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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily company news golf dot Com. Spoke to George Lopez about wrong about Eddie Van Halen. What do you think we were going to talk about? And they said, hey, before he passed away, Eddie was one of your favorite golf buddies.
What bonded you guys? George said, oh, man, you know how they used to say all the pretty girls are at home on Saturday night because nobody asked them out. Eddie was so talented in his profession that he was shy, and when he was using he didn’t have to notice that everybody was looking at him. But he was always home. He never went anywhere.
People on my old talk show asked me, who’s your favorite guitar player. They wanted to get me a guitar as a present because they knew I played, and I said, oh, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen. That was it. So I got to the office one day a woman standing there with this things. She opens it up and I go, what’s that And she says, it’s a gift to you from the show, but it’s from my husband too, And I said, who’s your husband?
Eddie Van Halen. I said, get that out of here, you know him, And Jeannie’s wife said, I woke up next to him, and then she said, why don’t you call him and ask him to go to dinner. So we went to dinner and I said, hey, are you a member of Lake Side? And he says yeah, and then he said the most beautiful words. We’ve got to go out and play.
Here’s the thing ed was very childlike, and it’s enthusiasm for everything that wasn’t music, golfy effing loved it. Salon asked David Cross whether it’s times when you’re writing a joke and you’re like, this is too sensitive for too many people can’t do it. Cross said, there’s certainly some jokes I might either say or laugh at when I’m amongst friends in a private setting. If it was at a bar and somebody who comes up with something and I know the contexts and they know the contexts, jokes that hurt people who are victimized, that’s where I draw the line. I don’t have many.
There’s a couple of jokes have done where I look back at them, going, that’s really insensitive. I wish I said it that way, or I wish I had qualified in some way that can be seen as hurtful, though not necessarily individuals, but a group of people who are victimized in some way. So that’s kind of where I ad it myself. But that’s it. I mean, there’s certainly not a subject matter.
I won’t talk about all the comics you bitch and moan about. Hey, they’re trying to cancel me for this joke I made. Most of the time, it’s a nothing joke and it doesn’t matter.
And now you’re positioning yourself as this BS voice of they’re not going to …
You can’t silence me for what you’re dumb joke about trans people. Who gives a hoot? I mean, is it important to you just move on and not hurt hundreds of thousands of people? It’s a choice people make. Deschapelle from Kansas City dot com the question, did comedian Todd Berry twitter shame Kansas City into building the new kCi terminal?
This is a letter to the editor who wrote eleven years ago. Todd Berry delivered an enlightening anecdote on Letterman about his experience tweeting with the official kCi account about the lack of restaurant options and the airport’s online map let’s listen. True story. I was at the Kansas City Airport looking for place to eat, couldn’t find one, cap walk and couldn’t find one. Finally found this terrible place to eat, so one on Twitter new slogan for Kansas City Airport walk a mile and enjoy one of our two food options.
Reasonably funny. A few hours later got a response from the official Kansas City Airport Twitter accounts, and it was kind of sad. They were like, two to our design. We actually do have limited foods oasis. But here’s a link to a map of all of our restaurants.
Some guy writes back to them that link doesn’t work on cell phones. I flew into Kansas City one year for the All Star Game and we landed at like, I don’t know, eleven forty five pm on a Sunday night. And this was in the pre uber days. But we landed and everything was closed and we didn’t even think we were going to be able to get a cab. I think we had to call a cab company.
And this is at the airport in a city that you’ve heard of. But it was a ghost town. Tom Papa said, the greatest thing about comedy is if you’re funny, you’re unstoppable. Doesn’t matter what you are, where you come from. If you’re funny, I’ve never seen one truly funny person show up in the clubs or wherever we do it and not succeed.
It’s unstoppable. Will they get hired by S and L Maybe not, but they’ll be a great comedian and people will find them. It’s interesting Chris Rock had a special come out. People writing about a special were not comedy people. There were people who write about care and people writing about his opinions and how it’s our woke society and all this stuff.
It was embarrassing how little they understood about comedy itself. But comedy has become so big now in the absence of real adults and news, comedians are seen as they grown ups. For some reason, you can’t write about comedy in those terms fit your section of the culture that you have to write about all the time. It’s not really what it’s about, but it’s kind of led over. If you enjoy what I do here, you can buy me a coffee and buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy Needs.
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Thank you to everybody who supports the show. The La Times spoke to four comics at varying points in their career. They are Morgan J. Lunel, Ali Sadiq, and Matt Reife and their experiences selling specials to the streamers. The LA Times asked them what’s the hardest part about landing a special deal today versus pre streaming.
Yeah, I remember, not too long ago there was some eight or maybe even nine nine figure deals. Were there nine figure deals? There were definitely eight figure deals going to some of these bigger comedians. Morgan Jay said, the hardest part is finding somebody who’s willing to take a risk on new talent. Even with a following of over a million people across my social media platforms, the streamers aren’t acquiring specials like they used to.
Matt Riif said, it’s always been competitive and political. However, the politics and what networks think people want is ever changing and often out of your control. Lunel said, I will say this, it’s difficult to land anything in this town without proper representation and solid relationships. I’ve toured with Kat Williams, built a wonderful relationship with Dave’s Chappelle. Both men have Netflix specials and have been cheerleaders for me throughout my career.
I landed my special with Netflix under the umbrella of Chappelle, who’s executive producing my special. I know my situations different from a lot of people, but I think it’s my relationships that got me in the door at Netflix. Alcdick said, if it’s a network or streamer, you have to get them to believe you’re worth putting on their platform. If it’s fans, you have to give them something they believe is worth watching. It’s not the end all be all.
If you don’t get with a network, you can still release independently if fans believe in you. The next topic, how has social media, specifically TikTok and Instagram reels changed how you approach a special rollout? Rife said reels and TikTok’s are where the majority of people watch stand up these days, and it’s easily sharable, So essentially, your fans and friends are able to freely help promote your work with you. Lunel said, with more than a million followers on Insta, I feel like I reach more people with the single post than with flyers or other traditional marketing. Don’t get me wrong, traditional marketing is very important, but when you have a fan base, you can give them a heads up about an upcoming performance special in a matter of seconds.
Next question, what’s the number one piece of advice you’d give to an up and comer trying to shop a special to a streamer? Who else? Said? Take your time, hone your craft, make sure you build a strong fin base and a solid following on social Remember it’s more important to be a good comic with great material before you start knocking on doors for a special. Matt Rives said, don’t stress about it.
You don’t need them. The power of stand up comedies now entirely in the hands of the people. If you can get picked up by streamer and be part of their exclusive club, great, but you absolutely do not need them for people to watch your special. You can self release your own special without a streamer, get more views and make more money. I don’t know that streamers have stopped investing in stand up as much as they have in the past, but I do feel they’ve completely lost touch of what people actually like in exchange for what they think is the most inclusive and politically beneficial to their platform.
Morian Jay said at one point, Netflix was releasing a comedy special once a week for a full year. Clearly those numbers have diminished. MAX is even more selective about who they have on Prime videos, only recently getting into comedy. I do know some of the most watching popular comedy special in the last several years have been released on YouTube. But I think self releasing will become more common.
Ali CDQ said, if they’re looking at the success of Ari Shafir, Big Joker, Saint, Andrew Schultzer myself, we’re beating out network specials in terms of viewers and helping other comics release their content. Indementently, the barriers to entry for comedy have changed drastically. If you’re funny, people will find you. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, where of course you can smash that like button see tomorrow.
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