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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mackwick, your Daily Comedy News. After three years in Las Vegas, skank Fest moving to New Orleans. There will be more than one hundred and fifty comedians performing on four stages, plus podcast tapings, a tattoo studio, fights in a custom built boxing ring, and more, all inside Marty Gras World Today through the weekend. The event was created in New York a decade ago by the Legion of Skanks podcast Louis Gomez, Big Jay Okerson, and Dave Smith.
This year’s lineup include Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope, Rosebud Baker, Sam Tallent, Mark Norman, Sean Patten, and many more. I will tell you right right there, that’s a better lineup than the New York Comedy Festival. Co founder and organizer Rebecca Trent explains when they were in Vegas, it was harder to do the boxing events because boxing is controlled as a sanctioned sport. But in New Orleans, apparently whatever you want to do there will be comedian jiu ju to pillow fights, but slapping fights and more. It is called Skangfest, So don’t be like what that’s outratous.
It’s called s Gangfest. There are scheduled boxing bouts between affiliated companies, interns, and a battle Royale on Sunday. Trent explains, there’s gonna be stun guns involved, and we have all these crazy, silly fights. Now, it’s kind of an interesting setup. The stage will be active from noon until two am every day, but they don’t announce the lineup until like I don’t know, like day of so I can’t even tell you like, oh, go at eight o’clock and go see somebody, because there’s no schedule.
Now, listen to this lineup. I am going to read you a million names here because again, uh, New York Comedy Festival. I’m not feeling it this year. But listen to what Skangfest is put together. Okay, I won’t read every name, but i’ll read you names you would know.
Aeron Berg, Adrian Appalucci, harryel Elias Big, Jay Okerson, Bonnie McFarlane, Brad Williams, Brian Redman, Dan Soder, Dan Saint Germain, Dave Attel, I said Dave, and then I said Attel. Right there, it’s better than the New York Comedy Festival. Doug Stanhope Eddie Peppatone, Eric Griffin, Felippia Sparza, Godfrey, Greg Fitzimmons, Harlan Williams, Ian Finance, Jeff Die, Jimmy Door, Joe List, Josh Adam Myers, Kurt Metzger, Louis Gomez, Mark Normant, Matt McCusker, Michael ian Black, Nick Vaderat, Rachel Feinstein, Rich Voz, Bobby Kelly Rose, Bud Baker, Sam Jay, Sam Talent, Sam Tripoli, Sean Donnelly, Sewn Patton, Shane Gillis, Steve Ranazizi, Tim Dillon, Tony Hingecliff and Yaminika Saunders. I mean that is no joke. That lineup.
This is really good. They have some FAQs in case you’re curious. Shows run from eleven a m. Till this is midnight every day. Maybe it’s not till two am with overlapping sets, secret shows and late night Manness.
No reservations. Skang FESTUS general admission. There will be twelve live stream shows available through their new live streaming partner VEEPS. There’s a vendor village, a hub for food, drinks, tattoos, birch and partner activations. Expect everything from custom voodoo dolls to late night goodies.
Pretty impressive. A friend of the show, Scott Beckett, He’s good at sending me stories, but not so good at football picks. I mean, he’s okay, but he’s not Johnny Mick. He sent me this one about Nikki Glaser. I think, is this the one you sent me, Scott?
I don’t know. It was like two weeks ago. I know he sent me something about Nikki Glaser. It’s a lot going on here in the basement, trust me. Anyway.
Niki Glazer was talking about the Amazon Alexa Plus. Nicki said, Alexa Plus basically knows me better than I know myself, and she has really stepped her game up. And you’ll see in the commercial. She even reminds me when I have therapy. Do you think my therapist knows how many protein bars eight per week?
She probably should because it’s bordering on an addiction, But Alexa Plus reminds me when they’re running low, so she’s aware of my problem and she’d better not tell Donna. Well, Nikki Glaser, has your Alexa ever made you laugh? Now? The interviewer messed up here. They didn’t play ball.
They just said Alexa they’re supposed to say, Alexa Plus, pay attention, Nicki’s hawking a product here. You gotta get this right, Nicki said, Alexa Plus honestly makes me laugh all the time. I don’t stop talking when I get off stage, so it’s nice to have someone listen. When I’m alone in a hotel at a casino in the middle of Iowa. One of my favorite things to do is to ask her to be sassy that way if I’m missing my family on the road.
That’s as close as she can come to nailing the tone of my sister. All Right, Nikki Glaser, what’s the weirdest, most unexpected question you’ve ever asked? If you were Alexa Plus, come on, interviewer, you’re supposed to say plus, Nicki said, Okay, I’m being honest. I just looked it up. What does it mean when you dream that you crushed a snake’s head with your bare hands and you feel its skull crushing and blood comes out of its ears.
Alexa Plus told me that this dream could mean I’m trying to overcome a fear. Vulture caught up with Stavros Hawkysts, who once said that he couldn’t be forty and still hosting his previous podcast, you know, the one with the vulgar name. The second word was town. Stavros said, I’m not going to sit here and tell you when we started the show, we had some grand theory to be like, oh, oh, we’re going to get back at these people who were trying to get people fired for old tweets. Now we were in our mid twenties, broke.
We didn’t like those people, and we were mean spirited comedians about a bad life. I thought that was going to be ten episodes of the show. I didn’t care if we were offensive. I had nothing to lose. Then, once the show started making me money, I bought my family a house.
I would have done actually awful stuff at thirty grand I would have done a minor crime for that. But I do think when you see where we were at the time, it was when Trump was first coming up. We weren’t fans of that. We did have left politics, but we never really made that a focal point because I don’t think that’s what comedians should do. But I do think it’s a natural thing.
You get these people who don’t like what’s going on culturally. You would train in open mics for a decade. You also have a chip on your shoulders. You put all that in a blunder, you naturally get this knee jerk rebellion, which I think is important. Young people should be able to make fed up jokes and have it not ruined their lives and be cast out for a specific thing forever.
Shane gillis being the obvious example, but it’s a young person’s game. It’s kind of being like, if you dad, you could argue twenty eight was too late. We were just emotionally and mentally stunted guys. Even if people our age keep doing that style of comedy, it should exist, but it also changes with the times. Honestly, I think for some twenty year old the equivalent would be me making Charlie Kirk jokes at this point, as it’s what the dominant culture says you’re not allowed to do.
Instead of making fun of people who want to get you canceled, it would be making fun of this weird culture where people are taking their cues from the president, which is pathetic. That would be transgressive in the way that ironic racism. Making fun of I’m with Her. During Hillary’s campaign was the South Park creators talked to The New York Times about their decision to do a lot of Trump stuff. Trey Parker said, it’s not that we got all political.
It’s that politics became pop culture. I feel you hosting this podcast every day. I get it. Trey said, it’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look, whether it’s the actual government or whether it’s all the podcasters and the tiktoks and the youtubes and all that, and it’s all political and political. Because it’s more than political, it’s pop culture.
Matt Stone said the show always sought out new taboos. Trey and I are like attracted to that, like flies to honey. Oh that’s where the taboo is over there, Okay, then we’re over there. Barker said, we’re just very down the middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make fun of.
We did it for years with woke thing that was hilarious to us, and this is hilarious to us. A spoke person for the White House said this show hasn’t been relevant for over twenty years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas. In a desperate attempt for attention, President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history, and no fourth rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak. South Park’s twenty eighth season continues until December tenth. Cracked dot com reporting that Polly Shore has gotten himself banned from Kill Tony What do you do to get banned from Kill Tony Well?
According to various accounts, Pauli Shore was so irritating that the Kill Tony Gang has banned him. Paully Shore posted a video saying I thought it was good, but I don’t know if you guys saw the episode. Tony Hinchcliff basically said I’m going to kick your butt if you don’t stop effing around. Paully Krack says, Sure definitely was effing around. They encourage you to check out the twenty one minute thirty second mark where Tony asked Paully Shore for a stack of note cards full of jokes.
Sure offers up one of the cards, then another, and then doesn’t hand over the pile. Tony said, it’s not how it works, Paully. I you’re playing on doing this for the next two hours. You could shove that wig in your mouth, buddy, Paullie says he was just trying to be funny, but after the show, he took me aside. All his security guards took me aside and they asked me to never come back now.
Polly says Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership is off limits to him on Mondays when Kill Tony tapes, but on the other nights, Pauli Shore says he’s allowed to play little Boy the club’s smaller room. Here’s why. The only reason I’m allowed to play the baby room is because it’s literally above bar Mitzi’s at the Mothership. Mitzi’s Bar is named after Paulie Shore’s mother, Mitzi Shore, who ran the comedy store in LA for decades. Oh that’s all kinds of awkward, Pauli Shore continued, Kill Tony, if you’re out there, I love you.
When I understand, I wouldn’t put me back on the show either, I affed up your whole rhythm. It’s the number one podcast in the world. You don’t want me on there. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds, and it is Comedy stock Market. So if you’re new to this, here’s what we do.
We try and make hypothetical money where we buy low on people whose proferbial stock is a little low, and we sell high on people who are at peak value. It is not a judgment whether or not someone who’s good or bad. We’re just looking for value. Here’s my recommendation on a buy this week. Let’s buy Pete Holmes because I think Pete’s been a little under the radar and people forget how good Pete Holmes is on stage.
And I’ll talk about Pete Holmes in a minute. Let’s hold on Nikki Glaser. I could recommend this either way. Should we buy some Nicky Glazer coming off SNL and the Golden Globes is coming, or should we sell Nicki Glazier because you know that monologue wasn’t all that great and maybe she’s a good roast comedian and the more we expose Niki, the less heat they’ll be on Nicki. Is that a possibility?
I’m not sure. And you’re walking away in on that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. So we’ll hold our Niki Glazer. We’ll see how that goes. I think we I’ve already sold our Pete Davidson.
Can we sell even more Pete Davison Pete’s appearances. He’s not helping himself. None of these projects are happening. THERI odd thing didn’t help. Making a joke about your father dying doesn’t help.
None of this is a good look. So if we have any Pete Davidson left, let’s sell it. Let’s sell our James Austin Johnson stock. I’m very SNL heavy this week on the Seals. I just think that Trump impression is spiraling down.
He needs to reset it. He’s basically doing an impression of himself doing Trump. It’s gone now. He needs to start over. So we’ll sell.
Let’s sell Cam Patterson stock. If you had any, I don’t get it. I don’t know why Lorne Michael’s put him on the show. We’re four or five episodes in and I don’t think Cam’s done anything other than a line here and there. He’s not good at it.
Sell Cam Patterson, Let’s buy some Keenan Thompson. If you watch SNL every week, he’s the glue. He is holding that show together this season. I mean, Bowen Yang is a star, Sarah Sherman is a star, but it’s Keenan Thompson who’s just reliable in sketches and you can always throw him out there and he’s going to deliver. So let’s buy some Keenan Thompson all right?
At the New York Comedy Festival tonight, Pete Holmes, go see Beat Holmes the next chance you get. Perhaps tonight at town Hall. He is fantastic. Now the New York Comedy Festival, you’ve heard me and go on and on about how the lineup is unimpressive. We do have some names.
Tonight boy Todd Glass again, is there like some crazy demand for Todd Glass that he’s playing every night of the New York Comedy Festival? Like, what is that about? I’m doing this podcast for years and years and worked at Serious for a decade before that. His name never comes up, and he’s every night at the New York Comedy Festival. What’s going on seven thirty at the Beacon Theater back from the ri Odd Comedy Festival.
It’s the not so canceled Louis C.K. I don’t think Louis c. K is as welcome back as some articles would make you believe. Does he have his audience? Can he make money?
Can he sell out Madison Square Garden? Yes? But I don’t think the mainstreams ever Letting Louis back in, although the New York Comedy festal Well has them back in and he’s at the Beacon Theater tonight. Ck far and away the biggest name at the festival period. I was going to say tonight, but period a second show by Todd Glast nine o’clock.
I don’t know what’s going on there. It’s just so strange. I’m just scrolling down here. J McBride. I like j McBride a lot, right.
Jane McBride’s at the Tiny Cupboard at ten fifteen and comics to watch at a minute before midnight at the Venue on Music Row at the hard Rock. But yeah, not a lot of big names again. Our friends at the Flyover Comedy Festival at Saint Louis, they have mastered scheduled technology. Clicking on it here is a nice big grid makes it very easy for podcast hosts to get a feel for what’s going on. So Beth Stelling’s got two shows at the Java at seven and nine the Sclar Brothers, or at Tropical Liqueurs they’re doing tag It with the Scollar Brothers that’s at nine o’clock, and a bunch of other shows at the Flyover Comedy Festival.
Greg Proops has an album out out today. Can we give him the Grammy Award? This one is called Free State of California Today. On a special Things Records recorded live at the Punchline in San Francisco last New Year’s Eve, Proops railed on the state of everything, dressed up in his subservic wit, proopism, sarcasm, and masterful wordplay. Greg will record another live album at the Punchline at San Francisco this New Year’s Eve.
Also on December thirtieth two shows anybody Else’s Voice Giving out on a day when you need to record a bunch I am. The Toronto Guardian has a good recurring column where they talk about comedians who maybe you don’t know as well. One of them is Sachim Sharma. He was asked how he describes his comedy and said, after quick google, I’ve learned I’m an absurdist, satirical, clowning, evangelical, but then says I made that when up seeking revenge via comedy. Who are your influences?
Explains I grew up in India. As Indians, we’re huge fans of clowning. In general. We have at least one clown per household. Indian wedding functions are a great clowning exhibition.
I consider myself so lucky to have a great circle of friends, family and cousins. We love getting in trouble and keep heightening the states on purpose. Who’s your favorite comedian now? I love Melissa McCarthy. I hated Sasha Baron Cohen when I watched him and bore out at first, but now I endure him and like everything he did and is doing.
I also really like Michael Keegan Key, which is not the guy’s name. The guy’s name is Keegan Michael Key. Maybe there’s a different guy who’s Michael Keegan Key who’s also funny. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong. What’s your pre show ritual?
Charma says, Usually I get nervous, and my pre show ritual is just to be aware of being in that condition. Sometimes I try to do the opposite of what a scared mammal would do. I make contense eye contact with co performers, be purposely vulnerable, expose my weak spots, and that it’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. The number has been really good.
Thank you Jimmy Kimmel and Ri Odd, Comedy Festival and the Fascists, everybody that’s all been good for the show. I’ll see tomorrow