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The Shark Deck. A lot of strike today, and I’m not just talking about the idiot who scratched up my car bumper in the park and didn’t even leave a No. Come on, man, hi, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
All right, let’s start with Hasan Minhaj.
I think he blew his shot at the Daily Show. Would be my take. Here the headline from the AV Club, Hasan Minhaj admits to fabricating alarming details in his stand up specials. His exaggerated claims included experiences of racial profiling and his daughter possibly being exposed to anthrax. I’ll tell you the story, but the AV Club correctly points out, when you see a comedian, it’s a given that everything you’re hearing may not literally be true.
There were stories that have been tweaked and embellished for laughs after being told hundreds of times. They gave an example. If you found out John Mulaney never actually encountered a man who professed I’m homeless, i’m gay, of aides, I’m new in town. In that order, it would still be an effective bit of comedy writing. But wouldn’t you be a little disappointed?
So what’s going on here. In a New Yorker article, Hasan Minhaj admits that he fabricated details of some of the stories he tells in his specials Homecoming King and The King’s Jester. Okay, comedians do that all the time, But the issue here is, as the A V. Club puts it, the fabrications weren’t purely for laughs, but were specifically relevant to his experience as a non white Muslim growing up in America. The character brother Eric, a supposed FBI informant who infiltrated his family’s mosque, was completely made up.
Similarly, Hassan made up the story of having to take his child to the hospital after she was exposed to white powder they feared was anthrax. Minhajs told the New Yorker every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy percent emotional truth this happened, and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration fiction. In his view, the punchline is worth the fictionalized premise. Dav Club comments, Yet there’s not a punchline too.
My daughter was exposed to a substance that could have been anthrax in this case, the exaggeration doesn’t make the story funnier, it’s just more upsetting. In a statement to The New York Post, Hasan Minhaj says, I used tools of stand up comedy hyperbole, changing names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories. That’s inherent to the art form. You wouldn’t go to a haunted house and say, why are these people lying to me? The point is the ride.
Stand up is the same. You get to say whatever you want on stage and we have to live with the consequences. All my stand up stories are based on events that happened to me. Yes, I was rejected from going to prom because of my race. Yes, a letter with powder was sent to my apartment that almost harmed my daughter.
Yes, I had an interaction with law enforcement during the War on Terror. Yes, I had surgery so we could get pregnant. Yes, I roasted Jared Kushner to his face. Sources close to The Daily Show have confirmed a Rolling Stone that Hassan is currently one of three top candidates for the job, but the source says no deal has been locked in with any talent. I’m wondering if he blew it here I’ll jump ahead to a story I’m going to do later about Michelle wolf who and I’ll do this later, but her relevant quote for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the Daily Show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, it tends to be more factually accurate than any news show.
So I’ll come back to that. So I don’t know if they can give him the cheer here. I’m I get the Dealer shows a comedy show, but now I’m picturing like a Brian Williams scenario. He might have blown this yere and Nat Hasan Minhaj then who all right? Next strife article from The Verge told you last week that Theo Vaughan did that tirade about a podcast company.
There’s been a lot of coverage on this. The Verge rights multiple creators who have left the podcast netwhere Cast Media say the company owes them significant sums of money. Comedian Whitney Cummings told Hotpod that she believes Cast Media owes her at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for ad sponsorships, although the amount could be more. Cummings wrote in an email the whole thing is a nightmare. THEO Vaughan posted a ten minute video on YouTube on September sixth, the title of that this man defrauded at our podcast.
He alleged that cast Media owes him and a group of other creators over four million dollars, and an email to Hotpod, THEO Vaughan said that he personally knew of six different creators who were owed amounts that ranged between one and a half million dollars and six hundred thousand dollars. Vaughan said, castos his show on amount that’s in six figures. As I recorded on Saturday, a very very fast moving story, this from the New York Post. Russell Brand accused of ripping and sexually assaulting four women, including a sixteen year old. This according to a joint investigation by The Sunday Times of London, The Times and Channel four dispatches.
On Friday night. Brand got in front of this by releasing a statement, Let’s listen. Now, this isn’t the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption, because in this story, I am the news. I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuffs like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. But amidst this any of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.
These allegations pertained to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play? Whatever is going on?
Deadline reports Russell Brand appears to have parted ways with his UK agent. His profiles no longer on the agency’s website. Elon Musk come at dead and said, well, of course they don’t like competition. I met Russell Brand once. He was upbeat, personable.
We had to record some promos. I remember him doing them quite well in like one take, maybe two, And I want to tell you he did in one take. That’s it. That’s all I know about him. It’s been I don’t know, ten minutes with him.
Maybe seemed nice enough. The Independent reminded us of this story, which I had forgotten. Russell was a video journalist for MTV in two thousand. The gig was short lived because Brand was fired after arriving in the studios dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after September eleventh. I was kind of busy on September twelve, so maybe that’s why I don’t remember that one.
The Independent ads. His stand up shows acquired a reputation for chaos, as he would offer and perform while high quote releasing locusts, cut up pigs heads, smashing up dead mice and birds with a hammer and then throwing them into the audience. According to the Guardian, what Russell was scheduled to play Wimbley on Saturday night. All right, keep an eye on that all right. That Michelle Wolf’s story she was profiled in Rolling Stone.
I’ll pick at that. Over the next few days. She discussed Dave Chappelle and said, I think people really miss a lot of what he’s saying. He says it very clearly in his One special. Why is it easier for Caitlyn Jenner to change her gender than it was for Cassius Clay to change his name?
I think that spells it out right there. He wants everyone to be able to live the way they want to live, including black people. Time and time again, we see that as a country, we literally don’t want black people to live, and we don’t do anything about it. They try to act like Davis some sort of villain when he’s not. He’s a hero.
He’s fighting for his people. But there are black trans people. He’s not saying those people shouldn’t exist. He’s just saying that he should get to exist too. Michell Wolf discussed Louis C.K.
And said, Louis I feel, is the only one who actually admitted to anything or apologize, So we can go back and forth about how good or bad his apology was, but I don’t think you’re ever gonna have an apology that everybody’s going to be happy with. He’s the only one who did that, and it seemed like he got punished for most of it. He apologized and he wants to make things better and said people were like, now you can’t. There’s no way for you to make things better unless you do this in this but nobody said what this and this was nobody said what he could do because nobody agreed on what he could do. And she spoke about the Daily Show and kind of back to Hasan Minhaj.
Michell Wolf said, for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, tends to be more factually accurate than any news show. I think there’s a way to do that, make it funny and give people the information they want need without coddling one side or the other. I think both sides are doing a terrible job right now and a huge disservice to the people. This is the trick of nations for as long as time, you keep the two sides fighting so they’re too busy to go after the people in power more strife. Steve Martin has responded to allegations made by Miriam Margolis, his co star from nineteen eighty six is a Little Shop of Horrors.
She has a new memoir in which she writes, I was hit all day by doors opening in my face, repeatedly, punched, slapped, and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin. Perhaps he was method acting and came home grumpy with a splitting headache. Steve Martin was undeniably brilliant, but horrid to me. Steve Martin addressed this in a statement to Deadline and said, when I first read Miriam margolis Per jerative account of our scene in Little Shop of Horrors, I was surprised. My memory is that we had a good communication as professional actors.
But when it’s implied that I harmed her in some way, was careless about doing the stunts, I have to object. I remember taking all caps extreme caution regarding the fake punch, the same caution I’d use with any similar scene. She assured me she felt fine, and we did a few successful takes and stopped. There was never any fiscal contact between her and me, accidental or otherwise, in this scene or any other we shot. Gutfeld says Conan is wrong on Trump in comedy.
I’ve been picking away that Conan O’Brien interview with Karas Swisher, who seems the mainstream media picked up on the Trump part, in which Conan said, you can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible. So I always thought that when Trump came along, what a lot of people have to revert to is doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. He’s an a hole, and those aren’t jokes.
Well, Greg Gutfeld has chimed in on Friday’s The Five. Greg said, this is the funniest time to be alive. Wokeism is like the biggest funniest thing ever. Joe Biden is perfect target. Hunter is a perfect target.
Nancy Pelosi, the city’s descented to the criminal force as a target, climate change, wacko’s gender nazis. All of this stuff is ripe for comedy. But for these guys, it’s Trump or nothing. It’s dad. You have comedi who are actually crying on air or doing propagandizing videos for vaccines.
That’s why I think Late Night isn’t chaos except here. The knives are out for fell, and they’re going after Bill Moore because I think he’s doing the right thing. He’s saying, we’re hurting all these other people, the caterers, you name it, whatever, because the writers are upset. I like killing in, but he’s a little late to this party. The Brady Bunch House has sold for three point two million dollars, but the asking price was five and a half.
The house was built in nineteen fifty nine. The exterior was used for the credits in the nineteen sixty nine Brady Bunch. In twenty eighteen, HGTV purchased the house for three and a half million and remodeled the exterior and interior to look exactly like it did in The Brady Bunch. The new owner plans to use the home for charity events. Her real estate agent says it was a nostalgic purchase.
She just had to have some downsides. Fireplaces and some appliances and fixtures are decorative only. A new book by Mike Brydenstein looks at Chicago’s heyday as an incubator for stand up ours. The Chicago Suntimes took a look at the book and they say, the list of talent from that time in the late nineties and early auts is outstanding. The town includes camal on Gianni, Pete Holmes, Hannibal Burris, Cameron Esposito, Dwayne Kennedy, t J Miller, Kyle Knaan, Matt Bronger, Brook Van Poplin, and others.
That is a killer list. I remember there were a bunch of comedy festivals in Chicago in you know, like two thousand and five or so, and yeah, I saw a lot of those people in small, small places. It was a great time. The perfect amount of wrong. We’ll be out on September twenty fifth, Mike says, I wanted to write something that was authentic to the scene and was coming from someone in the scene.
Back then, the lions Den and other local outlets imposed zero guidelines on material, which encouraged adventurous stand ups. There was Bill O’Donnell who would routinely induce vomiting on stage, and Chet Lactatious, whose signature bid ended with the comic and a full ku Klux Klan outfit. A bunch of comedy clubs had closed in late nineties, Zanies in Old Town survived the to become the only game in town. The lack of opportunities at Zeni started a ground swell of ambition at the local level. The setup for those shows was less than ideal.
The Lincoln Lodge cash register was cafinists and the servers chatted at full volume. At the Elevated, comics had to contend with the roaring of the Red and Brown Line train zipping by just outside the bar. Brydenstein says one time somebody said to me, why are Chicago comics louder on the mic? Because we were shouting over a bar for years. We turned chaos into charm.
Some of the anecdotes from the book. One night at the Lion’s, Dan nick vaderat also Great Chicago comedian hid in a storage closet through twenty performers to play a Marionette pupper and Brady Novak’s act. Camail Nanjiani went up a Chase cafe for an audience of two and killed by throwing a bouncy ball around the space. And one time power went out at the Elevated’s anniversary show, so the host lit performers with flashlights. Rether Than canceled the show.
That’s your comedy needs for today. Tomorrow should be more fun if you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. Will Yeah, I’ll see you tomorrow.