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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I just want to tease something I’ve got for next Saturday. I recorded with John Marcos Serraisi and along the way he slipped into a Malini impression. I just want to share with you.
I’m really into this. Milanies is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them. It’s just the place that I do. It’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup, and you different to the setup for the punchline because you change the often.
So that’ll be on Saturday. John Marcos Sarrissi is my guest today. My kind of story from the Daily Mail. Despite soaring straight into the Netflix Top ten list, fans were not in used by Adam Sandler’s newest special. That’s right, one user said on Twitter.
Let me start out by saying I’ve been a big fan of the Sandman for decades. With that being said, this special was effing awful. The audio was absolute dog poo, Adam mumbling everyone else just so loud, including the crowd. The sound engineer needs to be fired. All the scripted pieces that are supposed to be candid or techy and take away from the special.
Another user said I only watched about ten minutes. It was too hard to understand what he was saying. The format was just bad or something. Another said I’m a huge fan of him too and thought the way he was doing it was clever, but I ended up stopping at about fifteen minutes for that reason it was too hard to understand. I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
I have not had a chance to watch yet. It’s been a crazy week in my life. Doug Stanhope. It looked like he had a crazy week, but there was a twist. Fans of Doug Stanhope were worried that he’d been arrested on a live stream, but false alarm.
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office tells DMZ that Doug stanhopes Arizona home was used for a training mission by the county swat team and Doug stand and okate them the full go ahead to do it. The spokesperson clarified when the trainer kicked off nobody was home, and then Doug showed up during the final training scenario, asked to join as a role player and got the green light. It was all voluntary. Doug was not arrested, not involved in any illegal activity. The scene did look super real, it is being described.
It shows Doug Stanhope appearing to be apprehended by multiple armed men entering his home, with one figure clearly identified as him by viewers. There was also another guy in the house involved in the role play, and knowing Doug stand Hope just a smidge, he probably thinks this is the greatest thing that ever happened. The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla celebrates Matt Rife on having the number one most watched special on its channel OnlyFans has thirty million views on YouTube one hundred million total plays across all platforms. One of the founders of The Gorilla said, we wanted to recognize this important moment not just for Matt, but also for fans that watched the special.
Meanwhile, the Daily Trojan with a hot take.
They say the comedy world is rife with problems. Get it women. Comedy fans are often treat it as less important that needs to change. The Daily Trojan Rights and stand up comedy. Crowd work is an important skill to have, especially when starting out open mic nights.
Matt Rife went viral for his crowd work on TikTok, especially among women. Some found him attractive, or charming, or funnier, maybe the mix of the three. Regardless of how the Matt Rife fan pipeline operates, it really works. Yet it seems like Rife is not satisfied with his success. Before the premiere of his Netflix special Natural Selection in twenty three, he told Variety, There’s one thing I wanted to tackle in the special, showing people that despite the way you think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women.
I would argue this special is way more for guys. The Daily Trojan Rights. I look at the rest of his YouTube channel shows the almost exclusively post crowd work content, with such titles as Spitting Game to a Veteran and Handicapped crowd Work Compilation. The latter’s over thirty minutes long and has two point eight million views. Matt’s doing completely fine with popularity.
There’s no reason to rebuke the women who support you. Aside from misogyny, There’s nothing wrong with the wanting to expand your audience, but it doesn’t have to come make the expense of your audience. Celebrities don’t know anything to their fans, but there’s a concerning pattern of disregard toward women. Women are able to appreciate comedy, music, and art just as well as any other person. Success with women comedy fans should be understood as regular success, not something less than.
America Magazine with a Matt Rife hot take. Comedian Matt Rife’s crowd work depends on marginalized people in the audience. In Walking Red Flag, Jake Martin writes, contrary to first impressions, Matt Rife is not Dane Cooked. If you understand this reference, congratulations you are old. Dane Cook was, at the beginning of this millennium, like Riife is today, a good looking, twenty something white guy’s stand up comedian who’s bread and butter was raunchy and misogynistic humor.
Cook was at one point able to parlay his enormous stand up success, which included selling out Madison Square Garden, into an ever so brief a film career. Rife is almost that. But when I say he’s not the second coming of Cook. That’s important because Rife’s level of success has yet to reach the levels that Cook achieved at his peak. For you younger fans, I was doing this during Dane Mania.
Dane was really popular there for four years, five years something like that. The other comedians hated him. Part of it was just jealousy that he’s a MySpace comedian. Met Dane once he was cool. Back to America Magazine, where rifus a pass Cook is in focusing a stand up less on the scripted, structured monologue that has been part and parcel of the medium since at least Vaudeville.
Instead, Rife has focused on interactive crowd work. His best moments are in his extemporaneous back and forth with audience members, particularly those from traditionally mortalized groups such as people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, and the elderly. In one set, when an elderly man tells him that he’s been in a wheelchair for thirteen years, Rife responds, it’s nice just to relax, isn’t it, then turns to the audience. It says optimism. Rife gestures back to the man says optimism Now I read that as flat as possible, and I thought those were two good jokes.
Maybe I’m a jerk. When Rife interacts with a young woman with several palsy who tells him from the crowd that he’s hot, he responds, you want your hands now. Just because you’re in a wheelchair doesn’t mean it won’t beat your brakes off. That’s a bit hacky. Rife’s going out of his way to interact with the marginalized in a show speaks to two correlative aspects of humor, both of which open up a space for the construction and the deepening of authentic relationships.
One of those aspects is the knocking over of sacred cows, which in turn leads to another aspect, the deflation of tension. The one two commedy procedure proves liberating for the audience and allows for authentic engagement. In Rife’s case, that authentic engagement is usually full of scatological and sexual humor, but that’s beside the point. In its foreshadowing of the marginalized, He’s given them a public space to fully manifest their humanity. They’re not being celebrated, they’re not being degraded.
They’re being allowed to be who they are. Chelsea Handler has a new residency. That’s a great gig if you can get one. She’s got one at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas is a thirty two hundred seat Chelsea theater. It’s called Chelsea at the Chelsea.
Well done agent who put that together. It’s a monthly or so gig. Tonight November tewon and thirtieth January eighteenth or twenty first eight early teenth. Had she come up with the schedule, she joked, I think they were just trying to link it to my menstrual cycle. That’s Vegas for you.
Some spoilers for her material and I know you’re going tonight, so you might want to hit pause here. She says. There’s a story about me playing pickleball on three edibles at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. There’s a story about my field romance with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo before he was canceled. And there’s a story about Bill Cosby.
It’s a shame she didn’t mention one of her ex boyfriends, you know who I mean there, Scott Beckett, because then I could go into a bit. But I’m not gonna do it. For those of you who don’t know. She used to date Joe Coy, one time host of the Golden Globe, so Handler says of Cosby, this was many years ago in his hotel room. But I had two men with me, so my experience didn’t in the way it could have.
There’s not many people with such crazy stories, but I feel if you’re sincere, you can’t go wrong. The people who are my fans rely on me for the truth. Does she party? I’m more of a homebody. Okay, Well I’m in Vegas.
Sure I’ll be out with my friends gambling, partying, you know, But unless I’m doing that or on stage, it’s low key for me. I’m in bed by ten my kind of person. On the weekends. Now sometimes I’ll stab two eleven fifteen, crazy, right. I am up early, though, Chelsea said.
I just got a new dog and we went wine tasting up in Napa. He’s a chow chow named Doug, and I’ve had chouse before and they’re not very social. They don’t play fetch. But he has all those traits in one dog, and it’s impossible not to notice his good looks. I don’t want to objectify him, but he’s so handsome.
Chelsea’s favorite musicians I listened to with Spotify called Golden Hour. It’s a mixture of cool soul, funky jazz, and you know, happy hour songs. But I also listened to Nathaniel Rateliff, I w hay to sort of perform, and I enjoy Chapel Rowan songs and Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift of course. Eh, you know Chelsea used to date. Somebody made a Taylor Swift joke one time.
I mean, you’re practically begging me to play at Scott Beckett’s driving around listening to the podcast. He’s throwing stuff at his dashboard. I’m not gonna do the bit, Scott, Relax. What up and coming comedience is Chelsea? Healler excited about?
Sorry, are Chelsea Hayler most excited about? That’s how English works. Her current favorites are Yaminica Saunders and rosebud Baker. How about politics, she said, I heard a great quote recently, decades can go by without any progress happening, and then within weeks it could feel like decades of progress. It feels like there’s a good momentum good energy, but I won’t touch politics in my shows.
My shows for people to enjoy themselves. They’re coming to see my stand up back to take a load off. If you enjoy what I do. Here one are the ways you can support the shows. You can go to buy me acoffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News.
There’s some money in the tip shar I will take your money. I’ll go to the National don’t chain where pumpkin is back. I put on the app the other day and they were like pumpkin donut and I was like, yeah, pumpkin donut. You got me. So I’ll be fattening up until when did they get rid of the pumpkin?
Like November sixth or so, Like I get how Halloween works, but then like there’s some pumpkin spice hanging around. They keep using it. By the way, you know, it’s really tasty and tm I here the butterprick can. But if you suffer from kidney stones, like one podcast host in his basement, butter per can, we’ll create kidney stones. Don’t do it.
I get that it’s delicious, stick with the caramel, maybe the pumpkin. Anyway, Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna give you a random, non comedic podcast recommendation. Question of Faith is hosted by my buddy, Deacon Mike. So yes, it’s a spiritual podcast, but that’s not why I’m listening.
Apparently Deacon Mike put together this softball league, and he’s been updating us on the Catholic softball league out in Cleveland, and I’m fascinated by this Question of Faith. Wherever you get your podcast, at least I hope where you get your podcasts. Hopefully Mike has submitted it everywhere. It’s definitely on Apple Podcasts. Greg Fitzimmons says, I still walk on stage with a crumpled up piece of paper with bullet points on it.
I have notes when I’m trying new stuff, and I still get excited about it. Sometimes I’ll be out to dinner with some friends. It’s ten pm. We’ve been sitting there for hours, eating, talking and laughing to you. We dropped the g the Queen’s came out, and I’ll be like, all right, I got ahead into town.
They’re like, what are you talking about? And I’m like, oh, I got a show, and they say how much you’re making and I say thirty dollars. Pat McGann is getting ready to open up for Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian’s doing four nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City. That’s insane.
Pat says, I grew up with funny people. We walked to school together and try to bust each other up. Combine that with just like in comedy my parents, I remember them talking about Seinfeld even when it’s just a regular on Carson. Was Cherry a regular on Carson? He was definitely a regular on Letterman?
Was he a regular on Carson? Mike from the Letterman Pod? Hit me up on the side, tell me the answer to that one. I’d sneak away to watch Eddie Murphy Delirious. When you’re ten twelve years old, you understand some of the material, but you’re also seeing this guy on SNL.
He’s also a man of Pearl Jam and he says their latest record, Dark Matter, is a favorite. I’ve been listening to it front to back. I just let it play. And that is your comedy news for today. And before we go, a very happy birthday to my dog.
She is seventeen today. Happy birthday, doggie. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you here tomorrow.