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The Shark Deck. I’ll discuss the super Bowl tomorrow. Hi, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may have seen a promo for roseanne Bars new special that’s on Fox Nation today. She spoke to The La Times, I’ll have a couple of minor spoilers for the special.
Here sounds like she’s not too happy with the world. The La Times covered the beginning of the special, saying Roseanne is dressed in Western flavored attire and ripped jeans. She wastes a little time in the special before visiting the firestorm now time out. As I was putting together today’s podcast, I was trying to remember why we had canceled Rosanne, and I couldn’t remember. With the La Times reminded me there was a firestorm that erupted following Roseanne’s tweet referring to former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett as offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film franchise.
All right, now, I remember, the Times writes ignoring Roseanne’s please to go on the view or another show to apologize. Executives abruptly axed the top rated reboot of Roseanne and fired her. In these specials, she makes snarky references to Hillary donors and allusions to conspiracy theories about the baby blood drinking Democrat Committee. She says, I’m not going to let rich, privileged a holes win, quoting Roseanne. They denied me the right to apologize.
Oh my god, they hated me so badly. I’d never known they hated me like that. They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion. Even though Rosanne became their number one show, they’d rather not have a number one show. During the initial call, I told them I thought Jarrett was white.
I said I’d go on my show and explain it. They wouldn’t let me. They decided I was a liar in my apology. Now, this next part’s interesting to me and probably to you as a listener of the podcast. They didn’t do it to anyone else in Hollywood, although they always through when Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K.
Well, Louis C.K. Did lose everything, but he committed an actual offense. The light times they’re in an editor’s note. Ck admit in twenty seventeen that he repeatedly did stuff in front of women, Associates, and his FX show Louis was canceled back to Roseanne and Dave Chappelle was protected by Netflix. Another editorial note to Chapelle’s park criticism and protest for his jokes aimed to transgender people.
Most recently, in a special to closer, Roseanne, I’m the only person who’s lost everything, whose life’s work was stolen, stolen by people who I thought love me. And there was silence. There was no one in Hollywood really defendingly publicly except for Monique, who’s a brave, close, dear friend. All right, roseannde ever watched the Connors, No, I just can’t bear it, so I don’t. When they killed my character off, that was a message to me, knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues, that they did want me to commit suicide.
They killed my character, and that was all to say, thank you for bringing twenty eight million viewers, which they’ve never had before, and we’ll never see again because they can kiss my butt. Roseanne is excited to be back doing comedy. She said, I already want to do another special. I want to go further in depth than the first one. Once I started back writing comedy.
I couldn’t stop it. I wrote about four hours of material. Now I’ve got so much material it’s hard to carve down. I want to talk about what it’s like to work in the creative arts in Hollywood and how crazy it is. Her new specials on Fox Nation, Mark Marin’s special debut over the weekend on HBO Max Out of Mark Marin Press out there.
I’ll probably have a Marin story every single day this week. This one from Indy Wire. Maren revealed that he had been offered a job by failed of streaming service CNN Plus. Remember that one lasted about three weeks. Maybe not exaggerating.
Maren was talking about during the pandemic after the death of his girlfriend Lynn Shelton, he started doing Instagram lives on a daily basis as part of the grieving process. Maren said, it was just me kind of mumbling around doing stuff around my house, Randy or raving about this experienced grief. People were watching it and a lot of people got a lot out of it. I got a lot of peculiar fans from that, but it did engage me with an audience on a daily basis, to the point where CNN offered me on their defunct streaming service a lot of money to do it on the air, and I was like, I’m not going to do it. Thank god I didn’t, but I knew that I need to engage my voice that was performative, and that’s how I did it.
Brian posin as a new special. This one came out on YouTube on Friday. Distractify. I caught up with Brian and this one is called Posina non grata Lovett. Brian wrote the entire special except for one joke during COVID, but he had little chance to test it out before filming it.
He’d all Distractify. I used to have this great room and it was shut down before COVID. It was called Meltdown. It was a room in the back of this comic book shop, which was already my favorite comic book shop in LA and they started doing stand up and that became my favorite place to go to try material because they were mine people, and even if they weren’t paying to see me that night, it would fit and I could kind of judge the material better than I would at the comedy store. He talked about punching up and punching down.
He said, I was just punched myself. I’m a total self deprecating comic, and that’s just what I’m comfortable with. He says he can tell where you recognize him from before you even walk up to him. Comedy guys that look like me know me from comedy. I have fans that are bearded and bespectables, and they’ll come up and go, dude, you wrote Deadpool.
Metal heads know me for the metal stuff.
And then people covered in tattoos are Devil’s Rejects fans Devil’s Rejects, …
Brian Possein played at Jimmy Prosein and Non Grata on YouTube. Vulture has a list of the upcoming Daily Show guest hosts. Still a Weird lest Sarah Silverman this week Hassan Minhas, who I have a dollar on to be the winner at the end of this. He’ll do the week of February twenty seventh, Marlon Wayne’s March sixth, Cal Penn March thirteenth, Al Franken, who has less of a chance of getting the gig than I do. He’ll host week of March twentieth.
John Leguizamo March twenty seventh, Really Weird and as Vulture points out, when does Roy Wood Junior get his chance? Oh, this next story is so much fun. Saturday Night Live has been trying to get Prince Harry to host the show, as the writer on the daily Royal family podcast Palace Intrigue, Please have Prince Harry host Saturday Night Live. He apparently was in serious talks to host the show before the release of his book Spare. A source said, I know that Harry was all in.
He was really serious about doing it, and it would have been great fun as promo for the book. S and L producers have been after Harry for a while. Everyone on the show was really into the idea and people would have definitely tuned in amen to that. Another insider said, there’s always lots of names in the mix, but Harry was definitely a name being discussed. I was curious what a Harry hosted SNL would sound like.
I went to the chat bot, the GPT chat thing, and I asked it to type in a Prince Harry SNL monologue. I don’t do any sort of Prince Harry impression, but here’s what the chatbot’s bit out. Hello New York, how are you guys doing tonight. It’s great to be here on Saturday Night Live, I mentioned. At that point, the crowd cheers, right, So my first time hosting.
So I’m a bit nervous, but I think I’m ready for the challenge. So I heard that in America people are obsessed with the royal family. Is that true? The script says, pause for laughter. Well, I hope you don’t expect me to waive at you or anything.
I’m here to do comedy, not royalty duties.
Speaking of my family, have you heard about the new royal baby.
Yeah, it’s me. I’m the new royal baby. You know what they say. Once a prince, always a prince. But my case, I’m also a duke, a son, a husband and dad, a philanthropist, and a fellow with a great sense of humor.
I mean, just look at my outfit tonight, and let me tell you it’s not easy being a prince. People always expect you to be perfect, to have the right answer, to be the life of the party. I’m human too, I have bad days. I even have a dad bod. And at that point he would go, you know, and enjoy our musical guest whoever, and then we’d go to commercial I thought the chat bot did a good job there.
If you enjoy Royal Family Stuff followed the podcast Palace Intrigue, where if you get your shows, The Advocate caught up with Jeff Foxworthy. He said he struck a deal with his relatives years ago concerning them being part of the jokes. Jeff said, did come back and go. I heard you were talking about us last weekend, and I said, I can’t help it. I’m gonna talk about you, but in return for talking about you, I’m going to take you on a fabulous vacation.
Then you take him on vacation, and you get fifteen more minutes of material, and so it became an endless loop I could never get out of. I’ve noticed in a lot of recent Foxworthy interviews he points out that you might be a redneck. Stuff was only a five minutes out of his act, even at the height of that particular bits popularity. That is correct. As for doing new material versus old material, he said, the audience is kind of split, like some people just want to see new stuff, but some people but want to hear you do certain things that are their favorites.
Foxworthy said the new stuff is always the fun stuff for me to work on. My brain only holds about an hour and a half to two hours, so if I start working on new stuff, I have to flush the old stuff, which is a really sad moment, knowing you’ve got a twenty minute bit that gets giant laughs and you let it go. But there’s only so much room in the attic. Will Jeff Foxworthy they retire because Ron White and Bill Angvall are recently retired, and Foxworthy said, I think about that because I watched Tom Brady the other night and I’m like, oh, buddy, you should have retired. Even in the early days of it, I used to tell my wife, don’t let me be the old guy.
That’s not funny anymore. That’s up there doing it. And if you’re in Cleveland, see if you could track down the Secret Society Comedy Show. It’s a weekly late night show. There’s a twist.
The venue changes every week. The event’s co founder, David Hornings, said that lends itself to the air of secrecy and in the easier commitment for the venues. The loose aftershow nature of the Society’s weekly meeting provides local comedians the chance to work out new material kind of like the comedy seller or the comedy store. Warning said, it’s not original to those cities, but it’s original to Cleveland. We wanted to bring big city comedy to Cleveland.
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