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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was just looking at the recent episodes that were a little longer. You know. Sometimes I finished these that I’m like, oh, it’s only like ten minutes, and then sometimes they’re like nineteen depends on how much news there is.
Media Height took a listen to the Joe Rogan podcast. I’m going to push back on their first four words here they wrote, comedy legend Bobby Lee has a new movie, or time out comedy legend Bobby Lee. Really, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to go outside right now and find one hundred people, and I want you to ask one hundred people who is Bobby Lee. Let me know how many people go, oh yeah, comedian comedy legend.
Bobby Lee has a new movie coming out, and he wanted to talk about it while he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast. If only Rogan would let him this for Media Height, Bobby and Rogan shared a bunch of stories about the comedy scene, how it’s change, how their politics have changed, and Rogan started ranting about COVID restrictions, the deep state, the two thousand election, the twenty twenty election. Meani I quotes Rogan is saying this one. I think, man, Okay, I think evil’s real, and I think evil exists in many forms, and it exists in callous disregard for loss of life or profit. That’s evil, right, And that’s the thing.
Like you could say evil is the devil. You could say evil is Satan and evil as demons, and evil is you know, exorcism and stuff. You know, look at that baby. But also evil is profit over human life, which is real evil as cobalt minds and the congo. When you watch pregnant women mining for cobalt getting toxic fumes in their lungs, whether some of them have babies on their back, that’s evil.
They’re living in dirt floors with no sanitation. It’s horrific conditions. And that’s in everybody’s cell phone. And everybody’s cell phone is the labor of essentially people so poor they don’t have to choose whether their slaves or not. They’re just there’s no other option for them to work Bobby Lee’s size.
A few times, Rogan continues, it’s not an obligation to pay attention to everything, Okay, but it’s something that I think would help people break out of the cult, because that cult it’s like, you think you’re a good person if you buy hook line and sink or everything that the left says. That’s crazy. These are the same people that want war. These are the same people that are encouraging censorship. These are the same people that are trying to silence descent.
That’s all solitarian stuff. And just because it’s done for trans kids, for Black Lives Matter, for any social cause he think is like undeniably worthy, it’s still the same thing. At the end of the day. The Patriot Acts still control people in a way that was never allowed before, and it did under the guys that we have to stop a terrorist attack. So even if they did do evil stuff to make these things happen, once these things happen, they take advantage by doing evil stuff and they enact control over the people that had never done before.
The redistribution of wealth was insane. We did redistribution. Well, it’s big corporations, companies. Oh my god, so many people did. Billions of dollars has moved.
Bobby Lee jumps in and goes, yeah, well, you want to talk about the movie That’s why I read all that. Bobby said, yeah, it stresses me out. You want to talk about the movie? Can we talk about the movie? I’m promoting?
Love It? Shannon Sharp recently had Kat Williams on his podcast. Did you hear about this? Sharp told the route I figured he’d go one or two minutes and get right to it. He goes with thirty minutes.
Now I gotta make a decision to I cut them off and get back to our normally scheduled programming. Do I let him go? I let him go. When it wrapped up, Shannon Sharp saw his producer is shaking his head, and Shannon said, wait, did I do something wrong? Producer said it was going to break the internet?
And I said, you really think so? And he said they’re gonna be talking about this all of twenty twenty four. Shannon, you don’t know what you just did. He was right. On day one, the interview had two and a half million views.
The next day it was at fourteen million. I asked him how many views you think it’ll do? He said fifty. I said fifty? What fifty million?
Shannon Sharp has gotten some criticism over his lax interviewing style. He said when I found out is you let people feel comfortable with you, they’ll share things they probably never shared or they haven’t shared a very long time, So your listener is probably gonna be hearing it for the first time. I’m sure there are a lot of people saying you should have DoD this, you should have done that, But they aren’t mad that I Letkat Williams go. They’re mad it’s in almost fifty five million views and it’s not on their platform. People stop me wherever I am.
People you think wouldn’t watch Club Shay Shay. I’m talking about older white men, older white women coming up to say, I just want to thank you. He says he feels zero pressure to replicate the success. Shannon says, I tell people I’m not gonna be Mike Jackson. This is my thriller.
Off the Wall was great, Bad was great, but what he wanted was another thriller, and that’s an anomaly. I’m gonna do the best work I can and do other great interviews, but I’m not gonna make myself sick trying to hunt down another guest to create another topic that I’ll do what this did. This happened organically. It was the perfect storm. The website Black Girl Nerds wondered is Kat Williams a top five Black comedian?
A Black Girl Nerds writes, while he is a comedic force to be reckoned with, does he really have a place on the mount rushmore comedians such as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Hucker. Well, it’s really challenging to put Kat Williams among the top five black comedians of all time, especially when we consider the breath and impact of people like prior Martin Lawrence. We’re not trying to diminish Williams’s talent or influence, rather to acknowledge the extraordinary achievement of his peers like Chappelle. So yeah, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, who again is just doing a Richard Pryor coveract, But did it really really well? Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock not mentioned by Black Girl ol Nerds, at least I didn’t notice them mention in Chris Rock.
I think you’d absolutely have to put Chris Rock in that category, which leaves the spot are you gonna pick Martin Lawrence? Chris Tucker? I’ll throw out the name Kevin Hart, we could look at some of the kings of comedy. Plenty of people we could consider for that fifth slot there.
Speaking of Kevin Hart, he was speaking with USA today and said, since his ne…
I feel you. I’ve been going to that smoothie place, those seven hundred extra calories. Who Johnny Mack needs to start running again. I’m doing a five k with my wife next weekend. This weekend, you can tell him prepared for it.
And I signed up for a fifteen k. That’s a nice distance. I think I’m done with the marathons now. My body. That last marathon let me know.
Hey, we’re not as young as we used to be, and half marathons even get a little bit long. I kind of like that fifteen k nine mile distance. It’s like a good run, but then you’re not wrecked the rest of the day. Anyway, Kevin Hart said, things got out of hand in Italy, the food in Italy. I gain a little weight.
There was a moment where I said, I gotta pull back a little bit because this is not gonna show up well on camera. I had that last week. I was at that industry conference and I stood next to my two friends and they’re both thinner than I am, and my friend Chris is a lot taller than I am, and I just looked like I don’t know the George Costanza of the group. I guess I remember I took a picture once with Bruce Campbell. Bruce is a handsome dude.
I look like such a droll next to him. Don’t take a picture with Bruce Campble. Kevin said, the way his character Cyrus started out when we were in Belfast is not the way he’s ending. When we were in Italy, there was a lot of pizza pasta, pasta, pizza, pizza pasta and wine. So making sure that he had dumbed it down and operated in doses, that was something I had to make a priority.
I’m having fun today. Pete Davidson is set to star in a film adaptation of I Slept with Joey Ramone. Bill Board reports Joey Ramone’s estate is seeking to block a release of the film. A lawsuit was filed by Johnny’s widow, Linda Ramone, who claims that Joey’s brother covertly developed an unapproved and unauthorized Ramones based biopick based on his own one sided recitation of the history of the Ramones. Apparently, Joey and Johnny’s estates have split ownership of the ip for the Ramones.
Therefore, Linda says the film can’t go forward without her permission. Matt Brager will be at the Mystic Theater on Saturday, and he wonders about imposter syndrome. He says, we all wonder if we’re going to be found out that this is stupid. It’s fear of the imposters syndrome. But the flip side of the fear is the feeling that you’re fooling everybody.
Sometimes you want to go in an alley and cackle like a villain. He loves comedians. His influences include Lenny Bruce, George carl and Richard Priory. Says, you have to be a fan. He can’t lose that some of us may fall into the trench of bitterness, but it’s comedy.
After COVID nineteen, he toured less. He said, one of the best things I ever did was to scale back touring. I found a way to make it work. My mental and physical health has improved immensely. He’s joined a growing ranks of comedians who don’t worry about red versus blue.
He says, people who follow me online know how I feel about the issues, but my job as a comedian is to illuminate my views, not seldom. I love it when anyone comes to my show. Sketch Fest is off today and the folks at the eight hundred pound Grill. I want to see Triumph last week early on Triumph, the insult comic dog says, anyone who’s offended, relax. All these jokes have been cleared by Dave Chappelle.
That’s great, Triumph continues, San Francisco is a great town for me to poop on and apparently also for humans to poop on. You guys make me feel so at home. On the way to the show, I saw so many people doing my act on the guest list, good list, and a good introduction by Triumph. On the guest list. Adam Savage from MythBusters Triumph said, tonight you’re busting the myth that you’re gainfully employed.
Rap Schneider. We’ve got a MythBuster and a myth spreader and weird Al Yankovic. So many people kept their virginity to your music the eightard pound Guerrilla Rights, one of the standouts of the show where the audio answers these were all weird Al parodies that weird Al never actually wrote, but instead we’re written by Smigel in the style of Al. Triumph enlisted some celebrity guests to come out and sing the hits, including Thomas Lennon, Dave Hill, and Amber Ruffin the Gorilla Rights, you have to admire just how much went into producing a show like that. The game show portion alone featured over forty questions and joke answers, which occasionally the contestants even got right.
Triumph would give points if the answer is meaner than what he intended for the question. In the state of California, anyone found guilty of anti trans hate speech is automatically given this. Weird Al said, what are tickets and backstage passes to a Rob Schneider show? I have four more stories, but I have learned get out on the good laugh. That’s it.
That’s your comedy news for today. I’ll save the rest for tomorrow. See y