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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mack, Yesterday, you promised us you were gonna lead off with a Tom Sagora story. This Tom Sagora story better be good. You talked about it a lot yesterday. Hello, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

In case you missed it. I held back a story because I wanted to tape today and yesterday back to back, and it helps me to have an A level comedian story in the A bloc. So let me tell you that Tom Sagora is apparently going to make a lot of fun of Garth Brooks on his new TV series Bad Thoughts, coming to Netflix. In each of the six episodes of Bad Thoughts, Sagora is said to portray a dark character in quote unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character, Garth Brooks, is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans.

Sorry, the lawyers want to say, totally not Garth Brooks. This character is not Garth Brooks. I misspoke there, you miss on derstood me. It’s definitely not Garth Brooks. One such character is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them into depressing situations to help inspire him to write new songs.

If you see the picture of who Tom Sagori is dressed up as I could see where, you might think it’s Garth Brooks, but it’s definitely not. Now if you’re not hip to this, so Goora has been goofing on Garth for years. You may occasionally see the internet comment where are the bodies Grth? This goes back to Tom Sigora and Christina p They’ve been joking about this since twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, Garth Brooks was previewing a big stadium tour, Sigora and Christina made fun of Garth Brooks for his everyman stick and always being awkward on social media.

Then, on the November twenty eighth, twenty eighteen episode of Your Mom’s House, episode four seventy six, if you want to go here it yourself, Sigora first alluded that he jokingly thought that maybe Garth Brooks was a serial killer. Sigura, way back then jokes, what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in his craze in his yard. For sure, He’s probably killed two hundred to three hundred people in his life. Sigora once told Theo Vaughn that Brooks is well aware of Segura and the impact he’s had on his social media presence. He noted that the joke originally stemmed from the conspiracy theory that missing person cases would often align with many of Gorth Brooks’s tours.

Rolling Stone profile Tom Sigora back in twenty twenty three, and Sigura then said, I woulds like to point out that these are alleged accusations and that some very savvy detectives online have managed to point out the dots between these people have gone missing and his tour dates. I know there’s an FBI task force investigating this, that’s been confirmed, and I know he has a lot of land, so that would be such an arduous endeavor if they’re trying to find anything on his property. But I do think it’s right of him or his camp to at least address this. The fact that they don’t address this has been a huge mistake and it’s just gonna grow from there. The legal department here a Daily Comedy News wants us to remind you that this is all joke and parody, and of course Garth Brooks is not a serial killer.

That’s absurd. This is all just you know it was doing a bit speaking of Sgora today is the two Bears actually three bears five K in Florida, Bert Kreischer, Tom Sigora and Jelly Roll. All participants not only get the opportunity to party with the Bears, but will also receive a finisher medal, a beer and a shirt. And they add unless your Bert, we already know he won’t wear his so faques, can I walk? Is there a time cut off?

There is no official course cutoff, but participants should be aware that there may be road closures to accommodate the event that may reopen at a later date. So before I get into this next thing, I shared in the Facebook group the other day which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us there. I did share a video of Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison from the Doors the Doors performing the reading Rainbow songs from a few years back. Fallon is super talented.

I mean everything about that bit. They captured the music of the Doors, They captured the way that Jim Morrison would start screaming as courses got repeated, and it’s a pretty good vocal impression of jim Morrison. I’ve met Jimmy twice found them to be cool. So I have good things to say about Jimmy Fallon, But this next thing a little cheesy, no pun. Jimmy is becoming a brand partner and investor in tortilla chips and salsa brand so Chill.

Now. I’m glad so Chill told me how to pronounce so chill because I would have never gotten this right. Let’s spell so Chill together. Are you ready? X?

You didn’t expect me to say X did you know? X O c h I t L. You can’t even remember that, so it’s so Chill again x O c H I t L. And I guess if you have a wacky brand name, you hire Jimmy Fallon, who explains it’s like so Chill or so Chill Media, so Chill Network, so Chill distortion. It gets easier the more you practice it.

I agree with that, Jimmy Fallon, So that’s my first job, and then once I get that out there, they’ll probably give me other assignments. On this slow news day, we are told so Chill is America’s largest independent tortilla chip brand. I’m trying to make a show here, folks, but it is still lesser known than your grocery staples on their tortilla chip shelf. As full national distribution, it’s looking to Jimmy Fallon for mainstream boost. Hey, you got super cool podcast influencers in their basement talking about so Chill chips.

I mean this is working. Matt Leeds is the chairman and says, as a brand looking to emphasize warmth, authenticity and shared experiences, Jimmy Fallon’s funny, approachable and family friendly persona aligns well with us and our brand strategy. That’s right. Fallon says, I’ve been offered my own whiskey, my own tequila, and all that stuff. I just don’t want to be out there boozing it up with the golf course selling bottles of stuff.

Yeah, you might look super uncool, like Sayin did last summer. I want to do that, Falan said, what am I doing? I don’t know anything about that, but this tortilla chips I can get behind. It’s on brand for me, and I have no problem selling this and standing behind it. Falon said.

The dude from so Chio called me up and I said, wait, I actually know what you’re talking about. I had no clue how it’s pronounced. He kind of gave me a rundown of where the business is, and I thought this sounded like a fun opportunity. I love business stories, I love marketing stuff, and I’d love to help see something grow and become giant. Financial details of the deal we’re not disclosed, but Falan said this has the chance an opportunity to really grow.

When a brand is already massive, then I’m just doing a commercial or something. It’s paid gig. It’s all good. You do the commercial and you hope it’s funny. But with this, I’m a partner and an investor, so if it works out, I might actually see some dividends.

I’ve got skin in the game. How much do you get paid hose to Tonight Show, let’s say fail and salary. Ay I says Jimmy is paid sixteen million dollars a year, which a different site breaks down he makes eighty two, nine hundred and one dollars and fifty five cents per episode of the Tonight Show. Not bad, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also invest in chips. I get it.

Jimmy says, one of my jobs at the Tonight Show is to always be selling everyone else’s stuff, which is great. I love it. It’s my favorite jobs and now I’m like, why not do it for myself? And I agree Jimmy and I think the important here. Let’s recap what we’ve covered on the show today.

So far, we’ve covered that Garth Brooks is definitely not a serial killer and Jimmy Fallon is selling tortilla chips. But if you check your watch, I somehow killed off half an episode with not much to talk about, so all things are good here. Let’s see what’s happening down in Australia at the Sydney Comedy Festival, which has been going on. I haven’t talked about it much yet because things were a little busy for a bit.

And also in past years they’ve posted a lot of clips of the people performing…

But I took a minute to put together the show and I found three. Let’s start with Cam Knight. Cam is performing on May seventh. Cam’s show is called Unbothered, Moist Eyed, Happy, in My Lane, Focused flourishing, the description of camp shows. We’re all doing our best to get everything turning in the right direction, usually around New Year’s but it’s momentary.

We might get halfway through a self help book like Atomic Habits. I think we’ve clocked it. We may even pay a lot of money to a Balinese bomb reader for some guidance, because it seemed to work for Julia Roberts. A few things have happened to us, and I plan on talking about them and my usually hilarious self deprecating fashion being one of those people who says everything’s fine, or this too shall pass. Let’s take a listen.

The Adelaide Advertiser gave it five stars out of five, and I have made some edits here for f bombs. We try not to do f bombs here on this podcast. Hello, how’s this for serendipity? On this day twelve months ago, I completely snapped my achilles tendon. Yum.

Oh. Most normal people who rupture their achilles do so taking part in high impact sport, you know, like sprints or squash perhaps for the adventurous little bit of park all. I did mine jogging towards a trampoline. I didn’t even get on the sweet tramp like I did it on Launch. I was at a playground with my eleven year old nephew.

I heard it go crack. I thought the little trip meet right, And there is nothing more emasculating than crumpling to the ground in front of your eleven year old nephew screaming, get your mom. It’s I couldn’t. I couldn’t run around with my kids for months, right, And so everyone, all my friends and family members ended up buying my kids heaps of toys to overcompversate. How’s that I’m the one injured?

They get the gifts right, It’s so spoiled. How’s this? My eldest last Christmas? He was given three kites, three of them? Like nobody needs that much Kaytrie in their life, do they?

Plus I’ve only got two kids. There’s a kite spare do the math? Look who’s go to get involved in the show? I don’t really like you know what caught flying is vagan fishing TI. So that’s gam knight.

He’s good. Let’s take a listen to Ben Hunter, who’s performing on May tenth and eleventh. Ben says, in this my sophomore stand up comedy Shelby speaking about how the world has gone totally mad, I maybe only fifteen or sixteen. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. I think it’s a joke.

But I could put on a comedy show that is very least on part with my contemporary some of whom I’m told her up to double my age. So this clip is a bit of a slow burn. And I talked about this earlier in the week. I know my comedy tastes are different than the mainstream. I like the quirky alt stuff, so this takes a while to get going.

But as I watched it, I thought it was really funny. Now you’re probably gonna be like joining back. The clip was, I don’t get it, but I find this very funny. Here’s Ben Hunter. Hey all go.

Do you guys know Florido the rapper Florida? You know this guy apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur any bells. I won’t give away the whole song, but it wasn’t just some of the club looking at her. Let’s just put it that way. It’s the whole place, all right.

But you don’t know who I’m talking about? Really? WHOA Sometimes i’d get a good female. Yeah this guy gets it? Yeah?

Right, you could leave I guess I. Got that’s Ben Hunter. All right, I’ll play you something a little more traditional and faster paced. Dan rath show is called Tropical Depression. I like that’s how a lot.

Dan Rath performs at the Sydney Comedy Festival on May fifteenth. The description of this show is I can’t focus. I don’t know if it’s the microplastics long covid or because I pay five hundred dollars a week to live in a mold experiment. I went to a rally dressed as Boba Fett and was bashed by both police and protesters. I formed a parasocial relationship with a door dash chatbot.

I lost all my crypto trying to buy a Mermaid skeleton. Here’s Dan Rath. I have made edits here for both content. My psychiatrist said that anxiety can lead to depression. I wish it would hurry up anxieties.

Why worse. It’s like a sushi train, just different dishes every day. Shashimi, betrayal, Taraoky, Brian cancer. Me so I skit and you just. Up free in the morning, texting all your friends were cool.

Just depressions. Why better you’re in your pajamas, drinking Costad out of the box and a Xanax. It’s relaxing. Usually my care is tasing me by Naw’s she’s doing karaoke the bitch, but that’s her. She was asking if I wanted to go to an escape room.

I’m like, no, I can just eat buffalo wings without a napkin and try and turn a doornob. That’s Dan Wrath. This show is called Tropical Depression, and that, my friends, is how you kill off a Saturday when you got nothing. This was pretty good for nothing. This was pretty good.

All right, we’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was at Lincoln Center. They were celebrating Duke Ellington’s one hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Now you might be like, why was Dave Chappelle there.

You may recall he attended Duke Ellington’s School of the Arts in Washington, d C. And they were honoring him a few years back. Chappelle said of Lincoln Center, man, you never thought you’d see me an event like this, But he talked about the school and said that school profoundly, profoundly, profoundly changed my life. Duke Ellington was a guy who traveled all around the world just based off his talent and his kids. We knew that it was possible, just because his energy was in the air.

The New York Times says Chappelle mostly stuck to the teleprompter, but threw in a few ad libs, including you can’t get one of the greatest comedians in the world to just read a teleprompter.

And then he talked about a certain politician and said, it’s up to us.

We got to keep this tradition alive. This is one of the best things we got going in America here saying I got to make jazz great again. To send your letters to Dave Chappelle. I’ve been mentioning a few times during this admittedly slow newsweek that Nikki Glaser is the gift who keeps on giving. If you need another story, you type Nikki Glaser into Google and you never know what shows up.

She weighed in on this whole Bill Belichick girlfriend thing, because of course she did. But what’s even stranger to me is she was responding to an Instagram post by the Dudes on Dudes podcast, which I didn’t know Nikki Glaser was a fan of the dudes From Dudes on Dudes are two guys that used to play for the Patriots, specifically Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. Even if you’re a casual football fan, you’ve probably at least heard of Gronk. These are like some serious Patriots, so they would know Bill Belichick, Edelman said of Belichick’s girlfriend, she was jumping into that conversation during the interview, just like any PR person would jump in when there’s an unnecessary question that they probably didn’t go over in the pre production meeting, Gronkowski said, Yep, she’s become his rep on top of being a girlfriend. Nikki Glaser chimed in on the instagram in the comments and said one percent this she’s acting as his publicist.

Publicists do this during interviews. People are out for blood. A strange note from John Mulaney’s show has made the news. Have you seen this thing on social media all week? Could one hundred men fight one gorilla?

It’s been going around online, Mulaney said had prompted a debate and our writer’s room about whether three fourteen year old boys could beat up me John Mulaney. Mullanie has now vowed to fight three fourteen year old boys. On the season finale on May twenty eighth, Mlani asked, is this legal so far? We think so. It’s not assault.

We know that, and we’re vetting every step of it. I’ve been led to believe that it’s for TV. It’s a lawful practice. Now, Millennie doesn’t seem like the toughest guy in the world, but then again, he also didn’t seem like he had a drug problem, So maybe he’s secretly ripped and secretly tough. Now.

I don’t know if you’ve raised any suns. Three fourteen year old boys could be quite physically imposing. I’m going to bet a dollar on the three fourteen year old boys beating up John Mulaney if they actually do this thing. Sophie Buttle talked about writing monolog for Taylor Tomlinson’s show. During the audition process, they apparently told Sophie the monologu should be about a page, and if it takes you more than an hour or two to write a page, you’re wrong for the job.

Sophie said, I banged it out really fast, and Taylor and I went and hung out. As plan. The next morning, I flew out to a comedy festival. When I landed, my manager has scheduled a zoom. I got to the hotel and we had a meeting with the head writer, the EP some other folks.

They decided they wanted to hire me. I had to leave the comedy festival early so that I could start that Monday. She explained how long it takes to write a first draft. Technically, our day starts at eight thirty am. We get a research packet with a bunch of online trends and options to write jokes about, and I have to be done with the draft by ten.

On Wednesday, they taped two episodes. Hey, that’s the thing, people do. I know one guy who’s taping Friday and Saturday in this session right now. Wednesdays is our double tape day, so I have to do two monologue drafts between eight thirty and ten, and those are much harder. I use the full amount of time on single tape days, so it feels like a truly great feed of human willpower to get two done.

Nay Brighetzi told The New York Times, I don’t plan on touring doing stand up forever. I want to make movies. People can think if you get too big, are you’re gonna change? The audience is very much in mind with everything that I will make again, I try not to do it for me. It’s for you.

I want them, the audience, to be able to trust that keep coming and see that I’m trying to do something a little against the green right now. When I started in comedy, some comics would be like, well, I’m not for everybody, and I’d be like, well, why do you want to not be for everybody? Nate has been saying the next special will be on Netflix, and I could see maybe one more special after that. I don’t want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way.

I need to let the next wave comedians come up. I got this tour and then maybe one more. We’ll see. I’ll believe that when it happens. John Stuart, he’s in a band, and the Asbury Park Press said they play it on Monday night, Church and State TM is Rick Barry on vocals, Andy Bova on guzar, Jim Bova on bass and John Stewart on the drums.

Apparently they were at Georgie’s Bar on Monday night. Stuart joked from the stage, we know almost eight songs tonight you get to hear seven of them. John was also confused and said, you guys, don’t put the Daily Show on at eleven. I drove here straight from the show. This is embarrassing.

Tina Fay worries that people actually believe she’s remaking The Golden Girls with Amy Poehler and told those folks go to a hospital now, no offense. Tina fe and Amy Poehler, it’s actually a great idea. You guys would crush it. Can’t you make like eight of them? For Netflix, just do it and be done.

There’s a fake image floating around. It features Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudro and Tina Fay as the Golden Girls. Tina told Entertainment Tonight, Oh, I didn’t know about this. I liked that it was fooling people like, why would we ever take a picture where Amy and Lusakudro in costume? But we are not.

If this fooled you, you might be a boomer. And if you’re gen X and this fooled you, go to a hospital. The Great American Comedy Festival comes to Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday, June thirteenth. They’ve announced the headliners River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and host Chip Chantry. Night will end with your headliner James Austin john And The festival began in two thousand and eight to honor Johnny Carson, who grew up in the area.

Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festival is back, Baby, this one not until October. It’s his fifth year, featuring international and regional stand up stars at various venues including the Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola arena. So, who’s there, John, Tom Sagora? Who we’re going to talk about tomorrow fun store I’m sitting on. I needed a headline.

I told you I’m taping two. I told you I admitted it. So I saved the Tom Sagora story to Schoogle. Tom sigorat Garth Brooks. If you can’t wait, But that’s tomorrow’s leadoff store.

You know, you know tap of Friday and Saturday back to back. What do you want for me? Sigora will open the festival on October second, then on the fifth, ohmid Julily. On the seventh, it’s Irish comedian Joanne McNally, who previously appeared at the festival in twenty twenty three. Morgan Jay, La based comedian and musician Morgan Jay, who’s been coming up a little bit on the show lately, makes his Dubai debut on October sixth at Dubai Opera and your closer for the festival on October twelfth that Coca Cola Arena.

Indian comedian Zakir Khan Cohn is performing in Hindi. The festival overall will feature shows in several languages, including English, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as interactive experiences across the city. Out today a new comedy album, Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy, recorded live in Montana. Simon Gibson took the stage with high Kicks before sharing several hilarious personal stories, including his time working as a customer service rep, a fancy coffee artist, and deli server, plus his weight gain slash weight loss journey, his hobbyist dad’s homemade magic wands, and more. Simon Gibson is described as Chris Farley meets Sam Kinnison.

Love it. Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy out today from a Special Thing Records, And I’ve got one more John Clees thing that I saved because you know, you like like a little fun, kicker story at the end of the podcast, leave everybody with a smile. It’s kind of the format works, right. It’s the format is like big names at the front, then talk about like some comedy festival overseas, kind of in the middle. At the end, I try and leave it with a smile.

Let’s how this works. You’ve caught onto this, yes, John Cleese. It’s an old brade magazine. The Third Wife got two properties. One was in London and one was in New York, and we had to sell the other three.

What’s the difference between a famous singer and a famous comedian? About two hundred million dollars. If you lose your nest egg at seventy, there’s not much alternative to constantly working. I could have married somebody rich. And that is your comedy news for today.

Boy, I bet you can’t wait to hear that Tom Sigoris story. I know you can’t wait. Well, I’m about to read it, but you can’t hear it until tomorrow because I pre tape Saturday. See yep.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigor is beginning to promote his new Netflix series Bad Thoughts, and he tells Variety Bad Thoughts as everything, prosthetic, genials can join, twins, deep fakes, and one horrified Peruvian mother. Sigora said, we had to watch a few episodes at a private screening room with hidden cameras. She told me, give the money back.

You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again. Bad Thoughts is six episodes. It starts May thirteenth, and it’s described as grotesque, stylized, and brazenly absurd. Variety describes it as black mirror by way of David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg were tripping on mushrooms.

Sgora tells Variety, I always wanted to make movies, and this felt like the first step. I’m trying to be Jordan Peel with penises. It’s interesting how this came together. It started as a few short films that Sigora wrote between tour stops. He pitched them to a director, They did an eleven day shooting.

Then they had enough material to convince Netflix to order the full series. Tom said, I told my wife what we were filming, and she goes, I’ve non here for twenty years and these have been in your head the whole time. The show was produced while Tom Sigora’s wife, Christina Pozitski, was battling cancer. Tom said she was diagnosed in June last year. I told her I’d pause production.

She said, no, go make your show. She was home recovering surgery while I was in full prosthetics acting like a sex crazed mutant. The only note they got from Netflix involved the N word. He also says in South Korea they may have to blur some of the penis shots. Apparently, if it looks too human, it’s a no go.

Brian Cranston almost joined, but Tom says he liked the script, but he didn’t work out. So I just played the part of myself. That’s show bizy, you know. Tom Sagora, Brian Cranston. Bad Thoughts will also compete at the Emmys for Outstanding Short Film, Comedy, Drama or Variety Program.

Bad Thoughts on Netflix May thirteenth, and it’s May already not too far away. This weekend, the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien remember that was the thing that happened. Well, they released a trailer and it’s really strong. Let’s listen. Thank you all for coming, and shame on you for being here.

Conan was like, don’t be cynical, and then collected fifty million dollars. You are the richest underdog in this town. Can you prove that? Not only can you meet your heroes, but when you do, he’ll flirt with your mom. Look, I know this is your knight, but you look like an idiot right now.

You just look at him. You know, the poor bastard never had a chance. I’m a comedian because of you. So after this you’ll be facetiming my parents to apologize. We have five wings here, each hotter than the last.

Oh, this one really saw Yeah, he introduced us to a bear who masturbated through a nightmare. History will show this will have been the most intertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Dam me. David Letterman is still alive today. At four Eastern, Pete Davidson takes over the axe Instagram paid which Pete will host an Axe Me Anything.

I see what you did there? It is a Reddit style ask me Anything. This one focused on confidence and Underdog wins. Pete is also headlining a commercial four acts. It is called short Kings.

In the commercial, Pete Davidson gives a pep talk to a young man insecure about a relationship before spritzing him with his favorite axe sent Pete commented on dating apps, He’s like, it’s just like no, yes, no, it’s so rude, like you don’t even know the person you know. So I really feel bad for this crop of people because I have anxiety, and when I grew up was just flip phones. It was pretty awesome. But the kids today, I don’t even have a shot. So I just hope it changes and other people revert backwards a little bit.

Since Pete is out hawking deodorant, he was asked about deodoran and said, I mean in high school, Axe was a shower. I went to an all boys school and it could be awkward when you’re using the gym, and showering in a school when you’re growing up could be tough. So I always had axe and was just spray it all over and then shower when I got home. Reminds me of growing up and playing basketball outside and having a normal life. My fragrance was Phoenix.

It’s the blue one. I just remember vividly going to CVS with my mom every two to three weeks and getting new bottles. I hate to say this, but it’s kind of how like prime sports drinks are now. Where you collected it was cool to have like four of them on your dresser. There was just something reassuring about it, and you knew that even if you smelled like crap, you’ll be fine if you have it.

So it really brings me back to my childhood. Don’t miss the Axe Me anything. Today at four, Jordan Klepper will do another special for The Daily Show, this one with the really complicated title The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation. Yes there are three colons in that title. In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation.

Jordan Klepper will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during the election. Klepper’s travels take him everywhere from college campuses to MMA octagons. It is Jordan Clepper’s sixth Daily Show branded special. So you might be saying, well, why don’t they just give the Daily Show to Clupper and you are reminded. Oh yeah, remember he hosted the Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was in the post Daily Show spot at one point.

So I don’t know if he’ll get another at bath there anyway. Clipper’s Mega the Next Generation special Monday May nineteenth, eleven thirty pm on Comedy Central will be on Paramount Plus and The Daily Show YouTube channel the next day. The Lost Culturista’s Awards are getting more serious this year. They’ll be on Bravo. These are the awards given out by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.

The Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards recognized culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year through musical performances, special guests, and over one hundred award categories. The awards will be taped in La July seventeenth, will air on Bravo August fifth, I will stream the next day on Peacock. This next story is just fascinating. Dave Thomas from Second City Television remember him now stay with me here. He says that a close call with death in twenty twenty affected his worldview.

He told the Canadian press, I had sepsis and my arms and legs were twice their size. I was in the hospital, I was actually in hospice, and I thought I was basically done. I look back in my life at that time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got no regrets. I had a good run. But he got out and thought, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?

He is seventy five years old. How do I put some meaning into this life before I kick the bucket? So he has headed off to Ukraine. He’s creating a video campaign for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a Key based US registered charity run by one of his friends. The Ukrainian Freedom Fund aims to provide non lethal equipment to outgun Ukrainian forces.

Now I love this paragraph from the Canadian press. I’m going to read it verbatim deliberately because I can’t believe they put this all in the one paragraph. Okay, you ready quote. I looked at the situation the Ukraine and I thought, well, this is terrible and I should try to help, says Thomas, whose credits include nineteen ninety three’s Coneheads, the two thousand and one film Orre at Race, and ninety sitcom Grace under Fire. Why did you have to put his credits there?

Anyway? Dave says this might sound cornery, but I hope in some small way what I do might help raise money that I’ll least suffering, maybe remind people that one person can make a difference if you decide to. You can’t make a difference if you try. Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. This from Entertainment Weekly.

I’m not sure. Chloe Feiyeman realizes what words came out of her mouth. Okay, there’s a TikTok video. Chloe Fineman says she was scolded by a rude restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with Demi Moore and to me’s dog, pe Laff. Fineman says she walked into an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue.

A server led to them the table right away. Fineman explains, there’s several empty tables and I sat down. Then I look up and there’s the dog and Demi Moore and I was like, oh, hi, we met once or twice, and I’ve held Peeloff because Peloff was backstage at an SNL show. Fineman’s sister says, and she said hi back.

Also, Chloe continues, the manager sees me, I don’t know, maybe I had no make…

Did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room at the restaurant? And the guy’s like, what are you doing here? Come with me? And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat, even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It’s very confused.

And here’s the part where I think she doesn’t realize what words came out of her mouth. Chloe Feineman said, I was a calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL. Dude, calm down.

Just because you’re on SNL, you’re not in some extra tier. Chloe says. He was like, I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same. Yes, good job, mister restaurant guy.

I don’t care that you’re on SNL. We have rules here at the restaurant. Follow the rules. You can be on SNL all you want. You don’t get special class.

Fineman recalled, and I was like, you’re being rude, and he’s like, you’re being rude anyway. I don’t want to get into details. Well, let’s say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a caring moment.

I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f somebody sounds a little entitled, but I wasn’t there. I don’t know. And in Philly, where people are even more friendly than they are in New York. It’s Variety Pack, a two weekend festival of Philadelphia’s weirdest all to comedy acts, not just stand up, not just improv, not just sketch, little bit of everything. It kicks off tonight through the third and then again May eighth through the tenth at the Drake Theater.

Producer Chaz Martin says, Philly is full of weirdos. We have incredible stand ups, brilliant improv in an emerging sketch comedy scene, but there’s been a void when it comes to truly wild, out of the box comedy. That space used to belong to the beloved Good Good Comedy, which closed in twenty twenty. Variety Pack is here to bring that spirit back. If you like your comedy weird and unpredictable.

This festival is for you. It kicks off tonight with Have You Seen My House? A Whirlwind cabaret featuring the songs of Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Moore. Other shows this week and include Cartoon Club, The Entire Effing Twilight Saga in sixty Minutes and clip Show, a live comedy show hosted by character actresses are Eric Thomas and Chris Newcomer. And yesterday I promised I’d finish off that John Clees article.

He spoke with the Hollywood Reporter. They were curious about the pythons fighting. They’ve seemed to always be fighting, and John said, if you look at the history of most groups, you’ll find there’s always quarrels at some I think we’ve done quite well. What people often don’t understand about a team is that a team is not composed of all people who do the same things well. It’s a group of people who do different things well.

Terry Gilliam, at an early stage, decided he just wanted to direct movies. Eric Iidel didn’t really come forward until the nineteen eighty three is in the Meaning of Life. Because Eric is very, very strong on music, and particularly on lyrics. Michael Palin, who always loved travel, did some travel programs. Terry Jones did all sorts of things.

Graham Chapman was two people. Really. He was Chapman sober, who was an extraordinary good writer and a really fine actor, and Chapman drunk, who wasn’t awfully good in anything and couldn’t remember his lines. Whereas I like comedy and I very much enjoy simple pleasure making audiences laugh, very different people, so inevitably, as we get older and become slightly more authentic, we go in different directions. And that’s your comedy news for today.

See tomorrow