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Hey, guys, today might sound a little different because somebody forgot to plug the microphone in. See what happened was I had recorded a few episodes of five Good News Stories, that’s the other podcast I do, and then unplug the mic to edit those, and I forgot to plug it back in. So it’s not like I didn’t do a mic check this morning. I just forgot to plug it back in. So I put some me CU on this.
It should sound okay enough, but that’s what happened. The Shark Deck, Rowdy and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know that Seinfeld something that Jerry Seinfeld said, quote, something is going to happen. Julia Louis Dreyfus doesn’t know anything about it, she told The Guardian. Yeah, I just saw that news last night, and I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
Some suspect she’s being coy. Others suspect she doesn’t know what the Helly’s talking about. We’ll see. John Mulaney was on Stephen Colbert last week. One story that seems to be tickling the fancy of the media.
M’laney was hanging out with Olivia Munn’s mother, they were watching Korean movies together. Herself is less interested in such movies. John said she once found a notepad I had with a list of Korean movies that I had read good things about to watch with Miss Kim, and she said, this is more effort than you put into any of our date nights. As Melanie tells the story, one night they started watching a movie called The Handmaiden together, unaware that the film is a lesbian, erotic thriller. Mulaney said, I was like, truly, this is what people mean by erotic.
There’s a very intense and I can’t say more about it, very intense. They’re right against each other, very serious, very physical. Olivia’s mom looks over to me and goes, I think they’re a little lesbian. What do you think. I watch some comedy specials.
I started with Joe Para. I love Joe Para. I’ve seen Joe Para twenty years ago. John, we hear the butt coming. Yeah, I feel bad.
His material deserves so much better, So what’s the issue? John? The audience is out in front of him. If you’re not familiar with Joe Para, deliberately, low energy, deliberately, very matter of fact dry, and when I first saw him way back, it was just amazing because it was so anti everything that you’re used to. But if you watch Joe parrah special on YouTube, the audience is out in front of it.
They know they’re at a Joe Parrah’s show and they know what Joe is going to do, so when he starts to do it, they overreact and it took me out of it. The material is strong, but the crowd ruined the show. And I’ll tell you a story about Mitch Hedberg. His wife, Lynn Shawcroft told me I’ve told the story before, but I’ll tell it really quickly. About a year after Mitch died, I reached out to Lynn and told her we wanted to do a tribute on Sirius XM.
And I didn’t reach out right away. I didn’t want to be a vultual like, oh comedian and I let’s do it. So I gave it some time and I reached out to her. She was really touched and she came in and she had shared with me Mitch had a notebook of some jokes that he’d written down but never performed. In the special that we did, we actually had some comedians like Doug Stanhope do those jokes.
I bet nobody has saved the tapes. I haven’t worked there in ten years. Talk to them. But she also had with her a club recording from Late in Mitch’s Life and she was playing it for me and I’m listening to it and I said, you know, you have an album here, and she was a little overluckedant, but she took it to Comedy Central and a guy named Jack Vaughn that I know pretty well, and that became the posthumous Mitch Hebberg album. Anyway, she was explaining to me, if you heard the raw tape, Mitch late in Life was speeding up his act because the same thing the audience was getting in front of him and it was throwing him a little bit.
So his delivery had picked up and it wasn’t quite the same. But again that was because of the crowd. So, Joe Parra, I don’t know, maybe you’ll really dig it. I think the material was really good, but the crowd kind of took me out of it. So I switched over to Netflix and Beth Stellings.
If you didn’t want me, then I like Beth a lot. She’s been on my radar for a long time, and I explained this sometimes. This was my challenge with the Mallenie special. I felt like she was reciting a monologue. I get that people aren’t going up and winging their one hour specials, but there’s something in the presentation where I feel like Dave Chappelle’s on a surfboard and feeling the crowd and changing his pace.
I felt like Mullaney was telling stories that he had just really, really really rehearsed. And I felt the same thing with Beth, and I couldn’t get into it. And as I listened to it, and my ears are sensitive to this thing, I suspect maybe, perhaps not accusing anybody, John, You’re probably wrong. Why would you say such a thing? Maybe possibly they sweetened the audience.
The audience is laughing at her segways. It just sounds unnatural to me go hit play on that and just don’t listen to Beth. Listen to the crowd. The crowd seems unnatural. I don’t know.
I don’t know what’s going on there. Then I tried one more Zarna Guards one in a billion. You’ll find that on Amazon. I found her really charming. I want to love her, but I feel like she’s got a great eight minutes and not an hour.
There’s probably a fantastic eight minutes in there. So that was John watching comedy oh for three. Sorry everybody, I try if you’re watching ABC. Last night, Disney released a new animated short celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios that features Mickey and Minnie Moles gathering up hundreds of characters from throughout the history of Disney’s cartoons. This is called Once Upon a Studio.
One of those characters the Genie from Aladdin, and that had quote new meaning never before heard dialogue from Robin Williams relaxed, don’t freak out now. You may recall Robin Williams supposedly had a line in his will preventing Disney from reusing outtakes from the Aladdin recording sessions. Disney has gone out of its way to confirm that it got permission from Robin Williams a state in order to do this. They’re trying to get in front of any rumors that they used. Ai producer of Vette Marinos told Polygon it was quote so important to Disney to have Robin Williams team involved from early on, saying it meant the world that they said yes to his inclusion.
One of the producers, Dan Abraham, said the genie was too important to be included. I just think we couldn’t have made the short without Cinderella. We couldn’t made the short without Stitch, couldn’t have made it without Robin Hood, and we couldn’t have made it without the Genie. He’s just such a part of our history, our legacy. Some are pointing out the voice actors for Cinderella and Robin Hood are also dead, presumably many others, and Disney being Disney, they did this thing, and who knows, We’ll see how people react to that.
Possaine talked to The Toledo Blade about music. The first band Posain got into as a kid was Kiss and You tell a story about one Christmas morning when he was gifted a record. That record Seawan Cassidy. Ryan said, my cousin got led Zeppelin’s physical graffiti, and I got Sean Cassidy. I returned my Shawn Cassidy to the store.
If either led Zeppelin two or led Zepplin four, you wouldn’t consider it metal. But it was definitely a step in the right direction. From there, I got a CDC’s Highway to Hell album, and then I got into Metallica, Raven and bands like that. Reggie Watts is all about Montana, which is good because he was speaking to the Montana Free Press. Reggie has a new book out today.
It’s called Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, Postpunk, Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again. The book documents his youth in Electric City. Reggie said, for the most part, I just went back and try to remember as much as I could. I got to ask friends about stories and corroborate things that happened, and I interviewed my mom. I got to revisit aras of time that I forgot about and look at photographs from those times.
It was cool adventure and re experiencing. If I could, I’d work with artificial intelligence and give it general time times when these things happen, and then have the AI do investigations to find the exact times and correlate those things. I’d love to fill out my timeline and create essentially a cybernetic memory of my life. The Montana Free Press asked, did anything about writing the book surprise you Reggie said, I’m surprised that I finished it. When you’re working in a new medium and you finally finish something and it feels slightly underwhelming but also slightly unbelievable.
It’s such a long process. It’s not like finishing a song. It’s not like you put the period on the last sentence and you’re like, yes, one more question from the free press. When you perform in Montana, does it feel different? And Reggie said, I try not to get too political.
The last time was in Great Falls. I talked about gun rights. I was trying to talk about a sensible gun safety measure and how they’re actually in favor of people who are pro Second Amendment because it create more of a responsible populace with firearms. Surprisingly, people were chill about it. There’s a lot to be said from when they hear from somebody from their own state.
Even if I don’t necessarily look like most people there, and even though I live in Hollywood and they could say you’ve been infiltrated by a Hollywood I don’t really get a lot of that, and I’m pretty grateful for that. And live had fun at Fred Armison’s show, which is called Comedy for musicians, but everyone is welcome. I’m live, says Fred Drew laughs while teaching the crowd how to gradually sneak out of a concert. The show lasted about two hours. Armiston set divided into two acts.
Detroit comedian Jake Russell performed in between. At one point, Fred got the entire crowd singing along to a song called Tandy Leather, which he made up based on some words on an article of clothing worn by an audience member. Armison also performed Hate Policeman as Ian Rubbish, a British punk rocker alter ego, and did a parody of the Talking Heads called this is My Street, before ending with a bad on purpose rendition of the Beatles Blackbird, which he said as Dad taught him on an old beat up guitar. One way you could support the show is you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News of Von did just that. A Von availed herself of what I call the ten dollars donation, which is a ten dollars donation.
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Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Daily Show announced their guest host, Michael Costa is hosting this week. Next week Jesus Nice, then Charlotte and the God. Week of the thirtieth Sarah Silverman back for a second round on November sixth. That’s interesting.
Leslie Jones back for a second round on the thirteenth week of November twentieth, The Daily Show News team takeover featuring Dulce Sloan, Ronnie Ching and Moore, and week of November twenty seventh, Michelle Wolfe. Now, looking at that list, they don’t have a host. I don’t see them giving it to Michael Costa. Jesus nice would be great. Maybe put him in the Max.
Charlemagne is too popular, he won’t step down to do the Daily Show. Sarah Silverman, I guess is she too old for the demo? Now? How old is Sarah? Sarah’s fifty two?
Maybe maybe Leslie Jones and maybe Michelle Wolf might be the most likely candidate on the board right now. I think she’d be fantastic at it. We will see. Rick and Morty are back well. They have new voices.
Justin Royland out, Rick and Morty announced the new voices. They are Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden. Yeah. I don’t know either. But the Hollywood reporter I spoke to Showerner, Scott Morder and the creator Dan Herman Murderers said we heard thousands of people went on for six months.
It was really wide. It almost went so wide that we debated doing a global hotline that we knew would wind up being a prank line. We felt like we needed to go that far and wide. It was harder than we thought. I thought it’d be easier.
Rick was a lot harder than expected. Everybody sounded like macho man, Randy Savage or like a cousin of his. No One sounded exactly like Rick was. Tricky. People had it and splashes once you bring them in.
They couldn’t do it conversationally. I think Harmon really explains as well here he says, it’s one thing to match an impression. Can you do George W. Bush as well as Dana Carvey? But can you do it beyond just saying not going to do it?
I think that is a great, great, great point Harmon said, was trying to strike this crazy balance. This character has to be angry, sad to spawn it and all those things. I was removed from it until the late stages, and part of that was a selfish emotional conflict on my part, but it ended up helping us because of the scientific practicality of the process. It was very difficult, even in my short time at the end of the assembly line, where your ears very quickly get so confused when you’re trying to tell the difference between a nine to five and a ninety seven on a does this sound like my friends scale? You so quickly lose your objectivity.
I got to be a little baby and do even less work than Scott but I can’t stress enough that this is the job he signed up for. So they asked about Solar Opposites, where Justin Royland also was the main voice, and they recast that and totally change it into a British sounding dude with Dan Stevens. Didn’t work for me, and a focus group of two Cousin Keith didn’t work for Cousin Keith either, And we love Solar Opposites. But the new season I didn’t even finish. It just didn’t work, Murder said.
We never sincerely went down that road of redoing the voices. It was explored right at the heart of things at the very beginning. I always try to look from a fans perspective, imagine Homer Simpsons sounding different. I would have been instantly out. As much as I love the show, I felt like it needed to be exactly the same.
Yes, I think if you’ve changed Homer Simpson’s voice now, absolutely, but uh, mister Murder, go watch season one of The Simpsons and pay attention to Homer’s voice there. Vulture did their twenty five comedians you should know. One you should know is Stavros Hawkius. Good call by them, he sold Vulture when I was between like five and eight. My mom worked at a Greek restaurant and Saturday nights that if I was lucky, should bring home tins of leftover Calamorian lamb chops.
Without my mom there to monitor what I was watching, I spent some of my most formative Saturday nights watching SNL and waiting to eat fried foods after midnight. Because of those nights, I idolized Chris Farley, I’m Sailor, and Will Ferrell and became a huge compy nerd and then for most of the Saturday nights the last fifteen years, I’ve attempted to recreate that pattern. The only difference is I do the comedy now, and the women I’m trying to hang out with at one am are not my mother. The fried food is the same, though, That’s great. Worst show every said.
This takes place during Obama’s first term. I was hosting an open mic at a seafood restaurant to make a little money. Was good friends with the owner, and he offered me two hundred dollars to do comedy in the corner of the bar for four hours. I explained, stand up doesn’t work that way, but for two hundred bucks. I could put on a show for two hours.
I need a room, a stage, a spotlight, and microphone. He agreed. I shot up. A week later, he wasn’t there and no one had heard a show as supposed to be taking place. There was no stage, no spotlight, but there was a wireless mic.
I really needed the two hundred dollars, so I took the mic and attempted a host a show in a pack bar. With nowhere to stand, most of the comics opted a walk around the huge circular bar. Everyone was bombing, and the night ended forty minutes early when a local man named Ice pick Rick decided to use his allotted five minutes to stab a comedian. What Heather McMahon has a new special on Netflix today. It is called Heather McMahon Son I Never had shot in Lexington, Kentucky at the historic Lexington Opera House.
McMahon tackle’s body image, drug, sex, fertility, grief, and let’s loose on female beauty standards. If you’re hitting the bookstore today, Reggie Watt’s new book is out. I already told you about that.
Also out, Aida Rodriguez’s Legitimate Kid.
We learn how Rodriguez turned traum and pain, multiple kidnappings, a terrible marriage, and an unstable housing situation into comedy and connection. Suzanne Summer has passed away Sunday at age seventy six. If you are of a certain age like me, you remember her fondly from Three’s Company. Her publicist said she survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over twenty three years. Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Allan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family.
Her family was gathered to celebrate her seventy seventh birthday, which would have been yesterday. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life and want to thank her. Millions of fans and followers loved her Daily met your comedy news Today. You can follow the show wherever you get your podcasts. See tomorrow