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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, it’s so hot? How hot is it? Johnny Mack, it’s so hot. Trump is considering changing his catchphrase to your fried it’s so hot.
I feel like Joe Biden in front of the campaign downers. Sam Morrill has got a new special out today. This one is on Amazon. It’s called You’ve Changed and We’re Told. Sam showcases his unique laid back style, effortlessly riffing on his experiences about the worst person he’s ever dated, the challenges of aging, and takes on various topics from cable news to the dangers of social media.
Hannah Berner has got a special out today on Netflix. It’s called We Write at Dawn. She got the big time profile from Variety, which means her publicists did their job this week and she’s got good agents. She started out in comedy and did ten minutes of stand up, which you’re not supposed to do in front of three under people your first time, but ignorance is bliss. At the end of the show, my reality TV friends were like, ooh, so that’s what you’re meant to do, all right?
Well, do you have any pre show rituals? Hannah says, I drink the white flavor of Gatorade zero till out. If you’re of a certain age, you ever had a colonoscoby, you got to drink the stuff, and you drink with Gatorade. Just thinking about the taste of Gatorade zero right now, no offense Gatorade zero company. But when you mix it with the powder, that makes you do the thing for the colonnascoby prep.
I don’t even want to think about it. It’s so gross. But Hannah used to drink Gatorade before her tennis matches when she was a tennis player. But I have to drink the white one now because I can’t dot my lips blue or stain my outfit. I normally nap beforehand, and then I was listening to a ton of a Megan v Stallion and Ice Spice.
I highly recommend to Princess Diana by Ice Spice. If you’re going through a nervous time in your life, Hannah Burner, how would you describe your sense of humor? Asked the Variet Tours. Anna said, I would describe it as a female locker room with the girls are like thank God, she’s saying these things, and the men are like I actually learned some stuff. I was a goofy friend who was not afraid to say things that other people were nervous to say.
How do you memorize an hour of material? Hannah Burner, I actually don’t have a good memory. I had to study really hard for tests. Stand up is kind of like telling a story. You’re not going to forget the story during a whole hour.
I viewed it like an album. After this song, we have this song, after this song, we have this song? All right? Is there? Crowd work and the special crowd work is fun for me because sometimes I’ll get bored if I’ve been doing shows all week, I’m curious and I want to talk to people.
I feel like being good at CrowdWork is knowing what direction to take regardless of what the audience memory gives you. I find that CrowdWork has made me kind of psychic. I can see a couple sitting together and know they’ve been together for eight months. Or I’ll see a guy and know what he does for a living. I’ll be like, you’re a finance bro, You’re definitely an electrician, you’re a lawyer.
Every now and then I get something crazy right, and the crowd gets freaked out and I’m like, nah, I do this every night. I can see the little hints. By the way, We’re three minutes into a podcast and I’m sweating. I’m sitting at a chair talking and I’m sweating. It is so hot today.
It’s so hot. I feel like Scott Becket’s collar every time Johnny Mack mentions Joe Coy, Hi, Scott, I hope you had a good fourth Mark Norman has a new documentary for Punch Up Live. We get to see Mark Norman work joke from the first time he tried it to having it on its feet at Carnegie Hall. What about the specific joke made you want to chronicle it, Mark Norman? Mark said, well, funny you ask that, because I don’t love that joke.
It was just a timing thing. We needed a joke that wasn’t ready because that was when I could get the cameraman and everything. So I said, I’m working on a jump joke about banging animals, and they said, great, let’s do it. It’s like, I don’t even love the joke, but it had to be in a certain timeframe, so we had to do it. We did a pilot before this one about a year ago, and that joke I loved.
It was my closer in the Netflix half hour. It went viral online too. That one was a better choice, But again the timing that one also really struggled. In the beginning. It’s all genuine.
It’s real humiliation and real fear. You’re seeing on my face. You can’t even fathom the fight or flight that’s going on in your head during it. Your brain’s going a million miles a minute in a bad way. You ever consider giving up on the joke?
Mark Norman, He says, every single time. Yeah, every fiber and you’re being is telling you bort. It’s kind of like being up against the ropes at a boxing match and it’s like, all right, I just want to crumble to a little ball, wait till the round’s over. But you can’t do it. You just got to stand up there and keep figuring it out.
What about playing Carnegie Hall, it’s pretty wild. I’ll say it’s not even the best room in the city. I’ve voted for Amy Schumer there. It’s so iconic. It’s cooler just for the history of it than the actual sound and room quality.
Is a venue, It’s one of those rooms you’ve heard of your whole life, the history in there. It’s pretty crazy. Jimmy cartyd my podcast, and he goes, I’m doing Cornegie Hall tonight, if you want to come by, And I said, if I want to come by? Are you kidding? So I had to go.
Not lost on the fact. It’s iconic room and it’s a special place. It’s kind of like banging Madonna. Now it’s old and not the best. You’d rather bang some young supermodel, but you gotta do it.
There was more of that Mark Norman article, but I’ve gotta save it because nothing’s going to top that. Sarah Sherman is in Nashville tonight. She says, I want to do karaoke, I want to eat crazy fried chicken. I want to do everything. Everything has to be a joke.
That’s the power of comedy. I repulse people. I’m pushing them away, and then I bring them back with the identification point of laughter. Even if I’m experimenting with freaking people out, I’ve got to get them back with some laughs. It’s that repulsion and attraction thing.
She says. Not everyone who comes to see her understands this is not Saturday Night Live. I’ll do a comedy club in Wisconsin and get a family of four to seven year olds who are like, Oh, we want to go to the comedy club this weekend and see the brunette from SNL. That’ll be fun.
And then they get there and they’re like, what the f This is not the nice wom…
To mitigate this, Sarah Sherman makes her promotional material match the vibe that poster for this tour. Sarah is dripping with eyeballs, squirm is made out of intestines, there’s a severed finger. Sherman’s eyes are hanging over her head and part of her brain is visible. Sarah says, I don’t want to spoil anything, but it gets really horrible. It’s really loud and really unpleasant, but it’s so fun, I promise.
Like my friend’s mommy ran out of my show in Portland, was puking in the parking lot. Hey, we’ve got a new podcast. It is called The Artist. I have done a lot of the writing on this thing. It is rated or for mature audiences only.
It comes out on Monday the fifteenth. The trailers now if you want to follow it and subscribe to it, it’s about a serial killer and it’s messed up. Sometimes I will polish off one of the scripts and send it over to my business partner Mark and I’ll be like, I hope he doesn’t think I’m weird the artist wherever you get your podcasts. Some things for you to listen to. Bill Maher had on Bill Burr maybe a month ago or so.
I finally got around to it over July fourth weekend. That’s a really good listen because Burr does not accept a single premise that Bill Maher puts out there. It is wonderful. They clearly get along, good chemistry. But Burr on top of his game.
On the Bill Mohr podcast, which has a name Club Random with Bill Maher I think it is and Neil Brennan’s Blocks. Check out the Trevor Noah episode. Trevor’s a really interesting dude and talked about his life growing up in South Africa. Very very compelling. From Gossip Corner.
If you were in Billings, Montana, and you were at yester Year’s Antique Mall on Sunday and you were like, is that Pete Davidson? It was Pete Davidson was shopping at Yesteryear’s antique mall and Billings. On Sunday on Facebook, the Yester Year’s Antique Mall posted we had a cool visitor in the store today. Thank you Pete Davison for the business and pictures.
Meanwhile, while a comedian I won’t spoil it yet, is upset that this person w…
Okay, let’s take guests on Hot Ones for two thousand dollars the answer. On his adult swim show, this host destroys is set every episode, but says he’s sedated in real life. I meditate, jog, I eat salad, and no one got it. Who is Eric Andre? I wouldn’t have gotten that either, Sorry, Eric Andre.
The Lonely Island have that podcast that I want to like, but I don’t even know. Andy Samberg is in the Macpack? What’s the Macpack? John? That is my hypothetical list of celebrity friends, like when I hit the big time.
This is who I’m hanging out with. It’s Andy Samberg and Jeff Goldblue, Michael Chickliss, Tom Kavanaugh from The Flash and the TV show ad from twenty years ago. That’s who I’m gonna roll with. That’s the macpack. Anyway.
Back in two thousand and seven, Justin Timberleg invited macpacker Andy Samberg to perform their song It’s got the naughty title, but I guess after Alex Bennon on Saturday, I can say dick in a box and you guys won’t go running. That is what the song is called. Samberg said his in ear performers. You know, those are the earbuds that you wear when you’re performing so you can hear the track over the audience. They were loaners, but at rehearsal it was like super common chill.
We were just in a big, old empty Madison Square garden. We come up through the middle. I can hear Justin Timberlake perfectly. We’re doing all our funny choreograph moves. I’m singing, and we’re like, oh, this is happening.
However, for the main show, Andy says, I take one step off the platform and both my in ears fall out. I’m like, oh no, I can’t hear the beat. I’m supposed to sing first. So I’m like, I think I know where we are in the song, and I can’t hear myself, and I start like five octaves higher than what I’m supposed to do. I know it’s wrong, but I was so old.
I’m trying to rememberhe I’m supposed to walk on stage and meet up with them, and he sees that it’s happening. He looks at me, like what And I point to my ears like I don’t have the things. Oh okay. So we got through the rest of it, and I never recover, and I get off and I changed, and I come back, and the other guys from the Lonely Island were just dying laughing. Samberg swore that he sounded good at rehearsal.
Some other things for you to watch if Hannah Berner and Sam Marill are not enough on YouTube today. Francisco Ramos Venezuela American the description no one does cheerful ribbing like Francisco Ramos. As you may have guessed from his Specials title, Ramos was born in Venezuela but moved to the United States when he was twelve. A comedy often dives into the cultural differences he notices as someone who’s lived here most of his life, but is proud of the resourcefulness he gained growing up in a country where over half the population live in poverty. Hassan Minaj put out a new digital series called Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know.
Culture took a look at it and suggested maybe this is what Hassan’s version of the Daily Show would have been like, in which case they dodged a bullet. The description for Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know. We’ll have Hassan interviewing the biggest names in politics, culture, and tech. The debut episode. Who did they pull?
Who would be the best guest for a debut episode? That’s right, Elizabeth Warren? Yeah, oh that’s but really, Elizabeth was asked about that politician guy. I don’t want to get into that on this show. Everybody’s gonna get mad.
But she said that man is sharp. The man knows what he’s talking about. He does the job. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like this program a commercial free check out the link of the show notes Kalaroga dot com slash plus four ninety nine commercials go away.
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