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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Early explained how he got to work with Taylor Swift. He told racketmen dot Com, Well, she loves search party, which I didn’t know until she asked me to do the video. I didn’t know she was aware of who I was.
So she asked me to do the video and was so incredibly humble and professional in the way she asked me. She was like, I directed these other videos. If you want to see samples of my work, your Taylor Swift, I know who you are. Of course I’ll do it. Let me jump in there.
I’ve been I went to see Taylor a couple of weeks ago with my daughter, and I said, the weakness in Taylor’s game is her stage banter. Because she does this thing. It reminds me of the Eddie Murphy bit where Eddie’s talking about Michael Jackson and Michael says, is it okay if I sing to you? Taylor will get up there and be like, wow, golly gee, guys. You know, I thought it’d be okay if I had one of my friends out and we sang a song for you and the crowd goes nuts.
It’s like, what are we gonna do, Taylor go No, we don’t want your friend come out anyway. You’re Taylor Swift, I know who you are. Of course I’ll do it. I appreciate her not assuming her stature would just be a total given for me, which of course it absolutely was. Of course I was dying to do it.
I’ve always wanted to be the Kathy Griffin to someone’s eminem. It’s hilarious. I still get tweets from random Taylor Swift fans, dms on instaff from people all over the world who were like, please show this picture to Taylor, just begging me to send her stuff. It’s so funny, and I do. I send all of it all right.
Then they asked Jonah Early, you’re playing eleven hundred seats, You’ve got an HBO special, your buddies with Taylor. Are you feeling my minum career wise? Yeah, thank you, he says, Oh, I don’t know. I always feel like you’re alone in your house. That’s what I find so beautiful about the tour.
Its the first time in a long time I’ve felt any real people are receiving my work. It’s so lovely. The entire industry. It’s all social media, lives on social media. It’s such an alienating, animized experience.
Doesn’t feel like anything. It feels like air with live shows. It’s like, oh, people actually want to come see me. Joel McHale told Variety that production on the Community movie was about to start. He says, I think they were extremely close.
I mean Dan somebody that tweaks things. But obviously that’s all stopped. I think it was pretty dorn close. Why did it stop? Writer strike?
Joel says, it was close. The shoot date was coming up. We were all excited to do it, and the writer strike app in, which obviously put everything on hold. And rightly so. Brett Goldstein, you know him as AFC Richmond head coach Roy Kent.
We’re getting season four, right, you guys aren’t going to walk away from that moneymaker, right right, right, Brett Goldstein. He’s got a comedy show tonight in San Diego with the Civic Theater. If you’re in town seven o’clock to play Roy Kent. Brett said he deepened his voice and changed his physical stance shoulders back, stiff body to represent the character’s emotional withdrawal in real life. He has a lighter, at looser, chattier and much funnier presence, but he does curse like his character.
So the show’s restricted to age fifteen and up only. So I watched Ted Lasso with my wife and I have this theory that Roy Kent is more attractive than Brett Goldstein, straight married man. But Roy Kent has this aloofness and wears black clothes all the time that I don’t think real life Brett has. Weighing on this Ladies Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group, what I know? What am I wearing?
I’m wearing a Stormtrooper T shirt and my Villanova hat from barband dot com. You’re home for comedy news. Irish strongman Pa O’Dwyer Where are you going with this? John? Trust me?
Trust me? Irish strongman Pa O’Dwyer published a video on his YouTube channel where he and Tom Sagora performed a strongman workout. Sure O’Dwyer weighs three hundred and eight pounds, He’s a five time Ireland Strongest Man champion. Tom Sagora is none of that. The pair began flipping tires, which is a compound movement incorporating in their glutes, hamstrings, quads, shoulders, packs, and biceps.
It’s full body movement that starts between the squat and a deadlift of heavy tire and moves into a press to flip the tire over down a course. Barban watched the video and sat Sagorino’s wire squad for enough leverage without compromising their backs, they maintain neutral spines. Once they exploit from the bottom, they quickly adjust the load of the tire to the shoulders and chess while driving through a press to topple the tire to its opposite side. Julia Louis Dreyfuss, I’m planning on talking about her at on tomorrow’s podcast. She was on the hot Ones pod.
You know hot ones you eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. She said, I don’t know why anyone to subject themselves to this. She talked about one of the challenges of filming Seinfeld and said, what we were always challenged by was as soon as you walk into Jerry’s apartment, what do you do? What am I gonna find to do in the apartment. You can’t just come in and sit on the couch.
Every time he had the couch, you the kitchen, you had the sweet spot, which I believe we called the alleyway between the counter and the couch. That’s where a lot of stuff happened. I felt like if you could hold court there in a way, you also had to figure out what you’re gonna do, which is why I, as a Lane would often go to the refrigerator and just find things, or even go look in the refrigerator and not do anything. We were limited. We had to be creative about it.
The New York Post talked to Tom Poppa about his new book and said, you know, if you’d told me I had to live on the Upper east Side, make it on the five dollars a night, I was making it the comic strip back in the day. Had to stretch of that money. So you went there the next day. I’d quit, but I didn’t even think about it then because the inspiration that New York was, especially in stand up comedy. I remember I was hosting shows and bringing up at the time Ray Romano, John Stewart, Rhett Butler.
These people had shows and I was saying their name and they were shaking my hand. Felt like it was a backdoor in a show business that only New York could give you all right, Tom Papa. Were you New York Post reader? He said, of course, especially when I was writing weekend update jokes for Colin Quinn. That was such a New York thing.
But every moment would wake up, go to the corner and get coffee from the one stop, and stop at the news stand, get the Post, get the Times, and head back with your stack to start writing jokes, hoping Colin we use them on Saturday nights. It’s been kind of a slow two weeks. And when it’s a slow comedy newsday, I do things like google Joe Rogan and usually something comes up that I can use as filler. For example, the headline billionaire golfer Tiger Woods weird handlers get dis by Joe Rogan after Ari Shaffier’s bizarre experience. Okay, essentially sports dot Com recap this apparently Ari Shafier, it’s old Joe Rogan.
We did a commercial with Tiger Woods. They were like, don’t curse around him. It’s like before the scandal. They’re like, don’t curse around him, don’t swear, And I was like, okay, but Ari says Tiger himself then casually used profanity and are he’s like, I’m like, wait, just tell us not to do that. Rogen schimed in and said, the people around Tiger, they’re just handlers.
They’re weird people. There’s weird people that get a kick out of having power over their star. They’ve power to access. They’re like, you can’t have access to the star. He can’t get close to them.
Sam b is back with a podcast, this one called Choice Words with Samantha B. What will Samantha B do On Choice Words with Samantha Be She will interview celebrities, politicians, and others copywriting Rule of Three about the choices they made in their lives. Greg Barris has a new comedy special out on YouTube. It’s already out. It’s called Deep Healings.
Accorded Live in La. It kicks off with an intro from Reggie Watts. Greg is known for his charismatic energy, twisted humor, and psychedelic leanings. Deep Healings features Greg Barros in an intimate setting where he expertly mixes his stand up with audience interaction, moments of forgiveness, kink shares, family values, lack thereof, and interstitial meditations and one of the most original comedy specials of the year. He also has an album called Deep Healing, which was recorded separately from the special Yes, My kind of Comedy Album, A comedy album that’s actually a comedy album.
The comedy album Comedy Album kicks off in an introduction by Nick Foon, who’s fantastic fans around the country. You know Greg as a regular tourmate and opener Forward Signet Sorrow and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. Smash that like button. Yeah see tomorrow.
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