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Caloroga Shark Media. There’s so much going on. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m recording Friday and Saturday back to back. I just finished the Friday episode.
I’m looking at the raw number and it’s twenty two minutes before I edit out all my stumbles, but add back in the clips and the commercials and all that, and trying to keep this thing tight. But it’s just been so busy. Nikki Glaser had a great week thanks to the roast of Tom Brady. She happened to be the guest on the Last Laugh podcast who said to Nikki, your new special Sunday You’ll Die as the darkest premise that you’ve put out there so far. Does that reflect your state of mind right now?
NICKI shared, I struggle with self esteem and depression. It’s not easy. It’s bad for me. I’m sickly going through really intense self doubt and imposter syndrome and immense depression and just defeat. And it seems to get worse the more successful I get.
And it’s something that I’m constantly trying to figure out and find a cure for because I can’t really keep going like this, things will be going good and I’ll be cofid and feel like, you know what, I don’t need more and this is enough when I’m talented and I didn’t trick anyone, and then that’s gone by the next day. Neither feeling lasts forever. I’m so glad the feeling of depression doesn’t ever last. But that’s kind of what gets me through it, knowing that it will lift at some point. But the good times don’t last ever either.
Some serious stuff here, she says, So I think somewhere in the past couple of years and he said, okay, you could start talking about the thing you were scared to talk about or ever reveal, which is, despite all your success, despite how great things are going in your life, you still think about dying a lot, and you wish to die a lot of times. Oh no, I hope she’s okay. There’s some freedom of just saying that stuff out loud. I feel like I have some control over it when I talk about it so much, and if I can laugh about it, I can own it a little bit more and control it more. And that’s a comedy podcast.
I’m me just jumping in here right now. If you were thinking about suicide, or you’re worried about a friend or a loved one. If you need emotional support, there is the nine to eight eight Life nine network just in your phone down nine eight eight. Last Laugh asked Nikki if she finds herself censoring herself on stage. She said yes and no.
I mean I don’t. I really like to hurt people’s feelings. So if I said the R word and there was someone in the audience who had suffered because of that word or felt called out or alienated by it, I’d feel really horrible. When you first start tackling a subject like that and you’re figuring out the wording still and making it palatable, that’s where you have people getting offended and worrying about getting canceled. But I know I’m not a hateful person, and I don’t like making people feel bad about themselves are sad, and so if I ever do get canceled, I think I’ll be able to forgive myself.
This sounds really good. I’m going to download this for my listening over the weekend. This is the Last Laugh podcast. NICKI how about turning forty? She says, I’m really okay about it.
I kind of do this thing where I always say I’m the next age. So I’ve been saying I’m forty all year so I could prepare for it. When it does that it’s not that big a deal. It’s going to be a struggle. But for now, I feel like forty is young.
I know it’s ahead. I’m really scared about sixty. I’m fine with forty. I had a conversation in my kitchen this morning. My daughter joked about us being forty four, and I said, forty four sounds really great right now.
Nicki says I’ve let go of wanting to look twenty at ay more. I really feel that way, but I also feel very stunted emotionally. I’m not married, i’s still rent, I don’t know a place, I don’t have kids. I don’t feel forty in many ways, but I think it’s cool. Whenever you turn the next decade, you’re the youngest of that decade.
So I’m like the oldest thirty year old right now. The New York Times earlier the week wrote a piece about Jerry Seinfeld that I just didn’t have room for. I thought it was really interesting. The Times wrote the comedian, long beloved for his a political riffs has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased since the attacks of October seventh.
Seinfeld seventy. That looks so weird to see a seventy next to Jerry, because in your mind, he’s always I don’t know how old he was on the show thirty years ago. It was forty. I think the character is late thirties, right, He’s forever frozen at that age in my mind. Seinfeld seventy has emerged as a strikingly public voice against anti Semitism and in support of Jews in Israel in the United States, edging warily sort of more forward facing advocacy role than he ever seemed to seek across his decades of fame.
I’ll jump in here. I’ve always felt, if you have a platform and you believe in something strongly use it. Otherwise what are we all doing here on our time on the planet? The times rights. As some American cities and college campuses simmer with conflict over the Middle East crisis in Israel’s military response, Seinfeld has faced a measure of public scorn that he’s rarely courted as a breakfast obsess comedian, intensified by the more vocal advocacy of his wife, Jessica, a cookbook author.
Missus Seinfeld attracted attention she promoted on Instagram and said she had helped bankroll a counter protest at UCLA. The shifts in Seinfeld’s public bearing after October seventh have been modest, if still perceptible. He remains far less outspoken on the subject than other celebrities and comedians such as Amy Schumer, but for figure long held up like few others in entertainment as a generational narrator of the American Jewish experience. Even a cautious exploration of his identity has been notable. Jerry told GQ, I don’t preach about it.
I have my personal feelings about it that discussed privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong. You could do it comedically. That would be a major statement. If Jerry went out on tour and we somehow got aggressively political, Jerry Seinfeld, that would get noticed, my friend.
Would people get mad at you? Sure, some people will get mad at you, But we have so much time on this planet, and if you have a platform, you should use it, and you don’t need any more money. Why don’t you go all in? Jerry? And I say that, I know my voice cracked there and made it sound sarcastic.
I’m serious, Jerry, go all in. Jerry says, it’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong. You could do it. Another thing I couldn’t get to this week an oracle from Bloomberg. Lucas Shaw writes a stand up comedy has tripled in size over the last decade.
Burt Kraisher, Taylor Thomason, and Chelsea Handler discussed the boom and stand up. Lucas writes, I went to see John Stewart perform in front of a packed crowd at the Greek Theater. A day later, more than seventeen thousand people crowded into the Hollywood Bowl to watch John Mulaney. Stand up comedy grosses have nearly tripled over the last decade, climbing to where than nine hundred million dollars last year, according to pollstar. Bert Kreischer grossed about thirty three million dollars on tour between October twenty two and twenty three.
Second only to Kevin Hart. Bert Kreischer recently said I have a shortlisted person I should think at my funeral, and Netflix is at the top. Robbie Pra, who runs Netflix Comedy, said stand up was very undervalued. Competitors complained that Netflix was being a rational spending more than the specials were worth. Netflix released fifty or more specials in twenty seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen.
Taylor Thomlinson had a choice between a fifteen minute set for Netflix is the Comedy Lineup and a thirty minute special for Comedy Central. She picked Netflix. Taylor says it became clear that Netflix was the best and fastest way to find your people and build up that fan base. Before that, yet of a sitcom was so hard to get and then have it be successful. Some of the biggest names touring right now, including Andrew Schultz at the Ovaughn, building an audience using YouTube or podcasts.
Bert Kreischer’s first brush with fame came when he uploaded a clip from Especially Made for Showtime on a social media The machine went viral. It was only after that Netflix he gave him a special. Vulture interviewed Robbie Pra Robbie says, something we’re seeing more and more is the cultivation of fantoms by individual artists. So that happens sometimes outside of Netflix. Your neighbor may not know who this person is, but they’re selling out the readA in your town that night.
We just had this discussion in the Facebook group. I think it was Dylan who was pointing out Andrew Schultz sold out the garden a few times. And I said, very very respectfully, walk down the street and ask one hundred people who Andrew Schultz is. You might go zero for one hundred that said he’s selling out the garden. He’s super popular.
So Robbie pra is saying the same thing here. Robbie says, I think the big change, and we’re part of this fly wheel, is how people speak directly to audiences. Oftentimes, now they’re coming to Netflix with diehard fans that are excited to get to watch their favorite person, which otherwise could be very expensive night out. We think it’s a pretty good proposition that you get to see the person on Netflix. One more Quickie article comedy podcast led by the Joe Rogan Experience game to add market share in twenty twenty three.
This one was from Variety. Podcast ad revenue in the US after seven years of double digit hit a slow down in twenty twenty three, however, comedy podcast led by Joe Rogan, gained market share overtaking sports is the biggest content genre by spending. Comedy represented seventeen percent of US podcast AD revenue, up from fourteen percent in twenty twenty two. I just bumped seven stories. That’s how busy it is this week.
So that’ll be busy next week too, so I have at least seven leftovers. Remember the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that they gave to Kevin Hart, Well, it’s on TV. If you want to see Kevin Hart honored by Little Dickie, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, the Plastic Cup Boys, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, you might want to watch this thing. It used to air on PBS, I thinks span I don’t even remember, but now it’s on Netflix, which means it’s going to be a lot more visible. That’s today.
Let’s take a look at the festivals. I’ll do Sidney casually, as I’ve been saying. I’ll get more into that next week. Once Netflix Clears Cam James show is called Mixtape. This is a show about music, love and the summer in two thousand and nine, that I worked as a singing Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator at a suburban dinner theater restaurant.
He wants us to press play and turn the volume up loud. There appears to be a clip here. It wasn’t planning on playing a clip, but a right, if you really want me to, let’s listen. I have no idea what’s about to happen. Here’s what happened.
An error occurred. Please try again later playback id J I R HG dash TSST zero learn more. That getting worked out better for me? All right, Netflix Comedy Festival. We’re almost done here.
Saturday night should be a big night right outside joke at the Hollywood Palladium. All this outside one o’clock Adam Raised, Doctor Phil two fifteen, middle aged Dad jam Band three thirty, Mortgage A four forty five, Regie Watts five point thirty. That ninety show hosted by Kevin Smith. Seven pm. Roast Battle.
That’s the thing I told you about yesterday Judges Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff eight thirty the drop In, hosted by Tim Dillon. Maybe we just hang outside the Hollywood Palladium and see that’s seven and eight thirty shows. Those are great, but then we’d miss Trevor Noah at the Hollywood Bowl at seven thirty, Brut Krasier at the Forum at eight, Chelsea Handler, Fortune Fimester, Mattel Laine, Sam Jay, Vanessa Gonzalez all on One show at seven late night at the Hollywood Palladium, Nikki Glaser at ten thirty, Brett Goldstein at seven two more. Alley Wongs added, she’s either super popular or we’re having trouble recording as special. I’ll guess she’s just super popular at this point for some reason.
The Purple Reen fortieth anniversary screening, Why is that part of the comedy festival? Tom Barry at four pm at Dynasty Typewriter, and a whole bunch of other things. As usual. As I scroll down, it gets more obscure.
All right, let’s make a day of it.
Let’s get up early. Well, let me rephrase that. Let’s go see Todd Burry at four o’clock. Hopefully you’re normally up by three thirty when I want to meet you, so we’ll go see Todd Barry at four. I don’t know, maybe just hang outside and watch the roast battle judge Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff and then stick around for Tim Dillon and then uh maybe do ten thirty Nikki Glaser.
She’s just hosting, but you know that could be a good night, right, Yes, that’s enough for today. That’s your comedy news. If you would like this program, add free. Go to the Apple podcast app find this show. Then on the app you’ll see it says subscribe four ninety nine a month.
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