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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Late Night Writers on Strike, The Late Bought said you see. Ronda Santis announced he’s running for president on Twitter. Finally a candidate who’s messed with the order of making big decisions in two hundred and eighty characters are less. Ronda Santas running for president. His entire campaign will be conducted through DMS.
I bet his campaign slogan will be something like retweet if you agree, ignore if you don’t. Just for laps Montreal just two months away, sneaking up on me. They’ve announced some more names. There’s a pre sale today at ten am. If you want to go on there, use the code at jfl MTL Leslie Jones, Eddie Hazard, Made Martin, Mike Ward, Running Chang, Neil Brennan, Rommy Yusef Darcy and Jeer Brad Williams.
Please don’t destroy Jessica Curson, Felipia Sparza, Gina You Sheer, Kyle Kinane, He’s awesome, and a bunch of names I did not read. Leslie Jones will do a gala on July twenty ninth, so well, May Martin One night only for Ronny Chieng At Neil Brennan and Rommy Yusef Russell Well MC four shows, JFL previously announced Donelle Rolling, Stephtola and adrian I Polucci. She’s fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda will have Alonzo Bowden, John Marcos Serresi who killed last year, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasal. I’m planning on deep diving on Montreal tomorrow Today.
Candidly, I have to get the podcast down. I actually have to go to a meeting for once. Can you believe it? I know, even Johnny Mack has to work sometimes. Variety caught up with Wanda Sykes.
In her new special, she does a run of jokes related to the trans community, and Wanda said, I knew it’s such a delicate issue to talk about. I’m not trans, but they have my support one hundred percent. I wanted to find something where it can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how stupid and hateful it really is. I was in a woman’s bathroom one time and I was like, who would want to come in here? Anyway?
It was like I kind of want to go check out the men’s room sometimes it’s even cleaner. That’s how that whole bit started. I’ve always been grossed out by bathrooms. Variety asked, do you feel that because you’re a SPECIALS and Netflix special that you have to do the topic because Chappelle et cetera, et cetera, And she said, I don’t know about balancing it out because I think what he said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community. So yeah, the scale is still tipped.
But I know I wanted to say something because so much have been said on that platform. Meeting Netflix, I definitely wanted to say something on the other side of it. They asked if she knows Dave, and she said, m we started doing stand up together in DC. Yeah, go way back. As she’s spoken to Dave Chapelle about this no long pause.
I mean it’s not intentional, you know. I still love the guy, but I haven’t a chance to talk to him. If our pats did cross, I totally would say something. Variety said, there’s been a real backlash among some comedians about so called comedy want to Syke said, it’s pretty funny. If you want to give me the label of a woke comic, that’s fine.
That’s great. What makes me laugh is that they say it’s like an insult. Oh they’re woke, thank you. Yeah, I read some stuff from time time. Yeah, I know a few thinks it’s not an insult at all.
I mean George Carlin he was woke, which prior woke, Bill Hicks woke. It’s almost like they’re anger that we’re evolving. It’s sad, really. Whitney Cummings told Okay magazine it’s always been hard to be a comedian. In some ways, it’s easier than ever because you can build up and engage in an audience on social media and don’t have to wait for Johnny Carson Er Jay Leno with David Letter going to make you famous.
Comedians have always been physically attacked, including Ronny Dangerfield and Jim Jeffreys, but after the Chris Rock nightmare and this nonsense narrative the comedians are bullies, it seems to have escalated. She said, the great part of being a comedian today is you don’t have to wait for Hollywood to pick you and then censor you. Most comics of podcasts, I can do what they want without all the gatekeepers. I think of anything, it’s hard to be a human in this day and age and any job, and it seems we have a low chance of being replaced by robots. And this is coming from a comedian who made a twin robot of herself.
Some rumors that Lebron James Mayor sired, Ron Funches said, well, that’s just because of how great he is. We judge him basically on his passing when he’s done before. But to see a player this old still playing his whole entire draft class has retired, moved on selling cars that use car lots, Twayne Wade’s hosting a TV show, and Lebron’s still out there bawling, putting up twenty points, getting rebounds, affecting the game. At that age, it’s crazy. He should be like Robert Parrish, just sitting on the bench, hanging out, knitting a sweater.
But he’s not. He’s crushing it. He and Son Brady are anomalies. We’ve never seen things like that before. Now, if you were watching Blue Bloods and watch these season thirteen finale and you’re like, I know that house Jackie the joke man lives there, you were correct.
Apparently Jackie rents out his house all the time. And says I was till the neighbors relaxed. The circus is coming to town and they give money to everybody in gift cards. There everybody wins. Anything they do to the house or rerange is put back precisely.
His house has also been used in the Affair and Instinct. Jackie the joke Man lists his house with the Nassau County Film Commission. Anyone can, and Jackie said, everybody mentioned it to my favorite show, my uncle’s favorite show, that’s my mother’s favorite show. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited gonna have my popcorn. Jackie wouldn’t say exactly how much he was paid, but indicated it’s tens of thousands of dollars.
Only a few days left of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and it’s been an amazing run of Southern Hemisphere comedy. Right we had Melbourne and then Sydney and Sydney overlap with New Zealand. But after this weekend, Johnny Mexicanna have to focus on North American comedy once again. But New Zealand’s not over yet. If you can make it down there tomorrow, go see Paul Douglass.
His shows called The Thirst for the Worst figured out the hard way. The worst place you can go to with a hangover is a retirement village. Yeah, worst place. They’re way too sprightly, you know. At least the fall was visiting a rest home.
They’re kind of confined to their rooms, and you can just do that thing we all do when you go to the hospital and you just be lying down the hallway but you can’t help but like get a little looking at the other rooms. You’re like, oh my god, you know. But retirement villagers they wait, they moved too much. They’re too mobile old people to retire villages. They’re all like free range geriatrics.
And that’s what I was worried about. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, I thought that they would see these and be like, oh, fresh airs. I’m gonna tell him a yahn, you know. Sure enough, I reckon. I got two steps out of the car.
One of them is like, my grandson’s got a hat like that, and I was like, there he does. He was fun, very charismatic. If you’re looking at the video, The Rue Island Comedy Festival returns to Nate. Festival organizer Doug Key said, or kickoff tonight in Portsmouth at the Regged Island Brewery. Saturday and Sunday we’re at Jean Pickens and Monday at the Top of Pelham.
Who were the acts? We have comics from Canada, from La a bunch of New York City and some from random towns. They put in their submission and we watch hundreds of tapes. We select thirty comics out of around three hundred. Wow.
As far as the headliners, I look for who’s getting the most heat in the industry right now that I can afford. I see who’s gonna pop soon. I try to get them in the festival before they become unattainable. This year, the headliner Krista Stephano. He sold out over a month ago.
He also sold out Radio City Right organizer Doug Key, who are you looking forward to seeing? And he said, Napoleon Emal. He’s been on the scene for a while and he’s starting to get a little more notoriety. He just added, don’t tell comedy special that came out. These are like secret shows and all of them are going viral.
He’s playing tonight and then Mike Cannon. I’m super excited to see on Saturday at Jean Pickens. He’s a festival favorite and he’s our very first festival in twenty fifteen. Nice Eric Idol says the spamm Alot movie not gonna happen. It had been announced a few years back.
But here’s the catch within the pith everybody needs to agree on a project. Eric Idle wants to make the film, but apparently it’s been vetoed by John Clees, Michael Palin and oratory. Gilliam Idol simply said on Twitter, in regards of the film net the pythons killed it. He later added the deal from a few years ago has expired. He did not elaborate and why it was killed.
It seems like there might be a little strife amongst the pythons. John Clees is supposedly working on a stage adaptation of Life of Brian. Maybe Eric Idle should beto that you guys can trade. Wouldn’t that work out nicely? Yeah?
Do that? Eric? Courting to Eric Idle, he has nothing to do with Life of Brian, he said, I have nothing at all to do with this production or adaptation. Apparently Clees has cut the song. Of course, the song meeting always look on the bright side of life.
There will also not be a crucifixion on stage, so that all suggests different ending than the movie. We’ll see what happens Bad news for Azaz and Sorry Vultuates, Bad Fortune befell the set of Good Fortune as the production is shut down and definitely, as of May eighteenth, picketers showed up at the location, shutting down a night shoot. It’s not clear wind production will resume. And from the Wall Street Journal, You’re home for comedy news. Chinese dissidents new weapon against Beijing selling out New York comedy shows.
One of the hottest tickets in New York is a monthly open mic show conducted entirely in Mandarin by performers whose identities are sometimes hidden. This was organized by a group of exiled women’s rights activists from China. It’s we’re running for about a year, usually sells out. Recently, the website crashed because every seat was snatched up inside sixty seconds. The performers are amateurs, a mix of students, young professionals, and activists.
On a recent show, a blackclad young Chinese women riffed on the idea of one of her friends telling her to go back to China to return home as a citizen of a powerful country rather than remain a second class citizen in the US. The comedian joked, Yeah, I’m a minority here, but if I go back to China, I’m still female. Right. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify on YouTube.
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