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The Shark Deck. If you listen regularly, you know, sometimes I’ll record back to back episodes, especially with the weekend. So here’s a question for you. When your creative juices are flowing and you sound pretty good on the mic, do you keep going or do you take the potty break you kind of need to take? See, I’ve been drinking one of these large ice coffees from the National Donut chain.
By the way, Pumpkin is back. It wasn’t back a week ago. The app told me Pumpkin was back, and I went there and they’re like, no, and Pumpkin’s not back. What are you talking about? But it’s back now, baby.
Anyway, I’ve had some and I’m like, kind of could you use a break here? DMI Johnny Mac. But I’m flowing, so I’m gonna keep going. Andrew Schultz went to see Taylor Swift. He was very excited.
I also saw Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift was amazing. I’m not the biggest Swifty, but I walked out of that concert going, wow, she’s great. Now. I’m a big Springsteen fan, at least I was until he decided to charge everybody five hundred dollars for tickets this tour.
Note thanks brucing your four times. I’ll pass and enjoy the empty seats he would have had in Philadelphia. And Yeah, Springsteen was on Instagram saying, hey, take it still available. He wound up canceling those shows. Bruce himself was ill.
Or maybe conspiracy theory, Johnny Mack. Maybe Bruce didn’t want to play to empty seats in Philadelphia. I love a good conspiracy anyway. Taylor Swift like four hours, high energy, choreographed as routines. You know, so if Bruce and the guys want to stand at the other end of the stage and just play guitar, I’m not as impressed as I was twenty years ago.
I digress, Johnny Mac, getto You’re and a f in today. Andrew Schultz want to see Taylor Swift. He was on Instagram and captured it. I went to Taylor. By the way, it was the greatest live concert I’ve ever seen in my life.
The only person who can compare to Taylor Swift is to Michael Jackson. Let’s not compare Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson. Maybe Michael Jackson as a performer, but you know, you know, google Michael Jackson. Let’s not get into that. Schultz said, there’s nobody else.
You’re doing it a service to any other artist if you compare Taylor Swift to them. I’m being honest with you. It was the most amazing live concert I’ve ever seen. Andrew was asked if he’s ever Beyonce. He wrote back, Son, I’ve seen Beyonce and I was just gonna hurt feeling here, But you’re doing it a service to Beyonce to compare it to Taylor Swift, because Taylor is in another galaxy.
Love it Middle East Esquire, you’re home for comedy new Who’s asked Mark Norman, what are the three top specials of all time for you? Mark Norman said, WHOA. I’m going to try and be objective because some of these specials they hit at the right time. You’re young, they mean a lot to you, So I’m gonna try it and not to go personal and emotional. I think Louie’s second special Chewed Up, it’s like a masterpiece.
That’s the stop of the heap, masterpiece opus best work he’s ever done. Are you enjoying the half? Asked Mark Norman, and I’m starting to slip in it’s not quite there, but it’s not awful. Chris Rocks Bring the Pain is pretty damn amazing. It’s rod it’s dark, it’s it’s funny, it’s silly, it’s got everything.
It’s got crazy jokes where you’re like, oh my god, I can’t believe he’s saying that. But it’s also really smart stuff. There’s so many great specials. Norman said, I love Zeinfeldt’s first one I’m telling you for the last time, that has so many great jokes in it. It’s just years of reps and doing work.
I love these early specials because he could see how much time and effort people put into it. Killing Them Softly by Dave Chappelle, the first one’s incredible. Top to Bottom, the Sesame Street bit, that’s incredible. Ellen’s first one Here and Now is really good. Richard Pryor obviously Live in Constant might be the best comedy special ever made.
Top to Bottom, Gaffigans Beyond the paleis great. Milany’s New Town is still I think his best work. Killer. I agree. Napergatzy’s last special put that on the list.
That one was incredible. Yes, Bill Burrs, why do I do this? I mean that hour blew my mind, and Michelle Wolf’s first HBO special was incredible. Check that out The New York Times. I went to see John Oliver and Seth Myers.
They played together at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. They each day a fifty minute stand upset. Then they returned to the stage together and answer questions. One man in the back shouted out that his goal was to be a talk show host. Seth Meyer said, bad timing.
Referring to the writer Strike Oliver said, can we have a job from you? The time says the biggest difference in seeing John Oliver live is his pacing. Last Week Tonight is so densely written that the show needs to be a little hurried to make it to intricate give its work. A lot of jokes and quick pivots must be crammed in In a stand up John Oliver’s assured deliveries and more jaunty, leisurely and varied, alternating speeds wildly in the course of a sentence. He still speaks on articulate paragraphs, but the punchlines can be so dry that some of the laughs take a second to arrive, but then they linger a slow burn kill Oliver said, America is a divided country.
You constantly hear people saying that, and he gave it a beat and taconet with and other people agreeing with them. The times right. So there’s something about the timing of the pause and the shift and intonation that made an unexpected and funny point one. He followed by skewing those who claim that we’d never have been more divided. He asked, what more did the Civil War have to do?
Some other topics, why British food stinks, the frustrations of daylight savings time. He predicted future generations would judge us harshly. His central theme was take a closer look at history and it helped make sense of the present. Seth Myers was more down to earth and observational, opening with jokes about recent gigs in Florida than moving on to his family and COVID. Jay Farrow was taping his next special tonight at the Den Theater in Chicago.
We’ll see if he busts out some of his famous impressions, including Barack Obama, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Stephen A. Smith, Kanye West, and Chris Tucker. Den Theater Tonight, Chicago, Mark Marin had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast, Oh it’s probably about a month ago now, and Maren said, I don’t know. It bothers me because I get older. I really don’t understand people.
You know, you think people are right, and then you see stuff that goes on it’s like they’re definitely not. There’s a lot of people they volunteered for their brains to be broken into a certain way. Jim said, yeah, you know, it’s like among comedians, it’s like a different kind of comedy. I get it. It’s not for me, but they’re decent people.
Dave Batista and Jason Momoa will do a buddy action comedy currently titled The Wrecking Crew. No plot details are released right now. If you are a cannabis enthusiast who likes comedy and you can be in Muskegan, Well, head on over to the Bowl at six twenty three West Clay Avenue. R j N Comedy is having a show tonight to I’m not into the cannabis. If you are, that’s cool.
I don’t care what you do. But apparently there’s a consumption space and it launches this weekend, so they’re having a comedy show. The guy putting this together says, comedy has pretty much been in my whole life. I like to make people laugh. So this first year, we’re hoping people come out and have a good time and tell other people so we can grow it next year.
It’s a free show six to seven thirty tonight. Russell Karen’s Farigatura, Jay Harris, Kevin Johnson are your comedians from the La Times How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rear disorder and laughed in the face of death. The La Time says Ryan Stickler’s storytelling style is unparalleled, his high pitch laugh is infectious, and his spirit draws you in like the smooth inhalation of a joint, which Schickler also knows the thing to two about. Sickler has a rare blood clotting disease that almost killed him. He talks about his comedy and he said, early on, when I went on stage, I used fake buck teeth and did a hillbilly character.
I’ll tell you what though, the next time I used those buck teeth, they broke and I had nothing to go with that. I was like end of prop comedy. That was like my second set ever, and I had no idea. What was even funnier what to do? He has a genetic mutation that increases a person’s chances of developing abnormal blood clots.
He said, it was the first time I was ever headlining the Breya improv for a weekend. I’m in the shower getting ready. Suddenly I fall on my knees. I’ve never felt pain like this in my life. I looked down and both my legs are like clotting.
I got rushed on the hospital and ended up being kidney stones, but they put me on bed rest, which made my legs clot Long story short, he spent the month of January on his back. The angle of his hospital bed never set higher than thirty degrees. When his tests were good, he was able to leave the hospital. Then is good news. This one’s ikey from matured old taking a look at the fringe.
Benjamin Bellow said he experienced three racial incidents during his ten day run. That is awful, He said that had never happened before. Twice he was told go back to your country. The third time, this is horrible. Let me just read the sentence as written by Turtle.
In the third case, a woman repeatedly said she couldn’t see him in the dark. People are horrible, man, Just come on. All this occurred in public places. In two cases, fellow comedians intervened. In the most aggressive case, stand up Dafna Barum called the police after no other customers or staff in the cafe where they were eating stepped in.
Below said it’s like no one knows how to respond when these incidents happen. It’s exhausting to have to deal with incidents like this, not only as it’s happening, but then to raise awareness afterwards. Black Acts should not be racially abused for visiting Edinburgh to make locals and tourists laugh. These incidents will never stop me from coming to Edinburgh. I’ve never experienced any racist incidents here before, but this year felt strange.
Perhaps they are isolated incidents, but it needs to be addressed. Black Acts visiting the city needs to be aware that there’s an increase in racial incidence. Apart from getting ready to protect ourselves, we do need more allies to act when they witness these incidents. There’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, revigate shows see tomorrow