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The Shark Deck pretty robust Monday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one could be really interesting. If you’re familiar with Barstool Sports, you may have seen that Dave Portnoy, the founder, had bought back the company for a dollar That actually came up in trivia last week. But now that Dave’s back in charge, he has bumped up Kevin Clancy, you know him as KFC to GM of comedy, and this is where it will get interesting.
Specific to this podcast. They got a big profile in Deadline and it quoted Christa Stephano who said KFC Radio has helped me in my career immensely. Getting to be heard by the bar Stool audience is huge for comedian. KFC Radio has always had their doors open for new talent, too, which is always cool to see. Clancy told Deadline, I kept hearing about how comedy would be one of the branches at the company and how that we’re going to bring in a GM of comedy and not really knowing what that means.
I’ve been around long enough at Barstool or we have heads of content, heads of production, operations, all these different titles and managers who try to come in and implement new stuff without fail. Six months down the road that person would get a new gig or get fired. And here I am having changed all my content because some random person said so.
And now what I got to the point where I’m never going to listen to anybody el…
Specific to comedy, Clancy sees comedy is almost a bar stool within a bar stool branch. We have this new live stand up show that the out of Order guys host called Dollar Slices, And what I wanted was to have them do an underground, grimy, funny New York City stand up show every month where they’re hosting and featuring all these hot and up and comers that could be sold as the best new scene in New York for comic talent. As guys in New York City, we take for granted the comedy scene so badly. You could just walk outside and go to the comedy seller, pay fifteen bucks, and you get to see the best comics in the world seven days a week. They range from superstars at SNL working out their material or regular is always up on stage night tonight, to new guys just getting their start.
I started to realize if I’m going to marry the Internet to the comedy world, I think we should start live streaming comedy, and I think there’s a world where we can bring the best comedy in the world to every house in America. His ideas to treat it like a sports ball game. Maybe it’s him and one of the co hosts anchoring Clancy said, in my life, I feel like they’re sports, and right beneath that are people that follow their favorite comic podcast the way they follow their favorite teams exactly. That’s why I consider this like sports center for comedy glance. He said.
If I could bring that to those fans and up to the production level and bring the barstool lessons to it, and we’ve become the guys who invented the live streaming comedy event you can watch in your house. That would be a lasting legacy for me to elevate the industry for all the comics, and I bring live streaming of live comedy in your computer or TV screen. Those would be the two major things to blaze the trail on for KFC Radio. Specifically, my dream would be and Bert Kreisher described it best as an East Coast Joe Rogan platform. Obviously we’re nowhere near his level.
But the idea is, you’re on the West coast for Boni especially, you go on Rogan. He’s in Austin, that’s in the central of the country and he can tap you and he’s that kingmaker, and you make that the next best thing. But if you’re on the East coast and you want their promotion, KFC Radio is kind of the East coast version of that. Very very interesting. They’ve got a big platform that could make waves.
Let’s keep an eye on that. We’ve seen what Rogan’s done in Austin. David Spade was on his podcast and talked about the time he turned down David Bowie’s request to switch roles with him in an SNL sketch. In the sketch, Bade had himself playing receptionist that stops you because he thinks that they’re better than you, and he envisioned David Bowie making a cameo as himself. Bowie wasn’t at the pitch meeting.
Spade then got a message asking him to call Bowie at his hotel. As Spade tells the story, I called him and he answers and it’s effing Bowie and he’s like, this sketch is so effing funny. This is exactly my life and these people I see, and he goes one tweek. Can I play the receptionist? That’s the funnier part.
Bowie argued playing himself was kind of boring since everyone has seen that. He suggested that Spade play Bowie and Bowie play the receptionist. I actually think that’s funnier. I agree with you. David Bowie’s ghost.
Spade turned it down because he was hoping it would turn into a recurring character. Bowie was persistent and said, well, what if the sketch never gets on the show. Spade’s like, I’m like, do you know this show? This well so true? What if it doesn’t get on?
I’m blowing it. He’s like, it’ll get on if I do it. Spade admitted that the whole sketch may have backfired on him because not only did it not get picked up for the show, Spade didn’t appear in any other sketches in the its entire episode. He said, the rest of the week, I wasn’t of the show, and I was like, f speaking of Saturday Night Live. The police don’t destroy guys.
Their debut movie is called The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. It’ll be out in November. Whitney Cummings will tape a new special at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles on September twenty three. Maybe there’s still some tickets available. You’ll find a link on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla website.
Greg Groups has a new album, French Drug Deal. Wow, that’s a great title. That’ll be out Friday, September one on a special Thing Records, recorded live at the Punchline in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. French Drug Deal follows Gregg’s previous release in the city, which he recorded live at the Punchline on New Year’s Eve twenty twenty two. From PinkNews dot com, Grand Lenin performed a comedy show outside of Hollyrood in Edinburgh to as Tiny Crowd after being acced from performing at an Edinburgh venue over his continued anti trans campaigning rights Pink News.
After receiving complaints from the public, a community hub, leath Arches, announced that it had canceled Lenahan’s appearance as a guest on The Thursday Show last week, hosted by GB Newss Andrew Doyle. Then a second venue also act Doyle and Lenahan. So the gig organized There’s Comedy Unleashed put the show on the street, where Lenahan performed on a makeshift stage to about fifty people. A video of his street performance was posted on Twitter X whatever can we stop with the x? Twitter comments included I thought comedy is supposed to be funny.
In an interview with Mail Online, Lenahan said that trans rights activists needs to be defeated completely. I want to make it clear, I’m not talking about trans people. I’m talking about trans rights activists, two very distinct groups that often have nothing to do with each other. I just think they need to be defeated it completely. It’s important at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it’s just for a second, and show that these people don’t get to push for the rest of us around and to demonstrate hell times have changed and gotten crazy.
Craig Ferguson’s catchphrase used to be it’s a great day for America. He said. The thing is when I say it now, and I’d still say it, but since about twenty sixteen, half the audience gets mad at the other half of the audience. I say it’s a great day for America, and they’re like, what the hell do you mean by that? And the other people are like, no, he’s right, shut up, no, you shut up.
Davy Club reviewed at Chris Fleming’s Hell that came out on Peacock late last week. I have not had an opportunity to watch it yet again, just to catch everybody up. My mom is pretty sick, so I haven’t had as much time to come home and watch stand up comedy as I might normally have. Thank you for giving who to Chris Fleming has long been a fairly niche figure, writes The av Club. Luckily, Fleming has not jettison at any of the flare that has made him a star.
Among as he says, quote theater people who don’t get cast. Fleming moves through topics with lightning speed. Minor spoilers here the first five minutes alone spoilers, riffs on parades, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama’s podcast, and drivers of Nissan Cubes. Davy Club said the effect is pleasantly disorienting and immediately breaks down whatever protective wall the audience had up much of the set’s success. His own to Fleming’s physicality.
The comedian’s well aware of how bizarre his own body is, offering it up for a slightly nightmarish sight gag in the opening minutes where he vocally compares himself to a horse. Sounds kind of fun and for Milwaukee Magazine, Taylor K. Phillips went on a road trip around the region to gain insight for her new book, A Guide to Midwest. Conversation that the book chronicles celebrates in decodes all the characteristics of Midwest speak. Taylor says, I remember the first time in New York I went up to the Starbucks barista and said, good morning, how are you, and you look like it genuinely scared him.
I’m very joky, bubbly and high energy, and in the Midwest that’s just normal. But on the coast people say things like your Midwest is showing. Back in Kansas City, she was at a coffee shop and heard someone say the phrase, well you know, she’s a character, Philip says, Basically, it meant this woman is bunkers. You have to mentally prepare to interact with her. That’s one of the first times I really noticed how different our phrasing is.
In the Midwest, and that’s your company needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow