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Caloroga Shark Media idly. Oh, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was out and about in the DC area. Told you a little bit about this yesterday. He apparently didn’t enjoy the correspondent from Straight Arrow News, who asked, Dave, what is the punchline on the joke for George Santos.
Chappelle responded, oh, man, don’t get me started on that stuff. About his appearance on Capitol Hill, Straight Arrow News asked, Dave, do you support anybody in particular or did you come here for a particular cause. Chappelle leaned into the microphone and smiled, well, I’ll tell you what I didn’t come to do be on television, Just kidding. Dave was also seen over the weekend driving past a peace protest. I think he just happened to drive by it.
You see a video of a car driving by, like an SUV type thing. Dave’s in the shotgun seat and the windows down, and Dave just waves and that’s it. I don’t think he took part in the protest. Despite some headlines I saw, Dave also visited Duke Ellington High School. Aw some news coverature that, but nothing controversial out of Dave Chappelle from TMZ.
THEO von baffles ESPN’s College Game Day with his football picks. THEO was on College Game Day on Saturday, where he joined Pat McAfee and the rest of the gangs making some picks TMZ wrights. Apparently THEO thought it was twenty thirteen again because he invoked Jamis Winston’s name to talk about the seminals chance. His only problem Winston has long left the university, something Pat reminded THEO of forcing him to pivot and come up with a new rationale. Let’s listen.
I’m a you know, I think Jameis Winston they’re gonna pull off that. Uh he was yeah, I understand, yeah, but I think he could still play if he wanted to. Down the months of eligibility and the Saints aren’t using him appropriately. We all know that. So I’ll say this, man, I think they’re gonna pull off that.
Uh, They’re gonna pull off that crustation w down there, that crowd dub believe me. Maybe I’m that trustation trust in me. I got this coach. Your thoughts? What did you say?
Fun clip theovonn Whitehot right now, is podcast really climbing the charts?
Speaking of podcasts, Matt Rife, Johnny Mack, you never mentioned him.
He was on the Jordan Peterson podcast. It had the clever episode title Rife for Cancelation, but Geeba took a listen to it. I downloaded it. They haven’t listened to it yet. Rife brags during the podcast he has gained more followers because of the domestic violence joke than he’s lost, but he also insists that he’s finished with the crowd work that made him so popular with women.
He later adds that women used to make up ninety percent of his audience, but that has massively changed in the last five or six months. Pajeeba writes, I wonder why it’s an interesting podcast episode if you can stomach it, if only because it pairs two people who have little knowledge of each other and even less in common besides an interest in exploiting each other’s audience. Both conceide not so many words that they didn’t know much about each other before last week, but they quickly find common ground, for instance, in the belief that men who support women are quote boy, I didn’t read the sensitive vance. Let me back up. I’m not going to make it edit because you’re not going to believe what’s coming.
All right, ready, let me back it up. Both can see in not so many words that they didn’t know much about each other before the last week. Okay, fine, but they quickly find common ground, for instance, the belief that men who support women are sneaky rapists. What Rife believes that the only men who thought his joke about domestic violence was offensive were men trying to get some ldroom action. The article quotes Riife here and says, I saw one TikTok video response from a guy who said I have a wife, and I find this severely disrespectful.
Rife says, okay, you cuck whatever, what do you want to get more? Cleaning it up here? Loving outside of your wife? You’re already married, surely respects you. What more do you want?
Boy? I met Riife, You’re just what are you doing? Dude? Two weeks ago this guy was on the top. Oh man, what are you doing?
Peterson says. According to this article, there’s nothing worse than a man who tries to worm his way in with a group of women by pretending to be on their side when their actual motivation is to be a sneaky effort. That’s actually a phrase from evolutionary biology. I’m gonna have to listen to this one. Rife tells Peterson he will never apologize for his joke, and the two discuss at length why apologizing is bad.
Raife repeatedly defends the joke on Peterson’s podcast, not only in its merits, but by saying, no one is making you watch. Raife says he put the joke at the beginning of the special so that viewers would know what to expect. If they didn’t find the domestic violence joke funny, they could turn it off comedies Like a restaurant, if you don’t like the food, you don’t have to eat there. He doesn’t mind that he’s offended people either, because if twelve thousand people were offended, one hundred thousand people loved it, and they’ve been through domestic violent situations and they found the joke very funny. Riife believes he’s a positive force for women who have gone through domestic violence.
If I can help in any way, even if it’s on accidents, Come on, younger generation, learn now English works. If I can open anyway, even if it’s on accident. Thanks Bornie. I feel good about that. So, like I’ve mentioned, I watched the special, I just didn’t find it funny when that joke went by.
I don’t even know if it registered in my brain. I wasn’t outraged at the moment. I’m more fascinated by this Matt Riife meltdown. We’ll see what happens, John McLay he told Variety stand up comedy has just become enormous and continues to grow and be so strong. I think the respective esteem comes from all the people that come out to see it.
Netflix has elevated it too. People check out tons of specials now. Oh I saw Beth Stelling, I saw on Aprighatzy, I saw the new Alley Wong. Tonight. If you’re in Chicago, it’s the Letters to Santa Gala, which includes John Mulaney and others six pm at the Willis Tower.
Letters to Santa the Holiday galas a new event aiming to raise one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help fifteen families in need across the Greater Chicago area. These families will have their letters to Santa answered on Christmas Day, receiving gifts from a wish list of clothes, furniture, living necessities, and an unconditional cash grant of ten thousand dollars for an ongoing expenses. This corn to the press release six pm at the Willis Tower if you’re in the area. Patton Oswall class of ninety one, recently returned to the College of William and Mary. He did two stand up shows and the newly inaugurated Glenn Close Theater.
Patton told Flat Hat News, I also made a mix of all the music. This is so cheesy. I made a mix a lot of the music I was listening to back then. So there’s been a lot of rim in my year, a lot of rock music, a lot of that stuff. Patten says.
I lived in a basement apartment and there’s now a law student living there who has where my bed used to be, a floor cave full of guinea pigs. He keeps guinea pigs in his apartment had kind of a horror feel to it, but the house itself was really charming and sweet, and I was like, oh wow, I used to really live here. This is where I got up and ate my rama noodles, and you know that was where. I mean, I’m not one for living in dwelling in nostalgia, but checking in on the places you were coming up it was always kind of fascinating. Some things for you to check out.
Dan Booblitz Junior on the Facebook group which is Daily Coming to News podcast group encouraged us to listen to Mark Maren’s interview with Jesse David Fox on Mark Maren’s WTF podcast Absolutely good discussion of comedy. Enjoyed that a lot. I listened to most Maren’s, but I was slow on that one, so Dan, thanks for doing that. I’d listened to that on the way to the airport last night. I had to do one of those pesky airport pickups that I wound up doing like once a month.
No, I’m not an uber driver and my kids like to travel. During that interview, Jesse David Fox and Mark Maron started talking about the two greatest comedians of all time. They have at number one, Richard Pryor okay, fine, and at number two, who do they have? Wrong? Why don’t you guess, for like three hours, just name every comedian you can possibly think of.
Who do they have at number two? Wrong? Nope? Wrong, nope, wrong, wrong, still wrong, You’re still wrong. At number two they had Maria Bamford.
What Maria Bamford second best stand up comedian of all time? I get that they respect the work, but number two out of everyone, you just thought of Maria Bamford, number two. Tap the brakes there. So the other night I watched Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is fantastic.
Loved it in the theaters. I bought the Blu ray. You know you worry about these streaming services. Now things are starting to disappear. I’m back to physical media.
I like to know stuff’s in the closet and I can watch what I want. Oppenheimer is fantastic, and I hadn’t realized when I saw in the theater the third act there a lot of homages to the film Judgment at Nuremberg, a lot of visual cues that reminds me of that movie, which is a fantastic movie which features a very young, handsome William Shanner. If you’ve never seen Judgment to Nuremberg not streaming right now, I looked because I wanted to watch it after I watched Oppenheimer. Watch Oppenheimer, which is not at all a comedy. My point of bringing that up is after I watch Oppenheimer, I’m like, I need something ridiculous, So I put on Bookie, Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show on Max.
I really liked it. Here’s what I like about it. It knows what it is. It’s Sebastian Maniscalco plays a bookie. That’s it.
He’s driving around, gets in some high jinks. The jokes are eye level, it’s sitcom level, but it knows what it is. It’s not trying too hard. It goes turn your brain off and enjoy this. And I like things that know what they are.
This is not claiming to be high art. This is just it’s Sebastian Maniscalko as a bookie. I loved it. Watched both episodes that released. Can’t wait for War so high recommendation for me on Bookie again.
Is it the greatest thing I’ve ever seen? No, but it’s pretty solid. Then I watched Obliterated, which Netflix put in front of me. I had no idea what it was, and I’m like, all right, what is this? I was trying to describe it to people.
The best I can come up with is picture Mission Impossible, dipped in cheese whiz. It’s like a super cheesy action It’s not a film. It’s one hour episodes set in Las Vegas, so there’s a lot of drinking and booze and nudity and this too. It knows what it is. It knows it’s kind of ridiculous, but it’s just fun.
So that’s obliterated. Check that out. Bill Burr’s on Jimmy Kimel Tonight out on Netflix today. Stavros Halkias is special, Fat Rascal is out. I’m not sure how excited Netflix is about it, because I tried to put a story here.
This is normally where I’d talk about Stavros, and there’s nothing. So there’s no press lead up here like you usually see what these specials. We’ll see if maybe there’s something tomorrow. But that makes me go, hmm, that’s odd. Collider actually has an interesting article I’ll get to it on the weekend about maybe Netflix has too many specials now and if there are too many specials, then nothing is special.
I agree wholeheartedly on that. Again, I’m not saying Stavros is special, is good, no bad. I haven’t seen it, but yeah, there’s kind of like too many quote unquote specials now, and I think we need to stop using the word special and go back to calling them hours. Bill Engvall has one of those tonight. I guess we’ll call it his a special because it’s the final thing he’s releasing from his career.
Bill says, I feel honestly that my show’s probably one of the cleaner shows out there. I mean there’s no swearing, there’s no dropping F bombs and all that. It’s something I’ve really felt strong about. I didn’t feel that any of the material on there was offensive. It’s what I’ve done my whole career.
You’re gonna have to hunt a little bit for this one and buy it or rent it on Amazon Prime or Apple or YouTube. Hopefully Bill put that up on YouTube plus commercials in a bit. HBO released a trailer for Leo Reichs literally who Cares? This will be out December sixteenth, and I was like, who’s Leo? Like?
Who is that? I do this every day? Who is this? Well, let’s listen to the trailer. I am happy.
I know myself. I am not personally rec foncible for anything. I just polishize about what I look like. I didn’t have any time to change or ash like run the hair straight from My Dad’s Worst Night Back Show, It’s still gonna be filled with twenty first century cynicism, the self objectification encouraged by social media, the late capitalist co option of the queer esthetic. I’m kidding, can you imagine?
Literally? Who cares? Starts comedian writer Leo Reich in his HBO comedy special debut. In his first HBO comedy special, this self diagnosed important young mind faces the swirling uncertainty of our collective future, asking the big questions such as is this helping? Am I hot?
And no offense guys, but literally, what’s going on? Reich’s show was nominated for Best Newcomer at the twenty twenty two d of Comedy Awards and Most Outstanding Show at the twenty twenty three Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His credits include Friday Night Live, Late Night Mash and Jonathan Ross Comedy Club. Nikki Glaser will team up with actor, comedian and writer Jamie Lee. They’re going to store in and executive produce Unsettling.
In unsett we find a heartwarming and refreshingly on a show about two childless best friends. Lee and Glazer In the thirties who decide to go in on a baby together and navigate their lives as brand new platonic co parents. This is in development with Prime Video Bill Lawrence, who’s got some pretty great credits attached to him. He’s part of this, so don’t blow this one off. Chad Daniels and Kelsey Cook have a new podcast called Pretend to Problems.
They are dating and in their new show they open up about arguments they’ve overcome, communication strategies that they love and hate, blended family dynamics, navigating being a part on tour, and more, and the teaser for the show, Cook explains to Daniel’s her rule of three, which is if I see you do something that rops me the wrong way, she makes a note of it and won’t talk about it until it happens three times. That is your comedy news for today. If you want to sport the show, one way you can do it, go to buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedyews. Buy me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw some bucks in the tipchair.
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