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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedians in the comedy industry, a freeze that will boost your Spotify numbers by twenty percent. But I can’t bog down on that right now, because the folks at the Hollywood Reporter they watched Free Bert on Netflix, and uh yeah, sounds like pretty much what I thought it was gonna be their headline. Bert Kraser strips away the shirtless party boy persona, but also the laughs. Uh oh.
They have compared this to his often partner Tom Sagora, The Hollywood Reporter, right, Sigora used his opportunity to deliver twenty twenty five’s Bad Thoughts, a vig yet driven sketch show that steered into everything that is amiably off putting and in your face about sigora stand up slash podcast persona. Bad Thoughts might be a show primarily for established Toom Sagora fans, but man, if you’re a Tompsagora fan, it’s on brand. On the surface, it appears that Krasier’s Free Bird aspires to something more like what Dave did for Dave Little Dicky Bird or buck Gist did for Pete Davidson? Did bub GISs do anything for Pete Davidson? Pete Walked Away Man, wherein it takes a comic with a specific and established persona and says, what if we show you the human behind the stick?
Or perhaps what Krascher is doing with free Bert is almost a parody of that genre. It’s hard to tell for sure, because although Free Bird is successful on some level, it’s not especially funny, and when free Bert is funny, it’s actually funny because of the three teenage girls who were Krascher’s co stars. The article that then gets into plot spoilers and they tag it with free Bert proves there’s more to Bird. Krascher. I’m just not sure this is the best vehicle for it, so I haven’t seen it yet as I record this Thursday at three pm in the afternoon.
It’s on my list of things to watch last night in your Universe. But this was the question I had off the trailer. Who is this for? It seems dumbed down for the Bird audience, but too naughty for the non Bird audience, so I don’t know who the show is for. Bert also got the Big Wax Job interview from The Hollywood Reporter.
They’re curious how did this project come to be? Bert Kreischer said, here’s genesis. I was fired from the Travel Channel. Everything was going away for me and I had to refigure out who I was, and I was having an identity crisis. At the same time, we were at a school for my daughters where it felt like everyone I had money, everyone had nice cars, everyone had big houses.
Our house was eleven hundred square feet and it was right by Jack in the Box. We felt like we were the Beverly Hillbillies. So I was trying to encapsulate that time, and the quickest way to get to the identity crisis was pulled for my life. And the comments I get, which are like, oh, well he is is the fat guy that takes his shirt off. Bert says, I got hired for a private party.
One time I tried doing material on. The guy goes, hey, man, put the shirt on and take it off again and just tell the machine. I was like what, and he goes, we don’t want to hear the other stuff. Just do the shirt rip off one more time, tell the machine. Then let’s go party.
Bert says it was twenty five thousand dollars and I did it. Yikes. Lying in bed that night in Vale, Colorado, I thought to myself, I just got paid twenty five thousand dollars to take my shirt off and tell one story twenty five thousand dollars. I was like, what if that’s my life? So we had that scene in the show, and then we infuse the identity crisis that happens when you go to a new school and you’re trying to fit in.
And just did Netflix go to bird It? Did Bert go to Netflix? He said, I brought it to them. They were obviously up for hearing a pitch. But My White Whal has always been a sitcom, a TV show about my family.
There was an Artie Lang sighting from the National Inquirer. A new photo suggests that Artie Lang is doing well. He’s now fifty eight. He was spotted in a photo taken at Davittel’s birthday dinner. We’re told in the photo, Arti Lang is wearing a backwards baseball cap, sporting a mustache and beard, and had his right hand in the air, acknowledging the camera.
A tell caps on the post, what a birthday? Thank you? For all things of me see down the road at a club sometime soon. I worked with Lady several times during my years. It’s serious, good guy, exactly who you think.
He is. Friendly as heck. If we invited him to come down the hall to the comedy stations to do some sort of stunt, he always did, very very friendly. I wish him the best. But I can also tell you I’ve been in the audience.
I remember one night at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival watching Already on stage, and I said to one of my coworkers, if we wake up tomorrow and he’s dead, I’m not going to be shocked. I didn’t say that dismissively. You could just tell that Already had demons. He’s quite open about his demons, and they were on stage that night. So I’m really glad already Lang appears to be doing well.
Good guy. I wish the best. Forum Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday Night suggested that the FCC has him and his crosshairs. On Wednesday, the FCC clarified its guidance on the equal time rule. That rule suggests that broadcast stations must afford equal airtime to competing politicians.
Talk shows have been exempt from the rule since jay Leno fought against it in one in nineteen ninety six. Jay Leno’s team argued that he was conducting interviews that qualified for the same carve out granted to news programming. The FCC, in a ruling, said, importantly, the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television talk show program on air presently would qualify for the bonafide news exemption. Moreover, a program that is motivated by partisan purposes, for example, would not be entitled to an exemption under long standing FCC President. Kimmel said, we’re once again threatened by the FCC.
I might need your help again. So I’m not expert in this. So say Jimmy Kimmel had on Gavin Newsom, He has Gavin neusim on? Does kim all? Then now have to have someone else?
And what’s the equivalent of Gavin Ussom? So you have to have the Republican gubernatorial candidate on? Like, how does this even work? And like I get what it’s trying to do, and part of me, I’m I rolling that because I get what it’s trying to do. But putting my cynicism away, if you’re like, oh, I wouldn’t it be good to have both sides on things?
Because there are some things you can’t both side. All right, I’m not gonna get political here. Let me just use a ridiculous example. Say I talked about Adam Sandler comedies. There’s no both siding that.
I’m not going to have a guest on telling us that Adam Sandler movies are funny, right, that would be ridiculous, and that’s not how this show goes. This show makes fun of Adam Sandler comedies. So if you told me I had to have somebody on to be pro Adam Sandler comedy, I just wouldn’t do the Adam Sandler segment. Now I’m being very facetious here, But now apply that to politics. So now you look at it and go, eh, maybe we shouldn’t have Gavin Usiman, We’ll have nobody on.
We won’t talk about issues at all. And they get back to me, eye rolling, going, I see what they’re trying to do here. Now who do you side with here? Bill Maher has detested Stephen Colbert for years now. If I had to weigh in, if you said, Johnny Mack, you got to pick here because Bill Maher is fighting with Stephen Colbert?
Which side you pick? I’d be like, has Bill Maher been on Kurtzman Star Trek? And you would say no, And I’d go, I’m picking Bill Maher. I’ll hold my nose and pick team mar because he hasn’t ruined Star Trek. All right, what’s the issue here?
Bill Maher was on The Late Show in twenty fifteen. During the interview, Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic and Star Trek ruiner, challenged Bill Maher on his atheism. The conversation got tense. During the interview, Colbert referred to Mar as dull. Mar fired back and called the host Steve.
Colbert said, who the f is? Steve? Are you my third grade teacher? Right? Relaxed, dude, relax.
Apparently there’s still a source, says Steven thinks Bill is pumped, and Bill thinks he’s a smart alec people that gets an act. But these guys really don’t like each other. Even a little more has explained. Yeah, but the good part is we don’t hide it, like he doesn’t like me and I don’t like him, and we don’t deny it. Maybe we’ll become friends one day, said Bill Moore.
I’ve had that happen before with people. You know, you get off on the wrong foot. I mean, there’s no reason why two comics we have a lot of common. But you know, I’ll say it now. I think I did the show twice.
You could tell it’s on screen. It’s okay. It’s not like we effing fought each other. Craig ferguson not coming back to late night. Craig told Variety, this is the truth of me and late night television.
I didn’t really watch late night television before I did it, and then I certainly didn’t watch it while I was doing it, and then afterwards I don’t really watch it. So it’s not something I feel qualified to really either predict or coming on to be honest. I mean, I did my thing, but I don’t know that my thing was ever really part of that thing, you know what I mean. Craig hosted The Late Late Show from two thousand and five to the end of twenty fourteen, back when twelve thirty was great again again. I encourage the president to make late night great again.
We’ve got Seth Myers I don’t know what’s going on there at twelve thirty. At eleven thirty, we’ve got Stephen Colbert helping to ruin Star Trek. That show has to go with the news that Colbert Show was ending. Some people were like, bring back Craig Ferguson, who says, that’s not something I’m into. You only do it two days in shawshank Right, first day and last day.
I’m very proud of that talk show I did. I’m really glad I did it. I think we hit the ball more often than we missed, but I don’t feel I need to do it again. It would almost make it not as valuable to me if I started doing it again. Variety points out Ferguson’s late Late show clips live on via bootleg Clips.
Creig explains it’s weird because I think I’m probably less connected to that old show than people who watched it. A lot that was then and now is now. I’m glad I did it. I’m very proud of it, but I haven’t lived with it on a day to day basis for a long time. Craig is now hosting Scrabble.
He says, I’ve been playing scrabble since I was a kid. I suspect it’s the reason I can actually read, given the way that my education went. So it’s very keen that we got a TV version of Scrabble that I thought did justice of the game. What I did notice is how competitive scrabble players are. I used to think I was good at scrabble, but these people are great at Scrabble.
Craig likes hosting game shows because there’s no prep. I go in, I play the game of the contestants, and that’s the only information I have, the contestants’ names and how to pronounce them correctly. He says. The tapings have been going long a TV hours, around forty four minutes before commercials, and it takes us easily double that with me talking smack and bs about this, that and the next thing. I just play and then whatever has to be taken out in order for the game it’s ordered.
I suspect there’ll be a lot of b rolling out takes that will become available pretty soon once the show starts airing. If you are enjoying Daily Comedy News, one way to support the show is get the ad free version. What do I do, Johnny Mac? That sounds cool? Well, what you do, friend, is you open up the Apple podcast app.
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Take it away, Burt Reynolds, Comedy stock Markets. I don’t have a lot for you this week on the comedy stock market. I have zero buy recommendations. I don’t think anybody had an awesome week where I’m like, oh, I gotta buy that. I mean, I do want to suggest you buy the Netflix Comedy Festival, but you can actually buy stock in Netflix, so I don’t want to start giving stock recommendations.
You do what you want with an actual stock, so I’m not saying to do that. This is comedy stock market where you can’t actually buy or sell stocking comedians. Well, you probably can on one of those. I’m sure you’re watching the same TV im where it seems like you could bet on anything. Now there probably is a comedy stock market who knows, but I don’t have any buys.
I have two cells. First sell Burt Kreischer, same note as last week, same note as the first half of today’s podcast. I don’t know who the show’s for, so let’s seller Burt Krescher. The other sell is Michael Rapaport. Do you watch The Traders?
I started to watch this season of The Traders, and I found Michael rapp reports so annoying. I decided I’m not gonna watch this season, and I’m on comedy threads and apparently I’m not the only one. Apparently people do not enjoy him, and not in like he’s a good reality show villain kind of way. He’s just annoying. And I’ve talked about this in the past.
There are some people that anytime their name comes up, it’s never like Michael Rappaport was outside eating an ice cream cone and he pad a Golden Retriever and had a nice day. That’s never why Michael Rappaport comes up in the news. There’s always something stupid, like you said he was running for mayor four years from now. A trader. He’s just annoying.
So if we had any Michael Rappaport stock Let’s sell it. Sorry, I don’t have a deep comedy stock market fee this week, but I don’t at Jeff Foxworthy’s gonna take a new comedy special at Gwynett’s Gas South Theater April fifteenth and sixteenth. Looking forward to that. Jeff’s a great guy. If you’re in Cleveland tomorrow night, Justy Slay as at the Agora.
Justy’s recent special was called wet Heat, which is not at all what many of us east of Thessippi you’re having this weekend. Burr again. That’s why I interrupted the show the other day to get the boiler guy to come into My ass is nice and warm today, Thank you, boiler Guy. Dusty Slay says, my relationship with the heats always changes. I thought the heat was great.
But if you’re out in the yard trying to plant fruit trees like I like to do, write that down. Now we know something about Dusty Slay. He likes to plant fruit trees. He can really beat you down. I nearly gave myself a heat stroke last year.
I just feel like my body’s not reacting as well to heat these days. His current set is regular everyday stuff, but with a unique twist. I had someone say the other night I have an ability to make things relatable even when they’re not, like planting fruit trees. Anyone who knows me knows I have a difficult relationship with dogs. I talk about dogs all the time on my podcast, and some people have gotten really mad at me.
But other people have some emails with similar stories. It’s like people are afraid to say that they’re not into dogs. It’s kind of my thing. I grew up in the country with a lot of dogs. If you go stay with a relative with a dog and you’re not used to having indoor pets, then you can’t breathe the next day.
I think that’s what’s wrong with everybody’s sinned us is they’re all sleeping with dogs out there. Dusty says, people are loving the dog bit. I found a good way to do these dog jokes without offending anyone. I really try to work on finding material that anybody can enjoy. You just gotta come in and sit down, laugh for an hour and a half without having to think.
I don’t want people worried about stuff. I want them to be relaxed during the show. Go see Dusty Slay. If you’re in Cleveland, seven o’clock at the Agora five thousand and one Prospect Avenue, thirty five bucks to get you in. TBS for some reason, has greenlit sixteen half hour episodes of hidden camera comedy series Foul Play with Anthony Davis.
That’s right, Anthony Davis from the Dallas Mavericks has a hidden camera show for some reason. I don’t know why. We’re told the unscripted series pairs elite athletes with elaborate pranks, giving them one chance to pull off their mischievous plans or foul out. Trying see Basketball is see and it goes. The show debuted as a half hour special last winter.
Guest stars included Mookie Betts, He’s from the Dodgers, and TBS is making sixteen of these Foul Play with Anthony Davis. TBS president Jason Salernis said in a prepared statement, Anthony Davis brings the same position in swagger to comedy that he does to the court. At TBS, we love a show that knows how to have fun and foul plays exactly that. We’re excited for our viewers to have as much fun watching it as Anthony and the other athletes had filming it. Now, as much as I’m making fun of this thing, the premiere got over three million viewers.
That’s a lot, So get out your calendar, write this down. The first batch of episodes will premiere Monday, April sixth, immediately following the NCAA National Championship basketball game, and then it’ll be on every Monday at eight o’clock. So that means when you’re watching the basketball tournament, they’re gonna have you ever seen TBS promote something? TBS promoting something during sports? They are relentless.
You’re gonna be sick of this thing before it even airs. Foul play with Anthony Davis. Stay warm this weekend, and depending where you live, you’re getting between two and two thousand inches of snow. I don’t know if you’ve been following the weather reports, big snow or no snow. Who knows.
You might get snow and you might get a lot of snow. So when you’re stuck in the house, what you want to do before the power goes out, is you want to download Daily Comedy News Tomorrow on the program a longer episode. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast, and I we tape some stuff in early January, maybe was still late December, and we kind of bs about comedy for like a half an hour or so. So that’ll keep you entertained until the lights come back on. Then Sunday, on this very program, a normal show, I’ve got some industry stuff through a couple deeper dives on the comedy industry and how it all works.
So we’ll do that in the second half of Sunday’s podcast, normal episode Monday morning, and then Monday at noon Comedy Survivor Week three results. Okay, have an awesome weekend. Appreciate you all. New listeners, welcome aboard. See you all tomorrow.