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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It’s Saturday, and I love Saturday, and nothing I like more than spending the entire day on my laptop doing my taxes, my kids taxes, my late mom’s taxes. Oh, today is going to be so much fun. Matt Rife, I tell you he’s got to deal with Netflix.
Part of that is a comedy series. I guess it’s a sitcom. Comedy series is the language they’re using. It takes place at a gym. On the marysoud dot com, Rachel Weisman did not react well to that, and she wrote, I guess we learned the wrong lessons from Matt Rife’s Netflix special Natural Selection.
Remember when he turned on his entire fan base during the special. None of that matters, apparently, because now he’s on the path towards even more Netflix content. Yay, Well, at least he’s going back to his roots. His next special will be Netflix’s first all CrowdWork special, So I guess you won’t hear jokes rich by Rife, but instead just watch a show that’s a longer version of his TikTok videos. Speaking to Deadline, he’d previously talked about acting and how much he loves it more than stand up.
Raife said, I love acting just as much, if not more than stand up. I just haven’t been doing it as long, and I haven’t been able to get my foot in the door as well as I have would stand up. But now that I have freedom and success via stand up, it opens up avenues in other areas that I’m passionate about, like film and television that I’m hoping I can make that transition over to because it can only feed itself. Rachel writes, this sounds like hell. Rife has proven that has written jokes lean towards sexism, So why would I want to see an entire show where he’s acting out said jokes.
The workplace comedy setup has been done time and time again, and while the deal simply says that he can do it, I don’t really want to see what it means fun see. I’m all in favor of more Matt Rife content because I like controversy. The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla talked to Kyle Kinnean about his recent special I gave you Five Days? Did I give you five days? Tesday One said, there’s Friday, I gave you four and a half days to watch Kyle Kanaine’s special.
I had mentioned I think in that special about ten minutes in there’s an all timer bit. I’m about to spoil what the bit’s about. I’m not going to discuss any of the jokes, but by listening to me further you will find out what the all Time bit is about. You’ve been warned ready eight hundred prown Gerilla said, you’re bitting a new special about the Fast and the Furious franchise is inspired. Kyle said, I mean, we all know what they are.
It’s not going to go down as one of the best films of the century, but go have fun with it. People like Star Wars, I don’t care about that. These are my Star Wars, that’s my Marvel Universe. Gorilla was curious about the construction of a bit, and Kyle said, I think you just have to allow yourself to get carried away sometimes. Let’s see how far I can go before the audience is like, okay, we’re now off board from this premise.
What bit took the longest to come together? In this new special, Kyle said, the full special, most of it is just a forty five minute story about moving to the suburbs. But stuff like this isn’t a conscious effort, Like this story starts here and ends there. You just start telling you one night and then you remember another detail. You can add into it, another story that seemed unrelated.
But I can put into this before you know it, You’re talking for forty five minutes about moving to the suburbs. So I’ll chime in here. As I said the other day, I loved the special, but it was like the difference between two beers and nine beers. And I was loving it, and seventy five minutes in, I was like, okay, can we wrap this up? I went from like oom, is this gonna beat a tell or be up there with a tell?
To okay, can we stop already? And I really liked it. I’m trying to explain my emotions here. I both really liked it and thought it was too long. And that’s what she said.
I’m sorry, I had to do it. It was right there you were thinking it. I had to. I know. I try and keep it clean here, but it was right there.
Michael Scott does it. John Hehugh was saying, you aspire to be Michael Scott. Yeah, maybe I digress. So if Kyle it’s got forty five minutes about moving to the suburbs, maybe that could have been one special, and then the Fast and the Furious stuff with some other things could have been another special, and I would have went, oh, both specials are amazing. Again.
It was really good. It was just too long. You’re thinking it. Stop thinking it. I didn’t say anything that time, thought it on your own.
My mic just crashed again. This is that’s my mom’s ghost. My mom didn’t like that humor. There see, I got to keep it clean heer. Brian Reagan spoke to the Montecito Times.
They wrote, critics, fans, and fellow comics love him, including Jerry Seinfeld, who had him guessed on two episodes of Comedians and Cars Getting Coffee. Times was curious how Reagan’s approach to comedies changed over the years. Brian said, I want to talk about things that are interesting to me. When I was younger, my material was about coming out of my childhood. I had Little League baseball routines and things about feeling stupid in school.
But now I like to touch on things that are maybe a little bumpy or edgy, which might surprise people, right. Imagine if Brian Reagan suddenly went into it that’s what she said, that would be pretty edgy. I still don’t want my audience to get to the point where they feel uncomfortable or wish they hadn’t come. But I do like to talk about guns and crime and philosophy in a lighthearted way as possible. But I do sneak a point of view in there.
I think sometimes audiences might go, WHOA, we didn’t expect this. We’re the donut sprinkle jokes. Yeah, you gotta be careful of those audiences. You know, you might be this comic on the rye and suddenly you tell a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I mean, remember Joe Coy did that one time.
If you don’t remember, let me refresh your memory. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh that’s so mean. It’s just cruel.
I mean, Joe Coy, what are you doing? I wonder Taylor Swift apparently murdered his career. He deserved it for that one. That was just vicious. I mean, suggesting that they showed tailor shift on football games.
How dare you new? Vo dot Net spoke to Brad Williams, who said it first, having Dwarfism was a great benefit to his career because people wanted to put me on all their shows. They wanted to have something different on their shows. So at first, when you’re different, it helps because you check a box and you get put on shows that you probably don’t deserve to be on. They need somebody who doesn’t look like every other person on the show, so it helped me at first.
But once you start getting good agents and club owners and all that, just see he was the gimmick they don’t see as a person who’s just really good at comedy. So that was the challenge I had overcome. Now I’m in theaters and it’s taken me twenty years. When people say, oh, Brad Williams, he came out of nowhere, I’m like twenty year overnight sensation. Okay.
Sure. Brad was apparently the first comedian to headline a Cirque to Soligh show. He told the story, they reached out to my manager, Barry and they said, hey, we’re thinking about having a comedian in a Cirk show. Who do you think would work? My manager’s first response was Brad Williams.
Cirk was like, cool, that’s great. We’re gonna look at some other people too. They did for a month and they came back to my manager and said we looked and yeah, you’re right, Brad Williams is who we want. My first reaction was hell, yes, I liked being part of a team. It was a challenge to go on after the guys who literally juggle each other with their feet, but it was fun to try and win people over who weren’t exactly there for stand up comedy, but I would and it was great.
I love doing it. Sorry, I couldn’t stay there longer do more, but it was coming to a time where I was like, well, I could stay here, do circ to Sleigh and make this money for the rest of my life, or I could bet on myself and go solo. He said, Thank god I did, because so I was still in Vegas, I wouldn’t be playing the Egyptian Room in Indianapolis.
All right, Let’s see who’s at the Melbourn Comedy Festival on Sunday, April s…
Again. The way time zones work you know if the mill burner has got up today and grabbed the episode. They’re like, John, it’s already Sunday here. I don’t know why you’re telling us who’s playing Saturday night. So that’s why I don’t do that.
I’m telling you who’s playing Sunday night? And I actually have the website loaded for once. Now you’re probably thinking, John, you lying to us. Did you record Friday and Saturday back to back and the website was already loaded? Busted?
You think I would actually remember to load it? Now? What’s weird? When I pulled up the Sunday page. Usually I have vertical lines.
Here, today I have boxes. I don’t know why they gave me boxes. Today, here’s a show that supposedly has a clip. We know how that goes. It’s Adam McKenzie hacked and with the box here I can see his graphic.
It looks like a man in a suit, and where the head should be is a monitor like a TV monitor, like an old four x three size monitor, with a man, presumably Adam McKenzie making a funny face the description. In September twenty two, Adam was part of Australia’s largest ever cybersecurity disaster. In this hilarious new show, Adam dives deep into the dark web uh oh, and finds out just how much of our identities they’ve stolen. The age gave it four stories, and let’s listen all the edits you’re about to hear and the bleep those are in Adam’s clip. I did not make any of these edits, but I have listened to this clip already.
You’re gonna like it. I also used to watch when I was sixteen years old, a little TV show called Beverly Hills nine No. Two. Juan, Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. I’ll give you an episode synopsis, Frandra Kelly.
They were fighting over a role in the school play and it got really intense. Guys, but then they realized their friendship was way more important and they became best friends again. You what could teenagers like to watch these days? Yeah? They watched a little teen drama called Euphoria.
Do you want an episode synopsis from you? Fouri? Okay? Nate watches every one of these dad’s sex tapes.
Meanwhile, Ashtraye Murder’s mouth with a hammerco Oh my god, Oh my god, what…
Brandon and Brenda had the front it on balling plants you stopt about their parents.
Meanwhile, Room wid a Bob oh Laurie, She’s dropping hero.
Wow, that’s really good like him alt Adam Mackenzie. That show is called a hacked Let’s do one without a clip. Alexander Hudson’s show is called Making Lemonade. Alexandra believes if society thinks of her as a lemon, she might as well use them to make herself some sweet lemonade. Alexander explores her experiences as a disabled woman and challenges the misconceptions held about her.
Alexander took joint first place in Raw Comedy in twenty twenty two. That is a Big Award and was a twenty twenty three Comedy Zone cast member. No reviews. Jess Pierman’s show is called Champagne Problems. It’s a classic stand up about human behavior, beauty, standards in society gone wrong, privilege and partying, all delivered in a punchline heavy and confronting show.
If you’re a fan of the dark, the filthy, and the philosophical, this show’s not to be missed. Easily offended need not apply, but it’s for audiences fifteen and up, no reviews, and as my computer just reminded me, I have a conference call in nine minutes. That means that your comedy is for today. Could I do a quick story here? Danis Lass spoke to the Telegraph in India and they said, in Indio, where we used to stand up comedian switching between two or three languages, which is not the case in the UK.
Do you enjoy that approach to a show? Daniel Sloss said, yeah, I do enjoy watching Indian comedians do their punch lines in Hindi and their setups in English. Yeah. I noticed that on the UH there’s a version I don’t want to misspeak to which language it is, but there’s a foreign language version of the Office that is switching between English and I think Hindi. You’ll find that on Hulu.
It’s fun, but they just go back and forth, and I figured out I can read captions. It makes the comedy hard to follow, but there’s something very fun about mixing it up like that. I can somewhat relate to the fact if I’m getting particularly angry for a joke, or I’m performing in Scotland, I have a thicker accent than I do anywhere else in the world. They asked, in what ways is Daniel Sloss the performer different. I’m Daniel Sloss, the person, Daniel said, I guess I’m more arrogant on stage.
I’m actually confident off it, but I’m not an in your face piece of crap. I guess I’m definitely more insecure in real life. I think I’m a nicer person in real life. Maybe I’m much friendlier when I’m on stage. In real life, I’ll not talk to anyone, but on stage I’ll talk to people quite happily.
And that’s because I don’t have to listen to their feedback. That’s the problem with conversations. Other people get input, and that’s your comedy news. Johnny Max got a conference call. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows.
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