Weird Al Turned Down $7 Million from the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Tracy Morgan, Eddie Murphy, Jessica Curson, Star Jones, Weird Al Yankovic, Dave Chappelle, Luis C.K., Pete Davidson, Bill Burr, Gary Goldman

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez and Tracy Morgan discuss SNL and pizza preferences
• Jessica Curson slams Star Jones over on-air name dispute and uses slur about Jones’s ex-husband
• Star Jones’s ex-husband Al Reynolds comes out as bisexual
• Gary Goldman reflects on childhood at North Shore Mall and mother’s Hallmark store job
• Weird Al Yankovic turns down $7 million offer from Riyadh Comedy Festival
• North Jersey comedian poll results dominated by John Stewart

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media we found out how Marcello Hernandez likes his pizza. Hello, I’m a Johnny Mac with your Daily Companies. We are poolside once again with the generator guy, the dogs, the cicadas, the planes, the landscapers, the whole bit. It is summertime and I just looked at the calendar and I was like, oh, it’s the thirtieth that meach July fourth, this is coming up. I got a plan holiday.

And then I’m like, oh no, it’s almost August, not almost July. I always confused June in July in my small brain. Marcelo Hernandez apparently likes a plane slice. He was hanging out with Tracy Morgan. This is actually from about a month ago.

I just caught it. They did a conversation piece for a Variety and Tracy Morgan said, I like you already, man, you regular, No extra cheese, no pepperoni, just a slice and a coke. They bonded over some of Tracy Morgan’s work on deaf jam and Tracy Morgan said, my wife is Dominican. Marcelo Hernandez said, I know, I met her earlier. We spoke Spanish Tracy said, I was so happy when you got on the show meeting SNL.

I was there many years before you, but if I was with you, it would have been me and you. You’re basically me on the show. Hernandez said, I think about that a lot, the people that I look up and doing comedy. I wish we were in school together. Now, this is where the controversial Tracy Morgan comment from a month ago came from.

So the conversation turned to schooling and getting in trouble in school, and Tracy Morgan said, and this is just stupid. Tracy Morgan said, I can’t stand teachers. You know why, because they have a ceiling. They have a limit. That’s all they’re ever going to be.

Dude, Come on man, that just no, that’s not cool. They talked about the SNL fiftieth season. Marcelo said, I didn’t know how to talk to Eddie Murphy because I always wanted to be physical like him. I was nervous and I saw the sneakers he was wearing. I was like, oh, I have those, And they looked at me and said, you got them because they look cool.

I got them because they support my body. How do you even respond to that. Oh boy, Tracy Morgan said, people love characters. Domingo is a favorite. But I want you to go to the weekend update desk and I don’t want you to wear a mustache or anything regular name.

That’s what Eddie told me, because you don’t want people going through the airport for the next twenty years and people calling you Domingo. I got news for Tracy Morgan and Marcelo Arnandez. When I go to the airport, they go, hey, Tracy. Eddie showed me how to be asshold name. Do your characters, that’s great, But when you do update, do you?

Tracy asked, what was the very first thing you ever did on SNL. Marcelo Hernandez said, to think about how it’s more fun to watch Lotsino baseball players than the white dudes. It was like, who would you rather watch play baseball? Kyle from Kentucky or the guy they called Papa, And no one knows why. When a white guy who’s up to the plate, he says a load of the picture and just waits for the ball.

The Dominican guy puts the Sign of the Cross on the plate and his hips are so crazy. The whole stadium is pregnant, and then he hits a home run. When he gets back to the plate, he thanks everybody he’s ever met in his entire life. Marcelo Hernandez. Everybody North Jersey dot com is doing a poll.

They want to know your favorite New Jersey comedian. All right, the possibilities are Jessica Curson, Michelle Butteau, Mark Marin, Chelsea Handler, and John Stewart. Are there not other Jersey comedians? Let me ask the internet. Dmitri Martin grew up in Tom’s River, Joe piskepo of course, and we’re leaving out Chris Gethard he’s got an album, Taylor Ham Egg and Cheese.

And Joe Piscopal of course has a comedy album titled New Jersey. But they weren’t part of the poll. Nope, your choices were Mark Maren, Chelsea Handler, Michelle butzew Jessica Kerson or John Stewart. All right, who you’re voting for? I will tell you the polling the last time I looked at it in first place at seventy five percent of the vote, John Stewart in second place, Chelsea Handler with twenty percent of the vote, Mark Marin in third with five percent of the vote, Michelle Buteu with zero percent of the vote, and Jessica Curson with zero percent of the vote.

Sorry, ladies, here’s a headline. Jessica Curson, Slam’s former view co host Star Jones, calls panelist ex husband gay slur. This from Entertainment Weekly, who phrees this they might as well has added not that there’s anything wrong with that verbatim quote. Actress Jessica Cerson, who is a lesbian, made several appearances on the talk show, including a I mean okay. Jessica Curson on The Jessica Kerson Show said, I did the View, which was an interesting experience because I felt like the energy there was hard for me.

Star Jones was on at the time. It was a long time ago. Star Jones was like a diva. Apparently there’s Jessica Kerson. She’s on The Joy’s Comedy Corner segment with Joy Bahar and Kersen said I was like and please welcome Star Jones and then got scolded to buy the production team.

As Jessica tells the story, Starr’s very upset with you because you said Star Jones and not Star Jones. Reynolds and it’s not okay, Kerson said, I read what it said to say on the cards. She came up to me and she literally said, my name is Star Jones Reynolds, and I would appreciate you if you called me that. That’s my name, and then verbatim, they’re doing this again. Curson, who is a lesbian, then used a gay slur to describe jones ex husband Al Reynolds, to whom Jones was married from two thousand and four to two thousand and eight.

I was like, well, your husband is the F word, not that F word, the other F word. Let’s move on, okay, s curious I’m here. On E News November two, twenty seventeen, the headline Star Jones ex husband Al Reynolds comes out as bisexual, not that there’s anything wrong with that, as they say on Sidefeld Gary Goleman spoke to w CVB about his time wandering the North Shore Mall. Goldman recalls, my mother worked at a Hallmark store. Remember they stuff Hallmark stores.

I was thinking about the death of the mall and like, you know, we don’t really go to the movies anymore, and there’s no more record stores, and like bookstores were cool. But there was always like a Hallmark store, like a whole store that just sold cards. Goleman recalls, my mother worked at a Hallmark store from four o’clock until they closed. I would roam the mall by myself. I feel like what my comedy act is now is me at the mall.

When I was eight and nine, in second grade, Gary Goleman wrote a story called The Lonely Tree, a thinly veiled reflection of his own loneliness. He says with a laugh, the tree grew tall from its tears. Then it became the Rockefeller Center at Christmas Tree, and everyone loved it. Yikes. Weird Now revealed that he turned down a million dollars to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year.

Weird Out told Treil but Live, I wish people would offer me things that I didn’t feel bad about accepting. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this anywhere, but I was invited to theri Odd Comedy Festival, which is something that I obviously did not want to do. They offered me. I’m not going to say I’m much, but it was seven figures to do one show, so it’s at least a million dollars, which is way more than I’ve been offered to do in my life for a show, but it just couldn’t be part of that weirdoul said, I’m not dissing anybody that took the money, because I’m sure everybody that went there got a lot of money. I’m sure they had their own reasons and justifications for doing it.

But I’m doing enough that I don’t need to take any amount of money if it makes me feel lucky, and that kind of did. Some of the comedians who appeared there included Dave Chappelle, Luis c K, Pete Davidson as he’s in Sorry, Jessica Curson, who is a lesbian just following the Entertainment Weekly guidelines here, and Bill Burr, which reminds me I’ve been meaning to go to Bill Burr’s Facebook. Let’s do that now on the fly. This is not in the script. Bill Burr on his Facebook page posted some new dates doing a couple shows in California this week, will be in Las Vegas on the first.

Let’s read the comments. One person’s wondering if he’s playing Riyadh. Another called him the Prince Harry of comedy. Another said the tours called things My Wife approved. A totally different comedy festival is the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival.

They’ve announced Bo Ammer and Morgan Jay to headline. Moe Ammer will take the stage on Yas Island November sixth, kind of a spread out festival running from October to early November.

Also announced Russell Peters and Mastra Broani.

The inaugural Abu Dhabi Comedy Week in twenty twenty four was nine days featured Dave Chappelle, The Not So Canceled Disease and Sorry, Chris Tucker, Andrew Schultz, who is America’s foremost political commentator according to New York Times or whatever they called him, and Joe Koy One time told a joke about Daylor Swift, but we don’t have time for that today. It expanded into the multi month Abu Dhabi Comedy Season last year, with the lineup including Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Michael mckinsire, Gabriel Iglesias, Beat Davidson and Bill Burr. If you want to head on over to Abu Dhabi. Morgan Jay October eleven, Russell Peters October twenty fifth Moe Emmer November sixth, The Mas Drew Browni November seventh. Blond Medicine has announced to the release of Derek Sheen’s fifth full length hour of comedy.

Unrelatable, is set for an August twenty first release on YouTube, followed by a September audio album Woo via Blond Medicine. Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurity as a human hug and a one of a kind storyteller. He has toured with folks like batt Oswald, Janine Gruffalo, and Brian Posain. Brian Prosain said Derek is so funny and smart that it makes me mad. On Unrelatable, Derek Sheen tackles the creeping indignities of aging, chronic social awkwardness, and the strange comfort of feeling out of step with everybody looking forward to that one.

Jeffic Curie spoke to Deadline his special on Netflix is pretty good entertaining anyway, if not hilarious, he said. Twenty twenty five was looking great for he and his wife. They had plans to travel to Hawaii and then two months in Australia, week in Tokyo, a month at home in three months in Europe. That sounds awesome, except when they were in Hawaii, they found out that his wife had staged three breast cancer and needed treatment immediately. Jeff had a turn to his team to get his show’s rescheduled so he could be by his wife’s side.

Turns out the initial diagnosis was incorrect, so she did not need an immediate chemo, but that led the engaged couple to move up their wedding. They had the ceremony and their empty new apartment. Jeff Acurey’s agent officiated. Only their parents were in attendance. Jeff said it really, honestly, at the time seemed like, all right, this is temporary.

But now I look back and I’m like, that was the best day, dude, because I was the only sure thing I had my life at the moment was loving her without a doubt. Everything else was so chaotic, but that was the sure thing. And Cracked did a fun interview with Mike Kaplan. Well, skim it here. Who was your first hero in comedy?

Mike Chaplain said Paul Riser, his special Three and a half Blocks from Home came out in around nineteen ninety one. I saw it when VH one was replaying it. The next year, Mad About You debut and I became a huge fan. Shortly thereafter, his book Couplehood came out, and I devoured it in physical form as well as the audiobook and cassette form. Once I started driving, I drove around listening constantly to the tapes.

Wore out testament to how great his comedy is. That a thirteen year old boy who had never kissed a girl or been on a date could relate to so much art. What the main thesis was, I’m a grown man who loves his wife. Proudest moment as a comedian. Skiming here, he said, there’s been so many I’ve gotten to work with him, to come friends with some comedy heroes like Gary Goleman and Maria Bamford and Emo Phillips.

I got to open for Batton Oswald at Carnegie Hall and Stephen Wright at a non Carnegie Hall. What excites you about the future of comedy? Skimming here, he said, I love that more and more people are learning about comedy, not that it’s becoming less niche, but that more and more niches are being developed. For example, what folks like Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson are doing. They’re creating new flavors of art that almost transcend comedy.

Joe Firestone has been making unique, weird, hilarious comedy projects for years. Chris Fleming keeps Chris Fleming, and Reggie Watts keeps Reggie watsing. He also named checks, Julio Touris, James A. Caster, Rory Scovel, people like Maria Bamford and Gary Goleman continue to share from the depths of their humanity and innovative ways. This is a great interview.

They asked Mike Kaplan one comedian who every comedy fan should know, and he said, all the ones I mentioned, plus not an exhaustive list. You’re ready, and I’m gonna go quick here because there’s so many he mentioned by name. Tod Glass, Laurie Kilmore, Nick vaterot Nikki Glaser, w camal bell a partner on Charlo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jackie kash, Ramin Naser, Tig Nataro, Zach Sherwin, Bett Stelling, Josh Gonnoman, Ali Wang, Alice Fraser, Sid Sing, John stops a second to take an in breath, Laura Davis, Shane Moss, Sophie Hagen, Mikero Biglia, I’ll be Wamba, and John Fuel saying, Wendy Leeman, Andy Kindler, Cameron Esposito, Eddie peppettone Hey Mike. They asked for one, Otsco and Cotska, Ronny Chieng, Crisselle, Alonso, Ronin Hirschberg City, Washington, Joe List, Mary Fauston and the ever so serious Hari Condobolu.

And then he says, and many more. Again, this list is not exhaustive. I just want to respect your time in space. They only ask for one. And the final question is what is one trend in comedy you hope will disappear soon?

Mike Kaplan said fascism?

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