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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I am Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Much quieter than yesterday. Yesterday, guys, there was like five days worth the news and it had to be all crammed into one episode. Could you’ve spread it out a little bit?
Kevin Hart is making the rounds. He’s got this Netflix movie coming out tomorrow. This is a good job of feeding the media because you know they’re going to write about this. He said that he’s on a secret group chat with the likes of Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, Harrison Ford, Jet Lee, Jackie Chan all the biggest guys. I was with the all the Biggest guys till we got to Jet Lee, Jackie chand But anyway, Hart says, it’s real secret chat.
I shouldn’t be talking to you about this chat. I could get in a lot of trouble from the other action guys, other action guys, the Rock, Tom Cruise. Kevin Hart, Yeah, no, Kevin Hart said, when you’re an action guy, you know, like Daween Johnson and Tom Cruise, you have to have action stories. So our chat is all about ping ponging action stories and just making sure that everyone’s in sync. You know that’s what it’s about.
Yeah, this is a real thing. It’s like the rock is home and he gets a text boop, oh it says Kevin Hart. Hey, what do you guys think about a motorcycle chase through downtown Paris? Like what are these guys talking about? And Tom Cruise is like, oh, I better answer this.
I don’t think so. And Jackie Chan is on this for some reason. Do you really think Harrison Ford is participating in this chat? Harrison Ford barely wants to be in the movies that he’s actually in. I call hogwash.
Kevin Hart? Can I start a feud with Kevin Hart? That’d be great? Another Kevin Hart news He hopes that Kat Williams tour with Kevin’s ex wife goes well, ting Hi road there. He also alluded to the fact that a lot of the stuff that Cat Williams is saying is entertainment.
There’s an AI George Carlin. I will play a clip for you. This is by comedy group Dudezy. They begin the AI full George Carland special. I listened to like ninety seconds of it.
I don’t have time for this kind of thing. These special begins in a voice that’s not supposedly George Carlin. Hello, my name is Dooozy. I just want to let you know very clearly that what you’re about to hear is not George Carlin. It’s my impersonation of George Carlin that I developed in the exact same way that a human impressionist would.
I listened to all George Carlin’s material and did my best to imitate his voice, cadence, and attitude, as well as the subject matter I think would have interested him today. So think of it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis, or like Will Ferrell impersonating George W. Bush cracked rights. As for the comedy itself, that jokes are blurred copies by a printer low on tooner, smudged, faded, and best thrown in the trash. I think I own that printer.
The black doesn’t work anymore, no matter how many incartridges I spend sixty dollars on. Anyway, Let’s listen up until the point that AI George Carlin starts using naughty words, thank you, thank you. I like to start off with a heartfelt apology. I’m sorry it took me so long to come out with new material. But I do have a pretty good excuse.
I was dead, so technically it wasn’t my fault. If you want to blame somebody, you’re gonna have to blame God, which we all know is not gonna happen. People are always thanking God for the good stuff in their lives. You meet your soulmate. God brought us together.
Your soulmate dumps you. God is bringing me someone else. That first joke isn’t bad, the one about Carlyn being dead. In fact, the special, if we can call it that, The AI creation is titled George Carlin, I’m glad I’m dead. You may recall Dutcy previously did AI Tom Brady, and then Tom Brady, who’s alive, shut that down in he passed.
George’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, a friend of mine, expressed that she’s not a fan of chat GPT, churning out jokes in the style of her father. Kelly’s quoted as saying, I wish you were here to rip AI a new butthole. My dad chose his word so very carefully to express his innovative and brilliant mind. He dedicated his life to it. Now we have this crap from the Howard.
Reporter Michael Rappaport slams Hollywood not speaking out about October seventh hostages at Golden Globes quotes, not one person said one thing. Rap report said, I’m embarrassed, and not one person said one thing unless I’m mistaken. At the Golden Globes the other night about the one hundred and thirty three hostages that were kidnapped in broad daylight from Israel on October seventh. All that billion dollar Barbie feminism and all these young conscious actors and actresses, there’s the hostages that the exact same age as them, and not one actor, not one director, not one producer, not one comedian. Nobody said anything before the Golden Globes, after the Golden Globes, or during the Golden Globes.
I’m not naming names because nobody said anything. Rapport’s also in the news via Portlandmercury dot com. He’s scheduled to play Helium Comedy Club for five shows January twelfth through the fourteenth. The Portland Mercury says local comedians, business owners and activists put out a call to action, telling comedy fans to demand Helium’s management cancel the shows the reason. Since the October seventh attacks on Israel by Hamas, rap Report has said disturbing things in his videos, supporting and even calling for Israel’s continued violence in Gaza.
Portland Mercury writes before for the October seventh attacks, Michael rapp Report’s videos range from multipart rambling commentary about Taylor Swift’s Daaling life to rants about former President Donald Trump, delivered in a tone very similar to Trump’s own rhetorics. Since October seventh, rapp Reports videos have been almost exclusively about Israel, Hamas and Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Reys Hendrick has a local comedy blog Laughs PDX, and on December twenty eighth, Road given recent commentary for mister rapperport about the ongoing violence in Gaza. We do not support the platform being provided for him. Well, it’s not our place to police the scene or individual clubs.
We find it necessary to voice our stance in solidary with the Palestinian people. Activists within Portland’s comedy community circulated call to action flyers on social media. Rapp Report responded to that, calling it the best live show promotion ever. Did you know the Emmys are on Monday. The Primetime Emmy’s January fifteenth.
Your host this year Anthony Anderson a comedic actor of sorts. I remember first knowing him as a comedian and then he played Antoine Mitchell on the Shield and was scary. He did a great job on that. What a versatile performer. The Hollywood Reporter profiled Anthony Anderson under the headline, I didn’t get this far by playing it safe.
Further reporter, he plans to honor Norman Lear and that that friends and performers from the stage. One of his jokes, does Jason Sedekas need another fing Emmy? As for hosting, I think my team may have given them resounding yes before they even brought the offer to me. The contacted my team like, do you think Anthony would be interested in host? Yes?
Do you guys need to talk to him first? No, he’s interested. He’s gonna do it. We’ll call him later. I think that’s how the conversation went.
Hollyod Porter said, what’s the appeal? Many others have suggested it’s a pretty thankless job. You can ask Joe Coy. Anderson said, well, since I’m oh for eleven in the win loss category, of the Emmy, as I figured, why not host the award that I covered the most, and he’s missing from my shelf. So that’s why.
Hollard reporter asked, as you sit here now, are any targets becoming clear? Anderson said, oh yeah, that’s what being a host of one of these shows is about. Taking jabs at your friends, taking jabs at other actors and television shows. I’ll also be self deprecating. That’s what makes it fun for the people who are sitting at home watching this and we’re thinking the same thing.
So yeah, I’ll poke fund at people that are sitting in the audience, but it’ll be nothing personal Taylor Swift. It’ll be all light humor to keep the show moving along and a smile on everyone’s face, you know, unless you crack a harmless joke and somebody ices you by drinking champagne. Bring it Swiftiest. I want to get into a Twitter war with the Swifties and Kevin Hurt. That’ll get me some downloads.
I could take the heat. Bring it good. Question by the Hollywood Reporter. What’s the worst case scenario for you getting called out for playing it too safe or potentially crossing a line and upsetting people. I’ll throw in there and you know, somebody gets up and slaps you in the face.
Anderson said, I’ve been known to be a habitual line cross or I didn’t get this for in my career and achieve what I’ve achieved by playing it safe. We’re gonna push the envelope and have fun, but we’re gonna do it in a very respectful way. You’ll have to tune in to see. He’s gonna keep the show tight, he says. We’re toying with the fact that we might not have playoff music for the speeches to go too long.
What we will have is my mother. She’ll be the playoff music, and every now and again you may see here peek out from behind the curtain and tap her. Watch like, come on, baby, I gotta be out of here. By eleven, I got a date a the Bengal Hall. Let’s go wrap it up.
I’m reaching out to all my friends who hosted the show. I’ve already spoken to Keenan Thomson and Jimmy Kimmel. They’ve said things like, just be true to myself and be humorous. Make sure that I’m in the writing room, make sure that the writers capture my voice, make sure that I’m available in case there’s something that happens live and in the moment, sounds like it to be a lot of fun. That’s Monday.
I noticed on my phone this morning Jim Brewer is the guest on the Joe Rogan Experience. I haven’t listened to it yet. Oh before I forget, I haven’t watched Pete Davidson yet either. I was in TV mode the other night and I forgot it existed. I wound up watching season two of Reacher.
I’m trying to get all my Amazon shows in before they had commercials at the end of the month. I just can’t with the commercials. Man. I think streaming has tricked us because we ust to have DVRs and could skip the commercials, and now on streaming we can’t skip the commercials. We have to give them extra money.
We were long played there for four years, but now I see what they did well played anyway. The Rogan fans didn’t like Jim Brewer’s appearance. According to essentially sports dot Com, some of the comments on social media port Joe imagine looking up to and being influenced by Jim Brewer’s seventh grade class clown level stand up. Another said Brewer was the star of SNL when I was in seventh grade, and he sucked essentially, Sports wrote and I haven’t heard this yet, but said. Some fans were concerned about Jim Brewer, guessing that something was wrong with the actor and comedian.
On the other hand, one fan urged viewers to skip the episode’s featuring guests who they don’t find interesting. One said Brewer literally sounds insane. I feel bad at this point. Another just ignored the bad guests and listen when a good guest is on. Another, this was so bad I had to turn it off.
I’m thinking now, I used to know Jim really well, but I don’t think I’ve spoken to him. It might be ten years now. I left Serious in twenty fourteen, right around now. We might have spoken once after, but I haven’t ran into Jim in a long time. Hope he’s doing well.
Jim co starred in Half Bag with Dave Chappelle, Nice Segue, Johnny mack Well. Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer was number two on the English language TV charts from January first to seventh. During that window, it managed ten point two million views. It’s the special second week on the Netflix charts after it jumped to number five with just one day of viewing under its belt. The top spot on the English TV charts went to Fool Me Once, that had eight episodes all dropped at once thirty seven point one million viewers.
Nico Lang in The Daily Beast writes, at the end of The Dreamer, my husband turned to me, exasperated and side, what is he even getting out of this twenty million dollars? I responded, matter of factly, but I knew what he meant. My partner’s concern was not financial gain, but rewards of the spiritual kind. After a string of comedy specialist mocking trans people, Chappelle drank from the well once more and a listless routine star for fresh ideas or even remotely interesting ones. As a man who once represented comedy’s aavant garde, who suggested bold new directions for where the art form could go, my husband was curious to know does Dave Chappelle feel fulfilled by any of this?
Is this how he thought he’d use his enormous potential. One of the most depressing aspects of Chappelle’s recent downward spiral is the sense that he’s capable of more is the Dreamer sits comfortably within the top ten of Netflix’s daily charts. Chappelle was proving once more that there was no real need to be quiet. He’ll continue to benefit from saying his feelings as plainly as he desires, and whatever stage he desires. Greta Gerwig commented on Joe Coy’s Barbie joke.
He may remember that he compared Barbie to Oppenheimer, saying that Oppenheimer is based on a seven hundred and twenty one page Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is a plastic doll with big boobies. Greta said, well, he’s not wrong. She’s the first doll that was mass produced with breasts, so it was right on because it is about a plastic doll. Barbie buy her very construction, has no character, no story. She’s there to be projected upon.
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