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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News eight. Tom sigour Are you’re doing a lot of dates this year? Why? GQ said to Tom, You’re always nagging Bert Kreisher.
In the past, were always being gone. Then all of a sudden you announced the biggest tour ever. Sigoura said, I signed up for too many tour dates. I’ll admit it. I think the only way it had happened the way it did was because of the pandemic.
Because we’re not working at all, and you start to go, what am I gonna work again? For a minute, it felt scary, like is touring done? At the time, we were booking out a tour that was a year away, and it didn’t feel real until it started. But I’ve definitely overdone it. I wish I had not done quite what I signed up for, because it actually has been exhausting and taxing on me and my family.
It’s too much now. I’m coming towards the end of it. But I would never organize a tour like this again. More from Bert Kreisher in The Hollywood Reporter. He said, I was stumped one night on stage and my daughter called me randomly, and I answered the call from stage.
The place went nuts. Daughter says, Dad, you do talk about the escape room. Then she told the story on stage. I did the escape room with her, and I actually tried talking about on stage, but I was so far off from what really happened and why it was funny. She was like, we only brought you there to watch Papa loses stuff and you have a manic attack, Dad, And I was like, oh, that’s right.
And she’s like, don’t you remember popa through Nana into a steamer trunk. You’re probably too busy crapping your pants and the place is falling apart and just crying listening to her say to stuff. Then she goes, mom saw the whole thing, and then that old lady scared the crap out of Papa. The place explodes. I literally said to someone, grab her a chording of that.
That’s how I want to write the story. All right, how about doing politics on stage? Bert He said, My ticket is always this is how I view the world. Comedy first, and I’ll always defend comedy. The most horrible thing you could say in the most awkward situation, sometimes it’s the funniest and if it makes one person laugh.
For me, it’s always worth it. I largely move away from politics because I don’t know anything, because my job is to make you laugh. But there’s an overwokeness that happens in LA where it can get a tad bit tedious. So if anything, I’m calling my hometown on their stuff. These people take themselves so seriously.
And by the way, I’m in Omaha telling the story. When I say I think every kids should feel awesome one hundred percent of the time, the place goes nuts. And when I say I don’t care whether my daughter dances with her boy or girl, I’ll do everything in my power to love her and support her, and the place goes nuts again.
And then when I say, as long as it’s white, the place goes nuts again.
The joke was right there. How do you not go for it? And those people in the audience they get it. They get it’s a joke, and we all love each other and we’re here for the right reasons. The Pitch KC caught up with Brian pos Say, Brian, what was your last live show before the shutdown?
Do you remember it? Saint said, I don’t know. All I remember is hearing about it meaning the pandemic and not knowing what it was really going to mean. You know, I have a feature act who’s coming with me to Kansas to the shows this week, and Johnny Taylor. He and I had a couple of things booked and last one, I remember, I didn’t go to because I actually got sick, not COVID, I just had flu symptoms and I didn’t want to get on a plane when all this other stuff is going on.
That was March of twenty twenty. That’s when everybody knew was kind of freaking out. My manager was like, we don’t know what’s going on. The club’s closing. So as soon as I canceled that gig, my whole schedule went away within the next week.
Brian, do you have any physical or mental preparation before going on tour? Brian said, I probably should train, but no, I’ve just done it for so long. I just kind of get out there. Back in the day, I just had to get over everything I hated about flying. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I do it a lot more than most people, and I want to lean on anything because I like to be in control.
I tried ambient like ten years ago, but I never wanted to be on something outside of weed. I just kind of trained my brain and now I’m usually asleep before the plane takes off. It’s like time traveling. I like going to towns and finding record stores and some comic shops. That was one of the things I did do during COVID.
Within the next year or two, I’ve got three books coming out through Image Comics. Two of them are going to be ongoing, so it’d be like the first five issues telling one story, but from there they’ll take off and continue for as long as people buy them. So I’m gonna be doing some signings. But that’s a fun thing for me. I mean, I genuinely love being in comic shops and hanging out for a couple hours with people who want me to sign a Devil’s Reject picture.
You know, I always love writing comics on the side. I made it sound like it did nothing, but I actually did quite a bit getting these books going. And I have a TV show in development and some other stuff, and I can’t actually sit around. I just had to do things creatively or I would have gone insane. Writing for the La Times, Fidel Martinez says a few months ago, I got an email from a PR person asking if I had any interest in covering the release of Lopez versus Lopez.
I replied sure, and agreed to watch the pilot to see if there’s a story there. If I liked it, I figured it I could write about George Lopez’s triumphant return of primetime TV. Suffice to say, I passed. I think the PR person for the pitch, but said it wasn’t for me. Ultimately, I reasoned that writing a takedown of George Lopez would be a dicey move.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a verse to being a hater. I believe that trash talking is an art form that doubles as a love language for the Mexican diaspora when done right, which is to say, with moderation, Martinez writes, But this trait also gives credence to the sad but true stereotype that we’re all just crabs in a bucket, creatures unwilling to let others climb over, so they use their claws to keep them down. Throwing the jabs at Lopez wouldn’t have been worth whatever clicks the story might have gotten. I figured my time was better, it spent writing something else. The knee jerk reaction to hate was there.
Though. I tell you all this because months later A Lopez himself is in boiling hot water for being a hater. Told you a couple of times last week about this thing where Lopez disc Ralph Barbosa. Martinez writes, Lopez’s disc didn’t just miss It had the unintentional effect of introducing a new audience to Barbosa’s comedy. Yeah.
Like I was vaguely aware of him. I’ve done a few stories over the years about him, but now I’m zoned in on him. He’s really funny. One person on Twitter wrote, thanks to George Lopez hating on Ralph Barbosa, I found me a new favor Latino comedian. Let’s go Ralph Barbosa learn his name, folks, hashtag comedy, hashtag hilarious.
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My friends, Let’s see who’s at JFL Vancouver tonight at seven o’clock. Joe Para. I don’t even have to look. We’re definitely going to see Joe at seven o’clock, which means we’re not going to see the new wave of stand up warm up at seven Comedy Feast. At eight Comedy Feast is a tasting menu of fine, freshly prepared jokes.
I get it by some of the best comedies in the city. All right, So that’s a showcase with eight comedians nine o’clock, full pints comedy, nice logo with a beer. There, I’m intrigued and acclaimed stand up Comedy show where Pal’s Ryan Williams and Colin Sharp bring you outstanding professional comedians every Tuesday. We can go see eight comedians there. That’s a Castaway.
Let’s see what Castaway Vancouver is. Maybe they have like good beer selections. We’ll go do that large patio outdoor area. I’m on the drink menu here. Bargar Rita’s Mahito picture on Tap, Castaway, Lagger, pll Malson Canadians works Oen Dark Matter.
That sounds I don’t even know what that is. It sounds good. Dames Fellow’s Talisman pale Al, Grandville Island, Kitsilano, Juicy Ipa. I can’t even pronounce these beers. I want to go here.
Bomber Passion, Fruit Park Life, Phillips, Dino Sour Hop, Valley, Bubble Stash, Ipa Green Hill Cider and a Guinness twenty ounce for nine bucks Canadian. Oh wait, there’s bottles too, all right, Canadian Cores, Light Core’s original Zinga Lager, which is from Thailand, Soul Pacifico dosekis Heineken, Modelo Especiale Love Modello, Madela Negra really Love Madela Negra, Whistler Forager Lager. It’s Accatte Tall Can, Strongbow, Tall Can, Guinness Tall Can, and it’s Taco Tuesday Man four dollars. Tacos. You have to get two of the same flavor excluding steak.
Might have to go back tomorrow two. It’s Wing Wednesday, have Brice Wing six dollars. Hmm. I like this place. Vancouver’s awesome, by the way, like really really awesome.
What’s the name of the park, Stanley Point? So Stanley Park is I don’t know where it is, it said in my mind it’s the edge of town. Anyway. Across from Stanley Park was a bike shop I rented bikes. I wanted to move to Vancouver and buy the bike shop.
I’m like, I’ll be perfectly happy here just standing here the bike’s, looking at the park, looking at the water. Vancouver’s beautiful city. Rent some tourists and bikes. Oh would be so good. Then I could hang out castaways at night.
If you want to hear me talking about Vancouver. There’s an episode of my travel podcast, Travel is Back is the name of that podcast, Travel is Back, And there’s a whole episode about Vancouver. Vancouver is awesome. All right. Back to the Festival.
Where were we before I started daydreaming? Oh yes, Full Bind Comedy at nine o’clock, Normal Good at nine. What’s that Vancouver’s hottest new stand up show? This one has five comics on it. Joe Parra again at nine thirty and New Wave of stand Up warm Up at nine thirty.
All right, this is pretty simple to me. Let’s do Joe Parra at seven, and let’s go to Full Pine Comedy at nine, and I’m keeping you out until the place closes. All right, it’s gonna be fun. I’m glad we stayed in last night. And it’s Tuesday, which means you’ll find Jeff Foxworthy at the Atlanta or Rescue Mission.
I did not know this about Jeff, and I know Jeff a little bit. We’re not best friends, but I know Jeff. This from Baptistnews dot Com. Jeff Foxworthy has served as a small group leader at the Atlanta Rescue Mission for twelve years. He goes every Tuesday morning.
Jeff said, I think the only thing we could do for God is to say yes when he whispers an invitation to us. That’s all we can do. Whatever he wants to get done. He’s going to get done anyway. Wow, he’s inviting you along because he knows it’s going to be good for you.
In ninety percent of the cases, something really bad happened to the people at the mission. So whatever their addiction is that makes them where they can’t get work, that’s not what it is. It’s the symptom, but it’s the hurt they can’t deal with. So you know, if you ever get to the point you can get then all go down to the basement, unlock that door and drag the heart up the stairs and pull it out of the front yard and call it what it is, whether it’s sexual abuse or physical abuse or whatever it is. Then they have a chance to get well.
And anybody on the street is no different than you or me. We all want the same thing. We all want to be significant, and we all want to be loved. Nice job, Jeff, And I’ll leave you with an anecdote from Jeff from the same story. Totally new topic, but he said, we started a tradition thirty five years ago about taking our mom and going to Christmas brunch.
Of course, back then it was just me, my brother and my sister and my wife and my mom.
And now because of everybody growing up and getting married, having kids.
It’s gotten very expensive for me on Christmas Eve. That’s your comedy news for today. I wish we were actually in Vancouver. We could have a really nice night. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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