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The shark deck. It seems the comedians a kind of hand it with Chappelle playing the victim card. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, Dave should be the answer to who’s the top comedian of the twenty twenties, and the answer should just be Dave Chappelle. What has happened is if you mentioned Dave Chappelle, everybody goes, oh, the guy that makes trans jokes, and now, oh, the guy that winds that he’s canceled, and Dave’s clearly not canceled at all.
Anthony Jessnik said, if you’re as big as he is, people are going to get upset at the things you say. It’s part of what you do and it’s part of why you do it. So I don’t understand the complaint Dave makes so much money, your job should be a little hard. I don’t have sympathy for you in that he says whatever he wants to, but great when there’s pushedback. I don’t know why it bothers him.
Bert Kreisher was on Pardon My Take. He was talking about the machine routine is almost every interview with Bert Kreisher winds up talking about that routine for you know, good reasons. And we’ve got the movie coming out this summer. I’m looking forward to the movie. I think on the other side of that baby, we could stop talking about the machine for a while.
So he’s talking about back in the day, I’m doing clubs twenty five dollars tickets and I’m telling the machine close to every show. And my wife comes and sees me in San Francisco and she says, at the end of the show, Hey, you don’t tell that story anymore. And I said for real, and she goes, yeah, you’re phoning it in and it’s not worth the money they’re paying. And I was like what, and she goes, either tell it or don’t tell it. But if you’re gonna tell it, effing tell it, like really tell it.
And I went I am telling it and she goes no, and I go, well, I don’t want to do I’m just saying the same twelve minutes verbatim. It’s killing me. And she was like, then find fun with it. So what I would do is I’d find fun ways. I’d tell it as if I was telling it for the first time, and I try to find a way to write a joke, and I have so many jokes inside the machine story.
I did the one the other day about a pivotal moment we realize you don’t have the biggest penis in the world, Like you just have your thing and clean this up here, and you’re like, oh, this is great, and then you go in a locker room in ninth grade and you’re like, what the f I remember going in a locker room looking at a stuff and going, oh, I thought black was a slimming color.
And then you go, oh, cool, I have a cool bit.
And then he answered into the Machine. Ralph Barbosa been in the news a lot lately, Thanks George Lopez. Hey Ralph, when did you first notice your comedy crew were starting to blow up? This from the La Times, Barbosa said, around November, my social media had grown quite a bit. I started getting book more on the road.
I filmed a special for HBO, but November there was a lot of promo for it, and we did a promotional event at the New York Comedy Festival. So with Instagram going up and TikTok blowing up and all the other stuff was kind of mind blowing everything all at once. By December slash January. I was booking more gigs and I was approved to do the tonight show of Fallon. There’s a few months before that, I was struggling to make ends meet, running from open mic to open mic.
Good for him, man. They asked him about the comedy scene in Dallas. He said, Yeah, this is a handful of clubs there. We have the Addison Improv, the Hienias clubs, Backdoor Comedy. That’s a clean club.
Kind of funny to me that backdoor comedy is clean. Think about it. Yeah, move on, which means you can’t curse on stage, which I feel helped me make my writing better. It’s not like work or La. We can get up in front of some big names every night, but you can definitely stay busy, which is all I really needed.
When I started traveling, I worried my jokes wouldn’t translate because I was all the performing in Dallas for a long time, and I thought one of my stuff’s not cut out for crowds outside Texas or Dallas. What I’ve been finding isn’t no matter where I go, tons of people cannot to my stuff, even if they don’t go through what I’m talking about a lot of people have still felt stuff when I’m feeling. I think when it comes to comedy in general, the more specific you are, the more relatable you end up being. Brian Reagan, so the Duanne Go Harold. There’s a lot of comedians out there who are great at what they do.
I’ve always been a big Jerry Seinfeld fan. You go back in time to the big names, George carl and Richard Pryor. I like Jonathan Winter’s a lot. I like Johnny Carson. A lot of comedians out there doing good things.
But you gotta be careful not to pattern yourself after somebody. You might like what they do, but you always try to carve your own unique path in this business. I think if you stay true to yourself, make sure that you’re sharing how you feel is an individual on stage, it usually works out pretty good. I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. I wouldn’t talk about how someone looks or something like that.
I wouldn’t make fun of someone. I think behavior is fair game. I wouldn’t mind going after somebody about their behavior. Mostly I talked about myself. I’d like to be self effacing when I’m on stage, but in terms of topics.
I think ultimately all topics are fair game. It just depends how you approach them. As long as you have some moral compass inside of you and you’re just trying to make people laugh on pointing out certain things, then I think everything’s available. It’d be talked about Fortune Feamster until Kentucky dot Com. Very early on in my career, I was getting told no constantly because I was considered different.
I came up at a time when being different wasn’t really celebrated. Was still that time in Hollywood where people wanted you to be like everybody else. Her career kind of stalled when she pitched Netflix an hour long special, and the feedback I was getting was that I wasn’t ready, and that forced me to go back on the road and really digging on my material and be like, what am I trying to say? She went back and worked out what became her special, Sweet and Salty, that aired on Netflix in twenty twenty. She said, I liked that narrative and the personal feeling to it.
By the time I got a yes from Netflix, I really tapped into what I think is now my voice. The New Yorker asked Kate bro Lant, what do you think about when people talk about you as an industry favorite or every comedian’s favorite comedian. She said, I’ll take it. She’s enjoying doing her show these days, and she says, I’m already nostalgic for this time. I’m overwhelmed by the response to the show and the fact that every single show was sold out and people are coming multiple times.
It’s my dream come true.
And then they asked her you getting work from it, and she said, nope, I don’t…
Mark Marrin spoke about the ending of Netflix’s Glow. Remember Glow, Women Wrestlers, Fun Show, Alison Brie. Remember Alison Brie in episode one? Either know what I’m referencing or not move on. Johnny mack Wow enjoyed that episode.
COVID was so harrowing, and what I was going through personally was so harrowing too. I think Netflix is going to cut it loose anyway. I’m sorry I’m laughing at that, but if you got it, you got it. I’m upset about the bad luck, but I believe that Netflix held onto those studios and those actors for a long time, and I know they have bottomless pockets and they have all this money, but they didn’t do it lightly. He was disappointing when they finally said, luck, we can’t keep holding onto these studios and there was really no way to shoot it safely with that many actors.
There was COVID remember COVID, Yes, there just wasn’t. But I’m upset that they didn’t. Why couldn’t they just made a movie? Well, why can’t they make a movie? Maren said, I don’t know anyone’s working on one if they believed in it.
I’m more man at Netflix in general for not just saying, but why don’t we make this last season a film? They could have done that. We could have shot that after the pandemic. But now pay attention to here. Maren said, but I don’t think they’re really good at supporting anything that doesn’t add up to global business for them.
That’s just the nature of it. So yeah, I was disappointed because we needed to finish it. We were going to finish it, Allison’s character in mind, We’re going to get together. That’s not the first interview where I’ve seen Maren below a little steam in the direction of Netflix. When he was promoting the HBO special.
There was some line I’m quite sparaphrasing here, like who wants a Netflix special anyway? And I’m looking at that going like, I don’t know everybody, so I don’t know what’s going on there. Maybe he’s just upset about glow from Cracked, LA based comedian Logan Gunslman has an affinity for a typical advertising. For one week, Gunslman ran sidebar ads on certain websites, you know, the ones with naked ladies and stuff that kind. Yeah, Gunsman said.
During the pandemic, I had a lot of free time, so I was visiting porn sites more frequently. I’d get distracted by how insane the ads were, and I thought, it seems like they’ll buy anyone by ads. I wonder how hard it is set up. I googled it. It was pretty easy.
She spent probably twenty minutes shooting some silly suggestive photos or the ad campaign than a few hours photoshopping images and adding captions like you know what feels better than finishing laughing? Well, I’m trying hardier to clean this one up. I’ve got the perfect thing to listen to right after you are done. A twenty minute recording of a woman talking, and it had a link to her album That’s really funny. She said.
Most porn ads are bad, so these can be bad too. She paid a total of one hundred and fifty dollars to run her promotion for one week and select zip codes. So I run some ads from my podcast. A bunch of horny dudes could be like, what the hell is this dude? Yeah, the ad campaign didn’t work out so well.
Her dream is to advertise at her shows on the TV screens at the Department of Motor Vehicles, but it turns out that’s actually like five grand. More recently, she publicized some shows in Louisville, Kentucky by dumping a bucket of ky lubrigants all over herself. Ky as in Kentucky, get it. She did that in an Instagram post. She also hosts a monthly show with the Blind Barber in LA That’s strictly by OL.
What’s by OL? Johnny Mack, Bring your own Lube, I think It’s time to go. It’s your company news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, a Little Naughty Today YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.
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