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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Norman spoke to Esquire Middle East as one does and Esquire Middle East ask Mark Norman, who are some of the comedians you’d recommend to people that you feel like we’re missing out on? Great question? Mark said, I love this question because I love giving some love to these killers who aren’t as big as they should be.
Write these down kids, Mark Norman’s list. Sean Patton. I started with him in Louisiana. He’s a little older than me, but he’s just one of these lightning in a bottle kind of comics. He’s whacking all over the place, interesting, original, unpredictable, and just kills.
Then there’s Chad Daniels. He was number one on Pandora for a while, but he’s so good. He did the Fully Loaded Festival and he was killing every night. Dena Hasham is great jokes and I think she’s coming out with a special soon. Anthony DeVito is a funny comedian in New York.
I think has an album out, Yes he does. Ian Lara is really funny. He’s got an HBO thing that nobody saw. Jessica Curson is funny. I’m blanking out him more.
But yeah, check those people out. Oh, Sean Murphy, check him out. He’s got an album too, They asked Mark, I meant about the time he got the approval from Seinfeld? Did he call you? Keep it such?
Mark said, it was surreal, say the least. It still blows on my mind that I have his phone number and that we’ve met. But that’s the beautiful thing about comedy. There’s less pretension. Mick Jagger is never going to meet a bar ballroom guitar playing musician.
He’s off at the O two arena. This ballroom musician is just in some rinketing bars somewhere in Cleveland, and he’s brilliant, he’s killing. But I’ll never meet Mick Jagger. I got to meet Seinfeld because he saw me on The Tonight Show or a comedy club, and that’s what’s so cool. Mark Norman.
Do you watch other comedians? What are your top three specials from the past year? Mark Norman said, I thought Sam Morrell’s At the Same Time Tomorrow was great. That might be two years ago. I thought Louis Sorry was amazing.
Mulaney’s Baby Jay was cool. It’s a nice style change for him.
Speaking of Sam Morrell, The Valley Advocate talked to Sam, who said, I work …
I’m on the road a lot. I’m a comedian. I have to keep busy, and there’s a certain amount of catching up I’ve had to do over the last few years. I like being able to make people laugh, and when it got to the point that I could get the teachers to laugh too, was a way to get through the day. I wasn’t the greatest student.
He tells stories about some of the oddball characters he’s met. There was a guy in Cleveland who told Sammy at his back after Sam had been threatened outside a bar by the boyfriend of a woman who was talking to As Sam tells the story, that man was dressed all in white and introduced himself as the White Knight and a short Sam. He was there to keep that part of the city safe quote, I protect downtown Cleveland. The Valley Advocate says. Some of Sam Morrell’s best riffs are on the never ending debate about guns, Quoting Sam every mass shooting, they say he was a quiet man.
That should be part of the background check. You want this gun, you’d better be Chatty do my podcast, then we’ll see another take. Aftery gun debate, they bring up the Founding Fathers. You know the Founding Fathers had guns. Yeah, they did, but they also had wigs.
They thought a powdered wig was a good look. So that’s my stance on guns. You can have a gun, but you have to wear the wig. At least then I could tell who’s dangerous from afar. Sam has a bit in which he relates how a liberal friend explained to him Trump is Hitler.
Sam said, look, we don’t know how hilarious Hitler would have been on social media. That’s not fair. Hitler might have had a strong Twitter presence. He imitates someone tapping on a cell phone trapped in bunker. Sad Don l Rawlings spoke to The Journal News and said the character Ashley Larry, wasn’t Ashley on paper.
He was just a guy with boxer shorts, dress shoes, and he liked to gamble away his wife’s money. But I was doing Chappelle show, I didn’t get too many speaking roles. I was like, I need to be physically funny. I thought, when the camera first pans me, I want to be funny. So I went to the makeup department and said, I need a bottle of baby powder.
I’m gonna be the ashiest guy in this dice game. I didn’t let anybody know when they sayed action. I had a handful of baby powder and I blew it out, and an iconic street character was born that was Ashy Larry. So when I put the show together, I collect stories and I put him in a document, and I moved stuff around depending on how much I have on a particular day. And I like to include the source.
So for this one, I apparently I don’t know what happened. Here’s what I wrote as the source. One word, Oh you are t w n n Y no idea, but I just looked it up. Oh ourtown New York dot com. Who tells us about Caitlyn Cook who after college, Caitlyn Cook happened upon a piece of bathroom graffiti at a dive bar that said, writing on toilet walls is neither for critical acclaim nor a financial reward.
It is the purest form of art discuss. Cook was an art or history major and thought it was an intriguing way to think about bathroom graffiti from an art historical lens. She spent five years photographing things written on bathroom walls. Her one woman show, The Writing on the Stall is set in the bathroom of a dive bar, She’ll Beat the Soho Playhouse September six through the twenty third. One particular exchange stayed with her.
Someone had written plant your own garden, decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers, and then underneath it somebody wrote, f off, they should bring you flowers, And I love that both things can be true. About five years ago, I was doing a lot of musical comedy, and I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if some of the things I’ve seen written on bathroom walls were lyrics? So I wrote one song where all the lyrics were from bathroom graffiti, and I had photos had taken of the graffiti projected behind me as I sang. It got such a wild response. Everyone loved it, and I thought, oh, I could probably write a whole musical of the You know you’re wondering the best places to find bathroom graffiti in New York City, Well, Caitlin Cook tells us the Cobra Club in Bushwick and Sharlen’s and Park Slope.
Hank Saloon used to be really great, but it shut down a couple of years ago. I just found some a Jimmy’s Corner in Midtown. Really, any sort of Artzydivy bar is gonna have some great bathroom graffiti most of the time. Well, what’s the difference between men’s bathroom graffiti and women’s stalls? Caitlin says, it’s so funny you asked.
I currently have a real blowing up right now about this. It just hit five point six million views, which is wild. I have all these people in my comment section just debating the difference between men and women bathroom graffiti, which is so funny. I see a lot of really uplifting, empowering, beautiful things that women write to each other, like you got this, you go girl, just breathe leave him it’s okay. And in the men’s stalls some beautifully illustrated penises.
What about gender neutral bathrooms? She said, I saw one the other day. More people should be named Luisa. It just makes me think, who wrote that? Were they named Luisa?
Were they in love with someone named Luisa? What’s their story? One more quirket won she saw recently, which said, up until recently, I didn’t know that Stevie Wonder was blind. I thought classes were just his thing. For more information to Vie Caitlin Cook dot com, Carnival Cruises might be adding an early show.
We get this from crushive dot com, which is your home for comedy news. Apparently, if you’ve been on a Carnival cruise lately, you may have gotten a survey which asked whether or not you’d be interested in an earlier evening comedy show, one that runs from five to five thirty pm. Such an early show would be before the early seating for the ship’s main dining rooms, which is usually at five thirty five, forty five or six fifteen. Typically, Carnival’s earlier comedy shows, which are thirty to forty five minute sets, are scheduled between eight and ten PM and their family friendly, while shows that begin after eleven are generally adult rated. Sir Billy Connolly has unveiled four new drawings for sale.
Billy Connolly is eighty He’s been an artist since twenty twelve. The artworks are titled Punchous Tries, Pilates, Got It One, Arm Juggler, Nightmare and Drunk Donkey Billy said, I thought it’d be funny to call Poncious Pilates, and then I thought people would be offended by that, so I fiddled around and I got Poncious tri Spilates. He’s just a guy trying at the gym, trying his best. I don’t understand the whole gymnasium culture, but he doesn’t. He’s good as for one arm juggler.
Well, he’s an example of the fact that most of the figures in my work are doing things that don’t matter, just doing things they do think it’ll do good. I’ve spent my life doing that. You see guys out in their sixties running in an evening and you think, get a chair and a bottle of beard. Switch on the TV. Who are you kidding?
Nightmare? He says. I’m famous for shouting in the night and singing and laughing. My daughters seeing me. I’ve never remembered it.
And Drunk Donkey goes back to his days when he lived in Scotland. He owned two donkeys who he said he would let wander the play seating grass. They cling to you. They’ve got a real tide of human beings. Donkeys are funny animals, but it’s an endearing kind of funny.
Our donkeys used to scape over the wall the garden, run down to the village, and the villagers would bring them back. Donkeys always looked drunk and behaved drunk. And that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube Where the Gears Shoes See you Tomorrow.