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The Shark Deck. Jimmy Kimmel joked about Netflix cracking down on shared accounts. I’m Jonny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy said, it’s gonna be a huge blow to Nick Cannon. This could cost him millions of dollars.
Kimmel tag don. Some people may have to go back to stealing Netflix the old fashioned way, sitting with binoculars in your neighbor’s tree. Catching up on the Grammy’s Dave Chappelle Best Comedy Album of twenty twenty three for The Closer. You remember The Closer. Some people did not enjoy the transgender material.
I expect we’ll see a little flurry of Dave Chappelle articles this week. Dave beat out Louis C.K. For Sorry, Jim Gaffigan’s Comedy Monster, Randy Rainbow’s a Little Brains, Little Talent, and Patton Oswaltz. We all scream, this is Chappelle’s fourth Grammy. Last year’s winner, it was Louis C.K.
Insert article here about comedy and cancel culture. Dave was not at the Grammys. He’s down in Australia, where news reports were that there was a fight in the crowd during a show in Perth. It actually interrupted the show, but one onlooker said, I was most impressed with how quickly Dave Chapelle got the crowd back. Chapelle showed me he’s the goat and Perth tonight and an absolute professional.
Shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Bogan is a great word. Let’s get a proper description of what a bogan is. Bogan Australian slang for person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behavior are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.
Love it. Let’s start using that word up here. No, there’s a shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Seems that there was some loud swearing, some yelling at a tussle before the arena staff shut things down.
There are no videos that we know of, because you know, pouches and all that yonder nonsense, and Chapelle thinks he’s going to do stuff on stage and we’re not going to find out about it. We found out about it, Dave. Let people bring in their phones. Will speaking of transgender material in your comedy an AI generated Seinfeld parody is in trouble. Let me catch you up here.
There’s an AI generated Seinfeld parody called Nothing Forever. Their creators are trying to show that a show can generate entertaining content forever. Nothing Forever was launched on December fourteenth. It’s been broadcasting since. It’s got blocky, kind of minecrafty versions of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer.
And they hang out in a brightly colored, slightly reconfigured version of Jerry sitcom apartment and they talk in cliptrobotic sentences. I watched a couple seconds of this before getting quickly bored, but I appreciate it. And there’s a laugh track that punctuates lots of not funny lines of GPT three generated dialogue. Hey, I hate people who do that. I did that last week.
Anyway, Nothing Forever has been banned on Twitch. Why The Jerry of Nothing Forever said he was thinking about doing a bit about how transgender is actually a mental illness, or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone, or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society. Again, it’s the computer writing this material. What makes the computer write this material that I don’t know, but nothing forever banned for fourteen days should be bad. Ten eleven days left by the time you hear this story.
Meanwhile, from Morocco worldnews dot com, You’re home for Comedy News. A Moroccan artist and comedian who goes by Talis, has apologized to Moroccans, particularly women, saying that a joke he made was spontaneous and that he had no intention of insulting Moroccan women. What happened here He was at a ceremony hosting the Moroccan national team’s historic achievements at the twenty twenty two World Cup. Remember they did really well, Talis joked. What I like most about the national team during the World Cup is that whenever they win, I gets to hug the girl next to me.
If they qualified to the finals, I would have made the girl next to me pregnant. Moroccans deemed his joke inappropriate. He presented his apologies in a recent interview with Al Jazeera. He was asked if he wrote his jokes down before the performance. He said, now, I just got excited on stage and didn’t expect it would cause a stir be taking the wrong way.
He went on to apologize for any slip of the tongue and for any insults he might have caused. He insists that that he never intended to hurt or attack Moroccan women play an important role in society. Lewis Black had a saw a bunch of shows over the weekend. He was supposed to play Utica and Troy, New York. He put out a statement saying, and once again find myself having to apologize, which sucks for you and me.
But due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to postpone a number of shows so far this year. Nothing upsets me more, is it, No doubts upsets those of you purchased tickets expecting for me to show up. I do not like to postpone, slash cancel shows, and I rarely have in the thirty five years or so I’ve been performing. I deeply appreciate all of you who bought the tickets, and all those shows will be put back on the schedule. You’ll be given notice as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patients and sport. For many of us, this has been a bleeping year and it’s just a month old. Hopefully enough is enough. Lewis did not elaborate on what he means by being a bleeping year, why he’s missed a bunch of shows. Hope everything is okay there, Lewis.
Let’s stay in upstate New York. The Campus Times caught a comedy show in Rochester where students headed over to Kodak Hall for a night of comedy featuring Chris Red, Alex Moffett, and Melissa Va Senor. That’s good we know them all from SNL. Chris Red, Joe, I don’t even know where I am right now? What the F is this place?
Towards the end of his set, he shared some of his failed SNL pitches ready. One was called the Black Batman, where a white woman gets robbed in an alleyway in the nineteen sixties and refuses help from a black man dressed as batman, saying she wants to wait for a white batman to help her. Another sketch idea was Jamison Bond, which asked the question what if James Bond couldn’t handle his liquor? Melissa Vias Signora got up next. She shared her disappointment that during her six years on SNL she never hooked up with any of the hosts or musical guests.
Her closest encounter was a rumor that she was dating Jason Momoa, which to herds May her manager shot down. She did some impressions of Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, also saying summer Nights from Greece, and she did both Sandy and Danny, while also impersonating a potential suitor who watches simultaneously interested and turned off. Alex Moffett was in the clean up spot. He entered speaking German gibberish with a few English words that confused the crowd. After switching over to English, he revealed that he’d be ends all of his shows like that and says usually the better the bit goes, the shorter goes, the worse it goes, the longer I’d do it.
At a recent show, he noted the German thing was going so poorly. I did it for twenty five minutes. Trevor Noah was on with James Cordon explained leaving the Daily Show and said everything comes to an end in life. Every journey has to come to its conclusion. There’s always going to be the moments you miss anything you enjoy doing well, You’re gonna miss certain elements of it, and then there are gonna be new parts of life.
You discover things he didn’t know you could do, things he didn’t know you wanted to do, waking up with your mind in an almost completely different dimension in a strange way. Now I read the news. When I want to read the news, I’ll be like, oh, maybe I won’t read it in the morning, Maybe i’ll read it in the afternoon. Sometimes I read two days of news and one day I skipped one day. And you might ask me something and be like, hey, have you heard about that, And I’ll be like, no, I haven’t, but in a week maybe I will have.
I’d totally relate. At one point, I was the program director of at Tawker Radio station, and when I got let go and I could get in the car and just listen to the radio the way you probably listen to the radio, like, oh, I listen to this, not I have to listen to that. It was very refreshing. Same thing. After I left Serious x Am, I did take a comedy break.
I just needed to get away for it for a while, and I really wasn’t watching comedy related programming at all. I would go home and I would watch The Universe on what was that on the Science Channel, you know, Neil de grass Tyson telling you about Mars, and I would just watch that stuff and kind of zone out. Clearly I’ve gotten back into comedy, I would hope. So four years into this podcast, right, Trevor on his Instagram mentioned he was in Mexico recently. Airport security there confiscated his afrocomb.
He shared with a photo afrocomb confiscated by airport security. They said they didn’t know what it is. Over the weekend, I saw that The New York Times profiled Sarah Cooper. You may remember Sarah Cooper. She was famous during the pandemic for pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok.
I was quite frustrated with the media who anointed her as like the next great thing in comedy, and I would sit here in the basement be like, she’s pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok. She’s not George Carlin. She then got a Netflix special and then has I don’t know, not quite had George Carlin’s career yet. Anyway, she must have a great agent because she got a profile in The New York Times. Again they remind us she signed with an agent, William Morris Endeavor, one of the biggest talent agencies.
Yeah, I suspect that’s at work here. Starting her own Netflix special created by Natasha Leone and Maya Rudolph. Remember that special came and went and adapted one of her books, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, into a pilot that did not get picked up. She is also part of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, the Pop Tart story that’s in post production. She’s now making her professional stage debut into The Wanderers, which is a drama by Anna Ziegler.
It’s in previews off Broadway the Roundabout Theater. Times asked her, it’s been three years since your first Trump video. How do you see that chapter of your life? Sarah Cooper said right away. I was very scared of just being known as the Trump girl and felt like I wanted to distance myself from it.
But I meet people just call up to me and they go, you made me laugh when it was so hard to laugh. Just made me appreciate it a lot more. Those deals help so many people and they also help me, so I’m thankful for it now, even though I know that if I die right now, my obituary would have the name Donald Trump in it, which is not great. But what are you gonna do? Is she ever attempted to do it again?
Sarah said, people ask me to do it all the time. I have no desire. I like the idea that expose the meaninglessness of his words, but I think now that it’s been exposed, there’s nothing left to do with it. Times asked, You’re not going to turn it into a cycle of other characters. Sarah said, I notice, I’m very good at lip syncing, so I’ll never say never.
But right now I’m enjoying acting, which is really what my childhood dream was. Does she miss Trump in twenty twenty? He said some brilliantly stupid things. You can’t write that stuff. The stuff he said it was goold, so I don’t want him back.
But making those videos was a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Meet you back here tomorrow. I’m Melissa McKay, star of the new podcast The Royals, of Malibu.
I play Ella, a sex worker just trying to survive. When I get swept away to the wealth and the drama of Malibu, you know you can like something without touching. You have made the biggest mistake of your life. Elli Sinclair, you are a total of psycho. Will Ella find it happily ever after ending or will these rich kids destroy her?
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