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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s try this. I asked the Late Bot to come up with a David Letterman style top ten list for ways to start your podcast when you don’t have a better idea. Number ten. Begin your podcast with a ten minute ran about how you can’t believe you have to come up with a new idea.
Number nine. Start with a lengthy discussion about the weather. Everybody loves hearing about how hot at his outside. Number eight. Open with a list of all the things you don’t want to talk about on your podcast.
Number seven. Kick off your podcast with a dramatic reading of your grocery. List six. Start with a five minute monologue about your mood swings. Number five.
Begin your podcast by reading your horoscope. Nothing says entertainment like a vague prediction about the future. Number four. Open with excuses as to why you don’t have a better opening. Number three.
Start with a joke that falls flatt and then spend the next ten minutes trying to explain why it was funny. Number two begin with a dramatic reading of your own tweets. And the number one way to kick off your podcast when you don’t have any ideas kick off your podcast with a top ten list of idea is to start off your podcast. Thank you late bought. I hadn’t missed this one, but it’s always a popular topic.
I do repurpose the podcast as a YouTube video. Note by video, I mean static image of a wave. But you can listen to the podcast on YouTube. Did I explain that right? You know what I’m talking about.
And the most popular thing I ever boasted was the bizarre war between Jerry Seinfeld and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Maybe I’ll rerun that someday, but I had missed this one. Bobcat went on Tim Hidecker’s podcast, which is called Office Hours Lives. He discussed his comedy in film career, and then a Seinfeld impersonator calling into crack jokes about the cast of Seinfeld and about Bobcat. Heidecker used the bit to ask Bobcat about Jerry, who reignited their beefback in twenty nineteen when Jerry extensively complained about Bobcat on an episode of Comedians and Cars Getting Coffee, whereas Bobcat calls the show millionaires bitching about their diamond shoes being too tight.
Bobcat said, it was so long ago. I was on our cineo. That’s where this whole thing started. I thought we were good because I was friendly with his manager. But maybe I own an apology whatever.
Tim Heidecker played a clip of Goldweight calling Seinfeld a quote spooky, weird scientologist guy banging teenage girls at the time, Jerry Seinfeld. Now people have forgotten this, this happened. I was there. I lived it. At the time.
Jerry Seinfeld was dating Shoshana Lonstein. He allegedly met her when he was thirty eight and she was seventeen. Seinfeld apparently never forgot Bobcat shots, calling Bobcat not funny and criticizing his stupid effing voice. He did that in a lengthy rant on Comedians and Cars with Bridget Everett, who’s a friend of Bobcat. Bobcat said, I was like, Seinfeld finally has an opinion about something and it’s me Also, like, why do I bug him for this log?
I don’t even think it’s about the jokes I made. I think I just didn’t fit into what his idea of comedy is. Him calling me out was like the old West, you know, and I’ve got my forty fives on the wall. I’m retired, and he’s like, Goldfarm, come on out. He fires first, and it’s like, that’s why he does that dumb character.
That’s the only way he can make people laugh. And I just dodge his bullet and I fire back. Your biggest talent is being Larry David’s friend Boom.
Now here’s some great news.
I just took out my podcast app to tell you what episode to listen to. This is episode two three three of Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker, and it was the January fifth episode. But as I pulled out my app to grab it for myself, I didn’t realize the newest episode from ten days ago. Now, episode two forty eight also has Bobcat Goldthwaite, so plenty for you to listen to. There some more jokes from Bobcat I hear the new season if your show is going to be called old comedians and vans handing out candy on playgrounds.
Sam Morrel’s booked to Forbes and said theaters are so much easier than clubs. It’s actually something Chris Rock said to me. There’s something about velvety seats just makes them behave better. When it’s a prizier ticket and bigger venue. I think you’re taken more seriously.
I have all these memories of performing in comedy clubs where I couldn’t fill the room that just give out free tickets. The crowd doesn’t respect you. There’s no investment. You have to prove yourself to that crowd. With every joke.
I’d be killing it for twenty minutes and then one bomb and they’re like, he sucks. Now. I have people that are listening Mark marin’spop to Casey RW about Nate Burggatsy and said, I watched Nate’s new special and he used to open for me. I remember the first time I saw him. I watched him three or four times at a comedy festival.
I’m like, does anybody know who this kid is? Because he’s got a style that’s totally unique. But the funny thing is he and I politically and spiritually are very different. He’s Southern, he’s Christian. He definitely doesn’t have the politics I have.
But we’re friends and I truly love his comedy. We couldn’t be more different. He’s clean, on the opposite of Nate. He opened for me at Carnegie Hall. But it’s so funny because I watched his newest special and I swear to God I find him inspiring.
But I texted him and I was like, look, I know we think differently about things and we’re spiritually different, but I love you man, and I thought your special was great. And he texted back, I pray for you every day. I love you two men. I miss you. I hope we can hang out again.
Japanese comedian singer Pikazaro you know him. He’s got his comical hit song ppap Remember that one? Yeah? Well. He served as the chief of the Metropolitan Police Departments Azabu Police Station for a day this week.
He even participated in a traffic safety show. Pikataro was clad in his renowned Leopard Prince suit you know the one he wrote, in a convertible and he paraded along to performance by a local high school old brass band. He waves a residence, gathered along the street and promoted traffic safety.
Meanwhile, at Australian comedian he’s in trouble for urging shoppers to stea…
Fergus Neil encouraged Australians to steal ahead of lettuce as the cost of living pressures are felt across the country. He went on social media and claimed that inflation is used by the Woolworths chain. Yeah, there’s still a chain called Woolworths. If you’re old, you remember the United States one. It has nothing to do with that.
I looked it up when I was down there and I was like Woolworths anyway. Neil Fergus claimed that inflation he’s used by Woolwortz as a smokescreen increased prices and company profits rather than easily absorbing the cost of supply chain issues. He wrote, next time you’re at Woolworths, do your Australian duty and steal a gush darn lettuce. Some people on social media complain. One said stealing from supermarkets results in increased prices for all shoppers to cover the supermarkets losses.
The Daily Mail Australia asked Fergus what he thought about the backlash, and he said, let them eat lettuce. Hey, this is cool. HBO has a thing coming out called Being Mary Tyler Moore. It chronicles Mary Tyler Moore as a storied career spanning sixty years. It weaves Moore’s personal narrative with the beats of her professional accomplishments.
The film highlights are groundbreaking roles in the indelible impact she had on generations of women who came after her. I love Mary Tyler Moore. I’m looking forward to this one. Although they’re being at May twenty six, whereas Johnny mac May twenty six, Johnny Mack has Taylor Swift tickets. Paldtin Nickerson said, one of the nice things about comedies they were unconventional pass but ultimately the only way to get good at comedies to do comedy.
I’m not talking about getting popular, or selling tickets or having TikTok followers. All those things are important in this game, but to truly get good at stand up comedy, it is to do it over and over again. You get little winds along the way, you get your first paid gigs, someone takes you on the road than your headline for the first time. I’d say the biggest one for me was the first time I went on TV. Kevin Hart had a show on Comedy Central called Kevin Hart Presents Heart of the City, which featured up in comers.
I did a showcase for it, but I didn’t think I was gonna get it. I kind of washed out on my memory. Then I got a call from the producer telling me, hey, you got it, and that was overwhelming and very validating. When someone puts you on TV makes it feel like it’s a little less a hobby or some empty pipe dream. Okay.
Dustin Nickerson, what’s her creative process when it comes to writing new material? He said, it’s different for every comic. I’ve never found anyone who’s remotely similar, exactly the same. Someone like Mark Marin works out of stuff on stage, maybe as an idea, and then he finds it on stage. Then there’s a guy like Tom Papa.
He’s writing jokes in a notebook. I knew people who write scripts. I’m usually somewhere in between. For me, everything starts with the genesis of something funny. Do I find something funny about the topic or that idea about that experience.
Then I start talking through. I start saying it out loud. I’ll talk to my wife about it, I’ll talk to other comics about it. I don’t physically write it down very often, but I sometimes make a little note side I don’t forget the idea. Then I go over it and over it in my head at the New Zealand Comedy Festival on Sundays somewhat of a light show the Comedy Fest All Stars or at the Church Hill Jester promises fresh comedy every time.
Let me click on what this is gestures a show where we put our newbies on stage with some of our old hands. It’s a hilarious comedy show in the style of whose line is in anyway? That’s fun? And here’s a show by Karen from Finance called Dating Time. Karen from Finance is headed for the lock up and her workers Frank the CEO and Amanda from Reception could not be happier.
The way they jeer is a downright criminal. Will Karen from Finance prove her innocence or will she walk free? By the way, did you know the British countries all put the weekend at the end of the week on the calendar, like you know, an American calendar goes Sunday, Monday Tuesday, and all the British ones New Zealand Australia have at the end of the week Saturday then Sunday, so when you look, the week starts with Monday, and oh believe me, it messes me up every time I click on it. But when you think about it, it is called the week End. It makes sense.
I think they’re right. Good luck convincing everyone over here to change that. One of the shows you can see, it’s Sydney on Sunday, Brett Blake’s Dog Act and they have a clip. But the bad news is I clicked on it and he’s talking about a sex shop. I couldn’t make enough edits to share it with you.
It was funny. Brett Blake’s Dog Act. Guy Williams was called comedy plus time equals tragedy. Let’s see if this one’s a little more clean. You know.
COVID nineteen has been a real roller coaster for all of New Zealand, and considering we only have one roller coaster in New Zealand, it’s actually been a real treat, to be honest, it’s been a real wild rise. This is honestly the best job in the world. I love this so much, you know, because it can’t go wrong. People is like Guy, what if no one laughs? People pay at the starter show, not the end, and people like Guy.
Imagine doing an entire one hour show and getting no last the entire show. I don’t have to imagine that. I did that in christ Churts last week. I’m a mediocre white man. I can talk confidently for an hour with no laughs.
I just pretend I’m doing a podcast. Hey, podcast joke, that’s mean, all right? He was fun. I had a clip out a couple of naughty words there, but you got to gist he was fun. What are you saying people can go for like thirteen minutes on a pod and that’d be funny at all.
I don’t know. I’m going home. Then follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. I don’t know. Maybe I won’t even come back tomorrow.
If that’s how you feel. Who doesn’t like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac.
My podcast is called Travel Is Back. Travel is Back is travel for regular people. We hop in the car with like coach fews or miles. We eat in normal places, we stay at normal places. So what I do is I hop in the car, and I grab my portable recorder and I go somewhere.
Season three kicks off of a road trip to Key West. You can check out the back catalog. There are popular episodes covered Chicago, Nashville, Vancouver, Seattle, a whole bunch more. Travel Is Back road trips or regular people follow the show on Apple podcast or wherever you get your shows. These are quick, these are casual, and it’s for regular people like you.
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