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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. He’s got to tell you a lot of stories today that My reaction was, uh, I didn’t see that coming. We’ll get to that in a second quick stop off at late night, do you see Senator Mullen challenged the president of the Teamsters to a fight. Yeah, apparently that happened and Bernie Sanders had break it up.
Jimmy Kimmel said, this is the first time Bernie Sanders was forced to play the role of peacemaker. You know, when he was originally elected to the Senate, he tried to convince Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton to hug it out. And that didn’t work either. That didn’t end well at all. First story, I wasn’t expecting.
Kevin Hart is the winner of the twenty fifth annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Mark Twain Prize will honor Kevin Hart in a ceremony on March twenty fourth. You hear the hesitation of my voice, Let me tell you a story, then we’ll get to the hesitation. The Center cited his iconic character inimitable physical comedy and relatable narratives, as well as his achievements as a comedian, actor, writer, and producer. In a statement, Kevin Hart said, to be honored in this commemorative year feels surreal.
Comedy is my outlet for social commentary and observations on life. I’m grateful to the Kennedy Center for recognizing my voice and impact on culture. Can’t wait to celebrate all right? The hesitation of Johnny Mack’s voice is Kevin Hart? That funny look.
I get that he’s super popular, super charismatic, has some good films. I guess does he. Let’s look that up. We’ll start with the most recent Diehartbody Care, League of Super Pets, Jumanji, The Next Level, The Secret Life of Pets two, First Jumanji, Captain Underpants, Central Intelligence, Ride Along, Right Along Too, Get Hard. I feel like I’m forgetting something, so I have googled the phrase best Kevin Hart movies, and I’ve come to MovieWeb dot com and their article of best Kevin Hart movies ranked ten Captain Underpants nine Nights School eight, Ride Along all Right, seven, This is the End six thirty five and ticking?
Can you tell me what that even is? Five? Central Intelligence, all Right, four, Get Hard three, The Secret Life of Pets, two, Jumanji and one from twenty fourteen Top five. Top five tells the story of New York City comedian turned to film star Andre Allen, who’s unexpected encounter where the journalist forces him to confront the comedy career in the past that he’s left behind. Chris rock is in this movie.
Jerry seinfeldt as a cameo. Does anyone remember this movie? Maybe It’s just me again? Kevin Hart seems nice, works hard, decent body work. It’s comedies, all right.
Here are some previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize. Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winter’s, Carl Reiner, Whoopy Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lord Michael, Steve Martin, Neil Simon, Billy Crystal. Now, if we start from two thousand and eight, George Carlin, Bill Cosby won in two thousand and nine, but that was rescinded in twenty eighteen. Don’t Ask Questions, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia Louis dreyf Is, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, and now Kevin Hart. Again.
I’m not gonna think about this again until March. But my premise today was a lot of stuff that I was like, huh, I didn’t see that coming. Matt Riife’s new specials out on Netflix. Did you watch it yet? Rife says it’s incredible.
My first two specials I had to do because I’ve been doing comedy for ten and eleven years. When I did them and I was sitting on material, I was very proud of it, but I was like, I don’t know what to do with it. Nobody wants to give me a special. What do I do? So I put them out on my own, which is very validating in of itself.
But to have somebody come from another level be like, hey, we like what you’re doing, we like what you’ve done for yourself. We want to invite to work with us, it feels warm, It feels inviting. Netflix has been great about the entire creative process. Matt was asked if he was worried about, you know, being canceled. Basically is the question every interview asked that question.
Matt said, I don’t really adhere to this whole sensitivity rumor in the comedy world that you can’t say anything anymore. That’s bs you could say whatever you want now you have to prepare for repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to how do you sleep at night? You know what I mean? Other people’s perspective of you isn’t your responsibility, So how can he sleep at night?
The way I look at it is as a comedian, everything comes down to intent. I know for me, everything that leaves my mouth on stage is purely with the intention of making people laugh. It’s never any deeper, never any more, or never any less than that. That’s all it is to me. Now.
I like dark humor. I don’t believe there’s anything you can’t talk about if you do it correctly, in the right way, at the right time. And at the end of the day, I think you need to just go out there. You have to be yourself, not worry about offending a certain amount of people. You get the idea skip bad on that answer.
He was asked about being known for a crowd work now and Matt said, surprise to me as well, it’s also something I haven’t been doing for that long. It became something that I had fun doing. One thing is a comedian. Even though throughout your entire year you’re growing and working on your material, you feel like you’re getting a bit of groundhock day, or you’re telling the same one hour show over and over. Even I get tired of my own jokes if you tell them over and over again.
So crowd work is spontaneous and unique. I like being surprised, and the ongoing theme of every Matt Rife interview this week is about his looks. Matt said, one of the biggest misconceptions of things I get ridiculed online for is people are like, ah, he only has a female base in the beginning, Yeah, because I blew up on TikTok, which is very female dominant. So I get that perspective. But when you come to the shows, I mean it’s fifty to fifty, it’s couples coming out, its groups of dudes were coming.
That’s one thing I wanted to tackle in this special was showing people that, like, despite me you think of me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. I wanted to make this special for everybody. I pride myself in making my comedy for everybody. It’s not for a specific demographic.
I think if people would just give it a chance with not going in it and be like, ah, like girls like him, I think you’d like it. Here’s another one of those stories I didn’t expect at all. At the beginning of the Netflix Cup in Las Vegas, the TV cameras are on all of a sudden, Bird Kreischer is seen making a bee line to stop a woman who was protesting. The protester appeared to be holding up a sign urging a Formula one to cut ties with the I did a rod dog sled race. Yeah, a little twist there at the end there, Johnny Mac.
I didn’t think dogs led race Bird Kreisher was gonna happen as fifty one year old Berd Krescher grabbed a woman. She was screaming about more than one hundred and fifty dogs, and the cameras quickly cut away. Kays, you’re curious. The Netflix Cup is a series of events featuring golfers and Formula one drivers. Here’s another one I didn’t expect from The Daily Mail.
A millennium comedian disgeneration Z in her stand up routine. The routine was posted Monday on TikTok and fueled the age old war between the olds and the youngs. Who is at the center of this amazing controversy It is Eliza Slesinger, who apparently went on a four minute rant about gen Z and how they’re not nice to millennials. Eliza said, because yours is a context less generation made of soundbites and hot takes, you need to know a little bit about the history of my generation. We’ve taken it up the uh booty.
I’m cleaning that up a little. For our whole existence, we were told we were lazy, and then we could have everything, and then we got out of school if we could afford it, and there were no jobs and there were no houses, and then they said we couldn’t have avocados. A lot of us started doing weird stuff like wearing al jewelry and wide brim hats, moving to Brooklyn and making small batched lavender ice cream. She insisted that the millennials ate the ice cream because it was the food of our people. However, the pandemic changed everything, according to Eliza Slessinger and gen Z started saying stuff to us like, ooh, Millennials, why you so chewgie a word you invented.
Let me chime in here as representative of generation acts, you’re both ridiculous. Hi from old Bad Mountain. How many people just went f this guy? This podcast is stupid. Those of you who are still here, yeah, hear me, I love you back.
Slessunders told her audience she could tell people and gen Z were angry because of society, which was like a tirefire of an urban rummage sale. We’re angry too, but we have heartburn and our back’s hurt. But we’re right there with you. S Lessons are discussed what connectible nails and gen zs, we’re your older brothers and sisters who showed you how to smoke weed out of an apple. We are bosses.
Will give you the day off because your fife’s are retrogreed like, we get it. And she added the people who are over forty that wear their hair down with a part in the middle, you look like a witch anyway. Apparently the gen zs are very upset with that. Don’t do the other day, the New Zealanders were upset that John Oliver was meddling in their Bird of the Century contest. Well, congratulations to John Oliver and the Poudha Katiki again.
Hope, I’m saying that right as you know. It’s a threatened Australasian crusted grebe. The announcement for the annual two week contest winner was delayed by two days after the competition was inundated with votes following John Oliver’s announcement during last week Tonight. Oliver even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon dressed in a Poudha Kaitiki costume to promote the bird. The bird is known for carrying its young on its back, sharing chick rearing responsibilities, and eating its own feathers to induce vomiting as a method to expel parasites and as a course of grunt’s growls and barks, and engages in an elaborate set of mating dances, including the Weed Dance, where the birds offer each other water weed and the Ghostly Penguin where they rise chest chest.
The competition normally attracts just under sixty thousand votes. This year three hundred and fifty thousand votes, with two hundred and ninety three hundred and seventy four going to the Poudah katiki Or. Howard said thousands of fraudulent votes had to be weeded out, including forty thousand votes cast by a single person. Oh not for John Oliver’s bird. The forty thousand were cast for the Towaukee peaky Toca Eastern rock hopper.
Penguins say that five times fast I got it right. On Take three. New Zealand’s national bird, the North Island brown Kiwi, came second with twelve thousand votes. Again, the winner had two hundred ninety thousand, and the world’s only alpine parrot, the Clever key, third place twelve thousand, sixty votes. Forest and Bird Chief executive Nicola Toki said, we’re not surprised these German characteristics caught the eye of an influential bird enthusiast with a massive following good answer.
Oliver said, they’re weird puking birds with colorful mullets. What’s not to love here? A conservation project started in twenty thirteen has increased the population from a low of two hundred in the nineteen eighties to just under one thousand today. We haven’t been a gossip corner in a while. Apparently some fancy people were at Leonardo DiCaprio’s forty ninth birthday in La seen leaving the party together Olivia and Chris Rock.
The Daily Mail says they didn’t hide the fact they were leaving together. They were spotted having a great time and they jumped into an awaiting suv. A driver sped away, so fans of no indication if they were headed to the same spot where if Chris Rock was just hooking her up with a ride. Adam Sandler stopped by Drake University post with the men’s basketball team and shot some hoops. The Drake’s men’s basketball official facebook page shared some photos.
The university said it was great having the legend Adam Sandler stopped by the practice facility before he showed tonight in Des Moine. All Right, I caught up on some podcasts What Now with Trevor Noah. As I was listening to it, and I really like Trevor, I was like another interview show.
And then as I listened to it, I was like, you know what, this is a good inter…
The interview with the Rock was very interesting. Looking forward to seeing who Trevor has on today. I checked out Toss show. I went back and forth. I was like, oh, I’m excited for this.
And then I saw that guest one was quote my wife’s guynecologist, and I was like, play on it. And the opening segment surprisingly really funny, like way funnier than I expected. I was like, oh, this is really good. I’m excited about this one. And that was just the mess around with clips segment, and then the guest was his wife’s gynecologist.
I hit unfollowed not for me. All of a sudden, yesterday, Dan Soder tweeted, Hey, my new podcast is out. Dan Soder’s podcast is called Soda. Episode one is called Ejected from the Car with Big Jay Okerson. As a bit of a podcast expert, this looks like it’s homemade.
I don’t feel like there’s a company behind this. I feel like somebody who knows just enough about putting out a podcast just put this out. Not sure what’s going on there. If you are a new listener, and a lot of new listeners lately, welcome aboard. Sometimes comedy intersects with serious topics.
Lately it has been the Israel Hamas war. So I try to do those stories after the commercial break, because I know you come here for comedy, so I try and do the fun stuff up front and the more serious stuff in the back here. John Lovetts is criticizing John Oliver recently. On last Week Tonight, John Oliver exposed how US money, weapons, and training have boosted the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of Israel. He played a clip of a Palestinian telling reporters about how his daughter was killed by American weapons in the hands of israelis Oliver commented that the made in America slogan that we’re also proud of is being strapped onto stuff that’s killing people.
John Lovettz took issue with the way John Oliver framed the issue on Twitter. I’m not calling it the other thing, John Lovettz tweeted, because it’s Twitter. Yes, the United States is aligned with Israel, our democratic ally, not AMAS, a terrorist organization who broke a two year cease fire, murdered at least twelve hundred in ac cent civilians, and took two hundred and forty civilian hostages back with them so they could start a never ending war with Israel and annihilate Israel and then Jews all over the world. Lovett’s posted again about Oliver’s clip, this time sharing an Israel Today article headlined hamas terrorist confessed to raping corpses beheading children. The comedian told John Oliver, please talk about this on your next show.
That brings us to awkward segue. Lewis black. He has announced the dates for his final tour. Lewis said in a stabman, I’m only retiring from touring. It’s time for me to explore other avenues, such as writing, reading your rants, and pitching TV shows that will be rejected, which is why I know they’re good.
More in Portland, I can finally give my fantasy football team the focus and time it truly needs, and maybe, just maybe I can become the professional golfer I was born to be. The tour is called Goodbye Yeller Brick Road like it. The final tour begins today in Troy, New York. He’ll be in Peak School tomorrow, Waterbury, Connecticut, and New London over the weekend. I’m not going to read you fifty dates.
This thing goes all the way so far into next May. He had said he would tour through the end of twenty twenty four, but some interesting dates here at the end May fourteenth. Amsterdam, yes, that one. Then Brussels, London, Berlin and Stockholm. Interesting choices.
The various friends paid tribute to Matthew Perry. It was interesting. One friend put out a statement, and suddenly another friend put out a statement, and the other friends were like, oh, we better put out statements too. I think this sequence went like this. I’m not sure if I have it one hundred percent correct, but I think matt LeBlanc went first.
On Instagram, matt LeBlanc wrote, it was with heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together honestly among the favorite times of my life. It was an honor to share the stage with you and call you my friend. I’ll always smile when I think of you, and I’ll never forget you. Never spread your wings and fly, brother, You’re finally free.
Much love than Courtney Cox posted, I’m so grateful for every moment I had with you, Mattie, and I miss you every day. When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share for now. Here’s one of my favorites. To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London, but because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story. In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say.
He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind. Her video shared two clips. One was a clip of what aired on the show, and the other was a longer version that showed how close Cox and Perry were in real life. Then the next day, I think we heard from Jennifer Aniston on Instagram.
She wrote, oh boy, this one is cut deep. Having to say goodbye to our Maddie has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experienced loss at some point in our lives, loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really sit in the grief allows you to feel the moments of joint gratitude for having loved someone that deep, and we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.
We were always the six of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Maddie. He knew he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the laugh, he thought he was going to die.
His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh and laugh hard. Then we heard from David Schwimmer. Schwimmer wrote, I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery.
You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend to your wheel, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes. And he had heart, which you were generous with and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers. Schwimmer accompanied his caption with a photo of his and Perry’s characters Ross and Chandler in the Miami Vice inspired college attire. Swarm recalled the image one of my favorite moments with you now. It makes me smile and grieve at the same time.
Imagine you’re up there somewhere in the same white suit, hands in your pockets, looking around. Could there be any more clouds? And that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too.
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