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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Amy Schumer’s specials out on Netflix today now a little strange. On Monday, Netflix released a clip which is kind of tight to airtime. I don’t know what to make of that. Part of me is wondering if they find there’s no buzz on Amy’s special, maybe they have social media and metrics that’s showing that.
I just don’t know why you do it. The day before her special is called Amy Schumer Emergency Contact all right, So when the clips, she tells her husband she has no idea what name to put on the emergency contact form. Get it. She calls Jennifer Lawrence, who gives her the cold shoulder. I guess maybe here we’re just showing off that Amy’s famous friends.
I think that’s what we’re doing here. Lawrence says, we were like barely friends ten years ago. How’d you get this number? I don’t want to get back? And such, good luck with your health issue.
Then she calls Chris Rock and these are all video calls too, because you know that’s what everybody does. Everybody facetimes. Nobody uses the phone, is phone or text? Right? Did you do FaceTime?
We hear from Chris Rock next. Let’s listen, all right, I’m Chris Rock. Yeah, I wanted to ask you if I could list you as my emergency contact. Absolutely, really, you should call me if anything goals Rock, Like Harvey kite Tell and Pulp Fiction, people are going to be rooting for your death. Amy hangs up on Rock and then connects with Judd Apatau, who’s very eager to be the one to pull the plug on her.
Sam Rockwell says he’ll get back to her after she asked him to raise her husband and child in the event of her death. Other famous friends showing off here Selenaomanz, Larry david want To, Pykes, Michael Cha, Michael Sarah, a toddler, and a Chihuahua. Emergency contact with Shout at the Orpheum Theater in La. It’s Amy’s third Netflix special. You will find it on your Netflix today.
Meanwhile, Amy told people she thinks Pete Davidson’s career might have been a train wreck without her. This is a little tongue in cheek, Amy said, I do take full credit for Pete Davidson’s success. Pete had a role in in Amy’s twenty fifteen movie train Wreck, Pete played a patient of Bill Hayter’s hater liked Pete’s before want so much that Hayter recommended him to Saturday Night Live. Amy said he was one of those He was like nineteen or eighteen or something, and absolutely I was like, this kid’s going to be a star. She said she had the same premonition about Michael Chay like, I was like, you meet these people and they’re just living far out in Queens, sharing a room with having lots of roommates.
You’re like, okay, but you’re gonna be big some day. Pete Davidson previously has given Amy Schumer credit. He told Kevin Hart recently, I got very lucky. I was doing stand up for like three four years in the city and I met Amy Schumer and she let me open for her on the road for a little bit, and she was like, I’m doing this movie train Wreck, I’ll see if I can get you a partner. Pete Matt Hayter and appletown while doing his cameo, and then I got home the next day my agent called me and said Bill Hayter recommended you for SNL, And I was like, why that f would he do that.
I was terrified. Pete didn’t think it’d be a fit for the show because I don’t really do characters or anything like that. So I guess maybe I could be a writer or something. Pete was on SNL for eight seasons. He said, I figured, since I’m a stand up, I’ll just try my stand up in personal bits on weekend updates myself, and I’m glad I did.
Pete Davidson is one of the stars of the new Transformers movie. He’s Mirage. Stephen Cable Junior is the director of the movie and said Mirage was always going to be a cocky, wise cracker. I wanted Mirage to do the comedic tone I was diving into here, and Pete really delivered. He talked about a naughty line from the movie, slightish spoiler coming up and some naughtiness.
If you’re listening with the kids today, maybe it pause. The original line for Mirage was work friends. After all we’ve been through. Cable says that was cute, but Pete was giving it all these other reactions, and Pete being Pete, he throughout the line work friends, but you’ve been inside me and we just cried laughing. That was it.
That’s the line. I’ll be honest. There were moments where the student didn’t want to keep that joke in the movie, but we screened it and that line got the loudest laugh in the theater. We’re like, we gotta keep it now. If we hadn’t screened it, that joke probably would have been cut.
Pete attended the premiere of Transformers last week. What did he wear? An electric blue Vilord track suit spray painted with a rudimentary image of an autobot character. The complete sweatsuit, made by La Brand Polite Worldwide, retails on around eight hundred dollars. When Twitter user said, you know you’re rich when you go out and what’s suit to a public event?
And the big news of the day, Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan are touring together a four arena tour, both of them one bill pretty good. You want to know the dates? I’m sure you do. November third, Chase Center, San Francisco, the next day at the Kia Forem in La Friday November tenth in Chicago, Saturday November eleventh in Saint Louis. I gotta imagine if they’re doing four, they’re gonna do a lot more right, they’re gonna sell out.
Deadline says there’s no details on which comedian will go first or if they’ll tread slots, so all right on paper. Sorry, Jim’s got open for Cherry. Jim, you’re gonna be in the Comedy Hall of Fame, but Jerry’s going to be in the elite wing of the Comedy Hall of Fame. Great show. I would highly recommend anybody if you can go see Gaffigan and Seinfeld one night.
Yeah, you absolutely got to do that. Even having seen Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld on back to back nights in the same exact theater, I wouldn’t want to follow Jerry Seinfeld. I think Jim Gaffigan should just kiss the ring, go first and do a long set, and then go hang out in the back and drink coffee or beer or whatever you do, and just let Jerry close the night. I’m thinking back Sammy Hagar and David Lye Roth toured together in the early two thousands. I think it was they would flip flop every night who would go last, But like same thing, and I’m a big Van Halen fan, I would think Dave should go second.
There but they would trade back and forth. Seinfeld said, Jim and I met doing comedians and cars getting coffee, and I’ve been talking about doing this for years. We finally made the schedules workout. Can’t wait. Jim Gaffigan said, I’m so excited to help out this unknown, up and coming comedian, maybe never heard of.
I know it’ll be an amazing bunch of shows. Rob Schneider is getting a new special, this one on Fox Nation. They’re all in a comedy. Now. Remember they did the Rosanne one and they did one other, right, what was the other one?
I can’t remember. Rob Schneider woke up in America June eighteenth, Hey, that’s this weekend. Rob Schneider woke up in America, filmed in front of a live audience. Well, yeah, so of course it’s a live one, and so the Tampa Theater in Tampa. Hey, John, Hey, pre read the copy, John b.
Whoever wrote the copy, write better copy. Rob Schneider will weigh in on the culture wars and wokeness. No way, he really on a Fox sped all right, shut up. The UFOs filming a movie with Donald Trump and other topics. Ricky Gervaise was on Twitter, he quoted a tweet that said Ricky Gervais is a massively increasing security for his upcoming tour after death threats over his anti woke gags.
Ricky wrote, one, have an increased security. Two my tour started a year ago. Three haven’t add any death threats. Apart from that, this story spot on good article in the l eight Times titled hell LA helped detonate the explosion of the Austin comedy scene. Yes, this comes back to Joe Rogan.
Bert Kreischer said, not only have a lot of people moved down there are comics from LA are calling in avails there. They’re just going to Austin to do two or three spots during the week. Rogan’s created the comedy store down there. It’s really impressive. David Lucas quotes a major name in the LA stand up scene unquote started headlining less than a year ago.
Really, David Lucas, major name started headlining less than a year ago. Let’s look up David Lucas. All right. David Lucas’s website says David Lucas is known for his appearances on kil Tony’s a regular and for performing with comics like Joe Rogan, Luis c Ka, and Tony Hinchcliff. Okay, I haven’t been in LA in a year, and I haven’t been in an LA comedy club in over a year, so perhaps David Lucas is a major name in the LA stand up scene.
Anyway. He started headlining less than a year ago and is steadily selling out venues around the country. After building his fan base in Austin. A regular roastmaster on Kill Tony, which is a fantastic podcast. You should listen to it, Lucas is getting a savage humor viewed by millions on YouTube every week.
Lucas, a former door guy at the Comedy Store, says the Austin fans, who weren’t used to LA’s caliber of comedy immediately showed him love. Lucas said, my first impression of Austin was that these mfers ain’t seen stuff. It was like getting a virgin woman. So whatever they see is amazing, he said. He sold out three shows in January of twenty twenty one, despite the pandemic.
I was like, why I expected at fifty people there. Sure, Austin had a comedy scene, but they had never had a comedy scene like what we got. A major shift began in April of twenty one when the owners of the closed New York Creek in the Cave reopened in Austin. I remember that, and that was it just seemed bizarre. It was like the comedy equivalent of the Dodgers moving to Brooklyn.
I guess, and it worked the only time, says It became the hangout for Austin comics, who gather in a back outdoor section that has a stage as well as picnic tables and food trucks. The club has been known to take risks and programming unconventional shows like Bananaphone, where comics get one minute to perform before getting heckled by the crowd and the hosts. Austin has had an influx of LA comics, many of whom were trying to escape what they deemed as a politically correct coastal audience in LA. With this influx came a political shift from liberal to libertarian. Austin comedi and Chris Hill said personally, I’m tired of the trans jokes.
Can we get another topic please? You can be edging about other things too. A lot of it is hate speech. Mast’s comedy comedian Ariel Isaac Norman said, I know people are complaining a lot about the California people coming here, but our city’s becoming hotter. So you win some, you lose some.
What are you gonna do? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcasts or Spotify for on YouTube, smash that like button? Will you see tomorrow? All right?
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