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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This one caught me by surprise. Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. You know, they have that podcast, Bad Friends that’s massively popular, but like most of mainstream America, has no idea who either one of them are.
It’s funny with comedy, you could be like secretly huge. There’s a lot of comedians that are secretly huge. And we’ll talk about this sometimes in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group walk down the Street one hundred people go, hey, do you like Andrew Santino? And unless you like specifically pick a certain demo, you might go, oh for a hundred, you might go like three four, a hundred. But it’s not like, hey, have you ever heard of Jerry Seinfeld?
Right, But they’re good anyway. The podcast is being made into an adult animated series for Hulu. Bad Friends follows the relationship between Andrew a fiery lightning bug and Bobby a shy roly Polly as they navigate the treacherous waters of being adolescent misfit bugs in high school. Okay, sure, no details other than that, but you didn’t see that one coming, did you me neither. Yahoo profiled Kevin James, which makes for some great holiday weekend filler.
Kevin told a story where he showed up to a stand up gig at a bachelor party and found out the guests were expecting a stripper instead. Kevin told Yahoo the stripper didn’t show and they put me up on stage and I had to stand on a chair in the middle of a bunch of guys to do my act. It was pretty rough, but I left with a lot of tips that night. That’s a good tag. He hasn’t done stand up in a while.
He says it’s nerve wracking when you haven’t done it for a while. Like when you’re doing a new show. You got to oil the muscles again and get everything working again. You go through that couple of shows and you get your legs. I wouldn’t say I get nervous anymore.
It’s more than I get excited. I just love doing stand up. I can understand that. I always would get nervous before a big radio show, if we were doing a remote or a really big guest, there’d be nervous energy in the room. Even though you would do radio every single day and you know, I’d been in the career twenty five thirty years.
You still get that nervous energy. I hear you. He got an audition for Saturday Night Live. He bombed. At the time he thought it was a failure.
He now sees it at one of the best things that ever happened to him. He recalls, you feel like, oh no, what did I do? I bomb? But I’m so happy I did. I really am.
He’s currently working on Solo Mio, in which Kevin James plays a groom who got suited up at the altar in Italy and decides to go on his honeymoon alone. He says, these movies aren’t made anymore. There aren’t that many of them. I’m gonna bust my butt to make this thing. I do love those type of movies, and I haven’t done one in a long time.
Solo Mio sounds like it should be an Adam Sadlor movie. No, yes, boy, it’s like the article read my mind now who writes. One of james frequent collaborators is Adam Saylor, who he met decades ago. They didn’t become friendly until Kevin was on the King of Queen’s Saandlor had an office on the Sony lot they met. Kevin says, I just met him, hung out and talked and became really close.
Now he’s one of my best friends. Just the greatest guy in the world. I’m very happy to be part of that camp. I really am. Anytime he says, hey, I’m thinking of doing this, I say, I’m in.
I get it. Hey, I would be in an Adams movie. Now the movie would be terrible because it’s an Adams Sandler movie, but I would be in it. Sure. Will Kevin James make in appearance in Happy Gilmore too?
We can only hope, so, he says, I don’t know. We’ll see. We’re talking about it right now. We’re working on some other stuff and hopefully, yes, if it happens, I couldn’t tell you anyway, but I don’t know. Hey, you ever get five minutes into the second podcast of five you’re trying to record, and you hear your voice going already, yeah, trying to take a long weekend.
Paul Sheer was on Conan recently and told a story about who he picked as his best man at his wedding in two thousand and nine. The answer a Jack Nicholson. Impersonator, as Sheer tells the story in a Nicholson impression, I don’t have one of those. The Nicholson impersonator arrived to the wedding late and goes, hey, sorry, I’m late. I was at a party at Robyan Polanski’s house.
That was his opening line. The wedding venue was split with parents and older adults on one side, the couple’s friends on the other. Paul says, now our friends on the other side are having the best time, going, oh, this is insane, and the people the other side started going, I think he might know Jack Nicholson. This is hilarious. Want I hear this properly told?
It’s on Conan’s podcast Shere says the day of the wedding, he pulls me aside and goes, you have a teleprompter. I say a teleprompter. No, it’s a wedding. There is no teleprompter. He goes, I’m not really going to remember too much of the speech.
So the man started improvising. He starts devolving into things that aren’t even Jack Nicholson. Paul said, I didn’t know that I married the right person because when I brought that up to June she was like, yeah, you can have him, and that was a nice moment, very nice. Carlos Mencia spoke to Tucson dot com weird set up here. New York and Mayor Eric Adams recently suggested immigrants could help fill the city’s lifeguard shortage because they are excellent swimmers.
The response did not go over well. Carlos Smancia, though, said the joke has two sides to it. One side is whoa what’s he trying to say? On the other side is all my immigrant family saying no, He’s right, we are very good swimmers. One of his setups in his shows a spoiler in case you’re playing agin seeing Carlos Smancia a clap if you were not born in the country.
Then he waits people clap and he goes, how many of you are good swimmers? See, that’s why he likes the Eric Adams stuff. And you’ll see they all clap, And then I’ll find somebody wh speaks English with a really thick accent, and I’ll go, were you offended by this? And the cool thing is it’s not always somebody from Mexico. The other day guy from Lafia said, I’m from Lafia.
And I am an immigrant and I’m a great swimmer. That’s the beauty of what I’m talking about. My ability to take reactionary moments, moments that are like ay man, I’m not supposed to be like that, and talking about the humans it effects. Let us not be arbiters of what is offensive to other people. Two soun dot com writes, Mencia recently appeared at an LGBTQ plus event and watch comedian after comedian tell LGBTQ jokes.
When it was his turn, he asked the audience why it was okay to tell those jokes but not at his comedy club shows. Mincea said. Somebody said, because here, we know that they’re one of us, and I said, so I’m not one of you. Two sound dot com says the response was something of an epiphany for Mencia. Comedy cannot be contained in a bubble.
It has to be given license to put a mirror in all of society, not just segments of it. That’s where I am. Now. I’m free. You don’t have to go to latinos show, you don’t have to go in an urban show, you don’t have to go to a redneck show.
Come to my show. And it’s like all those shows put together. We’re gonna laugh at each other and ourselves, and that’s it. My intention is good. If you don’t understand that, then I don’t know what to say.
I’m a comedian. My intent is to make you as happy as humans possible doing what I do. JB. Smooth was on The Daily Show and talked about stand up comedy. He sees it as vital to survival because there’s no way in hell you could take the brunt of the real world every day without that filtration.
The move argues, the comedians are empaths. They have to read the room and adjust their sets accordingly. Good stuff there. Vulture recently profiled Zach Tuscannie Back in August of twenty two. Zach was performing a stand up show in Boulder, Colorado, when suddenly an audience member’s hyperactive dog began running laps around the house like it had been possessed.
At first it was a minor distraction, but then the dog came back with the remains of the rabbit had been chasing. You see, Zach to Scunni does dey shows an average house show, and by house show, I don’t mean you know what a comedian would normally call a house show this is a show at your house. Zach. He usually plays around forty to fifty people. He charges a flat fee eight hundred dollars for shows on weekdays, twelve hundred for shows on the weekend.
Some guests also give out his Venmo and encourage the guests to tip him. That can bring in an extra three to four hundred dollars. He did forty five house shows in twenty twenty eighty five and twenty three. Twenty five of those were rebookings from the previous year. Some of his fellow comedians have been like, no, that’s great, but then you have to hang out afterwards and talk to people, and yeah, most comedians don’t want to hang out with non comedians.
Comedians are a breed, They’re a particular breed. Zach says. It’s the better part of doing the whole thing. You feel like you’re actually connecting with people. There are times where going to the show, I’ll be like, I’m feeling kind of tired.
I’ll probably do my set, hang out for a little bit, and then dip. Then afterwards I’m like, they’re gonna have to kick me out. I do that all the time. I call it going rock star. The amount of times I would drag myself to go out after work planning to catch the seven thirty train and then actually catching the twelve thirty am train.
Yeah, and I’m not even a big drinker. I just get into the hang and the socialness of it. If you hang out with me, you’ve heard me say the phrase two beers not eight. Zach says I did one show in a suburb outside of Oakland. The people who booked me were like, we’re Palestinians.
So while the people here tonight are in the Palestinian community, I don’t think I would have had access to that if I was at a comedy club that show in particular, I was like, let me eat all this food. They were like, we’re going to dance after this. You want to dance? I was like, yes, let’s effing dance. One show, there was a couple who were like, hey would like to book you.
We just moved in together, we’re getting married. Is it gonna be wird if it’s just us? Kyle Knane asked to come to one. He comes to an apartment show with those two people. So he sits in a lazy boy chair behind the couple sitting on their couch while I’m standing in the kitchen doing comedy.
It was a blast. That’s really funny. A lot more to this article. It’s on Vulture. It was up there a couple of weeks ago, but search for let me give you his name correctly, Zach Tuscani, zak new word, Tosca and I.
That’s on Vulture. Definitely worth your read there. And that’s your comedy news for today. Keep it a little shorter on the holiday weekend. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it day mainly Coat two.
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