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The Shark Deck. Thank you audience A five. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The other day, when I was talking about some of the Israel stuff, I went to google George Carlin political commentary to try and make a point.
I didn’t find the point I was trying to make, but I stumbled across an article from January nineteen eighty eight in the La Times titled at fifty, George Carlin still an angry man. La Simes wrote it way back when Carlin turned fifty last year, in age that has bound to mellow even the hardest case.
And then there were those Fujifilm commercials, the iconoclastic Carlin, who …
Or did your video tape me before? If you tape me before, you’re not watching me now. You’re watching me later. But if you’re taping me now, and you want me to be clear and sharp when you watch me later, he was a good stuff fogie videotape despite those disquieting signs there’s really no need to worry. Are we worried about George Carlin in the eighties selling out?
I don’t remember that. Carlin’s feisty show at the Celebrity Theater in Anaheim on Friday in nineteen eighty eight was evidence that his edge remains unblunted. Once the angry young man, he’s now an angry middle aged man. Carlin has always been two comedians. First, there’s the embraceable ironist who whimsically dwells almost sweetly on life’s absurdity and the trouble gets us into.
Then there’s Carlin as social critic, a talking political cartoon whose confrontational wit disembowels anything associated with the right wing. Carlin discussed Reagan’s sport of big business, quoting Corlin, the administration is against street crime, as long as it isn’t Wall Street. The Light Time said the observation wasn’t terribly funny, but it showed Carlin’s uncompromisingly liberal slant a position, and it can be more than amusing fun for leftists, but undoubtedly infuriating for an audience’s more conservative members. Even if you agree with him, it can be a bit much you yearn for little laughing gas, a dose of lightheadedness. Fortunately, Carlin Schiff’s perspective soon enough, as if he knows the political thrust can only be sustained for so long, It’s almost like he’s saying, Okay, you’re patient about the lecture, now here’s your reward.
Carln then went into a bit about people. I avoid one of the jokes dentists with blood in their hair, as he’s done for years. Carlin ended the show with a ross toccado reading of an ever growing list of words that have been banned from radio and television, like the slang and his red light littening. Carlin can be shocking, even offensive to those who want their comedy censored, But unlike these dirty words, there’s little to question of his redeeming social value. La Times January eleventh, nineteen eighty eight.
Rolling Stone did that fantastic interview with Roy Wood Junior. If you want to read the whole thing, it’s somewhere in the Facebook group now. A few days ago I posted it Daily Comedy News podcast group. They asked Roywood Junior, what’s a big lesson you learned from working with Trevor Noah Roy’s answer very interesting. Knowing when to leave, just recognizing when it’s time for you to try do something else, when it’s time to try to level up into something bigger, whether it be with Comedy Central or not.
I need to take that time to home in on exactly that is what I need to do. Trevor never really got upset. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him mad. Ever, He’s definitely diplomatic and definitely knows how to lead by example. He’s not a general like say John Stewart was Trevor’s more cool hand.
Luke rolling Stone asked Roy, Late Night is all white men. Why does keep going back to that? Roy said, I don’t know why he keeps going back to white dudes in the seat. I do think they’re going to try to use economics to justify cuts. It’s an easier way than saying something isn’t racist, when you just go, oh, we don’t have the money.
I will say that women have it worse than men. Every woman Late Night host you can even in the last five to eight years the show was created, they didn’t inherit anyone’s chair. What’s next for you? Roy? With Junior, he said, my comedy Central First Look deal died about a year and a half ago, so I’m a free Asian across the board.
I have the opportunity right now to talk to any network about any show and do some more writing as well stand up sitcoms and movies. I’m open to anything right now. I have a couple of tour dates in January with Jordan Klepper. We’re doing a silly live town hall thing and a number of towns and I’ve always enjoyed working with Kleppers, so to be fun to do that in some capacity. I don’t feel a sense of urgency with Late Night.
What’s the right idea? And what with a market per Okay, you left the Daily Show? What are the past? You go Steve Carell do TV. You can go Sam b or John Oliver do another show.
You could pull ad Jason Jones and do TV or movies. Same thing with Olivia Munn. It’s fun to have options. The Baltimore Sun was profiling Stavros Halkias and they want you to know that he’s more than Ronnie. Ronnie is a character who is a Ravens loving obscenity spinning essex residing a fellow who posts video recaps after each Baltimore Ravens games.
Who the Ravens have today the Lions one o’clock. Hey, that’s a good game, The Sun rites. When the Ravens are winning. According to Ronnie, they’re headed straight to the super Bowl. Sounds like most jests fans I meets.
We’ve been making fun of chests fans like that. The Jets go up three to nothing Week one, and the fans were like super Bowl. But when they lose, as they did against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ronnie is apoplectic. Ronnie is also the reason Halkias suspects that all six Baltimore shows of his Fat Rascal tour sold out. He said, I never to be the go to Ravens reaction comedy guy, but I’m pumped.
I think that’s a big reason we sold so many tickets. Some of those people are gonna be very disappointed when I come out and I’m not. Ronnie. The Sun asked him if Baltimore shaped his sense of humor. He said absolutely, I mean, definitely.
It’s an interesting, strange place. I think it’s an interesting mix of caring about art but at the end of the day being a very blue collar place. You know the charm city nickname could feel sarcastic halft the time, right. Not everybody’s about their manners. There’s not a lot of putting on airs in Baltimore.
They’ll let you know what they think of you. Any favorite spots in Baltimore. I’m a big diner guy. Broadway’s my home diner, and I’ll go to Sip and Bite.
Also, I’m curious about Sip and Bite.
Let’s say what sipping BYTE’s gun on the menu. Sip and’ byte a Baltimore legend since nineteen forty eight. I know the Maryland people a right now? Do you not know what Sippin’ Bye did? I didn’t know what Sippin’ byte is.
I’m sorry. Now I’m interested in it. I haven’t been Baltimore in a long That guy from the bed Pays Rent story yesterday though he used to go to Baltimore with me. All right, I’m on the Sip and Bite diner website. Here we can get pancakes, including a cheesy Dutch baby filled with ham and cheddar jack that seems like a much French toast waffles.
I’m not going to read you the home menu. Guy Fieri’s favorite crabcakes. Why is that on this sandwiches and submarines two different categories. Sandwiches are served with chips. Fries will cost you an extra dollar.
Onion rings will cost you two extra dollars. Apparently a cheeseburger counts as a sandwich. The Maryland people are going to be so mad at me. The submarines are where the cheese steaks go. So I guess we’re talking longer bread there, right, and some more of a hero as we would call it up in the part of the country.
John, get back to the comedy story. Okay, I’m sorry. I’m a big diner guy. Broadway’s my home diner and also go to sip and bite. I also really like salad sons on the Broadway Market.
I’m resisting all my instincts to google salad sons. I won’t do it. I’m blowing up one of my favorite spots with you here. It’s quick, it’s so good. It’s really one of my most go to restaurants for what feels like a healthy meal, little salmon, little veggies.
I also have a couple spots. I can’t tell it’s a couple. I gotta keep to myself as for Ronnie, it’s less doing comedy and more like performing a seance. It’s also a fun way for me, in a cowardly way, to sneak in some of my own dumb opinions but hide behind the character. It just started as a way to cleanse myself after a particularly bad Raven’s loss, and it’s grown in as something that people really love the only time, so to Jay Leno.
Jay advises stand ups to resist automatically turning to profanity or insults, especially when dealing with Heckler’s Jay said, not necessarily against using profanity. I almost went into a half ass, J Leno. I’ve never attempted a half ass J Leno. I don’t know if I have one yet. Should I just do it?
All right, let’s just do it. But I think using profanities more than those terrible. I think using profanities, why don’t hit it that out? Because I’m with you, I know you wanted me to do it, and I know it sucked. I could have taken that whole thing out.
We’re a team. Jay said, I’m not necessarily against using profanity, but I just think using profanities more than you need to is just being lazy. And I don’t get heckler’s often, but every comedian has dealt with them at some point. Comedians should realize that as a stand up comic, you can bring someone down in the crowd pretty easily. When you destroy a heckler, you destroy a part of the audience, and they think as a group, So it’s probably better if you can let them down easy without snapping their neck.
For example, this one time I had a big, huge, fat guy heckling me at a show, so I called him out and made fun of his tie. See now I feel like I owe you a half ass impression? Should I just do some callbacks from mistay spot? If you have bets in your home, you might be a redneck? Or if you think the bet pays rent you, who might be a redneck?
All right, Break time, Shohn. The Plano Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. It goes through the twenty ninth. It’s the fifth annual Plano Comedy Festival features over one hundred local and national comedians and sketching improv groups. Boardmember Britney Goss told the Dallas Observer, they say that we make Plano look cool.
Plano is the happiest city in America Today at five pm, it is the Kickoff show. Looks like about seven comedians, not any names that I recognize. There doesn’t mean they’re bad, just means I don’t recognize them.
And then at seven o’clock there’s a different show.
Fonzo Crowe plays the Plano House of Comedy Looking Ahead. Later in the week, Rachel Feinstein Friday Night, Beth Stilling on Saturday Night. Next week, Vulture did their twenty five comedy you Should Know. FuMO Abe is on the list. They asked him what unscripted or reality series do you think you’d excel at?
The answer America’s Best Dance Crew. Well, I can’t dance, but that’d be my angle. I would be representing all the Midwest Asians out there who grew up going to Van’s Warped Tour and prefer mashing over MILLI rocking. All right, what was your worst show? I did something called the Teen Tours in LA recently, which is a stand up show for high schoolers.
It’s a tough show. You can’t get through any material because ninety nine percent of them are talking during your set. Because why would a fifteen year old no stand up comedy? Etiquette. The show is a reputable club in LA where every night you could see somebody like Tiffany Hattish.
So the students were a bit disappointed at the show’s lineup consisted of nobody comedians like me. Anyway, I go on stage and as soon as I grabbed the mics and girl goes, oh, I thought Matt Rife was going to be here. Before I could say anything, another kid goes that ain’t Matt Rife, that’s Matt Rice, and the whole room exploded in the laughter. I got roasted so hard before I could even get one joke in. I had to accept there was nothing I could say that would be funnier than what that boy said.
So I got off stage.
All right, let’s go on Ravens line.
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