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The Shark Deck. I’m trying to make with your Daily Comedy News, as they’ve done most of the week. I’m going to pick away at this wonderful interview Mark Marin had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast, really fantastic if you haven’t listened to it. I transcribed it, and I’m going to read to you and I’ll do some lights of voice acting here. Neither of these is meant to be an impression, but I just want to stop doing.
Mark said. Jim said, Mark said, Jim said, so, I’ll start with Jim Gaffigan, who said, you know, it’s weird because like for comedians, we never see each other and so like if you see some texts and they don’t see it and it goes down their thing, we interpret it. Like I remember one time I texted Bill Burr and I was like, and I waited a week and I called him and I’m like, I can’t believe it didn’t call me back, and he goes, uh, I did text you back? So I went back to the text he did. Maren said, yeah, because we’re babies.
Jim so, yeah, So like Naper Gatsy, he probably met his dad. These are solid people. You know Maren his new special. You know, he’s doing something. I’ve talked about it with a couple of people that I’ve never heard somebody sort of isolate a specific type of Christianity as phenomenon and talk about it like, you know, I’ve heard Jews talk about it for black people talk about being black or whatever.
But his sort of a take on his parents being the sort of new version of born again. Then he’s like they’re generation as of his siblings as they grow less discipline. It was very nuanced. It was actually, you know, kind of a brilliant piece of comedy. Jim.
Yeah. And it was also a commentary and birth order. I’m the youngest of six kids, and my take was that my parents were completely mentally ill by the time I was a teenager because they’d been tortured by five teenagers and they’re like, what are you smoking? And I’m like, I’m twelve. I’m just sitting here.
But thanks for the idea. Rolling Stone talk to Tom Sagora about his recent special and said, one joke that you cut is the Ted Cruz neighbor interaction one. I’m curious why you cut that. Did you not want to deal with the bull crap that’ll come from it, Segora said, I’ll say exactly why I cut it. I look back on older specials.
In my opinion, they’re all too long. I look back on stuff and I go, I should have cut that. When I was editing this thing, I wanted it to be as close to sixty minutes as I could make it, and wanted to trim anything that feels filler ish, feels dated, or doesn’t feel evergreen. So I ended up cutting three bits and trimming twelve minutes from the special. The cruise one really popped online, but it didn’t feel evergreen.
As much fun as it was to tell, and the pop was so great. Oh that reminds me. Thanks to Cody, who had posted this on the Daily Comedy News podcast group, Cody, I apologize I didn’t mention this earlier in the week. It’s actually Monday as I’m recording this episode, so I didn’t forget you all week. I just didn’t publish my thank you to you all week.
But Cody shared this clip. Cody, I’m typing to you right now, I wrote, Hey, thanks, I’m pre taping Saturday and mentioning you right now. You could find this exciting interaction on the Daily Comedy News podcast group Cody, thanks for putting that under my radar? Where was I? Sagora said?
The cruise one really popped online and didn’t feel evergreen as much fun as it was to tell, and the pop was so great, Rolling Stone said, can you walk me through that day? It’s one thing to find out that Ted Cruz lives in your neighborhood. It’s quite another to have this exchange with him, So of course said, to be fair, I do end the bids saying it may or may not be Ted Cruz. I try to leave it up in the air. It was a surreal interaction.
Somebody’s literally going to start the conversation with are you the comedian? And I go yeah, And he goes, where do you think the term mmer comes from? And I was like what? And he was like, that’s your joke, right? And I was like what and he goes, that’s your joke.
I was watching your thing. Isn’t that your joke? And I was like, what part of my joke? And he goes, effing your mom? I mean, I had no idea where this was going.
And he goes, do you think people do that? How many people do you think do that? And I really did go more than you wanted to be and he goes, yeah, but how many do you think? And I was like, how many people bang their moms? And he was like yeah, and I go, I don’t know, man, And then he went right into its otter bangers.
I cleaned it up a little. Rolling Stone followed up and says, does this interaction take on a new dimension given the porn video that his Twitter account liked? It was incesty step mom porn. Segoria laughed and said, yeah, guys, a creep. Bad Feeling Magazine caught up with John Marcos SERRESI.
I’m a big fan of John Marco. He was selected one of jess for Laughs New Faces last year. He traffics in observational comedy with an edge. Trained as a dancer, he has transitioned to comedy. You heard my interview with him last week.
John Marco teld Bad Feeling. You know, I was always a theater kid. I went to college for musical theater and I do a lot of clubs in New York. That’s where I kind of grew up as a comic. And you’re at these stages that are just a couple of bricks thrown together, you elevated half an inch off the stage.
And being at JFL and being one one of these massive theaters, suddenly all those dance classes that I took in, all those thousands of dollars that amounted to nothing in my acting career, suddenly I said, Oh, I finally have room to move. When I got on that stage at JFL, I thought, oh, this is where I can shine. This is where I can’t be too much. And his plan was to test that theory this year. They asked him about incorporating crowd work, and he said, I think originally I leaned into it because, you know, it’s a weird time to be a comedian.
You have to put out constant output, but you don’t necessarily want to put out all of your material. And I think I saw one or two shows where I saw an audience member whisper a punchline to their friend. I said, Oh, that’s it. No more posting my current material online. I’m just leaving the crowd work.
At first, it was hard because the reason I became a stand up comic was because in conversations I like to be the only one talking. But I found it just keeps me in the moment. You know, I can get bored doing the same joke every time. When you’re talking to someone you feel alive. It could go south, you know.
I might say to someone, oh, so your parents are divorced. They’ll go dad killed my mom. Then I have to think, how do I make this funny? How do I stay on the edge that keeps you feeling alive, that keeps you feeling scared in a good way. So I do enjoy mixing it in when I feel like I’m ready to take the risk.
I had one recently I felt good about. I was talking about horses because my dad’s a horse guy. Have a lot of theories about people who like horses a little too much. But this person ended up being They’re kind of a civilian horse detective, so whenever there’s a missing person, they volunteered to do search and rescue with their horse. And ultimately through talk to them, we found out they’ve solved zero cases and I’m pretty sure they just hamper any investigation.
It was fun, the excited amount of finding out they’re a horse detective and then finding out that maybe they’re the worst horse detective in the world, and maybe horse detectives aren’t really needed that much. Mattail Lane is on tour the Al Dente World Tour. He’ll be at the Win in Las Vegas at two nights. The new tour kicks off on the heels of his latest comedy special hair Plugs and Heartache. You’ll find that on YouTube.
Let’s take a look at jfl for tonight, the last night of the festival. I’m going to miss this twelve thirty in conversation with Please Don’t Destroy one o’clock faith in comedy. In conversation with Rammy Yusef, Boy, we even have to make a tough early day decision. Seven o’clock to May Martin Gallas, seven o’clock. Ramy Yusef, all right, that’ll make my early decision a little easier.
Joe Dombrowski at seven, Anthony Jessenick at seven, and it just got a lot harder. Robbie Hoffman at seven, British at seven, Alock at seven, Melanie Bracewell’s Show Forget Me Not at seven, New Faces International Encore at seven thirty, Tom Ballard It is I seven thirty, Nimshi Buttel seven thirty, Ally Mkowski eight thirty. The Montreal Show at eight thirty with some locals. That’s always a good thing to do. Nine o’clock Josie Long’s re Ennatchment nine o’clock Double Threat, Shane Toorius and Ariel Elias nine thirty Trade, Kennedy’s Grew Up nine thirty, romy Yusef nine thirty, Varieties, ten Comics to Watch, Showcase nine thirty, Jessel Nick nine thirty, Jonathan van Ness nine forty five, New Faces of Comedy Canada, Encore nine forty five to Leslie Jones, Gala Hip Hop Karaoke, Montreal, jfl Edition at ten, Sydney, Washington at ten Late Night down Under.
I didn’t know that one was there. That’s cool. I like AUSSI comics a lot ten thirty. Mark Ford presents Safari Time Boys, So many shows Tonight to see James Davis Live, ten thirty, Martin Nurbano at midnight, Midnight, Surprise at midnight. Zach Zucker presents Stamptown at midnight.
Okay, if we were up there today, hmm, all right, so we’ve got that early decision. Let’s go see Please Don’t Destroy at twelve thirty. Then we’ll drink all afternoon. Seven o’clock. Maybe Ramy Jesselynick.
We’ve seen British already, Nimish Patel at seven thirty.
All right, let’s see.
Let’s do Rammy you sef. I would like to see him do stand up. I like him a lot. Jesselynick, you know, love him, but we can see him on Netflix. So that’s why I’m making that choice.
That’ll take us to about nine o’clock. I think you got to do varieties ten comics to watch Showcase. If you’re falling my lead here, you know, you go there to see the next wave. So we’ll do that at nine thirty, and then that’ll walk us up to the late shows. But boy, I’m gonna miss Late Night Down Understand again.
So many tough decisions at just for laughs and for something different, let’s do Martin or Bono for the midnight show. As that sound not, I’ll put a rap on this festival. The next one out of Just for Laughs is Toronto. That’s September twenty feet through the thirtieth. I’ve done that festival.
That’s a good one. Maybe this year I’ll do that one since I wasn’t able to do Montreal. Andrew Scheltz, Ronny Chieng Leslie Jones, The Office Ladies, Jonathan van Ness, Marlon Wayns, Nicole Buyer and Sam Morrell. I’ve already been announced for that festival. There’s a lot of like local, smaller shows and I spend a lot of time in the bars when I do that.
One also announced for Toronto O’Neil Brennan, Michelle wolf Roun, Funches, Tom Popa, Drew Lynch, Jay Jordan. Yeah, plenty of going on. All right, we’ll dive Ino Toronto at a later date and then is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Bonify YouTube. If you want to support the show, go on YouTube find Daily Comedy News, hit subscribe.
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