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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gerviz has become the co owner of a distillery. He will now be helping to sell the products of Eller’s Form Distillery, starting with its Dutch Born Orchard vodka. Hi.
I’m Ricky Gerbets and I am thrilled to announce that I am now the proud co owner of Ella’s Farm Distillery and we make Dutch Barn vodka. It tastes great, It’s made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. And the best bit is this could literally make me hundreds of millions, so please buy it. Yeah.
Sure, like all strong liquor, it may damage your liver and your well being, but think how happy it’ll make me if so. And the saving the planet thing Dutch Bomb, Ricky said, I’d been looking to invest in eco friendly businesses for a while and as soon as I found Dutch Born, I want it in. I love the planet and I love a drink, so it was the perfect combination. On a serious note, Dutchborn is a really quality product. I love the fact that it’s done differently and I can’t wait to let everyone know about it.
Chris Freezer, who founded the distillery, gave some wonderful pr quote. He said, we’re so excited to have Ricky joined the team. With so many hollow celebrity cash for face brand endorsement deals out there, we’re really pleased to forge an authentic partnership with Ricky, involving both investment and creative leadership. Ricky will be an integral part of the business going forward and will help shape how Dutchborn is seen around the world. Last year, Ricky spoke to the website Joe and said, I have a glass of wine at six o’clock.
I mean, I’m looking at the clock at five to six. I just think I enjoyed doing it. I think if it started ruining your life or affecting your life, or you can’t get up the next day, then it’s probably not a good idea. In fact, it’s probably not a good idea to drink full stop and pick one SNL’s back tonight. Emma Stone joins the Five Timers Club, which I find absolutely fascinating because I was like, where do I even know Emma Stone from?
And I googled her. I’m sure she’s wonderful, and I’m like, I still don’t know who emastone is. But she’s up there with Tom Anklin, Steve Martin there, congratulations and Noah Kahan is your musical guest next week. Adam Driver, I know who that is. And Olivia Rodrigo, Oh, my daughter’s going to be very excited about that.
She doesn’t know about that yet. I will tell her. And Lorne Michael’s whipping it out for December sixteenth, the Christmas episode before the Break. Kate McKinnon and Billie Eilish. Nice, you know not that Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo is slacking?
Good bookings there, Lorne Michaels, He’s apparently good at the whole Saturday Night Live thing. Deadline caught up with Bert Krascher, who says he has a scripted series and multiple films in the works, including Fat Astronauts with Tom Sigore. I’ve talked about this before. He’s into acting, he said. When I got home from Serbia, I assume from filming The Machine he wasn’t just randomly in Serbia.
When I got home from Serbia, I will say that very candidly, I was like, I’m not an actor, but I think I want to be a movie star. I don’t think I have a passion for acting. I think I have a passion for being the center of attention. But you’ve got to know your strengths and weaknesses. He hopes to get more ambitious with his production company, Bertie Boyd Productions.
He names Kevin Hard as a role model. If anything, I’m an idea guy, and Tom sigor is an execution guy, and I’m a little bit of a sponge. I bring everything our way. Last week I told him we need to start a bedding app. One of the ideas is the Two Bears racing team that will see Tom Sagora followed passion he’s been recently entertaining.
Bert says, Tom is racing. We do have a race car. We’re definitely going to be running the Gumball three thousand this year from Cairo to Singapore. That sounds like it would be a fun TV program. Bert says, comedy’s hot.
There’s tons of theaters out there, tons of fans. None of us are slowing down. We’re all going to continue with our podcast. We’re all working on a new special. We’ve all got five projects in the Fireweight and it happened.
We’re all really happy to be here. John Mulaney shared that although he didn’t know Matthew Perry, he finds himself affected by Matthew Perry’s death. Aline He says, addiction is just a disaster. Life is a wobbly table at a restaurant and you pile all the stuff on it and it gets wobblier and wobblier and more unstable. The drug just kicked the legs out from under the table, and I really identified with his story, thinking about him a lot.
The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced award winning actor, comedian, and author Patton Oswalt will host the seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards seventy one Yeah apparently. The seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards takes place Sunday, March third, in LA Patton said, as a film buff, getting to highlight the hidden artisans to create movie memories as important as any moving image is a joy for me. I can’t wait for this year’s Mpsee Golden Reel Awards sounds like a crafted quote. It’s not how people speak inside. Spoke to Cheech Marin, he talked about how Chi Chi Chan came about.
I went to Canada in my early twenties as part of the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. I started doing comedy because they paid me more for doing comedy than delivering carpets, just what I was doing in Vancouver before I met Tommy Chong. We were really just trying to get paid so we can make rent. We moved to la in Our early goal was how are we going to find a dollar fifty every day? That was the amount of money we needed every day to buy a bag of rice or some beef and greens to make a Chinese meal.
We went from club to club trying to look for a gig while carrying this little red wagon with us. Whatever we found, pop bottles or soda cans would throw them in the wagon to get the five cent deposit per can. By the time we finished our journey, sometimes we wait a dollar fifty and we could go buy something to eat. That was our quest. If you want to see our motivation, that’s motivation.
I think what audience has loved about Cheechenshong is that we represented what was going on in the times in a kind of benevolent way. We learned how to create this inoffensive, pointed humor. When creating our shows. We used what we called the omniburger approach, where the show has just the right amount of meat, the right amount of tomatoes, a little bit of mustard, because you could serve it in an appetizing way. In Atlanta one day, in New York City the next Subashton Maniscalco making the rounds.
The New York Times asked him some of the things he likes. Some of the things like to buy, Sebastian Maniscalco include Italy. They have lobsters in an aquarium where the kids can look, and they have big hole fish with the eyeballs. They have a little pasta station. I asked them, okay, pick out the pasta that you want Daddy to make you tonight.
I feel like they have more of an appreciation of the food because they’re invested in it. I also want to open up their palates to different sauces on the pasta other than butter and cheese. Some guys go golfing. I like cooking for people. It’s a little nerve wracking because something could go wrong and you’ve got thirteen people over The problem with me is I like to do it too much.
I like people to be full before they even start eating the entree. Sebastian always likes surprise date nights. Sometimes you become ships passing of the night and you need that time together as a couple. So she picks a night and surprises me where we’re going to go, and then the next week I’ll pick a night and surprise her. I think it’s very important to have those date nights in a marriage that let you reconnect.
He’s also a fan of Succession, saying it’s more of a comedy for me because I find myself laughing and a lot of things they say, particularly Brian Cox who is hysterical in this thing, and Kieran Colkin the zingers that they throw out. I think I’ve got about four episodes left. Amy Pohlar is going to be doing a masterclass. Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Amy Pohlar, and I’m standing in front of a bunch of books, which means I’m smart and you have something to learn from me.
Let’s get started. Amy tells The Hollywood Reporter the principles of improv’d be more creative, more resilient, and more collaborative. My class is an attempt to show how preparing to be unprepared can add value on how we approach life and relate to other people. In Prepared to be Unprepared, Amy Poehler shares nine principles of improv, including don’t bail on your partners, don’t worry about being cool. In my class, we’re going to discuss how these improv principles affect your real life.
It’s for people working in relationship, parents, you know, how do you deal with the kind of everyday humanness of life. Yahoo asked some comedians if stand up still has a place in the age of YouTube and streaming. Angela Johnson Raya said, heck yeah, I think it’s growing. I mean, there’s always been random rooms you can go in and do stand up comedy at this cafe, car wash whatever. Car wash awesome.
But I think even more so and even more towns. But I think in even more towns comedy is growing. It used to be La or New York, like, those are the spots if you want to do stand up. Now Nashville has become a little hub for stand up comedy. There’s a thriving scene of stand up comedians out there.
She left out Austin Fortune. Fiemester said, I think stand up is bigger than it’s ever been. It’s so difficult to find availabilities at theaters every night. I just put out a ton of new dates on this tour. I’ve been touring this material for the last year.
We did the next leg of the tour and I think things like TikTok and YouTube we’re getting people a lot of exposure. They’re getting very popular from those mediums, and then they take that and they take it out on the road. The Express spoke with the creator of Father Ted and The id Krowd, Graham Lenihan. He said there’s been a chilling effect on comedy due to quote a sudden atmosphere of censoriousness. I like that word.
Graham was recently canceled due to his views on transgender people. He was banned from Twitter and had his Edinburgh Fringe show scrapped by the venue. He talked about the successes of the shows he created and said I think everybody’s beginning to realize was kind of the golden years for British comedy. I’m getting a bit nervous now that this kind of wealth of comedy that we might not see again for a while because of the sudden atmosphere of sense in what you might call a psychonic politeness that means you’re not allowed to make fun of anyone. I think there’s definitely a chilling effect.
And you know, by the lack of good comedies in the last five years, there’s very few strong ones. He said, it would be impossible to make something like the Young Ones now, he said, these people take themselves so seriously. You simply wouldn’t be allowed to be entering in a lot of these third rail issues that you’re not allowed to talk about, the trans issue, race issues. You’d have to speak about those things. But I think now if someone came up with an idea with the same kind of anarchic quality, the same kind of desire to grapple with the reality of what it’s like to be young in the UK, the moment, you wouldn’t be allowed to do it.
I mean not allowed to do it. Wouldn’t occur to you to do it, because you just wouldn’t be able to imagine getting it off. The Telegraph highlighted Father Ted’s success as being down to its gentle nature humor. Have you ever seen Father Ted. Let me see if it’s streaming anywhere.
Father Ted follows three Irish priests, the old drunk priest, the young priest who really isn’t sure he wants to be a priest, and then the main guy who’s just trying to get things going. Let’s see. There are three seasons on Roku Crackle Free V. I highly recommend Father Ted. You would enjoy it.
Graham said. We always felt if someone’s doing one kind of thing, do the opposite and we’ll stand out. And that’s what we always did. We just thought if every other character in sitcoms at the time were cynical and rude, we had characters who would say feck instead of the bad word because they’re so polite and they’re so innocent, and there’s something about that and it just allowed us to stand out from everybody. Is that where feck comes from?
My Irish friends use that word, So I don’t know if that’s a thing that then drift into Father Ted. Maybe it went the other way. Anybody from Ireland out there, let me know. Hit me up. My contact is in the show notes.
Renowned German comedian Henning When best known for his appearances on shows like eight out of ten cats. When on Twitter to vent frustrations at the exorbitant cost of renting a simple two bed flat for the duration of Fringe in twenty twenty four, Wenn said yesterday I was flat hunting for the Edinburgh Fringe. Going rate for bog standard two bedroom flat for the month seems to be nine thousand pounds. Nick Coppin has spotted a camper van on someone’s drive for seven thousand for the month. I think that’s me done with the Fringe.
Others took to the thread to say they too felt priced out of the festival. We heard a lot about this the last two years. One user said, as a punter, I’ve booked a room at student Halls in Holyrood nine nights at around nine hundred quid. The whole comedy side of things could move to Manchester Liverpool be a lot cheaper all around, Probably cheaper to get a flat in Inverness and rent a helicopter for the month. Susan Russell’s the head of marketing for the Fringe Society, and said we spent hours, days, weeks and months dedicated to this issue across our team.
Continue to do all we can in a challenging market of privately owned accommodation at a city struggling with a housing crisis. Plans proposed for the twenty twenty four Fringe including an Olympic style village by performers, as well as campsites set up around the city. Hum that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get shows. See Tomorrow