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Caloroga Shark Media. From old Man Mountain. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves h only this first story. I don’t even have a comment done.
But just while we’re on old Man Mountain, I was at the National Donuts chain and a young lady college age pulls up, pulls right into the handicap spot, like that’s totally okay, gets her coffee, gets back in. You’re fine, It’s all about you, but that’s not why we’re here. On comedy, Nikki Glaser was on Alex Cooper’s podcast and talked about the wonders of the hot husband fetish. Stay with me. Nikki Glaser said, in a relationship, I don’t really care if my boyfriend were to hook up, but that’s not a two way street.
I’m not someone who likes to hook up when I’m in a relationship, but I don’t really care about that. But I don’t care if someone else were to. In fact, I kind of like it. And again, I live old Man Mountain. That’s where my head explodes.
But okay, you do you Nicki. She explained this has been a successful, ongoing thing since she got with her boyfriend thirteen years ago. Nicki said, I didn’t really have a boyfriend before that. I would always ask him about past hook ups and girlfriends and how they got together, like how did you first know you liked each other? I love that.
She explains. It would make me horny to think about him and doing that with other girls, So I’d ask about all his girlfriends or anyone who had hooked up, with all the details about it, and would really be like a foreplay for me. I would get revved up talking about it. But you see, then he ran out of stories. Nikki Glaser explains, it wasn’t as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff.
I had never heard of anything like this fetish. As the story goes, Nikki Glaser apparently encouraged her boyfriend to come home with more stories. Nikki Glaser told Alex Cooper, I want a guy that other girls want, but there were rules, you know, rules like no kissing. Nicki explained, if a guy has a sexual connection with a girl and he wants to use protection and just have sex for night, I literally wouldn’t care if my husband did that, I don’t know why. If he were to watch the Wire with her, do crossword puzzles or send memes or stuff, I’d be like, what the aff are you doing?
That’s our thing. Emotional cheating would hurt me. Nicky Glazer as a special coming out later this month. This next story, I had to check to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools story that I had missed earlier in the week. But no, the date line April seventh.
Apparently in the Call of Duty game, there’s a Dave Chappelle for twenty skin. Apparently you’ll be able to play Call of Duty while dressed up as Thurgood Jenkins, the fictional character from nineteen ninety eight to Half Baked played by Dave Chappelle. An Activision blog post explains there’s something good going on at Frankenson’s and BurrH Pharmaceutical, and Thurgud Jenkins is right in the middle of it. The master of custodial Arts takes his chance to have some fun and save a friend memorialized in this bundle, inspired by the nineteen ninety eight hit comedy Half Baked. Okay, then, Judy Gold tells page six She is shocked by how brazen anti semites have become at the city’s comedy clubs.
She said she was performing at the New York Comedy Club and audience member shouted out. She tells page six, this one guy was being really disruptive, and I said, you’re annoying a comedian. I was just talking to him because the crowd was great, and he would just yell stuff. I’ve been doing this since I was nineteen. I can handle anything.
A sourus tells page six that the bully did not go quietly. A witness says he was talking to the security guy, wanted to get in his face, wanted to fight him outside. Then the next night, Judy Gold said, some guy made a comment about Jews being cheap, so I said, thanks for bringing that trope back from sixteen hundred. She said she hadn’t heard that, particularly one in thirty years. The last time it happened was thirty plus years ago and Marietta, Georgia.
Someone yelled out Jews of all the money, and I said, yeah, that’s why I’m doing this gig in Marietta, Georgia, which is a great comeback as a New Yorker. Although I haven’t lived in the city now for a good twenty five years. I don’t know if to do math. I do find that surprising. Again, I’m not going to say people never say vile things, but I don’t run into such things.
The Atlantic had an article I found pretty interesting. I’m going to go first here and say I have no expertise to comment on this at all. I don’t have the perspective or the experience, but I do want to read it to you. It’s by Kay Austin Collins. The headline, who is black comedy for the subhet or a new book?
Is nostalgic for the nineties, but the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of black comedic achievement. Kay Austin Collins Rights early in his career, before he became a household named Dave Chappelle attempted to get a series off the ground at Fox. It was nineteen ninety eight, and the network had already welcomed black comedies such as Living Single, Martin and In Living Color, shows that implied to a vested interest in black taste. Chappelle might have expected to find a receptive audience when he presented the pilot for Dave Chappelle, a sitcom based on his life as a young black comedian. What he reportedly got instead was a room full of white executives with a familiar set of complaints.
There were not enough white people on his proposed show, it was not universal enough, meaning it was too black, Swap out the black female lead for white one, and add an additional white character. He was advised all this despite Fox being a Chappelle but at the time a network that had built itself on black viewers. He refused to cooperate, remarking the incident quote tells every black artist, no matter what you do, you you need whites to succeed. Cha Austin Collins continues good stuff here. Chappelle was caught up in a whirlwind of change in the TV landscape.
The successes of black sitcombs in the nineteen eighties and nineties had made new shows marketable for the mainstream parentheses read not just black mainstream audiences, but the marketability had come with a catch. In the late nineties, there was a broader push for multiculturism, which came to be defined in a great many cases as whiteness plus white protagonists with their black Asian and Latino friends. Blackness not as a set of experiences in itself, but has proof positive of the white hero’s ability to learn jokes that might offend or even just confuse. White audiences became harder cells and safe crossover appeal became the norm. A few years prior to Shabelle’s Bitch keenan Ivory way Ins had left his show over issues that reportedly included censorship from Fox Cha.
Austin Collins continues fast forward half a decade to the now famous story of Chappelle’s show. He mastered a comic style that highlighted the absurdity of racism by taking it to its extremes, while also leaning on and exploring black in jokes without translating them for white viewers. His bits became memes before most of us knew what a meme was, and taking advantage of Comedy Central’s comparatively lacks rules, he insists that on using the N word liberally, this Chappelle show was everything that the nineteen ninety eight concept couldn’t be, and ironically, though the show made no effort whatsoever to be universal, it nevertheless won a rabbit and diverse audience in two thousand and five, Chappelle walked away from a reported fifty million dollar contract he’d signed with Comedy Central the previous year. Most people were baffled by his decision, but in interviews, he explained that the fame and pressure had weighed on him and the show’s popularity, especially among people who were ostensibly the butt of the jokes, indicated that his work had not been received as he’d intended. In the end, Chapelle followed the logic had set for himself early on in his career.
Mainstream approval was never more important than the integrity of the material or its maker. The book is Black Out Loud, The Revolutionary History of Black comedy from Vaudeville to nineties sitcoms. The book is by Jeff Bennett. The piece I just read to you is in the Atlantic end titled who is Black Comedy? Four?
The Boston Globe wrote about Louis C.K. They ray, you may have heard that Netflix is back in the Louis c. K business. Last week, The Dreaming Beemuth announced that the once Disgrace comedian will headline the Hollywood Ball in May. Fifth Blah blah blah.
The Globe rights in truth he never entirely went away. Yeah, he immediately lost his TV deal with e X, including his series Louis. The mainstream entertainment machine shun him for time, but he soon began self promoting his own comedy shows in which he passively aggressively painted himself as a victim of cancelation. He won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty twenty two, and he’s been slithering back into the public consciousness for a while. The Netflix deal didn’t happen overnight.
I did watch some comedy specials during the week. I started with Sheng Wang. I really liked his previous special, and I was excited for this one and wound up disappointed by it and didn’t finish it. It’s fine. I just found it was Mitch Hedberg cover and on the house to describe it, even the way he punches words, and maybe it’s just the way he speaks, but I’m watching it, I’m like, this just feels like a Mitch Heedburg cover.
Band. Kind of disappointed that one. Then I put on Sarah Milkin, even though my brain had been poisoned by the Facebook group some people had watched it already. It’s It’s fine. It’s whatever.
I mean. I don’t hate it, don’t love it, didn’t make it that much into it. It’s fine, it is what it is.
And then my favorite of the three I watched was Aaron Chen’s special, this on…
It’s low energy and low produced and it kind of works. So out of the three, watch Aaron Chen. You’ll find all three that I just mentioned on Netflix. We’re starting to get closer to the twenty twenty six Great American Comedy Festival. This is the one every year in Johnny Carson’s hometown, and they have announced that a group of magicians will headline the comedy and magic show on Thursday, June eighteenth at the Johnny Carson Theater.
Festival executive director Pat Jensen said all four of these performers have been raved about by the other top magicians and comedians. Everyone I talked to says, holy cow, what a trio of ACX. Well, who are they? There’s Julie Chen. In nineteen ninety seven, Julie became the first woman and first magician of Chinese heritage to win a World championship in the fifty year history of the Awkward Pause.
Here, as John rolls into a set in French, I’m going to half ass translate it as the International Federation Magic Society would be my rough translation. There, the world’s leading organization for the art of magic. David Kovak specializes in combining humorous monologues with cleverly crafted or magic routines. He has a solo show, Fooling Buddha, where he plays ten different characters, including a magician and the Evisons. No en in there.
Everson’s Jeff and Tessa Evison are internationally acclaimantalists whose demonstrations of telepathy of amazed audiences in more than forty countries. One of the few married couples in history to master the rare art of second sight, they create the impression that two minds are working as one. Pretty cool magic shows Thursday, June eighteenth, Improv headlined by Bluebird Improv on June nineteenth and Charlie Brens is your headliner Jude twentieth, all at the Johnny Carson Theater. Charlie Bran’s been making the news a lot lately. Let’s check in on the Melbourne comedy festival.
The folks at Sinster went to see Zanab Johnson. They wrote there’s a point in Talks Optimistic where Zana Johnson starts talking about why Americans are so attached to guns, and instead of going where you expect, she flips it. It’s not about politics, not really, it’s because, according to her, Americans can’t fight. That’s kind of the rid of them, of the whole show. She takes something heavier, at least, something that feels like it should be heavy and twisted just enough that you’re laughing before you’ve had time to brace yourself.
Here is a clip I got a gun. Yeah, not on me. I should have said that didn’t make it through customs. Here’s the thing. I didn’t want a gun.
I got a house, so I got a gun. I’m making it seem like it came with the house, right, it wasn’t three bedrooms in a clock. But here’s the thing, Like, now that I have it, I know you shouldn’t say it because for it to be most effective, it should be a surprise, right, But I like saying I don’t know why. I feel like it makes my boundaries very clear. You know, if I tell you I have a gun, at the beginning of the night.
Then you know where the night can go. Right. Sometimes I’d just like to say it like I’ll pull up to a car and like a red light, I’ll look at the car next to me and I’ll. Be like, I got a gun. I say it on dates, when I’m on a date, I say it really cute, though, I’m like, I got a gun.
Shut up, Pum pum, pum, shut up, stop pum. They like this show a lot, and not clip is really good. They say. Johnson’s delivery is clean, almost deceptively sell. There’s no cast to hide behind, no rambling.
Every beat feels placed. It gives the material space to land, even when she’s jumping between ideas that shouldn’t quite sit together. Good review, and that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow.