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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I thought I was done with the Chris Rock special, just wanted him move on, But boy, you know I love a good fight. A source told et online Will Smith is embarrassed and hurt by what Chris said about him and his family and the Netflix special. Will didn’t watch it, but he had people tell him what Chris said.
It’s everywhere when you look online and on social media. Will and Jada have seen comments about it. The source added, We’ll apologize to Chris and would like for Chris to let it go. Will has worked on himself and he’s banned by the oscars for ten years. He feels like that’s enough and wants Chris to move on so that he and everybody else can too.
The source also told eats he that Will Smith is upset that Netflix gave Rock this platform to express his views. Will’s also upset that Netflix was part of this and thinks Chris insulting Jada again is below the belt. He’s upset that Netflix gave Chris this platform to share these messages and thinks it’s distasteful.
Meanwhile, a different source on the Chris Rock side said, Rock said everythi…
It was funny, self deprecating and thought provoking. Now Chris is ready to move on. Deal hugely posted a clip of Chris Rock Special. Under that clip, Leslie Jones left a scathing response to one commenter, Right, so we’re following here, there’s a special deal. Hugley posts a clip.
Leslie Jones reacts to somebody commenting about the clip. The comment from the non famous person was, you gotta let stuff go at some point in your life. This is how young brothers get killed in the streets talking about something that happened a year ago, setting a terrible example. Leslie Jones chimed in and said, y’all forgot. He got slapped in front of the world.
YO, his kids, his mom up, hears everyone. I know how you all mother effers would handle that. And he’s a comedian. This is his way of expressing it. If he’s sang, he would write a song because it’s a painful thing that happened.
Y’all act like you would be righteous. You were hypocrites. Shut the f up and go sit down. The special caught the attention of hashtag Oscar’s so White creator, April rereen. April said, lots of folks were waiting to see if Chris would say Jade’s name during Chris Rock Live.
Hey didn’t, but he did call her a bit, and that seems just as bad, if not worse, to me. He knew what he was doing. It wasn’t weird but intentional. Chris could have picked and sold out any city in America he wanted to be in Jade’s hometown. Deal.
Hughley called Rock’s performance brilliantly executed and said, if you love comedy, if you’re student of the art, if you’re one of the few remaining people that allow for creative expression, then you walked away from this with the same sentiment. Side note, this happened to him to Chris, and the entire world got to weigh in and talk trash and make jokes and should would have could have the whole damn thing to death. Other comedians of bits about it. It was an opener for most of us. The one person he never heard from about it was Chris.
So now that he decides to address it on his time, people have the audacity to say he’s bitter, Why is he’s still talking about it? Let it go? We’re the best one we’ve moved on, so you’ve got to speak on it, but he can’t. Y’all are straight FF and trip. Congratulations Chris Rock.
You did the damn thing. I’m gonna jump in here, don’t I disagree, mister Hugley. I feel like the entire world was like, Chris, we want to hear from you on this. That was one of my challenges with the special that he made us wait sixty one minutes. We wanted to hear from Chris on this.
I’ve got the download numbers. Nobody was saying move on, so I don’t know where that is coming from. Everybody wanted to hear from Chris Rock. Was the special a master class in comedy? I don’t think so.
As I’ve said several times this week and my humble, unpopular opinion, I think the special was missequenced and Will Smiths stuff should have been about the twenty minute mark, and the Megan Markel stuff was stronger. But Chris Rock is a goat and I’m an idiot in abasement on the podcast what do I Know? Whoopy Goldberg is a famous comedian. She said Chris Rock’s ability to say what he sees is great, and you know what, this situation is never going to find a really good way to calm down. It’s just not there’s no justification for what happened.
What bees on the board of governors for the academy. So she’s one of the people that suspended him for ten years, right. Her theory on all this was I think it was a lot of other stuff probably built up. I think it one of those moments where it was just like, just stop, I get it. Not everybody asked the way would like them too.
Under pressure, some people just snap and he snapped quick stop. At Gossip Corner beat david Send likely not to face any charges after crashing into a home in Beverly Hills over the weekend. This from KABC. The report Pete Davidson was reportedly with his girlfriend. I like how they to say with his girlfriend, as if like you know, oh, we all know who his girlfriend is.
He has many girlfriends, As if you pay attention to Gossip Corner, this girlfriend doesn’t seem to be famous. The KABC article did not name checker. Davidson was poorly with his girlfriend and allegedly behind the wheel of a Mercedes when he lost control. The vehicle ran over a fire hydrant and crashed into the side of a house. Shouldn’t this be a rigor story?
Davidson was not arrested, according to Beverly Hills Police, and faces no charges as of right now. The important thing is it sounds like nobody was hurt. Quick note on Saturday Night Live. I apologize, Dear Travis Kelsey. I apologize.
I thought it was insane that you were going to host Saturday Night Live. I was wrong. You were really good, you were really charismatic. And I was texting my cousin He’s already John seen a good. Cousin wrote back and said cast him in Fast and Furies twelve.
I agree, Travis Kelsey has a tremendous career ahead of him, mister Kelsey, I humbly apologize. During the Chris Rock pregame show, Netflix teased the Netflix as a Joke Comedy special returning. What I missed at the moment was they didn’t announce one for this summer. They announced it for twenty twenty four. Netflix Is a Joke will officially return to La May second to May fourteen, twenty twenty four.
Is There a Netflix as a Joke Festival this summer, No Schorto reviewed Just for Laughs London, and this first part really spoke to me. They wrote, it’s a tough job launching a comedy festival in London given the city as hundreds of gigs a week anyway, whereas Just for Laughs absolutely dominates downtown Montreal for a couple of weeks in July, you could easily be in London and be entirely unaware it was on. That’s how I feel about the New York City Comedy Festival. It just comes and goes. But New York, there’s so much going on here that you don’t even notice the festival unless you’re part of the festival.
So it sounds like the same thing happened in London, Chordo continues. In fact, you could even be at the O two Complex and Greenwich where it all happened and be aware. Giant ads are just as likely to be promoting Mickey flannagannder Peter Kay’s forthcoming gigs, which were not part of the festival. Floor level tickets were in ninety pounds, although one fan tweeted that he got his for the price of coffee and a cake, suggesting not everyone paid full price. They reviewed a whole bunch of the shows, so that’s on chortle if you want to read that.
One show they liked, in particular Craig Robinson. He did a late night music and comedy mash up. But the reviewer said, I had a full road to myself and it was only wrote g shamed. So many missed a delightful party. Wow that sounds rough.
Sunday Night, Two New Faces of Comedy showcases, one of the hottest tickets and most prestigious gigs of the Montreal event in London was built as a place to see the future stars of the comedy circuit, although it’s definition of new Faces stretched to Shazia Mirza, now in her twenty third year as a stand up yikes. But the reviewer wrote, in London, I was told no, in certain terms, was just an audition, a new act event that should not be reviewed, and I should never have been given a ticket for not that the people who paid twelve fifty first seat had any indication this was anything but a normal game. So under sufferance, I can give you no review, but I will say the standouts where Josh Clank, with his unfailing commitment to silly unredictable comedy and Alison Spittle with her gloriously graphic but cheerfully delivered description of getting a contraceptive coil fitted perfect material for two PM on a Sunday, and the reviewer did hit the wrestling that was the show. I was obsessed with Silts dive in here a bald, brash and stupid spectacle guarantee the close the festival in an impressive style that not all the preceding four days lived up to. The wrestling offers a freeing sense that anything goes, both from the loose improval of the night to the ridiculously overblown characatures battling in good and evil.
Where else could you hear the phrase smash her disabled head in and have it not be a hate crime? Wow? Then came the first unscheduled match with a surprize guest, Gregg the Taskmaster. Davies took on reigning champ a Rosy Daddy Jones. Jones cheated her way to retaining her belt, only to retire hurt from the climactic eightweight battle Royale.
It was to decide the twenty twenty three title. In the main event, Alex the Raging Horn entered on a longboat the ringfluencer Abby Clark with her social media team Phil Phil Wang Wang in the revealing Bruce Lee jumpsuit. He war on Taskmaster and Pro’s Karen Noir, Las Si Clona and arch Heel, The Prince of Mumbai Rishi Ghosh Plust the comedy highlight of about Glenn Morgue as a cryogenically frozen nineteen seventies Tory MP defrosted by his manager, the very right wing comedian Joe Lysatz, chaos ensued, Clark performed a daring, high stakes die through the ropes. Wang was slammed from the ropes into a ringside table and stretchered away and Lycett revealed himself not to be a right wing comedian at all and turned against his capitalist charge. That sounds like a great time.
Despite crashing out so dramatically, Wang made a Lazarus like comeback against the advice of medic Mark Silcox, and ultimately he took the title while Phil Wang won the wrestling. That’s awesome. I would love to see one of those shows. That sounds like so much fun, The Guardian added, were we to judge by eight cast and Kumar’s running joke about low ticket sales for Saturday’s flagship event, The Q and A with Ryan Reynolds. The twenty twenty three edition has been only a qualified success m too bad.
Meanwhile, Moontower added even more comedians Moontower in Austin April twelfth. Through the twenty third they have added Howie Mandel makes sense. He’s like the big boss at Just for Laughs, Andrew Dismukes, Andrea Ginn, Kate Willett, Brendan Sagalow, Natalie Palamedes, Elizabeth Spears, and dream Horse. I feel like what I do here. You can go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
I think you might have to get me a hot coffee today. I’m starting to feel like I’m getting a cold, and hopefully it’s just a cold. Yikes, mimycoffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News. Donald Glover was at the twenty twenty three Writers Guild Awards in New York City Sunday night. He got in a joke about Chevy Chase.
Atlanta Executive producer Phil Simms was there to receive an honorary award. The award is named after former SNL writer Herb Sergeant, who came up with the chevy Chase hosted Weekend Update. Glover said chevy Chase once called Herb one of the funniest writers working in televis chevy Chase once called me, you know what this is about. Paul Marlon Wayne spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his relationship with Will Smith. Marlan said he hit Will Smith up and said, congrats on your oscar, But brother, I want you to go to therapy seven hours of therapy on Monday, because you’ve got some unpacking to do.
That’s exactly what I said. I don’t think you should bury him and cancel him and all that. I think he’s dealing with it enough on his own time. But yeah, the very thing he’s trying to race. Now you’re gonna have to deal with it for the rest of your life.
You just made it bigger. Now it’s about how you process this to do whatever you need for healing personally. Same with Chris. One day they’ll get together and hopefully resolve this because we can laugh at it now, we can put it behind us at some point. But for me, we got to look at our heroes and be like, hey, let’s stop the cancel culture for a second.
How about we get this brother some help. Are you in therapy because we don’t take care of our mental health the way we need to, especially Black people, we don’t do that. I go to therapy two times a week. This is for my own sanity because I deal with it a lot. We deal with a lot.
We have to act like we’re not hurting. My mama died, I’m still dealing with the trauma that and that was three years ago. We near these idols in people’s eyes. We don’t have any license to fail. And he saw that man fail.
It can happen at any and every one of us under these pressures. He had the worst moment on the best day of his life. He also talked about the current state of comedy, cancel culture and whatnot. He said, everybody’s got an opinion on it. I don’t like where society’s going.
But I will say, just like Chappelle said, as a comedian, you have to draw a line and be unapologetic. I’m sorry you’re hurting, but I’m not sorry. I told that joke because it’s your opinion, so we could tell the same jokes. But my opinion through my experience maybe different than a different community. Mine comes from a more sensitive place depending on the topic than somebody not aware or not in that community, or that topic isn’t of interest.
They’re gonna be a lot more callous with their jokes. But it’s comedy. That’s what our job is now. Our job is to tell jokes period. Some we’re gonna win, some we’re gonna lose.
We just watched it globally. For comedian they tell jokes. What we do for a living. You can’t be mad at that. It’s kind of like if Will’s in an action movie and he’s finding some people in the Middle East and Middle Eastern people get mad at him.
What do you have that guy like that? It’s a movie. It’s what I’m supposed to do. He was the bad guy. As comedians, all we’re trying to do is make light of whatever we see in front of us, and sometimes you crack the wrong joke.
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