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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a new best funniest special of the year. It is Todd Berry’s Domestic Short Hair. You’ll find it on YouTube.
If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard me talk in the past about what I call the Emperor of rome syndrome in my career of listen, whos so much stand up comedy? I do what the professional comedians do. I rarely actually laugh. I tend to just analyze comedy. Go oh that was really good, Oh, great, callback, hilarious.
Todd Barry had me laughing out loud. I know I’m a psycho and I don’t do that when I watch comedy specials. I laughed out loud many, many, many many times. I’m not talking about like four like a lot. Todd Barry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube is the best special of the year by a lot.
Like there’s a big gap. So here’s the list right now, funniest thing of the year Todd Berry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube. Then there’s a gap of I don’t know, three arters of a mile to Punk on Earth, which was on Netflix the best special of the year prior to Todd Berry, Tom Sagora, then Kyle Knin, Naprigatzy Cocaine Bear, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Hardy Conabolo, Chris Rock, Jimmy O Yang, The Rose of Mister Peanut. Trust me look it up on YouTube. I know you think I’m crazy, Big Jokerson, Mark normand Nimesh Patel, Sarah Silverman, Chris Fleming, John Early.
But again, all of those are three quarters of a mile away from Todd Barry domestic short here. I absolutely loved it. You can also hear Barry on Mark Marrin’s episode that dropped on Monday. I went out for a run and was enjoying this, and I felt bad. Todd Barry said that the specials produced through All Things Comedy, which is Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s company, and they tried to sell it and they couldn’t, and that the specials about a year old, which is why there are some COVID jokes, but they are funny COVID jokes that held up.
And Tod doesn’t really seem that into the special and seems to have moved on because in his life it’s a year ago. But it’s really really good Todd Berry Domestic Short here YouTube Funniest special the Year by a lot.
Also for your podcast listening, Strike Force five.
That’s the five late night show hosts doing a podcast together. On episode two, they started talking about their first shows, which I thought was pretty interesting. I like that late night industry talk. I gotta tell you though, I’m listening to the Fab five and I feel like there’s a group of four and Seth Myers Late Night with Seth Meyers is like extra invisible, isn’t it. Looking ahead to the Toronto Comedy Festival Just for LAFT Toronto, they have announced a free street festival September twenty second through the twenty fourth at Burze Park.
Ber c z y if you’re in Toronto, telling me how to pronounce that properly. Reggie wattson Fred Armison are your headliners. They are also a bunch of new faces of comedy colin Canada will be at that apparently a local brewery. We’ll have some beverages for you and if you want some food, that Jamaican patty Shack and poutine Supreme. The Guardians spoke to David Cross.
David enjoyed the moment when his daughter told him he was quot the worst daddy in the world. He had been struggling to come up with the title for his latest show. Then his daughter said that, and according to David Cross, I was like, Oh, there you go. A name for the tour. Very good.
The Guardian talked about the increasingly poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which aired on Channel four in the UK. On that show, David Cross stars as a hapless American energy drinks salesman sent to Britain to flog his wares, and it’s now impossible to watch in the UK. David Cross says, legally, no, you’re not allowed. That was in my contract. I said, I’m gonna work really hard for very little money for years on this project, but you have to promise me you won’t show it.
CBS News profiled Nate Burgatzy and they asked him if he keeps his clean persona throughout his life, like when you’re sitting at home watching the news with your family. He’s a little different, and Nate said, no, stays clean, just feels weird. I know, you know, I’m not perfect. There gonna be a difference between hanging out with comics and when I’m at home where you’re like, oh, I’m with normal people now, so you go, I gotta comment down. But overall it’s just yeah, who I am.
Nate Brolson asked Nate Burgatzi why he never comments on the news. Burgatzy said, a lot of people do it. They do it very well, So you can sometimes be tempted to think you want to let people know how you feel. I want to say something up there, blah blah blah, but then everybody’s saying something. There’s enough people smarter than me.
You don’t need me to be talking about things. I just want to be a break from all that. Congratulations, Ricky Gervaiz. The Guinness Book of World Records has declared at Ricky’s Tour Armageddon as having their record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever. Ricky racked up a one million, seven hundred ninety thousand, two hundred and six dollars and fifty cents on May sixth at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
That tour is still going. Three shows at London’s OVA Wimbley Arena October six, twentieth and thirteen December is the Brits Say, and eleven nights at the London Palladium Wow September thirteenth through the sixteenth, twenty eight through the thirtieth end October eleventh through the fourteenth Wow. Netflix has already bought the rights to Armageddon and a Layer at the end of the tour. Mark Norman was recently in Springfield, Missouri, and said, you have to have material for everywhere you go. It’s good to mix it up.
In Los Angeles, you know what jokes offend them. In Springfield, they’re offended by different things. Small towns are usually more fun. The audience has more salts of the earth. They put in a hard day’s work and want to laugh.
In Los Angeles they got their TikTok. Mark Norman told the News Leader Springfield is cool, but getting there’s a real pain. Eugene Merman spoke to the Wooster magazine. Eugene said, I took a variety of classes back in college. Then I sort of put that together in a major that was comedy.
I took acting classes, writing classes, history classes, I did independent studies as well. For science, I did the sociology of laughter, and for social science I did a paper on Lenny Bruce and now he started the modern era of stand up. It was variety of things. But else I had a radio show and I did a lot of different stuff that I put towards a comedy concentration. The thing that was sort of interesting about that in the end is it was almost as if it had the elements of a comedy trade school.
I had to figure out how to get people to show up to a comedy show. I then had to try new material, all putting together an hour’s worth of it and very much mimic what you actually have to do to become a comedian. At the time, it seemed like this odd, not necessarily practical idea, but it actually happened to be an incredibly practice education for I wound up wanting to do with my life. Tom Farley, brother of Chris Farley, spoke to the journal store. He said the Farley boys, Tommy, Kevin, John, and Chris were destined to be drinkers.
If you’re a Farley, you drink. If you’re Irish, you drank. If you lived in Wisconsin, you definitely drink. So it was very normative. We thought this is what everyone did.
When you have somebody that has a real problem, like Chris, it’s easy to point your figure at that person and say, well, I’m not that bad, so I guess we’re okay. So none of the brother has got any help for their alcoholism until later. Tom Foley added, and we also couldn’t help Chris because we were afraid that deep down would have to bring out our issues and behaviors and we didn’t want to do that. Tom runs the Chris Farley Foundation and was asked if Chris was funny from the Tommy was a kid. Tom said, I didn’t think so because I had to share a bed with him, go to high school with him.
That was my trauma. The whole family used humor. We had so much fun. He asked any of our individual friends that say, oh, Tommy’s the funniest, or Kevin’s funny. But Chris definitely, He’d go a little farther and he was always like that.
As for watching his brother become famous, that’s the weird thing for us. Chris was always just being Chris. So when the rest of the world saw him, we were happy for success. We didn’t see it like Chris, this is a big star now, because he was always just doing the same stuff. We just saw Chris.
Chris welcome in our world. Everybody else gets to see what we had to go through all those years. Aish dot Com caught up with Jean Marcos Sirressi, one of my current faves. SORREESSI was recapping a story when he was on James Corden. In the story, Jean Marco is getting drinks at a bar from a German bartender.
Sirresci’s jewishness came up. Jean Marco said. The bartender told me I’m so sorry for the Holocaust, and Jean Marco said, well, how am I supposed to respond to that as a Jew? No worries, don’t let it happen again. I didn’t know, so I just said could I get a free beer?
And he said I would, but my boss would get mad, and I said, I get it. You’re just following orders. Wow, it’s a great joke. He says. When he posts about being Jewish online to his social media followings, I’ll get ten comments about free Palestine.
It’s irrelevant to the thing I’m saying in the video. I’m an American Jew. One time, he got messages from an audience member that said, I hope Hitler sends you back to a concentration camp so he can write some new material Sir ESSI joked, I think he had a misunderstanding of what a concentration camp is. It’s not an artist retreat. But I could take this in stride.
I don’t feel threatened. This person was obviously going through something. Jean Marco enjoys making people laugh and said someone messaged me and said, I’m going through chem up therapy and your clips brought me joy. I get so much joy. That made Joran Marco feel I’d keep doing stand up even if somebody messaged me and said I hate your comedy, but I’m glad that people enjoy it.
Shout out to Crosby who went to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and claim the ten dollar donation. That’s one of the ways you can give. There’s the two dollars club, the ten dollar donation, and the standard five dollars. Anyway, this morning, I’d took Crosby’s money and I went to the National Donuts chain.
I got a large iced coffee with caramel and milk, and I’ve got enough money for another one tomorrow. Crosby, thank you so much for supporting the show. Via Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Wall Street Journal caught up with Eliza Slessenger, who said I could always make my mother laugh, even when I was in a jam. In middle school, I struggled with math.
One day, Mom tried to get me to focus on homework and I wouldn’t stop joking around. She said, you’re acting ridiculous. I’m gonna record you so you can see how you’re acting. She wants to get the video camera. When she returned, I was wearing my glasses and a shirt buttoned up to the top and with the British accent.
I said, why, mother, whatever do you mean? She lost it and cracked up. And at that moment I realized being funny was more important than fractions. H Is being funny more important than fractions? Probably right, Eliza says.
During my junior year, I signed up for semester at c College. Kids from all over sailed around the world on a giant ship, taking classes and stopping at ports along the way. I performed a stand up monologue and added observations about the guys and girls on board. They loved it, and I realized I don’t need a troop. I can do this on my own.
ORDEOU reports some comedy shows were canceled. Why the concrete crisis. They put a big picture of Jimmy Car and I was like, Oh, what did Jimmy Car do? Now nothing the story. Northampton’s Royal and Drine Gate Venue has announced that is closed its store for the rest of the month after finding reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete r AAC for you concrete aficionados and its building.
The venue said in a statement, due to the unfortunate discovery of r a A concrete in our buildings, Royland during Gate is temporarily closed. They canceled a bunch of shows, including you know, most of the audience here on Daily Company News as American. But you’ve heard me talk about some of these people. Jordan Grays, is it a Bird? Is canceled, s Faced Shakespeare canceled, Jimmy Carr canceled, Phil Wang canceled.
And those are just the four I Radio. It’s a total one, two, three, eight nine. I’ve been eleven or twelve. I scrolled out. It’s eleven or twelve, doesn’t matter.
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I follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. One more shout out to Jimmy Buffett. If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane. I’m not going to start doing that every day, but the Jimmy buffettdn’t really bothered me. Seen Tomorrow