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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Some good jokes from Late Night. Jimmy Kimmel pointed out that Trump beat Nicky Haley by double digits. He’s also leading Nicki Haley by double digits and Felony Jogers ninety one to zero.
You get mad at Jimmy Kimmel, not me. Colbert said, Trump defeated Nicky Hally fifty four to forty three. It’s the very first time he’s ever been happy to see a woman in her forties. Felon Trump cruise to victory, and just like most cruises, half the people partied while the other half felt really sick. Some more details about the Mark Norman thing I did in the Bonus episode on Thursday.
Quick recap if you missed it. Mark Norman was on stage. All of a sudden, somebody joins him on stage, Security grabs the guy escorts him out. Then we see Mark Norman escorted off stage like he’s the President of the United States. Apparently the whole thing was some sort of stunt.
This is just it’s so frustrating and annoying, and if you listen to the bonus episode Thursday. I said I had two theories, one of which was, yeah, this is some sort of hoax. My other theory was that maybe the man had a gun and this was a serious incident. But NOE seems to be some sort of stunt. If you go back and watch the video, you can hear the woman.
Let me play the audio here. She’s just not convincing. You can kind of tell just say, get up, just get out the teething. Yeah, I’m one of the producers of the show. Yeah, we’ve just seed everybody to get out please.
So I didn’t want to accuse this of being a hoax until I knew. But The New York Post reports Mark Norman put out a statement on Instagram. No one was harmed or injured during my performance last night at New York Comedy Club. The disruption was part of a planned surprise activity by show producers, and I’m not going to say the name of these producers. I had no prim knowledge this was going to happen, as Mark Norman, The New York Comedy Club said, we received a handful of inquiries regarding a viral clip of our club being evacuated last night.
First and foremost, nobody was harmed or were injured. Interesting to me that that’s the exact language from the Mark Norman statement. The disruption was part of a filming by Brand X, the producers that rented our venue for that night. British tabloid The Sun reports that brand X, again I’m not using their proper name, are the show’s producers. They currently have over four thousand Instagram followers and posted a series of Instagram stories documenting Mark norman show getting interrupted from various angles.
A few of their other Instagram stories highlights include Tyra Banks sitting courtside out of Brooklyn Nets game and that clip she’s surrounded by two furry costume strangers and they were eventually escorted away. This is just all kinds of wrong. I think you can hear my frustration I discussed here. I did find it curious that Mark Norman was at the New York Comedy Club. In the hierarchy of comedy clubs in New York, I would not have the New York Comedy Club at the top there.
And now maybe it’s picked up since Carolines went away, because I did notice Todd Barry’s there tonight. I’m not sure. A few years ago, Todd Barry would have played this club. And while I was on their website Monday night. You know who’s there, Sarah Cooper while she’s at the East Village location.
Also Matthew brisarda on that show That’s not bad, Josh Johnson, Mike Cannon, Sarah Cooper, Matthew Brissard. Anyway, to me, this whole thing is just terrible, disgusting, this move on. Did you know I didn’t know this that Chris Rock almost sort of almost hosted The Daily Show. Hollod Reporter has an article about behind the scenes of John Stewart’s return, and they wrote, when John Stewart left The Daily Show back in twenty fifteen, there had been conversations with a listters like Chris Rock to replace him. I know they had reached out to Mullaney.
Rock told the Hollywood Reporter, I wanted to do it up until the twenty sixteen ele and then say goodbye, but they wouldn’t let me do that. Doug Herzog, who oversaw Comedy Central at the time, confirms the story and said, I thought, and this is where the landscape has changed dramatically. We needed to find the person that could sit there every night, and I didn’t want to be doing this again in six months, but everything’s changed and people aren’t there every night anymore. Chris Rock Daily Show. Wow, I feel like that’d be a step down for him, Like if he wanted to do that kind of thing, wouldn’t he have like an HBO show.
I don’t know, Well, he didn’t do it anyway. Trevor Noah had Kevin Hart on his podcast Fantastic Listen, Please listen to it. Trevor and Kevin have tremendous chemistry. Kevin was talking about putting his tours together, and he said, when I feel like I’m at the peak of the set, when I’m at one hundred and sixty shows, Kevin said, my process starts comedy clubs, theaters, back to comedy clubs, back to theaters. Then I’ll go arenas.
Trevor said, wait, why are you going back? What happened? What went wrong? Kevin? Nothing went wrong, but you do it to make sure, like make sure I’m not jumping out of the gun too fast, because once you start killing in theaters, that means I should destroying a comedy.
There was a time when Dave Chappelle never used to want to do arenas. Obviously everybody wants to see him, so now he has to do bigger venues. But yeah, you definitely lose something, do you. Kevin Hart prefer arenas. Kevin said, if I got to be honest with you, man, I do.
But let me tell you why. Hear me out and here’s how I got Dave. It’s how I got Dave. Bit with the bug. I said, listen to me, Dave.
The beauty of doing the arenas when you’re a good comic, it’s turning the arenas into an intimate environment. Trevor says, keV, you can never turn it into that. The thing about arena is I always feel like the laughter is not happening in my section designed for the basketball game, whatever game’s supposed to play there, Whereas when you’re in a theater, I always feel like every single laugh is coming from every single person, no matter where you’re sitting. Kevin says, think about my production. I think about every aspect excessive.
I like the audience. That way, you can hear me on a microphone, you can hear the audience, you can hear the audience laughing. I’ll probably do like eight to ten mics so that you can hear the audience. Fun story from Yahoo. Melissa Rivers, daughter of Joan Rivers, who I worked with and knew.
Okay, wouldn’t say we were best friends, but I work with Joe long enough did I had to hit a lo on Joan, and this article tells us Joe Rivers would be sad no one lives in her old New York City apartment. I was in that apartment. It reminded me of Versailles. There was a lot going on there. If you look up pictures, there’s just stuff on every inch of the wall and chandeliers, very regal.
Joan lived there for twenty eight years. That apartment was so special and filled with such warmth, laughter and happiness that would make her really sad. Melissa knows a friend who lives across the street and says she’s only seen the lights on in the apartment a dozen times since Joan passed away. Joan’s former home features views of Central Park and the skyline. The space was designed in the Neo French Classic style and offers four bedrooms, five bathrooms, two terraces, five wood burning flyerplaces, and a ballroom.
As New York City apartments go this was sweet. I mean Fifth Avenue, dude. It was sold in twenty fifteen for twenty four million dollars, put back on the market in twenty twenty one for thirty eight million dollars. Again, this is for an apartment, not a house. Apparently, Joan Rivers thought the house was haunted.
She said a ghost named Missus Spencer, who is a former resident and the late niece of financier JP Morgan, haunts new residents. She said. Neighbors told her that they witnessed apparitions throughout the ballroom and grand staircase. Jones said she found an old portrait of Missus Spencer and hung in the lobby, causing the haunting to finally stop. Hey, great news, They’re making a sequel to Adam Sandler’s Leo.
You know, the pet lizard who grapples with an existential crisis and lungs for the world outside his classroom. It was such a hit that Netflix is making Leo two. The original Leo starred Adam Sandler, of course, Bill Burr, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, and some of the finest, finest voice work actors in the business. They are Sonny Sandler, Sadie Sandler and Jackie Sandler can’t wait for LEO two and yes we are one week away from Johnny Mack does an entire episode saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. That’ll be next Saturday.
If I actually put it together and she could sell, it’s going to be hard to do. I started making a list, and I was like, you know, I actually like the sketch Gay Robot, but then I realized that’s not a movie. That’s a sketch. I also like Adam Sandler’s bit was it Phone Wallet Keys? I think that one’s pretty good.
Also not an Adam Sandler movie, So we’ll see what I come up with. One week from today, Ramy Yousef will return to HBO with a new special title to Ramy Yousef More Feelings Interesting note here. It will return to HBO in March before it streams on Max. That’s Weird. Rommi will tape the special February second and third at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City at Sketch Fest Today.
We can kick it off at noon with Okay who did it? With Joe Firestone one o’clock. Paul Giamatti is taping his podcast Chris Gethard is the guest there. Four o’clock, Judge John Hodgman, you can have a full afternoon. It’s seven o’clock The Futurama twenty fifth Anniversary Spectacular.
Hmmm, I would have to go to that. I don’t even know what the other options are. I am not reading every show like I usually do. Sketch Fest has a zillion show. Zillion might be an exaggeration, but you get the idea.
Eight thirty Maria Bamford Jackie Kash looks like she’s opening nine thirty The Futurama twenty fifth Anniversary Spectacular. No, it doesn’t work that way. You can’t have two spectaculars. This is the first one, is the real one. This is the fake one because we just did it.
That’s not how it works, guys. And is a nine to forty five show called Derek and Simon and Bob and s F Sketchfest Tribute Celebration. Bob Odenkirk, Derek Waters and some others on there. If we were at sketch Fest, all right, so in the afternoon we could do Joe Firestone, then John Hodgman and we could have a real dinner. Then we’re hitting the seven o’clock Futurama, the real one late show.
Let’s see I want to do Dinosaur Improv. Paul Sheer is on that bill. Jason manzukis, Yeah, let’s do that at nine thirty. And there’s no late late shows like a lot of these festivals have, like an eleven o’clock show. Sketchfest doesn’t do that.
Meanwhile, it is the final day of the Last Word Comedy Festival in Williamsburg seven o’clock. Dude in the Improvised Murder Mystery. I would totally do that. If we do that, we’re going to miss the Improv Showcase number four, and we’re gonna miss stand Up Showcase number three. Then at nine o’clock it’s the Improv Headliners Showcase and stand Up Showcase number four.
Just one thing tomorrow, it’s Chicago’s Musical Improv Party Brunch at eleven a m. I can now close this tab because my computer’s out of memory. I have twenty six tabs open as I put this show together, so that’s why I close that one as soon as I could. I had missed this one. Mark Maron had talked about Joe Coy at the Golden Globes.
Maren said, so the Joe Coy thing. Look, I’m coming at this as a comic and I’m no stranger to enjoying shottenfreud. But this guy didn’t deserve It doesn’t matter when he took the gig or how soon he got the gig to host the Globes, and honestly, the Globes are a sham. They don’t efn matter much anyways. So Joe Cooy takes this gig and it’s a nice paying gig, and he’s a comicy season he knows what the f he’s doing, but nobody really knows who Joekoi is.
He does find out there’s a big comic, sells a lot of tickets. He is a community around him, the Asian community as well, and has been successful for many years. He’s not a household name. I say, most people I don’t know who he is, so right away that’s storing. I think the primary issue with Joe is not enough people knew who he was, so they decided to crap on him.
Who is this guy? Why him? Well, he’s completely capable of the job.
And then is your comedy news for today.
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