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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, this should be fun. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves now, longtime listeners of this program, I don’t have to tell you that one time Joe Koy was hosting the Gold the Globes and told just the most horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I’m not gonna play that one because we have a new candidate.
And the big question here today on a Monday, is Mark Norman’s career completely over because he told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. That’s right, Mark Norman was there on the Club Shayshay podcast with Shannon Sharp, and the discussion got into Travis Kelcey and the body types that Travis Kelcey has been into during his dating career. Now, I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. Actually I kind of do. I could use the publicity.
I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. So I’m gonna let Mark Norman speak for himself here. Let’s listen, because. We’ve seen his exes yes, compared to old surfboard buddy. I mean, this is not the besmirch the lady, but that’s quite a quite a jump in and type.
Yeah. Yeah, I only know that was his last girl. Now, I don’t know anybody that he dated before her, Kayla. But I think sometimes people like, oh he fumbled, he fumbled. I mean, if somebody makes you happy, er, is that a fumble?
No, not a fumble. But I wonder if he misses that fat ass. I think he, I think he. I think he do it. Okay, I think you do it.
I think she could get a BBL. No, that’s that’s that doesn’t fit. That doesn’t fit, that doesn’t feel what you got going on? Man? Now, if you’re curious, bb L is a Brazilian butt lift.
Now, you might not be familiar with the Brazilian but left. Fortunately, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery has an f a Q webson. They tell us a Brazilian butt lift is a specialized fat transfer procedure that augments the size and shape of the buttocks without implants. Excess fat is removed from the hips, abdomen, lower back, or thighs with liposection and a portion of This fat is then strategically injected into the buttocks. A skilled cosmetic surgeon can improve the proportions of the entire lower body with Brazilian butt lift surgery, helping a patient lose fat and common quote unquote problem areas and enhance the buttocks, with results lasting many years.
There’s a before and after gallery in case you’re curious what this might look like. So the internet recaps say the Swifties have gone after Mark normand one person set on social media Shannon Sharp betraying his long friendship with Travis Kelce by disrespecting his fiance is disappointing and unexpected. They don’t make loyalty like they used to. My mother said, this is disappointing, Shannon, as Travis looks to you as a mentor and you’re over here monetizing as fiance’s name for clout. Take this down, be better.
Another asked, So we’re canceling this mofo, right, So we’ll see if Mark Norman is canceled and suddenly Joe Koy joking about the NFL. Not so bad there, Taylor, huh, 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 caliber shots that Taylor Swift.
I swear I have some thoughts about Mark Norman’s news special. I’ll do the quick version. Was really into it for like thirteen minutes, and then my brain fried because of the relentlessness of just one liner after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner after one liner. You get it, so I couldn’t. I was really thirteen minutes in my brain was like, please stop.
I’ve had that same experience at a Stephen Wright’s show. But I want to illustrate this. We’ve been discussing it a little bit in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I just want to discuss a little bit what I’m talking about, how a set needs to ebb and flow. And I’m not a comedian, you know that, but I was taught that by George Carlin’s manager. And if you listen to my interview with Pete Holmes, which probably three weeks ago now at this point, Pete agreed with the theory.
So we’ll get into that. I want to pull some clips and We’re really busy today, so we’ll try and get to that maybe on the weekend. A lot of news. All of a sudden, Josh Johnson is getting an HBO special. If I had a guess which streamer Josh would show up on, I don’t think I would have guessed HBO.
But this is pretty cool. The special title Josh Johnson Symphony, will premiere this spring. No date on it, but it is now officially Spring, so soon. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials. Nina observed Josh Johnson releases more comedy in a year than most people do in a career.
He tells stories with an incredible rhythm, and it makes the whole room feel like they’re listening to a friend. There’s a musicality to his work, and Symphony captures that perfectly say what she did there. She added, We’re so proud to bring Josh to HBO. Josh Johnson said, I’m excited to have my breakout peace be with a company that nurtures vision like HBO does. I’m grateful to them and you for watching.
Looking forward to that one, I’m not looking forward to be watching funny AF with Kevin Hart that’s going to be on Netflix. This is one of those stand up comedy competitions. Why I’m not excited about it is because the nature of such a competition when you put it on TV. A lot of these things in the past have had comedians who have had a minute of material and they get on there and then everybody goes, oh, so and so is really really funny. Hey John, how come you don’t play him on your show?
Zach we know talk about him, and then I have get to go because they have one minute of material. So I’m a little biased against these shows. Hopefully this one is a little better. A lot of names attached to this Funny AF with Kevin Hart. It’ll premiere April twenty f with four episodes on Netflix, and then episodes five and sixth of the week after that, and then two more episodes live May fourth and fifth.
What day of the week is that that means I’m gonna have to work? Please be the middle of the week May fourth and Monday Tuesday and the fifth eight Tuesday. Perfect. Thank you Kevin Hart for that, because Wednesday, by the time May roll’s around, Wednesday’s volleyball night. By the way.
I’m not kidding. I’m more or less in Morristown, New Jersey. If you are a female beach volleyball player, or a volleyball player, or just a female who would like to be on a beach volleyball team with a bunch of guys in their late fifties, hit me up. My email is in the show notes. We could use another player.
You don’t have to be good, you just have to come. Yeah, we play four on four and you always have to have one woman on the court. We’ve had this team for over a decade now and our female player is pretty good. She doesn’t always come. Then we have to bug somebody’s wife or I make my daughter play except my daughter’s way of college.
So we could use another player. I digress funny af with Kevin Hart on the premiere. Some big names these aren’t performers as a judges Keegan, Michael Key, Tom Segura, Kameil Nan, Gianni, Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser. So this is, you know, this is the agents in Netflix. This is pulling out the stops because let’s rank these people out of Kevin Hart, Keagan, Michael Keat, Samsigora, Kamil Nan, Johnny Chelsea Handler, Nicky Glazer.
Who’s the sixth the biggest star there? Sigora right, and he’s selling out huge places. Maybe it’s Chelsea, maybe it’s Keegan, maybe it’s Nicky. But these are all pretty big names. A press release not attributed to any human.
It’s just a press release quote. Who said this quote? Why won’t they tell us? Do the AI rate this quote? A press release said, Kevin Hart knows what it takes to turn a mic and a dream and a comedy superstardom in funny af He’s searching for the next comedian ready to follow that path.
In this uncensored comedy competition, rising stand ups from across the country step into the spotlight, hoping to make the same leap Kevin once did, from grinding it out in small clubs to headlining their own specials. Along the way, Kevin and a circle of comedy heavyweights will decide who progresses in the competition, offering a behind the curtain look at the pressure triumphs an occasional bomb that shape a career in stand up. Theovon announced his comedy bus Boys, starring David Spade, will hit theaters nationwide April seventeenth, and we’re told, for the first time, two of comedy’s biggest names or skipping studios entirely to distribute their raunchy buddy comedy themselves. Your cast Theovon, David Spade, Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee, Jay Farrow, and Trevor Wallace runtime one hour, thirty three minutes of pure absurdist comedy gold. We are promised, Okay, then what happens?
Well? Theo and Spade co wrote this ridiculous buddy comedy about two hapless friends who believe becoming waiters will solve every problem in their lives. Cidber, There’s no chance the Yvon can act like at all right, there’s like zero chance that he’s a good actor, right like zero. Spade’s going to be Spade. There’s no chance.
All right, shut up, John, all right, We’re promised the dynamic between Theovon’s absurdist Louisiana Fried humor and David Spade’s sharp season comedy creates some thing totally fresh. What makes bus Boys revolutionary isn’t just the film itself. Listeners, Oh no, no, no, you see, Vaughn and Spade didn’t sell out to the studios or traditional distributors. No, they were like, hey, Paramount Warner Brothers, we don’t want your money. We’re going to do this ourselves.
We’re going to show them in And then the big movie studios were like no, no, here’s a lot of money, and THEO and Spade were like no, no, no, no, no no, we want to distribute this ourselves. That’s what happened. Everybody, You understand this that they all the studios been on this film and they’re like, no, we want to release it ourselves. That’s what happened. Stavros Halkia says joined the cast of Glenn Powell’s upcoming comedy movie about a country music star in free Fall.
Sources tell Variety Stavros will play the agents of Glenn Powell’s character. It’ll be directed by jud Appatol and premiere February fifth, twenty twenty seven. I’ve been on my soapbox lately about people who seem like outsiders or insiders, so you know, you might just look at Stavros Haukis and be like, no, he’s not one of those Hollywood insider types. He’s in a movie directed by Judd Apatow starring Glenn Powell he’s in the club. As George Carlin once said, there’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
Hey remember last summer when comedians played the Riod Comedy Festival, and like you know, they were just the worst people who ever lived, and everybody was all upset. Well, two of the comedians who play the Rood Comedy Festival, which, by the way, in my class Thursday, one of the students brought it up and he was not happy with comedians playing the Riod Comedy Festival. However, I hate to tell everyone, including my student, it has not affected anyone. Gabe Iglesias and Joe Cooy they both played Riod and on Saturday night they played a jam packed Sofi Stadium and got the big shiny piece in variety. Gabe was telling the tale as I’ve shared with you before, after selling out Dodger Stadium, I was kind of thinking to myself, what do we do now?
Are we done? Have we jumped the shark? Should we call it a day. I still feel young enough to keep doing stand up. I still feel relevant, but I don’t know that I could do something like this again.
He reportedly paid two hundred and fifty grand penalties and overtime fees for going over his time slot at Dodger Stadium with his curfew and stuff. So the question was, can I find something big to do? What’s gonna be the next big thing? Gabe suggested to Joe Coy that they do a show at Sofi Stadium, and now they have, Gabe said. Joe Coy was like, I don’t know, Gabe.
Gabe said, I’m like, oh, come on, how many sold out forums are gonna keep doing? He says in the end, I bullied Joekoy into doing it. Joe Coy, He’s told Variety. I lived in that area and I remember driving past the Forum and just thinking to myself, someday, but to be able to play so Fi. It’s the biggest venue in LA.
This is the most special moment of both of our careers. We went there two weeks ago to do a photo shoot and we hugged each other and said, Wow, this is crazy. So look, maybe Mark Norman told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift, but I think the moral of the first half of today’s episode is you can tell a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift and you can play the riodd comedy festival. It doesn’t affect your career at all. Coming up at nowon Eastern today it’s the results of Comedy Survivor.
I haven’t put that episode together yet, looking forward to see who everybody voted off. So come back at noon Eastern we’ll see who’s gone.
And then on the other side of that, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy New…
You’ll find a cartoon drawing of me and whoever’s off, and then we’ll vote again. We’re starting to get down to it now. A different student in my class on Thursday, who wasn’t the student who mentioned the Riyod Comedy Festival. This was a different student. She is a big Chris Fleming fan.
She stayed after class to grab me and just had this look on her face. She was sad, and she said, Chris Fleming is mainstream now now. She told me this on Thursday before I said that quote unquote on the air on Friday’s podcast, and I was like, you know, I said the exact same thing on the show tomorrow when we had this conversation. So it’s interesting, Chris Fleming mainstream. This is fun.
Zach Allafanakis has announced a show for Netflix it’s called This is a Gardening Show. It’ll be out on Earth Day, which is April twenty second, with six fifteen to twenty minute episodes. It is described as a refreshing and whimsical take on gardening. Rather than positioning himself as an expert, Galvanakis approaches the subject with curiosity and self effacing humor, with the goal of learning alongside his audience and giving viewers valuable, accessible and educational tools to use in their own gardens. There is a trailer.
It’s a lot of fun. Let’s listen. Hello, what are those cameras? Okay? What do you want to talk about?
If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition, it would be a garden. Or acid. The way we get food is so perverse. Right now, I think it’s worth talking about it without sounding stupid. What is a tomato?
And what we’re leaving this next generation they may have to know this stuff. What’s your favorite fruit? Cal’s not a fruit? Can you look at me and go that’s fascinating, That’s fascinating. This is a food gardening show with your host, Zach Gaspa Vedaski.
Congrats to the guys at Mystery Science Theater at three thousand. The new, New, New, new, new, new revival of it. They did a kickstarter. They have raised two million, Wow, two million, six hundred and ninety eight and forty nine dollars from twenty and eighty nine backers, while not as much as raised by previous fundraising campaigns survived the show in recent years. The initial goal was to raise twenty thousand dollars to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Riff Tracks.
They are going to make new episodes, and we’re back to the not quite original cast, but at least like you know, not one of the derivative casts that we’ve seen in recent years. This version will star Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbette. They will return in their original roles for the four new episodes. And I think I’m gonna wrap it up there because I have duplicates.
I’ve got another Gabe story, I’ve got another Joe Coy story. But you only get one story day on Daily Comedy News. So that’s it. We’re going home. I’m al ready home.
I record the basement, you know what I mean. Come back at noon Comedy Survivor see then,