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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John m’liney Toild Deadline. Once I left Detox, I started to thinking about the intervention. I called my friend Joe Manny to kind of get a handle on what had happened there, and he said it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it, and I told him after the intervention how I ranked the speeches.
He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away. Mlanie said he was intrigued to see that some people consider the special to be dark. It’s digested. It’s darker than I thought, and that sounds odd, I know, because of the subject matter. But my goal was to present this as funny as possible with no dramatic pauses.
I wanted it to be a joke driven special about something that’s complex and said and a little scary, but as a ton of very specific details. That’s what I wanted to get across. People might go this is harder sat or darker disturbing. I really am flattered and happy that’s been reviewed in disgust. That’s what I like the most is that people talked about it.
They asked him about his suit. Was it fusha. M’laney said, well, let me look up fuscha because I’m not a great color person. Fusia is a vivid pinkish purplish red color, named after the color of the flower, the fuchia plant. Okay, so we have the suit, and then we have the color correct, then we have your own screen.
So I don’t know. I’m not going to say you didn’t experience fuchia. You might have. I don’t know your color settings. It’s like a light of burgundy.
I really love that suit I got in England this place called well, I won’t say where in case they don’t want me sharing this, but they make King Charles pajamas and he really likes bright colored jammys. He goes to bed looking like a big bowl of fruit. They asked him about divorce jokes, and Malini said, just wasn’t something I was going to get into. Very short answer. There, I respect that deadline followed that up with there’s another great joke.
And you’re special about how even as an addict, you look better than so many people because of your athletic build and you look great and m’liney said, well, I’ve never had anyone, let alone a journalist, say that I have an athletic build. So I can’t thank you enough for that, And congratulations of being the first person ever to say that I’m walking on air right now. It was mid pandemic when a lot of people would put on some weight and a lot of people were home and I was out, So I was just dressed up a little and had remain velt through pretty unhealthy means. Everyone when there was adorable in their own way. There was more kidding that they looked like crap.
Good stuff as always. From Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times. He was writing about Netflix’s effect on comedy and said, it’s unclear how much the streaming service, known for specials by boldface names like Milanie and Adam Sandler, cares about minting stars. That’s why Netflix is verified as important. It’s two showcases each about an hour, featuring emerging comics doing short sets.
There’s a promising precedent. Back in twenty eighteen, Netflix aired the comedy Lineup, which was relative on knowns, doing fifteen minutes. From that group, three of them were Taylor Tomlinson, Michelle but So and Sam Jay. You know those names. Tim Dillon was another one and another’s been a head writer and sidekick on late night, specifically James Cordon’s Ian Carmel comedy lineup didn’t vault these performers to fame, but it helped, and in retrospect, the selection of the entire group, which also included Jack Knight, Phil Wang and Sabrina Jayley’s What a great collection of comedians, reflected foresight and taste.
The artists in the new showcases are not exactly newcomers. There’s Dulce Sloan from The Daily Show, Nimesh Patel, Leslie Lau, Rosebud Baker, who I feel is like kind of known. Maybe I just do this podcast every day and most people don’t know rosebud Baker. I know John Marcos Siresi, who I’m a big fan of. As part of this, Let’s see Zinnamon writes, Patel takes a leisurely paced mixing crowd work on topical jokes, including some solid roasting of effec Ramaswani, Buttel makes it seem like a casual offhand another night at the club, But Dulce Sloan may adjust to the form best because she starts quickly, ends abruptly, and sticks to a couple non topical subjects, including a bit about the benefits of dating a poor man.
One of the revelations for Jason Zinneman was Sabrina Wu, who barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. This is making me want to watch this tonight. I haven’t gotten around to it yet. There’s so much football. I watch football on Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, Wednesday night, I go to trivia.
It only leaves three nights and I have to play video games one night. Sabrina Wu barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. WUS standout bit Spoilers involves talking trash about Amanda Gorman, the former National Youth pote Laureate, at a contest early in her career, then describing the futility of a rivalry with her. John Marco SERRESI jokes spoilers. I just feel if white people would stop complaining all the time about cancel culture and actually fought for racial equality, then all of us could do the Chinese accent again.
Lewis Katz, a bald, filthy veteran comic with slingshot punchlines, opens his new release special Present Tense with better known comics, explaining why he never became famous. Nate Pergatzy says he’s too dirty, Mark Marion points to his hairline, David Tell blames personality, and David Drake begins his latest YouTube special with a pointed joke that is the ring of truth. Here’s how you make it in this business. I have a famous dad. Eight hundred pound Gerrilla wrote about John Marco and asked him how he picked the ten minutes that he used in the showcase I just discussed.
John Marco said, the biggest chunk of the set came from a never aired Don’t Tell comedy set. I did it earlier this year, never aired because it bombed. I tried doing all my Gun Show material to open the set. Not to blame LA audiences, but let’s just say once so badly. I called my girlfriend the next day at six am from the Delta Lounge.
Henry Winkler was also there, but thankfully I don’t think he noticed me. But I loved that bit and I wanted to get it out there before Gun violence in America stopped being a thing? Did you know who was going to be part of Verified before the taping? Who are you looking forward to sharing the stage with? Jen Marco said, I’m still not sure who was there, but I walked away being a bigger fan of Jay Jurden, who opened both tapings with his signature joke dense act that fully prepared the audience for stand up comedy.
He discussed filming it at Webster Hall and said, fortunately the team for this taping partially curated the audience from people who were fans of comics in the lineup. This probably meant there were a disproportional number of Nimesh Patel fans there, but luckily they and everyone else came to laugh. Kathy Griffin spoke to Variety about buying back her own material. Kathy said, it makes me very excited for my legacy. When I crook, I have a theory that when I’m dead, I’m gonna get a lot of props.
I almost can’t wait. I think once I crook, I’m gonna get one of those docu series and maybe Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will cry near z Eve can be a hole in Memoriam and anybody who screwed me over will feel guilty. Can you see what a healthy person I am. I hadn’t watched My Life on the D List since ad aired. I only rewatched episode one reason.
I am so thrilled when people mention that show or said that’d watch it with friends or their family. I’ve got a lot of guys be like I came out because of your show. My mom and I would watch it together. I’m so proud because that was a show that was really real. We overshot the stuff out of it.
It was eight episodes a year, and we would film for six months. They just followed me around and hope I did funny stuff. I think maybe people miss it because they know that good, bad, or indifferent was all genuine. What advice Kathy would you give to new comics being approached to do specials? Kathy said, I would tell them the best thing you can do is get licensing money, which is very difficult.
After doing specials at Bravo for many years, I finally got them to just give me a sum of money, and then I got to choose the production company and do the budget. That’s probably why I have so many enemies in the executive world because that’s how the guys do it. I thought I earned a place to be able to have that kind of power, But I’m sad to say it’s always tricky when you’re a chick. So I’m thrilled that I have ownership. It’s hard because a lot of the dudes assigned the checks.
If they’re not a fan, you’re kind of screwed. So if you can do your own stuff, do it, or can do it super cheap all yourself. That’s the way to do it because then you give a buyer the product and can go this is what I do. Do you want it or not? And if not?
Young people are much more enterprising than I am about social media. I’m sitting here at sixty three, still working hard trying to be a TikToker. Today, my San Francisco forty nine ers take on the Seattle Seahawks. Will Ferrell has some advice for the Seahawks. I’d say, guys, we’re gonna paunt on third down every series and we’re just gonna We’re not going to control the ball.
Let’s not worry about it. I don’t know, I don’t know what I don’t know what you do about the forty nine ers. Right Variety spoke to Marlon Wayans about cancel culture. Marlin said, I’m as much a comedian as I am a black man. I’m always gonna protect comedians.
Dave Schpelle’s a dear friend. I love him to death, and I have a trans son. I could give him my opinions, but he has every right to feel out. He wants me as a parent. When I do my special, I’ll handle it differently.
And that same article, Samsa Gore said, people in entertainment still see stand up as the lowest rung, like we’re effing’s circus jugglers. Listen, Meryl Streep would crap her pants if she had to do stand up. So Gora argue that the outrage that infest social media doesn’t reflect what he’s seeing on the road. He said, go to the clubs. You see somebody go for the joke and you can’t describe it.
It pops, audiences go nuts. They’re looking for people to make these jokes. It’s like there’s two realities. Some people believe the reality online is real, it’s not the real world. Matt Rife said, it comes down to your objective what’s your intention in saying some reckless stuff right now?
Are you trying to upset somebody? You’re trying to make light of certain subjects. He said, all this before the recent controversies. It’s a weekend. I’ve held on to the story for a couple weeks.
That way, it doesn’t take up such a negative space in someone’s mind, and they can laugh about something they may have brought them so much grief and discomfort. If audiences can tell you’re coming from a good place, he says, sensitivity isn’t an issue. Audiences can sense intent. The reason comics can get away with saying some crazy stuff is because the audience knows who you are that has aged well, hasn’t it. That’s your comedy news for today.
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