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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Emmys are Tomorrow night, which means for me, I can’t finish off Monday show until like halftime of Sunday Night Football, when I jump in my office and put a new top on Monday’s episode. I don’t like working that way. I like working a little in advance.
You know what I’m saying. Yes, the Emmys. Here are the nominees for Best Comedy Series. They are Abbot Elementary, The Bear, curb Hacks. The Bear is not a comedy stop curb Hacks only murders in the building.
Palm Royale from Apple TV Plus remember that reservation Dogs, What we Do in the Shadows, Let’s see. I’m going to give a Lifetime Achievement Award to Curb. Not sure it deserves it for the recent seasons, but that’s how things work sometimes. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Matt Barry, What We Do in the Shadows, Larry David Steve Martin for Murders Martin Short for Murders. Jeremy Allen White for a non comedy The Bear Tofaraoh won a tie for Reservation Dogs.
Let’s see Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry David Is my vote. Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Quina Bruson for Abbot. I you had a Barry for non comedy of The Bear, Selena Gomez for Murders, My Rudolph Loot. That’s an Apple TV Plus thing. Gene Smart who I’m gonna give it to for Hacks, Kristen Wig Palm Royal, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Lionel Boyce for non comedy series The Bear, Paul w Downs for Hacks, Ebon Moss Bocherock for non comedy series The Bear.
He’s fantastic but not a comedy. Can’t do it, dude, Paul Read for Murders, Tyler James Williams for Abbot, Bowen Yang for SNL. Huh hm. I don’t like any of the choices there. Can I hand it in a blank ballot.
I don’t get a vote anyway. I don’t know. Vote for if your want Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Carol Burnett Palm Royal, Liza clone Zayis for non comedy series The Bear, and an Einbinder for Hacks. Janelle James for Abbot Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott, Meryl Streep for Murders. Let’s just give it to Carol Burnett, because we love Carol Burnett.
Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, John Bernhal for non comedy series The Bear. I mean you mentioned giving John Bernthal a Comedy Emmy for what he did in The Bear, Matthew Broderick for Murders, Ryan Gosling SNL, Christopher Lloyd Hacks, Bob Odenkirk in The Bear. I have no strong feelings there either. Let’s give it a Christopher Lloyd. Why not?
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And also Will Poulter for The Bear.
Sorry, I put a break in my little list there where a Breake didn’t go. But The Bear not a comedy series. Sorry. Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Olivia Coleman The Bear, Jimmie Lee The Bear, Caitlyn Olsen for Hacks, Divine Joy Randolph for Murders my Rudolph, and Kristin Wigg both for SNL appearances. Let’s give it to Kaitlyn Olsen because they’ll probably never reward her for It’s always Sonny and I have in fact checked that maybe she’s won ten Emmys for Sonny.
I don’t know, but let’s give it a Kaitlyn Olsen best talk series, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmellive Seth and Colebert. I would give it to Kimmel. Roy Wood Juniors CNN show Have I Got News for You? Makes its debut tonight. I’m rooting for your Roy, but boy tough time slot again.
The way the show works, two teams of comedians, new makers, actors, and media personalities use news clips and headlines to drum up jokes and gags, all improv style through a round of different segments. Amber Ruffin hosts one team, Michael ian Black the other. Roy Wood Junior says the desires to get newsmakers, even polarizing ones, to take part. Roy says, in America, we’re not always the biggest fans of the bad person being given the microphone. But above all, this is about laughing and what have we got to say?
And if we can get those two things to connect every week, then I think we’ll have a product that’s going to be on the air for a very long time. Roy, this thing’s going to be on the air for ten weeks. It is not again, I’m not saying it’s not good. I’m saying they scheduled it on Saturday night. Ten weeks.
Write it down, sorry. Buddy. Roy says this was the type of scenario I was hoping for when he didn’t get the Daily Show. If there was a good opportunity for me, I believed it would happen in an election year, not after. And that’s what’s gonna happen with the show.
Ten weeks takes you just too about the election. I’m telling you, sorry, Buddy. Michael Ian Black says the show’s format offers a late night vibe with fast paced topical humor, even though it’s airing in prime time on set Saturday night. He highlights how the panelists don’t know the topics beforehand, which means they have to react on the spot. His first reaction to the show being on CNN, he said bizarre.
He was intrigued by CNN’s desire to branch out. He says, we want people from all walks of life as long as we can make fun of them. Colin jos and Michael Jay did their live special on Peacock Thursday evening. Boy, did you feel the buzz? The earth practically shook from everybody talking about this thing.
Man, Wow, Peacock, what an impact this thing made. John, you’re sarcastic today. Joe said, tonight’s gonna be like group sex. If it goes well, then we can do it again every couple months with our friends. And if it goes really bad, it’s a disaster.
We’ll never talk about it again. And either way we’re gonna film it. Good joke. We’re on Peacock. You guys know Peacock, right.
You know Peacock from the phrase I can’t believe the NFL made as a download Peacock. Michael Jay said, what the f is wrong with you? Man? The checks didn’t clear. This is the experience that we have to when we go to drop to places.
We want to give that to the country. Does Peacock play all over the country? Jost? We wanted it to be the second funniest line I’ve event this week after the debate. Nothing sounds more presidential than screaming they’re eating the cats and the dogs.
I think that was Thomas Jefferson. The Special, which you know everybody watched. Everybody’s buzzing about it. Oh peacock, man, give it up. The Special saw a previously unannounced lineup of comics take the stage one by one.
They included Alex English, a Eita Rodriguez, Amina Amani, and Carlos Miller. Good closer Mike Birbigley, who grabbed the mic and forced Jost into a Q and A for Biglia said I recently texted Colin and asked him to be on my podcast working it out? Do you remember what you wrote back? Pause? Nothing?
Salvolcano made an appearance, so did Sarah Sherman, who said about Joe’s this place is close to my apartment. Looks like you didn’t respect the restraining order. Stephen Colbert with a good joke, and to see an ND poll taking immediately after the debate, sixty three percent said Harris won. Thirty seven percent said Trump one, which of course means that thirty seven percent of Americans don’t own TVs. Jimmy Fallon, following his rough debate, Trump’s inner circles now doing damage control.
I’m sorry you work for Donald Trump? What are you not doing damage control? Hank Azaria took to Twitter as Chief Wigham, Let’s listen. Spring Fair Police Chief clans Wigham speaking, I’m gonna have you people are eating dogs? What do I mean a hot dog.
Oh cats, mister Katz is eating hot dog. Nah. People are eating dogs and cats. People are eating dogs and cats in Springfan? Are they good?
Some sag After members, including romy Yousef, are among the hundreds of union members calling on their organization’s leadership to keep people from being blacklisted for their views on Palestine. Friend of the Show Scott Beckett sent me an article from the Wall Street Journal. Norm Dwormann, who owns the Comedy Seller, says, I curate laughter. Nothing should be off limits, but there’s obviously a very very very high degree of difficulty for certain matters. The topic at a hand here.
Gaza Noom says, the Israel Palestine war, maybe more than any issue in my lifetime, has been really something that people have not found a way to really joke about and totally get away with. In June, he had to refund a large party check because a comedian made an offhand joke about the war. Nothing anybody would think was offensive, but people are so sensitive on the subject they complained and I gave them their money back. He says. Most comedians are staying away from it.
The few that have tried are not really succeeding. One comedian who is an exception to that. Andrew Schultz. No Onman said, I saw him in Masson Square Garden do cemetery about kaza and he was destroying. He was fantastic, but of course that was his crowd.
His audience is very diverse who enjoy politically and correct humor, so they weren’t offended. An example of one of his jokes, which of course Andrew Schultz would tell better than me. I saw people protesting the Israel Palestine war was wild. All these white Australians out there, shout and give them back their land. Noeman told a story about comedy being therapeutic.
He was speaking with Nick Apollo. Noem tells Nick, I don’t if my father’s going to make it much longer. Nick Nick said, oh no, who gets the lexus? Noa said, my father’s dying and he’s joking about who’s going to get the car, and everybody starts laughing. In a situation where everybody unders and each other, nobody suspects the worst about where somebody’s coming from, then you talk about anything and be okay.
The best comedians, like all the great composers, will break rules. Dave Chappelle’s name came up, and what’s gonna be in Dave Chapelle’s obituary. Johnny Max says one host of The Chappelle Show two controversial comedian trans something something, Well, they talked about that, and Torman says the transhumor controversy doesn’t seem en have to to Dave Chappelle’s career in any way whatsoever. When he comes down and performs at the Seller, nobody complaints, and why would they. There’s a wonderful culture at a comedy club where you can talk about anything.
And I don’t mean on stage. I’m actually talking among the comedians, and that’s why many of them say, I don’t want to hang out with anybody but comedians. Joda Rosa is taping a special tonight at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The Columbus Underground caught up with Mike Camplan. They were talking about the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mike said Edinburgh was like putting the show through boot camp, like really working out in one place the whole time, but there were a variety of completely different audiences. There’d be some Americans, but it usually be majority non American, often English speaking, but not always English as a first language audience members over there, they don’t have the same TV show references. Necessarily, they get American TV and movies, and our culture pervades the worlds. I had one joke about family feud, but in Britain it’s called family Fortune, and they don’t have Jeopardye. The only people wh knew what I was saying about had seen the movie White Men Can’t Jump.
It’s a different part of the world. But additionally, there are thousands of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. I think I went to about sixty shows that weren’t mine, and I did my show every night, plus a few other spots around town here and there. Those sixty included other comedians, storytellers, dance magic, a couple of amazing clown performers. The clown seed in Edinburgh and Europe is massively large, something that certainly doesn’t exist in our culture in the same way.
It’s a beautiful art form that’s different from stand up and from communists. Dot read your home for communist news see what I did there? They wrote about the Fringe under the headline no laughing matter, Thoughts from a Communist comedian. The communist comedian rights the commodification of comedy shifts its purpose from generating laughter through providing a unique perspective on life, to generating profit. It becomes diluted by the need to appeal to mass audiences.
As promoters, mainstream comedians are pressured to conform to market friendly content, avoiding material which may alienate promoters. In Britain, the comedy scene has become increasingly commercialized, with a focus on corporate sponsorships and high profile TV deals. It offers a sanitized version of comedy, one that avoids critiquing any element of CAPITALI society too Sharply, after all, the only comedians are willing to echo the opinion of the British establishment have any chance of making it. The contemporary comedy scene is also a majority of gig economy performers work under conditions of harsh financial instability and job instability, particularly for working class comedians at the start of the career, as most comedians will go at least six months before receiving even five pounds per performance. This makes the industry inaccessible for working class acts who don’t have a cushion of money to fall back on.
Sadly, the Edinburgh fringe festival, despite being celebrated for its diversity, continues to starkily reveal these economic disparities, participation costs including accommodation, venue, higher fringe registration, and promotional materials racking up into the thousands. Furthermore, the many times offered to new or non mainstream acts tend to be either in the middle of the day or middle of the night. You know, I’m not sure I disagree with the communist comedian. On the other hand, we do live in a capitalist society and in all formats play the hits. So if I can put I don’t know, Nate Bergatzi at eight o’clock and some obscure comedian doing something a little avant garde.
Yeah, that’s not getting the eight o’clock room. I don’t have a solution for you. I’m not going to advocate that we turn this into the communist comedy society, but I do think Communist comedian did make some points. And that’s your comedy news for today tomorrow, part two of vulturest Comedians You should and Must Know or whatever it’s called. I can’t even remember.
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