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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I loved Brian Possain’s special Possana non Grata. I’d love to put it on the Best of twenty twenty three list, but it did come out at the end of twenty twenty two. He released it as not a pay per view, but you know, it was like one of those specials you could buy for a limited time for like fourteen days. But it is up on YouTube now with commercials now.
Note to Brian and all other comedians who post your special on YouTube. I get that you want to make a couple of bucks. I get that you want to monetize, no problem, I’m with you, meet too, but can you or someone on your team take one minute and place the markers that tell the commercials where to go? Could you just place them so they’re not mid sentence. Maybe find when you’re segueing from topic to topic, maybe put them there.
That said, Brian special was so good that I fought through the various commercial breaks. Absolutely loved it. Now, maybe it’s because I’m also a star wars nerd who likes the rock music, but it immediately drew me in. It’s filmed in a room, I guess I would call it. So Usually a comedy special is at like a big theater, right, you’re picturing like the big wide stage and there’s a balcon and all that.
Now this is a room picture, something more like the shape of a shoebox, so not that wide, but deep and not that deep, and it’s just Brian at the other end of the room. And I felt like I was in a club in Montreal or perhaps Chicago where this one was filmed. This was filmed at the Beat Kitchen. I think it’s a little bit over an hour. I really really liked it.
So check out Brian Possein, Posena Non Grata, Tina Fe and Amy Pohler. They’re going on swore together. It’s the Restless Legged Store. A limited run four shows so far. I bet they wind up adding more.
It is described as a celebration of thirty years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories, and conversational entertainment. This will start April twenty nine in Washington, DC. They’re us playing Chicago, Boston, and Atlantic City. Maria Bamford is trying to get a web series started. This one is called no CD.
It’s built as a comedy series about intrusive description. At the age of ten years old, Maria Bamford began getting unwanted intrusive thoughts, a type of OCD. By the age of fifty one, she was unable to leave her home. She made the following internet content as a cry for help. She says she wants to tackle this specific type of OCD because it’s really kind of really creepy, sometimes stigmatized.
That the therapy is really funny, it’s really quite scary. In the first episode, she struggles to go to her friend’s house for simple meal. Her intrusive thoughts are played by Maria Bamford in a clown wig, and they keep butting in with violent fantasies and unwelcome commentary, which she tries to ward off and weighs both silly and dark. She has launched a Kickstarter to try and produce two more episodes and in the future up to twelves soor so far there’s only one, and that’s depending on audience interest. On her Kickstarter page, Memford breaks down the cost of shooting a web series while paying a crew fairly and making a living for herself as well.
Let’s check that out on her Kickstarter, it says, what is intrusive thoughts? Ocd Well, have you ever had extremely creepy, unwanted thoughts something grandam that weirded you outline my guinea pig looks sexy? Or I wonder if I’m a serial killer despite the fact that I’m a vegetarian, agrophobic with a master’s degree in library science and I haven’t left my reclusive yurt in a decade. Or I always say the words bless this Jesus Mohammed Yahwei Oprah thirty four times while squeezing my buttocks to prevent myself from driving my Harley into a grunt of senior citizens. Or do you avoid looking into your mother’s eyes when you high five her for fear of poisoning her liver?
Or do you have your spouse get the ice cubes for your drinks so you want stuff hundreds of ice cubes down your throat being the first person a self suicide by drowning upright on land. Or do you never drink ice tea because tea stands for boobs and you’re a concerned you’re going to reach out and touch the server with boobs who brought you tea, which stands for boobs. She then gets serious. Instead of had several versions of the stabilitating mental health symptoms since the age of ten. After googling the symptoms online when I was thirty five, discovered it was a type of OCD and finally got helped to change my life.
I was finally able to participate in important activities such as friendship and being at parties thanks to exposure response prevention therapy. I wanted to share my own experience so others who are too scared to ask for help might have a few laughs and get the courage to be free of suffering from something that is absolutely ridiculous. She writes, Why doesn’t Maria pay for this herself? I sort of have. I fronted the cost of one episode, but I only want to make the series if there’s enough interest to fund it.
Kickstarter budgeting and feedback from showbiz professionals have told me how to budget this. It’s a ton of money, but it’s not that much here in Holly Weird, and I need to pay artists. Rent runs two thousand dollars a month for a shared a beanbagged chair. I will also pay myself so I don’t have to travel on the road every week as a comic. Taxes and ten percent fee from Kickstarter.
Here are the real numbers per episode budget director slash camera fifteen hundred second ad slash camera fifteen hundred, production supplies five hundred, editing twenty hours three grand, acting a thousand, writing a thousand, producing a thousand, Social media management thirty five hundred. I think we can find a better deal than that, Maria. Total thirteen thousand dollars for one episode. Three episodes makes it thirty nine thousand, forty percent estimated tax rate on funds received as only six thousand Kickstarter fee processing fee, so she’s looking to make seventy two thousand, three hundred. Then it says, wait, who are you again?
I’m right? So I’m a person who Stephen Colbert called the funniest person on Earth and Judd appetaw was called the funniest person in the world. Is that something? As I record this looks like she’s well on her way with two weeks to go. My san Antonio asked Joe Koy, Hey, you haven’t done your podcast The Koi Pond since late twenty twenty one.
A you’re taking a break or is it over Joe KOI said, I really just stopped doing it, even though the name is so great. I found myself doing it only because it was this trending thing that people were doing. In my heart, I don’t want to be known for a podcast. I want to be known for stand up. I only want that to be touching my name.
That’s my passion, that’s my love. Just for Last Vancouver starts tonight, runs through February twenty fifth. Let’s take a look at who’s playing tonight. I’ve done this in a while. I like doing these.
Seven o’clock John Marcos SERRESI. I saw him up at Montreal and he was fantastic at seven thirty Maestro, which is an elimination style improv show that brings z mixed bag of improvisers from around the city. Elimination. I like it. Eight o’clock Vancouver Special looks like that’s a bunch of locals.
Eight o’clock New Moon Comedy also Locals. Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy. This show features authentic Caribbean food and drinks with a view of the beach. Camilla Clease you know her from the Faulty Towers reboot. She’s on the bill with a bunch of other comedians.
Very nice. Eight o’clock. Ola Data’s Blackout Comedy.
Also locals a thirty comedy Bucket.
Your favorite comedians lead their act at the door and do a set based on audience suggestions. Love it. Dave Man Hedge plays at nine thirty. Sarah Sherman also at nine thirty.
All right, let’s play the game where you and I are in Vancouver and we’re gon…
Hmm. John Marco’s really good. I do want to see the locals. Let’s do John Marco at seven o’clock. Figure that goes an hour or so, and I think at the back end we want to see Sarah Sherman at nine thirty.
So we’re gonna have to find like an eight thirty show. So let’s do Comedy Bucket at eight thirty, and we’ll know that we have to leave early. Sorry performers, but that’s the way the schedule dropped. Just for last Vancouver, Looking forward to that one. Starting from brew Bound, You’re home for comedy news the legendary Zini’s Comedy Club in Nashville.
They’ve teamed up with Kraft Brewery Tennessee brew works. They’re going to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Zeni’s with a beer named Laughing Guy Lagger, brewed with Tennessee source greens. Laughing Guy Lagger’s a light body blogger with subtle maall sweetness, bounce by honeydew and a floral hop aromas and flavors. The finishes crisp, refreshing. It’ll satisfy any beer drinkers thirst four point two percent ABV.
Ted Lasso is back baby March fifteenth. Apple TV still not saying that it’s the final season. Don’t you think of over the final season, they’d be like, hey, final season of ted Lasso. There’s some speculation at the show will continue one way or another. Vambred Goldstein.
I am riding this thing for fifteen years, then buying a house next to Kelsey Grammer. Know what I’m saying, Don’t walk away from a hit show. People keep going. Joel mccale understands that logic. He’s waiting for Community to come back in the meantime.
Animal Control, you know the show that I’ve been calling what was I calling it? Animal cops? Pet Cops? I forget what I was calling it. Animal Control is the name of the show on Fox tonight.
The av club saw it and they said Joel mccale in Jeff Winger Mode plays veteran Seattle animal control officer Frank Shaw, a lone wolf stuck with an open hearted rookie and former Olympic snowboarder nicknamed Shred. They look at act like TV cops, wearing about donuts, budgets, and drugs, except the shows about animals. Animal Control makes a case for cop shows without cops. They say Animal Control is a perfectly enjoyable sitcom and one that’s destined improved the further gets into its run. All right, I might have to set the DVR for that one.
I also I gotta watch Pocard tonight. I’m going out to dinner Busy Night for Johnny mac Amber Ruffin She’s getting a sitcom from NBC. This one’s called a Non Evil Twin. It follows a woman played by Amber Ruffin, good guest there, who’s forced to step into her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune five hundred company. Spoilers, wasn’t that the plot knives out too?
She steps in her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister’s been running the corporation. Are you in Salt Lake City? Former Utah Jazz All star Donovan Mitchell Comedy Night. Yeah you didn’t expect that right. All the proceeds will be donated to Kern’s High School.
On the bill de Ray Davis, Chris Spencer an earthquake. That is a good list. Let’s finish up. On gossip Corner, Will Farrell was pictured having a pint of beer with soccer fans. He was at Wrexham you know the soccer team Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcleanny own Will Farrell will spot it and joining a drink at the Turf pub.
Who’s also seen pitch side at the race Course ground to watch the team’s three to one victory in the National League match against Wildstone FC. I suspect we’ll see all this on an episode of Welcome to Wrexham in the Future and a video posted on the club’s official Twitter account. Before kickoff, Will Farrell asked are we recording as he combs his hair with his fingers. After long pause, he says, Hi, this is Will Farrell. It’s my first time here.
Where are we again Wrexham. I’m really excited to see the match, and I’ll be honest with I’m a little nervous. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.
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