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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Only Times had an interesting piece about some comedians who sold out Madison Square Garden what they thought about it. I won’t do all of them, but some names you might know include mega comedian Napurghetz. He said, I believed I could make a career out of stand up comedy when I was in my twenties, Even when it sounded like a crazy thing to do, I was just hoping somebody would come to the show.
He spent so many years doing clubs, it’s hard to picture anything bigger than that until it happens. Selling out MSG, let alone, selling it out three times wasn’t something I ever expected, but it was a result of believing in stand up and believing people still want to get out of the house and laugh together. He did three sellouts September twenty sixth and two September twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Dean Cook sawd the place out three times when it was less common. Two shows on November twelfth, two thousand and six.
One on November ninth, two thousand and nine. Dean said, when I take of history and legendary artists selling out. It’s the greatest honor in my career to get to that experience, even once, It’s an achievement that forever changes how your career is viewed. Jim Gaffigan sold out December twelfth, twenty fifteen. He said, I never thought selling out MSG was a possibility when I started stand up.
It was an unrealistic goal for any comedian. Having lived in New York City for three decades, MSG has exceeded its legendary status. For me. MSG’s where I brought my kids to see the Nixon Rangers plays, where I saw Bruce Springsteen pulling off a sellout. Seemed like a gamble, but worth it.
Matt Rife has sold the place out twice, July eighteenth and nineteenth. He says MSG is top of the mountain and symbolizes the pinnacle of ticket selling success as a comedian. Boy boy boy, that is just the wrong answer, like everybody else is like talking about the building and how amazing it is, And Matt Riif’s first thought is I sold a lot of tickets. If you could sell out the world’s most famous arena and the toughest city in America, you’ve made it to not only sell it out twice, but to be the youngest comedian ever sell it out. It’s still hard to comprehend.
I’m not sure that was a great quote there, Matt Rife and Andrew Schultz to the York Time, I’ve said, maybe what did they say? Again, I always forget the phrasing on it. Maybe America’s foremost political journalist, something like that. I forget with exactly what they said. Andrews sold out the Garden twice May third, and fourth, and twenty twenty four.
Andrews said, I’m born and raised in NYC. My dad had so much respect for MSG. You would make me wear a collared shirt whenever we stepped in that building. The place had holy significance to me. Before I knew I wanted to be a comic.
Once I decided to make comedy in my life, I had one goal was to sell out MSG wearing a collared shirt. Of course, Josh John said explained his comedy band camp. He said, the whole reason behind is when I was a kid, we’d have money for a fancy sleep away camp. But everything I’m doing in this show is what I’ve had in my imagination, is what it would be like since I was a kid. So this’s a personality test that people can take when they show up to the show that tells them what troop they’re in.
That’s a good way to meet people. You can meet other people in your troop that you already know you have a lot in common with because you answered some of the same answers. So I’m here on comedy bandcamptroops dot com and I’m going to take the quiz. There are fifteen questions We’re going to easily fill the summer Sunday here. Thank you Josh Johnson.
All right, what’s your favorite camp activity? Swimming, sing alongs, hiking, stargazing, campfire stories. I’ll say swimming. Question number two, what’s your favorite camp snack? S’mores?
Ants on a log? What’s that? Apparently it’s celery sticks top with peanut butter and raisins, peanut butter and jelly skewers, puppy chow, which is a sweet snack mix covered in chocolate, peanut butter and powdered sugar or popcorn. I will say s’mores. Question number three, what insect is the coolest?
Yellow jackets, crickets, bees, butterflies. I love butterflies. Four. Who would be the worst partner in a three legged race? Obviously the answer is more cellars.
But the choices are a mummy, a zombie, a ghost, or your most annoying coworker. Let’s say I think about that. I don’t have any annoying coworkers at the moment. Ghost would be great because they don’t touch the ground, so I could just run. A zombie would try to eat me, and a mummy is just dead weight.
So the question is who would be the worst partner? Obviously is zombie. Question number five, On a hike, you pick up a magic kazoo that makes your voice sound like an instrument. Does it make your voice sound like an instrument that’s giving out? Because you recorded four podcasts already today?
What do you sound like? A trumpet? Drums, a sacks of violin? Wait? What is this again?
The kazoo makes my voice sound like an instrument? I guess a sax. I don’t know. I didn’t like that question. Question number six, aid camp, you’re granted the power to talk to animals?
Who do you gossip with? A first? Five choices? Fox, bear, squirrel, deer, rabbit? Alright, I’m gossiping with one of them.
HM, who’s the most interesting? Probably? Uh. I kind of want to say bear, but I feel like a squirrel sees a lot going on. Seven.
You’re looking up at the stars. What consolation jumps out at you? The Little Dipper, Ryan, Hercules, Perseus, none of them? You make your own. I make my own.
Other campers would say you’re most likely to A go rogue, B start the conversation, CE, bring snacks, D go with the flow, E start a chant. Hmm. I should ask you, guys, what you would think. Well, you might think I would start the conversation because I’m hosting of the show. I’d probably go with the flow until people annoyed me.
Question number nine, what do you most look forward to at camp? A Making new friends, B learning a new skill see petting the animals, D trying new desserts. I like meeting new people. A. Question number ten what would you stash in the camp time capsule?
This is all to go to Josh Johnson comedy show. By the way, A Poison IVY be your favorite book? See the craft you made the summer d gum in case the future doesn’t have any I kind of want to pay it forward with my favorite book, but then I wouldn’t have my favorite book anymore. So, and the craft I made I would want to keep, but I don’t want to punish people with poison. Ivy gum, I guess I love that one.
Question number eleven, how would you handle a camp emergency? A freak out? B find a camp counselor C, spring into action, D take a nap. I’m a springing to action kind of guy. Thirteen What is your dream for the last day of camp?
A you find a secret key to room no one knows about. B you discover a message in a bottle from a camper in the past. I’m already picking that one. See not being coount out of the bus and getting it extra night alone with your friends and the camp all yourselves. D You sneak into the kitchen after the last meal and need all the leftover cookies.
B message in a bottle. Question number thirteen, We’re almost done. Guys. You’re on a hike and come across an old vinyl album. What music is it?
A? Blues, B hip hop, C, salsa, D country E rock. Now you’re asking me. You’re not asking me what I like. You’re asking me what we randomly found on the hike.
It’s gonna be rock as there were some teenagers from nineteen seventy four who got drunk in the woods and left their vinyl out there, probably Fleetwood Mac album Question number fourteen, what would make the best instrument AA hollowed out long be a seashell, CEE a pine cone, D A rattlesnake obviously a seashell? And our final question, what is your favorite survival tip? A, keep calm and carry, bear, spray, B stop, drop and roll down hills. See everything is better with more smores. D.
Don’t pet the skunks. I’m picking the s’mores And now we’ll find out what true I’m in. I’m in the Fusha flames and we have a cool uh, we have a cool logo. It’s the color is fusia and it has a flame. Well, you’re toll.
It takes a lot to start your fire, but once you’re on, you burn bright. No one can stop you. There’s no shade from the shine you bring. Oh that’s funny. I bring a lot of shade.
If you listen to the podcast that it’s important to remind yourself you have what it takes the light the way. You may feel like your contributions go unnoticed, but just a spark of your creativity changes everything. Thirty two percent of campers have landed in the Fusha Flames. We’re the biggest group. The Ivy Leaves have fifteen and to Go Flow eight point seven.
The Feisty Fox is six point six, the Yellow Jackets twenty three percent, the Red Rogues four point eight percent, and the Sapphire Blues nine point five.
And then I guess I go to a Josh Johnson concert.
I don’t know, Josh, what troop are you in? He said, I don’t have a troop because I’m putting on the show and I don’t want people to be like this is the troop to be in or something. I really want everyone to have their own experience and have fun with it. Josh was asked if there’s a difference between just going up there on stage doing stand up versus sitting in the writer’s room and going on camera for the Daily Show. Josh said, I don’t have a preferred process.
I suppose, but they’re different. So I’m at the Daily Show is incredibly collaborative. I’m super thankful that I have the sport of so many people. When you’re doing stand up, you’re just on your own, So you’re just writing for yourself and you’re just doing your own thing. Obviously, I love doing stan up, but I like learning the new aspects of everything that goes into making a show.
The show gets decided on that day after being sort of genuinely assessed for how people feel about the stories and what’s going on. Obviously there’s times when there’s more of a wait and see approach to the day. Then there are some things that get covered a day later are covered in tannem with something else. What the show’s really good at doing is finding the urgency and whatever it is we want to talk about, And I think that would stand up. It’s a little bit easier to just sort of do what you feel, all right, Non fans of Kill Tony, how about a show called Anybody But Tony?
This from kut dot org. We are told people sit on the back patio of Barrett’s Two Too, drinking coffee and Margarita’s, playing board games and folding anti ice packets for local businesses. Near the Commuit stage, two men set up for their stand up comedy show Anybody But Tony? Four comedians have eight to ten minutes each to deliver their material, followed by a drag finale. Co host Everett and Eric as they had the great of the show to preserve a comedy scene that has been saturated with uncensored, anti woke comics.
Everett said, when we talked about what we wanted the show to be, there were a lot of things. But what did we not want the show to be. We didn’t want it to be Tony Inchcliff. We don’t want him. We don’t want the people to think he’s funny.
We let on Anybody but Tony. Andrew did the Anybody but Tony Show, but he was also on Kill Tony six years ago. He said he was surprised when the comedians were treated like cattle in the waiting room to get only a sixty second set. Why were you surprised, dude, that’s clearly what the show is. What are you talking about?
Andrew said. After each performance, the comics were brutally roasted on their material and physical appearance. Dude, did you not know what you’re like? Oh man, I can’t believe I want to kill Tony and they only gave me sixty seconds and then they made fun of me. What what do you talk talking about?
Then this article gets into the Austin scene. Seems like not everyone likes mister Rogan. Dave Buckman is the executive producer of the Cold Fown Theater. We are told it is one of the city’s primary alternative comedy views. Mister Buckman said, the Rogan sphere was the first to come back to the live performance pandemic because those are the kind of people that did not want to wear masks or take any kind of caution.
They were making the most noise first, so they got the most attention first out of the pandemic. That and Joe Rogan has the number one podcast and move from Los Angeles to Austin and then had a lot of big name comedians on. Let’s not gloss over that this article is insane. Buckman said, I’m not worried when I hear people say, oh, kill Tony. Is Austin’s comedy scene.
Huh, Yeah, Austin has this comedy scene. We built that we walk so that you could run. Olfira Eisenberg wrote a memoir called Screw Everyone Sleeping My Way to Monogaby. That memoir is the one that convinced Caitlin Palufo that she could do stand up. She said, every other line in the book is a joke.
This is a stand ups book. It made me want to try stand up and believe I could do it because she was doing it. She made me feel less shameful about my own sexual past. It’s like, oh, that can be used as jokes. It’s not something you have to keep hidden and buried.
Usually you’re like, yeah, maybe I’ll switch it to this because it’s funnier. But no, he says, hot men with no trauma just kind of get it. They’re like, I’m six four, I don’t have to try. It’s a lazy thinking kind of deal. Women, the trauma set is around every corner, so we learn how to laugh at it.
I get what she’s saying about the hot men, but uh, you know Dane Cook back in the day, I remember the female coworkers. It’s serious. Really enjoyed looking at Dane Cook. And people seem to like Matt Rife. I don’t know.
LeAnn Morgan recently made a stop at an Alabama’s farmer’s market. Boy, this is a very summer Sunday show, isn’t it. Yes, it is if you want, I can do ten minutes about Marcello Hernandez, Seth Meyers and Adam Saylor. I think I’ve done that already. Let’s do some different things.
Let’s go shopping with Leanne Morgan and a farmer’s market in Alabama. She said, Tessa and I have bought enough strawberry jelly and pickled okra to last the rest of our lives. She shared a video. We also see that she got pineapple salsa, some Sarah flavored peanuts, dinosaur egg plums, red tomato preserves, bread and butter, pickles, natural dog treats, and some almond vanilla granola. Leanne Morgan shared one of the places we stopped was Sweet Creek Form Market.
Chickens were running, They sell fresh eggs, they have a goat little children could pet, and then fresh Form market stuff. So I want nuts because that’s my favorite thing to do. I don’t have a lick of sense over something canned. I did your comedy use on a summer Sunday, A normal episode. I mean not that this was not a normal episode, but you know sometimes Johnny Mac pre tapes a weekend episodes.
Just say see tomorrow