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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail reports that Netflix is under pressure to cut ablest slurs from the upcoming Ricky Gervais show Armageddon that’ll be out one week from today. Spoilers for the special I’ll give you a second here. In the special, Ricky says spoiler coming.
He had been making videos for terminally ill children at hospitals with a Makeawish charity. He joked that the children were effing our words for not wishing to get better. The mother of a terminally ill child that set up a petition to get the skit removed by Netflix, a UK disability charity, has slammed the sketch for having able to slurs in it. In the clip that was released to the audience roared with laughter. Really really interesting editorial opinion piece in The Grio written by Tore.
The headline are Chris Rock and Kevin Hart on the same level. I share this in the Facebook which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I commented, Yeah, I said this recently when Kevin Hart got the Mark Twain Ward. I don’t feel like he’s on the same level as the other people. He puts out a lot of work like a lot, but does any of the work like actually register How many shows have I told you about that we’re on Quibbi or random products he’s involved with. It’s like the man likes to work, but is he on the same level comedy wise as Chris Rock.
I agree with Torre, and I’m gonna say no. Torre writes, I have a creeping suspicion. There was one specific motive behind Netflix’s new fund doc Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners, Only it’s about more than taking a look behind the scenes as two of the world’s greatest comedians work their way through a historic run of shows, et cetera, et cetera. It’s about establishing Kevin Hart as being on the level of Chris Rock, which is a problematic writes Torre. He writes the doc takes us into the comedic roots of both men.
Points out that the Chris Rock was discovered by Eddie Murphy when Murphy was the biggest comic in the world. He saw young Rock and instantly believe in him and gave him a helping hand that led in time to Rock becoming the success Murphy as America’s biggest Black comedian. Tory writes, Yes, that’s a thing. In turn, when Chris Rock was ABBC, he saw a young Kevin Hart and helped him out, leading eventually to him becoming one of America’s biggest black comedians. Was he ever the sole ABBC?
No, Dave Chappelle took that mantle from Rock, Tory continues. The doc even gives us Tony Rock Chris his brother, saying Heart never missed a chance to talk to Rock about the intricacies of comedy, much like a young Kobe asking Michael Jordan questions about the intricacies of basketball. That suggests Hart is the Kobe to Rock’s Jordan. I see Rock as a comedian who’s also a philosopher and a political thinker. Many of his jokes are interesting ideas.
Rock always comes with great material. I believe there are two kinds of comics. Some have meticulously manicured material and some have a funny vibe about them, so much as they could read the phone book and it would be funny. Rock is a material guy. Heart is a phone book guy.
Wow, that is really well said. Kevin Hart is all vibe, Yeah, Tory continues, There’s nothing wrong with being a phone book guy. It’s a gift. The way Heart talks is funny. The way he moves is funny.
Heart could do anything and make people laugh. But do his funny stories lead to iconic material. I feel like any hour of Heart jokes will always be fun, but his stories and observations won’t be unforgettable. I can’t recall anyone ever saying did you hear Kevin hartch joke about dot dot Dot? As far as being able to sell tickets, they’re absolutely on the same level.
But as far as the quality and depth and complexity of their material, I don’t think they’re close. As for Rock, Tory writes, I think his approach to comedy transform the way many people view comics. He’s never a clown. He’s never the butt of the joke. He’s the smart observer of the world who’s come to help you see things the right way, or at least the Rock way.
Heart is more of a hilarious entertainer who welcomes you to laugh at his pain. He doesn’t mind you looking down on him. He’s happy being the butt of the joke. To me, the progression of the ABBC crown in my lifetime as this it was prior than Murphy, than Rock, than Chappelle. Heart’s an important part of the comedy universe, but he’s never held the crown.
Great stuff again. I share that in the Facebook group on Friday Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. I love a good non controversy. Jeopardy fans are upset with the show’s Seinfeld questions. You see, it was the champion’s wild game tournaments.
I don’t know. After the first break, Julia led with twenty eight hundred dollars, which was eight hundred dollars more than Henry Ken. Jennings revealed the categories, one of them was Seinfeld before and after apparently Gary crushed the category, pulled ahead, and Gary advanced. Someone on the Jeopardy subreddit said, speaking as a Seinfeld fan who ran that category, it really belonged in the first round. A single clue that requires knowledge of a particular sitcom in double Jeopardy is fine.
An entire category referring to one particular sitcom too much, because if a player isn’t familiar with the show, they’re out of luck. Another Jeopardy and Seinfeld fan agreed, saying, I agree on keeping those specific program categories in the first round. Last season there was a category titled Friends in the first round. It wasn’t even wordplay, just basic clues, like it’s the coffee shop where the friends hang out, which only fans of the show would know. Well, I have found the questions.
I didn’t find the answers, but I found the questions. So let’s take a look. Four hundred dollars. This George Costanda portrayer was the first US Treasury Secretary, all right, So they do this kind of thing at Trivia Night where I go on Wednesday, where you have to connect things so that this George Costanza portrayer, that’s Jason Alexander the US Treasury Secretary’s Alexander Hamilton. So who is Jason Alexander Hamilton?
Seinfeld before and after for six hundred set on controlling the Vichy Sauce supply. TV hosts Greg kinnear and John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist all right, who is or what is talk soup Nazi Seinfeld? Before and after for twelve hundred, this Wham front man continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer, who is George Michael Richards Seinfeld before and after for sixteen hundred. Avuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan Ilitch. Huh, I don’t know what’s the answer there?
A vuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan iliatsch oh okay, I got it. I’ll give you a second. I’ll come back and tell you Seinfeld before and after for two thousand. This Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal, the Luisa Dreyfus affair. All right back to the one I skipped.
Uncle Leo Tolstoy. Trevor Noah was recently in San Francisco. The sf Gate caught his show. Trevor said, everyone told me, O Trivor, you don’t want to go to San Francisco. If you’ve seen it right now, it’s armageddon, It’s chaos on the streets.
Trevor said he didn’t think it was all that different from many other American cities he visited. He talked about going out to Salcelito or enjoyed a meal from Sushi Wren. He did a bit about the hills the cars are holding on for dear life. He loved Chinatown and even expressed appreciation for some of the Tenderloin. Trevor said, the thing I liked about the Tenderloin is that you’re present in a world where we’re constantly distracted by our phones, thoughts running through our heads.
It was nice to be in a place where I was in the moment, my mind was nowhere else. I’m noticing its feel, its smell, its taste, its touch. I’m just there. No skipping down on the sidewalk. That led to a line of jokes complaining about San Francisco’s lack of public bathrooms.
He started talking with a woman in the front row who had cheered in response to the question. He asked her if she’d lived in San Francisco her whole life. She said she had lived around the Bay Area, so Trevor said, so, not in San Francisco, just around it. The person responded that they grew up in Fremont and Oakland, but were born in San Francisco and moved out of the city at age one. Trevor said, you lived here for a year, but you were zero to one.
You were a zero year old, you didn’t live crap, your parents lived here. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that South Park Survival is tied to its past, not the cancel culture present. Joe Rogan said, they’re the only show that Comedy Central leaves alone. There’s no way you could make South Park today if you were an unknown group of cartoonists. No chance.
They’d never let you. It’s too crazy. It’s the only good show on the network, so they kind of have to let it go. It’s a great show. It’s been there forever.
You get away with wild stuff you could never get away with otherwise. They’re a national treasure. They’re so import They’re one of the few people out there in this day and age, when you can’t even make comedy movies anymore. You’re never gonna see a traffic thunder today. South Park goes as hard, if not harder than ever before.
Without them, we wouldn’t have Veggie Comedy, not on a television show. Eddie Murphy is working on another movie, this one called to pick Up, a heist comedy.
Also in the cast Pete Davidson no details yet.
They’re gonna start filming in February. Macpacker Keegan Michael Key will host the NFL Honors Show on February eighth. Key recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and upset some Fox News types. Kimmel was making fun of the conservative media’s annual freak out over the so called war on Christmas. He got some help from Keegan, Michael Key, and Sean Hayes.
Part of what people are upset about is a queer nutcracker holding a Progress Pride flag being sold to Target. On Newsmax, Chrissy Clark moaned about the ornament and said, let’s be honest, if you’re a gay man and you have any semblets of taste, you do not have a gay Pride nutcracker in your house, Okay. Sean Hayes joked, first off, gay nutcrackers redundant. All nutcrackers are gay. A bunch of fit, older men with perfect posture wearing Padazza uniforms and knee high boots.
Open your eyes. Later in the bit, Sean Hayes’s nutcracker character was joined by his boyfriend Black Santa in a wheelchair portrayed Bykeg and Michael Key. Kim Will asked Key how he ended up in a wheelchair. The reply, I fought in the War on Christmas, Jimmy Kimmel said, I think Fox just got twelve more nights of programming out of this. I was gonna get back into that Inside Hook article, but I’ll get out on the laugh.
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