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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Chennymac with your Daily Comedy News. This one from the New York Post has cracked me up. Outside Back to comedy pretty quickly. But the Beacon Theater in New York City has put up a list of twenty items it forbids, including cowbells, hoverboards, bats, clubs, and clothes.
Christa Stephano told the Post clothing. I hope they have plastic covers for the seats. I’ve shows at Radio City in Madison Square Garden. We’re allowing clothes and cowbells. He said.
The sign looks like it should be outside Riker’s Island. I’m looking at the sign here on the New York Post website. I had his zone in if you are curious. The prohibited items are weapons, aerosol cans, fireworks, mace, cameras, audio visual recording devices, drones. You can’t bring a drone into the Beacon, tripods, poles outside, food or beverages, alcohol, illegal substances, bats and clubs, beach balls, frisbees, hoverboards or skateboards, strollers, bottles, bags, clothing.
It actually says clothing. I’m looking at it. It’s an icon of like a T shirt signs, banners and flags, horns and cowbells, no cowbell. A spokesperson for Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Beacon, thanked the Post for bringing it to their attention. A spokesperson said, Wow, that was clearly a mistake.
Clothing is definitely permitted. I love that story so much. Sam Morrell was on the Creative Control podcast. Both those words start with the letter K. As you know.
Sam was telling a story about joking with his parents. We had lunch and I said to my parents, you know, I really got in the stand up because I was kind of an f up and thought it was an easy way to drink for free, and I like jokes.
And then I realized how hard I had to work if I wanted to be a successful com…
I didn’t want to fail at this because I really love it. Sam said. A guy he looked up to was John Mulaney. He was doing the road and he would see him going up at some clubs, but he could also be an alternative room guy. He just had the chops to work anywhere.
He was so young and honed and articulate and funny. He just felt like a pro and to me that was cool. Look. I saw him at the Comedy Seller one night, right after I bombed a corporate event, and he’s like, Sam, how you been, And I said, oh, I just ate it. At this event, Mulaney said, I hate that.
Let’s get a booth. And it’s such a comic instinct. He saw that it was a little rattled and was just trying to make me laugh. Be nice, and he’s like, genuinely nice. Sam was asked about the reception of Mulaney changing you know, the substance abuse and the divorce and all that, and Morrell said, I thought, get a life, what are you doing.
I mean, they don’t realize our bond as comedians just runs deep. So my instinct is to side with a comedian. Of course, there’s cases like, look, I’m not going to have Bill Cosby drop in, But you don’t understand if this bond runs deep, it’s complicated. But also Dave Chappelle is a great comedian. I don’t understand.
He may touch on topics you don’t like, but this guy as a comedy legend, where you like it or not. Las Vegas Weekly he talked to Toom Sagora. Some of the day Segura’s a tour are called Tom Segora trying new material, and The Weekly was curious why he would advertise shows like that. Segura said, I like people to know what they’re going to People like stand up. I think it’s fun.
I’ve been doing things for last month, and it’s to say this is a stage where you’re not going to see somebody go up there and say I don’t know what to talk about. It’s a stage where the thing is taking form. And if you’re a person who likes stand up and you see it now and you see it later, you’ll be like, oh okay. In a year, it’ll be super polish where you’re trimmed the fat. But the fun thing about the shows right now is I’ll try something different.
I’ll try a different punchline Thursday, Friday and Saturday because I’m figuring out what’s the best for it, and I think for comedy fans that’s a fun thing to do. So I’m basically just informing the audience that you’re going to see experiments in addition to things that are really working really well. The Press Enterprise asked Tracy Morgan about his newest material and does he ever notice things that he found funny before he no longer finds funny. Tracy said, absolutely. You know you’re grown.
You’re not a child. You’re same things from a different perspective. If you do the same things you did when you were seventeen in your fifties, you’ve wasted thirty years. You have to grow. You see things like love, heartbreak, and all those other things that humans go through from a different perspective as you get older.
I think of things in my own way. I smell things in my own way. I hear things in my own way. Everybody has a different way of seeing and hearing things. I express myself and that’s all I’m doing.
Sense of humor is the highest form of intelligence on the planet. That’s why God gave it to me. My sense of humor helped me get through my heartbreak, pain and suffering. That helped me get through it. You’ll cry if you don’t laugh about it, and I’m done crying.
Vulture was talking to Gary Goman as part of that interview. Maria Bamford was there. They were talking about crowd work. I’ll have a lot to say about crowd work on tomorrow’s podcast, Gary Goleman said, I know. Maria Bamford said, she and miners crowd work.
It’s awful. It’s so easy. And if I was in the audience as somebody asked me what I did for work, I’d stand up and scream, what do you do for work? I gave me here to hear jokes that can be enjoyed as forms of art. Of course, there are two three people who do it well, and the rest of them are just doing a photocopy of a photocopy of the people who do it well.
Amen on that, Gary, Amen, I think they should give the audience their money back if they don’t do any of the jokes that they pre wrote.
Also, crowd work is not that hard, and it’s always men, and they do it six sh…
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I’m excited about a new project I’m working on. It is called Ghosts Scary Stories Daily. We’re doing thirty one ghost stories and thirty one days. It is a podcast and you can check out ghost Scary Stories Daily wherever you get your shows. Let’s see use it just for laughs.
On a Friday night, JFL Toronto Great Festival, The Seven o’clock Shows, Colin Quinn, jess Tom Second City, Jessica Curson, Sidney Washington, Graham Kay. Eight o’clock Andrew Schultz, I Love Toronto, New Jokes, Who dis Don’t Tell Baba, Martinobrono, The Stupid Good Comedy Show, and Fan Funny Fridays. I’m gonna have to do some research on those. Eight thirty The Women of Comedy, nine o’clock, River Butcher, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Double Threat, Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock. Best of Absolute Comedy, nine thirty, Rory Scovel, Geekly Squad Live, ten o’clock, Joel Nicole Johnson, ten thirty, Yrhood’s a Joke eleven o’clock, Low Key, eleven thirty, After Hours, eleven fifty nine, Late Bad.
What should we see tonight? Now? I’ve recorded out of sequence, so I know that in the future I’m gonna go, like, Hey, let’s go see Colin Quinn. So it’s seven o’clock you wanna do? Jessica Curson or Who’s Graham Kay?
An award winning stand up comedian, actor, and TV writer. Graham Kay has been described as sarcastic and brilliantly funny. Warden raised Innawa, Graham lives in Brooklyn. Let’s go see Graham k I like seeing something new. I feel like I have a handle on what Jessica does.
Eight o’clock. I have a feeling tomorrow I’m going to tell you, let’s go see Andrew Schultz. Let’s pick something else. Don’t tell Baba’s a monthly queer comedy charity show hosted by two Arab immigrants, featuring a mix of Toronto’s top and upcoming stand up comedians. All ticket sale profits go to local charities.
Five comedians plus the two hosts on the bill. And it’s at the Tall Boys Craft beer House. Let’s do that. That’s just different. Plus we can grab some beverages.
All right, that’s the eight o’clock show. Nine o’clock, I have a feeling in the future we’re gonna go see River Butchers. So let’s do the Double Threat and our ten o’clock show will be Joel Nicole Johnson, and then the late shows. As you’ve heard me say all week, I get tired, I’m going to bed. You can do a late show, but say Elane is at the Chicago Theater tonight.
He warned his new husband, Rodrigo about the show because it’s the first time he’s met Lane’s family since they got married in August, and it’s Rodrigo’s first visit to Chicago, Lane says. Rodrigo says he’s prepared, but I don’t think he is. I’m so excited to show him the city, my school, Downtown, hit up my old haunts. I love Chicago so much. I need to live in New York because it’s where I can do my best work.
But Chicago is a special place. Mattaye Lane says, I love comedians because they’re just brutally honest. They just tell you tor face. You would think that would be such a harsh way of hearing things, but I think it’s a queer person growing up and being made fun of in high school. It’s a very healing thing for me.
I’ve never felt more connected in any community that I’m part of, Italian gay whatever. I’m the most connected with stand up comedians. Chelsea Handler’s Little Big Bitch Store kicks off New York City tonight and tomorrow, then DC Durham, LA bunch of other places. She finishes up in Feckerville, Oklahoma on December fifteenth, And I hear my voice giving out. I recorded four episodes of five Good News Stories.
That’s a podcast I do where I tell you five stories and they’re all good news. I did five of those. I finish up the live one show for the week, and then I recorded Thursday’s podcast, Sunday’s podcast, and now Today’s podcast, back to back to back. Why did you do Friday early? CHUNNYMC nineteen miler training run that I mentioned earlier in the podcast?
That takes you know, I don’t know how fast do you think I am? That takes three plus hours, my friends, and then I’m kind of tired, so I recorded Friday a little early. Thank you for listening every day. It’s a lot of fun for me to do. Tell a friend about it, maybe they’ll like it too.
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