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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John. You never talk about Jerry Seinfeld. I know, right, it’s so much press.
Jerry was asked about his debate with Mark Marin. Narren believes in bearing his soul on stage. Jerry leaves in fidelity to the joke. Jerry said, my attitude, I think was more talking to comedians. I think comedians, if they want to survive throughout their life doing this, they have to pay close attention to the laughs.
There’s no less value in what Maren’s doing, but I would worry about how long it would last in your life. Maren’s done, Okay, But yeah, that’s a good point. We’re both right, just different. Jerry himself wants to do stand up to the very end of life. The only hard part of my life is the other things.
People do ask me about slung down and I go. The work part of my life is not stand up, it’s all the other things. Stand Up is an incredible, pure experience. Surfing is the great regret of my life that I never got good at. I did it for two weeks one time, many years ago, feeling that energy, that natural life force, energy under you and around you.
I never get tired of that. Will Jerry do another standup special? Nope. I’d love to think of something else if I ever want to do it, which I don’t right now, like comedians and cars getting coffee. The subtext of that is I’m really sick of talk shows on TV.
That’s why I did that. That was my anti talk show. So I’d want to do an anti stand up special if I did one. I envy sometimes these little Italian artisans who don’t really care if anybody knows who they are what they do, and stand up could be like that. Stand up in a way is a kind of private, lonely world.
I’m going to Daton on Friday. No one’s gonna know what happened there. I’m very attracted to that. I’m more attracted to that than Hey, everybody, I made a movie. He then compares that feeling to Seinfeld.
When it started, we thought this would be a really fun, little batique thing that’ll just get our people, this kind of quirky, offbeat thing, and that would be cool. What a became was never on our radar. Then suddenly you’re a big wave surfer. I think it was tougher on Larry David than for me, because you feel the pressure. I never minded the pressure.
Tom Papa used to open for Jerry Seinfeld. He spoke to the Columbus Underground and Tom said, I think the thing I’m most proud of is I’ve been able to stay high, positive and talk about the things that weren’t cynical and be more hopeful. But also I would be really good. You can be naive, hackey and goofy and serve that hopeful kind of thing, but I wanted to be the standard I hold other comedians too, and still not cave into being dirty, cynical and dark. Tom talked about getting into comedy and says there are virtually no gatekeepers now.
Like when I started, you had to get on The Tonight’s Show or Letterman and then ultimately HBO, and that was a very small group of people that got to do that. Now you can do whatever you want. You can have your own podcast, but stuff up on social media, you can speak directly to the audience. I think it’s been great that all these people were able to just kind of create your fan base and go out there and door and do your thing. Variety spoke to Tony Hingecliff about the Wonderful Kill Tony Podcast and we’re curious of his nuggets of inspiration for potential performers.
Tony said, it’s a very dark, lonely road. It’s the opposite of TikTok, where your content is immediately seen by a ton of people. You must be able to present it in a room and change your timing not to be taken lightly. Someone going from TikTok and expecting to be a natural stand up comedian is equivalent in my mind of someone being a good papa shot basketball player making as many any as you can in thirty seconds to being in the NBA. How many people from TikTok or Instagram reels are even making it as a stand up comedian.
People get Matt Rife confused and blocked in with those people. But my take on Matt Rife as I knew him eleven years ago opening for Ralphie May, he was a little star. I bust all my comedians friends chops when they bring him up and speak negatively about him in the green room. He did the work and he started young. He’s built for it.
Tony, do you feel your move from LA to Austin has hindered any opportunities, Tony said, it has hindered nothing. On the contrary, it’s free to know we’re focused on our stand up comedy and podcasts instead of being focused on LA or New York City cliches like auditions, pitch meetings, voiceover gigs, writing jobs, and other distractions that at best leave you with a boss, a lack of creative control, and probably wanting more money. By having our priorities be our own podcasts and doing live shows regularly, we get better at those two things. Regularly can all relate to one another and do each other’s show. So from both the projects we care about.
Boy, what great advice from Tony there. It might just be I’m at a stage in my own career where I don’t want a boss. I like doing this podcast every day. Is it the biggest podcast in the world. No, to some people think it sucks.
Probably do I care? No? Would I like to make a million dollars off it? Of course? I like money.
You like money. We all like money. I’d love to be doing this show from I don’t know Paris right now, but I’m in my basement. But creatively, boy, I’m having a ball doing this at our little podcast network project. This is great, Tony said.
Our favorite comedian’s from LA and New are coming to us. Now we only go there and we have to do big shows. People can have a career from anywhere now. Tony says, comedians should utilize anything that happens with them from more material. Real comedy fans seed through it.
They want the line, they know the line, they love the line. I push it to the limits. I did p Diddy jokes last weekend. I told Nickelodeon jokes at Baltimore Bridge reference. People say, but what if somebody’s family on the bridge sees that.
Look, it’s a different little island we’ve created. It existed in Texas, obviously a staple of free speech. But while LA and New York have virtual signaled their way into what’s right and wrong, we go forward here. The CBC spoke to Matt Hart and Ali Hassan about kill Tony. Matt explains, if you’ve never checked out killto only two hundred three hundred people put their names in a hat at a huge comedy club called The mother Ship.
That’s Rogan’s place in Austin, which is quickly becoming what Seattle was for grunge, but for comedy. If you get your name pulled, you’ve given one minute uninterrupted on stage performed stand up. Alie said of sixty seconds, it’s very, very challenging. Sometimes if you have a weird look and you can lean inside immediately, that’s a great gift. The CBC pointed out Mike ber Bigley for examples, a storyteller who takes an hour to unfold his act, not the kind of act you’d see big cover, Story and variety.
Amy Schumer can’t escape backlash, and she’s okay with that. Ready rights, Amy Schumer was in the zone. This was in March, when she was filming on the Street Brooklyn for her upcoming movie Kind of Pregnant. In one take, Schumer emerged from a subway station while answering a phone call and was interrupted by a stranger shouting in her from the sidewalk. If you Amy Schumer, you’re a Zionist, you love genocide?
Amy said, it didn’t even raise my heart rate. I didn’t cry nothing. She says of her tendency to sound off, I can’t help it. A lot of people can help it, but I’ve never been able to. But I also want to be helpful, do you know what I mean?
She weighed in on the Middle East, saying the focus is so razor sharp on Jewish people but not on Hammas. It’s very strange. I’d recommend people read a book. It’s called Israel, A Simple Guide to the most misunderstood country on Earth. As for Kind of Pregnant, Amy says, I’m striving it for to be one of the ten funniest movies of my lifetime.
I thought she was going to say her career her lifetime. Wow, I think it’s gonna be as funny as train Wreck. While she was being interviewed, a woman walked up to the table and said to Amy Schumer while the interviewer happened to be there, thank you for everything you’re doing for Israel. I follow you on social media. I used to live in Israel, and thank you.
We support you. Amy said, that moment you just saw maybe ten times a day that happens to me. The article goes on to talk about the early parts of Amy’s career. She noticed that male comedians did not get as much hate as she did. She said, people get really mad at women.
They save a special kind of vitriol for us. It’s not new. I think it’s because they fear women. That’s my guess. She’s hoping Life in Beth will get a third season from Hulu.
She says it has not been renewed yet and that life keeps going. I’m not worried about running out of stuff to say. Tonight, ten pm. Unless you’re driving back from Cleveland, get in front of your TV. You can watch Netflix.
Cat Williams Live. Oh man, I want to say, I can’t wait, but I’m gonna have to wait. I’ll watch that one on Sunday seven point thirty. John Mulaney in concert, All Time Specific eight o’clock Shane Gillis, Low tickets Warning, ten pm Chris Rock’s table reads, low tickets Warning. Joining comedy icon Chris Rock as he hosted table read of When Harry Met Sally.
That’s a Good Time. Seven o’clock Daniel Tosh, three o’clock, Leanne Morgan. I hate the way this thing is laid out, so you hear me jumping back and forth on the various times, A lot of good stuff. Tonight, seven o’clock Comil onn Jianny Pete Holmes at seven, Eliza Selessenger at seven Roywood Junior at seven and nine forty five, Natalie Palamedes at nine forty five, Howie Mandel and Arsenio Hall two show, seven thirty, ten thirty, and a whole bunch of shows I didn’t read to you, all right, if you and I were there, would go see three o’clock Leanne Morgan five o’clock because we wouldn’t be in Cleveland, would be at the Netflix is a tr comedy festival in LA. Would have to hit Cat Williams.
Wait, five o’clock Pacific? Is eight o’clock? Have I been saying ten? At some point they said this is ten? Let me clean this up here.
So the original press release says May fourth, seven pm Pacific, which is ten Eastern, which is why I’ve been saying that. But on the festival website itself it says five o’clock Pacific. Maybe it’s not actually live. I don’t know. Sit in front of Netflix for four hours tonight and see what happens.
I don’t know what to tell you. At this I think I figured it out. I think there are openers and Cat goes on at ten, all right, so we would go see Leeann Morgan, then Cat Williams don’t know if I want to see Mallani. Let’s not do Malani. Let’s do Pete Holmes.
This is really good. Let’s do Pete Holmes.
And then let’s do Natalie Palamedes.
How about that? And let me do Sydney real quick. I’ll do Sidney a little more thorough and next week between the Seinfeld and this Netflix festival to just so much to talk about. But should you find yourself in Sydney on Senko Tomayo. Brody Snook’s show is called Villain.
I like this title here. Let’s see every night Rody Snook dreams of committing murder what Her doctor thinks she needs medication. Her best friend thinks she needs uh I thing that goes you know what I’m saying, Yes you do. Her accountant thinks she needs a real job. Brody reckons it’s time to start playing the villain.
The Age gave it four stars and says a masterful writer and outrageous form. Elliott Stewart’s show is called Elliot Stewart sucks. It’s talking to people a crowd work show will drop the g there I hear the Queen’s come out sometimes no reviews of that one. Okay, let’s do one more. Emma zammitz show is called good Grief.
We all know the grief has five stages. Denial, like, yeah, I’ll be able to watch Kat Williams. I’m not in Cleveland. Anger, Ah, stupid Mike making me go to Cleveland bargaining. Maybe if I leave early, I can be home and catch Kat Williams.
Mike will be too mad. Depression, I can’t believe I miss Kat Williams for this thing. Finally, acceptance. I guess I was good, that I was a good friend. I can always watch Kat Williams on Sunday.
Hey, list of stages. It’s not comedian and mother emma’zem it’s scratching her head as to where Lasagna drops fit in. Sounds like a good show, or maybe I just amuse myself in the middle of that. Rob Schneider has told Catholic media outlet Church Pop, Church Pop your home for comedy news that Rob is working on a script for a feature film about the Shroud of touring. What you think I was gonna say?
Yeah, Schneider told Church Pop. Hopefully this movie about the Shroud will happen, because I think it’s about faith. I think we need that and to bring more people to it. And it’s not necessarily to preach to them, but just to show to them the actual sacrifice and to talk about what the core of Christianity is loving others. And that is your comedy news for today.
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