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The Shark deck. Kevin Hart’s in a wheelchair. Oh no, and Hi’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart went on Instagram and said, forty four and sitting my ass down. I got to be the dumbest man alive.
What the f am I doing? So you’re curious what did he do? He challenged former NFL running back Stephen Ridley to a forty yard dash. Guess who didn’t win. Kevin Hart said, I blew my crap.
I’m done fml. I’m in a wheelchair. Why well, because I try to jump out there and do some young stuff. The debate was based off who’s faster those that know me, I’m pretty fast, Stephen said Kevin. Ain’t no way you’re gonna beat me.
Kevin gave us all the warning to all my men and women out there that are forty years old and above. It’s not a game. Respect that age. Respect that age, or that age will make you respect it. I was just forced to respect it.
This is just a public service announcement because I know people may see me out and I don’t want you to be alarmed. But I’m in a wheelchair. I don’t know what I sare He then explained that what he’s dealing with is a torn lower abdomen and tears to his hip abductors. He said, I don’t know what that is, but I tore them. I tore those two.
I can’t walk. Ridley commented back and said, I saw Tom Brady do it at your age, and I figured you had the joist too big. Bro my bad Kevin Hart eel up and keep making us all laugh. Pete Holmes not happy with the celebrity family feud. So the Holmes family’s up and they’re playing a different family top.
Whatever answers on the board, tell me a cent you’d be shocked to see as an air freshener bing. The other family goes microwave fish. They flipped the board. Food slash Broccoli appeared on the board as the number one answer, gave the other family twenty nine points. Pete Holmes jumps in and goes, hold on, hold on, so any food, any food gets the answer.
That’s nonsense, I say, butter cream food, fish. He dressed Steve Rvy, Steve, I feel you with me on this. Pete started making guttural noises, implying family feud would have accepted anything at all. Why not any sound gets the number one answer, Just go number one answer. Rick and Morty almost back, baby.
This will be the new Rick and Morty following the exit of co creator Justin Royland. Will have a new voice of both Rick and Morty. Hopefully this goes a little better than Solar Opposites. Have you been watching Solar Opposites? Here’s the problem with Solar Opposites and New Corvo.
It’s not even the voice. It’s they started writing Corvo differently. Corville used to do these slow burns that he would do them in threes. It’s kind of like the Rick slowburn, you know, something along the lines of I’m recording a podcast. It’s a podcast that I’m recording it because that’s what you do.
You record a podcast like that kind of thing. And New Corvo with the British voice isn’t doing that. So I like Solar Opposites a lot. The new season really struggling guys, So hopefully they nail New Rick and New Morty. It’ll be back Sunday, October fifteenth at eleven pm.
The president of Adult Swim says it’s happening thanks to the talents of the entire show team, we could all enjoy ten new episodes that yet again raise the bar for comedy and animation. An official season seven description makes a reference to the recastings quotes Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like the Seals than ever. It’s season seven and the possibilities are endless. What’s up with Jerry evil summer? And will they ever get back to the high school?
Maybe not, but let’s find out. There’s probably less year in than last season. Rick and Morty one hundred years, or at least until season ten. A couple of stray thoughts from me. I was watching the Republican debates last week, and I was watching Vivek Ramaswamy, and I was thinking, if there were no writer strike and you were doing Saturday Night Live, you would have to include Vivek.
And then that made me wonder, well, who would play the character? You may remember they had at one point Fred Armison doing Obama and that wasn’t the best idea. So I’m not sure there’s somebody on the current cast would make a good Vivek Ramaswamy. So then do you have to call in a favor or by the time the writer strike is back, none of this will matter because it sounds like the strike’s gonna go on for a while. We won’t have S and L for a while.
Did you also see in the news Carlos Santana made some transphobic remarks. The reason I’m bringing this up is Santana held his hands together as he made the remarks and said, I am like this with my brother Tavespell and I’ve talked about this in the past about Chappelle doing transgender material, and I have asked Dave out loud, Dave, is this what you want your legacy to be? Do you want to be the trans guy anti trans guy? Like every time the topic comes up, everybody goes Dave Chappelle, Dave, that who you want to be? Or maybe do something else and don’t do trans jokes.
In your fourth straight special, Sasher’s Amada’s new special out on YouTube, but today it is called The First Woman. Sasher says, I’m excited to release it on YouTube and give it to the people directly because I have control over it. I have ownership over it, which is not what I’ve had in the past. Boy, we’re hearing more and more comedians say that right, everybody’s self releasing now it sounds like after that initial Netflix bonanza where the Chris Rocks and Amy Schumer’s were getting a lot of money, sounds like the second and third wave of that, nobody was really getting baid and nobody owns everything. So everyone’s self releasing now very interesting.
Sashier said, I’m very proud of my last special, but this is the first special I’ve self produced, and I’m just excited to be in a place where I know what’s happening and if control over my material and artistry, and yes, I can give it directly to people on YouTube. More stand ups are doing that now, and I think people are looking to YouTube as a place where you can see comedy, which is great. So many options now, there’s so many streamers and networks that have comedy specials, but sometimes they get lost in the shovel. So I think when you make it specific and you’re like, come see my stuff in this channel on YouTube, it could be easier for people. Andy Kaufman did not show up for the debut of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I was hoping he would show up and be like psych That would have been the greatest hoax ever. Maybe Andy Kaufman is dead or he’s holding out for an even better opportunity. His Taxi cast mate Mary lew Henner was there, as was Kevin Neilan. I didn’t realize they were friends. Kevin neil And said he was a comedian, performance artist, prankster, trickster, and a song and dance man.
I considered him a comedic genius. He was incredibly inventive. He was brave and darling. Other people might call it annoying and mentally ill, but no, Mary leu Henner said, Andy was a provocateur. He irritated people.
You never knew what was going to come out of his mouth or what idea he had. But he was always so damn interesting and I adored him. I wonder if Tony Clifton came by, that would have been interesting. Kristin Shaw was there as well. She was a past recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award, which is an honor created by the Kaufman family.
And that’s how I met Kristen, like twenty years ago. Now from Deadline, the cost of British comedy is getting more and more expensive. BBC Studios comedy boss Josh Cole said rushed to make comedies infused with straight drama had impacted the ability for producers to land broader comedies. Cole said comedy is guilty of taking itself a bit too seriously in the past few years, and the first rule of comedies make people laugh. Audiences love that, but there’s been a move away from it, and it would be great to see more of it.
Itvs ahead of comedy. Nana Hughes said, the way we consume comedies evolving, the way young people are looking at and discovering comedy. The tone is less cynical, but it’s very hard to be funny. We have to be less offensive and very sensitive to everyone, so that stifles comedy. It’s finding the right place to land jokes without being scared, and that always comes back to risk.
Do we lose the audience if we go hard? Like Ricky Gervais. Nicole By spoke to the Las Vegas Weekly. She recently took up pole dancing, but don’t expect her to be any good at it. Nicole said, I think we need to normalize being mediocre or bad at our hobbies.
I can climb up a pole, I’m very strong and it’s cool. I don’t want to be sexy. I just want to scare people. She was in Las Vegas and said, I did a whirlwind of a trip with my friend. We went to Usher, Chris Angel, MindFreak, circ De Sleg and Magic Mike.
I drove a ferrari at some racetrack. We did go carts. That’s all I like to do it. I don’t gamble. I don’t understand it.
Last time I gambled, I was absolutely faced with my friend’s sister and I was sitting at one of the slots and I was banging a button, like this is how to get you. They get you by sitting here. He just pushed the same button. Then a man walked by and said, you have to put money in it. And that is your comedy news for today.
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