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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, a very robust one for a summer Friday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Catching up on an item. John Mulaney is married.
So behind the scenes here what happened was I had to buy a new MacBook and you connect the old MacBook to the new MacBook and the stuff transfers over and it takes a few hours. And as soon as I did that, I saw, oh, John m’laney got married, So I did a quick bonus episode on my phone in case you missed that. Anyway, catching up on the story seems over July fourth weekend, John Mulaney and Olivia Munn got married. So who was at this wedding, Well, not too many people. Malcolm was there, okay, and Sam Waters did.
I was like, huh, Well, it turns out that Sam and Olivia Munn co starred in the newsroom and I was like, oh, yeah, that’s right. I watched that show on HBO. I really enjoyed that Sam’s wife was the ceremony’s only witness. According to TMZ, congratulations to the happy couple. Hulu is making a big push into stand up comedy.
They have signed Bill Burr. Interesting right. Bill Burr Special is taped in June at the More Theater in Seattle. It will air on Hulu as part of Hulu’s Laughing Now banner. Hulu de banner is kind of lame, like just Laughing Now lame.
So whoever came up with that doesn’t know comedy, get rid of that.
Also under the really really cool Laughing Now banner.
Jim Gaffigan his special The Skinny, will kick off on November twenty second. The plan is to have twelve specials across the year. Man, if you’re starting with Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan or Jim Gaffigan and then Bill Burr, that’s a pretty good launch. By the way, Jim Gaffigan I see on his Twitter he just put out an album that’s on Comedy Dynamics. It is called The Prisoner.
I haven’t checked that out yet. That kind of went underpromoted a lot of press from Eddie Murphy lately, much of it going back to that New York Times interview. They dust it off. You may or may not know this, depending on how old you are. Bill Cosby back in the day he gave Eddie Murphy the business Eddie said, language was the way he would come at it.
It wasn’t so much language, it was the times we were in. This is back when you know, one black person at the time was getting in the mix. When I came on the scene, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby were like, Oh, this is the new stuff that’s coming up. There’s a new thing coming on. Then that’s a threat to whatever that thing is.
That’s what Bill Cosby had. He went on to say that Pryor saw him as an up and comer who was trying to be like prior, Yeah, you think, Richard Pryor, I’m with you on that one. Consequently, Richard Pryor did not see Eddie Murphy as a threat, Eddie said. Bill Cosby was like, is this the new way it’s gonna be? Now?
They’re gonna be on stage grabbing their you know, central region there and talking all crazy. So we had come at me with, oh, the language, which was more like it’s one at a time, and is this the new guy who’s gonna knock me out of the spot. That’s what was going on back then. Cosby is an interesting cat. I remember when he was booked on Jim Brewer’s show.
It might be twenty years ago now, coming up on that. My phone rang one day and it’s Bill Cosby on the other end of the phone, and he was asking all kinds of questions. You know, what’s this show? Like, is this this guy work dirty? You know?
Cosby was keeping up that public image and like really working at it. You know, in later days we found out all kinds of things about Bill Cosby, But boy, he was came comping up the image.
And then I remember when he did that.
I guess it was his last special for Comedy Central. We had him up and same thing. He was really vetting the room and is this safe? And you know you guys aren’t going to be all naughty and stuff. Boy, he kept up that public image.
I have another Bill Cosby story which I will tell someday. Got a hold onto that one for a while. Dion Cole and Leslie Jones have been tapped as headliners for the second annual because of their Funny Comedy Festival That was a good Festival last year. This year’s events September twenty seventh through the twenty ninth, that the Wharf and DC improv the BTTF Festival will include panels, comedy classes, networking events and the betf Care is a charity fundraiser. On Saturday, September twenty eighth, six finalists will compete for a ten thousand dollars grand prize and the opportunity to secure representation by some agents.
Leslie Jones will perform on the Sunday. Leslie also is going to be part of the NBC Olympics coverage coming up soon. Pete Davidson will headline the Rochester Fringe Festival. This one’s September thirteenth at the East Mennut Theaters Kodak Hall. Rochester’s not for profit fringe has become one of the largest and most successful fringe festivals in the nation.
The full lineup for the thirteenth annual Rochester Fringe will be announced on July twenty third. They’re coming for Trevor Noah. Apparently, The New York Post is like, Hey, Trevor Noah, what’s the deal with you and Microsoft? The article suggests that Trevor Noah has a history of discussing Microsoft without clearly disclosing his affiliation with the company. You see, in twenty twenty two, Microsoft named Trevor Noah it’s Chief Questions Officer that same year.
The Hollywood Report noted, though his Chief Questions Officer title there is new, the tech whiz has been consulting with the company for six years, and through his work with the product development team, has applied from multiple patents. The New York Posts says the Federal Trade Commission has recently ramped up actions against influencers and celebrities who failed to disclose a monetary relationship with products they endorse. Late Night Er says it’s unclear what prompted the article, which does not claim Noah is being specifically investigated by the FTC. The New York Post has described Trevor Noah’s interviews of various Microsoft execs on The Daily Show as glowing.
Also noted in the article is Trevor Noah’s appearance in twenty nineteen for …
Very interesting. Why are they coming for Trevor Noah all of a sudden? These articles don’t just happen. You don’t just walk in at The New York Posts and be like, hey boss, I’m just gonna write an article about Trevor Noah and Microsoft for no reason. Okay, yeah, whatever, man, we got a newspaper to put out right whatever you want.
Like somebody had a conversation about this. I want to know why. Let’s keep an eye on this one. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival hits Edmonton this weekend. Kevin Hart, Andrew Schultz, and Bert Chraysier.
Not bad. Coming up next weekend in Winnipeg, The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival as Tom Sigoora, Bill Burn, Natepergatsi. That is no sloushy line up there. Jeff Foxworthy is in Tucson tonight. Tucson dot Com asked Jeff if he might incorporate his grandchildren into the show like he did with his two daughters when they were young.
Jeff said, I was making good money off them till they became high school age and asked him to stop. They took away a good revenue stream. That’s the great thing about when they’re little. They don’t realize you’re talking about them Saturday Night. Don’t expect him to do You might be a redneck if he stopped doing it a few years ago, thinking maybe his audiences were tired of it.
I think you’re wrong there, Jeff. We like that one. He might reboot it for the twenty first century because Rednecks still certainly exists. They’re trying to be hip and all, but deep down underneath, it’s like, Nah, God only made like one hundred hit people in the country, and the rest of us are pretenders, and I’ve reached the age where you quit pretending. Foxworthy says there are days where he has to get up at four am to get to the airport and their back to back show weekends where he asked himself why still doing this?
But when you’re on the side of the stage and they turn the lights down and people start clapping, it’s like an adrenaline rush. You’re like, I still got to do this. I really honestly feel like I’ve cheated the world and that I got to do something I love doing this much and made a fabulous living doing it. I’m like, I gotta be one of the luckiest people on the planet because I would have done it for free. Go see Jeff Foxworthy this weekend DDCAZ dot com for tickets.
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Meanwhile, Gabe Iglesia is taping every night this weekend, Friday, Saturday,…
Lesser known as Chris Allen, described as a nationally touring stand up and podcaster based out of Washington, d C. Chris’s styles a mix of well crafted jokes and stories about his life, ranging from his family to fatherhood, the military, and marriage, coupled with quick witted crowd interactions. Chris Allen is taping his special tonight and tomorrow at Carlson Comedy in Rochester, New York. Needs something to watch? Josh Glands of Room Vroom g l A and c Vroom Vroom is on The eight hundred Pound Gorilla.
Josh sold out of shows at Edinburgh Fringe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Viewers at home can enjoy his sketches and off the wall sense of humor. Katie Bowman’s album Neurodivergent Nightmare is out. You will hear jokes about being diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, working at planned parenthood and withstanding their dad’s resentment of their ted hues. Katie Bowman out today tomorrow on the program an interview with some honchos from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.
We’ll talk some comedy, as I’ve been doing on Saturdays in the summer. Here. Sunday’s a normal episode and I hope you have an awesome weekend. To see you here in the morning,