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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah’s new specials aut on Netflix today. It is called Where Was I? He filmed this on his recent off the record tour, and Where Was I?
Trevor Noah shares his comical experiences from his recent travels, which rains from foreign national anthems to varying cultural norms. This one was filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. It is Trevor’s fourth for Netflix. He had one just last year. I’m looking forward to watching this one.
I should be able to get to it tonight. Comedy dot co dot uk reviewed Trevor’s recent three nights at London’s Millennium Dome. They’re right, it’s not unusual to encountercomedian who’s as funny and they’re off the cuff moments as they are in their prepared routines. What’s more unusual is that the comedian is funnier and they’re off the cuff moments. There comes a point where you think, hang on, if you’ve got funnier things to say, can’t you make sure they’re part of the show.
The tickets are quite expensive I’d like to hear the best you’ve got. The website writes, the main body of Trevors show is absolutely fine, passable, certainly not anything you’d actively recommend to friends, or something that justifies being staged in one of the country’s biggest comedy venues. He talks about airlines and frustrating customer service situations. It’s all roughly the same quality, absolutely fine. Towards the back of the show, he opens up the floor for a Q and A session.
It’s here that he displays a talent that starts to explain the hype. He’s great, funny, interesting company. In those moments. You wish you’d more carefully filter his touring material, though, I wonder if it’s just not appealing to people who usually consume British comedy. We’ll see.
Pete Davidson has announced his second Netflix comedy special, this one with the fun title Turbo Fonzarelli. This will be on Netflix January ninth, so that’ll immediately be the number one special of twenty twenty four. In Turbo Fonzarelli, Pete Davison reflects on what it means to grow up in Turn thirty, as well as discussing love life and living in the woods. USA Today caught up with Matt Rice’s recent show at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida, last Thursday. Matt Rife said, I did want to make sure I mentioned at the top for the show.
Though. If anybody has come here to a comedy show at a comedy club with the possibility being offended by a joke, We’ve arranged a safe space for you. It’s located right outside that exit door. Go see yourself out. No one’s gonna stop you.
He addressed his controversial joke, which was I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye. He told the Naples audience. The joke is kind of funny because you know it’s a joke. I didn’t hit anybody, My food was fine, and put hands on anybody. USA Today says.
During the set, Rife talked about the hundreds of comments he got demanding an apology. He said he decided to swallow his pride and post a statement. The only reason I did a fake apology was because in what universe would I ever apologize for a joke. It’s a joke. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to listen to it.
You have to come to my show to be offended. Some people thought I was making fun of special needs people, and obviously that’s not what I was doing. I was making fun of critics for being so stupid to think I would ever apologize for joke. I’m saying, you needed those helmets way more than they do. Then, Matt talked about his alleged beef with the six year old boy on TikTok.
He’d tell the audience, no, you’re doing the right thing if you are, and just live your life. Everybody wants to be miserable on their own. And teach your kid how many planets have rings around them. USA Today writes, with the comedians saying the awkward part of the show is now over. His set turn of the format.
That is, eighteen point two million followers on TikTok have come to know and want to be a part of. From finding Grandmother’s hot to rebranding certain negative words to be positive. Rife set burned through several topics while riffing with fans. The more lighthearted bits included buying his mother house this year, experiences with his fan base, and his goal to donate all his gifted stuffed animal bears to charity. He also addressed his alleged plastic surgery.
Riife said people were saying I had jaw surgery to have a jawline. That’s funny to me, because I’m like, use your brain. If I’m going to get transformedive surgery done to me, you think I’m starting with my face. You would never hear me tell another joke the rest of my life. Matt said he hates the accusations that he does not like his female audience.
I hated that because women are the ones who gave me the career I have right now, and I’d never be anything less than grateful for that. I don’t feel like I’ve lost any female fans. I feel like I lost people who built an image of me that I did not live up to, which is on them. And we don’t happen to have the same sense of humor. And that’s fine.
You don’t have to like everybody. Jason Zenniman in The New York Times asks was a scandal the best thing that happened to Haas on Mine. Hassan recently played the Beacon in New York. He was telling a story about a girl cheating on him in eleventh grade. Hassan then turned to the audience and said, don’t fact check me.
That got a good reaction. He then joked, I had to go head to head with one of the most dangerous organizations in the world. I’m talking about a white woman with a keyboard. He joked his controversy as a sign of success. I’ve made it.
I’ve got a real old scandal, a dorky scandal. With regret in his voice. Minhaj joked, I got caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Nikki Glaser just recorded two shows in Seattle for an upcoming HBO special. Glazer told the Seattle Times, the last time I was in Seattle, it was like something’s different.
These people get me in a way that I’ve never been gotten. That was like two years ago whatever, But I remember remarking everyone around the time, I have to shoot a special here. Glazier said. She was on stage in Portland recently, and she slipped and referenced Seattle, and the audience is like, you’re in Portland, and I’m like, what’s the difference. It’s ringing cold and everybody’s kind of cool.
Her plan for this special was to warm up the audience herself emerging on stage in a bathrobe to say, Hey, let’s just acknowledge this is a big deal, but like oho care, let’s just have a blastedeks for being here. That’s what I would need as an audience member to feel safe diving into this kind of situation. In terms of being on HBO as post to those other streaming services, she says, HBO is some gravitas in terms of tastes, not like people taking these specials just to phillip space on their platform. Wonder who. She means, their approach is pretty much the same, but I’ve got to step it up.
As I often quote Taylor Swift, I’ve never been in natural. All I do is try and try and try, which is the ironic thing because it all looks so natural, and it does come natural in a way, but there’s still so much effort behind all this trying to make it look effortless. Congratulations to Whitney Cummings, who announced the birth of her first child on Sunday in a social media post. Whitney did not reveal the baby’s gender or name, but joked three D printed a human enjoy me, never having brushed hair again. John Oliver went after Elon Musk on Sunday Nights last week.
Tonight, John Oliver went down the list of bad guys that he says Elon Musk resembles. There’s Lex Luthor posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. There’s why No, mister bond I and my child broad expect you to die there just brought your media company. I’m about to strip you for parts. There’s space first, racist sheriff, and finally, the less bangable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic.
Truly the Man has ranged. John also pointed out Musk has the distinction of being both the richest person in the world and the first person ever lose two hundred million dollars. John says, which is even hard to wrap your head around. It’s like hearing someone run a marathon after accidentally running two hundred miles in the wrong direction. As we end on the holidays, just want to let you know this show will have episodes every single day, not taking a break.
Also wanted to turn you on to some other shows that this podcast is affiliated with. Check out Murder Weekly. We’ve been doing the twelve Days of Christmas. So it’s twelve Christmas themed murder episodes. I’ve been writing for that, and I’ve been shoehorning in references to snowmen and ponies named Snowflake, just trying to Christmas it up.
But I enjoy the episode Grandma Got run Over. That’ll be out this week. So that’s Murder Weekly. On Ghost Scary Stories, we’ve been doing the twelve Ghosts of Christmas. That’s a lot of fun.
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Also doing twelve Hallmark movie type stories.
Also over on five Good News Stories, I don’t plug that enough. I host that, you know, so that’s five stories, all of them good news. If you want to check out five Good News Stories. The number five good News stories, and Taylor Swift has been in the news a lot, so let me do a cross plug for Taylor Swift today wherever you get your shows. I checked out Leo Reich’s new special on HBO, and I liked it just about as much as I thought I was going to, which was not very much.
It was quote unquote better than I thought. I just didn’t care. I wasn’t making a connection with the comedian. He did have one good joke, which was he says he’s bisexual, which means I’m ninety percent gay and ten percent absolutely committed to proving my year seven bullies wrong. That got a good chuckle out of me.
I hung in there another five or so minutes, and I was just like, eh, I feel on this one. Leo tells the Advocate that people either leave his shows feeling sorry for him or detesting him. He says, both are fine. I’m not here to sort of dictate ho people should feel. I mean, it’s really a sponsor the show which has got such a spectrum of reactions from different people, which would I rather have?
I guess pity Pitty’s always nice. I’ve always loved being pitied and very competent about getting sympathy. I didn’t come away hating him or any of that. I just was like, eh, what else is on? Somewhere?
From that great article and inside hook with the title is social media killing stand up comedy? Trey Gallion says, since the pandemic, when I’ve been on the road, either done the big clubs or hung out of the big clubs, there have been times where the headliner has been somebody that I don’t know, which has never happened in my twenty years of doing comedy, you’ve never heard of them before, and it’s because they came from the YouTube world or the TikTok world. Gallion says such performers tend to draw a lot of young kids at shows, and on stage they tell stories as though they’re that person at the party that wants attention. That’s pretty much what their act is if you want to call in and act. Numesh Patel says he’s heard of TikTok and YouTubers who on stand up comedy stages exhibit PowerPoint presentations breaking down the viral videos they posted a social media and the staff will be like that mfor is not a comedian, but he just sold thre hundred tickets.
That’s not comedy. But if that’s what the fans want, that’s what the fans want. Pinky Patel has heard the grumbles from comedians about TikTok and YouTube stars taking spots away from established stand ups. Then she pointed out one stand up comedian who she didn’t want a name, who had gained a following primarily by posting crowd work clips to social media. I suspect I know who this is and it’s the same person that I heard some comedians taking a shot out last week.
Pinky says, from what I’ve seen on social media, what I saw on stage, I was underwhelmed. I’m not as happy as I am with their social media content. Ryan Heffron is the founder of the Comedy Zone chain of stand up clubs, and he says, if you sell tickets, I don’t care how you sell them. YouTubers are coming through my system on a regular basis, seeing a lot of really happy customers, and I’m seeing a lot of really good talent. Dusty Slay, who I’m really into can’t wait for his special in January, said he’d prefer to see social media stars with undeveloped acts get their shot at stage nights on different nights of the week, like Monday and Tuesday, where comedy clubs might otherwise struggle to track crowds.
Dusty says, if they’re taking weekend spots, it’s a little different. A lot of times a comic is not really so a lot of tickets, but it’s very good in building up a following. We’ll need Friday and Saturday nights because that’s when people will come out just to see comedy, interesting stuff. There not your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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