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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Good lineup tonight for Comics for Kamala. Mark Marin Already it’s a great show, right, Kevin Neilan, Lori kil Martin, Danny Zucker, Mas Jabroni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso and Tom Arnold tonight at seven thirty at the Comedy Store in a, Los Angeles. Let’s see general admission of forty six dollars and forty cents.
I’ll tell you though, Comics for Kamala needs a better website. I hope the administration runs a little better than that. All right, another show if you want to turn against all your favorite comedians get mad at their politics. Gary Goleman doesn’t care. He’s doing Comics for Kamala on Monday in New York City, Gary Goleman and Friends.
The friends are Zach Zimmerman and Britney Carney. That’s at Stand Up New York, the new location at two twenty one West forty sixth Street. Oh wait, there’s another show on Tuesday in Miami. This one’s at the Miami Improv in Esther Coo Larry Dog of Freddy Stebbens, Larry fish More, Christopher Sharon Pfeiffer, and Bear Clarker Webb not exactly the name brands that are performing tonight. That’s Tuesday Night and Miami.
So I want to keep things fair here. I don’t see any sort of Trump comedy festival. If I see what I will tell you about it. I try to think to myself, who would even be in it? I googled comedians who support Trump.
Roseanne came up, and no one else came up, And I’m like, all right, from memory, who could be on comedians for Trump? I guess we could get Nick Depollo and Jim Brewer, Rob Schneider, Guttfeld. I’m sure Gutfeld would love to come. I mean, google conservative comedians. See what comes up?
Really, nothing other than the headline. Rob Schneider’s comedy is so bad it’s even offending Republicans. Somebody put together a tourist I can talk about it. Paul Starr did a big giant article about kill Tony Tony Hinchcliffe said, I want our audience to be able to hear these different perspectives from everybody where they’re from, how they grew up, what they do, what makes them different. It’s all critical to the flow of the show.
I got to remember to watch those kill Tony MSG shows. They’re up on YouTube. We’re all different, but we all laugh at a lot of the same stuff, and it brings us together. The show’s so raw, so organic, so live. There’s never been anything like that before, and I can’t believe that I’m the one that did it.
A little white trash Italian kid from an all black neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio. It’s just the America dream and I couldn’t be more ecstatic about it all. Tony told Theo Vaughn on the This Past Weekend podcast about when Tony made his comedy debutt for months and then blanked out on stage. He was honest. He turned into his own forgetfulness and turned that into a three minute improvised set.
He bombed in the weeks after with the jokes he’d rehearsed. To this day, Tony is more comfortable off script. As for his recent performance at the Tom Brady Roast, Tony Hinchcliffe said, I was adapting it until the very last second. Everything was changing. I was making edits, adding things, cutting things out, repositioning things, I’ve ppared a lot of those jokes for the roast, but I didn’t know how and when I was going to do it.
I decided very early on when I got there that I was going to do them from left to right and be the only one who moves around. I was trying to figure out where the main camera was seeing so they could see me and also the person I was roasting, so I was directing that while performing. It was a lot of work and a lot of adrenaline, a real blur, but also an absolute blast in one of the highlights of my life. Tony’s one of those fifteen year overnight successes, and said, fifteen years of writing on ROAs and performing stand up led me to this position. To be able to just execute up there.
It wasn’t a magical moment. It was almost two decades of continuous practice. The kid that used to roast everybody in school fully grown forty years old up there doing what I was built to do. Tom Brady deserves all the credit in the world for even letting me have that position and giving a young buck a chance like that. The first episode of Kill Tony was shot back in twenty thirteen in the belly room of LA’s Comedy Store in front of fifteen people with four sign ups.
Hinchcliff’s manager Alex Murray. I know Alex a little bit from way back in the day. Alex said, the Netflix Comedy Festival made us a low offer, not necessarily financially, but in terms of venue capacity. We told the booker, you’re really underestimating the power of this audience. We just kept passing and passing, and only they made us an offer for the YouTube theater, which is six thousand seats.
We sold out in ten minutes on the pre sale. The booker called and was like, what is this and we were like, I told you. The second show we had it was at the Kia Forum that sold out within days. We’re being careful of how many of these live shows we do because Tony goes out of pocket for production. Sometimes we want to make them special and unique.
Madison Square Garden, same thing. The first show sold out in a day, then we added the second show, which ended up selling out. Not a single dollar in advertising was used to achieve this. The Kill Tony YouTube channel has one point six million subscribers. They only got to a million back in April, so that’ll show you how fast it’s growing.
Alex Murray said, I represent other big ax. Yes he does, and we got to promote those shows. But when it comes to spending money on promotion, Tony’s like, nah, trust me, I got this. We listened and he’s right. He’s been right one hundred percent of the time.
Tony said, in my mind, we’re at times absolutely eating Saturday Night Lives lunch she and gillis doing. Is Donald Trump amen on that it’s so much fun when Chane shows up on Kill Tony, it is so much fun. Adam Ray, Is, Joe Biden, doctor Phil and many more they could have had. That these are the new stars, the backbone of modern day comedy, and having work with these guys forever and finally putting them in positions to be seen in their finest light doing their funnies stuff, watching on the break character because they’re cracking each other up. It’s just priceless.
It’s not written now, it’s not rehearsed. Everything is improvised and that’s the secret sauce of Killed Tony. Tony moved the show from la to Austin during the pandemic and says it’s made me a happier person. The people are nicer, the artists better, the food is better. My spirit is filled, which makes me a better host who makes better decisions for the show.
Normally go to New York or LA to make it and try to take things to the next level. You don’t go anywhere else to thrive. But that’s what we did, and there’s nowhere I’d rather be that at home here in Austin, Texas. It fills in my heart with so much joy and it’s my favorite place in the world. Joe Rogan said, it’s a better place for comedy, and you don’t have the traffic.
It’s not a grind. The club situation is amazing. There’s cap City, there’s the Creek in the Cave, There’s the Vulcan, There’s the Sunset Strip, the Mothership, the Black Rabbit, the Velveta Room, Shakespeare’s You realize you don’t have to be stuck in this crazy city of insane traffic and crime. Hinchcliff added having Shane Gillis here as a death blow to the other cities. Even the few people that we really want that I haven’t moved here.
They’re all coming here all the time. It’s like a Vegas residency. I apologize here to mister Dorfman, who works for Outback and is quoted here. Somewhere in my collection of the notes, I lost mister Dorfmann’s first name, and I keep googling out Back Dorfman, and all that comes up is a hat you would wear in the Australian desert. But mister Dorfman said, it’s easy to say Austin.
But the truth of Mather is over the years, La or New York were the gatekeepers, and now there are no gatekeepers. You’re watching the best at a craft just put their stuff out there and let the people decide. Before, in order to get the word out, there had to be somebody who tell you who was good and not well, the people have decided. We did twenty six thousand people in Madison Square Garden. This is the greatest moment comedy’s ever seen, and it’s because the comedians are running this.
Alex Murray agrees and said Comedy Central made a lot of comedy shows that people watched. It launched comedy stars and created new careers. It was a whole thing. But viewing habits changed during COVID. People started migrating the YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, watching on their phones and Tony show.
It was literally the only comedy show that was meaningful, original, fun and cool that exists. Did The audience felt like they discovered the show organically. It wasn’t ever promoted or marketed to them. I can’t even remember how I discovered Kill Tony. And I think Alex Murray brings up a good point.
Comedy Central boy, I mean, and I helped launch Comedy Central Radio, that brand you know in the aughts, super strong. What Happened The next Killed Tony live stream is at Resorts World Arena in Las Vegas at September twenty fifth. They’re also working on a New Year’s Eve show. I could see a pay per view coming, can’t you. Yeah, Now that the show’s popular, the big streamers are coming.
And Tony said, I’m just happy to have complete creative control and not have to deal with network notes from some executive or director. Everybody’s listening to me, and that’s why I think it works. It’s not watered down by a bunch of other people’s opinions or any old school stuff that’s going to drag it down, make it to safe, or make it resemble anything else. It’s brutally original, even though it’s technically a talent show slash open mic. It’s so raw because truly anything can happen, and everything is improvised.
It maintains its loose, dangerous, live feel, and it’s too late for anybody to catch up. Nobody can even do a rip off of the show because they have to play. It’s safe. If you look at your American idols, and your America got talent, and it’s made for grandmas and grandpa’s. It’s meant to be on the TV at nursing homes.
No cool eighteen year olds want to watch that.
Meanwhile, you got eighteen year olds watching kill Tony with their parents, …
Man, that kill Tony article is longer than I thought.
All right, let’s bounce a whole bunch of things.
How about this from the Express News from Maria Bamford. Whenever Maria Bamford wants to try out new material, she asks her fans for help, She’ll put out a call on Twitter offering a T shirt to anybody who’s time to meet for a cup of coffee or over zoom and listen to her to go through her act. Bamford said, the great thing about human beings is that if you give people an opportunity to be delightful, they often are delightful. So anytime I’ve met with somebody, it’s been really fun.
Also, it’s a public form, so they’ve said in some way, I’d like to do this, a…
It’s not like it’s pushed upon them, which is my least favorite kind of comedy, which is ambush comedy. She notes that some might be misled by her looks. She says, I’m a white cis heater, a woman in my fifties. They might think they might be able to relate to her point of view. She said, maybe not.
You might want to google it. I’m the used bookstore of comedy. I probably won’t have what you want, but I’m pleasant and I try to find you who you might want, and I bet it’s someone else, and I’ve been sitting on this one from the av Club, Rosalind Chow talked about her time on Mash and After Mash. Remember she was on the last few seasons of Mash and then both seasons of After Mash, and then later she was on Star Trek the Next Generation. Rosalind said, Mash, that’s kind of one of my first real things, And I think that’s one of the reasons people on the internet.
I think I’m like eighty years old because I got hired and then I got fired. Unbeknownst to me. When my paperwork came in, they basically said I needed to be ten years older than I actually was to be able to keep the part, and I obviously wanted a job, so I said whatever they needed me to say to be able to regain the role. So that’s why I’m eighty or wherever old people think I am. My lawyer just asked if I want to have a change.
I was like, you know, well, they have considered me for three body problem if they knew I’m not really an old lady, so I don’t want to jinx it. You know, how old is she? Actually? I didn’t think she was eighty. Let’s see, let me do loose math before I look it up.
All right, Mash ended in nineteen eighty two, So if I make her, I’m doing lazy math here from I make her twenty in nineteen eighty two, she’s sixty. If I make her twenty five, she’s like sixty seven. I’m gonna guess she’s like sixty seven. Is seventy sixty six? Not bad?
Johnny Mack born September twenty third, nineteen fifty seven, about to be sixty seven. Johnny Mack nailed that one high five everyone. So if you want to be like, she’s only sixty six, you listen to this podcast tomorrow. She’s like sixty seven, is what I said. She’s sixty six and three sixty four, three sixty fifths close enough.
Oh, I’m glad I slipped that in today. I see that was fun, accidental whatever the Evy Club said. Hey with After Mash, I heard it was being pitched as a series with a tone resentling the film of the best years of our lives. See, I thought it was pitched as boy. I wish Allan Aaldo would have kept doing Mash.
What do we do now? That’s what I think the pitch was. Roslind said, oh yeah, I didn’t know what that meant then, but yeah it was. Look. I had fun on it.
I learned how to drive while we’re doing it. And my biggest memory was that nobody wanted the parking spot next to me on the twentieth century Fox a lot, so they kept moving me. First, I was parked next to Harry Morgan. Remember his face when I got there and said, Oh, I’m parking next to you, and look I did a really good parking job. His face was just like horror.
Lee day, I got a note saying you’re parking next to Jeanie for tomorrow and Jamie last like a week and the next thing I knew, I was parked next to somebody I didn’t know at all. That is your comedy news today. Happy birthday, Rosalind Show also tomorrow. Happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen. That’s your comedy news for today.
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