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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack, would you daily come in a new series? Start to today. Amy Schumer on Instagram posted a lengthy message. Amy wrote, as a child, I grew up with Uncle Alex Numbers from Auschwitz, burned into his forearm, attending Hebrew school, reading endless books about the Holocaust, like all Jewish children do, learning of the world’s confusing hatred for us. She recalled being ridiculed for being Jewish by students and parents alike.
Ashamed and scared, I kept it quiet, learned to laugh along with all the jew jokes and made them myself. I’m not laughing anymore and being quiet anymore. I’m proud to be descended from a population that they have tried to exterminate over and over again thousands of years. My ancestors fought too hard and survived too much for me to sit quietly. I am Jewish, I am proud.
My heartbreaks for Israel. It breaks for the innocent people of Gaza too. I love my Palestinian brothers and sisters, Palestinians, not Hamas, who wants only to exterminate the sixteen million of us left. Pete Davidson hosted Saturday Night Live. They did a cold open, and I think better than me recapping it, and here’s Pete Davidson.
This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza, and I know what you’re thinking, Who better to comments on it than Pete Davidson. Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack, so I know something about what that’s like. I saw so many terrible pictures this week of children suffering as rarely children and Palestinian children, and it took me back to a really horrible, horrible place. And you know, no one in this world deserves to suffer like that, you know, especially not kids. Pete went on to say, my heart is with everyone whose lives have been destroyed this week.
But tonight I’m gonna do what I’ve always done in the face of tragedy. Let’s try to be funny. Episode Wise, it probably won’t make the Hall of Fame. The best received bit Pete Davidson in a takeoff of I’m Just Ken singing I’m just Pete looking like a meth head on the street. More Pete Davidson News Lionsgate has landed the US rights to the Home That Is, a thriller starring Pete Davidson.
Pete plays Max, a former foster child who begins working in a retirement home, only to discover that it’s residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets.
Meanwhile, in The Daily Mail, Chris Rock is said to be deeply frustrated at b…
Insiders are saying he would prefer if the actress kept his name out of her mouth as she’s out there promoting her new book. A source tells The Daily Mail, Chris has set his peace on the entire Will Smith’s slap, but now with these new revelations from Jada that her and Will have been living separate lives, it’s just another WTF moment and the whole saga from these past few years between Chris, her and Will. Chris hates that she keeps bringing it up and bringing up the other revelations about Chris asking her out on a date and all that he’s a relatively private person. Was just getting to a point where many people have started to move on. Now it’s back in the limelight, and it’s just frustrating that everything is coming back to the forefront.
Meanwhile, Tommy Davidson, he was on the Club Shayshay podcast with Shannon Sharp. If you listen, forty six minutes in, Tommy Davidson says, me and Will had a run in. Sharp said, yeah, you try to put his wife in a liplock. Davidson said, I didn’t find out that for fifteen years because he never told me that. See, he came into the trailer and I was sitting down right, He’s standing over it, and he’s like, I don’t appreciate that, man, I don’t appreciate that.
And I’m like, what are you talking about. Davidson said he was confused what Will was upset about, but he kept thinkings civil because he was sitting and Will was standing over him. Davidson then says Will Smith stood over him, biting his bottom lip. As Pinkett Smith cautioned will Will, Davidson says, I’m like, what’s happening, man? You tell me what’s happening.
You know when a guy does this, and then Davidson bit his lip, he might do something. So I finally just said this is a small place and people are here. We should talk about it, me and you outside because it looks like you need to get something off your chest, and Jada was like, no, no, no, no. Davidson said he didn’t learn until fifteen years later that the reason Will Smith was upset was because of a kissing scene in Who. Tommy said he found out about it after he wrote his book Living in Color, What’s Funny About Me, and he speculated about why Will Smith was mad.
He called Will’s friend Charlie Mack to ask if it was okay to mention the argument in the book, and Mack told him the actor had given his permission. Tommy Davidson said the producers of the film wanted the actress to film the kissing scene without having rehearsed it, which caused multiple uncomfortable takes for the actress. Tommy writes, that’s the only reason he could think of why Will Smith was upset. Mack confirmed it. Tommy said, so I saw that side.
Meanwhile, John Mulaney was on Stephen Colbert’s show and said, I have trouble telling maybe three people something personal, but telling like Madison Square Garden twelve thousand people is very comfortable. That might be a real sickness. I for some reason set up obstacles in my own way that had left me sometimes pretty disoriented and pretty unhappy. But I am, at my core a happy person, and it’s okay for me to protect that by living a life I want to live. I’m very lucky and I have a very good life.
I don’t want to be the reason that they get complicated. He told Colbert. I was going through a lot, and it means a lot to me when you reached out. It was extra special in that way. Malaney says his son Malcolm keeps him busy.
During the writer strike. We would walk to the donut shop, walk to the seven to eleven to get scratch off lottery tickets. He walks next to me, where’s a baseball hat? And we talked the whole time. Later in the day, when he’s asleep, I’ll be talking to Olivia and I’ll be like, who was I talking about earlier?
That if we put that there, it’ll blow it away. Oh yeah, that was Malcolm. Over the weekend, there was the very first comedy Fantasy Camp in Hollywood. The La Times caught up with Jay Leno and Adam Carolla before the event. The plan was for Harland Williams, Alonzo Boden, Carolyn Ray, and others, plus a special surprise guests.
We’ll see if anybody else turned up to be part of Comedy Fantasy Camp. Adam Carolla said the idea for this came because I was always intrigued about the rock and roll fantasy camp. I was fascinated by all these big name rock stars who would do the camp. I don’t play an instrument, but he do stand up and you do a baseball fantasy camp, so why not a comedy fantasy camp. Jay Leno said the plan was to teach people to be themselves and be relatable to the audience.
You can’t teach people to be funny, but you can help them be comfortable in their own skin. Then the jokes can flow naturally from there. Adam chimed in and said, Jay’s right, it’s being comfortable with who you are. With music, you can hear yourself and you know if you have any talent. I’m pretty sure Jimmy Hendrix knew he was pretty damn good at playing guitar.
But with stand up comedy, you can’t really hear yourself. You really need an audience to give your feedback. Jay said, that’s absolutely true.
Also, stand up comedy is not like music in a way.
When you think about this, It’s not like everybody can play guitar like Jimmy Hendrix, but anyone can talk into a microphone. Right. So people think all the time they could be a stand up comedian, but it’s not as easy as just talking. Most comedians are writers. You have to be a writer and write your own jokes.
I have been mentioning how much I enjoyed Mark Maren’s interview on the WTF podcast with Tom Poppa. Tom started talking about having an empty house his kids college age now and moved out, and I can absolutely relate to that. And Papa said, yeah, you look at it. You go. We did it.
We did the thing. They’re good kids, they’re really great, but they don’t live with me anymore. I don’t have to do the day to day, that project, that twenty year project. But being in the house running the corporation, you have to just let them go. And I had a thing in my act where it was like, wait a minute, I did all this for you.
I didn’t want a house. I didn’t want these animals I don’t even have friends. All my friends are your friend’s parents.
And now you’re gonna go, I should go.
I hear so much of that top to bottom. Sir Billy Connolly talked to the BBC. He said he’ll never give up live performances despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Billy Connolly is eighty now. He got diagnosed ten years ago.
He says of stand up but as the ability to cheer myself up, and I love it. I walk with a stick and at airports I have to get the wheelchair. I hate being dependent to that degree, and I feel sorry for other people who are in wheelchairs and whoever it worse than me. Billy says his wife Pamela helps him get dressed in the morning. I’m clumsy and I lose my balance.
I’m out of balance a lot and I fall. I’m fed up with it. I think I have a good attitude to it. I say to the disease, I’ll give you a break if you give me a break. We’re nice to each other.
Subscription service Well Presents Plus has announced House of Laughs. The description some of the funniest and fiercest LGBTQ plus comedians and drag Queens of her half hour specials filled with hilarious and irreverend jokes. Some other performers Joel Kim Booster and Cameron Esposito. I’m a big fan of both of them. Vulture did their twenty five comedians you should know.
Edie Motka is one of them, and they asked Edie what unscripted or reality series do you think you’d excel At her answer, I want to start stuff on Love is Blind, fall in love with the pods at the moment where we see each other for the first time and as soon as we meet eyes, we’re both like, it’s you. It’s always been you. Then at the first mixer with all the paired couple, I’ll give over the pants, John, you should preread these things favors to everyone’s fiances and when they’d tell the girls what I did, I’ll deny it. Pre read these things. Well.
Yeah, you may know Edie from Jury Duty because she explained what’s your proudest achievement of your comedy career so far? And the answer Jury Duty. She plays the woman who is flirtatious with the guy who’s on jury duty. You watch the show and you go if I were on jury duty. Yeah, should be the woman I’d be into for these two sitting here.
Yep, she did a great job on that show. And from Insider, a Generation Z comedian went megaviral trying to mock millennials, but it backfired miserably. All right, what happened? John, a gen Z comedian, satirized millennials for their attempts at a wedding video trend on TikTok. He went on to suggest that they like Hannah Montana and it would chastise gen Z about home ownership.
This is Markezano. He goes by Snerky Marky. He’s got four and a half million followers on TikTok and I’m recording a podcast in my basement. He posts comedy content, including parodies of the generational differences, from gen Z’s take on tattoos to millennials on social media anyway, he posted a video which mocked millennials. A day later, he stitched his own video by playing a character that appeared to be a parody of those responding, and introduced himself as an offended millennial.
While in character, he said, worry about the fact that he can’t read or right cursive, the fact that you don’t know who Hannah Montana is, and the fact that you’ll never be able to buy a home. That video got three point one million views. One viewer wrote, there is no way Hannah Montana’s a millennial thing. Multiple users responded saying they grew up in the early two thousands and had watched Hannah Montana. Some millennials also took issue with the suggestion they would call out younger people for not being able to afford their own home, highlighting their own struggles with the housing market and pointing to older generation susage Generation X who are having an easier ride with buying property.
Relaxed, there, youngsters, I’m recording a podcast in the basement. I don’t know how much money you think I have. When viewer wrote, lol, us millennials can’t buy homes either. Don’t worry. Katano tailed Insider his videos are intended to be satirical and said anyone who’s overly match should maybe learn to laugh at themselves.
When Gen Alpha makes the same type of videos about gen Z, I’ll be sure to view them and laugh along with them. It’s okay to laugh at yourself, and that is your comedy. News for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it and they can subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or if you’re on the Android app overcast, you could do that too. See you tomorrow.