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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jerry Seinfeld in the news yet again. Howard Stern has accepted Jerry’s apology. On his radio show, Howard said Jerry had said that I’m basically an interviewer and that I’m not a comedian.
That now comedians of podcasts and comedians are, you know, funnier or something than me. I read and I went, that’s weird because Jerry’s a personal friend of ours, especially his wife Jessica is really good friends with Beth Stern. Stern confirmed that Seinfeld called him quote immediately to apologize for the comments, and Stern was happy to forgive his friend. Or Howard I said, Jerry, you don’t even have to please. This is embarrassing.
I’m the king of going on the air and having millions of regrets afterward. Apology accepted, I don’t care, And you know what, I’m not a comedian. I’m an interviewer. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of a comedian.
But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Time out. Here’s Howard, yet again positioning himself as the great interviewer, third act Howard, revisionist history Howard. Not the guy that did beastiality dial date. No, not the guy that had women come in and ride a device that I can’t even describe if I want to keep my podcast clean.
Not that guy. Not the guy that did blackface. Not the guy that was route to Bob Hope when Bob was like ninety five. Not the guy that had a war with bon Jovi, Not the guy that had a war with Sam Kinnison. Not the guy that didn’t book people like Gilbert Gottfried once this third act thing started, Howard.
If he’s not a comedian, he’s an interviewer for Howard Stern. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of comedian. But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Stern explained that Seinfeld apologized for a really long time, and he said it came out really wrong.
According to Howard, Jerry asked to come on the radio show to apologize there, but Stern said, not necessarily. I don’t want to get into it. It’s awkward. It’s fine. I’ve got to call up people and apologize for stuff I’ve done on the air.
When I’m a huge fan of these people, I don’t know what gets into me. I f up sometimes, So it wasn’t that big a deal. I didn’t really think much about it. Now this is me being a sure II. They go all out radio war with nineteen eighty five Howard Stern killing Jerry over this, just for the drama of it.
That’s what we loved, Howard taking the high road and going it’s okay. I mean, where’s the fun in that? Hey, Sam Catison, It’s all cool, bon Chovy, don’t worry about it. Where’s the fun in that? Hey, zoo keeper peace Bro, where’s the fun in that?
Howard? Howard Stern, the Great interviewer? Ignore the part before twenty fifteen. U. I’m in a good mood today.
I don’t pick the news. I just tell you what the news is. Andrew Schultz compared to Kim Kardashian to a robot with no human aspect. Schultz was on his own podcast, Flagrant and said that Kim sat with perfect posture for three hour street and seemed disassociated during the roost of Tom Brady, which we’re still talking about ten days later. Schultz said, even when she was up there, they were kind of booing her.
It didn’t make her smile, didn’t make her set. It was nothing. Kim’s up there doing her set, and this guy in the stands out of nowhere just goes bitch, just as if he’d been holding it in for a whole minute and he just couldn’t hold it in anymore. Just seeing Kim Kardashian on stage for three minutes was too much for him to hold it in. Bert Krasier and Tom Sigora on the Two Bears podcasts they had Jimmy Carr on I was trying to go back through the Facebook group to think, whoever told me to listen to this?
Thank you? Whoever it was, Dylan Scott, whoever it was, thank you. I pulled several clips here. First up here is Bert and Tom talking about how they prepped for the roast. Oh, let’s talk about our experience with the roast.
They get a call like a month ago and they say, hey, we’re doing this roast to Tom Brady, would you be interested in doing it? And you go I said yes, we’re both in, and I go no. He said absolutely, I go no. You were like, there’s nothing we can win out of this. Like, what are you talking about, Like, we’ve never been on roast, we’re not roasters or anything.
But then they said, we’re trying something different where we want you guys to do it together. And even then I was like, you mean like just go to the podium together and rose together. And they were like, no, we want to do like we’re thinking of, like trying something that we’ve never done before. I think they wanted a sports center thing first. Yeah.
Yeah, And we were like, nah, I got to give flowers. I give him to you last night. I’ll give them to everyone. Yeah. Well you said no, and you said you called me and said, we’re not saying yes yet.
We’re gonna have a meeting with Netflix. We’re gonna talk through with the writers, yeah, and with the producers. So we got on a thing and in a thirty minute zoom call, I spoke zero, which I think everyone will find shocking. Yeah, that’s true. And you talked the whole time, and you had a million questions of things angles, you liked, angles, you wanted to do, things you were cool to do.
You liked the multimedia presentation, you liked it being different than everyone else’s. Yeah, because you’re like it and there you can’t really draw comparison because it’s apples and oranges. So we can succeed on our own or fail on our own. Yeah.
And then at the end you were like, Bird, do you have any do you have anything…
And I said, I said yes, Thursday, Yeah, that’s exactly what you said yessday, I said yes, before we had any idea what we were doing. Then Jimmy Carr joined what was interesting to me about the Jimmy Carr segments? And I could listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day? Apparently because I did it this morning and I did it yesterday. This turned into a conversation between Bert Kreischer and Jimmy Carr.
Sogora kind of disappeared during it. I don’t think there’s anything weird going on, or maybe Bert was just excited. But you know, I’m listening for an hour and I’m like, is sigory even there? I got a text? Did you hear the text?
I’m gonna get more texts. I’m supposed to be ordering lunch from Jersey Mikes, so the family is going to be texting me orders. Why don’t you mute your phone, John, because that’s not fun. That’s not how I like to do this podcast. I like all the quirkiness.
Anyway, Sigora kind of disappeared in the middle of it. No harm, no foul, just noticed it. They started talking about Tony Hingecliff and echoed what I said the other day that I think Tony just took a step up in class, as they say, and from time to time you’ve heard me. Here’s another order? Could you order for Jersey Mikes?
I better pause this podcast, be right back. All right, I’ve got the orders here. We’ve got a number fourteen, the veggie number seven, turkey and provolon that’s for me, an original Italian number thirteen, and a Chipotle cheese steak. No, we don’t want a Chipotle cheese steak. See it’s a good thing I’m doing this bit.
We want a regular cheese steak. All right, that was close. I’m gonna hit next here, thirty eight eighty. I’m not telling you my credit card number. I’m telling them, but I’m not telling you done.
Where were we? What’s gonna happen now is I’m waiting for my banker to call me back. And that’s why I had my phone unmuted, So now that it’s muted, I’m gonna wind up missing his call. Oh were we let’s see. Oh yeah, I’ve talked about the past where I do this Emperor room thing where I don’t really laugh.
I analyze comedy, and comedians do that in the back of the room. And here’s Jimmy Carr talking about that very thing. I would say, like I was watching, it is a bit of you that watches in, you know from the audience is a comic going that’s good, that’s good, that’s great. Line. Okay, you know, you’ll kind of you’re kind of analyzing.
I think I wish it was up back.
And then one more clip the setup here is Tom and Bert were talking about how …
This was something that I kept noticing too, because in seeing prompter and watching all the acts, one of the things that you pick up on was the people that didn’t do well, and there were a few that like it was. I’m saying, like the regular roasting was was. It wasn’t because of them or the material. It’s that they kept going off script. Yeah, because we would run with that and they commit to the bit.
They would read like the top line and you’re like okay, and then and they don’t realize, see, we know how important economy of words and like the you gotta say this before this is the connective tissue to that, and they would go first line and then I would watch them like riff on that and then try to pick up and you’re like, yeah, it doesn’t work like that. You have to stick to the whole thing for the thing at the end to pay off. Yeah. I thought. I thought Kim cutish she did a great job.
I mean, the joke is why I wouldn’t have told anyone. The reason the reason I think she was able to witch because she ended up getting a big couple of big pops, is because she stayed in the pocket to get booed like that and to just sit with it, yes, okay, yeah, and then to do it the confidence yeah yeah, like to get booed by that many people, It’s like most people would crumble while we’re analyzing comedy The eight hundred Pound Gorilla tells us Mark Norman’s got a new documentary called Page to Stage. Mark is ready to pull back the curtain on how he writes his signature jokes and open up on his creative process. Page to Stage is available on punch Up Dot Live. The doc follows Mark Norman as he takes an inkling of a premise that came to him in the bathroom of a fast food chain to five different stages in New York City that very night.
Over the course of six months, Mark sculpts his joke failure after failure throughout Europe in the Midwest, until it’s finally ready for a sold out show at Carnegie Hall. That’s fun, Norman says, these jokes don’t write themselves. Rolling Stone caught one of Ali Wong’s shows last week during the festival. She told the audience, I didn’t expect the news of my divorce to be so widespread in public. I felt embarrassed and ashamed, but I didn’t realize that all these media outlets were acting like a bat signal, letting all potentially interested men know.
I’ve never been pursued this much of my life. I get a phone call from this guy who I met a dinner party in the past and he got my number from a mutual friend. He was like, Hey, it just hopped near the news about your divorce and I’ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl. And you know it sounds crazy, but I want you to be my girlfriend, she jokes.
I was just like, I just paid twenty five dollars for the dating app. You seem really nice, but I got to get my money’s worth every time she arrived at a new location on her vacation, and that man sent flowers to every hotel she stayed at. When she told her girlfriends about the gesture, they thought it. When she told her male friends, they said the man sounded like a psychopath. I’ll go with the latter as well, she said.
That’s how cheap and lazy men have become. When a fellow man commits any act of kindness and a romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness. Ellen Degenerous is returning new Netflix for what she’s calling her final stand up special. This is six years after her last hour, which was called Relatable. This one will air later in the year.
Ellen says to answer the questions everyone was asking, Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life. Let’s see what’s happening down at the Sydney Comedy Festival. I’ve already played this clip as I pulled the audio, and I really like this from Kevin Duo Jin.
Kevin Jin is the physically largest Asian Australian comedian in Sydney. He’d like to talk to you about Buddhism. There’ll be Zen Riddle’s diagrams and family photos from Kevin’s childhood. Before I hit the clip here, I should probably tell you he has a long strand of hair, which you will notice, and he will explain I have a foot long ret title because I want to have a social life on hard mode and I hate being able to date. My mom actually gave me some dating advice.
She said, Kevin, if a girl ever likes you, she’s wrong, which is very mean but also very silly, because I’m not going to take dating advice from a virgin. I don’t mean a brag, but I’ve actually taken several women out for a night in the city, you know, get a nice dinner in Chinatown or as I like to call it town. At the end of the night, I’d be like, oh, hey, I had a really good time. Just want to be clear, was this a date? And sometimes I’ll say, ah, I just want to be friends and that’s cool.
But sometimes I’ll make it weird. They’ll be like, oh, I just want to be friends.
Also, I don’t date Asians.
It’s not exactly constructed criticism, like, if anything, this is a genetic condition. But so Rondo for had a really good comeback. They’re like, all the Donasians and I’ll be like, you know what, that’s totally cool. It’s totally fine. I don’t date racists.
A little clapter at the end there, but I laughed at the front end, really enjoyed that. Ali Morgan’s show was called hard Lunch or is it called hard Launch? I wrote both down. I’m gonna guess launch is correct. Remember the old thing from the seventies far out space nuts was it?
They were going? They pushed the launch button instead of the lunch button, and they wound up in space? Remember that, you know what I’m talking about it’s called hard launch is Ali Morgan’s show no clip, But being really honest, what caught my eye was the cover art that she’s using. She looks nice in this photo. And you know, if you’re in any sort of show biz us recording a podcast in your basement and I did actually shower before the podcast today, a major step up.
How you look is part of it, it really is. You know, why did I click her cover art as opposed to thirty others? Well I did click thirty others, but nobody else had any audio, neither does she. But this was the one I went, Ah, I’m interested in seeing what Alie Morgan has to say. Ali graduated from drama school ready to take on any role that came her way, and what came her way was commercials.
The Sydney Morning Harold said newcomer could be a younger Tim mentioned that’s how praise four stars. The Sydney scoop five stars belly laughs, they said. Australian Arts Review said we can expect Morgan to make some big waves in the near future, and the Theater People gave her four and a half stars, saying part bo Burnham, part hannigansby Morgan holds her audience in the palm of her hand, A right that sounds good. Far Out magazine got up with John Clees. Clees was talking about how there should be a separate OSCAR category for comedies.
The topic Standy Kuprick’s Doctor Strangelove. The nineteen sixty four movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peter Sellers. At one Nune Clease noted that Sellers lost out on Best Actor to Rex Harrison for his role in My Fair Lady, Please feels that Sellers had one of the greatest comedy performances of all time. Of course, they never give oscars to funny people. I think there is an extraordinary, completely incorrect idea that drama is somehow more important and more difficult than comedy, whereas, in my opinion, comedy is a great deal more difficult.
All you have to do if you get a straight part is you’ve got to make certain choices to make them believable. If you’ve got to be funny, you’ve got to make certain choices make them believable, and then put all of your comedy technique on top of that, which a lot of straight actors don’t have. There are some actors who can do funny and some very good actors who can’t. But I think all the very very best comedians can act interesting. Seth Myers he’ll be hosting Late Night with Seth Myers through twenty twenty eight.
In case you’re curious about the rest of the gang, John Oliver’s deal goes through twenty six. Stephen Colbert has a three year deal that he signed last year, so two years left on that, and Kim All he’s getting near the end here of this deal of twenty five. He’s talked about retiring, but I’ll believe it when I see it. And the Stranger dot Com has been asking comedians who were performing at the Egyptian about the ghosts. They asked Sam Miller, Hey, Sam Miller, this shows out the Egyptian, which is rumored to be haunted.
Do you believe in ghosts? I don’t know why I like this, bet, Sam Miller said, I don’t, and I checked. I used to stay up for three days at a time, and if anyone would have seen a ghost would have been me. But I’ve been wrong before, so don’t take any chances. And that is your comedy news for today.
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