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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan’s news special is out on Amazon tomorrow. Jim talked about the early days of his career. He spoke to Variety and Jim was living a double life.
He had a job in advertising and was kind of hiding the comedy career, and he said, I think today we’ve been educated by YouTube and streaming services and decades of Comedy Central. There’s a respect for stand up comedy. But back then, if you weren’t on The Tonight Show and we were talking about being a comic, you were just considered mentally ill. I remember being so excited when I booked my first TV slot on Caroline’s Comedy Hour, but I couldn’t tell anyone. He became the oddball guy at work who was more of a mascot than anything.
He’d show up exhausted and sleeping on his couch during lunch because he was up late taking classes of doing shows. Jim said, when they came in to fire me, I was actually asleep. They had to wake me up to lay me off. The worst part was I couldn’t even use it my act because David tell already had a great joke about being woken up to get fired. Hot take from Jeff Foxworthy.
He spoke to the states and said, it was a different world back then. It was about getting on the Tonight Show, and if you could get to that couch and make Johnny laugh, there was nothing better than that. That’s not the hot take. It’s this hot take. But I got to set it up, The Statesman wrote, Jeff Foxworthy, they did not say this, the Statesman wrote.
Back then, most successful comics delivered jokes. However, the top comedians today who are headlining arenas, such as Joe Koyburg, Chreisher and Gabriel Iglesias tell stories. Okay, so that’s a setup from The Statesman, to which Foxworthy reacted and said, I don’t say this off and out loud, but when I watched these people and there’s so many of them, I say, where’s the jokes. You’ve been on for three minutes without a laugh. Where are the jokes?
I guess times change. Remember what it was like with Rodney Dangerfield. Good joke from Foxworthy. Here. He was watching the George Carlin documentary on HBO last year and said, at one point, shut up the tail pointed out that George Carlin hit his fortieth anniversary of stand up.
I looked at my wife and said, holy crap, forty years of stand up. Carland did stand up forever, and my wife looked at me and said, you’re a year thirty nine. Kathleen Madigan spoke to the union leader and said, I do a bit in my act about being in Taco Bell and this guy in his mid sixties was just breeding this twenty something because they were out of mild sauce. And I’m like, I’m pretty sure she’s not in charge of the supply line. Quite yelling at the girl.
It’s not her fault that Taco Bell is a corporation, is out of mild sauce. If you keep yelling, the girl’s gonna quit and then we’ll have to do it. I don’t know how to make a soft chalupa, do you, sir? I don’t think you knew. So let’s be glad this young person has showed up and it’s gonna get you what you want to the best of her capability.
You’re lucky she’s here. Kathleen Madigan spoke about her friend and often tour partner Lewis Black and said off stage he can actually be quite silly and goofy. But there are topics like I was in a bar with them once and he got into it with this guy about the Yankees back when George Steinburner on the team. I thought Lewis was gonna stroke out, And I said, you know, dude, there are things that are worth getting this angry about. You don’t actually know, George Steinburner.
You don’t play for the Yankees. You don’t play for the other teams playing the Yankees, So just bring it down a level. Plus, I didn’t want to get in a bar fight because out of me and Lou, I would be the one throwing punches, not him. He’d run away from Vanya Land. Yuckfest will be making its way from its Midwest roots to set up up in Boston October nineteenth through the twenty first Yuckfest founded by comedian Caitlin McPhee launched the fest in Indianapolis in twenty nineteen.
It’s a weekend long celebration of music and comedy. The lineup so far Bethany Van Delft, Daniel van Kirk, Gordon Baker, Bone, Michael Christmas, and Zahid Dooji.
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In each one hour episode, Kings of Barbecue will follow Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson as they meet with barbecue chefs, pitmasters, and everyday experts who share their knowledge and secrets of the trade. Friends for years, Cedric and Anthony bonded over their shared love of barbecue and the unique history that surrounds it. A relatively quiet Monday at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. That is not uncommon for a Monday to be quiet at a festival. Five o’clock show, Dan Galia inter Dan Mentional Live, I’m Curious, I’ve Clicked Dan Galaia performs his debut musical comedy album inter Dan Mentionol, produced by Scott Thompson from the Kids in the Hall.
Seven o’clock Just for the Culture, nine thirty The Nasty Show looks like We’re gonna drink again now Tomorrow night, Tuesday Night, It’s loaded up. I will tell you about Tuesday Night on Tuesday’s podcast. It is loaded up. Oh, by the way, Jackie the joke Man sent me his book, Thank You, Jackie Martling, and he said his new documentary joke Man was. I was texting with him on Friday Morning, number four on iTunes.
I think Jackie said, but if you haven’t checked out joke Man, you really should. It’s really good. Jenny Yang is touring the Self Helped Me Tour, which she calls a competitive self care comedy show. You may recognize Yang as the voice of Chrissa on the animated series The Great North. You also might recognize her from her days as a labor lawyer.
Yeah, she said, I start writing and perform my own poetry, and that’s how I started performing. I always had a lot of feedback. It’d either make people cry or make people laugh. So it wasn’t until I got really burnt out from working in the labor movement that I was like, oh, I can’t see if future from myself as a happy person. Let me try and cultivate my creative side.
The Self Help Me Tour is kind of like my satirical take on wellness trends. It’s like seventy five percent making fun of wellness and twenty five percent talking about it sincerely. Every single show the three wellness warriors, who are usually comedians, compete to be the queen of self care regardless of gender. On the panel is always a fourth person who doesn’t compete, who’s always the resident expert on the topic. When we did our first show in la it was about burnout and work life balance.
I’m telling you right now, the therapist we had on hand made everybody gas. That’s to me is what the Self Helped Me show is all about. We get to make fun of wellness but also offered maybe a little bit of medicine that you need. It’s a lot of sugarcoating with a tiny bit of medicine. TJ.
Miller. It will be one of the voices in an animated comedy called four Chin, except where the e’s supposed to be stick of three there, so four tune three fourteen three is going to make fun of crypto companies and crypto bros. You can also expect references to other business boondoggles driven by egomaniacs. The note says, think theronos and we work. And I saw an interview with Toronto comedian Nima Naz and it’s in the Toronto Guardian, and I love how just matter of fact, this entire interview is I’m going to read it pretty much verbatim.
You’re ready the Guardian. Who are some of your influences? Answer? Russell Peters, Kevin Hart, Andrew Schells Luisk Guardian. Who’s your favorite comedian growing up?
Answer? Russell Peters, Guardian. Who’s your favorite comedian now? Andrew Schultz Guardian? What is your pre show ritual?
Answer? Go over my set list several times. Just take deep breaths and tell myself positive affirmations. I’ve been interviewing a lot of people lately and some of the interviews were really awesome. And you know, sometimes you ask somebody question and you get a one word answer like this, and it is brutal.
I’m not gonna say anymore. Okay, Neimanaz what’s your favorite place you performed in? Why Australia because I got to make people on the other side of the world laugh. Do you have anything to promote right now? Yes, I’m opening for Christa Lei and Montreal and Nimishi Patel in Toronto in the fall, and then it’s your comedy news for today.
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