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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle has announced a new Netflix special New Year’s Eve, which is good for old folks like me that usually stay in that night and just watch TV. Perfect. Thank you Dave, who use The special is currently untitled.
It was announced via a short teaser. In the teaser, you see his C logo let up with neon lighting, and in the background you hear Chappelle thanking the crowd. The phrase Dave is back then appears, followed by the release date of December thirty. First. This is good news for me because right after a Christmas in New Year’s is usually a slow news week.
Dave often makes jokes that don’t go over well with everybody, and then everyone will debate it for two weeks. Perfect. Thank you Dave. Yesterday, when I was doing the Jason Cinnama New York Times story, in his article, he had mentioned that Gary Golman special would be out December twenty first. I wasn’t sure we had actually heard that before, and I thought maybe I just forgot, But now the official press release is out.
The Max Original comedy special Gary Goldman born on Third Base debuts December twenty first on Max. There’s a trailer and everything, and I really laughed out loud at this. Let’s listen. I grew up in an oft ignored sector of Jewish people called poor. A heart surgeon will open up your chest, replace a valve, save and extend your life.
Forty five dollars copeck a dentist, Phill’s miniature potholes, cash only today. We’ll work on a payment plan like any other strip mall retailer, but you gotta pay. I said to my dad, I really want to play hockey, said son go grab the Sports Almanac. There was zero Jewish players in the Hockey Hall of Fame. My dad said, just for a point of comparison, more Jews have been the Messiah.
Quality joke there, Gary Goleman the official description. Gary goh Ohlman offers up his hilarious insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, all with a generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism. Looking forward to that one, Oh, back me up to Chappelle. That’s really going to screw up the end of the year list. I guess My end of the year list will be through Ricky Terve’s December twenty fifth release, and I don’t know if Chappelle makes it all revise it.
I guess maybe I can convince Netflix hook me up with a screener. That would be kind of cool. Here’s a terrible idea from Dan Ackroyd. He’s working on a possible Trading Places sequel. Dude, it’s been forty something years.
Don’t do this, Dan said. Last year, I generated a sequel for Eddie and I that I submitted to a paramount. It’s good, man, it’s good. No one’s asking for that. Dan.
Men’s Journal noticed that Bert Krascher looks like he’s lost some weight. Krascher posted a social media before and after picks of his forty five pound weight loss, captioned me at two seventy five versus me at two thirty. Men’s Journal says, beyond dropping the pounds, it’s clear from his defined abdominals, arms, and shoulders that Bert the Conqueror Store has also been hitting the gym. The Hollywood Reporter asked Wanda Sykes, how’s it different to shoot a special as opposed to doing a regular stand up show. Wanda Sykes said, when you’re filming it, you’re definitely in your head a little bit.
I shoot two shows, so the first one was like, Okay, let me get something in the can. Let me just make sure we got it structurally and technically. In the second show, I just let loose, have fun, actually improv some stuff sometimes and I stumble on stuff because I already have the safety of knowing I have one. We always end up using the second show wander how much thought did you put know what you wear? She said.
We were in Paris for Christmas. My wife is French and we were there for the holidays, and I knew we were going to shoot special in February, so I was like, man, I had to go figure out what I want to wear. And I knew I wanted something different. I didn’t want to go in a suit. I wanted to be a little bit more casual and have a bit more fun.
Because I’m rolling around on the ground. I’m much more physical in this one. And we’re shopping and I saw this jacket. It’s red, white and blue, it’s denim, and I was like, that’s it. This is what I’m going to do in Philadelphia.
The pitch KC caught up with Chris Tucker. He’s been doing stand up for thirty years, and the pitch said, what are the audiences like these days? Tucker said, oh, man, you know what, They’re hungry. You know, people are hungry they laugh. It’s one of the reasons I want to do this because people are saying they want to laugh, they want to get out and have some fun, and they’re just hungry.
Man. I love it. They’re more intelligent, they’re smarter these days because there’s so much entertainment out there and you got to come with your game, which I love. The energy’s great these days. He’s working clean ish and said it just made me better.
I’m just better, able to expand on things more. It’s just who I am. It may it’s definitely it may be still definitely edgy, but it’s just much better when I was younger, because when I was younger, all I had to talk about was when I was younger. But now I’ve had many different experiences, grown out of a man. Now, I’ve got so much to talk about, my point of view in the world.
People are really getting a lot when they come to my show. Vogue spoke with Matt Rife and they said, a lot of your audience goes wild, specifically for you. One woman proposition to you during your set. Does it ever make you uncomfortable? Matt Riife said, every single time, because like I just want to do jokes.
I just want to go on stage, tell jokes, maybe talk to a person or too, see if anything funny happens, and that’s it. It’s uncomfortable because there’s a lot of double standards, Like I’ve had my nipple bit at a meet and greet before. Can you imagine if a female comic was getting treated like this by guys it would never fly right. But of course there’s zero empathy or sympathy for guying because I’m not in physical danger. So it’s a bit strange.
Flattering that they care that much, but it’s a bit strange. How does he feel about being a heart throb? He says, it’s got pros and cons. I suppose the pros being you get such a massively passionate fan base, But the flip side is people take you less seriously as a comic, so it’s a weird thing. I have to personally choose how you want to balance that.
If people think I’m a heart throb cool. As long as you respect my comedy and like to laugh, you can think whatever you want about me. I don’t care, but I think it creates a lot more hate that it does positive effects. Besides getting my teeth done, I’ve never done anything to enhance my looks. That and going to the gym, which I do more for than just aesthetic reason.
So if anyone has a problem with that, that’s their problem. I’m like not doing anything. He laughs and says, I’m trying so hard to be as ugly as possible. I promise you. It’s one of those things.
Though at a certain point I’m gonna stop talking about it because I know I’m more than that. And the more people only look at me for like that one aspect of myself, the less they care about my comedy and my entertainment and things I want to create. So it’s like, yeah, can we reference these things now? But eventually I’m gonna be like, can we just focus on the work. I just bought a new phone during the break.
My wife would call me lately. Every time I go to use it, I push the button and it’s like, hang on, man, I Getsina sag. It’s not like I don’t use my phone. I am a professional podcaster and I need it. That’s what I did during the break.
What did you do? By the way, phones not cheap these days. I paid for it outright, and I got myself the newest, greatest phone in my family. As we went into the break, I had the oldest phone in the family. Now I have the best one.
On Wednesday, the broadcast networks will come together to honor Norman Lear. They’ll run a title card at eight pm Eastern on ABC, NBC, Fox, the CWNCBS Nice Job. On January first, Fox will celebrate Mash, the comedy of the Change Television, in a new two hour special That’s random, right, Like why Mash? I’d Mash one of my favorite things of all time, believe me? But why that now?
The special centers around previously on aired interviews with original cast members Alan Alda, Gary Bergoff, William Christopher, Jammie Farr, Mike Farrell, Wayne Rodgers, and Loretta Switt. Wayne Rodgers dead and I believe William Christopher is dead. Interesting, I guess these have been sitting around, Fox says in these intimate, highly personal remembrances, the creation and evolution of the show’s iconic characters are revealed, alongside rare and never before seen behind the scenes footage, photos and stories. Wayne Rodgers passed away in twenty seventeen. I didn’t make that up.
William Christopher passed away in twenty sixteen. I didn’t make that up either. Now what’s weird is the press release says series stars Larry Lynnville dead, Harry Morgan dead. They’re not saying dead, I’m saying dead. Mcclaan Stevenson dead and David Ogden Stiers, who’s also dead, are remembered through a collection of clips from the series as well.
So are they Why are they separate than Wayne Rodgers and William Christopher. This thing must have been sitting in the can for a few years and nobody checked the press release. Very very strange. I’m going to ask this question on the mash Reddit. Kelsey Grammer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about new freezer.
Kelsey says, I believe we have a home at Paramount Plus for several years to come. If there’s a Paramount Plus, Kelsey and we certainly have several ideas for it, it’s just what’s flushing out. We’re not sure yet. Because the writers went on strike and the actor stayed on strike and everything just sort of stalled. At least we got the episodes in Under the Wire before we had a lockdown.
Where our future is. Of course, we’re going to explore the relationship between the father and the son, and that’s natural then involve the other characters as well. The first few episodes of any new TV show needs to be sort of dedicated to the idea of allowing the audience to fall in love with the new characters. I believe that’s finally started to take shape. Now we have the luxury of saying, well, let’s branch off into this area that area, go a little heavier on this storyline, focus a little bit more on this member of the cast.
The basis of the show is that father son relationship, but also Frazer’s new friendship. Fraser’s new life is third or fourth act. Arguably, that’s what we’re discovering. We’ve discovered that he’s probably a bit more mature, maybe still a little bit the same sort of nut, but he’s grown some. For him to have been static for us to have started right back in the same show from thirty years ago, to jump right back into the same story.
It would have been ridiculous for a man who spent thirty years of his life and not age would have been ridiculous and not grow wiser in any way. We thought it was important to give him some sort of new clothes. They asked him how he feels about the term reboot. Kelsey said, we really think of it as new Freezer. We don’t really think of it as a reboot because we haven’t rebooted anything.
It’s just a character that has not fallen from Grease. He’s still loved and beloved character and one we really love playing. I wasn’t nervous about it necessarily, just that in a new world we have a new set of viewing habits. I figured we’d promoted it pretty well. I thought there were some loyal audience members around who were really kind of hungry for revisiting the character, because we really haven’t done comedy like that in quite some time, and I think there’s a hunger for it.
Was he upset that a lot of the original cast didn’t want to return, Kelsey said, I wasn’t upset. I had tried to get everybody back because that’s what I thought was the right and faithful thing to do. I wanted to remain faithful to them, but them not wanted to do it was fine, certainly their choice. Actually it led us to some choices that we wouldn’t have done probably, and I was very happy we did them. I’m happy we ended up back in Boston.
That never would have happened had the rest of the cast comeback. BBC Radio four has launched a podcast, Jokes. Jokes will combine brand new series with highlights from the archive quote, providing comedy fans with an easy way to find the latest content from their favorite comedians. To start the feed off the full series of Nora Meadows Week of Wellness. Uh what caught my eye, They’ve uploaded the twenty nineteen comedy special Phil Wang Wang’s Plaining.
I Like Phil. A lot new album out today from Andy Awantsio. It is called Better Living Through Femistry. Andy is a transgal comedian from Seattle by way of Baltimore. With her ten years of comedy, she brings a witty, sardonic, and slightly profane style to her jokes that navigate living with disability and a marriage founded, fueled and fortified by mad lib vows.
Andy’s open for some Pretty Good People Kyle Kinade, James Adomian, Cameron Esposito. Better Living through Femistry out today on Kill rock Stars Records. Hulu has shared a trailer for Self Romance, which features mac packer Andy Samberg. The plot line when a middle aged man Jake Johnson is invited into a limo by famous actor Andy Samberg, his adult life takes a thrilling turn. Wait, so is Andy playing himself?
Interesting? Johnson has offered a chance to win a million dollars in a dark web reality TV show where assassins from all over the world attempts to kill him for thirty days. The catch he can’t be killed if he’s not entirely alone, leading him to recruit an unlikely team to help him survive. His only problem, none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Andy Samberg’s in this, so is Wayne Brady excited?
It’ll be out on January twelfth, And that’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it they might like it too. And if you’d like to support the show, one way to do that is go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedynews, Buy me a coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News. There are some bucks on the tip chair, and I’ll get nice coffee.
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