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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shunning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night went in on Taylor Swift a little bit. Jimmy Fallon said, let’s get to today’s Taylor Swift news. Everybody else at the Grammy’s got an Emmy for acting surprised when she won.
There’s been some backlast year that Taylor keeps doing that. Oh gollie gee, I want I can’t believe it. Taylor is having a bad week. I’ll talk about Taylor in a bit more from Late Night Fallon. Yep, Taylor dominated the Grammys.
And if you thought she was on your TV a lot on Sunday, wait till next Sunday. Amen. Jimmy Kimmel was talking about the torential rain in LA and said, you know, they closed our kids’ school because of rain. And I just want to mention this is not an outdoor school. There’s a roof on the school, but they said it’s too dangerous to come to school.
Somebody could get wet. And Kimmel had a similar upbringing to me, and he’s joking here, but he’s right. When I was a kid in Brooklyn, for them to cancel school there had to be like at least six inches of snow, there had to be black ice on the road, and son of Sam had to be on the loose. So I grew up a queens. As I mentioned about seven times a week I went from first grade to college.
I had a total of one snow day in nineteen eighty one when we had the there was like twenty six inches of snow in February. School never closed in New York City, and now I live in the suburbs, and I find with my kids’ schools, if there’s even a hint of snow, especially on a Monday or a Friday, oh you know, we better close Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, they’ll just do the two hour delay. But Monday and Friday, yeah, snow day. And we’re already at February seventh, and they haven’t used that many which means if it even I don’t know, gets dark, they’re gonna just start closing school left and right. Jimmy Kimmel, here’s how you know we have a lot of rain.
When the La River is actually a river, usually it’s just a big empty skateboard park. I also go back to Taylor.
Let’s talk about Dave Chappelle.
I can’t believe he got the Grammy for What’s in a Name? I dusted off Sean McCarthy’s review from December twenty twenty two. This was on this cider just so I could remind myself and you what what’s in a nameless about? In it, Dave Chappelle goes back to his old school to lecture the students about how his previous Netflix special The Closer is a masterpiece, and how the kids these days have no idea what they’re complaining about, because his rights to tell whatever jokes he wants is more important than analyzing the content of the jokes. Sean writes.
This recording is not of his twenty twenty one visit to the school, but to his subsequent visit in November. You may be able to keep beating a dead horse, but can you beat a bragging goat? Netflix set aside thirty nine minutes for Dave Chappelle to hold court at the school with an acceptance speech that recounts his time at the school in the major highlights of his career. I’ll remind you this one best comedy album, Sean wrote, what comedy specials will remind you of? Answer, Today’schappelle is more lecturer than comedian.
I’ll remind you this one best comedy album, huh. Switching to an article on cract who wrote, by my thinking, a Chappelle voter must fall into one of three camps. Camp one, the Chappelle is the best crowd they right, take away the controversy, and you’re left with the comedian that many consider among the best ever to grab the microphone. I think that’s fair on both points. Some faction of voters must be thinking, I know what Chappelle says offense people, but I don’t care.
He’s simply a better comedian than Trevor Noah or Sarah Silverman. I’m gonna vote for the best artist, not the least defensive one. That is fair. Dave is a better comedian than Sarah, for sure, Trevor. I like Trevor’s game a lot, but Dave is really good.
Camp two, I’ll show the Snowflake’s mob create a role and they feel duty bound to break it. What some view of Chappelle’s insensitivity or even cruelty can be received as bravery by those who value artistic freedom above all else, vote for Chappelle could be a middle finger extended to anyone who wants to restrict what a comic can joke about. I personally am not looking to restrict what Dave joke’s about. My problem is he’s done at four straight releases now and I’m done with it. Like you made your point.
It was funny. I laughed at some of it. Some people didn’t appreciate it. But what are we doing? And back to this particular Grammy Best Comedy Album, not best speech given by a comedian, Best Comedy Album.
What are we doing? Grammys Camp three? And I think this is where they nailed it. The Chappelle is the comedian I’ve heard of gang they write who votes for the Grammys? According to the Recording Academy, voters come from a pool of vetted and venerable performers, songwriters, producers, engineers, instrumentalists, and other creators currently working in the recording industry.
Cracked Rights. Think about that for a minute. While there must be some comedians among the vetted and venerable performers, they’re also jazz saxophonists, classical violinists, and normley bearded dudes who played the slide guitar. Then they’re all the wonky producers and engineers. Industry expert, sure, but possibly not folks who spend their spare time spinning comedy records.
Voters who don’t know much about the contenders will opt for the one with the most name recognition. I heard of that guy. I love Chappelle’s show. Chapelle keeps winning, so he must be good crack finishes. Are there other reasons to vote for Chappelle?
Let me know if you can think of one.
Meanwhile, don’t blame me for his continued dominance of the Grammys.
I would have voted for Wanda Sykes, Johnny Mack would have picked Trivor Noah, and I could even make the case for the I’ve I heard of that guy. Vote for Trevor Noah. So I don’t get this at all, all Right, back to Taylor Swift. Backstage, Taylor greeted Trevor Noah with a hug and praised him for such a successful night as host of the Awards show. People tells us she embraced Trevor and told him he did a beautiful job tonight.
You really did. I don’t know how you do it. I’ve seen you running around all night. I don’t know how you do it, Taylor, You run around all night? What are you talking about?
Before I get hate mail? I like Taylor a lot. You want me to whip out my phone and show you my Taylor list playlist. There’s even one in the phone called Taylor Swift Dad’s Edition. I saw the concert best concert I’ve ever seen, I told my Springsteen friends, and I’ve seen Springsteen fifty times.
I told my Springsteen friends, you want to tell me five guys are going to stand at one end to the stadium and play guitar. Not impressed that said, I’ll just chime in on Taylor. By the way, if you’re interested in Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift Today’s podcast, which covers Taylor Swift who knew right well. I was listening to The Town podcast, which is kind of a Hollywood insider podcast, and they were talking about backstage people were eye rolling that Taylor promoted her album during her speech and when she kind of blew off Selene Dion.
Later you saw a photo of Taylor and Selena. I’ve been in the media or media a Jason for thirty years. I was like, somebody was cleaning something up, and apparently, according to backstage people. They were cleaning that up and made sure that picture got out in a hurry, because yeah, Taylor, you’re a little rude there. Taylor is not having a good week, John, get back to the comedy.
Okay. Pace Magazine gets it. Their headline man two racist to join SNL cast set to host SNL. They get it, they wrote. Just to be clear, Sane Gillis’s stand up act doesn’t consist of him just standing on stage spouting rachel slurs and insulting gay people for an hour.
I wish more people covering Shane Gillis would point that out. He also often deflates some of those statements immediately after making them, and some of his fancy it as a performance similar to it Danny McBride character basically saying how could anyone actually believe what I’m saying? Gillis is careful not to alienate the audience that would take him at face value. It’s hard to tell how ironiculeus intends to be, but it also doesn’t matter if he’s completely insincere and trying to make fun of racist attitudes, as ironic racism is still fundamentally racist, accomplishing the same goal sinceer racism by perpetuating and legitimizing racist ideas. Middle aged white dude sitting in the basement, Not sure I agree.
I get what Shane’s doing, I get what Ricky’s doing, and at some point in comedy, something’s making fun of something. Otherwise we’re just telling jokes about chickens crossing the road. Paste points out SNL has made an effort to bring in current stand up comedians as host off in a critical acclaim, Nate Pergatzy’s hosting debut last year. It meains the most popular episode of the current season, those the best episode years, and John Mulaney has become one of the show’s most beloved repeat hosts, so it’s not a major surprise it would reach out to a comedian with the ursioning profile of Gillis. Of course, Burgatzy avoids politics, and it’s usually not a major part of Milani sets, and neither of them resorts of the kind of hoary, hackneyed, racist and homophobic material Gillis use in those podcast episodes from twenty eighteen.
We’re gonna be talking a lot about this one for another ten days, Davy Club said. Bowen Yang’s feelings about Nicki Haley’s SNL appearance or a bit more clear. Yang posted to his Instagram a note in Nicki Haley’s dressing room which read, welcome to Studio eight h from Lauren plus everyone at SNL. Yang captured the photo everyone with a smiley face emoji. Davy Club says some believe that comment suggests that Bowen did not want to be included among the everyone welcome to showbiz.
Bowen got some comedy podcast nominees NOE, but I wasn’t nominated. I think a lot of times you have to actually pay to submit to these awards, which why I don’t do it. I feel like the podcast nominated, why don’t have to give you two hundred dollars? The iHeart Podcast Awards. What are these actually called?
The twenty twenty four iHeart Podcast Awards south by Southwest, March eleventh. The nominees are best Comedy Podcast. I’ll remind you two things. One I host a comedy podcast seven days a week, which you can’t hate much if you’re this deep into this episode. And two, I’ve been in podcasting since twenty fifteen and listen to eight million podcasts every day, eight million Slight exaggeration and I’m looking at the list and going what the nominees for best Comedy podcast are?
Baby this is Kekey Palmer. Huh? Are you guys all listening to Baby this is Kekey Palmer. Whether or not I listen to it or like it, I do look at the charts because I want to see how my own podcasts are doing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on the charts.
The description Kiki Palmer has questions for days about everything under the sun, from the existential to the inconsequential. I’m gonna go to charterable and see how this thing does. Again. I’m not saying it’s good or bad. I’m just like, what, who Mike in Cleveland, You’re probably like, come on, man, Kecky Palmer.
I know you’re like the comedy expert, Mike. Mike’s my friend for twenty five years. I’m not being a jerk. Is it twenty five, Mike? No, it’s more than twenty five.
It’s thirty five, all right, Kekey Palmer’s podcast. Right now as I look at this on the Apple podcast the United States of America Comedy Charts is number forty three. Much better than this dumb podcast. You’re listening to this one right now is number twenty four in the stand up subcategory up three places today. Yeah, this one’s usually around twenty or so, depending on the minute.
Anyway. The nominees maybe this is Keky Palmer, handsome, so that’s Stickingnataro Fortune themestern May Martin, all right, probably gonna win. SmartLess, Oh yeah, that could win. This is important. I’ve heard of that.
But what is that? Adam Devine, Andrews Holme, Blake Anderson, and Kyle Nyuachek forgot that existent? How’s that doing? Well? There’s at least one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine podcasts with the same title.
I don’t care that much to figure out which one is which. I worked with those guys very briefly. One broadcast. It was actually my last day at Serious. They did Super Bowl Radio Row.
They were quite cool. And Why Won’t You Date Me? Is the other one. That’s Nicole Buyer’s podcast start I interrupted a million times. I’ll give you the list real quick.
The nominees are maybe this is Keky Palmer, handsome, SmartLess? This is important? Why won’t you Date Me? Running along here again? That’s actually good if you’re me like when I have extra stuff all right?
From gossip Corner? Did you see Darius Rucker? You may know him as country music star Darius Rucker. You may also know him as a lead singer in Hoodi and the Blowfish. He’s not hooty, a common misconception.
Darius was arrested last week in Tennessee his ex girlfriend, comedian Kate Quigley, Which is why I bring this up? Celebrated on Twitter, she posted all I can say is karma, adding an emoji heart to the text. Ouch. In a follow up post, she shared a bikini selfie with her tongue out that she captioned mood when you hear your d bag X got arrested hashtag karma. Mister Rucker was charged on minor drug offenses for possession of a controlled substance.
Quigly split with Rucker back in twenty twenty. Mister Rutcker was released from police custody on ten five hundred dollars bond. Kevin Hart, never one shy to take on another gig. Exclusive from Awful Announcing Heartbeat launches Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls Super Bowl live tapings. Kevin Hart’s got his Cold as Balls Cold Tub interview series.
It’s kind of like Hot Wings but different. They’re gonna tape two episodes of Cold As Balls on Thursday and Friday. Heartbeat will also present Shaquille O’Neills Shacks All Star Comedy Jam a Friday and Saturday. Let’s See Who’s on that by I tell my wife about my Lauren Bobert search. She thought it was funny.
All Star Comedy Jam hosted by Dion Cole. Good Choice, There Dial, Hugh Glee, Earthquake, Desi Manx, I Eita Rodriguez. That is a solid show February ninth and tenth, eight o’clock at Resorts in Las Vegas, and I love suits who are just so unaware how bad their quotes say Heartbeat President and Chief distribution Officer Jeff Clenigan told Awful Announcing the synergies between sports and entertainment have long been something we’ve been interested in, dating back to the launch of Cold As Balls in twenty eighteen and the viral Peacock series Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and New Dog. At Heartbeat, we’ve created an ecosystem that can produce, market and monetize IP and experiences all under one roof boy. That sounds fun, mister Clanagan, all right, one more for you from Kroc.
A comedian has been announced for the Minnesota State Fair grandstand lineup. Who is it, Johnny Macause? I’m planning on going to the Minnesota State Fair. Well, if you find yourself in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, the State Fair is running August twenty second through Labor Day. All right, John, Well, who’s the comedian?
Why won’t you tell us? Well, the comedian’s performing Saturday, August twenty fourth at seven pm. I think that might be the night of Kenny Chesney. Tickets at Giant Stadium. You can get in for seventy seven, ninety seven, one hundred and seven or one hundred ninety seven.
The party deck will run you one fifty four. I wonder what the party deck gets you. Who’s the comedian? John? Is it Kevin Hart?
No? Is it Dave Chapelle? No? Who is it? John?
It’s Nate Perghatzy. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your podcast. Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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