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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Things starting to settle back into normal. Hey, do you support fascism? Or did you cancel Disney Plus and Hulu like you were supposed to when they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air?
You canceled, right, you don’t have Hulu, Well, then you’re not going to be able to see Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming special. Now. Sebastian’s career apparently has not been too damaged by his choice to play the Riod Comedy Festival, because Hulu has announced that Sebastian Maniscalco’s it Ain’t Right Boy he works hard on those titles. His new special is going to premiere Friday, November twenty first on Hulu. The special takes its name from Maniscalco’s recent tour spanning twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.
He played places like Chicago and Riod, but this hour was filmed at the United Center Arena in Chicago, and we’re told the commite goes all in on family chaos, aging, killing journalists, and the little things that drive us all nuts. Oh sorry, mister that family, chaos, aging, and the little things that drive us all nuts. I should edit that, shouldn’t I? Yeah, the humble brag here tells us a Sebastian Menascalco ranked among the top twenty five global tours overall, was named one of Billboard’s top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four, and was the only comedian to appear in Pollstar’s top twenty global concert tours of twenty twenty five. So you can see his career terribly damaged by appearing at the Riod Comedy Festival.
Another comedian who appeared at the Reod Comedy Festival is Bill Burr. I just now saw that he did put out a Monday podcast late on Monday. I just skimmed the transcript. I don’t think he talked about Riod at all. He talked mostly about football, going to see the USC game, and a little bit about New York City.
But I didn’t see anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival, so I think he’s moved on from that. I’m sure his career was terribly hurt. I did see, as as recording that Amy Poehler’s podcast The Guest Is azi’son’ Sorry, which I think last week a lot more people realized azi’son Sorry he’s a douchebag. I mean, I’ve been hinting at that since I started this podcast, but I think last week everybody went, oh, that guy’s a douchebag. Well, Amy Polar apparently doesn’t feel that way.
They were co stars on Parks and rec of course, and she had him on the podcast. I just did a search on Apple podcast transcripts. I searched for the word re Odd. It does not appear in the transcript. I search for the word Saudi.
It does not appear in the transcript. But I did search for the word festival to make sure the search function was working. And there is a mention of a Z’s at a film festival during the podcast, so it appears Apple podcast transcript search is working, and they did not discuss Razi’s going to the Riodd Comedy Festival. But I haven’t actually listened to Aidmy Poehler’s episode, and the chances of me listening to an hour of Amy Polar with A Z’s I’m sorry or zero, they’re actually zero, so you’ll have to tell me. On Netflix announced that there Eddie Murphy documentary called Being Eddie Well airon Netflix Wednesday, November twelfth.
The log line tells us it goes without saying, that there is only one Eddie Murphy. No other teen comedian shared a stage with Jerry Seinfeld at seventeen and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live right out of high school. No actor has ever played a cop, a doctor, and a donkey. Oh right. I was like, Eh, somebody must have played a cop and a doctor, but a donkey.
You might have me there and dominated every facet of Hollywood. He’s touched fewer. Still have been an a less celebrity for over four decades and never succumbed to its darker side. I don’t know about that latter part. You could google Eddie Murphy and all sorts of things will come up.
Maybe just because I’ve been entertainment adjacent for three decades that I know stuff. For example, I typed in a phrase I will tell you what I typed in, but surfaced a story from Yahoo from twenty seventeen when Eddie Murphy was stopped by police with dot dot dot, And you can do your own Google search for that phrase and see what comes up. So let’s not make it sound like Eddie’s been at church for forty years anyway. Being Eddie explores the unusual combination of explosive chrisma, folks to ambition, raw talent, and deep set circumscision that put Murphy in a league of his own. Appearing in the documentary or Senni O Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, who was just at the Reod Comedy Festival, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Michael J.
Pete Davidson, whose father was killed a nine to eleven. Pete was recently at the Riod Comedy Festival, and Tracy Morgan and a bunch of others. John m’laney is going to direct Robbie Hoffman’s debut Netflix special. They first met when Robbie Hoffman guessed that on Everybody’s Live this will be filmed next week at the Masonic Lodge. I was just in front of that building.
Why didn’t you film that while I was there? I could have gone. It will mark Hoffman’s first comedy special in nearly seven years and her debut for Netflix. Mlanie announced this on stage during his tour he was in San Diego. Brought Robbie Hoffman on stage and said she’s one of my absolute favorite comedians and friends alive.
The next day on Instagram, Malini confirmed it, writing I’m very excited to announce I’ll be directing Robbie Hoffman’s new Netflix special. Malini told a story about Hoffman’s outdoor set on Sunday night, was interrupted by her own car alarm. Gary Goleman until the Third Coast Review was hard to build material for the first twenty years. The main reason was how difficult it was to get on stage from more than five or ten minutes. Whenever I did, I didn’t want to try something brand new, so I’d add something that had already worked.
Sometimes the story’s true parts had been explained, and then you had to start hitting it from different angles to make the joke longer. He explains how his Trader Joe’s joke is about a woman cutting me in line, but then it becomes about imagining her life outside Trader Joe’s. The story itself was basic. There were some older women around me, and I made an ass of myself. But it’s interesting how your compass can be.
This story is different than other comedians. I don’t hear anyone else talking about abbreviating the states. It’s fun to tell that should be the compass. No one else is doing it, and it’s fun, then you won’t give up on it. It’s like when you think of a sentence and it’s already on a website or in a play.
Thinking of something original that you can’t find online that no one else is doing. That’s a really good aim. It provides pride. You see dozens of comedians doing versions of Patrise O’Neil or David Tell or prior or Carlin. I forget who said it, but imitation is like suicide.
You’re killing yourself in a sense. But it comes back to not getting a lot of stage time and needing to use it efficiently. That’s where my low self esteem being attached to how the joke went actually helped. I was afraid a new joke would bomb, so I didn’t want to take the chance deal. Hughlee spoke to The Daily News online about crowd work and said, I used to be really famous for that.
I love CrowdWork, but after a while you want to show people you’re tapped in what’s going on. I don’t do it as much as I used to the older you get, the more you’ve been around, he rely on other things. He explained why they never did a sequel to the original Kings of Comedy. Some of the reasons include Bernie Mack passing away in two thousand and eight and Steve Harvey a hosting family feud and retiring from stand up. Deale said, we didn’t do a sequel.
We let it rest. Nothing approximates your first kiss. Nothing is quite as dynamic as that one. Thinking of the chores, like flipping through your wedding album. It’s a fond memory, but not something top of mind.
I’m still very proud of what we did. Then cool article on Vulture It is the twenty twenty five TikTok survival guide for comics who want to get paid. They shared some stats. The average video length on Matt Rife’s one hundred and ninety three tiktoks posted in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. The average video length of rice one hundred ninety three tiktoks was two minutes twenty seconds, which is over double the supposed industry best practice of quick hitting clips.
That’s interesting, right. The average length of his ten most viewed TikTok’s three nineteen, his ten most liked three point thirty six, his ten most shared four forty two. Emily Watson posted her entire special fixed on TikTok, where it received three times as many views as it did on YouTube. Viewers save the full video returned to it, and she still carved out a dozen additional videos to clip up and monetize separately. That guy, Jay Leno, he’s the worst.
He was talking about why he got a watch nerve of that guy. Yeah, he was at Los Angeles’ premier watch collectors gathering, the Neighborhood Watch Club. Haha, very plenty title there Watch Officionados, and Jay Leno was there. He was wearing a Buruguette Classique sobscription twenty twenty five And I probably didn’t even pronounce that right, jay Leno snob. We’re told that watch reduces the timetelling process to a single blued steel hand set against a white enamel background with bruge numerals.
Wow, fancy schmancy. It’s a stunning tribute to both the company founder and as well as the brand’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries. So if you want to walk around while you’re popping off thinking you know anything about hosting a late night television show and you want to look sharp. Yeah, you get one of these watches. That guy.
Jay Leno said, It’s amazing that something designed two undred fifty years ago still looks the same. It’s basically the same watch. It sounds like something he would say, right, especially because it’s a direct quote. Does sound like something he was You’re losing the bitch on Bridge was more of an artist as well as a mechanical genius, said j Leno. Luckily they asked him what draws you to a watch?
Jay said, I know when I see it, something stands out. I like classical design using modern techniques. There’s a lot of science and a lot of technology, but it still looks classical. I know I have to go home and wind my watch. I enjoy that.
It’s the same with cars. They require a certain amount of me and it’s it’s an emotional connection. You either get it or you don’t. Geleb Beard spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about narrowing down what stories made it into his special Caleb said, there’s a lot of things that got left on the cutting room floor. Every part of it calls for a different thing, Like when you’re moving from something political, sometimes want to get a little more political right after that, and sometimes you want to veer into something that’s a palate cleanser.
You’re thinking of it in fifteen to thirty and sixty minute chunks. You want to think of the holistic piece, but also the experience from five minutes to five minutes. That’s really smart and really it’s not just looking the whole body at the first hour. It’s like, Okay, every joke I’ve ever told is technically on the table for this, except maybe what I’ve done on Comedy Central, And you go, okay, what fits? What makes a full compelling picture here?
What feels like a piece and not just some guy rambling, although I think parts of it is just some guy rambling, which I’m okay with. But part of making those selections is just going, what is the piece asking for? What does it need right here? See? This is really smart, really well thought out.
And I saw this one. I thought the spin on this one was a little ridiculous. Press release, I guess for Data Vault, they announced the development of its joke token technology, designed to safeguard comedic content and establish copyright protection for comedians. Okay, They showcased this at a live event over the weekend. The system uses blockchain and AI to me unique digital tokens for original jokes, while recording audience laughter metrics as proof of authenticity.
So I guess you’re up on stage and you’re doing your set and Robin Williams is there, but luckily you recorded your set and the technology goes, oh, no, john just did an original joke. Robin Williams can’t steal it, and we’ll add blockchain and digital voodoo to it so that when Robin Williams does my joke at the laugh Factory, we can be like, hey, that’s Johnny Max joke. Something like that. The technology addresses copyright infringement issues common in the comedy industry by creating immutable records of jokes and enabling monetization through smart contracts. So they got professional comedian Karen Fihn who were told Isa Beard on Netflix in Comedy Central.
Karen Fihann said, the technology gives me an automated means by which I can make an immutable record of the jokes I create. I love that she parodied back the legalies of I could make an immutable record of the jokes I create and the copyright protection to which I’m entitled. Is that a real quote professional could You didn’t care and fee and sounds like somebody had a decent words and said, hey, do you mind saying you said this? But what do I know? I wasn’t there, And that if your Caddy Comedy News on a Wednesday, AH see you tomorrow.