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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night on strike because of the writers. So we have late bots who said, hey, did you see King Charles was on American Idol. Yeah, it’s like the British Invasion, but instead of the Beatles, we get a balding, middle aged monarch King Charles on American idols, like if Queen Elizabeth decided to go on the Kardashians. It’s just weird.
Now. The last one’s not really a joke, but I could see Kimmel saying that I’ve been tweaking the late bot and telling it to get more sarcastic, more letterman. So we’ll see what it spits out in the upcoming days and perhaps months. Over the weekend, I powerwashing and I was looking for a late bot topics. I threw in powerwashing and it spit this out.
Hey. I saw a power washing company slogan that said we’ll blast away any dirt. Apparently they never met my ex. I like that one so much. I tried powerwashing my car, but I ended up stripping the paint off.
Now it looks like a middle aged man going through a midlife crisis. I could see Kimmel with that too. I saw a powerwashing company with the slogan we’ll make it look like new. Yeah, if your definition of new is missing a few shingles and covered in dirt. Hannah Gadsby’s new specials out today on Netflix.
It’s called Something Special. I will discuss that in the second half of the podcast, if you don’t want to be spoiled.
Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle has announced fifteen more summer comedy shows and …
I love looking at all the small town legally stuff that goes on the board of Zoning met and it gave Dave approval by vote for to nothing. Steve Wiig is the owner of the Wiig Pavilion, a rural property in Yellow Springs where Dave Chappelle has performed cornfield shows the past three summers. Guests have included Ali Wan, Chris Rock, Chelsea Handler, John Mayer, David Letterman, Second Mention of the Day, John Stewart, and Moore. According to the request, mister Chappelle and his team would like the opportunity to conduct a limited run of additional shows this summer between June first on October eight to further highlight the success and national recognition of these events in our community. While mister Chappelle could be conducting shows at mass theaters around the world, he’d like to conduct this string of shows to their honor his community.
Weirig said. Chappelle draws crowds from all over the country, and those diverse attendees shop local and lodge near the village. The shows also employ local law enforcement, security, food vendors, production crews, and more. In the application, Werig said, it’s a humorous rest bite in the open field surrounded by native Ohio woodlands. Patrons often cite the peacefulness of the surroundings and the chance for a good laugh as an experience that positively impacts their mental health.
According to the permit, shows that we limited to a thousand ticket holders and only two hundred cars can be parked at the property. Shows will not be held on Sunday unless it’s a holiday weekend, and no more than three shows will be presented in a single week. Spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy three. I’ll give you a second here if you want to hit thirty second skip, I’ll do the story quick, alright. Hit skip if you haven’t here it goes.
You know who’s in The Guardians three? Pete Davidson, Yes, the spoiler. Pete Davidson’s character appears. Towards the end of the film, the Guardians release a bunch of animals from their cages. We see a vaguely humanoid blob of unsightly mutated matter, Flectic, thanks his liberator as he makes his way off the spaceship.
Flectic voiced by Pete Davidson, rendered in CGI. Lucia Ball Comedy Festival Upstate Jamestown, New York, August two through the sixth. They’ve announced the headliners. Gabe Iglesias and Taylor Thomason will be your headliners. That’s pretty good.
Meanwhile, The Impractical Jokers and Eric Andre are teaming up for a comedy cruise, this one next January, to go from Miami to the Bahamas and back. The cruise will feature stand up comedy, live music, podcasts, exclusive panels, karaoke, and of course, NonStop warm weather Shenanigans report support. Here are some of the events lip Sync Battle with Eric and the Jokers, Gung Show with Eric Andre, Live Space Monkeys podcast, Beer Pong and Poker, and the Belly Flop contest judged by Salvolcano. That is awesome. Presale access available now if you want to sign up.
Mark Marrin spoke to KCYRW and lately, as I get older as a comic, and I realized I been doing this most of my life, I really found myself sometimes just sitting at home and watching old comedy clips, I mean really old, like Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, these were the guys when I was a kid with my grandmother and my grandfather, I’d be sitting in their house and they’d be telling me about what they thought was funny. My grandmother loved Don Rickles, love Buddy Hackett. My grandfather was more of a slapstick guy. But it really informed who I was. And when I was a little kid, probably ten or eleven, i’d watch comics on TV.
I’d see Jackie Vernon, it must have been on Dean Martin shows, and I thought it was the funniest guy in the world. To the point where my parents and I must have been eleven or twelve, they knew I loved this guy. They brought me to a nightclub at the Hilton in Albertquerque because Jackie Vernon was playing. I sat right up on front. I was the only kid in the place.
They let my parents bring me in. I’m sitting there five feet from Jackie vernon this heavy set, sweaty guy. I thought it was genius. I thought it was hilarious. For some reason, lately, I’ve been watching when I want to feel better, really reflect on what comedy used to be.
It took me a long time to appreciate this guy, because I don’t think as a kid, I really registered Rodney Dangerfield all that much. But I love watching Rodney on Carson the old stuff, because Rodney not doing well was the greatest thing in the world, where he’d be like, are you sure this is the right Mike. Hannah Gatsby’s new special is out on Netflix today spoilers coming up. Cracked said Hannah is going about it all backwards. After all, their first special, Nanette, was the one where they quit comedy.
Usually quitting comes last, but resigning from the job wasn’t the only thing inverted about Nanette. Gatsby used a comedy special to take comedy to task, pulling apart the very fabric of self deprecating humor. They decided it’s not humility it’s humiliation. Gadsby seems to be following the career trajectory of many of our biggest comedians, Robin Williams, George Carlin, taking Nataro, Chris Rock, but doing it in reverse. Most comedy career arcs go something like this comedian breaks onto the scene with hilarious jokes, bits and characters.
Something gets on the way the trials of success, personal tragedy, self destructive behavior, and the routine’s take on a darker tone. Maybe the comedy becomes more contemplative and less punchline driven, like with Nazaro own Williams. Maybe the jokes get more pointed and political like they did with Rock and Carlan, it gets more honest as goofy exteriors appealed away to reveal the tearful onion chows inside. The anger into spare that drove Ninette are gone, replaced with lines like I do want to acknowledge that the world is ending. The thing is I don’t think I could solve it, not tonight, not that’s I’m allocated, So I’m just going to ignore it instead.
Hannah promises to give us an hour of feeling good. I’ve dragged you through a bit of my stuff over the years. It’s time for some payoff, The Wall Street Journal wrote, My viewing companion remarked that Hannah Gatsby has gone soft, and it’s not an inaccurate observation or a happy one. Among the things that made Nanette such a sensation was the way Gatsby, who uses they as a pronoun, operated as a biting social critic as well as a stand up comic. Even while disavowing stand up comedy.
They could also operate as a spoken word magician in Douglas, and I personally like Douglas better than Ninette. In Douglas, for instance, Gatsby told you what was going to happen, showed their cards up front, and you were still amazed when the Queen of Hearts popped out of the deck. It was performance art in many ways, but unlike much within that genre, both profound and profoundly entertaining. Gatsby opened Something Special with a few good show because I owe you one. With the announcement that they’ve gotten married, it should be a warning shot.
The source of full blooded art is heartbreak, not happiness. Much of Something Special is devoted to wedded bliss, but Gadsby’s feigned dismay at the fuss that straight people make about weddings. Gatsby says, I had no idea. The Wall Street Journal says really to pretend otherwise feels phony, which Gadsby has never been. The problems seem rooted in distrust of the material.
Where Gadsby should be deadpan, the performer’s eniting butt and appreciative grin accompanies each gagline, not waiting for the expected laugh, and thus extorting the audience into giving one up. Interesting review there. I’m not sure what to make of the last part I’m reading it. I’m tempted a panic, but then I remember Bob Open Johnny Carson mugged for the camera and got a laugh all the time, so maybe it’s not bad. I’ll have to see it for myself.
Had a Gasby something special on Netflix from the spinoff eight shows you should see at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Let’s skim through this quickly. Live Parkers shows called Werewolves, Vampires, and Harry Style. That’s a great name. Her debut hour promised to reveal her most intimate fangirl fantasies through a blend of sketch clown and stage challenge dance.
Sounds like a good time. Janey Henry’s show is called Crush Season. Expect infectious energy, endless flirting, and a big serve of social and political commentary buried beneath all the sweetness and smiles. Ruby Ester’s show is called Ruby Ester Comedy. Fester Love It.
She’s goofy and introspective, tells Vinet’s about her family life, which can seem on the verge of meandering until she brings you into an ingeniously plotted conclusion. Samina Zeira’s show is called Immigrunting. That’s funny, This’s been off, writes Zemina Zia is a straight up legend. Her show Tea with Terrorists had to run in Auckland. She knows when to stab the knife, where to twist it, and where to pull it out from maximum effect.
Her new hour, Immigrunting, sees her sharing more stories from her wild life and her struggle to convince Immigration New Zealand that she is in fact a human. Wow. Ray O’Leary, everything funny, all the time, always not quite sure what this show’s about. It’s a great picture of his dog, and I like this dog a lot, but they write with his plain grease suit and slow drawling delivery, it’s confronting how assuredly O’Leary can deliver a punchline and get a big laugh. They have on their list Bobby Woods.
If you met my mum, you’d understand told you about that one in the pro lapse Cow Yesterday Kurat he owena Hoha guy. The blurb promises a unique sense of humor that’s silly, a little bit dorky, and a little bit eft up. And the final one on the spinoff’s list, Jeemes Moostapic into the multimedia verse, still harnessing the hilariously shoddy editing skills and the relentless obsession with New Zealand popular culture that he had way back in his YouTube days. It was mustopics deployment of a certain family member throughout the show that really brought the house down. I’m not going to say anything more.
You’ve just got to see it. So all right, he’s at the Basement Theater in Auckland, May tenth, the thirteenth, So you better get on a plane. And that is your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast. Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show as I’ll see you tomorrow.
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