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The Shark Deck. We are running at a simmer My friends. Hi’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Westworld profiled Michelle Wolf. She’ll have a new special out next week.
Back in twenty sixteen, Michelle had to juggle Daily Show duties while going on tour. That tour eventually became her twenty seventeen HBO special Nice Lady. Michelle said, I wanted to do that hour one hundred times before I taped it, so I spent part of twenty sixteen and most of twenty seventeen touring it. I worked at the Daily Show Monday through Thursday. Then on Thursday I’d leave to go to whatever club I was performing at that weekend.
I do shows Thursday, Friday and Saturday, fly home Sunday, and go back to work at the Daily Show on Monday. It was definitely a grind, but it was also my first comedy special, and I was doing it for HBO, which was such an honor. So I really wanted to do with Justice, and I’m glad I did because I’m really happy with the final product. Michelle Wolf then talked about doing the twenty eighteen White House Correspondence Dinner that put her in the National Spotlight. Sure did, and she said, when they first asked me to do it, I was a little hesitant because I didn’t know what kind of jokes that could write for these people.
I took a couple days to see what I could come up with, and after those first couple of days, I was like, all right, I think I got the hang of what I want to do. I’ll be able to do something interesting and fun. I had a great time. I think it’s easy to tell jokes about people that aren’t in the room. It’s hard, but ultimately very fun to tell jokes about people who are in the room, especially when they deserve to be joked about.
She maintains that the Correspondence dinner was misrepresented in the media. Michelle said, they said I only went after the right, which I clearly didn’t. I went after the right and the left, but most importantly, I went after the media itself, because the media is just doing a disservice to us all and not actually providing us with good news. I don’t mean good as in happy news, I mean accurate news. I feel like journalism doesn’t really exist in the news media environment, and everybody’s just listening to what they want to hear and not what’s actually happening.
Everyone has a big bias, and I really think all the media, every major outlet, is doing a huge disservice to us as a society. Vanya Land spoke to Eliza Selessenger, who said, I always want women to leave my shows feeling good, but it’s never the expensive men. This is a show for young women, couples and everybody on every spectrum, because at the end of the day, stand up is about being human and I have a really energetic act, so I feel like it’ll lend itself perfectly to a space like an arena. There’s a lot of physicality in it. It’s still fun that people like about my act.
There’s voices, body movement, things take a weird direction. I pride myself on the fact that a fan once told me that my brand is consistently off brand, and I like that. I like setting up a joke and take into a different place. This is one of those hours where you strap in for it and before you know it, it’s over. I liked the idea of people leaving the arena and trying to figure out why they’re face hurts in a good way.
Of course. The Late Night Guys have their new Strike Force five podcast. In the premiere, Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he was considering retiring when the strike began. Kimmel said, I was very intent on retiring right around the time when the strike started. Now I realize, oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work.
You know, when you’re working, you think about networking. Kimmel also revealed that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon contacted him and offered to pay the staff for two weeks a week each. They wanted to pay them out of their own pocket. Kimmel declined. He said, I felt that was not their responsibility.
Stephen Colbert said, couldn’t you say yes and then give your money to us. Mark Norman enjoys interacting with the fans. At the end of his hour, he’ll ask the fans to give him some news topics. Mark Norman said, I only did it because I needed content for the Internet. I didn’t want to burn material.
It’s a perfect way to get a Hunter Biden riff out there, or Trump riff, or a submarine sinking riff. I’ll ever put that in my act because it’s a submarine it’s topical, it comes and goes. It’s a perfect way to get material for the Internet, and hopefully it’s still funny and you don’t have to burn your act. I’ve been doing it for years and I got pretty good at it. I thought, let’s open the special with that, because I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do that yet.
Opening a special talking with the crowd it worked pulls you in. Las Vegas Weekly asked Nicole Buyer, what’s the most surprising place you’ve ever been hit on before? Nicole said, this is hard because sometimes I don’t know when I’m being hit on. I was just hit on the airport by like a sixty year old man in a neck brace. The whole situation was weird.
I thought I fell in love in Denver because this guy was flirting with me at the sandwich shop. Then I invited him to my show and then he brought his girlfriends. I was like, Oh, maybe he was just trying to sell me a sandwich real quick. At the beginning of the month. I’d like to thank those who are the members on buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, So thank you, Tommy Amy, Gary Shannon, Mike and Kenny for your monthly contributions.
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You can even join the two dollar Club just two dollars a month. It adds up over time. Much appreciated everybody. CBN spoke to John Christ who said everybody in the King’s Court would say, you look good, you’re doing the best, You’re incredible, everything’s great, and then the jester was the guy would come in and kind of make fun of everything. It was done in a way that was therapeutic and helpful, not to tear anybody down.
Every video I’ve ever made, obviously we ruffle some feathers every now and then, but my hope would be that the person we’re making the joke about would laugh at it and still that it’s funny. And ninety nine percent of the time that’s what happens. His latest video is called Every Christian Music Video, and it points to elements found in almost every Christian music video. John said, there’s always some kind of disagreement or argument. That guy leaves the house.
The guy is some kind of transformation process, and then he comes back home and everyone’s forgiven and yield and restored. In like two minutes and thirty seconds. No really, he gets into what’s going on. He just kind of sees across in the clouds or something like that and comes home. Andrewdyce Clay will be in a new movie.
He will play a high school basketball coach. Yeah, uh huh. It’s called Warrior Strong, which follows a suspended pro basketball player who must work alongside his old coach played by Andrew dyce Clay, in order to restore his image and bring a ragtag team of high school basketball players back together on the court. Does that not sound like a movie that should start Adam Sandler? Did Sandler pass on that one?
What’s going on there? Adam Carolla spoke to the La Downtown News and said, as my fans know, my parents were too lazy to give me a middle name, so when it came time to get my license, I just threw Lakers in there on a whim. I’m an LA guy, so it made sense. Still waiting for those season tickets, though, maybe I’ll change it to Clippers next time. After anew podcastings in my blood.
My father was a podcaster, My grandfather was a podcaster. My great grandfather was podcasting on a steamer from Italy on its way to Ellis Island. So of course I grew up wanting to be a podcaster. From DC ist, a DC comedian is bringing funny arabs to the Kennedy Center. Rola Zaroor is known professionally as Rola Zi.
Born in Lebanon, she was forced to leave her home during its Civil war and grew up in Greece. Years later, she experienced a revolution in Kutasa when she was living in Egypt, and she moved to DC and her marriage failed and she was laid off from her job, so she became a comedian. Rola Zi said, I was like, there’s nothing left to do but getting a comedy, because no one goes to comedy when they’re happy. Right. She was doing a show during Veterans Appreciation Week and pay attention here.
I just said, any veterans, Oh, thank you for everything you do for us. Without you, guys, I wouldn’t be here today. There’d be no wars in the Middle East. She just kept going. Last week, a guy took me on a unique dining experience.
It’s called Dinner in the Dark. I walk in, I get nostalgic. This is like my childhood during the war. There’s no electricity, but surprise, we found bread. So she’s now producing Funny Arabs.
I wanted to see Arab American comedians and showcase their talent, but also tell our diverse story. It was really important to me to showcase the diversity of what it means to be an Arab and what our stories are. The Kennedy Center will host Funny Arabs at the Millennium Stage on Saturday, September nine, six pm. Based on those couple of jokes there, it sounds like it’d be pretty good, right. And that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.
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