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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m hinting Mack with your Daily comedy, and he was, Let’s play a game. Can I finish recording this episode before my wife comes home? Let’s see Upworthy ask the question you were probably wondering, which is, what do you get when you combine comedian Trevor Noah, Tennis legend Roger Federer, and the world famous clockmaking, chocolate brewing, alpine skiing symbol of neutrality Switzerland? I feel like doing Karnack now Trevor Noah, Roger Feederer and Switzerland.
And then you rip open an envelope and you read, apparently aid’s a lightfully charming train ride through the Swiss countryside. What are you talking about, John Well, Trevor Noah and Roger Federer are in a tourism ad. Just last week I told you Trevor Noah was the spokesperson for South Africa tourism. This isn’t that at all. This is Switzerland.
It’s an ad for the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland. Let’s listen. I’m sorry, Roger, but this script just isn’t funny TV. How many times doff to tell you it’s a It’s not supposed to be funny. Gentlemen, we are going to start to shoot on the train in four minutes.
I cour thank you. We’ll see in five four, yes, four minutes. Both Trevor and Federer are half Swiss. As these sketch continues, they appear to hop on the wrong train while arguing about whether or not the ad they’re filming is funny, or whether it even should be. I watched it.
I thought it was a lot of fun. It’s been a bad week for reviews. Don’t blame me on this one, Blame the Daily Beast. They write SNL Comedy Team, please don’t destroy bomb their movie debut ouch The Treasure of Foggy Mountain is proof that it’s not easy extending sketch stick to feature length. The Daily Beast writes, a frustrating lack of consistency holds please don’t destroy back.
As they introduce themselves to an audience unfamiliar with their rhythms shaped by the condensed format of TikTok with an approximate fifty to fifty ratio of inspired silliness to repetitive edits as jokes, they’re caught between a measure of evident talent and the temptation to fall back on their safest tendencies the beast continue. So many of the twenty first centuries big studio comedies fit themselves into the grooves shared which we I mean old chums trying to crack each other up, a mode that only works when we’re part of the gang. Otherwise, the riffing starts to grate as idle self amusement, and the viewers get to thinking about the difference between an eight funniness and the skills required to craft the film. All of which is to say it should surprise no one to learn that this motion picture was produced by jud appatow Wow. Ralph Barbosa picked late Friday afternoon to announce a tour.
Why so much news came out on Friday, I don’t know, but he’s announced dates for the twenty twenty four Super Cool Ass Tour. Love It the Paressor Lease Umple brags that Ralph Barbosa Cowabunga, released October thirty first, spent two weeks in Netflix’s Top ten TV chart, debuting at number three. The tour kicks off January twelfth in San Diego.
Also visit Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, al Passo, Albuquerque, …
On May twenty fifth, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. You haven’t mentioned him at all lately. I know, right well, good news. The New York Times wrote an article about him and wrote, Matt Rife f leans into a sex appeal. You could see it the swaggering way he poses for photos or shows off his biceps like a boy band star.
He invites you to admire him. It says from the stage that his audience is mostly women. Part of his charm is that he speaks like a teen beat cover boy, saying things like homophobias a massive pet peeve of mine. His debut special was called OnlyFans, and he flirts with the audience. He posted workout clips on social media and uses a topless photo for his Instagram avatar.
Can you hear the side switching? Like? Uh? The Battlerife backlash has begun. I’m declaring it wherever you write now check your watch.
This is when the matte Rife backlash started. The Times writes, if Zoolanders started doing open mics, he would act like Matt Rife. This is touchy territory because we already live in a world where every young musical star is attractive, male politicians needs to be tall to get elected president, and the advantages for actors pleasing to look at or taken for granted. Now, Comedy two is the algorithm gonna make the out of shape nebbish stand up and endangered species. Good question.
I mentioned a few times all week about Leslie Jones and The Daily Show and there being no buzz. Huffington Post said maybe they figured it out. On Thursday, Leslie was joined by Jordan Klepper and they did the headlines together. Huff Poe writes, it’s not clear if that was a one time team up or if the two were under consideration as permanent hosts, but the duo brought enough energy to power a city. I’ll chime in, They’re not going to pay two hosts.
Why would you do that? You’re not going to today at town Hall, New York City. It’s the Arab American Comedy Festival North Jersey. Dot com rits co creators Mayson Zaid and Dean Obadalla we’re still tackling bigotry through comedy twenty years after they founded this thing. Zayid said, I think in this time where we’re being dehumanized and we’re being vilified, it’s such an incredible opportunity for us to be us until the audience laugh with us.
Today’s show will feature a roster of Arab American comics and a fireside chat with actor Tony Chaloub. Dean said, we’re hoping people outside of our community who want to come and just laugh at a really good comedy show also come out. Zayid said she campaigned for Joe Biden, but since the war in Gaza, she’s been iced out by Biden and his team. She joked, my other ex boyfriends are so jealous of Joe Biden right now because he has taken over my stand up comedy. I don’t even talk about them anymore.
Oh yeah, Joe Biden totally tricked me. We were like arm in arm in the White House looking gorgeous in May, and then October comes around and you know, he totally ghosted me and turned my family into ghosts. Wow, wait, my wife is home. I told you that was gonna happen. I guess we’re gonna take the break here, be right back where were we?
It’s twenty five minutes later in my life for you those about three minutes. It’s a lot later now, John, Why don’t you just do it edit because that’s not fun. I want you to know what actually happened. I was telling you about the Arab American Comedy Festival. Do you know what Dalla said?
My jokes really go through the spectrum of right after nine to eleven. The jokes were all about, hey, we’re just like you, don’t beat us up. I mean literally, that’s one of the jokes. Then over time they became a little bit more about pushing back against bigotry. Over the years, festival alumni have included Pete Dominic, media commentator and podcast host.
I hired Peace to be a host for me at Sirius xm Rami Usef and Mohmair also appeared at the festival. There’ll be some upcoming shows. If you’re not in New York City today, visit Arabiccomedy dot com. Feard O is tough to Instagram on Thursday to share a note and captured it for the five people who care. Someone asked me today why comedians don’t host film awards in India.
Now many comedians, myself included, have scripted every film award we have. The point of having comedians host the Oscars or Film Awards is that for a night a jester would humanize the most beautiful, chosen people in the world since they were being celebrated already. That’s when any joke is a punch up. Here. Egos won’t take a joke from anyone who’s not at their level, so you go big.
Ironically, the bigger the star who hosts the trigger it’s going to be. So a huge star hosting works for people in the room, just not always funny for the people watching, simply because the power imbalance is off. It’s only funny when the host has less power. So you’re deciding between who you want the show to be funny for the viewers or the winners. Eric Farwell writes for The Internder Pound Gorilla and caught a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival and got around a recapping them.
That’s not a dig, Eric, I’m just explaining to the audience why I didn’t mention this a week ago. Eric writes Tina Frimmel and Robin Tran headline two very different shows, crushed in two different venues, and at comics who were well on their way open or co headlined with them. Chanelle Ali has always turned the room into a bunch of astronauts, because after you see her set, a lot of other comedy doesn’t quite the same way. Stacy Kaye was a student erradite, which is to say, professionally funny in a really unique way. Notice I’m glossing over a lot, but I’m just excited to write about how good Tran and Fremo were.
Okay, when it comes to Tina Frimmel, there might not be anyone killing it as hard as her working in New York right now. There’s a unique rhythm to her sets that can crescendo and fall she wants, and by utilizing it as a tool in her jokes, there are opportunities to juice align or let things sit a bit longer. They make it feel opponent, alive and exciting. One of the best things about the way she’s used her unique accouterments of her speaking voice is to make the audience lean in to hear her. There’s such power in this and by having the audience go to her, she can take time to ratchet up anticipation and destroy Robin.
Tran blends the style of nineteen ninety and early aughts club jokes around a core part of her identity as a trans woman, getting to see her run a set that dealt with things like the particular of her experience as a queer person as well as a queer person who loves wrestling in M and M with the verve and edge of someone like Greg Giraldo, who helped me to champion her as the future of comedy. Even more, Trean is gentle but cranky, and it lends the comedy of fun prickliness. Watching her sidle up to lightly dark ideas about her dead friend with humble confidence, managing to both be the hero and a bit of a heal is funny every single time. Some other folks. Eric Farwell wrote about Mita Johari was lucky to have such an attentive and appreciative fan base in Brooklyn, But I’m still not convinced we deserve her brilliance.
She’s operating on rarefied level or it.
Also, like Sidney Washington And wrote in Sunday Set, she had a lot of great …
In a story about seeing someone get slapped on the subway, she takes time to clarify the slap, describing it as a comic book smack with the word slap written above the victim’s head. It’s such a delightful and silly joke, but it takes a keen eye to recognize that this splash of color in the joke will help. It’s so easy to miss, but Washington knows what she’s after, and it kills just a little bit harder because she’s so thoughtful about what each line needs and from exclaim Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous ski collision lawsuit, it’s becoming a musical. You may recall earlier this year, Paltrow was found not responsible for a twenty sixteen ski accident that left a retired optometrist with four broken ribs, a concussion, and permanent brain damage after an eight day court case. In the civil suit, the optometrist alleged that the goop guru was it fault for him crashing in a her from behind on the slopes of Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah.
Paltrow’s victory saw her awarded a symbolic one dollar plus legal fees. Well, now it’s a musical. It’s called Gwyneth Coast Skiing. It’ll premiere at the Pleasants in London’s West End on December thirteenth. The score features original music I would hope so, I mean, what are you gonna do?
Play Bohemian Rhapsody? Of course. It features original music, a synopsis of the story of love, betrayal, skiing and Christmas reads. She’s the goop founding Shakespeare Loving, consciously uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired autometrist from Utah.
In twenty sixteen, they went skiing on the slopes of Deer Valley. The World’s collided, and so did they? Literally? Oh one more story from Stuff dot co dot NZ aka New Zealand Stuff. They ask, are Jerry Seinfeld seats the most expensive tickets ever sold to New Zealand.
I haven’t busted out half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld for a while. If you’re a new listener, most people’s Jerry Seinfeld’s impression is, Hey, do you ever noticed that mineus? The slow burning angry Jerry, and as I described the impression, it is half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. I’m not rich little here, I’m no Frank Calliando, but here we go as half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld, New Zealand. Stuff rights, so no singer the Concert of d Tickets seam to go out in price with every passing year and fork it out the big bucks for big names, something most people are used to dog.
But would you pay at your fifty dollars, say Jerry Seinfeld. That’s a question many fans are being faced with as they rush to get tickets to the comedian’s first New Zealand show since twenty seventeen. Jerry will do two shows in June, one in Auckland and one in christ Church. An in demand ticket for Rose six would set you back seven hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety New Zealand currency since four to seventy five. Stuff says, eight hundred and forty nine ninety is a lot of money for between ninety minutes and two hours of comedy, the usual length of a Seinfeld show on this tour.
That works out to between seven and nine dollars per minute. Okay, if you’re curious, and I know you are. I did the conversion on Friday afternoon, converting the New Zealand currency dollars into US dollars. Seinfeld ticket five hundred and nine bucks. That’s your comedy news for today.
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