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The Shark Deck, Johnny Maquin your Daily Comedy News. The writer strike continues, Late Night is Off. The Late Bot looked at Japan’s smile coaches. Yeah, you see, after three years of COVID, some Japanese people feel that like their smile is rusty. Keiko Kawano is a smile instructor, and the Late Bot says, talk about going in great legs to keep a stiff upper lip.
Japan’s smile coach is like a personal trainer for your face. They’ll make your work those smile muscles until you’re so exhausted you’ll need botox. They say. The smile coach in Japan can even make Brett Goldstein crack a smile. Who needs botox?
And you just snap on a smile face mask and call it a day. Bert Kraisher, it’s old. Pardon my take. I do not want to die in a car accident with Tom Sagora, and that’s how that guy’s going to die. Yeah, why, well, he drives like an effing a hole, like a sixteen year old a hole.
But he knows the petals. You know, the petals you can never use. Yeah, he uses them, So pardon my take. Said all right. If you do die in a car with Tom Sagora, if you’re in the same car, who could stopped billing?
Bert said, Oh, that’s a good question. Ah, I mean if our plane crash goes down. Tom sam Morrell says, what’s weird is the comics would kill all the time, have these huge egos. But I’m like, you’re not writing. You should eat yourself.
It’s just part of the game. If you’re gonna keep trying to turn over a new material, you’re going to fail constantly and it’s gonna make you very humble. I get why certain comics play the hits. Maybe they’re just trying to float and stay alive. But it’s very competitive out there.
It’s off business. You’re not getting these road gigs because you have a fan base, but because you’re reliable. But it’s very hard to grow out of that. Yeah, you’re gonna bomb, but that’s part of the process and it’s fun. My friend is in this mode where he’s closing in on a specially.
He says to me, I’m so jealous of you. I’m just honing for the next few months and you’re creating. It’s like much more fun to write than edit and I was like, yeah, it really is. Then I said, but you get to kill and he said that’s true, but he’s a real comics so he wants to write. I wonder who he was talking about.
Yahoo asked Harry Kanebolu, what made you want to do comedy? Harry said, I knew I want to do comedy when I saw Margaret show on TV. Seeing an Asian American person do stand up, even though she was an Indian, it was incredible to me. She had command of an audience. She was sharing her stories, people were laughing.
I didn’t even think that was possible. There was no reason to assume that we were allowed to exist that way. This country very much speaks in a binary of black and white, so if you’re not one of those things, especially in the late eighties and nineties, to see her be so confident and share her stories like that made me want to do it, and I’ve been hooked every since. The first time I did stand up was at a comedy night that started at my high school. I just wanted to scratch the itch and so I got to perfore in front of my class.
The material was terribly unoriginal, but I got to do it and that was the important part. I figured that was that, and then I went to college up in Maine. I didn’t necessarily love them. My decision there was, well, if anyone’s gonna look at me anyway, at least I’m going to control how they view me. Wasn’t until after I graduated and moved to Seattle to work as an Immigrants Right organizer when I decided to make stand up my full time job.
I was working with people whose family members were being detained and deported, victims of hate crimes. It was a lot. So I did comedy at night, and it was this incredible stress reliever, And somehow I got discovered doing that while I was doing something that’s far more important than what I’m doing now. CKT Tampa spoke to Jim gaff again and they were like, I know you and your wife collaborate on writing a lot of material. I don’t know if they said it as accusatory as I just did it.
Do you guys do that while you’re on the road, And Jim said, well, working towards the special you’re finding it, it’s kind of like you’re harvesting the crops, right. You want all the jokes to be as ripe as they can be. But you know, the writing process, and I definitely did a lot of writing with my wife, but with five kids in a cas of life, every special has been a unique challenge. So even coming out of the pandemic, there is collectively a little bit of cynicism that’s evolved in the audience and just our country, you know what I mean, Like people want a little more sarcasm, But I don’t know, hopefully if that answers your question. All right, Jim, what’s the biggest challenge about being a comedian these days?
Jim said, well, I think the pandemic did have an impact on people, and I think they were in this politically charged era, whether it’s political correctness or even political divisiveness. So like for me, I think my biggest problem is self assignment and also doing new stuff in a more challenging way. My currency is not shock. Stand up is very much constructive around surprise. So I would say that I still take and the fact that my audience is filled with people of diverse backgrounds and also different opinions politically and stuff like that.
But yeah, I think it’s all kind of self assignment. I think with creative people and you’re a writer, you know this. You have to push yourself. So I’m not really affected by what’s happening. I’m aware of it, but I don’t have to worry.
I mean, I also have an eighteen year old daughter, so if I was getting to anything that’d be considered soxic, she’d probably give me a heads up. The spokesman caught up with Harland Williams Fantastic Comic. He was talking about being in nineteen ninety eight. There’s something about Mary. Harland said, I can’t say enough about Ben Stiller, who was so gracious to let me do what I needed to do when I was in the car with him during their scene.
Some actors compete for attention, but Ben knew he had to be the straight man. That was an amazing experience as the Farrely brothers let me improvise, and I just had so much fun in my scene. Harland said, there’s a sequel to Half Baked coming up. I’ve talked about this before. Neither Jim Brewer or Dave Chappelle are in it.
Harlan said, I’m looking forward to being in it. Unfortunately Jim and Dave aren’t in it. I wonder why Brewer’s not doing it. I get why Chappelle’s not. I guess Jim has moved away from his stoner image, right, And I know Jim fairly well.
He’s never really cared about money, So yeah, all right, I get why Jim’s not doing it. Marlan said, I’m really looking forward to being in it. Unfortunately Jim and Dave aren’t in it. It’s been incredibly cool to make an impact in these movies in smaller roles, but I’ve also had some larger roles as well. It’s an interview with the comedians, so I had to ask him about cancel culture, and he said, I had to alter my material when I arrived in America.
I was killing in Canada with certain jokes, but they fell flat in America. People here are like more abrasive humor. It’s funny to them to watch John Belushi crush a beer can on his head. Canadians like more cerebral humor. They have more in common with the British, who enjoy the more thoughtful, quirkier jokes.
So do I. But Americans want to throw and right at him. So that’s what I’ve been doing for years. Since there’s a big difference between Canada and America. Laugh Button asked Lewis Black when he takes a break, how long does it take him to get back in the rhythm on stage.
Lewis says, well, if you’re off for two weeks, it’s crazy. Takes you a while to get back to where you wanted. The pandemic was five hundred days between shows, and then I went on to give you an ideas two. But I was I went back and chose to work at a club to first work on myself. I got to work at Hilarities in Cleveland, which is a great, great comedy club.
It’s always been good to me, so I was looking forward to it, and I hadn’t worked in five hundred days. I now I have six shows in four days, and I’m going this won’t be tough because they’re only forty five minutes long. Night one, I go there and do the first show, and I go two long, sixty five minutes because I’m so excited. I’m like a nine year old. Then afterwards, the New York Giants football team we’re playing.
I’m not even a fan. It was a great game, so I yelled through it and I stayed up all night and the next morning I woke up completely exhausted and then struggled through the weekend because I’m doing two shows at night. I finished the first show the first night, the second night day to the first show, and I have to come back for another show the same night, and I’m like, I gotta go home. What was I thinking? So that was tough.
Today. At the Boston Comedy Festival, Aquitine Hunger Forces. They have an aired new episode since twenty fifteen, but Adult Swim has ordered five new episodes. All right, so why are they doing Boston well? Back in two thousand and seven, a marketing campaign for the show was mistaken for a bomb threat.
Several glowing character contraptions were placed around the city. The show creator will premier a new Boston centric episode and take questions. That’s at eight o’clock at the Berkeley Performance Center.
Also Robert Kelly and Friends at the Emerson Color Majestic Theater.
That should be a good show. I wonder who the friends are Robert Kelly. Sunday’s a late day at New Zealand. You have the Comedy Fest, all Stars, Covert Juniors, and Jester. That’s it for the lineup.
Let’s Sea, who’s playing Sydney Diana New Wins show is called Going all In. Let’s listen, Hello, I’ve done a new win. But you can call me d d if. It’s a nick nickname for dancing Diana, dirty Diana. Oh, my mother likes to call me disappointed Diana.
And every reason why I’m disappointing is because you look at me. You think I speak Asian, right, so you know I have betame, but vitamins is actually my third language. My second language is English, and my first language is body language. That’s it’s my cardio. All right.
That was a lot of fun, right, Yes, that was so much fun. I’m gonna hunt for one more clip. Jacques Barrett’s show was called The Special Let’s listen. When men are homophobic, it makes no sense, Like, jeez, mate, I don’t like gay blokes, Mate, I don’t like him. Oh what you wish they were straight?
Yep? You want to compete with these Greek gods? Look at them, look at their bone structure and style, and you in your tarot cash shirt and your weak chin. Are you kidding? It’s a gift from God that these particular guys are gay.
It’s like being a white sprinter in a world where Jamaican men don’t like running. That was good. I had to take out a couple of bombs when I enjoyed that a lot. He’s Jacques Barrett and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify like a subscribe on YouTube.
See you tomorrow.