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The Shark Deck. Leanne Morgan’s having a bit of a moment time Johnny mac with Your Daily Comedy News. Leanne spoke to NPR about calling herself the missus Mazel of Appalachia. Leanne said, comedy is hard. It’s a hard business.
I resonated with that character because she was fearless and she had those babies and her husband was a ding dong. My husband’s not at ding dong. But she overcame so much and kept going, and men would say, oh, women aren’t funny, and all that kind of stuff and trying to sabotage her. I’ve been through all that. When young people ask me, do you think I should do stand up?
I don’t want to squash somebody’s dreams, but it’s hard for me as a mother not to say, listen, you’re going to be driving in a car for three hundred miles to make fifty dollars and you won’t have a hotel room. I mean, it’s a hard, hard business. When I saw that series, I thought that’s what I did. I had three babies, I was in the Appalachian Mountains. I didn’t have a comedy club near me, and I just had to pave out another way than the traditional way that people do stand up and I did.
I don’t know how I did, but I did. Leanne talked about four sitcom deals that fell through. She said, I’d be devastated at the time, but those little nuggets would give me the encouragement to keep going. For one thing, because I was in Knoxville, not living in LA or New York. I was raising these children.
I got to raise them in Knoxville, Tennessee, and they became who they’re supposed to be. If I’d gone to LA, they probably wouldn’t be who they are, and I’d be devastated when the series fell through. But then it always kept me encouraged, like I’ve got something. I know, I’m not crazy, I can do this. She ignored her ex husband when he advised her to get rid of her Tennessee accent.
Lean said her X said, your accent in your diction You need diction lessons. People are making fun of you. People think you’re stupid. And I remember at the time, I don’t know how I had the sense to think, now you’re wrong, and I didn’t change anything I could have. I had pretty low self esteem and I was pretty beaten down at the time, but I felt like, you’re not going to change me.
This is who I am. Either like it or you don’t. It’s okay if you don’t. A lot of Jim Gaffigan pressed this month. This one from Variety.
Jim was talking about when it was up for a role in m knights Chamalan’s two thousand and six Lady in the Water. Jim said, it came down to me and another guy, and the other guy got it. But a week later I got the call that Knight wanted to reshoot the scene and do it with Jim Gaffigan. It was just one day, but Jim was like, great, I’m gonna be in an m Night movie. So the story goes and he takes his kids to a movie and he saw commercial that Jim was in before the previews, and Jim said, I think Us for Sierra missed And he said, well, I can’t have the same guy being a commercial before my movie.
So they went back and swapped the other guy back in great story, Jim, do you really not remember what soda commercial you’re in? I’m pretty sure you know what soda commercial you were in. I don’t like when they play coy like that. I mean, seriously, is it for the other soda commercial you were in? Jim?
Jim’s ad ran during the Super Bowl? Okay, Jim, so let’s stop pretending. Oh, is it really? Was it the Sierra Missed Dandy? So Jim, come on, dude.
The Super Bowl ad. It features Jim Gaffigan with a long beer that’s combed over across his bald head. Gaffigan portrays an unruly employee named Ted who’s being fired by his boss because his decision making abilities are being reanalyzed due to his choice to wear a comb over a hairstyle. Jim’s quote again, I think it was for Sierra Missed Jim. It was a Super Bowl commercial.
You damn well know what it was for. Call me back, dude. Neil Brennan spoke to the LA Times and said, I don’t think I would have succeeded as much without the EMO stuff, But the brand new Neal tour isn’t emo at all. I have to make an announcement at the beginning of each show now because I did a show in DC a couple of months ago and a kid dm me and was like, dude, I was waiting for the whole show for the real you to arrive, and I wrote back, So you’re saying I wasn’t sad enough. So I have to tell people at the beginning of my set that if they need me to be sad, I have some horrible news.
Some people might want to see me be sad, but I’m not gonna fake it. Ali Wong had a sweet burn on me when I was doing my Block special. There was a five thirty show and an eight but no late show, and Ali said, you know why there’s no late show because all your fans are depressed enough to go to sleep early. Neil Brandon said comedy now has fewer gatekeepers and an almost infinite amount of gates in some ways, the YouTube algorithm and the Instagram algorithm and the bookers now, but it still favors the same stuff. It’s about having a sticky premise and memorable jokes.
You have to be way faster. People in my generation will release specials and it’s like, oh dude, all those premises were done six months ago, you know. Brandon talked about cancelation and said the only people get canceled, and they’re not even totally canceled, more like reduced. Were the people who did vaguely illegal sex things. No one has been hindered by the material.
Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan are both still doing arenas. I know like twelve people who do arenas, which is insane. Cancel culture is just a matter of eyeballs. If you get to Dave size or Joe size, there are so many eyeballs on you that someone’s gonna have a problem with you. You just have to hire more security guards.
I know that someone’s more likely to heckle you when there’s sixteen thousand people in an arena. Adam Devine was on Theo Vaughan’s podcast. He floated the notion that Marvel movies have destroyed Hollywood comedies. Divine said, you watch comedies nowadays and you’re like, this is not a comedy where the jokes where the bits. They’re still good comedy shows, but movie comedy, it’s hard.
My theory, I think Marvel ruined it. I feel like superhero movies ruined comedies because you go to a theater and you expect to watch something that cost two hundred million dollars to make, and comedy movies aren’t that. So you’re like, why would I spend the same amount of money to go watch a little comedy theater. If I could spend that and watch something that’s worth two hundred million dollars, and it’ll still make those movies kind of funny, like, oh my god, is it that a raccoon talking? That’s hilarious, which it is, but it’s not a real comedy, Divine said.
Every studio used to put out several comedies a year, and there were like forty five comedies in the theater per year. So every week or so, there’s a new comedy in the theaters. That last year there was like six or seven. It’s crazy. Joe Lysatt shared a joke portrait of Harry Styles and says Harry reached out to buy it immediately.
People magazine says back in twenty twenty two, Harry Styles had his portrait painted by famed artist David Hockney at the eighty six year old English painter Studio in Normandy, France. Apparently, Hockney once sold something for ninety million dollars, the most expensive work by living artist ever sold that auction at the time. Yikes. After Hackney’s portrait of Styles was revealed, Lysa drew a hilarious replic of the work, which features Harry Style sitting down on a chair in blue jeans, a red and yellow striped cardigan and a strand of pearls. Joe said on social media a few months ago, I was contacted by management for Harry Styles asking whether I would consider doing his portrait.
I didn’t really know of his celebrity at the time, so I said yes, but I wish I hadn’t because the whole thing’s been a disaster. He came to my home and sat for two days, and I only spent about twenty minutes on the picture in the end because I had an issue with my fridge freezer and added to frost and I realized there were some diced goat going off, so I made a curry. Joe said he thought he did a good job with the pick, but his management were quite cross and one of them said it’s Harry Styles, not Jeremy Beadle’s face with an egg. Harry just awkwardly kept saying was unhonored to meet me while not eating his curry. Joe that shared a social media exchange that supposedly is from Harry Style’s Instagram account, in which Harry supposedly writes, I think it’s incredibly important that I purchased this portrait from you.
If you’d ever consider parting with this masterpiece, I’d like to hang out my home immediately. Hope you’ve been well. H Joe says he’ll sell it for about ten bucks. Style’s account appears to respond with an offer of six British bands, which is around eight dollars. They eventually agreed that was a fair price.
Who Knows. Insider caught up with David Keckner talking about how some of David’s best known roles are very damaged people. David said, you can’t play them like you hate them. You must play them for whatever joy you think is happening. So my job is to show that this is the wrong behavior while you’re celebrating it away.
This is the wrong guy. They should not hold up as anything but a caustic, horrible individual. Keckner actually studied political science at the University of Missouri think he might become a politician and says, then I realized about the third year in oh, I’m not gonna make it because this is a different ballgame. I didn’t realize it’s about accumulating power and ego, so I was a bit disillusioned. He enjoys writing because there’s immediate feedback from the audience.
I just found a whole new twelve minutes because my daughters and I took a manatezee and dolphins tour in Naples, Florida, and who was not one manate see nor dolphin to be found. If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News through a couple of bucks in the chip jar. I will take your money. I don’t buy coffee. I’m not going to buy any of this new Eddie Iszard Gin.
Yes, Eddie Iszard has put her name to a brand new Gin and a bit to raise money for the Edinburgh Fringe. Now, I’m all in favor of raising money for the Edinburgh Fringe, but I don’t drink gin. So buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News Eddie Iszar at Edinburgh Fringe. Gin will consist of twenty four hundred bottles of Edinburgh Gin. It’s expected to fly off the shelves, they say, priced at thirty five pounds.
All profits from the sale to GIN will go to support artists hoping to perform it next year’s festival. Eddie says this means a lot to me as I’ve performed in different languages, acted in a lot of films, and run multiple marathons despite many setbacks. But I know a thing is possible if you believe. She hopes the funds raise will give others an opportunity to bring to life their own self belief on the stage at the Career to Finding Edinburgh Fringe Festival. One of the shows you’ll find at Edinburgh is Louise Young’s Fearal Yah, who says her experiences as a gay, working class Turkish Jordy are rich pickings for comic of her natural wit and invention, while her boundless on stage enthusiasm is infectious.
You’ll find her at Pleasant’s Courtyard Elliott’s. Steele’s show is called Love and Hate Speech, Yeah Who says Steele has always excelled at picking at taboo subjects and finding a smart, funny way to dissect the hypocrisies therein, but he’s never been quite this good. It’s like he’s found another level to make his brand of mischievous social commentary even more piercing and impossible to ignore. You’ll find him at Underbelly and that is your comedy needs for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube.
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