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The Shark Deck johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News, and I lost my script. It’s usually here. Where did you go here? It is? John?
Why don’t you edit that out because that’s not fun. That’s what really happened. From the Valdosta of Daily Times, they spoke to Dan Whitney, you might know him as Larry the Cable Guy. Dan explained coming up through the ranks at the time using Larry the Cable Guy was like a brand, brand that took off in a big way. It was a really crazy thing.
I was just a comedian and all of this was such a whirlwind. I remember when I first met Larry. We had Jeff Foxworthy coming up to Sirius and his publicist was like, hey, you guys want to talk to Larry the Cable Guy. And we were like, we don’t know that it is sure, Yeah, we’ll talk to him. We had no idea, So I think we made friends with Larry about thirty seconds before he really blew up Dan Slash.
Larry is an awesome, awesome dude. If you go down on the feed. He’s one of the few guests that I’ve had on this show over the last few years. A true friend and I always laugh at the interview if you listen back spoiler. I actually had to wrap up the interview because I had to jump on a zoom call for work, and Larry made a joke about how he put my kids through school, and I laughed, and I’m like, it’s pretty much true.
Love that guy. Dan said his management team at the time pushed him to use Larry the Cable Guy name for everything. The team was aggressive if media mentioned his real name and stories about the comedian. Whitney laughed, saying he never had a problem using his real name and doesn’t now, and he wishes he had used his name in the Cars movies, but he’s fine being known as Larry the Cable Guy. He said, I’m a country kid from Nebraska who grew up in Florida and went to school in Georgia.
I’ve lived in Florida for thirty to forty years now, the article points out, and I’ve talked about this in the past. His phone voice is familiar. It sounds close to the voice you expect to hear in a phone interview with Larry the Cable Guy. But it’s not until he starts talking in character that one realizes his real speaking voice has a hint of Southern flavor, but nothing like the dippton kutsue and sweet sea of Larry the Cable Guy. He could turn the voice off and on like water.
I’ve talked about this in the past when I’ve hung out with him. Sometimes you’re talking to Dan and sometimes you’re talking to Larry the Cable Guy, and it’s not like it’s not like he’s the joker like, but sometimes he slips in a Larry the Cable Guy. But when you’re backstage, Dan is usually hanging out. His first gig as a stand up nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty eight, he quit his day job and again performing full time. Said I love making people laugh.
Will there be another Blue Collar Comedy Tour? And I’ll remind you both Bill Engvall and Ron White retired at the end of last year. But I agree with what Larry says. Here He goes, you’ve got four guys in their sixties and points out he himself has cut back on doing one man shows to spend time with his wife and children. He usually books performances to coincide with golf tournaments.
But as for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and I think he’s right here. It’s probably not going to happen, but I could see in another five years or so doing a reunion thing and a casino in Vegas. I agree, there’s money on the table. I could see that happening. The New Yorker spoke to Sarah Silverman about her recent special, and she said, you know, I never think about doing a special.
I never write stand up aiming for a special. I ever think about it. This is my fourth special, and I’ve been doing stand up for thirty three years. I did a pilot for HBO right before the pandemic, and part of that deal was a special, and then they didn’t pick up the pilot, but I still owed them a special.
And then the pandemic happened.
I didn’t know stand up for the longest time.
And then stand up came back and we get a call from HBO and they’re like, it’sā¦
Sarah said, I’ve never owed a special like that. Usually I’ll have an hour and someone says, can you do a special? And I go, yeah, right. She does seem bummed that HBO didn’t pick up the pilot, telling the New Yorker, it’s funny because I was really bummed about it. I was like, they need this show.
Was a great pilot, a political half hour weekly. It was like a John Oliver or Bill Maher type show. I was gutted. I was so bummed. When a pilot doesn’t go, you’re always bummed.
I was like, I can’t believe they’re blowing this opportunity the pilot. Of course it didn’t air and none I’ll see it. But two years later, everything we were talking about came to the four. Now it seems trite, but it was about the algorithms of social media that brings us to the Daily Show. Remember she hosted it for a week back in times when there were writers and late night shows were a thing.
The New Yorker asked, have you ever been in conversations to host your own late night show or take over from one of existing hosts. Sarah said no. I had a blast doing it, meaning the Daily Show, But that’s never been something I wanted in my life. I love doing odd jobs. The Daily Show was so exhilarating and such a lesson in immediacy.
You’re sitting with a producer and she’s like, use it or move on. She’s keeping on track. I remember when I hosted SNL. At the after party, I was sitting with Lauren Michaels and Martin Short and Lauren said that Morty was going to do a thing on Update tonight and I was like, oh my god, that would have been incredible. And Lauren said Martin’s promise that he wants everything to be perfect, when the truth is it just has to be good.
And I thought that was so funny. But when I guest hosted The Daily Show, I immediately understood it perfect is the enemy of good. It’s about using what works and making it the best it can be. How does Sarah pick projects? She says, you know, there’s been a couple of things I did for money.
You know, I get this amount of money and hopefully no one will see it. All sorts of variables go into decisions. Doing a rich guy’s daughter’s kinsinia, Yeah, that’s a money get great. I got to do a commercial for Uber Eats that was a godsend. It was awesome.
A small part in a movie I think is awesome. That’s great. I keep my overhead low. I’m not one for purses. Gives me an incredible amount of freedom.
There could be something where I go, Yeah, This looks good, but there were so many crowd scenes and those take too long. I make decisions based on quality of life. Sometimes I say no to stuff because I’m scared or lazy. I’m trying not to do that so much, but I also love being home. She sounds very grounded.
I liked her most recent special, A Lot’s currently number nine on the Best of twenty twenty three list. Salon spoke to David Cross. They were curious how David came up with the name of his tour Worst Daddy in the World, and they said, was there voting? Did your daughter choose it? Cross said, oh, yeah, there was the subcommittee, which is done out of Oslo in Norway, and they meet quarterly and they just go through everything and then five thirty eight has something to do with it.
I know they’re involved, but yeah, I was submitted by my daughter and I went through all the levels you have to go through and then I emerged on top. Can I tell you I’m impressed with how today’s podcast is coming out. I wrote this on Friday. There was absolutely no news and I went into Google and typed in every single comedian I could think of, which is how I went up with the Larry the Cable Guys story and these next two I’m gonna do. This is pretty good.
I’ve shared this before. There’s a story about Tom sever late in his career and the pitching coach comes out and goes, you know you have nothing today, and Sepher goes, yeah, but they don’t know that. And I think if I didn’t tell you that I’m kind of checking and jiving today, I’m not sure you would have noticed. Johnny makes Little prownd to today’s podcast. Lewis Black spoke to the La Times and they said COVID drinking.
Was that a thing? Lewis said, I was pretty good with that. I gave myself like two glasses of wine and I said to my shrink, it’s got me. It’s such worried. And the shrink said, better than lithium.
Glasses of wine are probably better than any of the antidepressants you could take. And it worked. What I did do is I binge watched a lot of TV. And part of the reason I binge watched, beside the distraction level, is the fact that I’ve waited my whole life for tvd be that type of mature and be that smart and have that level of acting, that level of writing. Comedian Ohmed jually caught speeding while desperate for the toilet.
The fifty seven year old comedian was stopped on the edge of Regent’s Park after a copper spotted at him flying along the road and his luxury Lexus. The officers told a magistrate’s court. As soon as I stopped the driver, he said he needed a wee. The officers said. He questioned July to see if he knew at the road I had a twenty mile an hour speed limit, which I’ve never been on all Buddy Street.
But that’s ridiculous. You can’t drive a cart twenty Julius said, I’ve been down here in many years. Speed thirty forty. I must be doing forty five or something. The officer said.
I showed him the speed gun. He was doing forty seven. I informed him that I could see that he was flying towards me. I asked for his driving license, and he asked me to be quick because he needed to go to the toilet. This happened back in November.
Last week, on Tuesday, a magistrate find the comedian six hundred sixty pounds ordered him to pay a two hundred and sixty four pound victim surch George plus one hundred pounds in costs. Yikes, guys, come on, also imposed six penalty points on his license. Julyly was given a two hundred pound fine in March last year for speeding by Gatwick Airport, and received a thirteen hundred pound penalty in twenty thirteen for speeding on the M four. At that time, he joked to the court comedian humbly asking for leniency. In two thousand and eight, he lost his license after racking up more than twelve penalty points.
He got a second man twenty twelve after being caught driving without a valid license or insurance. He said, you should never do jokes in court. The judge said to me, you have thirty six points on your license and another eighteen pending, which takes you up to fifty four, which is uk ricord. We’re gonna ban you from driving for six months. Do you have anything to say?
I said, could you give me a lift to the station, your honor? And the judge said that’s not funny. Did you guys check out my postclode dot com yet? What are you doing? Get over there on my Postclode dot Com and they sponsor Today’s Daily Comedy News.
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You know I’m stilling over this driving record thing. If you have the record for points, you only get suspended for six months, I think if you have the record lifetime band no, yes, yes? Do you like Rick and Morty? Remember they broke up with Justin Royland. Justin Royland importantly was the voice of Rick and the voice of Morty.
Seems like a big deal. Adult Swim president Michael Olleen was talking to French publication Premiere and said Royland will be replaced in dubbing. Voices are obviously super important in an animated series, and of course none of us wanted to go through what we went through. But I’ve been in animation for a long time, and I know what makes a series is it’s different parts coming together. I’ll jump in like the voices.
If the voices are obviously a big part, there’s also the writing of the characters in their design, he added the new voice act this worries me. He added, the new voice actor would simply not do an impersonation of Royland. I think his reasonab believe the transition will go. Well, here’s the part that worries me. He compared it to Bugs Bunny, which has had many voice actors over the years.
Time out, full, time out. Okay, I’m making a tea and I’m stecking back from the huddle, and I’m talking you directly. You’ve watched Bugs Bunny, the classic ones with mel blank. That’s what Bud’s supposed to sound like. Some of the ones in like the I don’t know, eighties, nineties, not the best Bugs.
It’s like me doing Bugs Bunny. Do you want to hear what that sounds like? You do? What’s up? Doc?
That was terrible? Do you want Rick and Warty to be that bad? Do with justin Royland impression? Don’t tell me the Bugs Bunny being voiced by different people is a good example of this. It’s like Kermit the Frog.
Have you heard some of the terrible Kermits over the years. Stop very worrisome, but the adult swimsuit says, I even think that for Rick and Warty will do even better. It’ll be fine, It’ll be great. Yeah. Yeah.
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