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The shark deck. I’m trying to mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle did a show in Melburne. He’s got some new material at the top, and I’m trying to figure out how to share it with you without offending anyone. He used the R word.
I guess I’ll go with that. Dave said, I’ve received complaints about making fun of LGBTQ people, so I won’t do that tonight. Instead, I’ll be making fun of our words. He added, our words make easier targets than the trans community is. They don’t send a fight back.
Chapelle also told the crowd about a craze fan and was once bothering him, and said he was worried that his Filipino American wife, Elaine might run him over his jokes. She’s not violent, she’s just Asians, so she’s a really bad driver. Dave got serious at one point. He joked about Chris Rock being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars, and then he turned it back into comedy. Said Chris Rock told him I’m not a victim.
Dave said, you’re not a victim, please, I’ve seen the tape. Dave also joke he hates buying Australian cigarettes because they have photos of diseases on the packets. I’m like, I’ll take the packet with the disease lungs on it. During the show, Chappelle and announcer DJ Trauma reminded the audience at regular intervals that anyone caught using any electronic device would be immediately evicted from the venue. That’s right, Dave, because you don’t want people to find out that you opened up with an R word joke.
Because how would they find out if we don’t have our phones. They’re recording your whole special right, It’ll never get out. DJ Trauma warned. Infrared cameras will be used to identify any attempts of recording the show. We’ve already kicked out seven or eight people.
Also on the bill, Marshall Brandon, Jeff Ross, and Donnel Rawlings. Ross had the audience howling with laughter. He did a raunchy routine about the sex life of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The New York Post wonders will Joe Rogan leave Spotify when his contract expires. The new site Semaphore says Rogan’s relationship with Spotify management has quote unquote freed.
The Post reached out to Spotify. They disputed Semaphore’s reporting, insisting that Rogan’s contract does not expire this year. That’s interesting. Most people in the industry think Rogan expire at the end of the year. A Semaphore spokesperson told The Post that they have updated the original story with a link to a New York Times article from last year.
A lot of game of telephone here right. The Times had claimed the contract rand for three and a half years, with the possibility of more. Rogan signed with Spotify in twenty twenty, so all right, you’ve got twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two. That’s three years, and then another half would be sometime this year. Who knows.
Also, there’s a fake ad making the rounds where it looks like and sounds like Joe Rogan endorsing a product. All of that is fake. And the use of AI the point of the article pointing out how dangerous AI is about to get. There is really good voice faking technology. I use it on this very podcast.
I’ll even tell you what it is. It’s called descript and I have thrown a lot of episodes of this podcast into the script to create a sampling of my own voice. And how I use it is sometimes if I misspeak, instead of going back into the studio to clean up a sentence, I will type the words and descript, consume, mulate my voice and you probably don’t notice. I’m me and I usually can’t notice it’s not perfect. Get The longer you go, it becomes more obvious that it’s a computer speaking.
But I can replace a word here and there and you’ll never know. From TMZ, George Lopez getting dragged through the coals. Some say he’s acting like a gate keeping elitist for stand up comedy. Wow, all right, what’s going on? He was on a podcast with the All Things Comedy Network.
George was chatting with Steve Trevino. They were talking about George’s legacy, especially as it pertains to paving the path for other Hispanic comedians. Travino said it was incumbent on the ogs of the biz like George Lopez to pass down the knowledge and assist up and comers in breaking through. Lopez disagreed on the way to go about that. He acknowledged he hadn’t always been the most helpful, but noted he had shown the way argument was on others to chart their own path.
Travino pushed back, invoking a young comedian named Ralph Barbosa. George asked why Travinia was bringing up Barbosas, suggesting that Barbosa is not famous or worthy enough of getting roped into the conversation. He asked the room if it was messed up that he said that, but in the end he stood his ground, writing Barbosa off as a relative nobody. I’m also unfamiliar with Ralph Barbosa. Lopez said his point was look out for yourself, and that means not talking about other comics or giving them a plug of any kind, something Paul Rodriguez has alluded to when it comes to what he says is George’s track record on that sort of thing.
A resurface clip of Paul Rodriguez has him telling a story about George Lopez, and it seems that even among George’s contemporaries, he’s got a bad rep for not extending and helping hand to Latinos. Barbosa has posted a clip on social media. It’s a scene from the movie Blood in Blood Out, where Benjamin Bratt is getting grilled by his relative for turning his back on his own people. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Mark Marin. I know, right.
Mark Marin said he was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to do HBO because he’s been doing it a long time and he told us to Collider it was always the dream. Just came circuitously and at an odd point in my career and at an odd moment in history. But I’m thrilled. It was weird because net Flix said, first look, I had to deal with them for the other specials. Support of that was they got to choose if they wanted the new one, and Robbie prow Robbie is the Netflix VP of stand up in comedy, Robbie prow Over there was like nah, and I’m like great, and then HBO said we want it.
Having seen the special, Robbie, I think Robbie nailed it. I love Marin the special. It’s just kind of like, all right, doctor Meren, he said. HBO said we want it, And this couldn’t have been a better thing because in some ways, to stand up you don’t really want to be on Netflix, do you? I think you do?
No, you don’t want to be on Netflix, Mark, what’s going on here? Mark said, it’s such a gamble and they don’t get behind anything. You’re just there to see what the algorithm dictates, whereas HBO is still like a curated network where they’re going to support it, They’re going to make sure it’s great and they have good taste in content. And Netflix specials now sort of like, yeah, who doesn’t have a Netflix special? That is true.
Netflix has watered down their comedy brand. I agree with you there, Mark Marin. I was definitely aware that I was going to be on HBO and it did make a difference to me. I think I’m moving around more than I have in years. Is on this special the first third of it, I’m up and at it.
I do end up working intimately in the middle of the special, and I’m very aware of all these elements. But I think because I keep evolving as a comic, and I do think I’m doing the best work that I’ve done, all these things that I’ve become conscious of over the years doing specials, all the corrections they’ve been made for this. Mark Marin had starred on Glow with Alison Bree. You remember that show about the Women’s Wrestling League that was a good show on Netflix. Alison Bree was asked what would the final season of Glow look like, and she said, well, I’ll tell you that.
My husband recently on Mark Marin’s podcast, and Marin was like, me and your wife were going to hook up in the final season. You know we’re gonna get together, Alison said, I mean, unofficially, I do think that Sam and Ruth were going to have some kind of hookup. It’s hard for me to speculate because I actually know everything that was going to happen. Before we started shooting the fourth season. Our show runners told me the whole story for the season.
We’re already going into it thinking it was our final season, and I was in tears by the end of their season long synopsis. And I don’t know why I feel nervous sharing it. The show’s dead and I’ve heard no rumors about people ling behind that to bring it back. But for some reason, I’m like, should I just tell you everything? I do think there was a spinoff Network had at season three end where at the airport, I’m like, okay, it opens on Ruth.
I think that Ruthy was going to go back to her hometown for a little while. If she was going to maybe quit wrestling and then got sucked back in, I’ll neither confirm nor deny that that’s the plot of the first episode that we shot that no one will ever see.
And then later in the season, I think Marin and I were gonna have sex and we …
Let’s say the interviews over. She also spoke to Vulture and discussed the community movie. What’s the deal? Alison Brede said, Well, it’s happening. We’re doing it for Peacock.
We’re allegedly shooting it this summer, and that’s the most I know. I saw Joel and Danny last weekend. I was like, Joel, where’s the script, what’s the plan? He was just kind of bouncing around. I think right now, it’s just a matter of everybody’s schedule.
Most of us have signed on to do it. That’s interesting, most of us have all signed on to do it. Everybody who’s in is in, and how everyone is kind of assessing their schedules and hoping that we can make it work to shoot this summer. But she adds, I will say this with a hint of and then she sighs. I don’t trust it.
I’m not a skeptic. I do believe the community movie will get made, so it’s sold to Peacock, But because of everything we went through on that show, I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s not until I’m on set that will be like we’re making it. The meantime, I’ve just been having that anticipatory excitement feeling. This is the most hopeful any of us have been in a long time.
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Craig Ferguson has a new podcast. It is called Joy. He says joy is an essential human coping mechanism, and I’m interested in how different individuals manifest it, particularly when circumstances make it difficult, whether it be a demanding or harrowing job, a challenging existential problem, or just watching the news. I’ve worked with Craig I think twice. Really cool guy and one of the treats of my career to spend time with him in the studio.
He was doing some improv stuff. I was just standing there like an awkward suit boss type, but it was fantastic. Ted Danson is teaming up once again with Michael Scher. If you follow sitcoms, you know that name sure is the mastermind behind NBC’s The Good Life. On this new one, Ted Danson will start in The Mole Agents.
This is based on a twenty twenty Oscar nominated Chilean documentary of the same name. The Mole Agent features Ted Danson as an elderly man, How that makes me feel so old? Recruited by a private investigator to go undercover in a nursing home. How old is Ted Danson? Is Ted Danson seventy?
He probably is, right, Ted Danson is seventy five. You look pretty good, Ted. Ted Danson plays an elderly man recruited by a private investigator to go undercover in a nursing home. Do you like Avenue five on HBO canceled. I just had to pull off the band aid on you.
We’re gonna You’re gonna feel it. I just had to rip that off for you. It’s canceled. Sorry. The official cancelation comes eight months after Deadline revealed that the series likely was going to end because everybody’s contract had expired.
What happened was there was this pandemic, A long story I don’t enough time for here. Google the phrase COVID hyphen one nine. You’ll find out about it. It’s mind blowing. But because they were so late filming season two and then that pushed everything back, the cast options expired and everybody went off and got out of their work.
Series star Hugh Laurie’s working on season three of Apple TV’s Tehran. Camilla Clees, daughter of John Clees, talk to the UK’s The Sun newspaper about this Faulty Towers reboot. A lot of press about this. Camilla said, John won’t be doing as much crazy physical comedic things as before, but you never know what you might see him do. She says.
The revival will honor the tone of the original and ads. They’ll be jokes that will be a little edgy, but we’re not out to get anyone. We don’t dislike any people. That’s not the basis of it. People are a little sensitive nowadays.
Put it lightly. If anything, we’re making fun of the show’s characters and they’re idiosyncrasies. When will it debut? She said? The timeline is anywhere between three months and three years.
That’s not really helpful, Camilla. And you may have noticed that around the holidays, I started a podcast called five Good News Stories, So twice a week I tell you five stories. They’re all goods or like smile stories or laugh stories. And here’s an example. I used this on the other podcast, but it really cracks me up, so I thought i’d use it here.
From The Guardian, McDonald’s has pledged to remove an ad for its new mccrispy chicken sandwich. Well, why what’s wrong with the ad for the mccrispy chicken sandwich Johnny Mack was placed across the street from a crematorium. One woman, whose mother in law was cremated at the crematorium last year said, although I could see the funny side of the ad, it’s a little tasteless and I’m sure some family members won’t want to see that when visiting a crematorium. One Facebook user disagree and said, hey, my parents are in the crematorium. My old man had a brilliant as a humor.
I’m sure he would chuckle to that. Another user said, thank god it wasn’t advertising burger king and being flame grilled. That’s your comedy. It is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube.
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I can tell you about a cat and a rabbit that fell in love, or I can tell you how Porto potties are about to be a lot less horrible. What kind of show is this? It’s called five Good News Stories, the number five Good News Stories. Follow it Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Five number five five Good News Stories