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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with a very robust Daily Comedy News for a Saturday. In particular, the nominees for Best Comedy Album Grammy are out. The nominees are Trevor Noah, I wish you would, Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, someone you Love? And Dave Chappelle.
What’s in a name? If you’ve been listening for years, you know I have a pet peeve about the best comedy album. My personal opinion is best comedy album should be, you know, an album. I know what an album is when I see it. They used to come on vinyl, then CD, then digital release.
To me, a comedy album is not a Netflix special. That’s something else. I’m not sure what the latest rules are, but as of twenty twenty one, the rules and guidelines for Best Comedy Album included album’s quote part as a video project. So the Grammys do not agree with me. I understand why they do this, but I don’t know.
I wish an album were an album. Let’s look at the breakdown. Trevor Noah, I wish you would. When I saw that I was like, wait, what, There’s a Trevor Noah comedy album and I googled it. It’s a comedy special that came out in video back in twenty twenty two.
Wand of Sikes. I’m an entertainer. I could see it winning, but I didn’t enjoy it. Chris Rock selective outrage could be a very pointed pick and would make the awards ceremony very very interesting. Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love?
I like that special lot. Dave Chappelle, What’s in a name? Are we going to give a Grammy to Dave Chappelle and open up the whole transgender conversation again? That could be interesting. If you are curious what has won in the past, let me remind you last year Dave Chappelle for The Closer.
The year before Louis C.K. So it’s not like the Grammys are afraid of a little controversy. Could Chappelle go back to back? Tiffany Attis in twenty one, Chappelle in twenty twenty, Chappelle in twenty nineteen, Chappelle in twenty eighteen, Wow, Pat Oswald talking for clapping in twenty seventeen c K and sixteen weird Owl Mandatory Fun in fifteen. I did like that album a lot.
I’m not gonna call that a Lifetime Achievement Award. That was a very very strong album by weird Al twenty fourteen, Kathy Griffin Calm Down Girl twenty thirteen. I’ll let you guess. For ten years you will never remember what won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty thirteen. This beat out Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, Kathy Griffin, A TENACIOUSD You’re Winner in twenty thirteen, Jimmy Fallons Blow Your Pants Off CK one in twelve, Lewis Black and eleven.
Stephen Colbert A Colbert Christmas won in twenty ten. What a weird pick That beat out Kathy Griffin, George Lopez, Batten Hossballd, Spinal Tap, Back from the Dead, and a weird Al Internet Leagus album George Carlin won in two thousand and nine. George passed away June of two thousand and eight. Flight of the Concords in two thousand and eight, Lewis Black and O seven, Chris Rocks Never Scared in O six two thousand and five. John Stewart in the cast of The Daily Show for The Daily Show with John Steward presents America a Citizen’s guy to democracy in action.
That’s a terrible pick. The other nominees also terrible, Ellen de Generous, Al Franken, David Sedaris, and Triumph. I probably would have given it to Triumph two thousand and four, Weird Owl’s Poodle Hat two thousand and three, Robin Williams Live on Broadway two thousand and two, Carlin two thousand and one, Carlin two thousand, Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, and we don’t need to go back to last century. At the New York Comedy Festival, the Scleroderma Research Foundation at its Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine tribute to Bob Saget they raised more than one point two million dollars for the SRF. Congrats.
Jeff Ross kicked off the night, then Ronny Chieng went up, Nikki Glaser, Michael Chay, two of the Counting Crows did a rendition of a long December great song. Singer Adam Duritz shared that was a favorite of Bob Saggett. Bob’s widow, Kelly Rizzo said the fact that everybody’s still showing up for Bob means so much. We’re all trying to do our best without him. Jeff Ross said, I miss Bob.
We’re keeping his name alive. If you knew Bob, the real Bob was the guy who hosted this event. You never saw Bob cry unless it was at this event. See the inside of Bob is hard. At this event, he had a passion for the Sclidermer community.
He’d be proud of this tonight. He’d be proud of Kelly, his nephew Adam, and his daughters. Dave Chappelle spotted outside the Comedy Seller on Wednesday night. Apparently Dave popped in and did a set. The Daily Mail didn’t report on the set at all, but they said Dave stood under the Comedy Seller’s sign in a blank tech top that showcased his chiseled arms.
Dave wore a silver and black luxury wristwatch. I challenged you to say luxury wristwatch even once. I can’t do it. You have no idea how many takes I just took out. The comedian sported a shaved head and had a chain dangling for his neck and grinned while posing for a photo with DJ Seipher sounds The Rock says he really doesn’t want to be the president.
There was a poll that said forty six percent of Americans would vote for The Rock. The Rock was on Trivor Noah’s new podcast, and The Rock says, that was an interesting poll that happened. I was really moved by that, and I was really blown away. I was really honored. At the end of the year in twenty twenty two, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run and if I could run.
It was a big deal that came out of the blue, and it was one after the other. They brought up that poll. They also brought up their own deep dive research that would prove should I ever decide to go down that road. But The Rock told Trevor Noah, matter of fact, there’s a lot of things about politics that I hate. The Minneapolis Star Tribune caught Trevor Noah’s show at the Orpheum.
The heart of his current act. They tell us consists of stories about MLK, Junior German history, Columbus Day, and national anthems. One bit apparently hinged on knowing at least a little about Andrew Jackson’s treatment of his slaves, they write. His delivery is as gutsy as his choice of material. Most comics panic if they go twenty seconds without getting a laugh.
Not Trevor. Noah. He’s willing to dedicate more than a minute to setting up a joke, a risky stunt that paid off over and over again. During a lengthy Q and A at the end, he responded to questions about his love life, Donald Trump’s legal troubles, and Trevor’s decision to wear a shirt from H and M. Pathan McDonald is like super hot lately told you the other day somebody had named her like the comedian to watch, or the next great Thing, or whatever she was deemed.
ABC News caught up with her. She talked about launching a podcast after she heard a fellow comic a launched a podcast to get his name out there and sell more tickets. Heather said, I was like, if a podcast can help do that, I’m gonna do that, and she launched Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald back in twenty fifteen. Heather strives to be anything but divisive, but despite her best efforts, she found herself in the middle of a debate about the coronavirus vaccine after she collapsed during a twenty twenty two stand up set in Arizona. Footage of her fainting was used in a video compilation that pedaled misinformation about vaccine side effects.
Before she collapsed, Heather jokes she had never contracted the virus. Heather says, I fainted right after that, and I have never fainted before or after. She says she still hasn’t had the virus and is indeed vaccinated, and says the video has done nothing but hurt my career because the pro vaccination people think I’m like a puppet for the anti vaxxers, and the anti vaxxers call me names for getting vaccinated. I say, everyone make decisions for themselves, and I have no say in the matter. The Flyover Comedy Festival wraps up in Saint Louis today.
They have a wonderful grid where you can see all the shows on one nice screen. I wish all comedy festas would do this. Some of the more famous people today seven o’clock Jeff Ross, nine o’clock Janelle Jeames, and ten o’clock Shane Tours. There are a bunch of other shows. It looks like that was a really good festival.
I can now delete the bookmark. My browser tab gets quite full with all these festivals. Let’s go to this other bookmark the New York Comedy Festival. See what’s going on tonight. The second Saturday of the festival is usually the big big nights.
They don’t have a grid, so I have to scroll down. Todd Barry is at the Bell House at four point thirty. That’s a cool time. I don’t know what I’m gonna do tonight. The Beach Boys are playing by my house and Jimmy Carr is down in Philadelphia, and I’m tempted to do both, and there’s a good chance I do neither, because I am so wiped out from last weekend’s event, which I won’t mention.
David Kegner plays Chelsea Music Hall at six thirty. Donnell Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven. It’s Goo on Coska seven o’clock, Town Hall, Brett Goldstein Beacon seven o’clock. So many good shows. Shamilton and Improvised Hip Hop Musical at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective at seven, Steph Tolv at the Bell House seven thirty.
Irene to Hew at Union Hall, seven thirty Nathan McIntosh The Down with Tech Tour, Grammercya seven thirty, Mittel Lane, Carnegie Hall, eight o’clock Matteo Lane can Fill Carnegie Hall. Wow Wow, I would have bet a dollar against that. Sophie Sucker’s Sophie Sucks Face, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. David Keckner, Chelsea Music Hall eight thirty, Otsgo Again at nine thirty, don Ell Again at nine forty five, D’ll say Sloan Grammar Sya ten thirty. The LA Times has been standing up for LA Comics at the New York Comedy Festival.
They want us to go see Nicky Paris, who’s at the Lori Beachman Theater at nine thirty. Before moving to LA in twenty eighteen, Staten Island native Nicky Paris only dreamed of headlining the NYCF Fresh to Stand Up as a teen. His love of Joan Rivers brought him to the Lorie Beachman Theater one of her workout rooms as an audience member. Does that math work out? How old is Nicky Paris?
All right? It here as Nicky Paris was born Christmas Eve of nineteen ninety two. Jon’s been gone a minute? Now, when did Joan die? Joan passed away twenty fourteen.
So if Joan did a live show, say a month before she passed away, and you were born in nineteen ninety two, you could be twenty two and see Joan Rivers. Okay, the math does work out, Johnny Mack, why don’t you shut up and leave Nicky Parris alone? Separate from the festivals, Rory Scovel is taping his next special tonight at the Cows Center in Minneapolis. A lot of Minneapolis talk this week. Neil Brennan’s at the Fonda Theater in la also taping a special.
Marlon Wayans also also also taping a special at the Apollo. And is that not part of the New York Comedy Festival. There’s a move. I’m gonna take my special in the middle of the festival and not be part of the festival. But the festival had other shows at the Apollo.
But I just regular list. I didn’t see his name there. Who knows? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube.
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