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Caloroga Shark Media from Poolside. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I cann tell you the side audio has been coming up pretty well. That almost sounds better than me actually using the studio. The Cut did a big profile of Nikki Glaser Nikki having a moment, but none of it about her new special.
The headline the Toast of the Roast. Comedian Nikki Glaser’s been in the business for decades, but her set on Tom Brady’s Roast seems to have shifted something. Yes, it has. Glazier started doing stand up when she was eighteen, had an open mic at University of Colorado, Boulder. She moved to La did veryous stand up at bars, got an appearance on Last Comic Standing.
She was invited to do her first roast of Rob Lowe in twenty sixteen by Comedy Central, who had seen her on Jeff Ross’s show The Burn. She’s had a few high profile, short lived projects, including Not Safe with Nikki Glaser on Comedy Central I Don’t Even Remember That one canceled after one season, and f Boy Island on HBO Max canceled after two seasons. She was on Dancing with the Stars in twenty eighteen, really and first one voted off. Okay, she was on Bruce Willis’s roast where she said I know you was the star of every DVD, just kind of fine on the street. A year later, Alec Baldwin was roasted.
Nikki says that time I was really speaking from what do I actually think of these people? Rather than what’s the funniest joke. She was asked to do her Max special Someday You’ll Die a year ago. It came out on May eleventh, six days after the roast. She’d planned to do two weeks of press, but then many of the same people who had said no to her suddenly said yes.
She was fighted on Kimmel Hoda Howard Zeth and said she felt like Taylor Swift for a day. I’ll point out still no buzz on the special, She tells the cut fighting a way to be yourself on stage is hard. When I was four years in a comedy, it started emerging in little places and I’d be like, oh, what did I just do? But people really responded to it. She cite Sarah Silverman is one of her major inspirations.
She seems really nice, but she says crazy things. I like being met where people still like me and are rooting for me, even if I could show side of myself that are cuckoo. She wants people to say about her, she was really nice. I know that sounds crazy, but that’s my face compliment as opposed to funny. She tells the cut I practiced my Tom Brady set like fifty five times, different variations of it, and I never once apologized in any of those.
When I got up there, I literally felt bad, she says. She understands that things going away is what happens in this line of work. Since the Brady Special, she says, everyone’s been telling everything’s different. I’m like, mhmm, She says, with a skeptical tune. It was fun being in the bell of the ball, but now it’s kind of cooled off and thank god.
She’d like to do SNL in theory, but when she thinks about it, she gets nervous, some sort of like I just did a thing that people are happy about. Can I just tour now? I’m comfortable touring. I don’t get nervous touring. WTTW spoke to Rob Smigel.
They asked him his idea for fun when he’s in town. He said, my idea of fun just going to a Tredono’s and eating an entire pizza by myself. I would give the same answer, except I’d go to lumul Nati’s and the locals were like, why are you going to those? I don’t know, man, because it’s right there. I don’t know.
Why are you getting raised pizza in Manhattan? The same thing. Back to the pizza, spikel says, I dream about it all year long. I still don’t understand why they can’t bake them in other cities. But I’m grateful because I’d look like George Went and Chris Farley combined if deep Dish pizza was available to me every day.
I grew up in Manhattan, and I remember driving to Chicago just being a mace that you had a lake, dude, I did the same thing. We have the crappy Hudson River that nobody could swim in, and you guys at a beach.
And then I went to Wrigular Field and I was able to get seats in the front row.
You can ever do that At Shay Stadium. I walked up to the box office and said he got any good seats, and they said, yeah, we got some right behind the dugout. That good you want that. I got to be in Chicago the night the Cubs won the World Series. Triumph covered it.
I was doing a show for Hulu’s Triumph. That was a good show and it was a political show. But I was the boss. I was the producer and star of the show. And Game seven was happening, and I was like, wait a minute.
I could just say I want Triumph to go to the World Series and they’ll fly me there. Then I was like, no, I don’t want to be in Cleveland for Game seven. I want the night outside Wrigley because if they win, it’s gonna be the greatest thing ever, and if they lose, it’ll be really funny. He then went into Triumph. Do I have a half ass Triumph?
I’ve never attempted a half ass Triumph. Let’s see what happens here. Okay, human beings are separated from this by only one single chromosome. By the way, it’s great to be here, the interviewer says, cicadas. Sorry, the correct answer is what is Marjorie Taylor Green?
We would have also accepted to Jake and Logan Paul not the worst half ass tryup, I amuse myself. He did one more In twenty twenty three. Sales of bud Light dropped significantly due to this. The interview room says, I give up. What is Ben Evleck having a try January?
Now I’m losing it. Luckily, I have this slushy here. My daughter has brought me a slushy. I had it for a minute. There, all right, no more half as triumph.
Now I’m reading the transcript here. It’s unclear to me of this is Smigel speaking or a quote unquote triumph. I’ll just do it flat because it’s I’ve kind of lost my muse. Now whoever it was said, I feel bad for Trump. I really do.
I mean the one time he actually pays someone, they indict him for it. Oh here’s one triumph. How is Conan O’Brien. Are you still friends? He does a podcast now, and I’m so proud of him and how he’s evolved.
You know, he used to be a nervous host. You’d cut off his guests. Now in his podcast, he’s an experienced, confident host who cut his guests that they said, thank you. Try if police put Rob back on the Phoe Joel Kim Booster sharing why his focus is on not being a trailblazer. He spoke to Variety.
Joel says, it’s difficult because I’m not somebody who went to this wanting to be an advocate or trailblazer or anything. I just wanted to make people laugh. All the rest of it is a byproduct. You can’t prioritize it. You can’t be missioned first, joke second and be successful.
He says it actually makes him really uncomfortable when people call him a trailblazer, and he feels that term should be used for comedians who helped pave the way for others. Joel says, I started doing comedy at a very convenient time for someone like being wasn’t easy, but there weren’t the same barriers to entry that I think there were, you know, a decade before I started. He calls Guy Breinham the godfather of gay guy comedians and is a big fan of Margaret Show. As a queer Asian person coming up, I devoured everything Margaret Show did. She’s always been such a firebrand.
She didn’t wait around for someone open the door, She knocked it down herself. That appealed to me. Kathy Griffin back on tour, and she says, I’m the face of the one and a half lunged community, of which there really isn’t a community. She says the hardest part of selling tickets is she’s a woman in an inherently male dominant industry. Cathy said, misogyny so hardcore would stand up.
I know that sounds like I’m being bitter, but I’m not. Washington Post did a big profile of Paul Sheer. He has a new book called Joyful Recollections of Trauma. Paul says, my parents haven’t read it. They will read it.
My dad has requested not to read it until he gets back from his trip in Europe because he didn’t want it to wreck his trip. My mom will read it. I love my parents, and I have a very good relationship with them. Part of the reason I wrote this book in my own privacy and without involving June, his wife, or my parents, was because I wanted to feel like I could tell the stories that I wanted to tell them the way I wanted to tell them, without feeling like I had somebody watching over me. I felt like the minute I added that in the process, I would start to second guess it.
So my mantra was I’m telling my story, I’m not telling their story. Paul says, I was worried at a certain point my publisher was going to ask me to write a chapter about the league. I was dreading that because I didn’t see I would fit thematically into the book. And a quick anecdote a couple of years ago at the airport, I’m going through TSA and this guy goes, I know who you are. You’re Robin Williams.
I told him I wasn’t Robin, but he went, don’t worry about it. I’ll keep it cool. Sheer says, sometimes like scept moments, I don’t deserve because it’s easier. But in this case, Robin had been dead a couple of years, so it was extra weird. So I said, skirt, I’m Robin Williams and thanks him for the kind words.
I just took it. If you want me to beat Robin Williams, I’ll do it. That’s how far I’ll go. Bill Burr was on K and BR radio and he was sticking up for Barry Bonds and here’s Bill to take us out of the break. Barry Bonds is a victim of the steroid era.
Barry Bonds was the guy, and then a bunch of people cheated, and then the president was calling them instead of Barry, and Barry was like, all right, here’s me on steroids. Here’s seventy three. What are we doing here? I can do it with or without steroids. If nobody’s doing steroids, I can beat you.
If we’re all doing steroids, I can beat you. My only complaint about that era is that when the guys would go up with that medieval manner like metal sleeve from their shoulder all the way down their wrist out over the plate. I’m not a big fan of the admiring the home run and pointing at the dugout and the next guy doesn’t get beamed in the head. Miss those days, all right. On Saturday, I’ve got my interview with Mark Malkoff, the host of the Inside Late Night podcast and the former host of the Carson Podcast, which is still available if you want to download and check out the nearly four hundred episodes of Carson Talk.
I liked Mark a lot. We spoke for an hour. If you’d like to hear it right now. Become a premium subscriber. You’ve heard the promos, click the link in the show notes Cali Roga dot supportingcast dot FM four ninety nine a month.
Get the shows early. We’ve solved that whole thing where I had to get up in the morning and preload the show. It’ll be there for you. The show’s commercial free, and you get the occasional early release, maybe even some bonus content. At some point, Greg Guttfeld stuck up for Jerry Seinfeld.
Remember Jerry was saying he missed manly men or whatever he said. Dominant masculinity was Jerry’s line. Gottfeld said, I also missed the days when men were men and women were not. But think about the unbridled masculinity of yesteryear. You know what I’m talking about, right, A guy who could put the Marlborough a man of shame, a man’s man if we’ve ever seen one.
And he held up a picture of Liberaci. There’s a new Jim Henson biography, and we learned from this that the plan for Fozzy Bear was for Fozzy Bear to be a great comedian. Jim Henson said, we knew we wanted to have a stand up comedian. We hadn’t mind a Red Skelton type of character that was a bundle of anxieties off stage and a gung host storyteller up front. But the idea that Fozzi’s insecurities would be counter bounced by his on stage prowess didn’t work.
Muppet performer Jerry Jewel said Fozzy was a disaster. We said, this is a bad comedian, so we put him on stage and let him be bad. But letting Fozzy eat it on stage wasn’t great either, and Statler and Waldorf heckling him only made Fozzy seem more pathetic. Frank Oz knew it was bad, didn’t know what to do with it. They changed the puppet.
Fozzy’s fur became a brighter orange and his perpetual grimace was removed. Fozzy instead became a perpetual optimist. Thanks to Frank Oz, we discovered that Fozzy was just a simple guy. He wanted to be funny and loved. And that is your comedy news for today.
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