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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deadline caught up with Bert Kracher, who’s talking about his twenty twenty three and he says, for lack of better analogies, it’s felt like a runaway train that I’ve just been holding on to. He compares it to a skier who gets going too fast and just praise he won’t fall. Been there, done that.
I’ll tell you a story some other time about me crashing through not one, two, three, four five, and says maybe Bert has a certain level of fear. I remember Ali Wong telling me it doesn’t go away, and I looked at her and I was like, it one hundred percent does goes away for everyone. And I’m hyper aware of just how fortunate I am. So I wasn’t gonna let go. I held onto this bowl and was like, I’m gonna ride this as long as it lets me ride, and I’m gonna go as hard as if and ken I’m never gonna say no, I’m gonna push it.
He profile points out Bert is aware of the place he occupies in the world of comedy. He says, I’m no John Mulaney and I’m no Chris Rock. He knows that his signature style of performing shirtless makes it challenging for some people to take him seriously. Before a special The Machine premiered on Showtime in twenty six, he was warned that doing the show shirtless would lose him viewers, and that special, which is now kind of famous, wound up being the lowest rated Showtime had ever put out. He credits Joe Rogan for encouraging him to get into podcasting.
Bert says, back when he was doing things like trip Flip for the Travel Channel, it required him travel all over the world doing stuff he didn’t want to do, like swimming with great white sharks, and he made maybe thirty five hundred dollars an episode. But when he began podcasting, he realized after his first one hour episode he’d made seventy five hundred dollars while just sitting around telling stories with friends. He had no overhead, and he began putting episodes together himself and didn’t need to travel, and best of all, there’d be no cut of his feet going to agents, managers and lawyers. Bert said, at that moment, I went, I will never do television again. This is what I want to do.
The Guardian went to see Trevor Noah’s show and they say most of the show reports back on countries and cultures Trevor Noah has encountered while touring, leaving you wondering what did he talk about on the opening shows of the tour. It’s quite the feat to turn these experiences into so much material so soon, but a lot of it rehash hystereotypes. The rude Parisian, the angry Glasswegian, the Londoner resisting eye contact on the tube. That we don’t have real crime in the UK is an observation US based comic has been making since at least Bill hicks hooligan routine. It’s as if Noah, whose technical brilliance isn’t in question, has challenged himself to see if he’s good enough to reanimate some of comedy’s horiust conceits.
He is. The Guardian ads he usually finds an angle on the familiar that jolts it back into the funny. But after two hours, I wanted something fresher and insights, say into the Trevornoah behind the smooth stand up operator, this detached observer of global wars. Noah’s so slick at all, this so supremely at ease on stage. That can feel like coasting, like a holiday for a man who spent seven hard years at Satsire’s Coal Face.
You can’t deny he’s earned it more that it’s fun to come along for the ride. Up Rocks asked Ronnie Ching when he called his tour love to hate it. Ronnie said, I just wanted something cool. It was a little bit funny. I’m sure you know.
It’s hard to think of titles for things, so I was brainstorming for a few weeks. It’s almost like part of me is like, why am I caring so much about something? It doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t need to describe anything. It actually ended up being a good title because it actually does describe where I’m at.
Sometimes you complain professionally as a stand up comedian, in other words, you love to hate it. As a comic, we complain about stuff, but we do it because we love doing comedy. Ronnie said, I love traveling around America and seeing towns and cities that people crap on. I go there and I’m like, oh, this is great. Everyone’s always been really nice to me on the tour.
The fans have been nice to me for the most part. That’s funny. About the most part. I wonder what the other part is. So I get to be a lot of people.
I mean, obviously different ethnicities, but different political backgrounds as well. They’ve always been cool. I like to think I’ve shown mutual respect back. It’s why I say in the show, I talk a little bit about how face to face everyone in America seems fine. Just when you go on the internet, it seems like we’re always on the borderline of civil war.
But face to face, there’s a lot of decency in America. There are more good people than bad people here. Just for last Vancouver announced their performers for the twenty twenty four edition of the annual festival February fifteenth through the twenty fourth in Vancouver. If you’ve never been, Vancouver is an awesome city. There’s an episode of my Travel Is backpodcast where I talk about Vancouver.
There’s a bike shop at least there was ten years ago across from Stanley Park that I loved. I wanted to buy it and just make that my life, or I just rented bikes and hung out in that park. Vancouver’s awesome. So if you want to go to JFL Vancouver February fifteen through the twenty fourth. The performers include Bill Burr, all right, we’re off to great starter ready, Ronny Chieng, want to Pykes, Ben Schwartz, Marlon Wayans, Bossom Yusef, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Byer, Bob the Drag Queen, Christina Poziski, Tom Papa, Jessica Curs, and Patty Harrison.
Some names you might not know, and I don’t want to read fifteen names here. Some you might know, Big Jay Okerson, Chris red Zorna gorg A partner on Trala, Joel Kim Booster, Caroline Ray Mo Gilligan is a fantastic comic, probably off your radar, Chris Gethard, Emma Willman, Jesus Trey ho Mark, Little Josh Johnson, and a bunch of others. Tickets are on sale Friday, ten am Pacific. JFL Vancouver website for more information. David Cross has announced a podcast since his working overtime with David Cross.
It’ll debut December seventh. David chared eight trailer. He’s a clip. You don’t need that one? Oh you don’t, Yeah, you can have them if you’re cold?
Are you going that I can hear you if I don’t have mine. Hi, David Cross and I have a new podcast on Headgum called Senses Working Overtime. Initially, the premise was getting a bunch of friends and family members. You know, Bob oden Kirk, Jason Bateman, Ni Gine Farsa, Steve O, Mark Maren, Jennine Garoppolo, Amber Tamblin, lots and lots of lots of really cool, funny, interesting people. I’m not trying to be funny or anything.
I don’t understand you don’t talking to them about questions relating to the five senses. So the idea for the podcast was David Cross would ask his guests to explore their best, worst, funniest, satus, most beautiful, etcetera. Things they’d ever seen, touch, tasted, smelled and heard. Somewhere along the way, it became a loose premise, a jumping off point to learn more about a variety of fascinating people. Some of those fascinating people include Bob oden Kirk, who you heard on the trailer, Mark Maron, Janine Garoffalo, John Hodgman, Joe Firestone, Eugene Merman, Steve oh amber Tamblin, and Jason Bateman.
A Cross in a statement said, I kind of went into this a bit reluctantly, thinking who’s going to want to listen to or watch another podcast? But I’m really enjoying it. It’s been a lot of fun, with a lot of laughs, with some RAYTL friends and some good new ones. I hope I can make your car, bus, subway, plane, train ride more tolerable. Russell Peters will have a new special at some point.
A production company put out a pressure lease saying they have acquired the special that Russell taped in Abu Dhabi on November twenty third. In the special covers issues such as cancel, culture, aging, and the current geopolitical state of the world, and includes Russell peters signature crowd work. Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show Bookie, is out today on Max. Roger Ebert dot Com gave it a very unenthusiastic review. They wrote, Maniscalco pushes his way through some awful writing in the premiere of Bookie, a half hour of television that can be downright archaic in its sense of humor when it’s not just lazy.
For example, one of Danny’s clients cross dresses as a way to hide from him, leading to some trashy trans jabs, because of course it does. As we’re making jokes about something as addictive as gambling. That’s fine if they’re clever, but everything here is cheap and uninspired. It’s a laugh track, a reduction in profanity, and a studio audience away from being your standard network sitcom. Roder Reaper dot Com continues and says, I don’t think most of the failures of the premiere fall at the feet of Maniscalco, an entertaining stand up who hasn’t quite figured out how to carry himself on screen as a fictional character.
He always looks uncomfortable when he’s not playing himself, But most people would with the writing in this series premiere, a show that I might have once suggested was beneath the HBO brand. But well we all know what happened to that part of the max agenda. Ouch ouch ouch. The New York Times profiled Sebastian this one a little better. They asked him about things he likes.
All right, Sebastian, what are the things you like? One of them Farmer’s markets. Sebastian says, it’s not necessarily shopping for fresh ingredients, but for me now with kids, to watch them walk around the farmer’s market and get excited about seeing that they’re making caramel corn, or get his feed the goat or the rabbits, or there’s a whole pistachial stand as a family tradition that we do on Sundays when I’m in town. Sebastian also likes his wife’s art. My wife is unbelievably positive and cheerful, and her art reflects her personality.
It’s abstract, it’s colorful of tampy. I wasn’t a big art guy prior to being my wife, but I have a different appreciation now about what goes into creating of art. We have this huge peace in the living room that you just put up, and it’s different shades of green. It reminds me of her every time I see it. They also enjoy their willy pop movie nights.
We love making pop corner. My wife churned me onto this machine which has this crank on the side that stirs the colonels. Just canola oil and salt, that’s all you need. We sit and we watch movies, and now the kids are getting older, they’re starting to get into movies I grew up with like The Wizard of Oz and Willie Walka. My daughter is into doing all the songs from Greece.
My San Antonio dot com took us to Gossip Corner, apparently fresh off his sold out shows in San Antonio, Ralph Barbosa was spotted at Midnight Swim, which is a Saint Mary’s Strip bar. So you gotta be careful here because you might assume that it’s a strip bar in Saint Mary’s. No, the location is called the Saint Mary’s Strip, but the sentence says the Saint mary Strip Bar posted snaps and the first time I was like, ooh much Gossip Corner. But no, no, no, it’s just an area called the Saint Mary’s Strip in which there’s a bar named the Midnight Swim. Got it, I’m sure you do.
The bar posted snaps from their celebrity guest on Instagram. In the photos, we see rah Off Barbosa happily posing for the camera solo, as well as a shot of him taking photos with fans under Midnight Swims. Wish you were here, Archway, My San Antonio went full gossip corner. They said, it’s not known if he grabbed a Midnight Swim specialty cocktail, but he was seen clutching a Medello. Modello right now is the number one beer in America.
I’ve been a fan four years. It’s really caught on. Ralph shared some photos on his own insta. He reshared one fan story of him up on stage at the Laugh Out Loud comedy club. But my San Antonio dot com tells us Barbosa’s Instagram post from November twenty sixth is a bit more mysterious.
You’re curious. It’s clear that the photo was taken during the comics venture to the Saint Mary’s Strip. Barbosa seen wearing the same white shirt, gold necklace, and white Louis Vuitton monogram bucket hat that he was wearing at Midnight Swim. The question is did he make any other stops on the strip before heading up to Austin for the next top on his tour. After all, they point out, there’s great food stops near Midnight Swim like worst behavior that’s with a U.
So I assume that’s some sort of so sausage purveyor you know him about to google it right, Yes, Tycoon, Flats, Burger Boy, and more. I haven’t got on a food diversion in a while, have I know? Let’s say, what is it? Worst Behavior Sausages, classic burgers, and delectable snacks, all expertly crafted and responsibly sourced. Their website says Worst Behavior is San Antonio’s first Asian inspired beer garden concept based upon great beer, great food, and great energy.
With its Neotokio esthetic and its Zen Garden sensibilities, You’re gonna want to stay on your Worst Behavior looks pretty cool. Rob Reiner talked to Variety about the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap. In the new version, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks will appear The Spinal Taps Christopher Guest, Michael McKinnon, Harry Sheer return, so does Rob Reiner as the documentarian Marty. The sequel is said to mimic the style of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Reiner said the key to making a movie with a loose script is that you get people who are good at improvising.
You have to get people feel comfortable doing that. Then you’re off to the Races. Writer added, you don’t want to overstate you’re welcome. It’s like Stanap. You leave them wanting you get off on a big laugh and go out.
The worst thing you could do is just load it up with Even if they’re funny things, they may be tangents and things that take away from the drive of the film. Kim Kardashian will start in a comedy for Netflix that’s weird. It’s called The Fifth Wheel. We don’t know too much about it other than Kardashian will play the Fifth Wheel alongside a female ensemble cast. No cast announced, no name announced, no date announced.
By the way, if you like the Kardashians, there’s a podcast called card Talk kard Talk. They’ll keep you posted on the Kardashians. His Moto caught up with Dan Harman about the Rick and Morty recasting of the voices. You know, I’ve gotten used to it. I don’t worry about it.
I still don’t think Rick starter’s enough and the Morty’s a little off. But as Dan Harmon said, I think the silent majority and the healthy majority are like, Okay, this is as good as you can manage. The characters are still live. That was a gol from the outset. Fans of the show consider them fans of the characters, and they just want to continue to watch the show and feel that these characters are still live.
And it seems we were successful in that mission. I think there’s an air of religious zelotry to the people who are insisting that the voices are somehow unignorably catastrophically different. I think most people are saying, all right, it sounds like Rick, and it sounds like Morty. Let’s proceed and let me catch you up on this thing. Joe Lycett did.
He had announced a podcast and it’d gotten a lot of pickup from the press release on podnews dot net. Joe Lycett has a brand new podcast and it’s a load of s word turd to cast. The description Joe has always been fascinated by the great leveler that is going to the toilet. From King Charles to Gary Barlow, we all need to jump to do a dump, flee to do a WII, or grit to do an s word. Literally, no one is too hot to squat.
You get the idea. Gary Lineker joins Joe for the very first episode of turd Cast, where he discusses the now legendary moment where he relieved himself on the pitch in England’s opening game with the nineteen ninety World Cup in front of hundreds of millions of people. So you got the idea. I didn’t cover it because I don’t like to play on that side of the street. Oh bo wait, there’s a twist.
Joe has revealed that the launch event for his new podcast, which ended with sewage leaking into Liverpool’s Albert Dock, was a stunt to highlight the issue of watercummpanies dumping waste into Britain’s waterways. Well played, Lisaid had set up a pop up toilet aka the Turtis, inviting fans to come down and share their most embarrassing lou based stories for his new turred Cast podcast. Joe said, what I like to do is do big stunts that get people talking about the big issues. And sometimes those stunts go to plan and sometimes they don’t. Well, on this occasion, everything went exactly to plan.
Of course, I didn’t spill ross sewage into the Royal Albert Dock. What do you think? I am GB News? No was fake sewage from a fake toilet to promote the fake podcast. Turd Cast was never real, although we did record one with the real Gary Lineker, and it would have been better to use a fake Gary as we would have saved a lot of money.
So why did I spill fake sewage other than because I’m desperate for tension and Instagram likes. Well, I spilled fake sewage to get people talking about the real sewage which is being spilled every year and the billions of leaders by our water companies. Last year, according to one analysis, one point four billion pounds and dividends was paid out to shareholders of the water companies. It’s a lot of money that could be used to improve the sewage network and reduce spills. If you agree, you can go on a website and send an email to your water company asking them to sign up for what we’re calling Joe’s Who Promise.
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