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Caloroga Shark Media Jess. When I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. No, this is a different episode. This isn’t Friday again. Hello, it’s Saturday and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
So here’s what happened in real life. I recorded Friday’s episode and then you have to do what’s called the bounce where it takes all the individual tracks and it shrinks it down, and then later I edited. So during the bounce it takes like a minute. I pulled out my phone and I had a message from Well it was a DM you know who you are. Somebody from the Facebook group sent me a video by an artist called crack Amco.
The title is re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr. I had no intention five minutes ago of putting this in the script, but here in the video, I’m going to play clips now. Most of these words said in this video I want no part of. But as part of this ongoing topic of where are we with all these people, crack Amiko went after these folks hard. There’s a lot of photo shopping here.
I’m staring at an image of Bill Burr wearing something that I’m not sure Bill actually wears. It’s a sort of garb you might wear in a desert climate. The lyrics in crack Amiko’s video very very edgy, at times inappropriate. So I’m going to do many many a machete edits here Esse you can get a feel of what’s going on in the comedy community. You’ll find this on YouTube if you want to watch it.
Crack Amco’s re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr heavily edited by John Yo. It’s Billy Burke. Yeah, we get read money, baby? Whoa christ Stephano, Chris. I had to let you know this festival might rest your Sola Conan and the Eskimos.
To have the soldier drop must not be making no sense. Just the roastmaster general demoted to lieutenant. I’m the lord of this landa. I’m evicting these chot tenants who didn’t expect Tommy Buns to take the Saudi funds. Probably fall Rolex.
He don’t give the kids a Mommy nun Assez needs this. I’m ruined for him in the yen because how could you get canceled for being a horny Indian. I can’t believe what I’m seeing is Pete David c made a lot of money, but I guess he ain’t for saving none. Never forget well, I guess he forgot now he performing for the animals that took out his pot. Helen Lewis in The Atlanta wrote about going to actually see a show at the Riodd Comedy Festival.
Helen writes the Louis c. K gig was held in Riond’s Entertainment district. The Boulevard, a glorified parking lot that’s also home to a WWE Experience in e sports arena, a numerous stores selling comic book figurines. Last year, the district hosted a pop up Harry Potter World, allowing Saudi Arabians to imagine they were playing qudditture drinking non alcoholic butter beer. It’s giving ahead to promote the comedy festival.
The entire place was decked out with an expansive pho neon, signs of ungrammatical menace, you weren’t laugh from this way and ha ha ha, and statues of the festival’s mascot, a giant smiling microphone with arms and legs I walked past made for Instagram, street furniture and a professional photographer taking a picture of a smiling family dad, two kids, and a mom in a full face veil, skipping ahead. I had worried about attracting attention by taking notes during the show, and so instead of a reporter’s pad, I had brought a pastel pink gratitude journal, which I’ll expense. The crowd was mostly male, just like it is at American comedy nights, and the much shorter female security line was staffed by brisk women’s covered and I believe the pronunciation is nie cobbs. I was unfamiliar with the term. I’m looking it up here a face veil covering the lower part of the face up to the eyes.
She talked about the lineup. The opener Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell. Maxwell, followed by Ibraheim al keh Ralla, a Saudi comedian who this article in The Atlantic tells us is big on Arabic language YouTube. Then Jimmy Carr bounded on stage. Helen Lewis writes about three quarters of cars usual materials based on the premise that he’s a sex offender, this event was no exception.
He made a joke about how his rape fantasy is someone goes to jail for rape. He riffed about euthanasia, saying we wouldn’t let a dog live like this, and yet people are allowed to go on living. In what can only be described as pause for timing, Yemen were told the audience gasped. Jimmy carry asked any lesbians here tonight. We’re told they were silence.
Jimmy paused for effect and then said, of course not. It’s a comedy show headliner, and Louis C.K. Came out, got a lot of cheers. But interestingly, I don’t have any information about what CK’s set was about, so I’d love to tell you I don’t know. Tig Nataro in the News, she was on Breaking Bread with Tom Poppa and said Cheryl Hines was one of my favorite friends to be ridiculous with, and we made each other laugh so hard, and I love documentaries, and it was fun to watch a documentary every week.
They used to do a podcast together, Tig and Cheryl True Story. So Tig said, it was fun to watch a documentary every week, but we also took the pressure off because we’d talk about other things, like who are attracted to in this documentary? But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Junior. When he was announcing his run, I felt like I needed to step away because there were beliefs that were like a nant on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight. Kathy Griffin catching some attention she made a claim that Donald Trump did not win a free and fair election last year.
She said this on her own YouTube show. I’m going to point out that Donald Trump did win a free and fair election. I’m also going to point out that four years earlier, Joe Biden won a free and fair election, despite what some other people might think, and four years before that, Donald Trump won a free and fair election. Texas Representative Troy Nils was one of the one hundred and twenty seven GOP lawmakers who objected to Arizona’s electors during the Electoral College certification process in twenty twenty one. That was the election that Joe Biden fairly won.
He was critical of Kathy Griffin’s election denialism. He wrote on Twitter that Kathy Griffin is the face of Trump de arrangement syndrome. Right wing account of TikTok posted Kathy Griffin is now denying the results of the twenty twenty four election. I was told that denying election results is a threat to our democracy. Literally shaking right now.
And that’s just where we are in comedy right now. I know I’ve been super out of character political lately, but you know, hey, that’s where we are. Current Affairs dot Org are going to talk to John Marco, Sirraisi, commenting on Tim Dillon, Dylan is starting to lose me as well. His episodes lately I find are less and less compelling. John Marco said, I think Tim Dillon, who half the time I get ticked off by what he does.
There are other times he’s the one who’s willing to say something so critical allbeit and aroundabout way, that it gets him disinvited. I think there’s a real honor in a comedian getting disinvited from the political thing, and to go to the political thing and be so subversive or so critical that they do what Michelle Wolf did at the White House Correspondence dinner, where they canceled it the next year. I say, put her in the legends of comedy, because that’s what you do. Now, maybe I’ll be mistaken. Maybe one of these comedians will go to the Reotcom festival.
It’d be so punchy that they put him in jail and it becomes the whole thing. And you know what, if that happens, I’ll go okay to Shay No, that did not happen. Furthermore, if they are subversive, if they do even one koshogi joker, one nine to eleven joke, ultimately they’re being used to present the government there as kind of chilling fun and engage with us, and there’s nothing weird going on here. It’s one thing to perform in a country, and it’s another thing to be hired by the government as part of an explicit propaganda project. John Marco points out comedians were never meant to have this much money to begin with.
The Court Jester was never supposed to have a cheer next to the king. That’s kind of where we’re at. Listen, I want money. I live in a capitalist world. I want comforts.
There’s something beautiful about the way I make the majority of my money. There are a number of people who want to see me. There’s a middle man, of course, but they’re kind of paying directly to see me. There’s an exchange of goods for money in this particular realm. The government is using money so they can use your face for their own purposes.
The show doesn’t matter to them. You can bomb You still aren’t making a statement. They’re using your face and they’ve been using it for the past month to be like, hey, we’re cool, don’t worry about those things we did. And speaking of money, here’s how Johnny Mack makes a living. Broadway’s funniest writers, actors and composers are coming together to share how they keep audiences laughing.
It is punchline and power ballads. Broadways Funniest Artists the first ever Broadway panel to be part of the programming at this year’s New York Comedy Festival that’s just like three weeks away now, the country’s biggest and longest running annual comedy festival. Wow, yeah, I guess that is true. It hasn’t been going on that long. Rachel Dratch, We’ll chat with a lineup of writers and actors from Tony Olivier and Emmy Award winning and nominated hit comedies Broadway Comedy Club Sunday, November sixteenth, six thirty pm.
Adam Gilbert was asked the best comedy advice and the worst comedy advice he ever got, he said, best advice probably the time Tim Northern said let a joke take you places. I’ve thought about that phrase so much over the past decade. It’s a great piece of advice. You aren’t forcing a joke somewhere, You’re trying to find it and use the audience as a metronome. Worst advice, dude, you gotta go on kill Tony.
Oh that’s harsh. Ah. The Monty Pythons are fighting again. John Cleese said, very upset to see that Rick Idol is once again attacking Holly Gilliam. I want to make it clear that Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and I are totally satisfied with Holly’s work.
Holly, I guess has been managing the company. Eric Idol commented, I don’t think the company has been as well looked after as it might have been. I always want an older manager, someone who’s wise and not related to Terry Gilliam. Wow idle set of John Clees. We don’t disagree about comedy.
This is only about money. I mean, a fool and his money are easily parted six of us much more quickly. Clees has endorsed Holly’s management, calling her very efficient, clear minded, hard working and pleasant to have dealings with. And that is your comedy news on a Saturday. All right, meet you back here tomorrow.