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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the NYPD is taking away Trump’s gun permit? Stephen Colbert said that he’s gonna have to change one of his signature brags. Tell you what, I could still stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and I don’t know, give somewhat a purple nurple.
Seth Meyers talking about Trump accepting the GOP nomination from potentially behind bars. If he wins, they won’t be able to swear him in on the Bible until that one inmate comes around with the book cart while Seth again. According to a new poll, fifty eight percent of Republican voters believe that convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they’re elected, which is up fifty eight percent from last week. Joe Rogan making the headlines accusing Robin Williams of being a joke fief. I’ve heard this many times.
I believe it has been established by others. Perhaps maybe my lawyers are passing me a note. Allegedly, some have said, I I’ve heard that Harlan Williams told Rogan I’m sure he could do anything on his own volition. But I always heard stories that Robin Williams was that guy. Did you ever hear anything about that?
Rogan said, yeah, I heard a lot of stories that he was that guy. I think Robin Williams was like part of that manic sort of style. It’s like a constant needs have this bit about anything that you’re talking about. Ever, killing, I think was more important, and filling that hole inside of him was more important than anything. So he would just do other people’s stuff if he didn’t have anything to say.
Rogan said that Sam Kinnison got mad at Williams. Rogan added, He’s still from everybody. He still from a lot of people. If you ask any of those comics from back then, there’s always instances of Robin going on a talk show and doing your biddor going on this and doing your bid at a club. Harlan said, maybe he was just so spontaneous he would just puke it out.
Rogan said, that’s not real. There’s no way I think he wanted to kill more than he wanted to be ethical at any cost, and especially back then when nobody was really watching you other than other comedians. In a biography, Robin there’s a story that takes place at the Comedy Store in nineteen seventy nine when an unnamed former was heads of their own Robin Williams against a wall and ordered Robin to pay him three hundred dollars for the parts of his routine he had believed had been lifted, a shakedown that Robin supposedly agreed to. Rogan said, the thing about these people, and they always get caught, and when they get caught, everything after that sucks. This is how you know a thief is legitimately a thief.
If they’re being unjustly accused, they’re always going to come up with new material. They’re always going to be creative. They’re always gonna have new great jokes because they’re actually writing and working on it. But if it’s true what you see as an initial special or something, or a few things they do that are really funny, and then you see this massive drop off and like the concepts that they talk about, the irony they discover, they don’t have any legitimate points. When you’re like, wow, this is crazy.
There’s none of that. It all goes away and it almost becomes like a person doing an impression of the original successful person because they have no creativity. With every thief, you see a couple big early specials or something, and then you see that massive drop off and terrible performances after that. It’s because they’re not real. They’re parasites.
It’s what they are. They’re vampires. I have nothing to add. I think Rogan just absolutely nailed that. But yes, I have heard accusations against Robin Williams in the past.
Dana White was on Andrew Schultz a Flagrant podcast, and Dana let us know who wrote his roast jokes at the roast of Tom Brady. The answer Bill Burr. Now that you know that, I can hear the Burr in it. Let me see if I can channel a Burr like Cadence. Anyway, Tom, you played for the Patriots so long.
I was actually starting to believe you were from Boston. Then I saw you run and I was like, nah, he’s definitely from San Francisco. Right, you can hear it. Dana said, stand up is the most underrated thing of all time. If you’re public speaking and you f up, you can recover.
You f up telling a joke, It’s a downward spiral. You’ll never be able to pull yourself out of because you’re not a professional comedian. F that stuff. I’ve done it twice. Remember I said it here.
You’ll never see me do any of that stuff again. We’ll see. Neil Brennan talked about some of his peers being elevated to oracle status and said, when I see them being elevated to oracle status, there’s probably a protective part of me. That’s probably a grateful part of me, And there’s also part of me that’s like, what those guys are idiots? What him?
Sam Morrel will have a new special on Amazon on Prime Video, this one called You’ve Changed, taped at the Wilberth Theater in Boston. Sam Riff’s on the worst person he’s ever dated, the complications of getting older, and his perspective on everything from cable news to the parils of social media. There is a clip, and it’s a good clip. Let’s listen. I was on the subway the other day in New York.
I accidentally made eye contact with a crazy person. That’s a terrible moment as a man. That is the closest you come to feeling like a woman in a bar. They’re like, oh no, we locked eyes and now he’s coming toward me, which is not what I wanted. He sits next to me on the train, puts his hand to my leg.
There’s nothing you can say. You can’t be like, oh, I don’t like that when people do that. I don’t feel safe right now, so I have to get up. I walk away. I put my hand the pull.
He follows, and he puts his hand right above mine, so it’s touching. He’s just staring at me. Everyone in the train’s watching, but they’re not watching like they’re gonna help. They’re watching like, thank god he chose you. That could have been a problem.
Vendor’s special is out this week. The La Times did a big profile of her. If you Hannah’s publicist, you deserve your money. This week, Esther Zuckerman wrote the article and wrote, when I told Hannah at the start of our interview I’d seen her new comedy special, a look between terror and elation crossed her face. Hannah says, it feels like the most intimate extension of myself being in soul that I’m sharing.
But hear you say you’ve seen it is the first time I’ve heard someone say they’ve seen it. It filled me with joy and excitement and anticipation at a little shock. The Hour comes out Thursday on Max. She called it her very short life’s work, so no bresh, it’s casual. In Everything Must Go, Hannah discusses her bisexuality, her judaism, her passion for the environment, and her period, in addition to different areas of her life from her stone days to her time as a competitive cheerleader.
Now the article bugged me a little bit. They just casually threw in there that Hannah grew up in Westwood, California. Okay, what it didn’t mention at all is her mom is Lorraine Newman. Now why is that relevant? Johnny Mack, You’ve probably heard the word nipple baby, And I’m not here to say Hannah’s not talented.
Many things can be true. One, you can be talented while someone in your family has some connections. For example, dear listener, do you know how to get an agent? Are you on any auditions today? You know why you’re not on any auditions today because you don’t know they exist.
The world works on relationships. If somebody could make a phone call and be like, hey, do you mind if my kid reads for this thing? Or Hay, do you know anybody who or you’re just at a party and you hear of something. Information can help you. If you’re just sitting in your basement, you don’t know.
This an audition today. So and this isn’t a Bashan Hannah. This is just in general. Anyone with famous parents in the industry. At some point it helped.
I’ll switch to sports. Joe Buck at some point, it helped that his dad was Jack Buck, who did Saint Louis Cardinals games. At some point that helped. No Eegle the sportscaster. At some point, it kind of helps that your dad is on an eagle.
If nothing else, there’s an agent or I know somebody at the Lakers and talks to them for you. You know, stuff like that goes on. Move on, John, before everybody hates you. Chris Fleming is llying Pittsburgh this weekend. Spoke to the Pittsburgh City Paper.
Chris used to be better known as Gail, a character he played in the twenty tens in online videos parodying anxious suburban mothers. Fleming told these city paper people strive for relatability, and I don’t. I think the fun is the challenge is doing something incredibly specific and making them see it and having them feel what I’m feeling and then relate to it. I really love that mass communication, the thrill of it. I love that, and also the body goes into a state that’s so unnatural.
There’s nothing like it. It’s so unnatural, That’s how I describe it. Fleming says he’s never been to Pittsburgh for these shows. He plans on using newer material, no older than eight months or so. Fleming says, I can’t do something for too long.
It gets really stale on my head. The shelf life is I want to shoot it pretty fast, and recently I’ve been doing bits. I just put three bits out online that I was doing for the first time, first or second time, because sometimes I can get glazed over and dead in the eyes if I’m doing material I’ve been doing for too long. But in Pittsburgh, I’m anticipating being able to mess around a little bit. As they say, in a big theater, he didn’t say mess in a big theater, you kind of have to make saying a sense of structure, otherwise people get really freaked out.
In the balcony. The further people get from you and the louse of the show is the more uneasy people get, whereas in a little room it could feel more like a party or a train that’s breaking down in fun ways. After his recent Peacock special, Fleming doesn’t wrestle with wondering if he’s weird enough, writes The Gazette, Fleming says, I feel like I was able to lean into the esoteric on a mainstream platform that has now freed me to feeling like I’m not afraid anymore not being odd enough. And when I say odd enough, I mean hack. I don’t want to be hacked.
I even allowed myself to do a bit about the difference between a male doctor and a female doctor and stuff like that. I don’t think I would have felt free enough to do because I came from this club. It’s a burden that’s been lifted. Alex Edelman, you know him from the recent Just for Us a Comedy special, the one where he attended a meeting of neo Nazis. Edelman sells Variety he was recently walking in New York City when he thought he recognized someone from the white nationalist meeting, and Edmund says, I wasn’t gonna go Upstille and be like, excuse me, do I know you from a meeting of neo Nazis and queens?
Because you look exact like this person. The Washington Post has been profiling DC comedians. Hey, Maddie Brennan, what’s your pre show routine? Maddy says, I always brush my teeth right before leaving the house for an important show. All right, tell us about the time you bombed.
One time, I was visiting some friends from college in San Francisco, not long after I started doing stand up. I booked a show to do when I was visiting so that my friends could see me to perform for the first time. When I got to the venue, it was a pack small theater. It was pretty excited, but it turned out that was the show. Before the show I was on, the show let out and everyone left.
My friends got there and they were the only audience members I’ve performed to, just them. That’s awful. When we left, I forgot my credit card at the bar. I was so embarrassed by the whole experience that my friend had to go back in and ask for my card. That’s the last time I asked friends to watch me perform.
Jeff Cirrouley’s debut comedy special Live at the Bomb Shelter out today on Comedy Dynamics, we have a clip. Let’s listen. These Tuecome podcasts are so popular. There’s one called My Favorite Murder that’s like the most popular one. I’m like, they’re ranking murders, they have favorites.
Imagine like your cousin died and you’re just like trying to get some info and you come across two women having a great time. You’re just trying to get some info and they’re basically like, look, I know, it’s like really sad that your cousin like got stabbed and left on the side of the highway. But listen, it was our favorite murder. I mean, we loved it, and it was just you’re not topping it this year. I mean, our three favorite murders all time Jeffrey Dahmer’s second victim, Ted Bundy’s third victim, and your cousin.
I mean, that’s just far money. Top three favorite murders. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.