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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night is off for the writer strike. Late bots said, Hey, did you see Tom Hanks says he could keep acting after death because of AI and deep fakes. Late Bot said, I can’t wait to see the casting call for Forrest Gump The Ghostly Chronicles.
But hey, if Tom Hanks can act from beyond the grave, who’s to say other celebrities won’t follow suit. Get ready for weekend at Bernie’s three the Zombie Editions starring Tom Hanks, Elvis Presley and the Lochness Monster. And I love the twist of the late bot put on this one. Hey, until that day comes, let’s cherish the living Tom Hanks and his amazing performances. After all, there’s no AI that can replace the real deal.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to work on my own AI generated late night jokes. The late bot wrote that itself it’s becoming self aware. Elon Musk has backed up his buddy Dave Chapelle. You may recall from yesterday Dave Chappelle that San Francisco has taken on the characteristics of a zombie movie. On Twitter, Elon Musk said the disaster that is downtown San Francisco, once beautiful and thriving, is now a derelic zombie apocalypse.
I was surprised there is nothing new about the Chris Delia story I told you about yesterday. I’ll keep an eye on that one. But a surprise, there was nothing new. The Office ended ten years ago. I actually feel like it’s been longer.
On Tuesday, Jenna Fisher, she played Pam. If you watch The Office, you’re familiar with the character Pam. I would hope yes. She tweeted The Office series finale are ten years ago. There’s a lot of beauty and ordinary things.
Isn’t that kind of the point? Final Pam talking head and shared a photo In the comments, Angela chimed in with a string of emoji’s smiley face and heart specifically Jennifer Gorner chimed in and said finale’s really get to me, but this one just about did me. In emoji of someone crying, Angela posted a photo of herself being carried by Phillis. Ten years ago, Phillis carried Angela down the aisle to marry her love Dwights. Sarah Silverman will have an upcoming HBO special will be out May twenty seven.
She has released a trailer. Trailer has one joke. Let’s listen. I would never buy a German car because you know, we don’t want to give our money to Nazis. But I just bought a German car because they feel like all the original Nazis are dead.
There are new Nazis, but you know they don’t know how to make a car. Someone you love. On HBO May twenty seven, Nikki Glaser caught up with a Jerusalem Post. You’re home for comedy news and someone’s publicist will be happy. Listen to the spin Nikki put on this.
The Jerusalem Post writes, Although she’s not Jewish, Nicky Glazer identifies with the long American tradition of Jewish comedy. NICKI said, and this is why the publicist is going to be happy, because also was fielded so well. Jewish comedy is my brand of comedy. She’ll be performing in Israel on May twenty seven, so she’s gonna miss Sarah Silverman special unless she watches HBO in the motel room. I guess she could do that hotel room, I said, motel leave it in dear John, Do you really think she’s staying in a motel?
She’s probably not. May twenty seven, she’s playing tell of Vive’s Charles Brought and Auditorium. She says her brand of comedy, I think I just tell the truth. She grew up Catholic and said, there’s lots of guilt and shame tide in there, However, there isn’t a ton of honesty wrapped in it. There’s a ton of the guilt aspect in Judaism too, but Jews are honest and blunt about it.
I can’t hold back from telling a joke because it might have set one person. If I make a joke about something traumatic happening and someone my audience has a hard time with that, I can be empathetic, but I feel like I’ve done a decent job at figuring out where that line is. Sometimes you’ll learn the hard way, though, there were times when the best way to figure where the line was was simply by crossing it. She said, I’ll always leave room to apologize when necessary I screw up. I’ll hold myself accountable.
At least I could live with my parents again if that happens. The guys are them, Please Don’t Destroy. Those are the sketch guys, the writers, the young guys that kind of carried the Saturday Night Live season. You know who I’m talking about. There.
They’re touring pretty cool. The article here says the tour kicks off in Philadelphia. I thought I saw a New York date, but maybe I’m making that up. Kicking off in philadelp on June twenty third. Twenty five cities Nashville, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, DC or some of them.
Wraps up August twenty seven. Of the Dallas tickets go on sale Friday, ten AM does a pre sale right now. Use the access code a live if you want to go see Please Don’t Destroy. Sebastian Maniscalco’s movie about My Father will be out May twenty six. Then it’s just about a week away, right, so we’ll be seeing lots and lots of articles about Sebastian, and in every article they talk about how Robert de Niro plays his father.
Yes, that’s very cool, but I feel like we’ve been talking about this for six months. But here’s a new quote from Sebastian. It’s not every day that you send off your father to sit down with Robert DeNiro and talk about a script, especially when my father doesn’t really know anything about movie making and script analysis and what have you. But from what he was telling me, he really helped DeNiro with the Italian. He never taught me Sicilian, but he taught Robert de Niro.
A few weeks ago before the writer strike, Jimmy Fallon pledged support for his staff and said I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers. I support them all the way I support my whole staff. However, the Huffington Post as reported that Fallon’s non writing staff has been placed on unpaid leave of absence. An anonymous source set it felt like a classic layoff. Monday Night staffers received emails from HHR the next day they were told this would be their last paid week.
The source set our final paychecks will come in next week. Sarah Cobos is a photo coordinator at the Tonight Show. She’s been tweeting about it, saying she heard folks at Late Night with Seth Meyers in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will continue to be paid. Cobos emailed with the av Club and said she stands fully in solidarity with the WGA. I think we all just had hopes that NBC, an incredibly rich company do in large part to the talented employees, would do write by us.
Instead, they’re putting us on what they call unpaid leave and expecting everyone to just hold sight. It’s well known this industry already underpaid folks. It was a bummer to hear that other late night shows, even at NBC or continue to pay their staff thanks to the generosity of their hopes. While I’m happy for their workers, it certainly isn’t helping morale that the same isn’t happening here. We’ll see how Jimmy Fallon chooses to react.
John Cleese, he’s eighty three years old and says, I don’t get canceled because I do stage shows. People take to themselves. I like him, so I’ll buy a ticket. The audience sets is basically pre selected to like me, so when I come out, they like me. They like the sort of humor I do.
Roy Wood Junior was reflecting on his White House Correspondence dinner set. One of the bridge jokes that he did was dread queens are not at the school to groom your kids, and even if they were, most of those kids are gonna get shot at school, so it’s not a problem. Groans filled the air, But then he poked at the lawmakers in the room to pass legislation if they can’t take the joke. He said, there are always people who are going to use any opportunity to misconstrue a joke for political points, which some people are doing with that joke online. He said that particular event.
It’s not like a rap concert, or if you’d talk trash about a rapper, his crew’s gonna be waiting backstage to beat you up. No one was walking around looking for me like Chris Brown after an usher event. It was politics. Maybe I’ll get audited at least. Kelly and Conway thought it was funny.
Bunch of shows in Sydney on Friday. I try to find something with a clip from somebody we haven’t heard from before, but I couldn’t come up with the one. So Brian Lewis, we’ve heard from her when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is going on. She’s at Sydney on Friday, so let’s listen to a different part of her set. My partner and I aren’t married.
We decided against it. We figured we had already been together for ages, we have kids, and neither of us like our extended family enough to buy him a meal. So we skipped it. We skipped it, and that’s great, you know, that’s fine with us. The only thing I don’t like about not being married is I hate the word de facto.
It sounds like something’s broken, like satling’s gone wrong along the way, and it has pretty good And right before that, she told some very funny jokes that had F words in them, and if I took the F word out, it wouldn’t have worked as a bit. So good stuff from bron Lewis. Let’s keep an eye on her.
Meanwhile, New Zealand on Friday.
No clips available, but some of the shows include the improv bandits epic comedy battle, stand Up versus Improviser That’s Fun. Danny O’Brien’s show is called The God of All Things Bad and Instant Broadway, where every night is opening Night. The cast improvises an entire musical, all songs, music, characters and stories are made up on the spot. If you like that sort of thing, there’s an American podcast called off Book that does that, and off Book is fantastic and that is your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, Like and subscribe on YouTube.
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