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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late night writers on strike. The Late Bod says, Taylor Swift fans say they’re suffering from post concert amnesia. Yeah, you get this after getting too excited during a Taylor Swift concert. But the Late Bot says, I suffer from post Taylor Swift concert amnesia.
I can’t remember the lyrics to any other song now. My friends say it’s like I’ve been shaken off my musical knowledge. Scientists are still trying to figure out if post Taylor Swift concert amnesia is a real condition for just a way for people to forget they pay two hundred dollars for a T shirt. Ricky Gervaiz says he cannot wait to see how Australia interprets The Office. The Office Australia will be set in post COVID present day Star’s Felicity Ward.
She’ll play Hannah Howard, who is the managing director of a packaging company. They go in a survival mode after being told her branches shutting down and going remote. She attempts to keep her work family together. Hannah begins making promises she can’t keep. Eight episodes filming in Sydney starting this month.
This is for a prime video. Maybe we’ll get to see it here in the States, which would be great. It’s the thirteenth version of the Office. But why I would be excited about this one is it would be an English language version and a little easier to watch. Ricky Gervais says off as politics have changed a bit in twenty years, so can’t wait to see how they navigate a modern day.
David Brent will Ferrell is in talks to play John Madden. It won’t be about the football coaching, It’ll be about the video game. No detales yet other than it would be a theatrical feature, not a straight to video. Interesting. The ut Daily Beacon caught up with Sam Morrell.
He says he doesn’t necessarily look for audience interaction. I honestly feel like I’d do it less than people think like if it doesn’t present itself, I won’t do it. I think it just sort of breaks up the rhythm and makes things more fun for them. You look at Rodney Dangerfield and how he broke rhythm with his stuff, and I think that’s where I get the inspiration from trying to emulate that As for his writing, he says, sometimes in the moment, I’ll make a note of something, but usually it takes some reflection on it to come up with a joke. It’s definitely a process.
I wish it was easier, but I guess we’re easier. Everyone would do it. He says he was always a pretty funny kid. I was never going to be a pro athlete, and I wasn’t especially good looking. I wanted friends and girls, so from there I had to be like, all right, well, what’s my thing?
So I think that kind of pushed me to being funny. Being in a blended family definitely did two. I think it was an awkward transition for everyone but me, but I was like six. I didn’t how uncomfortable it was for everyone. I was just happy to have more people around trying to make me laugh.
Sam says, I’ve always been sarcastic. I like short swings. Short swings and sarcasm are always your quickest root in comedy. Sarcasm is always the fastest of the punch line. I’ll just say that.
Sam is not worried about cancel culture. He says, I’m not on TV or a risk of a network pulling a show. The only way I’d be starving is if venues wouldn’t have me. But then again, there’s a lot of comics saying way more outlandish stuff and they can still book shows, so I’m not really worried. The only true opponent is social media.
He said. TikTok algorithms don’t account for nuance and jokes, so I could say Nazi in a set, even if it’s totally berating them or whatever, and the algorithm is still going to push it to the bottom because it flagged a word, I said, not taking the context into account. Weird Alice Books of Variety. Apparently one scene in the weird Biography is getting a lot of attention. Al says it brought me so much joy to see that the number one Google search was did Weird al and Madonna have a fling?
I don’t know if Madonna is even aware of this movie. I’m very curious what she thinks, and I hope she’s okay with it. Don’t expect a new album from Weird al anytime soon. That makes me sad. Al said, I signed a record deal in nineteen eighty two for ten albums, then I renegotiated it twice, and it became a fourteen album contract, which I finally fulfilled in twenty fourteen.
I just don’t want to sign under the contract. I like being a free agent doing whatever I need to do or want to do. I’m more in the one off stuff now, because when you do an album, if you’re doing my kind of material, it’s hard to have twelve songs ready to go it all at once and having them to be topical and timely. I like having the freedom and being able to just put out material whenever I feel like. Granted, I haven’t done a lot of that since twenty fourteen.
Al is aware there are petitions to get him to perform the Super Bowl halftime show. That would be amazing. He doesn’t think he’ll ever be on the short list, he said, I’m just being real here. I don’t see it ever happening. Maybe the Food Fighters will do it and have me on as a special guest.
That kind of stage scares me for a number of reasons, one of which is, no matter who you are, when you’re put in front of that many eyeballs, you’re gonna have a lot of haters. And I know I don’t like being hated. His inspiration for the weird biopic was Bohemian Rhapsody. I’ll said, biopics, historically, I’ve always been pretty inaccurate, and I kind of bug me. I’m a big Queen fan.
I liked the movie and it won awards and it was very popular, but it bothered me. There was so many artistic liberties taken, just flat out changing the facts, changing the chronology, just making it more quote unquote cinematic. And I thought, all right, well, maybe if I do a biopic like that, just throw the facts out the window and go completely off the rails. Sam j will tape early to Stand Up Special this month. It is titled Salute Me or Shoot Me.
That’s an aggressive title. She will film it at Brooklyn Steel on June seventeenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty. This will eventually air on HBO. Hannah Gatsby is working on her Pablo Picasso curated thing at the Museum. She critiques Picasso’s relationship with teenage Marie Terice Walter, who was seventeen when Picasso was forty five.
Anna says, I hate him, but you’re not allowed to because of Cubism. She says Picasso sold to us as this passionate torment to genius rather than, by her definition, a misogynist. Hannah sums up the history of Western art Picasso included as men painting women like their flesh faces for their thing. She jokes, I think everyone any chance of getting a job at a gallery now, Well, not true, because she’s part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit, which addresses Picasso’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary and feminist lens. It’s Pablo matic Picasso, according to Hannah Gatsby Brooklyn Museum in New York, June second through September twenty fourth, and scientists are all excited about finding a fifteenth century huge manuscript.
James Wade is an associate professor at Cambridge University. Wade says most medieval poetry, song and storytelling has been lost, but the fifteenth century Huge manuscript was recently rediscovered. And it’s not a perfected, respectful final draft, or a play or a parable. It’s account of a raucous live comedy show, complete with irony, slapstick, satsire and a killer rabbit joke. Were they of its own monty python sketch wow, Wade said manuscripts often preserve relics of high art.
It’s mad defense. Manuscripts often preserve relics of high art. This is something else. It’s mad defensive, but just as valuable. Stand up comedy has always involved taking risks, and these texts are risky.
They poke fun at everyone high and low. Part of the Hunting of the Hair poem in the Huge Manuscript features the killer Rabbit. The first alliance read Jack Wade was never so sad as when the hair trot on his head, in case she would have ripped out his throat. That’s like Adam Sandler level funny, isn’t it. Wade says he can find echoes of this minstrel’s humor and shows like Mock the Week, situational comedies and slapstick the self, irony and making audiences the butt of the Joker is still very characteristic of British stand up comedy.
People back then partied a lot more than we do today, so minstrel’s had plenty of opportunities to perform. They were very important figures in people’s lives right across the social hierarchy. These texts give us a snapshot of medieval life being lived. Well, that’s your comedy news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube.
I didn’t mention mister b A or mister s M today, did you notice. Yeah, taking a break from that, but I’m grateful for their movies because otherwise slow newsweek. See tomorrow