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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and nice write up of Taylor, Thomlinson and Glamour in a really small font though it was on Glamor dot com and I had a hit control plus plus plus just to make the font legible. I’m old here anyway. Taylor’s having a good week of buzz and well deserved. And she said, look, the truth is, I couldn’t have done After Midnight four years ago, even three years ago.
What’s so interesting to me is when it came up, I was like, Oh, I think I’m at a place in my life where I could actually do that job, and I could do it well and I can enjoy it. Anyone in your twenties you don’t know who you are yet. It’s crazy how different I felt every year of my twenties. I feel like I’m finally stabilizing at thirty. I really do feel different.
Twenty nine was a really hard year, but also really good. None of that. I do feel like the best version of myself. Feels like things kind of locked into a place in a nice way. Taylor says being on the road is really fun, but it’s also really lonely.
Something that I talked about when I was interviewing for the job was I’d really love when I come back to LA to have a community. The idea of making something new every day with a group of people I really like sounds very fun and creatively fulfilling. Getting to see comedians more and getting to meet more comedians. She’s hoping she can create a fun comfort show for people at the end of the day. Always a good mission.
I agree with that. I’m excited to give stand up comedians a platform where they can be really funny and get these great clips that are not going to burn their material, which is why we’re all posting crowd work online. Really interesting twist there. She’ll probably do well if they let the comedians share the clips. That’d be smart to let them.
Paullie Shore is starring as Richard Simmons in a bio pic. The movie was going to premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. A trailer was auds. I went to pull some audio for it and it just wouldn’t work. In terms of this podcast, seems Polly listen to fan suggestions on his YouTube videos and social media, where people commented that he kind of looked like Richard Simmons, but according to Entertainment Weekly, Pauli Shore thinks the slimilarities are deeper.
He says, I am him. I like helping people. I like health, I like putting that energy out there. Through my mom and the comedy stores, she helped a lot of people, and it kind of got passed down to me. I helped comedians and people, So I really relate to Richard.
I’ve been going to the gym since I was a kid, and I think I’m a little over the top as well, So I feel like I connect with him. And I’ve known him for years. Back in the day I started in the nineties, I used to always see him, and I always giving him hugs and high fives and stuff. He says. In public, people would walk up to him and be like, Hey, what’s up.
I know you you’re Richard Simmons. Pauli says, that’s a compliment. By the way, he’s very handsome.
Also, his style and my style is very over the top.
It’s spontaneous, so that’s inherent in me. Already. All right, pay attention to this next part because it’s going to be important in a couple of minutes enter Timmy Weekly. He asked if he got to speak with Richard Pauli said. His people responded and they said that he loves me, and he loves my mom and the store and all that stuff, but at this time he just wants to lay low and not really be involved.
The film takes place in the early two thousands. Richard is getting ready to do the Yellen Show. There’s a bumbly kind of pa on the set and he’s a bit overweight and he’s kind of getting the way of everyone. Everyone’s yelling at him because Richard Simmons is there and it’s just very, very uncomfortable for him, and Richard sees this go down. Richard comes out and does his thing on Ellen.
Afterward, there’s this whole monologue that Richard has with his fumbling pa by the craft services table, where I shine some light on how beautiful he really is and how special he is and help him turn around a little bit. Kind of starts off fun, and then the last part is Richard’s message. As for Richard’s non involvement, my attitude is if we build it, he’ll come. That’s my hope. My hope is that he sees it.
It looks good, it feels good, it’s all right, and you might say I’m down. I’ll help you, guys. I’ll be part of it, and I’ll hold your hand now. Richard Simmons himself jumped on Facebook and wrote, Hi, everybody. You may have heard they’re doing a movie about me with Polly Shore.
I have never given my permission for this movie, so don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Dana Carvey has resumed podcasting again.
He addressed his family situation following the death of his son Dex. Dana said, it’s me and my wife and our son’s private journey. We’re all together and we do a lot of fun things. We hike, we go to church. We just want to make sure that you keep moving, he said.
Ge back in the swing of the podcast will be very healthy for me as I recover. I’m kind of on the pain train with about millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, or when it’ll stop, and when it will get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy. I thought about it over the holidays and decided to come back to the podcast because I think, you know, it’s a long day when you’re not working, you get in your head, and I think it’s going to be a great break, and I think it’s really cool to laugh doing this and riffing with you, David Spate is going to be very healthy for me as I recover, because I’m kind of on the pain train with millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, when it will stop, or when it’ll get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy.
The snow Jam Comedy Festival continues in Sioux Falls today. Oh. When I last looked, today’s low had been forecasted to be minus twenty one, but in the updated forecast just a low of minus twenty with a high of six, So it’s much better than yesterday. Congrats Dan Boublitz Junior and the crew at Snowjam. They have four events today starting at one o’clock.
It’s the munch Mic Come eat some delicious food while you watch from across the country, do new material, or maybe you sign up and try it out yourself. Five o’clock, It’s Hot Cocoa Comedy with two four five ten comics. Always good to see ten comics on a bill. Sean Jordan is your headliner. At seven o’clock, Shawn co hosts the popular podcast All Fantasy Everything.
And then at nine point thirty, it’s snow Time. Ten comics on the bill. Like I said, always good to see ten comics on the bill.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Sketch Fest continues, and there are quite a bun…
I won’t read them all. Let’s say at noon the State Hits and Misses, David Wayne, Joel Thetruglio, Ken Marino and Gang. Four o’clock Celebrity Autobiography with Thomas Lennon Catches My Eye. Seven o’clock David Cross and Friends, The DESI Comedy Fest Sydney Washington’s had to Start a Fire.
Also at seven, at eight o’clock, the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band with Ken Marino…
Also on that bill Thomas Lennon and Weird Owl Yanka Vic. That alone would get me there. We’ll say Sloan at nine thirty, Locals Only at nine forty five again I’m not reading them all. Oh, and also at nine forty five Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. All right.
If we were at Sketch Fest would hit the state at noon, then we would have several hours to have some beverages. Seven o’clock. I would want to see something different. I would go, let’s go see DESI Comedy FESTI And he’d be like, now, I don’t want to go see that, and I’d be like, come on, man, and then we would go and have a great time. Then for the late show, I’d make you go see Locals Only, and then you’d be like, oh, that was a lot of fun.
I’d be like, yeah, trust me, I know what I’m doing at comedy festivals. Another comedy festival coming up is coming to Williamsburg January twenty fifth through the twenty eighth. It is the Last Word at Comedy Festival. It includes improvised Jane Austen, The Ladies of improvised Jane Austin tell it Tale on the Spot, the style of the most beloved nineteen century authorists. That’s fun.
Hitch Cocktails creates a full length thriller in the style of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re taking in beverages. That’s Friday the twenty sixth. It’s the same night as the Jane Austin, though I hope those don’t overlap. Then on Saturday twenty seventh, Clued In. Inspired by the works of Agatha Christi and the cases of Sherlock Holmes, this is an improvised murder mystery.
Sunday the twenty eighth Riff Chicago’s improv music party. This show takes the fast paced games of whose line Is It Anyway as energized by a full band in a wild musical comedy showcase. You can find the full festival schedule at last Word Festival dot com and if you’re in Northern Ireland, put this one on the calendar. This sounds awesome. It’s the Comedian’s Darts Tournament Saturday, March ninth, Americans.
Have you ever watched the Dart Championships. It is tremendous fun. It is so fast paced. These guys go up there and they just go whap, whap wap, and then they grab their darts and the next guy’s already as fast as I’m telling this story, going wap wap wap. Next, I’m up, okay, cool, bang bang bang, And the announcers they’re like lightning quick.
I guess they do it so often that they’re like, okay, needs two eighteens and a four. They just have all the nomber combinations memorized or computers helping them. I don’t know. This thing moves so fast. So you have the darts.
Then there’s the drunk audience. Just picture the let’s make a deal audience, except they’re drunk, so it is so much fun. I saw this one guy, he needed like an eighteen to close it out, and he totally showboted. He must have been up by a lot. He goes up and he goes, ah, I just missed.
Then he just missed the eighteen throws another one like half half force, and ah, I just missed again, and then he goes bang and then basically dropped the mic, and I was like, I’m the King. The announcers are like, this guy’s peacocking darts is a lot of fun. Check it out. They’re on YouTube. Just go on YouTube and type in darts championship.
Trust me, so much fun. Anyway coming to Belfast Saturday, March ninth, Comedian Darts. The lineup includes the sharp tongued Colin Gettis, the hilariously insightful Andrew Ryan, the comedic Dynamo, Deona Dherty, the pun Master, Sean Haggerty, the Irreverend Dave Elliott, the uproarious Connor Keys, the hilarious Aaron Butler, and your referee James mckegney. Audiences can expect an evening filled with comedic brilliance, unexpected twists, and possibly some poor door throwing. And that is your comedy news for today.
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