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Caloroga Shark Media. Ay. Quick joke from Jimmy Fown, who said, the good news for Nicky Haley She’s only fifty two, which means she can run for president at least eight more times. I am Johnny Meck with your Daily Comedy News. Ted Sarando’s he’s the Netflix CEO.
He was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s Fly on the Wall podcast and he talked a little bit about Dave Chappelle. David Spade told Ted, when you come out and say I do back a comedian saying what they want, it doesn’t mean you agree with it, just means let people talk. I think that’s commendable, Especially we’re comics. We like that. Ted compared Netflix to a bookstore, saying you can open any book you want or not.
People like to think about all kinds of diversity except for diversity of thought, and comedy is one of those places where you should have a pretty open playground to figure out ideas. Ideas have to live through conversation. I think comedy is a great place to start the conversation. Spade said. Some people don’t agree, some people do, and it’s under the guys of a joke.
Ted said, keep in mind we try to do a lot of variety because Netflix itself people like some shows and not others. That’s why we have so much to watch on Netflix, because tastes are really diverse, and certainly within comedy. The point I was trying to make when people got angry was the idea, if you don’t like that idea, switch it and find another one. True. I’m gonna just point out my Netflix algorithm did not surface the Hannah Gatsby special, and in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, Aaron posted, I had to actively search for this too, and I’m trans and a freaking comedian, so I don’t know what the algorithm’s doing.
Sarando says his position on Chappelle Gate comes from being a fan of comedy. I came to this completely as a fan. I love creative people. I love what you do for the world, and for me, it’s what makes me bounce out of bed in the morning because I feel like I’m doing something that matters to people. Really.
Alarm goes off at seven fifteen, You’re like, oh man, I got it. Brings people some comedy specially you just hop out of bed uh huh spades. He doesn’t always agree with comics to go too far, but he admires them for coloring outside the line, saying there trying stuff. It’s not the same six jokes that everyone’s allowed to use. Sirando says comedy is an art form.
There’s a lot of different shapes, and if you do shock comedy, the hard thing is getting the audience back. So it’s a different kind of art because it’s not just a cheap laugh. You actually have to ring the audience back in too. You have to be a master of a lot of things. Sarando’s revealed that he got Chappelle to sign the Netflix deal on the same night Dave hosted SNL a few days after Trump won the presidency.
He said, we’d been talking to him for well over a year, and he said at that show, my contract is signed and sitting on the seat. So he just signed it, said it on the seat, and went out and hosted the show. The Wall Street Journal has a really good profile of Kevin Hart. Two parts here. The second part about his entrepreneurship, but the first part he commented on Kat Williams.
You may recall Kat Williams had some comments about basically everybody in comedy. The journal throughout the word at feud, and Kevin said, it’s just entertainment. If that’s what he feels himself off, God bless him. Good for him hard edit. I hope he gets all that he needs and he wants, and I’m cheering him from afar.
The profile is what a former coworker of mine used to say. Is the Wall Street Journal waxed Kevin Hart’s car if you know what I mean? And they’re say thirty am Kevin’s home in la He had gotten up at five for workout, three hours after his plane landed from a performance in Connecticut the night before. He hugs his three year old Next up a ten thirty meeting with Heartbeat employees about the company’s twenty twenty four agenda. Jerry Seinfeld is quoted saying Kevin’s ability to maneuver in other fields as an anomaly.
Quoting Jerry, most comedians cannot function outside of comedy. If someone said the word ideation of me, I would just walk out of the room. Kevin said, I do know what I’ve done for the craft of comedy. By that, I mean I’ve changed the business of stand up comedy. Whether you’re a fan or not, you have to respect what I’ve done point blank, because you don’t do it by accident, and you don’t stay here by accident.
That is true. The article is pretty much thing from a comedy standpoint. Talking about the genesis of the latest special last October, the president of Live Nation got a text from Kevin. Kevin said, I got a new thirty minutes. That chunk of material started with drop in performances at small clubs, including the Comedy Seller in New York.
Then in Providence, Kevin performed for an audience of about three thousand people. A staffer who’s a videographer filmed the set, and, as The Wall Street Journal tells us, as the comedian breedes through seemingly polished jokes and Providence, he was also stress testing them. When big laughs erupted, he sometimes gazed to his left and grinned. Hidden off stage, watching from the wings were two members of his team who were in Heart’s creative brain trust. Kevin said, that little piece of eye contact from the stage is how they know.
Let’s jot that bullet point down. Very interesting there. John Mlaney’s ex wife, Anna Marie Tendler, has a book coming out. It’s called Men have called her crazy. On her Instagram, she said, I’ve been writing this book for two years.
More accurately, though, I’ve been writing it for close to four decades. I’ve never been more proud of any work. It’s a story about mental health, about being a woman, about family, and finally about the endless source of my heart break and rage. Men. One of those men, one assumes this is John Mulaney, so this could get pretty interesting.
The book will be out in August. Drod Carmichael is going to star in a comedy docu series for HBO. It’s called Drod Carmichael Reality Show. And the trailer he’s talking to a man in a black ski mask, which I thought was weird. I honestly didn’t make it all the way through the trailer.
I just got bored and didn’t care. But people on the interwebs say, given the body language of the person in the black ski mask, they believe the person is Carmichael’s frequent collaborator Bo burnham Bert Kreischer announced a whole bunch of dates for the twenty twenty four Fully Loaded Tour. Not all these comedians. I’m about to name her on every show, but featured on the website. Bert Kreischer, of course, David Spade, Mark Norman, Tony Hinchcliff, Whennie Cummings, Stavros Halkias, David Tel, Ralph Barbosa, Big, Jay Ogreson, Dan Soder, Matt McCusker.
That’s a really good list of comedians, you know, if you’re not going to get them all, but any combination of those, that’s a really good show. Sef and Maz GREBROWNI have been added to the inaugural Abu Dhabi Comedy Week in May. Other people performing at that comedy Week the not so canceled Disease, I’m sorry, Tom Si, Goora, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, and boy this is shocking, super controversial comedian Joe coy You may recall Joe coy Or recently made this horrible, terrible joke about Taylor Swift. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.
I swear all right. A couple of notes from putting together the show today, I am seeing a story involving a comedian who I frequently mentioned on this podcast. It involves the comedian, Hollywood executives and favors, you know, the Harvey Weinstein kind of favors. I don’t want to go there. I haven’t seen it from anything reputable, and people are saying the maybe perhaps the person telling the story made it up.
Just want to let you know I see it, and if it’s real, I will actually talk about it. As I was prepping as well, I saw a slug with a comedian. I don’t want to throw this comedian out under the bus because I like the person, but comedian name the story was. It had the person’s name, so it said, you know, Joe Smith, famous comedian coming to wherever. And I was like, you’re a good guy whatever, but famous comedian.
I don’t know about that. If I told you the name, you wouldn’t know the name. But at one point, at serious exam, we gave this person a pilot and it was pretty good. But then the next day my coworkers and I got like so many incoming inbound, like oh my god, that was the most amazing thing. You got to sign this up.
Like I don’t mean like three or four, I mean like hundreds. It was just like a completely unnatural reaction of just everybody in the world going, oh my god, this is the greatest thing ever. You got to give this person a show and we just walked away from it. Was like, come on, there’s no way that’s real. Stop doing this a long time, folks, I know how to recognize normal patterns.
At south By Southwest tonight at seven o’clock, it is the stand up Comedy Kickoff, which the south By Southwest website list has stand up Comedy Kickoff parentheses stand up comedy. Thank you for clarifying that the description comedians take the stage for the first stand up show of the twenty twenty four Comedy Fest. And I love this disclaimer that the lawyers most have said to put. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. Yeah, you don’t want to controversial take like comedians take the stage to be You don’t want to say that that’s gospel.
What if that doesn’t happen, What if it’s not a stage, what if they’re not comedians. We could get in a lot of legal trouble here. Anyway, I better protect myself. According to the Internet. Some of the performers who could theoretically show up include Doug Benson, napoleonny Emil, John Riddinsky.
Remember he was on SNL for like five seconds. He was a Montreal new face that I really liked a lot. But yeah, he was in like three sketches on SNL, Yamanika Sauners and Rich Voss at seven point fifteen. It’s the variety power of comedy. You know, this is another wax job, another car being wax job.
This year’s Honoreezer samb Robbie pra that’s the guy from Netflix Comedy. He’s getting the Comedy Champion Award, Nick Kroll and Andrew Reynolds getting the Comedy Duo Award. Sambi, I forgot to mention is the comedy innovator, Yeah, John, like Wuizamo’s the comedy actor. Yeah. Hannah Einbender Comedy Actress Award, Okay Fine Pamela Adlon Comedy Director Award, Lily Singh Comedy Crossover Award, Chibuki Young White Is Comedy, Kanna Swer Award, and Kazzie David is your Breakthrough artist again.
Programming descriptions are generated by participants, don’t necessarily reflect the opinions of south buying stop. I’m excited about this one. Eight o’clock the unfinished Orson Wells roast of Hollywood type comedy event. Thank you website. This website’s a lot of fun.
The programming description, again generated by participants and does not necessarily affect the opinions of south By cinema legend. Norson Wells disinvites the celebrity friends, past, and enemy’s future for a survey of the state of film screen in motion pictures as he looks at this year’s Oscar luminaries and considers the general pantheon celebrity of south By. Whatever it is you mean by that parentheses with James Adomian and friends. Your cast includes James Adomian and Matt Besster. That sounds like tons of fun.
Nine o’clock good sets parentheses stand up comedy if you’re a nice picture of a crowd that looks like it was generated by Ai laughing at the comedians. The description, which it doesn’t necessarily represent the opinions of south By is who doesn’t like good sets? See what they did there. Some of the strongest emerging and established comics at the fest take the stage for an unmissible line up Chris Fleming, Stuart Goldsmith, Luisa o’mealan, Zulce, Sloane and Nick. And that’s an interesting mix.
Ten o’clock Real funny Creating comedy from the director’s Chair. Barentthesees Comedy event. Frank Oz, Judd Appatow, Robert Smigel, and Lucia Aniello come together to swap stories and insides about the craft of directing comedy. Okay, that’s a fun night out at South by Joe mchil says that he dislocated Chevy Chase’s shoulder while filming Community. He was on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast.
By the way, Michael Rosenbaum my former intern. I’m going back to like nineteen ninety three, and Mike the Intern kept telling us he was gonna go to Hollywood and be a star, and we were like, shut up and make copies. We weren’t like Shadow. He was a good guy, like Mike a lot. Anyway, you know, a couple of years later, I’m watching Smallville and there he is.
He’s Lex Luthor. So Mike the Intern, he was right, Thank you for getting me coffee. Anyway, Michael has a podcast called Inside of You. The guest Joel McHale, and he says that he and Chevy Fist fought multiple times filming community. It was pushing and shoving.
Yeah, it was advanced horseplay. It was fun. It would get a little contentious. I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder, according to Joel, while they were filming a boxing scene, when Chevy encouraged him to hit harder.
As Joel tells the story, he wanted me to punch him as hard as I could. It punched him in the hand with the left and then he went down.
Speaking of fighting of sorts, Jamine Feller is going to co write, executive …
He’s got a script com inment for Fox. The description of untitled single camera comedy is after a self inflicted fall from Grace, a former jiu jitsu champion played by Jamine Feller, his only shot at redemption is to check his ego at the door and start from scratch at a low rent strip mall dojo. Feller started training in jiu jitsu during COVID. He said, when the pandemic hit, I had nothing to do. I was bored.
I always wanted to try martial arts. It’s a beautiful sport. It’s gruesome, but it’s so beautiful. He was a white belt. He won one fight out of four.
That’s your comedy news for today. If you liked the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. Tomorrow I’m going to do an Oscar preview, a lot of talk about Jimmy Kimmel, some funny Joe Coy material. At least I made myself laugh, and then Sunday will be a normal episode.
I just want to do the Oscar preview on Saturday to give it a half a chance with two days of sea as opposed to like ten hours. See tomorrow,