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Let me do some different things here today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you listen to Thursday’s pod, you heard me get the giggles out at the end. I kicked two stories, so I’m gonna pull those up to the front here and just mix it up. Instead of leading with the headliner is let me lead with the back end stuff today.
If you’re a new listener, pick a different episode. If you listen every day, you know my vibe. But here’s some stuff that I wanted to get to and didn’t get to during the week. From the La Times. As a stand up comedian with several pausy, he uses a wheelchair.
Joe Yurrell might have the hardest profession when it comes to being a person with disability. When it comes to telling jokes, he sees his unique traits as a way to lift himself above the crowd. I love the writing here. First joke. I don’t want people to feel bad for me because I’m in a wheelchair, because if I wasn’t in a wheelchair, I’d be stealing cars.
And I know that because I stole this wheelchair. Love it, Love the pause, love the kicker. Awesome next one. I was born in Coco Beach, Florida. When I was ten, my birth family put me in foster care.
I was adopted by a family in Huntington Beach when I was well. My mom adopted sixty kids with her nonprofit kind of a hoarding problem from Yahoo. Comedian Genie Godly has vowed to quote go out with a bang. She’s sixty one and was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer. She’s refused to cancel her tour of Scotland after her cancer returned.
She told TV’s Lorraine on the very first day, I got chemotherapy and I go straight from the cancer clinic in Glasgow, straight into the tour van and straight on stage. I genuinely can’t wait to see people have a laugh and talk about something that isn’t the symptoms of cancer. I want to be able to have a laugh and I’m excited. Ovarian stage three cancer is treatable, but it’s not curable. It never goes away, and it’s always there.
It’s always going to come back, and I’m always gonna have to keep fighting it. I don’t know how long I’ve got, but like a mayfly, I’m gonna enjoy it. While I can. I’m gonna go on tour, and if I’m gonna go out, I’m gonna go out with a bang. I love your attitude, Genie.
Best of luck to you. From my San Antonio dot com HBO posted a TikTok of comedian Ralph Barbosa. He was born and raised in Dallas. Orbosa explain that he doesn’t really vibe with country music, as most of his beers in Texas too. He said, it’s not my thing, but my friends are like, na, man, you don’t like country because you haven’t listened to George Street.
They’re like, George Straight is one of the greatest of all time. He’s from Texas. We’re from Texas. He makes these badass songs. Barbosa says his friends played him Straight song take Me to Texas the joke.
There’s a lyric that says, take Me to Texas two hundred years ago. He then pauses and raise an eyebrown says, I don’t know, man, I could see how some people might like that song, but it’s not from me. The full lyric by George Straight, take Me to Texas two hundred years Ago, where pride rose from the ashes of Santacinto still beats in every heart the reference. On April twenty first, eighteen thirty six, Sam Houston and some eight hundred Texans defeated Santa Anna’s Mexican force of approximately fifteen hundred men at the Battle of San Jacinto, shouting Remember the Alamo. Barbosa’s joke got four point eight million views more than five hundred and eleven thousand likes.
Many people in the comments are defending George straight, saying he’s a legend who loved Mexico. Catpad thirteen eighty nine said George loves Mexico. He embraces the whole culture. Camail nan Gianni said he only got in a stand up because he wanted to write jokes. He said it was a necessary evil.
I hardly performed before nine to eleven, and afterwards things suddenly shifted. I found being on stage miserable. People felt okay yelling racist stuff at me, and it kept throwing me. I had a pre write specific comebacks to take control so I wouldn’t lose the rest of the audience. Wow, he teld Fast Company.
I make jokes in real life often I’m still a person who’s trying to find the funny side of things for sure. When it comes to specific use of the comedy skills, like say, stand up that does get rusty, and it’s very rusty right now. If I got on stage right now, I don’t know how it would go. I’d need a few sets to really get back on it. Will he return to stand up?
I haven’t really done stand up since February twenty twenty. It’s the single toughest challenge. It’s the hardest thing. It’s the thing that falls away first because everything else on the schedule, and stand up can be whenever you wanted to be. In twenty twenty, I was like, this will be the year I get I can stand up, do a tour, and then suddenly the world changed.
I couldn’t do it, but what I have done it for sure if we didn’t have COVID, I can’t say for sure. There were a few years where I was doing stand up where I felt like, oh, I’m good at this. I recorded one special referring to Beta Mail his special from twenty thirteen. I like the special. I’m proud of it, but I feel it’s still not me at my best.
When I was doing my best stand up and I know it sounds a little arrogant, but I’m not at my best right now, so I feel okay saying that a previous version of me was good at something that I’m now rusty at. A few ways you can support the show. One go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Several options there. One thing you can do is you can join the two dollar club and then once a month, buy meacoffee dot Com will ding your credit card and two dollars minus a service fee will make its way to me.
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And that’s not a joke. She was talking to the report about her grandmother and said, my grandma’s going with the flow finally in life. She’s been a caretaker most of her life. She still takes care of my mom most of the time. She’s eighty seven.
She raised three kids on her own. She lost her husband when she was twenty eight. Then she had to raise me when my mom couldn’t. I started making silly videos to post online would make people feel really good, and that made me feel good. One day, Grandma was like, can I join you in one of the dances.
It’s her having fun for the first time and allowing herself to play too. When I tell her things like that video we did has twenty million views, all that to me sounds made up. I don’t have many zeros. That is off the top of my head. I think any older person already has a hard time grasping what fame or exposure means.
When we taped our special in New York, I got to fly her first class, and I think then she really saw this is where comedy has taken you. I get to lay down flat, I’m eating beef, I get champagne. The Holly reporter said, you have such a unique style of delivery. She sure does, and I love it. Do you have any comic inspirations?
Listen to this answer. I grew up watching Scooby Doo. I feel like I’m sort of a cartoon character. In the way that I express. I’m also a proud immigrant.
I speak in weird cadences, I make weird noises with my mouth. I grew up watching Lucille Ball and Charlie Chaplin because I didn’t know English, it had to be physical humor. Yeah, I was gonna jump in there and’d be like, wait, Charlie Chaplin is influencing your stand up, but does that work? But she clearly read the next tent that’s John. Calm down, stop jumping to conclusions.
And then when I finally got to know the language, the first person I saw stand up was Margaret Show. That was mind blowing to realize all these things I was watching as comedy, which were more physical and cartoony, She’s able to express in just words. I was like, oh wow, that’s its own art form. That was a pivotal moment for me when I realized stand up comedy was a job.
And then tig Nazara was my other idol too.
Rory Scovell spoke to the Houston Press gave a shout out to someone he’s admired from the sidelines for years, Bo Burnham. I also earlier today saw an article about Patton Oswalt really waxing the car of bo Burnham. Bow’s got a lot of fans. Scoville called bou Burnham a savant. He knows exactly what to do and or even know how this set operates or what the language is.
He somehow ready completely knows and understands it. So to see him explore the way he has, I think inside does one of the most genius things I’ve watched the longest time, From top to bottom. I just loved every element about it. Just to know it’s so vulnerable and real and him is the best. I just love it.
The genius that’s coming out of that. I witness that forever ago. But now to see him at full control and know that he can really do it is really cool. It’s really cool to see. And I don’t know if he would take this as a compliment or an insult, but to see this awakening of his own that he sees he can do this, make this version of the thing that I know how to make it, especially now because comedy specials are so oversaturated in the market.
Yes there’s a new special every week, Yes, where people walk out on stage and say things. I’ve always found it to be more fun to be at the event, to feel the power in the fun of it. Not that we can always be at the events, but for Bo Burnham to make the version that it is, that version is the better version. You’d never want to be at that and you couldn’t. It’s impossible.
I just love the aspect of it. Not comedy news for Today. Father Show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of a daily podcast about the British royal family called Palace Intrigue.
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