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Caloroga Shark Media with all other problems in the world solved. A debate broke out on Good Morning Britain about whether audiences should be allowed to take a toilet break during a comedy show or not. High I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Comedian Kane Brown said getting up to use the toilet distracts others. Broadcaster Anime Megan said it’s a human right.
This debate comes after Frankie Boyle told venue staff not to allow people back into a show if they go to the bathroom after his act has started. Caane Brown, the comedian, said, I agree. I’m with Frankie. It’s really disruptive. As a comedian.
The one thing we requires attention, that’s all we ask. Your attention will do the rest. Getting up to use the toilet, we’re using your phone distracts other people and it distracts us on stage. I’ll I agree about the phone, but come on, I might have to go to the bathroom when you want. Anime, the TV host said it’s up to the comedian to make the audience pay attention and suggested that if the folks are going to the loo, maybe they’re bored.
It’s a human right to go to the toilet. You’re not doing hamlet. You’re getting ankled, I assume, and you’re heckling back. Why can’t people use the toilet King, the comedian said, it’s use of the people in the middle row and they have to excuse themselves. They have to go stand up.
They’re rubbing their nether regions on the back of people’s necks. It’s distracting. And of the host said, if you go to a common space to see a comedian or any show, you have to understand there are people on either side of you that might need something. The comedian said, you don’t respect the art form of comedy. If you have a problem with your bladder, sit in the back or on an aisle.
What do you think? Let me know. On the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Bill Burr was talking about the current comedy scene and what he’s seeing at the clubs and he said, in one corner of the hipsters and skinny jeans and buddy hollyglasses or playing or a room of people who look just like them. In the other corner, the hard working club comics slung punchlines in front of a brick wall, working the room and taking on the hecklers. Bill Burr was in the latter group, and by twenty twelve he’d had enough of the nerds who condescended on the regular folks who told good old fashioned jokes.
Burr on his podcast that I really can’t wait for the backlash on nerds. I’ve had it with them embracing the fact that they’re awkward, to the point of pretending to be awkward even when you’re not. The alternative comedy scene is like the hair metal scene in late nineteen eighty nine. We’re about a year away before Nevermind’s gonna come out. They’re all going to be scurrying.
I can’t effing wait. He finds the alt scene homogenized. That’s what I don’t like about. Okay, no heckling, no drugs, no obnoxious behavior, no aggressiveness. The alt scene eliminated every reason it takes Cojones to be a comedian, every reason people want to be a comic.
But never effing did it you remove from that situation. They’ve just created this bleeping comedy womb. It’s like a radio station. It’s not even a crowd. It’s like an effing radio station.
I only performed at hipster’s age eighteen to twenty four, where skinny loose jeans that have black framed glasses. When the jokes don’t go over the act like the crowd is dumb. He compared alt comics to specialists like long snappers on a football team. You can only probably one fing position, and you turn around. You blame the crowd burst fed up with the amount of shots over the effing years that they’ve taken up a club comics like we’re all a bunch of hacks talking about airplane food, like they’re above us.
Then you go do some benefit or some comedy festival. They put club comics and all comics together, and what happens. All the all comics go on early. That’s who gets to mop up in the end, two hours on thefing show a club comic. Just for the record, the all scene was started by club comics.
All those guys, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Dana Gould, Mark Marin Beasts, all of them. They could perform in off track betting and they could have a great set. But he says that first wave has created a generation of comedy nepo babies. They’re almost like rich kids who have kids. They struggle up through all this stuff and then they just have these kids in their first cars.
Like a Maserati. They wrap it around a pole and there’s no ramifications. Love it. Larry David was on Rick Eisen’s show. Apparently Larry David doesn’t like kicking in football.
It’s old, Rick, guys. And you know about the UFL. It’s starting up. It’s a spring football league, and you know how I feel about the Gold Pulse, right. I thought, let me talk to somebody in the UFL.
I mean, it’s insane. So my agent got me on the phone with Dwayne Johnson. Johnson is the face of the UFL. I think he’s a major investor. I don’t know, doesn’t matter.
Why doesn’t he like kicking. Suppose there was a baseball game and there were two parallel bars and deep center field that were twelve feet apart, and you could get a guy off the bench to hit a fung go and if you got it through the bars, you’d get a run. I mean, what’s the point, has nothing to do with the game. I kind of like that idea better than the ghost Runners. Nick Swartzen describes a stand up comedy as it’s like crack, but instead of a pipe, you have a mic.
I’ve never done crack, but when I’ve done with stand up, there’s a solid fallback plan. Film is way different than stand up. You have to work on a script, go in a pre production film, edit market and then see how it goes take over a year. Stand up is immediate. I can write a joke, go on stage at night and see if they hate it.
Film I have to wait for a year to critics to tell me to have off. Brad Williams spoke to Nouveau dot Net about being a father and they were curious about the difference between being a father and being a comedian. Brad said, it’s two different characters. When I’m on the road doing theaters, it’s rockstar life. There are thousands of people were excited to see.
There’s cheering, the people want to meet you. There’s everybody at the theater who’s like, whatever you need. Then you get home and no one gives a hoot that you just sold thousands the tickets and made a lot of money. All it is is getting up, making breakfast with the kid, walking her to school, and doing stuff during the day. The wife doesn’t care, the kid doesn’t care, nobody cares.
I don’t know if I’m balancing family and work correctly. The people on my work side would say I’m doing too much family, and my family would probably say I’m doing too much work, which means I’m probably doing it right if both sides are unhappy. TJ. Miller was on the Loud at Wire at Nights podcast, DJ said, I listen to rock albums growing up, but I also listen to stand up comedy albums. I listen to Steve Martin’s a Wild and Crazy Guy and comedy is not pretty, Bob Newhart.
I listened to Lenny Bruce, even Richard pryor George Carl and all those guys were so amazing. I love a room full of strangers all getting together and laughing and really enjoying something that they can all equally love. Steph Tolev told WPR one of her big influences was Kids in the Hall. I like Goofy. When I think comedy can be so over the top, it becomes funnier to me.
Her current tour is called Fifth Queen, and she said, somebody really worded my comedy very well. She’s like, you’re so gross, but you’re so goofy that it makes it not as gross.
Also, I am gross.
I think like this. It’s not like I’m trying to be gross. I’m a very open person. I’m very sexual. I talk about that stuff very openly, and I think people do too, but they just like to say that they don’t.
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The Melbourne and Comedy Festival continues. Oh so tomorrow I did a special episode. Tomorrow is a deep dive on up and coming Ozzy. So tomorrow is me going, hey, here’s somebody and a clip, and here’s somebody else you haven’t heard of in a clip. So it’s clearly a pre tape to accommodate Easter, but I think it came out really well.
So if you want to get turned on to some new folks, that’s tomorrow. And the Melbourne Comedy Festival continues. Now, since tomorrow’s already in the can, I’ll do two days worth here and as I’ve mentioned, because of the way time zones work, I have to stay a day in advance, So Sunday, March thirty one in Australia like this show title one hundred and one Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people. The Amazing Drumming Monkeys, the show for little kids. I’m curious.
I’m clicking why they it’s out. It is Australia’s favorite little kid’s puppet show. The Monkeys have performed at festivals and events all over the world. It’s monkeys drumming looks like the kind of thing you’d see over by the two Can show at Disney World. You know what I’m talking about.
It it’s like that, well, like a thing you’d see it chuck e cheese. But it’s drumming monkeys. Why not a lot of kids shows tomorrow? Bubble Show in Space after completely selling out their Melbourne run in twenty twenty three, Doctor Bubble and Milkshake return with their most amazing Bubble adventure yet. Milkshake wants a star from space, so she and Doctor Bubble travel to outer space in a bubble rocket that launches to the sky to see if they can get her one.
Perth Happenings gave it five stars. Fort to the Future fart’s are not my thing, but I clicked on this Far to the Future. Jed and Jamie’s friend, Doc Hockinbottom are lost in time, and the only way to rescue him is to use the farts of famous historical figures to travel through time. Suitable for audiences six through twelve and fifty four years old. Appearently, all right, let me get out of the kids section and scroll down here and find some stuff for adults.
Michael Chamberlain’s completely incomplete history of Australian rules football. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining intelligent. This guy is funny of these little reviews Best of British, So like, I’m not going to go to Australia to see Best of British. But I guess if I lived in Melbourne that would be cool, right, Yes, Boats and bogans one of my favorite words that I discovered last year. I wasn’t familiar with it.
There’ll be stories and there’ll be stomach hurting, get spewing, pants peeing. The Adelaide Show gave it four stars, saying great snapshot of Adelaide’s comedy scene some actual stand up with a clip Cecilia Porcola’s I’m as surprised as you are. Let’s listen. One day, I got up in the morning and one of my flatmates was in the kitchen making breakfast, and I went morning and she went mate, yeah, and she goes, I gotta tell you I heard you having sex last night. And I was like, well great, this is embarrassing because I was not having sex last night.
Not even a little bit. She goes, yeah, I’ll figured it out. What had happened was she has a tiny dog right at Chiawa Crosspapion. Its head is smaller than my fist. Okay, it sleeps in her room with her.
Somehow it got stuck outside her bedroom door, so it was crying and scratching at her bedroom door, and she heard that sound. I have a tiny dog crying and scratching, and when that’ll be sillious, bleeping, bleeping. I had a clip it there. She dropped an F bomb, but the punchline there was you know, doing the stuff. Ooh, it was close, very funny clip like her.
Kirsty weback, I’ll be the judge of that also has a clip for us. Let’s check this out. Hello, Hello, besties. I’m not one of those comedians who singles out people in the audience and thought I has a chat to them. You know, we’ve all been to one of those shows before the comedians gotten up on stage and they’d be like, what do you do?
And we’re like, oh, no, I wish I did something better, you know, and then they just rinse them for ten minutes in front of their tinder day like I don’t really do it, like no shade on other comedians, but I think it’s a little bit cheeky. You know. We’re like, buy a ticket, come and support my career, watch my show. Oh no, you are the show, you know, but we are. We’re one of the few modes of entertainment that does it.
And I actually went to the ballet recently because I’m a real culture vault. That is not true. I went to the ballet because I was tricked into it by mate. And this is how she tricked me. She suggested we attend the ballet in the fun voice.
You might be aware of the fun voice. It’s a little bit quicker. It’s a little bit high pitched, which should be in the ballet. It gets me every time. I was like, hell, yeah, let’s go to the ballet.
A couple of days later, I was looking at my bank account and I was like, why are we going to the ballet again? I want to remind everybody when I pull these clips, I’m basically pulling the first minute, and you know, she may be building into something there. I don’t know. Boy, there’s like seventy more shows if I scrolled down, but I got to do two days worth here. So let’s see who’s playing on Monday, April first in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first.
Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry. All right, what’s this? Experienced the wonder of world class wizardry in the realm of messenger, owls, robe, wizards and flying broomsticks. Not sure what’s going on there, but it’s fun. At the Basement Comedy Club, Ben Knight and Friends Educators.
Their logo is a chalkboard with educators who are no that caught my eye ever wondered what teachers think about you and your kids? Joined Ben Night as he hosts a lineup show of educators who have since become stand up comedians. That’s fun. Weird Al Piano Bar, what’s this? Come?
Worship at the Shrine of Yankovic with Milburn’s silliest sing along. Weird Al Piano Bar venerates the undisputed king of the pop parody song weird Al with lyrics projected on the screen. Here’s your chance to sing, shout and praise his Holy name. No actual weird Al, It’s just weird al karaoke. All Right, this podcast is going to be endlessly long if I keep going here, So let me get to more news.
Rachel Senat she’s been the it girl lately in the movies. She’s getting a show on HBO a pilot anyway. In untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition, and new relationships have changed them. Ari Spears wants to make it clear that he has nothing against Lebron James. He said to me, Lebron’s in my top five?
Do I think he’s better than Michael Jordan. No, I don’t give an f if he scores eighty thousand points. He’s been in the league since preschool. As popular as Lebron is, is he globally famous like on the Love of Jordan? No?
Has he impacted the game of the Love of Jordan. No. He also noted how Michael Jordan revolutionized the sponsorship part of basketball with their Jordan sneakers. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, they might look at you.
Tomorrow’s episode is pretty cool. Hope you enjoy it. Would love some feedback on it on the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Happy Easter and see you tomorrow and Monday.