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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Jenny Mann, cool side again with your Daily Comedy News. We’ve got landscapers and birds for you. Spoilers for Eminem’s new video Houdini. Some comedians appear in it, so if you don’t want to be spoiled about Eminem’s new video, you might want to skip ahead.
All right, here come the spoilers. The song is called Houdini. That’s not a spoiler, But who’s in it? Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson. The music video like the song, is a throwback to Eminem’s two thousand and two hit Without Me.
The new song reprises the guess Who’s back entered of the song. Eminem and Doctor dre returned to their superhero characters from the first film. Pete Davison shows up towards the end of the video and takes over Shady’s driver and says, trust me, I’m a great driver. Don’t worry, I just got my license back. That is an allusion to Pete’s twenty twenty three reckless driving charge.
Shane gillis also in the video. It is unclear to me what Shane Gillis does in the video. Bill Maher got into it with CNN’s Freed Zakira. Bill Maher denies that he has changed. Mars says, people have said to me, you made fun of the left more than you used to, and guilty I have because the left has changed.
Mars says he believes the Republican Party is even worse than the Democratic Party, saying the right doesn’t believe in democracy anymore. They’ve thrown their lot in with a sociopath named you know who. I’m not here to upset people who only thinks elections can’t when we win, Mars said. But it’s not like the left hasn’t changed also, so I’m gonna call it out whenever I see it. He specified the issues of gender, race, and fretty speech.
It’s not that I’ve gotten old, it’s that your ideas are stupid. The last chapter in the book is called civil war, and you hear more about it all the time. People are actually pining for it. It can’t work, It won’t work. Half the country’s not gonna self debord, even if you win every election.
I’m just trying to do a comedy podcast poolside. I don’t want to discuss a potential civil war today. This is not why we’re here. More from Nick Swartzen in the La Times on his current tour, I talk about the same topics I usually do, but I’m trying to stay away from certain things. No, not Paul.
It’s says I don’t party like I used to, I don’t drink like I used to do. So I want to get away from that image where people think of some lunatic. I don’t do drugs. I mean I did edibles in Colorado and then ended up on the EFIC News that one time. There’s like so many horrific things going on in the world, and they decided to put me on blast for getting too high.
In Colorado. I took an edible, which is my fault and was stupid. But on my new act, I have a diarrhea joke. Of course. I talked about Norm MacDonald and I talked about a bunch of true stories.
It’s just silly. My act is a good time. It’s not political. I don’t have an agenda. I’m exactly how I am on stage as I am off stage, and people always mention that it’s just like a real show, and it’s just fun and silly, and it’s like, let’s have a good time.
Man life is too short. Schwartzen says he always finds it weird when gen Z fans have seen his own material. I’m always shocked when I meet people in their twenties and they’re like, we love Reno nine one one, and I’m like, how do you even know about that? I always tell young actress and comedians you got to commit one hundred ten percent to what you’re doing on stage and on camera. You have to be willing to completely lose your mind, like when you watch guys like Will Ferrell and he’s running around streaking in old school showing his butt.
When I did the movie Bucky Larson, I was naked. I did a Haunted House. I was naked in that too. Whether it was Blades of Glory or The Benchwarmers and all those movies, I got crazy and had to commit to it. I feel you like, say you decide to record your podcast outside a crazy idea to begin with, and the landscapers are just gonna blow leaves around.
You’re committed now. Adam Ray will have a new special on June sixteenth, which is his birthday. It’s his third special, this one called Like and Subscribe. It’ll debut on YouTube. And beyond video on demand on June eighteenth.
The new Hour covers everything from awkward flight to his rapper brother in law, Disneyland etiquette, and his childhood dream, The eight hundred Bound Garilla. I spoke to Reggie Watts when Reggie was at the recent Netflix Festival. They asked him, just performing at a festival change your performance at all? Are there advantages disadvantages? Reggie said, I don’t think there are advantages or disadvantages.
I think for me, I’m an improviser, So for me, festivals are great because there’s a lots of comments on the layout of it and so forth, so I enjoy that a lot. I don’t really change it anything other than reflecting environment that I’m performing in. The Gorilla asked him about his recent special. As an improviser, what’s the process like? Do you mix in some prepared stuff?
How do you prepare for a special as an improviser? Reggie said, I don’t really plan it. I know the data I’m supposed to show up, and I have a concept for it. I might have an intro and outro for a bit. It’s really have an idea of what I liked the feel of it.
To be aesthetically and then work with the production team to make that happen.
And then I just kind of show up and go for it.
If I wanted to, I could probably release three specials a year. Well, no, then they wouldn’t be special. She’d be putting up three hours a year. Should we have that debate again?
Now let’s move on.
You know it’s a little light for Monday. I might have to run towards the Joe Koy bit just to pad this thing thirty seconds, Reggie said, Or I could do a special every week for marketing terms, and you know how much money’s put in a special. You have to market everyone. You have to market so everyone can make their money back and all that stuff. But for me, it doesn’t really matter.
I frequency your preparedness. I’ll do specials all day long. Good question here, is Reggie playing more comedy venues or music venues? I mean not that that’s like the most amazing question, but I like the answer. Watt says, I was kind of doing what I was doing at gam nights in Seattle in the nineties, a little bit like in between sets.
If I was improvising with a band and we were playing all night, that was a little more formalized pose. But I guess I started actually doing comedy when I moved to New York. You had like UCB Theater in the Pit and other weird small venues and nightclubs that did comedy nights.
And then eventually sometimes I play the comic strip or Carolines, but not ve…
I love playing those clubs because they didn’t know what’s going on. Retchie, Yeah, it’s the absolute best, But a lot of times I like playing the weird, underground places. If you would like this program commercial free, there’s a link in the show notes. It says Calaruga dot supportingcast, dot FM. What you do.
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Okay, let’s see what this says now. I really like their premise here. They write upward of one hundred and fifty stand up specials released in twenty twenty three. That’s a lot these days. If a comedian can’t get one of the cable or streaming networks to buy their special, they can self produce and release it alongside one of the hundreds of other specials on YouTube.
As such, every month this column will suggest a few specials worth watching. Yeah, I mean, there’s just no way to keep up unless this is all you do, all right. They have nominated Ali Sidiq’s Domino Effect Part three on YouTube. I’ve not seen this one, Vulture tells us Ali Sidik the landscaper stopped. It seems so quiet now.
Ali Cidq is in the middle of the most ambitious project in the history of stand up, a four part series about how he was raised by a drug dealer, started selling drugs himself, got arrested and went to prison, they add. In a lovely bit of direction, Sadik’s performance of this arc is backdropped by a screen that shifts from a sunny day to the sun setting tonight sky over the course of seventy minutes. By the way, one downside of sitting pool side recording your podcast is the pollen. I hear my voice giving out the next one, they suggest NICKI Glazers, someday he’ll die. I have the unpopular opinion that that special is whatever.
I get it. I’m fighting the tide here. This one’s gonna win awards and everyone’s gonna be like, see you told you. I get that Nikki crushed on the roast. I get she’s having a moment.
I watched that special and I was like, eh, not feeling it all right. Next one, Colin Quinn, Our time is up on YouTube. I didn’t even know this existed. When did this come out? Valterre says.
By filming his special at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and including interviews with therapists who diagnose Colin Quinn based on what they see in his set, Colin creates a uniquely robust watching experience. You’re observing his material, but you’re also observing how the therapist receive it, which, in Turin makes you wonder what they must think about him. Is he a truth teller of society’s ills or a madman? Wow? All right, while we’re here.
Some other ones that they have previously suggested. Alex Edelman’s Just for Us on Max. Haven’t gotten to that yet. Kyle Crane’s Dirt Nap that has just an amazing chunk about the fast and the Furious. I saw that Kyle has pulled that out as a standalone YouTube clip if you want to find that at all time ten to twelve minutes.
Nation Macintosh is Down with Tech on YouTube. I haven’t seen that yet. Christina Catherine Martinez is how to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age also on YouTube. Boy, I got some homework to do. Natasha van Blatt, We’re all dads here on YouTube and they’re also highlighting Kristin Shawl’s twenty thirteen Live at the Fillmore Kristin shaw allegedly in that television show Bob’s Burgers.
You know what, let me do, everyone save you some trouble. I’m going to put this in the Facebook group, which is Daily Company News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us there. The parent company of Just for Laughs has sold some assets as part of a court directed bankruptcy protection. Quebec’s Cities Comedy Ha, a company I have not previously heard of, announced that had picked up unspecified assets as part of a sale and solicitation process.
According to Price Waterhouse, Cooper’s secured creditors are owed twenty six point five million dollars an outstanding debt, possibly Canadian dollars. And that’s where I’m sourcing this story from.
Meanwhile, NBC Universal is rebranding its Fast channel.
You know those streaming channels. A fast channel is like two B and all those they’re like linear networks. I’m using industry term. Okay, remember old fashioned TV. You’d put it on and what was ever is on was just on.
You couldn’t do anything about it.
And now on streaming services like to b and Roku has a couple of these, And i…
Those are called fast channels Free ad supported Streaming Television FASST. But we drop one S because fast with one ass looks cooler. I digress there barrely was one called T NBC T for teen, Well, no more teen, NBC. It has been rebranded as NBC Comedy Vaults. You’re like, oh, that’s cool, right, So that probably has like The Office and Saturday Night Live, maybe some cool specials.
Well. NBC Comedy Vault will initially be available on Amazon freev the Roku Channel and Zumu play what will they be showing? And Landscapers are back? All eight seasons of Will and Grace and yeah that pregnant pause was I got to the end of the list. Wow, a whole channel showing eight seasons of Will and Grace.
I can’t wait. But don’t worry. They’re gonna add more things. They’re going to add in July. Charles and Church coach and Major Jad.
All right, I know you can’t wait. That’s really really exciting, NBC. I’m glad you put out that presser. Carol Burnett tells The Hollyood Reporter the best advice she ever received, this too shall pass. If something isn’t going well, you know, it could turn on a dime and get better.
So what I always try to and if something’s not going well, that doesn’t mean it’s always gonna be that way. Who should play Carol Burnette in a biopic? She says, Angelina Jolie Okay, good choice. Another option, she suggests Kristin Wigg. She’d be wonderful because she could do it all.
If I’m casting that movie. As much as I enjoy watching Angelina Joelee on screen, Kristin Wig would be my choice to play Carol Burnette, and I would watch that movie. And that is your comedy news for today. I’m gonna go sit out in the sun. I’m gonna edit this thing later at night.
See you later.