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Featured: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Robin Williams, Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Eddie Murphy, Ricky Gerzais, Adam Sandler, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bert Kreischer, Dana White
What’s in This Episode
- Damian Scott’s top ten comedians of all time list and Twitter backlash
- Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival July 2023 schedule highlights
- Ricky Gerzais sets record with $1.74 million grossing stand-up show in Los Angeles
- UFC and Adam Sandler develop comedy series about UFC offices
- Bert Kreischer injury during action movie filming and fitness regimen
- Comedy Cellar opens Las Vegas location at Real All Suite Hotel and Casino
- LA Times asks comedians to evaluate Elon Musk’s joke about congressional tweet
Questions Answered in This Episode
What is Ricky Gerzais’s record for stand-up comedy?
Ricky Gerzais set a record for the highest-grossing one-off stand-up show by a British comedian, earning 1.41 million pounds (approximately $1.74 million) at a show in Los Angeles.
Is Adam Sandler working with the UFC?
Yes, Adam Sandler is working on a comedy series in development with the UFC about working in the offices of the UFC, according to Dana White.
Did Bert Kreischer do his own stunts in his movie?
Bert Kreischer did approximately 95% of his own stunts but was not allowed to go down a full flight of stairs. He tore tendons in his left elbow and triceps during filming.
Where did Comedy Cellar open a new location?
Comedy Cellar opened a replica location at the Real All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
What did comedians say about Elon Musk’s joke on Twitter?
LA Times asked comedians to evaluate Elon Musk’s ‘that’s what she said’ response to a congressional tweet. Comedians like Harry Knobel and Spencer Crittenden criticized it as not making sense or fitting the context.
When is the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival in 2023?
The Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival runs from July 14-29, 2023, with stronger lineups starting in the second week beginning July 25.
Full Transcript
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The Shark Deck Johnny McK with your Daily Comedy News. As I put today’s show together on Friday, Eddie Murphy was trending, and I was like, why is Eddie Murphy trending? Somebody named Damian Scott on Twitter posted a top ten comedians of all time list and it didn’t go over. Well. You’re ready for the top ten comedians of all time according to Damian Scott, let me go from one to ten?
All right? Number one George Carlin to Richard Pryor. That’s most people’s list. You know, you could flip those back and forth, but Carlin Pryor generally accepted as the one and two. He’s got Dave Chappelle at number three, okay, Robin Williams at four, Louis C.K.
At number five. I guess not canceled. Jerry Seinfeld six, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer at number eight. Kevin Hart, who’s a wonderfully talented, charismatic, funny person with awesome movies and cool TV shows and side businesses. It’s Kevin Hart, the ninth best stand up comedian of all time?
No, just stop a number ten. Jim Gaffigan, the one that really annoyed people seemed to be Amy Schumer and people we’re asking why Eddie Murphy’s not on the list. Now, I’m really as I age thinking about Eddie Murphy, and as a teenager in the eighties, I loved Eddie Murphy. But the more I listen to Eddie Murphy, all I hear is a Richard Pryor cover band. He was a shooting star.
Obviously, he’s had a great movie career, and he’s funny, and everybody my age loves him. But he’s a Richard Pryor cover band. Just listen to the type of material, the voices he does in the material, even wearing the red leather suit is straight out of Richard’s thing. So I’m okay leaving Eddie off the list. I wanted to start looking at the Just for Laughs Montree All Comedy Festival schedule.
Maybe not a deep dive today, but just wanted to check it out. So the festival runs July fourteenth through the twenty ninth. If you’re planning on heading up, go to the second week. The second week starts to be stronger. I’ve opened up their calendar here.
The first shows they’re promoting July eighteenth, Just for the Culture and The Nasty Show, and it’s mostly those the first week. Once you get to July twenty fifth, Tom Pop is up there, Daniel Sloss, Ali Wong, Brad Williams, Who’s fantastic, Jessica Curson, Ronnie Chan please don’t destroy on the twenty eighth Brits Ish. That’s always a great show, Anthony jessinek May, Martin, Leslie Jones, Gala, Remy Yusef. Such good shows, Kyle Canine, Neil Brennan, Eddie Zard. They don’t have new faces up on the calendar yet.
My guest, based on the past, his new faces will be Wednesday, July twenty six. If I am able to make it this year, that is when I would go. I hope to make it. Got to convince somebody to go with me too. It’s no fun.
I’ve done the festival solo and while you’re at a show, it’s cool, and then it ends you’re like, oh, I’m by myself. So I’ll see if somebody wants to tag along. Montreal Comedy Festival. If you’ve never been highly highly recommended, Ricky Gervais made history. He did a stand up show in Los Angeles and made one point four one million pounds.
Let me throw that into Google and see what that is. An American A million, seven million, seven four to be exact. Ricky Gervais, congratulations boy, I guess he’s not canceled. The show has been dubbed the highest grossing one off by a British comedian. Ricky was on Twitter and said a career highlight, I should resire now thanks to everybody bought a ticket to find out about the record.
As the icing on the cake. I was happy enough when it didn’t rain. I can’t even imagine what my mom would think about me playing the Hollywood Bowl. I hope she’d be horrified by the language. Tell me I look fat, and I’d be secretly proud.
He added. I wish I’d filmed it now, if only to remind myself it actually happened. Hey, this is exciting. From MMA fighting dot Org. You’re home for comedy news.
The UFC is working on a comedy in development with Adam Sandler. Dana White, head of the UFC, says, we’re working on a show right now with Adam Sandler. That’s a comedy about working in the offices of the UFC. You know, maybe it’d be good? Can I be honest?
I was putting together the weekly comedy thing. That’s the show I host on Live One, and on this week’s show, I featured an Adam Sandler bit called gay Robot. It’s very, very funny, Adam, can you do more of that? Sebastian Maniscalco to the Crew Call podcast how important it was for the creative team of his new movie All About My Father, including the co writer and the director, to understand the nuances of family life on a personal level. He said director Laura Trusso won the job in part because she’s Italian American.
He said of his connection, We’re like dolphins. We have a secret language, Italian speak. I knew it. I’d have a shorthand with her. Sabashman was asked if his time working with de Niro on The Irishman helped him land at Robert Nio to be in the movie, and he said, yeah, I did The Irishman with him, but it’s not like we bonded over Canoli’s on set.
Hey, John, you never talk about Bert Kreisher. I know right well. He spoke to Yahoo and said, I did probably ninety five percent of my own stunts. The only sense I wasn’t allowed to do was go down the full flight of stairs. He got hurt during filming.
He said, I hurt myself midway through the movie. I tore tendons in my left elbow and my triceps. Prepare for all this action, he was on a strict fitness plan. He said, I worked out really hard every morning. I ran four miles and lift weights.
Had I not done that, I would have been a mess, regardless of being buff. He wasn’t allowed to do interviews shirtless. That’s his signature thing. He took Larry the Cable Guy’s sleeveless thing and next leveled that going shirtless. While Bert Kreisher had to put on a shirt for his press tour, and boy he’s been everywhere.
Bert told Collider, I hate wearing shirts and I’m gaining weights and on on. My shirts fit me right now. He was asked a publicist, say, you’re wearing a shirt today, and Bert said, yo, yeah. They have shirts for everything I’m supposed to do, and I’m so fat i can’t fit in them, and I end up taking them off in the middle of the interview anyway, because my buttons are just bulging. He loved every second of the movie.
He said, I felt like every day was the first date, and so everything we did was just a blast. The one thing that was tedious for me, I have tactile issues. Like in America were a little more sensitive to people’s mental health, and I didn’t like it when they put blood on me, and I had to have blood on me for half the movie. He was sticky. It was uncomfortable.
I’d be all over my hands and that was the most tedious. They’d just be like, put it on. I’d be like, well, can we wait until I eat?
And then once it was on, it was uncomfortable all day because I was sticky.
That was the only part of the movie that I was like, I’d never be able to do one of those movies like Eddie Murphy would do with the clumps, would all that makeup. I could never do that. I’d be losing my mind. New York’s famous comedy seller has opened a replica at the Real All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. That’s kind of neat This week Thursday through Sunday, a showcase with Rocky Dale, Davis, Joe Perino, Alex Koman, partist Parker and Mark Cohen two shows a night seven and nine thirty.
The LA Times asked some comedians about Elon Musk, thinking that Elon Musk is funny. In March, Congressman Jeffrey’s tweeted how stems are fighting hard for the American people, right wing extremists are fighting each other. In response to Jeffrey’s tweet, Elon Musk said, that’s what she said. Harry Knobol, who said the problem is fighting hard, doesn’t have a double meaning.
Also, a second sentence preceded the jokes, so it’s not really clear what he ā¦
Spencer Critten didn’t said what if he had just said chick please? It’s just as stupid, just as not sensible, but it fits a little better, right. Laurie Kilmartin said, the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. It’s the kind of comedy that Ai writes, and this is what you can expect if they don’t settle the writer strike. I like what you did there.
Musk also made a joke about the pay attention here Texas Institute of Technology and Science. Right, so it’s the t I t S paying attention, trying to keep a clean Yes, the Texas Institute of Technology is science. Spencer kritten And said, saying that word out loud isn’t funny. Fun Bags is funny. Boobs is funnier.
There’s a lot of them, rocket dogs, chesticles. If you want to find the comedy in breasts, it’s there. And I’d sell to you yesterday about James A. Castor’s new musical album. I just thought this was cute.
A Castor remembers the moment he fell in love with music. He was six years old. He was at a party and somebody put on a compilation album and the songs on it men, it Works, down Under and Centerfold by the Jay Giles Band. Great tunes there, James A Castor And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows to see tomorrow.
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