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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. The Richard Simmons family would like Pauli Shore to just cut it out. In case you’re not familiar with the story, Pauli Shuore has expressed a desire to play Richard Simmons in a bio pick. He’s been talking about it for quite a while now.
He’ll offer updates in his social media. Usually the updates have Richard Simmons asking Pauli Shore to stop. Richard has now passed away entertainment. Tonight, asked Pauli Shore, you know all right, what’s happening now? Pauli said, I know he wanted me to do it.
I don’t even know if it was him tweeting disapproval the whole time, And be quite honest, I don’t know who that was. Well from beyond the grave, Richard Simmons social media is now posting. Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message. He would often read them to Kathy and I beforehand.
This is believed to be attributed to his brother Lenny. What he has not done was to text email or call Paulie Shore with anything, not even to wish him good luck. As Paulie has said many times, we’ll see if this movie ever happens. THEO Vaughn excited for the NFL season, he posted on his socials AFC North is going to be Banana’s this year best division. Joe Rogan talked about booking the podcast and said, I don’t look at the numbers.
I don’t pay attention to how many downloads. It’s not like feversly checking what’s good and what’s bad. I don’t look at like what the retention is or when people drop out. I know that’s up to them. My job is just to have an interesting conversation with people that I’m actually excited about talking to.
That’s my only job. So the way I book it, I completely book it based on my interests. I don’t have a publicist that’s like examining trends in this person’s popularity. I don’t do any of that. Rogan’s special not getting good reviews.
I haven’t seen a good review of it yet. I think everyone kind of came in where I did, which was it was all right. I mean, there was Joe Rogan doing Joe Rogan’s stuff nothing special. When did Joe know that the podcast had made? It said, I’ll tell you when I realized it.
It was like twenty eleven or twenty twelve. I was on stage at the Chicago Theater and I was doing comedy and I asked the audience I was gonna tell a story from the podcast, and I said, how many of you guys listen to the podcast? And it was just like yay, thirty seven hundred people cheering, and I was like, whoa. I’ll never forget that moment. Nicole Bayer was on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast told an icky story.
She said, I did shows in Appleton, Wisconsin, which to talk about in my special, and I really hated it there. The vibes effing sucked during my show. I had a white host, a black featurer and the crowds were so unruly. At one point, my black feature was on stage and a guy in the crowd was like, this is terrible smile. We can’t see you.
I was like, what the f After the audience member made the remark, Bayer walked down on the floor and looked at a server. I was like, you’re not going to say anything, and the server was like what Bayer said. I refused to do the meet and greets, even though it was sold with the tickets. I told my agent, I’m just not meeting with these people. I’m sure there’s nice people in this crowd, but overall garbage, bad people, bad vibes.
I couldn’t believe that man said that. Sheng Wang said when he first stand up in college, he was basically doing an impersonation of Chris Rock because that was one of the only comedians he’d ever seen on TV. Everything changed when he saw Mitch Hedburg for the first time. Are we having the Hebburg guess sense? I hope so.
I’m a big Mitch fan. I was thinking after I recorded yesterday’s show, of all my various half ass impressions, the first one that I started doing on the podcast was half ass Mitch Hedburg. I’m not gonna do it for you today, but that one will be coming back. Sheng Wang said. It changed my whole idea of what stand up could be because it suddenly felt like I could maybe do that.
I could maybe just share those thoughts I have. I’m just a pretty low key person, so that’s how it always was from the beginning. I’m not a fast talker. I was not quick with comebacks or anything like that. As for Shang Wang’s now familiar look of long hair, he says, that is totally a pandemic accident.
I wasn’t playing on keeping it. I just wanted to see how it would look when people kept saying nice things, and slowly it just felt like it did look like me now. He thought about cutting it before taping his special Ali Wang convinced him to keep it. Shang says, my whole career before this, I was trying to be as mundane and boring, as far from my physical appearance, to be as bland as possible. The idea was not to be distracting.
That’s the mindset I had, was to go on stage and let the joke speak for themselves and not have things that people can think about or judge me. On Vulture checked out that comics for Kamala the other night. Apparently Matt Friend was doing Howard Stern. He does a good Howard Stern, but it you know, it’s a weird move. I grew up listening to Howard Stern.
Howard went to series in two thousand and six. So he’s been candidly out of the spotlight. I mean, the media will write about him, but like no one under forty cares about Howard Stern at this point. You know. So it’s a good impression by Matt, but like, who you going after Matt?
Well, you might as well do John Wayne anyway. On comics for Kamala, Cecily Strong joked jd Vance is confusing because his rhetoric wants us to panic about immigrants, but his eyeliner wants us to panic at the disco. She then joked their speculation that Trump is unhappy with jd Vance at his thinking about getting rid of him, but he’d better hurry because it’s been six weeks. I did go looking for Kamala Harris jokes to keep this fair, didn’t find any. Send them my way, happy to do him.
Colin Jost will be the new headliner at the Fringe, No, not that one, the Rochester Fringe Festival. He will replace Pete Davidson, who canceled his show. All tickets previously bought for Pete Davidson will automatically be honored for the Colin Joe show. Anyone who doesn’t want to see Colin Jos can return them for a full refund. Colin Jost now playing the Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater on Friday, September thirteenth.
If you enjoy what I do here, one way to support the show is going to buy me a coffee. Dot com a slash Daily Comedy News. There’s some money in the tip jar. I will go to the National Donus chain and enjoy a large iced coffee with caramel and milk on you. I’ve been good.
I haven’t been buying anything other than coffee, just trying to get all that processed sugar out of my system. I’m trying to stay this fat. It’s hard enough staying this fat, so I’m laying off be good. I’m having my breakfast shakes. I’m trying.
And Cohen announced to her new special it’s called Come for Me. I guess I could have put a different verbal spin on that. I’m not sure how she intends it. I’m gonna take it that she wants us to go see her. You can interpret it however you want.
Come for Me will be on beeps at approximately five pm Pacific on Thursday, Act over seventeenth. I guess the lawyers got involved and said, hey, you know you can’t promise exactly five pm Pacific. You never know what happens with streaming and delays and internet. You know, we gotta be careful here. Part’s stand up comedy port cabaret Come for Me is built as an openly glamorous, decidedly horny exploration of what it means to be a woman entering her thirties.
So perhaps my verbal spin on the title is incorrect, but we all have the giggles. Nail Hannah Gatsby talk to the Guardian about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where Colin jos is not expected to perform. Anna said, in two thousand and six, I slept in a closet, performed a fewer than one hundred people across my whole time there, and got hit by a golf ball. Well, I also lost an obscene amount of money and cried three times in public. Then I came runner up in the Fringes.
So you think you’re funny competition, but it doesn’t really factor in my memory list that year because success is not what defines the fringe experience. A failure does. The fringe might promise to make your showbiz dreams come true, but in reality it’s more likely to give you scurvy. I returned to the Fringe with eight shows over the next decade. I wouldn’t say experienced much of the way of success in the time, but my failure rate remained consistently high.
In twenty eleven, I came off my bike and cracked my head open on some cobblestones. Another year, I committed to having a healthy fringe and swore off alcohol. I opted instead of propped myself up with an artificially sweetened caffeine product, and as a result, I enjoyed a month long jittering that looked very much like what those in ye old times would have described as a nervous breakdown. Then there was the year my pockets were literally too shallow and I lost my wallet, my replacement wallet, and the envelope I used to replace that. When I returned in twenty seventeen with Nanette, I was not gambling.
I knew I had a show that could not be ignored, and I was right. I don’t think it’s impervot lea to say that Nnette is one of the most successful stand up shows who ever go at the Fringe. I didn’t even lose that much money. And that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.
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