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The Shark deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy name as late night is dark due to the writer strike, but we have late bought, and the late bots says, hey, did you see the King’s Coronation? I saw the King’s coronation portrait. It looks like he’s already preparing for his next job as a villain in a Disney movie. I heard the coronation took weeks of planning.
In preparation, It’s like planning a wedding, but with more swords and less open bars. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling these jokes. The chat bot wrote them. I could see these happening. The coronation was so grand.
Even the pigeons on the street were wearing top hats and monocles. Queen Camilla got a new hat for the coronation. It was so big it could double as a parachute in case of emergency. Those aren’t bad, and those were written by the chat chief pt not bad. I was thinking, do you think maybe one of the reasons I’m serious here that Comedy Central didn’t hire a new host for the daily shows because they knew the writer strike was coming.
So hear me out. Anytime you change hosts on one of these late night shows, it takes the new host a little bit to find their feet. And you know, it’s only May eighth. If he had brought somebody in at the beginning of the year, they would have had what counts on his fingers trainer fareymore shape for four months to kind of get in there.
And then if you have a six month strike and you come back in twenty four and …
Plus presumably, and I’m not an expert in contracts, you’d be paying this host to not host the Daily Show because you’re not producing it because of the writers. So maybe Comedy Central was doing that, and now the guest host thing makes a lot of sense to me. What do you think? Yes, maybe Pete Davidson was showing his support for the writers. He brought some pizza pies.
Why did I say pizza pie? I’m leaving that in. Where are you from, John, You’re from New York? What do you mean pizza pies? I’m leaving it in because sometimes I hate myself.
Pete Davidson brought some pizza from Spomoni Gardens. To delighted writers on the picket lines in Brooklyn. He was asked, hate Pete Davidson, why you dropping off food, and Pete Davidson said, got usport the writers. No shows without the writers. Man.
So, as I was putting together the show on Sunday morning, I clicked on this and I really didn’t react to it well, and I thought i’d go back and read it live. I don’t want to come across as a negative Nancy. Sorry Nancy, but I just didn’t agree with it at all. From Vulture, the Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three so far, by Katherine Van Aaron Donk, who does a great job over at Vulture. Enjoy her stuff.
We will agree to disagree. But here’s the list. I remind you comedy subjective. Katherine may like what she likes. I like what I like, You like what you like.
But I looked at this list and I was like yeah. The article notes all specials are listed from newest to oldest, beginning with John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. I don’t even have this on my twenty twenty three list. Look, we all love John Mulaney charismatic, funny, great body of work, but I watched that new special and it felt performative. Maybe I’m just too familiar with the material because I do this every day, and I read about it and I feel like I had kind of heard it, but I was just watching and I was like, all right, it felt like a Colin Quinn or a Micro Bigley, a one man show more than a stand up special.
And it just didn’t grab me. Not on my list. Next up, Monique. I read you an article last week that was describing Monique Special as nothing but horrible. That person who wrote the thing last week had nothing good to say about this thing.
May Martin Special, same thing. I watched it. It didn’t grab me. Fourth on the Listen, we’re doing this by reverse release order. Kyle Canaan’s Shocks and Struts of that actually I have at number one right now, so we agree there.
You’ll find that one on YouTube. I highly recommend you watch it. Marlon Wayain’s God Loves Me another one of those specials that I got, I don’t know, four minutes into and I was like, hey, not grabbing me. Am I that much of a comedy snob? At this point?
Mark Marrin’s From Bleak to Dark, Same thing, I don’t have it on my list. It’s fine, it’s fine, Mark Marrin, but it didn’t do one thing for me. So that’s the Vulture list and I just have I just lost it. So here’s my list. Number one Kyle Cana, Number two Nate Bergatsy is fantastic.
Why is that not on your list? Katherine Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl. You’ll find that on YouTube. Wonderful Jim Jeffries on Amazon came out in February. Wonderful.
Horry Conabollo special, really strong, especially the first two thirds that’s on YouTube. Chris Rock. Remember Chris Rock had a special Vulture. I’m not gonna mention it. No, okay, you can make fun of me in the schooly yard for number seven, the Roast of mister Peanut.
I’m telling you, and probably every time I mentioned it, you’re like, he’s crazy. Go on YouTube and find the full version of the Roast of mister Peanut. The full version, not the thirty second commercial, the full version. Watch the Roast of mister Peanut. And number eight in this will probably get knocked way down the list as more specials come out.
Big Jokerson I put on my list, It kept me nice company not on my List, Melaney Lewis, black Mark Marin Andrew Santino special, Bert Kreischer’s special Not on My List, and the Greg Warren and special from last week. Again, that one really turned me off. What do I know, it wouldn’t surprise me. Some people seem to agree that possibly, perhaps maybe who knows I wasn’t in the room, could have been. They added some laughter to it, and it really turned me off to it.
All Right, Am I just cranky? Have I lost touch here? Should I just stop the podcast and never do it again? The funniest thing of the year, by the way, is Kunk on Earth on YouTube Watch Kunk on Earth wonderful. We lost some good stuff because of this writer strike Kieran Culkin from Succession.
He was going to host Saturday Night Live this upcoming weekend and for the season finale, the Foo Fighters would have been the musical guest. So now that the seasons in the bag, I’m going to rate it as one of the worst SNL seasons of all time. And I’ve liked the last It’s been a good run, like since Kate McKinnon came on, and I know she has been on the last couple of years. It was a really really good run basically from the start of I guess Trump running is when they hit their groove until this season was just awful, like really bad. Am I just cranky today?
Should I not do a podcast anymore? Have a completely lost touch? What’s going on? John? I don’t know?
It’s the topics. Here’s the headline, Yellow Springs versus Dave Chappelle neighbors slam Trump like comedian for buying properties amid shortage. This from the website meaw meaww dot com. Okay, you’re not familiar with meow or perhaps hosting a podcast, and not even entirely sure that that’s how they pronounced their website. They right, It’s not difficult to locate America’s most isolated comedian.
Like any other Yellow Springs, Ohio citizen, Dave Chappelle goes out in the city center, buys coffee and shops in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding the multimillionaire comedian’s real estate acquisitions. Dave Chappelle has been compared to Donald Trump by at least one citizen of his Ohio hometown for his propensity to incite hostility. This comes after Chappelle started purchasing land in the thirty seven hundred person town in twenty twenty. Today he owns twenty structures, including homes, businesses, and old fire station and a former school. Residents are fiercely divided over whether or not he’s operating in the best interests of the community.
Meo writes off the record, Locals of a variety of ages and racial backgrounds claim that Chapelle is a force that’s churning us into the place that we’re all trying to stay away from. Another citizen said, Dave’s gotta be the biggest contentious thing that I’ve ever seen. Put neighbor against neighbor. If you close ranks and then decimate anybody that speaks against an idea you have, then how does that inform community or build community, or has that save a community. One of Chappelle’s most recent acquisitions is a former fire station, which he plans to convert into a comedy club.
He also paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the historic Union School House, with the intention of converting the eighteen seventy two structure into the headquarters of neighborhood radio station WYSO. I don’t live there. Why is that bad? I don’t know if you’re local. I’m happy to be getting more educated on this.
To me, it sounds like a guy is taking old buildings and turning them into thriving businesses. Again, I may be under educated on this. Back in twenty twenty, Day was on SNL and he joked about how his time in Yellow Springs would go to Dave’s joke, Honey, come quick, come quick. The guy from the gross stores on TV. Chappelle then changed his gears and says, no, you big dummy.
The guy from TV’s at the grocery store. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Edmonton. Nice lineup, they’ve announced some names. You’re ready for these names? Edmonton July fourteenth and Sunday the sixteenth.
The first night, the headliner Theo Vaughan.
Also at the festival, Sam Morrel.
And on Sunday your headliner at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, Bill Burr. Interesting note from the AV Club Jury Duty. If you watched Jury Duty, it’s on free V. When you can’t figure out how to get free V, just go on Amazon Prime and they’ll stick it under your nose. The creators of Jury Duty are going to submit it not as a reality show, but in the scripted comedy category.
Now, what makes that extra interesting is that Ronald Gladden, the guy that didn’t know it wasn’t real Jury Duty, he could get submitted for a comedy performance. He didn’t know he was giving. This next topic little ikey and probably a little sensitive, especially in the States due to some recent news time opics shootings involved here. So I’ll give you a beat to click off the podcast if you’re not in the mood for this. From the Manchester Evening News, Britain’s Got Talent comedian slammed over jokes about shooting his daughter.
Comedian Marcus Birdman joked, kids are the biggest source of joy you’ll ever have. Trouble is, they tend to ruin every other source of joy overhead. All right, good premise, reasonable, he continues. I hear other parents say I’d take a bullet from my child. Would you would take a bullet from my child, put it in the garden and shoot her?
That did not go over well, nor did a joke about being a two time a stroke survivor. Marcus said a couple of years ago. I had a stroke. That’s what happened. People don’t always believe me.
I perhaps don’t look like a stroke survivor to you, what you feel I appreciate is I’m twenty three. Marcus explains he’s done a lot of work with the Stroke Association. Said you’d think as a two time stroke survivor, I’d be able to make jokes about surviving strokes to other stroke survivors. Nope. At one point someone stood up and went stroke victims and feelings too, mate, and I went, I know, but only down half the side of their bodies.
Some on social media did not react well. One tweeted after me, joking about shooting kids is not comedy. A different person tweeted, jokes about strokes are not funny. My dad had one, was paralyzed on his right side, was confined a wheelchair. You should be ashamed.
Judge Alicia Dixon said everything you said tonight on stage, I hold at I’m glad I’m wearing my big knickers. Hanasoi dot Com sent somebody to one of the showcase shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival. They write, we were promised the best up and comers from Australia and around the world. Mc mickey Bartlett had some astute observations about Sydney characters, particularly businessman on scooters and King Street crackheads. Jesse Fuchs kicked us off.
She gave us a lot to think about. No details there other than that. Helen Bauer kept the cringe humor going or CrowdWork was right us and no men were safe from her confident charm despite the US accent. Moses Storm gave us an honest and daring look into his childhood. I’m not sure what the problem with the USX and is Fresh face Olga Kotch.
Her quick wit was almost Aubrey Plaza esque and she had a big presence. She effortlessly carved out her niche between her self deprecating humor and cool girl vibe. She gave us and ernest looking into her dating life and assortest that if we like bisexuals, will like her show Just Friends. Arguably to start of the night, Alfie Brown, his UK accent compounds his dark humor and his delivery just flows. The highlight was his entry on the stage where he spotted somebody eating a crisp in the front row.
He then proceeded to narrate that excruciating awkwardness of eating a crunchy food in a quiet space, extracting it out of the foil pocket, moistening it on the roof of your tongue, and subsequently regretting the whole experience. If you’re a comedy newbie, you’re indecisive about who you want to see. The festivals showcases the perfect way to sample a variety of little tasters. I agree. The Sydney Comedy Festival is dark on Tuesday.
New Zealand’s International Comedy Festival has some shows including Ann Edmonds Why is my Bag all wet? I remember talking about her at Melbourne. Bobby wood show is called if you met My Mom You’d understand and as a great picture of him and his dog looking grimpy, and yes, his dog looks grumpy, so I’m clicking on this. Bobby Wood is one of those rare comedic gems untarnished by the modern excesses of high speed internet, package meet and introspection. His show includes the damaging downstream effects of witnessing your mother forcibly restore a proleps Cow Award winning grass Fed stand up Bring Him voted best Newcomer at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in twenty twenty one.
Get out on top, John, that’s your commedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See at a worrow.
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