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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has announced the top ten highest grossing comics on tour in twenty twenty three. Let’s take a look at Number ten Joe Coy Quietly a Monster, earning thirteen point four million dollars, selling one hundred and ninety eight thousand tickets during only twenty shows. Number nine Adam Sandler, selling one hundred and forty one thousand tickets over fifteen shows.
Adam made fourteen point two million dollars with his hilarious comedy. Number eight Sebastian Maniscalco thirty nine shows, sixteen million, one hundred and thirty thousand tickets sold. Number seven Taylor Tomlinson Yeah. One hundred and thirty two shows, two hundred and ninety six thousand tickets, seventeen and a half million dollars. Number six Peter Kay huge star in the UK.
Two hundred and seventy six thousand tickets twenty one shows that included ten shows at the O two Arena. He earned twenty and a half million dollars. Number five Nate Pergatsy, who had a great year one hundred and thirteen shows, three hundred thirty thousand tickets twenty point six million dollars for Nate. Number four Bill Burr, he did thirty seven shows, twenty point six million dollars, two hundred thirty one thousand tickets. Number three Berd Kraser, who also had a big year, four hundred and sixty thousand tickets, thirty two point nine million dollars, eighty total shows.
Number two was Chappelle nineteen shows, two hundred and fifty four thousand tickets, thirty six point six million dollars, and number one touring Kevin Hart sixty seven point five million dollars. He sold six hundred and thirty one thousand tickets. He did eighty two shows. Wow, and he still bangs out all that work. How much money does Kevin Hart have?
Wow? Trevor Noah’s new special is out on Netflix. I was hoping to watch it last night. I hope they can talk about it tomorrow. Essen’s caught up with Trevor and they asked him his process for developing new material.
Trevor said, to be honest with you, my process is living life and then being on stage. I generate material by living and thinking and communicating with others. Netting on stage, and I work it out, and that’s pretty much how I generate every hour that I’ve made. Netflix shared another clip from the show Let’s Listen. Every woman in this room has a trick that works on every man.
And right now, I know a lot of the women like shut up, trip, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. It’s a beautiful subtle technique. Yeah. You’ll be out having lunch or something. Then some guy will come up to the table.
He’s buff, works out, you know, looks really good. He’s like, oh my god, Michelle, Michelle. He’s like, oh Justin, Oh my god, Wow, how are you? And you They’re like, who the hell is Justin? What’s going on?
He’s like, this is crazy. I can’t believe this. Twice in two weeks and you there like twice when was once? Who is this? I know?
Oh my god? How are you? I’m doing? Good? Man?
We got to catch up sometime, We got we gotta talk about college. I was thinking about it the other day. We were so crazy in college. You remember that, you remember that night and you like you went to college. What’s going on here?
Trevord told Essence every special I release, I think comes at the time when it’s ready to be released. Art is a strange thing in that it never feels finished for the artists, but at some point you have to let it go. For me, this special is the culmination of meat traveling around the world and meeting people from all over. I love how comedy can bring people together. This year, traveling around the world doing it was a reminder of how wonderful a shared laugh can be.
So I wanted to release a fun light special that everybody can enjoy at home, especially going to the holidays and what’s been a tough time for many people for many different reasons. Essence asked Trevor why he thinks Netflix has become the hub for stand up comedy. I’ll answer because they pay millions and millions of dollars. That’s the answer. You want to become the hub for stand up comedy, start handing out one hundred million dollar checks to Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock you’ll be the hub of comedy.
But that wasn’t Trevor’s answer. He said, well, for a few reasons. Number one, Netflix was their first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off. I know HBO did it a little bit, but they had such a limited space for comedian and you had to be on when you were on. I think we’ve moved on from that.
Well, hold on, Trevor, I mean HBO did it for a little bit. They did it for forty years, dude, and yeah, it had to be on when you were on. But there’s HBO Max. Now you can watch a special whatever you want. What are we talking about, Trevor said, you should be able to watch something whatever you want to watch it.
Yeah, it’s called Max.
Moving on, Trevor, do you think you’ll ever get back in the late night TV?
Trevor said, I never say never when it comes to anything. If you’d asked me before Late Night TV if I’d get into it, I would have said, I don’t know. I never know where life takes me, what direction it pulls me in. But for now, I’m enjoying this period of my life and I’m enjoying traveling more. I’m enjoying spending more time in South Africa.
I’m enjoying doing more stand up. But if the right timing opportunity and motivation come along. I’ll do anything. That’s what I love about being in the field that I’m in. Hmm, I could see the tonight’s show at Trevor Noah just saying at the end of today’s podcast, I will have a spoiler for Trevor Noah’s special.
I will give you major warning about it. As I mentioned, I was hoping to watch it last night. The Times Now News saw as vibe spoilers here, they say, this time Trevor Noah has had more distance away from the US satirical show that made him an international name, But the way the comedian analyzes and shapes his with a stute punchline is much like what he used to do on the Daily Show. His material for Trevor Noah, Where Was I is made of discerning observations to different countries and cultures During his travels around the world, the talented comic was an act for nailing accents and nuances of different cultures. Recounts his experiences in places like Europe in the US.
Yeah, I love his voice work. It’s so good. I meant to mention that when I played the trailer clip he’s doing those voices. They are fantastic. For example, miner spoiler here, You’ll be fine.
While in torn Berlin, he praises Germany for acknowledging its Nazi past and it’s part in it. Later, he mocks their national anthem in a way that’s not offensive. At an hour and eight minutes, Trevor Noah, where was I is far too short? Wow from a hot reporter. Jerry Seinfeld showing support for the families of Israeli hostages after arriving in Israel earlier this week.
According to multiple local Israeli news sources, Jerry landed sometime on Monday and has since visited the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Tel Aviv, the hostage advocacy organization. Jerry told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages whose lives are in immediate danger. Jerry’s family was very moved and it was evident that they were deeply affected by the experiences they heard from the family members and they released hostages.
Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner on Saturday, Jerry was spotted at the India Garde…
Jerry apparently on an Indian food kick. That’s twice in a week we’ve seen him out for Indian food. Ray Romano says, you’re not getting it. Everybody loves Raymond reboot. He was on Bill Maher’s podcast.
He told Bill reboots are never as good. We want to leave with our legacy, he said. The rest of the cast was happy to go on, but myself and Phil Rosenthal round the show. We wanted to end it in season eight because we felt like it was time. Yeah, it’d be kind of hard to bring back.
I mean, you could have the kids now grown up, and you could throw Ray and Debrah into the parent roles. And Ray says, you know, as far as it reboots, now the question because unfortunately the parents are gone Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts. So yeah, if Ray and Deborah were the parents and the kids were grown up, and I don’t know, Robert lived next door, you could make it work. But yeah, just don’t. Fox Nation is getting in on the comedy thing.
On January third, they’ll release two separate Commonbody specials. One is called Jimmy Fala. They’re just jokes, featuring a special filmed at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island. I Know that place Interesting by the former New York City taxi driver turned Fox News commentator The Other One that Day, Tyrus Here and Now a concert filmed in Crowley, Louisiana, with the former professional wrestler and current Gutfeld panel member offering his takes on a variety of topics. On January a, Fox Nation will release a History of the World in Six Classes, a documentary series hosted by Dan Ackroyd.
Appearing in it Jim Belushi, John Lovett’s and Kevin Neil and also George went from Cheers. They discuss beer, wine, coffee, t soda, and spirits. I’m sure Akroid’s gonna plug his stuff. He always does. And on January tenth, Fox Nation will release an episode of a series called Who Is.
In that episode, they will profile Dave Chappelle. Netflix has released a clip from the upcoming Adam Sandler sci fi drama Spaceman. Listen to this trailer. This sounds awful, just awful. As I was hitting play, I’m like, is this a parody?
No, Adam is serious here? Listen to this crap just like you. I fled my planet through galaxies through black calls through time and then I Found You. Spaceman, directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl, which is fantastic. Spaceman will be out March first.
The film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia. We find Adam Sandler’s astronaut Jacob six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar system, as he realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Adam Sandler’s character is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time, which he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. By the way, that recent cartoon Leo had thirty four point six million views for Netflix during its first week, yikes. Deadline wrote about the future of Late Night you know, hey, is anybody going to take over for any of the five white guys currently hosting shows?
And they speculated who even knows? But the interesting part to me was talking about Lorne Michaels. As the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live approaches, Deadline rights comedy sources are convinced that Tina Fay remains the odds on favorite to replace Lorne Michaels when he does step down. Well, we all stepped down eventually for one reason or another. Seth Myers said, whoever goes after the person who replaces in there, that’s the job.
They should do a favor and just go to Monster dot com and hire somebody with no background in TV. Let them replace Lorn for six months and have the entertainment press put them on a spit Tell that person coming in here, you’re just here to take off the heat and you’ll get a golden parachute. That’s like what David Lee roth File at Harwood stirred exactly, that they should get somebody who’s not on TV, because after that they’ll never work in TV again. Are you a fan of the TV show Dave starring rapper Little Dicky Well. The soundtrack for the first three seasons is coming out on January nineteenth.
It is entitled penif Little Dicky’s first album in eight years. Dave Bird said, I realize this year. I took a step back and looked at all the different music that’s made it in the first three seasons of the show. There’s enough here, great body of work in a project that could put out as a soundtrack. I think this will be a cool thing for fans who’ve watched the show, and for people who have never seen the show.
I think they’ll enjoy listening to this as a body of music.
And now that’s spoiler for Trevor Noah’s a special again.
I’ll babble here for five seconds case you want to hit stop. It’s nothing horrible, but you know, let’s tell you something that happens in the special. You already okay, there’s a cameo. Do you want to know who the cameo is? If you don’t hit stop, you still here.
Here comes to the spoiler in the special. Trevor Noah begins to sing Sweet Caroline, which he says is pure uncut Caucasian joy. The audience joins in. Trevor points out, you were like, this is it, this is our moment. Cameras then followed Trevor Noah as he exits the theater and gets into an SUV.
Who’s in the suv? Neil Diamond. Neil asked Trevor how’d we do? Trevor says, it works every time, Neil Diamond, it works every time. Trevor said, I had to make quite what a few calls to get somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody who would eventually get to him.
He called the appearance of the stuff that dreams are made of. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. And if you want to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee.
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