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Caloroga Shark Media. I am digging the mix of stories today a little different today. I’m Mondayaloh, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I take no joy in this first story. Christina Pozitski and Tom Sigora are divorcing after nearly twenty years of marriage.
On the podcast Your Mom’s House, Christina Pe told guest host Duncan Trussell she wanted to be transparent with fans. Christina said, I just wanted to let you know, on the other staff members here, that the rumors are true. Your daddy and I are divorcing, but it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault, guys in the booth. We still love each other very much.
We’re just going to live in separate homes, but we’re still your mommies. She then got emotional and teared up and said, yes, Tom and I are divorcing, and it is extremely sad. Sorry, I didn’t want to cry this soon. It is very sad. That being said, we tried to work it out for several years for the sake of our children and our family.
We gave it all we could, but we just couldn’t work things out. We are no longer a couple. Look, we had twenty amazing years together, and that’s really good run, I think in a marriage. She continued. From what I understand, some people are taking sides team Christinea or team Tom.
Please don’t do that. There’s no need because Tom and I do not hate each other. We have a family. Tom and I are amicable. Just so everyone knows, this is not an ugly divorce.
We’re cool, dude. We’ll survive. We’ll get through this stuff like we’ve gotten through everything else in life. This is just an unfortunate thing. We’re going to be okay.
For those of you who have listened to us from the very beginning, you’ve been with Tom and me through getting married, Living in silver Lake is two bro comics, berts and death, tragic accidents, cancer, COVID, all of it. And you know what, some effing cancer couldn’t kill me. You think a dude’s gonna f and take me out. No. She confirmed that she continues to co host the main show with Tom.
Sigora said, We’re still gonna have a good effing time because we ain’t dead yet. That’s gonna be hard having all that play out in public. The Times of London went to go see Dave Chappelle in London. Here’s an opening paragraph. Dave Chappelle takes care to avoid anyone recording a stand up shows, insisting that audiences lock away their phones in the secure pouches.
He on the evidence of this slap dash London appearance, though he takes less care with the shows themselves. Wow, The Times continues, he did warn us. He began by saying, I haven’t done this for a while. Towards the end, he admitted, I gotta think of a closer, and I don’t have one. Can I hang out for a minute?
The Times rights he hung out by drifting from one idea to another, or he responded to a heck or two, including one about appearing at last year’s Rio Comedy Festival. Apparently to that, Dave said, are you getting me for doing it? Like all the other whites? More from The Times. His skill, when his storytelling found its focus, only made the digressions that dominated more frustrating.
Much of the show was motored by his fame and infamy baseball cap on head cigarette on the go, he said he wouldn’t talk about transgender issues. He then touched on a joke suggesting Caitlyn Jenner’s change of gender had been more easily accepted in America than Muhammad Ali’s change of name. I think that was in the last special. Maybe I’m imagining that, and explained why he meant it as a joke about racism rather than gender. Dave said, I thought I was punching up.
They thought I was punching down. Okay, yeah, so that’s yep, okay, yep. I didn’t imagine was in the previous special. Times is I’m not happy. They said this was thin stuff for big prices.
My seat in Rosy cost one hundred and twenty pounds plus. We had to wait one hundred minutes for him to start, following good support sets by Cipha Sounds and Michelle Wolfe, an interval, then a call in response musical mash up from his on stage DJ that got us up on our feet for what felt would be brief but carried on for a punishing fifteen minutes. Two stars out of five yikes. Andrew Schultz, called by The New York Times America’s foremost political journalist. They’re never going to live that down, As commented on Indiana Fever, basketball star Caitlyn Clark.
On The Flagrant podcast, Schultz weigh in about how Clark has been villainized by conservatives for not supporting their side. Scheltz said, it was so unfair what they did to Kaitlyn Clark. She literally did the thing that every conservative punnit was asking all the black athletes to do around Black Lives matter. Remember, they were like, just shut up and dribble. She literally shuts up in dribbles, and then all the punnets are like, you coward, how dare you not say anything?
Scheltz asked you one athletes to just play ball? Do you want them involved in politics? See, that’s why he’s America’s foremost political journalist. Starvros Halkist is in the Anthony Bourdain movie. He plays Sioux chef Dmitri.
Starvros called the character blue collar and a locker room guy. He’s there to haze Tony but then throw his arm around him at the end. I wanted to recreate the vibe of that guy who’s not quite mental level, but you do look up to him in certain ways. There’s so much about Burdain would be kind of insulting to try and get everything like word perfect, exactly right imitation. Our movie is about the vibe of that specific summer in that period of his life and everybody’s life who’s nineteen and trying to figure it out.
So that’s how I approached my guy. I wanted the vibe of that guy who’s gonna bust your chops at your job. But ultimately, if we get in a fight at a rival restaurant, you know, I got Tony’s back. Can Stavros cook? He said, I mean I can make a very complex snack.
The plating is very sloppy. It’s more about the taste than anything else. From The La Times, Anthony jesse Nick gets a feature about his book club. The Times tells us Anthony Justina couldn’t sleep was making him crazy. Hoping to find relief, Justlinnick sought help from a therapist he assume would guide him back to a healthy sleep schedule.
Instead, he encountered an apathy that stunned him. Jesselnick recalled the therapist saying, so what if you don’t sleep, if you wake up, read a book. Find ways to be productive in your loneliness, And I guess Anthony Jeslinick started reading. He has started a popular online book club Jesselnick book Club, which reminds me whatever happened to John m’laney book club, John, you have Google? Why don’t you tell us you’re hosting the show?
Seems like it’s still going Just last week. John mlaney on Twitter wrote, any and all m’lani reads Ers North Sun or The Voyage of the Walship Esther is my July must must read. This book is so bat crazy, funny, bizarre, violent, reckless, and very moving. John says, I haven’t read Moby Dick because whatever. But Ethan Rutherford’s description of catching a whale or failing to catch a well is one of the most visceral things I’ve ever absorbed.
John then added he was very coarsic on his way to Saratoga. There’s a video of John. He seems to be on the beach. He’s wearing a hoodie and shorts. Looks pretty breezy on the beach there.
I guess I could have pulled the audio, but I didn’t because we’re in the middle of it and Anthony Jesslinick story. This wasn’t a John Mulaney story at all. Jesson X got his own book club and it is titled The jessnic Book Club. Easy to Remember. Jesinick says, my goal was to curate and give people their best shot at enjoying reading.
People will say, oh, I don’t like reading books, You’re choosing the wrong books. In twenty twenty two, best selling writer Isaac Fitzgerald released American Rambler, Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed. Fitzgerald said a friend texted me that Anthony Jessinic, a comedian whom I love but had never met nor interacted with, shouted out his love of my memoir dirt Bag Massachusetts. I was thrilled. At my events, both in Chicago and throughout the rest of the year, more and more people in my signing lines told me they’d heard of the book from Jessinic’s podcast.
I was also boyed by how many of the people in the signing lines were young men. Now Fitzgerald and Justinic are friends. Fitzgerald said, the man is a real lover of books, with excellent taste and unsurprisingly confidence in his convictions. Earlier this year, Jessliniic hosted a book launch event for the American Rambler book. Fitzgerald said, I think Jessinnic i may have single handedly invented a new way to do literary events.
I don’t know what to call it. A literary roost. Everyone laugh for an hour straight. That is fun. Now, this is interesting.
Jesselnick talked about his own career. He said, I was trying to be the devil on stage and somehow ended up as likable anyway. Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equate their persona. I’m trying to make reading cool again.
Reading is a solitary act in the way that stand up comedy is a solitary art form. There are so few books for guys that are literary. There’s a lot of John Grisham and Jack Reacher, but that’s not something literary that a guy can sink his teeth into. If it’s well written and the writer’s great, then I’ll go on any kind of journey they take me on. I don’t always understand everything that I read either, but reading a great writer it’s like listening to classical music.
A little bit more about this about Jesslinnick talking about the end of his comedy career, I will save that for tomorrow. Jenny Yang is out on a national summer comedy tour. She turns grocery stores into comedy clubs for night. This is fun. She says, I go to buy a bunch of small snacks and shrimp chips and throw it into the audience every time I feel like it joked in Land.
I mean, this is my dream. It’s the Good Egg Immigrant grocery store stand up comedy Tour. Love It. The tour will wrap September twenty six back in la with Yang filming a performance for a proposed comedy special. She touches on topics ranging from infertility to awareness of immigrant experiences in the US.
Yang said, people come into this art forum as a stand up comedian for different reasons. I’m of the mind that my stand up comedy is just an extension of my values, and I believe in punching up, not down. At a supermarket in Minneapolis, the store manager said they reconfigured shelves near the checkout lanes to fit one hundred and fifty cheers. He says everybody got in line to buy some snacks and some drinks. A few people even did a bit of grocery shopping.
Yang said, just rending a spotlight mikes a show. How fun is it that I’m literally doing stand up comedy in next to an aisle that sells fungus and five pounds of rice. That sounds like a good time. Vogue asked Mary Beth Baron, Hey, a lot of your comedy is about love and relationships. Were are you with dating now?
Mary Beth Baron said, I’m single, I’m thirty five. My choices are staring me in the face. Sometimes. I think maybe being a comedian and talking about my life on stage and having this podcast where we’re pretty transparent, is scaring away potential romantic partners who could be good for me. But this is who I am, and if my job doesn’t fit in with that person’s idea of what they wanted a partner, and they’re probably not the right partner for me.
She adds, I do feel like we’re a really weird moment in dating culture, where there seems to be an endless amount of amazing women and the number of male counterparts she seems to continue to dwindle. I’m a romantic, but I think my hope is starting to waver a little bit. You just have to keep the hope alive. They also asked her about crowd work. Mary Beth Barone said, people really do tell me stuff.
They want me to know their secrets. That’s even in business meetings. I’ll meet an executive and we’ll get into it about a good date they had last night, and I’m invested too. There’s a lot of bad press for parasocial relationships, but I’ve just got the benefits of it. A much less fun story involves Amanda Knox.
You may recall the famous case Amanda Knox was arrested after her roommate’s death. Knox was convicted of murder and sexual assault in two thousand and nine alongside her then boyfriend, but after years of legal battles, they were cleared of all the charges in twenty fifteen. Knox is now a comedian performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. The sister of the murdered student, Meredith Kircher, has accused Amanda Knox of normalizing and trivializing violence against women. She was asking for the Edinburgh Fringe show to be withdrawn.
At an interview with the Telegraph, Amanda Knox said she believed miss Kirscher would appreciate the show because it grapples with what it means to be a young woman and it’s honest. Stephanie Kirscher said, it’s left a massive void in our lives, and Amanda’s naturally free to continue with her life as she wishes. But I think the problem with this particular project is that it’s comedy, and while I appreciate comedy is there to push the boundaries and very much normalizes and trivializes violence against women and Meredith in particular. And I think in this case, where it’s not a generic topic, it’s targeting an individual traumatic case and an individual person and family, and I feel very strongly that Meredith wouldn’t agree with that. Meredith absolutely wouldn’t find these topics of any comedy value.
Kercher added if someone else was doing the show specifically against Meredith, I would still feel the same. It’s obviously an added wound that it’s coming from her at the same time, but I do feel very strongly that it should be something that’s not given a platform. A different person was convicted of Kirtcher’s murder in two thousand and eight. That person was released from prison in twenty twenty one after serving thirteen years of a sixteen year term, and that shock Comedy news for to day, see to morrow.