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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I am running out of time to come up with a birthday president idea from my wife from the Late Bot. Buying a birthday president for your wife is like trying to solve a rubekscube blindfolded. You have no idea what you’re doing, and you just hope it turns out okay in the end. I asked my wife what she wanted for a birthday, and she said nothing.
I have everything I need, Yamp, and she always says that to me too, So I got her a box of nothing. She was not abused. Dusty Slay is at the Blue Room Comedy Club today and tomorrow. He’s loyal because they used to book him when he wasn’t as famous as he is now. Back in twenty sixteen, he played the Blue Room.
It was then known as Billiards because it was a pool hall. Dusty and the owner, Chris hit the streets trying to recruit a Springfield audience by asking patrons want to catch a comedy show for free. That didn’t go so well. A homeless man took up the offer, but he didn’t even bother to stick around. Dusty said there weren’t many people and was the first time the Blue Room was doing Sunday shows.
It was so new that many things weren’t even set up yet. Now Dusty is I don’t know if he’s big time, but he’s definitely medium time. And Chris, the owner, says, it’s kind of sad because this may be the last time we get Dusty for a long time. Now. When Dusty comes to Springfield, he’s placed at the Hotel Vandervoort, the city’s only triple A four diamond rated hotel.
Dusty said, it’s a nice place, kind of illuminati looking. I like to go to a bass bro when I’m in town, walk to mudhouse to coffee and a record store. Dustin Nickerson told a story about playing golf with Nate bergantcy this from the Athletic. This is great. Dustin said, we played this place in Idaho called Circling Raven just to this day, one of the most incredible courses I’ve played.
I’m nervous because Nate’s spending a lot of money to have me out there. We went to the driving range first on a kid. You not, it looks like I’ve never played golf before in my life. Like, I’ve never tried anything athletically before. I’m shanking the ball.
I’m missing the ball one time. I missed the ball three times. Time out. Maybe once a month I’ll head over to top golf with the boys. Boy the last time I went, I was mis see.
I was just I couldn’t even hit the ball. I don’t mean I couldn’t hit the ball, well, I mean I couldn’t hit the ball. It was embarrassing. Luckily, my friends were cool, and they probably wait until I left to make fun of me. Dustin said, I’m missing the ball one time.
I missed the ball three times, only three. Stop braining, bro. It’s like when you bring a little kid out golfing and you’re going eight feet at a time. I think Nate seeing all this was so so bad. And so the first hole we get up there and I hit it two hundred and ten yards in the middle of the fairway.
The next SHOT’s about one hundred ten hundred fifteen yards and it gets within five feet of the pin. I burdie the first hole and has a reverse effect on Nate, who says, why’d you play so bad? Are you trying to hustle me? Dustin shot in the lower nineties, He says, for that course, very good. I’d like to think it was like angels in the outfield.
They straightened my swing on that first hole. That allowed me to relax the rest of the game.
And now I can still work with Nate, thank god.
Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety about the Muppets, and he said there’s a lot of great stuff in the Muppets. They asked him, did he ever subscribe to Muppet Magazine as a kid? Brett said, no, I didn’t know there was a thing. Now I feel ashamed to see some issues. Yes, please, the writer said, for decades, I’ve held on the copies of Muppet Magazine.
It was a monthly magazine that really existed and featured Kermit as editor in chief. I don’t know how to break it to the writer here. It probably wasn’t actually Kermit, because there is no Kermit. Statler and Waldorf wrote about movies and TV, Miss Piggy pend and advice column. This sounds amazing and one issue Fozzy Bear interviewed Henry Winkler.
Oop Google time, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Fozzy Bear, Henry Winkler, Please come up, Please come up, Please, come up, rats, I just didn’t edit there and spared you. My internet search, I saw it definitely happened. I have seen covers of its. People have been selling this on eBay. So on the cover we see a young looking Henry Winkler with his hair growing out.
This from nineteen eighty three, so it’s got very nineteen eighty three part in the middle of hair. He’s wearing a red sweater as if he’s mister Rogers. Fozzy of the Bear is hanging over his left shoulder, and Kermit on Winkler’s right. Boy, I would love to redo that article, but I can’t find it interesting. My Internet search a lot of Japanese links to Muppet Magazine with Henry Winkler anyway.
The writer shows Muppet Magazine to Brett Goldstein, who goes, whoa, whoa. This is quality stuff, solid, thoughtful, subversive, funny. This is why you’re here. The Muppets brought us together. Goldstein says he would love to do something more with the Muppets, and Jason Siegel wants to see him do that.
I gotta try and connect with Harry Connabel, who he talks about queens a lot and from the parts of Queens. He talks about. I suspect he probably grew up right around we were in Queens that I grew up. Although Harry is younger. How old is Harry?
He’s forty, so I am thirteen years older than him. We might have lived in the neighborhood at the same time. Yeah, Harry Connabolo grew up in Jackson Heights, Floral Park and then Jamaica. I’m from Jackson Heights. It’s probably a twenty year old version of me walking past Harry when he was a little kid.
Yeah. Here I see on Instagram a reunion in Jackson Heights, Queens. Oh, I gotta get this guy on all right. I gotta reach out to him for sure. Y’all who asked him, Harri, how do you think growing up in New York City has informed your comedy?
And he says, I see the way people talk about what they fear the country is going to become with multiple languages and a mix of different races. All they’re describing is where I grew up. That’s what Queen’s New York is. That’s what New York City is. It’s every language, every culture, every mix.
If you’ve been being so it’s frustrating because it’s like you like to visit, but you don’t like to stay. That’s what I’m hearing. You like to come here and look, but you don’t want to live in it. It’s such a beautiful place to grow up. It’s not to say it’s perfect and there isn’t racism or homophobia or all the stuff that comes with any place, but everyone’s represented here and present away that you don’t get in other parts of the world.
I feel really privileged, and I feel like it colored my view are he had as the comedy scene in New York compared to LA, and he says, I think New York is a stand up city. There’s so many shows in New York and there’s a tradition of it. Not to say there aren’t great comics who come out of LA, and the LA scene isn’t a healthy one, but I feel like New York you get your butt kicked there and you become a better comic. And I don’t know if that’s the same for LA. I know with New York you go through fire, you become tougher, you come sharper.
I think you see where the bar is when you’re on the road, having started in New York. The road feels so much easier because even through one of the hardest places to play, LA has a great scene. Laurgo’s incredible. You see beat tradition. Obviously, it’s a great all scene there.
It really has a great history, and there’ve been great comics that have come out. You’ll see more comics in LA. You clearly just want to be on TV and do acting work, and they build a material for the purpose of that, which, look, that’s the way to do it. But New York is New York. I’ll jump in.
Yeah. I always felt like the New York City comedians, if they were banned, they’re like the Rolling Stones. I get the Rolling Stones are British, so the analogy is a little flawed, but like you know, the Rolling Stones, we’re gritty rock band. We got a great drummer, our guitarist, a smoking cigarette, and our singer. Yeah, I don’t know what his deal is, but boy, he’s really talented.
Whereas the LA comedy scene, I always felt like, is Devo really good, really entertaining, just not doing what the Rolling Stones are doing? Did I explain that, Well, no, you didn’t. John Harry, do you have a favorite city or venue to perform in. He’s says, it’s either Seattle or Oakland. I recorded in my first album in Oakland.
It feels like Oakland audiences are as smart at San Francisco audiences, except they’re more expressive. It isn’t just like, oh, I get the joke, It’s like I feel the joke. It has resonated with me on more than just one level, and I’m gonna let you hear it. That’s incredible. I started in Seattle, so I always have a loyalty due to that city, and the Neptune Theater is one of my favorite places to play, A beautiful theater where I recorded in my first Netflix special, and that is, without a doubt, one of my favorite venues.
If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I don’t know if you can tell my voice is giving out. Why I recorded Friday, Saturday, and Sunday back to back to back, and yeah, usually when I get around a third one, my voice gives out. So I need a drink and I don’t have a coffee, even though Kara Wood and Becky bought me six coffees this week.
You think I’ll bring one down the studio now, but I have this bottle of water here. I’m gonna take a sip that hit the spot. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Rich Schneider wrote about Chard Belzer for Vulture and said Richard was admired and respected by so many of us, a true comics comic, but that crown could be crushing Outrage wasn’t the marketing tool and brand it has become today, But it made Richard a legend while he was still in his thirties and broke.
I heard where he grew tired of watching lesser comics swim like dolphins while he was fighting the undertow. Whatever the reason, the bells made a strategic shift in his nineteen eighty six HBO special Richard Belzer in concert, and he decided to play nice as crowd work was easy going, even friendly. He showed vulnerability, and it needs to connect with material about his abuse of childhood and a violent encounter with an idiotic Hulk Hogan. Richard still wore the tinted glasses for the crowd work, but they came off for the rest of the performance. He even dropped his standard black suit, white shirt and tie for a sweater and from Forbes the premise phone free policies like Dave Chappelle’s opened the door for better comedy.
Yeah, m Gnome Jorman. He owns the Comedy Seller and says his club’s no cell phone policy was implemented about a year and a half before COVID. He said, Chappelle started doing it, and I had a feeling was to become an industry standard, and I try to get ahead of it. But it didn’t become an industry standard, Thank goodness. He says, many comics we should had.
If you go to the seller, you’re given a padded envelope for your phone and smart watch devices are sealed in the envelopes. Customers keep them in their possession during the shows. It may be a nuisance, but it hasn’t hurt business. Gnome says, we don’t get complaints about it. I don’t think they love it, but they’re aware of it before they get there.
Very few people are surprised by it. Judy Gould tells a story about being on stage at The Fat Black Pussycat about ten minutes twelve minutes in, I’m thinking, Wow, What a great audience. Everyone’s so engaged, and I looked around and realized, Oh, it’s because they don’t have phones. And I almost started crying because it was like the old days where the audience was a unit, where everybody was there for the same reason. They came there to laugh.
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