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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. Although I am recording this on Wednesday afternoon, I will admit I have my foot off the gas today.
Thanksgiving might be slightly fewer listeners than usual Tomorrow all about Matt Rife. I just recorded Friday before I did this one. There’s a ton of Matt Rife controversy. We’ll cover that tomorrow. If you’re a new listener, don’t judge me by today.
I’m about to do some awful Thanksgiving jokes. Normally the show is not this hacky, but I’ve been doing this the last few Thanksgivings and it’s just fun and makes me smile. All Right, you already hacky Thanksgiving jokes? Why did the turkey bring a microphone? He was ready to roast?
Which side of a turkey has more feathers the outside? What did the turkey say when he met the president? Pardon me? How does a turkey travel by grievy train? And what do you call it?
Turkey? The day after Thanksgiving? Lucky Jim Gaffick wrote about Thanksgiving back in twenty fourteen. Jim wrote, back then, everyone seems to gain weight during the holidays. Unfortunately, the way I eat, I often find myself gaining weight for the holidays.
This positive spin on my approach is that it makes the holiday weight gain seem less dramatic. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Sure, the Canadians have a Thanksgiving, but I think they have theirs in October. Something weirdos I don’t think they even celebrate Fourth of July. Thanksgiving is intended to be about gratitude, a day of gratitude.
Thank God, there’s a day for us to focus on being grateful, because I’d hate the idea of having to be grateful year round. We express this gratitude by over consuming turkey and assortment of side dishes and of course pies. Jim wrote some dialogue here. Again, this was a print article, but I can imagine him voice painting this. He talked about what little effort went into the planning?
How about it? Thanksgiving we just eat a lot, but Americans do that every day. Well, what if we eat with a lot of people that are only the hell out of us? Thanksgiving is all about overeating. Even one of the main dishes is actually called stuffing.
What names did they turn down cram it in. I hope the turkeys never find out about this practice of stuffing turkey. You guys are gonna kill me human. Oh, it’s gonna get a lot worse. Back in twenty eighteen, Jerry Seinfeld was on with Jimmy Fallon and Jerry said, everyone loves Thanksgiving, but let’s remember it’s an absolute horror.
The warmth in the horror of this day like itself warm and wonderful underneath horror and tragedy. From twenty twenty two, Kamil Nanjianni doesn’t understand why Americans eat turkey. His parents recent immigrants and wanted to participate in the tradition. They came up with a solution. Kamel tells a story.
They’re like, we have to put a lot of macella on the turkey because we don’t like how it tastes. I’m like, you don’t have to eat turkey, and they’re like, it’s Thanksgiving. Kmeil said, turkey tastes like chicken having a bad day. Tweenty years ago. Let’s face it, Turkey’s not that good, and people were like, go back to your country.
Heather McMahon spoke to the Messenger and said, I’m over turkey. I want a filet. I want surf and turfer Thanksgiving, a blooming onion from out back Steakhass would be perfect. She’s hoping to turn off football and force her family to watch her special for the ten thousand times. Don’t worry, my mom will criticized me in a funny way and tell me I shouldn’t have worn that shit, that makeup wasn’t flattering or whatever.
That’s what it will be watching for the holidays. I’ll be honest with you. I think Black Friday is for sociopaths. However, I’ll probably be an old Navy down by my host because I’m an old Navy gown. I love it.
If they put those Rockstar jeans on sale, I’ll be there. I’ll try and be lazy and laight in bed all day and relax a drink while I’m cooking all day, and then my mom, who’s seventy five and sassy, You’ll be like, get in the car. It’s an extra seventy percent off. And I’ve done this a few years in a row. Rolling Stone broke down Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song back in twenty nineteen.
It is an amazing breakdown. The Thanksgiving song debuted on November twenty first, nineteen ninety two, on Saturday Night Live, then appeared on his nineteen ninety three album They’re All Gonna Laugh At You. Rolling Stone wrote, to truly appreciate the song’s inherent brilliance, we must examine Sandler’s free associate of lyrics, one rhyme at a time. Right, you’re ready. First one love to eat turkey because it’s good.
Love to eat turkey like a good boy should. Rolling Stone wrote, one of the most important rules of songwriting is to open with the line that your listeners can immediately relate to. And who doesn’t love to eat turkey? Lesus? Of course you’re vegan, in which case you can easily substitute tofurkey without messing up the rhyme scheme.
Genius. All right, next couplet turkey for me, eat turkey for you. Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe. God. I love Adam Sandler’s comedy.
I mean, right there, that is just brilliant, rolling Stone wrote, after finding common ground with his listeners. In the first verse, Saanidlor throws a curve with a non sequitor clearly influenced by the surrealism movement of the twenties and thirties. Andre Brayton sure would be proud, all right. Next couplet, love to eat the turkey at the table. I once saw a movie with Betty Graebil.
God, I love Adam Sandler’s comedy so much. Rolling Stone brilliantly wrote. One of the most popular actresses and pinups in the nineteen forties, Betty Graebel famously had a million dollar insurance policy taken out on her legs. By twentieth century Fox Sailor may be here, subtly comparing the flavor of a roast turkey leg to the deliciousness of Grabel’s gambs. Next couplet, eat that turkey all night long.
Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong, Rolling Stone rites, it’s no coincidence that Adam Sandler’s Salutes perhaps the greatest of the King’s Greatest its compilations. Ninety fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong. Elvis’ Gold Records Volume two. Thanksgiving was a big holiday for Elvis. Not only could the man put away some serious grub, but six of his films were initially released on Thanksgiving Day, m Well played, sir, oh, there’s more turkey lurky dew and turkey lurky dap.
Eat that turkey, then I take a nap, rolling Stone says saidlor again, finding common ground with his listeners, Sandler invokes the time honored Thanksgiving tradition of sacking out after dinner and a trip to fan and carbohydrate Hayes love this next couple. Thanksgiving is a special night. Jimmy Walker used to say, Dino might Now this song is from nineteen ninety two. Here thirty years later, do you kids even know what we’re talking about? Rolling Stone reminds us Sandler humbly acknowledges the fleeting nature of fame with his touching shout out to Jimmy JJ Walker, a popular actor and comedian of the nineteen seventies.
Another dated reference turkey with gravy and cranberry. Can’t believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry. Well, first of all, the Mets didn’t trade Daryl Strawberry. He left as a free agent. Rolling Stone analyzed that fun fact and said, this cup but may be meant as a fly on the wall.
Snippet of a conversation evolving a father or uncle whose opinions on sports are really grounded in reality. Turkey for you and Turkey for me. Can’t believe Tyson gave that girl VD speculation that this is another fly on the wall conversation. Next up, white meat, dark meat. You just can’t lose.
I fell off my moped and I got a bruise. Rolling Stone says an important public safety message from sailor who knows firsthand the dangers of operating a vehicle. Turkey in the oven and the buns and the toaster. I’ll never take down my Cheryl Tigg’s poster. Not much analyzed there, other than Cheryl Tiggs being the first model to appear multiple times on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
Next up, Warning, couplets a little naughty. I’ll clean it up. Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil. My brother likes to do stuff with baby oil. Rolling Stone then analyzed the baby oil reference.
You either know you don’t happy Thanksgiving Turkey and sweet potato pie. Sammy Davis Junior only had one eye straightforward reference to Sammy Davis June Yes. Next up, Turkey for the Girls. Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys.
God. I love Adam Saylor’s comedy It’s brilliant. Gobble gobblego and Gobble Gobble Giggle. I wish turkey only cost a nickel, Rolling Stone says, of course, as turkey dinner costs much more than nickel these days, there are many people living below the poverty line who can’t afford to put the Thanksgiving meal on their table. With this concluding couplet, Sailor asks us to remember the less fortunate during this and every holiday season.
From the ASU website. Comedia Christina Wong is drawing laps as a food bank influencer. She’s got a humorous show called Sex Lies and food Banks, reimagining the future of emergency food. She does parody songs one two Welcome to the Jungle, which is welcome to the food bank. We got groceries if you got no money, honey, we take ebt.
Using humor to make her point, Wang asks the audience reveal the things they’ve done to get a free meal when they were food insecure, and they answered, including attending on campus events, going on boarding dates, volunteering to pack boxes at a food bank, and exchange for a hot meal, and going to a church you don’t believe in. She says, I’m not curing food insecurity. I’m curing food going into a landfill. Will you be eating spam today? Probably not.
But The Guardian has reviewed the revival of the Spamalot Musical one of my favorite musicals. I’ve seen it. I saw the original run twice on Broadway, I’ve seen a regional presentation of it, and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one. Four stars out of five from the Guardian, and they wrote, if you saw the Broadway production the first time, of course you’re going to go back. Who would pass up a chance to relive Eric idols hilariously dark spoof of the Middle Ages.
They particularly enjoy the song that goes like this, which includes the promise I’ll sing it in your face while we both embrace. Spam Alot open November sixteenth at the Saint James Theater. You should go. And that’s your comedy news for this Thanksgiving. Hope you have a good one meets you back here tomorrow.
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