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Caloroga Shark Media, Bloom Shinny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this line I saw from Jim gaffig in. I think he said it a while back, but I just wanted to share it as I’d like it so much. Jim said, dads are kind of like the backup quarterback in the NFL. You’re on the team, but you’re not the star.
On the rare occasion that you brought into a game, people are nervous. You know, you’re good for a play or two, and then people are like, when’s the starter coming back. Tom Sagora had Matt Rife on a few weeks back, a really fantastic discussion, and Tom Sigora was quite surprised as it was I that Matt Rife, says, Comedy Central wasn’t interested in hiring Matt Rife, the guy’s huge. Rife said, They’ve been very fortunate to have south Park on the Daily Show, be like to continued staples on the network, but all these other things they do, they’re kind of like come and go. It’s like I’ve always wanted to change that.
I’ve always wanted to have that conversation with Comedy Central to be like, give somebody with a young, fresh fan base to project a run that can bring your network back to what it used to be as a comedy network. So Gorra said, you could get that meeting. Raife said, I’ve had it. They don’t bat an eye. Comedy Central’s never given me the time of day, so Goora even now, Rife never the fact that they don’t want to entertain the idea is bonkers.
I’m big on creativity. Take a chance. I get to your business. I get they have to go by the numbers and risk can cost a lot of money. But it’s like, your channel’s never gonna grow, Your network’s never gonna go back up.
WTP spoke to Master Brunny, one of my favorite comedians. I like Ma’s a lot. He hopes to bring people together with his Mister International Comedy tour at the Kennedy Center two nights tonight and tomorrow. Mas said, it’s Mister International because I wanted mister Worldwide, but Pitbull has that. I’m the other bold guy.
I tore all over the world, so I was like, what are we gonna call this in my act and talk about my travels. Back in the day, stand up comedy was just national You do the comedy clubs in America, but now myself and a lot of comedians are in the Middle East, Australia, Europe, Asia. It’s really become an international art form. He spoke about the current world situation. I’m a human being, so when I see the fighting, the wars, and all the atrocities, it breaks my heart.
I understand people who say it’s not a time to laugh, when I get it. They can’t imagine going somewhere and laughing. My job is to hopefully bring laughter and escape for an hour and a half or two hours and bring people together. People from different backgrounds come together, and we laugh together and find our common humanity. With the Israeli Palestinian conflict, I saw pundit saying we have Afghan and Palestinian refugees coming, claiming they’re going to be dangerous to America.
I just like to remind America that the biggest stret to America are Americans. Statistically speaking, immigrants have contributed to America. Were the land that accepts of refugees. In his show, Maz says, I talk about being a parent, I talk about getting older. My kids are now teenagers and it’s a strange thing to go in this phase of their life, and now we have to wrap our heads around them no longer being our babies.
I have an aunt who still talks to me like I’m a baby. I’m fifty one years old, and what she talks to me, it’s like, how you doing, Mazzi Wazzy. I’m like, I’m not Mazzi Wazzy. I’m fifty one. My daughter’s twelve, my son is fifteen, and anyone who has teenagers knows their rooms are a mess.
It looks like the Tasmanian Devil went in and did circles. There was a father, mother, and their teenage daughter in the audience, and I go, how hell to you, young lady, and she says, oh, I’m seventeen. Let me ask you a question. Did their rooms get cleaner? The father fell out of his seat laughing.
Switching topics, Mass said, specials or a double edged sword for comedians because people can watch the special, but then they come to your show and they go, wait, I already heard these jokes. You got to write new jokes, And as you’re watching your own special, you’re like, oh, that’s so cool. The world can see it now.
And then you go, Oh, no, the world can see it now, so I’ve been working on ne…
Fortune Femster apparently is a soccer player who knew. She spoke to the West Virginia Gazette and said, I’m really good at sports. I played tennis in college, played all four years, and I played soccer. She even played in a soccer league in LA for fifteen years. Fortune said, once I got out of the college level, I hated all the running, so I ended up playing in a seven on seven league.
The style was more aggressive but required less running. Unfortunately, she said, then the pandemic git and destroyed the league, like it did a lot of things. Entertainment Weekly asked James Austin Johnson, what’s been different about doing the social media videos of Donald Trump versus doing Trump on Saturday Night Live. James said, Yeah, when I was just walking around making videos just goofing off and being silly with my friends. Then I got to SNL and started doing Trump sketches, and it still felt like goofing off with my friends.
It definitely has more eyes on it. But the videos that eventually led to me getting to do cool stuff like SNL, I was just making those to entertain my coworkers. When I worked in a warehouse in LA folding hoodies for rappers and rock bands, I was just doing trump to them to make them laugh, and now I just want to make everyone laugh in the office at SNL. Ew asked him, of all the SNL hosts you worked with so far, what’s been the most memorable experience. James said, well, my first episode was also Owen Wilson’s first episode, so we both learned how to read cue cards at the same time.
We basically just learned how to do SNL at the same time. We happened to be in a couple sketches together, so we chatted and we bonded over the new guy thing. James, are there any impressions you haven’t done yet that you want to do on the show? He said, I love those old text to speech voices on an old Mac computer. You know what I’m talking about.
You know how sometimes you batter’d be running low. My favorite voice was Bruce. If you pick Bruce would be like, and I don’t know what the impression is here he does. Please plug in your MacBook. I’m dying to play Bruce from the mac os from the nineties.
One day, I’ll write the perfect sketch for Bruce from mac Os and it’s gonna blow everyone’s mind. The minute the world here’s this Bruce voice. It’s over. I still haven’t gotten to see The Shark is Broken. It’s on my list and I have to use my Today Ticks code DCN to go see it.
But Richard Dreyfus, who was in Jaws, he saw The Shark is Broken. He’s criticizing it for what he says our inaccuracies and for making him look like a big jerk. He told Vanity Fair, I want to see it to see if it was really gonna hurt it did if you don’t know what this is. The Shark Is Broken is based on Robert Shaw’s diary. It depicts a long rumored feud between Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw.
During the film Jaws is Hurry Up and wait keep cod shooting. Dreyfus has played by Alex Brightman, has depicted as neurotic and insecure, while Shaw’s non stop drinking continually slows down and a ready tortures shoot. Dreyfus told Vanity Fair when we were surrounded by lots of other people, Robert would take digs at me, and I’d take a dig at him. It was only to make the hours go better, faster. We didn’t take any of that seriously.
Thirty years after the film is over, I start to hear this thing about a feud. I didn’t pay too much attention. Dreyfus has some harsh words for screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and for Steven Spielberg, for as Vanity Fair says, what he perceives as their role in spreading the story about his relationship with Shaw. When Dreyfus says, I don’t think they gave it any thought that it would hurt me, and it did. I have to say that Carl and Stephen knew better because there was no feud.
There was an ongoing kind of humor between us. If you only saw us on the set, you might think there was something the feud was going on, But it’s never real. Never, And I hold that against Carl and Stephen. Oh no, the shark is broken. Close as November nineteenth, I gotta get cracking on this.
I’ve been busy. I mentioned there’s a marathon Sunday. That’s what I’ve been doing with all my time, all right, I gotta try and see this in the next two weeks. Let’s see who is at the three one two Comedy Festival tonight. This in Chicago where they don’t have calendar technology and they just post the shows in alphabetical order, so I have to just scroll down and find one.
Come on, guys, you gotta do better with this website. Nate Bergatzy at the Chicago Theater tonight night, John christ Is at Rialzo Square, Nicole Bayer at the Riviera Theater, Dan Cummins at the vic That’s a great venue. Gals on the go at Park West, and some smaller shows. What time are these shows? I don’t know.
Get your website together, folks, like the New York Comedy Festival has theirs together. I went to ny Comedy Festival dot com, slash schedule and clicked date. That’s how you do it. The New York Comedy Festival is an interesting one. I’m a New Yorker and New York is just too big.
You go to other cities, and when I have a comedy festival, it kind of takes over the city. In New York, this thing tends to be invisible despite the really fantastic acts. And the really great job that the people organizing this festival do. And there’s some really famous venues involved. New York’s just too big.
But some of the shows tonight Daniel Sloss at Town Hall at seven o’clock, Ladies Who Ranch at seven at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. An Evening with Chicken Big at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, also at seven. I’m clicking on this. What is this? You were cordially invited to an Evening with Chicken Big, a soiree of seriously absurd, seriously classy comedy.
Chicken Big are the three dumbest, richest, most powerful guys you’ve ever seen, and together they will create an experience that has never happened before. Prior evenings have included a black tie gala at a vent Massus, a birthday clown, a giant baby, a game of Tug of War with the entire audience, and a live human pinata. Sounds like a fun, not wacky improv show. Joey bay Are at the Manhattan Movement North Center at seven. Natalie Roder Lateman Life Is Life at Union Hall at seven.
Sabrina Wood the Bellhouse at seven thirty. Jeff Ross at the hard Rock at eight, Jordan Jensen at the stand at eight, I Ateed Rodriguez, Chelsea Music Hall, eight thirty, the wonderfully titled Casual Sacks at nine thirty at Club coming an all Horn e Knight for all love It. Zack Zimmerman plays a Little Field at ten and I did not read you all the shows. Good start for the New York Comedy Festival. And speaking of the recently mentioned Zach Zimmerman, he’s one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians.
You should watch right. What reality show would you be good at? He said, the Amazing Race. I think I could easily charm locals by appearing helpless and appealing to their inner sense of pity. And I’m a good driver, but not with a stick.
Look, if you’re going on Amazing Race, you gotta learn how to drive a stick. It comes up. Do I know how to drive a stick? No? But if you tell me I’m going on Amazing Race, I will learn.
Much like if you go on Survivor learn how to make a fire, it’s gonna come up. Zach says, I couldn’t do any of the bungee jumping or skydiving, but that’s what your partners. For Yeah, my son and I watch the show together and we play along like, all right, I’ll do this one. You do this one. None of that bungee jumping heights thing.
I can’t do it. That’s all him. I’ll lead the bugs. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best Greer Barnes told me you’re welcoming the audience into your mind, which reminded me that even though I’m there to entertain, I’m in charge.
Worst advice. Life is like a box of chocolates. That’s your comedy news for today. While the show for free on various apps, including podcasts and overcasts and Spotify, and I guess Apple has one too, but not for back catalog episodes. I’ll tell you that much, all right.
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