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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Meck with Today’s Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. But I better stop talking this way. Mike Birbiglia will write my name down. I am having fun with this old Burbiglia, Mulaney, John Marco, and whoever else thing.
I was hoping to stir it up some more, but it seems like they’ve stopped talking about it, so I will too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about. Listening to the February tenth episode of this podcast. But while I was seeing if I could cause some more trouble, I found a discussion about a comedian named Mason James, who I was unfamiliar with until half an hour ago. Some people think Mason James is perhaps, possibly maybe influenced by Nate Berghetzi.
Here’s Mason James from a year ago doing a show for Don’t Tell Comedy. My name is Mace. It’s great to be here. Some big news in my life. Me and my wife just had our first baby, so very very fun stuff, very very fun.
Don’t worry about clapping. Just a miracle, No big deal. It’s fine, very fun having a baby. The baby has made me realize I have to lose weight because he’s ten months old and he’s trying to breastfeed me a lot. I didn’t know what to do.
I spanked him. I spanked him, said you do not breastfeed dad. That makes dad sad. I am trying to lose weight right now. Anybody trying to lose weight here so awesome.
Sell you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. They’re in the same ballpark. But I don’t get wigged about that. Like I’ve said a million times, I think Eddie Murphy is just doing Richard Pryor.
But I was what fourteen years old in nineteen eighty three, so I loved Eddie Murphy’s comedy. But he’s clearly doing Richard Pryor, including the outfit. But I am picking up on one particular verbal tick in Mason James delivery. Let me just play the last four seconds. Listen to how he hangs the words right now.
This is very Burgetsian. Saw you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. But again, we all have influences. You may hear me sometimes on this program, say one, I’m forward promoting tomorrow on this very program.
Blah blah blah. That is a complete, utter, conscious lift from David Letterman. Stole his phrase, and it’s why I’m doing it. You want to call it an homage, I don’t know. I just like saying it that way.
If David Letterman wants to go off and say that I’m ripping him off, please do Dave. Nothing would make me happier that if David Letterman thought I was ripping him off. I wish I were one one millionth as good as David Letterman. And the other tick that I consciously do is I will do a yeah, in the middle of resetting a story, I’ll just make up something ridiculous. I’ll do something like this, A chicken was crossing the road.
Yeah, apparently it wanted to get to the other side, so that yeah, in the middle. There. That’s a Conan O’Brien tick that I deliberately do. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, today, Dave Chappelle and John’s Stewart will do a show together. It’s a benefit for radio station WYSO.
It’s part of the WYSO After Dark series. Now I’m laughing at this. The after Dark is cracking me up. Earlier today, I got a random email from Disney Plus saying that Mom’s account has been updated to what is it, mature Audiences whatever they call it m and I just texted the whole family. I’m like, apparently Mom is watching Mickey Mouse after Dark, which I don’t even know what that would be, but just I thought it was funny to get mature audiences warning from Disney Plus.
But Wyso after Dark features Dave Chappelle and John Stewart in conversation seven thirty pm to night at Dayton’s Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center. Taylort Solison will have a comedy special on Netflix on Tuesday, February twenty fourth, not too far away. It is her fourth for Netflix. Prodigal Daughter was filmed at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I remember telling you about that filming last summer.
We’ve all almost lived long enough to actually see the special. I hope we all make it, but we’ve at worst made it to the trailer. There’s a trailer. It’s long, it’s good. It’s like the best trailer I’ve heard in a long time.
And being very very serious. It’s going to take a minute change here, but here’s Taylor Tomlinson’s really good trailer. I really appreciate you guys coming to this new hour of material because I know it’s a lot of God stuff and a lot of gay stuff, and my agents are nervous. I started doing stand up in churches. They called it testimony, but I was getting last.
Easter. There’s a better story than Christmas, in my opinion. It’s where all of our merch is from. You’ve seen it. Christmas is not as good a story.
It’s just a long walk to a barn. Jesus is barely in it. He comes in right at the end. He does zero magic. Jesus is basically the post credit scene in a Marvel movie.
It’s if you have depression. You have a pretty complicated relationship with death. You sort of look at death like it’s the Phantom of the Opera. You’re like, oh, that’s scary, But then sometimes you’re like, I mean, that’s side. His face is kind of hot.
Coming out as bisexual at thirty feels like saying to a waiter, by the way, it’s my birthday, and they’re like, cool, send to yourself. You’re a grown woman. So I started dating this girl who was so hot. I was like, oh my god, am I Pete Davidson. When I started dating women, it was the closest I’d come to feeling religious in a long time.
My friends would complain about their boyfriends and husbands, and I was like, have you heard the good news? You don’t have to live like this now? Some of that content bothered. You send your letters to Taylor Thomlinson. I’m just dosing a podcast in the basement.
The official description from the Netflix is Taylor Thompson returns to her roots with a tight new hour about deconstructing your faith, processing religious trauma, exploring your sexuality, and confronting your fear of death. It’s NBA All Star Weekend tonight. It’s the Celebrity Game. In the Celebrity Game, Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key will take the court. That’s on ESPN at seven pm Eastern.
Jimmy Carr was giving out some parenting advice. An audience member yelled out to Jimmy Carr, what’s your advice for parents with toddler’s Carr gave a serious answer. He said, well, practical advice. You can half asset, get an iPad and Netflix subscription, and you’re off to the races. They’ll be very happy.
The crowd laughed at that, but Carr said, you want serious advice. The woman said yeah. Carr explained hard choices now easy life. Later that got applause. I bet you love your kids, but you’ve also got to love who they could be.
So it’s kindness, isn’t it. You want to be really kind to your children, but just not kind in the moment. What a kids want. They want to watch TV and not read books. They want to eat junk food, not vegetables.
If you give in to that, if you’re kind in the moment, you’ve got fat, stupid kids. That’s no good. You’ve got to be a little bit mean in the moment. At another recent show, a woman asked Jimmy Carr how she could deal with kids who were bullying her eleven year old son. Carr did a bunch of silly jokes and then got serious and said, speaking as a parent, you can’t helicopter parent.
You cannot pave the jungle. You can just teach him to get through it. It’s a very tough thing. On the upside, your kid is being bullied. That’s terrible, I imagine heartbreaking for you.
But at least he’s not the bully. Tell him from me, you can’t have an easy life and a great character. You can’t have both. It’ll make him stronger and better and more compassionate in the future. You know the actress Kathy Bates, I think she has really, really good taste.
The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was recently at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Adam Sandler told a story about sending Kathy Bates the script for horrible Adam Sandler comedy The water Boy. As Sandler told the story, I remember we sent Kathy Bates a script for The water Boy to play My Mama. I don’t know if I have the story one hundred percent right, but apparently she kind of read the first page and threw it in the garbage. See. I love Kathy Bates, genius talent, Kathy baits.
Unfortunately, Kathy, back in those days, surrounded herself with terrible staff. Sandler said. The guy who works with Kathy picked it up and read it and said, Kathy, I think you should read that script. It’s pretty funny. So obviously the staff member has no Jason comedy.
Kathy read it and decided to give it a shot. From there, she met with Adam Sandler and enjoyed spending time with him, which I could see. I think I would enjoy spending time with Adam Sandler, Like right now, I’m wearing a purple sweatshirt and totally non matching gray sweatpants. I could see Sandler being like, hey, bro, cool outfit. Kathy Bates, who has good Taste, told a similar version of the story on the Drew Barrymore Show back in twenty twenty four.
According to Kathy’s version, she made it to page twelve before she threw it in the trash right next to my bed. On this very program, see stole that from Letterman. On this very program. On Sunday, comedian Drew Lynch joins us, Drew is appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver. He’s going to stop by Tomorrow’s show.
Is in more or less a normal episode. We’ll look at what’s going on at the Daytona five hundred. Bird Krascher and Nate Pergetz hearing to be there at JFL Vancouver tonight at Gambles at the Rio at seven Yakov’smeir and Off seven o’clock at the York Michael Longfellow’s at the Rio at nine, Wally Barham at the York Theater. Any leader has two shows at House of Comedy. She’s doing seven thirty, nine, fifteen.
If we were at the festival tonight, if I were hanging out with Mike from the Letterman Podcast and I was like, Hey, Vancouver is a hell of a town, let’s go see some comedy shows, I would actually pick Yakov Smirnoff, just to see what’s going on there. That would be my pick. At seven at nine o’clock, I think we go see Wally Barram at the York Theater. I like what I’ve seen out of Wally so far. It is Friday.
It is time for the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market. Now. So far in twenty twenty six, the comedy stock market activity has been quite limited.
But I’ve got a lot for you today. Let’s start with two cells. We’re gonna sell John Mulaney. We’re gonna sell Mike Probiglia. Do I need to tell you?
Why? Do I need to tell you what team I’m on in this little fight. We’re selling MILLENIU and we’re selling Forbiglia and in support of the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marcos SIESI, let’s even more stock. Eventually, we’re gonna own all the stock at John Marco. I am all in on this guy who did not rip off John Mulaney in the least.
So we’ll buy some Gianmarco Soresi. Let’s also buy some Chris Fleming. With that HBO special coming out soon. I’ve been a fan of Chris for a few years. We’ll see how the rest of the country reacts to Chris Fleming.
Let’s buy Taylor Thomlinson. That trailer from earlier in the show was really, really good. There’s nothing not to like about her, very personal, very funny, looks great. Her specials on Netflix, not that other service that you do your special on when you’re on your way down. So Taylor Thompson, let’s scoop up some more Taylor Thomason, and let’s buy some Mason James again.
Half an hour ago, I didn’t know who that was, but I thought that clip was pretty funny. Throw a couple bucks on Mason james career. We’ll check back and we’ll see how we do Zel Mulaney, Selber Bigley, a Bye, John Marco, Chris Fleming, Taylor Thomason, Mason James. That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Reese Darby, you know him.
He was one of the guys on Flight of the Concords and you know him from what was it called Our Flag Means Death? Well, he’s going to be in the CBS comedy pilot Regency. Regency is a multikam comedy and it’s a historical spin on the classic multiicam family sitcom centered around the upper middle class Tilbrooks as they navigate life, love, and scandal in nineteenth century England. Okay, ree Darby will play Arthur Tilbrook, the head of the family home. Arthur is heir to a cheese empire, but prefers to think of himself as a guy’s guy.
This is kind of funny. He will go to great lengths to prove his masculinity. That was a privileged upbringing reveals itself every time. Now we talk about networks, so clearly chuckle the premise. I like Reee Darby, but it’s on CBS, so at the end of the day, it’s a CBS Sitcom.
If you told me this one was going somewhere else FX Streamer, I might be a little more into it. Not Netflix. If it was on Netflix, I’d assume it’d be six episodes and canceled. That sounds like it could be funny. OW Today All Access Comedy hosted by DJ de Meerz, It’ll be on AMTV.
All Access Comedy is a stand up special with comedians from the disability community coming together to celebrate their unique outlook on life for a packed audience of all abilities. Comedy comes from such topics like what’s the appropriate reaction when someone bet your guide dog. I’m familiar with DJ’s comedy. I play him a lot on The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app every week. The show is free, The app is free Live One.
Look up the Weekly Comedy Thing. In fact, I think in this week’s show, I’ve got some DJ demers if you want to hear what he sounds like. And congratulations too. Joe Koy, Yes, Joe Koy had his hand in footprints enshrined in cement at the Hollywood Chinese Theater. Joe was supported by friends.
I assume they’re friends, or maybe they just wanted their mention in Daily Comedy News. But regardless, Tiffany Hattish, Martin, Lawrence Gabriel Iglesias and some others showed up to support Joe Koy at the event. Now you might be like John, Joe Koy, remind me who that is again. I’ll remind you one time Joe Coy hosted the Goal Globes and he just told this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift that Taylor did not appreciate. Here, let’s listen.
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. When that is your comedy news today, All right, Tomorrow Daytona Sunday, Drew Lynch stops by. Catch you here tomorrow