🎙️ Listen to this episode:
Full Transcript
Caloroga Shark Media. Guys, I’m gonna have to go full George Lopez tacos on Nikki Glaser. I just can’t anymore with this, Nicky, Please stop. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily com news from Vogue.
Liking this woman is part of my identity now. Comedian Nikki Glaser on attending twenty two Taylor Swift Eras concerts. How many of these articles are we gonna do? Okay, Nicky, you crushed on the rest of Tom Brady. Great, You’re like the hot comedian right now?
Great? You like Taylor Swift. Great enough with this? This is like the George Lopez tacos. I can’t read an article about this every day, Nicki tells Vogue.
It makes me feel so good. I don’t drink anymore, and I try not to do drugs, and honestly, this is just a really good drug. I’m kind of addicted. I get a little bit sad at the idea that it’s gonna run out at some point and I’ll probably have to replace it with something else. But it’s not really hurting anyone, so I just lean into it.
The more I embrace it, the less I’m embarrassed by it. At this point in my life, I’m not embarrassed by it at all, or I wouldn’t be talking to you about it. Yeah, no kidding. When I first moved to LA I had a roommate I met off Craigslist, and she worked on the Warners Brothers lot and had tickets one day to go see taping of Allen. When she came home from it, I was like, who was on?
She said, this country artist girl, and she shared her calendar was probably for two thousand and seven or two thousand and eight. It was the Taylor Swift self titled album calendar. We kept it on our coffee table as a joke because we didn’t know who this girl was. I’d flip through it late at night when I would get home from sets and just look at the girl’s pictures. I would eat cereal off this calendar.
I remember being like, this girl so pretty and cute, but it’s probably not the kind of music I would like. What I would give now, I would pay five hundred dollars for that calendar. All right, Nikki Glaser, When did you get into Taylor’s music? It happened in several different stages. The first time, I was like, oh, this is something special.
I was moving back to Saint Louis after I kind of struck out in LA for the first time. I’d just done this tonight show, but it didn’t change my life. I was still babysitting and borrowing money from my parents, and they were kind of like, we can’t do this for you anymore. So I drove across country back home and we listened to the radio the whole way and Love Story was just playing a lot, and I remember being like, this is the song of the summer. I was instantly magnetized to that song.
I almos slipped in a triumph there. Maybe that would make this whole thing funny. Nikki Glaser Triumph. When did you start going to Taylor’s concerts? I went to the Red Store.
I loved it, but I wasn’t a swifty yet good bit. This is a good bit. I just remember thinking, this girl is massively talented. I got to meet her backstage after it. I remember all I said to her is, I can’t believe that was you.
She was in a buttonhoun shirt, petal pusher bets and her hair looks so normal. She just looked normal, but she says this girl flying through the air performing for a stadium. I just remember being like, I can’t believe that’s you out there, Like, look at you. You’re just normal, And she was like, isn’t it crazy? She’s just so relatable and cool.
I was a fan, but the swiftie in me hadn’t sunk in yet. That didn’t happen until I was lying in bed listening to nineteen eighty nine. It had just come out and it was like the way people describe doing heroin. It just hit my veins. I remember thinking, my life will never be the same.
This is part of who I am liking. This woman is part of my identity now. It just felt like the same way when I found stand up, Like I’m never gonna be the same page. Is more of this holiday weekend filler coming up? Oh yes?
John oliver Is spoked to Variety. He talked about the low hanging fruit that is political comedy in twenty twenty four, and he said, it’s not necessarily a gift that you want, to be honest, technically, it’s a gift, but it’s not a great one. I think the tendency is often to think that it writes itself I promise you it doesn’t. Everything moves so fast nowadays you can get first take jokes online very quickly, so you have to be writing the most obvious joke for anything to have that kind of surprise factor. On top of that, things are very bleak when you’re writing jokes.
I’m still laughing about the triumph Deally ticking Glazer. When you’re writing jokes, you want to try and find a way to deal with the bleakness that isn’t kind of fiddling while Rome burns. One of the flaws of the way American elections work is so much of it is about personality and non policy. The policy stuff, of course, is so much more interesting and definitely so much more important, and that could be a problem, especially when you’re writing comedy. It can seem encounterintuitive to say, don’t look at this subjectively funny thing.
As for Trump, because it’s the third time he’s running for president, there isn’t much more to say about this guy. He’s an open book. I don’t know what we can really add in terms of content that we haven’t done already. So it actually it feels easier to talk about other things. That was not the case in twenty sixteen, Walter spoke to Josh Johnson, who, two days after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life at least a forty five minute set about the attempt, written and recorded the day it occurred.
It currently has over eight hundred thousand views. Johnson has been writing and recording twelve to forty five minute sets inspired by topical events, including Justin Timberlake’s arrest at the FBA, rate On Diddy’s house, Joe Biden dropping out, and more. Josh says, I’ve always been writing a lot ever since I started. When I lived in Chicago, which is where I started doing comedy, open MIC’s were four or five minutes, and in my head, it just made more sense to try a different set every time. It wasn’t always productive, because I still learned to do stand up and I wasn’t necessarily getting the repetition of a concentrated four or five minute set, but I still felt like I was exercising a different muscle which was generating a large amount of general output.
When I started, all of my real heroes and stand up were timeless, so I very much wanted to be timeless. I felt like being topical and current was the antithesis of that. When I realized I was writing really fast and I was getting bored with my own ideas very quickly, I was like, what if I gave this topical thing a shot. I wanted to start post more. I wanted to start sharing what I’ve been creating.
I had these notebooks full of jokes that were going nowhere, and it was important to me to try to share that with people. And I couldn’t have imagined the journey that’s been taking me down. People have really taken me in a way that’s hard to describe. Sometimes when you see a video, it’s my first time doing it. I just wrote out as much as possible and did my best to memorize it, and I’m feeling out the rest of the connective tissue by the audience’s reactions.
I go. And sometimes I’ve been able to do it two or three times. I think the two ways to be different is to either have one of the more nuanced takes about the big thing everybody’s talking about, or to talk about the thing nobody is talking about. Ult to talk to John Mlini about Langston Kerman’s new special. Milleni is the director on it, and said not to sound conceited or big brothery, but it very much reminded me of the special I did in twenty eleven New in Town.
I was like, Langston is really sought after as a writer and actor as well, and everyone knows he’s a good stand up, but he’s got a great hour that’s got to get out. When I felt when I recorded my special was this is everything since I started stand up. These are the type of bits I’ve been trying to nail, and now I have a whole row with them, and they add up to an hour, and I want to do this right now. Every bit of the special is a take home bit. I always think of specials like album tracks.
In each of these is a hit to mein critique of most specials is and I wish it’d be hard on myself too. Every part of it has to be good. Just wait if you don’t have it. This hour was so tight and ready to go. The reason of film it was because it was so good.
As opposed to somebody just saying I need to or want to make another special, Langston said. We wanted the special to cool and not like a silly thing that other people are doing, and m’laney said, yeah, and if I named any of the things we avoided, you could go find out what specials I’m probably talking about. So I’m not gonna do that. I’ve got some corner. Ricky Gervais has shown fans his new fourteen and a half million pound home in Hampstead, nine bathrooms, a spa and its own gym and hope, so for that kind of coin, Ricky went on Instagram and posted the entrance hall and marble staircase, as well as a large room that he’s using as an office.
He says, though it’s not going to be a forever home, his longtime partner Jeane, who’s sixty three. Ricky is also sixty three. Jeane has concerns about living there in their eighties. Ricky said, I thought the last house was going to be the one I was going to die in. Bill Simmons has Adam Sandler on the Monday episode.
I tried to listen to it. I’m not even I’ve been dissing Adam Sandling here. The audio quality was horrific. I can’t believe Bill Simmons actually put it out and nobody cleaned it up. Terrible, unlistenable.
Rob Schneider is weighing in on politics. He put out a lengthy statement, I’m going to skim through it when I raise my voice here. Those are words that Rob Schneider put out in caps, the words of Rob Schneider, de your fellow Robert Kennedy, Junior supporters and American citizens. As we have seen this week, once again, the Democratic Party is not running on any ideas to make American lives better. There once again running on the hatred of one individual, Donald J.
Trump, and they are hoping that you will hate him so much that you will forget about the Democrats forever, wars that are pushing the world closer to World War three in the primary, affecting a coup pushing out a duly elected president and much like the Soviet politbureau installing the new puppet leader who had the lowest approval rating of any form or vice president. Dude, relax with the caps. He sound crazy. I kind of want to slip in a triumph here and do that. And who still refused to take any questions from the press.
Yes, the Democrats are hoping. It’s much funnier this way, isn’t it. Yes, the Democrats are hoping that you hate Trump more than you love your country and your free speech, your children’s education and safety, and your freedoms. Rob Schneider doing a half ass triumph, continue to write as a fellow American citizen and Robert Kennedy Junior supporter, I hope that you will oppost tyranny and join us and vote for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America.
Schneider concluded his message with an image of the American flag. Send your letters to Rob Schneider. Tonight, Seth Myers will host a stand up show with the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center to benefit the friends of the chill Mark pre School. According to the organization’s board president, the school is currently a capacity and has how to turn local families away. They need three and a half million dollars for the new facility.
Seth Myers Hooking it up. Seth said, it’s nice to know that are there are places where our kids can start to experiment with creativity and learning. When I walk into a preschool, I wish that my kids were dropping me off. I can’t remember the last time somebody gave me a full ninety minutes to fingerpaint. Expect the show to include dad jokes that says, no matter how little you like a dad joke before you become a father, it becomes impossible to hold them back.
Once you become a dad. It’s pretty much all you can think about. Please Don’t Destroy and Friends. Live sketch comedy from the Please Don’t Destroy Guys plus some Special Guess will be at the reopening of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. The show’s part of a week long run of performances taking place at the new UCB Theater starting September thirteenth.
The theater has moved to a new location in the East Village and is currently running preview shows leading up to the grand reopening. Shannon Fielder has a new special it’s called thirty, flirty and Crying. In it, she riffs on universal topics such as the horrors of dating, the pressures of ordering the right wine, and the inherent dangers of using public restrooms. Let’s listen, thirty. Two is not a cool age.
Taylor Swift does not sing. I don’t know about you, but I’m. Feeling my mortality like I have just as many friends that have babies as I do that have drug dealers, and actually many of them are the same friend. I spent all of my twenties dating guys just like Aladdin overconfident, compulsive liars who wear vests. You might know them as bankers.
Shannon says. While the themes in point of view of this show are similar to my videos, thirty flirty and Crying is a much more personal exploration of the topics. I’m always riffing on stand up as a place where I’m not taking on characters, but instead sharing my own stories and opinions. Shannon Fielder was named a Comic to Watch at the twenty twenty three New York Comedy Festival. And that is your comedy news for today.
If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. A lot of new listeners. I don’t know if that’s because of Apple changed something last week. They added away for the android people to come.
So if you’re new to the show, Hi, welcome, appreciate you, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.