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The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today is the worst day of the year because we’re on the other side of labor Day and if you have a nine to five office job, today is always the day where the boss is like, okay, good good book to work and everybody’s like, way too serious. I hate today in the office, but luckily for me, this is my real gig. So I’m just in the basement telling you that Jane Gillis will make his Netflix debut today.
His special is called Beautiful Dogs. This was filmed earlier this year in Virginia. Looking forward to that little Matt Rife controversy. See, I had put away the story about Matt Rife being profiled by Men’s Health and Matt Rife telling you about the matt Rife workout. We’ll get to that.
But I saw a story on What’s Trending which said comedian Matt Rife, extremely popular in social media, is no stranger to controversy. In a recent interview with Men’s Health, the comedians stated that quote, no one wants to laugh at pretty people unquote. Well, those comments were not well received and spawned numerous satirical impressions. And commentary on women in comedy. Now, briefly after the initial interview clip was released, several TikTok creators are revisiting more of Rife’s comments.
In his video interview with the magazine, Rife has advised new Jim goers to focus on building chess muscle, saying that building a chest is so important. You want to have the chest of a man, not a twelve year old girl. While many fitness officionados understood Rife’s point on a technical level, many felt that insulting twelve year old girls in the process was uncalled for. Digital creator Big brow Bear accused Matt Rife of casual misogyny towards young women and body shaming other men. At the time of this recording, Rife has yet to comment on Men’s Health Gate.
All Right, onto the original story I had parked away for today from Men’s Health, comedian Matt Rife shares the workout that keeps him sharp. On stage, Rife tolds Men’s Health I’d love to box Harry Styles high stakes loser gets kissed on the mouth straight up, bring your a game or don’t whatever. I’m taking a dive in the second round regardless. More seriously, Rife said, I realized how much of a release working out is for your mental health, more than even your physical So it quickly becomes addicting. Then after you see the physical results, it becomes even more addicting, and you go, Okay, how hard can I really push this thing?
I hear you on that I mentioned I’ve been training for the marathon. I ran an awful thirteen yesterday. Just awful was a step back week, and I should have been much stronger. But hey, sometimes you bunk, but like the weight’s coming off, and like, I kind of want to run today. I shouldn’t because I’m stiff in my running.
Guru Hal Higden preaches about the importance of rest days. I’m going to rest my legs. I could be stronger tomorrow, but yeah, I want to run today. Rife says he tries to work out every day while he’s on the road, a few hours before he hit the stage before the first of his two shows. Recently, he underwent a taxing leg day that had him thinking, it’s so stupid to do that before two shows.
I’m busy twenty three hours a day. I sleep terribly, so that one hour a day at the gym is my hour to stay focused on my body and make myself happier. All right, Matt Rife’s favorite workout moves. You got a pen and pencil and a paper or whatever you write on these days, you got a notepad on your phone. Matt Rice does alternating incline press, three sets of twelve per arm pull ups, three sets of eight to ten reps.
Zotman to reverse Zotman curl. I don’t know what that is, but he do three sets of eight to ten reps. A Russian twist with a midball, three sets of ten per side loaded plank, three by ten plank, mountain climbers, three by ten Bulgarian split squats, three sets of eight to ten per leg. Billmore got into it with Joe Rogan appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan told Bill Moore that he believes Joe Biden appears frail, that he’s quote skeletal thin.
Billmore agreed that Trump looks more healthy and robust, calling him a city roach. The worst things he eats, the stronger he gets. Rogan said he’s also the only president who didn’t noticeably age. Billmore said, no, we did, but he’s a criminal, and he’s crazy, and he’s stupid and crazy and stupid or two different things. Stupid is Frederick Douglas is alive, where the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or healthcare is hard to solve.
Crazy is It’s important that the crowd of my inauguration is the biggest ever, and I’m going to make an issue of this for the first two weeks of my presidency despite photographic evidence of the controversy. Or another example from Bill Moore, I’m going to steal these documents and I’m gonna put them next to the toilet at Mara Largo, and I’m gonna fight you to take them back. We’re not conceding the election. Those things are crazy or thinking I can charm at Kim Jong hun and Korea, although that might be stupid sometimes across the line between both. But he’s both stupid and crazy, and he’s also a criminal.
Rogan then reeled off some of the charges Trump is facing, and Mare noted Trump still hasn’t conceded the election. Bill Moore said he tried every possible way of stealing the election. He tried to do it through the courts, he tried to do it through the legislators. He tried to do it through intimidating Mike Pence. He tried to do it through the Justice appointment.
They talked about seizing voting machines, They talked about using the army. You can’t really believe this guy’s not worse than Joe Biden. I agree, Joe Biden is not a great president, and the Hunter Biden stuff is a stinky scandal that stinks to the high heaven. But if you think that compares to what Trump tried to do, then you just cannot tell. Unlike things support, Rogan asked, Bill, do you think he really believes they stole the election?
Bill Moore said, who gives an aff It doesn’t matter. All the people around him told him he lost on one of his quotes they have on record. I don’t want people to know I lost this election. Rogan said, that’s kind of crazy. More said, he’s a clinical case of malignant narcissism.
It’s not a quirk. It’s actually in the big book of crazy. It affects everything he thinks and does. It’s why authoritarian leaders were able to curry favor from him. They kiss his ass and got whatever they wanted.
I think Putin had him as soon as he said I think Trump is a brilliant man. Again, by it’s not my first choice, not my hunter’s choice, but the other guy is a crazy, stupid criminal. Send your letters to Bill Moore courtesy of the Joe Rogan Experience. Hey, let’s change the topic completely. You know that half the audience is throwing rocks at their iPhones.
Well, soon on your iPhone you’ll be able to listen to a new Rolling Stones album. Hackney Diamonds is The Stone’s first studio album since two thousand and five. They’ll give us all the details tomorrow. You’re gonna want to get up early at nine thirty Eastern. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood will be interviewed by Jimmy Fallon.
The launch event will be hosted and streamed on YouTube. Over the weekend, we lost Jimmy Buffett. I was like, for real, like super sad Saturday morning, like totally bottomed out. My friend Dave broke the news to me via in an email, and I was on my way to the beach and I thought to myself, Jimmy would want me to go to the beach today, So I drove the two hours down the Jersey Shore listening to Jimmy music, and I totally bottomed out. I almost did a bonus episode from my phone.
But I’ve been trying to tie Jimmy Buffett into comedy. There’s really nothing other than the Dusty Sligh It’s five o’clock somewhere. Bit. If you haven’t heard that one, it is fantastic. Here’s a quick taste.
I do like that song. It’s five o’clock somewhere. Though there’s a line in the chorus where he says this. He goes, it’s only half past twelve past twelve thirty. Just to be clear, he said, it’s only half past twelve, but I don’t care.
It’s five o’clock somewhere, all right, Well that’s not true, you know what I mean. It may be five thirty somewhere. Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett. Thank you for a lot of great concerts over the years. And in the words of jimm Buffett, if we couldn’t laugh, would all go and see Chris Rock and d a dip blow.
I’ve busted that out of burning man. Have you heard about the floods there? According to Chris Rock via the San Francisco gate. Rock said no one can clean or empty the portable toilets, quoting Rock from what I understand. Because of the flooding, the porta potties reportedly can’t be emptied.
Because the gates are closed, people can’t get into field generators or deliver supplies. KATVUTV said Chris Rock didn’t say why he was leaving, other than he just wanted a quote effing coldbrew. Rock was seen in a blue New York jacket, the wind whipping in his hair. According to KTVU, Sam Maill tweeted, being trapped at burning Man seems almost as bad as being trapped in a conversation with someone who went to Burning Man. Did you watch Office Race on Comedy Central last night?
No? I forgot as well, but good news it’s streaming on Paramount Plus. The New York Times reminds us that Beck Bennett starts as Patty Lacy quasiofic sales rep at an investment apps startup. Pat decides to train for a marathon. You know those weirdos high The New York Times says Beck Bennett makes for an adequate shlub, and his journey from the couch to twenty six point two miles is satisfying, if a bit too familier.
We get the usual sports movie beats, from training montages to motivational speeches. The Times adds the sporting cast is uniformly great. JB. Smooth is a champion race walker who advises Pat to partake in dipping tobacco to fortify his lungs. Kelsey Grammer as a small part as a former coach turned owner of a sports store at the time, says The Office.
Race MVP is Joel mchal as Pat’s maniacal, pun loving boss and race rival Spencer. Spencer chugs energy drinks as sex with Pat’s girlfriend and goes insane in an obsessive pursuit of marathon glory. Good cast Joe Mchael, Beck, Bennett, Kelsey Grammer, Alison Hannigan, JB. Smoove try paramount plus for that. One of my favorite shows is I just call it The Laker Show.
It is promptly called Winning Time on HBO Max, which isn’t even a thing anymore. Sorry Max, you guys blew that with that name. Anyway, The Laker Show. Are you watching it? It’s really good.
One of the characters on the Laker Show Genie Buss, Well, in real life, Genie Buss just got married over the weekend to Jay Moore. TMZ says a small intimate ceremony and Alibu. Twenty close friends and family members were in attendance. Variety asked Paul F. Tompkins, how do you create a character when you’re doing podcasts.
You’ve kind of moved away from impressions. Paul F. Said, I started doing comedy Bang Bang in two thousand and nine, and I think my first few appearances were over the phone. I think impressions I knew I could do that already came out of doing Best Week Ever, and impressions is very loose because it was characatures essentially of famous people. Then I started looking for more voices that I could do when I started my own podcast and then I don’t know it twenty fifteen, twenty thirteen, something like that.
I think the first one I did was maybe JW. Stillwater, the idea of like, I’m tired of doing these people who were tied to the real world. That felt like a limited thing to me. If I make a person out of whole cloth, then I’m not confined to that. There’s no anchor to the real world.
It could just be whatever it wants. It was also my way of learning improv without going and take classes. The biggest lesson for me was being okay with failure because I’ve always had a perfectionist streak control problem, and it would bump me out when things that I want to do, things I’d put on stage on the show, didn’t work when there are a lot of moving parts. If the thing didn’t get pulled off properly, it made me mad. It made me mad.
I have to lie on other people that way and made me mad I wasn’t able to communicate the thing I wanted to communicate adequately enough. Made me mad that I only had one shot at it and I couldn’t do it again. It didn’t work the way I wanted it to work. So doing characters and doing improv, that’s the whole thing that’s built into it. Sometimes it’s not gonna work and you have to be okay with it and move on.
John to Peers, Scott asked about cancel culture. Why, because she’s a comedian and all comedians get asked in every interview about cancel culture. Shahnda’s answer, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. In twenty five years, there’ll be no reality of what was going on in twenty twenty three. First of all, this free speech.
Second of all, you’re missing some great laughs. The world today’s so crazy. I’d love to be canceled to be so cool and great publicity. I’m not politically correct. I’ve been crafting a long letter to Dave Chappelle because I want to tell him welcome to the family.
The bottom line is, comedy’s a beautiful way to speak truth. It’s a palatable way for your audience to accept truth. And that’s all. He did speak truth in his opinion, and he gets beat up over it. Washton Post profiled earthquake and they said, hey, you had the Netflix special.
You’re popping up on TV shows. What’s the goal here? Quite said, to have my own TV show and do more movies. I’m going to write a book, and i want to do select dates of comedy but on the road for thirty two years. I’m really trying to do like Dave Chappelle does.
He works a lot, but he chooses where he wants to work and when he wants to work and how he wants to work. All right, quick what’s the TV show going to be about? Earthquake? Said? I can’t say too much about it, but it’ll be based in Washington, DC, about a government agency in DC, and it’ll be filmed in DC.
Did you ever think about quitting? Only one time? When I lost Beet’s comic View, Cedric the entertainer talk me out of it. He was like, what else you gonna do? You’re a great comedian.
The last about twenty four hours. I got back to it the next day. You can still have a meaningful career even if you don’t get commercial success. That doesn’t mean you’re not an artist. I learned when you do comedy’s subjective.
You might be funny to one person, but you’re not funny to another. Doug Stanhope is going to store in the movie The Road Dog. The Road Dog tells the story of an aging alcoholic comedian good casting. Doug plays Jimmy Quinn, a veteran of stand up Comedy’s Glory Days. Now I’m wondering, having seen the movie or the trailer winner stand Up Comedies Glory Days?
Is that the seventies? Is it the nineties? Is it five minutes ago? I don’t know. But in the Road Dog.
When Jimmy’s longest strange son, David, also an aspiring comedian, seeks him out, Jimmy offers to take him on the road and show them the ropes. They begin to grow close, but tension to rise due to Jimmy’s self destructive behavior. Ultimately, Jimmy must decide what he values most.
Also in the cast, Tim Kazarinski and Greg Fitzsimmons, Do you hear my voice sā¦
I did a lot of shows into Labor Day weekend. I was also going to record next weekend, but now I’m not because I can’t speak anymore. The film will be released digitally on October sixth. All right, let me tell you what really happened. I took a sip of my ice coffee, and I recorded the rest of the podcast.
And then I looked and the file had stopped recording right when I took the sip. I don’t know why it did that. It’s not like I don’t take breaks and take SIPs of coffee. I usually don’t tell you about it. So now I have to do the final two stories again.
But that’s okay. A couple of books are out today. Maria Bamford’s called Sure I’ll Join Your Cult memoir of Mental Illness and the questa Belong Anywhere. These are the stories of the actual, hilarious and howing scenarios that inspired her best known material. It’s less about the psychology of a comedian than it is a mental health memoir of a sensitive answer is craving gen Xer London Hughes as a book out today as well, called Living My Best Life Hunt Following Your Dreams is no joke.
It’s a contemporary stab at the dickensiean formula depicting how an outsider rose through the heavily structured British pop culture complex to make her dreams come true. And coming up in a week or so, It’s the twenty twenty three Milwaukee Roast Championships, a four round tournament where comic slam one another back and forth. The semifinals are September fourteenth, the finals are in October. The organizers hope to forge connections with neighboring roast scenes like Madison and Chicago that could lay the groundwork for a potential roast circuit. I say go all in thirty team Roast League Today New York City takes on Madison you’d watch.
All right. My voice is shot now, so I’m not recording any more episodes. I’m going to go do something else. Support my sponsors factor, the food’s good. I’m telling you, DraftKings, Go, Niners, say no More.
Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. All right, boss, let’s have a meeting and talk about the Fall initiative. Summer’s over. I’m so sad. Bye,