport this convict across state lines. You hold a potato Cool move by Josh Johnson this Romanja dot com. Josh noticed a trend during ticket sales for his comedy tour. Resellers were buying up tickets and inflating the cost, forcing fans have to pay big time prices to go to a show.

He didn’t like that, so he decided to do something about it. He said, today I refunded over nine hundred tickets to one show. A venue contacted me and told me the day they went on sale that they believe a lot of blocks of tickets were sold to resellers. One of the things that really bothers me on this tour is all of you trying to buy tickets and finding out they’re sold out and the resale price is astronomical. Please don’t pay more than the intended price of these shows.

I would rather have empty seats than any of you pay a lot more for tickets. I’m trying to add in as many shows as I can and we’ll come back to your city soon enough. Thank you for being patient with me as I figure this whole thing out. He included a screenshot from stub hub showing a one hundred and forty nine dollars ticket that was brought back down to fifty nine to fifty after being relisted for the original price on ticket Master. Josh said, all these tickets in Newark that were sold to resellers and now vailblel again so friends can purchase them at the intended price.

The intended prices range from thirty nine to fifty to fifty nine to fifty. Josh advised fans to join waitless at Josh Johnsoncomedy dot com to be notified when he adds more shows, and said thank you for all being patient with me as I figured this all out. That is awesome, great job out of him. A lot of buzz on him. He’s putting out a lot of material, keeping an eye on Josh Johnson.

Bosston dot Com reported the tailor, Solon said noted how young her crowd was. Taylor is thirty one. Now. She noticed some of the audience members were kids, and shared a video of the exchange on Facebook and wrote in the caption, apparently my matinee show in Boston was a middle school field trip. Tomlinson said to an audience member, you don’t know about Noah’s Ark?

Oh my god, are you serious? You’re twelve? Oh f you’re twelve? What are you doing here? You should not see my stuff before Noah’s Ark?

Are you here with a parent? This is your mom? Oh my god, you have the coolest mom alive. I’ve only had like a few twelve year olds ever seen me live, And every time I gotta go back to church, gotta clean it up. This isn’t good.

A voice from the crowd yells, I’m eleven, Taylor, you’re eleven. F If there’s a ten year old here, I’m walking off eleven. You shouldn’t be here. You should be at home waiting for your Hogwarts letter. What the f?

Another person yelled out, I’m thirteen, Taylor said, Thirteen’s fine. You shouldn’t have how the world works. I’m not doing any more afternoon shows. I didn’t know y’all were gonna treat it like daycare. I thought this was a fun, sexy brunch crowd.

I didn’t know we were coming here instead of the park. Hilarious Chelsea Handler in Austin. Let us know that she isn’t going to have sex with Elon Musk. She asked the crowd. He means, did anyone vote for Elon Musk to be the president?

I mean, can’t we come together, Republicans, Democrats and say we don’t want that. Can’t we agree on that at least, you know the first Trump presidency for instance, I let it take me down, I let it steal my joy, and I’m not going to do that again. It’s the power of being optimistic in the dark and not going down a wormhole. Then the host asked Chelsea would she date Elon Musk and try to persuade him away from the dark side? You know, Chelsea Handler once stated Joe Coy, who hosted the Golden Globes and till just a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

But I’m not going there today. Scott Beckert relax I got to beat in over the weekend. I don’t need to do it again. Chelsea said, there’s a lot I would do for the country, but having sex with Elon Musk is not one of them. I can’t.

I like a variety of men. I like men in my life. I’m not a settled down kind of girl. Apparently, Leslie Jones had an awesome time at ae W Wrestling. She was at Revolution twenty twenty five, which was live streamed on Amazon.

Fans noticed how enthusiastic Leslie was. One wrestling fan observed on social media hate to be the one that paid five hundred to be sitting behind her. Another wrote too, that was on the other side of the arena and up the stairs and could still hear her screaming. That woman was thirsty. A Leslie Jones fan said she’s perfect for us late.

I hope she’s enjoying herself. Folks in Houston who went to see Matt Rife over the weekend got a surprise opener. Mo a Mare showed up said it, Paul Wall Mo did a short set. Paul Wall did a short rendition of the hit song Grills. Did you watch Deli Boys on Hulu?

Yat I powered through that that is a massively entertaining I recommend from me. They did some fun marketing for it ahead of the release. They drove around with a Deli Boy’s food truck. Well, not the people in the show, the marketing people. Joe Ortiz this SVP of Marketing at Onyx Collective, and he said in a statement, Deli Boys is truly anything but expected, and our campaign had to follow suit.

We created a bold, in your face campaign that was disruptive and above all fun. They did a block party with a branded storefront in New York with free chai and appearances from the cast.

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If you’re on Sunset Boulevard, you’ll see a forty foot billboard, and if you’re in New York City over by Penn Station, you’ll see a three D billboard. It is a good show. I hope people check it out. The Traveling Deli was in New York at Union Square on February twenty sixth. It stopped off at south By over the weekend.

It’ll be in Chicago on the sixteenth for the Saint Patrick’s Day River Dying Festival. Wheretiez said the campaign was designed to mix crime, comedy and culture and away never seen before. What a great quote. It allowed for bold, creative, grounded and cultural relevance that endeared audiences broadly and represents community authentically. Melaney Tonight, ten East, seven West.

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