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The Shark Deck. Hi, it’s America’s favorite juror, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I asked the chat GBT to write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy explaining a situation similar to mine. They go like this, If you’ve ever had to cancel your podcast recording because you were stuck in a courtroom all day, you might have jury duty. If you’ve ever tried to convince the judge that you should be exempt from jury duty because you have a podcast record, you might need a reality check, your honor, Who’s gonna tell people about Bert Kreisher’s new tour if I don’t.
That’s right, Bert Kreisher going back out on tour with the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival. This starts June fourteenth. That’ll hit sixteen ballparks and arenas across the country. Listen to the lineup. Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hattish, Savoril’s Hawkys, Fortune Feamster, David L Lewis, Black, Jim Norton, Andrew Santino, Big, Jay Ogerson, Jay Farrow, Dan Soder, Chad Daniels, Ralph Barbo, Rosebud Baker, and Tammy paskets Helly.
Wow, that is some lineup. Bert Kreisher says Fully Loaded as the best ticket you can buy an entertainment this summer. Indoors, outdoors, baseball stadiums, arenas, and The Gorge. The Gorge I didn’t know either, as apparently an outdoor concert venue in Grant County, Washington. The concept for the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival was to create a traveling comedy festival, inspired by the original Lallapaluza touring festival and encompass everything he loves comedy, the outdoors, good times, drinking with friends.
The goal to give fans and experience they’ll be talking about for years to come. This sounds amazing. This year, the festival partners with Comedy Gives Back, an organization founded as a safety net for comics by providing them with financial crisis relief, mental health support and moore.
Also out today brit Graisher’s new Netflix special It’s called Razzle Dazzle,…
The Fully Loaded Comedy Festival kicks off in Forest Hills. I could have walked there from where I grew up. That’s the June fourteenth show. Baltimore Music Pennsylvania, Guildford, New Hampshire, Traverse City, Fort Wayne, Saint Louis, Lincoln, Nebraska, Huntsville, Alabama, New Orleans, Memphis, Oklahoma City, the one in Oklahoma, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, and Idaho. Maybe Ryan Hamilton will come by, you never know.
And the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington wraps it up on July fifteenth. Hey, Jim Gaffigan, what’d you give up for lent? Dude? Jim said, I’m not giving anything up, but as a true Catholic would say, it’s not about giving something up. It’s about sacrificing.
That’s not to say I haven’t done that. This Catholic thing is so interesting, says Jim. This morning I was writing material. As a writer, You’re like, all right, this could be something. My parents will lapsed Catholics.
My wife’s pretty devout. But even as a laps Catholic, there’s so much information that you absorbed but influences your life. These topics keep coming up in my comedy. I think their Christian ideas are Christian stories. It’s just so interesting how I’m sitting there at six in the morning, trying to write something about how Abraham almost sacrificing his son is the cornerstone of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Then it becomes fascinating because, all right, I’m gonna get credit for tying them all in, but I’m really only talking about child murder. Jim said, I’ve messed around with that on stage a little bit. It’s one of those things I think people that are Christians or people that grew up a Chritian household would appreciate. But it’s also near the line, you know, don’t even touch that, So I don’t know. You’re like, am I wasting my time developing this?
I don’t know. And I just want to point out that’s two straight days I’ve done Jim Gaffgan stories and he didn’t mention that he kind of looks like Philip Symarroffman. I’m impressed. This next story is Ikey from Radar Online. Louie Anderson’s longtime friend has trashed his sister for accusing the friend of manipulating Louie Anderson in his final days.
The friend has accused the sister of never being there for Louis during his life. Radar Online has some court documents that say louis friend Abraham Geiseness has fired back at Lisa Anderson’s lawsuit over alleged elder abuse. Last year, Lisa filed a lawsuit accusing the Comedians Associates of forcing the comedian to amend his trust on his deathbed. In her petition, Lisa said Louis started to become suspicious that people were stealing from him in his final years. She detailed a call she received where he told her not to come visit him.
She said Louis spoke with long hesitations between his words, and it appeared like he was being coached to say the words he was uttering. This was strange because earlier Louis had wanted Lesa to come out and line next to him. A new Betty wanted to purchase anyway. I’ll let the court settle that one out, but it is definitely messy. From Deadline, BBC comedy director John Petrie said his team would be happy to talk with John Klees about the upcoming Faulty Towers revival.
He called the original a legendary show and said we found out about the revival when everyone else did. I don’t know if it would work for US, and we haven’t spoken to John Klees, but it’s obviously a legendary show. Would be happy to talk to John if he wanted to talk about it. Looking ahead, he is prioritizing British talent given the possibility of US writers seeking work in the UK in the coming months due to the looming writer’s strike. The writer strike will be pretty interesting to see what happens over here.
I remember in the past some of the late night shows stopped doing monologues, and I think Letterman was writing his own things if I remember correctly. It’s been a minute, but it looks like the writer strike’s coming, and we’ll say how it affects comedy. If you like what I do. Here are two ways to support the show. One go to buy me a coffee.
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By early, I mean around four o’clock unless I’m on jury duty and pre taped, in which case you had them yesterday morning. You know what I mean? Yes, Let’s see who’s at south By Southwest tonight. Five o’clock. Swan Leak a Silent clown ballet.
Don’t think I’m not clicking on that, because I am ah La Clown’s. Natalie Palomedes and Christina Katherine Martinez pay homage to the Tenderess of the Body through a soggy interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. Natalie Palimedes is amazing. We are absolutely doing that at five o’clock. We will miss a taping of Doug Loves Movies.
At six seven o’clock. I never promised you a Rose Garden a new hour of hopeless comedy by Joe to Rosa. You didn’t think I was gonna say Joe to Rosa? There? Did you know?
You didn’t? Eight o’clock Comedy Club Stand Up Showcase. Why stay in New York City, John, when you go all the way to Austin and see the same comics? Tone Bell, Anthony DeVito, Jackie Fabulous, Caitlin Pelufo, Greg Proops. Nine o’clock, closing at the Creek, Comedians take the stage for the last stand up show of the festival.
Todd Barry, Katherine Blandford, Ismil Lufti, Eddie peppettone Nick Thune, and at ten o’clock it’s called the Last Show, isn’t that sad? Doug Benson, Adrian I Pollucci, Pete Lee, Sam Talents and Godfrey? Is there really nothing tomorrow? I’m gonna pekahead. Oh yeah, comedy events.
No events found. Thursday, no events found. That’s sad. I thought there was more to this festival. What do I know?
I only host this thing. All right, five o’clock, let’s go see Swan Leak. That’ll take us to six fifteen. I want to see Joe to Rosa at seven, or you want to go to Gotham at eight. We can go to Gotham when we’re back home in New York.
So let’s see Joda Rosa’s from seven to eight fifteen. I guess it’s another one of those nights where we get a slice of pizza and a soda and then closing at the Creek at nine, and we’ll sneak in Esther follies and see if we can catch the end of the last show. And that’s it. And I guess we have a flight in the morning and we gotta go home. I thought we had more time in Austin.
Should we head on over to Rogan’s Club? So he was playing Rogan’s Club this week we’re here. Joe doesn’t see enough a website probably doesn’t need one. I’m on a secondary ticket website and all it says is Joe Rogan event. All right, forget it, Let’s just get on the plane tomorrow.
Hassan Minhahs is starring as the Riddler in The Riddler Secrets in the Dark. It’s a scripted Batman spinoff series that follows an unexpected to do Oh the Riddler and the Batman so they bring down another villain tormenting the streets of Gotham City. This is on Spotify. Hasan Minhah said, audiences are going to travel back to Gotham City with me and a story that leaves clues, puzzles, and shines a spotlight on my personal favorite character, the Riddler. And remember the blizzard of nineteen ninety three down in Alabama mean either, but there was a tragic fire.
A fire started in the kitchen of the comedy club on Sheeed’s Crest in Green Springs. The snow made it hard for crews to get there to fight the blaze. The Comedy Club burned to the ground. Among the losses were the props of then unknown prop comedian Carrot Top. Carrot Top was booked the following week on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Carrot Top had to cancel. Leno explained to the audience the Carrots Top can’t be on the show because all this stuff got burnt up in a fire. At some rinking in comedy club. The club owner said, well, all the comics that I knew called Jay Leno and said that club was so good. The next day, I come home and there’s a message, Hey, Bruce, this is Jay Leno.
I want to apologize about what I said. I heard he had a great club. If you ever opened the club again, I’ll do a commercial for you and help get it started. Jay eventually paid off, saying, hey, this is Jay Leno. I want you to know that Bruce Ayres is going to open up the Comedy Club again, and he promises not to burn it down this time.
Carrot Top said, every big comic wanted to play that club, and the fact that I was this stupid little prop comic and I got booked was amazing. The night of the blizzard, Carrots Hop said he got a call at his hotel saying the show had been canceled due to the storm. After a night of drinking at the hotel bar, carrot Top was awakened the next morning by his say assistant he had an assistant back in the nineties Wow, and was told the club burned down with all his props inside. After a few days stuck at the hotel in Alabama because of the storm, they were running out of food. So it’s day four and I’m supposed to do the Tonight Show.
It’s that he’s watching TV and letos saying Carrottops Act burned down in the club and they found gallaghers matches. Garretsops said, it was the lowest of my life. I had this big, huge week with the Tonight Show and everything was going right we’re supposed to be and nothing in the aftermath. Comics from around the nation helped him rebuild his propertine before his next gig. Literally we built it in two days in my garage.
He was booked on the Tonight Show a few days later, and Carrotsop’s career turned out just fine. He has a burned Carrottop T shirt that survived the fire. I know I keep teasing that I’m going to do the Vulture AI comedian stuff, but I recorded Monday and Tuesday back to back, and my voice is giving out, So I’m not going to do that right now. I’m going to go back and focus on whatever these lawyers are talking about. I’ve been sitting here recording a podcast, and I think I’m supposed to pay attention.
Judge, just give me a look. That’s your comming news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Who does like vacations?
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