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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night was back, Baby, and they had some good jokes about their absence. Jimmy Kimmel said, we’ve been gone so long. The Bachelor’s now a grandfather.
That is a great joke. Fallon. The stalemate finally ended when the studios realized we’ve got to end this now, where it’s another three months of watching suits fallon again. It’s kind of weird coming back after being gone for five months. The studio was empty for so long.
NBC converted it to a spirit Halloween. Seth Meyers said he missed his writers so much. I was so happy, so happy to see them in this morning, although by lunch I was a little over it. Jimmy Fallon again. I was more excited than the guy seeing Beetlejuice with Lauren Bobert.
Think about it, Fallon Again. Yea, everybody’s excited today. My dad called up and said, finally I can watch Kimmel again. Seth Meyers thanked his family, noting it was not easy to have me around for five months. I’ll never forget the day this summer my seven year old came up to me and said, not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today, I’m not going to care what he does tomorrow.
While I hear that, I do think he missing out, all right, Trevor Noah. This whole India thing is just wonderful. I mean, I love when there’s a story that comes out of nowhere and I get so much content out of it. I told you yesterday Trevor’s comments about how poorer he felt the venue was for his canceled shows. Didn’t phrase that correctly.
You know what I meant. Well. People on social media are now upset with Trevor Noah. Some on Twitter called him overrated, while another question him for insulting the city, saying, don’t laugh, you idiots. He’ll go back to where he came from.
Do the same to your city as well. Another shared some laugh at this attempt at crass humor. Noah’s overrated. Those mouth sounds are amateur. Give me Vierdas any day you tell him.
Speaking of Vierdas, he has been nominated for an International Emmy Award. I didn’t know that was the thing. The International Emmy Award any Comedy category. This for his last Netflix special Landing landing was a response to the Two India’s controversy that Vierdas was caught in. I wonder if people were upset about him.
More Awards news. I had mentioned to you that the Golden Globe Awards have introduced a category for best stand up Comedy performance. That’s good for me, more content for me. Some comedians weighed in. Gab Iglesia said we should just call it the Ricky Gervaise.
Joe Koy took this all so seriously and said he’s thrilled that the Golden Globes were acknowledging contributions of my fellow comedians in the world of stand up comedy. I have a deep passion for this beautiful art form and brings me immense joy to see them shine a spotlight on the exceptional work done by my colleagues in the industry. Taylor Thomlinson stand up is more popular than it’s ever been thanks to the Internet. It’s very cool to see it being recognized like this as an art form. Burt Kreisher, a little less quoti, said it was nice to know, for at least one meal a year, stand up comedy is finally invited to sit at the adult table.
We belong at the kids table, but it’s nice to know we can sit with the grown ups and they’ll let us drink golden globes. January six comedians will dooke it out for the title. Can’t wait to see who is nominated there.
Speaking of Bert Kreisher, he suited up with the Anaheim Ducks.
It did not go well. He shared some videos of Burt approaching the ice on skates and said, all right, get ready for me to fall. He’d took a shot from clear across the ice trying to hit the net. It almost went in, it did not cross the goal line. No goal for you.
Craisher had made a promotional video asking the Anaheim Ducks if it could come over. Let’s listen. I think my wife’s wrong. I think this looks great on me, and it would look him in better in goalie equipment, gentlemen from the Ducks. I heard the offer September thirtieth.
I’m at the Honda Center performing that day. I’m all yours. You sent the offer to my wife for me to try out for goalie. Send it to me next time. She said, no.
My answers yes, my answers always yes. I want to be a goalie for a day. Gear me up. We’re going tarps off. You guys will test for steroids due you.
Bert Kreisher were a number eleven Ducks Jersey with last name The Machine. By the way, The Machine is streaming on Netflix now. I haven’t gotten to it yet, looking forward to that. Kraishier is often partner in crime Comedy Something podcasting Change the Life of Chase Thompson. Thompson works at Wilford’s, a barber shop on South Jefferson Street in Pensacola.
He’s been a barber for five years and he has a long list of clients, about sixty eight eighty people per week. One of them Tom Segura. Thompson reached out to Segora on Twitter about two years ago. By the way, this from w ea RTV, before Segora was going to play Pensacola, and he offered to give the comedian a haircut while he was in town. Thompson said it was as simple as reaching out to him on social media.
He was here for show and asked him if he wanted to get cleaned up before show. Segura said yeah. Thompson added, I thought at that point that was cool, even if it doesn’t come into the shop. I was super happy that they wrote me back one day in Walks, Tom Segora Toompson said, the first fifteen minutes were kind of nerve wracking. What’s the nerves went away?
I was just in my zone, it my thing. It was fine. I just didn’t want to cut him. That would have been bad. I mean, we all love Tom Segura, and I don’t know what person would be in the barber chair.
They would be super intimidated cutting their hair. I’m not a haircutter. There must be somebody who’s really known for their famous hair that you wouldn’t want to mess up. But I don’t know. What’s the worst that happens.
You give Tom Segora a bad haircut and he makes fun of you on stage and gets ten minutes out of it. Segora now flies Thompson out to tour locations to get such ups. Sagora says, Chase is a magician with blades and scissors. Thompson said, I didn’t think I traveled this much in this job, going to California, Phoenix, being with him and the crew, sivil things, going to dinners and just hang out in green rooms. It’s very surreal.
Sompson says. They always have you on standby, so when the phone rings, I’ll be there. Thank you Batman, Hey, this is cool. A long last classic from British comedy from the Monty Python ors have been found. All six episodes of The Complete and Utter History of Britain have been rediscovered.
They were found in the ITV archives. They’ve been misfiled for decades. The series is a mockumentary style look at British history as if TV had existed centuries ago. Sketches include postgame interviews with participants in the Battle of Hastings and Julius Caesar’s home movies. The show was created, written by, and starred Terry Jones and Michael Palin you know them from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
After the Complete Nutter History, they moved to join forces with some other young British comedy writers. They became Anti Pythons Flying Circus. Prior to this, they thought only two episodes and a couple of clips had survived. All that was released on DVD in twenty fourteen as the new Incomplete Complete Nutter History of Britain. The show has now been fully restored and is streaming on it TV Premium, and we’ll see if it gets a physical release.
Billy Connolly spoke to nm E. He had some nice things to say about black comedians, generally in their fifties and sixties, saying they say it like it is, it’s breathtaking. That’s wonderful, and I’m glad they exist because the social workeration that has passed through comedies. Vomit inducing comedians never used to worry about what’s correct to say. You said it, and you soon found out whether it was correct or not, and then you’ve got on with it.
That was a good enough rule for me. I’m wondering who he means. I’m thinking of people that fit that general description, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock.
Meanwhile, Katherine Ryan is catching some pushback.
She was on Desert Island discs. There’s an Island disc was recorded to September six, before the Russell Brand allegations were published. Now Previously, Ryan had said she had wrestled with the decision on working with an unnamed comedian she believed to be a perpetrator of sexual assault. On Desert Island discs recorded in early September before the brand accusations came out. Catherine Ryan said, I got a lot of why won’t you say it is?
It’s because everyone knows who it is. What they want is the women’s names, and that’s what I won’t give. And that’s why I’m reluctant. No one’s asking for his name. It’s funny how people go straight to accusing you’re the problem.
You won’t give his name. We’re not the problem. If I had a choice, I could go to work with someone who I believe to be a perpetrator of sexual assault, or I could turn down the job. Those were my options. Ryan said she believed at the time the person was or is dangerous, but felt she would have achieved nothing by turning down the show.
My compromise was, I’m going to go and let him know, under no uncertain terms, what I think of him. I’m not just gonna allow this behavior. I’m not going to let him think that I don’t know and that everybody works with it is just going to let him get away with it. So that’s the attitude. I took another show, and I do the right thing of the wrong thing.
I still don’t know, but I just felt, why should I stay home? He should stay home, But if he’s going to be there, I’m going to be there and tell him what I think. This year’s edition of the long running Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine fundraiser for the Scleroderma Research Foundation will be a tribute to Bob Saggatt, who was a longtime board member and co host of the event. This year’s event Wednesday, November eighth, at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, part of the New York Comedy Festival. Comedian Jeff Ross will host the event.
It will also feature Michael Chay and Nicky Glazer. I missed one. I didn’t tell you yesterday Beth Stelling. If you Didn’t Want Me premiered on Netflix. It’s still there.
You can watch it out tomorrow on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Greg Warren’s The Salesman. Friday digitally, The Road Dog, a movie starring Doug Stanhope, will be out and also on Friday on YouTube. Joe Paris Slow and Steady. Thank you to Sleeves the Rabbit who left a five star review on Apple Podcasts.
Sleeves thank you for listening every day and wrote, I’m a long time listener and I’ve always appreciated Johnny’s delivery and occasional mom and Terry. Someone else wrote a comment that he’s negative to women, and I honestly don’t see that at all. I know that he’s mentioned liking several female comedians and included many in his favorite comedy specials of the year. As a queer, trans female comedian myself, I think it would be great to see more coverage of comedians of my ILK, but I know he’s largely just reporting on what he sees written in the news media, which is largely male focused, so I don’t know if there’s much that can be done on that front. Hey, thanks for listening.
Shoot me some of your stuff. I’ll share a clip. Be happy to and your analysis is correct. As I put together the show, usually I start with I go to Google and I type in the word comedy and I see what’s there. Comedian is the second thing I searched for.
I also follow a bunch of sources on Twitter. There’s a few websites I check out. If it’s a slower newsday, I will start to type in the names of actual comedians. I’ll often find gold under the names Chappelle, Malaney, Gaffigan, Davidson. They tend to turn up a lot of random things.
If there’s still nothing, I’ll go a little deeper and I’ll type in words like Segura, Krazher. As I talk, I realize I haven’t mentioned any women in that list. I think that’s just because the names I mentioned tend to talk a lot, and some of them, Pete David, Dave Chappelle tend to be involved in stories with colorful details that I get a lot of stuff out of, like this week, the Trevor Noah thing. This is a week where I’m going out of my way to look up Trevor Noah because the India stuff is just fascinating to me and hilarious. But yeah, there tends to be more material about mail comedians, and I think that’s probably if we looked at if I don’t know, we put every comedian who performs the United States in a room and we counted, there’d probably be some sort of percentage that would lean mail.
And I think that’s kind of where the news falls out. Following your sentence, as a queer, trans female comedian, I think it’d be great to see more coverage of comedians with my ILK again, I’d be happy to as long as the news is out there. If there are some sources, good websites, please put it on my nose, I’d be happy to. As for the pushback on negative two women, and I’m going to hang myself here by doing this next story, A lot of that comes back to the early days of the podcast. During the pandemic, there was a comedian I’m about to talk about who I don’t know why the industry went straight to anointing this person as the next great thing.
And I’m a Mets fan, and Mets fans do this thing where you get called up from the minor leagues and you get two hits, and suddenly Mets fans will be like, Oh, so and So’s going straight to the Hall of Fame. So and So’s the next Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle, Tom sever you know, whoever it is. It’s straight like nobody can just be like good. They have to be the next awesome thing. So during the pandemic there was a comedian, Sarah Cooper.
Sarah has a new book out this week, which is why she’s back in the news, and she blew up on TikTok and on TikTok. She was taking the audio of Donald Trump and pantomiming to it. Okay, fine, and the mainstream media looked at that and went, oh my god, this is the future of comedy. Here’s a list of things that happened based upon Sarah Cooper pantomime to Donald Trump on social media. She got to host Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Yeah, she got offered a roll on a sitcom. Okay. She sold two TV pilots, one a project with Ricky Jervaised to Netflix and another based on a book she had written a few years before that, to CBS. Okay, fine, and she got a Netflix special directed by Natasha Leone. Again, going straight from pantomiming to Donald Trump, which isn’t hey, I’m telling jokes, it’s Donald Trump is saying words and I’m remouthing them to a Netflix special.
Seemed a little quick to me. And I used to comment them that all the time, and that rubbed some of the audience the wrong way. Sarah Cooper’s new book is called Foolish. She recounts her roller coaster journey. The La Times profiled Sarah and says, instead of feeling like she won the lottery, she woke up with echoes of you suck, You’re such a loser bouncing around in her brain.
Netflix and CBS eventually passed on her pilots, her marriage collapsed, her online numbers dropped. Cooper said the Internet was sort of like this playground for me. I went sixty Twitter followers to two million, but a year and a half later, all of a sudden, I didn’t feel playful anymore. I was scared that everything I was putting out was being judged. I was scared if I put something out and it was stupid, it didn’t do well.
I would feel that people were saying SARAH’SAAKA has been so she stopped doing Trump. She says, I’m really sick of his voice now. A lot of people write me and want me to do Trump, though, write oh my god, he’s saying the dumbest things. If you do a video, it would make it so much better. And I think if you would just stop listening to him, it would make it so much better.
Those videos are both joyful and icky. I want to be in a world where I’m putting out stuff that makes me happy and brings laugh to me and perhaps other people, and that’s it. Sarah Cooper’s book is called Foolish if you want to check that out. This has nothing to do with comedy, but I just feel like people need to know this. Today at two twenty pm Eastern, there will be a nationwide emergency alert test on cell phones, wireless devices, radios, and TV.
So at two twenty Eastern today, everything is just going to go and people are going to freak out and think World War three started. The government tells us this is a standard test that occurs at least once every three years. No action is needed, but your phone is going to buzz today at two twenty and people might freak out. The tenth annual Santa Cruz Comedy Festival kicks off today Eddie Peppotone performing at the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery. On Friday, the Big Show at the Real Theater Mosha Casher, Marcella Orguello, and Lewis Katz On Saturday, forty comics will perform across seven venues in downtown Santa Cruz.
Sounds cool.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, it’s the second annual Latina At Comedy Festival that’…
The festival features the best Latina, stand up comedic talent from across the country, including Chicago native Gwen La Rocca, Las Christina Galston, and New York’s Sherry Diaz and the final note of today is no fun. Bill Cosby reportedly has been hit with a new sexual battery lawsuit and an eleven page shivil complaint obtained by Deadline. A plaintiff alleges that Cosby drugged and raped her in nineteen seventy two. She claims she worked at a Bay Area restaurant that Bill Cosby frequented, and they once followed her home to invite her to a performance that was part of his stand up comedy album Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby. According to the complaint, the woman felt sick after Cosby gave her a glass of wine and a limousine on the way to the event.
She recalls accepting which she believed to be an aspirin from him in a dressing room at the show venue. You can imagine the rest and I have not seen a response from the Cosby camp. If they have one, I will share it with you. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, see tomorrow