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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News quick one from Seth Myers. This reminds me of an old Letterman style joke, Seth said. According to a new book, then President Trump discussed in twenty seventeen the possibility of striking North Korea with a nuclear weapon and then blaming it on another country. Even weirder, he wanted to blame it on Belgium.
Now I pictured Dave mocking for the camera and Paul Schaeffer doing a musical sting there.
Let’s talk about Velma.
I’m wondering if Mindy Kaling has actually done damage to her career. Velma is not being received well at all, like at all. I’m recording on Sunday to commodate my schedule. I had some traveler yesterday. I’m on rotten tomatoes.
From critics, Velma has a fifty three percent rating from viewers seven percent, and there are quite a few articles from the marys dot com. The headline what is Vilma with this awful means huge joke? The mary Sue dot com writes, Vilma the HBO Ma’s adult cartoon about the best detective and mystery ink seems to pride itself on having a more adult, cynical take on the gang of teenage crime solvers. However, that adults in nature has led to some horrifically tasteless jokes. In the second episode, Velma makes a truly bizarre comment to Daphne, claiming, I spit the truth without a filter, like every comedian before me too.
The Mary Sue writes genuinely, what the hell? I will try to be fair to the series, it does seem that this version of Velma is meant to be self involved, the judgmental to the point of short sidness. The early episodes established Velma as the type of girl who’s not like the other girls and who gets challenged when she and Daphne rekindle their friendship. The line also occurs in the middle of a discussion when Daphney accuses Vilma of believing her snap judgments of other people who always be correct, meaning that much like those supposed truth spinning comedians, Velma is not acknowledging other people’s experiences because they don’t fit into her personal perception of the truth. But that line seems designed almost entirely for shock value, with almost no self awareness.
Or acknowledgement of how out there it is. It’s hard to imagine how it appeals to anyone other than people who are still fans of Louis C.K. To be honest, though, that also summarizes the show, which appears to be going through an identity crisis regarding whether it wants to be an edgy adult take on the characters of Scooby Doo or genuine exploration of those characters flaws. Forbes headline is Vilma is so bad it spawned PSI up conspiracy theories. Velma currently has the lowest audience score I’ve seen for an HBO or HBO Max production, a seven percent.
To get that low requires not just review bombing, but your show also likely has to be genuinely bad, and it is. Vilma is very, very bad. Forbes rights, Velma is so bad, in fact, that it’s spawning conspiracy theories that creator Mindy Kaling made what is essentially a parody of what the right wing thinks left wing comedy is like, as in a show that not just recast most roles with new races, but also features loads and loads of white guys am I right jokes. The idea is that Kaling is a secretly conservative force in media, trying to make the Left look bad by making a cringey adult cartoon full of this rich white guy has a small dung jokes that the right can point too. Is everything wrong with race created, social justice influenced media.
Velma is not defensible by any stretch of the imagination. It’s just bad. I love this from Forbes. Making progressive jokes is fine as long as the jokes are good. They’re not good.
I heard the show describes somewhere as a series written by TV writers who only ever talk to other TV writers. There’s a world where this concept might have worked. I can see an adult Scooby Doo series where you just have an overlooked Velma attempting to clawback credit from a privileged Fred, the leader of the gang. And yet here it’s not just jabbing a Fred for being an overconfident white dude. It’s literally he’s such a whiny white man baby that his mommy cuts a steak and he hasn’t finished puberty.
Ce is a small penis like just no remote hint of subtlety or nuance or anything that can make the progressive humor work. The Scottish Daily Express went with Scooby Doo spinoff Vilma isn’t funny and is openly racist against white people. Wow. They write, the one white member of the gang, Fred seems to always be the butt of the joke. In one clip, Velma publicly humiliates him based on his class and race.
We’re then shown Fred hilariously failing to cut food using a knife and fork, because who’s ever heard of an upper class white person being able to use cutlery? That was the exact scene that made me bail on the show. I was kind of in the first eight nine minutes and when they got to that, I was like, I hate the show and I’m never going back. Seems like I’m not alone. These Scottish Daily Express rights the basic premise of the humor doesn’t make any sense, part from an adherence to the white man bad mantra of wokeism.
At one point, Velma slips him a copy of the feminine Mystique and inspires his great awakening and new obsession with the gender pay gap. Classic cartoon laughs. Glenn Howarden said, clearly a big part of the show is the sad’s heart of it, and I just think that Fred was just a perfect vehicle to satirize white mail, entitlement, privilege, all things that are part of the social conversation right now. I think he was just too perfect of a vessel not to do that. It’s not really the thread that we know, but I think you can look at the thread that we grew up with and go, I can see how that guy used to be that guy.
I also saw an industry trade observed that HBO Max didn’t pre promote the show. Remember I mentioned last week like, hey Velma suddenly out. I didn’t miss something. They didn’t promote it at all. They were just like, oh yeah, Velma’s out today.
So it seems like HBO Max knows that they have a dud on their hands. Over the weekend. It was prominently featured when I logged in, But I don’t know. It doesn’t look like this one’s too popular. John Mulaney is in Belfast.
Tonight short all went with this line which caught my attention. Belfast classy American comedian John Mulaney, the former SnO writer with several acclaim stand up socialistic name is John Mulaney Classy. He dresses nice because these are short haircuts because they add the show plays against the positive, easy going image he had, at least until his marriage publicly collapsed as he began dating actress Olivia Munn with dark stories of drug addiction and rehabilitation. I’m not saying he’s not classy. I just classy isn’t the first word that comes to mind for me?
With John Mulaney again, yell at me in the comments, I’m fine.
Also overseas Bert Craisher, he was spotted alongside Connor McGregor in Conn…
Connor owns the Black Forge Inn. Graisher had just played The Three Arena in Dublin popped on over to the Black Forge. They took a picture together. And get out your Daily Comedy News bingo card because I’m going to talk about Andrew Santino again. He was on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
He was asked about his views on Live Golf. You know this is the controversial rival golf tour that the Saudis are behind. Santino told Rogan love it, absolutely love it. He understands that people love the preservation in the history of the PGA tour, but his take the PGA particularly is mad because they’re looking something in the face that’s threatening them. They’re more mad about business interests.
Santino says the PGA tour doesn’t appeal to the younger players. I want some more freedom and fun. I want something different. He loves the idea of a competing golf tour and said, why do you need a monopoly of one league. As much as he loves to live golf, he says, it’s not going to be bigger than a PGA, but it’s an alternative that’s fun.
Nola dot Com caught up with Sam Morrell and they talked about the two times Sam left Tulane University. The first was right after he arrived on campus for his freshman year. It was days before a hurricane Katrina. Sam said, that was my introduction to New Orleans immediate evacuation. He went up spending that semester New York City.
I went to Columbia that semester. I wore my Tulane hat and everybody was like, you poor thing. I was like, really, I just took a flight out that got me way more sex than I deserved to get as a freshman. The second time he left, he transferred to Nyu that was less about a degree, but he wanted to get into comedy. He said, there was no stand up in New Orleans.
There was one open mic. It wasn’t a place I could grow, So it was hard for me. I had a strong feeling that I wanted that there was one open mic, but it wasn’t a place I could grow. The article also has a good point about how Sam puts together his comedy. They talked about a bit Sam has about sleeping Beauty not being all that appropriate on the concept of consent.
Sam says, I’m on the right side if you want to break that joke down. That joke was just another one, Like just go on the ride with me. There’s a lot of punch lines along the way if I’m going anywhere that’s in some people’s eyes, pretty offensive. I go really silly with it. When people say they’re dark jokes, to me, they’re light.
Maybe the subject matter is dark, but I’m going light with it. You have half an ounce of whiskey and then like six ounces of seltzer. A lot of this is about placement of jokes. Maybe that joke is shocking, so I have to earn it and put that fifteen minutes into my set. I’m sick of doing fifteen minute comedy sets in New York at the Cellar.
The first five minutes I have to prove that I’m funny. Then I get in the groove. Then at minute nine I try a new joke and I lose them. He prefers performing on the road because he gets to do an hour instead of doing four fifteen minute sets. The snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off Thursday night.
Thirty comedians from around the country are traveling to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Of what the forecast is, let’s look Thursday high of twenty four, low of fourteen Friday twenty four and thirteen, Saturday twenty six and seventeen. I guess not too bad. Some of the comedians performing there. Lee bruns Lee is a reformed motorcycle addict, special Olympics coach, a longtime fan of both dogs and cats.
His humor comes from a perspective of exhaustion and deep regret. Stephen Taylor is going to be there. He was from Louisiana moved to Kansas City to escape his traditional Southern roots. He’s a fast rising talent who’s worked with Theo von Carlos Miller and Mark Norman, combining his unique perspective with some sweet Southern charm. Stephen headlines and features of your favorite clubs, bars, and colleges across the country.
Thomas Nichols will be there. He’s out of Dallas. He jokes about everything from cartoons to politics to pineapple. Fanta. Is there Pineapple Fanta?
I toward Spain a few years back. I really got into Fanto when I was over there, Like orange Fanto was my joke. Yeah, Fanta Pineapple two eighty nine on door Dash? Should I order one dollar seventy four at Walmart? I’m on Fanta dot com now and they say Fanta Pineapple.
It’s a bold, confident never settle flavor high score you do you and don’t apologize for leveling up your eight bit love of pineapple things. It’s caffeine free and it’s pineapple flavored. Other Fanta flavors Greepe, Pina Colota, strawberry, and orange. This is not a commercial. I’m just telling you about comedian Thomas Nichols.
He’s out of Dallas, and he jokes about everything from cartoons to politics too. Pineapple Fanta sweet snow Jam Comedy Festival. January nineteenth through the twenty first Let’s a Gossip Corner, Olivia Munn was on Instagram. She shared some adorable footage of her and John Mulaney’s baby son, Malcolm. They’re eating Grandma Kim’s homemade ramen.
Malcolm appeared in Oz he watched John Laney spice up his ramin bowl with a gooey red chili sauce and also on Gossip Corner. Celest bar is an Australian comedian who has gained worldwide fame and nine point four million followers on Instagram thanks to her hilarious body positive post comparing herself to other women in the entertainment industry. She did a photoshoot from Marie Claire. She’s on the cover of the February issue. She revealed on Instagram she shot the photos while having a broken tailbone, joking.
In the caption She’s professional, we see Barbara leaning against a beach ball and standing on a paddleboard holding on a trapeze rings no details on how she broke her tailbone, and some of Northern Ireland’s top comedians are going to quote knock the ballocks out of each other in a charity boxing event. Pattie McDonald, Mickey Bartlett and Shane sod are among the comics taken to the ring and the Valentine’s Day Massacre Ulster Hall February eleventh. It follows a similar event in twenty sixteen when English based comics took part in a series of bouts. And there’s something over there called the wrestling where apparently comedians wrestle. They’re going to do a version of that at Just for Laughs.
In March, Kyle Humphreys told the Belfast tele Graft they’ve been inspired by YouTuber Jake Paul’s boxing. He said the stand up scene is really well sported here, but seeing people out of their comfort zone, which we all are, just add something different. After the bell we can share a joke, but in the ring, in the heat of the battle, there’s no time for that. That’s your comedy needs for today. Father show for free on Apple, Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever get your shows.
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