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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shining back with your Daily Comedy News April already. Wow. Tim Dillon is one of my favorite comedians. And as I’ve said in the past, and I’ll continue to say, he’s eventually going to step on a landmine, and I’m going to distance myself from Tim Dillon so fast I’ll be like I never said.
Tim Dilan was what are you crazy? Especially since he said that thing it’s gonna happen. The Guardian asked Tim Dilan, howd you get in a comedy? Tim said, I was a child actor and I failed. It was embarrassing and shameful.
I felt as if I’d let down my parents, who wanted to retire off my winnings as an actor, except there were none. I took a long break from that, eventually got back into comedy at twenty five. How would you describe your style of comedy dark and a bit silly. That is a good description. I think people need to laugh at the world, and the world is crazier than ever.
I think I put that through a filter that helps it make more sense. The Guardian was curious if he has any pre show rituals. Dylan said I’m not placating the British here, but I like tea. I’m not being patronized saying, but I have a couple of Earl Gray before every show. He’s like Captain Picicord.
It’s in my writer and it’s in all of my green rooms. I have a cup of tea and chill out. I like a bit of solitude before show. Nothing too crazy. His best hackle.
He was asked about a couple got up in the middle of my show and walked out and said, we’re leaving because we’re gonna go have sex. I can’t compete with that. That was in Greenwich Village at a bar where I did shows all the time. I said, well, it’s probably more productive than what I’m doing. Pet Peeves from the World of Stand Up Tim said, I don’t like you want a host.
Ask if it’s anyone’s birthday or if anyone’s celebrating anything, because I don’t care strangers. Fan encounter. I had someone follow me into a hotel I was staying at and getting the elevator. Tell me they were a big fan. They said, I followed you for two blocks and I said, oh, you’re not staying at the hotel and they said, no, I’m a fan.
It’s very strange when someone tells you that in an enclosed space. Best advice don’t overestimate your worth. Worst advice you can do anything you put your mind to. Tim Dillon, American Royalty in Manchester, Glasgow in London. April fourth through the seventh, The Daily Beast wrote a punchy article with the headline comedians line up to help RFK juniors miss in from campaign.
They write from Rogan to Bill Maher Kennedy, sos have been a who’s who of comedy’s biggest cranks. Just so happens that some of them are also incredibly popular artists with highly engaged fan bases. There’s Andrew Schultz, who, in his twenty twenty Netflix special blame the pandemic on dirty Chinese people, according from The Daily Beast here, and in twenty twenty one, persuaded in La Theater to waive its vaccine rechoir. And for shows, there’s Tim Dillon, the former subprime mortgage broker and current nine to eleven truther who has lately embraced the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Hosted Alex Jones praised the white nationalist writer Steve Saylor stoked the moral panic over trans people and questioned the efficacy of COVID vaccines and masks.
I listen to Tim’s pot every week. I think the writer here is missing the comedy that Tim is doing. Tim can speak for himself, but I don’t find him to be a nine to eleven truther in the least, or I would not listen to him. I also don’t find him embracing the white nationalist great replacement theory, or I would not listen to him. Did he have Alex Jones on If he did, I skipped the episode on purpose and stoking the moral panic over trans people.
I’m not sure about that either. The Daily Beast writs he was also banned from Airbnb in twenty twenty one for threatening to burn down his host home over a cleaning fee. But that’s neither here nor there. I have heard Tim tell that story. I don’t know how accurate diversion he tells is or not.
Back to RFK, The Daily beeastrights, there’s Dave Smith, the anti vaccine Libertarian Party activist who has also embraced the great Replacement theory, praise Nazis, demonized trans people, argued that drunk sex can’t be rape, and said that American Jews should be grateful to the United States for allowing him to flourish. There’s Theo Vaughn, who recently sat down for amiable chats with Tucker Carlson featuring misinformation about the polio vaccine and a former border patrol chief featuring violent anti immigration rhetoric. Kennedy has even found a friendly ear in Whitney Cummings, who has spent recent years arguing that comedians are supposed to be scumbags, and who lived up to her promise by mocking trans women in her latest stand up special. In Kennedy’s contation with Tim Dillon or if Kay described the anti vax label as pejorative intended to marginalize and silence him. Daily Beast writes on Vaughn’s This Past Weekend podcast, he agreed with the hosts false claim that the polio vaccine ended up giving cancer to a lot of women.
On Howie Mandel’s podcast, he insisted he’s not anti vaccine, before acknowledging that he never got the COVID nineteen vaccine and falsely claiming again that vaccines cause ostism. He told Mandel, I’m not saying all autism is caused by vaccine. I’m saying that vaccines, definitely, you know, are largely responsible for the epidemic that we saw begin in nineteen eighty nine. He made the same argument to Bill Maher, who argued that this position is not unreasonable. Dave Smith had Kennedy on his podcast to debate his position on Israel, tailing Kennedy, You’re so great on your Craine, You’re so great on the vaccine.
Why can’t it be great on this THEO Vaughn mostly stuck to questions about his other campaign positions, while Bobby Lee mostly asked about his relationship with Cheryl Hines. Cummings only touched the vaccine issue in a rambling pre interview speech that concluded with the message, let’s be honest with ourselves. No one knows anything interesting stuff. I’ve listened to a few RFK interviews. I find him easy on ears.
Now you’re like, don’t you hear what his voice sounds like. I understand he has vocal challenges, but I like a podcast that doesn’t yell and scream. It’s why I like Rogan. I can just kind of zone out to Rogan. I actually prefer Rogan’s interviews more than the comedians, because with the comedians sometimes we’ll get a little louder.
I often have insomnia is a little strong. But like I’ll wake up the middle of night, it takes me a full hour and a half to go back to sleep, so I’ll wind up listening to podcast to kind of wind back down, and I find Rogan good for that in middle night. So I’ve heard a bunch of these RFK interviews. I disagree with a lot of his positions, but I enjoy listen to him speak, if that makes sense. Comedian Brian Simpson believes Tom Brady could run for president and win.
I think, yeah, here’s your choices, Trump, Biden, RFK junior Tom Brady. That Brady Button’s gonna be pretty attractive there. Tell me who his VP candidate is and I’ll look at it. Simpce. It did caution that the quarterback is likely to lose the swing state of Georgia.
That’s a joke about the Super Bowl. Timpson said. The best way to in sure Tom Brady gets into the White Houses by making sure forty nine Ers coach Kyle Shanahan as his opponent. Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the Falcons in that famous Falcons loss in the Super Bowl where Brady brought the Patriots back. Simpson said he’d only lose in Georgia.
Brady could run as a Republican and we could get Kyle Shanahan to run as a Democrat, He’ll definitely beat him. He then suggested Vice President Lebron James as Brady’s running mate, suggesting they have such a fan falling that nobody in America could match. Well, I can think of somebody who could match Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift versus Tom Brady. I think Taylor might take that election.
You know who made a joke about Taylor Swift one time, Joe Coy. Yeah, it was vicious. So what was happening was Joe Coyle’s host thing the goal the gloves and boy, way do you hear this vicious joke he made about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear Taylor was having none of that and basically murdered Joe Cooy’s career. Joe Coy recently spoke to I ninety five and he was asked if he would host the Golden Globes again. He said, I ain’t scared to do anything. The risk is the best part of life.
I could say I did it. It’s a crazy gig, but who else would do it? Like I said, Chris Rock called me and said the same thing. They offered it him and he turned it down. I saw the opportunity.
It was eighty three years that they’ve had this award show. Never, not once did they offer it to an Asian comedian or anybody to host it solo. And that was my opportunity and I took it. You know, when you get Seth Meyers, Jamie Fox, she mc kimel, Steve Martin, they all understood the complexity of that gig. It’s like, you know, I bash it over the head, and damn if I do it, Damn if I don’t mention anything.
It’s like, bro, I took the gig in less than a week and a half. You know what I’m saying. Everybody turned it down. I want to take that risk and go for it. I saw an opportunity and went for it.
You know, That’s what happened. So if I could explain the situation, you’d understand. If I kept on going, it sounds like whatever Joe said. When you see the cuts, you’re not really seeing the entire situation. If you want to see it, it’s like, oh cool, he’s performing in a food court at a mall.
What a gig. He’s in front of basket and robins. There’s a sale on pepper and an ice cream, Like legit. It was pure chaos. It’s literally the Award Show where they’re eating lobster and drinking wine.
You know what I’m saying. It’s the craziest thing, but no one knows that. You see the oscars and you’re like, I don’t understand what’s happening. It’s like, Okay, put a lobster tail in every single lap, in six bottles of them away, you know what I mean. You hear clinging forks at butterfalling and it’s like, what’s going on?
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That’s where I share thoughts on the media. It is Comedy Month, that’s right. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla is having worldwide Comedy Month. That month is April, and Clown Jewels has joined Comedy Month. They’ll be releasing material from Red Fox, The Mothers Brothers, Gilbert Godfreed, Jonathan Winters and Jackie Gleason, The Best of Red Fox Show Volumes one and two April twelfth, the Best of the Jackie Gleason Show Volumes one and two April nineteenth, and a newly curated album from Gilbert Godfried called Still Screaming That One on April thirtieth.
That’s awesome.
Meanwhile, the eight hundred Pound Gorilla has fleshed out their release cale…
Let’s take a look. You got a pen lot going here today. David Cross Worst Daddy in the World tomorrow Kyle Kanaane Dirt Napp, who loves Kyle Kanaan? I do On the third, Michael Yo’s I never thought On the fourth, Angela Johnson Reyes say, I won’t On the fifth, Evil Graham Live from the blooms Very Theater on the sixth, Kurt Brauneller perfectly stupid. On the seventh, you get to rest.
I mean, there’s only so much comedy you can do. On the eighth, Eric Delessandro’s I Don’t understand on the ninth, Monty Franklin Live from Sydney. On the tenth, I hope you rested on the seventh, because on the tenth you get Dina Archie’s Soxic but Safe and Jimmy Shin’s Upcoming Space on the eleventh, Matt Rife. On the twelfth, Dan raths, I’m not doing well, folks.
Also The Red Fox Show Volume one and two on the thirteenth, Ben Roy’s Hyena f…
Also the release of The Jackie Gleason Show, Volume one and two, the twentieth vadera by armand Soon Season, the twenty first Mike Britz Checked the Mic, the twenty second Greg Warren The Salesman, the twenty third Moe Welch Dad Jokes, the twenty fourth Joe Zimmerman’s Cult Classic, the twenty fifth Mike Veckie Owns the Attractives, the twenty sixth The Nick Offerman American Ham, the twenty seventh Jake Rush Overwhelmingly Neutral, the twentieth Sam Campbell Companion, twenty ninth Sasheerze Matta Is the First Woman, and the thirtieth Tom Allen’s Absolutely Live. Johnny Mack, Why need you read thirty days of stuff to us? Because I was away all weekend and I wanted to pretape today. It’s cool, all right, let’s see who’s in Melbourne today. Now I really have to do some math.
Okay, it’s whatever day I recorded this, and then you’re listening April first, except somebody’s in Melbourne where it’s tomorrow, so April second. This it’s so confusing. Plus the Aussies they do their calendars Monday to Sunday. You know us Americans, we do Sunday to Saturday on a calendar. It’s a Tuesday’s not even where Tuesday’s supposed to be.
Alright, let’s see what we got here, trash test dummy circus. Here are three guys in construction hats. Everybody put your bins out. Tonight’s midnight and the trash test dummies are on duty. With side slipping, slapstick comedy, daring acrobatics and dexterous juggling.
These dummies are off on an imaginative adventure that’s anything but garbage, with ballet and balloons thrown in for good measure. This fast paced hour of adept unadulterated mischief delivers a dump truck full of hilarity. All right, that’s fun, Hannah Gatsby, we know who that is. It’s even a clip. Let’s listen.
I’m genuinely to be here. It’s been a minute for me to be at the festival. Happy to be back. When they phone me to ask me the host. I said, yes, of course, what an honor.
But it is also very confusing, like I’m not a natural host, like I’ve killed the vibe already. I am aware of this, don’t worry. Like a host is supposed to be warm and like naturally buoyant. This is me trying. That was fun.
Let’s get out there, and that’s your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. And I’ll see you tomorrow