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Caloroga Shark Media. I’ll tell you all, this has been pretty busy. There’s a lot of news. The episodes have been a little longer, and I’ve been squirreling stuff away because i know Labor Day comes and it kind of dips. But there’s a lot going on today.
Be a little long again and it’s good. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jeff Goldbloom sat in for Jimmy Kimmel last week and said, according to a new study, cigarette smoking in America is the lowest that it’s been in eighty years. The study was funded by the world renowned Institute of Vaping.
Is actually healthy and cool as hell, Jimmy Fallon said. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harrison Tim Walls are taking a bus tour together through Pennsylvania and this is interesting. It’s the same bus that Democrats through President Biden under That’s pretty good. Don’t forget to follow the Ballots podcast. We’re live from the DNC all this week making fun of everything, so check that out.
Fun one from the Daily Mail. Remember Terry Sandel was in Australia and he got heckled and he said, how this, I’ll screw up. Jim Jeffries at a show in New York. If it works to solve the Gaza’s crisis, then it’ll work to help First Nations people well. Jim Jeffries was asked about it by some TV hosts, specifically the Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Jim says he’s never met Seinfeld, which is weird because I’ve met Seinfeld and the pair have mutual friends. Jim said, I don’t know if he meant that as a threat, but I’m so up for that. Jim joked, if I were halfway through a show in New York and I was being heckled in the heckler was Jerry Seinfeld talking about aboriginals. The rest of his comments were bleeped out of the broadcast. Jeffries says he has no problem with a public beef, explained that a heckler at one of his shows in Perth that’d be removed by security.
He’s saying Trump fans don’t have a sense of humor. Trump fans don’t have a sense of humor about Trump. One of the hosts asked why Jim Jeffries isn’t voting for Trump. He says because it makes it harder for comedians. He makes it harder for us.
All speaking of Trump, Sarah Cooper, Remember Sarah Cooper, She was on TikTok and would pantomime to Donald Trump and I would kind of eye roll that and people got really mad at me.
And then she got a Netflix special and then she kind of like came around and …
Remember Sarah Cooper, who’s really good in the Unfrosted movie. Well, she’s back on TikTok and she’s back to pantomiming Donald Trump. I shared a clip in the Facebook group. Did you hear me? When I saw the group?
Did you hear me from your house going are you kidding me? And such words? Did you hear me screaming into the universe with this? Sarah Cooper back on TikTok pantomiming to Donald Trump. All right, if you follow the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, or if you follow me on threads at Daily Comedy News, where I’ve been hanging out a little bit, you heard me mention mystery embargoed special that I liked a lot.
I will now reveal it to you. It is James Adomian’s Path of Most Resistance and good News. It’s on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website now. If you want to watch it now, or if you want to keep your walle closed, wait until September nineteenth and you can watch it on YouTube. It is fantastic.
I was really into it. I laughed out loudlol, as the kids say. Now, I was venting to one of the listeners on a side conversation. One hundred percent of the time. I don’t mean ninety nine percent of the time.
One hundred percent of the time. If I put on a comedy special, my wife shows up halfway through it, and then I have to pause it and talk to her, and then I can never get back into the specials anyway. James Adomian one of the top specials of the year. I’ll give you an updated list in a second.
Also one of the top specials of the year.
Matt Rife his new crowd Work special. I liked it a lot. I commented in the various socials again Daily Coming to News podcast group and Daily Coming News on threads. It’s funny. I went into it probably like, Eh, this is gonna suck.
I’m gonna last four minutes, and then I watch something. No, it’s funny. Is it high art? No, it’s not trying to be high art. Sometimes things can just be fun, and this is just fun for an hour, and I felt like I was hanging out in a club and caught a comic on a good night.
You could see Rife is naturally funny. He’s quick. The special moves along. Your wife shows up forty seven minutes into it and you have to hit pause, and maybe you don’t enjoy the last fourteen minutes as much as she did the first forty seven. That could happen to you.
But Matt Rife Special liked it a lot. I’ll give you the updated listener a second. The Daily Beast wrote one of eight trillion Matt Rife articles that came out. They write, Rife seemingly wants a do over of his poorly received debut, returning to his roots as a CrowdWork comedian. The entire special centered around the concept of dreams, hence its title lucid.
Bizarrely, Rife never actually brings up the topic of lucid dreaming, and said he asked questions around ideas of aspiration, literal dreaming, and failed chances. While at times it does provide some cohesion and miss a style of comedy that lends itself to a more scattered approach, it also restricts him at times, making it seem more like a live poll ar Q and a session than a comedy show. Yeah. No, it definitely feels like a Q and a session after a proper set on that. One of the big falls of crowd Work, they write, is that it relies on stereotypes, with comedians forced to make snap judgments based on limited interactions.
This is a trap Rife falls into. At the starting. It compares one of the only black men in the audience to Cam Newton and makes another joke about another man’s queerness. I’ll comment there without spoiling there is a joke where he’s talking to a crowd member and she mentions her age, and Rife slams that one home. There’s also a joke that I think this article is referring to here about quote another man’s queerness, and I think Rife slammed that joke home.
Both those lines that I’m trying not to spoil got big laughs out of me, So I disagree here with the Daily Beasts. They write, He’s still reliant on a lot of the low blows that have helped him become viral on TikTok. He us the stereotypes in mockery, but this time he seems less afraid to mock himself too. It’s pretty good, all right. Let’s take a look at the updated list of best of twenty twenty four.
I haven’t done this in a while. Number one, the best thing of the year is the roast of Tom Brady. Number two David Tail’s Hot Cross Buns that’s on Netflix. Three Triumphs, you lucky bastards. That reminds me have to watch the new triumph that came out.
That one is on YouTube. Number four is David Cross’s Worst Daddy in the World YouTube. And I have in my parentheses here laughed exclamation point and as you know, I’m a psychopath, doesn’t laugh at comedy specials. Number five making its debut at number five, James Adomian’s Path of Most Resistance currently on the eight hundred pound Goerilla site. Six is Dusty Sleigh that’s on Netflix.
Kyle Kinane on YouTube, Dirt and app. At seven, Matt Rife making its chart to debut at number eight. Lucid on Netflix. Just discussed Sam Morrel’s You’ve Changed on Amazon at nine. To Meet You Martin on Netflix at ten.
Jimmy Carr is a national born Killers at eleven. That’s the end of the top tier. I won’t do the whole list today because I got a million things to talk about, and that’s plenty to give you to watch.
Speaking of crowd work, from eight hundred Pound Gorilla again, they’re cover…
They write, crowd work has taken on a whole new life. Blah blah blah. To dress this higher matter, Comedian, actor, and podcaster Andrew Santino shared a message about CrowdWork at comedy shows ahead of his upcoming headlining tour. In a sketch turned promo, Andrew Santino pokes fun at crowd work and gives an important reason why you shouldn’t be worried about attending one of Andrew Santino’s shows this fall. In the clip, he poses as an alter ego version of a stand up doing crowd work in today’s comedy scene.
Before fumbling with his own jokes that intended to appear cheap, He starts doing CrowdWork by poking at one guy in a bandana, but then he mostly pokes a fun at himself when he says to the normal looking Santino, what’s up with this ginger ash bitch? Nice hair bitch? Hey, I bet you this redheaded guy puts on sunscreen at night and calls him an orange sickle. Then, after leaving the Hollywood improv in La, the normal looking Santino quickly sees himself getting crowd worked on TikTok almost instantaneously after leaving the show. Then we see that guy’s life start to fall apart as his girlfriend leaves him, saying the viral clip was embarrassing for her.
He gets let go from his job. At the end, we see him considering it was something horrible. We don’t want to joke about that. That’s not funny. At the end, the real Andrew Santino appears and says at the end, come see me on tour.
I promise I won’t do any crowd work so much to get to today, Let’s keep going. In the Facebook group Dylan, who’s one of the regulars, he commented on I guess it was Thursday’s show last week and commented on my comments, saying, this is Dylan speaking. Interesting take this morning on who is the queen of comedy, I’d argue it’s Taylor Thomas, and it’s not close. Network show sells out everywhere. She prefers smaller venues to basketball arenas, but is routinely selling out five thousand seed arenas.
Her last three specials have all been great. Nikki Glaser is riding the high the Brady Roast where she was amazing, but her special was mediocre by comparison, and it’s just now beginning to consistently headline theaters. Until very recently, she’s mostly still doing the clubs or featuring for somebody like Krascher or Spade. Granted it was not your typical feature. She did forty minutes when I saw her open for Spade, but that’s a long way from selling out several nights in a row three thousand and five thousand seat venues, as Taylor’s done for most of this year.
You know, it’s the Internet. I know I’m supposed to go, no, Dylan, You’re stupid. That’s a horrible thing. But my real reaction is, you know what, Dylan’s right, You know that what I was doing that nicky thing. I had this nagging sensation that I was forgetting somebody, and apparently I forgot Taylor Tomlinson shifting gears.
This is not funny at all. Victoria Jackson remember her from Saturday Night Live. She has delivered a somber message to her followers. She was on SNL from eighty six to ninety two. She says she has about three years to live.
She had previously survived breast cancer. She put out a video which she titled is the Cancer Back, And she said they can’t operate and cut out the marble in my chest that’s laying on my windpipe and eventually would suffocate me to death. They’re giving me a magic pill meant to shrink the marble. Jackson is sixty five and explain that online research showed her that people taking the drug typically have thirty two point six months to live or quote something like that. Eugene and Dan Levy will host the Emmys on September fifteenth.
They were hoping to get Jimmy Kimmel. He doesn’t want to do the Oscars. Langston Kerman, as a special out tomorrow on Netflix, talked about the influence of John Mulaney on his career. They had spent some time on the road during mullani’s tour. Langston said it wasn’t much of a deep analysis of my jokes or punching up or fixing as much as it was just hanging out and him checking in to see the status of things.
When the time came to find a director for the special, Langston flowed some names and m’laney volunteered to do it himself. Bad Boetry was filmed at Chicago’s Green Mill, with about one hundred people in the audience in a stage set behind the bar. Mulani cause the look of the special ridiculously funny. Kerman said he did not want to emulate particularly hyper intimate, more confessional type specials like as He’s and Sorry or Gerard Carmichael. Kerman jokes about heckling amateur softball players while on Shrouom’s I hop Icon Encounters hating his former students.
He was a teacher. Yeah, I had him on last year. If you want to go back, probably last July, if you want to go way back in the feed, he was cool at the unending glee he gets from screening dating site potentials for his mother in law. Will there be more of Everybody’s in La, in which Langston Kerman was a writer. Langston said had Netflix asked for more than the original six episodes, he would have wept in front of his wife and child, but he believes they could have found a way.
Langston Kerman’s Bad Poetry, directed by John Mulaney tomorrow on Netflix. Rob Schneider has apologized to his daughter Ellie King following her criticism of him. There’s been some back and forth. Rob told Tucker Carlson that he hopes she will forgive him. Last week, King had said that Schneider wasn’t involved in her life growing up up.
King said, right now, we’re not flowing. I disagree with a lot of things. He says. Ultimately, you can’t control anyone else’s actions. You can’t control people’s feelings.
All you can control is how you react to what you do with your feelings. Schneider told Tucker Carlson, I just want to tell my daughter I love you, and I wish I was the father in my twenties that you needed. I clearly wasn’t, and I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings. I love you completely. I love you entirely, and I just want you to be well and happy with your beautiful baby Lucky.
I wish you the best. I feel terrible, and I just want you to know I don’t take anything you say personally. I love you, and I feel that God has gifted me this moment be able to tell you I love you and I accept you, and I apologize for any of my shortcomings. My heart is your home, and home is a place that when you go there, they have to let you in. I love you and I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this.
But this is a great opportunity because we could talk about families. I mean, show me a perfect family out there, and I’ll be shocked. All I want for her is to be happy and to heal from this. I apologize completely for and accept responsibility for not being the parent that I am now with my new kids. She didn’t get that and I missed a lot.
I do want to get some fringe reviews in this week fringes over on the Weekend Chortle gave Pete Heat’s bogus three stars out of five, apparently in one of the hottest rooms at the Fringe, and they don’t mean like Hey, everybody wants to go there. They mean it’s hot because they write, which can’t be doing wonders for appreciation of his craft. For some reason, it’s a lot harder to be astounded when you’ve got sweat running down your back. Plus the guy’s name is Heat. That’s extra funny.
Heat’s bag is magic tricks, mostly card tricks, interspersed with comedy routines, both of which are performed to a fairly higher standard, although the show is slightly less than the sum of its parts. He’s a perfect foil for a casual audience, but I’m likely to knock out aficionado’s of either art form. The Guardian gave Stevie Martin, not Steve Martin. Stevie Martin four stars. Martin has some fun itemizing the advantages of making comedy online, which cannot be replicated, and she tries to prove the point on stage.
There’s effort award ratio, as one clip drolley demonstrates the host is doing so well online for doing so little, and the analytics available to model online success might those be mapped out of a live arena. You can bet Martin gives that a go too, animizing the show moment by moment with various on screen grids and graphs. She’s at the Monkey Barrel through the twenty fifth and a follow up. I told you last week about Reginald D Hunter and some folks walking out of his show with the fringe. Hunter posted on social media saying there was an unfortunate incident in my new show Fluffy Fluffy Beavers.
As a comedian, I do push boundaries and creating humor. It’s part of my job. This inevitably creates divided opinions, but I’m staunchly anti war and anti bully. I regret any stress cost of the audience at venue staff members related to that. The Eastwood Theater says they’ve canceled a September twenty eighth show by reginal D Hunter due to his controversial comments.
A spokesperson for the Eastwood Theater defended the freedom of expression of artists and it expected audiences to extend some latitude to many acts. However, in the case of reginal D Hunter, we have a commitment to our community and to our values of diversity and inclusion, which we take seriously. They said all customers would receive a refund. I’m related to all of this, Police Scotland said it had been made aware of a hate incident but found no crime and been committed. And that is your comedy news for today.
Don’t forget ballot Live from the Democratic National Convention this week. We also have a new show, five Minutes of Gratitude. What’s that, Johnny Macwell, you know mindfulness is a good thing to think about the things in your life which you could be grateful for in just five minutes. So that’s the number, five Minutes of Gratitude. New podcast there, and don’t forget.
I also host five Good News Stories Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I tell you five stories and they’re all good news. All right, that’s enough for you to listen to see you back here tomorrow