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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Shunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel addressed a report that was in Rolling Stone. According to the report, in twenty eighteen, President Trump asked White House officials to call Disney and demand that Jimmy Kimmel stopped making jokes about Trump. Kimmel said, in other words, President Karen demanded to speak to my manager.
You think the guy that fathered Eric and Don Junior would know how to handle jokes, But I guess not. You know what, maybe this is why Donald Milanny asleep in separate bedrooms. She was laughing too hard at my monologue at night, but really joking aside, this is a blatant abuse of power. I wonder if Fox News, you know they’re always screaming against censoring comedians, will they defend me on this? I doubt it.
Are you excited for Chris Rock’s Big Live Special on Netflix Tomorrow night, Saturday, ten pm Eastern pregame show at nine thirty. Yes. I will react to it in a bonus episode at some point between the end of the special and Monday afternoon. I have some soccer over the weekend I’m not sure when I’m gonna be able to bang this one out, but there will be a bonus episode discussing Chris Rock.
Also, I’d like to invite you to the Facebook hang So Pop on Facebook and the …
I’m going to do some sort of post and we could just chat and watch it together. And if you have some comments, you comment in the comments section. That’s what a comment section is, that’s where comments go. You know, we can comment. So I’ll pop on to Facebook around nine thirty Eastern tomorrow nights and we’ll watch Chris Rock together.
Okay, I’m going to talk about the Chris Rock special here. There are some spoilers for the material, so if you want to skip ahead, bit let me see here. Let me skip ahead about two minutes. Okay, those spoilers. Apparently some of the material that he’s been working out very recently includes Rock saying I rooted for Will Smith my whole life, but the other day I watched Emancipation just so I could watch him getting whipped.
Chris Rock played Baltimore back on February seventeenth, presumably working out the location and the material. At that show, Chris Rock said Will Smith to his selective outrage. People who are in the know know that stuff had nothing to do with me. He’s significantly bigger than me. You’ll never see me on camera with my shirt off.
Will played Muhammad Ali. I played Pooky, and according to the son, Chris rock is keeping his word about never saying Jada Pinkett Smith’s name. That was Will Smith’s request or I keep your name out of your mouth, while Chris Rocky is agreeing to it, referring to her as Will Smith’s wife and his wife. Rock told the crowd at that Baltimore show, we’ve all been cheated on. She hurt him way more than he ever hurt me.
Everyone knows. I’m not spilling any t. I felt so bad for Will I try to call him and give him my condolences. Everybody was calling him a bitch except me. But who does he hit me?
Should be a major comedy event. I’m looking forward to it. Trevor Noah has a new book coming out this fall. Not much is known about it, but publisher One World is billing the novel as a quote gorgeously illustrated and moving modern fable for readers of all ages about forgiveness. Acceptance and the Secret of Solidarity.
Untitled book is said to be evocative of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and the Little Prince shooting high there Trevor Noah Okay. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, usually held in Edmonton Calgary, is expanding to Halifax, and they brought in a big name. He is Jerry Seinfeld. Their release calls Seinfeld quote one of the greatest and most recognizable comedians of all time. I would like to break apart sentences like that now of all time, you know is an awfully long time.
Let’s just casually define all time is starting in nineteen hundred. Is Jerry Seinfeld one of the greatest comedians since nineteen hundred? I’m gonna say yes, no doubt. In the course of my career, I have seen a lot of comedians live. The best two that I’ve seen live.
I never saw George Carlin in person. I never saw Richard Pryor in person. But people that I’ve sat in the audience and watched number one Jerry Seinfeld, Number two, Chris Rock Who’s third best, Johnny Mack I would have to think about that, you know, who was really good and crushed when I saw him Ralphie May. Now am I going to sit here and say Ralphie May third best community of all time? I don’t know if I’m ready to say that, but I’m just racking my brain who I saw in person that like crush crushed, you might have to put a tel in the conversation as well.
That we’ll do that some other day. Jerry Seinfeld will be in Halifax August eleventh. Forbes caught up with Taylor Thomlinson. She’s in Dallas, Texas this weekend five shows at the Majestic Theater. She discussed making the jump to bigger theaters and said, you just have to do everything a lot bigger.
That’s the biggest challenge. At the Comedy Attic in Bloomington, Indiana, you could take two steps in either direction at an improv you can face a bit. But the Chicago Theater is a massive, wide stage and you have to move much more. It’s also different because in some of the rooms, like Chicago, there’s a screen behind you, and that helps. Certain things will work with a screen because the back row can see your facial expressions like in a club.
So thinking about all that and sort of tweaking each performance based on the room you’re in. Is key really interesting there, right, Because I commented earlier in the week that one of the challenges I had watching Kathleen Madigan special is that she didn’t really move. I feel like you got to work the stage a little, right, comedian stops me. Taylor said, I don’t think comedians really need any one thing, or any one opportunity or any one person anymore. I think with podcasts too, everybody has so much control over their career and their voice and finding their people.
I think the Internet has made it so you have so much control over your own career, which ivank is really important and cool. I’ll say you plugging buy me a coffee every day has resulted in a lot of free coffees. Another show here where I didn’t bring one downstairs. I haven’t even finished it yet. I put it in the fridge.
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There’s a plan here telling you appreciate y’all. The numbers have been up again, so it’s been a nice little run here, all right, just for laughs London. Because I have mastered time zones, I’ve been working ahead. So let’s take a look at who’s playing on Saturday. First show is the Fock It Up Comedy Club.
I said, fock foc. I don’t know what you think. I said. The Fuck It Up Comedy Club unapologetically celebrates and centers the perspectives of comedians of color that are not sis men. Fock apparently stands for Fems of Color Comedy Club.
All right, that sounds like it could be a really good show. And that’s a two in the afternoon. Why would we not go three in the afternoon? Craig Robinson in conversation. Now, we supposedly saw Craig Robinson in my little fantasy last night, so we don’t need to see Craig again at four o’clock.
Chapark Course Sandy. The description here ah the nineties, the decade that Chapark was in her twenties, the decade when there was nothing to do but party, and Chapark found herself flying about London with hope in her heart, a tenor in her pocket, and spear knickers in her handbag. She matched the boys pine for pine, and frequently woke up in parts of London she’d never heard of. This is show about how we nineties kids are looking to young people to learn about how to take care of ourselves. That sounds fun too, And that’s at four o’clock, all right, five o’clock Springleaf with James A Castor and nish Kumar undercover cop Pat spring Leaf, more widely known by his covert named James A Castor talks to Nisch Kumar about his upcoming true crime podcast.
At six o’clock, Jessica Fostaq presents Wench, a show about sexy things, awkward, private things, oh no, and a woman trying to sit on the face of time to keep it still right. The Sea’s hot Right. Eight o’clock Ashling b and Friends. Friends include Nish Kumar, Susie Ruffel, and Nebil abduur Shed. Eight thirty Ryan Reynolds, Yeah, that Ryan Reynolds, moderated by Rob Delaney.
You know, I watch Welcome to Wrexham and I see Ryan Reynolds, and I’m like, I don’t think I would enjoy spending time with Ryan Reynolds. I don’t know. My wife is like, you’re insane, but I don’t know, So I’m gonna rule that one out already. Nine o’clock Jordan Gray’s Extra Jordinary Cabaret. Jordan Gray brings some of her favorite pals to join her for an Extra Jordinary cabaret show.
Eleven o’clock. Reggie Watts, all Right, we got a busy day here. Let’s go back to the top and plan out our day. Let’s definitely go to see fock It up at two. Japara Corshandi’s nineties show interested me, So we’ll do that one that was at like five.
Then we’ll grab a beer and some food. Then let’s do Ashley Bed that was like the eight o’clock show, and we can get Reggie Watts late. That’s a pretty solid night of comedy. Huh, too bad we’re not in London. Then we could say up till three in the morning and log into Netflix and watch Chris Rock Live and then really pass out.
US Magazine has twenty five things you don’t know about Jim Gaffigan. The twenty five things we’re provided to US Magazine by Jim Gaffigan. I don’t know if I want to do twenty five. Let’s do ten and then we’ll do some more tomorrow. How about that Number one?
Jim Gaffigan says, I’m more of an eater than a cookery. I like to make meat sauce with spicy peppers that I grow in my own garden. All right. Number two things you didn’t know about Jim Gaffigan. It was embarrassing a little or I understood the science that portrayed on my character’s kids show in Linoleum.
All right, Jim, you plugged your movie. You could have put that a little deeper fine. Number three. One thing fans always say to me on the street is either meow from Supertroopers were hot pocket, or they asked me how do I know you? Number four.
My biggest secret talent is that I could sleep a lot and still be exhausted. Number five. My first car was a Fierro which looked like a wedge of cheese. Six. My favorite item my wardrobe is a fancy robe that my wife got me.
I used to make jokes that I hated robes, but this robe was so nice. When I put it on, I’m like, I should just live in this. Number seven. This one’s good. I think Ellen Degenerous was my celebrity crush growing up.
Number eight, We Are Young reminds me of being in the car and my kids singing along to that song, the version by Fun. Number nine David Copperfield is Jim Gaffigan’s favorite book, and number ten. On a typical Saturday night, you’ll find him on stage doing stand up. I don’t think that’s like something we didn’t know about you, Jim. I think we kind of all knew that.
I’ll skip head to number eleven on Sunday afternoon. You’ll usually find me napping if I’m lucky. Alrighty, so I’ll save the rest for tomorrow. We’ll come back. So you want to make sure you don’t miss the show.
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