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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Late Bod. Happy Mother’s Day. It’s the one day of the year where we all pretend we’re going to clean out our rooms and do the dishes without being asked. Happy Mother’s Day, everybody. It’s that special day where we celebrate the women who brought us into the world and made sure we didn’t burn down the house with our experiments in the kitchen.
On Mother’s Day, we honor the women who taught us the meaning of unconditional love, patience, and had a guilt trip our siblings into doing chores. On Mother’s Day, we celebrate the women who gave us life, who made us who we are, and who still remind us we’re a jacket when it’s cold outside. Last week on the Joe Rogan Experience, Joe was speaking to poly Shure Pauly Shore’s mom, Mitzi Shore owned the legendary Comedy store. They started talking about owning a comedy club. Joe said, I’d always tell people be nice to comedy club owners because you don’t want to be one.
He says. The biggest stress of the new club has been wrangling lineups. Joe said, I had to talk with myself about it, like, do you really want to take this on? You don’t want to be some person hoping that this guy shows up that he wasn’t doing coke last night and he’s not a two day bender. He misses his flight or he didn’t sleep.
There are so many factors dealing with your livelihood. If you’re a club owner, people get too drunk, they’re crazy, they do this, they wreck the hotel room, and you’re constantly putting out fires. Mark Marrin told Casey RW. I recently worked with Maria Bamford up in Canada. We were in the same venue.
I’ve known her forever and I’ve always sung her praises. But she’s still working at the top of her game, and it’s a game that no one else can play. It’s deep, It covers everything in a way that’s just totally inspired and unique, to the point where you watch her and I’m like, why am I even doing comedy. Stephen Wright put out a novel. It’s called Harold.
The Washington Post took a look. Harold is the title character. He’s a seven year old boy attending his third grade class in suburban Massachusetts in nineteen sixty five. Harold’s teacher is reminding him to remember his upcoming assignments. But he’s the kind of kid who isn’t going to get boxed in by assignments.
He’s smart, but psychically entirely off the grid. Stephen Wright explains he did more thinking than someone his age, or any age. The book collects many of Harold’s thoughts, which are very Stephen Rtsian. For example, wouldn’t it be great if he had a pair of glass bottom shoes that he could wear on the glass bottom boat with no socks on it, so if fish looked up, they could, for the first time in their lives see bare feet that weren’t in the water. Harold wondered if bird angels would have four wings or one more, and being in love was like being on a seesaw where one side contained nitro glycerin Washington Post says, Stephen writes reading of the Harold audiobook is much like a stand up deliberate dead band and levin just a bit by his thick Boston accent.
Jim Gaffigan tilled cracked with stand up comedy. There was a moment when I started headlining where before the show I’d be in the backstage erry watching the show and people would be looking past me. They didn’t even know his headlining. Then after the show when they saw me, they’d be like, oh my gosh. And I was like, wow, it’s really interesting.
People treat you differently, but they’re impressed by the show. It’s not me. I was the guy on stage that was saying some funny things with the microphone. It’s not me. But eventually I started thinking, well it was me.
Hey, great news. Another Adam Sailor movie. That’s what the world needs. This one co stars Adina Menzel. It’s called My bat Mitzvah, coming to Netflix August twenty fifth.
So you want to take that last week of the summer off and stay home and watch this thing. In My bat Mitzvah Stacey and Lydia or BFFs, you’ve always dreamed about having epic bat Mitzvah’s okay cool, but things start to go comically awry when a popular boy in middle school drama threaten their friendship and their right of passage. Now listen to this cast. Not only does it start Adam Sandler, but it also features Jackie Sandler. Sadie Sandler and Sunny Sandler m Meanwhile, in the UK TV channel Dave has ordered a third season of David Mitchell’s Outsiders.
I’ve been watching a lot of Mitchell and Webb lately. I went looking for clips one night and now YouTube keeps putting them in front of me, and people have made these compilations of like here’s all the good clips from season three. I’m not sure how that works from a legals perspective, like yeah, like, okay, you just took clips and put it together for an hour and you get the adder of it. I’m not sure how that works. Mitchell and Webb is fantastic.
If you’ve never seen it, why don’t you type Mitchell and Webb into your YouTube anyway? And Outsiders a six part series. Comedians have to demonstrate their survival ability and a number of challenges. These are jokingly contrived to test whether they had the skills to form a new society in the wild. Mitchell said how brilliant that David Mitchell’s Outsiders is coming back for a third series and that I get the chance to put more comedians through their survival paces.
I can’t wait to see them fly around in the outdoors in a way that is both hilarious to watch and carries with it at the darker truth that should society collapse, most of us are in for long, agonizing deaths. Plus they’ll be lovely cutaway shots of wildlife, which you don’t get in any other panel show. I was hoping to do more for Mother’s Day. I didn’t really see too much. Here’s one from The Gordian.
The headlined the comics Motherhood that Can’t Stop. Josie Long said, before I had kids, I swam in an ocean of time. I did a lot of touring, was away for long periods. If I wanted, I could write all night. I slept in all the time.
When I started in comedy, I was on the sharp end of a lot of sex and stuff. I was told over and over that women’s bodies are disgusting and women’s experiences are niche. So it was wonderfully liberating to do a story about childbirth. Jessica Fostaque as a seven year old son. She recalls what things were like when she was pregnant.
She said it was fifty fifty whether a woman in comedy went public about a pregnancy. I watched my elders hide theirs and panic. Then I watched a few brave women smash through that. There’s a podcast. It’s called Funny Mummies Mummies you know like Egyptian or how the Brits say, mom mummies, Funny Mummies.
It gives comedians to space to discuss these issues. It is hosted by Hattie Ashdown, who’s a comic. Hattie says it’s about mums in comedy being open and honest and not feeling like you’ve got to lie or hide that you’ve had kids. I wanted to find out how comedian mums juggle it all. She believes gigging is not a level playing field as it’s assumed that female comedians are responsible for their childcare.
She says male comics are booked over female comics. We need more Dad saying I’ve got to work out a babysitter in Chicago tonight at Zenies, and recently i posted a photo of myself across the street from Zeni’s having nothing to do with this The Bad Moms of Comedy MMZ or playing at Zini’s tonight at seven. I wanted to find out more about the bad Moms with a Z of Comedy. Hey Bad moms, you gotta update your web game. I couldn’t even figure out your names.
I figured out one of the moms, couldn’t figure out the rest. No details, don’t know what the show is about, don’t know who you are? Come on, step it up. I want to support you. Are you heading to the Dubai Comedy Festival?
Well goods? Here Khan is playing there today is a Here is one of India’s new generation of stand up comedians and YouTubers. He won Comedy Central’s India’s Best stand Up Comedian. He’s even the co host of a comedy news channel. Wait, so he’s the Indian me but funny, okay cool?
I like this guy. By the way, the show’s in Hindi and this next story I saw in the La Times really compelling. We’re gonna go on a Ryan he Orzo buckle up. Kyle Ayers came up with a show called boast Rattle. I did not misspeak boast Rattle.
It’s a head to head compliment base take on roast battle, So instead of ripping each other, you compliment each other. Crowd members get to vote up to two times per person in each round, and winning names get added to a Championship bout to battle for the belt of Flowers. Before kicking off Boast Rattle, Ayer’s pauses to set a complimentary mood. He said, going to get into the bosting spirit and talk to you guys about a brain disease I have called trigeminal neuralgia. It’s like a nerve exploded to the base of my brain stem and a lot of negative about it.
But I was trying to think of the good parts of having a degenerator of brain disease. He unveils a keynote presentation called Kyle Boasts his t N. In the presentation, it said, it’s called suicide disease might sound like a negative, but it’s only called that because it is the highest rate of suicide of any medical ailments. Other slides include I was dead for ten minutes, cool scars, and I win Chronic pain support groups. La Times writes.
By the second round of Boast Rattle, Air sits on stage right next to judge Guy Brainham while two contestants begin complimenting each other. Here’s jaw works up and down and side to side. He massages the right side of his head his eyebrows. Raisin pain after the show, he can barely talk. That night was the first time he addressed his ten on stage, and he’s happy with how it went.
Producer Katherine Swope said, it’s amazing to see the response. It’s easy to write jokes about dating or bad boss, but it takes a special alchemy to make light of something as dark and serious as his brain condition. Back in Brooklyn at Spike Hill, Airs ran Game Night, a comedy show. Comedians on stage played everything from Monopoly to mad libs to family feud. People that worked with him back then talked about we be spelling Bee spelled like the insect.
We be spelling a drunken spelling Bee meets fundraising events that happened back at the knitting factory, and they said he was always the smartest guy in the room. He’s so witty about creating concepts and brainstorming ideas and being able to execute everything. He also began noticing in his headaches back then. Doctors thought the pain was something dental dentists couldn’t find anything. Long comedy sets made him tick and switch.
The pain could make him pass out lights and wind to hurt. At its worst. Tiene keeps airs away from comedy and from people altogether, from months at a time. He says, it’s very interruptive. It’s spending a lot of time in the kitchen floor, keeled over and crying and freaking out.
One doctor scan finally found something. It was determined to be non cancerous. That was the end of the diagnosis. He was in an out of vergent care. One of his friends said, I’ve seen him five minutes before he goes on crying the pain is so bad.
Then he wipes the tears off his eyes, took a big breath with a smile on his face and crushed it. He comes off stage and he’s so weak, but he doesn’t show it on stage. He’s a true professional. Reminds me of any Calfvin going through cancer and doing his last shows, or Bill Hicks having cancer but still puffing cigarettes and talking smack. Doctors finally entertain the possibility of t n ayers.
Was told it’s a rear disorder occurring mostly in elderly women. As he describes it, it’s an improperly functioning cranial nerve triggers pain receptors and his brainstem to feel like I’m getting stabbed and electrocuted at the same time and the right side of my face, he said, channeling his darkest challenges in a positive art would create his most personal and challenging material to date. You want to find it through line and something that’s not just like me being sad, talking about sad stuff and riffing off it. When the pendulum of my mental state swings towards optimistic, I see a show, I think there’s something too it. Eventually when it swings back in the other direction.
Now, I don’t think I’ll be around when this would be developed show. If this is life every day, Wow, that just sounds awful. Kyle Airs, I wish you well. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, Happy Mother’s Day, See tomorrow.
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