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I gotta tell you, I’m absolutely stunned at this first story, and the second story is a little wacky. The first story in Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The company that operates the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal that I was looking forward to attending I didn’t get to go last year has canceled this year’s addition. I was sitting at the lunch table eating my salad when I saw this come in and I was like, wow, like absolutely stunned by this. The parent company says they are seeking protection from its creditors as they begin formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
In a statement, they said JPR that’s the French version of Just for Laughs. Board of directors, after having extensively considered all available alternatives, came to the conclusion that the financial situation of the organization left no other choice than to initiate formal restructuring proceedings. The companies laid off seventy percent of its workforce about seventy five people, and has canceled seven shows that were previously scheduled. The company hopes that the financial restructuring will allow the festival to return in twenty twenty five. I mean, I am just stunned by this.
It’s a fantastic festival that takes over the heart of Montreal. There’s always a ton of comedians up there. It’s a great event. Wow, I don’t even say about this, really really stunning. That took the place of what would have been the big news story for me.
Nick Schwartson, best known for his appearances in Reno nine one one and Adam Sandler Movies, was escorted off stage twenty minutes into a set in Colorado over the weekend due to quote bizarre belligerent behavior. User Sean Guy shared a clip on social Let’s listen, what are you saying right now? I’ll save us. Let me just let me ask you this. It’s a weighted question.
What okay, I’ll tell you Joy all right, here we go. So one of my favorite days. I don’t have kids. I don’t have jads. Anybody here have kids?
Anybody here have jets? What the off? So one of my best friends was a guy named nor McDonald. Do you know who he is? He’s one of my favorite people.
So that clip abruptly cuts off a witnesses say that at that point the spotlights were turned off and the microphone was cut, so maybe that’s why it cuts off there. Witnesses told TMZ that while some attendees were uncomfortable with Schwartzen’s behavior, others cheered him on. In another clip, Nick Swartson can be seen rambling and struggling through an impersonation of Jason Statham as the crowd erupted in booze. A woman can be heard saying, I can’t take it. I can’t take it, I can’t take it, witness to say.
Before Nick was let off stage, he gave a brief wave and flashed a Shaka sign. After Schwartzen left the stage, the direction of operations came out and apologize to the crowd, telling the show had been officially cut short and refunds would be issued to those who bought tickets. Apparently, there’s also an email that reads, we apologize for the negative experience you may have had it this evening’s performance with Nick swartz Cent. Unfortunately, this show did not meet the Performing Arts Center standards as a world class presenter of the performing arts. Therefore, all tickets will be refunded, et cetera.
Et cetera. Please accept our sincere apologies and be in touch if there’s anything you will get you to further assist you. As Swartzon is doing that impression, he repeatedly said, here we go. As audience members bowed and heckled him. He said, do you want me to finish this or no?
And people are heard shouting back no. Schwartzen took to Twitter and said, just casually woke up on TMZ travel tip don’t drink and take edibles in high altitude brain diarrhea. I’ll make it up to Beaver Creek to me, the lesson no good comes from peering. In Adam Saylor movies, Trevor Noah as etis elbaw on his podcast and they traded impressions. The setup here is Trevor noahans how he uses Nelson Mandela to get to his Obama impression.
I’ve heard Dana Carvey explain impressions in the same way, and I know for my half ass impressions, specifically Jim Brewer, the only way I could start Jim is by going all right, That’s the only way I can get into it. I have to do that all right before I do anything in Jim’s voice or the half assed Jim voice. Anyway, you don’t want to hear me do half assed impressions. Let’s listen to Trevor Noah and Idris Elba trade Nelson Mandela impressions. My Nelson Mandela to get to my Barack Obama.
Okay, because I find they have the same. My conspiracy theory is that Mandela taught Obama how to do it because they the same. Yeah, because they got the same thing. Because, like you know, because Mandela has the hyper left, all South Africans, all my fact for this country. He’s got that thing right.
And then Barack, if you take it, it’s a natural it’s the natural progression of that right, hiper left where can come pro cover? And as Americans, we gotta try to h you know, it’s a strong voice, it has a lot of but when whenever I lose, I have to go back to Mandela because as Americans, as Americans, we gotta find our way. We believe in ourselves. It’s the same. I’m fighting every impulse to challenge you to a Baraque and a Mandela right now.
Why don’t we do it? No? Because because what what’s gonna happen? Because you’re just gonna murder me. I don’t believe that that’s true.
I don’t believe that that’s true. Do you do you? I’ll even like a harmony. Why you’re doing Mandela? There’s got to be a very see killing it.
This guy just pulled it out. But what it’s baroque, there’s gotta be No, that’s terrible. No, but you’re barck. You know why? Because I took it up.
Yeah, no, chesty, chesty Barock is also he’s also throw But that was flawless. I was almost doing like Mandela. Like you hear him on the radio. Why you’re heading up broadcast? Johnny Mack likes when comedians mix up a little.
On Monday Night, Andrew Schultz shared a clip on Twitter from a recent stand up comedy show he was performing in Philadelphia. In the clip, Schultz says, I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think Meek Mill is gay, but he is incredibly bad about proving he’s straight. He’s maybe the worst in history of doing that. If someone accuses you of being gay, you don’t go on Twitter and say I love women, cleaning it up, quite cleaning it up. I love women.
He uses words like Juicy needs your imagination. Schultz caption the post Meek Mill is not gay, but Philly, I love you. Thank you for always holding me down, just like Meek would hold down puff joking, joking, Meek, I love you, brother. Meek heard about the post and responded the first time I left at being gay. That had several crying laughing emojis, and then he tagged it with but don’t whit me in real life, I may swing lol.
Mike Birbiglia will have a documentary at Peacock. It’s called Good One, a show about jokes. At premiere is March twenty six. There’s a trailer. I was blown away.
I’m not blown away. He’s a little strong. I I liked the trailer. I wasn’t blown away by. It wasn’t Star Wars.
It’s a nice trailer. It made me laugh, is what I’m trying to say. Shut up, John and play the trailer. Good evening, and welcome to the Strange Attic, where Mike Verbiglia sometimes performs shows. For some reason, I love jokes and I love storytelling.
He loves stories the process. He takes that idea of what a special means literally, you’re probably thinking, how come we just get the first draft? I think Providence is the first draft town. This isn’t a fully realized show. All I’m doing right now is just throwing out jokes and seeing what’s dicks?
What’s the next show about? And it’s like, I don’t know. The last show is all about death, So now I’m trying to figure out, like what’s more high stakes than death. I’m happily married, which is to say I’m not happy, but I’m happy I’m married. Does that make sense?
You don’t want it to be pretty good, you want it to be great. The only way you make it great is writing. You need more of there. I’m failing. I got that line failing again.
That ending works well on the other show. Eventually you’ll arrive at something that is yours. The special follows Mike Berriglia through his process as he travels from Providence to Washington, d C. While developing new comedy material. March twenty six, looking forward to that, Jamie Fox has confirmed he is going to do a comedy special.
He says, everyone wants to know what happened. Remember he had the mystery illness, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I got to do it my own way, going to get up on somebody stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes and a story to tell. Jamie talked about his recovery from a mystery illness and said, I’m so thankful and I get emotional because it’s beyond the scope by some people in my life that really made sure I was here, because it was dire straits.
I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking, doing a movie television show. I didn’t want you to see me with the tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through By being quiet, Sometimes things get out of hand. People say what I got. Some people say it was blind, but if she could see the eyes at working just fine, said I was paralyzed. I’m not paralyzed.
I went to Helen back. My roads recovery had some potholes as well, but I’m coming back and I’m able to work. GQ profiled Hannah Gatsby. Here’s the headline. Netflix has made transphobia profitable in comedy.
GQ writes, when Hannah stays at an Airbnb, they like to check out their host Netflix algorithm looking at a stranger’s stand up recommendations, Gatsby says, is illuminating. They tell GQ, if I were to understand Netflix purely from my own algorithm, I would say they’re even handed, if not a little skewed towards the queer audience. But that’s not the reality. Gatsby jokes about their new special, this is the carbon offset show. You don’t raise the Amazon and plant a tree.
One of the comedians on the show is Chloe Pets. Chloe rolls her eyes at the way all the edgy comedians have got their trans routine. She thinks that’s what Hannah is responding to, not just Dave Chappelle, but comedians inspired by his success. Why are you pugging your nose into a discourse that has nothing to do with you, Hanna says. Matt Raife released a special opening with a domestic violence joke.
He’s not inventing anything. He’s not smart enough for that. He’s reading the algorithm room, and I’m just not interested in that. I think it’s boring. Gatsby knows that there won’t be a follow up to this if Netflix doesn’t get the numbers it wants.
It has the power to elevate this. Whether or not it chooses to is up to Netflix. Hannah Gatsby’s gender Agenda is out on Netflix now. The New York Times had an article h articles kind of. I don’t like the headline.
Here’s the headline, verbatim, disgraced but embraced pop culture pariahs are making big comebacks. Subheadline. Shane Gillis hosted SNL, the show that rebuffed him Yay, topped the billboard short after making anti Semitic remarks as the mainstream given up on banishing bad actors. So here’s what’s bothering me. Pop culture pariah and Shane Gillis.
Really First of all, the guy just hosted SNL. I didn’t see too much controversy. There was a little before, there wasn’t too much after. Pariah is a little strong. The guy got signed by SNL and like, I don’t know what it was, forty eight hours later he was off SNL.
It’s not exactly Ojay, you know what I’m saying. I think pop culture para and Shane Gillis in the same headline and sub headline. It’s a little loaded. I thought this was interesting Donnie’s old and who I worked with for a few years, says some exciting news. After thirty six years in the same location, seventy eighth and Broadway, Stand Up New York Good Club, We’ll be moving to Times Square.
There’s so much history and stories to tell from our time on the Upper West Side. I can’t even begin to start. For now. We look forward to our grand opening March fourteenth, and can’t wait to begin the next chapter in our journey bringing the best stand up comedy New York has to offer. Our new flagship location is in partnership with Bond forty five will also be powering the food menu.
I just find that interesting, especially with Carolines being gone. Seventy eighth and Broadway is a little out of the way, that’s it. A lot of big comics would drop in there because it was off the radar. People like Jerry and Amy would pop in and just do sets on the DL. You know, there are other places in the city you can do that, and I guess you could still do it at Stand Up New York, but if you do it in Times Square, it’s a little bit more than just kind of sneaking into a comedy club.
On a side street in the Upper West Side. Interesting, but Donnie’s a good guy. Wish him nothing but success. I keep forgetting. I wanted to salute a young woman.
I was at the Morristown on Stage talent show last week and a young lady named Naomi Williams got up and everybody else on the night, I think every single other act involved music. Naomi got up and did stand up comedy and she was good. She made me laugh. And I’ve talked about my psychotic Emperor of Rome thing where I don’t laugh, and I just go, oh, that was good. That was good.
She made me laugh. So Naomi Williams, great job. On Gossip Corner, David Kagner was vaping marijuana on the station Maryland, says DMZ. Apparently there was a fan in the audience who was puffing on a weed pen Dave noticed. Dave looked out into the crowd, said who’s smoking?
Is that weed? The man responded yes, David said, give here. The dude walked up to the stage as TMV and handed the vape to Dave, who started bantering with his fans as they egged him on to take a few tokes. Dave finally cave took two huge drags blowing out the smoke. TMZ and their legal department and Johnny Mack and his legal departments say, quote, of course, we can’t tell from the video it was really marijuana, but everyone in the crowd seemed convinced.
Unquote clad thing. We cleared that up. TMZ says, we’re told everyone had a damn good time. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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