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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Donnell Rawlings is defending his beef with Corey holcom Dona was on TMZ Live, where he explain that the beef was because he wanted to shield himself from Corey’s allegations that anybody in comedy who’s done three movies or more has had to do a favor for somebody in the business. Donelle points out that Corey himself has done four movies, perhaps doing a favor, perhaps not, I don’t know. Donale points out that Corey’s literally guilty of his own joke.
He’s also mad that Corey took shots at Dave Chappelle. You know, I was listening to yesterday’s podcast in the cars. I was on my way to the National Donuts Chain. I do that most mornings to QC the show see if I blew any edits or made a horrible mistake of some kind. And I was listening to Corey say that out of five Dave Chappelle specials, two of them are funny.
That’s kind of act. Donelle says he doesn’t understand the need for comics to create controversy by taking shots at others, something that’s been happening quite a lot lately in epic fashion. Well, here’s why in show business, you fight up, you never fight down. Kat Williams through Kerosene on everything, and now everyone’s talking about him. That’s what’s going on here.
When’s the last time you heard me mention Corey Holcomb on this podcast before this week? Never two years ago? I don’t know. I can’t remember it. So, yeah, that’s what’s going on here.
Everybody’s throwing heat, which reminds me that coward Joe Rogan still has not accepted my challenge to him. I guess he’s some sort of wooss. I will fight you in the ring, Joe, you tell me where UFC three hundred I’m in? What are you afraid of? Joe Rogan?
See, that’s what everybody else is doing. Maybe I shouldn’t take on Rogan. Could I fight Conan O’Brien. I mean, he’s a lot taller than me, so he’s got reach. But I feel like I could take Conan O’Brien.
Conan, what are you afraid of? Your woos? Let’s go UFC three hundred. Me and Conan O’Brien in the Octagon, bring it? Are you scared?
Awkward segue time? Ossia. Last week out, Lucas made a George Floyd related joke attempt. Apparently there’s a video out there of David Lucas claiming I’ve spoken with members of George Floyd’s family as well as close friend Stephen Jackson. Lucas apologized for the pain they may have felt, but did not apologize for the joke.
Lucas was on the Willie d Live Show and said, I’m an advocate for free speech right. The Great Patrise O’Neil said that a funny joke and a bad joke come from the same place. So that was my attempt at comedy. It was to get shock value. I’m a troll.
You heckle me, now I heckle you. I don’t apologize for doing the joke. Who are we as the gatekeepers to say when a joke goes too far? Well, you’re the comedians. You guys get to say what a joke goes too far.
I joke about beating on white women, I joke about killing white women. I joke about gay people. This sounds like a great set, David. I joke about the transsexual community. So the moment I apologize for George Floyd joke, and now I gota apologize for every other joke.
Move on, John, So, who in this situation is the gatekeeper to tell me you went too far or you didn’t go far enough? Is it because I’m not famous? If Dave Chappelle had told that joke? What would have happened? If Dave Chappelle told that joke?
There would have been five million articles about it, followed by five million opinion pieces and me putting Dave Chappelle’s name in the episode title of several episodes of this podcast. That’s what would have happened. There’s still wait, let me check one more time, because I did the show prep a few hours ago. I believe there’s still no Shane Gillis press. And this is not because I’m an idiot and don’t know when the episode is airing.
Its airing this week. If I throw Shane Gillis into Google here on Wednesday afternoon, we see the article I talked about yesterday. Why did Shane Gillis keep promoting the Holocaust deniers? Up rocks has one called SNL host Shane Gillis had Holocaust deniers on his podcast, and the third one is Shane Gillis coming to Rockford in June. Is SNL trying to sneak this episode in I don’t know what’s going on here?
Are you happy Shane Gillis is hosting? Did no one else want to host it? I mean somebody would have hosted it. No, why’d you pick Shane? If you’re not going to promote it?
They are promoted The upcoming hosts. Sydney Sweeney will host on March second, Casey Musgraves as your musical guest, then Josh Brolin and Ariana Grande on March ninth. Maybe tomorrow we’ll see some Shane Gillis press. Very interesting. Adam Sandler out there promoting Spaceman.
The movie was making its debut at the Berlin Film Festival last night. I wonder if anybody was excited about it. Doing some of the weightless scenes, Sandler says, the wires were tough because my body’s not the most flexible body. The wires hurt me. They dug into me.
The stunt man who would wire me up every day would say that hurts, and they didn’t believe me. But we did it as a team. The director would say you don’t look like you’re floating. What are you doing? And I’d say, well, what should we do?
And then they’d wire you hot up and he’d be like, more like this. Spaceman in select theaters, February twenty third, Netflix, March First. You could probably wait the eight days. No, yes, oh no, it’s February. It’s not even eight days.
Seven days. I counted on my fingers. Sandler was asked if you’d do more dramatic roles. He said, yes, I love doing the Spaceman. It was an amazing process.
Now you know me, I’m muh much prefer dramatic Adam Sandler. His two best films are, of course, Uncut Gems and Hustle. Much prefer that to Adam Sandler’s attempt at comedy. I actually think he’s pretty good as a dramatic actor. So more of that now, this one with a CGI alien.
As much as I like science fiction, I don’t know, but I’m gonna watch a set of Curiosity so I have something to talk about the podcast as well. Day the Week’s More first, Oh a Friday, Great Mike Gaps has a new special out on Netflix. Jason Zinneman, who does great work in The New York Times said Mike Gaps may be the only stand up comic alive who’s upset that Kat Williams didn’t insult him. A non spoiler of Vibe review, as I call it, Zinneman writes, on stage, Mike Gaps convincingly plays the rascal who was trimmed his way out of trouble. Sometimes his chrism is a crutch his writing concoast, especially early in this hour, when he seems to be his most generic, doing pandering or familiar jokes about prison rape, fat girls, and code switching.
His most surprising moments are not punchlines, but when he says something that could, in different hands come off as serious, like when he mentions he’s been pretending to dislike white people for forty years. There’s also a moodier side of him that you get peaks of in his stand up, but that probably deserves fuller expression. Like Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps makes a habit of scampering across the stage after a punchline and hitting the microphone, but there’s something sweetly innocent about his version, often accompanied by a wide smile. Zenmann points out he’s a fantastic mimic. Epps has long been compared to Richard Pryor, who imbued his finest work with a startling human vulnerability the swagger.
There was only a setup to the joke, something many of his successors missed. That’s great by Jason, but not Epps. You can hear the influence most overtly in a joke about how cocaine affects your sex life when he gives a voice to a body part speaking of Richard Pryor Micah. Epps beat out several other comics, including Marlon Wayans, for the title role in a Richard Pryor biopick that was gonna happen around twenty sixteen. Never did, but Epps did play Richard Pryor in HBO’s Winning Time.
Here’s that clip. There are many people speaking here. The one that sounds like Richard Pryor is Mike Epps. And if you don’t think anyone sounds like Richard Pryor, then the impressions not that good apparently, but I think it is here. You go, Hey, black man, black man, black man, man, man man, oh man.
You’ve been living like a sink these days. But if you want to celebrate after the game parties at my place in the heels. Come on up, man, we got it all man, we got white bitch. Calder Zinneman floats a theory that why the movie didn’t happen. He says after that winning time clip, Richard Pryor’s widow tweeted out her disapproval.
Hmm. Jimmy Kimmel seems annoy that he was sued by George Santos. He asked, did anybody else get sued by George Santos this weekend? I’m currently embroiled in what might be the most preposterous lossit of all time. Kimmel said, we did a nice thing.
We supported him by ordering his cameo videos. Ricky Gervais shared some extremely sad news. The very funny and very lovely you and McIntosh are known too many as Big Keith from the Office has passed away. An absolute original rip McIntosh was fifty years old, roughly sort of kind than not really the Kevin analog on the original British Office. I’ve got a bunch of clips here that I just didn’t get to it.
It was so much controversy yesterday. Yesterday was a fun nampisode. Not that today’s bad but yesterday. I love the fights. Here’s Michael Blaxon on Vlad TV talking about Taylor Swift.
Watch out, Michael, She’s not gonna like this. Taylor Swift was giving him that energy. I mean, it’s always great to have your woman there. You know, it hypes you up. Bet.
I mean it had been great before Taylor. Let’s be honest, Taylor didn’t know nothing about football. No till she started digging this guy. She knew because you watch her earlier in the season, she’ll be cheering at the wrong time. She’s like, yeah, Teller is halftime.
See now you have no clue what’s going on? Do you? Yeah, she just did just cheer her man. She’s I’m so happy for her because you could tell for the first time she’s in love. Weird Al was on with Craig Ferguson.
Al started talking about and he sounds really way too guilty here about some language he used in songs early in his career. Al. We know you come in peace, we know you don’t mean anything, and I really think you’re overthinking this. But here’s Weird Al with Craig Ferguson. I’ve been releasing records, you know, since the late seventies, so some of the you know, I obviously tried not to be offensive or do anything that I thought that would come back to haunt me later.
But there’s there’s some languages, some words that I used in the eighties and nineties which you know are now considered slurs or offensive. So you know, in fact, there’s one song that I did on this last tour which had had an offensive word in it, and I sang the word, and then the whole band stops and I have to explain, like I wrote this on the nineties, I didn’t mean any offense by it. Language is a fluid thing. But you know, you can you give me I don’t I’m not going to ask you to say the word, but can you let me give me a clue to what the word is or what it pertains to. I’ll say it because I say it is hermaphrodite.
Is that a slur? Well it is apparently, you know I thought it was a medical Well that’s exactly that’s exactly how I explained it. And you know in my apology that you know, when I wrote it in the nineties, I thought, okay, this is a technical medical term. And this is you know, the person in my hypothetical story happens to be one, right, And apparently that word is considered a slurw nowadays, which obviously, no, I’ll be honest, it’s not a word I use often, no id No, I know. Yeah, And you know, I can see the why you would use it, because it’s clearly writes with stuff.
And you know, because language changes, I mean, even the word lame, uh, you know, which is in common usage. And you know, I haven’t stopped saying that, but I mean the point has been made like, oh, that’s an ablest term, Like okay, I can see that, but still it’s it’s such a common and and there’s there’s another word that I used and I won’t say this word, but it’s a word that both Beyonce and Lizo got in trouble for. It rhymes with plastic, do you know what I mean? And begins with an sp oh gosh, yeah, right, okay, so uh and you know, in North America that’s just considered like a goofy, you know, yes, kind of good person. But in other parts of the world it’s considered a horrible slur.
Well, you know, what’s interesting is that the words the word you’re talking about, When I was a kid growing up, it was used to in medical terms to describe or like you. If someone was going to a school for people that suffered from disabilities or had disabilities, they would be called that yeah, and they would be on the sign in the school. Yeah. And it’s not that I have any objection to language change, and it does change, but I think for I feel like there is a great deal of legitimacy in the changing of the language. But I also feel there’s a lot of people out there on the balls of their feet, just waiting to be offended when there’s no genuine harm meant by yeah.
Dusty Slay was on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, told this story about an earlier part of his career. He was a pesticide salesman. I like this a lot, started doing comedy as a and then I won a competition in Charleston. I made a thousand bucks.
And then the next year, in between that one and the next competition, I quit …
And then by the next year I won the competition like by way more votes, and it’s like so I was like, oh, I maybe I got something here, so I start trying to figure out how to make money doing comedy. But I don’t know if it was so much ambition as it was I hate the other job that I have, and if I can make money doing this, I mean I always said, I don’t need to be famous. If I can make a living doing this, then that’s better than what I was doing. Yep. I was really trying to do it for a minute, you know, but I was also drinking a lot.
So what you had to do you’d have to drive to the Low store and then go inside and you had to call in on the Low’s phone to you know, to a system. That way they knew you checked into that store. You couldn’t do it from yourself on That was like the way to get yourself fired instantly if you call it in from your cell phone. Okay, but I would be so I have that part wrong. But you did have call in, but I would be hungover.
So I would go show up, call in on the Low’s phone, and then go back out to my car and sit and smoke cigarettes and listen to the radio for an hour and then go back in and Dusty here talking to Neil Brennan on blocks about acting nervous on stage. This was pretty interesting because I’d picked up on that myself when I watched the special I’ve done the Tonight Show. I just did my fourth appearance on The Tonight Show, and it’s like the first time, I think they thought they had made a mistake booking me because I was so nervous. But this last time I did it, I wasn’t nervous at all. I was like, all right, I’ve done this, let’s do it.
I’m happy to be here now. On the other hand, I did the Seller to prepare for the for the Tonight Show, and I still I’m still nervous there because it just seems like the coolest place. The first time I did the Comedy Store, and the only time I did the Comedy Store, I was in the main room and I tripped down that little step going out. I was the first one, no host, no warm up. I got five minutes and I trip coming off that step.
Wonderful, but I still was able to recover and had a great set. Yeah, it was awesome, great, But it’s like, I don’t know, I found a way to use the nerves. It’s like, if I am nervous the only thing that anyone can notice is that my voice. If you know me really well, you can tell in my voice I’m a little nervous. Yeah.
But other than that, all the moves are still the same. I may touch my glasses a bit more. John Stewart good for business Man Monday Night. This week got one point three million viewers. That’s up from nine hundred and thirty thousand and week one.
That’s gonna make him, I think, the most watched late night television show. I told you, guys, put this on CBS proper. You didn’t listen to me. Put it on CBS Proper. Don’t wait.
Start doing it now and back up the Brinks truck and see if you can get John to do more. What’s gonna happen to the Daily Show when John’s gone after November? Like this is gonna be fun all summer, and then election is gonna happen and John’s gonna react to it, and then it’s gonna be January of twenty twenty five and they’re gonna go, hey, look, everybody, here’s Jordan Klepper. This might actually kill the Daily Show like they were lucky. Trevor was able to follow John, who’s gonna be able to follow John the second time if the numbers are up this much.
Episode one, aside from the nine hundred thirty right away, it hit three million viewers with the live plus three day numbers including simulcass On other Paramount networks. The one point three million is the most watched daily show since twenty fifteen. You know who was the host then, John Stewart Monday Night Show beat every episode of Trevor Noah’s Run and I like Trevor Noah, but back up the truck. Here you go, John, Daisy Leidik is your host this week. The four day Slow Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and it’s fourteenth year in sam Luis OBISPO founder and director Eric Schantz tells Ksby that he started it fourteen years ago after seeing a similar format done in Edinburgh or year one.
We had stages on milk rates with tabletops that we used folding tables on to actually have a well built stage, actual sound system, spotlights. It’s an amazing transformation. Twenty two shows across ten venues. Information at Slocomedyfestival dot Comslow Comedy Festival dot com. I skim the names.
I don’t think there’s anyone that, unless you’re really into this, that you would recognize. So I won’t do the lineups every night, but it sounds like a cool festival. From the Department of don’t make this, Please don’t Paramount Pictures working on a spinoff to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The spinoff takes place kind of during Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It centers on the two valets who borrow the Ferrari belonging to Cameron.
Remember that scene. Yeah, this is called Sam and Victor’s Day Off. Hollywood is of ideas. Man, if you’ve got HBO Max Max Max Max, HBO Max Max, HBO Max, Rory Scovell’s got a new special today. I’ve mentioned this before.
It’s like, how did Rory Scovell, who’s fine, How did Rory Scovell pull an HBO Max special. Well, Conan O’Brien is producing it under his team Coco Banner. That’s how. Doesn’t mean the guy’s not funny, doesn’t mean the guy’s not cool, just means Conan O’Brien’s producing it. So that’s part of Conan’s deal.
That’s how he gets it. In the New Hour, Rory Scovell offers observations on disparate subjects such as religion, sex, mushrooms, vaccines, parenting an eight year old, and much more. Seventy minutes set, which is probably fifteen minutes too long, says the guy who hasn’t seen yet Rory Scovell. Religion, sex, and a few things in between on your Max today, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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