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Caloroga Shark Media Robust one again. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I cannot get Jerry Seinfeld out of this podcast. You may have seen that on Sunday dozens of students at Duke University’s graduation walked out on Jerry some chanting free Palestine.
Let’s listen our commencement speaker. So Jerry was able to keep as cool deliver his entire speech no interruptions. I listened to the entire seventeen minutes and I pulled some clips for you as you listen. What us how Jerry actually speaks like Tomp Poppa’s delivery, not the Jerry Seinfeld impression that we all do though. Hey, you ever notice he doesn’t really speak like that.
It’s more of a Tomp Papa delivery. Pay a lot of attention to it. If you’re in a small submersible that looks like a giant kazoo and going to visit the Titanic seven miles down at the bottom of the ocean, and the captain of the vessel is using a game Boy controller, pay attention to that. What are you checking out down there? Oh?
I see what happened? This ship sank. Now I understand why it never made it into port. And here’s an interesting take on privilege from Jerry Seinfeld. Find something where you love the good parts and don’t mind the bad parts too much.
The torture you’re comfortable with. This is the golden path to victory in life, work, exercise, relationships. They all have a solid component of pure torture, and they are all one thousand percent worth it. Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately. Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have.
I would like to take a moment to defend it again. A lot of you are thinking, I can’t believe they invited this guy too late. I say, use your privilege. I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege.
If you want to be a comedian. Thanks. If I messed up a funny story around my relatives, they would go, that’s not how you tell that joke. The prostitute has to be behind the drapes when the wife comes in. You went to Duke, that is an unbelievable privilege.
I now have an honorary doctorate, a Humane letters degree from Duke university, and if I can figure out a way to use that, I will. I haven’t figured anything out yet. I think it’s pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I’m wearing. But so what I’ll take it. My point is we’re embarrassed about things we should be proud of, and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.
This incident led me to wonder should Jerry Seinfeld go political in his comedy. I talked about this on Saturday, and then this came up, and then I doubled down on it and wrote about it in the Substack on Sunday. I’ll just refer you there. The link is in the show notes. It’s free.
If it asks you for money, just go nope. I want the free version if you want to read my thoughts but the too long didn’t read is Hey, Jerry, why don’t you go political? George Carlin wasn’t the hippie topp weather Man forever. Would love to see your take on things. You’re a good writer, you know how’d be funny?
You say you’re passionate about it. Go for it anyway. I wrote at length about that on the substack link in the show notes I mentioned in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, I did not like Nikki Glaser’s special. I was bouncing around the channels as we do. You don’t do that anymore, but you know what I mean on a Saturday night and I’m like, oh, hbo Nikki Glaser special.
I will check this out because I’m really into her this week because she crushed at the Tom Brady Roast and that special. Didn’t like it, and I knew as soon as I posted it. I knew Nikki Glaser is having a great week and people are gonna get mad at Johnny Mack for not liking the special. Didn’t like the special, as I wrote, I just didn’t buy her premises, at least in the twenty minutes. Maybe later in the special, and I didn’t watch the entire special where she got serious about depression and topics.
Maybe then it was good, But that first fifteen twenty minutes it sounded like stand up comedy is supposed to sound. We actually got into that in the Facebook group as well. I was discussing Bob Hope. Let me pull it up because I made just a nonsensical example of a Bob Hope joke. So I wrote a Bob Hope esque joke where the tag doesn’t even make sense from the setup, but it has the rhythm of a joke.
Now, I don’t have a half assed Bob Hope impression. I just tried five time and it’s so bad I took it out, so I’ll just do it as Johnny Mack. But setup would be, Hey, do you notice Richard posted in the Facebook group nay pause and you book for the camera that Bob Hope way and you go, yeah, it was either that or try to convince Nixon to leave Vietnam. Right. The punchline doesn’t even make sense, but it’s got the rhythm of a joke, and that’s what I felt NICKI was doing that.
It was just yuck, yucks, and it had the formation of comedy. But I was like, I don’t buy anything you’re doing here. I know this opinion is going to be unpopular, but that’s okay if you’ve been listening last week or so. Let’s just add Nikki Glaser to the list of people that can be mad at me. So we’ve got Jerry Howard, Nikki Glaser, Mulaney.
Everybody at Netflix. Newsweek really liked the special coincidentally they had her for an interview. I don’t know if that’s real late or not, and they write comedian Nikki Lazer never wants to offend, quoting Nikki, I never want to say offensive for raunchy things or push the envelope, because that speaks to some kind of comedian who just wants to rile people up. She wants to hate you with honest and really funny, precise, acute jokes throughout.
Meanwhile, Glazier said she was at the Tom Brady after party and Tom Brady di…
She said he probably had something to do because he’s a busy guy. Kind of weird that Tom didn’t show up with the party. He was on his way out and I ran into him in the hallway and just said, hey, thanks for having me. We didn’t meet him before the show. I only met him after I got done with my set, and after telling horrible things about him, he just goes, you did a great job, good luck with everything, which is pretty much saying I’ll never see you again and don’t try to contact me.
Have a good life. Nikki said all that on the Paton McAfee show last Thursday. Netflix announced that Big Guy, A special from Rachel Feinstein will be on Netflix one week from today May twenty. First, there is a clip, let’s listen. My mom is like aggressively liberal.
She would have preferred if I married like a genderless Kenyan composter, an Irish Catholic fireman. Like she was praying one of us was gay. She was just sitting in the kitchen waiting, like there’s Coco if anyone feels gay and wants to talk about it a lot. Even physically, she’s always wearing some sort of long like menopausal cape, just some kind of navel host smock. She wears a hostile amount of turquoise.
It’s aggressive in Big Guy Rachel Feinstein, who we had doing mornings at series Sexam Raw Dog towards the end of my run. But there was a boss there who one time told me that his wife wasn’t familiar with the comedians we were playing, and we had to redo the playlist and we basically turned it into a top forty station instead of the original nine point five years, which was, hey, we know comedy and we’re trying to educate you, So we were too early on Rachel. Oops, sorry, boss Guy at him’s the list of people. It’s Madame Rachel and her new special Big Guy Jokes about her life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand up comic in the words of her three year old daughter, and my Daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic. A very good listen is the podcast Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Zepp’s I’ll refer you to the Jimmy Carr episode.
I went for a walk on site and really really enjoyed listening to Jimmy breakdown comedy. Here’s Jimmy talking about the importance of having a real job to appreciate your showbiz career. I work for Shell Oil for a couple of years. Yeah, I’d like a proper job. I think it’s quite important as well, because that thing of the haardonic treadmill.
We get very used to our lives being good, so you need something to anchor you. You kind of need the school years or the colleges or the work years. If you’re in show business or doing anything creative, you need something to judge it against. Yes, to go, well, that was really boring, and now I do this thing and it’s really fun. Very few people get to breathe that rarefied air, and so I get kind of sick and tired of people complaining about it.
Jimmy’s a comedian, so he had to be asked about cancel culture. Interesting take here, Yes, but I think you have to like size it. I think you have to write the size that you have to say, Well, look, I told a joke and some people didn’t like it. That’s as serious as it is. Like, if someone has a problem with that a joke, Okay, I’m not for everyone.
I would say, there are fifty jokes in that show of that show that’s the new one, that was a preview of the new show. Ye, I mean it’s literally happened fifty jokes that are worse than that right in the show. Right, you have no right to be offended by that joke, right, because what about the ones that came before and after and the idea that you go, oh, that sacred cow, the thing that offends me you can’t joke about. But the jokes in the show about rape or pedophilia or famine or does it not to be about Jimmy? But all the other all the other stuff’s fine, right, that one that’s a specific one, I think actually, the way the world is at the moment, it just seems very true.
I can’t imagine tend to be a slow newsweek when these things catch fire. Comedy sort of like a canary in the mine if you look at like Jerry Seinfeld stopped playing the universities in America about ten years ago. He said, yeah, I’m not I’m not playing the university campus anymore. They’re a bit too sensitive. That was the canary in the mind, right, That was the that was that was ten years ago, going this this these people are being crazy.
Do you remember his gag that that he got the they were upset about. He had a gag, I know, he had a gag about the young people scrolling through Instagram and just scrolling or scrolling through Tinder or one of these dating apps or something, and he said that there’s they’re kind of just scrolling and checking it and selecting and yes or knowing like a gay prince or something. It was like it was that mild, and they were like, that’s a homophobic it’s also an anti royalist slur perhaps, but or like or like I think he’s a gay French prince or something like that. He was just saying these people are behaving in an entitled fashion, right, and but yeah, that was that was I mean, if that’s pretty your okay, yeah, you’re offended by that? How many gay princes the world?
Good luck in the world though, because it’s you know, if you’re that brittle and good stuff from Jimmy on the evolution of stand up comedy, which you know, I struggle with this as well, like where do we start? And he’s starting it with Carlin and Pryor. Good take here, but really I’d say sixteen ninety seventy if you look at maybe Richard Pryor and George Carlin as John the Baptist, these guys come along and they start selling out shows where it’s just them talking for sort of an hour and a half two hours and being hilarious, and they’re kind of they’ve come from the nightclubs, but they’re doing an hour and a half. They’re playing like rock stars in these venues and people are coming to see them, and they’re looking at them and they’re they’re saying something very interesting. There’s there’s no filter.
You know, if you really think about what friendship it’s like, really good friends, you’ve got no filter. Work colleague’s got a bit of filter strangers, you’ve got a lot of filter comics. It’s no filter. It’s sort of direct with them. It’s like a friendship.
And then as things progress through the seventies, eighties, nineties, it’s getting better, it’s getting more relevant. I’d say it’s more relevant today than it’s ever been. So we’re going to work on a thing at the moment on teaching stand up comedy, because it strikes me that it’s more relevant than music. Like music is non verbal communication, and it’s incredibly important to me. And it it because an emotion within you, or can anker emotions within you that are just it’s phenomenal, right, but it’s not as relevant as stand up comedy.
Robbie Prau getting nothing but good press. The Wall Street Journal profiled Robbie. He’s the guy running Netflix comedy, and I thought this was really interesting as to how these deals are getting done these days. The Journal rights using the lower cost, lower risk model on Netflix now applies to most stand up deals. Robbie Prout licensed a one hour special from Leanne Morgan.
She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and could negotiate a new deal if it performed well. That explains why a lot of these specials look homemade. Like Tim Dillon, who I love and I’m going to deny that when he gets canceled. I never said I like Tim Dillon. Who said I like Tim Dillon?
I never said that his special The sound was terrible. I don’t know if he hired a friend. I don’t know what went into Tim Dillon’s special, but it wasn’t mixed right in my opinion at Tim Dillon’s illist right, howidz Tern, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mellany, Tim Dillon, fans of Nicky Glazer, and everyone at Netflix. Leanne had a cover the cost of producing the show and Scott Beckett he does not like the chokeoid joke. He’s mad and I can tell he doesn’t like it.
She had to cover the cost. She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and can negotiate a new deal for form well. I’m everyone was a hit. Last month, Morgan signed with the streamer for two additional specials plus a sixteen episode sitcom. An agent at CAAA said Robbie basically recreated Montreal comedy festival in a better location with significantly more financing for me.
W Bert Kreischer is not a cokehead, and he’s thrilled that the Tom Brady roast didn’t make him seem like one. He explained to Jimmy Kimmel that he had nicotine patches and a can in his pocket, but he was informed by the director of the roast that they were too distracting. So I said, okay, I’ll put them in a little bag. Sam Jay Ripbert saying that he’s a fake party animal, that I don’t even do drugs. I’m not even dead like the big ones.
So I went in my pocket and pulled out my nicotine patches and I just wiggled them. Andrew Schultz goes, you got a bag of blow on you, and then the camera’s on me in the forum and the forum goes nuts, like this guy brought coke. Sigoura comes back to me and tells me you’re about to go viral. Everyone’s gonna think you’re a coke heead, but they edited it out. Thank god.
I don’t want to have to deal with My daughters have been saying no pills, no powder for years and the dad’s rolling in with half an eight. Paul Bert said the roast was terrifying because it’s a big list, it’s a big day as there’s a bunch of murderers. But it went real well. It went great, and then god we followed Kim Kardashian medi and Rudy Moreno passed away Friday evening. Moreno died of complications from a stroke and sepsis, according to his son Nathan.
Nathan added, he put up a gritty fight and did all he could. Agent Mark Scrogg said Rudy was a great mentor to many comics. Was a great comedy show host, which is the toughest job in comedy because you have to support and let the others shine, and it was very involved in local charities. Ken Jung bothed on social media, my heart is truly broken. Rudy Moreno, the godfather of Latino comedy, was the first person to book me at the ice House.
In fact, the first time my wife ever saw me stand up was at the ice House on Rudy’s show. All this led me to doing my Netflix special at the ice House. Thanks to Rudy Morino constantly supporting me letting me get stage time. And all his shows, and he was hilarious, the consummate comedian. I’m laughing thinking of his East La Santa bit right now.
He was an incredible actor, guitarist and singer as well, which is a brilliant artist. Love you so much, Rudy, I know you’re making Heaven laugh. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, Bonnie Tanky’s show is called Lab Meet. The Herald’s son calls her a dry and delightfully kooky. She’s here to do something very different.
I played some of her material from Melbourne about a month ago, but here is a different part of her set. Let’s listen. I don’t have kids because I can’t afford them. I was I was online the other day, just like looking at kids, and I saw this thing and it said that the average cost of raising a child in Australia is half a million dollars. That’s ivucave them the whole time.
And I just don’t have that sort of money. But my sister has kids, and the youngest one, I was about two months old, and I was holding her the other day and I was looking at her and I was thinking, you are so cute. Not worth half a million bucks. And at that moment I dropped her. Yeah, and I just felt like so bad, like because it really does depreciate their value lots of fun.
I like her a lot. The Holly Reporter was that Nick Offerman and Friends Versus Climate Crisis part of the Netflix Festival last week. Some of the friends included Nicole Byer Otsko at Cotska and kamel On Gianni Mae Martin as well. The reporter says one of the highlights was Otsko’s set about her high school cheerleading days. Drag queen Patty Gurnia gave the audience a science lesson in support of their thesis and Nature is Gay.
The environmentalists performed a delightful drag routine of a clownfish transitioning from male to female that included NEMO references, costume changes, and confetti that sounds fun. SNL’s fiftieth anniversary coming up. NBC has announced a seven month long party to celebrate SNL, including a November election special, new holiday specials, a documentary series That’ll be Good, multipart music specials That’ll be good as well, and a comedy special. At Radio City Music Hall, there will be a three hour SNL fifty primetime special that will air Sunday, February sixteenth from eight to eleven PM. Unless the NFL pushes the super Bowl to that weekend, then you’re not going to show it that night.
I’ll tell you that. What is the super Bowl next year? Oh, you’re in luck. The super Bowl is February ninth, so it’ll go. I guess they’re not afraid of the Daytona five hundred.
The show and red carpet event will welcome stars of the past and present. I’m expecting a lot of Will Ferrell. Technically, the fiftieth anniversary is October eleventh, twenty twenty five. Dennis Larry I have told you about this before, but it’s now official. A series order going to Going Dutch Abody’s storing and executive produced by Dennis Leary.
Dennis Leary is sixty six. By the way, this single camera series, I bring that up for a reason. It centers on an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel, a sixty six year old colonel who, apparently after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, the sixty six year old colonel now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it has a Michelin star level commissary and a top notch bowling alley.
If I’m understanding what I’m reading on veteran dot Com correctly, age sixty two is the maximum age listed in the title ten USC for officers below general and flag grades. Sixty six year old Dennis Leary, I guess is playing a sixty one year old colonel. What if the show runs ten years? What will happen? It’s a sitcom.
John po dot Com tells me that the average age for a colonel is forty five years old. I’m sure I’m misunderstanding something. If you are clearly more expert than I am in military rank and age, would love to hear from you. Either email me it’s in the show notes or hit the Facebook group taiy com news podcast group. Tracy Morgan getting a new show on Paramount Plus.
This is set in the same world as The Neighborhood. Tracy Morgan will play Francois Crutchfield aka Crutch Cedric. The entertainer said in a statement, I’m excited to be expanding our the Neighborhood universe by producing a show with the legendary comedian Tracy Morgan. Legendary is a bit strong ed Tracy to the list, Howard Stern. Tracy Morgan.
The new character is a close cousin of my character Calvin Butler, and you’ll enjoy some of their many similarities. Why can’t it be the same character? Morgan plays crutch a say it like it is widowed father who is challenged when as two adult children and a couple of grandchildren need to move back home, and let’s just say there’ll be several comedic complications. Bill Maher has announced he’s not gonna do stand up anymore. He was on Club Ran and I’m talking to his guest at Jerry Seinfeld.
Mor said, after this year, I’m gonna stop doing stand up comedy. I don’t want to make it like a big announcement or anything. I’m doing a special at the end of the year. It’ll be my thirteenth for HBO, and that’s a lot. I put a lot of time and effort doing it, because, as you know, stand up is like playing the cello.
You can’t just walk up there. You have to stay in practice, and I do, and I’ve always loved stand up and I’m always working on it. But I have a show. Jerry said, it’s not crazy. I think perhaps for you, whatever feels right for you feels right.
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