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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the debate last night? It aired on News Nation Rumble in the CW seth Meyers joke. So, in other words, look for it wherever you get your computer viruses.
Switching topics, Brenda Lee has her first number one hit for Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, recorded in nineteen fifty eight. I think Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, Brenda is having a moment. Not only does she have the number one song, today she was seen holding hands with Travis Kelsey. By the way, Taylor Swift named Times Person of the Year. You can follow all the Taylor Swift news on her sister podcast, Taylor Swift Today.
Spotify put out there Spotify wrapped lists, and weird Al had some commentary on their royalty system. Here’s a statement from weird Al. Hey, how you doing hell here? Look, I’ll make this really quick. I just want to thank you all for your amazing support.
It’s my understanding that I had over eighty miss billion streams on Spotify this here, So if I’m doing the math right, that means I earned twelve dollars. So you know, I’ll not have to give myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.
Meanwhile, another statement, Ricky Gervas tweeted what he called an urgent a…
Hello Ricky Gervas here, this is a quick message to all supermarkets, off licenses, coller shops to say please stock Dutch Bom vodka. I’m the co owner of the company, so this could make me a lot of money and it’s It’s a premium quality vodka made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. It’s one hundred percent recyclable the bottle, that’s why it’s brown. Only one like it as well, so it’s standout on the shelves.
It’s how people will remember it. I think it’ll be like if you go in out, granddad, can you get me some vodka? What’s all the posh one in the brown bottle? Dutch faarn I can’t afford that. We should have worked harder then, so Dutch farn I like what Ricky’s doing there.
He’s running right at it, not even pretending the folks at All Dogs Matter tweeted, we wanted to say a huge thank you to our patron, the one and only Ricky Gervas, who has made an incredibly generous donation to go towards the care of our dogs. We cannot be more grateful. Heart’s emoji. Your donation will keep dogs like Colin happy, healthy and warm this winter. There’s a picture of Colin.
You can find out about Ricky Gervay’s donations by listening to yesterday’s podcast Happy Honikah. Adam Sandler recounts how he wrote the Honkah song. This from the Jewish Chronicle, home for Comedy News. Sandler recently spoke to the crowd at the ninety second Street Why in New York City and said, I am so proud of that song. I love it.
He wrote the song at the NBC studios of SNL. There was no Google in nineteen ninety four, so he went by what he thought was correct. The lyrics include Harrison Ford’s a quarter Jewish. Sandlor later found out he was off by twenty five percentage points. I remember when I met Harrison Ford, he goes half.
Sandler said, all my family’s Jewish. Everybody has a kind of funny way about them. I definitely after every family get together, couldn’t believe what I saw sometimes. Sandler first got into the stand up comedy at age seventeen and said I would bomb every night. Well, good thing that’s changed.
His stand up is hilarious these days now. If you’re wondering about the other people mentioned in the song, USA Today under the headline Adam Sandler’s Honaka Song, are all those celebs in the song actually Jewish? Let’s take a look. David Lee Roth, James Kahn, Kirk Douglas Dinah Shure Yes, yes, yes Yes, Bowser from Shannanhah and Arthur Fonzarelli. John Beauman is Jewish.
Henry Winkler is Jewish, Goldie Hawn, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, as the song points out, O J. Simpson not a jew but Rod Carew Yes, Rod cru converted. If you’re in the mood to hear the Hanukkah song. When we’re done here, go to the Live One app and play the weekly comedy thing that’s the show I host. I played the Hanukkah song this week for this very reason.
Sandler recently told Variety that Roseanne Barr almost performed the song on SNL in ninety four. Sandler said they were talking about Roseanne singing it and she was nice enough to say, no, let Adam do that. That’s his He wrote it, That’s his song. During Weekend Update, Sandler explained that he wrote the song after noticing the lack of music about Hanukkah. Does Sandler still sing the Hanka song?
He says, I sing it alone. I sing it without the kids. I go on a basement, I rip it out. I do the soft shoot to it. If it comes on the radio and I hear it, I get excited.
It’s still awesome. The Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame has announced the newest round of inductees. They include Jim Carrey, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and the cast of SCTV. So are Eugene and Martin in there twice or how does that work? I don’t know.
It will be a four day festival in February to mark the beginning of a three year collaboration with Tourism Hamilton. Jerry Seinfeld is playing Singapore. Jerry gave some quotage which was I saw recently that Singapore has some of the happiest people on Earth by scientific study. So I don’t imagine my comedy will be able to improve that by too much, but I’m really going to try. So excited for my first visit, I was curious how much tickets cost, and I went to the website that was linked in the article, and you have to register for a pre sale, and I’m like, I don’t know, I’ll just look it up next week.
All right, after three days, there’s finally press about Stavros Halkias. Remember his Netflix special came out on Tuesday and there were no articles about it. Well, Deadline got around to it Dell’s Deadline. He’s noticing a difference in those attending his shows. Instead of Internet freaks alone, he says he now sees nice older couples in the crowd.
In Fat Rascal on Netflix, Stavros talks about everything from nightmare travel days to experiences at the Big and Tall Store. He talked about having a hard time breaking in. He said, I had agents and managers, but you know how it is, nobody gets an f about you when you’re not making them any money. Nobody wanted to buy a special for me. In twenty twenty two, He’s self released a self financed special on YouTube Live at the Lodge Room that’s gotten over six million views.
He invested forty thousand dollars of his own money to get word out about the special. Halkias began disseminating online clips of material didn’t make the cut. Additionally, he embraced crowd work clips. For years, had been taping every set he did, whether it was at a comedy club, a brewery, or some kind of other lower end venue. He hired a friend with quote no editing experience away from his low paying media job, and they started mining old sets for clips to post online.
Those clips took his YouTube. I don’t want to use the word special if it’s self released an hour, half hour and how long it was from twenty thousand into the hundreds of thousands, which in turn resulted in him moving tickets. Quote like never before, every single clip was going viral was insane. I was like, what the F We’re growing at such an insane rate. I felt like I just found an audience that I had no idea existed, and I was confused more than anything.
He attributes his success online a good timing, saying met in Google saw the TikTok was eating their lunch and they were like, well, anybody that does short form video contact, we’re boosting the f out of their algorithm. It just so happened that while that was happening and YouTube shorts was getting boosted and Instagram was getting booted, and TikTok was trying to boost people’ stuff, some more people would do it. I had like two to three years of the best crowd work interactions, and I think I just got really lucky. It just worked in a way I could not believe, he says, I don’t mean to get corny or anything, but achieved my bleeping goals. I have friends who are famous.
I don’t want their lives. I don’t need to be more famous than this. In fact, I don’t want to be. The virtual reality stand up series Surrounded will return for a second season December twenty ninth. The six sports series will debut via the Meta Horizon World’s VR online video game platform.
Episode start on the twenty ninth, including a holiday festival special that drops at ten am Pacific on that day. These sets were filmed at the twenty twenty three Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, hosted by Lilrel Howery the episode’s feature Jack Whitehall, Marlon Wayans, May Martin, Fortune, Fimster, Mark Norman, Chris Read, Dan Soder, Jay Farrow, Meg Statler, Felipia Sparza, Rosebud Baker, Samuel Joe, Kim Booster, Hannah Burner, Nate Jackson, Brad Williams, Preacher Lawson, Seher Zamada, Brian Simpson, Steph tolev Annie Liederman, and Shay Durina. That is no joke that list. Lourel Howary called the show crowd work and freestyling at its best. So this morning at the National Donuts Chain, Evil Bill Angvall was back, but the Donuts Chain people just did not have my order together.
I mean I had ordered online. Took twelve minutes for somebody to make a nice coffee come on Donuts Chain. But it was good to see Evil Bill back in the house. Last week Tonight with John Oliver has been renewed for three more seasons. Yep.
But it’ll still be on HBO or Max or HBO Max or whatever it is these days. John Oliver said, We’re very happy to get to keep making the show without our fantastic staff. Will continue trying to stretch the term entertainment to the breaking point, a Suit said, over the past decade, John and his exceptional team have combined deep research and intelligence with cutting humor to tackle a broad range of subjects, both widely discussed and unconventional. With an important election here on the horizon, we look forward to seeing what John has in store for audiences over the next three years, Thanks Suit. Bowsome Usef recently made some news having a little back and forth with Piers Morgan.
Yousef showed up at COP twenty eight. That’s the big environmental summit. He said to the audience, Let’s be honest. The only reason I’m here is because I’m trending, but also because I’ve been an advocate of plant based diets. Someone asked why stand up comedy and how do you find humor during these dark times?
Yusef said, simple, because the fact that we still have to meet every year to decide not to hurt our planet is a joke itself. Paste magazine spoke to ZANEB. Johnson about her special His Jobs Off, released on Amazon back in October. This one recorded in the round one cameraman holding a steady cam for the specials duration Johnson said, I think there’s something really intimate about recording in the round. I always say my stand up should feel like I’ve invited you into my living room.
You get to hang out with me for a little while, and hopefully by the end of it you leave feeling fulfilled and good. You want to come back. Much like Jim Gaffigan, She’s not considered the jokester in her family. Johnson says, they love me, but they think I’m the most serious person. I tried to plan vacations with my mom.
She’s like, you know, you’re no fun. I’m always to the person trying to keep the family business in order. I’m like, what are the troubles, Let’s look for the solutions. What are the bills, what are the things we need to improve? And everybody’s like, we’re trying to have fun.
Celebrate Norman Lear, the renowned American television writer, film producer, and activist, passed away Tuesday at age one hundred and one worn in New Haven, Connecticut. Lear celebrated for creating All in the Family, Mary hart and Mary Hartman, The Jefferson’s Maud, Good Times, Sandford and Son Fernwood, Tonight, John Stewart tweeted, good night, Norman, love you, thanks for raising me. Jimmy Kimmel gave Variety a statement which was it is obviously silly to want more time with a person who outlived a whole century, but losing Norman Leear, even at one hundred and one years old, feels unfair. His bravery, integrity, and unmatched moral compass were equaled by his kindness, empathy and wit. Even at one hundred and one, Norman cared as much about the future, our children and planet as much as anyone have ever known.
He was a great American, a hero in every way, and so funny, smart and a lovely man you almost couldn’t believe it. Privilege of working alongside Norman, and the opportunity he gave me and my wife to get to know him and his beautiful family has been among the great honors and pleasures of my life. We’re all very lucky to have him. George Clooney, in a statement, said, it’s hard to reconcile that one hundred and one years old Norman Lear has gone too soon. The entire world of reason just lost its greatest advocate, and our family lost a dear friend, a giant walked in his shoes.
Tyler Perry reflected on his experience of meeting Norman Lear and said, just before I left, I asked, at a hundred years old, are you looking forward to without any hesitant? He said tomorrow with such a simple but powerful lesson to live your life fully one day at a time. Tyler said, it that up nice there, because one of the shows Norman Lear developed was One Day at a Time. Norman Lear, one hundred and one years old. That’s your comedy news for today.