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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Curb Your Enthusiasm will end with season twelve. Season twelve from years on HBO, HBO, Max, Max whatever. We’re calling in February fourth at ten pm.
It’s a ten episode season that will conclude with a series finale on April seventh. Larry David said, as Curb comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this Larry David persona and become the person God intended me to be, the thoughtful, kind, caring, considered human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character. And so Larry David, I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.
Curb has been around for twenty four years. We’ll get twelve seasons total. By the late oughts, the show was starting to do every other year than It took a break from twenty eleven to twenty seventeen, when it returned. It was back again in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. Expected to appear Tracy Olman, Jeff Corland, Suzi Smond, Cheryl Hines, JB.
Smooth, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, and Vince Vaughan. Apparently, at the end of season eleven there was an alternate ending. In the alternate ending which did not air, Larry died, but apparently Larry David was not ready for Larry David to pass away, so we’ll get season twelve looking forward to that weird one involving Jerry Seinfeld. Fox News tells US pro Palestinian protesters marching through downtown Syracuse last week gathered outside the Landmark Theater to protest Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up show, accusing Jerry of being quote complicit in genocide. According to The Daily Orange, which is the student newspaper for Syracuse University, as people entered Landmark Theater for Seinfeld’s show, protesters stood outside.
Police placed themselves between the two groups, forming a pathway for those looking to get inside the building, while protesters chanted that Seinfeld was complicit in genocide. Apparently the lodge there is that Jerry and some others had signed an open letter to the Writer’s Guild of America condemning that union for being the quote to only major Hollywood union unquote to not provide a statement on the Hamas attacks. In happier, Jerry news he was in Springfield recently and he stopped by family owned Panjaba Tatka restaurant. They specialized in North Indian food. The restaurant tour shared a photo of staff members smiling with Jerry.
They captioned it, look who stopped by for lunch. No soup for you. Tiffany Hattish has been charged for driving under the influence. You may recall she had fallen asleep behind the wheel of her car in Beverly Hills. According to court records, LA prosecutors charged Tiffany with two misdemeanors.
Her arraignment set this week December twenty second page six says Tiffany was recently a last minute no show. She was scheduled to perform on Wednesday at the Ice House in Pasadena alongside several other comics. Those at the show say that after almost two hours of sets, the host came out and said Tiffany quote would not be performing tonight. A show attendee as he said she couldn’t make it. That was after five acts had already performed and only two comedians were left.
The eyewitness says they could feel the air leave the room when everybody gasp with anger disappointment. Everybody was looking at each other like is this part of the pit or is he serious? An insider tells page six, Tiffany likes to drink and have a good time, but her friends are noticing that she’s drinking way more around the holidays. We think she may be lonely and hiding behind a fake smile. Page six ads, however, Tiffany was recently at Paris Hilton’s holiday party, and a spy said Hattish was quote very sober and quote not drinking at all.
The unraveling of Matt Rife continues. Back in twenty eighteen, Riife decided he would pick on a kid known as the Walmart Yodeling kid. If you don’t remember who that is, I did neither, a twelve year old who had gained internet fame after singing Love Sick Blues by Hank Williams at a Walmart store. The then twenty two year old Matt Raife tweeted at the twelve year old and wrote, f’s on your forehead some gum so if you look at the phone, you can see some skin raised on the boy’s forehead, and the then twelve year old wrote back, it’s birthmark. Not all of us are perfect.
Matt Rife then backpedaled. He wrote back, you are perfect. Bro was genuinely curious. Lol, I’ve got your new single on repeat, little man, keep doing big things. Uh huh, sure, Matt, that’s what you meant.
Steph Tolev told The Toronto Star she had a hard time breaking in in the late auts and early twenty tens at the Alternative Club comedy bar. She said they treated me like dog Pooh. One comedy club owner criticized me for wearing geene shorts on stage, even though I killed. It was forty degrees out and I was biking everywhere because I didn’t have the money to take the subway. He told me, I looked like I’d been cleaning my house all day.
She looked back at her days as a middle act and said, I’d be stuck in Ottawa with these gross old male comics who’d say things like come for a drink, sweetheart, at two in the morning. It was disgusting. Then when I asked the fucking headline the club owner laughed and told me I wasn’t a headliner when she started performing at the La Comedy Store. Steph said when I started performing there in Instagram post, I wanted to thank those two Toronto comedy club owners because if they hadn’t told me I was crap, probably wouldn’t have worked so hard, am I petty? Yeah?
Did that make me work harder? Sure? The gang from Letter Kenny. They’re doing a stand up comedy tour featuring comedians from the show the final season coming up Christmas, I think, headlined by the always hilarious Mark Ford, who plays Coach. The show also feature stand up sets by Jeff mckenerny, who plays Alexander, and Letter Kenny writer Ali Pierce.
Tickets are on sale at Letterkenny dot tv, Slash Live Sketch Fast San Francisco’s added a few things. A screening of the IFC feature film Destroy All Neighbors, a twisted splatter comedy about a deranged journey of self discovery full of goofy practical effects. Jonah Ray involved with that one. There’ll be a live performance of the new D and D Adventure streaming TV show Faster or Purple Worm, Kill Kill also coming back festival favorite Upright Citizens Brigade Asscats a great show if you’ve never seen it, and you can solve a crossword puzzle live at the Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin. I spent a lot of time yesterday sharing a wonderful article in Inside Hook entitled is social Media killing stand up comedy?
Sim Morrell started talking about Instagram. He says, instance is penalizing users who post edgy jokes about sensitive topics by pushing them further down in people’s feeds. That has led to comedians bleeping out or dropping curse words from the audio and censoring their own captions. Sam said that can influence maybe the way a comedian writes because they want their jokes to be seen. It’s very tricky because we’ve been blessed to be able to circumvent the industry.
But at the same time, now these companies like Instagram, all they care about is ad sales, and they have an easier time making money if they have clean comedy clips. Yeah, that’s why I keep this show clean for that very reason. Actually, no, there’s two reasons. One the advertisers, and it’s not like the advertisers told me not to curse, but I just know from doing this for thirty years, if you work clean, you’re not gonna scare anybody off. The other thing is if a podcast is explicit, it doesn’t run on Apple podcasts in India, and India has a very large English speaking population, so that’s why I use words like stuff.
Sam says he remembers a time not long ago when a lot of comics would break on Instagram with the most provocative stuff ever. Inside Hook says the new algorithm may be perfect for comedian like Tony Dio, who might strategically inject a curse word and was set here or there, but generally works clean. One of his jokes, whoever invented the phrase slept like a baby, they didn’t have a baby. I don’t think they’ve ever seen a baby. I think that fray should be slept like an adult that doesn’t have a baby.
That video has nearly one hundred and twenty five thousand likes on Instagram, but he credits the moms on the platform for giving his following a big boost. Swarms of them lip synced and acted out his bit while cradling their own kids, hashtagging their videos with phrases like hashtag sleep deprived. Deo says he’s also learned of joke thieves who lifted his material from the Internet and incorporated it into their own sets. All right, now that he said that that whole sleep like a baby thing, I’m not sure that was the most original premise there. I feel like I’ve heard that before anyway, he said, I would still prefer not to have to do this, even though it’s helped me out.
I sort of wonder the amount of effort that I put into it the last year and a half didn’t translate into all that much extra revenue. I still feel like I’d rather just write jokes and tell jokes, and that’s all you ever want to do, and everything else is kind of getting in the way of me doing that. At a higher level, Sam said, it’s hard enough for me even to find time to approve clips. I’m so busy. Comedian Tom Ryan said that’s the new game.
The key is through content out there. You never know what’s going to connect. Max Fin said the recent release of his comedy album provided him with the opportunity to put material on Instagram. Recording all that material meant I wasn’t going to be able to use it again on stage. My whole hesitation with putting something has always been if I post a joke and then two months later I find a way to make it another minute longer, with more tax to it.
I don’t want the original joke being public because it’s already going to spoil whatever’s coming next. Graham Kay mourns the loss of industry gatekeepers who were excellent judges of talent, says of today’s stand up world, nobody cares if you’re good at live stand up. The only way we could break out is by getting noticed on social media. What that means though, This is also no more quality control as to what gets big fantastic stuff from in side Hook. I’ve shared this article in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.
I’m gonna hold on to more of this and do more of this tomorrow. It’s really good stuff. If you like the show, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or tell a friend about it. They might like the show too. Meet you back here tomorrow.