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The Shark Deck. A question for Dave Chappelle, Dave, do you really want to be known as the trans joke guy? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was on Vulture and they were recapping this year’s Roots Picnic, and they wrote, this year’s Roots Picnic looks like a convention for some of the most problematic, loudest people in hip hop. It starts right up top with Dave Chappelle, who will perform.
Was marketed as a seismic, first ever comedy set of this magnitude back by the Roots. All right, that sounds pretty cool, and then they tag it with wonder how many anti trans jokes they’ll let him make? And Dave, Yeah, Like every article about you isn’t about what a great comedian you are, how you try to make the world a better place. It’s all about how you’re dug in on trans jokes. Why not move on, Dave, just joke about something else.
I’ve talked about this recently when I was back at Series six Ham and around the comedy channels. There’s a difference between censorship and choose differently, and I think this is what David Cross was getting at yesterday. When I tell a story about David Cross, just choose differently in your next special. You don’t need to dig in and do fifteen minutes about trans people just to prove that you won’t be quieted. Just Dave, your whole legacy is going to become this move on Buddy.
The Roots Picnic takes place June a second to the fourth in Philadelphia. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times. So sometimes I think about this podcast, and all right, why do I host it as opposed to someone else. I’m not a comedian, you know why you Johnny Mac and I always explain I know more about stand up comedy than ninety eight or ninety percent of the population. I don’t mean that to be like, oh look at me, I’m cool.
It’s just I’ve been working in comedy radio for twenty years now, and over time you learn stuff. But the people that know more about it than I do, and I’ll include Jason all on that list, no way more than I do about it, and they pay way more attention to it than I do. Jason’s one of those guys, So he wrote, Richard Belzer didn’t get famous as quickly as many of his peers, but he was a cult figure with wide influenced comedy. You can hear his clift cadences, not to mention his use of the word babe as a nickname in the act of Dennis Miller, who once referred to Belzer as the dark Prince of Catcherizing star. Andy Kaufman’s alter ego, Tony Clifton, was also partly inspired by Belzer.
Noticed the Glasses, adds Jason, I never knew that I’m gonna go on a tangent here. When I saw the Tony Clifton mentioned, it reminded me of spending some time with Bob’s Muda. Bob was Andy Kaufman’s writing partner, and there are some who think that perhaps sometimes Tony Clifton was played by Bob’s Muda. Bob will never quite admit that, and we’ll refer to Tony in the third person as if there’s an actual Tony Clifton out there somewhere who was never ever played by Bob’s Muda. Really, anyway, I hung out with Bob one day and he was telling wonderful stories, including one which will totally blow up the premise that I just shared with you, So I won’t tell that story today, but I remember Tony Clifton was supposed to come up and visit the studios at SIRI Sexham, and the security in that building is just like ridiculous.
It’s one of those places where you could be best friends with the security guarden. God forbid, you forgot your idea in a particular day. You had to go and sign in and fill out a form and it’s a big headache instead of like, oh, hi, John, who I talked to every single day. Anyway, Tony Clifton showed up, and Tony Clifton did not have any ID suggesting that he was Tony Clifton. It’s possible Tony might have had some ID suggesting he was Bob’s muda.
Who knows, but they wouldn’t let Tony up, and Tony and that Tony Clifton way went over the top, making a ruckuss down at security. I had to come down. I think Tony eventually stormed off in character and never came up.
Also that week, you know, we had Bob’s mood up to record a bunch of things ab…
I forget if I’ve shared this one on the podcast. If I did, it was a long time ago when there were a lot fewer listeners. Anyway, we were talking about doing something for an Andy Kaufman theme special, and I met his brother, Michael Kaufman for lunch. Now, the first thing that hap and was Michael was late, and as I was standing there, I was like, Hm, is the guy just late or is this some sort of kaufmanesque bit. Then Michael Kaufman shows up, and Michael looks enough like Andy Kaufman might if it were the twenty Tents.
And the whole time I’m sitting there eating with this guy who’s perfectly nice and wonderful and we did business together and love him. I’m looking and I’m like, huh, I wonder if this is Andy Kaufman sitting here with me, And I just went down this whole rabbit hole of paranoia. Probably wasn’t, but there was enough doubt in my mind to make me go hmm. Anyway. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times.
Jason wrote, even as an mc Belzer was his own star traction. He became famous for taking in incredibly long time to introduce a comic and an interview for a documentary that as he had to be released. Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty five minutes to bring up the next comic. That’s amazing. More than any joke.
What stands out from a deep dive in a Belzer’s online comedy was an attitude impatient, sarcastic, friendly but quick to jab. There was a percussive sounds who was running with torts of the crowd. Yeah right sure, These moving along interruptions had a rhythm and sound that was quintessentially New York. When he dove into a familiar premise, his voice could move from dry to rye in a blank mocking himself. It’s no wonder that David Letterman, another ironist whose attitude perpetually commented on and upstage his own jokes, booked him so often.
Today crowd work is much easier to see in specials but also all over social media. But in the nineteen eighties, unless you went to a club, you didn’t often find people turning where are you from into spontaneous comedy, So it’s striking then, in his nineteen eighty six HBO special. Belzer included plenty of such interactions. He said to one guy from New Jersey, there’s a lot of parts in New Jersey that are very nice. I can’t think of any right now.
Attention getting headline from the sf Gate. Former SNL comic David Spade battle’s illness at San Francisco show. Apparently Spade was under the weather Friday in San Francisco. He told the audience every joke gets a ten percent better reaction because I’m on my deathbed. The Gate rights Spade’s voice was so shockingly hoarse that the audience to give him a pass on multiple jokes that didn’t quite land Wow.
Spade battled through his illness thanks to quote some Pink Floyd stuff they’ve been jamming into me. But the Gate says, the obvious effort it took him to deliver each joke didn’t exactly make for the best comedic atmosphere. Throughout his hour long set, Spades stuck mostly to classic comedy topics like the trials of air travel and the annoyance of shopping at CVS. Unlike many comedians these days, Spade did not make the audience lock up their phones before the start of the show, God bless you, David Spade. I have had it with the Yonder pouches.
I’ll talk about that in a few minutes enough. But they added maybe Spade was aware his material wasn’t worth stealing. Wow. He did a number of California specific bits. He mocked meteorologists who insists that recent rains won’t help with California’s drought, and made an incredibly forced joke about running into rapper Nelly while evacuating from wildfires.
The inevitable punchline it’s getting hot in here, got a smattering of applause. That is a pretty ackey joke, and after a quip about how we can’t say the words husband or wife flopped, Spade appeared to admit defeat, telling the audience all right, I won’t use that joke moving forward. Despite lacking particularly original content, the set was peppered with one liners that sometimes made the show greater than the sum of its parts. For example, I don’t even know how to drive without texting anymore. That one seemed to make the crowd chuckle in spite of itself.
Philadelphia Weekly, they have a really strong comedy section. They caught up with Todd Glass. He was talking about how good comedians support other good comedians, and Class said, it’s the same now as it’s always been. If you want support from fellow comics, you have to give it. During the pandemic, Todd Glass did some work on zoom and wishes he had actually taken part in some of the drive in stand up shows.
He said, the zoom thing you begin to tell or your work to the art form itself. I have a comic friend who would smoke a little pot, get high, do three minutes and just tweet that out. The pandemic was about adaptability. I try to tell comedians this. Like six months into the quarantine, I was doing my podcast with my stand up sensibilities.
He read, the room without compromising our craft and move forward. Do what you think is funny. You don’t need an audience in front of you to know you’re funny. A punching agg is better than nothing when it comes to staying loose and keeping the skill set up. And it’s not like I’m grading myself above the curve with an A plus.
The process was Cathartic from Cairo, a show by comedian Kevin Hart that was supposed to happen on Tuesday, was canceled due to quotes local logistical issues, according to the organizers, They posted on Facebook, it’s with a heavy heart that we share with you due to local logistical issues, the cancelation of our Kevin Hart event scheduled for February twenty first in Cairo. Now the Middle East I jumped in on this. I’m going to stop here before I tell you the story. I’m really, really, really under educated on this subject. If you have more knowledge about it, please chime in on the social media.
The links are in the episode description as the Middle East I analyzes the story, they say, Kevin Hart faced a flood of criticism in the Arab world’s most populous country for promoting afrocentricism. The movement seeks to promote the role of black people played in history and the creation of Western civilization. Hearts. Critics, however, accused him of distorting history and robbing Arabs of their claim to the country’s ancient pass, saying he claimed that black Africans were once the kings of Egypt. This article has a quote that even the article isn’t sure where it originated, So I’m not going to repeat it because maybe Kevin Hart never said this.
The Middle East, I says many Egyptians criticized Heart’s financial backing of an afrocentric animation series by the company Black Sands Entertainment, which some have accused of blackwashing ancient Egyptian history. So why was the show canceled? I don’t know local logistical issues. Interesting note from the Time Record News. City of Wichita Falls officials said extra security precautions will be taken for a performance by Nate Brigatsy tonight at the Memorial Auditorium.
I was like, what’s going on there. Nate doesn’t seem like the most controversial comedian in the world. I don’t know if it’s just a general security thing or if there’s a reason, but this was in the Google search as I put the show together today. Anyway, it seems pretty basic. All patrons will go through a screening check with a security wand prohibited items include weapons.
All right, I think that’s reasonable. Backpacks, I get it, but it’s annoying. Like sometimes when I travel for work, I have a backpack with a laptop with me, and if I want to go to say a Mets game, and they’re like, no backpacks, then I’m like, no Mets game, audio and video recording devices. Glass cans. What’s a glass can?
Plastic bottles. There’s no comma there. It’s glass cans, plastic bottles, food or beverages. Explosives, Yeah, no explosives at Nate Bergassi’s show. Probably a good rule.
Laser pins, signs, posters, and banners. Joe Rogan is at the Creek in the Cave tonight in Austin. They wrote Joe Rogan his back babies one night only, and I was looking at their venue policy and Joe, I’m done with the Yonder pouches. Just let people come to the shows. Man, it’s twenty twenty three.
I have a cell phone. What am I gonna do? I’m gonna stand there and hold my arm up for an entire hour and put a low quality version of your workout set at the Creek in the Cave up on YouTube. Even if I do so, what, You’re still getting one hundred million dollars from Spotify. Man.
Doors open one hour before showtime. General admission seating is first come, first served, derive early to cure a great seat, blah blah blah. This is a strict no cell phones allowed show. Anyone who brings a cell phone, smartwatch, or any other recording device will be required to place it in a locked Yonder pouch. Anyone call with a cell phone inside the venue will be immediately ejected.
Line up subject to change. If you hate Yonder pouches, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s stick it to the man and buy Johnny mcacoffee five bucks. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and leave me a note saying I Hey, Yonder pouches, Let’s use that Vancouver tonight. If you’re new, this is the just for last Vancouver Comedy Festival.
And what I like to do is pretend you and I are there, and I look at the lineup, and I make some recommendations as to what you and I would go see if we were there. Seven o’clock Nick Thune seven o’clock Sarah Silverman seven o’clock Jared Free Low Key Comedy at seven. Low Key Comedy Show is LA is premier comedy show created by comedians Paul Elia and Matt Rife. Do You Unique Off the Cuff? Format and secret special guests have attracted sold out crowds all over North America.
Past surprise guests include Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Eliza Selessenger. Yeah maybe when you’re in LA. None of them are showing up in Vancouver tonight. So if you’re going there and you’re like, I don’t know, I could see Eliza Selessenger just popping in. Not gonna happen in Vancouver, guys.
Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy Our Show is a woman run lively weekly event at an intimate seaside oasis featuring authentic Caribbean food and drink. So yeah, I talked about this in the past. All Right, eight o’clock Essay Atsawo’s Comedy Hour. Improvisers and stand up comedians are given a specific amount of time to perform whatever they want on stage with inspiration from the audience. Looks like about ten twelve comedians on that one, all right.
Eight thirty Campy Comedy CEAMPI a monthly comedy and drag cabaret show that features the best emerging and professional performers in Vancouver. Bossom Usef at nine thirty, Matt Rife at nine thirty, Step Toleev Canadian Dorling at nine thirty. All Right, Hm, let’s do Nick Fune at seven o’clock. I don’t feel like seeing Sarah Silverman. That’ll take us to about eight thirty late shows, bossom Usef, Matt Rife, Steff Tolev Howe of those, I’d probably want to see bossom Usef and that doesn’t start till nine thirty.
All right, let’s do Nick Fune. Grab a couple of beers and go see bosom Usef. How’s that sound? And from all kpop dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Comedian Leek Young Shill has been reported to police after making lude comments about Lee Jay Hun on the radio.
Yes, Lee Young Schill was on SBS Power FM’s radio program Cults Quo Show. She commented on a shirtless scene and Lee Jay Hun’s new drama Taxi Driver Too. I wonder if that’s a sequence to the Pacino film. Probably isn’t, but it’s fun to think it is, said fifty years after the original Taxi Driver two follows around a guy driving a cab in Seoul in twenty twenty three. I don’t know why we would make that movie anyway, Lee Kong Schill said, you see that space and his chess cleavage if you drip water down there and drink from it.
It’s like medicine becomes sacred water. The host then jokingly asked her if she was going to drip water on her TV screen and try to do it herself, woll whoa relax over there. That comment quickly became a hot topic across Korean media outlets for its sexual nature, and on February nineteenth, a Yun Say University student reported the comedian to the police, citing the obscene acts by using means of communication under the punishment of sexual crimes. Since the controversy, SBS has removed the portion containing the remarks from broadcast recordings on both YouTube and the show’s official website. Lee Kong Schill has yet released a comment in response to the matter.
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