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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Matthew Perry passed away on Saturday at age fifty four. Let me do some housekeeping on the feed. This is the second episode dropping on Sunday, October twenty ninth.
There was the normal three five am Eastern episode that discussed Dave Chappelle’s recent concert. Last night, I did an oh bit episode at around eleven pm Eastern, and I also shared an episode of the TV in the Basement podcast that covered Friends through a lens of Matthew Perry’s performance there. Tomorrow morning on this feed will be Monster Mash Monday, a special episode about Halloween stuff, and I may drop in a second episode tomorrow. So that’s the house cleaning. This is kind of sort of a bonus.
I want to talk about Matthew Perry, and I also want to talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live. Matthew Perry, from his own book, wrote, I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I’m still working through it personally. But the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic ordrug comes up to me and says will you help me? I always say yes.
I know how to do that. I would do that for you, even if I can’t always do it for myself. So I do that whenever I can, in groups or one on one, and it created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me and to people who love people like me.
When I die, I know people will talk about friends, friends, friends, and I’m glad of that. Happy. I’ve done some solid work as an actor, as well as giving people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the World Wide Web. But when I die, as far as my so called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people. I know it won’t happen, but it would be nice.
In an interview last year, Matthew Perry said he could not watch Friends because it reminded him of his troubles. Perry said, I haven’t watched the show because I could go drinking opiate’s, drinking cocaine. I could tell season by season by how I looked. That’s why I don’t want to watch it, because that’s what I see. Matthew Perry’s last post on Instagram, made last Monday, was a photograph of him sitting in an outdoor jacouzie at night, with the caption oh so warm, water swirling around you makes you feel so good.
I’m mat Man. Warner Brothers, which produced Friends, shared a statement to The Hollyood Reporter which said, we are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry. Matthew was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Brothers TV group family. The impact of his comedic genius was felt around the world, and his legacy will live on in the hearts of so many. This is a heartbreaking day and we send our love to his family, his loved ones, and all of his devoted fans.
In a statement, NBC wrote, we are incredibly saddened by the too soon passing of Matthew Perry. He brought so much joy to hundreds of millions of people around the world with his pitch perfect comedic timing, and Rye writ his legacy will live on through countless generations. Some celebrity reactions I’ll just pick away from some comedic actors event. Nicole Brown, who co starred in the Odd Couple reboot, wrote, our Odd Couple family suffered a great loss today the entire entertainment world has. I am too sad about the news to say more than this.
Matthew Perry was a sweetheart who deserved more peace in this life. Fifty four is to young Ago, We love you, Maddy. Lisa Ann Walter was also on that version of The Odd Couple and wrote, in the Whole nine Yards, Matthew Perry runs full force into a patio door. That and the scene that followed is one of the top comedic moments I’ve witnessed. I told him so, I want to recurred on The Odd Couple.
He smiled so big that I thought he’d crack his face. It was beautiful. Paget Brewster played Kathy on season four Friends and wrote, I’m so very sad to hear about Matthew Perry. He was love leading me on Friends, and every time he saw him in the decades after. Please read his book.
It was his legacy to help. He won’t rest in peace, though he’s ready too busy making everybody laugh up there in the Hollywood Reporter Daniel Feinberg wrote the show that best understood Matthew Perry’s sensibility, and more than that, the essence of what he projected best on screen. May not have been one of his signature’s successes and may not be one of the first half dozen shows that heartbreaking fans look back on as we reflect on Perry. Go On ran for twenty two episodes on NBC between twenty twelve and twenty thirteen, was canceled after the lone season. Go On was, especially for broadcast television, a brave show, and it was definitely a brave performance for him, actor who, after the phenomenon that was Friends, clearly enjoyed testing how far he could take the build an audience whose affection he brought to each new role.
In go On, Perry played a sports talk radio host grieving the death of his wife. Eager to avoid his feelings, the character returns to work too soon, and after a meltdown, begins to find his way to a new normal with the help of his support group. With go On, Perry brought all the sublimated pain and sadness and insecurity that functioned as undercurrents in his previous roles and inverted the archetype, Feinberg writes, in many of his earlier performances, Perry gravitated towards characters who used humor as a defense mechanism, and for the most part, those characters succeeded. Sometimes they succeeded so rousingly that most viewers didn’t even recognize the sarcasm and smark were masking anything at all. Viewers could happily pretend Chandler, being on Friends, was a happy guy, except for the moments he wasn’t Chandler.
He had issues with his parents that would have required a season’s arc on in Treatments Unpacked. He had a job that nobody remembered and that gave him no satisfaction, which clearly paid too well for him to leave. He torpedoed relationships in favor of friendship in a way that was noble but not healthy. He kept going back to Janice, and that couldn’t have spoke well for his sense of self worth. When Chandler found Monica, though she recognized all his flaws and loved them, much to her surprise and much to our relief.
Perry made us believe and embrace all that was flawed about Chandler and made us laugh along with those flaws. In retrospect, it’s because of Perry that we now realized that Chandler was always just a work in progress, and that Ross was the pathologically damaged one. That’s a different column, though. Saturday Night Live featured a special tribute card for Matthew Perry, who hosted the show on October fourth, nineteen ninety seven, with musical guest Oasis. That night, in his monolog he encouraged New York City residents to help recreate the iconic Friends opening Fountain dance.
Some of the sketches that night Sarcasm one oh one, in which Perry schooled a group of students, including Will Ferrell, Cheri, O Terry, and Nor MacDonald on his signature comedic tone. The episode also featured a Friend’s parody in which Matthew Perry played the character of Joey and objected when cast member Colin Quinn played Chandler two effeminately. Take the break here, and then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live with Nate Berghatzy the Buzz on last night’s Saturday Night Live, Very Good EWD to recap, and they had for their recap former cast member Gary Krueger. Remember Gary, Yeah, Gary had some thoughts on a stand up hosting SNL, and Gary said, a stand up is the host that the writers feel most free with. There’s a feeling that there’s no reason to limit what they can do because it’s going to be funny regardless.
Stand ups now how to deliver the joke and so the comedic threat of a sketch is never lost on them. When I was on the show, the best examples were George Carlin and Eddie Murphy. Yeah well, yeah, yes, yes, both transcended easy definitions, but they knew where the joke was no matter what they were doing, and if a sketch was going south, they had the instincts to save it. Don Rickles was another example. Rickles, in one sketch just decided to go off script and the result was hysterical, even for those of us standing in front of the camera.
I proudly recall I did not break character. In the cold open. President Biden, played by mikey Day is hanging Halloween decorations around the Oval office. Biden jokes nothing puts people at ease like an eighty year old man hanging Halloween decorations on a ladder. Snl did some basic Biden is old jokes, including when I was a kid, ladders were cutting edge techno.
This was like an iPad, and then joked, a lot of my closest friends are ghosts. Christopher Walking drop By as the spirit of Halloween, the ghost of all Hallows Past. Onto the monologue, Nate Pergatsey said, I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here. Nate joked that he’s from the nineteen hundreds. I’m forty four.
My daughter’s eleven. When she’s my age, it’ll be twenty fifty seven. I don’t even believe that’s a real year. My movies didn’t go that high in fake years. How am I going to talk to somebody from twenty to fifty seven?
I have more in common with a pilgrim. Nate reveal during the week he got advice from Jerry Seinfeld. Jery’s advice, he talked about the monologue. The monologue, that’s why you’re there, that’s your job. Nate said, I just kind of follow whatever that dude says.
There’s just so much he’s talked about comedy that I do. I don’t wear short sleeves on shirts because he said not to. Nate clarified he didn’t really say not to, but Seinfeld jokes about not wearing short sleeves in the documentary Comedian, and Nate decided, all right, I won’t do it. Gary Kroeger’s analysis. I love Nate Pergatsey the first time I saw him a few years ago.
He is the non comic comic meeting. He’s just telling stories that at least seem real, and how he relates his authentic person owners to the situation as the source of the humor. He’s an every man who is not every man. How he admits his shortcomings is so relatable that you laugh at him even if his jokes aren’t told in a classic set of punchline format. He’s the upper echelon of working stand ups, even though his approach is very different.
It isn’t wildly observational. We’re acutely satirical. He is instead the funniest guy at the barbecue with a hysterical story about what just happened to him. On Weekend Update, Colin Joe said, after weeks of struggling to elect a new Speaker of the House, Republicans gave up and just generated one with Ai. There’s no way Mike Johnson is a real person.
He’s supposed to be a conservative Republican, yet he looks like every MSNBC host combined. I feel like the way Mike Johnson got elected is that after weeks of voting, Republicans got bored and all wrote in the same fake name, and they were like, wait, that’s a real guy. Michael Jay commented on the rocks wax figure Boy Johnny Max gotten three shows out of this topic. Jay said the museum has attempted to darken the statue, but unfortunately it melted in the tanning bed. Christopher walk In introduced the Foo Fighters back in two thousand and three.
I don’t want to go in a half assed walk In here, but he introduced them as Foo Fighters, but he got it right. Last night, Timothy Shallimy was announced as the next host. He will host the November eleventh episode. Musical Guest Boy Genius SNL is off next week. I wonder if Phil replay the Matthew Perry episode.
Jimmy Fallon revealed that he might go back to doing stand up comedy. He did an impromptu set at the Comedy Seller the other night on Friday Nights Tonight’s show. Fallon shared that on Thursday he was hanging out with Mike Birbigley and Chris Rock and they wound up at the Comedy Seller. Fallon share that by Bigley was trying to get Fallon star at comedy again. Fallon said, because I did start my career in stand up.
They decided to swing by the Comedy Seller and watch some comedians. After watching a set from Tina fer Me. If they started to leave, then Chris Rock showed up. Fallon said that Rock had also encouraged him in the past to go on stage of the Comedy Seller. Rock was there to make an unannounced appearance himself and told Fallon, I knew you’d come back.
You have to come back to stand up. Fallon said, I feel like the comedy gods are just telling me, you know, yeah, you should do stand up again. So Chris rockets up, surprises the audience and just he’s unbelievable. And so I went up to give him a bottle of water as a goof and everybody started clapping, and he took the microphone and he handed it to me. I was like, wow, So I did stand up for the first time last night in ten years.
It was unbelievable. I totally remembered it. It was super fun. It was great. I was like, I don’t even know what I was talking about.
He just made me feel so comfortable up there. Fallan talked about how it’s fun to be on stage when a joke lands. I do remember that the room gets hot when you tell a good joke, and then it comes down to a room temperature. I loved it anyway. I got the bug, and I wanted to thank Chris, Thanks Bike, Thank you comedy seller.
I’ll work on an act. I’m gonna work on an act, and I’ll be out there because I want to go around the country. I want to say hide everybody, all the fans, because I love meeting people. It’s gonna be fun. I’ll do it.
So it’s Halloween. Give me a couple months. I’ll work on something. A source said the crowd was in stitches. The New York Post tells us Jimmy Fallon was up to his partying ways last week at a Rolling Stones party.
They have their new album, Hackney Diamonds. By the way, if you like the Rolling Stones, the Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds is a solid Rolling Stones album. The Stones were like, we know what you want, here you go. I like it a lot. Fallon apparently broke out his mix Jagger impression.
A spy tells The New York Post Jimmy stood in front of Mick as he was sitting down and did his impression. It was hilarious. Earlier in the night, The Rolling Stones had played a secret show Fancy people there Daniel Craig, Chris rock, Mary, Kate Olsen, Christy Brinkley, Elvis Costello, Trevor Noah and rocker Tommy London. And that’s your comedy news for this morning. Again, there was the normal episode that came out of three five where I talked about Dave Chappelle and the news of the day.
And tomorrow morning at three oh five you’ll get the Monster Mash episode and I’ll see what the news cycle has if I need to do a second episode tomorrow, otherwise we’ll get back on normal schedule Tuesday morning. You can follow this show for free wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, Spotify overcast podcasts see tomorrow