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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Going to start with something different today. If you’ve been listening for years, you know that I gave Sarah Cooper a hard time. Anytime her name came up, I usually followed it with something like, you know the woman who pantomimes the Donald Trump videos on TikTok.
Well, Nichelle is a listener, and Michelle put a clip in front of me of Sarah Cooper doing actual stand up and you know what, this is really good. Let’s listen. I think I’m gonna just, you know, do things differently this time. I was in an interracial marriage. I’m black and my ex was a software engineer at Google.
He was white. He was hard h white. He was heartache, hardage quite. He was quite. His middle name is do Blanc.
And if you know French, you know what the blanc means. All lives matter. Good on you, Sarah, do that. Paul F. Tompkins spoke to the Last Laugh.
He’ll be live streaming his variety show riots Hopa on February tewod. Paul likes being on stage with a group. He says, if you bomb, you’re not alone. Part of the game is that you’re going to fail sometimes, and everyone understands that, and then of course there are the people that refuse to believe that improv is real. He talks about how people walk up and say, well, you must have written some of that, and he goes, no, that’s the whole point.
Paul says, there’s no one right way to do comedy. Paul F. Tompkins had an interesting quote about Patrese O’Neil saying someone had quoted Patrica’s saying a good joke leaves fifty percent of the audience laughing and fifty percent of the audience horrified. Paul said, what that’s insane. As for his own career, he said, when I was younger, I assume that success meant you’d be a household name, And then as I actually got into the business, I was like, oh no, there’s a whole other sort of middle class that you can be where you’re supporting yourself, doing what you’re loving and having a good time.
So I’m lucky that I enough of an audience that I can work. I can get enough work on TV to keep my health insurance, and I can be creatively free, which is all you can really ask for, and I’m not trying to be totally blithe about that. Of course, I’ve had moments of doubt and fear and buying into the invisible ladder of show business, like, oh no, I didn’t get to the next wrong. You know what, Actually it’s fine because I’m still here. It’s not like I lost my job as an entertainer.
Of course, there’s a lot of ego stuff that you have to go through. You have to deal with that. But I’m a middle aged dude and I’ve meted a lot, and I look around and realize I have a pretty great life. I’m also past the point where I have to worry about that kind of success. I’m at a certain age where it’s like, ah aah, I’m not gonna be the next shining bright face.
I’m into the second half now, so that’s kind of relief. And what I’m hoping for is that in ten to twenty years I’ll really come into my own as the funny old guy on a sitcom. That’s a fine life for me. The Miami New Times asked Samrell who influenced him coming up. He said, I love David Tell, I loved Greg Giraldo.
I loved Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Bill Burr, any of the obvious New York style people in terms of stand up, but you’re influence in other ways. Madam Saidler and Ronnie Dangerfield were my introduction to comedy, and I still love them both very much. Interesting tidbit that I don’t think i’d heard before. He said that Mark Norman and Sam are trying to make a movie.
Does he want to make a TV show? He says, I do, but I don’t want to be on NBC. I love Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano, but I’m not like them. To be true to me, it have to be more like my stand up, but have to be on an adult platform like Netflix or HBO. I emailed Louis C.K.
Two in the morning last night and I said, I’m rewatching Louis. It makes me so happy the show exists. Sam’s about to film a new special and he said, I think my style is changing. This hour is definitely more story heavy. They’re punchy, they’re not boring stories.
When you’re a brand new comic, you say whatever’s funny, even if it’s not completely you, because you’re like, well, I gotta laugh then, you get older and your type of humor is more like, Okay, this is something I would say to a guy to bar. Even if it’s still reminiscent of the style he started with, just feels more conversational. Joe Koy talked about his writing process when he’s on tour. He said, it’ll take me about a year to write an hour. But in that year, we’re talking about maybe one hundred something shows, maybe more one twenty five, and non stop working out and crafting it and just yelling at myself like why isn’t this coming together.
I love jokes I’ve been working on for like thirty shows, and I’m just like, ef it, bury it, and you give all your emotion and all your thoughts to a two minute joke just to be like, yeah, it’s not working.
And then there’s those nights where you stumble onto something and you’re lik…
Then you keep it and you work it and tighten it. Then there’s ideas where you say, oh, don’t do that again. That’s the process, and I love the process. It’s so crazy to me that people think this is easy. We all know the number one fear is public speaking, and that’s over skydiving, Like there’s people that would rather jump out of a plane with a nylon bag on their back than get in front of twenty five people in a coffee house and tell a joke.
Jay Leno tell The Hill he’s given up on touching politics in his comedy because it tends to suck the funny out of a stand up shows. He says, we live in an era now. I don’t do politics anymore. An audience is like an orchestra. You’re up there and you’re getting laughs.
Then you get into the political stuff and he goes, uh turns mean. They want to hear what the joke is, whether it’s about my guy or against my guy, but they’re not thinking of the joke. They’re thinking of the implications of the joke. So to me, I just don’t do it anymore. I just find it so annoying.
I find the audience likes it better. Hopefully they come to a comedy show to get away from politics. I think we get enough of everybody’s opinions. It’s nice to hear a singer just sing or comedian just be funny. Jay Leno is today’s item on Gossip Corner.
He stopped to grab a slice of pizza at a Safety Harbor pizzeria. Last Saturday, he went to the Nona Slice House right at noon. Owner Jimmy told the Patch, we had no idea it was coming by. It was actually at my house when my manager called and said jaylen was here. You need to get down here right away.
Other than it’s cool that jay Leto’s there, why do you need to get there? Like, we don’t know what to do. Jay Leno’s ordering pizza. What do we do right? J Probably just walked in and like, yeah, let me get slice.
It’s not that difficult. I just threw clothes on. I didn’t want to miss an opportunity. It was pretty cool. Jamie the manager tells us jay Leno was super super friendly.
It’s the last day of the last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival. That’s kind of sad. That was a cool festival. Five o’clock snow laughing matter ten comedians. If you want to get out and breathe the cold and see that, and then it’s seven o’clock, the last show ever at the snow Jam Comedy Festival ever.
Timmy Williams at Club at two twenty four. Your forecast for Soup falls South Dakota today a balmy high of twenty four at a low of seven. But it will be easy. That windshiw might be tough. Congratulations to Dan Bublets and the crew for putting on that festival all these years.
I’ve heard about this for a long time. I remember my assistant Rory at Serries telling me about it, so great job. I’m sorry to see that you guys aren’t continuing with it, but I get it.
Meanwhile, today, at the San Francisco Sketch Fest at eleven o’clock Pacific …
I won’t read all the shows, Amber Ruffin at one o’clock, Doug Loves Movies at three, The pen Pals Podcast with Rory Scoville and Daniel van Kirk. At four, Thomas Lennon is a guest on that one. Five o’clock Dave Hills Caveman in a Spaceship, seven o’clock Stupid Songs with Kevin McDonald, the Benson Movie Interruption, Fast x Who. That’s a tough choice there, I’ll circle back at eight o’clock Triumph Hmm. Weird Al on that one too, all right, if we’re going to plan the day, obviously, at eleven o’clock we go see Moe Williams.
Then let’s hit Amber Rouffing at one o’clock. Might as well hit Doug Loves Movies at three o’clock seven o’clock. Do we do stupid songs on stories with Kevin McDonald or do we do more Doug Benson fast X That could be a lot of fun. I guess we’ll see how much fun the three o’clock Doug Benson was and make a decision there. Either way, we’re gonna leave one of those early because I want to see Triumph at eight o’clock.
No shows tomorrow at the Sketch Fest, but it picks up again on Tuesday. The Mary Sue writes few shows brought me the joy that the George Lucas Talk Show did at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Watching comedian Connor Ratleff run out every night to a David Bowie song, sitting down and saying I’m George Lucas was an experience I would not trade for the world. Have you ever watched this thing? It’s up on YouTube?
So much fun. The show was quirky, weird, often had people go into the box office asking where the actual George Lucas was. Well, there’s a documentary coming out. It’s titled I’m George Lucas, A Connor Ratliffe Story. It’s about the legacy that Ratliff and the show have left on the comedy scene.
It’s described as follows. For five years, comedian Connor Ratliffe has performed as filmmaker George Lucas and his monthly UCB New York cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show. The show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with a little financial and career gain and sticking with Star Wars. Tarren Killheim spoke to a vultry about his time on SNL and they asked about the Undercover Boss sketch with Adam Driver as Kylo.
Wren. Terrence says, for whatever reason, all parties involved SNL lucasfilm filming side wanted that sketch to go as well as possible, so he’s wearing Kylo’s actual outfit that’s not a replica lucasfilm shipped out. I think mikey Day deserves the credit for the concept. That night, Bobby moynihan and I had already written a full sketch where we were the two maintenance guys working underneath the plankway where the dramatic Kylo Han scene takes place, and we’re mopping up the floor like, yeah, I don’t know, I’m hearing rumbles outside. I got time coming off, so you know.
Then you hear groan some and thud and Han Solo’s corpse lands in front of us. We’re freaking out, and then Kylo comes and checks on us and is saying, don’t tell anybody about this, nothing happen. You need to see anything. Mike was like, yeah, that’s pretty good. I think we can find something more fun for Adam to do, and then he pitched the one line undercover boss, start a stre They then segue to SNL’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary.
He says, my Eddie Murphy moment was pretty beautiful. There was a party of the night before at the top of the rock. I went from the Californian sketch rehearsal that we did that ended with David Spade doing his Bye Bye Guy. David and I went to the party together. As I was talking with him, We’re sitting at the top of the rock and he’s telling me of his experience of the look Mammy a Falling Star joke.
Then over his shoulder, Eddie Murphy walks in with Brett Ratner. I was like, dude, dude, dude. And the first person Eddie Murphy walked up to was David Spade. It was very gracious, a lovely exchange. Then I got to shake Eddie’s hand.
My first conscious memories of SNL are his best of tape. He is the best one to ever do it. The circumstances of what age he was, who he was, what he was capable of doing. The responsibility was on his shoulders as an ensemble member. Wow, that is a high praise and I won’t argue with the sentiment.
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