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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big profile of matt Rife and they were impressed by his low key outside shows during the pandemic, and they asked him if he had any memories. Matt Rife said, yeah, there’s a lot of them. There’s pushing dumpsters with your bare hands, no gloves or sanitizer. There was a show that wasn’t even sold out outside.
There were like thirty two tickets sold maybe out of one hundred and twenty. We could have fitt in the space, but Paul and I already paid the deposit on the space. We already booked the comedians, we had set up the equipment, and then we got news it was going to rain like an hour before the show was supposed to start, and we’re like, well, we’re already out money, so we can’t be out more money and canceled the show. We have to at least preserve what we’re gonna have left, So we took the money out of what we were aready gonna lose and went to home Depot where lows and bought like ten pop up job fair kind of tents that we just taped amongst each other to create a roofed room that we could all perform in outside. I’d say maybe eighteen of the thirty two people showed up.
We still put on a show. Was one of our most fun shows because everybody there was so aware of what a stuff show it was, and that’s kind of what brought together the camaraderie and the humor of it. Nobody could really believe we were doing this ourselves included, and that moment of pure rock bottom in the sense of production of a comedy show was still one of the highs. Of those low moments, we’re able to find gratitude and positivity in that time. Another good one the cops showing up on our first day of doing it, five minutes before the show was supposed to start.
I was in the shower. Paul kicked in my shower door. It was cracked open, so they didn’t have to kick it, but he did it for dramatic effect. I’m naked behind my glass shower door, and Paul’s like, cops are here, and I throw on a towel really quick and throwing some shorts of shirtless running out there, and the cops are inspecting our apartment. We’re like, oh, we’re gonna get shut down.
Somebody must to complain about the noise or the fact that something was going unduring COVID. I remember stopping with the cops, being like, is there anything I can help you with, because obviously you’re here for us, And the cop goes, We’ll let you know, and he makes his way to the back area, goes upstairs, talk to one of the people living upstairs, comes down and leaves. Turns out it was just domestic violence. That’s all. Nothing crazy, nothing to deal with us at all, you know, just domestic violets.
I digress. We were scared at stuffless. We were like, we put so much energy and effort and thought of that first show and so much money in time, I can’t believe it’s gonna get shut down the first time we attempt it. Sure enough, nothing happened. We were abo to do that show for the rest of the pandemic.
Matt talked about how comedy has changed. Said, it used to be just write jokes, learn how to tell jokes. You’d go to open mics, and that led to more stage time. It’s all you really had to do besides learn how to promote a little bit get the word out, but that came from TV credits, late night shows, all that kind of stuff that used to be it. Now that’s the most basic part of it.
That’s learning how to read and write in school. But in order to succeed, you got to do some science class. You got to hit social studies, gym class, math class, all that. To be a well rounded person, you have to learn how to market in social media. You have to learn how to edit videos, how to shoot videos.
You have to learn how to book your own travel. I had no idea. That was such a big thing for years until I got a tour manager. I was booking all my own flights, my own hotels, greyound buses, all that. I’d get to clubs at eighteen years old and they’d be like, hey, who sets up your travel, and I’d be like, I do.
So you have to be able to do everything. Those are the most basic concepts of being a stand up these days. But then when you get into the entrepreneurial side of things. I had no idea how to shoot a special. I had no idea how to produce a comedy show outside of one with my Friend’s Trail and Error.
You have to be willing to eat crap. You have to be willing to fail. But the silver lining and that is you already have nothing to lose. I already nobody’s handing me anything. I’m already not doing apparently what I need to do to succeed.
So let’s try this thing, Let’s figure it out. Let’s fail a couple of times so we can figure out how to do it correctly and do everything. Michelle Wolf has a new special coming up. It’s broken into three half hour episodes. The individual pieces are called New Neighborhood, All Struggles Matter plus Me two and News to Me plus all Beautiful.
When you put it all together, it’s called It’s Great to Be Here. It is Michelle Wolf’s third special. She had one on HBO in twenty seventeen, one on Netflix in twenty nineteen. This one Netflix. Wolf Finance produced and edited the series herself, which consists of performances reported in August twenty twenty two at Comedy on State and Madison, Wisconsin, and Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia.
In It’s Great to Be Here, we will see Michelle Wolf get more personal than she has in pass specials and tackle topics like dating sexual harassment, race relations, and living in a new country. Let’s take a listen. I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of comedians have been using their time on stage to talk about their struggles and how they identify, and I think that’s good for comedy. So I guess what I’d like to do tonight is I’d like to come out as insufferable Michelle Wolf. It’s great to be here.
September twelfth. Then a week later, on September nineteenth, Country Wien’s A Woman’s Prayer will be out on Netflix. Waen brings his Southern flair in this one of a kind stand up special on fatherhood, gender dynamics, and faith. No clip available at this time. Do you play fantasy football well?
Jack Links has teamed up with Rob Cordry for the Ultimate Meat Roast. Cordry says, I’m in four leagues and none of them trash talk enough, so I have a lot of build up energy for the loser of Jack Links Ultimate Meat Roast. I’m really going to get to know the winning league and study them like a textbook so I can properly hurt the losers feelings. Once the season wraps up and we know who the loser is. Rob Kordry will do his homework and get some dirt on the loser who used that to craft a roast benefiting of someone so terrible at fantasy football.
I bet you then person draft at Aaron Rodgers. I’m nothing against Aaron Rodgers, except he’s on the Jets. It’s going to be a disaster. John Mulaney was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and talked about Malcolm, that’s John Mulaney’s son. Mulaney said, I used to spin out about so many things, and I used to want to be so clever and wanted to be this curated little person.
And now I have nothing in my head except yeah, Malcolm, do that. Oh yeah, right? Baseball. Malcolm wakes up at four fifty am every night when he goes to bed, I go, what time you’re gonna wake up? And he goes seven, and we both laugh and we say deal and we shake.
He gets in bed and he wakes up at four fifty. N zip him at four fifty and he goes baseball and I immediately go, you want to play? And he goes game. So I take him out and get him out of his sleep sack Now he and I are in the front yard at five ten am and pajamas and jackets, and I take the ball and I put it on the tee and he’s holding whiffleball bat and he goes two bats, so I had him another bat and now he has two, and I put the ball on it and he goes, dadda do it and I go, dadda do it and I smack that whiffle ball so far and he goes, yeah, a good job, and I go, yeah, good job. I bought a ball on for him, and I go, Malcolm, do that, and he goes, Malcolm do that.
He hits the ball, which means he hits it with his hand holding the bat against the t and the ball falls off, and I go, yeah, good job. And we’re just two morons at five in the morning with floodlights and ring camera lights going off because it’s so early. Frasier is back, Baby, well not quite yet. It’ll be back on October twelfth on Paramount Plus, but Paramount Plus has released some images of the upcoming Frasier. They’re also gonna let people sample it on CBS Proper.
CBS will air back to back episodes on Tuesday, October seventeenth. Frasier premiered in nineteen ninety three and run for eleven seasons. You may remember the character Fraser from Cheers, so Gil’s at Grammar has gotten a lot of money out of Frasier Crean. In the new series, we follow Frasier Crean in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston. Gee.
I wonder if he’ll eventually run into any other characters we might know who live in Boston. Frazer returns to Boston with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Not on the New Frasier David Hyde, Pierce Grammar told people David basically decided he really wasn’t interested in repeating the formans of Niles. But Pierce told Vulture, no one ever approached me about it, so it wasn’t something I turned down, but it was also not something I was looking to do. I don’t have a strong feeling that there’s anything more that I can think of that I need to say about the character.
I love those characters, but I don’t miss them. But he left the door open to potentially appearing on the New Frasier. Just live long enough, you’re all gonna be on. It’s gonna be Niles and Sam and Carla come on like they’re not going to do this. Pierce said, I would never disrespect that in such a way just to say off handily, Oh no thanks, I’m not going to do that again.
Apparently he said that in the half asked Mark Norman impression that slipped out there. It’s too valuable to me. But by the same token, because it’s so valuable to me, I also wouldn’t do it just to do it, and I believe it could be done without me too. Finding new stories to tell in the same way Fraser did after Cheers. They didn’t bring along the Cheers gang to make a new show.
Jane Leaves, who played Daphne, also not part of the show. BB new Rith who played Lilith. She will return as a guest star. What about producer Roz She will appear as a guest star. What about John Mahoney, who played Fraser’s father, He will not appear.
Mahoney passed away in twenty eighteen ten episodes of New Frasier. It also stars Jack Cutmore Scott as Fraser’s son, Freddie Nicholas Lynhurst as Fraser’s old college buddy turned at university professor Allen. I hope they explain why what was Fraser on like nine seasons of Cheers and then eleven seasons of Frasier. I hope we find why Fraser never mentioned Allen or maybe he did. One of you was like dude, season seven, episode fourteen, he totally mentioned Ellen, all right whatever.
Some other characters, the head of the university psychology department, Freddy’s roommate eve In, Fraser’s nephew David. Good Burger is getting a sequel. It is called Good Burger two. Good Burger two will be on Paramount Plus this fall. The film centers on Dexter played by Keenan Thompson and Ed played by kil Mitchell, uniting at their former workplace twenty six years after Good Burger.
They are joined by a new group of employees. In the trailer, Mitchell is driving when he hits Thompson with his vehicle. Thompson explains, hey, man, he almost carburgered me to death. This leads Mitchell to excitedly reply. The New Adventures of Edondex starts now and there’s a new season of Animals in Therapy.
Animals in Therapy uses comedy and connection to advocate for animal conservation. It press release says, unlike many campaigns which feed echo anxiety, the new series uses comedy and relativity to deliver a print in message that we are all closely aligned to certain endangered species. They’re smart, they broke out some famous people. Rehese Derby breaks it down with a Coca po. I don’t know what a cockapo is, but I have Google.
A cockapo is a large, rotund parent adults can measure from fifty eight to sixty four centimeters that’s twenty three to twenty five inches for your Americans in a length when the winning span of thirty two inches. The bird is endemic to New Zealand. Murray Bartlett, you know him from White Lotus and The Last of Us. He connects with Otter. A thumbnail of a video shows two Otters and Murray Bartlett, and the text says to humans also feel happiness.
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