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The Shark Deck. I’m johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigurd Tell’s Rolling Stone. There are some people who are really good at podcasts. There are skill sets involved in this.
I think it’s amazing when someone can do an entertaining podcast alone. I tip my ad off to them. Thanks. Tom. Bill Burke could do that.
Tim Dillon could do that. Theo Van could do that. You could tell who wants to be a comedy philosopher and doesn’t have the intellectual substance to do it well, But everybody else can tell too. Ali Sadik spoke to Salon and said, you know, you don’t make money off the special. They pay you to do a special and they shoot at X, Y and Z.
Your special is to push ticket sales for people who come see you and then seal your legacy in the game that you were solidified as a comic. If you got the bread, why not just do it yourself and send it straight to the people and then still the goals for people to come see you. So he’s doing his own specials and says with Domino Effect, we got nine million with this new one. We’re on the verge of it going towards ten million with that one. Hopefully, I think I’ve reached a level now that I’m cementing what I want to be in this game.
I’ve always wanted to be judged on comedy content, not any thing outside of the craft. I don’t want people to say that I’m a good comic or a great comic or this type of comic because I was in a movie, because I was on a sitcom, or was on some other show. There’s nothing to do with stand up. I want to be known for comedy, not anything outside of that. For somebody to say that I’m a great comic because of comedy.
So it was asked, all right, what if an Exact shows up and goes would you do a special with us for thirty million dollars? His answer interesting, Netflix, HBO their viewership versus what I can produce on my own. I beat everybody. Somebody comes to me with thirty million, it’s still going to be a conversation about ownership because you’re giving me thirty million with the hope that you make two hundred million. I don’t think you’d be giving me that thirty million with the whole thing we got to make twenty eight million, or were we gonna make thirty five million.
You’re not splitting your power with me like that. What’s your end goal? Where’s the material? Lie? Who does it rest with at the end of the day.
I think that’s why I’m so big on the legacy of my particular family and the ownership of having my children be able to license my work over somebody else owning it. He says, I think being rich, I’m straight now, I’m not thirty million straight, but I’m telling you it’ll be hard. You’d have to kidnap my children and hold them for ransom. A man come to a set in Cincinnati. We got your son.
We’re gonna release your son after your set. I’m on stage will and Attitude. Twice a year they kicked out my son for me to come to a show. This is a bs. How much longer do I have?
Mike Kaplan is at the Fringe and was asked what he thinks of the English accent, and he ponderous and says, I’m indeed always happy to hear people speak my language in ways that make me wonder are they speaking my language? I love that y’all say maths like it’s plural compared to the way we call it math. In the States, you’re more advanced than we are. We only have one math, whereas you have at least two and possibly up to infinity. Virdas caught up with Forbes who asked about his new tour, and vir said, yeah.
The tour is called Mind Fool and it’s about not having control over your mind. How there’s a complete disconnect between what I’m supposed to do and what my mind forces me to do, and also about to struggle to find out what’s real. Those are the broad themes. I do material about the world in the first forty minutes and then get more personal in the final forty. There’s everything from visits to police stations to first sex.
We’re going to do thirty two countries. We consciously decided to level up. So I’m going to play Carnegie Hall for the first time. I think I might be the first Indian comedian I ever play there. I’m going to do the Chicago Theater, Kennedy Center, to Buy Opera House, the Sydney Opera House, the Hammersmith at Bollow in London.
It’s the dream list of the most iconic venues that I made ten years ago. That’s an impressive list. Which one are you looking forward to in particular? He said, straight up Carnegie all I saw George Carlin special there. Robin Williams is as well.
I know it’s not a room that does a lot of stand up, but it represents a lot of global appeal and it’s just beautiful to look at. So you’re at McDonald’s and you get your bag and you open your bag, you want to grab a couple of fries or something, and there’s five thousand dollars in it. Yeah, this happened at one guy. Hi, I’m Johnny mac, host of five Good News Stories. He gave the money back.
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Even the way you say that? Who cares? And yes, that was a pony at the supermarket? Five Good News Stories, the number five Good news Stories. Five Good News Stories, the number five Good news stories wherever you get your podcasts.
Today at the Omaha Comedy Festival, ten Am Sunday Yoga, six o’clock Sunday improv at the back line with Biscuits and two buses. Seven o’clock Sunday improv at the back line, Mockumentary Now and Brandy Alexander eight o’clock Sunday stand up at the back line, and nine o’clock Sunday sketch improv at the back line. So I say let’s do some yoga at ten drink all afternoon, going to the back line, flash our press passes, tip the waitress well and sit there for five hours. Enjoy the funnal night of the Omaha Comedy Festival.
Meanwhile, at Ello Loveland, one o’clock Hillarity and Hatchets, an ax except…
At Acts to Grind, it’s an afternoon of comedy and as throwing. You’ll need a VIP pass for that one. I know a guy, and the guy I know is Dan Bublitz Junior, who’s featuring at the Best of laugh Out Loveland Stand Up Comedy Showcase at the Tom Davis Saloon at seven pm. Go see Dan and Jeff All bred Jason and some of their favorites from throughout the weekend. Dan, thanks for sending over that information.
Comedian Rosie Jones is tearing up as she defends her new show title, which is am I a our word, A word that has fallen out of fashion? I won’t say it here. Jones has several palsy and is releasing her personal documentary in which viewers can follow the thirty three year old as she sets out to understand how prevalent disability trolling is in the UK. One unimpressed Twitter user wrote, regarding Rosie Jones’s documentary, no, f no, you do not reclaim such a word. You are not doing us a favor.
Shame on you. Jones told BBC Radio four, I’ve had several palsy for thirty three years, and that means going through school, walking down the road, and now having a public platform on social media. I get to experience that word used at me as a weapon. Nearly every day somewhere I will hear it. And you saw me coming today with headphones because I don’t walk down the street without wearing headphones to protect myself from hearing that word or able as slurs.
So I know it’s controversial, but I needed to use that specific word in the title of the documentary to start the conversation around slurs and ableism. It’s my opinion that it’s not taken as seriously as other slurs. She says that it hasn’t been the easiest few weeks because having criticism that comes from within your own community hits harder. I can only tell the story of what it’s like to be a woman with several palsy, and unfortunately that means the art word is used against me a lot of the time, and I don’t think the abusers care if it’s a word associated with me or people with intellectual disabilities. It isn’t my word, no, but also it isn’t their word, and it’s no one’s word.
But the truth of matter is it’s a word that’s still heard use casually in schools and pubs and in the street. I think by using it the title, I’m in no way encouraging people to use it, and in the same breath, I’m in no way trying to reclaim it. I’m highlighting it. It’s a word that still used casually and it needs to stop. That’s your commedy news for today.
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