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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late night on strike. Apparently the late Bot saw the new Fast and the Furious movie and said, if I learned anything from the Fast and Furious franchise, it’s apparently that the laws of gravity don’t apply to cars. I bet Vin Diesel could drive a car through a tornado and come out the other side with a perfect hair. Do wait, never mind. Vin Diesel is like the energizer Bunny of the Fast and the Furious movies.
He keeps going and going and defining the laws of physics. Vin Diesel’s iconic line, the faster the car, the more nonsensical the plot.
Speaking of bad movie ideas, actually I love Fast Furious.
That was just a segue there, folks. Eddie Murphy is rebooting The Pink Panther. This idea is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Let’s just start there. Eddie Murphys The Pink Panther terrible.
If nothing else, He’s way too old for the role. You know, if you had told me this idea and I don’t know, nineteen ninety three, sure, But now Eddie Murphy, he’s sixty two My issue with Steve Morton was the same thing. He was too old for the role. But wait, the idea gets even worse. So you know how in the Pink Panther movies, the pink panther is the diamond and the characters Inspector Clusseau.
But separately from that, there’s a cartoon panther who’s pink. Well, in this new idea, it would be a hybrid, kind of like Roger Rabbit. Both Inspector Clouseau and the panther who is pink would appear in the movie. Terrible idea, don’t make this. The premise has a buddy cop movie tune the inspector and the panther team up for the first time ever on the big screen.
Sorta kinda not true, because they teamed up in some of the animated credits in the original Peter Seller’s films. I love those films, by the way, and I’m fascinated by the last one, the one they made after Peter Sellers died, that they made out of outtakes. Watch that. That’s amazing. Then there’s the one after that with the American guy looking for Peter Seller’s character.
They just kept milking this thing and then there’s the Roberto Banini, son of the Pink Panther that gets called Yeah. I love those films. Those last three are just fascinating. It’s like the Doors album without Jim Morrison. There’s actually two Doors albums without you Morrison.
You ever checked those out? One is called Other Voices. What’s the other one called? Let me look it up? Full Circle?
That’s what it is, full Circle. I have those two. I love things like that. I digress. Conan O’Brien put out a trailer.
He’s finally doing something for HBO Max or Max or HBO or whatever calling it now. Side note to the MAX people, you’re making a mistake. You’re making a mistake. HBO is the brand, folks. Anyway, Conan put out a trailer and I guess I negative today.
I couldn’t make it through the trailer. And I love Conan, but I saw this thing on YouTube. I was just watching nonsense on YouTube, as I tend to do right before bed, and this Conan trailer popped up and I was like, oh, I’m excited about this, and I could not make it to the end of the trailer. Conan O’Brien must go finds Conan meeting fans on his podcast, then going overseas to visit them in their respective countries. Conan said, my fans around the globe never asked me to visit them, so I did so.
Basically, you see some clips of Conan doing the post, then you see him in a foreign land meeting the people in person, and the clips just didn’t grab me. I’ll give the show a try, because I like Conan a lot, but not failing it. Amy Schumer will have another Netflix special. It’s her third. This one is called Emergency Contact.
It was shot at the Orpheum Theater in la earlier this year. It’ll be out June thirteenth. That’s all the details I have right now. The New York Times spoke to Steve and Wright, and they wrote right not only had a gift for old fashioned Joe construction, but also a weirdest planet’s taste that he remained stubbornly faithful to. For example, he told The Times, I’ve always hated puns.
It’d be funnier if he dropped a dish. Early on, he set up rules for his comedy that might have hurt him in the short term, but it allowed his work to age well, he avoided anything topical. He also did not curse. He said, I didn’t want to get a bigger laugh because of that. I wanted it to be pure.
Bobcat Goldthwaite said, the biggest difference between Mitch Hedberg and Stephen Wright is when you saw an hour of Mitch, you got an idea of who we voted for, what he was about. You watched Steve for an hour and you have more questions about him than before you saw him. That’s a really astute observation. And yes, I said astute. Why does Steven Wright have so few specials?
He says, I can only think of so much stuff. You try to think of ideas, but your mind is running on its own, or at least my mind. It’s mostly chaos. But you’re organizing a lot of it. The Montreal Comedy Festival.
I’m hoping I can make it up there. I’m thinking about what that week is like in my life here in the basement, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get there, but I will try. They’ve had a Daniel Slass. His show is called Can’t and they write. With thirteen solo shows under his belt, Daniel has become one of the biggest names in stand up, selling out venues in fifty four countries, also coming to Montreal.
He plays every year Tom Papa. His tour is called twenty twenty three Comedy Tour. I Love It, Tom Papa. You may have noticed is listed in the credits of the movie Air. You’ll find that on Amazon these days.
He’s listed online in the cast. But does he appear in the movie? Papa said, I got cut out of that movie by my good friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. My scene ultimately didn’t make sense and it got cut out. Look at appens all the time.
But I’m definitely gonna use it to my advantage and get them to put me in a bigger movie with a bigger part. From Newsweek, Joe Rogan questioned the legitimacy of a march that took place over last weekend, suggesting that participants looked too suspicious to be white supremacists. Okay, Joe, what are you think in here? You see last weekend some people from a white supremacist group. I won’t even say the name of the group.
We’re marching through Washington, DC, wearing masks and holding upside down American flags. Rogan commented on his podcast and said, look at these guys. Where’s the fat people? How come they’re all wearing the same clothes. Have you ever seen anything that looks more like Feds?
How do they all have like uniform outfits on? They have the same colored pants for the most part, very little variation. They’re tanner brown pants, dark blue shirts with an effing stupid flag on it. Send your letters and emails to Joe Rogan. The Boston Comedy Festival continues today.
The Boston Comedy Festival All Stars with Emo Phillips Emo still around. Huh. Sydney Comedy Festival almost over. Let’s see who’s playing on Saturday. Patrick Golamco.
His show’s called Pork a Joe Boat. You’re gonna hear him tell a joke about being three quarters Chinese. When he tells the punchline, he’s holding his hand above his head to indicate his height. I’m an introvert. I prefer Netflix to parties because at least Netflix cares if I’m still there.
I’m actually three quarters Chinese and one quarter nothing, and my life is getting boring. Even my dreams. The other night, they dreamt I was driving and I parked in these two hour parking zones and then that was it. That was the whole dream, and I was scared. I was like, I need to go back to sleep so I can move that car.
Oh man, he was great. Patrick Galamco my new favorite. That was a really good fifty so seconds. Loved it. Dad, And I know you guys are like, yeah, but Jon, who’s playing in New Zealand?
Well, nothing with clips that it’s available, but some of the shows, and we’ve talked about some of these before. No Homo Queer Comedy, the Chuckle Monsters, which is family friendly improv and Spanglish Comedy Comedy Festival Edition. However, I’m clicking on it. It says the show’s fully in Spanish, which is fine, but that’s not what Spanglish is. You weren’t going anyway, heity hear the frog in White Throat.
Isn’t that great? When I have to record two more podcasts before I leave the basement today? No, that’s not good. And follow the show referee on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube, and you listen to the next few days and you figure out which ones I recorded on Thursday. Zee, there